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Mr. MUNGO PONTON's Further Researches regarding the Laws of Chromatic

Dispersion.....

Professor WILLIAM B. ROGERS'S Experiments and Conclusions on Binocular

Vision........

M. SERRIN, Régulateur Automatique de Lumière Electrique ......

Mr. BALFOUR STEWART on some Recent Extensions of Prevost's Theory of Ex-

changes

Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY on Rings seen in viewing a Light through Fibrous

Specimens of Calc-spar........................

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Mr. R. THOMAS on Thin Films of Decomposed Glass found near Oxford ....... 19

ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM.

Mr. JOHN ALLAN BROUN on certain Results of Observations in the Observa-

tory of His Highness the Rajah of Travancore

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on the Diurnal Variations of the Magnetic Declina-

tion at the Magnetic Equator, and the Decennial Period

on Magnetic Rocks in South India......................

on a Magnetic Survey of the West Coast of India... 27

on the Velocity of Earthquake Shocks in the Late-

rite of India.........

28

Mr. A. CLARKE on a Mode of correcting the Errors of the Compass in Iron

Rev. T. RANKIN on the different Motions of Electric Fluid ..............

Professor W. B. ROGERS on the Phenomena of Electrical Vacuum Tubes, in a

letter to Mr. Gassiot

M. H. VON SCHLAGINTWEIT'S General Abstract of the Results of Messrs. de
Schlagintweit's Magnetic Survey of India, with three Charts

.................

M. WERNER and Mr. C. W. SIEMENS, Outline of the Principles and Prac-

tice involved in dealing with the Electrical Conditions of Submarine Electric

Telegraphs....

ASTRONOMY.

Mr. W. R. BIRT on the Forms of certain Lunar Craters indicative of the Ope-

ration of a peculiar degrading Force

Professor HENNESSY on the Possibility of Studying the Earth's Internal Struc-

ture from Phenomena observed at its Surface........

Rev. EDWARD HINCKS on some Recorded Observations of the Planet Venus in

the Seventh Century before Christ

Mr. R. HODGSON on the brilliant Eruption on the Sun's Surface, 1st Septem-

ber 1859..

36

Dr. JOHN LEE'S Prospectus of the Hartwell Variable Star Atlas, with six Speci-

men Proofs.......

36

Professor B. PIERCE on the Physical Constitution of Comets.......

Professor B. PIERCE on the Motion of a Pendulum in a Vertical Plane when

the point of suspension moves uniformly on a circumference in the same

Plane

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METEOROLOGY.

Mr. JOHN BALL on a Plan for Systematic Observations of Temperature in

Mountain Countries.........

Mr. W. R. BIRT on Atmospheric Waves .......

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M. DU BOULAY's Observations on the Meteorological Phenomena of the Vernal

Equinoctial Week

Mr. R. DOWDEN on the Effect of a Rapid Current of Air

Admiral FITZROY on British Storms, illustrated with Diagrams and Charts.... 39

Mr. J. PARK HARRISON on the Similarity of the Lunar Curves of Minimum
Temperature at Greenwich and Utrecht in the Year 1859........

Professor HENNESSY on the Principles of Meteorology....

Captain MAURY on Antarctic Expeditions ...........

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ on the Climates of the Antarctic Regions, as indicated by Ob-

servations upon the Height of the Barometer and Direction of the Winds at

Sea...

Rev. HENRY MOSELEY on the Cause of the Descent of Glaciers..................

Rev. T. RANKIN on Meteorological Observations for 1859, made at Huggate,

Yorkshire, East Riding ......

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M. R. DE SCHLAGINTWEIT on Thermo-barometers, compared with Barometers

at great Heights...

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52

Captain W. PARKER SNOW on Practical Experience of the Law of Storms in

each Quarter of the Globe....... .......

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Mr. G. J. SYMONS's Results of an Investigation into the Phenomena of English

Thunder-storms during the years 1857-59.......

Professor WILLIAM THOMSON'S Notes on Atmospheric Electricity ........

52

53

M. VERDET'S Note on the Dispersion of the Planes of Polarization of the

Coloured Rays produced by the Action of Magnetism*

54

Mr. E. VIVIAN's Results of Self-registering Hygrometers........

55

Rev. A. WELD's Results of Ten Years' Meteorological Observations at Stony-

hurst

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GENERAL PHYSICS.

