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their bearing; iipou tlie age of the 

 middle sands of Lancashire, 90. 

 Haviland (Alfred) ou a proposed re- 



■ arrangement of the registration dis- 

 tricts of England and Wales, for the 

 purpose of facilitating scientific in- 



- quiry, 193. 



Heat, Dr. Henry Hudson on the wave 

 theory of, 39. 



, H. AVhiteside Cook on certain 



objections to the dynamic theory of, 

 38. 



Heat-engine, A. W. Bickertou on a new, 

 208. 



Hebrides, J. S. PhentI on a recent exa- 

 mination of British tumidi and monu- 

 ments in the, and on the western coast 

 of Scotland, loo. 



Heine (General W.) on lines for a ship- 

 canal across the American isthmus, 

 170. 



*Henry (Prof. J.) on the rainfall of the 



■ United States, 36. 



Heywood (James) on the aptitude of 

 North- American Indians for agricul- 

 ture, 193. 



Highton (H.) on the maximum amount 

 of magnetic power which can be de- 

 veloped by a given galvanic battery, 



■ 25 ; on artificial stone and various 

 kinds of silica, 60. 



Hill (Dr. Berkeley) on the statistics of 



• the contagious diseases acts, 194. 

 HiUs and dales, J. Clerk Maxwell on, 



17. 



Hip-bones and muscles, Prof. Humphry 

 on the comparison of the shoulder- 

 bones and muscles with the, 140. 



*Hitchman (Dr. W.) on the anatomy of 

 the intellect, 151. 



*Holden (Dr. T. Sinclair) on some forms 

 of interment in co. Antrim, 151. 



Holmes (S.) on the new binocular mi- 

 croscope, .39. 



*Hooper (William) on the Nortb-China 

 and Japan submarine cables, 219. 



*Hope (William) on the antiseptic treat- 

 ment of contagia as illustrated by the 

 germ-theory of disease, 140; on the 



• historj'of thesbeUthatwon tbe battle 

 of Sedan, 219. 



Howlett (Rev. F.) on solar spots ob- 

 sened during the past eleven years, 

 23. 



Howorth (H. H.) on the Massagetae and 

 Sacae, 151 ; on the pre-Turkish Fron- 

 tagers of Persia, 151 ; on the Avares, 



■ 152. 



Hudson (Dr. Henry) on the wave theoiy 

 of light, beat, &c., 39. 



Hull (Prof. Edward) on the extension 

 of tne coal-fields beneath the newer 

 formations of England and the succes- 

 sive stratigraphical changes to which 

 the carboniferous rocks have been sub- 

 jected, 74. 



Humidity, Prof. J. D. Everett on a scale 

 for computing, 31. 



Humphry (Prof.) on the comparison of 

 the shoulder-bones and muscles with 

 the hip-bones and muscles, 140 ; on 

 the homological relation to one an- 

 other of the fins of fish, 141. 



*Hurter (Dr.) on the time needed for 

 the completion of chemical change,60. 



*Huxley (Prof.) on the relations of Pe- 

 niciUiimi, Toruln, and Bacterium, 119. 



, a statement in reply to the two 



objections of, relative to certain ex- 

 periments, 129. 



Huytou, Charles Ricketts on sections of 

 strata between St. Helen's and, 85. 



, remarks by W. Can-uthers on the 



fossils from the railway section at, 71. 



*IIyalonema, Prof. Wyville Thomson on, 

 and some other vitreous sponges, 128. 



Hydraulic bucketting-engine for the 

 Herculaneumgraving-dock,Liverpool, 

 description of the, by Percy Westma- 

 cott, 229. 



•Hydrocarbons, Dr. MacVicar on the 

 typical, from marsh-gas to anthracene, 

 with the oxidation of the latter into 

 anthroquinone and alizarine, 61. 



Hydrogen, W. Chandler Roberts on the 

 absorption of, by electro-deposited 

 iron, 62, 



Hyoid arch, Prof. Flower on the con- 

 nexion of the, with the cranium, 136. 



Immersion method of illumination of the 

 microscope, Dr. J. Barker on the, 39. 



Immigration and emigi-ation, T. A. Wel- 

 ton on, as affecting the increase of 

 population in England and Wales, 

 203. 



India, Dr. Campbell on the duties of the 

 Government of India and the mer- 

 chants of England in promoting pro- 

 duction in, 188. 



* , Dr. G. Campbell on the village 



system in, 144. 



-, British, Dr. G. Campbell on the 



physical geogi'aphy and races of, 168. 

 -, W. Parkes on non-tidal variations 



of the sea-level on the coast of, 19. 



, Western, Capt. Taylor on the har- 

 bours of, 176. 



Indians, North- American, J. Heywood 

 on the aptitude of, for agiioulture, 193. 



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