INDEX. 



605 



venue cutter, 40S ; on the Mignomne, 

 411 ; on H. M. S. Beagle, 408; on the 

 Hawk cutter, 411. 



Lime, native oxalate of, on crystallized, 

 449. 



Linnsean Society, proceedings of the, 76 ; 

 Anniversary meeting of the, 76. 



Lubbock (J. W.) on the heat of vapours 

 and on astronomical refractions, 434, 

 510, 562; on the pressure of steam, 

 510 ; Mr, Gassiot to, on Nobili's plate 

 of colours, 596. 



Lyell (C.) on the boulder formation, and 

 freshwater deposits of Eastern Norfolk, 

 S45. 



Maclear (T.), observations made for the 

 verification of the amplitude of the 

 Abbe de la Caille's Arc of the meridian, 

 594. 



Magnesia, native sulphate of, 256. 



Magnetic observations at Milan, on, 241 ; 

 in Germany, Norway, and Russia, on, 

 598. 



Magnetism and electricity, contributions 

 to, 200, 254, 551. 



RTalaguti (M.) chlorinated sulphuric a2ther 

 of, 7 ; sulphuretted cEther of, 8 ; chloro- 

 sulphuretted jether of, 8 ; chlorinated 

 acetic asther of, 8 ; chlorinated formic 

 aether of, 8; chlorinated camphoric aether 

 of, 9 ; chlorinated Benzoic aether of, 9 ; 

 chlorinated oenanthic asther, 9. 



Mammiferous animals, on the blood cor- 

 puscles or red disks of the, 23, 105, 

 195. 



Marchand (R. F.) on the reduction of 

 chromate of lead, 532. 



Marine lightning conductors, examination 

 of Mr. Sturgeon's memoirs on, 116, 



Martin (P. J.) on a remarkable fall of hail, 

 and on the probable nature of such 

 phsenomena, 85. 



Media, on light which has permeated co- 

 loured, 267. 



Mercury, cyanide of, on a new compound 

 of ferrocyanide of potassium with, 1 28. 



Metallic salicides, 213. 



Metallic salts, action of albumen on, 154. 



Metals, on the galvanic properties of, 315; 

 on circuits of two, not in contact, 485. 



Meteorological observations, for Novem- 

 ber 1839, 79 ; for December, 1839, 159 ; 

 for Jan. 1840, 239 ; for Feb. 343 ; for 

 March, 447 ; for April, 535, 



Meteorological observations made at Al- 

 ten, in Finmarken, 596. 



IVleteorological phaenomena observed at 

 Swansea, on certain, 87. 



Meteorological Register kept at Port Ar- 

 thur, 600. 



Meteorological Table, for November, 

 J 839, 80 ; for December, 160 ; for Jan. 



1840, 240; for Feb, 344; for March, 

 448 ; for April, 5S6. 



Miller (Prof,) on the form of Eudialyte, 

 477. 



Mineralogy: — haydenite, 155,175; beau- 

 montite, 156; couzeranite, 175; two 

 minerals from the Skutteruder mine, 

 483, 



Mineral structure of the south of Ireland, 

 on the, 276, 388, 



Mud cliffs of E, Norfolk, on the drift and 

 associated freshwater deposits compo- 

 sing the, 345 ; age of the deposits com- 

 posing the, 371. 



Mundesley, Paludina minuta from the 

 freshwater beds at, 354; insects found 

 at, 354 ; fish, 354 ; mammalia, 355 ; 

 plants, 355. 



Mustard, oil of, essential, 153. 



Myronic acid, 153. 



Myronin, 153, 



Nerves of the gravid uterus, on the, 590. 



Nobili's plate of colours, on, 596, 



Norfolk, eastern, on the freshwater depo- 

 sits of, 345. 



Norway, Russia and Germany, on magne- 

 tic observations in, 598. 



Norwegian cobalt ores, on two, from the 

 Skutteruder mine, 482, 



OchnacecB, on a gall gathered in Cuba, on 

 the leaf of a plant belonging to the or- 

 der, 76. 



Oil of mustard, 153 ; of peppermint, 418. 



Optics, physical, on photometry ia con- 

 nexion with, '[G. 



Orfila (M,) on arsenic contained naturally 

 in the human body, 341. 



Oxalate of lime, native, on crystallized, 

 449. 



Oxichlorides, combinations of, with other 

 bodies, 6 ; with compound radicals, 7. 



Oxidized pyrites, on the products of, 265, 



Parallax of Sirius, on the, 148, 



Pelouze (M.), letter to, from M. Berzelius, 

 on the theory of substitutions in che- 

 mistry of M. Dumas, 1, 



Peppermint, oil of, compounds derived 

 from the stearopten of, 418 ; analysis 

 of, by Mr. Walter, 419. 



Permutations, positive, 134; negative, 

 134; positive effectual, 134; negative 

 effectual, 134, 



Peroxide of iron, decomposition of the 

 neutral sulphate of the, by boiling its 

 solution, 130. 



Persoz (M.) on pond gas, 339. 



Perspective, on an apparent inversion of, 

 in viewing objects with a telescope, 506. 



Phaenomena, meteorological, observed at 

 Swansea, 87 ; on some, of the voltaic 

 disruptive discharge, 478, 



Photographic papers, on, 267. 



