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. [4.] Late the Rivoli collection of Paris. [5.] Especially our ancient compeer, The Journal of the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia. [6.] At this place, erroneously called Faye's comet. [7.] 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.
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| Original text | Replaced with | On the following original line |
| 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. |