Part 3

Albite, a distinct species from feldspar, vii, 390. ---- of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, analysis of, xxx, 381.

Albumen, precipitated by phosphoric acid, xvi, 396. ----, solubility of, _A. Wurtz_, xlviii, 184.

Alcohol, density in different states, xvi, 388. ----, on the colored flame of, xvi, 390. ----, observations on, by _A. Eaton_, xvi, 173. ----, detection of adulterated, xix, 71. ----, rectification of, ii, 358. ----, rectified without heat, x, 378. ----, proportion of, in wines and various fermented liquors, _L. C. Beck_, xxviii, 48. ----, combination with oil of turpentine, viii, 390. ----, action of, on alkalies, xl, 216. ----, action of chloride of lime on, xxiii, 134. ----, action of sulphuric acid on, xvi, 267. ---- mixed with water, changes in the volume of, xxiv, 373. ---- in bread, xxiii, 194. ---- not in bread, xxvi, 211.

Alcyonium, in green sand, Maryland, xvii, 288.

_Alden, T._, account of descents in a diving bell at Portsmouth, N. H., xxii, 325.

_Alder, J._, notice of, xxxvii, 168.

_Aldini_, on the preservation of firemen from the action of flame, by asbestus cloth and other means, xx, 96.^f

_Aldridge_, on vegetable impregnation, xli, 62.

Alembic for distilling amalgam of gold, _M. F. Maury_, xxxiii, 66.^f

_Alexander, J. H._, new form of barometer, xlv, 233.^f

Algebraic series, _J. Wallace_, vii, 278. ---- ----, remarks on, viii, 131. ---- ----, reply by _J. Wallace_, ix, 98. ---- ----, reply to _J. Wallace_, ix, 293. ---- solutions, by _C. Wilder_, xvi, 271.

_Alger, F._, Beaumontite and Lincolnite identical with Heulandite, xlvi, 233.^f ----, mineralogy of Nova Scotia, xii, 227; xiv, 305; xv, 132, 201. ----, minerals of New Holland, xxxix, 157.^f ----, zinc mines of Franklin, New Jersey, xlviii, 252. ----, mineralogy of, reviewed, xlvii, 333.

Alkalies, bases of, discovered, by _Davy_, xvii, 228.

Alkanet, a substitute for litmus or turmeric, _R. Hare_, v, 348.

_Allan, J._, on coins and medals, with a notice of the New Haven medal, xxxvii, 285.

Allanite, analysis of, xxviii, 394. ----, of Monroe, N. Y., analysis of, xlvi, 37. ----, in New York, xl, 76.

_Allen, J. A._, supposed traces of a volcano about West River Mountain, Vermont, iii, 73. ----, luminous appearances in the atmosphere, iv, 341.

_Allen, W._, on the curves of tri-section, iv, 343.

_Allen, Z._, volume of the Niagara river, xlvi, 67.^f

_Allinson, S. Jr._, on the atomic weight of mercury, xvi, 183.

Allomorphite, xlii, 386.

Allotropism of chlorine, _J. W. Draper_, xlix, 346.^f

Alloxan and Alloxantine, preparation of, _W. Gregory_, xli, 54.

Alloy of tin and antimony, action of, with nitric and muriatic acids, xlix, 206.

Alluvial district (tertiary and cretaceous) of New Jersey, vi, 237. ---- deposits at Malbay, L. C., v, 221. ---- ---- of the Mohawk, xxiii, 207.

Alluvium of the Connecticut valley, vi, 80, 83.

Alluvium of the valley of the Muskingum, xxix, 9.

Almonds, bitter, amygdaline in, xix, 384.

Aloes, medicinal effects, xxiv, 274.

Alpaca and Alpaca wool, remarks on, xli, 63.

Alphabet, proposed change in the English, xxxix, 197; xlvii, 420.

Alpnach, slide of, xxiv, 124.

