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INDEX. 



Rosse (The Earl of) on some mea- 

 surements of the polarization of 

 the light coming from the moon 

 and from the planet Venus, 2-37. 



Royal Society, proceedings of the, 68. 



Ruby, on the artificial production of, 

 47. 



Russell (PI. C.) on a modification 

 of the bichromate battery, 201. 



Sabine (R.) on electrical experiments 

 with crystalline selenium, 401. 



Sacher (Prof. E.) on some experi- 

 ments with telephones, 158. 



Selenium, on some electrical experi- 

 ments with crystalline, 401. 



Shone (W.) on the glacial deposits 

 of West Cheshire, 72. 



Siemens's unit of resistance in electro- 

 magnetic measure, on, 30, 127, 189. 



Silicates, on the artificial produc- 

 tion of various crystallized, 47. 



Space, on the existence of stores of 

 motion in, 297. 



Spectral analysis, on quantitative, 78. 



Spectroscope, on a new form of 

 measuring-apparatus for a labora- 

 tory-, 106. 



Stefan (Prof.) on the diffusion of car- 

 bonic acid through water and alco- 

 hol, 476. 



Stone, on the heat-conductivity of, 

 241. 



Stoney (G. J.) on some remarkable 

 instances of Crookes's layers at 

 ordinary atmospheric tensions,457. 



Streintz (Prof. H.) on the electrical 

 aftercurrents of transversely mag- 

 netized iron rods, 160. 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J.) on the funda- 

 mental theorem of invariants, 178. 



Telegraph-wires, on the theory of the 

 motion of electricity in submarine 

 and underground, 474. 



Telephone, experiments with various 

 kinds of the, 158 ; on some phy- 

 sical points connected with the, 

 281 ; theoretical explanations of 

 the actions of the, 452. 



Temperature, on some problems re- 

 lating to underground, 370; on 

 the influence of, on the passage of 

 air through capillary tubes, 433. 



Thermoelectric currents, on the pro- 

 duction of, in wires subjected to 

 mechanical strain, 339. 



Thiesen (Dr. M.) on the resistance of 

 fluids, 320. 



Thompson (Prof. S. P.) on permanent 

 Plateau's films, 269. 



Thomson (Sir W.) on the thernio- 

 elastic, thermomagnetic, and pyro- 

 electric properties of matter, 4 ; on 

 problems relating to underground 

 temperature, 370. 



Tunzelmann (G. W. von) on the pro- 

 duction of thermoelectric currents 

 in wires subjected to mechanical 

 stiain, 339. 



Tuning-fork, on the pitch of a, in an 

 incompressible fluid, 395. 



Unitation, practical remarks on, 214. 



Urea, on the estimation of, 144. 



Ussher (W. A. E.) on the pleisto- 

 cene deposits of Devon, 233. 



Venus, on measurements of the polar- 

 ization of the light from, 237. 



Vision, on binocular, 27 ; on sensa- 

 tions of light and colour in direct 

 and indirect, 398. 



Voltaic action, on the contact theory 

 of, 219. 



Walenn (W. H.) on Unitation, 214. 



Wanklyn (J. A.) on the determina- 

 tion of cellulose and modified cel- 

 lulose in drinking-water, 464. 



Water, on the diffusion of carbonic 

 acid through, 476. 



Water-analysis, new process for, 464. 



Water-vapour, on the isothermals of, 

 204. 



Weber (Prof. H. F.) on electromag- 

 netic and calorimetric absolute 

 measurements, 30, 127, 189. 



Wynne (A. B.) on the physical geo- 

 logy of the Upper Punjab, 392. 



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