INDEX TO VOL. IX. 



-fxCTINIADJS, poison apparatus in 

 125. 



Actinia, electrical nature of the power 

 of, 103, 478. 



, power exercised by, in killing 

 their prey, 478. 



, means by which they kill their 



prey, 722. 



Alison (S. S.) on the differential stetho- 

 phone, and some new phenomena ob- 

 served by it, 196. 



on the intensification of sound 

 through solid bodies by the inter- 

 position of water between them and 

 the distal extremities of hearing tubes, 

 649. 



Amphistegina, 334. 



Amylamine, action of bisulphide of 

 carbon on, 591. 



Amylaniline, action of nitrous and nitric 

 acid on, 635. 



Andrews (T.), second note on ozone, 

 606. 



Aneroid barometer, use of, as orometer, 

 143. 



Aniline, action of nitrous acid on, 118. 



, action of chloroform on, 229. 



, action of binoxide of manganese 



and sulphuric acid on, 637. 



Animals, experimental inquiry into the 

 composition of, 348. 



Annelids, on the structure and homo- 

 logy of the reproductive organs of, 

 72. 



Anniversary Meeting, Nov. 30, 1857, 

 23 ; Nov. 30, 1858, 497. 



Annual Meeting for election of Fellows, 

 247. 



Antimony, on the molecular properties 

 of, 70. 



, electro-deposited, 304. 



Arc, English, effect of local attraction 

 on, 496. 



Archer (C.) on the adaptation of the 

 human eye to varying distances, 331. 



Atmosphere, disturbance of, by heated 

 terrestrial surfaces, 227. 



Auscultation, on the theories of, 223. 

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Bakerian Lecture. On the stratifica- 

 tions and dark bands in electrical 

 discharges as observed in Torricellian 

 vacuums, 146. 



Beaufort (Sir F.), obituary notice of, 

 524. 



Bennett (J. J.), letter containing a 

 statement of facts relative to the dis- 

 covery of the composition of water 

 by the Hon. H. Cavendish, 642. 



Blakiston (Lieut.), magnetic observa- 

 tions made at York Fort, 81. 



Boghead coal, products of, 102. 



Booth (Rev. J.) on tangential co-ordi- 

 nates, 175. 



on the logocyclic curve, and the 



geometrical origin of logarithms, 256, 



Brodie (B. C.) on the formation of the 

 peroxides of the radicals of the organic 

 acids, 361. 



(Sir B.), inaugural address, 564. 



Brooke (H. J.), obituary notice of, 41. 



Brown (R.), obituary notice of, 527. 



Brown-Sequard (E.), summary of a 

 paper on the spinal cord as a leader 

 for sensibility and voluntary move- 

 ments, 1, 



on the resemblance between the 



effects of the section of the sympa- 

 thetic nerve, &c., 1. 



, experimental researches on the 



influence of efforts of inspiration on 

 the movements of the heart, 1. 



on the influence of oxygen on the 



vital properties of the spinal cord, 

 &c., 2. 



on the power possessed by motor 



and sensitive nerves of retaining their 

 vital properties, &c., 2. 



B nekton (G-. B.) on the isolation of the 

 radical mercuric methyl, 91* 



, further remarks on the organo- 



metallic radicals, &c., 309. 



, further remarks on the organo- 



metallic radicals mercuric, stannic, 

 and plumbic ethyl, No. III., 685. 



Bunsen (R. W.) elected foreign member, 

 487. 



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