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Paspaluni poi'sonins, mortality due to 395 



,, ,. , occurrence ^ 394 



„ ,, , symptoms 395 



„ ,, , treatment 395 



Paussidas 100 



Pear blossoms, bacterial blight of 83 



Pcloniyxa 185 



„ palustris 185 



Pentanisia variabilis 288, 290 



Penedo das Pontes, origin of name 436 



Petrophila pulchclla ^ 381 



Phalloids 204, 205 



Phonidae 104 



Phoridae 108 



PhyllantJius emblica, host of Loranthus Dregei 346 



Phylloniscus 104 



Physalospora cydonice 259,260, 270 



Physiology, of respiration, in aquatic insects 225 



Physopsis africana, harbouring schistosome cercarias 377, 378 



Pietermaritzburg, origin of name 441 



Pigeon, parasitised by Hcemoprotcus coluinbcc 189 



Pigs, parasitised by Balantidium coli 190 



Pimpla lieliophylla 239, 245 



J, sp 239 



Pirates sp 239 



Piro plasma bigeminum ... 347, 348, 349, 350, 351 



„ „ , survival period in citrated blood 347 



Pirus malis 264 



Place-names, South African, origin of 432 



„ „ , „ ,. . derivation of 432 



Planorbis pfeifferi, harbouring Distome cercarias ,^77 



Plant diseases, role of bacteria in 65 



Plants, South African, three noteworthy species 429 



Plenodomus fuscomaculans 265 



Ploceus subaiireus 344 



Plumbaginacese 365, 366, 374 



Plumbago 374 



„ capensis 365, 366, 374 



„ zeylanica 374, 375 



Polyalthia suberosa. host of Loranthus Dregei 346 



„ „ „ ,, „ qiiinqticnervis 346 



Porotermes 94, 95, 1 1 1 



„ , fossil 95 



Potato, bacterial wilt, due to Bacterium solonacearum 85 



„ , black leg, soft rot, due to Bacillus atrosepticus 85 



„ , scab, due to Actinomyces chromogenus 85 



Pottery, " Strandlooper " 229 



Power, generation from Vaal coalfields 36 



Presidents and Secretaries of Sections xv 



Presidential Address, Section A 17 



B 42 



„ , „ C 65 



D 93 



E 113 



F 158 



Pressures, atmospheric, duration, movement of 278 



„ ,, , advent of new 279 



„ „ , weather accompanying 280 



Pfi^stopoma bennettii, Trichodina parasitic in . . . _^. 190 



Procubitermes 94 



Protea 380, 381 



„ coarctata 381 



