INDEX II. 



201 



manufacturing Neroli in the British 

 Colonies, 39; on the rotatoiy power 

 of several essential oils, 40. 



Dickenson (Dr. W.) on the functions of 

 the cerebellum, 106. 



Didus, Edward Newton on a remarkable 

 discovery of bones of, in the island of 

 Rodriguez, 92. 



Diet, Dr. John Davy on the effects of 

 scanty and deficient, 102. 



Disease, Dr. Moffat on, 90. 



Divers, F. Galton on spectacles for, 10. 



Dolgelly, J. W. Salter s explanation of 

 a map of the faults in the gold dis- 

 trict of, 73. 



Drift in part of Warwickshire, and on 

 the evidence of glacial action which 

 it affords, the Rev. P. B. Brodie on 

 the, 49. 



Drift A. Startin on the, in the parish of 

 Exhall, north of Coventry, 74. 



Drifts and old river beds of Siluria, Rev. 

 W. S. Synionds on some ancient, 74. 



Drunkenness, R. Wilkinson on the po- 

 lice-recognized, of the metropolis, 156. 



Dudley, C. Ketley on the Silurian rocks 

 and fossils of, 03. 



*Dudley, Henry C. Roper on the physi- 

 cal and geographical features of the 

 country ten miles round, 155. 



*Duncan (Dr.) on two new species of 

 aporose Madreporaria, from Guernsey, 

 86. 



Dunn (Robert) on the influence of civi- 

 lization upon the development of the 

 brain in the different races of man, 

 119. 



Earth, W. H. L. Russell on the calcu- 

 lation of the potential of the figure of 

 the, 8. 



Earthquakes, R. A. Peacock on steam as 

 the active agent in, 68. 



*Electric current, J. C. Bowring on the 

 direction of the, 28. 



Electrical resistances, R. Sabine on a 

 new method, introduced by Messrs. 

 Siemens, for the measurement of, 

 16. 



Embryonic life, Samuel H. Parkes on 

 the early development of organs in, 

 109. 



England, J. Thrupp on the domestication 



■ of certain animals in, between the 



seventh and eleventh centuries, 94. 



Entozoa, Dr. Cobbold on specimens of, 

 102 ; on beef and pork as sources of, 

 ib. 



Esparto fibre, or Spanish grass, Dr. Ste- 

 venson Macadam on, and its employ- 



ment in the manufacture of paper, 



33. 

 Essential oils, Dr. J. E. De Vrij on the 



rotatory power of several, 40. 

 Ethnology, J. Crawfurd on cannibalism 



in relation to, 118. 

 , Rev. F. W. Farrar on language 



and, 120. 

 Evans (J.) on the worked flints of Pres- 



signy le Grand, 120. 

 Exploration, arctic, Rear-Admiral E. 



Ommanney on, 125. 

 , C. R. Markham on North Polar, 



l_u. 



Fairbairn (William) on india-rubber 

 and gutta percha as insulators for sub- 

 marine telegraphic cables, 14; on some 

 of the causes of the failure of deep- 

 sea cables, and experimental researches 

 on the permanency of their insulators, 

 178. 



*Fairley (T.) on the reactions of cyano- 

 gen, note on glycocine, with tables, 

 29. 



Farrar (Rev. F. W.) on language and 

 ethnology, 120. 



Favvcus (George) on improvements in 

 blocks for lowering ships' boats and 

 for improvements in boats, 184. 



Fellows (F. P.) on the practical advan- 

 tages of the metric system of weights 

 and measures, 147. 



*Ferns, E. J. Lowe on the propagation 

 of, by means of spores, 83. 



Finch (Frederick George) on the utili- 

 zation of blast-furnace slag, 29. 



*Fire, G. B. Galloway on the means of 

 saving life from buildings which may 

 be on, 150. 



Fleming (Dr.) on the prevalence of tape- 

 worm in Birmingham, and its causes, 

 106. 



Flints of Pressigny le Grand, J. Evans 

 on the worked, 120. 



■ , Prof. Steenstrup and Sir J. Lub- 

 bock, Bart., on the, 129. 



Flora of New Zealand, Dr. W. Lauder 

 Lindsay on the relations of the south- 

 ern to the northern, 82. 



Foetus in the vertebrata, Prof. Macdonald 

 on the development of the vascular 

 system of the, 108. 



Food, animal, diet of, conduces to lean- 

 ness well founded on facts, by Dr. John 

 Davy, 104. 



Forbes (Principal), experimental inquiry 

 into the laws of the conduction of 

 heat in bars, and into the conducting- 

 power of wrought iron, 12. 



