INDEX II. 



231 



Purdy (F.) on the systems of poor-law 

 medical relief, 195. 



Pyrites, iron, A. Gages on some transfor- 

 mations of, in connexion witii organic 

 remains, 79. 



Pyrosclerite, Connemara, analysis of by 

 Prof. Rowney, 71. 



Quadratic radicals, Prof. Sylvester on a 

 generalization of Poncelet's theorems 

 for the linear representation of, 7. 



Quinine, V. Hurtado on the barks from 

 which it is obtained, 162. 



Radcliffe (Dr. C. B.) on muscular action 

 from an electrical point of view, 143. 



Rae (Dr. J.) on the formation of icebergs 

 and ice action in the Hudson's bay and 

 straits, 174 ; on the aborigines of the 

 arctic and sub-arctic regions of N. Ame- 

 rica, 175. 



Railways, street, as used in the United 

 States, G. F. Train on, 215. 



Rankin (Rev. T.) on the different motions 

 of electric fluid, 30; on meteorological 

 observations made at Huggate, 50. 



Reflexion, Prof. Lindilof on the caustics 

 produced by, 14. 



Reeve (Lovell) on the Aspergillum or 

 watering-pot mollusk, 120. 



Reilly (Calcott) on the longitudinal stress 

 of the plate-girder, 212. 



Rennison (Rev. T.) on a new proof of 

 Pascal's theorem, 6. 



Respiration, JB. W. Richardson on the 

 process of, 143. 



Rhynchosaurus, Rev. W. Lister on foot- 

 prints of the, in the new red sandstone 

 north of Wolverhampton, 87. 



Richardson (Dr. B. W.) on the process of 

 oxygenation in animal bodies, 1 43 ; on 

 an electro-magnetic railway break, 212. 



Riffers of Morocco, E. Schlagintweit on 

 the, 177. 



Rings seen in viewing a light through 

 fibrous specimens of calc-spar, on, 19. 



Road locomotives, Earl of Caithness on, 

 204. 



Roberts (Henry) on various efforts to 

 improve the domiciliary condition of 

 the labouring classes, 1 96. 



Rocks, igneous, T. S. Hunt on, 84. 



, magnesian, T. S. Hunt on, 83. 



, plutonic, T. S. Hunt on, 84. 



, magnetic, in South India, 24. 



Rocks, metamorphic, of the N. of Ire- 

 land, Prof. Hennessy on the, 79. 



■ gneous, interstratified with the car- 



boniferous limestones of the basin of 

 Limerick, J. B. Jukes onthe, 84. 



Rocky Mountains, British North America, 



Dr. Hector on the strata composing the, 



81. 

 > Mountains, Capt. J. Palliser on 



explorations in the, 170. 

 Rogers (Prof. H. D.) on some phenomena 



of metamorphism in coal in the United 



States, 101. 

 Rogers (Prof. W. B.), experiments and 



conclusions on binocular vision, 17 ; 



on the phenomena of electrical vacuum 



tubes, 30. 

 Rotation, J. S. S. Glennie on a general 



law of, applied to the planets, 58. 

 Roots of substitutions, Rev. T. Kirkman 



on the, 4. 

 Rowney (Prof. T. H.) on the analysis of 



some Connemara minerals, 71 ; on the 



composition of jet, 72. 



Saccharine fermentation within the female 

 breast, on, 131. 



Sahara, central, of Algeria, Rev. H. B. 

 Tristram on the geological system of 

 the, 102. 



Sandstone, new red, north of Wolver- 

 hampton, Rev. W. Lister on some foot- 

 prints of the Labyrinthodon, Rhyncho- 

 saurus, &c. in the, 87. 



, old red, of Farnell, Forfarshire, 



Sir P. de M. G. Egerton on the fishes 

 found in the, 77. 



Saskatchewan territory, British North 

 America, examination of, by Capt. Pal- 

 liser, 170. 



, Dr. Hector on the climate of the, 



172. 



Schlagintweit (Lieut. Edward) on the 

 tribes composing the population of 

 Morocco, 177. 



Schlagintweit (H. von), general abstract 

 of the results of Messrs. de Schlagint- 

 weit's magnetic survey of India, 32. 



Schlagintweit (Robert von) on thermo- 

 barometers, compared with barometers 

 at great heights, 50 ; on some of the 

 races of India and High Asia, 175. 



Schools, educational, E. Chadwick on the 

 physiological as well as psychological 

 limits to mental labour, 185. 



Sclater (P. L.) on the geographical distri- 

 bution of recent terrestrial vertebrata, 

 121. 



Scoffern (T.) on waterproof and unalter- 

 able small-arm cartridges, 72. 



Sea pressure gauge, deep, on a, 202. 



Sedgwick (Rev. Prof.) on the geology of 

 the neighbourhood of Cambridge and 

 the fossils of the upper greensand, 

 101. 



