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Index. 
Hare (A. W., M.B.) on the Biologi- 
cal Tests in Determining the Purity 
of W ater, 306. 
Haycraft (Professor J. Berry), the 
Objective Cause of Sensation. Pt. 
III. The Sense of Smell, 207. 
Some Experiments which show 
that Fibrin-Ferment is absent from 
circulating Blood-Plasma, and sup- 
porting Sir Joseph Lister’s view that 
the Blood has no spontaneous ten- 
dency to Coagulate, 419. 
Height of the Land of the Globe 
above Sea-Level, 110. 
Height (Mean) of the Land of the 
Globe, by John Murray, 381. 
Helix aspersa, Renal Organs of, 232, 
237. 
Hirudo medicinalis, its Nephridia, 
by Dr A. B. Griffiths, 346. 
Hoar-Frost, by John Aitken, 121. 
Ice andBrines,by J. Y. Buchanan, 129. 
Insecta, their Problematical Organs, 
by Dr A. B. Griffiths, 230. 
Instability in Open Structures, by Dr 
E. Sang, 106. 
in Fluid Motion, by Sir Wra, 
Thomson, 194. 
Inverness Firth, its Temperature and 
Salinity, 250. 
Irvine (Sheriff Forbes), delivers 
Closing Address of Session 1886-87, 
446. 
Kernpe (A. B.), Note on Knots on 
Endless Cords, 36. 
Kidston (Robert), Fossil Flora of the 
Radstock Series of the Somerset 
and Bristol Coal Fields, 153, 240. 
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Part II., by 
Professor Tait, 21. 
Additions to Paper on Founda- 
tions of the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 
by Professor Tait, 46. 
On the General Effects of 
Molecular Attraction of Small 
Range on the Behaviour of a Group 
of Smooth Impinging Spheres, 85. 
Knots on Endless Cords, by A. B. 
Kernpe, 36. 
Lamellibranchiata, their Problemati- 
cal Organs, by Dr A. B. Griffiths, 
230. 
Lanice conchilega , the Nephridia of, 
by J. T. Cunningham, 238. 
Laplace’s Nebular Theory, in relation 
to Thermodynamics, by Sir William 
Thomson, 121. 
Leptothrix bucccdis, 101. 
Leuciscus rutilus, Bacteria in the 
Blood of, 263. 
Library, Donations to, 535. 
Limax flavus, 232, 237. 
maximus, 237. 
Liquid. — Motion of Compound Bodies 
through Liquid, 29. 
Lister (Sir Joseph), his View that the 
Blood has no spontaneous Ten- 
dency to Coagulate, 419. 
Lophius piscatorius , 265. 
Lumbricus terrestris, Renal Organs 
of, 233, 237, 348. 
M ‘Arthur (John) on Chloroplatinate 
Methods for Determination of Potas- 
sium, 428. 
Magnetism, Experimental Research 
in, by D. S. Sinclair, 194. 
Marriage. — The Probability that a 
Marriage entered into by a Man of 
any Age, will be Fruitful, by T. B. 
Sprague, 327. 
Marshall (Professor A. Milnes), and 
G. H. Fowler, on the Penna- 
tulida Dredged by H.M.S. “Por- 
cupine,” 359. 
Marshall (Hugh) on the Cobaltic 
Alums, 203. 
M ‘ Laren (The Hon. Lord), Astrono- 
mical Tables for Facilitating the 
Computation of Diffential Refrac- 
tion for Latitudes 56° and 57° ‘30, 21. 
Megciscolex ( Perichscta ) (Antarctica, 
175. 
Methyl- Alcohol, on the Physical Pro- 
perties of, by Professor W. Dittmar 
and C. A. Fawsitt, 219. 
Micrococcus prodigiosus , 100. 
aurantiacus , 100. 
ureas, 102. 
Micro-Organisms, Researches on, in- 
cluding a new Method for their 
Destruction in Contagions Disease, 
by Dr A. B. Griffiths, 97. 
Mill (Dr Hugh Robert), the Salinity 
and Temperature of the Moray 
Firth, and the Firths of Inverness, 
Cromarty, and Dornoch, 250. 
on the Salinity, Temperature, 
&c., of the Firth of Forth, 387. 
Mitchell (Mr A. C.), Thermal Con- 
ductivity of Iron, Copper, and 
German Silver, 327. 
Molecular Attraction of Small Range 
on the Behaviour of a Group of 
Smooth Impinging Spheres, by Pro- 
fessor Tait, 85. 
Monetary Standard, Variations in the 
Value of, by Professor Shield Nichol- 
son, 129. 
