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Coal fields of the E. Indian Archipelago, ||Continents, on the relations of the coast-
xxiii, 157.
lines of, and the Arctic and Antarctic
circles, xxiv, 433.

formations of N. America, L. Les-
quereux, xxviii, 21, xxx, 63, 367.

formation of Saxony, Geinitz on, no-
ticed, xxii, 454.

measures, on carbonate of iron in,
W. B. Rogers, xxi, 339.

mineral, blowpipe assay of, Chapman,
xxvi, 127.

mineral, in Peru, xxii, 274.

of Saxony, Stein, xxv, 283.
results of action of heat on bitumin-
ous, A. A. Hayes, xxvii, 294.

tar as a disinfectant, xxviii, 425.
Coan, T., eruption at Hawaii, xxii, 240.
eruption of Mauna Loa, xxi, 139, 237,
xxvii, 410, xxix, 302.

on Kilauea, xxi, 100.

volcanic action on Hawaii, xxiii, 435.
volcano of Kilauea, xxv, 136.
Coast Survey, measurement of base in,
XXV, 58.

notice of history of progress of,

xxvii, 448.

Report, 1855, xxiv, 159.
for 1856, xxv, 315, 450.
for 1857, xxviii, 92.

Kohl's report on discoveries on
the Pacific Coast, xxviii, 93.

review of results of, xxv, 75, 249.
Cobalt and nickel in N. Carolina, Wurtz
on, xxvii, 24.

equivalent of, xxiv, 427, xxv, 438.
sesquioxyd and nitrite of potash,
Stromeyer, xxi, 417.

Coffin, M., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 351.
Cold weather at Hanover, N. H., xxiv,
155.

Color, cause of, J. Smith, xxix, 276.

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classification of elements, xxvii, 129.
memoir on compounds of zinc and
antimony, noticed, xxx, 159.

variation of constitution in mineral
species independent of phenomena of
isomorphism, xxx, 194.

Cooper, J. G., on forest trees of N. Amer.,
xxix, 128.

Conservatory of Art and Science, Boston,
xxvii, 451.

Copper, artificial erystallization of, J. W.
Mallet, xxx, 253.

metallurgy, &c. of, by Piggott, noticed,
XXV, 446.

quantitative determination of, Mohr,
xxí, 417.

sulphate, preparation of, H. Wurtz,
xxvi, 367.

Copper-wire for helices, substitute for,
xxii, 267.

Coprolites, analyses of, xxiv, 111.
Coral, rate of growth of, T. Lyman, xxvi,
447.

reefs, agency of, in forming Florida,
J. Le Conte, xxiii, 46.

from N. Carolina, Emmons, xxii, 389.
Cordilleras on Gulf of St. Blas, xxviii, 93.
Cornette, A., on aurora of August, 1859,
xxviii, 398.

Colors subjective, experiments in, O. N. Correction of error respecting Davy's dis-
Rood, xxx, 182.

Colorado River, survey of, xxvi, 95.
Combustion, influence of solar light on,
John Le Conte, xxiv, 317.
Comet, Donati's, xxvii, 148.

dimensions of Donati's, W. A. Norton,
xxix, 79, 383.

dynamical condition of the head of,
W. A. Norton, xxvii, 86.
new, Bruhns, xxi, 438.

W. Mitchell, xxi, 438.

of 1855, elements of, Rümker, xxi,
439.

first of 1857, xxiii, 447.

2d, 3d and 4th of 1857, xxiv, 289.
new, 5th and 6th of 1857, xxv, 128.
1st and 2d of 1858, xxv, 447, 448.
3d of 1858, xxvi, 146.
4th of 1858, xxvi, 433.

5th of 1858, (Donati's), xxvi, 433.
7th of 1858, xxvi, 434.

Comets of 1858, 1859, xxviii, 153.

polarized light of, xxviii, 155.
comas and tails of, Bartlett, xxix, 62.
Compressed air, xxv, 96.
Compressor, for use with microscope,
new, S. M. Clark, xxix, 448.
Conrad, T. A., fossil tertiary shells of Cal-
ifornia, collected by Blake, xxi, 268.

on a new Unio, xxi, 172.

covery of alkaline metals, xxviii, 278.
Cosmogony of T. A. Davies, noticed, xxv,

108.

