254. 



REPORT 1871. 



on wider in, rising against gravity 



rather than freezing in the pores of 



the earth, 34. 

 Fruit, cruciferous, Dr. J. B. Nevins on 



the nature of the, with reference to 



the replum, 130. 

 Fungi within the thorax of living birds, 



Dr. James Miirie on the development 



of, 129, 



Gala group, C. Lapworth on the Grap- 

 tolites of the, 104. 



Galvanic hatterj^, Latimer Clark on a 

 new form of constant, 47. 



*Gamgee (Dr. A.) on the magnetic and 

 diamagnetic properties of the blood, 

 1.38. 



Garuier's (Capt.) expedition up the Cam- 

 boja. Colonel Yule on, 290. 



Gauge for railways, R. F. Fairlie on the, 

 2.32. 



Geikie (Prof A.), Address to the Geolo- 

 gical Section, 87 ; on the progress of 

 the Geological Survey in Scotland, 90. 



Generation, spontaneous, F. Crace-Cal- 

 vert on, 123. 



*Generation of animalcules. Dr. J. Don- 

 gall on the relative powers of various 

 substances in preventing the, or the 

 development of their germs, with 

 special reference to the germ-theory 

 of putrefaction, 124. 



Geographical distribution of petroleum 

 and allied products, Colonel II. Mac- 

 lagan on the, 180. 



Section, Colonel Yule's Address to 



the, 1G2. 



Geological notes on the Noursoak penin- 

 sula and Disco Island in North Green- 

 land, 94. 



Section, Prof. Geikie's Addi-ess to 



the, 87. 



Survey in Scotland, Prof. A. Gei- 



kie on the progress of the, 96. 



systems and endemic disease, Dr. 



Moffat on, 107. 



Geolog}' of Queensland, R. Daintree on 

 the general, 95. 



Geometrical freedom of a rigid body. 

 Prof Ball on a model of a conoidal 

 cubic surface called the "cylindroid," 

 which is presented in the theory of 

 the, 8. 



George (C.) on a self-replenishing arti- 

 ficial borizon, 178. 



German arctic expedition, Dr. Copeland 

 on the second, 175. 



Germ-life, F. Crace-Calvert on the ac- 

 tion of heat on, 122. 



*Germ-theory of putrefaction, Dr. J. 



Dougall on the relative powers of 

 various substances in preventing the 

 generation of animalcules, or the de- 

 velopment of their germs, with spe- 

 cial reference to the, 124. 



Gibb (Sir Duncan) on the uses of the 

 uvula, 139 ; on some abnormalities of 

 the larynx, 139 ; on centenarian lon- 

 gevity, 1-51 ; on a fat woman exhibit- 

 ing in London, 152. 



*Gill (Dr.) on the parallax of a plane- 

 tary nebula, 34. 



*Gillott (Thomas) on designing pointed 

 roofs, 239. 



*Ginsburg (Dr.), further disclosures of 

 the Moabite stone, 179. 



Glacial epoch, John Curry on the ge- 

 neral conditions of the, 95. 



period, W. Boyd Dawkins on the 



relation of the quaternary mammalia 

 to the, 95. 



phenomena in the neighbourhood 



of Edinburgh, 89. 



Glaciers, Rev. J. Gunn on the agency 

 of the alternate elevation and subsi- 

 dence of the land in the formation of 

 boulder-clays and, 100. 



Gladstone (J. H.) on crystals of silver, 

 70. 



and A. Tribe on the corrosion of 



copper plates by nitrate of silver, 29 ; 

 experiments on chemical dynamics, 

 70. 



Glaisher (J. W. L.) on certain definite 

 integrals, 10 ; on Lambert's proof of 

 the irrationality of tt, and on the ir- 

 rationality of certain other quantities, 

 12 ; on the calcrdation of e (the base 

 of the Napierian logarithms) from a 

 continued fraction, 16. 



Glass, Prof. Stokes on the researches of 

 the late Rev. W. V. Ilarcourt on 

 the conditions of transparency in, 

 and the connexion between the che- 

 mical constitution and optical proper- 

 ties of different glasses, 38. 



Glycolic alcohol and its heterologues, 

 Dr. Otto Richter on the chemical 

 constitution of, 78. 



Goodman (Dr. John), note on fibrin, 

 72. 



Government action on scientific ques- 

 tions, Lieut. Colonel Strange on, 56. 



Granitic, plutonic, and volcanic rocks 

 of the ]\Ioiu-ne Mountains and Slieve 

 Croob, Prof. Hull and W. A. Traill on 

 the relative ages of the, 101. 



Graptolites of the Gala group, C. Lap- 

 worth on the, 104. 



Grasshopper, R. Trimen on a curious 



