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INDEX. 
Page. 
Aberration, constant of, 346 
Absorption, suspended in a vacuum, 41 
Acetate of ammonia, cure fordrunk- 
enness, ib. 
Acid secretion in a beetle, 246 
Addison on the radiation of caloric, 203 
Adie’s sj mpiesometer, errors of, 201 
Agglutination of sand and gravel 
by subaqueous heat, 4 
Aggregates, a class of rocks, 2 
Agricultural and Horticultural So- 
ciety, proceedings of, 24,90,140, 
174, 206, 278, 376 
Agricultural institution, proposal 
for establishing, 194 
Aikengaw, valley of, appearances in, 3 
Air, expansion of, 30,380 
Airy, G. B. Esq, his corrections of 
the solar tables, 146 
Alloy, specific gravity of, 379 
Altitudes, unequal, correction of, 89 
Amherst, Lord, his visit to Senila, 
viewed with jealousy by the 
Chinese, 109 
Ampullaria, animal of, description 
of the, 52 ; additions, and correc- 
tions to, 372 
A. N.’s account of a boring made in 
Fort William, 102 ; details of, 167 
Analyses of books, 145, 179, 211 
Analysis of indigo, 11; of cerulin, 
ib. of phenicin, ib. of iron ores, 
295 ; method of, 297 ; of various 
carbonates of lime and magne- 
sia, 265 ; dry method superior 
to humid, 267 ; of the water of a 
well in Fort William, 103 , of the 
tourmaline, 378 
Analytical examination of different 
waters, 248 
Anthracotherium, new species of, 186 
Antilope Hodgsonii, notice of, 144 
Antimony, sulphuret of, new spe- 
cies, 35 
Apatite, composition of, 41 
Arnott’s Physics, errors in, 323,368 
Asiatic Society, proceedings of, 20, 
59,111, 173, 245, 341, 375 
, Physical Class of, 20, 
59, 139, 205, 246, 342 
Transac- 
tions of, analysis of the, 211 
Atlas of India, publication of the, 347 
Atmosphere, influence of, on the cir- 
culation of the blood, 39 
Atmospheric tides, notice of, 248 
Page. 
B. on producing; early grapes, 91 
Baker, Capt. his experiments on 
the strength of timber, 123, 231 
Baling, method of raising water by, 105 
Barley, crops of highest elevation of, 
109 ; returns in fold of, 332 
Barlow, Mr. his achromatic teles- 
cope, 151 
Barometer, error of, owing to capil- 
lary action, 42 ; observations of, 
calculation of, 85,370 ; thermo- 
metrical, remarks on, 1 13 ; on the 
oscillations of the, 158; portable, 
best form of, 313 ; Gay Lussac’s, 
317 ; Bunten’s, 318 ; table of, to 
be applied to correction, 371 
Barry’s, Dr. theory of the circulation, 39 
Basalt, proposed restriction of the 
term, 216 
Beam, new invented, some account 
of, 56; supposed fallacy of, 114; 
answer to, 177 
Beating, process of, in the manu- 
facture of indigo, 1 6 
Beetle, on an acid secretion in, 246 
Benares, metereological summary 
at, for 1827, 28 
Bengal, mineral productions of, 231 
Berthier, M. on Uaidingerite, 35; 
on a new oxyd of iron, 12L 
Berzelius on the blow pipe 259 ; his 
attack on Dr. Thomson, 310 
Bians Pass, account of a visit to, 97 
Blowpipe test of potassa, 121 
Bore in the Hdgli, remarks on, 292 
Boring made at Fort William, 102 ; 
details of, 167 ; for water, method 
of, 119 ; made for overflowing 
springs, 311 
Brewster’s Encyclopaedia, Art. 
Hygrometry, errors of, 81 
Bridge, arch suspension, notice of 
an, 345 ; iron chain, on the intro- 
duction into the mountainsof, 349; 
several kinds of, in the mountains, 
351 ; Shakespearian, 352 ; inferior 
to the iron chain-bridge, 353; com- 
parative estimates of both kinds 
of, 354; table of elements of chain, 355 
Broadcast and drill sowing for in- 
digo, 136 
Brogniart,M. his theory of the three 
epochs of the vegetable creation, 183 
Bronzing, method of, 121 
Buceros, new species of, descrip- 
tion of, 249 
