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on the geography and natural history 
of, 1861, 189 ; on the people of, 190 
African philology, the progress of, R. N. 
Oust on, 1885, 1105 
- airs and musical instruments, Gov. 
Moloney on, 1889, 779 
Agar (Hon. Leopold), third report on 
steam-ship performance, 1861, 190 
Agassiz and his scholars, a criticism of 
the extreme glacial views of, by H. H. 
Howorth, 1889, 589 
* Agate, G. Unwin on specimens of, and 
other natural colloid silica, 1872, 85 
Agates, Prof. Tennant on the colouring 
of, 1864, 42 
* -Prof. Tennant on, found on our 
coasts, 1864, 72 ; 1865, 76 
*Agathocles, the solar eclipse of, con¬ 
sidered, in reply to Prof. Newcomb’s 
criticism on the coefficient of accelera¬ 
tion of the moon’s mean motion, Prof. 
S. Haughton on, 1877, 31 
Agaw race in Caucasia, Africa, and South 
America, Hyde Clarke on the, 1874, 146 
Agricultural changes in England, the, 
during the period 1450-1650, Prof. 
W. J. Ashley on, 1890, 919 
* -chemistry, some points in connec¬ 
tion with. Dr. J. H. Gilbert on, 1879, 
315 
* -economics and wages, Prof. Leone 
Levi on, 1869, 195 
■-education and research, the position 
of, in this country and on the continent 
of Europe, J. M. Cameron on, 1880, 
537 
-- education and investigation, T. 
Jamieson on, 1885, 1177 
.-education, Prof. J. Long on, 1888, 
776 
- experiments made in 1864, Dr. 
Stevenson Macadam on the results of, 
1865, 31 
- experiments, Frederick Purdy on 
some, 1869, 197 
* -- implements, D. Pidgeon on, 1884, 
896 
* - labourer, the Rev. Canon Girdle- 
stone on the condition of the, especially 
in the West of England, 1868, 165 
* -labourer in England, Prof. Leone 
Levi on the economical condition and 
wages of the, 1869, 226 
* -labourer, J. Bailey Denton on the 
technical education of the, 1869, 182 
* - labourer, W. Botly on the condi¬ 
tion of the, 1869, 179 
* - machinery, interim report on, 1869, 
404 
* -poor, the dietary of the, Rev. J. 
Slatter on, 1864, 191 
-- population of England, 1851-1861, 
Frederick Purdy on the decrease of 
the, 1863, 156 
Agricultural resources of Nova Scotia, 
Maj.-Gen. Laurie on the, 1884, 849 
-resources of Ontario, J. Carnegie on 
the, 1884, 848 
* - situation, Prof. W. Fream on the, 
1885, 1161 
-statistics, Sec., W. Botly on, 1875, 
206 ; 1876 , 194 ; 1877, 164 ; 1879 , 472 ; 
1880,668; 1881, 750 ; 1882, 631 ; 1883, 
619 ; 1887 , 835 ; 1888 , 760 ; 1889, 703 
Agriculture of Aberdeenshire, Col. Innes 
on the, 1885, 1161 
-British, the position and prospects 
of, by Prof. W. Fream, 1884, 847 
- British and Canadian, Prof. J. P. 
Sheldon on, 1884, 847 
* -development of, J. H. Holley on the 
need of science for the, 1869, 195 
-preventible losses in, Prof. W. Fream 
on, 1887, 834 
-primitive, Miss A. W. Buckland on, 
1876, 164 
-Scottish, recent changes in, Major 
P. G. Craigie on, 1885, 1162 
Ahrens (Dr. F.) on veratrin, and on the 
existence of two isomeric /3-picolines, 
1890, 783 
* Aiguille Yerte, the ascent of the, E. 
Whymper on, 1865, 191 
* Ainsworth (Thomas), facts developed 
by the working of hsematite ores in the 
Ulverstone and Whitehaven districts, 
1871, 66 
Air, Prof. R. S. Ball on the resistance of 
the, to the motion of vortex-rings, 1871, 
26 
-C. Tomlinson on the behaviour of 
supersaturated saline solutions when 
exposed to the open, 1871, 82 
*——- apparatus for the examination of, 
Dr. A. Ransome on, 1887, 672 
-—— bladder of clupeoid fishes , W. G. 
Ridervood on the, 1890, 446 
-bladder, Prof. R. R. Wright on the 
function of the, in Amiurus, 1884, 778 
-- carbonic acid in the, Dr. Angus 
Smith on a method of estimating, 1865, 
35 
-compressor for variable pressures, 
a new form of, H. Davey on, 1888, 
824 
- . - condensers of the British Associa¬ 
tion, R. T. Glazebrook on the, 1890, 102 ; 
Dr. Muirhead on the, 113 
*—— of dwellings and schools, and its 
relation to disease, Prof. T. Carnelley 
on the, 1886, 577 
--elasticities, Prof. S. P. Thompson on 
the ratio of the two, 1887, 581 
—— engines and an air-compressing 
apparatus, J. Jameson on, 1863, 173 
*Air-engine, J. T. Chillingworth on an, 
1869, 209 
-- horizontal motion of the, C. J. 
