INDEX. 



921 



Peek (Cuthbert E.) on uniformity in the 

 spelling of barharte and savage lan- 

 guages aud race names, 662. 



Pellian equation, the tables connected 

 . with the, report of the Committee for 

 carrying on, froin tlie point where the 

 work was left by Degen in 1817, 73. 



Pendulum, the new bifilar, for observing 

 . earth tremors, designed by Horace 

 Darwin, 291. 



, the horizontal, for observing earth 



tremors, of Br. E. von Rebeur-Pasch- 

 mitz, description of, 303 ; list of 

 memoirs on, 308 ; account of observa- 

 tions made with, by Dr. von Rebeur- 

 Paschmitz, 309. 



Penghlly (W.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 463. 



Penguins of the Antarctic Ocean, C. W. 

 Donald on the, 808. 



Pe?itland Hills, tlie eurypterid-bearing 

 deposits of the, report on, 470. 



* Peradeniya, Ceylon, the botanical labora- 

 tory at, interim report on, 804. 



Pbrkin (Dr. W. H.) on the action of light 

 upon dyed colours, 373. 



Perlitic quartz grains in rhyolite, W. W. 

 Watts on the, 781. 



Permian and Trias, Rev. A. Irving on, 768. 



• and Triassic rocks, the junction of, 



at Stockport, J. W. Gray and P. F. 

 Kendall on, 769. 



Peeby (Prof. J.) on practical electrical 

 standards, 127. 



Petrological features of the dissected 

 volcano of Crandall Basin, Wyoming, 

 Prof. J. P. Iddings on the, 763. 



Phenol, the cause of the red colouration 

 of. Dr. C. A. Kohn on, 720. 



Phookan (Dr. R. D.) on the rate of 

 evaporation of bodies in atmospheres 

 of difEerent densities, 721. 



Pliotographs of geological interest in the 

 United Kingdom, fourth report on the 

 collection, preservation, and systematic 

 registration of, 473. 



Photography, the application of, to tlve 

 elucidation of meteorological phevA)- 

 mena, third report on, 140. 



Phyllopoda, the fossil of the Palceozoic 

 rocks, tenth report on, 465. 



Physical and Mathematical Section, 

 Address by R. T. Glazebrook to the, 

 671. 



Physical deviations from the normal 

 among children in elementary and 

 other schools, report on the, 614. 



Physics in schools, the teaching of, 



♦Discussion, 700. 



Apparatus for elementary practical 



physics, Prof. G. C. Foster on, 700. 



Teaching physics in schools, W. B. 



Croft on, 700 ; A. E. Hawkins on, 



701 



PiCKEEiNQ (S. W.) on the bibliography 

 of solution, 372. 



Piezo-electric pile, Lord Kelvin on a, 691. 



t property of quartz, Lord Kelvin 



on the, 691. 



Pin-wells and rag-bushes, E. Sidney 

 Hartland on, 901. 



Pittings in pebbles from the Trias, Prof. 

 W. J. SoUas on the, 755. 



PiTT-RiVKES (Gen.) on an ethTwgraphical 

 survey of the United Kitigdom, 621. 



Place-names, Scottish, report on, 554. 



Platinum-sulphurea base, salts of a new, 

 W. J. Sell and T. H. Easterfield on the, 

 731. 



Polishing, early uses of flint for, H. 

 Slopes on, 904. 



* and grinding. Lord Rayleigh on, 



685. 



*Poor law and old age, Rev, J. F. Wilkin- 

 son on, 852. 



•Potassium permanganate, the action of, 

 on sodium thio-sulphate and sulphate, 

 G. E. Brown and Dr. W. W. J. Nicol 

 on, 725. 



PouLTON (Prof. E. B.) on the worh of 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 35. 



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

 287. 



Pre- Carboniferous rocks, discovery of a 

 concealed ridge of, under the Trias of 

 Netherseal, Leicestershire, Prof. E. 

 Hull on, 745. 



Peeece (W. H.) on practical electrical 

 standards, 127. 



Pre-glacial form of the ground in Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire, C. E. De Ranee on 

 the, 779. 



Pre-natal influence on the mother, mal- 

 formation from, A. R. Wallace on, 798. 



Pbestwich (Prof. J.) oji earth tremors, 

 287 ; on the circulation of underground 

 waters, 463 ; on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 514.: 



Peice (Prof. B.) on calculating tables of 

 mathematical functions (Bessel's), 227. 



(L. L.) on some objections to bime- 

 tallism viewed in connection with the 

 report of the Indian Currency Com- 

 mittee, 858. 



Peibst (M.) and W. A. Shenstone, 

 studies on the formation of ozone from 

 oxygen, 440. 



Publication of scientific papers, A. B. 

 Basset on the, 704. 



Punishment, revenge, and atonement, 

 the prehistoric evolution of theories of. 

 Rev. G. Hartwell Jones on, 897. 



Quartz enclosures in lavas of Stromboli 

 and Strombolicchio, and their effect 

 on the composition of the rock. Prof. 

 H. J. Johnston Lavis on, 759. 



