556 
Pernot, M., puddling furnace, 407 
Perry, J., ‘‘ Elementary Treatise on 
Steam ” (review), 395 
Peruviar. mineral, huantajayite, 410 
PETTIGREW, J. B., ‘‘ Animal Loco- 
motion ” (review), 237 
Pes.in, M., elasticity of metals, 264 
PHILLIPS, late Prof., 416 
— T.A., ‘‘ Elements of Metallurgy ” 
(review). 534 
Phosphor bronze, 121 
Phosphoreséent glow of agates and 
other siliceous stones, 266 
Photo-lithography, improvement in, 
280 
‘* Phrenologist amongst the Todas” 
(review), 240 
‘‘ Physics, Experimental and Applied, 
for the Use of Schools and Col- 
leges’’ (review), I17 
‘‘ Physiology, Animal” (review), 257 
Physiology of the brain, and its recep- 
tion, 56 
Pierce, W. T., ‘‘ Practical Solid or 
Descriptive Geometry ”’ (review), 
39 
Bisica condition of silicon in, 408 
PirscuH-Baupoin, M., new alloy, 264 
Pit-signalling, better communication 
in by means of eledtricity, 262 
‘“* PLATTNER’S Manual of Qualitative 
and Quantitative Analysis with 
the Blowpipe”’ (review), 531 
Polar glaciation, 414 
Pole star and the pointers, 285 
PonrTon, M.,relation between refracted 
and diffracted spectra, 27 
“‘ Practical Solid or Descriptive Geo- 
metry ”’ (review), 397 
“Practical Treatise on Limes, Hy- 
draulic Cements, and Mortars” 
(review), 112 
Prazmowski, M., new helioscope, 545 
‘‘ Preparation and Mounting of Micro- 
scopic Objects”’ (review), 252 
Preparations in balsam, 273 
Prevention of colliery accidents, 119 
— — — explosions, 262 
PRIDEAUX, T. S., on Gall’s discovery 
of the physiology of the brain, 
and its reception, 56 
‘Principles of Mechanics” (review), 
534 
Process for testing the colour of wines, 
280 
Proctor, R. A., ‘‘ Light Science for 
Leisure Hours” (review), 105 
— past history of our moon, 306 
— Saturnian system, I 
—‘ The Universe and the Coming 
Transits’ (review), 528 
INDEX. 
‘October, 
Produ@tion and economical uses of 
fuel, 194 
—of light in grinding hard stones, 
279 
‘* Proper Food of Man: Fruits and 
Farinacea”’ (review), 239 
Proposed Channel tunnel, 272 
Pseudomorphs, two kinds after rock- 
salt, 410 
“Psychology, English Contemporary” 
(review), 236 
Puddling furnace, 407 
— mechanical, advance of, 407 
UANTITATIVE Chemical 
Analysis” (review), 107 
Quantity and value of minerals, sum- 
mary of, 261 
Reese accidents, 413, 541 
— between Wiveliscombe and Barn- 
staple, 126 
— fixed signals, 414 
RAMMELSBERG, M., 
minerals, 410 
—composition of the natural com- 
pounds of tantalum and niobium, 
266 
— mineral arsenides and sulphides,123 
Rapier, N.C., rail-vay fixed signals, 414 
Rare mineral, roselite, 266 
Ramszy, Mr., Rhine Valley, 415 
RaTH, study of asmanite, 265 
Recent changes in British artillery 
matériel, 40 
— extraordinary oscillations of the 
waters on Lake Ontario and on 
the sea-shores of Peru, Australia, 
Devonshire, &c., 156 
Reception and physiology of the brain 
by Gall, 56 
“Record of Science and Industry” 
(review), 398 
Refracted and diffracted spedtra, rela- 
tion between, 27 
Remarks on iron, 408 
Report on boilers, 267 
— — the coal-fields of Victoria, 
262 
Researches on alloys, especially those 
of copper and tin, 121 
Results of analysis, 410 
REYNOLDS, O., electricity, 278 
Rhagite, a hydrous arsenate of bis- 
muth, 410 
Rheims, improvement of the sewage, 
chemistry of 
124 
Rhine Valley, history of, 415 
Rizot, T., ‘‘Contemporafy English 
Psychology ” (review), ay 
