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INDEX II. 
De Colmar (M. T.) on a new arithmo¬ 
meter, or calculating machine, 1. 
Dec and Mersey, on a geological section 
from the island of Little Eye across 
the' peninsula between the estuaries of 
the, 86. 
Diamagnetic force, on the, 14. 
Dickie ( Dr.) on associations of colour and 
relations of colour and form in plants, 
98. 
Dircks (II.) on the prevention of boiler 
explosions, 149. 
Dock, on an iron floating graving, 16.3. 
Dove (M.) on some stereoscopic plucuo- 
ntena, 9; on nn apparatus for elliptic 
cully-polarized light, ih .; on a method 
of measuring the absorption of polar¬ 
ized light in doubly refracting crystals, 
10; on the distribution of ruin in the 
temperate zones, 28. 
Drew (John) on the climate of South¬ 
ampton, 29. 
Dubosca (M.) on un apparatus for show¬ 
ing all the phenomena of light. 10. 
Dumfries-shirc, on crustacean impressions 
from the trins of, 8(1. 
Earth, experiments on the movement of 
the, by means of the gyroscope, 60. 
Ecuador, on the eastern territory of the. 
123. ' 
Edwards (Dr.) on collodion photographs 
of the moon’s surface, 66. 
Egcrton (Sir Philip) on an ichthyoid 
fossil from India, 82. 
Ehrcnberg (Prof.) on the discovery of 
microscopic shells in the lower Silurian 
rocks, 82. 
Eldridge (J.) on a new washing machine, 
140. ° 
Electric transfer, on lire apparently me¬ 
chanical action accompanying, 66. 
Electrical battery, on a new*, 75. 
Electricity, 2. 
Elephants - tusks found in the Stroud 
V alley, Gloucester, on, 78. 
England, on the palnozoic system of, 95 ; 
on the current price and the cost price 
of corn in, during the last ten years, 
134; on telegraphic communication 
between America and, 147. 
Equations, on the solution of cubic and 
^ biquadratic, 1 . 
Erosion, on the great terrace of, in Scot¬ 
land, and its relative date and con¬ 
nexion with glacial phamonicna, 78. 
Esquimaux, description of three, exhi¬ 
bited in London, 126. 
Ethnological value of the results of phi¬ 
lological inquiry, on the, 126. 
Ethnology, 126; of the Liverpool di¬ 
strict, 129; on the early, of Britain, 180. 
Ethyle, on the physiological properties of, 
76. 
Etruscan question, notes on the, 12G. 
Eye, on pictorial and pliotochromatio im¬ 
pressions on the retina of the human, 
12 . 
FWiilm, on, 19. 
Pairbairn (VV.) on the density of various 
bodies when subjected to enormous 
compressing forces, 56; on the con¬ 
sumption of fuel and the prevention of 
smoke, 149; on the solidification of 
bodies under great pressure, ib. 
Fauna of Liverpool, on the, 107. 
Falls, on a supposed new species of, 1 13. 
Fergltsson (J.) on the site of the Holy 
Sepulchre nt Jerusalem, 117. 
Ferrifire (M.) on photographs upon nl- 
bumcn, 67. 
Fevrier (General), extract from the MS. 
notes of travels of, in Central Asia, 
125. 
Findlay (A. G.) on arctic and antarctic 
currents, and their connexion with the 
fate of Sir John Franklin, 117- 
Firs, on the morphology of, 09. 
Fisher’s Venetian screw propeller, on, 
lfll. . , 
Fisheries, on the fluctuations in the 
herring, 134, 176. 
Flax fibre, on the action of citric, tartaric 
and oxalic acids on, 65. 
Fluids, on the motion of, 63. 
Foliation, on the, of some metamorphic 
rocks in Scotland, 82. 
Food, on the equivalency of starch and 
sugar in, 70. . 
Foraminifern, on the British specie* ot, 
113. 
Forbes (David) on the chemical exami¬ 
nation of some alloys of copper and 
zinc, 67 ; on the occurrence and che¬ 
mical composition of some minerals 
from the south of Norway, ib- , 
Forbes (Prof. Edward) on tlie foliation o 
some metamorphic rocks in Scotland, 
82; on some points connected with the 
Natural History of the Azores, 108. 
Forest, submarine, of Leasowe, on the, 
81. 
Fossils, on several new vertebrate, 80, 
on ichthyoid, from India, 82. 
Foucault (M. L.), nmivelles experiences 
*ur lo mouvement de la terre au moyen 
du gyroscope, 56. .. « 
Fowler (Dr.) on literary and philosophic 
pursuits as conducive to longevity, 1 * • 
