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INDEX. 



Baillie (Lt.-Col.), notice of, 229. 



Baily (F.) on the correction of a pen- 

 dulum for the reduction to a va- 

 cuum, and on some anomalies in 

 pendulum experiments, 126. 



Bakerian lectures, 95, 177, 313. 



Balard (M.), the Royal medal adjudged 

 to, 221. 



Baltic, gradual sinking of the waters 

 of the, 313. 



Banwell caves, Mendip Hills, 56. 



Barium, chloride of, on, 196. 



, equivalent of, 197. 



Barlow (P.) on fluid refracting tele- 

 scopes, 13, 140. 



— — on the electric origin of the pheno- 

 mena of terrestrial magnetism, 23. 



on the errors in the course of ves- 

 sels, 43. 



on magnetic variation, 195. 



on the negative achromatic lens, 



284. 



on gradients on railroads, 390. 



, reports on his fluid-lens telescope, 



245. 



Barlow (P. W.) on the laws which go- 

 vern the motion of steam- vessels, 

 285. 



Barlow (W. H.) on illuminating light- 

 houses, 474. 



Bamett (E.), meteorological register, 

 333. 



Barometer, mountain, 40. 



, hourly observations on the, 136. 



, water, of the Royal Society, 134. 



Barry (A.) on the chemical action of 



atmospheric electricity, 29. 



, notice of the late, 149. 



Barton (J.) on the inflexion of light, 72. 

 Barytes, subarseniate of, composition 



of, 201. 



Bate (Mr.) on an improvement in me- 

 dal-ruling, 139. 



Bath, on the thermal springs at, 254, 

 258. 



Batrachian reptiles, killed by immer- 

 sion in hot water, 45, 47. 



Beaches, shingle, motions of, 276. 



Beaufort (Capt.), meteorological jour- 

 nal kept at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 363. 



, hygrometrical observations, 333. 



Belcher (Capt.), magnetical experi- 

 ments on the coast of Africa, 130. 



Bell (Sir C.) on the organs of the hu- 

 man voice, 102. 



— ,the Royal medal adjudged to, 221. 



Bell (Sir C.) on the functions of the 

 brain, and the relations between the 

 brain and nerves of motion and sen- 

 sation, 283, 331. 



Bell (J.), notice of the late, 437. 



Berzelius (Baron), the Copley medal 

 awarded to, 442. 



Bianchi (Prof.) on a new sidereal ca- 

 talogue, 414. 



Bickerton (Sir R. H.), notice of, 149. 



Bile, secretion and uses of, 160. 



Biot (M.), the earth considered as a 

 magnet by, 23. 



Biphosphate of soda, experiments on, 

 209. 



Bird (G.) on the electro-chemical in- 

 fluence of electric currents of low 

 tension, 461. 



Bishop (J.) on the nerves of sensation, 

 205. 



on the grave and acute tones of 



the human voice, 323. 

 on the physiology of the human 



voice, 404. 

 Blacklewar (C.) on some properties of 



numbers in geometrical progression, 



139. 



Blane (Sir G.), notice of, 303. 

 Blane (Wm.), notice of the late, 437. 

 Blood of the vena portse, on the, 53. 



, on the circulation of the, 64. 



, the principles of bile pre-exist in, 



160. 



, influence of the tricuspid valve 



of the heart on the circulation of 

 the, 337, 396. 



in insects, circulation of, 317. 



Bostock (Dr.), report on Faraday's re- 

 searches in electricity, 113. 



Boubee (Prof.) on the lake of Oo 

 near Bagneres de la Chou, 131. 



Brain, on the functions and relations 

 between it and the nerves of motion 

 and sensation, 283, 331. 



- of the European, 398. 



of the Negro, 398. 



in marsupial animals, on the, 460. 



Brest, on the tides at, 75. 



Brewster (Sir D.), the Royal medal 

 awarded to, 11, 221. 



on the crystalline lenses of ani- 

 mals, 194, 366. 



— — on the double refraction, and ab- 

 sorption of light, exhibited in the ox- 

 alate of chromium and potash, 322. 



on an artificial substance resem- 

 bling shell, 375. 



