Chapter D (4)

_Herrick, E. C._, Argulus catostomi, description of, xxxi, 297.^f ----, Aurora Borealis, in summer, with abstract of Huxham's auroral register, xxxiii, 297. ----, ---- ----, February, 1837, xxxii, 396. ----, ---- ----, July, 1837, xxxiii, 144. ----, ---- ----, ibid, needle agitated during, xxxiii, 146. ----, ---- ----, Nov. 14, 1837, influence of, on the magnetic needle, xxxiv, 270. ----, ---- ----, of Sept. 1839, xxxviii, 260. ----, ---- ----, April, 1842, xliii, 213. ----, ---- ----, August, 1844, New Haven, xlviii, 319. ----, ---- ----, belt of May, 1840, xxxix, 194, 383. ----, great comet of 1843, xliv, 412; xlv, 191, 229. ----, elm tree moth, parasite of the eggs of, xxxviii, 385; xl, 211. ----, Hessian fly and its parasites, xli, 153. ----, meteorite of Missouri, xxxvii, 385. ----, meteor of Dec. 14, 1837, xxxvii, 130. ----, Weston meteorite, Dec. 1807, xxxvii, 132. ----, shooting stars, facts showing the probable annual occurrence in August, xxxiii, 177, 354, 401. ----, ---- ----, probable periods of showers, in October, June, January, February, July, September, xxxv, 366. ----, ---- ----, April and November showers, cycle of, xl, 365. ----, ---- ----, August showers, characteristics of, xxxiii, 359. ----, ---- ----, nature, motions, numbers of, xxxiii, 360. ----, ---- ----, theory of, xxxiii, 363; xxxv, 367. ----, ---- ----, contributions towards a history of the showers, of former times, xl, 349; (errata) xlviii, 319. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1095, 1122 and 1803, xxxvi, 358, 361. ----, ---- ----, of June, various instances of showers in former times, xlii, 201. ----, ---- ----, of January, 1825, 1838 and 1839, xxxix, 334. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1837, xxxiii, 176; xxxiv, 180. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1838, xxxiv, 398. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1838, xxxv, 167. ----, ---- ----, of December, 1838, xxxv, 361; xxxvi, 355; xlii, 398. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1839, xxxvi, 361. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1839, xxxvii, 325. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1840, xxxix, 328; xl, 201. ----, ---- ----, of October and December, 1840, xl, 203. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1841, xlii, 397. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1841, xli, 399; xlii, 202. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1842, xliii, 212. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1842, xliii, 377; xliv, 208. ----, ---- ----, of November, 1842, xliv, 209. ----, ---- ----, of December, 1842, xliv, 210. ----, ---- ----, of April, 1843, xlv, 230. ----, ---- ----, of August, 1844, xlviii, 316.

Herring, the mode of curing of, when discovered, xx, 183.

_Herschel, J. F. W._, astronomical observations at the Cape of Good Hope, xxxv, 283. ----, remarkable phenomena of Halley's comet, xxxv, 285. ----, photographic process by which dormant pictures are made that may be developed by the breath, xlvi, 393. ----, on meteoric iron from South Africa, xxxvi, 213.

Hessian fly, some account of, _J. E. Muse_, xxii, 71. ----, observations on, _M. H. Morris_, xl, 381. ----, account of, _E. C. Herrick_, xli, 153.

Heterosite, analysis of, xix, 371.

Heulandite of Paterson and Bound Brook, N.J., _L. C. Beck_, xliv, 59.^f ----, locality in New Jersey, xliv, 59. ----, ---- in Nova Scotia, xxx, 345, 349. ----, Beaumontite and Lincolnite identical with, _F. Alger_, xlvi, 233.^f

_Heuvel, J. C. vanden_, on the honey bees of America, iii, 79.

_Hewitson, W._, notice of a work on Oology, by, xxxvii, 166.

_Hibbert, S._, on the fresh water limestone of Burdie House,
near Edinburgh, xxviii, 365.

Hieroglyphical investigations, _T. Young_, xxii, 245.

Highlands of New York and New Jersey, geology and mineralogy of, v. 26.