Cosmology, Hickok's Rational, reviewed,
xxviii, 158.

Cretaceous fossils of Nebraska, xxiv, 275.
fossils of the carboniferous limestone
of Indiana and Illinois, xxiv, 276.
of the U. States, J. Hall, xxiv, 72.
of New Jersey, (note), xxviii, 88.
corrected, xxviii, 151.
see Geology.

Crinoidea, nine new species, xxviii, 233.
Devonian, of Coblentz, reference to
paper on, xxiv, 280.

Crockett, J. M., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 347.
Crocodiles, fossil of Nebraska, xxii, 120.
Crookes, W., new chemical journal, notice
of, xxix, 282.

159.

wax-paper photographie process, xxii,
Crosson, D. C., on aurora of Aug., 1859,
xxix, 96.

Crucibles, on care of platinum, Erdmann,
Xxx, 265.

Crustacea, classification of, J. D. Dana,
xxii, 14, xxv, 335.

Cumæ, Agassiz, xxii, 285.

fresh water Entomostracan of South
America, Lubbock, xxii, 289.

AM. JOUR. SCI.-SECOND SERIES, VOL. XXX, No. 90.-NOV., 1860.

Crustacea, Isopod, from the Antarctic Dana, J. D., Mauna Loa, volcanic action
seas, J. Eights, xxii, 391.

reference to paper on Palæozoic bi-
valve Entomostracan, xxii, 285.

Stimpson's researches, noticed, xxvi,
141, 446.

Crystalline form not necessarily indica-
tive of definite chemical composition,
J. P. Cooke, xxx, 194.

of iodine, xxi, 412.

of phosphorus, xxi, 412.

of selenium, xxi, 411.

Crystallization, fact in, Schroeder, xxvii,
122.

of various salts, Marignac on, refer-
red to, xxvi, 402.

Crystallogeny, facts in, xxiii, 114.
Crystal models in wood, on sale, xxvi,
360.

of glass, manufactured by F. Thomas,
xxvi, 360.

Crystals, magnetic induction of, Plücker,
XXV, 272.

mode of measuring, P. Casamajor,
xxiv, 251.

Culgan, E. W., on aurora of Aug., 1859,
xxix, 97.

Curare in treatment of tetanus, xxix, 269.
Currents, northern oceanic, xxiv, 237.

oceanic, E. B. Hunt, xxvii, 169.

J. D. Dana, xxvi, 231.

tidal, of N. York bay, Bache, xxvi,
334.
Curtis's Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of N.
Carolina, Pt. III., noticed, xxx, 275.
Curves, in forms of flowers, &c., xxiv,
444.

Cyclopedia, New American, notice of,
xxix, 303, 451.

D.

Dalton, J., Memoir on, noticed, xxiii, 449.
Dana, J. D., Arctic Explorations, of Dr.
Kane, review of, xxiv, 235.
cephalization, a fundamental and po-
tential element in classification, XXV,
213, 336.

Chondrodite, on crystals of, xxi, 198.
Crustacea, classification of, xxii, 14.
drift period, note on the, xxiv, 432.
Europe, departure for, xxviii, 450.
return from, xxx, 308.
fossils, note on new, in the Potsdam
Sandstone, xxiv, 434.

generation, on spontaneous, xxvii,

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at, xxi, 241.

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third, xxii, 246.

fourth, xxiv, 107.

fifth, xxv, 396.

sixth, xxvi, 345.

seventh, xxviii, 128.

eighth, by Brush, xxix, 363.

Nat. Hist. of U. S., review of Agassiz's
contributions to, xxv, 202, 321.

oceans, note on currents of the, xxvi,
231.

parthenogenesis, xxiv, 399.

prehnite and chrysolite isomorphous,
xxvi, 361.

ripidolite, on casts of, xxviii, 250.
sandstone of Conn. river, age of, xxiv,

427.

