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INDEX II. 



TO 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 



SECTIONS. 



[_A)i asterisk (*) signifies that no abstract of the communicatio^i is given.'] 



*Abics, the structure of the leaf in 

 different species of, Prof M'Nab on, 

 144. 



•Abuey (Capt.), photometric measure- 

 ments of the magneto-electric light, 

 3(i. 



Accident insurance by sea and land, P. 

 M. Tait on the theory and practice of, 

 208. 



Aconites, the alkaloids of the. Dr. C. E. 

 A. Wright on, 71. 



•Acoustic analogues to motions in the 

 molecules of gases, G. J. Stoney on, 

 31. 



Adams (Prof A. Leith) on gigantic 

 land-tortoises and a freshwater species 

 from the Maltese caverns, with obser- 

 vations on their fossil fauna, 145. 



Africa, Equatorial, Commander Cameron 

 on his journey through, 181. 



* , South-Eastern, Mr. Stephenson 



on the civilization of, 208. 



Age of the Earth, J. Croll on the tidal 

 retardation argument for the, 88. 



Agricidtural statistics, W. Botly on, 194. 



Agriculture, primitive, A. W. Buctland 

 on, 164. 



*Akem, and its people, West Africa, 

 Capt. J. S. Hay on, 183. 



*Akkem, West Africa, Capt. J. S. Hay 

 and Commander Cameron on horned 

 men of, 165. 



Alcohol, the action of, on the brain, C. 

 Kingzett on, 154. 



•Alexander (General Sir J.) on the 

 oldest woman in Scotland, 164. 



•Alkali waste, W. Weldon on the means 

 of suppressing, 70. 



Alkaloids of the aconites. Dr. C. R. A. 

 Wright on the, 71. 



Allan (F. H. T.) on a safe and rapid 

 evaporating-pan, 61. 



*Alum process in sugar-refining, J. A. 

 R. Newlands on the, 66. 



•Ammonic seleniocvanide. Dr. Cameron 

 on, 63. 



Anatomy and Physiology, Dr. J. G. 

 M'Kendrick's Address to the Depart- 

 ment of, 120. 



•Andaman Islands, two skidls from the, 

 Dr. Allen Thomson on, 169. 



•Aniline, the transformation of chinoline 

 into, Prof Dewar on, 63. 



•Animals, J. Shaw on the mental pro- 

 gress of, during the human period, 

 169. 



*Antedon rosacevs (Comatula rosacea, 

 Lamk.), the nervous system of. Dr. 

 W. B. Carpenter on, 146. 



* , Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the 



morphology and histology of, 148. 



Anthracene compounds, some new, W. 

 H. Perkin on, 67. 



testing, J. T. Brown on, 62. 



•Arenaceous Foraminifera collected in 

 the ' Valorous ' expedition. Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter on the, 146. 



Argyll (the Duke of) on the physical 

 structure of the Highlands in connexion 

 with their geological history, 81. 



Arithmetic, W. H. Walenn on division- 

 remainders in, .30. 



