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INDEX to VOL. XXIII 



ABEL (F. A.) on the composition 

 of some interesting cannon, 181. 



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Absorption, experimental researches 

 on the laws of, 126, 283. 



Acetyle, on some decompositions of 

 the chloride of, 4/2. 



Aeroliths, on a shower of, 47. 



Airy (G. B.) on the direction of the 

 joints in the faces of oblique arches, 

 24. 



Alumina and lime, on a native carbo- 

 nate of, 461. 



Amidic acids, on the reproduction of 

 non-nitrogenous acids from, 556. 



Ampere's experiment on the repulsion 

 of a rectilinear electrical current on 

 itself, remarks on, 140, 365. 



Arches, on the direction of the joints 

 in the faces of oblique, 24. 



Arsenious acid, on the separation of, 

 from organic solutions, 3/2. 



Astronomical epochs, on Chinese, 1, 

 496. 



Atkinson's (Dr. E.) chemical notices, 

 472. 



Atmosphere, on the distribution of 

 aqueous vapour in the, 152; on 

 the oxidation of the hydrocarbon- 

 compounds contained in the, 511. 



Aurora boreales, researches on the, 

 546. 



Baker (W.) on the metallurgy of lead, 

 534. 



Bases, on a new class of organic, 553. 



Beekite,on the composition,structure, 

 and formation of, 95. 



Beilstein (M.) on glyceric acid, 475. 



Berthelot (M.) on the spontaneous 

 decomposition of an alcoholic solu- 

 tion of baryta, 478. 



Bone-caves of Lunel-Viel, note on 

 the, 239. 



Books, new: — Potts's Euclid's Ele- 

 ments of Geometry, 70; Odling's 

 Manual of Chemistry, 322. 



Boole (Prof.) on a question in the 

 theory of probabilities, 361. 



Boron, on the specific heat of, 121. 



Boutlerow (M.) on methylenitane, 

 4/5. 



Bunsen (Prof.) on the presence of 

 lithion in meteorites, 474. 



Cannon, on the composition of some, 

 181. 



Caventou (M.) on the bromide of 

 ethyle, 476. 



Cayley (A.) on the solution of an 

 equation of the fifth order, 195; 

 on the transformation of a certain 

 differential equation, 266 ; on a 

 question in the theory of proba- 

 bilities, 352, 470. 



Challis (Rev. J.) on the principles of 

 theoretical physics, 313 ; on the 

 general differential equations of 

 hydrodynamics, 436. 



Chapman (Prof. E. J.) on the posi- 

 tion of Lievrite in the mineral 

 series, 348. 



Chemical notices, 472. 



Church (A. II.) on the composition, 

 structure, and formation of Beekite, 

 95. 



Clarke (Capt. A. R.) on projections for 

 maps, 306. 



Clausius (11.) on the conduction of 

 heat by gases, 417, 512. 



Cobalt, on the specific heat of, 114. 



Cockle (J.) on transcendental and 

 algebraic solution, 135 ; on the 

 solution of equations of the fifth 

 degree, 196. 



Collyrite, on the composition of, 461. 



Compass, on the effect produced on 



