GENERAL INDEX 
315 
318 ; 1881,222; 1882, 310 ; 1883, 316 ; 
1884, 293 ; 1885, 695 
^Patent monopoly, Henry Dircks on, as 
affecting the encouragement, improve¬ 
ment, and progress of science, arts, 
and manufactures, 1868, 159 
* - systems of Great Britain and of 
the United States, T. Webster on the 
assimilation of the, 1873, 219 
Patented inventions, T. Webster on the 
advancement of science due to, 1872, 
251 
Patents—can they be defended on econo¬ 
mical grounds ? by Prof. J. E. T. 
Rogers, 1861, 240 
- the law of, report of the Committee 
on, 1861, 289 
-- T. Webster on property in invention 
and its effects on the arts and manu¬ 
factures, 1861, 266 
*——- and copyrights, Prof. J. E. T. 
Rogers on, 1865, 155 
Pater-on (Dr. A. M.), the morphology 
and physiology of the limb-plexuses, 
1887, 775 
- on the effects of different occupations 
and employments on the physical de¬ 
velopment of the human body, 1888, 
100 ; 1889, 186 
* -(Rev. J.) on a journey across Fin¬ 
land, from Ellenborg to Archangel via 
Kemi, 1876, 183 
* -(William) on the consumption of 
fuel, 1867, 156 
*Paton (Dr.) on the action and sounds 
of the heart, 1876, 155 
Patterson (J.) on the railway accounts 
for 1868 just issued by the Board of 
Trade, with suggestions for railway 
reform, 1870, 197 
--(R.), report upon the best means of 
advancing science through the agency 
of the mercantile, marine, 1862, 122 
* -(T. L.) on sugar, 1876, 67 
* -(W.) on certain markings in sand¬ 
stones, 1861, 123 
Pattinson (J.) on a deposit in the gas- 
tubes of the Cleveland blast-furnaces, 
1863, 48 ; on zinc, nickel, and cobalt 
in the Cleveland ironstone, 49 ; on the 
various kinds of pyrites used on the 
Tyne and neighbourhood in the manu¬ 
facture of sulphuric acid, ib. 
-- on the best means for the develop¬ 
ment of light from coal-gas, 1880, 
241 
-(J. and Dr. H. S.) on Chilian man¬ 
ganese ore, 1889, 537 
Pattison ( 8 . R.), note on the Carbon¬ 
iferous coast-line of North Cornwall, 
1877, 75 
Paul (Dr. B. H.) on the manufacture of 
hydrocarbon oils, paraffin, &c., from 
peat, 1862 , 50; on the decay and pre¬ 
servation of stone employed in build¬ 
ing, ib. 
*Paul (Dr. B. H.), recent applications; 
of the hydrocarbons derived from arti¬ 
ficial and natural sources, 1863, 191 
-on crude paraffin oil, 1864, 36 ; *on 
the disposal of town refuse, ib. ; on 
useful applications of slag from iron¬ 
smelting, 37 
—— on the treatment and utilisation of 
sewage, 1869, 313 ; 1870, 49 
* -and A. D. Cownley on the valua¬ 
tion of commercial crude anthracene. 
1873, 65 
- and C. T. Kingzett, preliminary 
account of the alkaloids from Japanese 
aconite, 1877, 52 
-(W.) on the relative value of clari¬ 
fied and unclarified sewage as manure, 
1872, 247 
Pauper children, the boarding-out of. 
Miss I. M. Tod on, 1878, 659 
Pauperisation of children by the opera¬ 
tion of the ‘ Scotch Education Act, 
1872,’ M. Blair on the, 1885, 1176 
Pauperism of England, Scotland, and 
Ireland, 1851 to 1860, Frederick Purdy 
on the relative, 1861, 231 
--- of Lancashire, F. Purdy on the, 
1862, 165 
* -population, and immigration in 
the dominion of Canada, J. Lowe on, 
1884, 866 
* -exhibition of maps illustrating the 
statistics of, by Dr. Rhodes, 1890, 922 
*Pavy (Dr.) on the reason why the 
stomach is not digested by its own 
secretion during life, 1863, 191 
*Payne (Joseph) on the relation between 
learning and teaching, 1868, 175 
-(R. W.) on the Transvaal district 
of South Africa, 1866, 114 
Peach (B. N.) and J. Horne, the geo¬ 
logy of Durness and Etiboll, with 
special reference to the Highland con¬ 
troversy, 1885, 1027 ; further evidence 
of the extension of ice in the North 
Sea during the Glacial Period, 1036 
-(C. W.) on the fossils of the Boulder- 
Clay in Caithness, 1862, 83 ; 1864, 61 ; 
1866, 64 ; on fossil fishes from the Old 
Red Sandstone of Caithness, 85 
- on the occurrence of the sperm- 
whale (Physeter macrocephalus') near 
Wick, N.B., 1863, 106 
- on traces of Glacial Drift in the 
Shetland Islands, 1864, 59 
-- on fossil fishes of the Old Red 
Sandstone of Caithness and Sutherland, 
with notice of some new to those 
counties, 1867, 72 ; on the fructifica¬ 
tion of Griffithsia corallina found in 
the West Voe, Outskerries, Shetland, 
96 ; on naked-eyed Medusas found at 