Alps, notice of _Hugi's_ Travels in, with some account of the geology of, xxviii, 296. ----, Bernese, ascent of the high peak Fisteraarhorn, by _Hugi_, xxviii, 301. ----, atmospheric "cannonade" in, xxviii, 303. ----, notice of Forbes's travels in, and account of icebergs, xlvi, 172.

Alum, manufacture of, at Salem, Mass., vi, 372. ----, manufacture of, at Glasgow, xli, 49. ----, used for alabaster, xxx, 168. ---- method of coloring crystal of, vii, 194. ----, native, of a cavern in Southern Africa, xxviii, 290. ----, ----, in Connecticut, iii, 240; viii, 256; x, 12. ----, ----, in Massachusetts, i, 114; viii, 235. ----, ----, in New York, vi, 95; ix, 44; xv, 243. ----, ----, in Vermont, viii, 243. ----, in mica slate, xx, 418. ----, magnesian, or Pickeringite, analysis of, _A. A. Hayes_, xlvi, 360. ---- earth, and alum manufactory, Maryland, xxvii, 12.

Alumslate, iii, 28.

Alumstone, iii, 245.

Alumina, use of, with pigments for the pallet, xvi, 173.

Aluminium, obtained by _W. W. Mather_, xx, 408. ----, characters of, _F. Wöhler_, xlix, 390. ----, chloride of, _W. W. Mather_, xxvii, 241, 248, 253.

Amalgam of gold, alembic for distilling, _M. F. Maury_, xxxiii, 66.^f

Amber, vegetable origin of, ii, 353. ----, origin of, xxviii, 293. ----, _Berendt_ on, xxxvii, 365. ----, from Ava, xxviii, 71. ----, from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, xvii, 292. ----, from Maryland, iii, 8. ----, from the island of New Providence, x, 171.

America, early discovery of, by the Scandinavians, xvii, 410.

Amethyst, in the Canadas, viii, 63. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 113. ----, in New Jersey, ii, 197. ----, in Nova Scotia, xxx, 348. ----, in Rhode Island, viii, 199, 229. ----, in the Western States, i, 132; vii, 48.

Amianthus, in Connecticut, vi, 225. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 343. ----, in New Jersey, v, 266. ----, in New York, i, 54; v, 29; ix, 40. ----, in Pennsylvania, viii, 239; x, 219; xiv, 9, 17. Ammelide, _M. Liebig_, xxix, 373.

Ammeline, _M. Liebig_, xxix, 373.

Ammonia, formation of, xiv, 387; xlvii, 193. ----, action of iron upon, xviii, 146. ----, action of, on butyric ether, xlviii, 191. ----, an antidote against poisons, xvi, 182. ----, in argillaceous minerals, xv, 182. ----, in the rust of iron, ix, 191. ----, in native oxide of iron, xxi, 155. ----, disengaged from growing plants, x, 190. ----, decomposition of salts of, at the ordinary temperature, _H. B. Jones_, xlix, 392. ----, bitungstate of, _W. W. Mather_, xxvii, 264. ----, commercial carbonate of, _M. Scanlan_, xxxv, 297. ----, preparation of nitrate of, _R. Hare_, v, 346.

Ammonia and Magnesia, carbonate of, xlix, 200.

Ammonia and Zinc, carbonate of, xlix, 200.

Ammoniacal gas, inflammability of, vi, 185. ---- salts, solvent and oxidating powers of, _J. P. Emmet_, xviii, 255.

Ammonites in Canada, viii, 84. ----, see farther _Zoology--Mollusca_.

Amphide salts, on the existence of radicals of, _R. Hare_, xlv, 52, 247.

Amsterdam Canal, v, 181.

Amygdaline in bitter almonds, xix, 384.

Amygdaloid, origin of minerals of, xlix, 52. ----, of the Connecticut river valley, vi, 51. ----, of Salem, Mass., iii, 232. ---- and minerals of Nova Scotia, xiv, 314; xv, 132, 204.

