INDEX. 



477 



awarded to, for his memoirs on elec- 

 tricity, 22. 



Belcher (Capt.), magnetic observa- 

 tions on the west coast of America 

 and the adjacent islands, 288, 465. 



, boring register, Bow Island, 



South Pacific, 399. 



, remarks upon the tides at Ta- 

 hiti, 440. 



Bell (A.) on rotatory motion, 06. 



Bell (Sir C.) on the nervous system, 

 217, 218. 



-, biographical notice of, 402. 



Benzoin, resin of, 241 ; action of caus- 

 tic lime on, 242 ; action of caustic 

 potash on, 242 ; action of oxide of 

 lead on, 242. 



Berengela resin, 219. 



Bibasic salts, 102. 



Bicyanide, new equi-atomic compound 

 of, with binoxide of mercury, 135. 



Binocular vision, on, 76. 



Binoxide of mercury, new equi-atomic 

 compound of bicyanide with, 135. 



Biographical notices of deceased Fel- 

 lows, 10, 92, 173, 256, 341, 402. 



Birds of Kerguelen's Land, 298. 



collected between the Cape of 



Good Hope and Van* Diemen's 

 Land, 305. 



Blair (D.), hourly meteorological ob- 

 servations taken at Georgetown, 

 British Guiana, 467. 



Blake (J.) on the mode of operation 

 of poisons, 155. 



on the action of certain inorganic 



compounds when introduced into 

 the blood, 284, 285. 



Blindness, congenital, on the cure of, 

 303. 



Blood, examination of the, in the dif- 

 ferent forms of fever accompanying 

 inflammation and suppuration, 67. 



, experiments on the, in connex- 

 ion with the theory of respiration, 78. 



, on the corpuscles of the, 234, 



283, 323, 431, 462. 



, progressive division of the blood- 

 disc into globules, 234; rapid and 

 incessant changes in the form of 

 altered blood-corpuscles, 234; the 

 chorion formed of cells derived from 

 corpuscles of the blood, 235 ; mus- 

 cular fibre formed of cells derived 

 from corpuscles of the blood, 235 ; 

 state of the blood-corpuscles during 

 vital turgescence of the vessels, 235. 



Blood, on the motion of the, 140. 



, action of certain inorganic com- 

 pounds when introduced into the 

 285. 



, facts observed in the coagulation 



of the, 384. 



, on the circulation of the, in the 



Myriapoda and the Macrourous 

 Arachnida, 460. 



Blood-corpuscles of certain species of 

 the genus Cervus, on, 199. 



, observations on, particularly 



with reference to ihe opinions of 

 Dr. Barry, 431. 



, note on the observations of T. 



W. Jones, Esq., on the, 462. 



Blood-particles of the Ornitlicrhyn- 

 chus hystrix, on the form of, 232. 



Blumenbach (J. F.), biographical no- 

 tice of, 265. 



Bone, normal and adventitious, struc- 

 ture of, 198. 



Booth (J.) on the rectification and 

 quadrature of the spherical ellipse, 

 387. 



Boring register, Bow Island, South 

 Pacific, 399. 



Bowditch (Dr. N.), biographical no- 

 tice of, 95. 



Bowerbank (J. S.) on the organic tis- 

 sues in the bony structure of the 

 Corallidffi, 382, 383. 



Bowman (W.) on the minute structure 

 and movements of voluntary mus- 

 cles, 244, 301. 



on the structure and use of the 



Malpighian bodies of the kidney, 

 374, 375. 



, a Royal medal awarded to, 422. 



Bowring (J. C.) on a new method of 



determining the longitude, 52. 

 Boys (Rev. T.) on the steam-wave, 372. 

 Brain, on the decussation of fibres at 



the junction of the medulla spinalis 



with the medulla oblongata, 71. 

 Brazil, magnetical observations made 



on the coast of, 4. 

 Brewster (Sir David) on the colours of 



mixed plates, 33. 

 on a remarkable property of the 



diamond, 291. 

 on the phenomena of thin plates 



of solid and fluid substances exposed 



to polarized light, 302. 

 Bristol, tide observations at, 73, 242. 

 Brnughton(J.D.), notice of the late, 17. 

 Brown (R.), a Royal medal awarded 



