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REPORT 1869. 



INDEX II. 



TO 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 



SECTIONS. 



\_An asterisk (*) signifies that no abstract of the communication is given.'] 



Aboriginal monuments in Canada, Sir 

 Duncan Gibb on tlie paucity of, 



Abrading and transporting power of 

 water, Thomas Login on the roads 

 and railways of Northern India as af- 

 fected by the, 214. 



Absorption, emission, and reflection of 

 heat. Prof. Gustav Magnus on the, 25. 



Absorption-bands of bile, Dr. Thomas 

 Andrews on the, 50. 



Abyssinia, Northern, W. T. Blandford 

 on a journey in, 159. 



Aceto-sulphuric acid. Dr. A. Oppen- 

 heim on, 72. 



*Acid, chloro-sulphuric, J. Dewar and 

 G. Cranston on some reactions of, G7. 



* , hydrochloric, Dr. A. Matthiessen 



and C. It. Wright on the action of, 



on morphia codeia, 69. 

 — , uric, in urine, the 



Rev. W. V. 



Ilarcourt on the solvent treatment of 

 uric-acid calculus, and the quantita- 

 tive determination of, 122. 



Aerolite, Dr. A. Neumayer on the recent 

 fall of an, at Kriiheuburg in the Pala- 

 tinate, 20. 



Africa, South, Dr. Mann on the rain- 

 foil of Natal, 41. 



Agricultural economics and wages. Prof. 

 Leone Levi on, 195. 



labourer in England, Prof Leone 



Levi on the economical condition and 

 wages of the, 226. 



labourer, J. Bailey Denton on the 



technical education of the, 182. 



* labourer, W. Botley on the con- 

 dition of the, 179. 



Agriculture, Frederick Purdy on some 

 experiments in, 197. 



* , J. II. IloUey on the need of sci- 

 ence for the development of, 195. 



Air, A. E. Fletcher on a new anemome- 

 ter for measuring the speed of, in 

 flues and chimneys, 48. 



, C. J. Woodward on a self-setting 



type machine for recording the hourly 

 horizontal motion of the, 54. 



James Glaisher on the chang-es of 



temperature and humidity of the, up to 

 1000 ft., from observations made in the 

 car of M. Giffard's captive balloon, 27. 



*Air-engine, J. T. Chilliugworth on an, 

 209. 



*Altazimuth instrument for the use of 

 explorers, Lieut. - Col. Strange on a 

 suuiU, 168. 



Amazons, Upper, Francis F. Searle on 

 Peruvian explorations and settlement 

 on the, 167. 



America, North-west, R. Brown on the 

 mammalian fauna of, 109. 



Ammonia from gas -liquor, Fredei-ick 

 Braby on the extraction of, 63. 



Anfesthesia, Dr. Kidd on the physiology 

 of .sleep and of chloroform, 125. 



*Anallagmatic surfaces, AV. K. Clifford 

 on the iniibilici of, 9. 



Andrews (Dr. Thomas) on the absorp- 

 tion-bands of bile, 59. 



Anemometer for measuring the speed of 

 air in flues and chimneys, A. E. 

 Fletcher on a new, 48. 



*Aneroid barometer, F. Martin on a new 

 self-recording, 51. 



*Animals, the Rev. Dr. Tristram on the 

 effect of legislation on the extinction 

 of, 117. 



Annealing, Charles Brooke on the influ- 

 ence of, on crystalline structure, 21. 



Argo, nebula in, the Rev. Dr. Robinson 

 on the appecarance of the, as seen in 

 the great Melbourne Telescope, 20. 



