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INDEX. 



tion of underground waters, 235 ; on 

 the teaching of science in elementary 

 schools, 27S ; the cliaracter and or- 

 ganisation of the institutions for 

 technical education required in a 

 large manufacturing town, 773. 



Crystalline schists of Ireland, notes on 

 the, by Dr. C. Callaway, 661. 



Crystalline structure of iron meteorites, 

 the, by Dr. O. W. Huntington, 599. 



Cubic differential resolvent, the explicit 

 form of the complete, Kev. R. Harley 

 on, 439. 



Culm measures of Devonshire, the, by 

 W. A. E. Ussher, 676. 



Cundall (J. T.) on the influence of the 

 silent discharge of electricity on oxy- 

 gen and other gases, 213. 



and W. A. Shenstone, on the pre- 

 paration and storage of oxygen gas in 

 a pure state, 213. 



Cunningham (J. T.), report on the work 

 done at the marine biological station 

 at Gran ton, Scotland, 251. 



Cunningham (Rev. W.) on the regula- 

 tion of wages by means of sliding 

 scales, 282. 



Cunnington (W.) on the recent explora- 

 tion of Bowls's barrow, 841. 



Current-weigher, a new form of, for the 

 absolute determination of the strength 

 of an electric current. Prof. J. Blyth 

 on, 521. 



Cutting of polarising prisms. Prof. S. P. 

 Thompson on the, 520. 



Cycloidal rotation in arterial red discs, 

 the causes and results of, Surg.-Maj. 

 R. W. Woollcombe on, 687. 



Cylindrical lens, a varying. Dr. T. Ander- 

 son on, 520. 



Cypripedium, note on the floral sym- 

 metry of the genus, by Dr. M. T. 

 Masters, 706. 



Darwin (Prof. G. H.) on preparing in- 

 structions for the practical work of 

 tidal observation, 40 ; on the harmonic 

 analysis of tidal observations, ib. ; on 

 the best means of comparing and re- 

 ducing magnetic observations, 64 ; Ad- 

 dress to the Mathematical and Physi- 

 cal Section by, 511 ; *on the Jacobian 

 ellipsoid of equilibrium of a rotating 

 mass of fluid, 541 ; *on the dynamical 

 theory of the tides of long period, il). 



Davey (H.), the domestic motor, 806. 



Davis (J. W.) on the exploration of the 

 Raygill fissure in Lothersdale, York- 

 shire, 469. 



Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd) on the erratic 



blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, 



223 ; on the work of the Correspond- 



. ing Societies Committee, 285 ; on the 



kerosine shale of Mount Victoria, New 

 South Wales, 643 ; on the we.stward 

 extension of the coal-measures into 

 south-eastern England, 650; on the 

 Celtic and Germanic designs on Runic 

 crosses, 834 ; on the recent exploration 

 of Gop Cairn and Cave, 839. 



Dawson (Dr. G. M.) on the North-west- 

 ern tribes of the dominion of Canada, 

 285 ; on the Rocky Mountains, with 

 special reference to that part of the 

 Range between the 49th parallel and 

 the headwaters of the Red Deer River, 

 638. 



Dawson (Sir J. W.) on the relations of 

 the geolog}' of the Arctic and Atlantic 

 basins, 638 ; on Canadian examples of 

 supposed fossil algfe, 651 ; note on 

 photographs of mummies of ancient 

 Egyptian kings, recently unrolled at 

 Boulak, 845. 



Dawson (Capt.W..J.) on the depth of the 

 permanently frozen soil in the Polar 

 regions, 271. 



Deep boring for water in the new red 

 marls (Keuper marls) near Birming- 

 ham, W. J. Harrison on a, 630. 



Deep borings, two, in Kent, supplemen- 

 tary note on, by W. Whitaker, 649. 



Denudation and deposition by the agency 

 of waves experimentallj^ considered, by 

 A. R. Hunt, 676. 



De Ranee (C. E.) on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 223 ; on 

 the circulation of underground waters, 

 235 ; on the erosion of the sea-coasts 

 of England and Wales, 847. 



Devonian, the lower and middle, in West 

 Somerset, the relations of, by W. A. E. 

 Ussher, 649. 



Dewar (Prof.) on standards of light, 39 ; 

 on wave-length tables of the spectra of 

 the elements, 167. 



Diamantiferous peridotite, a, and the 

 genesis of tlie diamond. Prof. H. C. 

 Lewis on, 667. 



Diathermancy and electrolj^tio conduc- 

 tivity, S. Bidwell on, 309, 



Diatomite, deposits of, in Sk3'e, W. I. 

 Macadam and J. S. G. Wilson on, 678. 



Differential gravity meter, a, founded on 

 the flexure of a spring, description of, 

 by Sir W. Thomson, 534. 



, a good, report of the Committee for 



inviting designs for, in supersession of 

 the pendulum, 141. 



Blprotodon Australis, the discovery of, 

 in tropical Western Australia (Kimber- 

 ley district), E. T. Hardman on, 671. 



Dissociation and contact-action, bj' Rev. 

 A. Irving, 577. 



Dissolutions salines trfes etendues, sur la 

 conductibilite Slectrique des, par E. 

 Bouty, 350. 



