INDEX. 
E 
AU 
Earth, form and structure of, I98. 
Earthqtiake which destroyed the Caraceas, 272. 
Edinbtirgk, neighbourhood of, account of its geognosy, 352. 
Electrical fish, 206. 
Expedition to the North Pole, 150.-— overland from Hudsons Bay 
to the Arctic Ocean, 215. 
human, structure of, 42. 
F 
Firinas^s experiments on the magnetizing influence of the violet 
rays, 241. 
Fish, electrical, 206. 
Fleming, Dr, on the arctic and skua gulls,'97- 
Frogs, on the respiration of, 214. 
Fulminating silver and mercury, singular fact respecting, 41 7« 
Fyfe, Dr, on the quantity of saline matter in the water of the North 
Polar Seas, I60.-— on the plants which yield iodine, 254. 
G 
Galvanic pile, account of a new one, 388. 
Ganges and Jumna, sources of, 127‘ ♦ 
Gas Jire, account of, 350. 
Gas lamp, description of a portable one, 373. 
Gay-Lussac’s anatysis of the water of the Dead Sea, 417- — -on the 
gas fire, 350. Note. 
Gibbs, Colonel, on the influence of light upon magnets, 242, 
Giesecke, Sir Charles, on the temporary residences of the Greenland- 
ers during the winter season, and on the population of North and 
South Greenland, 11 7 . 
Gordon, Dr, on the human eye, 42. — on the human cuticle, 213, 
— Mr D. description of his portable gas lamp, 373. 
Granite, geognostical relations of. 111. — subterraneous sounds in 
rocks of, 413. 
Gravity, experiments shewing that it acts equally on light and heavy 
bodies, 202. 
Greenland, North and South, population of, 117* 
Greenlanders, their temporary residences during the winter sea- 
son, 117. 
Greenstone, account of, 138. 
Gulls, arctic and skua, observations on, 97, 
H 
Hamilton, Dr Francis, on the diamond mine of Panna, 49, 
Hare, Dr, on the calorimotor, 414. 
Harmotome, on the structure of, 7* 
Heat, specific, relation between it and the weight of the atoms of bo- 
dies, 415. 
Heron de Ville Fosse, on mineral wealth, 211. 
Herschel, Mr, on hyposulphurous acid, 8. 
— — — - Sir W. on the distance of the fixed stars, 20 L 
