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Red River, Canadian expedition to, no-||Rogers, W. B., on ozone, xxii, 141.
ticed, xxx, 218.

Redfield, A. M., chart of Animal Kingdom,
noticed, XXV, 149.

Redfield, W. C., biographical memoir of,
xxiv, 355.

cyclones of the N. Pacific, xxiv, 21.

avoidance of, xxiii, 205.

protocarbonate of iron in coal meas-
ures, xxi, 339.

on retinal impressions, xxx, 404.
rings of air and liquids, formation of,
xxvi, 246.

trilobites from near Boston, xxii, 296.
Ronalds and Richardson's Chemical Tech-

fossil fishes, relation of, to age of New-nology, noticed, xxii, 149.
ark sandstone, xxii, 357.

list of publications of, xxiv, 370.
tornadoes, spirality of motion in,
xxiii, 23.

Refraction, on indices of, Jamin, xxv, 265.
in minerals, Descloizeaux, xxv, 396.
Regel, E., on parthenogenesis, xxvii,310,440.
Regnault, specific heat of some elements,
xxii, 108.

Reichenbach, O., sun's spots, xxv, 295.
Reid, W., obituary of, xxvii, 153.
Reptiles, fossil, from Nebraska, xxii, 118.
fossil, of Pa., Lea, xxii, 122.
see Zoology.
Respiration, phenomena of, E. Smith,
xxix, 142.

rate of, under different conditions,
Smith, xxv, 298.

Retinal impression, on, W. B. Rogers, XXX,
404.

Rhees, W. J., Manual of Public Libraries,

&c., notice of, xxix, 303.

Riblet, J. H., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 344.
Richard, Dr., Dict. d'Agricult., &c., xxviii,

431.

Riddell, J. L., fish-rod balance and spher
oidal evaporation, xxvi, 71.
Rings of air and liquids, W. B. Rogers,
xxvi, 246.

Ritchie, E. S., modified form of Ruhm-
korff's apparatus, xxiv, 45, 143.
Ritter, C., biographical sketch of, D. C.
Gilman, xxix, 221.

death of, xxviii, 451.

Rood, O. N., on adapting the microscope
as a goniometer and for determining in-
dex of refraction, xxi, 106.

circulation in the eye, on probable
means of rendering visible, xxx, 264,
385.

circular polarization by cooled glasses,
Xxvii, 393.

observed with the stauro-
scope, xxvii, 391, 394.

contraction of the muscles by vibra-
tion, xxix, 449.

elongated projectiles, xxx, 17.

light, on a new theory of, xxx, 182.
Rose, H., on preparing aluminum from
cryolite, xxi, 129, 164.

on determining strong or weak basic
properties of oxyds, xxi, 130, 414.

tantalite and niobium, xxvii, 125, 126.
tantalum and its compounds, xxiii,

116.

Rosin, on distillation of, J. Schiel, xxx, 100.
Rotascope, W. R. Johnson, xxi, 146.
Royce, F. W., on aurora of Aug., 1859,
xxix, 97.

Rucker, B. F., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 359.
Ruhmkorff's apparatus, effects with, xxii,
268.

modified by Ritchie, xxiii, 451, xxiv,
45, 143.

Rümker, G., discovers second comet of
1860, xxx, 141.

Runkle's Mathematical Monthly, noticed,
xxvi, 153, 447.

Rive, De la, Treatise on Electricity of, no- Ruthenium, experiments of Claus upon,
ticed, xxiii, 115.

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Sandstone of Connecticut, etc., relation ||Secchi, A., on aurora of 1859, xxix, 397.

of fossil fishes of, W. C. Redfield, xxii,
357.

called Newark sandstones, by W. C.
Redfield, xxii, 357.

Dana, xxii, 321.

of Pa., fossils of, Lea, xxii, 122.
see Geology.

Sandy Hook, increase of, A. D. Bache,
xxiii, 16.

