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REPORT 1859. 



De la Rue (Warren) on the present state 

 of celestial photography in England, 

 130. 



Dickie (Dr.), report of the Belfast dredg- 

 ing committee for 1859, 116. 



Dinosauria, on the order, 164. 



Dolomite of Howth, on the, 68. 



Dredging committee, report of the Dub- 

 lin Bay, for 1858-59, 80; Belfast, for 

 1859, 116. 



Dynamics, on the progress in the solution 

 of certain special problems in, 310. 



' Emeu,' on a meteor observed on board 

 the steam-ship, 91. 



England, present state of celestial photo- 

 graphy in, 130, 



Fairbairn (William), experiments to de- 

 termine the efficiency of continuous 

 and self-acting breaks for railway 

 trains, 76; report of the committee on 

 the patent laws, 191. 



Fermat's theorem, 233. 



Foster (G. C), preliminary report on the 

 recent progress and present state of 

 organic chemistry, 1. 



Gages (Alphonse), report on the results 

 obtained by the mechanico-chemical 

 examination of rocks and minerals, 

 65. 



Ganocephala, on the order, 155. 



Gauss's demonstrations, 243-248. 



Gladstone (Dr. J. H.), observations of 

 meteors by, 88 ; analysis of a paper by, 

 " on the periods and colours of lumi- 

 nous meteors," 91. 



Gweedore metamorphic limestone, 75. 



Hadovv (Mr.), report on the present state 

 of our knowledge regarding the photo- 

 graphic image, 103. 



Hardwich (T. F.), report on the present 

 state of our knowledge regarding the 

 photographic image, 103. 



Harrison (J. Park), lunar influence on 

 the temperature of the air, 193. 



Hodgson (Bryan H.), series of skulls of 

 various tribes of mankind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected and presented to the 

 British Museum, 95. 



Hood (Mr.) on a meteor observed on 

 board the steam-ship 'Emeu,' 91. 



Hull, on steam navigation at, 119. 



Hyndman (George C.), report of the 

 Belfast dredging committee for 1859, 

 116. 



Ichthyopterygia, on the order, 159. 



Jacobi's extension of Legendre's symbol, 

 242. 



Kew observatory, on the construction of 



the self-recording magnetographs at 



the, 200. 

 Kinahan (Dr. J. R.), report of Dublin 



Bay dredging committee for 1858-59, 



80. 



Labyrinthodontia, on the order, 158. 

 Lacertilia, on the order, 165. 

 Lagrange's limit of the number of roots 



of a congruence, 235. 

 Legendre's law of reciprocity, 241. 

 Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, on the upper 



Silurians of, 63. 

 Limestones, magnesian, from Permian 



localities, 66 ; Gweedore metamorphic, 



75. 

 Llewelyn (J. D.), report on the present 



state of our knowledge regarding the 



photographic image, 103. 

 Lowe (E. J.), observations of luminous 



meteors, 82. 

 Lunar influence on the temperature of 



the air, 193. 

 Lunar table of daily mean temperature, 



in 1859, at Greenwich, 194. 



Magnetic survey of Scotland, on the, 

 167. 



Magnetographs, on self-recording, 200. 



Manures, on field experiments and labora- 

 tory researches on the constituents of, 

 essential to cultivated crops, 31. 



Maskelyne (M. H. N. S.), report on the 

 present state of our knowledge regard- 

 ing the photographic image, 103. 



Meteoric phenomena and theories, mis- 

 cellaneous notes on, 93. 



Meteors, luminous, observations of, 81, 

 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91 ; analysis of a 

 paper on the periods and colours of, 

 91. 



Minerals, on the results obtained by the 

 mechanico-chemical examination of, 

 65. 



Moon's phases, table of, in 1859, 194. 



Murchison (Sir R. I.) on the upper 

 Silurians of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, 

 63. 



Nepal, on a series of skulls of various 



tribes of mankind inhabiting, 95. 

 Numbers, on the theory of, 228. 



Oldham (James), third report of the pro- 

 gress of steam navigation at Hull, 119. 

 Ophidia, on the order, 166. 





