INDEX II. 



269 



Oolite, Inferior, C. Moore on the pre- 

 sence of naked Ecliinoderniata in the, 

 and Lias, 117. 



•Oppeuheiiu (Dr.) on the action of 

 phosphorus on alkaline solutions of 

 metals, 79. 



*Ord (Dr.) on the crystallization of 

 salts in colloid solutions, 79. 



Ortoiiia, Prof. II. A. Nicholson on, a 

 new genus of fossil tubicolar anne- 

 lides, 118. 



Osborn (Capt. Shevard) on polar explo- 

 ration, 211. 



Oxygen, J. A. Wanklyn on the con- 

 tinuous productiou-of, 85. 



Ozonometer, on Dr. Moifat's tube, 79. 



Pacific, Northern, Dr. Sclater on an ap- 

 parently new marine animal from the, 

 140. 



Paddles, New-Ireland, omanientation 

 of, 109. 



Pamir, R. B.'Shaw on the physical fea- 

 tures of the, and its Aryan inhabitants, 

 213. 



*Panthays of Yunnan, W. F. Mayers on 

 the, 211. 



Paris basin, Prof. Ilebert on the chalk 

 of the, 104. 



Parish boundaries in the south-east of 

 England, W. Topley on the relation 

 of the, to great physical features, 

 particularly to the chalk escarpment, 

 197. 



Pata-patoo, Sir D. Gibb on a, from New 

 Zealand, 18-j. 



Patented inventions, T. Webster on the 

 advancement of science, due to, 251. 



Paul (W.) on the relative value of 

 clarified and iinclarified sewage as 

 manure, 247. 



Peacock (U. A.), liow a national natural- 

 history museum might be built and 

 arranged Avith advantage, 1.38. 



*Pendulums, Prof Tait on sympathy 

 of, 24. 



Pongelly (W.), notes on Machairodus 

 latidens found by the Pe v. J. MacEner}^ 

 in Kent's Cavern^ Torquay, 119. 



Phen<§ (.1. S.) on some evidences sug- 

 gestive of a common migration from 

 the East, shown by archaic remains in 

 America and Britain, 192. 



Phillips (Prof. J.) on the temperature- 

 correction of an aneroid, 01. 



*l'holas Candida, J. Robertson on the 

 perforating instruments of, 140. 



•Phospliorus, Dr. Oppcuheim on the 

 action of, on alkaline solutions of 

 metals, 79, 



1872. 



Photography, the Hon. J. W. Strutt on 

 the application otj to copy diffraction- 

 gratings, .39. 



, Colonel Stuart Wortley on the 



importance of the salts of uranium 

 in, 45. 



Photometer, nautical. Dr. J. Hopkinson 

 on a, 59. 



Phjllo.vera vastatrix, Prof. Thiselton- 

 Dyer on, 127. 



Physiology, Prof. Burdon Sanderson's 

 Address to the department of Ana- 

 tomy and, 145. 



Pine-timber, Prof. Mallet on the occur- 

 rence in recent, of Fichtelite, a hydro- 

 carbon hitherto only known in a fossil 

 state, 79. 



Pinus innaster, Prof. Dickson on the 

 cones of, 127. 



Pleistocene age, W. Boyd Dawkins on 

 the physical geography of the Mediter- 

 ranean during the, 100. 



Polar exploration, Capt. Sherard Osborn 

 on, 211. 



Polygamy, H. Clarke on, as affecting 

 population, 224. 



Pouchet (M. G.) on the mechanism of 

 the change of colour in fishes and 

 Crustacea, 153. 



Prime numbers, J. W. L. Glaisher on 

 the law of distribution of, 19. 



*Probability function, J. E. Hilgard on 

 the verification of the, 21. 



Protoplasmic and fungus life. Dr. Crace- 

 Calvert on the relative power of 

 various substances in preventing pu- 

 trefaction and the development of, 

 69. 



Psaronius, Prof. J. Hall on the occur- 

 rence of trunks of, in an erect position, 

 resting on their original bed, in rocks 

 of Devonian age in the State of New 

 York, 103. 



Pulse-rate, A, H. Garrod on the, and 

 the forces which vary it, 151. 



Pump, filter-, T. E. Thorpe on an im- 

 proved form of, 83. 



Puti-efaction, Dr. Crace-Calvert on the 

 relative power of various substances 

 in preventing, and the development 

 of protoplasmic and fungus life, 69. 



Quartan curves, F. W. Newman on tri- 

 diametral, 22 ; on, with three or four 

 diameters, 23 ; on raonodiametral, 23. 



*Quartz, Prof. CrouUebois on the action 

 of, on ultra-violet rays, 30= 



*Quartz-nodules, Dr. Robert Sim on 

 certain, occurring in the crj'stalline 

 schists near Killin, Perthshire, 122, 

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