Asia, geology of the Deccan, xxxiii, 274. ----, Caucasus range and Persia, geology of, mines, salt, naphtha springs, &c. of, xxxvii, 348. ----, Catacecaumene, xxxiii, 95; xxxviii, 207. ----, shores of Black sea, xxxii, 399. ----, volcanoes of the continent and islands, in a review of _Daubeny_, xiii, 290. Asparagin, xx, 187. Aspartic acid, xvii, 173. Asparagus, aspartic acid from, xvii, 173. Asphaltic mastic, xxxiv, 383. Assafetida, sulphur in, xv, 185. Association, British, for the promotion of science, plan of, xxi, 373. ----, ----, notice of the meeting in 1832, xxiii, 179; 1833, xxv, 411; 1834, xxviii, 55; 1835, xxix, 347; 1836, xxxi, 332; 1837, xxxiii, 265; xxxiv, 1; 1838, xxxv, 275; 1839, xxxviii, 93; 1840, xl, 308; 1841, xli, 391; xlii, 147; 1842, xliii, 367; xliv, 158, 351; 1843, xlvi, 388; xlvii, 182. ----, ----, notice of Prof. _Whewell's_ address at 11th meeting, xli, 391. ----, ----, invitation from, to American men of science, xxxviii, 406. ----, scientific, or a Congress of Savans at Berlin, 1828, xvi, 386. ----, ----, in Germany, in 1830, xx, 175. ---- of American geologists in 1840, xxxix, 189; in 1841, xli, 158; 1842, xliii, 146; 1843, xlv, 135, 310; 1844, xlvii, 94; 1845, xlix, 219. ---- ---- ----, address before, by _E. Hitchcock_, xli, 232. ---- ---- ----, ibid, by _B. Silliman_, xliii, 217. ---- ---- ----, address before, by _H. D. Rogers_, xlvii, 137, 247. ---- ---- ----, constitution and by-laws of, xliii, 149. ---- ---- ----, publication of transactions of, xlv, 220. Asteroid, see _Shooting star_. Astronomy, state of, among the Zabians, _J. W. Draper_, xxviii, 203. ----, on the resistance in space to motion of heavenly bodies, xvii, 389. ----, ibid., _R. W. Haskins_, xxxiii, 1. ----, idea of ether in space, when introduced, xxxiii, 1. ----, theory of _Descartes_, xxxiii, 3. Astronomical clock, Prof. _Bessel_, xliv, 160. ---- ----, on the stopping of, by _W. Howard_, viii, 277. ---- machine, for representing the motions of the earth and moon, _E. C. Leedom_, xlii, 338.^f ---- observatory, to be erected at Abo in Finland, iv, 386. ---- observations on Saturn, Jupiter and his satellites, by Prof. _Struve_, xiii, 172. ---- ---- at the Cape of Good Hope, _Herschel's_, xxxv, 283. ---- ---- and observatory, at Rome, _P. F. de Vico_, xliv, 373. ---- ---- at the observatory of Pulkova, xlvii, 88. Atlantic steam navigation, _J. Smith_, xxxv, 160. ---- coast, gales of, see under _Winds_. Atlas, white race of, xxxii, 400. _Atlee, W. L._, on certain cavities in quartz, xxxv, 139.^f Atmometer, a new, vi, 382.