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GENERAL INDEX 
connection with their geological his¬ 
tory, the Duke of Argyll on, 1876, 81 
Highley (Samuel) on a cheap form of 
automatic regulator for the electric 
light, 1864, 13 ; on the application of 
photography and the magic lantern to 
class demonstrations in microscopic 
science and natural history, 98 
Highton (H.) on the maximum amount 
of magnetic power which can be deve¬ 
loped by a given galvanic battery, 1870, 
25 ; on artificial stone and various 
kinds of silica, 60 
-on a method of preserving food by 
muriatic acid, 1871, 73 
* - on a powerful galvanic battery, 
1872, 77 
^Hilgard (J. E.) on a verification of the 
probability function, 1872, 21 
Hill (Dr. A.) on the sanitary and econo¬ 
mical aspects of the sewage question, 
1865, 31 
-—— (Dr. Alex.), the evidence of compa¬ 
rative anatomy with regard to localisa¬ 
tion of function in the cortex of the 
brain, 1885, 1054 
* - the brain mechanism of smell, 
1887, 754 
- (Alfred) on the statistics of the 
Post Office Savings Bank, 1865, 152 
--(Dr. Berkeley) on the statistics of 
the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1870, 
194 
-(Edwin) on the prevention of crime, 
1862, 154 ' 
--(Rev. E.) on evaporation and eccen¬ 
tricity as co-factors in glacial periods, 
1881, 631 
- problems in the geology of the 
Channel Islands, 1882, 550 
--on ice-age theories, 1884, 723 
--on the average density of meteorites 
compared with that of the earth, 1885, 
1031 
-the disaster at Zug on July 5, 1887, 
1887, 715 
* -- (E. J.)on boat-lowering apparatus, 
1872, 246 
-on the disengaging of boats, &c., 
1888, 807 
-(Prof. M. J. M.) on the rule for con¬ 
tracting the process of finding the 
square root of a number, 1886, 538 
-(P.) on the appropriation of wages 
and other sources of income, 1882, 297 
-(Major) on a clinometer to use with 
a plane-table, 1885, 1131 
-(Viscount), third report on steam¬ 
ship performance, 1861, 190 
Hillhouse (Prof. W.) on the intercellu¬ 
lar connection of protoplasts, 1883, 535 
-preliminary notes on the autumnal 
fall of leaves, 1886, 700 ; *on an ap¬ 
paratus for determining the rate of 
transpiration, 701 ; on the cultivation 
of Beggiatoa alba , ib. 
Hillhouse (Prof. W.) on the disappear¬ 
ance of native plants from their local 
habitats , 1887, 130 ; 1889, 435 ; 1890 ,465 
- on the provincial museums of the 
United, Kingdom , 1887, 97 ; 1888, 124 
Hills and dales, J. Clerk Maxwell on, 
1870, 17 
Himalaya, Dr. Cleghorn on the Deodar 
forests of the, 1865, 79 
* -notes on recent mountaineering in 
the, by D. W. Freshfield, 1885, 1127 
Himalayan glaciers, Col. T. G. Mont¬ 
gomerie on, 1875, 193 
-origin of the Magyar and Fin lan¬ 
guages, Hyde Clarke on the, 1875, 172 
-region, R. B. Shaw on the religious 
cairns of the, 1872, 194 
* -snow peaks, Lieut.-Colonel H. C. B. 
Tanner on, 1885, 1126 
‘^Himalayas and Central Asia, Trelawney 
W. Saunders on the, 1869, 167 ; 1871, 
189 
Hime (T. W.) on the vital statistics of 
Sheffield, 1879, 488 
Hincks (Rev. Edward) on the quantity 
of the acceleration of the moon’s mean 
motion, as indicated by the record of 
certain ancient eclipses, 1861, 22 ; re¬ 
marks on his paper by G. B. Airy, the 
Astronomer Royal, 12 
-- on the relationship between the 
variation of the eccentricity of the 
earth’s orbit and the moon’s mean 
motion in longitude, 1863, 6 
-(Rev. T.) on the production of simi¬ 
lar medusoids by certain hydroid 
polypes belonging to different genera, 
1862, 107 
-*on some new hydroid zoophytes, 
and on the classification and termino¬ 
logy of the hydroida, 1864, 98 ; on the 
medusoid tubularian zoophyte, and its 
return to a fixed condition after the 
liberation of the ova, 99 
- on the marine fauna and flora of the 
south coast of Devon and Cornwall, 
1865, 51 ; 1867, 275 
-on the development of the hydroid 
polyps Clavatella and Stauridia, with 
remarks on the relation between the 
polyp and its medusoid, and between 
the polyp and the medusa, 1869, 145 ; 
on the ovicells of the Polyzoa, with 
reference to the views of Prof. Huxley, 
ib. 
• — note on Prof. G. Seguenza's list of 
tertiary Polyzoa from Reggio ( Cala¬ 
bria ), 1885, 673 
Hind (J. R.) on the variable star lately 
discovered in Corona Borealis, 1866, 8 
- on tidal observations , 1868, 489 ; 
1870, 120 
