310 
GENERAL INDEX 
Ostracoda dredged amongst the Hebrides , 
George S. Brady on, 1866, 208 
Ostwald (Prof. W.) on the electrical 
behaviour of semiperm cable membranes, 
1890, 331 ; on the theory of solution, 
*-> 'j 
--on tlie action of semiperm eable 
membranes in electrolysis, 1890, 746 
Otago, New Zealand, Dr. James Hector 
on the geology of the province of, 
1864, 54 
-W. Lauder Lindsay on the geology 
of the gold-fields of, 1862, 77 
*Otolites, E. S. Higgins on, 1864, 57 
Otoscope, Dr. Politzer’s, J. Toynbee on 
the action of the Eustachian tube in 
man, as demonstrated by, 1861, 176 
Oudry (M.) on galvanic copper and its 
applications, 1863, 19 
Ouse, on tidal observations made in the 
River, in 1864, 1864, 129 
Ova, certain remarkable structures re¬ 
sembling, from deep water, Professor 
McIntosh on, 1885, 1073 
* Ovary, and oviduct in certain osseous 
fishes, E. E. Prince on the development 
of the, 1887, 760 
^'-Overcrowding in Liverpool, R. W. Pitcher 
on, 1876, 208 
Overland expeditions to the Arctic coast 
of America, Dr. J. Rae on, 1885, 1133 
Oviduct, the , and connected structures in 
certain fresh-water Teleostei, report on 
the development of, 1888, 338 
Ovules, polliniferous, Dr. M. T. Masters 
on, in a rose, 1867, 93 
Ovum, Dr. G. Thin on the nucleus in the 
frog’s, 1885, 1069 
Owen (Prof. R.) on the psychical and 
physical characters of the Mincopies, or 
■natives of the Andaman Islands, and 
on the relations thereby indicated to 
other races of manldnd, 1861, 241 
——■ on a Dinosaurian reptile ( Scelido - 
saurus Harrisoni ) from the Lower Lias 
of Charmouth, 1861, 121 ; on the 
remains of a Plesiosaurian reptile 
( Plesiosaurus Australis ) from the 
Oolitic formation in the middle island 
of New Zealand, 122 ; on the cervical 
and lumbar vertebrae of the mole 
(Talpa Huropaa), 152 ; on some ob¬ 
jects of natural history.from the col¬ 
lection of M. Du Cbaillu, 155 
--- on the characters of the Aye-Aye, as- 
a test of the Lamarckian and Darwinian 
hypothesis of the transmutation and 
origin of species, 1862, 114 ; on the 
zoological significance of the cerebral 
and pedal characters of man, 116 ; on 
the homologies of the bones of the 
head of the Polypterus nilotieus , 118 
.- [Dr. R.], Address to the Biological 
Section, 1881, 651 ; on the homology 
of the conario-hypophysial tract or of 
the so-called ‘ pineal ’ and ‘ pituitary' 
glands, 719 
Owen [Sir R.], American evidences of 
Eocene mammals of the ‘ Plastic Clay ' 
period, 1885, 1033 
Ox, Prof. Cleland on the epithelium of 
the cornea of the, in relation to the- 
growth of stratified epithelium, 1867, 
100 
Oxalic acid, the secretion of, in the dog. 
Dr. T. W. Mills on, 1884, 783 
* -ether, A. R. Catton on Loewig’s 
researches on the action of sodium 
amalgam on, 1867, 32 ; *1868, 35 
Oxaluric acid, W. H. Pike on several 
liomologues of, 1873, 65 
*Oxenham (E. L.) on a journey from 
Peking to Han-kow, 1873, 172 
Oxford, Dr. Daubeny on tlfe number of 
graduates in arts and medicine at, for 
the last two centuries, 1866, 127 
Oxfordshire, G. E. Roberts on the dis¬ 
covery of elephant and other mamma¬ 
lian remains in, 1863, 87 
Oxidation of terpenes, the limited, C. T. 
Kingzett on, 1876, 64 
-the effect of, on the magnetic pro¬ 
perties of manganese steel, L. T. O’Shea 
on, 1890, 753 
Oxides, the more stable, the behaviour 
of, at high temperatures, Dr. G. H, 
Bailej' and A. A. Read on, 1890, 773 
Oxus, the River, the early traditions of. 
Sir II. Rawlinson on, 1870, 174 
* -Major PI. Wood on changes in the 
course of the, 1875, 197 
Oxygen gas, Dr. B. W. Richardson on 
the inhalation of, 1864, 125 
- J. A. Wanklyn on the continuous 
production of, 1872, 85 
-the atomicity of, G. J. Stoney on, 
1876, 69 
* -- the thermo-chemistry of, T. Fairley 
on, 1877, 51 
--the activity of, and the mode of 
formation of hydrogen dioxide, C. T. 
Kingzett on, 1882, 494 
* -the liquefaction of, Prof. J. Dewar 
on, 1884, 679 
* - liquid, the chemical actions of. 
Prof. Dewar on solutions of ozone and, 
1885, 985 
-- the rate of explosion of hydrogen 
and, H. B. Dixon on, 1885, 905 
* -- and nitrogen from the atmosphere, 
exhibition and description of the appa¬ 
ratus employed in obtaining, by Messrs, 
Brin, 1885, 977 
- gas in a pure state, 11'. A. Shensi one 
and J. T. Cundall on the preparation 
and storage of, 1886, 213 
-evidence of the tetravalency of, 
derived from the constitution of th£ 
