INDEX II, 
hydrocarbon oils, paraffin, &c. from, 
50 
Pengelly (W.) on the correlation of the 
slates and limestones of Devon and 
Cornwall with the old red sandstones 
of Seotland, &c., 85. 
Phipson (Dr. T. L.) on the artificial for- 
mation of populine, and on a new 
class of organic compounds, 50; on 
the existence of alii in certain 
fungi which become blue in contact 
with the air, &c., 51; on the diluvial 
soil of Brabant, &c., known as the 
Limon de la Hesbaye, 53. 
Pheenician inscription on the Newton 
Stone, Aberdeenshire, decipherment 
of the, by the Rev. Dr. Mill, 147. 
Phosphorus, Dr. Moffat on the lumi- 
nosity of, 47. 
Photography with colour, Rev. J. B. 
Reade on, 22. 
Photolithographic process, J. W. Os- 
borne on a, adopted by the Govern- 
ment of Victoria for the publication 
of maps, 49. 
Pierotti (Signor) on recent notices of 
the Rechabites, 147. 
Planetary nebula, AX 20° 56’, N.P.D. 
101° 56’, William Lassell on a bril- 
liant elliptic ring in the, 14. 
Planets in 1860, Norman Pogson on 
three of the minor, 16. 
*Planispheres, Chevalier Tenazio Villa 
on some improved celestial, 18; ter- 
restrial, 148. 
*Plant (T. L.) on meteorology, with a 
description of meteorological instru- 
ments, 34. 
*Plants, Dr. Daubeny’s reply to the re- 
marks of M. F. Marcet on the power 
of selection ascribed to the roots of, 98. 
* , John Gibbs on the inflorescence 
of, 98. 
Plesiosaurus, Dr. A. Carte and W. H. 
aily on a new species of, from the 
lias near Whitby, 68. 
Pogson (Norman) on three of the minor 
planets in 1860, 16. 
Poisoning, Dr. George Harley on, 129. 
Political economy, W. 8. Jevons on a 
general mathematical theory of, 158. 
——, H. D. Macleod on the defini- 
tion and nature of the science of, 159. 
Polypes, hydroid, Rev. T. Hincks on the 
production of similar medusoids by 
certain, belonging to different genera, 
107. 
Polypterus niloticus, Prof. Owen on the 
homologies of the bones of the head 
of the, 118. 
207 
Populine, Dr. Phipson on the artificial 
formation of, 50. 
Projectiles with cycloidal rotation, R. 
W . Woollcombe on oblate, 187. 
Property, real, Frederick Purdy on, 162. 
Purdy (Frederick) on local taxation and 
real property, 162; on the pauperism 
and mortality of Lancashire, 165. 
Quadrumana, Dr. Collingwood on Geof- 
froy St.-Hilaire’s distinction between 
catarrhine and platyrrhine, 106, 
Railway accidents, J. Sewell on the pre- 
vention of, 186. 
Rainbow, on the supernumerary bows in 
the, 22. 
Rankin (Rey. T.), meteorological obser- 
vations registered at Huggate, York- 
shire, 34. 
Rankine (W. J. M.) on the exact form 
and motion of waves at and near the 
surface of deep water, 5. 
Reade (Rev. J. b) on photography with 
colour, 22. 
Readwin (T. A.) on the gold-bearing 
strata of Merionethshire, 87. 
Rechabites, Signor Pierotti on recent 
notices of the, 147. 
Resins, J. W. Osborne on the, from the 
indigenous vegetation of Victoria, 48. 
*Rhinoceros tichorhinus, §. P. Saville 
on a skull of the, 94. 
Richardson (Sir J.) on zoological pro- 
vinces, 118. 
Roberts (Henry) on the increased circu- 
lation of a pure and instructive litera- 
ture adapted to the capacities and the 
means of the labouring population, 
172. 
Robinson (Dr. George) on the study of 
the circulation of the blood, 134. 
Rocks, H. C. Sorby on the comparative 
structure of artificial and natural ig- 
neous, 96. 
Rolleston (Dr.) on certain modifications 
in the structures of diving animals, 
118; on the difference of behaviour 
exhibited by inuline and ordinary 
starch when treated with salivary 
diastase and other converting agents, 
5. 
Roots, James Buckman on the ennobling 
of, with particular reference to the 
parsnip, 97, 
——, James Buckman’s experiments 
with seed of malformed, 97. 
Roscoe (Prof. H. E.) on hypobromous 
acid, 54, 
Rose (C. B.) on some mammalian re- 