_Hildreth, S. P._, on the Cicada Septemdecem, or seventeen year locust, xviii, 47.^f ----, meteorological register and calendar, with various memoranda, for 1828, at Marietta, Ohio, xvi, 44. ----, ibid, for 1829, xviii, 368. ----, ibid, for 1830, xx, 126. ----, ibid, for 1831, xxii, 109. ----, ibid, for 1832, xxiv, 132. ----, ibid, for 1833, xxvi, 84. ----, ibid, for 1834, xxviii, 160. ----, ibid, for 1835, xxx, 56. ----, ibid, for 1836, xxxii, 95. ----, ibid, for 1837, xxxiv, 132. ----, ibid, for 1838, xxxvi, 78. ----, ibid, for 1839, xxxviii, 273. ----, ibid, for 1840, xl, 345. ----, ibid, for 1841, xlii, 344. ----, ibid, for 1842, xliv, 347. ----, ibid, for 1843, xlvi, 277. ----, ibid, for 1844, xlviii, 287. ----, Ohio, notes on, x, 152, 319; xi, 231. ----, ----, ten days in, xxv, 217. ----, ----, miscellaneous observations, on a tour to the falls of the Cuyahoga, in 1835, xxxi, 1.^f ----, ----, miscellaneous notices of rocks and minerals, xvi, 154. ----, ----, flight of pigeons, xxiv, 134. ----, ----, climate and productions of Washington Co., xii, 206. ----, ----, disease among shell fish, xxxii, 97. ----, ----, geology of parts of, x, 1. ----, ----, coal of, xiii, 38. ----, ----, fossil trees near Gallipolis, xii, 205. ----, ---- valley, on the coal deposits and accompanying organic remains of, xxix, 1.^f ----, ---- ----, saliferous rock formation, xxiv, 46. ----, ----, shells of some rivers, xiv, 276.^f ----, ----, report on, noticed, xxxii, 190; xxxiv, 196, 350. ----, Pennsylvania, bituminous coal of, xxix, 77. ----, Tennessee, coal measures of, xxix, 141. ----, the West, lias of, xxx, 395.

Himalaya Mountains, height of, v, 384; ix, 384. ----, quadruped fossil remains, xxxiii, 103, 211.

_Hitchcock, E._, Botrychium simplex, a new species of fern, vi, 103.^f ----, coal in Massachusetts, xxii, 41; xxxvi, 377. ----, drift, in the U. States, xli, 248; xlv, 331. ----, ----, influence of ice in, xlv, 324. ----, ----, on the glacier theory, xliii, 396. ----, ----, singular case of, in Berkshire Co., Mass., xlvii, 132; xlix, 258.^f ----, ----, copper in, Massachusetts, xlv, 331. ----, Fasciculite, vi, 226.^f ----, Flinders' large birds' nests in New Holland, xlvii, 217; xlviii, 61. ----, frost, disruption of the ground by, i, 286.^f ----, fossil fish, in the Connecticut valley, iii, 222, 365; vi, 76.^f ----, fossil vertebral remains in the Connecticut valley sandstone, xxix, 330. ----, ---- footprints, description of, (ornithichnology) xxix, 307.^f ----, ---- ---- in Connecticut, xxxi, 174. ----, ---- ---- of Connecticut valley, Report of Committee on, xli, 165. ----, ---- ----, general review of, xxxii, 174; xlvii, 113, 292.^f ----, ---- ----, miscellaneous notices of, xlviii, 61. ----, ---- ----, reply to _J. Deane_ on the discovery of, xlvii, 390. ----, geology and mineralogy of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, i, 105.^f ----, ----, of the regions about the Connecticut, with a map, vi, 1^f, 201^f; vii, 1.^f ----, ---- of Massachusetts, report on, with a map, xxii, 1. ----, ---- ----, Report noticed, xxiii, 389; xxvi, 213; xxxvi, 363; xli, 384. ----, ---- ----, economical review of, xxxvi, 363. ----, ---- of Connecticut valley sandstone, xxix, 329. ----, ---- ----, trap tufa or volcanic grit, xlvii, 103. ----, ---- U. States, general review of, xli, 239. ----, ----, historical notice of State surveys, xli, 235. ----, Geological Association, address before, xli, 232. ----, Gyropodium coccineum, physiology of, ix, 56.^f ----, Lincolnite, xlvii, 416; xlviii, 64. ----, longitude, on _F. Baily's_ method of determining, ix, 107. ----, hammer, new mineralogical, vii, 175.^f ----, meteors of Nov. 13, 1833, xxv, 354--their connection with the Aurora Borealis, 357. ----, ----, on a supposed gelatinous, of Amherst, xxv, 362. ----, tin ore, at Goshen, Mass., xvi, 188. ----, topaz at Goshen, ix, 180. ----, wines from Palestine, analysis of, xlvi, 249. ----, yttrocerite in Massachusetts, xlv, 331.

