INDEX. 



395 



Longitude, Yarrow and Lynn's methods 



of finding, 280 



Luminous stones, 389 



Magnetism, hypothesis regarding, 308 



Meikle, (H.) on specific and latent heat, 



and on alcoholic engines, 34 j on a 



syphon hydrometer, 166 



Meteor, luminous, 304 



Meteorology, 77, 152, 157, 237, 316, 390 



Meteors, at Burlington, 227 ; in India, 



228 

 Microscopic examination of fecula, 369 

 Mineral waters, iodine in, 72 



Mines, diamond, 370 



Moore, (C.) on graduating glass hydro, 

 meters, 68 



Mosaic gold, 387 



Nature, M. Fries's spherical and nume- 

 rical System of, 81 

 Nephrite, precious, 230 

 Obituary, John Templeton, Esq. A.L.S. 

 &c, 75 

 Oersted, (Prof.) on the compression of 

 gases, 102 

 Oil of wine, 354 

 Orang Outang, Sumatran, 231 

 Owyhee, volcanic character of, 187, 252 

 Pascal's hexagramme mystique, proper- 

 ties of, 333 

 Patents, list of, 74, 236, 314, 390 

 Pendulum, experiments with, on the 

 ellipticity of the earth, 3, 92 ; expe- 

 riments for determining the length 

 of, 323, 350 

 Plants, British, rare, 72 

 Platinum, mines of, 306 

 Potatoe-fecula, 362; potatoe, structure 

 of, ' 360 

 Refraction, atmospheric, 177 

 Rhine, navigation of, 312 

 Rhinoceros, Indian, 234 

 Riddle's, (E.) description of Barclay's 

 hydrostatic quadrant, 271 ; on Yar- 

 row and Lynn's methods of finding 

 the longitude, 280 

 Sabine, (Capt.) his experiments with 

 the pendulum, 323 

 Sago, nature of, 360 

 Societies, learned : Royal Society, 56 ; 

 379; Astronomical Society, 148, 339; 



Geological Society, 57, 380; Lin- 

 najan Society, 380; Medico-Botanical 

 Society, 38 1 ; Royal Geological So- 

 ciety of Cornwall, 382 ; Meeting at 

 Dresden, of the Professors of Medi- 

 cine and Physical Sciences in Ger- 

 many, 297 ; Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Paris, 67, 220, 295 ; Royal 

 Institution, 60; Scientific Societies 

 of America, q\ 



Solar rays, on the magnetizing power 

 of > 168 



Somerville, (Mrs.) on the magnetizing 

 power of the solar rays, 168 



Sound, velocity of, 214 



Starch, chemical researches on, 283, 360 

 Stars, new catalogue of, 339 



Steele, (T.) descent of a diving-bell in- 

 vented by, 211 

 St. Helena, geology of, 302 

 Stones, luminous, 389 

 Succulent plants, new, 326 

 Sulphur, fluidity of, 229; crystalliza- 

 tion of, 229 

 Sulphuric acid and alcohol, 354 

 Syphon hydrometer, \qq 

 Systema orbis vegetab'dis, 389 

 Tapioca, nature of, 361 ; spurious, 361 

 Thermometer, capillary, 71 ; mercurial 

 and spirit, 312 

 Timber, strength of, 343 

 Trapezium, properties of, \\6 

 Tredgold, (T.) on the theory of hydro- 

 dynamics, 11, H2 

 Tunnel at Rotherhithe, an account of, 



72 

 Unicorn of the Himalayas, 232 



Vaporization, on the limit to, 344 



Vision, an anomalous case of, 205 



Volcanic character of the Island of 

 Hawaii, 187, 252 



Voysey, (H. W.) on diamond mines, 



373 

 Wildt, (Dr.) on the mercurial and spi- 

 rit thermometer, 312 

 Wood, on the cohesion of, 269 

 Yarrow and Lynns methods of finding 

 the longitude, 280 

 Zoology, 55 



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