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INDEX. 
Page. 
Buchanan, Dr. extracts from his 
published works, 299 
■■ unpublished, 374 
Buckland, Prof, his mistake on the 
subject of isothermal lines, 109 ; 
his account of organic remains 
found in Ava, 180 ; his account 
of the Cycadeoideae, 186; the 
first to insist on diluvial depo- 
sits, 219 
Bundelkhand, geology of, 213 
Burns, remedy for, 12 
C.’s table of comparative tensions 
of aqueous vapour, 340 
Caissons, patent metallic, 311 
Calculation of heights from baro- 
metrical observation, 85, 370 
Calder, J. Esq. his sketch of the 
geology of India, 211 
Calcutta, badness of water for do- 
mestic consumption in, 102 
Canal, circular, notice of, 112 
Canals of irrigation in Italy, 94 
Concur , production of, 247 ; re- 
marks on, 365 
Cannel coal at Lafir in Bengal, 283 
Caoutchouc, a material for artifi- 
cial cobwebs, 10 ; queries regard- 
ing the preparation of, 30a 
Capillarity, effects of, on the baro- 
meter, 
42 
Carbonate of lime, fusion of under 
pressure, 2 ; separation of, 26a 
Carbonic acid contained in the in- 
digo solution, 17 
Carlini, Prof, his experiments with 
the pendulum, 7 
Casiah hills , on the firs of, 202 ; 
some account of, 252 ; jasper 
from, 374 
Cassin’s purple precipitate, Dr. 
Clarke’s view of, 41 
Cath or terra japonica manufac- 
tured, 282 
Cements, comparative value of, 91 
Cenis, mount, pendulum experi- 
ments on, 7 ; effect of attraction 
on the pendulum, 9 
Cemlin, or Saxon blue, a modifica- 
tion of indigo, 13 
Chaodans, a district in the Hinima- 
lava mountains, 98 
C,hara nun, account of, 304 
Chek guntlei i of the Hindustanis, 
the Anthill sexguttata , 373 
Chinese bicker, remarks on, 174, 337 
— their jealousy of Lord Am- 
herst’s visit to Seinla, 100 
Chiru , or unicorn, notice of, 144 
Chloride of lime, a remedy for 
burns, 12; use in gardening, 122 
Cholera, remedy for, " 328 
Chronometers, 'use of graphite for 
the pivots of, 330 
Page. 
Circle, double, for observing by re- 
flection, 26 
Circular of the Horticultural Soci- 
ety, ^ 378 
Circulation of the blood, influence 
of atmosphere on, 39 
Clarence sextant, royal, 309 
Clarke’s, Dr. view of the purple 
precipitate of Cassius, 41 
Clay- slate formation, the thons- 
chiefer of Werner, 222 
Clift, W. Esq. accountofthe mas- 
todon of Ava, 180 
Coal mine, new, discovery of, 178 ; 
district of Burdwan, 2G1 ; con- 
tinues into China, 263; view of, 
in the Casiah hills, 281 
Cobweb, artificial, on the construc- 
tion of, 10 
Colour and light, enquiry into tlie 
causes of, 197 
Colouring matter, on, 159 
Compass, new method of fixing on 
board ship, 348 
Compounds gaseous, effect of sud- 
den expansion on, 38 
Compression of air, heat evolved 
by, 42 
Consolidation of the strata, on the, 1 
Cooling wines, notice on, 212, 301 
Copper mines of the Himmalaya, 230 
Correction of unequal altitudes, 89 
Coulthard, Capt. his account of the 
trap formation, 216 
Crawford, J. Esq. organic re- 
mains found by, in Ava, 180 
Crops, succession of, 122 
Crystalline rucks, posterior to stra- 
tified, 1 
Crystallite, a new term proposed 
by Dr. Hope, 1 
Cumming’s proposed modification 
of Daniel’s hygrometer, 309 
Cuvier, Baron, his proposed work 
on fishes, 113 ; his mistake with 
regard to the dugong, 208; new 
edition of his Kegoe Animal, 312 
Cycadeoideae, a new family of fossil 
plants, 186 
D. on the value of corresponding 
lunar distances, 27 ; on hygrorue- 
try, 45, 189 ; his theory of the 
moist- bulb thermometer, 51 ; on 
the calculation of barometrical 
observations, 85 ; his correction 
for unequal altitudes, 89; his no- 
tice of the wild dog, 280 ; on 
several modifications of Daniel's 
hygrometer, 309 ; on the best 
form of a portable barometer, 313 
Dalton’s hvgrometrical law, 46 ; 
method of finding the dew point, 
il. ; idea of the true scale of temp- 
erature. 272 
