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INDEX to VOL. XLL 



ABBOTT (Rev. T. K.) on the theory 

 of the tides, 120. 



Acids and bases, on the heat developed 

 in the combination of, 29. 



Acoustic repulsion and attraction, re- 

 searches on, 418. 



Adams (Prof. W. G.) on the determi- 

 nation of the degree of polarization 

 in the case of a ray of common 

 light obliquely incident on parallel 

 plates, 205. 



Air, on attraction caused by vibrations 

 of the, 279. 



Airy (G. B.) on barometric compen- 

 sation of the pendulum, 482. 



Andrews (Dr. T.) on the heat deve- 

 loped in the combination of acids 

 and bases, 29. 



Athermogenic condensation, on, 127. 



Atmosphere, on the determination of 

 the height of the, 353. 



Attraction, on some analogous princi- 

 ples of photometry and the law of, 

 241 ; caused by vibrations of the 

 air, on, 279, 405. 



Aurora borealis, on the spectrum of 

 the, 79, 122. 



Ball (J.) on the cause of the motion 

 of glaciers, 81. 



Barclay (T.) on the measurement of 

 the specific inductive capacity of 

 dielectrics, 543. 



Barometer, on a, without mercury, 

 401. 



Barometric differences and fluctua- 

 tions, on, 325, 429. 



Bases, on the heat developed in the 

 combination of, with acids, 29. 



Bessemer-flame, on the examination 

 of the, with coloured glasses and 

 with the spectroscope, 1. 



Bezold (W. von) on the electrophorus, 

 214 ; on some analogous principles 

 of photometry and the law of at- 

 traction, 241. 



Birt (W. R.) on some recent investi- 



gations relative to lunar activity, 

 183. 



Bismuth, on the diamagnetism of, 16. 



Bleekrode (Dr. L.) on a curious pro- 

 perty of gun-cotton, 39. 



Boiling-points of organic bodies, on 

 the, 528. 



Books, new : — Willis's Principles of 

 Mechanism, 236; Valentin's La- 

 boratory Text-book, 238 ; Miller's 

 Introduction to the Study of Inor- 

 ganic Chemistry, 302 ; Storer's Cy- 

 clopaedia of Quantitative Analysis, 

 303; Blyth's Handbook of the 

 Metals, ibid, j Griffin's Elements of 

 Algebra and Trigonometry, 304 ; 

 M' Coil's Algebraical Exercises, 

 305 ; Davies's Meteoric Theory of 

 Saturn's Rings, 536. 



Brass, on- the electro-deposition of, 

 41. 



Browning (J.) on the spectrum of the 

 aurora borealis, 79. 



Budde (E.) on the theory of Leiden- 

 frost's phenomenon, 322. 



Bunsen (Prof. R.), calorimetric re- 

 searches by, 161, 392. 



Burden (F.) on the boiling-points of 

 organic bodies, 528. 



Calorimetric researches, 161, 392. 



Capillary phenomena of the common 

 surface of two liquids, on the, 246, 

 370, 454. 



Carbon, on the spectra of, 12. 



Carrington (R. C.) on a solar fog-bow, 

 244. 



Cayley (Prof.) on the plane represen- 

 tation of a solid figure, 286 ; on 

 the attraction of a straight line, 

 358 5 on the geodesic lines on an 

 ellipsoid, 534. 



Challis (Prof.) on attraction caused 

 by vibrations of the air, 279 ; on 

 a theory of the mutual action be- 

 tween electrified and magnetized 

 bodies, 368, 