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man races, xxix, 329.

Davis, N. K., meteor of July 8th, 1860,
xxiii, 138.

Davis's Theoria Motus of Gauss, noticed,
xxvi, 147.

Davison's pressure gauge, xxix, 203.
Davy, Sir H., discovery of alkaline metals,

error concerning, corrected, xxviii, 278.
Dawes, W. R., descrip. of an equatorial,
xxix, 421.

on Saturn, xxi, 158.
Dawson, J. W., Archaia, xxix, 146.
on Devonian trees, xxiv, 280.

post-pliocene of Montreal, xxv, 275.
post-tertiary of the St. Lawrence val-
ley, xxvii, 434.

Dawson, S. J., his Lake Superior report,

noticed, xxviii, 151.

Dawson, W., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 345.
Dayman's Atlantic soundings, xxvi, 219.

Dead Sea, H. Poole, xxiii, 290.

De Candolle's Geographical Botany, no-
ticed, xxii, 429.

De Candolle's Prodromus, noticed, xxiii, 126.
De Claussen, on plants furnishing fibre for
paper, and on artificial gutta percha,
&c., xxi, 290.

Declinometer observations at Girard Col-
lege, discussion of, A. D. Bache, xxix,
26.

Deep Sea soundings, new apparatus for,
xxviii, 1.

importance of, for a submarine tele-
graph, xxviii, 51.

in sea of Kamtschatka, J. W. Bai-
ley, xxi, 284.
Delaney, E. M. J., on aurora of 1859, xxx,
349.

Dennis, W. C., on aurora of 1859, xxx,
361.

Densities of vapors, calculation of, Kopp,
xxiv, 422.

Density of the earth, mean, xxv, 443.
Depth of Mediterranean, xxv, 310.
De Saussure's Mexican Crustacea, xxvii,

445.

Descloizeaux, A., extracts from a paper by,!
on refraction in minerals, xxv, 396.
Desor on fossil Echinids, noticed, xxvii,
276.

Despretz, discussion on simple bodies with
Dumas, xxviii, 121.
Deville, on methods of preparing the ele-
ments, xxiv, 141.

on producing high heat, xxii, 105.
on silicium and siliciurets, xxiv, 423.
Deville, St. Claire, work on manufacture of
aluminum, xxviii, 126, 160.

Devonian trees, J. W. Dawson, xxiv, 280.
Dewey, C., Caricography, xxiv, 46, xxvii,
78, xxviii, 231, xxix, 346.

notice of Emmons's Report on North
Carolina geology, xxiv, 427.

on aurora of 1859, xxix, 253.

Lake Ontario, varying level of, xxvii,

398.

Neo-macropia, xxii, 301.

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figure of, review of Schubert's essay
on, by Mädler, xxx, 46.

origin of, observations on, J. D. Dana,
xxii, 305, 335.

physical structure of, Hennessy, xxii,
416.

temperature, at depths, xxv, 443.

Diamagnetic bodies, disposition of force Earthquake in Japan, xxi, 144.

in, Tyndall, xxiv, 264.

Diamond, false, xxvi, 397.

Kohinoor, xxii, 278.

Diapason, natural, xxvi, 97.
Diatomaceæ, see Infusoria.

Diatoms, measurement of striæ of, xxvii,
249.

Dichromatism in solutions, Gladstone, xxii,
412.

Didymium, optical test, Gladstone, XXV,
100.

Dinornis, new species of, Owen, xxii, 138.
Disinfectants, on various, F. H. Storer,
XXX, 125.

Disinfection and dressing of wounds,
xxviii, 425.

Dolomites, facts in the history of, xxviii,
365.

