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Symbolik der römisch-katholischen Kirche. Erste Abtheilung. Die Idee und die Principien des römischen Katholicismus. Greisswald and Leipzig, 1854. C. A. Koch's Verlags Buchhandlung, T. Kunike. INDEX TO VOLUME XVII. A. Benzoic acid, alcohol of, 4298. Academy of Sciences, Paris, prizes awarded Benzoyl, nitruret of, formed from hippuric elections to, 414. election of a perpetual secretary, 262 Acid, derivatives of nitrotartaric, 403. ferrocyanhydric, preparation of, 125. on the primitive diversity and number of Aluminum, preparation and properties of, preparation of by electric deposition, 427 Ammonia, in rain water, 265. Anesthesis, local, 468. Analysis method of volumetric, 125. determination of manganese, 126. Annals of Science, noticed, 296. Annual of Scientific Discovery, 454, acid, 429. Berthelot's process with glycerime, 267. Blake, W. P., on an ancient lake in Colorado Desert, 435. on quicksilver mine of California, 438. Brewster, D, on producing crystalline struc- Bromine, separation of from iodine, 119. Bunsen, on chemical affinity, 122. reviews and records in Anatomy and on muscular tissue, 89. Translation by, of v. Siebold and Stan- on Florida, 407. Butter, constitution of, 124. C. Aphides, on viviparous, W. I. Burnett, 62, Cabinet of minerals for sale, 292. 261 minerals, of furnaces, 128. California, ancient lake in Colorado Desert, age of tree of, 440. on quicksilver mine of, 438. Cereus giganteus, Engelmann, 231. Chalk, depth of ocean during formation of, 131. Atomic weights of the elements, relations of Chemical reactions under high pressure, 267. J. P. Cooke, 337. Auroras seen in Canada in 1853, 298. seen in Vermont in 1853, 446. B. Bailey, J. W., Microscopic examination of Barnard, F. A. P., on heated air as a motive Barnett on Storms, noticed, 454. Chemical affinity, 122. Chemistry, historical notices in biography of Chromate of Potash, manufacture of, 269. V. of 1853, 444. Cooke, JP, relations and classification of Copper, ductility of, affected by bismuth, 419. Bartlett's Elements of Analytical Mechanics,rawfishes, on habits of certain, 133. Balloons, ascensional force of, in water, 118. Benait on the Sliding Scale, noticed, 420. Crystals of sulphate of iodo-quinine, prepa- trimorphism of Calcite, Dreelite and Su Datholite, crystals of, and homoeomorph- isodimorphism of Calcite and Tourma observations on the formulas and rela- on Prosopite, 452. DeCandolle's Prodromus, noticed, 133. on crystalline limestones and pyrome- on the action of Alkalies on rocks, 450. Diamond, koh-i-noor, 136. on cutting, 133. Diatomaces in California and Oregon, 179. Dove's Farbenlehre, etc., noticed, 272. Geological periods, diversity and number of survey of Tennessee, J. M. Safford, in Gilding of Silk, 418. Globuliferous rocks, Delesse on, 168. Gold, on making vessels of, by aid of phos- Gold-fields of Victoria or Port Philip, 278. age of tree of California, 440. review of introductory essay of Hooker's Helmholtz, on rate of transmission of impres- Hildreth, S. P., Meteorological Journal, for Hippuric acid, nitruret of benzoyl formed Hitchcock, E., Outline of the Geology of the Homoeomorphism of oxyd of Zinc and Co- of some Mineral Species, J. D. Dana, Hooker's Flora of New Zealand, introducto- Hunt, T. S, theoretical relations of Water on composition of recent and fossil Lin- on Algerite, 351. I. Infusoria in California and Oregon, J. W. Isomorphism, see Homœomorphism. |