INDEX. 



529 



Ethers, sulphocyanic, compounds isomeric 

 with (I.), 254. 



Evans (F. J.) on the amount and changes 

 of the polar magnetism at certain posi- 

 tions in Her Majesty's iron-built and 

 armoTir-plated ship 'Northumberland,' 

 311. 



Everest (Sir Gr.), obituary notice of, xi. 



Everett (J. D.), account of experiments on 

 torsion and flexure for the determination 

 of rigidities, 248. 



, results of observations of atmo- 

 spheric electricity at Kew Observatory, 

 and at Windsor, Nova Scotia, 195. 



Euler's constant, calculation of the nume- 

 rical value of (2nd supplement),154 ; 3rd 

 supplement, 299. 



Exploration of Central AustraUa, 347. 



Face, human, formation and early growth 



of bones of, 447. 

 Eat, special action of the pancreas on, 



209. 



Fellows deceased, list of, 163. 



elected, hst of, 1, 163, 419. 



Financial statement, 181. 



Flexure, experiments on, 248. 



Foreign members elected : — T. L. W. Bis- 

 choff, E. J. E. Clausius, H. von Mohl, 

 S. H. Schwabe, 311. 



FormomenaphthylnitrUe, 446. 



Foucault's governor, 276. 



Frankland (E.) on the combustion of hy- 

 drogen and carbonic oxide in oxygen 

 under great pressure, 419. 



Frog, on the phenomena observed to at- 

 tend the propulsion of lymph from one 

 of the lymphatic hearts into a vein in 

 the, 335. 



, microscopical characters of the rhyth- 

 mically contractile muscular coat of the 

 lymphatic hearts of the, 342. 



Gamgee (A.), researches on the blood ; on 



the action of nitrites on the blood, 339. 

 Gardiner (M.), memoir on "Undevelopable 



Uniquadric nomographics," 389. 

 Gassiot (J. P.) on the obsei'vations made 



with a rigid spectroscope, by Captain 



Mayne and Mr. Connor of H.M.S. 



' Nassau,' on a voyage to the Straits of 



Magellan, 6. 

 Gilbert (J. H.), Eoyal medal awarded to, 



176. 



Gladstone (J. H.), researches on refrac- 

 tion-equivalents, 439. 



Gold-fields of Cahfornia, notes on the che- 

 mical geology of, 294. 



Goodsir (J.), obituary notice of, xiv. 



Governors, on, 270 ; three kinds of, 272. 



Graham (T.) on the occlusion of hydrogen 

 gas by metals, 422. 



Gravatt (W.) , obituary notice of, xvi. 



Gun-cotton, on the stability of, 172. 

 Giinther (A.) admitted, 1. 



Hanbury (D.) admitted, 1. 



Hargreave (C. J.), obituary notice of, xvii. 



Harmotome, shown to belong to the clino- 

 rhombic system, 319. 



Harris (Sir W. S.), obituary notice of, xviii. 



Harvey (W. H.), obituary notice of, xxii. 



Haughton (Rev. S.) on some elementary 

 principles in animal mechanics, 19. 



Head (Sir E. W.), obituary notice of, Ixxi. 



Heat, specific, of mixtures of alcohol and 

 water, 337. 



Heart, caudal, of the eel, a lymphatic 

 heart, 230 ; microscopical characters of 

 the rhythmically contractile muscular 

 coat of the, 343. 



of the chick, observations on the de- 

 velopment of the semilmiar valves of 

 the aorta and pulmonary artery of, 329. 



Hearts, lymphatic, of the frog, microsco- 

 pical characters of the muscular coat of 

 the, 342. 



Hedgehog, anatomy of the blood-vessel 

 system of the retina of, 439. 



Hennessey (J. H. N.) on a supposed con- 

 nexion between the amount of rainfall 

 and the changes of the moon, 213. 



Herschel (J.), letter concerning instru- 

 ments to be used in India, 293. 



, observations of the spectra of some 



of the southern nebulse, 416. 



, results of examination of southern 



nebulse with the spectroscope, 451. 



Hofmann (A, W.), a contribution to the 

 knowledge of persulphide of hydrogen, 

 437. 



, compounds isomeric with the sulpho- 

 cyanic ethers : I. On the mustard-oil of 

 the ethyl-series, 254. 



, contributions to the history of 



methylic aldehyde, 156. 



, on a new class of bodies homologous 



to hydrocyanic acid : I., 144 ; II., 148 ; 

 III., 150-155. 



, transformation of the aromatic mon- 



amines into acids richer in carbon : 

 II. On menaphthoxylic acid, the naph- 

 thaline-term corresponding to benzoic 

 acid, 300; III. On menaphtylamine, 

 445. 



Homograpliics, undevelopable uniquadric, 

 memoir on, 389. 



Huggins (W.), description of a hand spec- 

 trum-telescope, 241. 



, further observations on the spectra 



of the sun, and of some of the stars and 

 nebulse, with an attempt to determine 

 therefrom whether these bodies are 

 moving towards or from the earth, 382. 



on the spectrum of Brorsen's comet, 



1868, 386. 



