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REPORT — 1871. 



Buchanan (J. Y.) on the rate of action 

 of caustic soda on a watery solution 

 of chloracetic acid at 100^ C, 67. 



Burmah and China, Major Sladen on 

 trade-routes between, 189. 



'Burntisland, G. J. Grieve on the posi- 

 tion of organic remains near, 98. 



*Oagayan Sulu Island, Capt. Chimmo 

 on, 176. 



Camboja, Colonel Yule on Capt. Gar- 

 nier's expedition up the, 190. 



Canonical form of spherical harmonics. 

 Prof. Clifford on a, 10. 



Capital, W. Westgarth on the law of, 

 223. 



*Carahus nitens of the Scottish moors, 

 Dr. Grierson on, 132. 



*Carbon-closet system, E. C. C, Stan- 

 ford on the, 240. 



Carboniferous and other old land- sur- 

 faces, relics of the, by H. Woodward, 

 113. 



formation in and around Edin- 

 burgh, C. "\V. Peach on additions 

 to the list of fossils and localities of 

 the, 109. 



• rocks, Prof W. C. Williamson 



on the structure of Diploxyhn, a plant 

 of the, 112. 



* rocks, lower, at Langton, Ber- 

 wickshire, the Rev. T. Brown on 

 specimens of fossil wood from the 

 base of the, 128. 



Carpenter (Dr. W. B.) on the thermo- 

 dj'namics of the general oceanic cir- 

 cidation, 51. 



Carpus of a dog. Prof W. H. Flower on 

 the composition of the, 138. 



" Carr Disintegi-ator," J. F. Bramwell 

 on some experiments upon a, at work 

 at Messrs. Gibson and Walker's flour- 

 mills, 229. 



Carr (Thomas) on a new mill for dis- 

 integrating wheat, 233. 



Carruthers (W.) on the vegetable con- 

 tents of masses of limestone occirrring 

 in trappean rocks in Fifeshire, and the 

 conditions under which they are pre- 

 served, 94. 



Caustic soda, J. Y. Buchanan on the 

 rate of action of, on a watery solu- 

 tion of chloracetic acid at 100° C, 

 67. 



Cave at Oban, Prof Turner on human 

 and animal bones and flints found in 

 a, 160. 



Caves at Mentone, M. Moggridge on the 

 bones and flints found in the, and ad- 

 jacent railway-cutting, 155. 



Cayley (Prof) on the number of cova- 

 riants of a binary quantic, 9. 



Census reform, James Valentine on, 223. 



Centenarian longevity, Sir D. Gibb on, 

 151. 



Cervical vertebrae in Cetacea, Prof 

 Struthers on the, 142. 



of Steypirethyr, Prof. Turner on 



the, 144. 



Cetacea, Prof Struthers on the cervical 

 vertebrfe in, 142 ; Prof Turner on the 

 placentation in the, 144. 



Ceylon and India, Commander A. D. 

 Taylor on the proposed ship-canal 

 between, 189. 



Chain-cable testing, E, A. Peacock on, 

 and proposed new testing-link, 240. 



Challis (Kev. Prof) on the mathema- 

 tical theory of atmospheric tides, 51, 



*Charcoal, E. C. C. Stanford on the re- 

 tention of organic nitrogen by, 81. 



Chamock (Dr.; on Le Sette Communi, 

 a German colony in the neighbourhood 

 of Vicenza, 148. 



and Dr. C. Blake on the physical, 



mental, and philological characteris- 

 tics of the Wallops, 148. 



Chauves-souris de I't^poque du mam- 

 mouth et de I'epoque actueUe, Prof. 

 Van Beneden sur les, 135. 



Chemical dynamics, J. H. Gladstone and 

 Alfred Tribe on, 70. 



Section, Prof Andrews's Address 



to the, 56. 



•Chemistry, C. G. TMieeler on the recent 

 progress of, in the United States, 83. 



Chiene (Dr. John), an experimental in- 

 quiry into some of the results of inocu- 

 lation in the lower animals, 138. 



Children's hospitals. Dr. W. Stephenson 

 on the scientific aspects of, 221. 



*Chimmo (Capt.) on Cagayan Sulu Is- 

 land, 176. 



China, Major Sladen on trade routes 

 between Burmah and, 189. 



Chloracetic acid, J. Y. Buchanan on the 

 rate of action of caustic soda on a 

 watery solution of, at 100° C, 67. 



Chlorimetry, improvements in, 81. 



Circulation and distribution of the at- 

 mosphere, Prof. Everett on the ge- 

 neral, 54, 



of the blood, Prof A. Buchanan on 



the pressure of the atmosphere as an 

 auxiliary force in carryiug on the, 

 137. 



■ of the blood, exhibition of a model 



of the, by Prof Ptutherford, 141. 

 Clark (Latimer) on a new form of con- 

 stant galvanic battery, 47. 



