548 



INDEX. 



Plants, their Abnormal and Normal 



Formations, 223. 

 Platinum, 321 ; Deville's Process for 



obtaining it, 322. 

 Poey's Researches on Meteors, 144. 

 Post-office, History of, 457. 

 Powell, Rev. B., on Shooting Stars, 144. 

 Professors elected in 1859, 137 ; in 



1860, 256 ; in 1861, 366 ; in 1862, 489, 



526. 



Rarefied Air, Combustion in, 331. 

 Rawlinson, Sir H, C, on Cuneiform 



Inscriptions (no abstract), 536. 

 Rijke's Experiments on the Magnetic 



Force and Electric Discharge, 171. 

 Rogers, H. D., on the Parallel Roads of 



Glen Roy, 341. 

 Rolleston, G., on the Brain of Man and 



certain Animals, 407. 

 Roscoe, H. E., on the Measurement of 



the Chemical Action of the Solar 



Rays, 210. 



— on Bunsen and Kirchhoff's Spectrum 

 Observations, 323. 



Rubidium discovered, 326. 

 Ruskin, J., on Tree Twigs, 358. 

 Russell, J. Scott, on Iron Walls of 

 England, 503. 



Salmon, W., Botanical Works presented 

 by, 193 



Salts and Acids, 234. 



Savory, W. S., on the Relation of the 

 Vegetable and Animal to the In- 

 organic Kingdom, 368- 



— on Motion in Plants and Animals, 433. 

 Schonbein on Ozone and Antozone, 70. 

 Science applied to Calico Printing, 201 ; 



to Military Purposes, 243. 

 Secretary — Rev. J. Barlow resigns, 291 ; 



Dr, H. Bence Jones elected, 293. 

 Shooting Stars, &c., 143. 

 Siemens', C. W., Gas-Fumaces, &c. 536. 

 Smith, E., Researches on Animal Work, 



355. 

 — Robt. Angus, on Organic Matter in 



the Air, 89, 

 Syrath, W. W.,on Coal, 510. 

 Solar Rays, Chemical Action of, 210. 

 Sotheby, S. L., presents 'Principia 



Typographica,' 167. 

 Species and Races, their Origin, 125. 

 Spectrum Observations, 323. 



Stethophone, 63. 



Stevens's Battery, 508. 



Stokes, G. G., Researches on Fluo- 

 rescence, 160. 



Sun, Physical Character of, 327, 387 ; 

 Total Eclipse of, 362 ; Theory of the 

 Origin of its Heat, 533. 



Thomson, W., on Atmospheric Elec- 

 tricity, 277. 



Tree Twigs, J. Ruskin on, 358. 



Trilobites, Theory respecting, 268. 



Twining, Miss Eliz., presents her Works 

 on Plants, 107. 



Tyndall, J., on the Veined Structure of 

 Glaciers, 72. 



— on Transmission of Heat through 

 Gases, 155. 



— on the Influence of the Magnetic 

 Force on the Electric Discharge, 169. 



— on some Alpine Phenomena, 269. 



— on the Action of Gases and Vapours 

 on Radiant Heat, 295. 



— on the Physical Basis of Solar Che- 

 mistry, 387 



— on the Absorption and Radiation of 

 Heat by Gaseous Matter, 404. 



— on Force, 527. 



Vacua, peculiar, how prepared, 9 ; 

 Electric Discharge in, 6, 7. 



Vegetable, Animal, and Inorganic King- 

 doms, their Relations, 368. 



Vital and Physical Forces, their Rela- 

 tions, 206. 



Volcanoes, Conical Form of, 125. 



Von Lang's Researches in Crystallogra- 

 phy, 98. 



Vrolik on Apes, 16. 



Walker, A. De Noe, presents a Chinese 

 Library, 219. 



Waller, A, on the Nutrition and Repar- 

 ation of Nerves, 378. 



Wallich, G. C, on the Nature of the 

 Deep-sea Bed, . and the Presence of 

 Animal Life at vast Depths in the 

 Ocean, 299. 



* Warrior ' described, 508. 



Wellington, Duke of. Cast of his Fea- 

 tures after Death presented, 274. 



Westwood, J. O., on Metamorphoses of 

 Insects, 375. 



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