GENERAL INDEX. 
1G9 
Souza's visit to Kern Observatory com¬ 
municated by, 1862, 109 
Gassiot (J. P.) on the mode of preparing 
carbonic acid vacua in large glass ves¬ 
sels, 1862, 42 
-on the adaptation of bisulphide-of- 
carbon prisms, and the use of tele¬ 
scopes of long focal distance, in the 
examination of the sun's spectrum, 
1864, 11 
-- on the establishment of magnetic 
observations on the Kew system at the 
Observatory at Tijtis , 1865, 313 
-on the change of form and colour 
which the stratified discharge assumes 
when a varied resistance is introduced 
in the circuit of an extended series of 
the voltaic battery, 1865, 15 
- meteorological and physical observa¬ 
tions in three balloon ascents made in 
1865 and 1866, 1866, 367 
- on tidal observations, 1868, 489 ; 
1870, 120 
- on the metallic deposit obtained 
from the induction discharge in 
vacuum-tubes, 1869, 46 
Gassner’s dry cells, comparison of, with 
Leclanche’s, by W. L. Carpenter, 1888, 
566 
Gastaldi on Italian geology and the 
crystalline rocks, Dr. T. S. Hunt on, 
1887, 703 
^Gasteropoda, the British fossil, J. L. 
Lobley on the stratigraphical distribu¬ 
tion of, 1870, 78 
*- the kidneys of the, and the renal 
duct of Paludina , W. B. Benham on, 
1885, 1103 
Gasteropods and cephalopods, some De¬ 
vonian, Rev. G. F. Whidborne on, 1888, 
680 
Gasterosteus Leiurus, Dr. W. H. Ransom 
on the structure and growth of the 
ovarian ovum in the, 1866, 77 
Gastrosteus spinaclna, the nest and de¬ 
velopment of, at St. Andrews’ marine 
laboratory, E. E. Prince on, 1885, 1093 
^Gatehouse (J. W.) on nitrite of silver, 
1875, 43 
——- and P. Braham on the dissociation 
of nitric acid by various means, 1874, 
55 
Gateshead, John Lamb on the reduc¬ 
tion of the death-rate in, by sanitary 
measures, 1863, 156 
Gauery (Prof. A.) on the fossil animals 
of Mount Leberon (Yaucluse), 1872, 
102 
-on the gigantic size of some extinct 
Tertiary Mammalia, 1888, 660 
Gauge, deep-sea pressure-, J ames Glaisher 
on a, 1861, 59 
--G. Hartmann’s description of a pa¬ 
rallel, 1864, 186 
Gauging, the systematic, of the wells, 
springs, and rivers of Great Britain, J. 
Lucas on an organisation for, 1881, 781 
- of mater by triangular notches , re¬ 
port on, by James Thomson, 1861, 151 
Gauss, the suggestion of, to aj)ply his 
general theory of terrestrial magnetism 
to the magnetic variations, report on 
the adequacy of existing data for carry¬ 
ing into effect , 1862, 170 
Gaussian constants for 1829, a theory of 
terrestrial magnetism founded on all 
available observations, report on the, by 
H. Petersen and A. Erman, 1872, 1 
*-constants, a new computation of 
the, Prof. J. C. Adamson, 1887, 600 
Gaussin’s warning regarding the slug¬ 
gishness of ships’ magnetism, Sir Wm. 
Thomson on, 1878, 496 
Gautier (Dr. A.) and Dr. Maxwell 
Simpson on a compound formed by 
the direct union of aldehyde and an¬ 
hydrous prussic acid, 1867, 40 
Gearing (Arthur), examples of ocular 
demonstration of geometrical proposi¬ 
tions, 1868, 8 
Gearing, Prof. II. C. Fleeming Jenldn on 
nest, 1883, 387 
Geddes (P. A.), "‘notes on Chlamy- 
domyxa, 1881, 680 ; *on a new sub-class 
of Infusorians, ib.; on economics and 
statistics viewed from the standpoint 
of the preliminary sciences, 765 
- on palceontological and zoological 
researches in Mexico, 1880, 254 
- report on the occupation of the 
table at the zoological stat ion at Naples, 
1882, 290 
-on the application of biology to 
economics, 1885, 1166 
-on the nature and causes of varia¬ 
tion in plants, 1886, 695 ; on the theory 
of sex, heredity, and reproduction, 708 ; 
on the application of physics and bio¬ 
logy to economics, 783 ; 1887, 841 
-proposed contributions to the theory 
of variation, 1887, 735 
-on the origin of thorny plants, 1890, 
870 ; a theory of the consumption of 
wealth, 924 
Gee (A.) on the mode adopted at the 
Bradford-on-Avon Union for the utili¬ 
sation of sewage, 1864, 28 
-(W. W. H.) on a comparison-mag¬ 
netometer, 1887, 620 
-H. Holden, and C. H. Lees, expe¬ 
riments on electrolysis and electrolytic 
polarisation, 1887, 589 
-and Prof. W. Stroud, a null method 
in electro-calorimetry, 1887, 581 
-and Prof. W. Stroud, electro-calori¬ 
metry, 1888, 565 
--and Dr. A. Harden, stereometry, 
1889, 516 
