118 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Domestication of certain animals in Eng¬ 
land, bet ween the seventh and eleventh 
centuries, J. Thrupp on the, 1865, 94 
Dominion Surveys, Trelawney Saunders 
on, 1884, 807 
Donaldson (J.) on torpedo-boats, 1882, 
672 
Doncaster (C.) on the German and 
oilier systems of teaching the deaf to 
speak, 1880 , 216 
Donegal, R. H, Scott on the granitic rocks 
of, 1861, 31 
- report on the chemical and 
mineralogical constitution of the 
granites of, and of the rochs associated 
with them, 1862, 163 ; 1863, 48 
*-— the age of the crystalline rocks of, 
Prof. W. King on, 1878, 547 
Donkin (A. E.)on an instrument for the 
composition of two harmonic curves, 
1873, 45 
-(Prof. W. F.) on the adequacy of 
existing datafor carrying into effect the 
suggestion of Gauss , to apply his general 
theory of terrestrial magnetism to the 
magnetic variations, 1862, 170 
*-(Dr.) on the physiological action of 
the uterus in parturition, 1863, 192 
Donnell (Prof.) on the Ulster tenant- 
right, 1874, 202 
Donnelly (Capt. J. F. D.) on the nature 
and results of the aid granted by the 
State towards the instruction of the in¬ 
dustrial classes in elementary sciences, 
1861, 217 
Doomsday Book, F. P. Fellowes on a 
proposed, giving the value of govern¬ 
ment property as a basis for a sound 
system of national finance and ac¬ 
counts, 1871, 211 ; *1874, 204 
Doors, G-. Fawcus on suggested improve¬ 
ments in, 1864, 186 
Dorsetshire, Dr. T. Wright on the White 
Lias of, 1864, 75 
——- C. C. Blake on skulls from round 
barrows in, 1866, 94 
Dorsey (E. B.) on the Witwatersrand 
goldfields, 1889, 592 ; on the compara¬ 
tive cost of working English and 
American railways, 752 
Doty (Capt.) on the torpedoes used by 
the Confederate States in thejdestruc- 
tion of some of the Federal "ships of 
war, and the mode of attaching them 
to the rams, 1864, 185 
Double refraction. See Refraction, double 
*Dougall (Dr. John) on the relative 
powers of various substances in pre¬ 
venting the generation of animalcules, 
or the development of their germs, 
with special reference to the germ- 
theory of putrefaction, 1871, 124 
*Doughty (Mr.) on flint instruments 
from Hoxne, 1862, 72 
Doughty (Charles M.) on the Yostedal 
Brae, a large glacier-system in South 
Norway, 1864, 143 
Douglas (J.) and Dr. T. S. Hunt, the 
Sonora earthquake of May 3, 1887, 
1887, 712 
* -(R.) on the Corliss engine, 1871, 
234 
——- (W. H.), an annual winding clock, 
with torsion pendulum, 1888, 823 
* Douglass (J. N.) on the Eddystone 
house, 1877, 202 
-[Sir J. N.] on the rate of erosion 
of the sea-coasts of England and Wales , 
i884. 238 ; 1885, 404 ; 1886 , 847 ; 1888, 
898 
- on standards of light, 1886, 39 ; 
1887, 47 5 1888, 39 
-Address to the Mechanical Section, 
1886, 786 
- discussion on lightning-conductors, 
1888, 608 
- on the investigation of the action of 
waves and currents on the beds and 
foreshores of estuaries by means of work¬ 
ing models , 1889, 327 ; 1890, 512 
- on improvements in coast signals , 
with supplementary remarks on the new 
Eddystone lighthouse , 1884, 584 
* -(W. A.), loans and savings com¬ 
panies, 1884, 835 
-harmonies and antagonisms in the 
social forces, 1884, 869 
Dover, the synclinal structure of the 
Straits of, W. Topley on, 1882, 546 
Dowie (James) on the loss of muscular 
power arising from the ordinary foot- 
clothing now r worn, and on the means 
required to obviate this loss, 1862, 125 
- (Miss M. M.) on a journey in the 
Eastern Carpathians, 1890, 896 
Dowker (G-.) on the erosion of the coast 
of East Kent , 1885, 415 
Dowkerbottom cave, in Craven, a pre¬ 
liminary account of the working of, 
during August 1881, by E. B. Poulton, 
1881, 622 
Down, Prof. E. Hull on the trachyte 
porphyries of Antrim and, 1872, hi 
- W. A. Traill on geological sections 
in the county, 1874, 93 
-and Antrim, Rev. Canon Hume on 
the origin and characteristics of the 
people in the counties, 1874, 153 
Dowson (A.), notes on the coast from the 
Wyre to the Kibble, 1888, 90 
-(J. E.) on the economical effect of 
using cheap gas for gas-motors, with a 
description apparatus for producing 
such gas, 1881, 775 
-on gaseous fuel, 1888, S 05 
‘ Drainage area,’ D. Mackintosh on the 
desirability of substituting, for the 
term ‘ River basin,’ 1875, 75 
