INDEX. 



Adie, Richard, Esq., his account of the temperature of running 



streams during the period of frost, 224. 

 Africa, discoveries in, by Dr Barth, 383. 

 Arago, Dominique, Francois Jean, biographical notice of, 51. 

 Aridium, a supposed new metal, notice of, 373. 

 Auk (Alca impennis'), still found in Iceland, 260. 

 Aurora borealis, noticed, 180. 

 Ayres, M., his observations on deep-sea genera, 377. 



Barry, Dr Martin, his researches on Embryology, 36. On vesicles 

 in the abdominal cavity and uterus, containing a mulberry-like 

 body, rotating on its axis ; and on the expulsion of the ovisac 

 from the ovary, 319. 



Boue, M. Ami, his account of the palseohydrography and orography 

 of the earth's surface, 1. 



Bore or Piroroco, in the Guama River, notice of, 181. 



Buist, Dr George, on the physical geography of Hindostan, noticed 

 by, 328. 



China-stone, or Kaolin of Cornwall, described, 91. 



Chart, isothermal oceanic, illustrating the geographical distribution 



of marine animals, 189. 

 Chalk deposits, their probable depth, 376. 

 Climate of Finmarken, noticed, 369. 

 Cloud, majestic, seen from the Jungfrau, 182. 

 Conference, maritime, report of, held at Brussels for devising a 



uniform system of meteorological observations at sea, 81. 

 Cod-fishing of the Lofodden Islands, 380. 

 Coral reefs, the nature of, between the coasts of Florida and 



Mexico, 375. 

 Cordylophora, anatomy and physiology of, 106. 

 Coloration, its use as a generic character, 379. 

 Craw fish (Astacus Jluviatilis), notice of an attempt to naturalize 



it in the south of Scotland, 136. 



observations on the habits of, 379. 



Cull, Richard, Esq., the recent progress of Ethnology, 10. 



