SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA GALLERY OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE, MANCHESTER; FORMERLY LECTURER ON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AT THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MILITARY ACADEMY, ADDISCOMBE, ETC. ETC.; ASSISTED BY GENTLEMEN EMINENT IN THESE DEPARTMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY. VOL. X. LONDON: PATERNOSTER ROW. Sold by J. Lee, Bookseller and Stationer, 440, West Strand, (near the Lowther Arcade); Mr. Souter, Bookseller, &c., 131, Fleet- MDCCCXLII. INDEX TO VOLUME IX. PAGE. Acid Ferric, Production of by Voltaic Electricity .......... 143 Air, the Resistance of............ Animal Organs, the action of Metals on... Appalachian Chain of Mountains... B. Baily, Francis, Esq., on the Reduction of 47,000 Stars...... 152 Balman, W. H., Esq., on a New Process for Obtaining Oxy- gen Gas ....................... ........... 345 Bateman, J. Frederick, Esq., C.E., on Self-Acting Weirs.... 108 Battery Discharge, Induction from ..................... .. 28 - M. Edmund, on Constant Voltaic Batteries...... 534 Bessel, Professor, on the Astronomical Clock .............. 214 Blood and Bones of Domestic Animals, the Composition of .. 200 Blyth, Mr. W., on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid...... 79 Bockedon, Mr., on India Rubber Bottle Stoppers .......... 458 Booth and Boyle, Messrs., on the Extraction and De-coloura- Brewster, Sir David, on Neutral Points of Polarization of the Atmosphere ........................ ........ 126 on Luminous Lines and Bands in Flame 204 on Crystalline Reflection ............ 458 on Illuminated Spaces .............. 462 - on the Dichroism of Palladio-Chlorides 222 PAGE ........ 132 on the compounds of Iron and Carbon .... 210 C. 210 129 468 Calomel, Preparation of ......... ........... 146 465 465 256 214 209 210 133 ........ 466 ............ 534 538 540 326 458 .... 149 322 D. Daguerreotype by Galvanic Light ...................... 354 - a New Theory of............. ............ 53 ....... 197 ...... 491 PAGE. E. - Electric Storms, &c. ......... ........... 57 as President of the British Association, at Manchester. 115 - Improvements in the .................. 322 .41 91 173 24 417 440 ..... 334 ......... 49 • 496 518 ....... 532 ........ 181 F. - on the Prevention of Smoke .... 133 131 ......... 132 109 - on Thunder Gusts .................. 484 G. 204 ......... 139 |