INDEX. 



489 



Brewster (Sir D.) on the connexion 

 between the phenomena of the ab- 

 sorption of light and the colours of 

 thin plates, 475. 



on doubly refracting structures in 



the crystalline lenses of animals after 

 death, 478. 



Bridge (Rev. B.), notice of the late, 228. 



Bridges, suspension, 51. 



Bridgewater treatises,notice of the,433. 



Brinkley (Bishop of Cloyne), notice 

 of the late, 354. 



Bromine, in the Moira brine spring, 

 on the extraction of, 295. 



Brookes (J.), notice of, 229. 



Browne (E.) on the disinfecting power 

 of the gases, 134. 



Browne (H.), notice of the late, 9. 



Burnes (A.) on the temperature of the 

 air and the sea, 317. 



Burrington Coomb, remains found in 

 the caves at, 56. 



Cadell (W. A.) on the hour lines of 



the ancients, 18. 

 Calculus, integral, on the, 380, 417. 



of principal functions, 315. 



Caldcleugh (A.) on the earthquake at 



Chili in 1835, 347. 

 on the volcanic eruption of Cosi- 



guina, 363. 

 Cape Frio, notice of, 266, 271. 

 Capillary action, Poisson's theory of, 15 7. 



vessels, physiology of the, 45. 



Carbonic acid and ammonia, on the 



combinations of, 207. 

 Carr (Rev. W.), notice of, 84. 

 Cassegrainian telescope compared with 



the Gregorian, 350. 

 Cauchy's theory of undulations, 326, 



362. 



Caustics, on the equations of, 324. 

 Caverns of the Mendip Hills, 55. 

 Cement, water, artificial, 41. 

 Chaptal (Comte), notice of, 152. 

 Chemical decompositions, effected by 



voltaic and by ordinary electricity, 



99. 



Chenevix (Mr.), notice of the late, 8. 



Chichester, earthquakes at, 338. 



Children (J. G.), the thanks of the 

 Royal Society given to, 362. 



Chili, on the earthquake at, 347. 



Chlorides, constitution of the, 455. 



Chlorine and nitrous gas, a new com- 

 bination of, 27. 



, equivalent number for, 197. 



Chloro-nitrous gas, 28. 



Christie (S. H.), report on Faraday's 



researches in electricity, 113. 

 on the laws of magneto-electric 



induction in different masses of the 



same metal, 177. 

 on determining the direction and 



intensity of terrestrial magnetism, 



185. 



, report on Faraday's paper on the 



identity of electricities and on com- 

 mon and voltaic electricity, 191. 



on the magnetical observations 



made by Capt. Back, 394, 400. 



, report on M. de Humboldt's let- 

 ter on terrestrial magrietism, 418. 



Christie (C. C.) on the aurora borealis 

 of Nov. 18, 1835, 361. 



Chromium, oxalate of, and potash, 

 double refraction and absorption of 

 light in, 322. 



Chronometers, on glass balance-springs 

 in, 391. 



Circulation, of the blood, 64 ; in ani- 

 mals during hybernation, 106; of 

 the blood in insects, 317. 



Cirripedes, metamorphoses in the se- 

 cond type of the Lepades, 325. 



Clairaut's theory of the equilibrium of 

 fluids, on, 21, 286. 



Cloth, Egyptian, 298. 



Cod, on the crystalline lens of, 194. 



Coddington (Rev. H.), report on Mr. 

 Lubbock's paper on physical astro- 

 nomy, 121. 



Collimator, floating, Kater's, 353, 354. 



Colorific rays, on the, 284. 



Colour, itsinfluenceonheatand odours, 

 208. 



Colours of thin plates, on the, 294, 475. 



Comatula, on the star-fish of the ge- 

 nus, 339. 



Combustion, new law of, 280. 



Comet, Encke's, 197. 



, Halley's, in 1759, elements of, 



332 ; in 1835, observations on, 346. 



Compass, its deviation by the at- 

 traction of ships, 43. 



Conception, town of, destroyed by an 

 earthquake, 347. 



Cooke (Rev. G.) on the composition 

 and decomposition ofmineral waters, 

 414. 



Cooper (E. J.), observations on Hal- 

 ley's comet in 1835, 346. 



Cooper (P.) on refracted and diffract- 

 ed light, 281 ; on the number of 



