Lacuita on earthquakes of Italy, 210.
Lakes, disappearance of ice on, 359.
Larves of flies not poisoned by arsenic, 166.
Lava consolidates on steep slopes, 221.
Le Conte, Jos., correlation and conservation of
force in physical, chemical and vital phe-
nomena, 305.

Lecture, Huxley's, on phenomena of gemma-
tion, 206.

Lesley, J. P., his iron manufacturer's guide,
noticed, 156.

Lesquereur, L., on the coal formations of N.
America, 21.

on fossil plants from Vancouver Island,
&c., 85.

LeVerrier, purturbations of Uranus, 445.
Lichen's of N. America, Tuckerman, 200.
Liebig on scientific and practical instruction,

298.

Lieber, O. M., Report on Geol. S. C., 148.

on changes in coast of S. Car., 354.
Lime and magnesian salts, reaction of, 170,
365.

Lithium, atomic weight of, 349.

Logan, Sir W. E., Geol. survey of Canada
by, noticed, 148.

Loomis, E., aurora of August, 1859, 386.
Lyell, Sir Ch., on Prof. C. Piazzi Smith's
news of the origin of Teneriffe, 288.

on consolidation of lava on steep slopes,
221.
Lütken, Dr. Ch. F., on Ophiurans, 55.
Lyman, C. S., aurora of August, 1859, 391.

biographical sketch of D. Olmsted, 109.
Lyman, T., abstract of Ophiurans, 55.
Lyon, Sidney, and S. A. Casseday, descrip-
tion of nine new crinoids, 233.

M.

Magnesia, salts of, and magnesian rocks, how
formed, T. S. Hunt, 170 and 365.
Magnetism, its relations to torsion, 432.
Mahistre, mechanics, noticed, 432.

Mahla, F., on gallic and gallhumic acids, 383.
Mullet, J. W., atomic weight of lithium, 349.
on Brewsterite, 48.

on the nitride of zirconium, 346.
Mammals of N. America, Baird's, 158.
Manganese, equivalent of, 437.

Marcou, J., his Jurassic in N. Mexico shown
to be Cretaceous, 298.

his strictures on N. American geologists,
noticed, 153.

Murchison's notice of his Dyas and
Trias, 256.

Marignac, on isomorphism of stannic, silicic
and zirconic acids, 437.

Martius, von, notice of Brown, 290.

Massey's Indicator, 4.

Matteucci, Cours d'Electrophysiologie, 432.
Mauna Lon, eruptions of. 66, 284,
Mayr, F., on Wolfram-steel, 277.

McClintock, Capt., his announcement of the
fate of Franklin, 423.
Meteor, shooting, 270,

of August 11, 300.

Bismuth, native, in Bolivia, Genth, 247.
Blende, 132.

Boltonite, G. J. Brush, 132.
Bornite, see Tetradymite.

Brewsterite, J. W. Mallet, 48.
Brewstoline, 132.

Brochantite, 132.
Calamine, 132.

Calciferrite, J. R. Blum, 133.
Calcite, 133.

Calcopyrite on Lake Superior, 11.
Calderite, see Garnet.
Cassiterite, 133.

Castelnaudite, see Xenotime.
Chaly bite on Lake Superior, 10.
Chrysocolla on Lake Superior, 11.
Cimolite, 133.

Cobalt, black, see Asbolan.
Cobalt-scurodite, 142.
Conarite, Breithaupt, 133.
Copper on Lake Superior, 11.
Copperasine, Shepard, 133.
Crocoisite, 134.

Datholite on Lake Superior, 12.
Deweylite, 134.

Diallogie, T. S. Hunt, 134.

Dolomites, J. W. Mallet, T. S. Hunt, J.
D. Whitney, 134.

Ducktownite, G. J. Brush, 129.
Dufrenoysite, 134.

Ehlite, 140.

before Geographical Society, 303. discoveries of Burton and Speke, 412.

on the Palliser expedition 341.

notice of Marcou's Dyas and Trias, 256.

Photography by Carbon, 429.

Planet, supposed new, between Sun and Mercury, 445.

Poey, A., on Aurora of Aug. 1859, 403. Pöpplein, J. P., analysis of Albite by, 249. Prestwitch on bone cave, 287.

Prizes of French Academy, 119–121.

on a shooting meteor, 270. Shooting stars of August, 1859, E. C. Herrick, 446.

Silliman, B., Jr., meteor of Aug. 11, 300.
Simple bodies, discussion on, 121.
Smith, J. L., account of meteoric stones
fallen in Indiana, March 28, 1859, 409.
Snell, E. S., vibrations in Holyoke fall, 228.
Soils, absorptive properties of, 71; economy

of ammonia in, 76; the function of, 84. Sounding apparatus, new, 1.

South Carolina, changes in coast of, 352.
Spencer, C. A., his improved microscopes, 39.
Steel, containing tungsten, 277.
Stimpson, W., Zoological bibliography,
N. A. Crustacea, 159.

445.

Stoddard, O. N., Diluvial striæ, 227.
Storer, F. H., on larves of flies resisting ar-
senic, 166.

Strychnia, chemical reactions of, 216.
Sturm, Cours d'Analyse, noticed, 432.
Submarine telegraph, importance of sound-
ings for, 51.

T.

Torsion and magnetism, relations of, 432. Torrey, J., Botany of Mexican Boundary, 291.

Totten, Gen. J. G., sudden disappearance of ice on lakes, 359.

Trask, J. B., aurora of Aug. 1859, 406.

earthquakes of 1858 in California, 446.

on deep sea sounding in reference to an Atlantic telegraph, 51.

Tuckerman, Prof. E., enumeration of North American lichens, 200.

Tuttle of Cambridge, obtains the comet prize, 120.

Twining, A. C., aurora of 1859, 394. shooting stars of Aug. 1859, 446.

V.

Valeral compounds with acids, 145.
Vapors, density of, at high temperatures, 435.
Vibrations in Holyoke waterfall, Snell, 228.
Vilmorin on Alizarin, 277.
Volcanoes, conical form of, 221.
eruption of Mount Hood, 448.
M. Loa, 66.
W.

Wagner's visit to the Cordilleras, 93.
Warren's memoir to accompany a map of
the W. Territory of U. S., 418.
Water as the medium by which the ingredi-
ents of a soil enter plants, 79.
Waterfall of Holyoke, vibrations in, 228.
Wells, D. A., on meteor of Aug. 11, 300.
Whitney, J. D., new mineral localities, 8.
Wolfram steel, 277.

Woody fibre transformed to sugar, 126. Wormley, T. G., chemical reactions of strychnia, 216.

Wurtz, A., on oxyd of ethylene, 144.
Wylie, T. A., on Elephas primogenius in
White River, 283.

Z.

Zirconium, nitride of, J. W. Mallet, 346.
ZOOLOGY--

Amphipoda Skandinaviens, 445.
in Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 159.
in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 159.
Bruzelius, R., on Amphipoda, 445.
Clark and Lütken on 'Ophiurians, 55.

origin of Vibrio, 107.

equivocal generation', 154.

Gill's synopsis of freshwater fishes of Trinidad, 159.

Proceed. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Copenhagen, 445.

of Oregon and California, Newberry, 152. of North America, Baird, 158. Ophiurians, a tribe of star fishes, 55. growth of, 59.

Ollo Torell, Spittzbergens molluskfauna, noticed, 444.

Stimpson, N. American Crustacea, 159.
Vibrio, origin of, H. J. Clark, 107.