272 



REPORT — 1861. 



Coldbath-fields prison, experiments at, 

 on prison diet and discipline, 5/. 



Collingwood (Dr.), preliminary report of 

 the dredging committee for the Mersey 

 and Dee, 188. 



Colouring matters, organic, Drs. E. 

 Schunck, R. A. Smith, and H. E. 

 Roscoe on the manufacture of, 123. 



Copper ores, Drs. E. Schutick, R. A. 

 Smith, and H. E. Roscoe on the ma- 

 nufacture of, 119. 



Dee, Dr. Collingwood and Mr. Byerley's 

 report of the dredging committee for 

 the, 188. 



De la Rue (Warren), report on the progress 

 of celestial photography since the Aber- 

 deen Meeting, 94. 



Dickie (Dr. G.), brief summary of a re- 

 port on the flora of the North of Ire- 

 land, 240. 



Dietary of county prisons, on the inequa- 

 lities in the, 67. 



Disinfectants, Drs. E. Schunck, R. A. 

 Smith, and H. E. Roscoe on the manu- 

 facture of, 127. 



Dobson (Thomas), report on the explo- 

 sions in British coal-mines during the 

 year 1859, 236. 



Dredging committee for the Mersey and 

 Dee, preliminary report of the, 188. 



Dredging, report of the results of deep- 

 sea, in Zetland, by J. Gwyn JeflFreys, 

 178. 



— — , report of the committee for, on the 

 north and east coasts of Scotland, 

 280. 



DufFerin(the Lord), third report on steam- 

 ship performance, 190. 



Egerton (the Hon. Capt.), third report 



on steam-ship performance, 190. 

 Elder (John), third report on steam-ship 



performance, 190. 

 England, General Sabine's report on the 



repetition of the magnetic suney of, 



250. 

 Ethno-climatology, report on, by Dr. 



James Hunt, 129. 

 Evans (Frederick John) on the lines of 



equal magnetic declination, 273. 

 Exchanges, report on the theory of, by 



Balfour Stevvai-t, 97. 



Fairbairn (William), thirdreport on steam- 

 ship performance, 160; on the resist- 

 ance of iron plates to statical pressure 

 and the force of impact by projectiles 

 at high velocities, 280 ; report to de- 

 temiine the effect of vibratory action 



and long-continued changes of load 

 upon wrought-iron girders, 286. 



Flora of the North of Ireland, Dr.Dickie's 

 report on the, 240. 



Froude (William), third report on steam- 

 ship performance, 190. 



Gifford (the Earl of), third report on 



steam-ship performance, 190. 

 Girders, wrought-iron, Wm. Fairbaim's 



experiments upon, 286. 

 Gladstone (J. H.), report on observations 



of luminous meteors, 1. 

 Glaisher (James), report on observations 



of luminous meteors, 1. 

 Gray (J. M'^Farlane), third report on 



steam-ship performance, 190. 

 Greg (R. P.), report on observations of 



luminous meteors, 1. 



Hartington (the Marquis of), third report 

 on steam-ship performance, 190. 



Hay (Lord John), third report on steam- 

 ship performance, 190. 



Hennessy (Prof. Henry), provisional re- 

 port on the present state of our know- 

 ledge 'respecting the transmission of 

 sound-signals during fogs at sea, 173. 



Heywood (James), report of committee 

 on the law of patents, 289. 



Hill (Viscount), third report on steam- 

 ship performance, 190. 



Hochstetter (Ferdinand von), report on 

 the present state of our knowledge of 

 the birds of the genus Apteryx living 

 in New Zealand, 1/6. 



Hope (Capt.), third report on steam-ship 

 performance, 190. 



Hull, James Oldham's report on steam 

 navigation at, 239. 



Hunt (Dr. James) on etbno-climatology, 

 or the acclimatization of man, 129. 



Ireland, Dr. Dickie's report on the flora 



of the North of, 240. 

 Iron, protosulphate of, Drs. E. Schunck, 



R. A. Smith, and H. E. Roscoe on the 



manufacture of, 119. 

 Iron plates, W. Fairbairn's report on the 



resistance of, to statical pressure, 280. 



, specific gravity of, 282. 



, tensile strength of, 282. 



, ductility of, 282. 



•— , resistance to impact, 282. 



— — , resistance to compression, 284. 



, statical resistance to punching, 284. 



, computation of a general formula 



for the resistance of, to projectiles, 285. 



Jeflxeys (J. Gwyn), report of the results 