Amygdaloidal minerals, origin of, _J. D. Dana_, xlix, 49.

Analcime, in Connecticut, vi, 224. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 114, 115. ----, in New Jersey, ii, 191, 197; xl, 69; xliv, 54. ----, in New York, xliv, 57. ----, in Nova Scotia, xxx, 349. ----, of Sicily, viii, 206.

Analysis of actinolite, _H. Seybert_, vi, 331. ---- albite of Chesterfield, xxx, 381. ---- Allanite, xxviii, 394. ---- ----, of Monroe, N. Y., _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 37. ---- alum, of Milo, _C. U. Shepard_, xvi, 203. ---- anatase, xlvii, 215. ---- apophyllite from the Tyrol, and Greenland, vii, 370. ---- argentine, _C. Dewey_, vi, 333. ---- arragonite, _M. Stromeyer_, vii, 368. ---- arsenical iron (Danaite,) _A. A. Hayes_, xxiv, 386. ---- ashes of two pines, xxvi, 182. ---- basalt, iv, 230. ---- Beaumontite, _M. A. Delesse_, xlvii, 216. ---- ----, _C. T. Jackson_, xlvii, 337. ---- bile, xviii, 162. ---- bismuth, carbonate of, xviii, 391. ---- ----, cobalt ore, xiii, 187. ---- bog ore, N. Jersey, _H. Seybert_, viii, 298. ---- bones, xlvii, 131, 419; xlviii, 99, 186. ---- borate of lime, native, _A. A. Hayes_, xlvii, 215. ---- Brewsterite, xx, 198. ---- brine springs of New York, _G. Chilton_, vii, 345. ---- Brucite, see _Chondrodite_. ---- bronzite, _T. G. Clemson_, xxiv, 170. ---- cacoxenite, xviii, 391. ---- calcareous minerals, determination of carbonic acid in, _J. L. Smith_, xlv, 262.^f ---- calculi, _J. F. Dana_, iv, 149. ---- ----, urinary, xvii, 190. ---- calstronbarite, _C. U. Shepard_, xxxiv, 161. ---- Catlinite, _C. T. Jackson_, xxxv, 388; xxxvii, 393. ---- celestine, iv, 324; vii, 369. ---- chabazite, _C. Cramer_, xxx, 366. ---- chlorophyllite, xlvi, 377. ---- chromic iron, of Maryland, _H. Seybert_, iv, 321. ---- ---- ----, from Cuba, _R. C. Taylor_, xxxviii, 243. ---- chrysoberyl, of Haddam, _H. Seybert_, viii, 105. ---- cinnamon stone, of Ceylon, xiv, 204. ---- clinkstone, xix, 380. ---- coal, _W. R. Johnson_, xxxviii, 382; xxxix, 139; xlix, 166. ---- ---- of Maryland, _Ducatel_ and _Alexander_, xxvii, 31. ---- ---- of Virginia, xlii, 369. ---- ---- of Pennsylvania, _W. Meade_, xiii, 32. ---- cobalt and nickel ores of Chatham, _A. A. Hayes_, xxi, 195. ---- cobalt ores, _Wöhler_, xxxvi, 332. ---- colophonite, v, 113. ---- columbite, Rose, xlix, 228. ---- copper, native of New Jersey, _L. C. Beck_, xxxvi, 107. ---- ----, red oxyd, New Jersey, _L. C. Beck_, xxxvi, 107. ---- ----, bisilicate, _L. C. Beck_, xxxvi, 107. ---- ----, gray sulphuret, N. Jersey, xxxvi, 107. ---- coprolites, _S. L. Dana_, xlviii, 46. ---- couzeranite, xvii, 183. ---- cyanogen, _R. Hare_, xv, 271.