Part 34

Stalactites, artificial, in a brewery, Indiana, _J. T. Plummer_, xliv, 307. ----, in New York, xxv, 347. ----, in Ohio, i, 133. ----, lava, of Hawaii, xvi, 350.

Stanleya amplexifolia, v, 297.

Stars in Lacaille's Cœlum Australe Stelliferum, remark on the reduction of, xxxviii, 94; xl, 310; xliii, 368. ---- in Lalande's Histoire Céleste, remark on the reduction of, xxxviii, 94; xl, 312; xliii, 367. ----, catalogue by the Royal Astronomical Society of London, in progress, xl, 312. ----, on the revision of the nomenclature of, _F. Baily_, xl, 310. ----, nomenclature of, to be revised by a committee of the British Association, xxxviii, 94. ----, extension of the Astronomical Society's catalogue, xxxviii, 95; xl, 312. ----, report of a committee from the British Association for revising the nomenclature of the stars, xl, 310; xlii, 147; xliv, 158; xlvi, 389. ----, ---- ibid, on catalogue, &c., xl, 310; xliii, 368. ----, British Association, catalogue of, completed, xlvi, 389. ----, number and order of, xv, 76. ----, missing, xxxvii, 373; xl, 406. ----, double, remarks on, xv, 76. ----, ----, motion of, xxxvii, 373. ----, twinkling of, remarks on, v, 156; xv, 360. ----, sixty-one Cygni, parallax of, xxxvi, 200. ----, aberration of, _F. G. W. Struve_, xlvii, 91. ----, ----, _B. Hallowell_, xv, 360. ----, observations on the lunar occultations of certain, xxxviii, 177. ----, shooting, see _Shooting Stars_.

Starch, chemical researches on, _J. B. Caventon_, xiii, 393. ----, notice of a memoir on, by _Guibourt_, xxiv, 371. ----, preparation of sugar from, xx, 195.

Starved rock, Illinois, xxxiv, 145.

State's Prison of Connecticut, in an old copper mine, iii, 222.

Statical electricity, generation of, _G. W. Raines_, xlix, 93.^f

Statistics, in Asia, of the Deccan, xxxiii, 274. ----, in Europe, price of labor and subsistence in, xxxvi, 176. ----, ----, value of mineral productions of, xxxi, 369. ----, ----, France, books published in, xviii, 185. ----, ----, ----, of crimes, xxviii, 80. ----, ----, ----, ---- of infants, xix, 192. ----, ----, ----, for Paris, 1819, iv, 376. ----, ----, ----, population, number of clergy, &c., xv, 397. ----, ----, Wirtemberg, xx, 176. ----, ----, Netherlands, University of, xviii, 182. ----, ----, Great Britain and Ireland, xxxv, 315. ----, ----, ----, of population, xxiv, 211; xxviii, 80. ----, ----, ----, of crimes, xxxviii, 135. ----, ----, ----, of crime in Liverpool, xxxiv, 33. ----, ----, ----, of fires in London, xxxv, 316. ----, in Russia, population, iv, 389; xv, 397. ----, in Africa, Egypt, vi, 389. ----, in America, West Indies, of deaths in the white troops, xxxvii, 197. ----, ----, of trade between U. States and Great Britain, xxxiii, 277. ----, ----, United States, of iron, xxii, 179. ----, ----, ----, New York, of population, manufactures, &c., xx, 147. ----, in New Zealand, of changes of population, xxxv, 315. ----, books of memoirs of 1833, xxviii, 295. ----, list of communications presented to British Association, at the tenth meeting, xli, 65. ----, of agriculture, importance of collecting information on, xxxviii, 135. ----, points of enquiry suggested by _Malthus_, xxviii, 66.

Statistical tables of Massachusetts, xxxiv, 213. ---- Society of London, number of members, xxviii, 80. ---- ---- ----, notice of Journal of, xxxvii, 189. ---- ----, of New York, xxxii, 202. ---- ----, of Boston, xxxix, 395. ---- societies in the United States, on the establishment of, xxxi, 186.

