CONTENTS OF VOL. XL. FOURTH SERIES. vll 



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 The Earl of Rosse on the Radiation of Heat from the Moon. 



—No. II 372 



Mr. A. Le Sueur's Observations with the Great Melbourne 



Telescope 377 



Mr. J. Brough ton's Chemical and Physiological Experi- 

 ments on Living Cinchonse 379 



Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Prof. Owen on the Fossil Remains of Mammals in China. 380 

 Dr. A. A. Caruana on the Fossil Elephants of Malta .... 381 

 Mr. G. Busk on the Species of Rhinoceros discovered in a 



Fissure-cavern at Oreston in 1816 381 



Mr. H. Y. Hind on two Gneissoid series in Nova Scotia 



and New Brunswick 382 



Mr. E. Billings on specimens of Lower- Silurian Trilobites. 383 

 Mr. H. Woodward on the palpus and other appendages of 



Asaphus, from the Trenton Limestone 384 



Dr. J. W. Dawson on the Structure and Affinities of Si- 



gillaria, Calamites, and Calamodendron 384 



The Rev. D. Honeyman on the Geology of Arisaig .... 386 

 Mr. E. R. Lankester on the Newer Tertiaries of Suffolk 



and their Fauna 386 



Dr. Sutherland on an ancient Boulder-clay of Natal .... 388 

 Prof. R. Harkness on the Distribution of Wastdale-Crag 

 Blocks, or " Shap-Fell Granite Boulders," in West- 

 moreland , 388 



Note on Spiral Nebulae, by T. S. Aldis, M.A 389 



On the Molecular Theory and Laws of Electricity, by L. Lorenz 



of Copenhagen 390 



Easy preparation of a Liquid for producing Plateau's Figures, by 

 Rudolph Bottger 392 



NUMBER CCLXIX.— DECEMBER. 



Prof. A. De la Rive's Researches on the Magnetic Rotatory 



Polarization of Liquids 393 



Dr. J. Clerk Maxwell on Hills and Dales 421 



Prof. J. C. F. Zollner on Solar Protuberances 427 



The Rev. J. M. Heath on the Principles of Thermodynamics . . 429 



Mr. R. Moon on the Equation of Laplace's Coefficients 434 



Dr. W. J. M. Rankine on the Meteor of November 19, 1870. . 440 

 Mr. T. T. P. Bruce Warren on a New Method of determining 



Resistances , 441 



Notices respecting New Books: — 



Mr. T. M. Goodeve's Text-books of Science.— The Ele- 

 ments of Mechanism , 445 



