ring, 163; on condensation of water on the bronchial surface during, 164. Newton (Prof.) on the practicability of establishing "a close time" for the protection of indigenous animals, 197. Nitrate of amyl, on the physiological action of, 156.
of ethyl, on the physiological action of, 155.
Nitrite of amyl, on the physiological ac- tion of, 151.
Odling (Dr. William) on the treatment and utilization of sewage, 166. Oldham (J.) on tidal observations, 203. Organic chemical compounds, Dr. B. W. Richardson on the physiological ac- tion of, 145.
Ox fed on sewage-grown grass, Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold s report on the post- mortem examination of an, 188. Oxides of chlorine, preliminary report on the thermal equivalents of the, 193.
Parkes (W.) on tidal observations, 203. Pengelly (William) on the exploration of Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 1; on the rate of increase of underground temperature, 14.
Penn (John) on steam-boiler explosions,
Phillips (Prof.) on the exploration of
Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 1; on the rate of increase of underground tem- perature, 14; on the rainfall of the British Isles, 98.
Photography, on cutting and preparing sections of Mountain-limestone corals for the purpose of showing their struc- ture by means of, 165. Physiological action of organic chemical compounds, report on the, by Dr. B. W. Richardson, 145.
experimentation, report of the com- mittee appointed to consider the sub- ject of, 144.
Plato, lunar crater, observations of spots on the surface of the, 60; sunset and sunrise on, 94.
Pole (Dr.) on the rainfall of the British Isles, 98.
Rain, fluctuations in the fall of, from A.D. 1726 to A.D. 1869, 102.
Rainfall of the British Isles, report on the, 98.
Ramsay (Prof.) on the rate of increase of underground temperature, 14. Rankine (Prof.) on tidal observations,
Richards (Admiral) on tidal observa- tions, 203.
Rigby (Samuel) on steam-boiler explo- sions, 166.
Robinson (John) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198. Rolleston (Prof. George) on physiolo- gical experimentation, 144; on the foundation of zoological stations in different parts of the world, 192. Roscoe (Prof.) on the publication of ab- stracts of chemical papers, 59.
Sanderson (Dr. J. Burdon) on physio- logical experimentation, 144. Sandford (William A.) on the explora- tion of Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 1. Schofield (Thomas) on steam-boiler ex- plosions, 166.
Sclater (P. L.) on the foundation of zoological stations in different parts of the world, 192. Scotland, report of the committee on earthquakes in, 197.
Sewage, report on the treatment and utilization of, 166.
Siemens (C. W.) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198. Smith (W.) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198.
Spots on the surface of the lunar crater Plato, W. R. Birt on the discussion of observations of, 60.
Steam-boiler explosions, report on the various plans proposed for legislating on the subject of, 166.
Stewart (Prof. Balfour) on the rate of increase of underground temperature,
Sulpho-urea, on the physiological action of, 156.
Sykes (Colonel) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198. Sylvester (Prof.) on the rainfall of the British Isles, 98.
Symons (G. J.) on the rate of increase of underground temperature, 14; on the rainfall of the British Isles, 98.
Tait (Prof.) on the thermal conductivity of metals, 97.
Temperature, underground, report on the increase of, 14. Thermal conductivity of metals, Prof. Tait on, 97.
equivalents of the oxides of chlo- rine, preliminary report on the, 293. Thomson (James) on cutting and pre- paring sections of Mountain-limestone corals, 165.
Thomson (Prof. Sir W.) on the rate of increase of underground temperature, 14; on earthquakes in Scotland, 197; on tidal observations, 203. Tidal observations, report on the ex- tension, improvement, and harmonic analysis of, 203.
Tomlinson (C.) on the rainfall of the British Isles, 98.
Tristram (Rev. H. B.) on the practica- bility of establishing "a close time' for the protection of indigenous ani- mals, 197.
Underground temperature, report on the increase of, 14.
Vivian (Edward) on the exploration of
Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 1. Voelcker (Dr. A.) on the treatment and utilization of sewage, 166.
Waley (Prof.) on a uniformity of plan for the census of the United Kingdom,
Webb (the Rev. T. W.) on lunar objects suspected of change, 60. Webster (Thomas) on steam-boiler ex- plosions, 166.
Weights and measures, report on the best means of providing for a uniformity of, 198.
