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KEPOItT — 1859. 



Henderson (Andrew) on Indian river 

 steamers and tow boats, 235. 



Hennessy (J. Pope) on the inclination of 

 the planetary orbits, 34 ; on some re- 

 sults of the Society of Arts' examina- 

 tions, 214 ; on some questions relating 

 to the incidence of taxation, 216 ; on 

 certain properties of the powers of num- 

 bers, 248. 



Hennessy (Prof.) on the figure of an im- 

 perfectly elastic fluid, 5 ; on mild win- 

 ters in the British Isles, 50. 



Hirudo medicinalis and other leeches, on 

 the admixture of nervous and muscular 

 fibres in the nerves of the, 174. 



Hislop (Rev. S.) on the aboriginal tribes 

 of the province of Nagpore, 266. 



Hodge (Henry C.) on the origin of the 

 ossiferous caverns at Oreston, 110. 



Hogg (John) on a species of Phalangista 

 recently killed in the county of Dur- 

 ham, 149 ; on Gebel Hauran, its ad- 

 jacent districts, and the eastern desert 

 of Syria, with remarks on their geo- 

 gi-aphy and geology, 1 80 ; notice of the 

 Karaite Jews, 181. 



Huggate, meteorological observations 

 made at, 52. 



Huxley (Prof. H.) on the newly dis- 

 covered reptilian remains from the 

 neighbourhood of Elgin, 261. 



Ice, on recent theories and experiments 

 on, at its melting-point, 23. 



Ilford, on the elephant remains at, 100. 



Illegitimacy in Aberdeen and the other 

 large towns of Scotland, 224. 



India, tertiary fossils of, 97 ; on some 

 peculiarities of the silk trees of Western, 

 132 ; on the trade and commerce of, 

 217; on the past, present and pro- 

 spective financial condition of British, 

 223 ; on the British trade with, 227. 



Insane, on the handwriting and drawing 

 of the, as illustrative of some modes of 

 cerebral functions, 265. 



Insulator, on gutta percha as an, 248. 



Investments, popular, on, 209. 



Iris, on the, seen on the surface of water, 

 29. 



Iron, on the strength of wrought, 242. 



Iroquois, on the laws of consanguinity and 

 descent of the, 177. 



Isoard and Son (MM.) on a new form of 

 instantaneous generator of illuminating 

 gas by means of superheated aqueous 

 vapour and any hydrocarburet, 69. 



Italy, on certain volcanic rocks in, which 

 appear to have been subjected to meta- 

 morphic action, 102. 



James (Colonel Henry) on the application 

 of his geometrical projection of two- 

 thirds of the sphere to the construction 

 of charts of the stars, &c, 183 ; on the 

 Roman camp at Ardoch, and the mili- 

 tary works near it, ib. 



Jamieson (T. F.) on the connexion of the 

 granite with the stratified rocks in 

 Aberdeenshire, 1 14 ; on the drift-beds 

 and boulders of the north of Scotland, 

 114; list of the birds of the north of 

 Scotland, with their distribution, 150. 



Japan, notes on, 194. 



Jardine (Sir William, Bart.), address to 

 the Botanical and Zoological Sections, 

 126. 



Java, descriptions of genera of fish of, 144. 



Jenkin (Fleeming) on gutta percha as an 

 insulator at various temperatures, 248 ; 

 on the retardation of signals through 

 long submarine cables, 251. 



Jews, notice of the Karaite, 181. 



Johnson (Henry) on a deep-sea pressure 

 gauge, 236. 



Johnson (Richard) on the specific gravities 

 of alloys, 66. 



Johnson (R. L.) on decimal coinage, 215. 



Joule (J. P.) on the heat developed by 

 friction in air, 1 2 ; on surface conden- 

 sation, 236. 



Kelp, on proposed improvements in the 

 manufacture of, 88. 



Kettie (Mr.) on a submarine lamp, 

 236. 



Kirk (Dr.), letter of, to A. Kirk, relating 

 to the Livingstone expedition, 185. 



Knowles (E. R. J.) on some curious re- 

 sults in the water-supply afforded by a 

 spring at Ashey Down, in the Ryde 

 ■waterworks, 1 14. 



Knox (Dr. R.) on the classification of the 

 Salmonidae, 153. 



Laboratory memoranda, 257. 



Lactation, on a case of, in an unimpreg- 

 nated bitch, 159. 



Lamp, on a submarine, 236. 



Lankester (Dr.) on drawings of British 

 spiders to illustrate Mr. Blackwall's 

 work, 150. 



Laomedea tenuis, new species of, 143. 



Lawes (J. B.) on the effects of different 

 manures on the composition of the . 

 mixed herbage of meadow-land, 70. 



Lawrance (Thomas) on the whale and 

 seal fisheries of Greenland and Davis 

 Straits, carried on by vessels from Peter- 

 head, from 1788 to 1858, a period of 

 seventy-one years, 210. 



