Polytechnic School, Darmstadt, 368 



Polytechnic Instituiion, 468 



" Pond-Life, Marvels of," by Henry J. Slac1<, F.G.S., 141 



Poole (Francis, C.E.), " Queen Charlotte Islands," 3^0 



Potential Energy. 382 



Potts (Thos. H.), on the Change of Habits in Animals and 



Plants, 262 ; on Cuckoos' Eggs, 501 

 Pourtales (Count), Deep Sea Corals and the Hdssler Expedition, 



121, 342, 370 

 Power (H., M. B.), on "The Use of the Ophthalmoscope," by 



Dr. Allbutt, 3 ; on Consumption, 459 

 Pratt (Ven. Archdeacon, F.R.S.), Lecture on Darwinism, 13; 



Crust of the Earth, 81 ; Obituary Notices of, 190, 291 

 Preceptors, College of. Lecture^, 231 

 Preece (VV. H.), Spheroidal State of Water under Great Heat, 



321, 341 ; Earth Currents and the Aurora of Feb. 4, 1872, 



368 

 Prestwich (Jos., F.RS.), Raised Beach on Portsdown Hill, 



154 ; Address to the Geological Society, 431, 451, 470, 490 

 Priesiley (Dr.), Memorial to, 69, 450 

 Printing liiy Electricity, 470 

 Printing Machme, Times, 15 1 

 Printing Meteorograph, by Dr. Theorell, 327 

 Prince (C. Leeson, M.R.C.S.), Climate of Uckfiald, 419 

 Priichard (G. S.), and J. H. Edgir, M.A., pn Descriptive Geo- 

 metry, 80 

 Pritchard (H. Baden, F.C.S.), Photographs by Niepce, 2S5 

 Procter (H. R. ), Stationary Wave on a Moving Cord, 262 

 Proctor (R. A., F.R.A.S ), Geometry at the Universities, 8; a 



Plane's Pi'sitioii, 25; Solar Parallax, 60, 61, t>2, 82; Mr. 



Brothers's Photograph of his Star Map, 50, 70 

 Protective Mimicry, 12, 463 

 Provincial Museums, G Gulliver, F.R.S., on their Objects and 



Management, 35 

 Psychology : G Thomson's " New World of Being," 380 

 Pye-Smith (Dr. P. H.) Ord's Notes on Comparative Anatomy, 



79 ; Schmidt's Comparative. Anatomy, 298 ; Placental Classi- 

 fication of Mamma's, 381 



Quekett Microscopical Club, 19, 134, 234, 390, 510, 512 

 Quetelet (Ad.), his Contributions to the Science of Man, 358 

 '• Queen Charlotte Islands," by Francis Poole, C. E., 320 



Radclifife (Dr. C. B.), Electrophysiologica, 186, 2o5, 226 



Rae (Dr. John, F. R.G.S.), Arctic Explorations, no, 165 ; Zoo- 

 logical Statistics and Hudson's Bay Company, 240 



Rainfall, Greatest in England, 225, 201, 241 



Rainfall of Scotland, 372 



Rainfall of 1871, 4S1 



Ramsay (Prof. A. C, F. R.S ), Glacial Phenomena, 64 



Ranyard (A. C, F.R.A.S.), Great Comet of 1861, 304 



Recluse (Elisee), Memorial for Commutation of his Sentence, 

 244 ; .Sentence Commuted, 290, 468 



Recurrent Vision, 512 



Rede Lecture at Cambridge, 9 



Reference Spectrum for Chief Aurora Line, 324 



Reid (R.), Fight between a Cobra and a Monj^oos-, 204 



Respighi (Prof. L. ), Observations of the .Solar Eclipse, 237 ; on 

 the Aurora of Feb. 4, 1872, 511 



Rhinocercses ( With Ilhntralions), 426 



Ripples and Waves, by Piof. Sir Wm. Thomson, F. R.S., i ; J. 