Mr. J. S. STUART GLENNIE, Physics as a Branch of the Science of Motion... 56

a General Law of Rotation applied to the Planets 58

SOUND.

Rev. S. EARNSHAW on the Velocity of the Sound of Thunder.......

58

on the Triplicity of Sound.....

58

INSTRUMENTS.

Mr. PATRICK ADIE'S Description of an Instrument for Measuring Actual

Distances

* This should have been placed in an earlier division.

59

Mr. PATRICK ADIE's Description of a New Reflecting Instrument for Angular

Measurement...

M. E. BECQUEREL on a Pile with Sulphate of Lead.........

The Hon. W. BLAND on an Atmotic Ship..............

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Rev. J. BOOTH on an Improved Instrument for describing Spirals, invented by

Henry Johnson

Mr. A. CLAUDET on the Means of increasing the Angle of Binocular Instru-

ments, in order to obtain a Stereoscopic Effect in proportion to their Mag-

nifying Power....

on the Principles of the Solar Camera.......

Mr. HENRY DRAPER on a Reflecting Telescope for Celestial Photography,

erecting at Hastings, near New York

Mr. W. LADD on an Improved Form of Air-Pump for Philosophical Experi-

ments ........

Mr. JOHN SMITH on the Chromoscope

CHEMISTRY.

Professor ANDREWS on Ozone

Dr. BIRD on the Deodorization of Sewage........

Professor B. C. BRODIE on the Quantitative Estimation of the Peroxide of

Hydrogen

Mr. G. B. BUCKTON on some Reactions of Zinc-Ethyl ....

Mr. J. J. COLEMAN's Note on the Destruction of the Bitter Principle of Chy-

raitta by the Agency of Caustic Alkali........................................

on some remarkable Relations existing between the

Atomic Weights, Atomic Volumes, and Properties of the Chemical Elements

Dr. FRANKLAND and B. DUPPA on a new Organic Compound containing Boron

Dr. GLADSTONE'S Chemical Notes

Mr. W. R. GROVE on the Transmission of Electrolysis across Glass .............

Mr. A. VERNON HARCOURT on the Oxidation of Potassium and Sodium........

Mr. J. B. LAWES and Dr. J. H. GILBERT on the Composition of the Ash of

Wheat grown under various circumstances

Professor W. A. MILLER on the Atomic Weight of Oxygen.......

C. MORITZ VON BOSE's Remarks on the Volume Theory

Mr. WARREN DE LA RUE and Dr. Hugo MULLER on a New Acetic Ether

occurring in a Natural Resin.........................

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on the Isomers of Cumol

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Dr. LYON PLAYFAIR on the Representation of Neutral Salts on the type of a

Neutral Peroxide HO, instead of a Basic Oxide H2 O2

Professor T. H. ROWNEY on the Analysis of some Connemara Minerals

on the Composition of Jet .....

Mr. T. SCOFFERN on Waterproof and Unalterable Small-arm Cartridges........ 72

DR. HERMANN SPRENGEL on a New Form of Blowpipe for Laboratory Use... 72

Dr. THUDICHUM on Thiotherine, a Sulphuretted Product of Decomposition of

Albuminous Substances...

Professor VOELCKER on the Occurrence of Poisonous Metals in Cheese .........

Dr. W. Wallace on the Causes of Fire in Turkey-red Stoves........

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GEOLOGY.

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Baron F. ANCA's Notes on two newly discovered Ossiferous Caves in Sicily

Sir DAVID BREWSTER'S Details respecting a Nail found in Kingoodie Quarry,

1843........

Rev. P. B. BRODIE on the Stratigraphical Position of certain Species of Corals

in the Lias...............

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Mr. JOHN ALLAN BROUN on the Velocity of Earthquake Shocks in the Laterite

of India.

74

Rev. J. C. CLUTTERBUCK on the Course of the Thames from Lechlade to

Windsor, as ruled by the Geological Formations over which it passes

Professor DAUBENY's Remarks on the Elevation Theory of Volcanos

Rev. J. B. P. DENNIS on the Mode of Flight of the Pterodactyles of the Copro-

lite Bed near Cambridge

Rev. J. DINGLE on the Corrugation of Strata in the Vicinity of Mountain

Ranges....

77

Sir PHILIP DE M. GREY EGERTON's Remarks on the Ichthyolites of Farnell

Road

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on a New Form of Ichthyolite discovered

by Mr. Peach.........

