1088 



REPORT— 1898. 



Poor Law schools, A defence of, by W. 



Chance, 962. 

 Potato disease, Prof. H. Marshall Ward 



on a, 1046. 

 Potentiometer, a pneumatic analogue of 



the, W. N. Shaw on, 778. 

 PouLTON (Prof. E. B.) on the promotion 



of affricvlture, ^12. 

 « on G. A. K. Marshall's proof that 



Preciioctavia-natacensis and P. scsamus 



are seasonal forms of the same species, 



«02. 



and Cora B. Sanders on an experi- 



mental enquiry into the struggle for 



existence in certain common insects, 



906. 

 POYNTiNG (Prof. J. H.) on seisvwlpgical 



investigation, 179. 

 Pkeece (W. H.) on 2J'ractical electrical 



standards, 145. 



on the B. A. screw gauge, 627. 



Peentice (Manning) on the carlo- 

 hydrates of cereal straws, 293. 

 Presidential Address at Bristol l»j Sir 



William Crookes, 3 

 -♦Peeston (Prof. T.) on radiation from a 



source of light in a magnetic field, 



789. 

 Peice (Prof. B.) on taMes of certain 



mathematical functions, 145. 

 (L. L.) on industrial conciliation, 



963. 



(W. A.) on the B.A. screivgavge, 627. 



Peince (Prof. E. E.) on the Canadian 



biological station in the Gulf of St. 



Lawrence, 582. 

 *Peoctok (H. Faraday) on the electric 



lighting system at Bristol, with special 



reference to auxiliary plant, 991. 

 Publication, zoological, and bibliography. 



Report on, 558. 



^Radiation from a source of light in a 

 magnetic field. Prof. T. Preston on, 

 789. 



Railway vegetation, the origin of, S. T. 

 Dunn on, 1014. 



Eainfall of the south-west of England, 

 J. Hopkinson on the, 799. 



Eamsat (Prof. W.) and M. W. Travees 

 on the extraction from air of the com- 

 panions of argon and neon, 828. 



Eavenstein (E. G.) on the climatology 

 of Africa, 603. 



on an ethnographical surrey of the 



United Kingdom., 712. 



Ratleigh (Lord) on practical electrical 

 standards, 145. 



Read (C. H.) on ancient works of art 

 from Benin City, 1020. 



Reclus (Prof. 6lisee) on a proposed 

 great globe, 945. 



Reed organ of the Lao Shans, H. Waring- 

 ton Smyth on the, 1013. 



Reeves (W. P.) on the Wakefield land 

 system, and the developments from it 

 in the Colonies, 974. 



Refraction, dispersion, and anomalous 

 dispersion, the dynamical theory of, 

 Lord Kelvin on, 782. 



Reid (A. S.) on the collection of photo- 

 graphs of geological interest in the 

 United KiTigdom, 530. 



(Clement) on tlw Selangor caves, 



Singapore, 571. 



* (G. A.) on a new theory of retro- 

 gression, 911. 



Rennie (J.) on practical electrical 

 standards, 145. 



Reproduction in Dictyota dichotoma, 

 J. LI. Williams on, 1044. 



♦Research, juvenile, Prof. H. E. Arm- 

 strong on, 840. 



*Eetrogression, a new theory of, G. A. 

 Reid on, 911. 



Reynolds (Prof. J. Emerson) on the 

 electrolytic methods of quantitative 

 analysis, 294. 



* on the position of helium, argon, 



krypton, &c., in the periodic classifica- 

 tion of the elements, 830. 



* on the effect of varying propor- 

 tions of carbon dioxide on the acety- 

 lene flame, 845. 



Rideal (Dr. S.) on standards of purity 

 for sewage effluents, 847. 



Ridley (H. N.) on the Selangor cares, 

 Singapore, 571. 



Righi's discovery of the absorption of 

 light in a magnetic field, Prof, S. P. 

 Thompson on, 789. 



RiJCKEVORSEL (Dr. van) on analogies 

 between the yearly ranges of some 

 meteorological and magnetic pheno- 

 mena, 797. 



and Dr. van Bemmelen on the in- 

 fluence of altitude above the sea on 

 the elements of terrestrial magnetism, 

 760. 



Roberts (Dr. I.) 07i seismological investi- 

 gation, 179. 



Roberts-Austen (Prof. W. C.) on the 

 bibliography of spectroscopy, 439. 



Robertson (Prof. J. W.) onthe promo- 

 tion of agriculture , 312. 



Rock decomposition, comparative actions 

 of subaerial and submarine agents in, 

 T. n. Holland on the, 868. 



* drawings from British Columbia, 



C. Hill-Tout on some, 1016. 



Rocks, thermal conductivities of, effect 

 of pressure on the. Dr. C. H. Lees on 

 the, 807. 



Roman symbolic hands, F. T. Elworthy 

 on some, 1012. 



Rontgen rays, absorption of the, by 

 chemical compounds. Dr. J. H. Glad- 

 stone and W. Hibbert, 835. 



