INDEX. 
Silk, mooga and eria, cloths made 
from . . . . .... 
Silver, description of aji apparatvis for 
assaying .... 
•, gold, and platina .... 
Silurian and cambrian formations. . . .. 
Slate manufacture, ornamental .... 
top for wash-hand stands .... 
Smith, Dr. .... 
Snow, inflammable .... 
Society, Ashmolean, of Oxford r2()- 
V Soda and potash, proportions of, when 
mixed together, .... 
Soda, phosphate and pyrophosphate of 
Solanere and verbascinte in reference 
to Indian species .... 
Soldiery, native, deaths among the. . 
Sougragne, water of .... 
Soultz .... 
'*^South cooler than the north .... 
Spectra, prismatic .... 
'^Spelling, literal 
Sphynx ligustri, nervous system of. . 
Spirit, pyroxilic 
Spirits, ardent 
Spontaneous combustion 49- 
Stars, fixed . . . . 352- 
Statistics and geography of India . . 
"N Steam, substitute for .... 
, water a substitute for 
ploughs 138- 
vessels, plan for propelling 
by a current of air 
vei-sus water .... 
, navigation of the Atlantic 
by 
.company, Calcutta 
, prospects of 
communication with India 420- 
fiat, meteorological register kept 
on board the Experiment 
coach, Dr. Church’s .... 
boat novelty .... 
engine, pendulum 
, new rotative, of increased 
power .... 
, improvements in the 
carriage automaton , .... 
navigation . . .... 
Sternbergite .... 
Stick, a walking .... 
Stoves, Dr. Arnott’s new 
Strength, human 
Strychnos, spurious angustura bark of 
the genus . . , . , , 
Sugar, cultivation of .... 362- 
, imported in England .... 
from Endian corn .... 
from beet root . . ... 
— from urine . . .: . 
', manufacture of .... 
, consumption of,in Europe 423- 
— , household manufacture of . . 
619 
93 
233 
276 
397 
398 
291 
36 
-171 
169 
494 
95 
255 
37 
37 
238 
50 
402 
41 
215 
499 
-608 
-486 
481 
109 
134 
-396 
64 
463 
179 
225 
418 
-551 
443 
604 
610 
65 
106 
109 
682 
694 
1 
404 
608 
611 
289 
-633 
368 
138 
238 
382 
159 
-424 
468 
— , maise . . ..610 
trade . . . . 42.3 
Sugar-cane, cviltivation of, in India. . 369 
, preparing land for the 
cultivation of , . .... 370 — 635 
, raw, improvements in 
clarifying 
: ,niode of planting and trans- 
planting . . . . . . 
history of the . . . . 
in India . . . . 
-{development of the vari- 
ous parts of the . . . . . . 
>, cultivation of the, on en- 
lightened principles 
, influence of soil and cli- 
mate on the . . .... 
— ^ Batavian . . .... 
knowledge of the Chinese 
405 
415 
422 
481 
554 
555 
556 
557 
634 
637 
452 
219 
37 
216 
in cultivating the 
Sulimania, description of the city of 
Sulphuric acid, Thomson on the for- 
mation of . . .... 
— in prussic acid 
Sulphurous waters 
"Symbols, chemical 
Syphon tubes, long, easy method of 
filling .. 343 
Tartar tribes, account of the . . 309 
Taxidermist, the 407 — 615 
Tea forests in Assam 301 — 311 
Telegraphic system, invention of a 
new 
Telescope, twenty-five feet zenith . . 
Temperance societies in India .... 
' Temperature of the ground at various 
depths 
of Canton and Macao . . 
Temperature in rocky strata, varia- 
tion of 
, inferior, of the earth .... 
-and time measurer .... 
Tertiary., formation in Yorkshire . . 
Tetanus, abstract of a work on 
Tetraphylline 
Thermometers 
Themometer exhibited by Babbage. . 
Tides and meteorology • • . • 
, rising and falling of, applica- 
ble to the propelling of machinery 
, observations of, by Lubbock 
, new theory of 
608 
221 
148 
126 
237 
237 
491 
610 
214 
502 
330 
128 
537 
211 
401 
486 
609 
9 
118 
Tibdemann and Gmelin’s researches 
on the blood • • • • 
Tiedemann’s physiology 10 — 54 — 85 
Timber, preservation of, from decay 144-359 
Tin plate, or tinned iron, protec- 
tion of, from corrosion in sea- 
water • • 
and platinunm, compounds of 217 
Tobacco, Virginian and Irish, values 
of .. , 219 
Tomlinson on accidental colours. ... -0 
