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Discourse on the Mathematical Sciences
in France (cont.)

Rancourt, Changey, Poncelet, Lebros,
Piobert, Morin, Cérizy, and Lebas,

261

Roues à la Poncelet, 260
Thilorier, M., 265

Discs, fusible, on steam-boilers, 484
Dovor, botanical rambles near, 69, 111
Castle-cliff, plants under, 69, 111
Drugs, costly, substitute for, 412
Drying wind, effect of, 128
Duhamel, M., on the height of waves, 490
Dumont, M., on the geology of Liège, 69
Dupin, Baron, his Discourse on the Mathe-
matical Sciences in France, 257 to 266
Earth, great central heat of the, 411

the, and solar heat, 411

Earthquake, great, in Chilé, in 1835, de-
scribed, 279

Activity continued, 287

Atmospheric changes after, 283
Bays, elevation of their strata, 281
Boca Chica swallowed up, 281
Cattle destroyed, 296
Commencement of 280
Concepcion Bay and Santa Maria

Isle, elevation in, 282

Cordillera, volcanoes of the, 280
Early effects of, 281

Earthquakes, frequent, effect of, 284
American continent, modern origin
of, 284

Central America, geological disturb-
ances in, 284

Commencement of, 285
Cosegüina, volcano of, 280
Thermometer and barometer, height

of, 279

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British Museum, Mummies in, 29, 30
British Museum, Egyptian sar-
cophagi in, 32

Bull, sacred, on an Egyptian Mum-
my-case, 34

Burton, Mr., Egyptian Mummy from
his collection, 32

Cases, error respecting, 31
Cases, paintings on, 31
Coffins, mummies in, 31

Champollion, M., his notices of an
Egyptian tomb, 21

Children, mummies of, rare, 32
Colchester, Lord, Peruvian mum-
mies brought home by, 29

Cotton and flax, microscopic exami-
nation of, 29

Davidson, Mr., on Egyptian mum-
mies, 23, 28, 29, 30

30

Didorus Sículus on Egyptian funerals,

Diodorus Sículus on embalming, 19
Egypt, ancient, lost literature of, 33
Egypt, embalming the dead in, 18,19
Egyptians, ancient, customs of the,
noticed, 17 to 40

Egyptians, ancient, monuments of

the, 33

the, 32

Egyptians, animals embalmed by

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Hair on mummies, 32

Herodotus on Egyptian embalm-
ment, 22

Hieratic writing, Egyptian, 33
Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, specimens
of, 33, 34, 36, 37

25

Horseisi and Kannop, mummies of,

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Egyptian Mummies (cont.)

Mummies of various nations, 32
Mummy-cloth, texture of, 28
Nepté, figure of, on a mummy-
case, 34

Nilometer, supposed representation
of the, 34

34

22

Osiris and Amsati, worship of, 35
Osiris, figure of, on a mummy-case,

Osiris, Mummy of, unrolled, 39
Osiris, various modes of spelling, 38
Papyri, Egyptian, inscriptions on, 33
Papyri, judgments represented on,

Passalacqua, Signor, mummy dis-
covered by, 21, 27

Perry, Dr., mummy brought to
England by, 25

Portrait found upon a mummy, 30
Position of mummies, 32
Rosetta, the stone of, 33
Salt, Mr., Egyptian remains sent to
England by, 25

Sams and Salt, Messrs., their col-
lections of Egyptian antiquities, 40
Sarcophagi, mummies found in, 31
Sarcophagus, Egyptian, description
of one, 35

Thomson, Mr. James, his researches
cn mummy-cloth, 28

Ure, Dr., his researches on mummy-
cloth, 28, 29

Wilkinson, Mr., on Egyptian mum-
mies, 22, 23, 27, 32

Electricity, its agency in the atmosphere,

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Gas from peat, 174

German Association, anniversary of, 73
Naturalists, recent meeting of, 332
Genera, division of, in conchology, 239
and species, advantage of under-
standing, 236

Geological Hebrew, 488

Geology, a popular course of, 1 to 13,
223 to 235, 267 to 278, 437 to 447

Acids, and alkalies, properties of, 442
Agriculture benefited by, 226
Architects and engineers, importance
of geology to, 232

268

Artesian wells, origin of, 229

where successful, 229
Astronomy, nearly a perfect science,

Astronomers and geologists, compa-
rative conclusions of, 3, 5

Astronomy and geology, phenomena
of, 11, 12

Astronomy and the Scriptures, 268
Atomic weight of bodies, 439
Binary compounds, 440

Bodies, elementary and compound,
list of, 437, 438

Bridgewater Treatise, by Dr. Buck-
land, 270, 271, 274

Britain, extinct animals of, 9
Buckland, Dr., on the consistency
of geological discoveries with sacred
history, 271

274

223

Buckland, Dr., on the creation, 270
Buckland, Dr., on the Mosaic deluge,

Burnet, Whiston, and Buffon, 277
Carboniferous limestone in England,

Chain of being, one great, 13
Chemical combination, laws of, 439
Chemical nomenclature, Dr. Turner
on, 440, 441,

442

Chemist and mineralogist, their
respective studies, 444

Coal-measures of England and

Scotland, 224

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Grenelle, bored well at, 409

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Hodgkinson, Mr. E., his experi-
ments, 192, 193, 202

