ISO 
INDEX. 
Davy (Prof.), experiments to prevent 
corrosion by sea-water, 34, 36. 
• -- on nicotin, 38. 
-on Irish and Virginian tobacco,37. 
Davy lamp, 55, 56. 
Denham (Capt.) on the survey of the 
Mersey and the Dee, 64. 
• - on vibration of railways, 108. 
Dew-point, 27, 54. 
Diving animals, on the circulating or¬ 
gans of, 81. 
Echinodermata , mode of preserving, 
71. 
Electricity, 30; prismatic decompo¬ 
sition of electrical light, 11; attrac¬ 
tion, 17; electric currents through 
platinum wire, 33. 
Electrical balance, 17. 
Electro-magnetism, on its application 
to manufactures, 18. 
Ettrick (Mr.) on the Davy lamp, 55. 
-- on improvements in the astro¬ 
nomical clock, mariner’s compass, 
and in steam engines, 112. 
Fever, typhus, 101. 
--, use of chloride of soda in, 104. 
Flame from coal-gas, phaenomena of, 
49. 
Floating bodies, on the motion of, 16. 
Fluids, on the resistance of, 16. 
--, elastic, specific heat of, 30. 
Fossil scales, analysis of, 41 ; Polypa- 
rla , 59; fishes, 61; trees, 63; plants, 
63. 
Fox (R. W.) on the absence of magnet¬ 
ism in cast iron when in fusion, 33. 
Geoghegan (Prof.), method of testing 
the presence of muriatic acid in hy¬ 
drocyanic acid, 45. 
Geography, 56. 
Geology, 56. 
Gooch (T. L.), account of a toad found 
alive imbedded in a mass of new 
red sandstone, 72. 
Graham (Prof.) on certain compounds 
with water, 45. 
-on safety lamps, 56. 
Graves (Dr.) on the use of chloride of 
soda in fever, 104. 
Greg (W. R.) on the social statistics 
of the Netherlands, 125. 
Griffith (R. J.) on the geological map 
of Ireland, 56. 
Hamilton (Prof. Sir W.), new theory 
of logologues, 7. 
Hamilton (C. W.) on a yew found in a 
bog, 76. 
-, notice of the nut of the Palo de 
Vaca, and of the wax-tree of Guia¬ 
na, 78. 
Handyside (Dr.) on the offices of lac- 
teals, lymphatics, and veins in the 
function of absorption, 92. 
Harcourt (Rev. W. V.) on observations 
upon the dew-point, 54. 
Harris (W. S.) on an electrical balance, 
17. 
-on electrical attraction, 17. 
-, new electrometer, 56. 
Harrison (Prof.) on the entozoa found 
in the muscles of the human subject, 
84. 
-on bones in the hearts of certain 
animals, 85. 
Hartop (Mr.) on the manufacture of 
pig iron, 52. 
Heart of certain animals, on the bones 
in the, 85. 
Heat, radiant, 9. 
Hodgkinson (E.) on impact and colli¬ 
sion, 107. 
Houston (Dr.) on the circulating or¬ 
gans in diving animals, 81. 
——■ on a variety of hydatid, 83. 
Hudson (Dr. H.) on the radiation of 
heat, 9. 
Hutton (Dr.) on a case of deficient de¬ 
velopment of the right hemisphere 
of the brain, 99. 
Hydatid, on a variety of, 83. 
Impact and collision, on, 107. 
India, on wages in, 118. 
Intestinal canal, on the functions and 
diseases of the, 105. 
Ireland, geological map of, 56. 
Iron, absence of magnetism in cast 
iron when in fusion, 33. 
-, manufacture of pig iron, 52. 
-, peroxide of, 52. 
Jacob (Dr.) on fossil Polyp aria, 59. 
*——■ on the mammary glands in the 
Cetacea , 86. 
Johnson (Prof.) on the cause of the 
optical properties of chabasie, 44. 
—— analysis of single and double 
iodides of gold, 45. 
