INDEX. 



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Thomson (W.), remarks on the interior 

 melting of ice, 141. 



on the stratification of vesicular ice 



by pressure, 209. 



on the thermal effect of drawing 



out a film of liquid, 255. 



on the embryogeny of Comatula 



rosacea, 600. 



Thompson (T.) on the changes pro- 

 duced in the proportion of the red 

 corpuscles of the blood by the admi- 

 nistration of cod-liver oil, 474. 



Three bodies, on the problem of, 265. 



Thylacoleo carnifex, a large marsupial 

 Carnivore, description of a mutilated 

 skull of, 585. 



Tooke (T.), obituary notice of, 550. 



Toronto, daily fall of barometer at, 124. 



Torricellian vacuums, stratifications and 

 dark bands in, 146. 



Travers (B.), obituary notice of, 551. 



Tridacna, anatomy of, 1. 



Tubes, resistance of, to collapse, 234. 



Tympanum, functions of, 134. 



Tyndall (J.) on some physical proper- 

 ties of ice, 76. 



, observations on the Mer de Glace 



(Part 1.), 245. 



on the physical phenomena of gla- 

 ciers, 668. 



Upas Antiar, on the poison of, 72 ; pa- 

 ralysis of the heart produced by, 74 ; 

 effects of, on frogs, 76. 



Vagus, effects of division of the, 374. 

 Vertebrate skull, on the theory of, 381. 

 Visceral nerves, inquiry into the func- 

 tions of, 367. 



Walker (C. V.) on platinized graphite 

 batteries, 628. 



Walker (D.), ice observations, 609. 



Waller (A.) on the means by which the 

 Actinia kill their prey, 722. 



Wanklyn (J. A.) on some new ethyl 

 compounds containing the alkali me- 

 tals, 341. 



on the action of carbonic oxide on 



sodium-alcohol, 697. 



Warburton, H., obituary notice of, 555. 



Wartmann (E.) on the effect of press- 

 ure on electric conductibility in me- 

 tallic wires, 615. 



Water, discovery of the composition of, 

 642, 679. 



Weather during eclipse, account of, 213. 



Williams (C. G.) on some of the pro- 

 ducts of the destructive distillation of 

 boghead coal (Part II.), 102. 



on the constitution of the essential 



oil of rue, 167. 



Williams (T.), researches on the struc- 

 ture and homology of the reproduc- 

 tive organs of the Annelids, 72. 



, explanation with respect to a 



statement made in his paper in the 

 Phil. Trans., 589. 



Williamson (A. W.), note on the 

 measurement of gases in analysis 

 218. 



Winters of British Islands, influence of 

 G-ulf-stream on, 324. 



Wood, expansion of, by heat, 3. 



Wood (C. S.), notice of researches on a 

 new class of organic bases, 616. 



Zinc-ethyl, action of, on mercuric chlo- 

 ride, 309 ; on chloride of lead, 312 ; 

 on iodide of mercurous ethyl, 312 ; 

 on chloride of silver, 314 ; on iodide 

 of stanethyl, 315. 



Zincmethyl, preparation of, 768. 



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