INDEX II. 



217 



Rain-gauge, on the self-registering, at 



Liverpool observatory, 127. 

 Rankine (W. J. Macquorn), report on 



metals for ordnance, 100. 

 Reports, provisional, 143. 

 Robinson (Rev. Dr.), report on metals 



for ordnance, 100. 



Sclater (P. L.), list of Aves as typical ob- 

 jects for local museums. 111. 



Scoresby (Rev. Dr.), report on metals for 

 ordnance, 100. 



Seeds, fifteenth report on the growth and 

 vitality of, 78. 



Skeleton, on the microscopic structure of 

 the integumentary, 16. 



Solar radiations, on the influence of the, 

 on the vital powers of plants growing 

 under different atmospheric conditions, 

 15. 



Storms, on the relation between explo- 

 sions in coal-mines and revolving, 1. 



Swann (Rev. K.) on two meteors seen 

 at Gedling, 99. 



Thomson (James) on the friction of disks 

 inwater,andon centrifugal pumps, 143. 



Thomson (Prof. Wyville), drawings of 



polypes taken by the Belfast dredging 



committee, 143. 

 Towns, on the present state of our 



knowledge on the supply of water 



to, 62. 



Virgularia mirabilis, 143. 



Water, on the present state of our know- 

 ledge on the supply of, to towns, 62 ; 

 on that obtained from springs, 65 ; 

 from artesian wells, 69 ; from rivers, 

 72 ; from " gathering grounds," 73 ; 

 from natural lakes, 77 ; on the friction 

 of disks in, 143. 



Watson (J.) on a meteor observed by, 93. 



Whitworth (Joseph), report on metals 

 for ordnance, 100. 



Woodward (S. P.), list of Mollusca as 

 typical objects ' for local museums, 

 114. 



Yates (J. B.), first reporton the deviations 

 of the compass needle in iron and other 

 vessels, occasioned by inductive or polar 

 magnetism, 143. 



INDEX II. 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 

 SECTIONS. 



Aberdeen, on the eflects of last win- 

 ter upon vegetation at, 105. 



Acari, on the existence of, in mica, 9. 



Achromatism, on the, of a double object- 

 glass, 14. 



Acid, on an indirect method of ascertain- 

 ing the presence of phosphoric, in rocks, 

 55 ; on a new form of cyanic, 64 ; on 

 certain laws observed in the mutual 

 action of sulphuric, and water, 70 ; on 

 the action of carbo-azotic, on the human 

 body, 121. 



Adams (W. Bridges) on railways and 

 their varieties, 202; on artillery and 

 projectiles, 203. 



A damson (Dr.) on the fixing of photo- 

 graphs, 7. 



Africa, on the recent additions to ourknow- 

 ledge of the zoology of Western, 114; 

 on some of the peculiar circumstances 

 connected with one of the coins used on 

 the west coast of, 140; on late explo- 

 rations in, 146 ; on the Portuguese pos- 

 sessions of south-west, 147; extracts 

 from letters describing Dr. Livingston's 

 journey across tropical, 148. 



Agricultm-al labourers of England and 

 Wales, on the, 171. 



Agriculture, on the application of the prin- 

 ciple of "vivaria" to, 111. 



