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INDEX. 



Page, 



Anatomy of the Beluga, - - 380 



Axes of Double Refraction, their Number, connected with 



the Primitive Forms of Crystals, 50,-337 

 ————— Single, may be resolved into several, 63 



B 



Bald, Robert, Esq. on the Coalfield of Clackmannanshire, 



and the Form of Coalfields in Great Britain, 123 

 Barclay, Dr, his Account of the Dissection of a Beluga, 371 

 Basalt, columnar, bed of, in tuff, - - 236 

 Beaver, Account of some Fossil Remains of the, found in 

 Scotland, by Patrick Neill, Esq. £07- — Its exis- 

 tence in Wales proved by the evidence of early 

 writers, ibid. — Probable existence in Scotland in 

 the twelfth century, 20§. — On the authority of 

 Bellenden, about the year 1536, 210, — Beavers 

 not mentioned in the public records of Scot- 

 land, 211 Gaelic name still retained, 2 1 2. — Fos- 

 sil remains discovered in 1788, 213. — Also in 

 1818, 215. — Peat-moss composed of musci, re- 

 taining their distinct characters, 21 6. — Organic 

 remains in ditto, 217. 

 Being, Abstract of a Paper on the Scale of, and on Organi- 

 zation and the Living Principle, by John Camp- 

 bell, Esq. 260. — Principle of Aggregation. — 

 Stratification, 2 6 1 . — Crystallization. — Organiza- 

 tion, 262. — Living principle different from the 

 organization, 269. 

 Beluga, or White Whale, Account of a, killed in the Frith 

 of Forth, by Dr Barclay, and Patrick Neill, Esq. 

 371. — Capture, 372. — Description and dimen- 

 sions, 373. — The flesh eaten in Greenland, 378. 

 — Dissection, 380. — Tongue. — Alimentary canal, 

 382 Spleen. — Omentum. — Pancreas, 383.-— 



