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REPORT — 1871. 



Pe.acock (R. A.) on chain-cable testing 

 and proposed new testing-liuk, 240. 



Pengelly (W.) on tlie influence of the 

 moon on the rainfall, 55. 



Pentland Hills and Lesniahago, D. J. 

 Brown on the Upper Silurian rocks of 

 the, 93 ; J. Henderson on the age of 

 the felstones and conglomerates of 

 the, 101. 



Peterkin (W. A.) on the administration 

 of the Poor Law, 213. 



Petrie (George) on ancient modes of 

 sepulture in the Orkneys, 156. 



Petroleum and alhed products, Colonel 

 R. Maclagan on the geographical dis- 

 tribution of, 180. 



Phene (J. S.) on an expedition for the 

 special investigation of the Hebrides 

 and West Highlands in search of 

 evidences of ancient sei-pent worship, 

 158 ; on some indications of the man- 

 ners and customs of the early inhabi- 

 tants of Britain, 159. 



Phipsou (Dr. T. L.) on regianic acid, 76. 



Phosphorus chlorides, contributions to 

 the history of, 81. 



*Photogi-aphic dry process, R. Sutton 

 on a new, 44. 



Phthisis, Dr. W. Marcet on the nutrition 

 of muscular and pulmonary tissue in 

 health and in, 140. 



*Physics, some remarks on, by M. Jans- 

 sen, 29. 



Piesse (0. H.) and Dr. Wright on the 

 oxidation products of the essential oil 

 of orange-peel, 83. 



Placentation of the Cetacea, Prof.Turner 

 on the, 144. 



*Planetary nebula, Dr. Gill on the pa- 

 rallax of a, 34. 



Plants, Prof Thiselton Dyer on the so- 

 called ' mimicry ' in, 128. 



• , Dr. J. B. Nevins on the changes 



which occur in, during the ripening 

 of the seeds, 130. 



* , Neil Stewart on the intimate 



structure of spiral ducts in, and their 

 relationship to the flower, 131 ; an 

 inquiry into the functions of colour 

 in, during different stages of their 

 development, 131. 



*Playfair (Colonel) on the hydrogra- 

 phical system of the freshwater tish 

 of Algeria, 134. 



Plutonic, and volcanic rocks of the 

 Mourne Mountains and SHeve Croob, 

 Prof. Hull and W. A. Traill on the 

 relative ages of the granitic, 101. 



Point in partitions, J. J, Sylvester on 

 the theory of a, 23. 



Political economy as applied to the em- 

 ployment of women, E. Lydia Becker 

 on some maxims of, 201. 



•Political economy', pauperism, the la- 

 bour question, and the liquor traffic, 

 William Hoyle on, 212. 



Poor law, W. A. Peterkin on the ad- 

 ministration of the, 213. 



*Poor-rates, .James Meikle on the mode 

 of assessing for the, 213. 



*Poste photographique, by the Abbe 

 Moigno, 44. 



Precession and nutation. Prof. Zenger 

 on the nutoscope, an apparatus for 

 showing graphically the curve of, 30. 



*Proctor (R. A.) on the construction of 

 the heavens, .34. 



Protoplasmic life, F. Crace-Calvert on 

 spontaneous generation or, 123. 



Protoptevus annectens, Prof. R. H. Tra- 

 quair on the restoration of the tail iu, 

 143. 



*Pullan (Capt. A.), notes on British 

 Gm-hwal, 189. 



*Purser (Prof.), remarks on Napier's 

 original method of logarithms, 23. 



'Putrefaction, germ-theory of. Dr. J. 

 Dougall on the relative powers of 

 various substances in preventing the 

 generation of animalcules or the de- 

 velopment of their germs, with special 

 reference to the, 124. 



Quaternary mammalia, W. Boyd Daw- 

 kins on the relation of the, to the 

 glacial period, 95. 



Queensland, R. Daintree on the general 

 geologj' of, 95. 



*Rae (Dr.) on the Saskatchewan vallev, 



189. 

 Railwavs, R. F. Fairlie on the gauge 



of, 234. 

 Rainfall, W. Pengelly on the influence 



of the moon on the, 55. 

 of Scotland, Alexander Buchan on 



the, 232. 



* of the northern hemisphere in 



July, A. Buchan on the, as contrasted 

 with that for January, with remarks 

 on atmospheric circulation, 232. 



•Raptorial birds of Scotland, Prof J. 

 Duns on the rarer, 132. 



Reflector, paraboloidal, for lighthouses, 

 T. Stevenson on a, 37. 



Regianic acid. Dr. Phipson on, 76. 



Registration Act, Scottish, George Seton 

 on certain cases of questioned legi- 

 timacy under the operation of the, 



