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INDEX 
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Perry (S. J.) on Terrestrial Magnetism, 124 
Persia, the pre-Turkish Frontages of, H. Howorth (Br. A.), 528. | 
: Petermann (Augustus) on the Sources of the Nile, 13, 47 
Pettigrew’s (A.) Handy Book of Bees, by A. R. Wallace, 82; | 
Philadelphia, American Phi! Soc., 60, 96; Academy of Sciences, 
290 
Philology and Darwinism, 66, 103, 435 
Photography, Application of, to Military Purposes, 236 
Physiology, Outlines of, 139 
Plain Cylindrical Boilers, the Efficiency and Durability of, 396 
Plateau on the Flight of Coleoptera, 244 : ; 
Playfair (Dr. Lyon), Address to Birmingmam and Midland Insti- 
tute, 453; Address to at the Social Science Congress, 459 
Poey’s (Prof.) New Classification of Clouds, 382 
Polarised Light, transmission of through Uniaxal Crystals, by H. 
L. Russell, 299 
Polygala, Fertilisation of, letter by W. E. Hart, 274 
Pontobdella, M. Vaillant’s Anatomical Investigation of, 93 
Popular Physiology, 272 
Port Elizabeth, Electric Time Signal at, Varley (Br. A.), 452 
Portland, Beaches of, W. Pengelly (Br. A.), 502 : 
Power (H.) on Longevity in Man and Animals, 98 ; Digestion, 
238 ; a New Form of Ophthalmoscope, 54 
Pozzuoli, Changes of Level at, F. Fox Tuckett, 493 
Precarboniferous Floras of North-Eastern America, Paper by J. 
W. Dawson (Royal Soc.), 35 
Pre-glacial Deposits of West Lancashire and Cheshire, 246 
Primitive Man, 311 
Pritchard (Prof. C.) on “Other Worlds than Ours,” 161 
Proctor (R. A.) on the Corona, 164, 277; Jupiter’s Cloud Belts, 
236 ; the Source of Solar Energy, 275, 315 ; the Resolvability 
of Star-Groups Regarded as a Test of Distance, 74 
Proctor’s “Other Worlds than Ours,” by C. Pritchard, 161 ; 
Correspondence respecting, 190, 209 
Products Accompanying Formation of Chloral from Alcohol, 19 
Progress of Chemistry, 353 
Protandry and Protogyny in British Plants, Bennett, 482 
Psychology in England, by Professor G, Croom Robertson, 331 
Pumping and Winding Machinery, 395 
Pye-Smith (Dr. H.) on Forms of Animal Life, 80, 206 
Quantics, a ninth Memoir on, by Prof. Cayley, F.R.S., 152 
Quartz Implement from St. George’s Sound, H. Woodward 
(Br. A), 506 
Quekett Microscopical Club, 287 
Race in Music, 153 
Rainfall Committee, Report of the (Br. A.), 507 
Rainfall, C. Chambers, F.R.S. (Br. A.), 526 
| 
Rankine (Prof. W. J. M.) on the Thermo-dynamic Acceleration | 
and Retardation of Streams, 440 ; onthe Mathematical Theory | 
of Combined Streams (Br. A.), 440, 462; on Stream-lines 
in connection with Naval Architecture, 460 
Red-Blood Corpuscles, the action of certain vapours and gases 
on the, E. Ray Lankester (Br. A.), 528 
Regenerative Hot-Blast Stoves for Blast Furnaces, 134 
Reproduction by Spontaneous Fission in the Hydroida, Prot. 
Allman (Br. A.), 481 
~ Russell (W. H. L.) on Transmission of Polarised Light through 
Uniaxal Crystals, 299 
Sabine (Sir Edward), Conversazione of, 8 
Salad Herbs, our, by C. J. Robinson, 317 
Scandinavian Skulls, 47, 103 
Schleiden’s Fiir Baum und Wald, 234 
School Board, the Representation of Science and Art at the, by 
Dr. E. Lankester, 509 
Schools, Natural History in, 249 
Science and Art Department, the, 269, 316 
Science and Mathematics, Elementary Teaching of, 205 
Science and Military Surgery, 329 
Scientific Administration, 449 
| Scientific Education, 41; of Women, 117, 165, 305 
| Scientific Research, letter by C. Biggs, 354; the State and, 24 
Scientific Serials, 15, 35, 55, 93, 113, 130, 152, 177, 202, 244, 
__ 265, 286, 305, 313, 327, 346, 364, 387, 487, 507 
Sclater (P. L.) on Recent Accessions to the Zoological Society’s 
Gardens, 9, 146; on Certain Principles to be Observed in the 
Establishment of National Museums of Natural History 
(Br. A.), 455; on the New Australian Mud-Fish, 106 
Scottish Gold Fields, the Matrix of the Gold in, Dr. Bryce 
(Br. A.), 504 
Sea, Illumination of the, 165 ; StrangeNoises heard at, 25, 46, 
356 
Secchi (Father) and Mr. Lockyer, 128 
Sewers in Running Sand, Reade and Goodison (Br. A.), 483 
Sheffield Scientific School, New Hayen, 289 
Shooting Stars of August, 365 
Sicily, Newer Tertiary Fossils in, Jeffreys (Br. A.), 503 
Silkworms, Pasteur’s Researches on the Diseases of, by Prof. 
