INDEX. 
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St Bernard^ Mount, red snow of, 307* 
Sedgivick, Professor, on the geology of Cornwall, &c. 18o. 
Sandwich La7idj account of, 376. 
Saussure, M. Theodore, on oily substances, 302. 
Seasons^ on the difference of, 264. 
Sepidchral Caverns of Egypt, account of the^ 345. 
SexeSj on the comparative number of, at birth, 296 . 
Shetland^ New South, account of its discovery by Mr Smith, S67« 
Siderography^ account of Perkin’s new art of, 140. 
Sirene, a new acoustic instrument, account of the, 1 9^* 
Smith, Mr Thomas, on the fluctuating sensibility of the retina, 92^ 
Mr, discovers New’ South Shetland, 369 . 
Smithson, Mr, on sulphate of barium and fluoride of calcium, 404. 
Sound, on the increase of, during night, 1 95. 
South, Mr John, on double stars, 19 I. 
Specific Gravities of oils at different temperatures, 303. — of alloys of 
steel with diflerent metels, 312. 
Spectra, ocular, 97. 
Spilzherge7t, proposal to winter in, 41 6. 
Spontaneous Combustion of cloth, 199* 
Sulphuric Acid, analysis of, 313. 
Sumbawa, volcanic eruption in, S 89 . 
Sun, on the figure of the, 400. 
Steel, alloys of, observations on the, 308. 
Stethoscope, account of the, 182. 
Stevenson, Mr R. on the Bed of the German Ocean, 42. 
Stewart, Mr John, on American ferns, 183. 
St7'ato7i, Colonel, on the subterranean temple of Ipsambul, 62. — on the 
Egyptian sepulchres, 345. 
Stodart, Mr, on the alloys of steel, 308. 
Siibcarbonate of Ammonia, analysis of, 314. 
Sublimate, corrosive, antidote against, 406. 
Submarine Fir-trees in Orkney, account of, 100. 
Sulphato-carbonate of Lead, account of, 117* 
Sword-Jish, account of a vessel struck by one, 411. 
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Table, thermometrical, kept on board the ship Asia, 251. 
Teak-wood, on the silex it contains, 413. 
Temple, subterranean, account of the one at Ipsambul, 62. 
Thermometer, as an indicator of a ship’s approach to land, 247. 
Tiger, account of a conflict between one and Lieut. Collet, 203. 
Tilesius, Dr, on the volcano of Coosima, 349. 
Timber, on the difference between it when, felled in winter and sum« 
mer, 201. 
Traill, Dr Thomas, on a paraselene, 402. 
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Uredo Nivalis, 611 the growth of, 200 . 
Ursus longirosiris, account of tlie, i 1 0 . 
