GENERAL INDEX. 
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sites of ancient occupation , 1889, 176 ; 
1890 ,535 
Asia Minor, Iberian population of, 
anterior to the Greeks, Gycle Clarke 
on the, 1864, 140 
—— Minor, Western, coal- and iron- 
basins, Dr. Hyde Clarke on the, 1868, 
61 
* -Minor, Southern and Western, W. 
T. Blanford on the distribution of the 
antelopes in, 1873, 110 
-Western, the early races of, by 
Major C. R. Condor, 1888, 855 
‘ Asiatic emigration,’ Sir G. Young on 
the question, ‘Is the, to the West 
Indies, likely to be a permanent fact 
in modern geography ? ’ 1872, 215 
6 Asie Mineure, Paleontologie de 1’,’ M. 
Pierre de Tchihatchef on his, 1869, 100 
Aspinall (J. A. F.) and A. McDonnell 
on English locomotive engineering, 
] 884, 890 
Aspirator, A. E. Fletcher on a self- 
registering perpetual, 1867, 32 
*--an, Dr. T. Andrews on, 1874, 51 
* -Prof. W. Delffs on an, 1874, 57 
* -- a double, T. Fairley on, 1890, 785 
Aspic nium, viride, Rev. W. S. Symonds 
on the occurrence of, on an isolated 
travertine rock among the Black 
Mountains of Monmouthshire, 1862, 
100 
Assam and an overland communication 
with China, Dr. J. M‘Cosh on, 1873, 172 
-Upper, a trip from, into the Kampti 
country and the western branch of the 
Irrawacly river, Lt.-Col. H. H. Godwin- 
Austen on a, 1885, 1126 
Assimilation and metastasis, the use of 
the terms, G. T. Bettany on, 1877, 107 
* - and the evolution of oxygen by 
green plant cells, Prof. N. Pringsheim 
on, 1887, 763 
Associative economics applied to coloni¬ 
sation, W. L. Rees on, 1888, 762 
^Assurance, old age, and sickness, for the 
mercantile and professional classes, 
F. Norfolk on, 1888, 780 
Assyrian syllabary, the picture origin 
of the characters of the, Rev. W. 
Houghton on, 1887, 898 
Astarte compressa, J. Gwyn Jeffreys on a 
specimen of, having its hinge-teeth 
reversed, 1862, 108 
Asterolepis of the Old Red Sandstone, J. 
Miller on the so-called hyoid plate of 
the, 1871, 106 
* - maximus (Agassiz), restoration 
of, Dr. R. H. Traquair on the, 1889, 
638 
Asterosmilia Reedi, a new species of coral 
from the Oligocene of Brockenhurst, 
Hants, Prof. P. M. Duncan on, 1881, 
618 
Aster salignus, W. P. Hiern on the oc¬ 
currence of, in Wicken Fen, Cam¬ 
bridgeshire, 1867, 84 
Astigmatism, improved apparatus for the 
objective estimation of, Dr. Tempest 
Anderson on, 1880, 463 
Aston (T.) on elongated projectiles for 
rifled fire-arms, 1861, 253 
- on rifled guns and jfrojectiles adap¬ 
ted for attacking armour-plate defences, 
1862, 103 
* - on patent legislation , 1884, 293 ; 
1885, 695 
Astromyelon and its root, notes on, by J. 
Spencer, 1881, 628 
Astronomical clock, a new form of, with 
free pendulum and independently 
governed uniform motion for escape¬ 
ment-wheel, Sir W. Thomson on, 1876, 
49 
- clocks , on the question of improve¬ 
ments in, report, *1879, 131 ; 1880, 
56, 58 
-experiments at high elevations in 
the Andes, note on some recent, by R. 
Copeland, 1883, 436 
-- refraction, G. Forbes on, 1872, 36 
* -refraction, Newdon’s theory of, 
Prof. J. C. Adams on, 1884, 645 
Astronomy, Col. S. Wortley on photo¬ 
graphy in connection with, 1874, 20 
* -physical, R. W. Hardy on, 1864, 6 
Asymptotic method of solving differential 
equations, W. Spottiswoode on Petz- 
val’s, 1861, 10 
Atchison (A. T.) on patent legislation, 
1880 , 318 ; 1881,222; 1882 , 310 ; 1883, 
316 ; 1884, 293 ; 1885, 695 
--- on the best means of ascertaining 
the effective mind pressures to which 
buildings and structures are exposed , 
*1881, 779; 1882, 315 
- on the endurance of metals under 
repeated and varying stresses, and the 
proper working stresses on railway 
bridges, $c., 1886, 284 ; 1887, 424 
Athabasca district of the Canadian North¬ 
west territory, Rev. E. Petitot on the, 
1883, 599 
Atherton (C.) on freight as affected by 
differences in the dynamic properties of 
steam-ships, 1861, 82 
--- on unsinkable ships, 1862, S 3 
Atkinson (Dr. Edmund) on chemical 
research, 1876, 314 
-(Edward) on the osteolog} 7- of 
Chlamydophorus truncatus, 1870, no 
-—— (Edward), What makes the rate of 
wages ? 1884, 824 
- on ‘ mono-metallists ’ and ‘ bi¬ 
metallists,’ 1887, 849 
-(Rev. J. C.) on the predominating 
Danish aspect of the local nomencla¬ 
ture of Cleveland, Yorkshire, 1872, 175 