Tyndall, 181 
Simpson (Sir J. Y.) on Modern Aneesthetics, 52 
Skin, the Composition of the, 387 
Sky, the Colour of the, Correspondence on, 7, 48, 235 
Smallwood (Dr., Montreal) on some Phenomena of the Solar 
Eclipse of August 1869, 76 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 290 
Snake-bite, Prof. Halford’s Methed of dealing with, 381 
Solar Energy, the Source of, 255, 275, 295, 315 
Soluble Garnet, 282 
Sonnenschein and Nesbitt’s “ Arithmetic,” 186 
Sources of the Nile, 6, 13, 26, 47, 77 
Sourel’s (L.) ‘The Bottom of the Sea,” 65 
South Wales Coal-field, the Geological Features of the, 395 
Southern Chili, Tertiary Coal Fields of, G. A. Lebour (Br. A.), 
464 
Spontaneous Generation, Correspondence on, 234, 254, 276, 296 ; 
Bastian’s Facts and Reasonings concerning, 170, 193, 219; 
Prof. Huxley on, 400, 473; Reply to Prof. Huxley on, 410, 
431, 492 : 
Sporangia of Ferns from the Coal Measures, W. Carruthers 
(Br. A), 505 
Spottiswoode’s Paper on the Mechanical Description of a nodal 
bicircular Quartic, 74 
| Stars, the Extinction of, 211 
Religion, the Philosophy of, among the Lower Grades of Man- | 
kind, by E. B. Tylor (Geogr. Soc.), 18 
Robertson (P. S.) on the Flowering and Fruiting of Aucuda 
japonica (Edin. Bot. Soc.), 58 
Robertson (Prof. G: Croom) on Psychology in England, 331 
Robertson’s Daily Readings in Natural Science, 253 
Robinson (C. J.) on the Mulberry Tree, 67 ; on our Salad Herbs, 
317; on British Edible Fungi, 518 
- Rodwell (Geo. F.) on an Unpublished Italian MS. of the Seven— 
teenth Century, 370 
Address to Section D (Br. A.), 423, 442 
Roscoe’s (Prof. H. E.) Address to Section B (Br. A.), 406 
- Rotundity of the Earth, The, 214, 236 
- Roumeguere on Fungi, by M. J. Berkeley, 185 
Royal Academy, Natural Science at the, by John Brett, 157 
Royal College of Surgeons, Annual Report of the, 320 
Royal Institution, 17, 36 
Royal Society, 16, 35, 73, 93, 114, 131, 152 
Royal Society of Literature, 287 
- Royston-Pigott (G. W.), on an Aplanatic Searcher (R. Soc.), 16 
Rugby School Nat. Hist. Soc., Third Annual Report of, 89 
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Rolleston (Prof. ), Classical and Scientific Training, 250; Opening | 
Statistical Society, 266 
Steam Power, Meter, Ashton and Storey’s, Mr. Ashton (Br. A.), 
528 
Steel, New Process for Making, 397 
| Stewart (Dr. Balfour) on What is Energy? 79, 183, 270; on 
Mattieu Williams’ ‘‘ Fuel of the Sun,” 99 ; on Pamphlets on 
Meteorology and Magnetism, 252 ; on the Flagstaff Observa- 
tory at Melbourne, 303 ; on Cosmical Physics, 499 
Storms in the Bay of Bengal, Origin of, 151 
Stone Implements from Burma, by J. Evans, 104 
Strachey (G.) on Scandinavian Skulls, 47 
Strath, Isle of Skye, some Points in the Geology of, Profs, King 
and Rowney (Br. A.), 481 
Stream Lines and Naval Archit., Prof. Rankine (Br. A.), 460 
Stricker (Prof. S.) on the Medical Schools of England and Ger- 
many, 349, 369 
Suez Canal, on the Reported Current in the, by F, Galton, 
189 
Suffolk’s Microscopical Manipulation, 273 
Sulphur, a new Acid of, 387 
Super-Saturation, Letter by J. G. 
by C. Tomlinson on, 335 
Surface Oceanic Life, 92 
Grenfell on, 276; Letter 