Statue of Luther, v, 181. ---- of Cuvier, xxx, 184.

Stature, human, law of increase in, _M. Quetelet_, xxii, 376.

Staurotide macle, _C. T. Jackson_, xlvi, 368.^f ----, in Canada, viii, 62. ----, in Connecticut, i, 353; ii, 205; v, 36. ----, in Maine, x, 17. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 436; v, 268; vi, 24, 219; viii, 40. ----, in New Hampshire, v, 40, 271; vi, 219, 245; (Mink pond) xviii, 127, 128. ----, in New York, i, 435. ----, in Pennsylvania, ix, 45. ----, in Rhode Island, ix, 49. ----, in Vermont, vi, 219.

Steam, a conductor of electricity, remarks on, xxvi, 206. ----, table of the elastic forces of, _Dulong_, xix, 181. ----, ratio between the elastic force and temperature of, xxviii, 363. ----, maximum elasticity of, xxxvi, 242. ----, power of, xiii, 180. ----, production of, from heated iron, _W. R. Johnson_, xxi, 71^f ----, properties of, xx, 326, 329. ----, specific gravity of, at different temperatures, xxxviii, 137. ----, electricity from, xl, 383. ----, rapid production of, in contact with highly heated metals, _W. R. Johnson_, xix, 292; xx, 308, 418. ----, agent in volcanic action, _G. Bischof_, xxxvi, 241. ----, destruction of vermin in ships by, xvii, 390. ---- pyrometer, _W. R. Johnson_ on, xxii, 96.^f ---- navigation, ii, 342, 347. ---- ----, letters on, _J. Smith_, xxxv, 332; xxxvi, 133. ---- ----, Atlantic, _J. Smith_, xxxv, 160. ---- ----, to the Pacific, by the isthmus of Panama and the western coast of South America, xli, 358. ---- ----, in the Pacific, on the coast of Chili, xliii, 207. ---- ----, mechanism of waves, in reference to, _J. S. Russel_, xxxiii, 283. ---- ----, Journal, xxxviii, 205.

Steamboats, American, notices of, _W. C. Redfield_, xxiii, 311. ----, the first, on the western waters, xxxi, 1. ----, Burden's, in France, xxx, 174. ---- Babcock, _J. H. Patten_, xii, 115.^f ---- in 1819, between Stockholm and St. Petersburg, ii, 347. ----, at Stockholm, v, 379. ----, at Bordeaux, v, 381. ----, first on the Swiss lakes, vi, 385.

Steamboat, between Trieste and Venice, iv, 377. ----, on fuel for, xx, 133. ----, of iron, v, 396. ----, advantages of iron compared with wood, xxxix, 206. ----, protection of, from lightning, _A. Jones_, xxii, 106. ----, on extinguishing fire in, xli, 66. ----, propulsion of, by the trapezium paddle-wheel and screw, xlii, 336. ----, an economical, xx, 14. ---- explosions, list of, _W. C. Redfield_, xx, 336. ----, cause of explosion, and a safety apparatus, _A. D. Bache_, xx, 317.^f ----, safety of, _B. Silliman_, xix, 143. ----, means of safety in, _J. L. Sullivan_, xx, 1. ----, safety of, xxxiv, 35. ----, causes of explosion, in a review of J. Renwick on the steam engine, xx, 329. ----, precautions to be used against explosion, _J. Renwick_, xx, 329.

Steamboilers, on the explosion of, _J. Perkins_, xiii, 52. ----, ibid, _E. Hazard_, xiii, 56. ----, on the supposed collapse of, and mode of preventing explosions, _W. C. Redfield_, xxi, 190. ----, loss of life by explosions of, xx, 415. ----, explosions due to defective material, xxxv, 317. ----, premium for protection against explosions, xx, 178. ----, rules regarding, in France, ix, 203. ----, safety of, in France, xix, 202. ----, feeding of, vii, 378. ----, on fuel for, _B. Silliman_, xx, 133. ----, use of American coal for, xlix, 310. ----, the galvanoscope, a means of detecting a deficiency of water in, _C. G. Page_, xxxvi, 141.^f ----, on high and low pressure, _A. B. Quinby_, ix, 313. ----, hydrostat for supplying water to, _I. Doolittle_, xiii, 64.^f ----, incrustations within, prevented by potatoes, vii, 193. ----, protection of, by timber, xix, 176. ----, strength of cylindrical, _W. R. Johnson_, xxiii, 68.

