INDEX II. 
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INDEX Il. 
TO 
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 
SECTIONS. 
[An asterisk (x) signifies that no abstract of the communication ts given.} 
AEROLITES, Prof. N. S. Maskelyne 
on, 188. 
Africa, Dr. J. E. Gray on the crocodiles 
of, 106. 
Alcock (Sir R.) on the civilization of 
Japan, 136. 
Allen (E. E.) on the importance of eco- 
nomizing fuel in iron-plated ships, 182. 
Allman (Dr.) on an early stage in the 
development of Comatula, and its pa- 
leontological relations, 65; on the 
generative zooid of Clavatella, 100; on 
the structure of Corymorpha nutans, 
101; on some new British Tubula- 
ride, 101. 
Alps, W. Mathews, jun. on serious 
imaccuracies in the great survey of the 
south of Mont Blanc, as issued by the 
Government of Sardinia, 147. 
Ammonium, Dr. George D. Gibb on the 
See cecsl effects of the bromide of, 
Angles, F. Galton on a new French 
pocket instrument for measuring ver- 
tical and horizontal, 30. 
Aniline, Dr. Phipson on the existence 
of, in certain fungi which become blue 
in contact with the air, 51. 
Animals, diving, Prof. Rolleston on cer- 
tain modifications in the structure of, 
118. 
, James Hinton on a physiological 
classification of, 130. 
Ansted (Prof.) on bituminous schists 
and their relation to coal, 65; on a 
tertiary bituminous coal in Transyl- 
vania, with some remarks on the brown 
coals of the Danube, 66; on the climate 
of the Channel Islands, 138; on artifi- 
cial stones, 183. 
Antozene, Dr.G. Harley on Schénbein’s, 
de 
Aromatic oils, Dr. J. H. Gladstone on 
the essential vil of bay, and other, 43. 
Arsenic, oxide of, Dr. John Dayy on the 
question whether, if taken in very 
minute quantities fer a long period, 
is injurious te man, 128, 
Ashe (Isaac) on some cesmogonical 
speculations, 8; on balloon naviga- 
tion, 27; on some improvements in 
the barometer, 28; on the function of 
the auricular appendix of the heart, 
120; on the function of the oblique 
muscles of the eye, 120, 
Ashworth (Thomas) on the scientific 
cultivation of salmon fisheries, 121. 
Asplenium viride, Rev. W. 8. Symonds 
on the occurrence of, on an isolated 
travertine reck among the Black 
Mountains of Monmouthshire, 100. 
Astarte compressa, J. Gwyn J effreys on 
a specimen of, haying its hinge-teeth 
reversed, 108. 
Atherton(Chas.)on unsinkable ships,183. 
Atlantic, Prof. W. King on some objects 
of natural history lately obtained from 
the bottom of the, 108. 
Atmosphere, terrestrial, Dr. J. H. Glad- 
stone on the means of observing the 
lines of the solar spectrum due te the, 
48 
Atmospheric refraction, Rev. Prof.Challis 
on the augmentation of the apparent 
diameter of a body by its, 12. 
Auckland, New Zealand, W. Lauder 
Lindsay on the geology of the gold- 
fields of, 80. 
Australian geology and palzontology, 
contributions to, by Charles Moore, 83. 
