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INDEX. 



Parabolagraph : An Instrument for Drawing Parabolic Curves. By S. 



Smeaton, B.A. 650 



Parabolic Curves, An Instrument for Drawing. By S. Smeaton, B.A. . . 650 

 Parkinson (R.), Totemism in Melanesia and its Possible Origin .. .. 20& 



Parsonsia, Preliminary Note on Heterophylly in. By L. Cockayne, 



Ph.D ' 486 



Penguins and Seals, Allusions to, by Vasco da Gama in his First Voyage 



to India. By J. R. McClymont, M.A 526 



Pernio- Carboniferous Glaciation of South Australia. By Walter Howchin, 



F.G.S 264 



Tasmania. By Professor T. W. E.David, 



B.A., F.R.S 274 



Tasmania. By W. H. Twelvetrees, 



. F.G.S 280 



" " "' Victoria. By A. E. Kitson. F.G.S. .. 272 



" Western Australia. By A. Gibb Mait- 



land, F.G.S 27a 



Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills 



Expedition. By A. W. Howitt, C.M.G., D.Sc 1 



♦Phagocytosis, New Stimulus and Inhibitions in, with their Actual Value. 



By Dr. D. Macdonald 489 



Phosphorescence of Glass Exposed to Sunlight. By R. C. Yates . . . . 322 



PhylJocarids from a Glacial Erratic at Wynyard, Tasmania. By F. 



Chapman, A.L.S 281 



Physical Science and Mathematics, Educational Method, with Special 



Reference to the Teaching of. By W. R. Jamieson, B.Sc. . . .. .. 712 



Physiography of the Ben Lomond Plateau, Tasmania. By Colonel W. V. 



Legge, F.R.G.S 521 



Port Nicholson Harbor, New Zealand. By J. Mackin- 

 tosh Bell 438 



West Wanganui Inlet, New Zealand. By J. Macintosh 



Bell 440 



*Plant Food in Soil, Available. By W. A. Hargreaves, M.A., F.I.C. . . 642 



*Plant Pathology, Value and Aims of. By D. McAlpine 642 



* Political Ideals, Origin of Our. By Professor J. Brown, LL.D. . . . . 632 



Polynesian and Melanesian Races, Origin of. By Rev. I. Rooney, F.R.G.S. 616 



Port Nicholson Harbor (N.Z.), Physiography of. By J. Mackintosh Bell. . 438 



*Poultry- breeding. Commercial. By D. F. Laurie .. .. .. .. 643 



Pre-Cambrian Strata, Probable Existence of in Tasmania. By W. H. 



Twelvetrees, F.G.S 466 



♦Precipitant Reaction'f in relation to State Medicine and Hygiene. By Prof. 



D. A. Welsh, M.A., B.Sc 707 



Preliminary Note on Archseocyathinse from the Cambrian of South Australia. 



By T. G. Taylor, B.Sc 423 



Preliminary Note on Heterophylly in Parsonsia. By L. Cockayne, Ph.D. 486 

 ♦Preservatives as Applied to Certain Food Adjuncts, The Use of. By P. C. 



Mitchell 707 



President's Address. By A. W. Howitt, C.M.G., D.Sc 1 



Presidents of Sections Addresses — See under ' Address " 

 ♦Principles of Scientific Description in Natural History. By Rev. T. 



Blackburn, B.A 507 



Progress in Rapid Oxidation Processes Applied to Copper-smelting. Bv 



Robt. C. Sticht, B.Sc, E.M \ . 57 



Pro)3ortional Representation. By Miss C. H. Spence . . . . . . 632 



Proteins, Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the Salts of, and of their 



Role in Biological Phenomena. By T. B. Robertson, B.Sc. . . . . 490 



♦Queensland — Dykes in Townsville District and their Relation to Surround- 

 ing Rocks. By J. Fewtrell 466 



Queensland, Great Barrier Coral Reef of. By C. Hedley, F.L.S., and 



T. G. Taylor, B.Sc 397 



