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REPORT 1871. 



Democritus and Lucretius, T. M. Lind- 

 say and W. R. Smith on, a question 

 of priority in the kinetical theory of 

 matter, 30. 



*Dendy (Walter), a gleam of the Saxon 

 in the Weald, 150. 



♦Denudation of the Bath oolite, W. S. 

 MitcheU on the, 107. 



Dichroism of the vapour of iodine, Dr. 

 Andrews on the, 66. 



Dictyoxylons of the coal-measures. Prof. 

 W. C. Williamson on the structm-e of 

 the, 112, 



Dietaries in the workhouses of England 

 and Wales, Dr. Edwai'd Smith on the, 

 141. 



Difterential holophote,T. Stevenson on a, 



Dioptase, Prof. Maskelyne on the loca- 

 lities of, 74. 



Dip-circle, Dr. Joide on a new, 48. 



* Dijdoxijlon, Prof. W. C. Williamson 

 on the stnicture of, a plant of the Car- 

 boniferous rocks, 112. 



Disintegrating wheat, T. Carr on a new 

 miU for, 233. 



Dissection of a large fin-whale. Prof. 

 Struthers on some rudimentary struc- 

 tiu^es recently met with in the, 142. 



Distances of some of the fixed stars, 

 H. Fox Talbot on a method of esti- 

 mating the, 34. 



Domestic animals of Europe, W. Boyd 

 Dawkins on the origin of the, 149. 



Doomsday Book, F. P. Fellowes on a 

 proposed, giving the value of govern- 

 ment property as a basis for a soimd 

 system of national finance and ac- 

 counts, 211. 



*Dougall (Dr. John) on the relative 

 powers of various substances in pre- 

 venting the generation of animalcules, 

 or the development of their germs, 

 with special reference to the germ- 

 theory of putrefaction, 124. 



•Douglas (R.) on the Corliss engine, 

 234. 



Dredging at Madeira, Rev. R. B.Watson 

 on, 137, 242. 



expedition of the yacht ' Noma,' 



W. S. Kent on the zoological results 

 of the, 132. 



Dredgings in Kenmare Bay, A. G, More 

 on some, 133. 



Dry-bidb formidae. Prof. Everett on 

 wet- and, 54. 



Dudley coal-field, H. Woodward on the 

 discovery of a new and very perfect 

 Ai-achnide from the ironstone of the, 

 ■ 112. 



*Duns (Prof. J.), notice of two speci- 

 mens of Echinorhinus taken in the 

 Firth of Forth, 132 ; on the rarer 

 raptorial birds of Scotland, 132. 



Dyer (Prof. W. T. Thiseltou) on the 

 minute anatomy of the stem of the 

 screw-pine, Pandamis utilis, 128 ; on 

 the so-called ' ^Mimicry ' in plants, 



*Earth, Prof. Clifford on the secular 

 cooling and figiu-e of the, 34. 



* Hehinorhinus , Prof. J. Duns on two 

 specimens of, taken in the Firth of 

 Forth, 132. 



*Eclipse, solar, M. Janssen on the coming, 

 34. 



*Eclipses, solar, J. N. Lockyer on recent 

 and coming, 34. 



Economic laws. Lord Neaves on, 197, 



Economic Science and Statistics,Addi"es3 

 by the President, Lord Neaves, to the 

 Section of, 191. 



Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Prof. Bal- 

 four on the cultivation of Ipecacuanha 

 in the, for transmission to India, 127. 



, D. Grieve on the fossiliferous 



strata at Lochend, near, 98. 

 • Industi-ial Home for fallen women, 



W. M'Bean on the, 212. 



Merchant Company, T. J. Boyd 



on educational hospital reform; tlio 

 scheme of the, 202. 



, outline of the history of volcanic 



action around, 88 ; glacial phenomena 

 in the neighbourhood of, 89. 

 -, C. W. Peach on additions to the 



list of fossils and localities of the Car- 

 boniferous formation in and around, 

 109. 



♦Education in India, A. JjTam-Row on 

 the present state of, and its bearing on 

 the question of social science, 212. 



of gii'ls, E. Lydia Becker on some 



maxims of political economy as ap- 

 plied to the employment of women 

 and the, 201. 



Educational hospital reform, Thomas J. 

 Boyd on, 202. 



♦Electric cables, C. F. Varley on a me- 

 thod of testing submerged, 48. 



Electricity, P. Braham on the ciystal- 

 lization of metals by, 67. 



EUiot (Sir Walter) on the advantage of 

 systematic cooperation among provin- 

 cial ^Natural-History Societies, so as 

 to make their observations available to 

 naturalists generally, 124. 



Elton (Capt. F.) on the Limpopo expe- 

 diti£)n, 178. 