_Hodge, J. T._, on the secondary and tertiary formations of the Southern Atlantic, xli, 332. ----, on the Wisconsin and Missouri lead region, xliii, 35.^f

_Hodgkinson, E._, on the strength of stones and other materials,
xliv, 168.

_Hoffman, F._, obituary notice of, xxxiii, 76.

Hog, curious instinct of, iv, 309.

Holcomb's manufacture of telescopes, xxiii, 403.

Holmesite, _T. Thomson_, xxxi, 172.

Holyoke, Mt., scenery of, vii, 5. ----, geological structure of, vi, 53.

Homer's Iliad, notice of a copy of, of the fourth century, ii, 343.

Hones, stone for, at Lake Memphremagog, v, 406. ----, ----, in Massachusetts, xxii, 34.

Hone-slate of N. Carolina, xiv, 238.

_Hooker, W. J._, on the Botany of America, ix, 263.

Hop, chemical examination of, _A. W. Ives_, ii, 302.

Hops, analysis of, vi, 393. ----, lupuline from, xii, 388.

_Hopkins, M._, on mystery, xiii, 217.

_Hopkins_, on the geological phenomena of elevation, xxxi, 365. ----, views on dislocations and fractures of the earth's surface, xxxiii, 83.

Horns, manufactured articles from, xx, 394.

Hornblende, localities of, in Connecticut, x, 14. ----, ----, in Massachusetts, vi, 226. ----, ----, in New Hampshire, vi, 245; xviii, 129. ----, ----, in New Jersey, v, 246; ix, 245. ----, ----, in New York, ix, 40, 41, 251; xix, 226; xxi, 324.^f ----, ----, in Pennsylvania, xiv, 4, 17. ----, ----, in R. Island, iv, 285. ---- rocks, of western Massachusetts, viii, 9. ---- slate, of the Connecticut valley, vi, 20.

Horse, anecdote of, xlvi, 243. ----, a Filaria in the eye of, xxxix, 278.^f ----, fed with bread in Silesia, xi, 397. ----, fossil bones of, in Louisiana, _W. M. Carpenter_, xxxiv, 201.^f ----, power of, xxi, 167.

Horse latitudes, xxxiii, 64.

Horticultural experiments, _J. T. Plummer_, xl, 197.

Horticulture, propagation of fruit trees and vines, xxvii, 288.

Hospital of Mt. St. Bernard, v, 393.

Hospitals in France, v, 191. ----, foundling, in Europe, xvii, 393.

Hot blast, in the manufacture of iron, _T. Clark_, xxxi, 180. ---- ----, saving by, xxviii, 71. ---- springs or baths, see _Springs_.

_Hough, H.G._, inquiries into the principles of liquid attraction,
xvii, 86.^f

_Houghton, D._, geology of Michigan, xxxiv, 190. ----, mining region of Michigan, xli, 183.

Houses, improvements in laying out grounds, arranging and building, &c., _E. Lord_, xxv, 304. ----, double doors and double windows for, xxv, 294. ----, mode of heating, xxv, 295. ----, on securing from fire, _Lord Mahon's_ experiments, xxv, 290, 298; xxvi, 286. ----, ibid, _D. Hartley's_ experiments, xxv, 300. ----, mode of supplying cisterns with water for extinguishing fires, xxv, 301; xxvi, 293.

