INDEX I. 



151 



Kane (Sir Robert) on a uniformity of 

 weights and measures, 352. 



Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, report on 

 exploring, by SirjCharles Lyell, Bart., 

 Professor Phillips, Sir John Lubbock, 

 Bart., John Evans, Edward Vivian, and 

 William Pengelly, 1. 



Lee (Dr. ) on the rainfall in the British 

 Isles, 281. 



Levi (Leone) on a uniformity of weights 

 and measures, 352 ; on the exhibition of 

 weights, measures, and coins at the 

 Universal Exhibition in Paris, 1867, 

 363. 



Lloyd (Dr.), meteorological and physical 

 observations in three balloon ascents 

 made in 1865 and 1866, 367. 



Lockyer (J. N.) on mapping the surface 

 of the moon, 214. 



Lubbock (Sir John, Bai-t.) on exploring 

 Kent's Cavern, De-\-oushire, 1. 



Luminous meteors, 1865-66, report on, 

 by James Glaisher, Robert P. Greg, 

 E. W. Brayley, and Alexander S. 

 Herschol, 16 ; catalogue of, 18 ; sup- 

 plement to, 120 ; appendix, 124. 



Lyell (Sir Charles, Bart.) on exploring 

 Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 1. 



Macgregor (Rev. Walter) on dredging 

 in the Moray Firth, 211. 



Maltese fossiliferous caves, A. Leith 

 Adams on, 458. 



Mascarene Islands, on extinct birds of 

 the, 401. 



Matthiessen (A.), preliminary report on 

 the chemical nature of cast iron, 11. 



" Menevian Group," H. Hicks and J. 

 W. Salter's report on the, 182. 



Meteoric sliowers of October 1864-65 

 compared with previous showers^ 134. 



Meteors doubly observed, 124. 



Metric system in the United States of 

 America, H. Yates Thompson on, 355. 



Miller (Prof. W. A.) on a uniformity of 

 weights and measures, 352 ; meteoro- 

 logical and physical observations in 

 three balloon ascents made in 1865 

 and 1866, 367 ; on scientific evidence 

 in courts of law, 456. 



Mitchell (Stephen), appointed to inves- 

 tigate the Alum Bay leaf-bed, 146. 



Montacuta, J. Gwyn Jeffreys on a new 

 species of, 192. 



Moon, on mapping the surface of the, 

 214. 



Moray Firth, the Rev. Walter Mac- 

 gi-egor and Robert Dawson on dred- 

 ging in the, 211. 



Mural Standard, James Yates on the, 



365. 

 Muscular irritability, Dr. R. Norris on, 



157. 

 Mylne (R. W.) on the rainfall in the 



"British Isles, 281. 



Napier (James R.) on the difference be- 

 tween the resistance of water to float- 

 ing and to immersed bodies, 148. 



Napier (The Right Hon. J.) on scientific 

 e-iddence in courts of law, 456. 



Newton (Prof. A.) on extinct birds of 

 the Mascarene Islands ,401. 



Noble (Capt. W. H.) on various experi- 

 ments on the penetration of iron 

 plates by steel shot, 403 ; appendix, 436. 



Norman (Rev. Alfred Merle), report of 

 exploring the coasts of the Hebrides 

 by means of the dredge, 193. 



Norris (Dr. Richard) on muscular irri- 

 tability and the relations which exist 

 between muscles, nerve, and blood, 

 157. 



Ostracoda dredged amongstthellebrides, 

 George S. Brady on, 208. 



Paris Universal Exhibition in 1867, Prof. 

 Leone Levi on the exhibition of 

 weights, measures, and coins at the, 

 363. 



Pengelly (^Villiam ) on exploiing Kent's 

 Cavern, Devonshire, 1. 



Phillips (Professor) on exploring Kent's 

 Cavern, Devonshire, 1 ; on mapping 

 the surface of the moon, 214 ; on the 

 rainfall in theBritish Isles, 281. 



Polyzoa, catalogue of Hebrideau, 199. 



Rainfall in the British Isles, on the, 

 281. 



, on the fluctuation of, 1726 to 1865, 



286 ; table of, in 1864 and 1865, 289 ; 

 tables of monthly, in the British Isles, 

 292. 



Rain-gauges, examination of, 316. 



Rankine (Prof. W. J. M.) on the dif- 

 ference between the resistance of water 

 to floating and to immersed bodies, 

 148 ; a uniformity of weights and mea- 

 sures, 352. 



Richardson (Dr. Benjamin W.) on the 

 physiological action of certain com- 

 pounds of amyl and ethyl, 172. 



Robinson (Rev. Dr.) on the transmission 

 of sound-signals imder water, 212 ; 

 on meteorological and physical ob- 

 servations in three balloon ascents 

 made in 1865 and 1866, 367. 