78

M. A. FAVRE on Circular Chains in the Savoy Alps...........

Mr. ALPHONSE GAGES on some Transformations of Iron Pyrites in connexion

with Organic Remains

Dr. GEINITZ on Snow Crystals observed at Dresden

on the Silurian Formation in the District of Wilsdruff..............................................

Professor HARKNESS on the Metamorphic Rocks of the North of Ireland

Dr. HECTOR'S Notes on the Geology of Captain Palliser's Expedition in British

North America.....

Professor F. von HochstetterR's Remarks on the Geology of New Zealand,

illustrated by Geological Maps, Drawings, and Photographs......

Observations upon the Geological Fea-

tures of the Volcanic Island of St. Paul, in the South Indian Ocean, illus-
trated by a Model in Relief of the Island, made by Captain Cybulz, of the
Australian Artillery...........

Mr. E. HULL on the Six-inch Maps of the Geological Survey.

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on the Blenheim Iron Ore; and the Thickness of the Formations

below the Great Oolite at Stonesfield, Oxfordshire

81

Mr. T. STERRY HUNT's Note on some Points in Chemical Geology ...

Mr. J. BEETE JUKES on the Igneous Rocks interstratified with the Carbonife-

rous Limestones of the Basin of Limerick.........

Mr. J. A. KNIPE on the Tynedale Coal-field and the Whin-sill of Cumberland

and Northumberland................

86

Dr. W. LAUDER LINDSAY on the Eruption in May 1860, of the Kötlŭgjá Vol-

cano in Iceland..................

86

Rev. W. LISTER on some Reptilian Foot-prints from the New Red Sandstone,

north of Wolverhampton.....

87

Rev. W. MITCHELL and Professor TENNANT on the Koh-i-Noor previous to

its Cutting.......

87

Mr. C. MOORE on the Contents of Three Square Yards of Triassic Drift ........

Mr. WILLIAM MOLYNEUX's Remarks on Fossil Fish from the North Stafford-

shire Coal Fields.........

Mr. J. POWRIE's Notice of a Fossiliferous Deposit near Farnell, in Forfarshire,

N.B..............

Professor PHILLIPS on the Geology of the Vicinity of Oxford ...............

Mr. JOSEPH PRESTWICH On Some New Facts in relation to the Section of the
Cliff at Mundesley, Norfolk.

Mr. J. PRICE on Slickensides.........

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Mr. WILLIAM PENGELLY on the Chronological and Geographical Distribution
of the Devonian Fossils of Devon and Cornwall

Professor H. D. ROGERS on some Phenomena of Metamorphism in Coal in the

United States....

Rev. Professor SEDGWICK on the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Cambridge

and the Fossils of the Upper Greensand ...

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Rev. GILBERT N. SMITH on three undescribed Bone-Caves near Tenby, Pem-

brokeshire.......

Rev. W. S. SYMONDS on the Selection of a Peculiar Geological Habitat by

some of the rarer British Plants .........

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102

Rev. H. B. TRISTRAM on the Geological System of the Central Sahara of

Algeria........

102

Mr. J. F. WHITEAVES on the Invertebrate Fauna of the Lower Oolites of

Oxfordshire

.... 104

Captain WOODALL on the Intermittent Springs of the Chalk and Oolite of the

Neighbourhood of Scarborough...............................

108

Mr. THOMAS WRIGHT on the Avicula contorta Beds and Lower Lias in the

South of England.................

108

BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY, INCLUDING PHYSIOLOGY.

GENERAL.

Mr. PHILIP P. CARPENTER on the Progress of Natural Science in the United

States and Canada......

109

Professor DAUBENY's Remarks on the Final Causes of the Sexuality of Plants,

with particular reference to Mr. Darwin's Work On the Origin of Species

by Natural Selection'

109

Rev. Professor HENSLOW on the supposed Germination of Mummy Wheat..... 110

Mr. JOHN HOGG on the Distinctions of a Plant and an Animal, and on a Fourth

Kingdom of Nature.........

111

Mr. M. T. MASTERS on the Normal and Abnormal Variations from an assumed

Type in Plants..........

112

Dr. G. OGILVIE on the Structure of Fern Stems

....... 112

ZOOLOGY.

Mr. FRANK T. BUCKLAND on the Acclimatization of Animals, Birds, &c., in

the United Kingdom

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