^f ---- Danaite, _A. A. Hayes_, xxiv, 386. ---- Danburite, _C. U. Shepard_, xxxv, 137. ---- Davyne, xi, 255. ---- Deweylite, _C. U. Shepard_, xviii, 81. ---- ----, _T. Thomson_, xxxi, 173. ---- dioptase, _Damour_, xlvii, 216. ---- dolomite, iv, 17. ---- dreelite, xxx, 380. ---- Emmonite, _T. Thomson_, xxxi, 171. ---- eupyrchroite, _L. C. Beck_, xl, 77. ---- feldspar from Bytown, L. C., _T. Thomson_, xxxi, 173. ---- ----, containing titanium, xii, 187. ---- garnet, manganesian of Haddam, Ct., _H. Seybert_, vi, 155. ---- gaseous mixtures, _R. Hare_, xv, 279, 283. ---- gastric juice, by _Braconnot_, xxx, 378. ---- gigantolite, xlii, 387. ---- glaucolite, xv, 387. ---- Gmelinite, _A. Connell_, xxxv, 195. ---- gold of Georgia, _W. W. Mather_, xxvii, 255. ---- ----, containing rhodium, from Mexico, xi, 298. ---- grains, cereal, _C. T. Jackson_, and _A. A. Hayes_, xlv, 339. ---- guano, _J. E. Teschemacher_, xlviii, 181. ---- ----, _Girardin_ and _Bidard_, xlviii, 181. ---- ----, _W. Francis_, xlviii, 182. ---- ----, _J. D. Smith_, xlviii, 183. ---- ----, xlix, 200, 391. ---- Haydenite, _B. Silliman, Jr._, xlvi, 380. ---- heavy Spar, _G. T. Bowen_, iv, 325. ---- heterosite, xix, 371. ---- Holmesite, _T. Thomson_, xxxi, 172. ---- hops, vi, 393. ---- Hudsonite, _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 32. ---- Humboldtilite, xi, 251. ---- huraulite, xix, 371. ---- hydrate of magnesia, Hoboken, vii, 370. ---- hydraulic limestones, _L. C. Beck_; xlvi, 29. ---- hydroboracite, xxviii, 394. ---- hydromagnesite, of Hoboken, _M. Wachtmeister_, xviii, 167. ---- hydrous anthophyllite of N. York, _T. Thomson_, xix, 359. ---- hypersthene of N. York, _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 35. ---- idocrase, _T. Richardson_, xxxviii, 120. ---- indigo, xviii, 241. ---- iolite, xlvi, 383. ---- iron, supposed native of Bedford Co. Pa., xiv, 183. ---- iron ore of Pennsylvania, _W. R. Johnson_, xxxviii, 383; xxxix, 142. ---- iron ore, bog, in New Jersey, _H. Seybert_, viii, 298. ---- iron, native phosphate, of Cornwall, vii, 369. ---- iron, titanic, of Baltimore, _T. G. Clemson_, xvii, 42. ---- isopyre, xv, 388. ---- kerolite, of Westchester, N. Y., _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 34. ---- kyanite, _C. H. Rockwell_, xlvi, 383. ---- lampblack, xi, 387. ---- Latrobite, _Gmelin_, ix, 329. ---- lead, native carbonate, of Davidson Co., N. C., xli, 