INDEX II. 
public service, academic, and teachers’, 
176. 
Eye, on the structure of the choroid coat 
of the, 141. 
Eye-ball, on the form of the, 139. 
Eyton (T. C.) on the arrangement of birds, 
122; on the oyster, 123. 
Fens of Lincolnshire, on the, 113. 
Fibres, Indian, 195. 
Fishes, on the fossil, and yellow sand- 
stone, 74; of the lake district, 122. 
Fison (Mrs. W.) on the importance of a 
colonial penny postage, viewed in rela- 
tion to the advancement of science and 
» Christian civilization, 177. 
Flagstones, Yorkshire, and their fossils, 78. 
Flax-spinning in England, on the history 
of, 184. 
Foramen centrale of the retina, on vision 
through the, 7. 
Fossils, on a remarkable deposit of car- 
bonate of lime about, in the lower lias 
of Dorsetshire, 51; of the Yorkshire 
flagstones, 78; on certain vermiform, 
found in the mountain limestone dis- 
tricts of the N. of England, 80; on the 
distortion of, 81; on some remarkable 
Yorkshire, 223. 
Foulle (Dr.) on some observations con- 
nected with the anatomy and functions 
of the third, sixth, and seventh pairs of 
nerves and the medulla oblongata, 134. 
Fowler (Richard) on the sensational, 
emotional, intellectual, and instinctive 
capacities of the lower animals com- 
pared with those of man, 134. 
Fowler (R. J.) on the estimation of acti- 
nism, 47. 
Free trade, in Belgium, 184; on the re- 
sults of, 201. 
Frome, on triassic beds near, 93. 
Gages (Alphonse) on a method of ob- 
servation applied to the study of some 
metamorphic rocks, and on some mole- 
cular changes exhibited by the action 
of acids upon them, 48; on a new va- 
riety of pyro-electric wavellite, 49. 
Galton (F.) on a hand heliostat for the 
purpose of flashing sun signals from 
on board ship or on Jand in sunny cli- 
mates, 15; on a hand heliostat, 211. 
Gamma Virginis, on the results of the 
measures of, for the epoch 1858, 29. 
Gardens, suburban, 117. 
Garner (Robert) on the anatomy of the 
_ brain in some small quadrupeds, 123. 
Gassiot (J. P.) on induced electrical dis- 
charges taken in aqueous vapour, 25 ; 
231 
on the phosphorescent appearance of 
electrical discharges in a vacuum made 
in flint and potash glass, 26; on elec- 
trical discharges as observed in highly 
rarefied carbonic acid in contact with 
potash, 50. 
Geese, on the British wild, 131. 
Geldart (Rev. G. C.), language no test of 
race, 150. 
Geography, 143. 
Geology, 72, 223. ; 
Geometry, on the notion of distance in 
analytical, 3. 
Gilbert (J. H.) on the annual yield of 
nitrogen per acre in different crops, 52. 
Gipsies, on the race and language of the, 
195, 
Gladstone (Dr.) on some optical proper- 
ties of phosphorus, 15; on the fixed 
lines of the solar spectrum, 17; on re- 
ciprocal decomposition between salts 
and their acid solvents, 50. 
Gladstone (George) on a remarkable de- 
posit of carbonate of lime about fossils 
in the lower lias of Dorsetshire, 51. 
Glass, flint, and potash, on the phospho- 
rescent appearance of electrical dis- 
charges in a vacuum made in, 26; on 
the peculiar action of mud and water 
on, 45. 
Globes, on the special printing of, 154. 
Glynn (Joseph) on the economy of water 
power, 212. 
Gneiss rocks in the N. of Scotland, on the 
age and relations of the, 96. 
Gold discoveries the cause of a deprecia- 
tion of the precious metals, 174. 
Gore (George), apparatus showing the 
correlation of forces, and heating ef- 
fects, by mechanical operations, on a 
peculiar form of antimony, 26. 
Greenhow (H. M.) on the people of Oude, 
and of their leading characteristics, 151, 
Grove (W. R.) on the influence of light 
on polarized electrodes, 17, 
Guns and cannons, on the bursting of, 
221. 
Hail, on the formation of, 35. 
Hammer, steam, on a new double acting, 
218. 
Hancock (Albany) on certain vermiform 
fossils found in the mountain limestone 
districts of the N. of England, 80. 
Harkness (Prof.) on the distortion of fos- 
sils, 81; on the origin of the breccias 
of the southern portion of the valley of 
the Nith, Scotland, 2. 
Harley (Dr.G.), experiments on digestion, 
135. 
