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INDEX. 



Plantar surface, the epidermis of the, 

 and the question of use-inheritance, 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey on, 698. 



*Plants, the structure of fossil, in its 

 bearing on modern botanical questions, 

 Dr. D. H. Scott on, 698. 



Plateau beds, the age of the, W. Whit- 

 aker on, 652. 



— implements in Kent, the geology of 



the, Prof. T. Rupert Jones on, 651. 



Pleistocene gravel at Wolvercote, near 

 Oxford, A. M. Bell on the, 663. 



*Poisons, the absorption of, Prof. P. 

 Heger on, 80-1. 



fPolar exploration, current, Ccl. H. W. 

 Feilden on, 711. 



*Polisiplwma nigresccns, the develop- 

 ment of the cystocarp in, H. Phillips 

 on, 684. 



•Pollard (H. B.) on some models of the 

 crania of siluroids, 698. 



Polychfeta, suggestions for a new classi- 

 fication of the, by Dr. W. B. Benham, 

 696. 



Polygons, regular, a linkage for the auto- 

 matic description of, Prof. J. D. Everett 

 on, 559. 



* Polyodon, the structure of the integu- 

 ment of, W. E. CoUinge on, 683. 



*Polyrheotome, a nev? spring kymograph 

 and, Prof. T. W. W. Engelmann on, 

 818. 



*PortaI vein, the innervation of the, 

 E. M. Bayhss and Dr. Starling on, 811. 



PouLTON (Prof. E. B.) 011 the n-orh of 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee. 

 19. 



Power (D'Arcy), epithelial changes pro- 

 duced by irritation, 806. 



POYNTING (Prof. J. H.) on earth tremors, 

 145. 



Preece (W. H.) oti 2)ractical electrical 

 standardx, 117. 



* on signalling through space, 756. 



Prehistoric and ancient remains of Gla- 

 morganshire, second, report on the, 418, 



man in the old alluvium of the 



Sabarmati Piiver in Gujarat, Western 

 India, R. B. Foote on, 664. 



objects collected during a journej' 



and explorations in Central and Eastern 



Crete, exhibition of, by Arthur J. 



Evans, 777. 

 -: studies in Belgium, the present 



state of, Count Goblet d'Alviella on, 



783. 

 Pressures in the hores of guns, methods 



that Juzve been adopted for measuring, 



Sir A. jVoble on, 523. 

 Peestwich (Prof. J.) on underground 



tempter atvre, 107. 



. on earth tremors, 145. 



on thr circulation of underground 



reaters, 283. 



Price (L. L.) on the methods cf economic 

 training in this and other coimtries, 

 365. 



on the report of the Labour Com- 

 mission, 730. 



♦Prices, wages, and the standard of value, 

 Edward Atkinson on, 730. 



Pringsheim (E.) and O. Lummer, a new 

 determination of the ratio of the spe- 

 cific heats of certain gases, 565. 



Probability curve, the asymmetric, Prof. 

 F. Y. Edgeworth on, 562. 



♦Production, factors of, H. Higgs on, 729. 



♦Protoplasm, the relations of, Prof. E. 

 van Beneden on, 684. 



Pteridophytes, the origin of the sexual 

 organs of the. Prof. D. H. Campbell 

 on, 695. 



Publication of papers and rules of 

 priority, T. R. R. Stebbing on the, 697. 



PrcRAFT (W. p.), the wing of Archaeo- 

 pterj'x viewed in the light of that of 

 some modern birds, 693. 



Pj'gmies in Europe, Professor J. KoU- 

 mann on, 781. 



Pygmy races, mythical, Prof. B. Windle 

 on, 781. 



♦Quantic, the binary, of unlimited order, 



the invariant ground-forms of, Major 



P. A. MacMahon on, 579. 

 Quantitative analysis, the electrolytic 



methods of, report on, 160. 

 Quincke (Prof. G.) on the formation of 



soap-lubbles by the contact of alkaline 



oleates with water, 475. 



Ramsay (Prof. W.) on the bibliography 

 of solution, 246. 



* and Lord Rayleigh on a new 



gaseous constituent of air, 614. 



Randall (Dr. W. W.) on the effect of 

 dilution upon the colours of salt solu- 

 tions and the measurement of this 

 effect, 618. 



Rates, the inequality of local ; its ex- 

 tent, causes, and consequences, Edwin 

 Cannan on, 734. 



Ravenstein (E. G.) on the climatological 

 and hydrographical conditions of Tropi- 

 cal Africa, 348. 



on the exploration of Hadramout, in 



Southern Arabia, 354. 



0)1 an ethnographical surrey of the 



United Kingdom, 419. 

 Rawson (Sir R.) on the work of the 



Corrcsijonding Societies Committee, 19. 

 Rayleigh (Lord) on practical electrical 



standards, 117. 

 f on the minimum current audible 



in the telephone, 572. 

 •f , an attempt at a quantitative theory i 



of the telephone, 573. | 



