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CLAYDEN (A. W.) on the application of
photography to the elucidation of
meteorological phenomena, 143.
CLELAND (Prof. J.) on anthropometric
work in schools, 439.

Climatological and hydrographical con-
ditions of Tropical Africa, third report
on the, 348.
CLOWES (Prof. F.) on the electrolytic
methods of quantitative analysis, 160.

on the proportions of carbonic acid
in the air which are extinctive of flame,
and which are irrespirable, 605.
Coal formation, the chemistry of, J. W.
Thomas on, 611.

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the proximate chemical constituents
of, report on, 246.

Coal-measures under the newer rocks of
Oxfordshire and the adjoining counties,
the probable range of the, Prof. W.
Boyd Dawkins on, 646.
Coal-mining industry, the relation be-
tween wages and the numbers employed
in the, R. H. Hooker on, 737.
COBBETT (Louis) and Dr. W. S. MEL-
SOME on local immunity, 807.
Cochlea, Prof. J. G. McKendrick on a
model of, 793.

COHEN (Dr. J. B) on the constitution of
the acid amides, 625.

and G. APPLEYARD, popular method
for the estimation of carbon dioxide in
the air, 619.

COLEMAN (J. B.) on the electrolytic

methods of quantitatire analysis, 160.
*COLLINGE (W. E.) on the structure of the
integument of Polyodon, 683.

on the vertebræ of Amphisile, 683.
on the relations of the cranial
nerves to the sensory canal system of
fishes, 698.

*Colouring matters, some new, Dr. H.
Caro on, 623.

Complexional differences between natives

of Ireland with indigenous and exotic
surnames respectively, Dr. John Bed-
doe on, 775.

Compounds and mixtures, the distinction

between, P. J. Hartog on, 618.
Conic, to find a, with respect to which
two given conics shall be reciprocal
polars, a complete solution of the
problem, by J. W. Russell, 578.
*Consonant and vowel sounds, Prof. D.
L. Hermann on, 806.
Co-operation in agriculture,

Moore on, 736.

Harold

COOTE (A. H.) and Prof. W. R. HODGKIN-
SON on fluorene diacetate, 629.
COPELAND (Prof. R.) on meteorological
observations on Ben Nevis, 108

on earth tremors, 145; on the bifilar
pendulum at the Royal Observatory,
Edinburgh, 158.

*Coral reef, interim report on the inres-
tigation of a, 665.

CORDEAUX (J.) on the legislative protec-
tion of wild birds' eggs, 347.

on making a digest of the observations
on the migration of birds, 348.
CORNU (Prof. A.), a lecture-room experi
ment to illustrate Fresnel's diffraction
theory and Babinet's principle, 480.
Corona of April 1893, some photometric
measures of the, Prof. H. H. Turner
on, 568.

Corresponding Societies Committee:—
Report, 19.

Conference at Nottingham, 20.
Conference at Oxford, 28.

List of corresponding societies, 42.
Papers published by local societies, 45.
COZENS-HARDY (W. H.) on Montenegro,

711.

*Craniometer, a new, Gen. Pitt-Rivers
on, 784.

*Crete, Central and Eastern, exhibition
of prehistoric objects collected during
a journey and explorations in, by
Arthur J. Evans, 777.

and the Peloponnese, a new system
of hieroglyphics and a præ-Phoenician
script from, Arthur J. Evans on, 776.
Crustacea, decapod, the later stages in the
development of, E. J. Allen on, 345.
Crystals, a new method of measuring,
and its application to the measure-
ment of the octahedron angle of potash
alum and ammonia alum, H. A. Miers
on, 654.

Culture, history of, the diffusion of my-
thical beliefs as evidence in the, Dr. E.
B. Tylor on, 774.
CULVERWELL (E. P.) on the inadequacy
of the astronomical theory of ice ages
and genial ages, 660.
CUNNINGHAM (Lieut.-Col. Allan) on
Mersenne's numbers, 563.

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end games at chess, 564.

(Prof. D. J.) on an ethnographical
survey of the United Kingdom, 419.

on the ethnographical survey of
Ireland, 429.

(Prof. W.) on the methods of economic
training in this and other countries, 365.
*Cycads, the geological history of, A. C.
Seward on, 698.

*Cystocarp in Polisiphonia nigrescens, the
development of the, H. Phillips on, 684.

Daghestan, the Lex Barbarorum of the,
Prof. Maxime Kovalevsky on, 785.
*DARBISHIRE (B. V.) on a new repre-
sentation of the vertical relief of the
British Isles, 718.

DARWIN (Prof. G. H.) on earth tremors,
145.

(Horace) on earth tremors, 145;

report on the bifilar pendulum designed
by, 145.

*Darwinism, some difficulties of, Prof.
D'Arcy Thompson on, 689.

DAVEY (H.) on bore-hole wells for town
water-supply, 748.