Houstonia, notice of species of, x, 262, 263.

_Howard, W._, description of a differential thermometer, ii, 327.^f ----, on the stopping of astronomical clocks, viii, 277.

_Howe, S. G._, notices of ancient and modern Greece, xviii, 250.

_Howell, S._, on the shad fisheries of the Delaware, xxxii, 134.

Huaco, an Indian remedy for the hydrophobia, _W. R. Johnson_, xxiv, 279, 388. ----, _L. Feuchtwanger_, xxii, 182.

_Hubbard, O. P._, chemical examination of the bituminous coal of Chesterfield Co., Va., xlii, 369. ----, geological and mineralogical notices, xxxii, 230.^f ----, calcareous rocks at Boonville, N. Y., xxxii, 230. ----, ---- ----, ibid, rhomboidal structure in, xxxii, 232.^f ----, boulders at Boonville, xxxii, 233. ----, locality of crystallized calc spar, Boonville, N. Y., xxxii, 234. ----, ---- of green coccolite and tabular spar, at Boonville, N. Y., xiii, 198; xxxii, 234. ----, on the removal of carbonic acid from wells, xxxviii, 206; xlii, 165. ----, spontaneous combustion in wood ashes, xlii, 165. ----, geological observations on an excursion to the White Mts., numerous trap dykes, minerals, granite veins, &c., xxxiv, 105.^f ----, Third Geological Report of New York, notice of, xxxix, 95. ----, Geological Reports of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, noticed by, xl, 126.

_Huber, F._, life and writings of, xxiii, 117.

Hudson river, northern sources of, _W. C. Redfield_, xxxiii, 301.^f ---- ----, fish of, xx, 151. ---- bay, rocks and country in the vicinity of, xvii, 11.

_Hudson's_ series of investigations with the barometer, xxiv, 393.

Hudsonite, L. C. Beck, xlvi, 32.

Human bones, fossil, v, 171. ---- ----, of the præ-historic world, in S. America, xliv, 277. ---- skeleton, fossil, of Guadaloupe, skull of, _J. Moultrie_, xxxii, 361. ---- footprints of the Mississippi valley, in limestone, v, 223^f; xxxiii, 398. ---- ----, ibid, in limestone, _D. D. Owen_, xliii, 14.^f ---- ----, ibid, _W. A. Adams_, xliv, 200. ---- race, stature of, _J. G. St. Hilaire_, xxii, 357. ---- ----, law of increase in stature, _Quetelet_, xxii, 376. ---- ----, varieties of, xiv, 372. ---- ----, singular variety of, in Peru and Bolivia, xxviii, 78.

_Humboldt, A._, expedition to Siberia, xvii, 405. ----, on the invention of the mariner's compass, xl, 242. ----, mean height of the continents above the sea, xlix, 397.

Humboldtilite, xi, 251.^f

Humboldtine, v, 193.

_Hume, Sir Abraham_, notice of, xxxvii, 118.

Hungary, observations on _Beudant's_ geological travels in, vii, 256. ----, tribe of Scotacks in, v, 384.

_Hunt, R._, on the chromatype, xlvi, 396. ----, influence of light on the germination of seeds, xliv, 352. ----, influence of light on the growth of plants, xliv, 352; xlvi, 397. ----, influence of ferro-cyanate of potash on iodide of silver, xlii, 317.

Huraulite, analysis of, xix, 371.

Huronite, xxx, 241.

Huron race of Indians, _S. G. Morton_, xxxviii, 368.^f

Hurricane, see _Wind_.

_Hutton's_ table of products, errors in, xliii, 116.

_Huxham's_ Auroral Register, xxxiii, 297.

Hyalite, in Florida, xxv, 165. ----, at West Point, N. Y., xxxii, 87.

_Hybernation, I. Lea_, ix, 75. ----, _S. Woodruff_, xxiv, 363.

Hydrargillite, _C. Dewey_, iii, 239.

