INDEX. 



733 



Matteucci (C.) sur la relation entre les 

 courants induits et le pouvoir moteur 

 de 1'electricite, 321. 

 Meat, non-flesli-forming material stored 



in, 357. 

 Megalania prisca, description of some 



remains of, 273. 



Mercuric ethyl, 685 ; isolation of, 309. 

 Mer de Grlace, observations on the, 245. 

 Meridional arc of India, rectification of 



errors in, 620. 

 Merrifield (C. W.) on the comparison 



of hyperbolic arcs, 708. 

 Metals, electric- conducting power of, 95. 

 Methyl, mercuric, isolation of, 91. 

 Mollusks, aquiferous and oviductal sy- 

 stems in, 633. 

 Monamines, contributions towards the 



history of, 293, 591. 

 Moon (R.) on the theory of internal 



resistance and internal friction in 



fluids, and on the theories of sound 



and of auscultation, 223. 

 Moorsom (W. S.) on the practical use 



of the aneroid barometer as an oro- 



meter, 143. 



Mount Etna, mode of origin of, 248. 

 Muirhead (J. P.), letter relating to the 



discovery of the composition of water, 



679. 



Muller (J.), obituary notice of, 556. 

 Muscular action from an electrical point 



of view, 690. 

 Muscular tissue of the urinary bladder, 



nature of, 573. 



Naphtyl, sulphocyanide and cyanate of, 



Nerves, motor and sensitive, their power 

 of retaining vital properties, 2. 



Nerves, inhibitory system of, 367. 



Newman (F. W.), the higher theory of 

 elliptic integrals treated from Jacobi's 

 functions as its basis, 704. 



Nile, annual alluvial deposit of, 133. 



Niriaphtylamine, 617. 



Operculina, 334. 



Organic acids, peroxides of the radicals 

 of, 361 ; new, from the berry of the 

 mountain ash, 681. 



Organic bases, new class of, 616 j action 

 of nitric acid, binoxide of manganese, 

 and sulphuric acid on, 635. 



Organo-metallic bodies, remarks on, 672. 



Organo-metallic radicals, further re- 

 marks on, 685. 



Orometer, aneroid barometer as an, 143. 



Owen (E.), description of the skull and 

 teeth of the Placodus laticeps, 157. 



Owen (R.), description of some remains 

 of a gigantic Land-lizard, Megalania 

 prisca, 273. 



, fossil mammals of Australia, I. 



description of a mutilated skull of a 

 large marsupial Carnivore, Thylacoleo 

 carnifexj &c., 585. 



on the vertebral character of the 



order Pterosauria, as exemplified in 

 the genera Pterodactylus and Dimor* 

 phodon, 703. 



Ozone, second note on, 606. 



Paris (J. A.), obituary notice of, 56. 

 Partitions of the r-pyramid, 4. 

 Pattinson (H. L.), obituary notice of, 



534. 



Pavy (F. W.), an experimental inquiry 

 into the alleged sugar-forming func- 

 tion of the liver, 300. 

 Peacock (Very Rev. Gr.), obituary notice 



of, 536. 



Pelikan (E.), some remarks on the phy- 

 siological action of the TangMnia ve- 

 nenifera, 173. 

 Peneroplisy 334= 

 Phenyl, cyanate and sulphocyanide of, 



274. 



Phenyl and benroyl series, new deriva- 

 tives of, 594. 



Phenylamine and nitrophenylamine, ac- 

 tion of nitrous acid on, 597. 

 Phosphoretted ureas, 487. 

 Phosphorus bases, researches on, 287, 



290, 487, 651. 

 Picramic acid, action of nitrous acid on, 



594. 



Placodus laticeps, description of skull 

 and teeth of, 157; evidence of the 

 Saurian nature of, 158. 

 Plane-curve, double tangent of, 724. 

 Platinized graphite batteries, 628. 

 Plumbic diethyl, 689. 

 Plumbic ethyl, isolation of, 309. 

 Plumb-line, on the deflection of, in India, 

 493, 701 ; influence of the ocean on, 

 597. 

 Poinsot (L.) elected foreign member, 



487. 



Pole (W.) on colour-blindness, 716. 

 Pollock (Sir F.) on some* remarkable 

 relations which obtain among the 

 roots of the four squares into which 

 a number may be divided, &c., 238. 

 Poly-ammonias, notes of researches on, 

 (No. I.) 150, (No. II.) 229, (No. III.) 

 274. 



Potassium-ethyl, 344, 345. 

 Pratt (J. H.) on the deflection of the 

 plumb-line in India, caused by the 