DAVISON (C.) on earth tremors, 145.
DAWKINS (Prof. W. Boyd) on the Calf
Hole Cave, 272.

on the collection, preservation, and
systematic registration of photographs
of geological interest in the United
Kingdom, 274.

on an ethnographical survey of the
United Kingdom, 419.

on the lake village at Glastonbury,
431.

the probable range of the Coal
Measures under the newer rocks of
Oxfordshire and the adjoining counties,
646.

on the deposit of iron ore in the
boring at Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 648.
on the Permian strata of the north
of the Isle of Man, 662.

the Carboniferous limestone,
Triassic sandstone, and salt-bearing
marls of the north of the Isle of Man, 662.
DAWSON (Dr. G. M.) on the North-Western

tribes of the Dominion of Canada, 453.
DEACON (G. F.) on underground tempera-
ture, 107.

DECLE (Lionel) on the native tribes be-
tween the Zambezi and Uganda, 785.
DELEBECQUE (E.) on the bathymetrical
survey of the French lakes, 712.

DE RANCE (C. E.) on the circulation of
underground waters, 283.

DEVAS (C. S.), proposals for an agreement

on the terms 'rent' and 'interest,' 733.
DEWAR (Prof. J.) on ware-length tables
of the spectra of the elements and
compounds, 248.

DICKINSON (J.) on underground tempera-
ture, 107.

DICKSON (H. N.) on the currents of the
Faeröe-Shetland Channel and the North
Sea, 713.

Differential equations, the Abelian system
of, a method of determining all the
rational and integral algebraic integrals
of the, by W. R. Westropp Roberts, 557.
Diffraction theory, Fresnel's, and Babi-
net's principle, a lecture-room experi-
ment to illustrate, by Prof. A. Cornu,
480.

Discussions:

*On Planimeters, &c., 557, 750;
Report on planimeters, by Prof. 0.
Henrici, 496.

*On flight, 557, 750.

*On Prof. O. J. Lodge's experiments
illustrating Clerk Maxwell's theory
of light, 582, 814.

Discussions :

*On Prof. O. J. Lodge's electric theory
of vision, 582, 815.

*On the behaviour of gases with regard
to their electrification and the influ-
ence of moisture on their combina-
tion, 609;

On the connection between chemical
combination and the discharge of
electricity through gases, by Prof.
J. J. Thomson, 482.

On the electrification of molecules
and chemical change, by H. Brere-
ton Baker, 493.

*On the plateau gravels, &c., north of
Kent, 651, 776;

(a) On the geology of the plateau
implements in Kent, by Prof. T.
Rupert Jones, 651.

(b) On the age of the plateau beds,
by W. Whitaker, 652.

DIXEY (Dr. F. A.) on the relation of
mimetic characters to the original form,
692.

on the epidermis of the plantar sur-
face and the question of use-inherit-
ance, 698.
DIXON (Prof. H. B.), Address to the
Chemical Section by, 594.
DONKIN (Bryan) on the most economical
temperature for steam-engine cylin-
ders; or, hot v. cold walls, 755.
DRESSER (H. E.) on the legislative pro-
tection of wild birds' eggs, 347.
Dryness of steam in boiler trials, report
on methods of determining, 392.
DUBOIS (Prof. Raphael) on the produc-
tion of heat in hibernating animals,

812.

Dyed colours, the action of light upon,
report on, 238.

Dynamics, a general theorem in, Sir R.
Ball on, 561.

Earth, the displacements of the rotational
axis of the, Prof. W. Förster on, 476.

tremors, report on, 145; Mr. H.
Darwin's bifilar pendulum, ib.; the
Greek earthquake pulsations of April,
1894, 146.
Appendix:

1. Account of observations made with
the horizontal pendulum at Nicolaiew,
by Prof. S. Kortazzi, 155.

II. On the bifilar pendulum at the
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, by
Prof. R. Copeland, 158.

Earthquake pulsations, the Greek, of
April 1894, 146.

Earthquakes, the cause of, Prof. J. Logan
Lobley on, 649.

Economic Science and Statistics, Address
to the Section of, by Prof. C. F. Bas-
table, 719.

Economic training, the methods of, in this
and other countries, report on, 365.
Appendix:

1. On the methods of economic training
adopted in foreign countries, by Proj.
E. C. K. Gonner, 366.

II. On economic studies in France, by
H. Higgs, 384.

III. On the condition of economic studies
in the United Kingdom, by Prof.
E. C. K. Gonner, 387.
Economics, the popular attitude towards,
Rev. L. R. Phelps on, 738.

EDGEWORTH (Prof. F. Y.) on the methods
of economic training in this and other
countries, 365.

the asymmetric probability curve,
562.

on the mathematical theory of in-
ternational trade, 729.

Eggs of wild birds, the legislative protec-
tion of, report on, 347.
Elasticity, the modulus of, the variation

of, with change of temperature as deter-
mined by the transverse vibration of
bars at various temperatures, A. M.
Mayer on, 573.

Elbolton, the cave at, report of the Com-

mittee appointed to investigate, in order
to ascertain whether the remains of
Paleolithic man occur in the lower care
earth, 270.

*Electrical conductivity of copper, the
specific, J. Teichmüller on, 592.

conductivity of soap-films, the
effects of gases on, H. Stansfield on,
569.

