INDEX II. 
TO 
NOTICES OF COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECTIONS. 
.Absorption, on the office of lac- 
teals, lymphatics, and veins in the 
function of, 92. 
Achromatic microscope, 112. 
Acids :—sulpho-methylic, 42 ; muria¬ 
tic, 45; hydrocyanic, 45. 
Adams (R.) on aneurism by anasto¬ 
mosis, 99. 
Agassiz (Prof.) on fossil fishes, 61. 
-on the principles of classification 
in the animal kingdom, 67. 
Alison (Dr.) on the vital powers in ar¬ 
teries leading to inflamed parts, and 
on the cause of death in asphyxia, 89. 
Allman (Dr.) on the mathematical re¬ 
lations of the forms of the cells of 
plants, 79. 
Anemometer, new, 29. 
Aneurism by anastomosis, 99. 
Apjohn (Prof.) on the dew-point, 27. 
•- on the specific heats of elastic 
fluids, 30. 
Arteries leading to inflamed parts, on 
the vital powers in, 89. 
Asphyxia, on the cause of death in, 90. 
Astronomical clock, 112. 
Attraction, electrical, 17. 
Aurora borealis, on the, 17, 18. 
Babbage (C.) on the statistics con¬ 
tained in the Ordnance Survey of 
Templemore, 118. 
—— on cooperative shops, 125. 
Ball (R.) on Pentacrinus Europams 
and a species of Bero'e, 72. 
Barker (Dr. W.) on electric currents 
passing through platinum wire, 33. 
Barker (Prof. F.), account of some 
chemical processes, 52. 
Barometer, self-registering, 109. 
Birds, geographical range of, 69. 
Bog timber, on, 76. 
Botany, 67. 
Bruit de Souffiet , mechanism of, 87. 
Brunswick, punishment of death in, 
124. 
Cambrian and Silurian systems, 58. 
Cape Farewell, geographical position 
of, 66. 
Cetacea , mammary glands in the, 86. 
Chabasie, optical properties of, 44. 
Challis (Rev. J.) on the vibrations of 
a cylindrical tube, 12. 
Chemistry, 30. 
Cheverton (Mr.) on mechanical sculp¬ 
ture, 112. 
Chloride of soda, its use in fever, 104. 
Circulating organs in diving animals, 
81. 
Classification, principles of, 67. 
Cleland (Dr.) on the Glasgow Bride¬ 
well, 123. 
Coal-gas, phenomena of flame from, 
49. 
Cold, its effects on the body, 94. 
Collins (Dr.), registry kept in the Ly¬ 
ing-in Hospital of Dublin, 106. 
Collision and impact, on, 107. 
Conifer cb, on the structure of, 73. 
Connell (A.), analysis of fossil scales, 
41. 
Cornwall, steam engines of, 108. 
Corrigan (Dr.) on the mechanism of 
Bruit de Souffiet , 87. 
Corrosion of metals by sea-water, 34, 
36. 
Crystallized surfaces, reflexion and re¬ 
fraction from, 7. 
Dalton (Dr.), analysis of pyroxylic 
spirit, 44. 
Daubeny (Prof.) on the volatilization 
of magnesia by heat, 51 . 
-on the action of light on plants. 
73. 
