GENERAL INDEX. 
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constitution of the azimido-compounds, 
1887, 642 
Abyssinia, Dr. Beke on a volcanic erup¬ 
tion on the coast of, 1861, 186 
-Dr. H. Blanc on the native races of, 
1868, 130 
-Clements R. Markham on the phy¬ 
sical geography of the portion of, 
traversed by the English expeditionary 
force, 1868, 138 
- northern, W. T. Blanford on a 
journey in, 1869, 159 
Acadian basin, in American geolog}", 
L. W. Bailey on the, 1884, 717 
-and Scottish Glacial beds, points of 
dissimilarity and resemblance between, 
R. Richardson on, 1884, 722 
-fauna, the geological age of the, 
G. F. Matthew on, 1884, 742 
Acanthorhiza aculeata, H. Wendl., the 
root-spines of, Prof. McNab on, 1887, 
744 
Acarus of the Anodon, R. Garner on a 
parasitical, 1863, 114 
Accident insurance by sea and land, P. M. 
Tait on the theory and practice of, 
1876, 208 
"''Accidents at sea, the prevention of, 
Adm. J. E. Commerell on, 1884, 897 
Acclimatisation of man, Dr. J. Hunt on 
the, 1861, 129 
- of plants, Dr. W. Lauder Lindsay 
on, in Scotland, with special reference 
to Tussac grass, 1867, 88 
-j--Dr. A Oppler on, 1887, 799 
Ace (Rev. Dr.) on the required amend¬ 
ment in the marriage laws of the 
United Kingdom, 1880, 672 
-statist ical account of railway acci¬ 
dents for the year 1881, 1882, 630 
-foot and mouth disease of cattle : 
its true history and remedy, 1883, 620 
Acetabulum of animals in which the 
ligamentum teres is described as want¬ 
ing, Prof. Struthers on the, 1861, 720 
Acetate of methyl, W. Dittmar on the 
vapoar-tension of, 1868, 36 
* Acetic ether, the rate of velocity of 
formation of, Prof. Menscbutkin on, 
1887, 646 
-series, Dr. E. Frankland on the con- 
stitu'ion of the acids of the, 1865, 30 
Aceto-sulphuric acid, Dr. A. Oppenheim 
on, 1869, 72 
^Acetylene, liquid, and hydrochloric acid, 
physical constants of, G. Ansdell on, 
1879, 309 
Acid, report on the manufacture of sul¬ 
phuric , 1861, 109 ; of nitric , 120 ; ox¬ 
alic, ih. ; pyroligneous, 122 
- caproic, J. A. Wanklyn and R. 
Schenk on the synthesis of, 1867, 46 
- carbolic, J. A. Wanklyn on the 
probable constitution of Kolbe and 
Schmitt’s colouring-matter obtained by 
acting upon, with oxalic and sulphuric 
acids, 1864, 44 
’''Acid, phosphoric, the separation from 
iron-furnace cinder of, for manurial 
purposes, J. Hargreaves on, 1870, 60 
— prussic, Dr. M. Simpson and Dr. A. 
Gautier on a compound formed by the 
direct union of aldehyde and anhy¬ 
drous, 1867, 40 
- succinic, Dr. Maxwell Simpson on 
the formation of, from chloride of 
ethylidene, 1867, 42 
- sulphuric, the distillation of, T. 
Fairley on, 1870, 55 
-—— sulphuric, Prof. Mallet on the occur¬ 
rence of native, in Eastern Texas, 
1872, 78 
-- sulphurous, P. Spence on the econo¬ 
misation of, in copper-smelting, 1867, 
43 
-sulphurous, the action of, in aqueous 
solution, on phosphates and other com¬ 
pounds, Dr. Gerland on, 1870, 56 
Acids of the acetic, lactic, and acrylic 
series, Dr. Frankland on the constitu¬ 
tion of the, 1865, 30 
-- action of, on metals and alloys, Dr. 
Crace-Calvert on the, I 860 , 28 
*- butyric and caproic, A. R. Catton 
on the direct conversion of acetic acid 
into, 1864, 26 
- complex inorganic, Prof. Wolcott 
Gibbs on, 1884, 669 
-- organic, report of synthetical re¬ 
searches on, by Alfred R. Catton , 1868, 
475 
- proportions in which bases and, 
present in a solution combine with 
each other, Prof. G. Wiedemann on 
the, 1874, 32 
-stearic and palmitic, W. Lant Car¬ 
penter on a new process for the manu¬ 
facture of, 1872, 71 
Ackroyd (W.) on the colour of animals, 
1877, 100 
-- on a visual phenomenon and its 
explanation, 1879, 419 
Acland (A. H. D.), working men’s co¬ 
operative organisations in Great 
Britain, 1886, 762 
- on the regulation of mages by means 
of lists in the cotton industry, 1887, 
303 
—— (Dr. Henry W.), Address to the Sub¬ 
section of Physiology, 1865, 94 
Aconite, Japanese, preliminary account of 
the alkaloids from, by Dr. B. H. Paul 
and C. T. Kingzett, 1877, 52 
Aconites, the alkaloids of the, Dr. C. R. 
A. Wright on, 1876, 71 ; *1877, 54 
Aconitia, crystalline, and pseudo-aconitia, 
Dr. T. R. Fraser on the physiological 
action of, 1873, 128 
