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INDEX II. 
Asia, central, extracts from the MS. notes 
of travels of General Fevrier in, 125. 
Asteroids, on, 19. 
Astronomy, 19; meteoric, 2G. 
Atmopolarimeter, on a, G. 
Aulnga, on the luke, and its drainage in 
the desert of Cnranjns, in Iioliviu, 120. 
Aurora" boreales seen ut St. Ives, 47. 
Australia, on the shortest routes to, 120; 
on the supply of gold from, 133. 
Australian expedition, communications on 
an, 125. 
Australian gold-fields, on the treatment of 
abandoned workings of the, 142. 
Azores, on some points connected with 
tho natural history of the, lOS. 
Babinet'* homalogrnpliic maps, on, 2. 
Babinet (M.) on a new photometer, 2. 
line ho'* tide observations, tho Rev. W. 
Whewell on, 28. 
linker ( 1. B. Lloyd) on the reformation 
of offenders, 132. 
Bukewell (Frederick) on telegraphic com¬ 
munication between England and 
America, 147. 
Balfour (Ur.) on the occurrence in coal of 
peculiar vegetable organisms resem- 
blmg the sporangiu of Lycopodium, 97. 
mil (Dr.), on a plan of aerating aqiin- 
vivaria adopted l.y, 115. 
Bank note*, country, on the laws of the 
currency,as exemplified in the circula- 
1*844° 130 Ku8,U,ld ’ ® incc tl,c Act wf 
Banks, joint stock, on the rise, progress, 
and present condition of, 138. 
Barometer, on levels taken in Jerusalem 
with the aneroid, 11G. 
Bernard (Dr. Felix) o» indices of the re¬ 
fraction of transparent media, included 
between two parallel Tacos, and on a 
portable refractomcter, 2; on a photo- 
meter, 4 ; on polariinctrv, ib. 
Berry (George Robert)'on collodion 
negatives, 64. 
Bills of exchange, magnitude and fluctua- 
tiou of the circulation of, 143. 
Birds, on some trace* of harmonious co¬ 
lours in, 101. 
Blech (Dr.) on South African languages. 
Blundell (Dr. J. W. F.) on an Austral! 
expedition, 125. 
Bodies, on the density of various, wh 
subjected to enormous pressing ford 
58 i on thc solidification of, under gre 
pressure, 149. 
Boiler explosions, on the prevention , 
Bolivia, on the lake Aulaga, and its drain¬ 
age in the desert of Caranjas, in, 120. 
Botany, 9G. 
Boult (J.), diagrams illustrative of the 
changes in the bed of the river Mersey 
and its approaches, 117. 
| Brett (J. W.) on the origin of the sub¬ 
marine telegraph, and its extension to 
India and America, 7. 
Bright (Edward H.) rm magnetic electricity 
anil underground wires, 8. 
Britain, on the early ethnology of, 130. 
British Association Catalogue of Star*, 
notes on the, 25. 
British Meteorological Society, on photo¬ 
graphic drawings of meteorological in¬ 
struments adopted by the Council of 
the, 47. 
Britons, on the forms of the crania of the 
ancient, 127. 
Brodswnrlli, on the decomposition of mag¬ 
nesian limestone at, 06. 
Brooke (C.) on an easy method of making 
thin glass cells for mounungmicroscopic 
objects in fluid, 47. 
Bryson (A.) on a curious structure in the 
Silurian slates of Peebleahire, 78. 
Burkinan (Prof.) on two elephants' tusks 
found in the Stroud Valley, Gloucester, 
78; on coal depositain West Virginia, !/'. 
Burkton (G. Bowdler) on the application 
of cyanide of potassium to killing in¬ 
sects for the cabinet, 106. 
Buxton (David) on the census of the deaf 
and dumb in 1851, 132. 
Byoily (Isaac) on the fauna of Liverpool, 
107. 
Calculating machine, on a new, 1. 
Calvert (Prof. F. C.) on the physiological 
properties of corbazotic acid, 65; on 
the action of gallic und tannic acid* on 
iron and alumina mordants, ib.-, on l [ ,e 
action of citric, tartaric, and oxiihc 
acids on cotton and flax fibres under 
the influence of dry heat and pressure 
of steam, 05. 
Calvert (John) on the supply of gold front 
Australia and from English rocks, 133. 
Caoutchouc, on some peculiarities disco¬ 
vered in liquid, 96. 
Carpenter (P. P.) on land, fresh water, 
and marine shells obtained in sinkmg 
a well on the banks of the Avon. 78; 
list of four hundred and tbrty species o 
shells from Mnzutlan, 107. 
Carpenter (Dr. W. B.) on the development 
of the embryo of Purpura lapilhis, 10' • 
Caucasus, on the, and parts of the Crimea, 
