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INDEX to VOL. V. 



AjBBAY (Rev. R.) on the building- 

 up of the white Sinter terraces of 

 Roto-Mahana, 156. 



Abney (Capt.) on the destruction of 

 the undeveloped photographic 

 image, 61. 



Aggregation, contributions to the 

 study of states of, 202. 



Air, on the temperature-surface of, 

 202. 



Airy (Sir G. B.) on the correction of 

 the compass in iron ships, 267. 



Aitken (J.) on rigidity produced by 

 centrifugal force, 8 1 . 



Alcohol, on the diffusion of carbonic 

 acid through, 476. 



Auerbach (R) on the pitch of a 

 tuning-fork in an incompressible 

 fluid, 395. 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E.) on ice as an 

 electrolyte, 43 ; on rain-clouds and 

 atmospheric electricity, 197 ; on 

 the contact theory of voltaic action, 

 219 ; on the heat-conductivity of 

 stone, 241. 



Bichromate battery, on a new modi- 

 fication of the, 201. 



Binnite, crystallography of, 143. 



Bleekrode (Dr. L.) on the electric 

 conductivity and electrolysis of 

 chemical compounds, 375, 439. 



Boisbaudran (M.) on the extraction 

 of gallium, 318. 



Bonney (Rev. T. G.) on the precarbo- 

 niferous rocks of Charnwood 

 Forest, 236. 



Books, new : — Blanford's Report of 

 the Meteorology of India, 63 ; 

 Rayleigh's Theory of Sound, 66 ; 

 Frankland's Experimental Re- 

 searches, 153 ; Rand C apron's 

 Photographed Spectra, 225 ; Proc- 

 tor's Other Worlds, 228 ; Routh's 

 Treatise on the Stability of a given 

 State of Motion, 230; Melsens's 

 Des Paratonnerres a Pointes, 311 ; 

 Clausius's Die Potentialfunction 

 und das Potential, 389 ; New- 

 comb's Popular Astronomy, 467 ; 

 Abney's Treatise on Photography, 

 469 ; Abney's Instruction in Pho- 

 tography, 470. 



Broun (W. L.) on terrestrial electri- 

 cal currents, 475. 



Cailletet (L.) on the composition 

 and industrial use of the gases 

 issuing from blast-furnaces, 75. 



Calorimetric absolute measurements, 

 on, 30, 127, 189. 



Capillary tubes, on the influence of 

 temperature on the passage of air 

 through. 433. 



Carbon compounds, on the electro- 

 lysis of, 439. 



Carbonic acid, on the diffusion of, 

 through water and alcohol, 476. 



Cayley (Prof. ) on the distribution of 

 electricity on two spherical sufaces, 

 54. 



Cellulose, on the determination of, 

 in drinking-water, 464. 



Centrifugal force, experiments on 

 rigidity produced by, 81. 



Challis (Prof.) on the actions of the 

 radiometer, otheoscope, and tele- 

 phone, 452. 



Charpentier (A.) on sensations of 

 light and colour in direct and in- 

 direct vision, 398. 



Chase (Dr. P. E.) on the nebular 

 hypothesis, 292, 362. 



Chemical action, on the bearing of 

 the kinetic theory of gravitation 

 on the phenomena of, 297. 



compounds, on the electric con- 

 ductivity and electrolysis of, 375, 

 439. 



Clifton (Prof. R. B.) on the differ- 

 ence of potential produced by the 

 contact of different substances, 

 367. 



Cohesion, on the bearing of the kine- 

 tic theory of gravitation on the 

 phenomena of, 297. 



Compass, on the correction of the, in 

 iron ships without the use of a 

 fixed mark, 267. 



Contact theory of voltaic action, on 

 the, 219. 



Cooper (W. J.) on the determina- 

 tion of cellulose in drinking-water, 

 464. 



Corundum, on the artificial produc- 

 tion of, 47. 



