INDEX. 833 



Films of Alcohol and Volatile Oils, Motions and Colours upon. By Sir David Brewster, 653. 

 Flexor Muscles of Fingers and Toes, Variability in Structure of. By Wm. Turner, 175. 

 Forbes (James D.). On the Laws of Conduction of Heat in Bars, 73. 



On the Conductivity of Wrought Iron, deduced from the Experiments of 1851, 73. 



Formulce representing the Fecundity and Fertility of Women. By Professor Tait, 481. 

 Fraser (Dr Thomas R.). On the Physiological Action of the Calabar Bean, 715. 

 Functions loith Recurring Derivatives. By Edward Sang, 523. 



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Geikie (James). On the Buried Forests and Peat Mosses of Scotland, and the Changes of Climate 



which they indicate, 363. 

 Generic Radicals used in the Classification of Chemical Substances. By Dr A. C. Brown, 331. 



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Hamilton's Characteristic Function, Application of, to Special Cases of Constraint. By Professor 



Tait, 147. 

 Hemiopsy, or Half- Vision. By Sir David Brewster, 15. 

 Higher Calculus, Third Co-ordinate Branch of the. By Edward Sang, 515. 

 Holophote Apparatus for Lighthouses, and a Mode of Introducing Electric and other Lights. By Sir 



David Brewster, 635. 

 Homology, Centres, Faisceaux, and Envelopes of. By Rev. Hugh Martin, 591. 



Incubation, Observations on. By Dr John Davy, 341. 



International Organisation, Application of the Principle of Relative or Proportional Equality to. By 

 Professor Lorimer, 557. 



Language, Onomatopoeia in. By Professor Blackie, 1. 



Lichens and Fungi, collected in Otago, New Zealand. By Dr W. Lauder Lindsay, 407. 

 Lighthouses, Description of a Double Holophote Apparatus for, &c. By Sir David Brewster, 635. 

 Lindsay (Dr W. Lauder). On the Tertiary Coals of New Zealand, 167. 



Observations on New Lichens and Fungi, collected in Otago, New Zealand, 407. 



Liquid Films, Figures of Equilibrium in. By Sir David Brewster, 505. 



Lorimer (Professor). On the Application of the Principle of Relative or Proportional Equality to 

 International Organisation, 557. 



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Magnetic Declination at Trevandrum, Diurnal Variation of the. By J. A. Broun, 669. 

 Malfatti's Problem, Researches on. By H. F. Talbot, 127. 



Martin (Rev. Hugh). A Study of Trilinear Co-ordinates ; being a Consecutive Series of Seventy- 

 two Propositions in Transversals, 37. 



On Centres, Faisceaux, and Envelopes of Homology, 591. 



Mathematical Researches. By H. Fox Talbot, 573. 



Mathematics, Application of, to Chemistry. By Dr A. Crum Brown, 691. 



Meteorological Register, kept Hourly at Leith Fort in 1826-27. By Sir David Brewster, 351. 



Motion of a Heavy Body along the Circumference of a Circle. By Edward Sang, 59. 



Motions and Colours upon Films of Alcohol and Volatile Oils and other Fluids. By Sir David 



Brewster, 653. 



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