INDEX. 
Post Office regulations regarding the car- 
riage of Natural History specimens to 
foreign countries, Report on the, 477. 
Post-Cambrian shrinkage of the globe, 
J. Logan Lobley on the, 789. 
Post-Pliocene changes of physical geo- 
graphy in Yorkshire, P. F. Kendall on 
some, 801. 
Pouuton (Prof. E. B.) on the work of 
the Corresponding Societies Committee, 
31. 
—— Address to the Section of Zoology 
by, 808. 
Poyntine (Prof. J. H.) on seismological 
investigation, 180. 
Pre-Cambrian fossils, Sir W. Dawson on, 
784. 
Preclassical chronology in Italy and 
Greece, Dr. Oscar Montelius on, 933. 
PREECE (W. H.) on practical electrical 
standards, 150. 
— on the B.A. screw gauge, 527. 
on disturbance in submarine 
cables, 732. 
*____ on tests of glow lamps, 898. 
Prehistoric monuments, ancient measures 
in, A. L. Lewis on, 924. 
—— settlement in co. Kerry, R. A. S. 
Macalister on a, 931. 
PRENTICE (Manning) on the carbo- 
hydrates of cereal straws, 262. 
Presidential Address at Liverpool by Sir 
Joseph Lister, 3. 
PRICE (Prof. B.) on tables of the Bessel 
Functions, 98. 
—— (W. A.) on the B.A. scren gauge, 
527, 537. 
*Prices, the course of average general, 
H. Binns on, 883. 
*Printing in colours, the development of 
the art of, T. Cond on, 905. 
Proportions of the human body, Dr. J. 
G. Garson on the, 927. 
Proteid matter, the glucoside constitu- 
tion of, Dr. F. W. Pavy on, 976. 
Pteropod ooze, the bathymetric limit of, 
P. F. Kendall on the cause of, 789. 
Public health, the organisation of bac- 
teriological research in connection 
with, Dr. Sims Woodhead on, 984. 
Publication, zoological, and bibliography, 
Report on, 490. 
Publications, Scientific Societies’, Report 
on the uniformity of size of pages of, 86. 
*Purkinje’s phenomena and photometry, 
Prof. J. B. Haycraft on, 983. 
‘Quadratic forms, connexion of, Lieut.- 
Col. Allan Cunningham on the, 716. 
Yuantitative analysis, the electrolytic 
methods of, Report on, 244. 
Quartzite lenticles in the schists of 
South-eastern Anglesey, E. Greenly on, 
783. 
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*Railway, the Liverpool Overhead, and 
the southern extension of it, S. B. 
Cottrell on, 898. 
——— rails, the cause of fracture of, W. 
W. Beaumont on, 896. 
Rainfall, mean monthly, A. J. Herbert- 
son on world-maps of, 857. 
RAMBAUT (Prof. A. A.) on the effect of 
atmospheric refraction on the apparent 
diurnal movement of stars, and a 
method of allowing for it in astrono- 
mical photography, 726. 
*RAMSAY (Prof. W.) on helium, 757. 
Rates and taxes, the distribution and 
incidence of, G. H. Blunden on, 878. 
RATHBONE (H. R.) on grain ‘futures,’ 
their effects and tendencies, 881. 
Rating system, proposed modifications of 
the, W. H. Smith on, 878. 
RAVENSTEIN (EH. G.) on the position of 
geography in the educational system of 
the country, 494. 
on the climatology of Africa, 495. 
on an ethnographical survey of the 
Onited Kingdom, 607. 
RAWSON (Sir Rawson) on the work of the 
Corresponding Societies Committee, 31. 
Ray (Sidney H.) on anthropological 
opportunities in British New Guinea, 
928. 
RAYLEIGH (Lord) on the establishment 
of a National Physical Laboratory, 82. 
on tables of the Bessel functions, 98. 
on practical electrical standards, 
150. 
RAYNBIRD (Hugh),junr., on the linguistic 
and anthropological characteristics of 
the North Dravidian and Kolarian 
races,—The Urduws, 659. 
Reaction (solidification, crystallisation, 
&e.), the velocity of, before perfect 
equilibrium takes place, Meyer Wilder- 
mann on, 751. 
READ (C. H.) on an Imperial Bureau of 
Ethnology, 928. 
READE (T. Mellard) on oscillations in 
the level of the land, as shown by the 
buried river valleys and later deposits 
near Liverpool, 782. 
Red Marl near Liverpool, G. H. Morton 
on recent borings in the, 780. 
REED (J. Howard) on practical geo- 
graphy in Manchester, 858. 
Refraction, the effect of atmospheric, on 
the apparent diurnal movement of 
stars, Prof. A. A. Rambavt on, 726.; 
Reichsanstalt, Charlottenburg, Berlin, 
Financial statement about the, 86. 
REID (A. 8.) on the collection of photo- 
graphs of geological interest in the 
United Kingdom, 357. 
— (Clement) on the Selangor caves, 399. 
—— onthe relation of Paleolithic man 
.. tothe Glacial epoch, 400. 