Whitworth (Sir J., Bart.) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198. Williamson (Prof. A. W.) on the publi- cation of abstracts of chemical papers, 59; on the treatment and utilization of sewage, 166; on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198. Woodward (Henry) on the structure and classification of the fossil crus- tacea, 53.
Yates (James) on a uniformity of weights and measures, 198.
Zoological stations in different parts of the world, report of the com- mittee for promoting the foundation of, 192.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE
[An asterisk (*) signifies that no abstract of the communication is given.]
*Abramof (Major-General) on the prin- | cipality of Karategin, 174. Acoustic phenomena at Jebul Nágús, in the peninsula of Sinai, Capt. H. S. Palmer on an, 188.
*Adantean race of Western Europe, J. W. Jackson on the, 153. *Aerial currents, Prof. Colding on, 53. African, South, grasshopper, R. Trimen on a curious, 134.
Age of the felstones and conglomerates of the Pentland Hills, on the, 101.
Ages of the granitic, plutonic, and vol- canic rocks of the Mourne Mountains and Slieve Croob, co. Down, Prof. Hull and W. A. Traill on the rela- tive, 101.
*Ainsworth (Thomas), facts developed by the working of hæmatite ores in the Ulverstone and Whitehaven dis- tricts, 66.
Air, Prof. Ball on the resistance of the, to the motion of vortex-rings, 26.
C. Tomlinson on the behaviour of
supersaturated saline solutions when exposed to the open, 82. Aldehyde, Dr. Reynolds on the action of, on the two primary ureas, 76. Alexander (Colonel Sir J. E.) on sanitary measures for Scottish villages, 200. *Algeria, Colonel Playfair on the hy- drographical system of the freshwater fish of, 134.
Alloy of silver and copper, W. C. Ro- berts on the molecular arrangement of the, employed for the British silver coinage, 80.
Aluminous iron-ores of co. Antrim, Dr. Holden on the, 74. America, Central, Capt. Brine on the ruined cities of, 175.
-, North-west, Dr. R. Brown on the geographical distribution of the floras of, 128.
Ammonites, Rev. J. F. Blake on the Yorkshire Lias, and the distribution of its, 90; list of, in the author's cabi- net, 91. Anatomy of the stem of the screw-pine, Pandanus utilis, Prof. Thiselton Dyer on the minute, 128.
Andrews (Prof.), Address to the Che- mical Section, 57; on the dichroism of the vapour of iodine, 66; on the action of heat on bromine, 66. Andrewsite, Prof. Maskelyne on, 75. *Animalcules, Dr. J. Dougall on the rela- tive powers of various substances in preventing the generation of, or the development of their germs, with spe- cial reference to the germ-theory of putrefaction, 124.
Anthropology, Prof. Turner's Address to the department of, 144.
of Auguste Comte, J. Kaines on the, 153.
of the Merse, Dr. Beddoe on the, 147. *Antimony-ore, Pattison Muir on an, from New Zealand, 76.
Antrim, co., Dr. J. S. Holden on the aluminous iron-ores of, 74. Ape, C. S. Wake on man and the, 162. *Apjohn (Prof.), some remarks upon the proximate analysis of saccharine mat- ters, 66.
Arachnide, H. Woodward on the disco-
very of a new and very perfect, from the ironstone of Dudley coal-field, 112. Arbroath, Dr. A. Brown on the mean temperature of, 50.
Arctic expedition, Dr. Copeland on the second German, 175.
expedition, Capt. Ward on the American, 190,"
*Arctic fauna, Dr. C. Lütken on some additions to the, 133.
*Artificial coronas, Prof. O. Reynolds on, 34.
horizon, C. George on a self-re- plenishing, 178.
Asterolepis of the Old Red Sandstone, J. Miller on the so-called hyoid plate of the, 106.
*Atlantic, North, Prof. Wyville Thom- son on the paleontological relations of the fauna of the, 134.
Atlas range, Dr. Hooker on the ascent of the, 179.
Atmosphere, Prof. A. Buchanan on the pressure of the, as an auxiliary force in carrying on the circulation of the blood, 137.
Prof. Everett on the general cir- culation and distribution of the, 54. Atmospheric tides, the Rev. Prof. Challis on the mathematical theory of, 51. Azores, Dr. Buys Ballot on the impor- tance of the, as a metereological sta- tion, 49.
Bacteria, Dr. B. Sanderson and Dr. Ferrier on the origin and distribution of, in water, and the circumstances which determine their existence in the tissues and liquids of the living body, 125.
Badakolan, report on, by Pandit Man- phal, 184.
