388 Index. 



Quick lime, employment of, in high furnaces, 378. 



Rosse, Earl, remarks on education by, 384. 

 Rogers, Professor, on deep-sea genera, 378. 



on earthquake movements, 378. 



Rocks, palasozoic, of Great Britain, as described by Professor Sedg- 

 wick, 110. 



Sandstones, rendering them impervious to water, 377. 



Scoresby, the Rev. Dr, on the surface-temperature and great 

 currents of the North Atlantic and Northern Oceans, 114. 



Sea pressure, amount of, borne by animals in profound depths, 370. 



Seas, Russian Interior, geological conclusions in regard to, 376. 



Selenium, density of, 374. 



Silurian system of Central Bohemia noticed, 310. 



Silurian rocks of the United States, 375, 



Salt, its use among the natives in Namaqua Land, South 

 Africa, 178. 



Stars, their apparent visibility through the moon immediately before 

 their oscultation, 137. 



Stone, its elasticity, noticed, 108. 



Soundings, deep-sea, a new method for taking them, described, 182. 



Sedgwick, Professor, on the palseozoic rocks of Great Britain, 110. 



Stokes, Mr H. M., on the china-stone and china-clays of Corn- 

 wall, 91. 



Strickland, Hugh Edwin, Esq., biographical notice of, 131. 



Thomson, Arthur S., M.D., his observations on the New Zealand 

 Moa caves, 268. 



Vesicles in the abdominal cavity and uterus, noticed, 317. 

 Vegetation, Physiognomy of, in different quarters of the globe, 381. 

 general statistics of, 381. 



Wools of Saxony, an account of, 183. 



END OF VOLUME FIFTY-SIX. 



