INDEX II. 
187 
datus, 113 ;• on living sea animals, ib .; 
on a plan of aerating aquavivaria 
adopted by Dr. Ball, 115. 
Peach (Mr.) on specimens of old red 
tamlatone from Gallows Hill, near 
Thurso, 92. 
Peebleshire, on a curious structure in the 
Silurian slates of, 78. 
Petrie (William) on the motion of fluids; 
1 remarkable variation in the great 
dementary law of the ratio between 
pressure and velocity. 63. 
ijlips (John) on micrometrical and 
Photographic drawings of the lunar 
»urface, 25. 
Philoiogical inquiry, on the ethnological 
value of the results of, 126. 
th i 01 supposed influence of 
e hot-blast in augmenting the quan- 
JJ of. in cast-iron, 74. 
“tography:—on photographs of the 
oon an j the sun, 10; on drawings of 
« e lunar surface. 25; on drawings of 
eteorologteal instruments adopted by 
u_ : ° u »cU of the British Meteorological 
cullnV' l ' lc vnoon's surface, on 
ion, (JO; up ua albumen, 67; on 
i 4 l if n ^ ement wwe difficult sub- 
jjo. 11 le *PpHc#tiun of, to science, 
min,, 0 ” 1° moans of applying, to war 
fE- ■", «» «.y ami navy, 70, 
i 1 ! , ' llcllllon i,r ' *o tlic dolinca- 
pg“ c ». 56. ’ 
ill of wei g*»‘ which may 
p ,gr°und, 103 d 00 a ’ tlnv ' en int0 the 
mo, '!>l>ology of. 90. 
latioi,. of S °f Ia,lons of colour, and re- 
the corlSr ttnd form in, 98; on 
venation ' *'’, ll( l ' IK ' L ' between tile leaf- 
*°ine t L r T l ! lcalioi ‘ of > 100; on 
»>i, 101 • . “* r,n unions colours 
fcla*i on tlm te Ul ? U8nce of coloured 
., I US, growth of, in sea-water, 
»r-a.6. 
hT °".4. 
p‘"l*ion Mi!!' 1 tl J. c meteorology of the 
°° r ' o aft e S N ?- VaSw)t i«.35. 
pM, l38. 1Catl °" or in Liver- 
?. 0v em”;,t Wa S ti f M ° f l l’ oov relief > «‘" d 
Slot” 1,1 tl,D “commercial 
p^hire, J5 2 tl,e hundred of Wirral, 
te Par,lti0n of the Bedard 
5SU,I », on ,b iUlg , anatc of . 74. 
he a Pphcation of cyanide 
of, to killing insects for the cabinet, 
106. 
Pressure, on the effect of, on the tem¬ 
perature of fusion of different sub¬ 
stances, 37. 
Preston strike in 1853 to 1854, on the 
causes and consequences of the, 130. 
Priapulus caudatus, on, 113. 
Price (Dr. A. P.) on a new method of 
alkalimetry, 74. 
Price (Davia S.) on the estimation of 
iron by the method of Marguerite, and 
some notes on the preparation of the 
standard solution of permanganate of 
potnsb, 71; ou the supposed influence 
of the hot-blnit in augmentmg the 
quantity of phosphorus in cast iron, ib. 
Price (J.) on carboniferous limestone, at 
Llysfaen and Peuimten llhos, near 
Abergele, 93. 
Price (Rev. —), on drawings of various 
marine animals, 102. 
Printing machine, on an improved, 163. 
Prison, on the effect of good and bad 
times on committals to, 133. 
Propeller, on Fisher's Venetian Bcrew, 
151. 
Prosser (Mr.) on unchanged stenm, 159. 
Pumps, experiments to be made on cen¬ 
trifugal, 163. 
Purpura lupillus, on the development of 
the embryo of, 108. 
Quaternions, on an extension of, 1. 
Railway, on a high level, for the Liver¬ 
pool Docks, 151. 
Railway-signals, on, 158. 
Rain, on the distribution of, in the tem¬ 
perate zones, 28. 
Rain-fall, on some simultaneous observa¬ 
tions of, nt different points on the same 
mountain range, 46. 
Raiu-gauge at the Liverpool Observatory, 
on the, 34. 
Rain-water, on ammonia and nitric acid 
iu, 70, 164. 
Ramsay (Prof. A. C.) on the former pro¬ 
bable existence of paheozoic glaciers, 
93 ; on the thickness of the ice of the 
ancient glaciers of North Wales, and 
other points bearing on the glaciation 
of the country, 94. 
Rankin (Rev. T.) on the meteorology of 
iluggate, 34. 
Rankine (W. J. Macquorn) on some si¬ 
multaneous observations of rain-fall at 
different points on the *iune mountain 
range, 46; on formula for the maximum 
pressure and latent heat of vapours, 