Donati's Comet, (5th of 1858), xxvi, 433.
dimensions of, Norton, xxix, 79.
D'Orbigny, A., biography of, xxvii, 71.
Dove, H. W., rain in the temperate zone,
xxi, 112.

experiment in acoustics, xxvii, 121.
Dragon-tree of Orotava, xxii, 135.
Draper, J. W., on flame, xxvi, 268.

catalogue, etc., by Mallet, noticed,
xxvii, 437.

in California, W. P. Blake, xxi, 449.
Trask, xxv, 146.

in Connecticut, xxvi, 298.
in Italy, xxv, 280.

in New Zealand, xxii, 128.

in western N. York, West, xxvi, 177.
of 1851 in Chile, J. M. Gilliss, xxi, 388.
of Simoda, conclusions from, xxv, 83.
at St. Louis, Buffalo, etc., xxv, 136.
waves, felt on W. coast of U. S., A. D.
Bache, xxi, 37.

Earthquakes at Hilo, Hawaii, S. C.Lyman,
xxvii, 264.

in California, J. B. Trask, xxii, 110,
xxiii, 341, xxvi, 296, xxviii, 447.

of Southern Italy, Lacaita, xxviii,
210.

East Indies, submarine plateaus of, Earl,
xxvi, 442.
Eaton, D. C., ferns of Cuba, xxvii, 197.

three new ferns of California, xxii,
138.

Ebelmen, works of, noticed, xxi, 124.
Eclipse of sun, total, in 1858, xxvi, 434.

Eclipse of the sun, total, in 1860, Faye,||Elements, on some general methods of
xxix, 136.
preparing, Deville, xxiv, 141.

American expedition to Elephant, American, in Mexico, xxv, 263.
fossil, of Great Britain, xxv, 274.
Eleutherocrinus, Yandell and Shumard,
xxii, 121.

view, xxx, 157, 281, 285.
as observed in Spain, xxx,
288, 309.
Edwards, Milne, on spontaneous genera-
tion, xxvii, 401.

Eggs, unusual modes of gestation, Wy-
man, xxvii, 5.

Eights, J., Isopod Crustacean from the
Antarctic, xxii, 391.

Ehrenberg's Microgeology, noticed, xxiv,
434.

origin of Greensand, xxii, 282.
Eisenlohr, wave length of most refrangi-
ble rays, xxiii, 116.
Elderhorst's Blowpipe Manual, noticed,
xxii, 303.

Electric clocks, Marseilles, xxi, 405.
conduction, Faraday, xxi, 368.
illumination, xxiii, 440, xxiv, 411.
light in medicine, xxix, 419.
telegraph across the Atlantic, xxvi,
285, 424.

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Elevation of Alleghany Mts., xxiii, 62.
Elevations of Dead Sea, etc., xxiii, 146.

over Arctic America, Isbister, xxi, 331.
of Mountains, remark on Elie de
Beaumont's theory, J. D. Dana, xxii,
346.

see Height.

Elie de Beaumont, on fold in strata of Petit-
Cœur, xxix, 121.

Elliot Soc. Nat. Hist., Proceedings of,
xxii, 152, xxiii, 304.

Ellsworth, H. L., bequest of, to Yale Col-
lege, xxvii, 451.

Embryology of the Turtle, Agassiz, XXV,
342.

Emmons, E., geological report of N. Car-
olina, by, noticed, xxiv, 427.

Emory, W. H., report of, on Mexican
Boundary, noticed, xxvi, 446.
Empiricism, application of physical sci-
ences to medicine, xxx, 412.

291.

across the Mediterranean, xxi, 257.||Engelmann, G., Mexican cactaceæ, xxviii,
dangers from wire, xxvi, 396.
in the determination of longi-

tude, xxv, 79.
Electrical conducting power of metals,
xxvii, 422.

conduction, increase in the resistance]
to, depending on temperature, xxvii,
260.

currents in animals, xxvi, 423.
discharges in rarefied air, xxvi, 263.
discharges, phosphorescence in, Gas-
stot, xxvii, 133.

induced when taken in aqueous va-
por, Gassiot, xxvii, 134.

excitation, on a new source of, E.
Foote, xxiv, 386.

58.

phenomena in houses, Loomis, xxvi,

Electricity applied in local anesthesis in
tooth-drawing, xxvi, 439.
atmospheric, xxii, 268.