Saturn, on telescopic appearances of, W.
R. Dawes, xxi, 158.

Saulnier, P., notice of, Durand, xxiv, 169.
Scacchi, Vesuvian minerals, xxii, 247.
Scales of the striped bass, analysis of, J.
Green, xxvi, 447.

Schaffner, T. P., Telegraphic Manual, no-
tice of, xxix, 150.

Schiel, J., on distillation of rosin, xxx, 100.
Anleitung zur Organischen and Gas-
analyse, noticed, xxx, 155.

on eclipse of July 18, 1860, xxx, 288.
view of part of moon, xxii, 265.
Sedgwick on British Palæozoic Rocks, no-
ticed, xxi, 302.

subdivisions of the Palæozoic strata
of Britain, xxi, 343.

Seemann's Botany of the Herald, noticed,
xxiii, 127.

Selden, J. E., on aurora of Aug. 1859, xxix,

95.

Selenium, crystalline form, &c., of, xxi,
411.

isomeric modifications of, Regnault,
xxii, 108.

Selenmethyl, Wöhler and Dean, xxi, 245.
Sella, Q., crystals of boron, xxvi, 110.
Serapis, changes in, Lyell, xxii, 126.
Serpentine marbles, analyzed by C. T.
Jackson, xxiii, 123.

rock, A. A. Hayes, xxi, 382.

xxvi, 197.

Schlagintweit, Adolph, death of, in Turk-Sesquisalts, on soluble basic, Ordway,
istan, xxvi, 378, xxix, 236.
Schlagintweit, brothers, on India, xxv,
310.

ethnographical collections, xxix, 235.
mission to Asia, noticed, xxx, 217.
salt lakes of the Himalayas, xxix, 245.
Schlossberger, on dissolving cellulose,
xxvii, 118.

test for silk and cotton, xxvii, 420.
Schmarda, L. K., Neue Wirbellose Thiere,
&c., xxix, 293.

Schmitt, A., on magnesium as a source of
light, xxx, 270.

Schmidt, H. B., anatomical models of,
xxiii, 147.

Schönbein, on oxygen, xxvii, 19.

on ozone and ozonic actions, xxi,
418.

Schott, A., on the Isthmus of Choco, New
Granada, xxvii, 368.

Schott, C. A., magnetic declination, xxix,
335.

Schroeder, relation between fermentation
and crystallization, xxvii, 122.
Schweizer, solution of cellulose, &c., xxix,
429.

Scientific Association at Carlsruhe, xxvii,
117.

versus practical instruction, xxviii,
298.

Scoresby, W., obituary of, xxvi, 300.
Scott, A., notes on the Bermudas, xxiv,
274.

Scott, J. J., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 357.
Screw in navigation, first introduction of,
xxvi, 393.

propellers, W. Hopkins, xxiii, 60.
Scrope, G. P., on craters, xxiii, 346.

on the formation of craters, and the
liquidity of lavas, xxiv, 217.
Sea of Kamtschatka, soundings in, Bailey,
xxii, 1.

Sheffield, J. E., liberality of, towards the
Yale Scientific School, xxx, 308.
Shepard, C. U., in Europe, xxx, 308.

on lazulite and tetradymite in Geor-
gia, xxvii, 36.

new meteoric iron of S. Africa, and a
supposed new of Mexico, xxi, 213.
on supposed meteoric iron from
N. C., xxviii, 259.

Petersburg meteorite, xxiv, 134.
on meteorites, xxx, 204.
new minerals, xxii, 96.

proposed, xxviii, 129.

reply to Dr. Genth, xxiv, 38.
Mineralogy, noticed, xxiii, 148, xxiv,

109.

shooting meteor, xxviii, 270.
Shooting stars of August, 1856, xxii, 290.
of August, 1858, xxvi, 435.
C. Gravier, xxvi, 435.

of August, 1859, E. C. Herrick,
xxviii, 446.

of Aug., 9th and 10th, 1860, E. C.
Herrick, xxx, 296.

