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INDEX. 



tion, and signs of organic motion appear 

 to have ceased, 358. 



Light, electric, invisible radiation of, 33. 



Lithium, experiments on the rate of pas- 

 sage of, into and out of the animal tex- 

 tures, 406; through the human body, 

 and into and out of the crystalline 

 lens, 410, 415. 



, on the presence of, in solid and 



liquid food, 222, 417. 



, on the rate of passage of solutions of, 



into the textures of animals, 420. 



, salts of, experiments with, on ani- 

 mals, 402. 



Livingstone (D.) admitted, 204. 



Lunar influence on temperature, 223. 



M'Donnell (R.) admitted, 475. 



Magnetic character of armour-plated ships, 

 114,186,500. 



disturbances at Kew, 1858-64, coin- 

 cidence of with variation of sun-spots, 

 490, 512. 



variation, terrestrial decennial period 



of, 491, 513. 



Magnetical observations, taken at the Col- 

 lege Observatory, Stonyhurst, 65. 



Magnetism of ships, communication to the 

 Board of Trade on, 300, 516. 



Marcet (W.) on a colloid acid, a normal 

 constituent of human urine, 1. 



, chemical examination of the fluid 



from the peritoneal cavity of the nema- 

 tode entozoa, 69. 



Mars, further observations on, 42. 



Marsupialia, on the commissures of the 

 cerebral hemispheres of the, 71. 



Maskelyne (N. S.) on new Cornish mine- 

 rals of the Brochantite group, 86, 392. 



Matrices, supplementary memoir on the 

 theory of, 543. 



Matter, on the influence of quantity of, 

 over chemical affinity, 144. 



Matthiessen (A.) on the expansion of 

 water and mercury, 551. 



Mercury, on the expansion of, 551. 



Metals, on the elasticity and viscosity of, 

 289. 



Meteorological department of Board of 

 Trade, correspondence in reference to, 

 306, 486, 516. 



observations, suggestion for syste- 

 matic scheme of, 489. 



Meteorology, numerical elements of In- 

 dian: Series II., Ill ; Series III., 547. 



Methylated acetone, 463. 



Methyl-hexyl, 465. 



Microscope, note on a new object-glass for, 

 35. 



Miller (W. H.) on two new forms of 

 heliotrope, 297. 



on the forms of some compounds of 



thallium, 555. 



Monotremata, on the commissures of the 

 cerebral hemispheres of the, 71. 



Mylne (W. C.), obituary notice of, xii. 



Myology, human, additional varieties in, 

 379 



Nematoids, parasitic and free, on the ana- 

 tomy and physiology of, 371. 



, observations ou their zoological posi- 

 tion and affinities to the echinoderms, 

 373. 



Nerve-fibres distributed to muscle, &c., 

 229. 



Nervous mechanism, structure, and pro- 

 bable mode of action of, 251. 



Nitrate of thallium, 555. 



Nova Scotia, observations of atmospheric 

 electricity in, 10. 



Obituary Notices of deceased Fellows : 

 Capt. W. Allen, i. 

 Rev. Dr. W. Cureton, i. 

 J. H. Green, i. 

 Hudson Gurney, v. 

 Leonard Horner, v. 

 Luke Howard, x. 

 W. C. Mylne, xii. 

 Major-General J. E. Portlock, xiii. 

 Dr. Archibald Robertson, xvii. 

 Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, xvii. 

 Heinrich Rose, xix. 

 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, xx. 



Object-glass for microscope, on a new, 35. 



Oceanic statistics, suggestion for scheme 

 of, 488. 



Organisms in closed vessels, further expe- 

 riments on the production of, 178. 



Orion, on the spectrum of the great ne- 

 bula in the sword-handle of, 39. 



Ornithorhynchus, eggs of, 111. 



Ostrich tribe, structure and development 

 of the skull of the, 112. 



Owen (R.) on the marsupial pouches, 

 mammary glands, and mammary foetus 

 of the Echidna hystrix, 106. 



on zoological names of characteristic 



parts and homological interpretations 

 of their modifications and beginnings, 

 especially in reference to connecting- 

 fibres of the brain, 129. 



on the fossil mammals of Australia : 



Part II. Description of an almost en- 

 tire skull of Thylacoleo carnifex, Ow., 

 343. 



Paris, H.R.H. the Count of, admitted, 

 268. 



, , notice of election of, 490. 



Parker (W. K.) admitted, 319. 



on the structure and development of 



the skull of the ostrich tribe, 112. 



Pendulums, an account of the base-obser- 

 vations made at Kew Observatory with 