350. ---- ----, cupreous sulphato-carbonate of, iv, 29. ---- ---- ore, agentiferous of Lane's mine, Ct., _W. W. Mather_, xxvii, 256. ---- Ledererite, _A. A. Hayes_, xxv, 80. ---- lepidolite, _Gmelin_, ix, 329. ---- Maclureite, _H. Seybert_, v, 336. ---- magnesian hydrate of silica, _P. T. Tyson_, xviii, 79. ---- ---- ibid, _C. U. Shepard_, xviii, 81. ---- magnesite, hard, of Baumgarten, vii, 368. ---- manganese ores, _M. Berthier_, vii, 366. ---- marl from Farmington, Ct., _E. Hitchcock_, xxxvi, 176. ---- ---- from New Jersey, xvii, 277. ---- ---- from Ashley river, S. Carolina, _J. L. Smith_, xlviii, 101. ---- marmolite, _T. Nuttall_, iv, 17, 19. ---- Masonite, _C. T. Jackson_, xl, 186; xlviii, 218. ---- melanite of Franklin furnace, N. _J., H. Seybert_, viii, 300. ---- Menardite, xii, 386. ---- meteoric iron of Canaan, Ct., _C. U. Shepard_, xii, 155. ---- ---- ---- from Claiborne, Alabama, _C. T. Jackson_, xxxiv, 332; xlviii, 145. ---- ---- ---- ibid, _A. A. Hayes_, xlviii, 147. ---- ---- ---- of Oswego, N. Y., _C. U. Shepard_, xl, 366. ---- ---- ---- from Guilford Co., N. Carolina, _C. U. Shepard_, xl, 369. ---- ---- ---- from Buncombe Co., N. Carolina, xxxvi, 81. ---- ---- ---- from Maryland, Feb. 1825, _G. Chilton_, x, 131. ---- ---- ---- from Virginia, _C. U. Shepard_, xvi, 191. ---- ---- ---- from Tennessee, of 1827, xvii, 326. ---- ---- ---- from Tennessee, _G. Troost_, xxxviii, 250. ---- ---- ---- from Tennessee, _C. U. Shepard_, xliii, 354. ---- ---- ---- from Texas, _C. U. Shepard_, xvi, 217. ---- meteorite of Juvenas, France, 1821, vi, 397. ---- ---- South African Cold Bokkeveld, xxxvii, 190. ---- ---- France, Chateau Renard, xlii, 403. ---- ---- of U. States, in Maine, August, 1823, ix, 400. ---- ---- ----, in Connecticut, Weston, i, 273. ---- mica yellow and lepidolite, xxxvii, 361. ---- microlite, _C. U. Shepard_, xxxii, 338; xliii, 119. ---- ----, _A. A. Hayes_, xliii, 33; xlvi, 158. ---- mineral waters, see Analysis of _waters_, below. ---- molybdena, _H. Seybert_, iv, 320. ---- mud, New Haven harbor, _B. Silliman, Jr._, xlviii, 337. ---- Murchisonite, xv, 386. ---- needle ore, xxviii, 395. ---- nephrite, _G. T. Bowen_, v, 346. ---- olefiant gas, _R. Hare_, xv, 270. ---- olivine, ix, 379; xiii, 184. ---- organic compounds, determination of nitrogen in, xlv, 267. ---- Oxahverite, xv, 387. ---- pennine, xlvii, 216. ---- Pickeringite, _A. A. Hayes_, xlvi, 360. ---- picropharmacolite, vii, 368. ---- platina of Russia, _J. Berzelius_, xviii, 162. ---- polymignite, xviii, 