Shumard, B. F., notices of Permian fossils
of Texas and New Mexico, &c., xxix,
125.

observations on geology of Ste. Gene-
viéve, Mo., xxix, 126.

Permian in the Guadalupe Mountains,
Rocky chain, xxv, 442.

report of Geol. and Agr. survey of
Texas, noticed, xxix, 287.
Shumard, G. G., on geology of Jornada
del Muerto, New Mexico, xxix, 124.
Eleutherocrinus, xxii, 121.

Siebold, on parthenogenesis, xxiv, 400.
Silica, non-existence of polarizing, in the
organic kingdoms, Bailey, xxi, 357.
solubility of, in water, xxi, 194.
soluble, Fuchs, xxiii, 100.

Searl, George, takes a prize for planet Ne-Silicates, mineral hydrous, classification
mausa, xxviii, 119.

Seawater, extraction of salts from, xxv,
361.

Seaweeds, Harvey on American, noticed,
xxvii, 142.

on Blodgettia, Harvey, xxvii, 144.

of, xxvi, 361.

Silicium, xxi, 258, 404, 418.

and metallic siliciurets, xxiv, 423.
a new oxyd of, Wöhler, xxiv, 140.
Siliciuret of hydrogen, xxiv, 413.
Wöhler, xxvii, 123.

Silicon, new compounds, Buff, xxv, 270.
Silk and cotton distinguished by means of
protoxyd of nickel, xxvii, 420.

worm, the true Bombyx Cynthia,
Xxvi, 398.

Sillacius, N., reprint of a tract by, noticed,
xxix, 400.
Silliman, B., obituary of Robert Hare,
xxvi, 100.

Parker Cleveland, xxvi, 448.
J. Griscom, xxix, 151.
notice of Daubeny's Roman husband-
ry, xxv, 302.

notice of New Am. Cyc., xxix, 303.
Silliman, B., Jr., Atlantic telegraph cable,
xxvi, 285.

on combustion of wet fuel, xxx, 243.
note on loss of light by glass shades,|
XXX, 423.

notice of Dawson's Archaia, xxix, 146.

Cooke's Elements of Chemistry
and Physics, xxix, 450.

meteor of Aug. 11, 1859, xxviii, 300.
Museum of Comparative Zoology at
Cambridge, xxvii, 450.

obituary of W. W. Mather, xxvii, 452.
on a photometer, xxiii, 315.
thirteenth meeting of the Am. Assoc.
at Springfield, xxviii, 293.

fourteenth, at Newport, xxx, 298.
solar eclipse of July 18, 1860, xxx,
281, 292, 309.

Silliman's First Principles of Natural Phi-||
losophy, noticed, xxvi, 447.

Silurian basin of Hudson's Bay, etc., xxi,
318.

Silver, action of light on chlorid, xxiv,
263.

Silvering glass, Petitjean's process for,
xxiv, 268.

Simple bodies, discussion on, xxviii, 121.
on existence of new, Bunsen and
Kirchhoff, xxx, 410.

Simpson, J. H., on aurora of 1859, xxx,

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Smith, E., on respiration, xxix, 142.
Smith, J., on cause of color and theory of
light, xxix, 276.

Smith, J. L., artesian well at Louisville,
xxvii, 174.

description of three new meteoric
irons, xxx, 240.

meteoric stones, in Indiana, March
28th, 1859, xxviii, 409.

in Ohio, May 1, 1860, xxx, 111.
Smith, S., depth of mollusks off Long Is-
land, xxvii, 281.
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,
vol. viii, noticed, xxiii, 150.

vol. ix, noticed, xxiv, 445.

Institution, list of works published

by, xxiii, 300.

miscellaneous collections, xxix, 451.

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infusoria in oceanic, xxvi, 387.
see Depth.

South Carolina, changes in coast of, xxviii,
354.

