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INDEX. 



Candidates for election, 237, 329. 



list of select ed, 329. 



Carbonic acid, an instrument for the 

 speedy volumetric determination of 

 (Marcet), 566. 



Carbons for arc lighting, on fluted crater- 

 less (Douglass), 500. 



Carnelley (T.) and W. Mackie, the deter- 

 mination of organic matter in air, 

 566. 



J. S. Haldane, and A. M. Ander- 

 son, the carbonic acid, organic matter, 

 and micro-organisms in air, more espe- 

 cially in dwellings and schools, 566. 



Carpenter (W. L.) and B. Stewart, on 

 a comparison between apparent in- 

 equalities of short period in sun-spot 

 areas and in diurnal .declination- 

 ranges at Toronto and at Prague, 

 220. 



Case (W. E.) on a new means of con- 

 verting heat energy into electrical 

 energy, 345. 



Cash (J. T.), contribution to the study 

 of intestinal rest and movement, 469. 



Chambers (C.) on the luni-solar varia- 

 tions of magnetic declination and 

 horizontal force at Bombay, and of 

 declination at Trevandrum, 316. 



Cholera Asiatica (as observed in Spain, 

 1885), preliminary report on the 

 patho^gy of (Boy, Brown, and Sher- 

 rington), 566. 



Circles and spheres, on systems of 

 (Lachlan), 242. 



Clark cell (on the) as a standard of 

 electromotive force (Rayleigh), 79. 



Clotting, on intravascular (Wooldridge), 

 134. 



Colour photometry — Bakerian lecture 

 (Abney and Fesring), 238. 



Conduction in muscle, liver, kidney, 

 bone, and brain, experimental re- 

 searches on the propagation of heat 

 by (Lombard), 1. 



Conroy (Sir J.) on the polarisation of 

 light by reflection from the surface of 

 a crystal of Iceland spar, 173. 



note on above (Stokes), 190. 



Cornu (Alfred) admitted, 471. 



Cranial nerves of the newt, on the de- 

 velopment of the (Alice Johnson and 

 Lilian Sheldon), 94. 



Creak (E. W.) on local magnetic dis- 

 turbance in islands situated far from 

 a continent, 83. 



Crookes (W.) on radiant matter spectro- 

 scopy ; note on the spectra of erbia, 

 77. 



on radiant matter spectroscopy; 



note on the earth Yx, 236. 

 on some new elements in gadolinite 



and samarskite, detected spectroscopi- 

 cally, 502. 



Croonian lecture ("Wooldridge), 320. 



Culverwell (E. P.) on the discrimination 

 of maxima and minima solutions in 

 the calculus of \ariations, 476. 



Curtis (R. H.) and R. H. Scott, on the 

 working of the harmonic analyser at 

 the Meteorological Office, 382. 



Darwin (Of. H.) on the correction to the 

 equilibrium theory of tides for the 

 continents, 303. 



Declination (diurnal) ranges at Toronto 

 and at Prague, on a comparison be- 

 tween apparent inequalities of short 

 period in sun-spot areas and in 

 (Stewart and Carpenter), 220. 



(magnetic) and horizontal force at 



Bombay, on the luni-solar variations 

 of, and of declination at Trevandrum 

 (Chambers), 316. 



Dewar (J.) obtains oxygen in the solid 

 state, 470. 



and G-. Ansdell, on the gaseous 



constituents of meteorites, 549. 



Dickson (J. D. H.), appendix — family 

 likeness in stature (Gralton), 63. 



Dixon (Haro'd B.) admitted, 471. 



Douglass (Sir J. N.) on fluted craterless 

 carbons for arc lighting, 500. 



Downos (A.) on the action of sunlight 

 on micro-organisms, &c, with a de- 

 monstration of the influence of 

 diffused light, 14. 



Dynamo-electric machines, preliminary 

 notice (Hopkinson and Hopkinson), 

 326. 



Elasticity (Tomlinson), 240,343, 447. 



Election of Fellows, 471. 



Electric current, researches upon the 

 self-induction of an (Hughes), 450. 



Electrical energy, on a new means of 

 converting heat energy into (Case), 345. 



(the) phenomena accompanying 



the process of secretion in the salivary 

 glands of the dog and cat (Bayliss and. 

 Bradford), 203. 



Electrification by friction, a general 

 theorem in electrostatic induction, 

 -with application of it to the origin of 

 (Buchanan), 416. 



Electrolytes, relation of ' ti*ansfer-re- 

 sistance' to the molecular weight and 

 chemical composition of (Gore), 380. 



Electrolytic conduction in relation to 

 molecular composition, valency, and 

 the nature of chemical change ; being 

 an attempt to apply a theory of ' re- 

 sidual affinity ' (Armstrong), 268. 



Electromagnets, on the lifting power o f , 