Steam-engines, large, x, 170. ----, spark extinguisher for, xlii, 209.^f ----, in Great Britain, xv, 185. ----, the first at Glasgow, xii, 385. ----, economy of using highly elastic steam expansively, _J. Perkins_, xiii, 59.^f ----, _J. Perkins's_ method of applying his mode of generating steam to ordinary, vii, 332.^f ----, Perkins's new, vii, 111.^f ----, remarks on _J. Perkins's_ high pressure, xiii, 40. ----, power of Perkins's, ix, 206. ----, revolving, invented by Samuel Morey, i, 157.^f ----, on the revolving, of Morey, _I. Doolittle_, ii, 101.^f ----, _J. L. Sullivan_, ii, 106^f; v, 144. ----, Ward's alternating, iv, 90.^f ----, review of a treatise on, by _J. Renwick_, xx, 322.

Steamship, the Savannah, under Captain Moses Rogers, the first Atlantic, 1819, xxxviii, 155. ----, ----, log-book deposited with the American Philosophical Society, xl, 34.

Steam generators of the steamboat Babcock, xii, 115.^f

Steam pump, Long's, xiv, 169.^f ----, some experiments with, xvi, 181.

Stearine, a compound body, _Lecanu_, xxviii, 361. ---- and elaine, vi, 377.

Stearoptine, of oil of roses, xxviii, 383.

Steatite, best in New England, xxxiii, 165. ----, uses of, xiii, 192; xiv, 376. ----, in Connecticut, i, 354; vi, 228; x, 12; xxxiii, 165. ----, in Maryland, v, 255; xxiv, 355; xxvii, 20. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 113, 138; vi, 228; ix, 54; xxii, 31; --Middlefield, ii, 236; iv, 274; v, 249; viii, 50, 51; x, 19; xxvii, 382; xxxiii, 165;--Groton, xxvii, 341. ----, in New Hampshire, at Orford, xxxiii, 165. ----, in New Jersey, at Sterling, ix, 245. ----, in New York, xix, 225; xxv, 347. ----, in Pennsylvania, viii, 236; xiv, 18. ---- quarries in Rhode Island, viii, 227, 231. ----, in Vermont, v, 272; vi, 228; vii, 58; xxviii, 370; xxxiii, 165. ----, crystallized, (pseudomorphous) at Middlefield, _C. Dewey_, iv, 274; v, 249; vi, 334 (analysis); viii, 51. ----, hornblende pseudomorphs, analysis of, _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 35.

_Steel, J. H._, notice of a report by, on the geology of Saratoga Co., N. Y., v, 203. ----, notice of Snake Hill and Saratoga lake, and its environs, ix, 1.^f ----, description of the high rock spring, at Saratoga, xvi, 341.^f ----, iodine in the Saratoga waters, xvi, 242. ----, on swallows, xix, 356. ----, analysis of the Saratoga and Ballstown waters, xxi, 182; xxxvi, 8. ----, oolite of Saratoga, and state of New York, ix, 16.^f ----, on chrysoberyl, iv, 37.

Steel, on the cutting of, by soft iron, _H. Daggett_, vi, 336. ----, ibid, _B. Silliman_, vii, 342. ----, on the cutting of, by soft iron, note on, vii, 390. ----, ibid, x, 127, 397. ----, Clarke's, xvii, 113. ----, Damascus, v, 182. ----, American, xix, 175. ----, engraving on, iii, 353. ----, on the fabrication of, at Sheffield, Yorkshire, xix, 182.^f ----, manufacture of, xvii, 111. ----, ----, by cementation, xix, 182. ----, prevention of, from rusting, vi, 398; xxi, 150; xxii, 382; xxiii, 199, 383. ----, silicium in, iv, 376. ----, tempered, action on, of soft iron in motion, ix, 324; x, 127, 397. ----, blistered, xv, 374. ---- blades, P. Bradier's, vi, 395. ---- plate, menstruum for biting-in on, x, 194. ---- plates, colored, xvii, 376.

