INDEX II. 



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INDEX II. 



TO 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 



SECTIONS. 



[An asterisk (#) signijies that no abstract of the communication is given. '\ 



Africa, P. B. Du Chaillu on the physical 

 geography and tribes of western equa- 

 torial, 107. 



*.yrica, South, W. J. Black on colonies 

 in, 04. 



Africa, South, Rowland "William Payne 

 on the Transvaal district of, 114. 



Aldershot camp, Sergeant Arnold on 

 the climate ot, 15. 



Aleppy mud bank, C. P. Markhani on 

 the,' 113. 



*xSLlexander (Colonel Sir J. E.) on the 

 effects of the pollution of rivers, 89. 



Alumina, Alfred Bird on the purifica- 

 tion of terrestrial drinking waters with 

 neutral sulphate of, 33. 



America, Colonel Sykes on modes of 

 banking in, 134. 



*Amylene, Dr. Bauer on the action of 

 chlorine on, 33. 



*Anderson (J.) on recent explorations 

 in chambered cairns in Caithness, 94. 



'Andorra, Dr. R. S. Chaniock on the 

 people of, 96. 



•Anemometer, L. Casella on a new, 23. 



Anglo-Belgian basin of the forest-bed 

 of Norfolk and Suffolk, Rev. J. Gunn 

 on, 62. 



Animals, Dr. Lyon Playfair on the ori- 

 gin of muscular force in, 43. 



*Annesley Colliery, Edward Hedley on 

 the sinking of, 53. 



*Ansted (Prof.) on intermediate dis- 

 charges of petroleum and large depo- 

 sits of bitumen in the valley of Pes- 

 cara, Italy, 50 ; on a salse or mud 

 volcano on the flanks of Etna, com- 

 mencing to eiupt in the month of 

 January last, 60, 



Ansted (Prof.) on the physical geo- 

 graphy of the eastern part of the 

 Crimea and the Peninsula of Taman, 

 99. 



*.Vnthropology, Dr. J. Hunt on the 

 principle of natm'al selection applied 

 to, 90. 



Arabia, W. G. PalgTave on North and 

 South, 114. 



Arclueology, R. Dunn on some of the 

 bearings of, upon certain ethnological 

 problems and researches, 108. 



Anus, Prof. W. Turner on a remarkable 

 mode of gestation in an undcscribed 

 species of, 79. 



Arnold (Sergeant) on the climate of 

 Aldershot camp, 15. 



Ai-ran, Dr. E. P. Wright's botanical 

 notes of a torn- in the islands of, 80. 



* Atlantic cable, C. F. Varley on certain 

 phenomena which presented them- 

 selves in connexion with the, 14. 



Atlantic telegraph. North, N. J. Holmes 

 on the, 27. 



Attfield (Dr. J.) on the assay of coal, 

 &c. for cnide paraffin oil, and of crude 

 oil and petroleum for spirit, photogen, 

 lubricating oil, and paraffin, 33. 



Baines (Thomas) on the probable lower 

 course of the Limpopo River, South- 

 east Africa, 100; on the Zambesi and 

 its probable westernmost source, 101. 



Baker (Sir S. W.) on the character of 

 the negro tribes of Central Africa, 

 104; on the relations of the Abyssinian 

 tributaries of the Nile and the equa- 

 torial lakes to the inimdations of 

 Egypt, 102. 



