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REPORT — 1861. 



Crime, Henry Ashworlh on capital punish- 

 ments, and their influence on, 203. 



Crornleach and rockiug-stones considered 

 ethnologically, P. O'Callaghan on, 187. 



Cull (R.) on the antiquity of the Aryan 

 languages, 193. 



Curves of the third order, A. Cayley on, 2. 



Cyathina Sinithii, J. G. Jeffreys on an 

 abnormal form of, 146. 



Cyclones, Isaac Ashe on the causes of the 

 phenomena of, 266. 



Cypraea, Dr. T. Alcock on some points in 

 the anatomy of, 137. 



Daa (L.) on the ethnology of Finnmark, 

 in Nonvaj', 193. 



Danson (J. T.) on the growth of the 

 human body in height and weight in 

 males from 17 to 30 years of age, 216. 



■ (William) on the law of universal 



storms, 52 ; on Barragudo cotton from 

 the plains of the Amazon, and on the 

 flax-fibre cotton of North America, 140; 

 on the manufacture of the human hair 

 as an article of consumption and general 

 use, 217. 



Daphnia Schasflferi, Rev. A. R, Hogan on, 

 146. 



Dartmoor, W. Pengelly on the age of the 

 granites of, ] 27. 



Darwin (Mr.), H. Fawcett on the method 

 of, in his treatise on the origin of spe- 

 cies, 141. 



Daubeny (Dr.) on the evolution of am- 

 monia from volcanos, 77 ; on tlie func- 

 tions discharged by tlie roots of plants ; 

 and on a violet peculiar to the calamine 

 rocks in the neighbourhood of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, 141 ; on the influence exerted 

 by light on the function of plants, 141. 



Davies (J. Alexander) on the production 

 of colour by the prism, the passive 

 mental eflfect or instinct in compre- 

 hending the enlargement of the visual 

 angles and other optical phenomena, 

 ol. 



Davy (Dr. John) on the action of lime on 

 animal and vegetable substances, 165 ; 

 on the blood of the common earth- 

 worm, 165; on the question whether 

 the hair is subject or not to a sudden 

 change of colour, 166. 



Deane (H.) on a particular decomposition 

 of ancient glass, 78. 



Delffs (Dr.) on morin, and the non-exist- 

 ence of morotannic acid, 78. 



Digestion, Dr. G. Robinson on the con- 

 nexion between the functions of respi- 

 ration and, 173. 



Dobson (Thomas) on the general forms 



of the symmetrical properties of plane 

 triangles, 2. 



Donegal, R. H. Scott on the granitic rocks 

 of, 31. 



Donnelly (Capt.) on the nature and results 

 of the aid granted by the State towards 

 the instruction of the industrial classes 

 in elementary sciences, 217. 



Dredging, deep-sea, off the Shetland Isles, 

 Rev. Alfred Merle Norman on the 

 Crustacea, echinodermata, and zoo- 

 phytes obtained in, 151. 



Drifts of the Severn, Avon, Wye, and 

 Usk, Rev. W. S. Symonds on some 

 phenomena connected with the, 133. 



Dublin Protestant orphan societies, the 

 Rev. W. Caine on ten years' statistics 

 of the mortality amongst the orphan 

 children under the care of the, 208. 



Du Chaillu (P. B.), Prof. Owen on some 

 objects of natural history from the col- 

 lection of, 155; on the geography and 

 natural history of Western Equatorial 

 Africa, 189; on the people of Western 

 Equatorial Africa, 190. 



Duckworth (Henry), new commercial 

 route to China, 194. 



Dukinfield, William Fairbairn on the tem- 

 perature of the eartli's crust, as exhi- 

 bited by thermometrical returns ob- 

 tained during the sinking of the deep 

 mine at, 53. 



Earth, on the influence of the rotation of 

 the, on the apparent path of a heavy 

 particle, bj' Prof. Price, 6. 



Earth's crust, William Fairbairn on the 

 temperature of the, as exhibited by 

 thermometrical returns obtained durin? 

 the sinking of the deep mine at Dukin- 

 field, 53. 



magnetic force, John Allan Broun 



on the supposed connexion between 

 meteorological phenomena and the va- 

 riations of the, 49. 



Earthworm, Dr. John Davy on the blood 

 of the common, 165. 



Eddy (Dr.) on a class of gun-boats ca- 

 pable of engaging armour-plated ships 

 at sea, with suggestions for fastening 

 on armour-plates, 257. 



Educational institutions, J. Heywood on 

 the inspection of endowed, 222. 



Effertz(Peter) on a brick-making machine, 

 258. 



Ekman (C. F.) on the fundamental prin- 

 ciples of algebra, chiefly with regard to 

 negative and imaginary quantities, 4. 



Electric light, Dr. Miller on photographic 

 spectra of tlie, 87. 