Jobard's theory of, xxiv, 411.
chemical effects of, Plücker, xxvii, 261.
De la Rive on, noticed, xxvi, 97.
Dellman's method of observing atmos-
pheric, xxiii, 288.

Medical, of W. F. Channing, noticed,
xxvii, 156.
Electrodynamic measurements, xxiii, 430.
Electrolysis of sulphuric acid, xxviii, 281.
Electrolytie investigations, Magnus, xxv,

98.

Electro-magnetism, substitute for copper
wire of helices, xxii, 267.
Electro-magnets and magnetic adhesion,
J. Nicklès, xxx, 413.
Electro-physiology, Matteucci, xxii, 270.
Electrotype processes, Moigno, xxv, 144.
Element, on a new metallic, Von Kobell,
XXX, 123.

Elements, Dumas on, xxvi, 259, xxvii, 252.
classification of, by J. P. Cooke, noticed
by Sir John Herschel, xxvii, 128.

new diœcious grasses, xxviii, 439.
on arrangement of species of Cuscuta,
xxix, 128.

on elevation of St. Louis, noticed,
XXX, 394.

Entomostraca, see Crustacea.
Equatorial, description of, W. R. Dawes,
xxix, 421.

Equivalent numbers, numerical relations
of, in elementary bodies, M. C. Lai,
xxix, 98, 349, xxx, 399.

of cadmium, xxv, 438.
of cobalt, xxv, 438.
of lithium, xxviii, 349.
manganese, xxv, 438, xxviii, 437.
of nickel, xxv, 438, xxviii, 438.
of tellurium, xxv, 438.

see Atomic Weights.

Equivalents of the elements, Dumas, xxv,
267, xxvi, 259, xxvii, 252,

on numerical relation between, xxvii,
128, densities and, Playfair, xxx, 420.
Equivocal generation, xxviii, 154.
Erdmann, notice of, xxvii, 119.

on care of platinum crucibles, xxx,
265.
Eruption of Mt. Hood, Oregon, xxviii, 448.
Mauna Loa, xxviii, 66, 284.
Espy, J. P., death of, xxix, 304.
Essex Institute, Proceedings of, xxii, 152.
Ether and its homologues, new method
for, xxii, 107.

Ethnography of Rocky Mountain region,
Mollhausen's work on in progress, XXV,
319.

Ethylamine, on production of, M. C. Lea,
XXX, 401.
Ethylene, compounds of, H. S. Buff, xxiii,
176.

Swartz, on oxyd of, xxviii, 144.
Euphotide, T. S. Hunt, xxv, 437, xxvii,
336.

Europe, information to students visiting,||Fluorids, researches on, xxii, 405.

xxii, 146.

Evans, E. W., on meteorite of May 1, 1860,
XXX, 106, 296.

Evans, John, fossil plants from Vancou-
ver's Island, &c., xxviii, 85.
Ewbank, T., Thoughts on matter and
force, noticed, xxvii, 301.

Expansion of liquids above their boiling
points, Thilorier, xxvii, 261.
Expedition, Southern African, by F. de
Costa Leal, xxvii, 382.

to the Atrato, New Granada, xxvi, 370.
Exploration of Western Br. Amer., notice
of, xxx, 396.

Eye, on rendering visible circulation in,
O. N. Rood, xxx, 264, 385.

Eyes, color blindness in, Tyndall, xxii,

143.

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on electric conduction, xxi, 368.
researches in physics and chemistry,
xxviii, 147.

Favre, on triassic system in Savoy, &c.,
xxix, 119.

Faye, on solar eclipse, xxix, 136.

Faye's Cosmographie, noticed, xxi, 124.
Fecula of the Horse-chestnut, xxii, 264.
Feldspars, origin of, T. S. Hunt, xxv, 435.
Fendler, A., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 346, 355.
Fermentation, Pasteur, xxix, 411.
Fern root, bread from, xxiv, 281.
Fertilizers, general law of displacement|
among saline, xxviii, 77.
Field, fossil foot-marks, xxix, 361.
Filters, of gun-cotton, Boettger, xxx, 268.
Filtration through sand, Witt, xxiv, 157.
Finley, H. J., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 352.
Fish-breeding, salmon at Stormont, xxi,
292.

