INDEX. 



459 



Minerals — 



Lead, native, 257. 

 Leuciie of Vesuvius, 257, 272. 

 Leucopyrite, Behncke, 257. 

 Keilhaune, 257. 

 Killinite, 257. 

 Magnesite, Styria, 258. 

 Marcasite of Hannover, 258. 

 Mispickel, Behncke, 253. 

 Monazite, 262. 

 JNitre, in Tennessee, 258. 

 Opal, in Moravia, 25S. 

 Ozocerite, Glocker, 253. 

 Paihbergite, 253. 

 Pateraile, 253. 

 Pectolite, 253. 

 Piauzite, 258. 



Picromerid, at Vesuvius, 258. 

 Pinguite, in Moravia, 253. 

 Platinum of Borneo, 259. 

 Pyroolasite, Shepard, 97. 

 Pyroguanite minerals, 96. 

 Pyromelane, Shepard, 96. 259. 

 Pyrosclerite of Snarum, 259. 

 Pyrotechnite, 261. 

 Pyrrliotine. meteoric, 375. 

 Quartz in capillary forms, etc., 259. 

 Quicksilver in drift deposits, 259. 

 Rhodonite, Greg, 259. 

 Sal-ammoniac, 261. 

 Sail at Vesuvius, 260. 

 Serpentine of Roxbury, Ct., 260. 

 Silver, native, at Cheshire, Ct., 260. 

 Smithsonite. pseudomorphs, 260. 

 Specular iron, 256. 



Sphene, decomposed, (Xanthitane,) 260. 

 Stannite, Bischof, 260. 

 Stauroiide, Georgia, 260. 

 Stihnite, 261. 



Stilbite (Hypostilbite), 179, 26!. 

 Stilpnomelane, Glocker, 261. 

 Tantahte of Limoges, 261. 

 Thenardite of Vesuvius, 261. 

 Tritomite, analysis, 261. 

 Tscheffkinite/261. 

 Tyrite, 261. 

 Urdite, Forbes, 262. 

 Vanadinite of Carinthia, 262. 

 Vivianite, 262. 

 Voigtite, E. E. Schmid, 262. 

 Volkuerite, Rammelsberg, 263. 

 Wntichite, 263. 

 Wollram, 263. 

 Xenotime, 263. 



Zeolitie mineral from the Isle of Skye, 



Mullet, 179. 

 Zincite, 263. 



Minerals, artificial furnace products, 248. 



Mineralogy. 3d Supplement to Dana's, 246. 

 list of new works, 246. 



Mississippi River, times of closing and open- 

 ing, T S. Purvin, 119, 



Moon, Secchi.'s drawing of, 265. 



Murchixon, R. L, letter on the Museum of 

 of Practical Geology. 2h2. 



Muscles, composition of, Valenciennes, 9. 



N 



Nebraska fossils, 118, 423. 

 Neo-macropia, 3J1. 



New South Shetlands, crustacean from, and 



remarks on, 394. 

 New Zealand, changes of level at, 128. 



new Dinornis of, Omen, 138. 

 Nickel, sulphate of, 103. 

 Nkkles, J., correspondence of 99, 264. 

 Nickles, E., on amorphous phosphorus, 244. 

 Nitrogen, specific volume of compounds con- 

 taining nitrogen 108. 

 North Carolina, hailstorm in, 298. 



o 



Obituary — Buckland, 449. 

 J. Locke, 301. 

 J G Percival, 150. 

 D. Sharpe, 152. 

 Z. Thompson, 44. 

 J. C. Warren, 151. 

 Binet, 264. 

 Observatory at Paris, 265. 



" Annals" of, 265. 

 at Albany, 442. 



at University of Mississippi, 290. 

 Oregon, new ferns, D. C. Eaton, 138. 

 Omen, on a new Dinornis, 133. 

 Ozone, on atmospheric, Scoutetlen, 140. 

 W. B. Rogers, 141. 

 Andrews, 403. 



P 



Palaeoscincus, fossil reptile, 118. 

 Paris, Geographical society, 148. 

 Parvin, T. S., closing and opening of Mis- 

 sissippi, 149. 

 Percival, J. G, obituary of, 150. 

 Peru, mineral coal in, 274. 

 Phosphorus, amorphous, E. Nickles, 244. 

 Phosphorus in poisoning, detection of, 107. 

 Photographs, artificial light for, 301. 

 Photographic process with wax paper, W. 



(Jrookes, 159. 

 Piesse, G. W. S., Art of Perfumery, by, 



noticed, 150. 

 Planets, Leda (33), 140. 

 Laetitia (39), 140. 

 Harmonia (40), 440. 

 Daphne (41), Isis (42), 441. 

 Plants, De Candolles Geography of, noticed, 

 429. 



Embryo of, 432. 

 see farther, Botany. 

 Polythalamian, see Foraminiferous. 

 Porcelain, manufacture of Chinese, 101. 

 Posidooia Pa , Lea, 123. 

 Potato, wild in New Mexico and Texas, 284. 

 Proportions in nature, 454. 



Q 



Quarterly Journal of Pure Mathematics! 

 noticed, 453. 



R 



Railroad to Pacific, explorations for, 67. 

 Ratios in nature, 454. 



Red.fi.eld, W. C, Relation of fossil fishes to 



age of Newark sandstone, 357. 

 Regnault, Specific heat of some elements,108. 

 Reptiles, fossil, from Nebraska, 118. 



fossil, Pa., Lea, 122. 

 River floods, France, 267. 

 Rocky Mis., exploration for railroad across, 

 67. 



