INDEX to VOL. LXVIII. 



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: DAM ( Dr. ) on oil in human blood, 

 310 

 Africa, travels of Major Laing, 154 

 Alcohol and sulphuric acid, 354 



Alcoholic engines, 34 



America, scientific Societies in, 61 



Analysis of oil of wine, 355 



Arctic overland expedition, 3 



Astronomy, 45, 148, 378 



Atmospheric refraction, on, 177 



Australia, geology of, 15 



Batty, (F.) on a new catalogue of stars, 



339 

 Barclay s (Rev. W.) hydrostatic qua- 

 drant, 271 

 Bevan (B.) on the adhesion of glue, 111; 

 meteorological observations, 152; on 

 the strength of bone, 181 ; on the 

 strength of cohesion of wood, 269 ; 

 on the strength of timber, 343 

 Bitberg meteoric iron, 306, 390 

 Bone, on the strength of, 181 

 Books, new, 55, 147, 219, 293, 377 

 Botany, 125 

 Breccia, 27, 29, 33 

 Breithaupt, (Prof. ) on hyalosiderite, 307 

 Biichner, (Dr.) hypothesis on mag- 

 netism, 308 

 Caventou, (J. B.) chemical researches 

 on starch, &c, 283, 360 

 Chemistry, 283 

 Chinese Yu, 230 

 Combustion, by the electric spark, 267 

 Conflagrations of the earth's surface, 155 

 Cuckoo, attachment of a thrush to, 72 

 Dankll's (Mr.) hygrometer, 70 

 Davies (T. S. ) on the properties of the 

 Trapezium, 116; on Pascal's hexa- 

 gramme mystique, 333 

 Decimus on the diving-bell, 43 

 Diamond mines, Indian, 373 

 Diving-bell, on the, 43 ; descent of a 

 newly invented, 211 

 Earth, on the ellipticity of, 3, 92, 246 

 Electric spark, on effecting combustion 

 by, 267 

 Faraday, (M.) on the limit to vapori- 

 zation, 344 

 Fitton, (Dr.) account of some geolo- 

 gical specimens, 14, 132; his instruc- 

 tions for collecting geological speci- 

 mens, 182 

 Fluid, on the equilibrium of, attracted 

 to a fixt centre, 10 

 Fox's, (Dr.) capillary thermometer, 71 



Freycinet's experiments for determining 

 the length of the pendulum, on, 350 

 Fries 's, (E.) spherical and numerical 

 System of Nature, 81, 389 



Galbraith, (W.) on the velocity of 

 sound, 214 



Gases, compression of, 102 



Geological specimens from Australia, 14, 

 132; instructions for collecting, 182 

 Geology, 14, 57, 132, 182, 302 



Glue, on the adhesion of, 111 



Graphite, Indian, 386 



Gunpowder, inflammation of by elec- 

 tricity, 173 

 Harvey, (G.) on an anomalous case of 

 vision, 205 

 Hawaii, (or Owyhee) volcanic character 

 of the island of, 187, 252 

 Haworth, on succulent plants, 125, 326 

 Heat, on specific and latent, 34 

 Heavens, plan for making a survey of, 45 

 Hennell, (H.) on the mutual action of 

 sulphuric acid and alcohol, 354 

 Hexagramme mystique, properties of, 333 

 Howldy, (T.) on the inflammation of 

 gunpowder by electricity 173; on 

 combustion by the electric spark, 267 

 Human blood, oil in, 310 

 Hyalosiderite, 307 

 Hydro-dynamics, theory of, 11, 112 

 Hydrometers, glass, on graduating, 68 

 Hydrostatic quadrant (Barclay's), 271 

 Hygrometer, Daniell's, 70 

 Iodine in mineral waters, 72 

 Iron, meteoric, 306 

 Ivory, (J.) on the ellipticity of the 

 earth, 3, 92, 246, 321, 350 ; on the 

 equilibrium of a fluid attracted to a 

 fixt centre, 10; on the method of the 

 least squares, 161 ; on atmospheric 

 refraction, 177; on the method of 

 deducing a general formula for the 

 length of the pendulum, 241 ; dis- 

 quisitions on, the length of the pen- 

 dulum and ellipticity of the earth, 

 246 ; on M. de Freycinet's experi- 

 ments for determining the length of 

 the pendulum, 350 

 Laing, (Major) travelsof, in Africa, 154 

 Lamp-black, spontaneous combustion 

 of, 309 

 Least squares, method of the, 161 

 Leather, substitute for, 388 

 Lindley, (J. ) on M. Fries's spherical and 

 numerical System of Nature, 81 



