GENERAL INDEX. 
313 
*Paludina, the renal duet of the, W. B. 
Benham on, 1885, 1103 
Pamir, R. B. Shaw on the physical 
features of the, and its Aryan 
inhabitants, 1872, 213 
-Steppe, Col. T. E. Gordon on the 
exploration of the, 1875, 193 
tPanama Canal, F. de Lesseps on the, 
1886, 736; *1888, 738 
-Canal, the Chevalier de Stoess on 
the, 1883, 659 
--- the inter-oceanic canal of, L. N. B. 
Wyse on the exploration of the 
American isthmus and, 1879, 454 
--the Isthmus of, the proposed canal 
across, Capt. B. Pirn on, 1879, 521 
-Dr. Cullen on the Isthmus of, and 
inter-oceanic ship canal routes, 1865, 
118 
*-the coal-beds of, in reference mainly 
to their economic importance, Rev. Dr. 
Hume on, 1871, 102 
Pandanece of the Mascarene and 
Seychelles Islands, I. B. Balfour on the, 
1876, 142 
Pandanus utilis, Prof. Tliiselton Dyer on 
the minute anatomy of the stem of the 
screw-pine, 1871, 128 
Pangong, Capt. H. H. Godwin-Austen on 
the district of Lake, in Tibet, 1866, 100 
Panics, commercial, W. D. Henderson 
on, 1873, 193 
Pankhurst (Dr. R. M.) on the policy and 
provisions of a patent law, 1870, 196 
*Panthays of Yunnan, W. F. Mayers on 
the, 1872, 211 
Panton (J. H.), gleanings from outcrops 
of Silurian strata in Red River Valiev, 
Manitoba, 1884, 715 
-places of geological interest on the 
banks of the Saskatchewan, 1887, 714 
—— the flora of Victoria Park, Niagara 
Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1890, 871 
Paper, Dr. Stevenson Macadam on es¬ 
parto fibre, or Spanish grass, and its 
employment in the manufacture of, 
1865, 33 
--manufactures of Northumberland 
and Durham, W. H. Richardson on the, 
1863, 183 
Papuan art, certain degenerations of de¬ 
sign in, S. J. Hickson on, 1887, 907 
Papuans and Polynesians, Rev. G. Brown 
on, 1886, 842 
-and the Polynesians, C. S. Wake on 
the, 1881, 696 
Paradise, primitive astronomical traditions 
as to, R. G. Haliburton on, 1883, 572 
- the site of the terrestrial, Sir H. 
Rawlinson on, 1870, 172 
Paraffin, manufacture of, from peat. Dr. 
B. H. Paul on the, 1862, 50 
-and its products of oxidation, Dr. 
Meusel and C. H. Gill on, 1868, 39 
Paraffin oil, assay of coal, &c. for crude. 
Dr. J. Attfield on the, 1866, 33 
-oil, crude, Dr. B. H. Paul on, 1864, 
36 
-oil, poisonous nature of crude, and 
the products of its rectification upon 
fish, Dr. Stevenson Macadam on the, 
1866, 41 
-oils, the production of permanent 
gas from, Dr. S. Macadam on, 1884, 
680 
--wax, the estimation of mineral oil 
or, when mixed with other oils or fats, 
W. Thomson on, 1878, 508 
Paraguay, K. Johnston on journeys in, 
in 1874-75, 1875, 193 
-to the Pacific, M. A. Thouar on a 
journey from, 1890, 893 
^Parallax of a planetary nebula, Dr. Gill 
on the, 1871, 34 
* -of stars, researches made at Dun- 
sink, on the annual, Prof. R. S. Ball on, 
1878, 482 
-of the stars, Prof. C. Pritchard on 
the nature of the photographic star- 
discs and the removal of a difficulty in 
the measurements for, 1887, 580 
-of some of the stars, H. Fox Talbot 
on a method of estimating the, 1871, 34 
*Parallel motion, W. Hayden on approxi¬ 
mate, 1874, 18; 1876, 16 
-roads of Glen Roy, D. Milne-Home 
on the, 1876, 93 ; *J. Macfadzean on 
the, ib. 
——- roads of Lochaber, J. Melvin on the, 
1885, 1035 
Paralytics, general, J. C. Brown on the 
chemical composition of the bones of, 
1870,51 
* Parana, Consul T. J. Hutchinson on the 
Indians of the, 1866, 96 
Paranaphthaline, Prof. Anderson on the 
constitution of, 1861, 76 
Parasite, a remarkable, Dr. Cobbold on, 
1870, 135 
Parasites, Prof, van Beneden sur les, 
1870, hi 
—— and other natural enemies of insects 
injurious to vegetation, note on the im¬ 
portation and colonisation of, by Dr. 
C. V. Riley, 1889, 640 
-of Egypt, the injurious, in relation 
to water-drinking, Dr. Cobbold on, 
1882, 592 
*Parasitic flatworm, a stock-form of the, 
E. Ray Lankester on, 1870, 120 
Parhelia, or mock suns, observed in Ire¬ 
land, W. A. Traill on, 1871, 56 
Paris (Admiral), report on steamship per¬ 
formance, 1861, 190; 1862, 282; 1863, 
339 
Paris basin, Prof. Hebert on the Chalk of 
the, 1872, 104 
- Exhibition in 1867, Prof. leone Levi 
