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INDEX 



Photography, applied to Astronomy, xi. 



104, 307 ; XII. 158. 



Instantaneous, x. 46. 



Photophone, ix. 532. 



PJivsical and Moral Science Analogies, 



vn. 12. 

 Pliysiolo!?ical Action of Light, vn. 360 ; 



viii. 137 ; of Vanadium, vni. 224. 

 Pianoforte Music, xi. 171. 

 Pickersgill, H. W., presents Portrait of 



Kev. J. Barlow, in. 1. 

 Picric Acid and Powder, vi. 520. 

 Pictet, R., Experiments on Liquefac- 

 tion of Gases, viii. 662. 

 Pierotti's Discoveries at Jerusalem, iv. 



23. 

 Pigeons, various Breeds of, in. 197. 

 Pineal Eye in Lizards, xii. 22. 

 Pliints, Electric Currents in, i. 75 ; 



Growth of, in Cases, 407 ; their For- 

 mations, III. 223 ; Distribution, vin. 



568 : Excitability, X. 151 ; Movement, 



IX. 597. 

 Plateau's Eesearches on Films, xi. 243. 

 Platinimi, in. 321 ; Deville's Process 



fur obtaining it, 322. 



Wire, Ra.liation, ix. 20, 21. 



Plavfair, Lyon, Chemical Discoveries 



from the Exhibition of 1851, i. 131. 

 Food of INlan, i. 313; in relation 



to his Useful Work, iv. 431, 662, 678. 



Chemistry of Agriculture, n. 289. 



Ploughs and Ploughing, i. 265. 

 Poey's Researclies on Meteors, in. 144. 

 Pogson, N., on Solar Eclipse, vi. 294. 

 Poiseuille on Liquids under Pressure, 



VI. 26. 

 Poisons, effects on Medusse. viii. 175. 



and Puisoiiing, xn. 220. 



Polarity (in Natural History and Geo- 

 logy). I. 428 

 Polarization of Light, connection of 



Chemical Forces with, i. 45. 

 Polarised Light, vin. 561, 582 ; x. 205 ; 



xii. 474; Spectra of, VII. 134; Colours 



of, 291. 

 Pole, Wm., Donation, iv. 156. 

 Pole, Prof.,-Culour Blindness, vi. 269. 

 Political Character and Geographical 



Circumstances, vin. 529. 

 Pollock, Sir Frederick, Decease of, 403 ; 



Resolution, xn. 410. 



F., Spinoza, vin. 363. 



History of the Sword, x. 377. 



Henry, elected Treasurer, xi. 467 ; 



Decease of; Resolution, xn. 525; 



Letter from Mrs. H. Pollock, xii. 



563 ; his Portrait presented, 565. 

 W. H., Romanticism, vin. 655. 



Pollock, VV. H., Dumas Pere, ix. 383. 



Shakspeare Criticism, ix. 577. 



Sir Francis Drake, x. 233. 



Garrick as an Actor, xi. 304. 



Polynesians, vni. 628, 644 ; Skull. 635. 

 Poole, R. S., Greek Coins and Greek 



Art, IV. 306. 

 Museum and Libraries of Alex- 

 andria, X. 12. 

 Discovery of the Biblical Cities of 



Eorypt. XI. 384. 

 Popular Tales, vn. 378. 



Beliefs, xn. 134. 



Portraiture, P]nglish, Historical, its 



Fallacies. &c. iv. 543; Real and 



Ideal, VII. 430. 

 Post-office, History of, in. 457. 

 Pottery, English, xn. 212. 

 Pouillet's Chronoscope. iv. 577. 

 Poulton, E. B., Gilded Chrysalides, 



XII. 33. 

 Powell, Baden, Foucault's Pendulum 



Experiment, i. 70. 

 Analogies of Light and Heat, i. 



172. 

 Rotatory Motion, i. 393 ; Stability, 



II. 480. 

 Power Meters, x. 241. 

 Poynter, E. J., Old ami New Art,vi. 534. 

 Preece, W. H., Electricity applied to 



Protection of Life on Railways, viii. 



35. 



The Telephone, vin. 501. 



Multiple Telegraphy, ix. 194. 



Telegraphic Acliievements of 



Wheatstone, ix. 297. 

 Safety Lamps in Collitries, xn. 



204. 



presents Phonograph, ix. 37. 



Pre-!Miocene Aljxs, vn. 455. 

 Prentice's Manufacture of Gun-cotton, 



IV. 622. 

 Presents, Lists of, under General 



Monthly Meetings, throughout the 



volumes. 

 Prestwich, J., Flint Implements of 



Abbeville, iv. 213. 

 Pre-Socratic Philosophy, vi. 302. 

 Pretsch, P., Process of Photogulvano- 



graphy, n. 348. 

 Prieatley, J., on Vanadium, vni. 224 ; on 



Ammonia, ix. 51. 

 Primeval Earth, Chemistry of, v. 178. 



Vegetation, vi. 165. 



Primogeniture, ix. 561. 

 Printing with Artificial Indigo, ix. 590. 

 Pritchard, C, Telescope, iv. 641. 

 Proctor, R. A., Star-groupiug-drift, &e. 



VI. 143. 



