Footnotes

1.
Vol. xxv, p. 215. Obituary notice of Col. Gibbs.
2.
Taken from Vol. i, Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, pp. v, vi; also pp. 1 to 8, July, 1818.
3.
The date of the incipient movements.
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Late the Rivoli collection of Paris.
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Especially our ancient compeer, The Journal of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia.
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At this place, erroneously called Faye's comet.
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We have arranged the references under this head according to the States, placing first a few of a general character. The references to mines, will be found under the names of the several metals; those of fossils, under Fossil, the names of the species, and also Zoology; those of tracks of animals under Footprints; of coal, under Coal; of boulders, under Boulders and Drift; of scratches or furrows, under Scratches.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Minor typographic errors within the indexed volume and page numbers concerning the incorrect use of semi-colons, commas and the full stop have been corrected without specific mention. Also sub-headings duplicated at the start of a new page in the index have been omitted. There were minor examples of the index not in alphabetical sequence, these have been left as in the printed edition. The following is a list of other corrections as applied to this e-text, which are marked in this way within the text.

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Virgina Virginia — —— from Virgina _C. U. Shepard_, xvi, 191.
Pennnsylvania Pennsylvania —, in Pennnsylvania, viii, 239; x, 219; xiv, 9, 17.
217 247 — for evolving silicon from fluo-silicic acid, R. Hare, xxiv, 217.f
xlviix xlix — for experiments on inflection and interference of light and caustics, E. S. Snell, xlviix, 24,f 26.f
—, — —, —, reply to C. S. Rafinesque, ii, 134.
Prof. Alexander Prof. Alexander — — —, —, Prof. Alexander, September, 1839, xxxix, 364.
guage gauge —, effect of deflected current of air, on the results with a rain guage, xxxv, 287.
Bigbone Big Bone Bigbone Lick, bones of, xviii, 139.
substanc's substances Boletus igniarius, analogous to animal substanc's A. Eaton, vi, 177.
301, 198 198, 301 —, —, in N. Hampshire, viii, 301, 198.
ferrosilicate ferro-silicate —, of ferrosilicate of manganese, from Rhode Island, C. U. Shepard, xvii, 142.f
N. C, N. C., —, —, or natural walls, of Rowan, N. C, xiv, 242.
R. Hare's R. Hare's —, —, —, reply to R. Hare's strictures on, by W. C. Redfield, xliv, 384.
M. Cochin's M. Cochin's —, —, —, —, M. Cochin's munificence, xvii, 394.
M. Ordinaire's M. Ordinaire's —, M. Ordinaire's method, vii, 199, 383.
Watkins' Watkins' —, —, Watkins' dry, xvii, 162.
De-Witt De Witt Ellipses, mode of drawing, S. De-Witt, xxiv, 369.f
Misssissippi Mississippi Featherstonhaugh, G. W., geological report on part of the country west of the Misssissippi, notice of, xxviii, 379; xxxii, 185.
—, American, in Georgia, —, —, —, —, American, in Georgia, mammals, Brunswick canal, R. Harlan, xliii, 141.f
—, —, —, —, —, —, —, —, —, —, Kenawha and other western valleys, S. P. Hildreth, xxix, 83.
N. Carlina —, —, —, —, N. Carlina, natural walls of Rowan, xiv, 242.
xxvii xxviii —, turnouts in railroads, xxvii, 248.
subgenus sub-genus —, a new subgenus of spiders, xli, 116.f
shell-fish shell fish —, —, disease among shell-fish, xxxii, 97.
hailstorms hail storms —, on hailstorms, xxiii, 35.f
Big-bone Big Bone Kentucky, fossil bones at Big-bone Lick, xviii, 139.
magetic magnetic — separating machine for magetic ores of iron, used at Franconia, xviii, 289.
Snakehill Snake Hill —, Saratoga Co., Lake and its environs with Snakehill, J. H. Steele, ix, 1.f
ferrocyanate ferro-cyanate — preparation made with ferrocyanate of potash, R. Hunt, xlii, 317.
Porter, J. —, Porter, J. Roxbury rocking stone, vii, 59.f
turn-outs turnouts —, turn-outs in, with flexible moveable rails, T. Gorton, xxviii, 248.
occurence occurrence Salisbury, E. E., Dr. Lund on the occurence of fossil human bones of the præhistoric world, xliv, 277.
præhistoric præ-historic Salisbury, E. E., Dr. Lund on the occurence of fossil human bones of the præhistoric world, xliv, 277.
xxxvii, 213. "misplaced after the following line" —, —, in Texas, springs of,
Bigbone Big Bone *—, Bigbone Lick and elsewhere, geological position of, C. Lyell, xlvi, 320.
copperhead copper-head Scytalus cupreus, or copperhead snake, C. S. Rafinesque, i, 84.
cutworm cut-worm — devastator, or cutworm, J. P. Brace, i, 154.
subgenus sub-genus Spermophora, a new subgenus of spiders, N. M. Hentz, xli, 116.f
Fgures Figures 9. Fgures of two Uniones, by D. H. Barnes, 126
connnected connected Apparatus connnected with Prof. Draper's paper on the Allotropism of Chlorine, &c., 352
Eupyrchorite Eupyrchroite —, on the Eupyrchorite and Rensselaerite of Emmons, xl, 77.
Freycinet Freycenet Voyage of discovery, French, by Capt. Freycinet, in the Uranie, notice of, iv, 391.
Yarrel's Yarrell's —, notice of Yarrel's British, xxxvii, 167.
Varrentrap Varrentrapp —, on Varrentrap and Will's mode of determining the nitrogen in organic compounds, xlii, 253f; xlv, 267.
stratigraphical stratiographical —, cardinal points in stratigraphical geology, xxi, 199.
Solfaterra Solfatara Solfaterra, connection of, with Vesuvius, xix, 387.
Rottboellia Rottböllia Rottboellia ciliata, i, 357.
Ribancourt Ribaucourt Ribancourt, on peat, xv, 250.
Rennel Rennell Rennel, J., notice of, xx, 304.
Quimby Quinby Archimedes, on the spiral of, by A. B. Quimby, ix, 316.f
Quimby Quinby Blowing machinery of a furnace, investigations respecting, by A. B. Quimby, xii, 128.
Quimby Quinby Breast wheels, A. B. Quimby, xi, 333.
Potsville Pottsville —, Potsville or Mount Carbon, J. Pierce, xii, 63, 65.
Popocatapetl Popocatepetl —, —, of Mexico, Jorullo, Popocatapetl, &c., xiii, 304.
Plattsburg Plattsburgh — of the United States, extreme cold at Plattsburg, N.Y., (1821) iii, 366; (1826) xi, 195.
Plattsburg Plattsburgh —, —, fumigations with, at Plattsburg in 1819, viii, 200.
phosphureted phosphuretted —, on the formation of phosphureted hydrogen, xii, 294.
Opalousas Opelousas —, notices in Opalousas, Attakapas, &c., xxxv, 344.
Dove's Dové's —, reply to _R. Hare's_ strictures on H. W. Dove's essay on storms, xliv, 384.
paddlewheel paddle-wheel —, propulsion of, by the trapezium paddlewheel and screw, xlii, 336.
hydro-sulphuric hydrosulphuric —, a reagent for hydro-sulphuric acid, _A. du Pasquier_, xl, 123.
foot-marks footmarks —, fossil foot-marks, xliii, 173.
Warrengton Warrington —, green, of commerce, observations on, _R. Warrengton_, xlviii, 188.
Whittelsey Whittlesey Elevation above the ocean of some heights in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, _C. Whittelsey_, xlv, 12.