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INDEX. 



Rogers, W. B., on ozone, 141. 



Trilobites from near Boston. 296. 

 Ronalds and Richardson's Chemical Tech- 

 nology, noticed, 149. 

 Ruhmkorjfs apparatus, effects with, 268. 



s 



Sofford, J. M., on the genus Tetradium, 286. 



Geology of Tennesee, 129. 

 Scacchi, Vesuvian minerals, 246 and beyond 

 Sandstone of Connecticut, etc , relation oi 

 fossil fishes of, W. C. Redfield, 357. 



called Newark sandstones, by 

 W.C. Redfield, 357, 

 Dana, 321. 



Pa., fossils of, Lea, 123. 



Sea of Kamtschatka, soundings in, Bailey, 1 



Secchi, view of part of moon, 265. 



Selenium, isomeric modifications of, Reg- 

 mult, 108. 

 crystalline form, 271. 



Serapis, changes in, Lyell, 126. 



Shepard, C. U., new minerals, 96. 



Shooting stars of August, 1856, 290. 



Shumard, Eleutherocrinus, 120. 



Spec ific gravity apparatus, Eckfeldt and Du- 

 bois,- 294. 



Spillman, W , meteor of July 8, 448. 



Sponges, Bowerbank, 439. 



Spongeous origin of siliceous bodies of chalk, 

 415. 



Soda, manufacture of, Leblanc's process, 99. 

 Squier, E. G., prize to, 148. 

 Star-fishes, Palaeozoic, Salter, 415. 

 Steam engine, R. Clausius on, 180, 364. 

 Stereoscopic experiment, Lugeol, 104. 

 Strychnia, methods of detecting, 413. 

 Students visiting Europe, information to, 146. 

 Suez, level and character of isthmus, 273. 

 Sugars, two, from California, 6. 

 Sun's rays, heat in, 377, 388. 



T 



Taurine, 13. 



Taylor, W. J., meteoric iron of Xiquipilco, 

 374. 



Telescope, equatorial, Porro, 103. 

 Tetradium, J. M. Safford on, 236. 

 Thompson, Z., obituary, 44. 

 Tides at Fonape, Carolines, 142. 



Trask, J. B., earthquakes in California, 1 10. 

 Trilobites from near Boston, W. B. Rogers. 



296. 



Trionyx,from Nebraska, 120. 

 Troodon, fossil repiile, 119. 

 Turkey, new, of Mexico, 139. 



u 



U. States, statistics of Flora of Northern, A. 

 Gray, 204. 



V 



Vienna Geological transactions, 453, 

 Volcanoes of Southern Italy, Deinlle, 272. 

 Volcano, eruption of Hawaian, Coan, 240. 

 Voltaic, see Galvanic. 



w 



Warren, J. C, obituary of, 151. 

 Waters of the Dead Sea, 301. 



of the Caspian, density of, 301. 

 in the Desert of Sahara, 301. 

 i of Delaware river, H. Wurtz, 124, 301. 

 of Lake Ooroomiah, 276. 

 specific gravity, etc., of several salt, 277. 

 WeddelVs Chloris Andina, noticed, 437. 

 Western Academy of Nat. Sci., 150. 

 Whitney, J. D., iron ore of Azoic system, 38. 

 WollastorCs Insecta Maderensia, noticed, 28, 

 Woodbridge, W. E., pressure of fired gun- 

 powder, 153. 

 Works, French, noticed, 269. 



Botanical, see Botany. 

 Wurtz on ether and its homologues, 107. 

 Wurtz, H., on water of Delaware, 124. 



! Y 



Yandell, Eleutherocrinus, 120. 



z 



Zeising, A., work by, noticed, 454. 

 Zoology, see Crustacea, Insecta, Fossil. 



value of a genus and species in, Wollas- 

 ton, 287. 



young of gar-pikes, 440. 

 mollusks of California coast, P. Carpen- 

 ter, 438. 

 a new turkey of Mexico, 139. 

 a new Dinornis, 138. 



