336 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Price (L. L.) on some typical economic 
fallacies made by social reformers, 
1890, 928 
Price-level, the variations of, since 1850, 
M. G. Mulhall on, 1885, 1157 
Prices of commodities and labour, F. P. 
Fellows on political economy and the 
laws affecting the, 1874, 203 
-depression of and results of economy 
of production, Hyde Clarke on, and on 
the prospect of recovery, 1885, 1168 
--in their economical and statistical 
relations, Hyde Clarke on effective 
consumption and effective, 1887, 832 
* -the fall of, in Belgium, France, and 
England, graphic illustrations of, by 
Prof. Denis, 1887, 832 
-in Europe, America, and Asia, Hyde 
Clarke on prospective, 1884, 868 
-- real and money, changes in, W. 
Hooper on, 1887, 830 
*Prideaux (T. S.) on economy in fuel, 
1861, 269 
* -on the functions of the cerebellum, 
1864, 125 
* - on the principles of ethnology, 
1864, 147 
- on the construction of shot-proof 
targets, 1864, 187 
* -phrenology, or the physiology of the 
brain, the most important department 
of ethnology, 1865, 92 
-on the occasional definition of the 
convolutions of the brain on the ex¬ 
terior of the head, 1869, 225 
Priestley (J.) on the physiological 
action of vanadium, 1876, 155 ; on the 
physiological action of chromium, 156 
--Prof. Gamg-ee, and L. Larmuth on 
the difference in the poisonous activity 
of phosphorus in ortho-, meta-, and 
pyro-phosphoric acids, 1876, 151 ; on 
the action of pyrophosphoric acid on 
the circulation, 152 
Priestman (Miss A. M.) on the indus¬ 
trial position of women as affected by 
their exclusion from the suffrage, 1875, 
218 
Prime numbers, J. W. L. Glaisher on the 
law of distribution of, 1872, 19 
- see Davis (W. B.) 
Primes in Burckhardt and Dase’s tables, 
J. W. L. Glaisher on the enumeration 
of, 1877, 20 
-- certain special enumerations of, 
J. W. L. Glaisher on, 1878, 470 
-of the forms 4/i+l and in +3, the 
enumerations of, J. W. L. Glaisher on, 
1879, 268 
Primitive agriculture, Miss A. W. Buck- 
land on. 1876, 164 
-condition of man, Sir John Lubbock 
ontheo'igin of civilisation and the, 
1869, 137 
Primitive human family, C. S. Wake on 
the, 1878, 592 
Primula sinensis exhibited by Prof. A. 
Dickson, 1869, 113 
- veris, an abnormal plant of, Prof. 
M‘Nab on, 1877, 105 
- vulgaris , an abnormality of, with 
interpetaline lobes, Prof. A. Dickson 
on, 1875, 157 
Prince (E. E.) on the development of 
the food-fishes at the St. Andrews 
marine laboratory, 1885, 1091 ; on the 
nest and development of G 'astrosteus 
spinachia at the St. Andrews marine 
laboratory, 1093 
- points in the development of the 
pectoral fin and girdle in teleosteans, 
1886, 697 
-*on the development of the ovary 
and oviduct in certain osseous fishes, 
1887, 760 ; on the so-called luminous 
organs of Maurolicus pennanti (the 
British pearl-sides), 769 ; on the ova of 
Tomopteris onisciformis, Eschscholz, ib.; 
*on a ciliated organ, probably sensory, 
in Tomopteris onisciformis, ib. 
*Pringle (A.) on some probable new 
elements, 1886, 577 
*Pringsheim (Prof. N.) on assimilation 
and the evolution of oxygen by green 
plant cells, 1887, 763 
^Printing telegraph apparatus, an im¬ 
proved, M. Sortais on, 1862, 196 
- telegraph, Bonelli’s, W. Cook on, 
1863, 18 ; D. E. Hughes on a, ib. 
-type, a rotary machine for compos¬ 
ing and distributing, J. Southward on, 
1890, 951 
Prism, J. A. Davies’s observations upon 
the production of colour by the, 1861,31 
—— and chromascope, John Smith on 
the, 1861, 33 
^Prismatic structure in basalts and other 
igneous rocks, further illustrations of 
the jointed, Prof. J. Thomson on, 1876, 
96 
Prisms, H. Swan on a new kind of minia¬ 
ture, possessing apparent solidity by 
means of a combination of, 1863, 17 
f-Nicol’s, W. Ladd on the construc¬ 
tion of large, 1874, 26 ; ( see ‘ Nicol ’) 
Prison diet and discipline , report on the 
action of, on the bodily functions of 
prisoners, Part I., by Dr. Edward 
Smith and W. R. Milner, 1861, 44 ; 
appendices, 67 
-dietary in India, Dr. Mouatt on, 
1861, 170 
■ . - discipline, Sir John Bowring on 
penal law as applied to, 1869, 180 
*-labour, Sir John Bowring on the 
moral and pecuniary results of, 1 S 6 S* 
Prisons, Sir John Bowring on productive 
