INDEX II. 
Glaciers and boulders in Switzerland, 
113. 
Glands, conglobate, on the uses of the, 
156. 
Glasgow, chemical manufactures car- 
ried on in and near, 58. 
, population, trade, and com- 
merce of the city of, 174. 
, minerals in the neighbourhood 
of, 64. 
» normal school of, 169. 
, observatory erecting near, 1. 
, tides in the harbour of, 49. 
» pauperism of, 185. 
, State of crime in, 169. 
, State of crime within the sub- 
urban districts of, 175. 
——-, superficial beds in the neigh- 
bourhood of, 94. 
» Vital statistics of, 173. 
Glass, decomposed, rings of polarized 
light produced in, 6. 
, decomposition of, 5, 
Glover (George) on foreign bodies in 
the cesophagus, 155. 
Glover (Dr. R. W.) on preparing hy- 
drobromic and hydriodic acids, 75. 
on the physiological and medici- 
nal action of bromine and its com- 
pounds, 157. 
Goodsir (J.) and E. Forbes, on pelonaia, 
a new genus of ascidian mollusca, 
137. 
—- — on the British ciliograda, 
141. 
Gorbals, state of crime in the district 
of, 177. 
Gordon (Prof.) on a turbine water 
wheel, 191. 
Graham (Mr.) on a method of approxi- 
mating to the value of the roots of 
numerical equations, 54. 
Graphite, crystallized, new mode of 
decomposing, 66. 
Great Britain, bill circulation of, 184. 
Gregory (Prof.) on a new process for 
preparing murexide, 74. 
on the preparation of alloxan, 
alloxantine, thionurate of ammonia, 
- uramile, and murexide, 74. 
on the pre-existence of urea in 
uric acid, 73. 
Griffin (Mr. J. J.) on a new method 
of crystallographic notation, 88. 
Griffith (R.) on the yellow sandstone 
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221 
and other points of the geology of 
Ireland, 110. 
Grime (Mr.) on Dennet’s rockets for 
preserving livesfrom shipwreck, 214. 
on wrought iron wheels for loco- 
motive engines, 212. 
Guiana, west of, on the modes of fish- 
ing employed by Indians in the, 135. 
Gulline (Mr.) on safety valves for 
steam boilers, 213. 
Hamilton (Mathie) on earthquakes on 
the west coast of South America, 123. 
Hannah (Dr.) on the treatment of 
pertussis by cold washing of the 
chest, 158. 
Hawkins (Mr.) on the safety rotation 
railway, 196. 
Hawkins (Mr. J.) on Mr. Bakewell’s 
anglemeter, 210. 
Hawthorn (Mr.) on certain improve- 
ments on locomotive and other en- 
gine boilers, 211. 
Heat, conduction of, 15. 
» on a point in the wave-theory as 
applied to, 14. 
Herschel (Sir J. F. W.), letter from 
Mr. Redfield to, on American storms 
and tornadoes, 40. 
Hodgkinson (Eaton) on the tempera- 
ture of the earth in the mines near 
Manchester, 17. 
on the strength of pillars of cast 
iron, and other materials, 202. 
Holothuria, on the, 139. 
Hoyle (Mr.), new logarithmic calcula- 
tions and views, 55. 
Hydraulic apparatus, on a new, 213. 
Hydrobromic and hydriodic acids, on 
preparing, 75. 
Hutchinson (Graham) on a method of 
prognosticating the probable mean 
temperature of the winter months 
from that of corresponding months 
in the preceding summer, 41. 
Ibbotson (J. L. B.) on the daguerreo- 
type, as applied to the drawing of 
fossils, 121. 
Impregnation, pollen and vegetable, 
144, 
India, growth of cotton in, 146. 
Inflammation, circumstances which 
govern local, 159. 
Insects, on some Persian, 136. 