392. ---- pollen, _M. Prinsep_, xviii, 402. ---- pyrargillite, _M. Nordenskiöld_, xxvi, 387. ---- pyrochlore, xviii, 392. ---- ----, _M. Wöhler_, xliii, 35. ---- ----, _A. A. Hayes_, xlvi, 163. ---- pyromorphite, _C. Kersten_, xxii, 307. ---- pyrophyllite, xviii, 392. ---- pyroxene, Franklin Iron works, _H. Seybert_, v, 113; vii, 145. ---- Rensselaerite, xl, 77. ---- rhodium gold, of Mexico, xi, 298. ---- sea water, near Brighton, xxxviii, 12. ---- seleniuret of lead, xviii, 391. ---- ---- ---- and mercury, xviii, 391. ---- serpentine marble, Vt., _C. T. Jackson_, xxxviii, 198. ---- Seybertite, _T. G. Clemson_, xxiv, 171. ---- shells, _W. B. Rogers_, xxvi, 361. ---- Sillimanite, _G. T. Bowen_, viii, 113. ---- Sillimanite, xlvi, 382; xlviii, 219. ---- ----, _T. Thomson_, xlix, 396. ---- Sismondine, _M. Delesse_, xlvii, 217. ---- soda alum of Milo, _C. U. Shepard_, xvi, 203. ---- spathic iron, _T. G. Clemson_, xxiv, 170. ---- spodumene, Sweden, vii, 371. ---- steatitic pseudomorphs, _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 35. ---- ---- ----, _C. Dewey_, vi, 333. ---- Steinheilite, iv, 377. ---- stellite of Bergen Hill, xliv, 54; xlvi, 35. ---- strontian, sulphate, _G. T. Bowen_, iv, 324. ---- tabular spar, _H. Seybert_, v, 113. ---- ---- ----, from the Bannat, vii, 370. ---- talc, from Chamouni, xlvii, 216. ---- titanic iron, from near Baltimore, _T. G. Clemson_, xvii, 42. ---- topaz, of Huntington, Ct., x, 352. ---- tourmaline, xiv, 384; xv, 389. ---- triphyline, xxviii, 394. ---- tungstate of lime, _G. T. Bowen_, v, 118. ---- upas, juice of, xxxix, 206. ---- uranite, _R. Phillips_, vii, 380. ---- Vulpinite, _M. Vauquelin_, vii, 368. ---- wacke, i, 296. ---- Warwickite, _C. U. Shepard_, xxxiv, 313; xxxvi, 85. ---- water of the Rio Vinagre, _M. Boussingault_, xxiv, 149. ---- ---- of spouting fountain of Naples, xxv, 195. ---- ---- of Black Sea, xx, 188. ---- ---- of Dead Sea, _B. Silliman, Jr._, xlviii, 10. ---- ---- of sea near Brighton, _G. Schweitzer_, xxxviii, 12. ---- ---- of Scott Spring, Va., _C. B. Hayden_, xliv, 409. ---- ---- of mineral spring near Albany, _W. Meade_, xiii, 145. ---- ---- ----, the Clinton, _G. Chilton_, xviii, 346. ---- ----, from the Azores, _C. T. Jackson_, xxxi, 94, 96. ---- ---- sulphur, of Virginia, _C. U. Shepard_, xxx, 100. ---- wines of Palestine, _E. Hitchcock_, xlvi, 249. ---- ----, _L. C. Beck_, xxviii, 42. ---- Wörthite, _M. Hess_, xxvi, 387. ---- xanthite, xviii, 359; xxvi, 388. ---- zinc, red oxide, _A. A. Hayes_, xlviii, 261.

