16G 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Committee , 1885, 708 ; 1886, 285 ; 1887, 
459 ; 1888, 255 ; 1889, 187 ; 1890, 55 
Galton (Francis), Address to the An¬ 
thropological Section, 1885, 1206 
,- on the combination of the Ordnance 
and Admiralty surveys, and the pro¬ 
duction of a l)at hy - h ypsograp Ideal map 
of the British Isles, 1.886, 277 
- on racial photographs from the 
ancient Egyptian pictures and sculp¬ 
tures, 1887, 439 
r —:— on editing a new edition of ‘ Anthro¬ 
pological Notes and Queries,' 1887. 172 ; 
1889, 186 ; 1890, 547 
-- on the advisability of assigning 
marks for bodily efficiency in the 
examination of candidates for the 
public services, 1889, 471 ; feasible 
experiments on the possibility of 
transmitting acquired habits by means 
of inheritance, 620 ; an instrument for 
measuring reaction time, 784 
-(John C.) on the myology of Cyclo- 
thurus didactylus, 1869, 121 
Galvanic batteries, W. Symons on a new 
method of constructing carbon-cells 
and plates for, 187-1, 31 
* -battery, C. J. Burnett on a, 1885, 
916 
- battery, Latimer Clark on a new 
form of constant, 1871, 47 
-battery, the Rev. H. Highton on a 
powerful, 1872, 77 
-- battery, the maximum amount of 
magnetic power which can be developed 
by a given, H. Highton on, 1870, 25 
- battery, a cheap and convenient, 
adapted for weak, but continuous cur¬ 
rents, W. Symons on. 1871, 32 
-currents, G. B. Airy on spontaneous 
terrestrial, 1861, 35 
-polarisation, molecular distances in, 
Prof. J. Larmor on, 1885, 900 
Galvanometer for demonstrating the in¬ 
ternal current transmitted through the 
liquid within a voltaic cell, C. W. 
Cooke on a, 1879, 280 
.— for the detection of weak electric 
currents, F. W. Varley on the construc¬ 
tion of a, 1868, 20 
-a new form of, Prof. J. Blyth on, 
1885, 939 
* -a new form of, for measuring cur¬ 
rents and potentials in absolute units, 
Prof. Sir W. Thomson on, 1882, 464 
~~— the imperfection of the, as a test 
of the evanescence of a transient cur¬ 
rent, Prof. Lord Rayleigh on. 1883, 444 
--- sine, T. Gray on a new standard, 
1886, 549 
--tangent, a new scale for a, W. II. 
Preece and H. R. Kempe on, 1886, 546 
* -and thermopile combined, Prof. G. 
Forbes on a, 1886, 527 
Galvanometer with twenty wires, Prof. 
Lord Rayleigh on a, 1884, 633 
^Galvanometer-needle, the Hon. J. W. 
Strutt on a permanent deflection of 
the, by a rapid series of equal and 
opposite induced currents, 1868, 20 
Galvanoscope, an improved lantern, S'. 
P. Thompson on, 1877, 37 
'"Gambia, the river, R. E. Cole on, 1881, 
742 
Gamble (John G.) on the Brighton in¬ 
tercepting and outfall sewers, 1872, 245 
Game with a history, J. W.Grombie on a, 
1885, 1215 
-- laws, Prof. Alfred Newton on the 
zoological aspect of, 1868, 108 
Gamgee (Dr. A.) on experiments con¬ 
firmatory of those of Kiihne on the 
non-existence of ammonia in blood, 
1865, 107 
——- on the action of carbonic oxide on 
the blood, 1866, 91 
--- on the action of mercury on the 
secretion of bile, 1868, 187 
- on the heat generated in the blood 
during the process of arterialisation, 
1870, 228 ; 1871, 137 ; on physiological 
experimentation, 1871, 144 
—— on the magnetic and diamagnetic 
properties of the blood, 1871, 138 
* - on the physiological action of 
pyro-, meta-, and ortho-phosphoric 
acids, 1876, 64 
- Address to the Biological Section, 
1882, 554 
-- on the preparation of a bibliography 
of certain groups of invertebrata, 1884, 
270 
- on paleontological and zoological 
researches in Mexico, 1880, 254 
--and L. Larmuth on the action of 
vanadium upon the intrinsic nervous 
mechanism of the frog’s heart, 1876, 
151 
.- J. Priestley, and L. Larmuth 
on the difference in the poisonous 
activity of phosphorus in ortho-, meta-, 
and pyro-phosphoric acids, 1876, 151 : 
on the action of pyrophosphoric acid 
on the circulation, 152 
* -(J.), the cardium, illustrating the 
true nature of prime movers, 1889, 51 S 
Gamma-function, J. W. L. Glaisher on 
the function that stands in the same 
relation to Bernoulli’s numbers that 
the, does to factorials, 1872, 17 
-J. W. L. Glaisher on the negative 
minima of the, 1873, 13 
Gannister beds of Northumberland, G. A. 
Lebour on the discovery of marine 
shells in the, 1878, 539 
Gardiner (J.), report on the occupation 
of the table at the zoological station at 
Maples, 1887, 79 ; 1888, 152 
