244 



REPORT 1876. 



'Earthquake districts of Scotland, Dr. 

 J. Biyce on tlie, 88. 



•Eastern picture-writing, J. Park Har- 

 rison on the, 165. 



•Eclipse of the sun observed at Siam in 

 April 1875, 40. 



Economy of penalties, Eev. J. S. Burt 

 on the, 195. 



Education, compulsorj', Dr. W. Jack on 

 the results of five years of, 200. 



* , physical, and hygiene in schools, 



W. Jolly on, 207. 



Elasmobranchs, F. M. Balfour on the 

 development of the proto-^ertebrae in, 

 U7. 



Electric induction and conduction, O. J. 

 Lodge on a mechanical illustration of, 

 42. 



•Electricity, contact, Sir W. Thomson 

 on, 45. 



•Electrometer, Prof. J. Dewar on a new 

 form of, 42. 



Engine for starting and reversing large 

 marine engines, A. B; Brown on an, 

 219. 



Equatorial Africa, Commander Cameron 

 on his journey through, 181. 



Evans (Captain F. J.), Address by, to 

 the Geographical Section, 169. 



* (M.J on the application of .spring 



fenders to pierheads, 223 ; *on a safety- 

 lock for facing-points, 223. 



Evai)orating-pau, a safe and rapid, F. 

 H. T. Allen on, 61. 



Evolution of sex in the vegetable king- 

 dom, G. S. Boulger on the, 142. 



•Expansion of solids by heat, two new 

 forms of apparatus for the experi- 

 mental illustration of the, by Prof. 

 Barrett, 48. 



•Excretion, town, experimental re- 

 searches on the chemical treatment 

 of, by J. J. Coleman, 63. 



•Facing-points, M. Evans on a safety- 

 lock jfor, 223. 



Fell (J. B.) on the experiments made at 

 the camp at Aldershot with a new 

 form of military tield-railway, for 

 rapid construction in war-time, 223. 



•Fergusson (A.) on white-lead, 03. 



Filtering-s.ind, J. Lang on an apparatus 

 for cleaning, 232. 



•Finland, Rev. J. Pattison on a jom-ney 

 across, from Ellenborg to Archangel, 

 via Kemi, 183. 



•Fire-brick, J. Dunnachie on, 63. 



First elliptic integral. Prof F. W. New- 

 man on the use of Lcgendre's scale 

 f"r calculating thp, 28. 



*Flanging-iron and steel plates for boiler 

 purposes, A. B. Brown on a, 219. 



•Fleming (S.) on the conventional 

 division of Time now in use, and 

 its disadvantages in connexion with 

 steam communications in different 

 parts of the world ; with remarks on 

 the desirability of adopting common 

 time over the globe for railways and 

 steam-ships, 182. 



Flesh diet in tropical climates, C. O. 

 Groom Napier on the unwholesome- 

 ness of, 153. 



Fluids, Prof. F. Guthrie and Dr. F. 

 Guthrie on the passage of, through 

 capillary and other tubes, 31. 



Fly-trap {Dioncea nmscipula), new re- 

 searches on the electrical phenomena 

 consequenton irritationof the leaves of 

 the, by Prof. Burdon Sanderson, 136. 



•Forbes (Prof) on the site of the grave 

 of Genghiz Khan, 182. 



(Dr. L.j on the Samoan .Archipe- 

 lago, ,183. 



Foula, G. A. Gibson on the physical geo- 

 log}' and geological structure ot\ 90. 



*Fraction expansions for series, T. Muir 

 on the relation between two con- 

 tinued, 28. 



Fritsch (Dr. A.) on Labyrinthodont re- 

 mains fi*om the Upper Carboniferous 

 (gas-coal) of Bohemia, 89. 



*Froude (W. ), mechanical theory of the 

 soaring of birds, 31. 



Gaelic and English, the relation of. Rev. 



W. Cameron on, 164. 

 inhabitants of Scotland, Hector 



MacLean on the, 166. 



speaking popidation of Scotland, 



Rev. W. Ross on the educational 

 value of their native language to the, 

 208. 



Galton (Capt. D.) on railways on three- 

 foot gauge in the United States, 

 224. 



•Gamgee (Prof.) on the physiological 

 action of pjTo-, meta-, and ortho- 

 phosphoric acids, 64. 



and L. Larmuth on the action of 



vanadium upon the intrinsic nervous 

 mechanism of the frog's heart, 151. 



, J. Priestley, and L. Larmuth on 



the difference in the poisonous 

 activity of phosphorus in ortho-, 

 meta-, and pyro-phosphoric acids, 

 151 ; on the action of pyrophos- 

 phoric acid on the circulation, 152. 



Garner (R.) on the brain of the Canid<s, 

 152. 



