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INDEX. 



Pelasgians, Etruscans, and Iberians : 

 their relations to the founders of the 

 Chaldean and Egyptian civilisations, 

 by J. S. S. Glennie, 857. 



Pengelly (W.) on the prehistoric race in 

 the Greek islands, 99 ; on the erratic 

 blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, 

 101 ; on the circulation of underground 

 waters, 145 ; on the prehistoric inhabi- 

 tants of the British islands, 289. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, second report on the 

 steps taken for establishing a botanical 

 station at, 421. 



Permanence of the original standards of 

 resistance of the British Association 

 and of other standard coils, K. T. Glaze- 

 brook and T. C. Fitzpatrick on the, 56. 



Perry (Prof. J.) on standards for use in 

 electrical measurements, 55. 



* and Profs. Sir W. Thomson and 



AjTton, electrometric determination of 

 'v; 616. 



Perry (Prof. S. J.) on the best means of 

 comparing and reducing magnetic ob- 

 servations, 28. 



Petrie, Mr. W. M. Flinders, the plant 

 remains discovered by, in the cemetery 

 of Hawara, Lower Egypt, P. E. New- 

 berry on, 712. 



Phenomenes electriques lumineux, ana- 

 lyse chronometrique des, par Dr. J. 

 Janssen, 615. 



*Phonograph, the, by Col. G. E. Gouraud, 

 792. 



♦Photographic and photozincographic 

 processes employed in the Ordnance 

 Survey, by Col. J. H. BoUand, 746. 



Photographic image of an electric arc 

 lamp, a, probably due to phosjahores- 

 cence in the eye, F. Greene on, 617. 



Photographing hydrogen and chlorine 

 bulbs by aid of the flash of light which 

 caused their explosion, Prof. P. P. 

 Bedson on, 633. 



Photography, local geological, O. W. Jeffs 

 on, 653. 



Photometer, a diffusion, J. Joly on, 578. 



Phyllopoda, the fossil, of the paleeozoic 

 rocks, sixth report on, 173. 



Physical Section, the Mathematical and, 

 Address by Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald to, 

 657. 



Physiology of the lymphatic system, 

 second report on the, 363. 



Pickering (Prof.) on the bibliography of 

 solution, 54. 



Pidgeon (W. K.), the Shipman engine, 

 806. 



Pitman (E.), economy in education and 

 in writing, 776. 



Pitt-Rivers (Lieut .-Gen.) on the effects 

 of different occupations and employ- 

 ments on the physical development of 

 the human body, 100 ; on the work 



of the Corresponding Societies Com- 

 mittee, 255 ; Address to the Anthropo- 

 logical Section by, 825. 



Pitt-Eivers, Lieut. -Gen., human bones 

 discovered by, at Woodcuts, Rotherley, 

 &c.. Dr. Beddoe on, 839. 



Plant (J.) on the erratic blocks of Eng- 

 land, Wales, and Ireland, 101 ; on the 

 circulation of underground waters, 145. 



Plant and machinery in use on the Man- 

 chester ship canal, by L. B. Wells, 796. 



Plant- remains discovered by Mr. W. M. 

 Flinders Petrie in the cemetery of 

 Hawara, Lower Egypt, P. E. Newberry 

 on the, 712. 



Plants, the life and growth of, the rela- 

 tion of the percentage of carbonic acid 

 in the atmosphere to, Eev. A. Irving 

 on, 661. 



Playfair (Col. Sir L.), Tunis since the 

 French protectorate, 745. 



Polarisation of small electrodes in dilute 

 sulphuric acid. Dr. F. Kicharz on the, 

 350. 



Portland sands, the, of Swindon and 

 elsewhere, note on, by H. B. Wood- 

 ward, 652. 



*Poulton (E. B.), heredity in cats with 

 an extra numlser of toes, 707. 



Poynting (Prof. J. H.) on the desirability 

 of introducing a uniform nomenclature 

 for the fundamental units of mechanics, 

 27 ; on the work of the Differential 

 Gr.avity Meter Committee, 72 ; on 

 electrolysis in its physical and chemi- 

 cal bearings, 339. 



Precious metals, the amount of the, in 

 use as money in the principal countries, 

 the chief forms in which the money is 

 employed, and the amount annually 

 used in the arts, report as to the statis- 

 tical data available for determining, 

 219 ; memorandum, by Prof. F. Y. 

 Edgeworth, on Jevons' method of 

 ascertaining the number of coins in cir- 

 culation, 224. 



Preece (W. H.) on standards of light, 

 89 ; on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 55 ; on the C.G.S. 

 units of measurement, 616 ; Address 

 to the Mechanical Section by, 781. 



Prehistoric inhabitants of the British 

 Islands, the localities in which evi- 

 dences of the existence of, are found, 

 second report of the Committee for 

 ascertaining and recording, 289. 



Prehistoric race in the Greek islands, 

 third report on the, 99. 



Prestwich (Prof . J.) on the erratic blocks 

 of England, Wales, and Ireland, 101 ; 

 on the circulatiorr of underground 

 waters, 145 ; on the advisability and 

 possibility of establishing in other 

 parts of the country observations upon 



