8 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Woodward on a self-setting type ma¬ 
chine for recording the hourly, 1869, 54 
Air in public places of amusement, the 
condition of the, with special reference 
to theatre hygiene, W. H. Collins on, 
1890, 773 
- polluted, W. Thomson on apparatus 
and modes of examination for the 
source of, 1875, 45 
-pollution from chemical works, A. 
E. Fletcher on, 1870, 56 
- in sewers and drains , experiments on 
the, by Dr. TF. J. Russell , 1870, 72 
- in sewers and drains, microscopical 
examination of the, by M. C. Coolie, 
1870, 74 
-propellers, or revolving sails, H. C. 
Vogt on, 1888, S 20 
—— pump, J. W. Swan on a mercurial, 
1863, 26 
-pump, J. T. Bottomley on a mercu¬ 
rial, 1886, 519 
-resistance, Prof. Greenhill on curves 
of, 1883, 656 
-speed of, in flues and chimnej'S, A. 
E. Fletcher on an anemometer for mea- 
suringthe, 1867, 33 ; 1869, 48 ; 1879, 229 
- temperature and humidity of the, 
up to 1,000 ft., James Glaisher on the 
changes of, from observations made in 
the car of M. Giffard’s captive balloon, 
1869, 27 
-temperature of the, at 4 ft., 22 ft., 
and 50 ft. above the ground, Jamts 
Glaisher on the, 1870, 33 
Aire, the river: a study in river pollu¬ 
tion, by T. H. Easterfield and Dr. J. M. 
Wilson, 1890, 780 
- the sources of the, Prof. S. P. Thomp¬ 
son on, 1890, 821 
Airy (G. Biddell), Address to the Section 
of Mathematics and Physical Science, 
•j 
1861, 1 ; remarks on Dr. Hincks’s 
paper on the acceleration of the moon's 
mean motion as indicated by the re¬ 
cords of ancient eclipses, 12 ; on spon¬ 
taneous terrestrial galvanic currents, 
35 ; on the law T s of the principal in¬ 
equalities, solar and lunar, of terrestrial 
magnetic force in the horizontal plane, 
from observations at the Royal Obser¬ 
vatory, Greenwich, from 1848 to 1857, 
36 
- on the strains in the interior of 
beams, 1862, 82 ; report on the ade¬ 
quacy of existing data for carrying 
into effect the suggestion of Gauss, to 
apply his general theory of terrestrial 
magnetism to the magnetic variations, 
170 
- on steam-boiler explosions, 1863, 686 
- on a uniformity of weights and 
measures, 1864, 102 ; 1865,375; 1866, 
352 
Airy (G. Biddell) meteorological and phy¬ 
sical observations in three balloon as¬ 
cents made in 1865 and 1866, 1866, 367 
- on tidal observations, 1868 , 489 ; 1870, 
120 
-(Dr. H.), note on variation of leaf- 
arrangement, 1874, 12 S 
*Aitken (J.) on a new kind of colour 
apparatusfor physiological experiment, 
1885, 1079 
Aix-la-Chapelle, Dr. Daubeny on a violet 
peculiar to the calamine rocks in the 
neighbourhood of, 1861, 141 
*Akem, West Africa, Capt. J. S. Hay and 
Commander Cameron on horned men 
of, 1876, 165 
* -and its people, Capt. J. S. Hay on, 
1876, 1 S 3 
Akin (Dr. C. K.), account of preliminary 
experiments on calcescence, 1863, 11 
-- on the transmutation of spectral rays, 
1863, 93 
--For subsequent communications, see 
Karoly 
Akka and Pygmy languages of Africa, 
Hyde Clarke on the classification of 
the, 1874, 147 
*Akkas and dwarfs in Southern Morocco, 
R. G. Haliburton on, 1888, 745 
Alaska, the characteristic features of, as 
developed by the U.S. Survey, W. H. 
Dali on, 1878, 633 
* - south-eastern, Prof. Libbev on, 
1887, S 04 
Albania, the flint-knappers' art in, A. J. 
Evans on, 1885, 1216 
*Album of maps illustrative of the his¬ 
tory of Montreal, H. Beaugrand on a 
curious, 1886, 731 
Albumen and its transformation into 
fibrine by the agency of water, Dr. 
Goodman on, 1870, 139 
--in neutral salts, W. Lant Carpenter 
on the presence of, and on a new pro¬ 
cess for the manufacture of stearic and 
palmitic acids, 1872, 71 
-of commerce, C. T. Kingzett and M. 
Zingler on the, 1877, 52 
Alcock (R.), journey in the interior of 
Japan, with the ascent of Fusiyama, 
1861, 183 
-—- on the civilisation of Japan, 1862, 
136 
--[Sir R.], Address to the Geographical 
Section, 1873, 150 
-(Dr. T.) on some points in the ana¬ 
tomy of Cypreea, 1861, 137 
Alcohol, Sir D. Brewster on the motion 
and colours upon films of, 1867, 8 
-on the oxidation of beta-hexylic, by 
Prof. Wanklyn, 1863, 57 
- glycolic, and its heterologues. Dr. 
Otto Richter on the chemical constitu¬ 
tion of, 1871, 78 