_Stein, W._, on lithia in a blowpipe test, xlviii, 193.

_Steinhauer, H._, remarks on trap, ii, 232.

Steinheilite, iv, 377.

Stellarota, _Pettengill's_, xvi, 363.

Stellite, Bergen Hill, N. J., xl, 69. ----, ----, analysis of, xliv, 54; xlvi, 35. ----, ----, remarks on, xlvi, 379.

_Stenhouse, J._, detection of kinic acid, xlix, 391. ----, on the silvering of glass, xlix, 398.

Steppes, Russian, xvii, 23.

Stereoscope, xxxv, 295.

Stereotyping, invention of, xvii, 161.

Stereotype, soft iron used for, xxvi, 192. ---- printing, original document on, _C. Colden_, and a letter by _B. Franklin_, xxiv, 319.

_Sternberg, Count K._, notice of, xxxvii, 125.

Sternbergite, xv, 386.

_Steudel, E. T._, Nomenclator Botanicus, notice of, xl, 174; xli, 373; xlii, 377.

_Stevelly, J._, on clouds, wind and rain, xxxviii, 105. ----, on filling barometers, xxxviii, 109.

_Stewart, C. S._, notices of the volcano Kilauea on Hawaii, xi, 363; xx, 229.

_Stickney, B. F._, on native lead and cinnabar, ii, 170. ----, on the supposed discovery of cinnabar in Michigan, xxxvii, 185.

Stigmaria, generic characters of, vii, 180.

Stigmariæ and Sigillariæ, xlix, 227.

Stilbite, in Canada, viii, 65. ----, in Connecticut, i, 135; vi, 224; xxxv, 179. ----, in Massachusetts, i, 114, 115. 134; vi, 224; vii, 254. ----, in New Jersey, ii, 191, 192, 195; v, 239; xliv, 59.^f ----, in New York, v, 399; vi, 365; ix, 41, 402; xliv, 59. ----, in Nova Scotia, xxx, 346. ----, from New Holland, xxxix, 161.^f

Still for gin, of large size, xix, 394.

Stilpnomelane, xviii, 392.

_Stilson, W. B._, geology and mineralogy of a part of Indiana, i, 131.

Stockholm, steamboats at, v, 379.

Stones, moving, in lakes and ponds, _N. Chipman_, xiv, 303. ----, building, contraction and expansion of, by variations of temperature, _W. H. C. Bartlett_, xxii, 136.^f ----, experiments on the strength of various, _E. Hodgkinson_, xliv, 169. ----, of memorial and sacrifice, vii, 153. ----, lithographic, see _Lithographic_. ----, boulder, see _Boulders_. ----, meteoric, see _Meteorites_.

Stonesfield slate, marsupial fossils of, xxvii, 412; xxxvii, 228.

Stoneware of Baltimore, xxvii, 11.

Storax, oil of, xlix, 392.

_Storer, D. H._, report of the curators of the Boston Society of Natural History, xxxii, 364. ----, review of the "Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts," xxxvi, 337. ----, on the Carcharias obscurus, xxxviii, 195. ----, on the Emys Blandingii and a Syngnanthus, xxxviii, 195. ----, on the Squalus elephas, xxxviii, 197. ----, fifteen species of Ohio fishes, xxxviii, 392. ----, two species of Ray, xxxviii, 396. ----, fishes and reptiles of Massachusetts, xxxviii, 379. ----, on Bell's British Reptiles, xxxix, 185. ----, account of several fishes, xxxix, 378. ----, on Indian Cyprinidæ, xli, 92. ----, a new species of torpedo, xliv, 213; xlv, 165.^f ----, notice of Dekay's report on the fishes of New York, xlv, 275.

Storm, see under _Wind_.

