INDEX II. 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 

 SECTIONS. 



AbROTHALLUS, on tlie genus, 88. 



Acalepba3, on tlie, with respect to organs 

 of circulation and respiration, 91. 



Acid, on the conversion of tannic into 

 gallic, 52. 



jEgilops, on the triticoidal forms of, 87. 



Africa, Central, on recent discovery in, 

 and reasons for continued and renewed 

 research, 105. 



Africa, Southern, Dr. Livingston's return 

 joiuney across, 113. 



Ajuh, a kind of whale, description of the, 

 found by Dr. Vogel in the River Benue, 

 98. 



Albanians, on the torenic system of the, 

 108 ; distribution of the, politically, 

 145. 



Albuminized collodion, on, 58. 



Alder (Joshua), notice of some new 

 genera and species of British Zoophytes, 

 90. 



America, on the connexion between 

 slavery in the United States of, and the 

 cotton manufacture in the United King- 

 dom, 137 ; on the correlation of the 

 palaeozoic strata of Britain and North, 

 175 ; palaeozoic basins of North 176. 



American phosphate of lime, on the com- 

 position of, 58. 



Ammonites, on the occurrence of upper 

 lias, in the (so-called) basement beds 

 of the inferior oolite, 80. 



Anderson (Dr. Thomas) on the composi- 

 tion of paraffine from different sources, 

 49. 



Anemometer, on a model of a self-register- 

 ing, 38. 



Aneroid melallique, observations with the, 

 during a tour through Palestine and 

 along the shores of the Dead Sea, 41. 



Anglo-Saxons, on tlie forms of the crania 

 of the, 108. 



Animalcules, infusorial, on the develop- 

 ment of, 98. 



Animals, suggestions for ascertaining the 

 causes of death in, 97. 



Antimony, on the detection of, for medico- 

 legal purposes, 57. 



Arctic current around Greenland, on the, 

 112. 



Astronomy, 23. 



Atmosphere, on an instrument for observ- 

 ing vertical currents in the, 40. 



Atrato, explorations through the valley 

 of the, to the Pacific in search of a 

 route fur a ship-canal, 1G2. 



Aust Cliff, on a supposed fossil Fucus 

 found at, 83. 



Austin (Robert), i-eport of an expedition 

 to explore the interior of Western Au- 

 stralia, 105. 



Australia, report of an expedition to ex- 

 2)!ore the interior of Western, 105 ; on 

 recent discoveries in, 110. 



Australian colonies, on the former and 

 present plans of disposing of the waste 

 lands in the, 146. 



Axe, description of an ancient, recently 

 discovered in the Forest of Dean, 71. 



Ay ton (Lieut.) on gold in India, 60. 



Babinet (M.) on the homolographical 

 maps of, 112. 



Babington (C. C.) on a supposed fossil 

 Fucus found at Aust Cliff, Gloucester, 

 shire, 83. 



Baikie (Dr. W. B.) on a skull of a Ma- 

 natee, 91 ; on recent discovery in Cen- 

 tral Africa, and the reasons which exist 

 forcontinued and renewed research, 105. 



