Index. 375 



Insects, a new method for destroying them, 369. 

 Iron, meteoric, Wohler on the passive state of, 188. 

 Iron, Native Metallic, 358. 

 Light, Coralline, 368. 



Light, influence of, on the colour of the Prawn, 368. 

 Lunar atmospheric tide, 186. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, on fossil reptilian remains in the coal-measures 

 of Nova Scotia, 215. 



Malachite, formation of, 190. Artificial formation of, 190. 



Mammalia, classification of, by Charles Girard, Esq., 167. 



Matlockite, a new mineral species, described, 362. 



Mauna Loa, James D. Dana, on the eruption of, 111. 



Maury, Lieutenant, new views on navigation improvement, 154. 



Meteorological observations made at Cumberland in 1852, 17. 



Miller, J. F., Meteorological observations made by, at Cumberland 



in 1852, 17. On a singular irridescent phenomenon seen on 



Windermere lake, 83. 

 Minerals, paragenetic relations of, 85, 345. 

 Mollusca of the British seas, noticed by Professor Edward Forbes, 



69. 



Navigation, Lieutenant Maury's new views of improvement in, 154. 



Ocean, changes of level of, in the Pacific, by J. D. Dana, 240. 

 Omerod, G. Wareing, Esq., on pseudomorphous crystals of chloride 



of sodium, 360. 

 Oxygen, amount of, in the world, 187. 



Pendulum observations, by Alexander Gerard, 14. 



Petermann, Augustus, Esq., on the Arctic relief expeditions, 159. 



Phosphorescence, causes of, 274. 



Plana, M., Esq., on the mean density of the superficial crust of the 



earth, 152. 

 Plants and animals, identity of their structure noticed by T. H. 



Huxley, Esq., 234. 



sleep of, in the Arctic regions, 191. 



Pressure, atmospheric, the annual variation in different parts of the 



globe, 123. 

 Proteus anguinus, some account of, 322. 



Quatrefages, M., on a new method for destroying destructive in- 

 sects, 369. 



Rain-gauge, different varieties of, described by Mr Straton, 36. 