Balfour (Prof.) on the cultivation of Ipecacuanha in the Edinburgh Bo- tanic Garden for transmission to India, 127.
Ball (Prof. R. S.) on a model of a co- noidal cubic surface called the "cy- lindroid," which is presented in the theory of the geometrical freedom of a rigid body, 8; account of experi- ments upon the resistance of air to the motion of vortex-rings, 26.
Ballot (Dr. Buys) on the importance of the Azores as a meteorological station, 49.
Banffshire, George Seton on the ille- gitimacy of, 214.
*Basque race, the Rev. W. Webster on
certain points concerning the origin and relations of the, 162. *Bastian (Dr. Charlton) on some new experiments relating to the origin of life, 122.
*Bath oolite, W. S. Mitchell on the de- nudation of the, 107.
Becker (E. Lydia) on some maxims of political economy as applied to the em-
ployment of women and the educa-
tion of girls, 201. Beddoe (Dr. J.) on the anthropology of the Merse, 147; on degeneration of race in Britain, 148.
Beneden (Prof. Van) sur les Chauves- souris de l'époque du mammouth et de l'époque actuelle, 135. Binary quantic, Prof. Cayley on the num- ber of covariants of a, 9. Biological Section, Dr. Allen Thomson's Address to the, 114.
Birds, Dr. J. Murie on the development of fungi within the thorax of living, 129.
B. T. Lowne on the ciliated con- dition of the inner layer of the blasto- derm in the ova of, and in the om- phalo-mesenteric vessels, 140, 242. Bischof (Gustav) on the examination
of water for sanitary purposes, 67. Blake (Dr. Carter) and Dr. Charnock on the physical, mental, and philolo- gical characteristics of the Wallons, 148.
Blake (Rev. J. F.) on the Yorkshire
lias and the distribution of its ammo- nites, 90.
Blastoderm in the ova of birds, B. T. Lowne on the ciliated condition of the inner layer of the, 140, 242. *Bleaching-powder, H. Deacon on Dea- con's chlorine process as applied to the manufacture of, on the larger scale, 69.
Blood, Prof. A. Buchanan on the pres- sure of the atmosphere as an auxiliary force in carrying on the circulation of the, 137.
Dr. A. Gamgee on the magnetic and diamagnetic properties of the, 138. Bloxam (Thomas) on the influence of clean and unclean surfaces in voltaic action, 47.
Bones and flints found in the caves at Mentone and the adjacent railway- cutting, M. Moggridge on the, 155.
and flints found in a cave at Oban, Prof. Turner on human and animal, 160.
Botly (William) on land-tenure, 202. Boulder-clays, Rev. J. Gunn on the agency of the alternate elevation and subsidence of the land in the forma- tion of, 100.
-drift, Sir R. Griffith on the, and Esker hills of Ireland, 98. Boulders, D. Milne Home on the con- servation of, 107.
Boyd (Thomas J.) on educational hos-
pital reform; the scheme of the Edin- burgh Merchant Company, 202. Braham (Philip) on a set of lenses for the accurate correction of visual de- fect, 37; on the crystallization of me- tals by electricity, 67; on an appa- ratus for working torpedoes, 229. *Brains of insane people, Dr. Tuke and Prof. Rutherford on morbid appear-
ances noticed in the, 144.
Bramwell (J. F.), account of some ex- periments upon a "Carr Disintegra- tor" at work at Messrs. Gibson and Walker's flour-mills, 229.
Brine (Captain L.) on the ruined cities of Central America, 75.
Britain, Dr. Beddoe on degeneration of race in, 148.
J. S. Phené on some indications of the manners and customs of the early inhabitants of, 159. Bromine, Dr. Andrews on the action of heat on, 66.
Brown (Dr. A.) on the mean tempera- ture of Arbroath, 50.
*Brown (Dr. A. B.) on a direct-acting combined steam and hydraulic crane, 231.
Brown (Dr. J.) on the Silurian rocks of the south of Scotland, 93; on the Up- per Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills and Lesmahago, 93.
