INDEX. 
387 
Nimmo, Mr James, his account of a new rotatory gas-burner, 325. 
Northern expedition, statement of magnetical and other experiments 
made during the recent, 341. 
institution of Inverness, notice of its proceedings, 165. 
Notation, Mr Levy’s account of Weiss, Mohs, and Hauy’s modes of, 
132, 258. 
Palestine, notice respecting its geognosy, 177* 
Palms, Professor Schouw’s account of their geographical distribu- 
tion, 34. 
Paper made from marine plants, 195. 
— for removing rust from iron and steel, 198. 
Parry, Captain, notice regarding his last voyage, 168. 
statement of magnetical, and other experiments, 
made during his last expedition, 341. 
Patents sealed in England, from 6th October to 17th November 1825, 
201. — from 17th November 1825, to 23d January 1826, 378. 
granted in Scotland, from 5th September to 17th November 
1825, 203. — from 17th November 1825, to 16th February 1826, 
381. 
Panto-chronometer, notice respecting it, 377- 
Pecten niveus, distinguished from P. islandicus, 186. 
Pearls, Mr Grey’s remarks on the Chinese method of forming artifi- 
cial, 199. 
Petrified fishes found near Thurso, and in South Ronaldshay, 191. 
Phillipsite, notices respecting it, 174. 
Phosphate of lime discovered in the coal formation, 326. 
Physiology , notices in, 194. 
Plants, rhizomorphous ones found in mines, 178. 
flowering in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 150, 353. 
— — — — rare ones observed in Scotland by Dr Graham and Mr Home, 
!79. 
— four rare species of, observed in Perthshire, by Mr Bishop, 
180. 
Platina found in Russia, 173. 
— — strings for musical instruments, 200. 
Pleonaste, remarkably large crystals of it discovered in America, 175. 
Poisoning, account of a case of it produced by the honey of a Brazi- 
lian species of wasp, 91. 
Poisonous plants of the southern parts of Brazil, 264. 
Population of Great Britain, 378. 
Prussian universities, number of students in them, 194. 
Quills, new method of preparing, 376. 
Radiation of heat in the atmosphere, Mr Foggo junior’s remarks on 
Mr Daniell’s hypothesis of the, 63. 
Rail-roads, Rev. James Adamson’s remarks regarding them, 100. 
Rocks, account of those which compose the mountains of the desert 
between the Nile and the Red Sea, 239. 
Rosa, number of species of, 368. 
Rose, original habitats of the, 368. 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, notice of its proceedings, 163. 
