GENERAL INDEX. 
303 
phatic deposits recently discovered in, 
1865, 37 
North-west territory of Canada, notes on 
the, by H. Moody, 1883, 612 
*- -west territories of Canada, J. G. 
Colmer on the, 1889, 669 
- -western tribes of the Dominion of 
Canada, report on the physical charac¬ 
ters, languages , and industrial and 
social condition of the, 1885, 696 ; 1886, 
285 ; 1887, 173 ; 1888, 233 ; 1889, 797 ; 
1890, 553 ; report to the Committeeon the 
Black foot tribes , by llev. E. E. Wilson, 
1887, 183 ; notes thereon by H. Hale, 
197 ; report on the Sarcee Indians, 
by Rev. E. F. Wilson, 1888, 242 ; notes 
thereon by H. Hale, 253 ; remarks on 
North American ethnology, by H. Hale, 
1889, 797 ; first general report on the 
Indians of British Columbia, by Dr. F. 
Boas, 801 ; remarks on the ethnology 
of British Columbia, by II. Hale, 
1890, 553 ; second general report on the 
Indians of British Columbia, by Dr. 
F. Boas, 562 
Northampton, Charles Jecks on some 
ferruginous sandstone of the neigh¬ 
bourhood of, 1868, 69 
- sands, some fossils from the, J. 
Evans on, 1878, 534 
Northamptonshire, Samuel Sharp on a 
remarkable incrustation in, 1868, 78 
Northcote (Sir Stafford H.) on a uni¬ 
formity of weights and measures, 1872, 
‘25 ; 1874, 359 
-Address to the Section of Economic 
Science and Statistics, 1869, 173 
Northumberland coast and Dogger Bank, 
report of the Committee on the dredging 
of the, 1862, 116 
- Dr. Wilson on the habits and 
diseases of the coal-miners of, 1863 ,126 
-George Tate’s description of a sea- 
star, Cribellites carbonarius, from the 
Mountain-Limestone formation of, 
1863, 88 
-and Durham, W. H. Richardson on 
the paper-manufactures of, 1863, 183 
-Celts, Rev. G. R. Hall on the social 
life of the, 1863, 137 
.—— the Whin Sill of, W. Topley and 
G. A. Lebour on the, 1873, 92 
-in Prehistoric times, Rev. G. R. 
Hall on, 1889, 788 
Northwich and its neighbourhood, the 
history and cause of the subsidences 
at, T. Ward on, 1887, 713 
Norway, H. J. Ker Porter on the preva¬ 
lence of ‘ Spedalske ’ or leprosy in the 
kingdom of, 1867, 144 
Norwegians, Dr. J. Hunt on the cranial 
measurements, &c., of modern, 1866, 96 
Norwich, Rev. J. Crompton on deep or 
artesian wells at, 1862, 70 
’‘‘Norwich Crags, J. E. Taylor on the, and 
their relation to the mammaliferous 
bed, 1868 , 78 
* -J. E. Taylor on certain phenomena 
in the Drift near, 1869 , 100; on the 
water-bearing strata near, ib. 
Notation, Rev. R. Harley on the umbral, 
1887 , 600 
Nottingham, Joseph White on the statis¬ 
tics of the General Hospital, 1866 , 135 
-W. Felkin on the lace and hosiery 
trades of, 1866 , 128 
- hosiery-trade, E. Renals on arbi¬ 
tration in the, 1867 , 145 
Nourse (W. E. C.) on the action of the 
nervous tissue concerned in perception, 
1864 , 125 
- on the erosion of the coast from 
Littlehampton to Brighton, 1885 , 434 
Nova Scotia, Dr. Dawson on two new 
coal-plants from, 1863 , 67 
* -Scotia, the geognostic relations of 
the auriferous quartz of, H. C. Salmon 
on, 1864 , 191 
-Scotia, Rev. A. W. McKay on the 
Red Sandstone of, 1865 , 66 
-Scotia, results of past experience in 
gold mining in, E. Gilpin, jun. on, 
1884 , 711 
-Scotia, the agricultural resources of, 
Maj.-Gen. Laurie on, 1884 , 849 
-Scotian coal-fields, a comparison of 
the distinctive features of, E. Gilpin, 
jun. on, 1884 , 712 
Nuclei, C. Tomlinson on the action of, in 
inducing crystallisation, 1868 , 45 
Nudioranchiata, dorsal papillm in, Prof. 
W. A. Herdman on the structure and 
function of the, 1889 , 630 
*Nudibranchiate mollusks, A. Hancock 
on the renal organ (the so-called water 
system) in the, 1863 , 116 
Numbers, Prof. H. J. S. Smith's report on 
the theory of. Part III., 1861 , 292; 
theory of homogeneous forms, ib.; 
problem of the representation of num¬ 
bers, ib .; of the transformation and 
equivalence of forms, ib.; automorphic 
transformations, 294; problem of the 
representation of forms, 295 ; binary 
(quadratic forms , 296; elementary de¬ 
finitions, 297; reduction of the problem 
of representation to that of equivalence, 
298; determination of the number of 
sets of representations, 300 ; reduction 
of the problem of transformation to that 
of equivalence, 301 ; problem of equiva¬ 
lence, ib.; exq)ression for the auto- 
morphics of a (quadratic form, 303 : 
expression forth e automorph ics—m eth od 
of Lejeune Dirichlct , 304 ; problem of 
equivalence—forms of a negative deter¬ 
minant, 306; qrroblem of equivalence 
for forms of a positive and not square 