Brown (Dr. Robert), geological notes on the Noursoak peninsula and Disco Island in North Greenland, 94; on the flora of Greenland, 128; on the geographical distribution of the floras of North-west America, 128; on the interior of Greenland, 175. Brown (Samuel) on the measurement of man and his faculties, 210. Brown (the Rev. Thomas) on speci- mens of fossil wood from the base of the Lower Carboniferous rocks at Langton, Berwickshire, 128. Bryce (Dr.) on certain fossils from the Durine limestone, N.W. Sutherland, 94. Buchan (Alexander) on the rainfall of Scotland, 232.
on the rainfall of the northern hemisphere in July, as contrasted with that of January, with remarks on at- mospheric circulation, 232; on the great heat of August 2nd-4th, 1868, 232.
Buchanan (Prof. A.) on the pressure of the atmosphere as an auxiliary force in carrying on the circulation of the blood, 137.
Buchanan (J. Y.) on the rate of action of caustic soda on a watery solution of chloracetic acid at 100° C., 67. Burmah and China, Major Sladen on trade-routes between, 189. *Burntisland, G. J. Grieve on the posi- tion of organic remains near, 98.
*Cagayan Sulu Island, Capt. Chimmo on, 176.
Camboja, Colonel Yule on Capt. Gar- nier's expedition up the, 190. Canonical form of spherical harmonics, Prof. Clifford on a, 10.
Capital, W. Westgarth on the law of,
formation in and around Edin- burgh, C. W. Peach on additions to the list of fossils and localities of the, 109.
rocks, Prof. W. C. Williamson on the structure of Diploxylon, a plant of the, 112.
rocks, lower, at Langton, Ber- wickshire, the Rev. T. Brown on specimens of fossil wood from the base of the, 128.
Carpenter (Dr. W. B.) on the thermo- dynamics of the general oceanic cir- culation, 51.
Carpus of a dog, Prof. W. H. Flower on the composition of the, 138. "Carr Disintegrator," J. F. Bramwell on some experiments upon a, at work at Messrs. Gibson and Walker's flour- mills, 229.
Carr (Thomas) on a new mill for dis- integrating wheat, 233. Carruthers (W.) on the vegetable con- tents of masses of limestone occurring in trappean rocks in Fifeshire, and the conditions under which they are pre- served, 94.
Caustic soda, J. Y. Buchanan on the rate of action of, on a watery solu- tion of chloracetic acid at 100° C., 67. Cave at Oban, Prof. Turner on human and animal bones and flints found in a, 160.
Caves at Mentone, M. Moggridge on the bones and flints found in the, and ad- jacent railway-cutting, 155.
Cayley (Prof.) on the number of cova- riants of a binary quantic, 9. Census reform, James Valentine on, 223. Centenarian longevity, Sir D. Gibb on, 151.
Cervical vertebræ in Cetacea, Prof. Struthers on the, 142.
of Steypirethyr, Prof. Turner on the, 144.
Cetacea, Prof. Struthers on the cervical vertebræ in, 142; Prof. Turner on the placentation in the, 144.
Ceylon and India, Commander A. D. Taylor on the proposed ship-canal between, 189.
Chain-cable testing, R. A. Peacock on,
and proposed new testing-link, 240. Challis (Rev. Prof.) on the mathema- tical theory of atmospheric tides, 51. *Charcoal, E. C. C. Stanford on the re- tention of organic nitrogen by, 81. Charnock (Dr.) on Le Sette Communi, a German colony in the neighbourhood of Vicenza, 148.
and Dr. C. Blake on the physical, mental, and philological characteris- tics of the Wallons, 148. Chauves-souris de l'époque du mam- mouth et de l'époque actuelle, Prof. Van Beneden sur les, 135. Chemical dynamics, J. H. Gladstone and Alfred Tribe on, 70.
Section, Prof. Andrews's Address to the, 56.
*Chemistry, C. G. Wheeler on the recent progress of, in the United States, 83. Chiene (Dr. John), an experimental in- quiry into some of the results of inocu- lation in the lower animals, 138. Children's hospitals, Dr. W. Stephenson on the scientific aspects of, 221. *Chimmo (Capt.) on Cagayan Sulu Is- land, 176.
China, Major Sladen on trade routes between Burmah and, 189.
Chloracetic acid, J. Y. Buchanan on the rate of action of caustic soda on a watery solution of, at 100° C., 67. Chlorimetry, improvements in, 81. Circulation and distribution of the at- mosphere, Prof. Everett on the ge- neral, 54.
of the blood, Prof. A. Buchanan on the pressure of the atmosphere as an auxiliary force in carrying on the, 137.
of the blood, exhibition of a model of the, by Prof. Rutherford, 141. Clark (Latimer) on a new form of con- stant galvanic battery, 47.
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