Stratford, Vermont, copperas manufactory of, iii, 326.

_Strait, H._, on aerial navigation, xxv, 15.^f ----, theory of the bellows, xxvii, 88.^f ----, application of the principle of the balance in milking, pumping, churning, washing, fulling, &c., xxvii, 92.^f

_Stratton, T._, on ground ice, xl, 407.

Straw, Leghorn, viii, 378. ----, ----, on the cultivation of, xxii, 363.

Strength of stones and other materials, _E. Hodgkinson_, xliv, 168.

Striæ on rocks, see _Scratches_.

_Strickland, A._, on Ardea alba, xxxv, 311.

_Strickland, H. E._, silurian strata of Asia Minor, xxxiii, 95.

Strobilus caryophyllus, xxxi, 32.^f

_Strode, T._, on a siliceous petrifaction from North Carolina, vii, 249.

Strokr, account of, xxxvi, 256.

_Stromeyer_, analyses of several minerals, vii, 368.

Stromnite, new mineral species, ii, 177.

_Strong, T._, a new method of obtaining the formulæ of the sines and cosines of the sum and difference of two arcs, i, 424.^f ----, solutions of diophantine problems, i, 426; xxxi, 156. ----, mathematical problems, ii, 54^f, 266.^f ----, demonstration of the binomial theorem, xii, 132. ----, solution of problems in fluxions, xvi, 283; xvii, 69, 329; xviii, 67. ----, on capillary attraction, xviii, 70. ----, on central forces, xix, 46; xx, 65. 291; xxi, 66, 334; xxii, 132, 342. ----, motion of a system of bodies, xxiv, 40; xxv, 281; xxvi, 44. ----, on the parallelogram of forces, xxvi, 304; xxix, 345. ----, composition and resolution of forces and statical equilibrium, xxviii, 85. ----, theory of the variations of the arbitrary constants in elliptic motion, xxx, 248. ----, integration of one kind of differential equations of the second order, xlii, 273. ----, on the principles of virtual velocities, xlii, 66; xliii, 77.^f ----, on the first principles of the differential calculus, together with a new investigation of Taylor's theorem, xlv, 269. ----, new way of obtaining exponential and logarithmic theorems, xlviii, 36.

Strontia distinguished from baryta by means of chromate of potash, _J. L. Smith_, xxxvi, 183. ----, on the red color of the flame from, _F. H. Baddely_, xviii, 261. ----, test for, iv, 372. ----, action of, on animals, xiii, 178. ----, sulphate of, (celestine) Lake Erie, ii, 241; iii, 363; iv, 279, 324. ----, ----, analysis of, _G. T. Bowen_, iv, 324. ----, ----, ----, _Stromeyer_, vii, 369. ----, ----, of Presq'ile, Ohio, vii, 46. ----, ----, Detroit river, v, 40. ----, ----, in Canada, viii, 72. ----, ----, ----, _F. H. Baddely_, xviii, 104. ----, ----, in Sicily, viii, 205.

Strontianite in the United States, _E. Emmons_, xxvii, 182. ----, ----, notices of, xxvii, 363; xxviii, 174. ----, examination of, _C. U. Shepard_, xxvii, 183, 363.^f ----, from Freyberg, and Scotland, vii, 369. ----, analysis by _Stromeyer_, vii, 369. ----, in Sicily, viii, 205.

Strontium, mode of obtaining from a chlorid of, _R. Hare_, xxxvii, 267; xxxviii, 115; xxxix, 362; xl, 296.^f

Structure of rocks, a result of elevation, _W. Hopkins_, xxxi, 365. ---- ----, schistose often a result of crystallization, _J. D. Dana_, xlv, 105.

_Struder, B._, on erratic blocks, xxxvi, 325.

_Stuart, J._, localities of minerals, vi, 249.

_Stuart, M._, exposition of the first chapter of Genesis, review of, xxx, 114.

Stucco for walls, xxiv, 206.

