INDEX 
TO THE 
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS 
FOR THE YEAR 1874. 
A. 
Abel (F. A.) . Contributions to the History of Explosive Agents. — Second Memoir, 337. — On the 
transmission of detonation, 340 ; interference with the transmission of detonation by tubes, 353 ; 
conclusions regarding the transmission of detonation by tubes, 357 ; development of detonation as 
distinguished from explosion, 358 ; influence of dilution by solids and by liquids on the susceptibility 
of explosive compounds to detonation, 362 ; employment of water as a means of transmitting deto- 
nation, and of applying the force developed by explosion, 372 ; on the velocity of detonation, or the 
rate at which detonation is transmitted, 377 ; on circumstances which influence the behaviour of 
explosive agents when exposed to high temperatures, 388. 
Alloys., quantitative analysis of, by the spectroscope, 495. 
Analysis, quantitative, by means of the spectroscope, 481, 495. 
Aster ophyllites, 41. 
Attraction and repulsion resulting from radiation, 501. 
Australia, fossil mammals of, 245, 783 (see Owen). 
B. 
Bacteria, development of (see Roberts). 
Bakerian Lecture. — Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun, 
479 (see Lockyer) . 
Ball (R. S.). Researches in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body by the aid of the Theory of Screws, 15 
(for contents see p. 15). 
Battery, on a standard voltaic, 1. 
Biogenesis, 457 (see Roberts). 
Blanford (H. F.). The Winds of Northern India in relation to the Temperature and Vapour-consti- 
tuent of the Atmosphere, 563 (for contents see p. 563). 
Brodie (Sir B. C.). On the Action of Electricity on Gases. — II. On the Electric Decomposition of 
Carbonic-acid Gas, 83. 
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