Hydrate of magnesia, from Shetland, vii, 365.

Hydraulic cement in N. York State, xxxvi, 45. ---- limestones of N. York, xxxix, 96; xlvi, 29. ---- ---- in the Appalachian chain, xxxvii, 381. ---- ----, magnesian character of, xxxvii, 381. ---- machine, new, ii, 345. ---- ram, new, iii, 381. ---- volcano, xxii, 358.

Hydriodic acid, preparation of, xvi, 383; xlvii, 192.

Hydroboracite, analysis of, xxviii, 394.

Hydrobromic acid, xlvii, 192.

Hydro-carbo-sulphuric acid, how prepared, vii, 187.

Hydrochloric acid, notice of experiments with reference to, _Macaire_ and _De la Rive_, xi, 393. ---- ----, mode of preparing pure, from muriatic acid of commerce, _R. Hare_, xxxix, 371. ---- ----, fumigation with, at Plattsburgh, in 1819, viii, 200. ---- ----, condensation of, _M. Faraday_, vii, 357.

Hydrocyanic acid, _F. Magendie_ on, ii, 81. ---- ----, memoir on, _B. L. Oliver_, iii, 182. ---- ----, ----, _Orfila_, xviii, 157. ---- ----, effect of muriatic and sulphuric acids on, xviii, 146. ---- ----, apparatus for the evolution of, _R. Hare_, xxix, 244.^f ---- ----, extraordinary production of, _A. A. Hayes_, xviii, 201. ---- ----, preservation of, xvi, 260. ---- ----, cases in which administered, ii, 83; iii, 187. ---- ----, efficacy in asthma, vi, 366. ---- ----, effects on a horse, xii, 385. ---- ----, effects of, on vegetation, x, 190. ---- ----, chlorine, an antidote for, xvii, 174; xxi, 157.

Hydrogen, combustion of, under pressure, xxii, 352. ----, ----, in water, being a new application of Hare's blowpipe, v, 347. ----, mixed with oxygen, effect of breathing, viii, 375. ----, a new carburetted, xxx, 180. ----, gas apparatus, vii, 392. ----, self regulating reservoir for, _R. Hare_, xi, 140.^f ----, peroxyd of, action of, xvii, 34. ----, and chlorine, iii, 341.

Hydromagnesite of Hoboken, _Wachtmeister_, analysis of, xviii, 167.

Hydrometers, opinion on, _R. Hare_, xi, 115.

Hydrophobia, remarks on, ii, 359; iv, 385; v, 177; xvii, 204. ----, singular case of, xvii, 205. ----, account of cases of deaths by, xxiii, 143. ----, cured, x, 385. ----, ----, by means of mercurial ointment, xix, 204. ----, ----, by Huaco, an Indian remedy, _W. R. Johnson_, xxiv, 279.

Hydrosilicite, xv, 388.

Hydrostatic balance, xix, 185. ----, press, xix, 185.

Hydrous anthophyllite of N. York, _T. Thomson_, xix, 359.

Hydroxanthic acid, vii, 376.

Hygrometer, Daniell's, remarks on, _E. Loomis_, xlvii, 19; xlix, 277. ----, portable, _A. A. Hayes_, xvii, 351.^f

Hygrometric Register at Western Reserve College, _E. Loomis_, Sept.-Nov. 1838, xxxvi, 166; --1838-1840, xli, 315; --1841-44 xlix, 271. ---- ----, at Hudson, Ohio, compared with those at Greenwich, _E. Loomis_, xlix, 276. ---- observations, mean of, at Malvern, in Worcestershire, xxxviii, 102. ---- ----, at Matanzas, _A. Mallory_, xxxi, 287. ---- ----, at New Orleans, _Barton_, xxxi, 400. ----, see farther under _Meteorology_.

Hygrometry, a method of experimenting in, x, 387.

Hyperbola, method of describing, _R. G. Hazard_, xxi, 314.^f

Hypersthene of N. York, analysis of, _L. C. Beck_, xlvi, 35. ----, in Massachusetts, iv, 55.

Hyssopus anisatus, iv, 65.