INDEX. 
Home, Sir Everard, Bart. Additional facts respecting 
the fossil remains of an animal, on the subject of which 
two papers have been printed in the Philosophical 
Transactions, showing that the bones of the sternum 
resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus, 24 
- — — The Croonian Lecture. On the 
changes the blood undergoes in the act of coagulation, 172 
— Some additions to the Croonian 
Lecture, on the changes the blood undergoes in the act 
of coagulation, - - - 185 
— - — — A description of the teeth of the 
Delphinus Gangeticus, - 417 
K 
Kater, Capt. Henry. An account of experiments for 
determining the length of the pendulum vibrating se- 
conds in the latitude of London, - 33 
_____ — — . - — — On the length of the French M6tre 
estimated in parts of the English standard, - 103 
Knife edges, of the apparatus and methods employed for 
the measurement of the distance between them (in 
Capt. Kater’s experiments,^ and for the comparison of 
the British standard measures of the highest authority, 49 
Knight, Thomas Andrew, Esq. On the office of the 
heart wood of trees, - - - 137 
L 
Lambton, Col. William. An abstract of the results 
deduced from the measurement of an arc on the meri- 
dian, extending from latitude 8° 9' 38", 4, to latitude 18° 
3' 23", 6, N. being an amplitude of 9° 53' 45", 2. 486 
La Place, M. A concise demonstration of a curious and 
important theorem discovered by him, - 95 
Lecture , Croonian, on the changes the blood undergoes in 
the act of coagulation, - - 172 
— — __ — __________ Some additions to it, - 185 
Lizards, of their urinary organs and urine, - - 305 
M 
Materials, an account of experiments made on the gtrength 
of them, - - - - 118 
■ description of an apparatus used in measuring 
the strength of them, - - - 120 
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