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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 



SECTIONS. 



AbESSINIA, Dr. Beke on a volcanic 

 eruption on the coast of, 18G. 



Adier (M. N.) on the almanac, 12. 



Aerolites, R, P. Greg on M. Haidinger's 

 communication on the origin and fall 

 of, 13. 



Africa, Western Equatorial, P. B. Du 

 Chaillu on the geography and natural 

 history of, 189. 



, on the people of, 190. 



Airy (G. B.), his address as President of 

 Section A, 1 ; remarks on Dr. Hincks's 

 paper on the acceleration of the moon's 

 mean motion as indicated hy the records 

 of ancient eclipses, 12 ; on spontaneous 

 terrestrial galvanic currents, 35 ; on 

 the laws of the principal inequalities, 

 solar and lunar, of terrestrial magnetic 

 force in the horizontal plane, from ob- 

 servations at the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich, from 1848 to 1857, 36. 



Aix-la-Chapelle, Dr. Daubeny on a violet 

 peculiar to the Calamine rocks in the 

 neighbourhood of, 141. 



Alcock (Dr. T.) on some points in the 

 anatomy of Cypraea, 137. 



Alcock (R.), journey in the interior of 

 Japan, with theascentof Fusiyama, 183. 



Alkali-manufacture, W. Gossage on the 

 history of the, 80. 



Almanac, M. N. Adler on the, 12. 



Amazon, W. Danson on Barragudo cotton 

 from the plains of the, 140. 



America, North, W. Danson on the flax- 

 fibre cotton of, 140. 



i , Admiral Sir E. Belcher on the gla- 

 cial movements in the vicinity of Mount 



• St. Elias, on the N.W. coast of, 186. 



. , British North, Dr. J. Hector on 



the capabilities for settlement of the 

 central parts of, 195. 



Ammonia, Dr. Daubeny on the evolution 

 of, from volcanos, 77. 



, W. Marriott on the separation of, 



fom coal-gas, 86. 



Anderson (Prof.J on the constitution of 



paranaphthaline or anthracene, and 

 some of its decomposition products, 76. 



Andrews (Dr.) on the effect of great 

 pressures combined with cold on the 

 six non-condensable gases, 76. 



Anemometer for registering the maximum 

 force and extreme variation of the wind, 

 John E. Morgan on an, 72. 



Aniline, sulphate of. Dr. J. TurnbuU on 

 the physiological and medicinal pro- 

 perties of, and its use in the treatment 

 of chorea, 177. 



Antarctic regions, Capt. Maury on the 

 importance of an expedition to the, 

 for meteorological and other scientific 

 purposes, 65. 



Anthracene, Prof. Anderson on the con- 

 stitution of, 76. 



Arctic explorations, on the geographical 

 science of, and the advantage of conti- 

 nuing it, Capt. W. P. Snow on, 201. 



Armour-plates for ships. Dr. Eddy's sug- 

 gestions for fastening on, 257. 



Armstrong (Sir W. G.) on the patent 

 laws, 252. 



Arnott (Dr. G.) on railway accidents 

 from trains running offtlie rails, 252. 



Arsenic, Dr. S. Macadam on the propor- 

 tion of, present in paper hangings, 86. 



Artillery versus armour, Captain Blakely 

 on, 255. 



Aryan languages, R. Cull on the anti- 

 quity of the, 193. 



Ashe (Isaac) on the causes of the pheno- 

 mena of cyclones, 266. 



Ash worth (Henry) on capital punish- 

 ments and their influence on crime, ■ 

 203 ; on the progress of science and 

 art as developed in the bleaching of 

 cotton at Bolton, 204. 



Aston (T.) on elongated projectiles for 

 rifled fire-arms, 253. 



Asymptotic method of solving difl^erential 

 equations, on Petzval's, by William 

 Spottiswoode, 10. 



Atmosphere, Prof. Hennessy on the con- 



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