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and Chlorine Gas, 552 

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581 

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184 

 Pritchard (Prof.), Application of Photography to the Determina- 

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 Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, 133 

 Professorships, Science on advertising for Candidates for Vacant, 



229 

 Protoplasm, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 300 

 Protoplasm, Living, Method for subjecting, to the Action of 



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 Psychology, Supernormal, Phantasms of the Living, Edmund 



Gurney, Fred. W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore, Prof C. 



Lloyd Morgan, 290, 345 

 Ptarmigan, the, Robert Service, 445 

 Pulleys and Drums, Trains of. Prof. H. Hennessy, F.R.S., 



452 

 Pygmy Tribes in Africa, 497 

 Pyrometers, and Seismometers, Sounding a Crater,Fusion-Points, 



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Quadrant Electrometers, 331 



Quantin (M. H. ), on the Action of Tetrachloride of Carbon on 



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 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 404 

 Quartz, Pyro-Electricity of, B. von Kolenko, 333 

 Quaternary Beds of Nevada, finding of a Spear-head in the, 476 

 Quaternary Deposits in Western New York, Prehistoric Hearth 



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Rabbit, the Australian, 569 



Rabies, M. Pasteur's Treatment of, 30 



Races, European Prehistoric, Prof. A. H. Keane, 564 



Races humaines, Histoire generale des, A. de Quatrefages, 3S9 



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Radiation of Light, Peculiar, Robert D. Gibney, 536 



Radio-Micrometer, Preliminary Note on, C. Vernon Boys, 549 



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 Red Colour of Sirius, Alleged Ancient, 378, 391 

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 Red Spot on Jupiter, Rotation-Time of the. Prof. Young, 181 

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 Revolving Spheres, Aerial Vortices, or Experiments on, 



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 Revue mensuelle d'Astronomie populaire de Meteorologie, et 



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 Right Hand and Left-Handedness, Dr. Daniel Wilson, 307 

 Rink (Dr. H.), the Eskimo, Prof A. H. Keane, 309 

 Rio, Longitucie of. Prof. C. A. Young, 172 

 Rio de Janeiro, Observatory of, 593 

 Rivers, List of 374, Dr. von Kloden, 354 

 Riviera, Earthquake in the, Clement Reid, 534 

 Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 141, 237, 357, 405, 524 

 Rix (Herbert) Royal Society's Soiree, 607 

 Roberts- Austen (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Colours of Metals 



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 Robinson (H.), Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinery, 



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Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the Older 



Rocks of Brittany, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 550; Rocks 



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 Rodriguez, Cochenille at, 179 

 Rogeria lougiflora, 15S 

 Rogers (Prof. W. A.) and Miss Anna Winlock, Reduction of 



the Position of Close Polar Stars from one Epoch to another, 



231 

 Roman Dominion, on the Establishment of the, in South-East 



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of Organic Evolution, Herbert Spencer, 362 

 Rome, First General Meeting of the International Statistical 



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 Roscoe (Sir H. E., F.R.S.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 316 