Species, errata to article on, by J. D. Dana,
xxvi, 146.

origin of, T. Parsons, xxx, 1.
origination and distribution of, J. D.
Hooker, xxix, 1, 305.

thoughts on, J. D. Dana, xxiv, 305,
sce Darwin.

Specific gravity apparatus, Eckfeldt and
Dubois, xxii, 294.

Spectra, on chemical analysis, by means of,
XXX, 415.

Specula, polishing, R. Greene, xxiii, 145.
Speculum for telescopes, new, xxiv, 259.
Speke, explorations in eastern Africa,
xxix, 242.

Spencer, C. A., his improved microscopes,
xxviii, 39.

Spheroidal evaporation, Riddell, xxvi, 71.
Spillman, W., meteor of July 8th, xxii,
448.

Sponge, a boring, J. Leidy, xxiii, 281.
Bowerbank, xxii, 439.
Spongeous origin of siliceous bodies of
chalk, xxii, 415.
Spontaneous generation, Pouchet, xxvii,

253.

Claude Bernard, xxvii, 406.
J. D. Dana, xxvii, 408.
Dumas, xxvii, 407.
Milne Edwards, xxvii, 401.
Payen, xxvii, 405.

Quatrefages, xxvii, 406.

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

Squier, E. G., prize to, xxii, 148.
Star charts, notice of, xxiv, 415.

variable, in Pisces, xxi, 438.
fishes, Palæozoic, Salter, xxii, 415.
Stars, new double, A. Clark, xxv, 129.
sudden appearance of, note on, xxiv,
415.
Stauroscopic observations of F. von Ko-
bell, noticed, xxvii, 388.

on cooled glasses, O. N. Rood, xxvii,
391.
Steam boilers, feeding of, with a continued
supply of pure water, A. Sauvage, xxvi,
395.

engine, R. Clausius on, xxii, 180, 364.
mechanical theory of heat in, R. Clau
sius, xxiii, 25.

Steel, containing tungsten, xxviii, 277.
Steele, A., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 348.
Stein, on coal of Saxony, xxv, 283.
Stereochromy, xxiii, 101.'

Stereoscope, telescopic, Helmholtz, xxv,
297.

Stereoscopic advertisements, E. W. Blake,
Xxx, 304.

experiment, Lugeol, xxii, 104.

vision, W. B. Rogers, xxi, 80, 173, 439.
Stevens, R. P., coal measures of Ohio and
Illinois, xxvi, 72.

new carbonif. fossils, xxv, 258.
Stimpson, W., botanical and zoological
nomenclature, xxix, 289.

collections by, in North Pacific Expe-
dition, xxiii, 136.

Crustacea and Echinodermata of the
Pacific shores of N. America, xxiv, 288.
of N. Am., xxviii, 159.

fossils at Gay Head, Mass,, xxix, 145.
geological notices, xxix, 288.
on Leptosiagon, xxv, 295.
on Mithracidae, xxix, 132.
obituary of W. W. Turner, xxix, 152.
Prodromus evertebratorum, &c., no-
ticed, xxiii, 451, xxvi, 141, 446, xxvii, 444.
trip to Beaufort, S. C., xxix, 442.
zoological bibliography, xxviii, 445,
xxix, 133, 293,

notices, xxviii, 444, xxix, 129, 442,

Xxx, 140.

zoology of Greenland, xxv, 124.
Stoddard, O. N., diluvial striæ, xxviii, 227.
Storer, F. H., behavior of CaC and Bac
with various saline solutions; on the
determination of carbonic acid in mine-
ral waters, xxv, 41.

chemical notices, xxix, 278, 429, XXX,
125, 265.

on larves of flies resisting arsenic,
xxviii, 166.

on loss of light by glass shades, xxx,
420.

review of Antisell on photogenic oils,
Xxx, 112, 254.

