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llEPORT — 187'3. 



England to the current rate of interest, 



199. 

 Panics, commercial, W. D. Henderson 



on, 193. 

 Passage of squalls across the British 



Isles, G. M. Whipple on the, 44. 

 *Patent systems of Great Britain and of 



the United States, T. Webster on the 



assimilation of the, 219. 

 *Paul (Dr.) and A. D. Cownley on the 



valuation of commercial crude anthra- 

 cene, (55. 

 *Peat, F. H. Danchell on, 186. 

 , Major-Gen. Sir J. Alexander on 



the use and abuse of, 183. 

 *Peking, E. L. Oxenham on a journey 



from, to Han-kow, 172. 

 Pendulum for exhibiting superposed 



vibrations, Prof A. S. Herschel on a 



new form of, 48. 

 Permian rocks of the lower portion of 



the vale of Eden, Cumberland, Prof. 



Harkness on the occurrence of faults 



in the, 81. 

 *Persia, Major St. John on trade-routes 



in, 173. 

 , notes of recent travel in, by Colonel 



SirF. Goldsmid, 171. 

 -, W. T. Blanford on the fauna of, 



110. 



and Central Asia, the Deserts of, 



W. T. Blanford on the physical geo- 

 graphy of, 162. 



Phene (J. S.) on an age of Colossi, 147. 



Phillips (Prof. J.), Address by, to the 

 Geological Section, 70 ; on the animo- 

 nitic spiral iu reference to the power of 

 flotation attributed to the animal, 85 ; 

 on the ammouitic septa in relation to 

 geological time, 86. 



Philology, comparative, H. Clarke on 

 the comparative chronology of the 

 migrations of man in America in rela- 

 tion to, 141. 



*Photography, M. Janssen on the appli- 

 cation ot, to show the passage of \'enus 

 across the sun's disk, 35. 



Physiological action of crystalline aco- 

 nitia and pseudo-aconitia, Dr. T. E. 

 Fraser on the, 128. 



Physiology, Address by Prof Ruther- 

 ford to the department of Anatomy 

 and, 119. 



Pike (W. H.) on several homologues of 

 oxaluric acid, 65. 



•Plant (J.) on the Burleigh rock-drill, 

 216. 



'Plants collected by the voyager Dam- 

 pier, Prof. Lawson on, 105. 



Pleistocene mammals, additional re- 



mains of, iu Yorkshire, IJev. J. V. 



Blake on, 75. 

 *Poor-law, the, and its effect on thrift, 



S. C. T. Bartley on, 185. 

 •Postal reform, W. Hastings on, 191. 

 Prehistoric names of weapons, 11. Clarke 



on, 141. 

 •Pressure log, Napier's, J. E. Napier on, 



214. 

 Problem of the impulsive motion of a 



body having three degrees of freedom, 



Prof Ball on a geometrical solution 



of the, 26. 

 •Protoplasm iu the fucaceous algse, Prof. 



P. M. Duncan on the motion of, 126. 

 Purity and impurity in the use and abuse 



of water, Major-Gen. Synge on, 200. 



Eailwav, the centre-rail, W. C. Thomas 



on, 219. 

 , the through, to India, II. Clarke 



on the progress of, 213. 

 Eailways amalgamated in competing 



groups, B. Ilaughton on, 191. 

 Ram, J. P. Harrison on lunar influence 



on clouds and, 43. 

 Rainfall, C. Meldrum on a periodicity of 



cyclones and, in connexion with the 



sun-spot periodicity, 43. 

 •Rajleigh (Lord) on a natural limit to 



the sharpness of the spectral lines, 39. 

 Red men, C. H. E. Carmichael on Prof. 



Gennarelli's paper on the existence 



of a race of, in Northern Africa and 



Southern Europe iu prehistoric times, 



141. 

 *Eefiaction of liquid waves, W.S. Davis 



on the, 43. 

 spectrum without a prism, Prof. 



Everett on a, 37. 

 Eeligion, E. B. Tylor on the relation of 



morality to, in the early stages of 



civilization, 148. 

 Eenal calculi, Dr. G. Harley on the 



mode of formation of, 130. 

 *Eesistauce of the screw propeller as 



affected by immersion, Prof. 0. Rey- 

 nolds on the, 216. 

 •Retina, the, and other tissues, Drs. 



Dewar and MacKendrick ou the action 



of light on, 12G. 

 •Eeynolds (Prof. Osborne) on certain 



phenomena of impact, 32 ; *on the 



resistance of the screw propeller as 



affected by immersion, 216; *on the 



friction of shot as aftected by different 



kinds of rifling, 216. 

 Eiclithofen (Baron von) on the loess of 



Northern China, and its relation to 



the salt-basins of Central Asia, 86 ; 