 J. Langton, 241 



Robinson (W., F.L.S.), " Hardy Flowers," 4 



Rock Inscriptions in Ohio, 212 



Rock Tnermomelers at the Edinburgh Observatory, 317 



Rodwell (G. F., F.C.S.), Admiralty Manual of Scientific In- 

 quiry, 260 ; Ganot's Physics, 285 



Ronalds (Sir Francis, F. R.S.), '"Description of an Electrical 

 Telegraph," 59 



Ro=se (Lord, F. fi. S ), Beautiful Meteor seen at Parsonstown, 

 3S2 



Rosser (W. H .), "The Deviation of the Compass hi Iron Ships, 

 479 



Rotalinre, Foramenifera of, in Creticeous Rocks, 294 



Royal Academy Lectures on Anatomy, 68 



Royal Commission on the Advancement of Science, 429 ; Second 

 Report, 477 



Royal Libtiiution, 48, 131, 314, 328, 4C4, 429 



Roial Insiitution, its Histoiy, by Dr. Be nee Jones, Hon. .Sec, 



Royal Society, Proceedings, 48, 68, 93, no, 133, 174, 254, 274, 



354. 390, 394. 423. 454. 473. 493. 5o9 

 " Rude Stone Monuments," by Jas. Fergusson, D.C.L., F.R.S., 



386 

 RugSy, Astronomy at, 448 



Rumford Medals, awarded to Jos. Harrison, jun., 271 

 Ruskin (John), Minerals and Fossils presented by him to Not- 

 tingham High .School, 50 ; Slade Lectures at Oxford, 151 

 Riis<ell (J. Scott, F. R,S.), Observations of Ripples and Waves, 3 

 Rutherford (Prof), Photographs of the Moon, 31 



St. Andrew's University, 97, 322 



Safety Lamp used by Watchmen in Paris, 3S2 



Safiford (Prof. T. H.), Chicago Observatory, 320 



Sanderson (Dr. Burdon, F.R.S.), Professor at the Brown Insti- 

 tution, 139 



Sanitary Improvement in Calcutta, 150 



.Sanitary Science and House Construction, 157 



Sartorious (Dr. Chas. ), Obituaty Notice of, 430 



.Sa.xony, Elementary Educa'ion in, 429 



Scandinavian Coleoptera, 99 



School of Military Engineering, 465 



Schiaparelli (Prof), his Scientific Researches, 433 



Schmidt (Eduard Oscar), his Comoarative Anatomy, 29S 



Schuster ( .\ ), Sun-spots and the Wine Crop, 501 



Schweinfurth (Dr.), his Alrican Travels and Collections, 332 



Science and /^rt Depaitmeiit, Kensington, 27, 45, 109, 122; 

 Lectures to Women on Physical Science, 49 



Science at the London School l-Soird, 410 



Science in Plain Eiiijlish, 371 



.Science for Women (S:e Female Education) 



Science S'ations, Proposed Foundation of, 337, 399 



Scrope (G. Poulett, F".R S. ), Volcanos, 440 



Scotland : Chairs of Science in the Universities, 97 ; Lake 

 Dwellings in Aberdeenshire, 14 



Scott (R. H., F.R.S, ), Colliery Explosions and Weather, 504 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 333, 372 



Scottish Meteorology from 1856 to 1S71, 479 



Scottish Naturalist, 273 



Scottish School of Geology, Prof Geikie, F.R.S., on the, 37, 



52 



Seabroke (G. M.), Aurora of Feb 4, 1872, 283 



" Seiside Studies in Natural History," by Elizabeth and Alexan- 

 der Agassiz, 198 



Seal, Grey, at Zoological Gardens, 88 



Secmann (Dr. BerthuM, F.L.S.), Obituary Notices of, 150, 169, 



Segmentation of Annulosa, 442 



Seihinnlogv, or Earthquake Phenomena, 261 



Sensitive Flame, New Form of, 29 



Serpent-worah'p, 89 



Shadow on the Sky, 25, 162 



"Shakespeare, Ornithology of," by J. E. Harting, F.L.S., 160 



Sharp (D.), Zoological Nome iclature, 340 



Shaw (J.), Crannogs in the South of Scotland, 203 



Sheffield Littrary snd Philosophical Society, 333 



Siemens' Dynamo-Ele;tric Light, 172 



.Silver: in Chili, 211; in Bolivia, 412 



Simpson (VV. ), his Drawings of Jerusalem, 5'° 



Skin Diseases produced by Soap, 464 



Slack (Heniy J., F.G.S.), " Marvels of Pond Life," 141 



Sieep, Ltcture on, by Prof. Humphry, F. R.S. , 328 



Smithsonian Institution, 370 



Smyih(Piof. C. P., F.R.S.), Aurora of Feb 4, 1872, 282; 

 Auroral S-atisticf, 301 ; Rock Thermomelers at Edinburgh 

 Observatory, 317; Ref<rence Spectrum for Chief Aurora 

 Line, 324 



Smyth (\V.), on Mr. Spencer and Dissipation of Energy, 322 



Snake-bites, 89, 211 



Snow at the Mouth of a Fiery Furnace, 321, 341 



Soane (Sir John), his Mausoleum, 170 



Soap a S mrce of Skin Diseases, 464 



Social Physics, by Ad. Quetelet, 358 



Sodety of Arts, 49, 210, 272, 410, 4(18, 469 



Solar Activity, Planetary Influences on, 423 



Solar Atmosphere, its Density and Depth, 83 



Solar Atmosphere and Heat, Capt. J. Ericsson on, 2S7, 344, 505 



Solar Eruptions a :d Magnetic Storms, 243 



Solar Halo, Prof A. S. Her.schel, F.R.A.S., on. Si, 103 



Solar Halo in Nor.* ay, 123 



Snl.ir Intensity, Padre Sicchi's .\pp3ralus, 364 