Fish scales, of striped Bass, analysis of, J.
Greene, xxvi, 447.

Fishes, of China, work on, referred to,
xxiv, 446.

fossil of California, Agassiz, xxi, 272.
from Nebraska, xxii, 118.

of Pa., I. Lea, xxii, 123.

J. Leidy, xxii, 453.

Fitch on noxious insects, noticed, xxiii, 150.
Flame, J. W. Draper, xxvi, 268.

effects on musical sounds of, Le Conte,
XXV, 62.

sonorous, W. B. Rogers, xxvi, 1, 240.
Flesh, on preservation of, Verdeil, xxx, 269.
Fleury, Des races qui se partagent l'Eu-
rope, noticed, xxix, 152.

Flora of Northern U. States, Statistics, A.
Gray, xxiii, 62, 369.
Florida, formation of, J. Le Conte, xxiii, 46,
Fluorescence, new case of, J. W. Mallet,
xxiii, 434.

Fluorescence of Oleum Neroli, xxv, 300.
produced by the Aurora, xxvi, 271.

Fluorine, J. Nicklès, xxiv, 395.

in the blood, Nicklès, xxiii, 101.
Fluosilicates and fluostannates, xxvi, 271.
Fonssagrive, electric light for medical use,
xxix, 419.

Foote, E., a new source of electrical exci-
tation, xxiv, 386.

heat in sun's rays, xxii, 377.

Eunice, circumstances affecting heat
in sun's rays, xxii, 382.
Foot-marks, fossil, R. Field, xxix, 361.
Footmark, new, from Turner's falls, E.
Hitchcock, xxi, 97.

Footprints in Pennsylvania, J. Wyman,
xxi, 444.

Lea, xxii, 123.

Foraminifera, W. B. Carpenter, noticed,
xxi, 429.

J. G. Jeffreys, xxi, 432.
Foraminiferous origin of Greensand, Bai-
ley, xxii, 280.

Forbes, D., color to flame from chlorine,
xxi, 262.

Force, conservation of, J. Henry, xxx, 32.
correlation and conservation of, by
Jos. Le Conte, xxviii, 305.
Forces, on the interaction of natural,
Helmholtz, xxiv, 189.

T. Lyman, xxix, 185.

Forest, modern submerged, Nova Scotia,
xxi, 440.

Forests and Peat bogs of Bohemia, xxi,
442.

Formic acid from carbonic acid, xxii,
403.

Forshey, C. G., on aurora of 1859, xxix,
263.

FOSSIL

American elephant in Mexico, xxv, 283.
Archimedes, J. Hall, xxiii, 203.
batrachians, Wyman, xxv, 158.
bivalves, proportion of, in different ages,
xxiv, 150.

of Canada West, xxviii, 152.
coal plants, Bohemia, xxii, 454.
Kimball, xxv, 151.

coral, note on Palæotrochis of Emmons,
xxiii, 278.

corals (Silurian) from N. Carolina, Em-
mons, xxii, 389.

crinoids of N. York, J. Hall, xxv, 277.
crustacea (Pterygotus) of Scotland,
Salter, xxii, 417.

Devonian fishes of Ohio, Newberry, xxiv,
147.

Dichodon, of Upper Eocene, xxii, 420.
Eifel Echinoderms, xxv, 151.

elephants and mastodon, Falconer, XXV,
274.

elk in Switzerland with remains of art,
XXV, 279.

fish, E. Hitchcock, xxi, 96.

fishes and mammalia, notice of a paper
by J. Leidy on, xxii, 453.

flora, Cretaceous, of Kansas, Meek and
Hayden, xxvii, 31, 219.

footmark, from Turner's Falls, E.
Hitchcock, xxi, 97.

footprints in Pennsylvania, Wyman,
xxi, 444.

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