INDEX I. 
195 
* tion of the granites of Donegal, and of | Iron ships, Charles M. Palmer on the 
the rocks associated with them, 48. 
Gun-cotton, report of the committee on 
the 7 lata of, to warlike purposes, 
1; chemical considerations, 2; me- 
chanical considerations, 4; practical 
- applications, 5. 
——, F. A. Abel on the system of ma- 
nufacture of, as carried on in the Im- 
perial Austrian establishment, 8; on 
the composition, and some properties, 
of specimens of, prepared at the Au- 
strian Government works, 9. 
» experiments on the hygroscopic 
properties of the Austrian, 12. 
, F. A. Abel’s memorandum with 
reference to experiments in progress 
bearing upon the manufacture of, 14. 
——,, information on the application and 
manufacture of, by Baron Lenk, 25. 
, analysis of Austrian, 33. 
, extracts from a report on Baron 
Lenk’s, 33. 
Gunpowder works, Royal, experiments 
instituted upon a manufacturing scale 
at the, 16. 
Haughton (Rey. 8.), report on the che- 
mical and mineralogical constitution 
of the granites of Donegal, and of the 
rocks associated with them, 48. 
Hennessy (Prof. H.), report on fog-sig- 
nals, 105. 
=e (E. C.), biographical notice of, 
18 
Herschel (Alexander S.), report on ob- 
servations of luminous meteors, 1862- 
, 209. 
Hydroida, Dr. G. J. Allman on the re- 
productive system in the, 351. 
, Sketch of the general morphology 
of the, 353. 
, Structure and formation of the ge- 
nerative, 382. 
, heteromerism oftheindividual 422. 
——, comparison of the sexes in the, 
386; development, 389. 
India, Dr. Edward Smith on the foods 
used by the free and jail populations 
of, 176. 
——,, tables showing the scales of jail 
dietary in, 202. 
Tron, Isaac Lowthian Bell on the manu- 
facture of, in connexion with the 
Northumberland and Durham coal- 
field, 730. 
, on a new British meteoric, 327. 
protoxide of, 204, 
, Solubility of silicate of hydrated 
construction of, 694. 
Jail dietary in India, tables showing the 
scales of, 202. 
Jettreys (J. Gwyn), report of the com- 
mittee appointed for exploring the 
coasts of Shetland by means of the 
dredge, 70. 
Jenkin (Fleeming), report on stand- 
ards of electrical resistance, 111; on 
the elementary relations between elec- 
trical measurements, 130; description 
of an experimental measurement of 
electrical resistance, 163. . 
Jewett (Col.), species of the temperate 
fauna collected by, 536; of the tro- 
pical fauna, 537. 
Joule (Dr.), report on standards of elec- 
trical resistance, 111. 
Lead, report by T. Sopwith and T. Ri- 
chardson on the local manufacture of, 
7165. 
, produce of, in the years 1845-62 
inclusive, in the counties of Cumber- 
land, Durham, and Northumberland, 
722. 
——, imports of, into Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne, 723. 
Lenk (Baron), information on the appli- 
cation and manufacture of gun-cotton, 
25; extracts from a report on his gun- 
cotton, 33. ; 
Lime, action of the alkalies on silicate 
of, 205. 
Limestone, John Daglish on the mag- 
nesian, of Durham, 726. i 
Luminous meteors, report on, by James 
Glaisher, R. P. Gree, E. W. Brayley, 
and Alexander S. Herschel, 209; ca- 
talogue of, 210; appendix, 318. 
McConnell (J. E.), fifth report on 
steamship performance, 339. 
Maenetic phenomena, on the measure- 
ment of, 132. 
Mallet (Robert), preliminary report on 
the experimental determination of the 
temperatures of volcanic foci, and of 
the temperature, state of saturation, 
and velocity of the issuing gases and 
vapours, 208. 
Matthiessen (Dr.), report on the chemi- 
cal nature of alloys, 37; report on 
standards of electrical resistance, 111; 
on the electrical permanency of metals 
and alloys, 124; on the variation of 
the electric resistance of alloys due to 
change of temperature, 127. 
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