Rennie, Mr., his experiments, 193
Resistances, 192, 193

Rupture, form of, 198

Strength gained, 195, 199

Tables of strength, 197, 198, 201
Tredgold, Mr., on, 197

Griffiths, Mr. T., his remarks on crystal- Iron Steam-boat, magnetic experiments

lization, 299

Grunden Lake, visit to the, 14

Hail, formation of, 131

Hard words, pedantry of, 238

Heat, polarization of, 321
Properties of, 126
Radiation of, 130

Separation of, from gases, 127

Hebrew, geological, 488
Hoar-frost, formation of, 131
Honour due, and granted, 483
Hour-glass, philosophy of the, 346
Human race, singular employment of the,
246

Huttonian theory of rain controverted, 331
Hygiène, or the preservation of health, 408
Iceland, mirage in, 487
Ignorance, blissful, 328
Ignorance in past ages, 125

Infants, still-born, proportion of, 484
Ink, indelible writing, 407

Ink, to prevent becoming mouldy, 74

in, 447 to 451

Iron, stereotype plates of, 73
Ischil, the salt-mountains of, 14

Kickx, M., on the geology of Belgium, 68

Kremlin bell, lifting of the, 406

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Diaries, the, 296

Lady, valuable donation by, to a scientific
institution, 169

Levy, M., on the geology of Belgium, 66
Leybourn, Professor, his Mathematical
Repository, 297

Light, immutable nature of, 326
Light, indefinitely produced, 414
London, temperature of, in 1835, 169
London University, charter of, 479 to 482
Louvain, the ancient University of, 61
Lunar influence on the weather, 174
Lunarium, a rational one described, 53
To construct, 55

Magnetical experiments on board an iron
steam-boat, report of, 447 to 455

Barlow's correcting plate, 447

Signs of Multiplication, Division, &c., 220 | Transactions of the Royal Astronomical

Derivation of, 220, 222

Sign of equality, 221, 222

Sign of infinity, 221, 222
Symbol of division, 221

Symbols of greater and less, 221
Symbol of multiplication, 220
Symbol of a root, 222

Snow, formation of, 131

Solar rays, intensity of the, 490

Somerville, Mrs., on the spectrum, 485

Space, temperature of, 321

Spectrum, chemical rays of the, 485
Spherical figures, on the rough diagrams
representing, 241

State, the, assisted by science, 492
Steam-boilers, prevention of explosion in,
114

Academy of Sciences at Paris, steam
experiments by, 124

Apparatus for experiments, 117
Bursting of cylinders, 121

Deposits in boilers, effect of, 123
Fluids permanently elastic, in an

intensely heated boiler, 121

123

Fusible metal plates for, 119
Klaproth's experiments, 117, 119
Perkins's repulsion experiment, 121
Relieving water from pressure, 117
Safety-valve, loaded and stationary,

Steam, elastic force of, on working
pressures, 123

Steam, pressures and tensions of,
table of, 124

Steam, surcharged and unsaturated,
117, 118

Vaporization, laws of, 120
Water converted into steam,
highly heated metal, 117, 119

Efficiency of fusible discs on, 484

by

Table of the destruction of, 173
Steam from the tea-kettle, philosophy of, 128
Steam-carriages, on common roads, im-
provements in, 73
Steam-engine horse-power, 322
Stereotype-plates of iron, 73
Still-born infants, proportion of, 484
Summer, hail formed in, 131
Surveying-instruments, new, 320
Survey, scientific, by order of the Russian
government, 487

Suspension-bridge, Freiburg, 332
Tachymeter, invention of the, 489
Taxidermy, new solution for, 172
Temperature of the human body, great
variation of, 242

Technical words in the arts, 240
Theodolite, new, for surveying under-
ground, 329

Thermometer indicating mean tempera-
ture, 406

Tide, the, a true barometer, 405
Torpedo, visible sparks from the, 250

Society, vol. ix., concluding part, ana-
lysis of, 397 to 403

"Astronomical observations, 402
Double stars, sixth catalogue of, by
Sir John Herschel, 400

398

Ecliptic, position of the, by Mr. Airy,

Greenwich Observatory, instruments
at, by Mr. Rigaud, 401

Halley's Comet, observations on, by
Capt. W. H. Smythe, 402

Jupiter, on the time of rotation of,
by Mr. Airy, 397

Jupiter's mass, value of, by Mr.
Airy, 398

Kepler's problem by the 'angular
calculus, solutions of, by Mr. W. Wal-
lace, 399

Mural circle, at the Armagh Obser-
vatory, described, by Dr. T. Ř. Robin-
son, 399

Standard scale of the Society, by
Mr. Baily, 399

Tripoli stone, organic origin of, 247
Van Breda and Van Hees, MM., on the
geology of Belgium, 66

Van Swinden, M., his meteorological ob-
servations, 62

Vandermaelen, M. Philippe, his services
to geology, 67

Vapour, aqueous, how condensed in the
atmosphere, 130, 131

or steam of water, when dry and
invisible, 128

and gases, distinction of, 126

of saline solutions and of water, 243
Vaporization, example of, 127
Vegetation, how refreshed, 130
Veratria, on, 245

Vernacular names, preference of, in
science, 239

Virlet, M., on diamond-making, 413
Volcanic eruption of Cosegüina, in the bay
of Fonseca, 284

seen from San Antonio, 285
United States, amount and annual average
of patents in, 77

Government, report to, on the explo-
sion of steam-boilers, 114 to 124

Letters-patent Bill, abstract of, 76,

251.
University of London, charter of, 479 to 482
Warwick Vase, bronze original of the, 169
Water always suspended in air, 129

Habits and properties of, 127
Motion of on heated surfaces, 488
Waves at sea, height of, 490
Weed-sea, Mar de Sargasso, 490
Wells, bored, or Artesian, 174

bored, at Grenelle, 409
Wire a bad nucleus for crystals, 301
Writing Ink, indelible, 407

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