560 



INDEX to VOL. XXXIIL 



ABEL (F. A.) on the stability of 

 gun-cotton, 545. 



Acetylene, on polymers of, 452. 



Actinometer, description of a new, 

 304. 



Adhesion, on the force of, 401. 



Airy (G. B.) on the meteoric shower 



of 1866, 157. 



Angstrom (M.) on certain lines of the 

 solar spectrum, 76. 



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

 56, 187,446.. 



Atmosphere, on the polarization of 

 the, 290, 346, 455. 



Atmospheric humidity, on the rela- 

 tion of insolation to, 391. 



Atomic weights, on the determination 

 of some, 1.87. 



Baeyer (M.) on neurine, 448; on the 

 constitution of mellitic acid, 449. 



Barrett (W. F.) on sensitive flames, 

 216, 287. 



Bauer (M.) on the chlorinated ethers, 

 450. 



Berthelot (M.) on polymers of acety- 

 lene, 452. 



Bezold (Dr. W. von) on binocular 

 vision, 326. 



Binocular vision, researches on, 326, 

 549. 



Blood, on the function of the, in 

 muscular work, 341 ; on the colour- 

 ing-matter of the, 446. 



Books, new : — Hunter's Modern 

 Arithmetic, 223 ; Hunter's Intro- 

 duction to Conic Sections, ibid. ; 

 Kerr's Elementary Treatise on Ra- 

 tional Mechanics, 468. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on the polarization 

 of the atmosphere, 290, 346, 455. 



Bromine, on the atomic weight of, 

 194. 



Brooke (Ch.) on negative fluid-pres- 

 sure on a given surface, 207. 



Browning (J.) on the spectra of the 

 meteors of November 1866, 234. 



Cazin (A.) on the expansion of super- 

 heated steam, 236. 



Chemical notices from foreign jour- 

 nals, 56, 187, 446. 



Chlorine, on the atomic weight of, 

 199; on the acetate of, 140. 



Circuit, on one of Ohm's laws rela- 

 ting to an insulated, 321. 



Claudet (A.) on a new fact relating 

 to binocular vision, 549. 



Climate, on the physical properties of 

 water in relation to terrestrial, 211 ; 

 on the influence of a change in the 

 obliquity of the ecliptic on, 426, 536. 



Cockle (Hon. Chief Justice) on the 

 conversion of integrals, 537. 



Croll (J.) on the excentricity of the 

 earth's orbit, and its physical rela- 

 tions to the glacial epoch, 119 ; on 

 the reason why the difference of 

 reading between an exposed and a 

 shaded thermometer diminishes as 

 we ascend in the atmosphere, 213 ; 

 on the change in the obliquity of 

 the ecliptic and its influence on cli- 

 mate, and on the level of the sea, 

 426. 



Cube, on the partition of the, 27. 



Daniel (L.) on induction experiments, 

 481 ; on the transport of a body by 

 the voltaic current and by induction- 

 currents, 4S2. 



De la Hive (Prof. A.) on the propa- 

 gation of electricity in highly rare- 

 fied elastic fluids, 241 ; on the 

 action of magnetism upon the elec- 

 tric discharge in highly rarefied 

 gaseous media, 512. 