Sturgeon, spoonbill, of the Ohio, notice of, xii, 201.^f

_Sturgeon, W._, miscellaneous notices of remarkable results, in heating and decomposing by galvanism, xxxix, 28.^f ----, annals of electricity by, noticed, xxxii, 213. ----, remarks on galvanic batteries, xxxix, 35.

Sturm's auxiliary functions, on the relation of, to the roots of an algebraic equation, _J. J. Sylvester_, xlii, 163.

Stuttering, cured, v, 382.

Styrole, xlix, 392.

Submarine explosion, ii, 94.

Subsidence of southern part of Sweden, _Nilsson_, xxxiii, 102. ---- of the coast of Greenland, xxx, 379. ---- about Canaan Mountain, N. Y., v, 15. ---- and elevation, modern, xxxiii, 97. ----, areas of, in the Pacific, _J. D. Dana_, xlv, 131.^f ----, evidences of, in Great Britain, xxxiii, 97.

Subsistence in continental Europe, price of, xxxvi, 176.

Substitutions, theory of, as connected with the allotropism of chlorine, xlix, 346.^f

Subterranean forests, xxi, 23. ---- galleries, locust wood used in, xxx, 182.

Succinic acid, xlvii, 196.

Sugar, a means of preserving fish, viii, 391. ----, new acid from, xlvii, 196. ----, barley, crystallization of, xix, 177. ----, from beets, vi, 388. ----, ---- ----, manufacture of, promoted in France, xi, 396. ----, ---- ----, amount manufactured in France, xv, 394. ----, ---- ----, _Girardin_, xxiii, 392. ----, diabetic, analysis of, _T. Thomson_, xxxv, 298. ----, ----, xlix, 200. ----, from maize, xxx, 174; xxxi, 163; xliv, 215. ----, from mangle wurtzel, xxxi, 345. ----, maple, manufacture of, _J. Locke_, ii, 258. ----, in sweet potato, xv, 285. ----, from rags, saw-dust, ii, 347. ----, preparation of, from potato starch, xx, 195; xxi, 284; xl, 216. ----, ----, ---- ----, _S. Guthrie_, xxi, 284. ----, from wood sawings, &c., xl, 216. ---- cane in Colombia, at great heights on the Andes, xxxvii, 16.

Sugar Loaf Mountain, Mass., scenery of, vii, 9.

_Sullivan, J. L._, notice of the revolving steam engine, i, 157^f; ii, 106^f; v, 144. ----, new means of producing heat and light, i, 91.^f ----, means of producing safety in steamboats, xx, 1. ----, description of a steamboat, xx, 14. ----, improvement in steam boilers, xx, 10.

_Sullivant, W. S._, description of three undescribed plants from Ohio, xlii, 49.

Sulphacetic acid, _Melsens_, xlviii, 193.

Sulphates, new series of double, xlviii, 189, 190. ----, decomposed by organic matters, xviii, 147.

Sulphur, atomic weight of, xlviii, 402; xlix, 203. ----, properties of, xv, 189. ----, experiments on the cooling of, xvi, 216. ----, density of the vapor, xxiii, 383; xxxv, 298. ---- in assafetida, xv, 185. ---- in granite, vii, 56. ---- in volcanoes, origin of, _C. Gemellaro_, xxviii, 293. ---- in Connecticut, vii, 56; viii, 259; x, 12. ---- in Massachusetts, i, 114; viii, 53. ---- in New York, iv, 250. ---- in Pennsylvania, i, 237. ---- in Sicily, viii, 210. ----, use of, in rheumatism, ix, 169. ----, effects of excessive use of, viii, 394. ----, piercing of hot iron with, viii, 182. ----, carburet of, decomposed by weak electric action, xviii, 153. ----, two chlorides of, xxiii, 382. ----, bichloride of, _F. Chevet_, xlii, 71. ----, hydruret of, _L. J. Thenard_, xxii, 351. ---- acid, new, xlvii, 191. ---- spring, see _Spring_.

Sulphurets of the metal, new method of precipitating, xlvii, 193.

Sulphuretted hydrogen gas in the state of New York, xv, 235. ---- ----, condensation of, to a liquid, _M. Faraday_, vii, 354. ---- ----, solidified, _M. Faraday_, xlix, 377. ---- ----, injurious effects of, xviii, 160.