Analysis of square numbers, _A. D. Wheeler_, xxv, 87.

Analytical geometry, _C. Wilder_, xx, 285.^f

Anamitic and Latin Dictionary of Taberd, xl, 43.

Anastatic printing, xlix, 401.

Anatase, analysis and crystals of, xlvii, 215.^f

Anauxite, analysis of, xlii, 386.

Ancram lead mine, notice of, _C. A. Lee_, viii, 247.

Ancramite, v, 235, 399. ----, shown to be of furnace origin and identical with cadmia, vi, 180.

Andalusite, crystal from Westford, Mass., xlvi, 381.^f ----, in Connecticut, vi, 176, 236. ----, in Massachusetts, x, 394; xlvi, 381.^f

Andes, general features of, xvii, 47. ----, winds at the summit of, xxviii, 310. ---- of Peru, character of, xviii, 182. ----, highest habitations in, xviii, 183. ----, height of the principal peaks of, xviii, 183. ----, Mexican, ascent of the summit of Popocatepetl, xxviii, 220.

_Andre_, Major, Notice of a sketch of, by himself, ix, 395.

Angelicic acid, xlvii, 196.

_Anglada's_ deductions respecting mineral springs, v, 187.

Animals, living, found in stones and wood, notice of a work on, xii, 395. ----, growth of vegetables on living, by _S. L. Mitchill_, xii, 21. ----, dead, means of employing, _M. Payen_, xxiv, 326. ---- produced by galvanism, see _Acarus_.

Animal fibrine, albumen and caseine, isomeric with vegetable fibrine, _Scheerer_, xliii, 402. ---- organs, action of barytes, strontian, chrome, &c. on, xiii, 178. ---- magnetism in France, v, 192. ---- ----, notice of a work on, by _Dupau_, xiii, 175.

Animalcules in snow, xviii, 56.

Animalcules, see _Infusoria_.

Animation suspended, iv, 393; xxxiii, 292.

Animation suspended by drowning, _L. W. Smith_, v, 125.

Annals of the New York Lyceum, see _Lyceum_.

Annelids in the slabs of Waterville, Maine, xli, 163.

Anniversary, centennary, of the American Philosophical Society, Proceedings of, xlv, 231.

Antarctic regions, discoveries in, by the U. S. Exploring Expedition, xl, 394. ---- seas, Expeditions to, xxxv, 306.

_Anthony, J. G._, Calymene Bucklandii, a new species of trilobite, xxxvi, 106.^f ----, fossil encrinite from near Cincinnati, xxxv, 359.^f

Anthophyllite in Canada, viii, 69. ---- in Connecticut, xvii, 144. ---- in Massachusetts, ix, 248.

Anthophyllum, xvii, 288; xviii, 249^f; xxix, 150.^f

Anthracite, see _Coal_.

Antigua, petrified wood of, i, 56.

Antimony, test for minute quantities of, xliv, 13. ----, a mode of separating from lead, brass, &c., xv, 188. ----, separation of, from tin, _Gay Lussac_, xxvii, 197. ----, gray, locality of, in Lyme, N. H., xlix, 228. ----, ----, ibid, in Connecticut, xii, 156. ---- and lead, sulphuret, xxx, 177.

Antimonial nickel, a new mineral species, xxviii, 395.

Antiparos, description of the grotto of, xvi, 335.

Antiquarian Society, American, notice of, xviii, 136. ---- ----, ----, transactions of, iii, 357.

Antiquaries, Northern, circular of, xl, 212. ----, ----, notice of, xl, 403; xlii, 214.

Antiquities, North American, xxxiv, 47.

Antiquities, North American, notice of a work on, xxxi, 408. ----, Celtic, of America, by _J. Finch_, vii, 149.

Antiquities, Peruvian, xvii, 116.^f

Ants, habits of, xiii, 177.

Apalachian Chain, see _Appalachian_.

Apatite, in Canada, viii, 71. ----, in Connecticut, xii, 161. ----, in Delaware, xiv, 11. ----, in Maryland, v, 256. ----, in Massachusetts, vii, 254; viii, 36; xii, 260. ----, in New Jersey, v. 244. ----, in New York, i, 236; v, 28; ix, 244, 402; xxi, 328, 330; xxiii, 403; xlvi, 34, 366.^f ----, in Pennsylvania, ix, 45, 246; x, 222; xiv, 6, 8, 13, 14. ----, in Rhode Island, xl, 185. ----, account of, from St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., xlvi, 34. ----, distorted or rounded crystals, xiv, 143; xlvi, 366.^f

Apocrenic acid, _Berzelius_, xxviii, 121.

Apophyllite from Tyrol and Greenland, analysis of, vii, 370. ----, of New Jersey and New York, _L. C. Beck_, xliv, 56. ----, localities of, in Connecticut, vi, 225. ----, ----, in New Jersey, xl, 69; xliv, 54. ----, ----, in New York, xliv, 56. ----, ----, in Nova Scotia, xxx, 345, 348.

