INDEX. 



731 



Everest (G.), rectification of logarithmic 

 errors in the measurements of two 

 sections of the meridional arc of India, 

 620. 



Excretine, additional observations on, 

 306. 



Eye, adaptation of, to varying distances, 

 331. 



Fairbairn (W.) on the resistance of 

 tubes to collapse, 234. 



Farr (W.) on the construction of life- 

 tables, illustrated by a new life-table 

 of the healthy districts of England, 

 717. 



Fats, action of bile on, 306. 



Film of liquid, on the thermal effect of, 

 255. 



Fishes, osseous, different types in the 

 microscopic structure of, 656 ; classi- 

 fication of, with and without bone- 

 corpuscles, 662.. 



Five-pointic contact, conic of, 702. 



Fluids, thermal effects of compressing, 

 496. 



Foraminifera, researches on, Part III., 

 334. 



Frankland (E.), Koyal Medal awarded 

 to, 37. 



, note on sodium ethyl and potas- 

 sium ethyl, 345. 



, remarks on organo-metallic bodies, 



4th memoir, 672. 



Friction in fluids, theory of, 223. 



Gases, on the measurement of, in ana- 

 lysis, 218. 



Gassiot (J. P.) on the stratifications and 

 dark bands in electrical discharges as 

 observed in Torricellian vacuums, 146. 



on the stratifications in electrical 



discharges, as observed in Torricellian 

 and other vacua, second communica- 

 tion, 601. 



on an experiment in which the 



stratifications in electrical discharges 

 are destroyed by an interruption of 

 the secondary circuit, 671. 



Gilbert (J. H.), experimental inquiry 

 into the composition of some of the 

 animals fed and slaughtered as hu- 

 man food, 348. 



Giraldes (F.), note surun organe, place 

 dans le cordon spermatique, &c., 231. 



Glacier, comparative velocities of a, 246. 



Glaciers, physical phenomena of, 668. 



Gladstone (J. H.) on the chemical ac- 

 tion of water on soluble salts, 66. 



on the influence of temperature on 

 the refraction of light, 328. 



Glycol, oxidation of, 711. 



, action of acids on, 725. 



Glyoxal, action of ammonia on, 297. 



Glyoxylic acid, 011 some salts of, 711. 



Gore (G.) on the molecular properties 

 of antimony, 70. 



on the properties of electro-de- 

 posited antimony, 304. 



Gosse (P. H.), researches on the poison- 

 apparatus in the Actiniadce, 125. 



Griess (P.) on new nitrogenous deriva- 

 tives of the phenyl and benzoyl series, 

 594. 



Gulf- stream, influence of, 324. 



Gunpowder, fired, nature of the action 

 of, 586. 



Hall (Dr. Marshall), obituary notice of, 



52. 

 Hall (V.), notice of researches on the 



sulphocyanide and cyanate of naphtyl, 



365. 

 Hancock (A.), Royal Medal awarded to, 



518. 

 Hargreave (C. J.) on the problem of 



three bodies, 265. 

 Haughton (Rev. S.) on the physical 



structure of the old red sandstone of 



the county of Waterford, &c., 108. 

 Heart, influence of efforts of inspira- 

 tion on the, 1. 

 Heat, power of metals and alloys to 



conduct, 169. 

 Hennessy (H.) on the influence of the 



Gulf-stream on the winters of the 



British Islands, 324. 

 Heptylene, 103. 

 Herapath (W. B.), researches on the 



cinchona alkaloids, 5. 

 -, preliminary notice of additional 



researches on the cinchona alkaloids, 



316. 



Hexylene, 103. 



Himalayas, attraction of, 701. 

 Hoimann (A. W.), notes of researches 



on the poly-ammonias, No. I., 150 ; 



No. II., 229 ; No. III., 274. 

 , researches on the phosphorus bases, 



287 -, No. II., 290 ; No. III. phos- 



phoretted ureas, 487; No. IV. diphos- 



phonium compounds, 651. 

 , contributions towards the history 



of the monamines, 293, 591. 

 , notice of researches on the sulpho- 

 cyanide and cyanate of naphtyl, 



365. 

 , notice of researches on a new class 



of organic bases, 616. 

 , new volatile organic acids from the 



berry of the mountain ash, 681. 



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