Sulphuric acid, anhydrous, new mode of forming, xii, 200. ---- ----, ----, Mosander's mode of preparing, xxviii, 360. ---- ----, on a new process for, practiced in Germany, _T. G. Clemson_, xx, 347.^f ---- ----, new process for, _Provostaye_, xl, 214. ---- ----, action of, on alcohol, xvi, 267. ---- ----, ----, on oil of sassafras, _R. Hare_, xxxi, 285. ---- ----, crystallization of, vi, 186. ---- ----, crystallized hydrates of, xx, 384. ---- ----, decomposed and not evaporated, on an incandescent metal, xxii, 365. ---- ----, manufacture of, at Glasgow, x, 360; xli, 48. ---- ----, tension of, xlvii, 191. ---- ---- and sulphate of iron, remarks on, xii, 387. ---- ----, action of, on hydrocyanic acid, xviii, 146. ---- ----, ----, with oil of hemlock, xxxvii, 246. ---- ---- and arsenious acids, a new compound of, xli, 47. ----, ----, produced by the Aix waters, xix, 176. ----, ----, native, xv, 238. ----, ----, in the Rio Vinagro, x, 191.

Sulphurous acid gas, a mode of obtaining, xxviii, 360. ---- ---- decomposed by iodine in alcohol, xi, 392. ---- ----, reaction of the essential oils with, xxxi, 281. ---- ----, a mode of liquefying, ix, 195. ---- ----, liquid, vii, 353; xvii, 166; xxxv, 374. ---- ----, solid, xlix, 376. ---- ether, xxxi, 275.

Sumach, bimalate of lime in, _W. B. Rogers_, xxvii, 294.

Summer, Indian, xii, 120; xxvii, 140. ----, ----, on the cause of the peculiar aspect of the air in, xviii, 66. ----, ----, _L. Foot_ on, xxx, 8.

Sun, a blue, seen at Bermuda, xl, 323. ----, singular appearance of, xxi, 198. ----, a supposed change by the rays of, in an elementary substance, _J. W. Draper_, xlvi, 390. ----, first observation of the spots on, xxiv, 204. ----, connection of spots on, with the temperature, xii, 199. ----, ----, November, 1837, _D. Olmsted_, xxxiii, 393.^f ----, heat of spots on, _J. Henry_, xlix, 405.

Sunderland cave, vii, 19.

Sunsets, autumnal, influence of the great lakes on, _W. Gaylord_, xxxiii, 335.^f ----, ----, in the West, _C. Dewey_, xxxviii, 151; xlii, 200.

Surgical operation, extraordinary, iii, 372.

Survey of the coast of the United States, by F. R. Hassler, plans and methods in, xvi, 225. ---- ---- ibid, under A. D. Bache, xlix, 229. ----, land, in the United States, mode of conducting, _E. F. Johnson_, xix, 131. ----, geological, see _Geological_. ----, canàl, in New York, xxiv, 19.^f

Surveying, an improvement suggested by _E. Wright_, xxii, 74.^f ----, field, improvement in, xxiii, 37.^f ---- instruments, on their improvement, _L. Lyon_, xiv, 268.^f

Surveyor's compass, improvements in, _T. Kendall_, xix, 337.^f

Sus, species of, see _Zoology_.

_Sussex, Duke of_, notice of N. Bowditch by, xxxvi, 214.

Sussex County, England, number of fossils of, xxiii, 171.

Sussex County, N. J., minerals of, _S. Fowler_, xxi, 319. ---- ----, mineralogy and geology of, _C. U. Shepard_, xxi, 321.^f

_Swaim, J._, electro-meteorological observations, xxxii, 304.^f

_Swainson, W._, Zoological Miscellany of, noticed, iii, 392. ----, Naturalist's Guide of, noticed, viii, 183. ----, new Zoological illustrations, xvi, 386. ----, Exchanges in Entomology, xxvii, 386. ----, on the monocardian animals, notice of, xxxix, 389.