INDEX. 



Adie, Alexander, civil engineer, on the expansibility of stone, 207 

 Agassiz, Professor, his observations on fishes, 331 

 Air, notice of the effect of mountain, on man, 191 

 Andrejewskyi, Dr, on the vegetables which are found in the mineral 



waters of Abano, and in their immediate vicinity, 261 

 Aphis persicae, notice on the, 188 



Arago, M., on the number of comets in the solar system, &c. 15— 



on the Egyptian hieroglyphical writing, 39 

 Arch, Dr Traill on the history of the, 203 



Arts, Proceedings of the Society of, 214 — Report of the Committee 

 on Mr Beattie's spring door, 313 — Mechanical science applied 

 to the, 370 



Association, British, at Dublin, proceedings of, 353 

 Babylon, Dr Traill on the ruins of, 206 



Beattie, Alexander, his description of a new spring for shutting a 

 door, 309 



Beck, Lewis C, his researches on wines and other fermented liquors, 

 145 



Birds, on the respiration of, 193 



Boussingault, J. B., his account of an attempt to ascend Chimborazo, 

 88 



British plants, new and rare found in Scotland, 348 



Carpet manufacture, Mr Edward Sang on the recent improvement 

 of the, 254 



Chemical and Mineralogical Section of the British Association, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 391 



Chimborazo, M. J. B. Boussingault's account of an attempt to ascend, 

 88 



Ciliary motions in reptiles and warm-blooded animals, account of, 114 

 Clark, Dr, on the application of the hot blast in the manufacture of 

 iron, 205 



Comets, M. Arago on the number of, in the solar system, &c. 15 — 

 on the light of; and on the means of deciding whether this light 

 emanates from these bodies themselves, or is borrowed from the 

 sun, 21 — on the, which will pass its perihelion in Nov. 1835, 31 



Connell, Arthur, Esq., On the action of voltaic electricity on alcohol, 

 ether, and aqueous solutions, 159 — on taking the Dew-point, 

 176 — on the chemical nature of fcssil scales, 300 



