DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER FOR PLACING THE PLATES IN THIS VOLUME. 



Plate 



Illustrating Principal James D. Forbes' Paper on an Experimental 

 Inquiry into the Laws of the Conduction of Heat in Bars. Part 

 II. On the Conductivity of Wrought Iron deduced from the Expe- 

 riments of 1851, ..... To face 'page 



Illustrating Mr Edward Bang's Paper on the Contact of the Loops of 

 Epicycloid al Curves, . . 



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XXIV. f 

 XXV. t 



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XXVII. \ 



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XXXI. j 

 XXXII. 1 



XXXIII. 



XXXIV. ) 



XXXV. [■ 



XXXVI. 1 



Illustrating Mr Alexander Buchan's Paper on an Examination of 

 the Storms of Wind which occurred in Europe during October, 

 November, and December 1863, . 



Illustrating Sir David Brewster's Paper on the Bands formed by the 

 Superposition of Paragenic Spectra produced by the Grooved Sur- 

 faces of Glass and Steel- Part I. , . 



Illustrating Sir David Brewster's Paper on the Bands formed by the 

 Superposition of Paragenic Spectra produced by the Grooved Sur- 

 faces of Glass and Steel. Part II., ..... 



Illustrating Sir David Brewster's Paper, Report on the Hourly Meteor- 

 ological Register kept at Leith Fort, in the years 1826 and 1827, 



Illustrating Professor C. Piazzi Smyth's Paper, Notice of Recent 

 Measures at the Great Pyramid, and some Deductions flowing 

 therefrom, ........ 



Illustrating Dr W. Lauder Lindsay's Paper, Observations on New 

 Lichens and Fungi collected in Otago, New Zealand, 



Illustrating Dr John Alexander Smith's Paper, Description of Cala- 

 moichthys, a new Genus of Ganoid Fish from Old Calabar, Western 

 Africa, forming an addition to the Family Polypterini, 



Illustrating Sir David Brewster's Paper on theColours of the Soap-Bubble, 



Illustrating Sir David Brewster's Paper on the Figures of Equilibrium in 

 Liquid Films, ....... 



{Illustrating the Rev. Thomas Brown's Paper on the Arctic Shell-Clay 

 of Elie and Errol, viewed in connection with our other Glacial and 

 more recent Deposits, ...... 



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