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INDEX to VOL. XXXVII 



AFFINITY, observations on, 81. 



Air, on the absorption of light by the, 

 293. 



Air-pump, on a metallic conductor to 

 replace the vulcanite tube used 

 with Bianchi's, 442. 



Aneroid barometers, experiments on, 

 65. 



Babingtonite, analysis of, 328. 



Baker (W.) on the cause of a pink 

 colour in white-lead corrosions, 

 344. 



Ball (Prof. R.) on lecture experiments 

 to illustrate the laws of motion, 

 332. 



Bay ma (Prof. J.) on the fundamental 

 principles of molecular physics, 

 182,275,348,431. 



Bianchi's air-pump, on a metallic con- 

 nector to replace the vulcanite tube 

 used with, 442. 



Books, new :— Fownes's Manual of 

 Elementary Chemistry, 62 ; Guth- 

 rie's Elements of Heat and of Non- 

 metallic Chemistry, 65 ; Lockyer's 

 Elementary Lessons in Astronomy, 

 141; Barff's Introduction to Sci- 

 entific Chemistry, 304 ; Peacock's 

 Evidences of vast Sinkings of Land 

 &c, 382; Peacock's Steam as a 

 motive power in Earthquakes and 

 Volcanoes, 383. 



Bronzes, on the production of a beau- 

 tiful patina on, 401. 



Bunsen (Prof. R.) on the washing of 

 precipitates, 1. 



Carbonic oxide, on the spectrum of, 

 214. 



Carpmael (E.) on TyndalPs cometary 

 theory, 403. 



Carre (F.) on a friction and induc- 

 tion electrical machine, 160. 



Chapman (E. T.) on the action of de- 

 hydrating agents on organic bodies, 

 20. 



Chemical compounds, on the magne- 

 tism of, 314. 



■ constitution and its relation to 



physical and physiological proper- 

 ties, on, 395. 



Chemistry, on statical and dynamical 

 ideas in, 461. 



Circle, on a new continued fraction 

 applicable to the quadrature of the, 

 373. 



Clausius (Prof. R.) on the new con- 

 ception of electrodynamic pheno- 

 mena suggested by Gauss, 445. 



Coal-gas, on the spectrum of, 209. 



Cometary matter, on the origin and 

 deportment of visible, 241,403,460. 



Comets on some spectrum observa- 

 tions of, 456. 



Copper salts, on the magnetism of, 

 315. 



Croll (J.) on the physical cause of the 

 motion of glaciers, 201 . 



Crookes (W.) on the measurement 

 of the luminous intensity of light, 

 227. 



Croullebois (M.) on the dispersive 

 power of gases and vapours, 75. 



Crum Brown (Dr. A.) on chemical 

 constitution, and its relation to 

 physical and physiological proper- 

 ties, 395. 



Cyanides, on isomerism amongst the 

 organic, 22. 



Daylight, on a method of measuring 

 the intensity of total, 74. 



Delessite, analysis of, 269. 



Deville (H. St. -Claire) on the tempe- 

 rature of flames, and its relations 

 with the pressure, 111. 



Dewar (J.) on the motion of a palla- 

 dium plate during the formation of 

 hydrogenium, 424. 



Diathermometer, description of a, 468. 



Dissociation, observations on, 156. 



Douglas (J. C.) on shadow-optome- 

 ters, 340. 



Dufour (M.) on a development of 

 heat which accompanies the burst- 

 ting of Prince Rupert's drops, 478. 



Dumas (M.) on affinity, 81. 



Edlund (E.) on the electromotive 

 force of the electric spark, 41. 



Edmonds (R.) on extraordinary agi- 

 tations of the sea, 35. 



Electric spark an electromotor, 41 . 



