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INDEX. 



Coal-dust, on the influence of, in colliery 

 explosions, No. V (Galloway), 42. 



Coefficient of the Thomson effect, on a 

 relation between the, and certain 

 other physical properties of metals 

 (Bid well), 25. 



Colliery explosions, on the influence of 

 coal-dust in, No. V (Galloway), 42. 



Conduction-resistance, on unequal elec- 

 tric, at cathodes (Gore), 85. 



Conductors, on the permanent tempera- 

 ture of, through which an electric 

 current is passing (Bottomley), 177. 



C'onroy (Sir J.), some experiments on 

 metallic reflection. No. V. On the 

 amount of light reflected by metallic 

 surfaces. Ill, 36. 



Constant of electromagnetic rotation of 

 light in bisulphide of carbon, pre- 

 liminary note on the (Rayleigh), 146. 



Continuous calculating machines, the 

 theory of, and of a mechanism on a 

 new principle for this and other pur- 

 poses (Shaw), 189. 



Cortical connexions of the optic nerves, 

 on the (Hamilton), 1. 



Council, nomination of, 394. 



election of, 447. 



Cremona (Luigi), foreign member, ad- 

 mitted, 1. 



Crinoidea, on the nervous system of the 

 (Carpenter), 67. 



Critical points of metals, discovery of 

 simple relations between (Tomlinson), 

 3S6. 



Cryptogams, on the comparative mor- 

 pliology of the leaf in the vascular 

 (Bower), 61. 



Discharge of electricity through gases, 

 experiments on the (Schuster), 78, 

 317. 



Dixon (H. B.), the conditions of chemi- 

 cal change in gases : hydrogen, car- 

 bonic oxide, and oxygen, 56. 



Donation fund, account of grants from 

 the, in 1883-84, 461. 



Draught of water in ships, the variation 

 of stability with (Elgar), 205. 



Drought in Ihdia, on the connexion of 

 the Himalaya snowfall with dry winds 

 and seasons of (Blanford), 3. 



Dry winds and seasons of drought in 

 India, on the connexion of the Hima- 

 laya snowfall with (Blanford), 3. 



Dumas (Jean Baptiste A.), obituary 

 notice of, x. 



Edentata, on the structure and develop- 

 ment of the skull in (Parker), 78. 

 Elasticity, relations between moduli of, 



thermal capacity, and other physical, 

 constanta (Tomlinson), 107. 



Election of Council and officers, 447. 



Fellows, 77. 



Electric energy and radiation, the rela- 

 tion between, in the spectrum of in- 

 candescence lamps (Abney and Fest- 

 ing), 157. 



Electrical conductivity of cobalt, mag- 

 in-Muni, steel, and platinum-indium, 

 alteration of, produced by longitudi- 

 nal traction (Tomlinson), 386. 



Electricity, experiments on the dis- 

 charge of, through gases (Schuster), 

 78, 317. 



Electro-chemical equivalent of silver, 

 on the (Rayleigh and Sidgwick), 142. 



Electrolysis, some new phenomena of 

 (Gore), 24. 



Electrolytes, some relations of heat to 

 voltaic and thermo-electric action of 

 metals in (Gore), 251. 



Electromagnetic rotation of light, pre- 

 liminary note on the constant of, in 

 bisulphide of carbon (Rayleigh), 146. 



Electromotive force from difference of 

 potential during diffusion in tidal 

 streams, experimental research on the 

 (Andrews), 28. 



Elgar (F.), the variation of stability 

 with draught of water in ships, 205. 



Ellis (A. J.) and A. J. Hipkins, tono- 

 metrical observations on some exitin<,' 

 non-harmonic musical scales, 368. 



.Fellows deceased, 427. 



elected, 428. 



number of, 448. 



Festing (Col.) and Capt. Abney, the re- 

 lation between electric energy and 

 radiation in the spectrum of incan- 

 descence lamps, 157. 



Financial statement, 449-452. 



Galloway (W.) on the influence of coal- 

 dust in colliery explosions. No. V. 

 42. 



Garrod (A. B.), certain points in con- 

 nexion with the physiology of uric 

 acid (supplemental), 148. 



Gases, experiments on the discharge of 

 electricity through (Schuster), 78, 317. 



liquefied, on the experimental 



determination of the index of refrac- 

 tion of (Bleekrode), 191, 339. 



the conditions of chemical change 



in : H, CO, and O (Dixon), 56. 



Geometry, on the non-Euclidian plane 

 (Cay ley), 82. 



Gore (G.), some new phenomena of 

 electrolysis, 24. 



