awarded to, for his memoirs on electricity, 22.
Belcher (Capt.), magnetic observa- tions on the west coast of America and the adjacent islands, 288, 465.
, boring register, Bow Island,
South Pacific, 399.
remarks upon the tides at Ta- hiti, 440.
Bell (A.) on rotatory motion, 06.
Bell (Sir C.) on the nervous system, 217, 218.
-, biographical notice of, 402.
Benzoin, resin of, 241 ; action of caus- tic lime on, 242 ; action of caustic potash on, 242 ; action of oxide of lead on, 242.
Berengela resin, 219.
Bibasic salts, 102.
Bicyanide, new equi-atomic compound of, with binoxide of mercury, 135.
Binocular vision, on, 76.
Binoxide of mercury, new equi-atomic compound of bicyanide with, 135.
Biographical notices of deceased Fel- lows, 10, 92, 173, 256, 341, 402.
Birds of Kerguelen's Land, 298.
collected between the Cape of
Good Hope and Van* Diemen's Land, 305.
Blair (D.), hourly meteorological ob- servations taken at Georgetown, British Guiana, 467.
Blake (J.) on the mode of operation of poisons, 155.
on the action of certain inorganic
compounds when introduced into the blood, 284, 285.
Blindness, congenital, on the cure of, 303.
Blood, examination of the, in the dif- ferent forms of fever accompanying inflammation and suppuration, 67.
, experiments on the, in connex- ion with the theory of respiration, 78.
, on the corpuscles of the, 234,
283, 323, 431, 462.
, progressive division of the blood- disc into globules, 234; rapid and incessant changes in the form of altered blood-corpuscles, 234; the chorion formed of cells derived from corpuscles of the blood, 235 ; mus- cular fibre formed of cells derived from corpuscles of the blood, 235 ; state of the blood-corpuscles during vital turgescence of the vessels, 235.
Blood, on the motion of the, 140.
, action of certain inorganic com- pounds when introduced into the 285.
, facts observed in the coagulation
of the, 384.
, on the circulation of the, in the
Myriapoda and the Macrourous Arachnida, 460.
Blood-corpuscles of certain species of the genus Cervus, on, 199.
, observations on, particularly
with reference to ihe opinions of Dr. Barry, 431.
, note on the observations of T.
W. Jones, Esq., on the, 462.
Blood-particles of the Ornitlicrhyn- chus hystrix, on the form of, 232.
Blumenbach (J. F.), biographical no- tice of, 265.
Bone, normal and adventitious, struc- ture of, 198.
Booth (J.) on the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse, 387.
Boring register, Bow Island, South Pacific, 399.
Bowditch (Dr. N.), biographical no- tice of, 95.
Bowerbank (J. S.) on the organic tis- sues in the bony structure of the Corallidffi, 382, 383.
Bowman (W.) on the minute structure and movements of voluntary mus- cles, 244, 301.
on the structure and use of the
Malpighian bodies of the kidney, 374, 375.
, a Royal medal awarded to, 422.
Bowring (J. C.) on a new method of
determining the longitude, 52. Boys (Rev. T.) on the steam-wave, 372. Brain, on the decussation of fibres at
the junction of the medulla spinalis
with the medulla oblongata, 71. Brazil, magnetical observations made
on the coast of, 4. Brewster (Sir David) on the colours of
mixed plates, 33. on a remarkable property of the
diamond, 291. on the phenomena of thin plates
of solid and fluid substances exposed
to polarized light, 302. Bristol, tide observations at, 73, 242. Brnughton(J.D.), notice of the late, 17. Brown (R.), a Royal medal awarded
