INDEX TO VOL. LVIL 



ABELIAN system of differential equa- 

 tions, on the, with a discussion of the 

 periodicity of Abelian functions 

 (Roberts), 301. 

 Address of the President, 37. 

 Agassiz (Alexander), admitted, 360. 

 Air, electrification of, and other gases, 

 by bubbling through water and other 

 liquids (Kelvin, Maclean, and Gralt) , 

 335. 



on the diselectrinVationof (Kelvin, 



Maclean, and Gait), 436. 

 Andrews (T.) micro-metallography of 



iron. Part I, 262. (Title only.} 

 Animals and plants, remarks on varia- 

 tion in (Weldon), 379. 



report of the Committee for 



conducting statistical inquiries into 

 the measurable characteristics of, 360. 

 Anniversary meeting, 35. 

 Argon, a new constituent of the atmo- 

 sphere (Rayleigh and Ramsay), 265. 



atomicity of, letter upon the 



(Fitzgerald), 296. 



if contained in vegetable or animal 



substances (MacDonald and Kellas), 

 490. 



note on the spectrum of (Newall) , 



346. 



on the spark spectrum of, as it 



appears in the spark spectrum of air 

 (Hartley;, 293. 



on the spectra of (Crookes), 287. 



the liquefaction and solidification 



of (Olszewski), 290. 

 Armstrong (Robert Young), obituary 



notice of, xxii. 



Atoms, Maxwell's theorem of the equal 

 partition of energy among the degrees 

 of freedom of, not inconsistent with 

 the various internal movements ex- 

 hibited by the spectra of gases (Fitz- 

 gerald), 312. 

 Auditors, election of, 1. 

 report of, 35. 



Bacterial life in Thames water, on the 

 conditions affecting (Frankland), 439. 



Baly (E. C. C.) a possible explanation of 

 the two-fold spectra of oxygen and 

 nitrogen, 4G8. 



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Barton (E. H.) electrical interference 

 phenomena somewhat analogous to 

 Newton's rings, but exhibited by 

 waves along wires, 68. 



Beetham (Albert William), obituary 

 notice of, xxv. 



Beneden (Pierre Joseph van), obituary 

 notice of, xx. 



Black-damp, notes of an enquiry into 

 the nature and physiological action 

 of (Haldane), 249. 



Blackman (F. F.) experimental re- 

 searches on vegetable assimilation 

 and respiration. No. 1. On a new 

 method for investigating the carbonic 

 acid exchanges of plants, 162. No. 2. 

 On the paths of gaseous exchange 

 between aerial leaves and the atmo- 

 sphere, 165. 



Breathing, on the different forms of 

 (Marcet), 95. 



Brown (C. B.) and J. W. Judd, the rubies 

 of Burma and associated minerals, 

 their mode of occurrence, origin, 

 and metamorphoses. A contribu- 

 tion to the history of corundum, 

 387. 



Burbury (S. H.) on the application of 

 the kinetic theory to dense gases, 

 302. 



Burma, the rubies of, and associated 

 minerals (Brown and Judd) , 387. 



Cabbages, note on the disease of, 

 known as "finger and toe " (Massee), 

 330. 



Catamites, the roots of (Williamson 

 and Scott), 1. 



Candidates for election, list of, 386. 



Capstick (J. W.) on the ratio of the 

 specific heats of some compound 

 gases, 322. 



Carcinus moenas, an attempt to measure 

 the death rate due to the selective 

 destruction of, with respect to a 

 particular dimension. A Report 

 (Weldon), 360. 



Cat, on the changes in movement and 

 sensation produced by hemisection of 

 the spinal cord in the cat (Marshall), 

 475. 



