INDEX IT. 



223 



Gale (Peter) on decimal arrangement of 

 land measures, 165. 



Galium montanum and G. commutatum, 

 on, 100. 



Gall (James, jun.) on improved mono- 

 graphic projections of the world, 148 ; 

 on the mutual influence of capillary at- 

 traction and motion on projectiles, and 

 its application to the construction of a 

 new kind of rifle shells and balls to be 

 thrown from common guns; 206. 



Galletley (J.) on a new glucocide con- 

 tained in the petals of a wallflower, C3. 



Galloway (R.) on the quality of food of 

 artisans in an artificially heated atmo- 

 sphere, 6;; ; on the use of phosphate of 

 potash in a salt-meat dietary, ib. 



Galvanic circuit, on tlie structure of shell 

 mortars without touch-holes to be dis- 

 charged by, 207. 



Galvanic power to machinery, on an ap- 

 plication of, 208. 



Galvanic stimuli, on the mode of action 

 of. directly applied to the muscles, 131. 



Gas-battery, on a new form of the, 15. 



Gemmel (Rev. J.) on the deciphering of 

 inscriptions on two seals, found by Mr. 

 Layard at Koyunjik, 145. 



Geographers, on a universal alphabet with 

 ordinary letters for the use of, 143. 



Geography, 146. 



Geological Section, 75. 



Geology, on the use of observations of 

 terrestrial temperature for the investi- 

 gation of absolute dates in, 18. 



Geology of the Dingle promontory, Ire- 

 land, on the, 83. 



Geometry, on a more general theory of, 5. 



Germany, on the emigration of the last 

 ten years from, 183. 



Geysers of Iceland, on the condition of 

 the Haukedalr, July 1855, 75. 



Giantess, on the pelvis of a Lapland, 134. 



Gilbart (J. W.; on the laws of the cur- 

 rency in Scotland, 166. 



Giraffe, on a curious pouched condition 

 of the Glandulas PeyerianiE in the, 122. 



Glacial phgenomena of the Lake district of 

 England, on the, 80. 



Gladstone (J. H.) on a crystalline deposit 

 of gypsum in the reservoir of the High- 

 gate waterworks, 63. 



Glandulee Peyerianje in the giraffe, on a 

 curious pouched condition of the, 122. 



Glasgow, on ancient canoes found at, 80 ; 

 on the flowering of Victoria Regia in the 

 Royal Botanic Garden at, 102 ; on the 

 vivaria now exhibited in the City Hall, 

 114; statistics of a grammar-school 

 class of 115 boys at, 192. 



Glass, on the phaenomena of decomposed, 



10. 



Globe, on the meridional and symmetrical 

 structure of the, 83 ; on the preadamitic 

 condition of the, 148. 



Glucocide, on a new, contained in the 

 petals of a wallflower, 63. 



Glycerine, on a process for obtaining and 

 purifying, 75. 



Clyde (J., jun.) on the localities of crime 

 in Suffolk, 167. 



Gold, the price of silver of late years does 

 not afford an accurate measure of the 

 value of, 198. 



Gold-bearing districts of the world, on 

 the, 83. 



Gorman (William) on a momentum en- 

 gine, 206; on a pressure water-meter, 

 207. 



Granite, on a lately discovered tract of, 

 in Arran, 80. 



Great Britain, on the Pterygotus beds of, 

 89 ; an attempt to classify the flowering 

 plants and ferns of, 99 ; specimens 

 illustrating the distribution of plants in, 

 100. 



Green (Dr.) on a machine for polishing 

 specula, 11. 



Guarani man, on an episcaphoid bone in 

 both hands of a, 134. 



Guns, on a screw-vent for turning spiked, 

 into use, 208. 



Gutta percha, on the artificial, 103. 



Guy (William A.) on the fluctuations in 

 the number of births, deaths, and mar- 

 riages, and in the number of deaths 

 from special causes in the metropolis, 

 during the last fifteen years, 1840 to 

 1854 inclusive, 167. 



Gymnastic education, on the application 

 of physiological principles to, 134. 



Gypsum, on a crystalline deposit of, in 

 the reservoir of the Highgate water- 

 works, 63. 



Haeffely (Ed.) on the compounds of tin 

 with arsenic, 64. 



Haidinger (William) on the optical pro- 

 perties of cadmacetite, 1 ] . 



Hailstorms in India, on remarkable, 31. 



Hamilton (Sir W. R.) on the conception 

 of the anharmonic quaternion, and on 

 its application to the theory of involu- 

 tion in space, 7. 



Hancornia speciosa, on the, 103. 



Harbours, on the importance of perio- 

 dical engineering surveys of tidal, 147, 

 205. 



Harkness (Prof.) on the cleavage of the 

 Devonians of the south of Ireland, 82; 



