284 



REPORT — 1861. 



Otoscope, Dr. Politzer's, J. Toynbee on 

 the action of the eustachian tube in 

 man, as demonstrated by, 176. 



Owen (Prof.) on a dinosaurian reptile 

 (Scelidosaurus Harrisoni) from the 

 lower lias of Charmouth, 121; on the 

 remains of a Plesiosaurian reptile (Ple- 

 siosaurus Australis) from the oolitic 

 formation in the middle island of New 

 Zealand, 122; on the cervical and 

 lumbar vortebrjE of the mole (Talpa 

 Europsea), 152; on some objects of 

 natural history from the collection of 

 M. Du Chaillu, 155. 



Ozone, Dr. Moffat on atmospheric, 88. 



Panoramic lens, Thomas Sutton onthe,33. 

 Paranaphthaline, Prof. Anderson on the 



constitution of, 76. 

 Patents — can they be defended on econo- 

 mical grounds? by Prof. J. E. T. 



Rogers, 240. 

 Patent laws, SirW. G. Armstrong on the, 



252. 



tribunals, \V. Speuce on, 265. 



Patterson (W.) on certain markings in 



sandstones, 123. 

 Pauperism of England, Scotland, and 



Ireland, 1851 to 1860, Frederick Purdy 



on the relative, 231. 

 Pengelly (W.) on a new bone-cave at 



Brixham, 123; on the relative age of 



the Petherwin and Barnstaple beds, 



124; on the recent encroachments of 



the sea on the shores of Torbay, 124 ; 



on the age of the granites of Dartmoor, 



127. 

 Perambulator and street railway, John 



Haworth on a, 258. 

 Perchloric acid and its hydrates, Prof. 



Roscoe on, 91. 

 Perthshire, South, Prof, Harkness on the 



old red sandstone of, 1 14. 

 Petzval's asymptotic method of solving 



differential equations, VV. Spottiswoode 



on, 10. 

 Phillips (Prof.) on the post-glacial gravels 



of the valley of the Thames, 129. 

 Photographic micrometers, Sir David 



Brewster on, 28. 



records given at the Kew observa- 



tory of the great magnetic storm of the 

 end of August and beginning of Sep- 

 tember 1859, B. Stewart on the, 47. 



spectra of the electric light, Dr. 



Miller on, 87. 



Photozincography, Colonel Sir Henry 

 James on, 263. 



Piperic and hydropiperic acids, G. C, 

 Foster on, 78. 



Plants, Dr. Daubeny on the functions 

 discharged by the roots of, 141. 



, Dr. Daubeny on the influence 



exertedby light on the function of, 141. 

 -, Dr. Jessen on the absorbing power 



of the roots of, 147. 



Pleistocene deposits of the district around 

 Liverpool, G. H. Morton on the, 120. 



Plesiosaurus Australis, Prof. Owen on the 

 remains of, from the oolitic formation 

 in the middeislandof NewZealand, 122. 



Polyps, the Rev. T. Hincks on the deve- 

 lopment of the hydroid, Clavatella and 

 Stauridia, 145. 



Polyzoa, Rev. T. Hincks on the ovicells 

 of the, with reference to the views of 

 Prof. Huxley, 145. 



Population, John Strang on the compara- 

 tive progress of the English and Scot- 

 tish, as shown by the census of 1861, 

 243. 



Porter (H. J, Ker) on farm labourers' 

 cottages, 230. 



Potter (Edmund) on cooperation and its 

 tendencies, 230. 



Price (Prof.) on the influence of the rota- 

 tion of the earth on the apparent path 

 of a heavy particle, 6. 



Prideaux (T. S.) on economy in fuel, 269. 



Prism, J. A. Davies's observations upon 

 the production of colour by the, 31. 



and chromascope, John Smith on 



the, 33. 



Prison dietary in India, Dr. Mouatt on, 

 170. 



Punishments, capital, and their influence 

 on crime, Henry Ashworth on, 203. 



Purdy (Frederick) on the relative pau- 

 perism of England, Scotland, and Ire- 

 land, 1851-1860, 231. 



Putrefaction, Dr. INIoffat on sulphuretted 

 hydiogen as a product of, 89. 



Quantic, W. Spottiswoode on the reduc- 

 tion of the decadic binary to its cano- 

 nical form, 11. 



Quartz, Dr. Smith on certain difficulties in 

 the way of separating gold from, 92. 



Railway, H. Wise on a proposed railway 



across the Malay peninsula, 201. 

 — -, street, John Haworth on a, 258. 



accidents. Dr. G. Arnott on, from 



trains running off the rails, 252. 



break, sledge, James Higgin on a, 



262. 



Rainfall, British, G. J. Symons on, 74. 

 Ramsay (John) on the proposal to form a 



ship canal between East and West Loch 



Tarbert, 197. 