Storm, barometric action during, J. Chap-
pellsmith, xxiii, 18.

the Schuyler, xxiv, 290.
Storms, on avoiding, J. Rodgers and A.
Schönborn, xxiii, 205.

cyclonic of the N. Pacific, W. C. Red-
fleld, xxiv, 21.

Storms, spirality of whirlwind, W. C. Red-
field, xxiii, 23.

Straw lightning rods, xxvii, 303.
Strawbridge, H. H., on aurora of 1859, xxx,

356.

Strong's Elem. and Higher Algebra, no-
ticed, xxx, 306.

Strontia sulphate, solubility in acids,
xxvii, 419.

Strychnia, chemical reactions of, xxviii,
216.

methods of detecting, xxii, 413.
Students visiting Europe, information to,
xxii, 146,

Sturm, Cours d'Analyse, noticed, xxviii,
432.

obituary of, xxi, 254.

Submarine telegraph, importance of
soundings for, xxviii, 51.

tunnel, motor for, xxvi, 98.
Subsidence of N. Jersey coast, G. H. Cook,
xxiv, 341.

Suckley and Cooper, reports on Nat. Hist.,
&c., of Minnesota, Nebraska, &c., no-
tice of, A. Gray, xxx, 138.

Suckley, G., disclaimer, xxx, 304.
Suez, level and character of isthmus, xxii,
273.

Sugar, brown, chemical examination of,
Alexander and Morfit, xxv, 393.

cane, from glycerine, etc., xxiv, 413.
method of refining, Daubeny, xxv, 144.
in urine, on determining, xxi, 132.
Sugars, two, from California, xxii, 6. •
Sullivant and Wormley, measurement of
striæ of Diatoms, xxvii, 249.
Sullivant's Musci and Hepatice of the U.
States, noticed, xxiii, 129.
Sulphates, preparation of pure, H. Wurtz,
xxvi, 367.

Sulphur, different states of, xxiv, 260.
Sulphuric acid, action of, on nitriles and
amids, xxiii, 269.

new mode of manufacturing, xxi, 120.
Sun, influence of light of, on combustion,
Le Conte, xxiv, 317.

influences of, on the earth, Helmholtz,
xxiv, 207.

note on constitution of, xxiv, 416.
parallax of, new determination of,
Gilliss and Gould, xxv, 305*.

rays of, heat in, xxii, 377, 382.

spots of, periodicity in, Reichenbach,
XXV, 295.

Sunken vessels, on raising, xxvi, 264.
Surveying, problem in, W. M. Gillespie,
xxiii, 224.

Sutton, G., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 354.
Swallow, G. C., on carboniferous fossils,
noticed, xxv, 447.

on Permian, xxvi, 115, 182.

in Kansas, xxv, 305*, 442.
Report by, on Geol. Survey of Mis-
souri, noticed, xxi, 151, 427.
Sylvester's Quarterly Journal of pure and
applied Mathematics, xxiii, 149.

T.

Tamisier, experiments on rifled cannon,
xxix, 270.

Tantalum and its compounds, Rose, xxiii,||Tides, notes on, Lloyd, xxiv, 417.

116.

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Tasmania, introductory essay to flora of,

J. D. Hooker, xxix, 1, 305.

Taurine, xxii, 13.

of Nova Scotia, Chevallier, xxiii, 289.
at Ponape, Carolines, xxii, 142.
of the U. S. Coast, prediction tables
for, A. D. Bache, xxiii, 12.

of west coast of U. S., A. D. Bache,
xxi, 1, 10, 22.

Taylor, W. J., on aragonite near the Ar-Time, automatic comparison of, between
kansas, xxiv, 275.

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Telestereoscope, Helmholtz, xxv, 297.
Telluramyl and selenmethyl, xxi, 245.
Temperature of air and sea, Dove, xxvi, 91.
of earth at depths, xxv, 443.

variations in, dependent on astrono-
mical causes, Meech, xxiv, 446.

isothermal, Hennessy, xxiii, 144.
Tennessee, Geology of, by R. O. Currey,
noticed, xxiv, 280.