Appalachian chain, physical structure of, _H. D._ and _W. B. Rogers_, xliii, 177; xliv, 359. ---- ----, in Maryland, notices and geological sections, _W. E. A. Aikin_, xxvi, 219.^f

Apparatus, chemical, for the combustion of metals in chlorine, _R. Hare_, xiv, 354.^f ----, ----, for procuring nitrogen, _R. Hare_, xiv, 356,^f xxviii, 263.^f ----, ----, for experimenting with carbonic acid gas, _R. Hare_, xiv, 358.^f ----, ----, substitute for Woulfe's bottles, _R. Hare_, i, 410^f; xiii, 1.^f ----, ----, for regulating the supply of gas by its absorption, _R. Hare_, xiii, 2.^f ----, ----, cold by the palm glass, _R. Hare_, xiii, 4.^f ----, ----, for showing the effect of a relaxation of pressure on capacity for heat, _R. Hare_, xiii, 5.^f ----, ----, for illustrating capacities for heat, _R. Hare_, xiii, 6.^f ---- for separating carbonic oxide from carbonic acid, _R. Hare_, xxiv, 252.^f ---- for producing ebullition by cold, _R. Hare_, xxxiii, 218.^f ---- for deflagrating carburets, phosphurets, &c., in vacuo, xl, 303.^f ---- for freezing water by means of sulphuric acid, _R. Hare_, xxvii, 132.^f ---- for obtaining specific gravity of gases, _R. Hare_, xvi, 293, 295.^f ---- for transferring or decanting liquids, _R. Hare_, xxvi, 358.^f ---- for the evolution of prussic acid, _R. Hare_, xxix, 244.^f ---- for evolving silicon from fluo-silicic acid, _R. Hare_, xxiv, 247.^f ---- for decomposition and recomposition of water, xxxviii, 336.^f ---- galvano-ignition, xxvi, 352^f; xxxii, 282. ---- for solidifying carbonic acid, _J. Johnston_, xxxviii, 297^f; xlii, 203. ---- for illustrating absorption of heat, _A. D. Bache_, xxviii, 320.^f ----, hydrogen gas, vii, 392. ---- ---- self-regulating reservoir, _R. Hare_, xi, 140.^f ---- for experiments on inflection and interference of light and caustics, _E. S. Snell_, xlix, 24,^f 26.^f ---- for illustrating waves, _E. S. Snell_, xlix, 20.^f ---- volumeter, _R. Hare_, xii, 36.^f ---- volumescope, _R. Hare_, xv, 275^f; xxviii, 264.^f ----, electrical, see _Electric_. ----, electro-magnetic, see _Electro-magnetic_. ----, eudiometric, see _Eudiometry_.

Apprentices, manufactory of, iv, 379.

Aqueducts, on the Roman, _M. Genieys_, xix, 389.

Arabia, notice of a memoir on the province of Omán in, xxxii, 383.

Arabic words in English, _J. W. Gibbs_, xxxiii, 324.

Ararat, Mount, extinct volcano near, xxxvii, 349.

Araucanian races, remarks on, _S. G. Morton_, xxxviii, 341.^f

Arch, some properties of a rampant, _T. Gorton_, xxvii, 303.^f

Arches, method of describing curves for, _J. Thomson_, xxiv, 73.^f ----, on tracing oval, _E. Miller_, xxii, 303.^f

Archæologia Americana, iii, 357.

Archimedes, on the spiral of, by _A. B. Quinby_, ix, 316.^f

Archimedes, a fossil coral, _D. D. Owen_, xliii, 19.^f

Architecture, notes on, xxiv, 257.^f ----, in the United States, xvii, 99, 249^f; xviii, 11, 212. ----, Grecian style, the propriety of its application to modern uses, xviii, 218. ----, Gothic style, notice of, xviii, 220.

Architectural improvements, _E. Lord_, xxv, 304. ---- monuments, xviii, 229.

Arctic regions, sketch of geology of, xvii, 1.