322 
GENERAL INDEX 
Phillips (Prof. John), Address to the 
Geological Section, 3 873, 70 ; on the 
Ammonitic spiral in reference to the 
power of flotation attributed to the 
animal, 85 ; on the Ammonitic septa 
in relation to geological time, 86 
- rainfall observations made upon 
York Minster by, G. J. Symons on the, 
1881,551 
-(J. A.) on Claudet's process for the 
extraction of silver, 1870, 61 
——- (J. G.) on the Elgin sandstones, 
1885, 1023 
-(R. C.), the Lower Congo : a socio¬ 
logical study, 1887, 798 
* -(S. E.) on the constitution of mel- 
litic acid, 1877, 53 ; *on the principle 
of uric acid genesis, ib. 
Phillips’s Dyke, Ingleton, T. Tate on, 
1890, 814 
Philology, African, the progress of, R. N. 
Oust on, 1885, 1105 
- comparative, H. Clarke on the com¬ 
parative chronology of the migrations 
of man in America in relation to, 1873, 
141 
Philongria rosea, specimens of, exhibited 
by J. B. Rowe, 1877, 103 
Phipson (Dr. T. L.) on the artificial for¬ 
mation of populine, and on a new class 
of organic compounds, 1862, 50 ; on 
the existence of aniline in certain 
fungi which become blue in contact 
with the air, &c., 51 ; on the diluvial 
soil of Brabant, &c., known as the 
Limon de la Hesbaye, 53 
-on a new method of measuring the 
chemical action of the sun’s rays, 1863, 
50 ; on musical sounds produced by 
carbon, ib. ; on the constant increase 
of organic matter in cultivated soils, 
51 
-on the black stones which fell from 
the atmosphere at Birmingham in 
1858, 1864, 37 ; on the medicinal muds 
of the island of Ischia, 38 
*- . a few words on sponges as a source 
of bromine and of nitrogen, 1865, 34 ; 
on silicium in iron, ib. ; on the sub¬ 
limed oligist of Vesuvius, and its arti¬ 
ficial production, ib. 
-on an extraordinary iron stone, 1866, 
43 
* - on the phenomena which occur 
when magnetised steel is dissolved in 
acids, 1867, 14 
- on meteors, aerolites , and falling 
stars, 1868, 418 
—— on sulphocyanide of ammonium, 
1868, 41 
-on the solubility of lead and copper 
in pure and impure water, 1869, 73 ; on 
some new substances extracted from 
the walnut, 74 
Phipson (Dr. T. L.) on regianic acid, 
1871, 76 
- on a sesquisulphide of iron, 1874, 
66 ; on the presence of cyanogen in 
commercial bromine, and a means of 
detecting it, ib. 
* -on noctilucine, 1875, 45 
* -on some substances obtained from 
the root of the strawberry, 1878, 514 ; 
on a new mineral white pigment, ib. 
- chemical researches on Palmella 
cruenta , 1879, 322 
-on the new element, actinium, 1881, 
603 
-(W. W.), central station heating and 
power supply, Boston, U.S. (Prall’s 
system), 1889, 749 
Phoenician inscription of Brazil, Hyde 
Clarke on the, 1874, 146 
- inscription on the Newton stone, 
Aberdeenshire, decipherment of the, 
by the Rev. Dr. Mill, 1862, 147 
-origin, some objects of apparently, 
recently exhumed in Britain, Dr. 
Phene on, 1881, 695 
^Phoenicians, C. 0. Groom Napier on the, 
1876, 165 
*Pholas) Candida, J. Robertson on the 
perforating instruments of, 1872, 140 
^Phonograph, Col. G. E. Gouraud on the, 
1888, 792 
Phonoscope, Edmunds’ electrical, W. 
Ladd on, 1878, 448 
Phosphate industry of Canada, R. C. 
Adams on the, 1884, 853 
-process, the utilisation of sewage, 
with special reference to the, D. Forbes 
on, 1870, 56 
Phosphates and other compounds, the 
action of sulphurous acid, in aqueous 
solution on, Dr. Gerland on, 1870, 56 
--of lime and ammonia, note on the, 
by J. A. Wanklyn, 1881, 597 
-in wheat-seed, F. Crace-Calvert on 
the amount of soluble and insoluble, 
1869, 66 
Phosphatic deposit, J. F. Walker on a 
new, near Upware, Cambridgeshire, 
1867, 73 
- deposits recently discovered in 
North Wales, Dr. Aug. Voelcker on, 
1865, 37 
Phosphorescence in the eye, photographic 
image of an electric arc lamp probably 
due to, F. Greene on, 1888, 617 
-storms and disease, Dr. T. Moffat 
on, 1865, 90 
-of the sea and ozone, Dr. T. Moffat 
on the, 1869, 72 
* -in tubes by friction, Prof. Croulle- 
bois on, 1872, 36 
Phosphoric acid in commercial products, 
on the methods employed in the estima 
tion of potash and, and on the mode of 
