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Index. 



Patents, of gun-cotton, 90, 92. 



Paterson, John, researches in the 

 theory and calculus of opera- 

 tions, by, 228-338. 



Patroon's creek, 221, 222, 227. 



Peck, Charles H., report on botany, 

 by, 35-43, 186-204. 



Pelouze, M., 91. 



Penn, William, 109. 



Pennsylvania, 109,111,118, 123, 128, 

 129, 130 ; colonial records, 129 ; 

 government, 129 ; Hist. Soc. col- 

 lections, 179 ; legislature, 129. 



Pennsylvania Historical Society, 

 collections of, 129. 



Pequa river, 129. 



Perithecia, 199. 



Perkins, Mr., 151, 152. 



Perthshire Natural History Societv, 

 39. 



Peru, 88. 



Phenomena, in Chemistry, paper on 

 certain new, by V. Colvin, 172- 

 185. 



Philadelphia, 129. 



Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, 104. 

 Philology, Muller's contributions to, 



83 ; progress of, 44. 

 Philosophy, modern experimental, 



conducted on statical principles 



alone, 242. 

 Phlogiston, 172. 

 Platinum, 173, 174. 

 Plato, 242, 329. 



Plattner, , 62. 



Pliicker, , 150. 



Poe, Edgar A., death of, 77. 



Poestenkill creek, 224. 



Poetry, books of, issued in 1870, 17, 



80. 



Poggendorf's Annalen, 155. 

 Poisson, M., 248, 251, 291. 

 Polyporus frondosus, 39. 

 Polytrichium juniperinum, 41 ;stric- 



tum, 41. 

 Pontin, M., 173. 

 Pope, Alexander, 81. 

 Populus monilifera, 219. 

 Portugal, 124. 

 Pougkeepsie, 215. 



Practical Entomologist, the, 198, 201. 

 Prescott, William H., death of, 77. 

 Prevost, M., 257, 262, 333. 

 Prince Albert, 27. 



Princess Elizabeth, of Bohemia, 109. 

 Princeton college, 21. 

 Protestantism, 122. 

 Protestants, 110, 111, 115, 118 ; Ger- 

 man and Swiss, 129. 



Prunus cerasus, 203 ; domestica, 203 ; 

 Pennsylvania, 202 ; Virginiana, 

 203. 



Prussia, 88 ; king of, 118. 

 Pruyn, Hon. Robert H., 42. 

 Psychology, opposed to evolution of 

 species, 54 ; progress of, 45. 



Pterodacetyls, 52. 

 Pnccinia, 189. 



Pumpelly's Journey across the Conti- 

 nent, etc., 79. 

 Punjaub, the, 334. 

 Purpurine, from madder root, 152. 



Quakers, the, 109, 114, 129. 

 Quantivalence, doctrine of, 145, 147. 

 Quarterly Journal of Science, the, 



149, 150, 155. 

 Queen Anne, 107. 

 Queensbury, 126. 

 Queen's Bench, Court of the, 118. 



Railroad, proposed, at Isthmus of 

 Tehuantepec, 170, 171. 



Rain-fall, amount of, at Albany, 218. 



Randal, John Jr., 11. 



Rapidan, the river, 304. 



Rathkeale, 122. 



Reade, Charles, 78. 



Recovery of Jerusalem, 79. 



Regents of the University, 11, 18, 19. 



Regnault, M., 252. 



Reich, Dr., 209 



Rensselaer Iustitute, 18. 



Rensselaer lake, 218, 219, 226, 227 ; 

 condition of, as a source of water 

 supply for Albany, 219. 



Report, of the U. S. Geological Ex- 

 ploration of the Fortieth Paral- 

 lel, 186 ; on General Literature, 

 by Leonard Kip, 73-89 ; on 

 Zoology, by Geo. T. Stevens, 

 M.D., 132-143; on recent Pro- 

 gress of Chemistry, by Leroy C. 

 Coolev, Ph. D..' 144-155; on 

 Botany, by C. H. Peck, 35^3, 

 186-204 ; on the water supply 

 of Albany, by James Hall, LL.D. , 

 and others, 218-227. 



Resolutions, relative to the Palatines, 

 117. 



Revelation, future of man known 

 only by, 59 ; opposed to evolu- 

 tion of species, 55. 



Rhine, the, 107, 113, 122 ; Palati- 

 nate of the, 106, 118. 



Rhodium, 173. 



Richter, Dr., 209. 



Rocky mountains, 177, 191. 