Tenney, S., Geology for Teachers, &c.,
notice of, xxix, 288.

Terraces or beaches on Western Islands,
xxiii, 299.

Tertiary shells, etc., of California, Blake,
xxi, 268.

see Geology.

Tetradium, J. M. Safford on, xxii, 236.
Thayer, H. E., on aurora of Aug. 1859,
xxix, 96.

Thenard, death of, xxiv, 299.

obituary notice of, xxv, 430.
Thermometer, Saxton's self-registering,
described, xxx, 315.

effect of pressure on, xxix, 203.
Thermometers, in Kane's Arctic Expedi-j
tion, discrepancies among, xxiv. 249.
Thickstun, T. F., on aurora of 1859, xxx.
340.

Thompson, Z., obituary of, xxi, 301, xxii,

44.

Thought, rapidity of, Ule, xxiv, 445.
Thunder-storms, on geographical distribu-
tion of, E. Loomis, xxx, 94.
Tidal wave in Hudson river, A. D. Bache,
xxiii, 17.

observations, Coast Survey, xxv, 81.
Tides, Barnard on, xxvii, 349.

of the Atlantic coast of U. States, 4.
D. Bache, xxi, 14. xxv, 47.

of the Gulf of Mexico, xxi, 28, xxiii, 1.

distant stations, J. H. Lane, xxix, 43.
Tin, on some soluble salts of, J. M. Ord-
way, xxiii, 220.

Titanic iron, xxvii, 127, 423.

Tobacco manufacture in Paris, xxv, 434.
Tolles' microscope objectives, noticed,
M. C. White, xxx, 156.

Toluol, on transformation into benzoio
alcohol and toluic acid, xxi, 132.

Top, on the motion of, J. G. Barnard, XXV,

74.

Tornado, the Schuyler, xxiv, 290.
see Storm.

Torrey, J., Botany of Mexican Boundary,
xxviii, 291.

discovery of pectine in the analysis
of tuckahoe, xxvii, 439.
Torsion and magnetism, relations of,
xxviii, 432.

Totten, J. G., sudden disappearance of ice
on lakes, xxviii, 359.

Townsend, David, obituary of, xxvii, 443,
Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., Philad.. vol. xi,
new series, Pt. III, 1860, noticed, xxx,
308.

Transit instrument, on use of, in deter
mining latitude, C. S. Lyman, xxx, 52.
Trask, J. B., aurora of Aug. 1859, xxviii,
406.

earthquakes in California, xxii, 110,
xxiii, 341, xxv, 146, xxvi, 296, xxviii, 447.
Triassic, see Geology.

Trilobites from Potsdam sandstone, de-
scribed, Bradley and Billings, xxx, 241,
337.

from near Boston, W. B. Rogers, xxii,
296.

Trionyx, from Nebraska, xxii, 120.
Triphenylamin, xxiii, 268.

Troodon, fossil reptile, Leidy, xxii, 119.
Troost and Deville on densities of vapors,
xxviii, 435.

Trowbridge, W. P., deep sea soundings,
xxvi, 157.

deep sea explorations, xxvi, 386.
new sounding apparatus for,

xxviii, 1.

in reference to an Atlantic tele-
graph, xxviii, 51.

Troy, M., on aurora of 1859, xxx, 348, 357,
Trübner's Guide to Am. Lit., notice of, D.
C. Gilman, xxix, 302.

Tschudi, return from Peru, xxvii, 303.
Tuckahoe, analysis of, xxvii, 439.
Tuckermann, E., enumeration of North
American lichens, xxv, 422, xxviii, 200.
Lichenes, noticed, xxvi, 412.

Tungsten, researches on, Riche, xxi, 416.
Tuomey and Holmes, on the fossils of S.
Carolina, noticed, xxiv, 159, 447, xxv,
146,

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