INDEX I. 



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Owen (Professor), report on a series of 

 skulls of various tribes of mankind 

 inhabiting Nepal, collected, and pre- 

 sented to the British Museum, by 

 Bryan II. Hodgson, Esq., 95 ; on the 

 orders of fossil and recent reptilia, and 

 their distribution ill time, 153. 



Page (Mr.) on the upper Silurians of 

 Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, 63. 



Patent laws, report of the committee on 

 the, 191. 



Patterson (Mr.), report of the Belfast 

 dredging committee for 1859, 116. 



Photographic image, on the present state 

 of our knowledge regarding the, 103. 



Photographic process, wax-paper, em- 

 ployed ibr the photometeorographic re- 

 gistrations at the Radcliffe observatoi'y, 

 206; supplementary notes by C. Cham- 

 bers, 220. 



Photography, celestial, present state of, 

 in England, 130. 



Plants, on the growth of, in the garden 

 of the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester, 22. 



Powell (Rev. Prof.), report on observations 

 of luminous meteors, 1858-59, 81. 



Pseudo-dolomite found at Stone Park, 

 on the, /O. 



Pterosauria. on the order, 162. 



Radcliffe observatory, on the wax-paper 



photographic process employed for the 



photometeorographic registrations at 



the, 206. 

 Railway trains, experiments on breaks 



for, 76. 

 Ramsay (Prof.) on the upper Silurians 



of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, 63. 

 Reptilia, on the orders of fossil and recent, 



and their distribution in time, 153. 

 Rocks, on the results obtained by the 



mechanico-chemical examination of, 



65. 

 Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 



on the growth of plants in the garden 



of the, 22. 



Salts, on the solubility of, at temperatures 

 above 100° Cent., and on the mutual 

 action of, in solution, 291. 



Sauropterygia, on the order, 1 59. 



Schools, on the Aberdeen industrial feed- 

 ing, 44. 



Scotland, on the magnetic survey of, 167. 



Shales, lower limestone, 71. 



Silurians, upper, of Lesmahago, La- 

 narkshire, 63. 



Skulls, on a series of, of various tribes of 

 mankind inhabiting Nepal, 95. 



Slate, chloritic, and supposed metamor- 

 phic limestone derived from it, 73. 



Slimon (Robert) on the upper Silurians 

 of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, 63. 



Smith (II. J. Stephen), report on the 

 theory of numbers, part 1, 228. 



Steam navigation at Hull, on, 119. 



Steam-ship performance, report of the 

 committee on, 268 ; appendix, 272. 



Steam transport economy, on mercantile, 

 124. 



Stewart (Balfour) on some results of the 

 magnetic survey of Scotland in the 

 years 1857 and 1858, by the late John 

 Welsh, Esq., 167; an account of the 

 construction of the self-recording mag- 

 netographs at present in operation at 

 the Kew observatory, 200. 



Sullivan (Prof. W. K.), report on the 

 solubility of salts at temperatures above 

 100° Cent., and on the mutual action 

 of salts in solution, 291. 



Symons (G. J.), list of meteors observed 

 to pass between the respective constel- 

 lations, 89 ; observations of luminous 

 meteors, 90. 



Thecodontia, on the order, 163. 



Thomson (Alexander), report on the 

 Aberdeen industrial feedingschools, 44. 



Thomson (Dr.Wyville), report of the Bel- 

 fast dredging committee for 1859, 116. 



Voelcker(Dr.),report on field experiments 

 and laboratory researches on the con- 

 stituents of manures essential to culti- 

 vated crops, 31. 



Waller (Mr.), report of the Belfast dredg- 

 ing committee for 1859, 116. 



Welsh (the late John) on some results of 

 the magnetic survey of Scotland in 1857 

 and 1858, 167. 



Wrottesley observatory, observations of 

 luminous meteors at, 84. 