Congress at Chicago, 1893, report of
the American delegates at the, 119.

measurements, experiments for im
proving the construction of practical
standards for, report on, 117.
Appendix:

I. Report of the action of the Interna-
tional Electrical Congress held in
Chicago, August 1893, in the matter
of units of electrical measure,
119.
II. On a determination of the Interna-
tional Ohm in absolute measure, by
Prof. J. V. Jones, 123.

III. Comparison of the standard coils

used by Professor Jones with the
standards of the Association, by R. T.
Glazebrook, 128.

IV. Comparison of certain Ohm-stan-
dards of the Board of Trade, by J.
Rennie, 130.

V. Table showing values of five standard
coils B.A. units belonging to the
Indian Government as compared with
Dr. Muirhead's standard at his la-
boratory, by E. O. Walker, 131.
VI. On the specific resistance of copper

and of silver, by Rev. T. C. Fitz
patrick, 131.

VII. Final report of the Electrical
Standards Committee of the Board
of Trade, 136.

Order in Council, 137.
Specifications:

A.-The silver voltameter, 138.
B.-On the preparation of the Clark

cell, by R. T. Glazebrook, 141
*Electrical resistance, low, Prof. J. V.
Jones on standards of, 592.

*

standard coils used by Prof. V. Jones,
comparison of the, with those of the As-
sociation, by R. T. Glazebrook, 128.

Standards Committee of the Board
of Trade, final report of the, and Order
in Council, 136.

theory of vision, Prof. O. J. Lodge
on an, 582.

Electricity, the discharge of, through gases,

the connection between chemical combi-
nation and, Prof. J. J. Thomson on,
482.

at high voltage, continuous current
distribution of, at Oxford, Thomas
Parker on, 756.
Electrification of air, experiments to find
if subtraction of water produces, Lord
Kelvin, M. Maclean, and A. Galt on,
554.

of molecules, and chemical change,
H. Brereton Baker on the, 493.
*Electrolysis of glass, Prof. W. C. Roberts.
Austen on the, 615.

The velocity of the hydrogen ion
through solutions of acetates, W. C. D.
Whetham on, 569.

Electrolytic methods of quantitative ana-
lysis, report on the, 160.

ELLIOTT (Prof. E. B.), formulæ for linear
substitution, 581.

*ENGELMANN (Prof. T. W. W.) on a new
spring kymograph and polyrheotome,

818.

Engineering laboratory instruments and
their calibration, Prof. D. S. Capper on,
759.

Engines, the 'hunting' of governed,
James Swinburne on, 758.

Epidermis of the plantar surface, and
the question of use-inheritance, Dr. F.
A. Dixey on the, 698.

Epithelial changes produced by irrita-
tion, D'Arcy Power on, 806.
*Erratic blocks, report on, 659.
*ERRERA (Prof. L.), exhibition of botani-
cal diagrams, 696.

Ethnographical survey of the United
Kingdom, second report on an, 419.
Appendix: I. Form of schedule, 426.
II. Directions for measurement, 428.
III. The ethnographical survey of Ire-
land, 429.

Euphrates, the valley of the, D. G.
Hogarth on a recent journey in, 711.
Eurypterid-bearing deposits of the Pent-
land Hills, second report on the, 302.
EVANS (Arthur J.) on an ethnographical
survey of the United Kingdom, 419.

on a new system of hieroglyphics
and a præ-Phoenician script from Crete
and the Peloponnese, 776.

--, exhibition of prehistoric objects
collected during a journey and explora-
tions in Central and Eastern Crete,
777.

(F. G.) on the prehistoric and ancient
remains of Glamorganshire, 418.

(Sir John) on the work of the
Corresponding Societies Committee, 19.
on earth tremors, 145.

on the care at Elbolton, 270.

on the lake village at Glastonbury,
431.

Evaporation of salt solutions, certain
phenomena occurring during the, Dr.
W. Meyerhoffer on, 628.
EVERETT (Prof. J. D.) on underground
temperature, 107.

117.

on practical electrical standards,

on a linkage for the automatic
description of regular polygons, 559.
on spring spokes for bicycles, 760.
Evolution, the rôle of sex in, Prof. J. B.
Haycraft on, 691.

and social insects, Prof. C. V. Riley
on, 689.

of stone implements, H. Stopes on
the, 776.

EWAN (Dr. T.) or the rate of oxidation
of phosphorus, sulphur, and aldehyde,
609.

EWART (Prof. J. Cossar) on the occupa-

tion of a table at the zoological station
at Naples, 335.

EWING (Dr. A. R.) and Dr. G. G. HEN-
DERSON on the tartrarsenites, 624.

(Prof. J. A.) on earth tremors, 145.
on an apparatus for measuring
small strains, 574.
Eyesight. Correction of optical instru-

ments for individual eyes, Dr. Tempest
Anderson on the, 586.

Faeröe-Shetland Channel and the North
Sea, the currents of the, H. N. Dickson
on, 713.

Fats of the liver, D. Noel Paton on the,
804.

FEILDEN (Col. H. W.) on current polar
exploration, 711.

Fertilisation of the female, influence of
previous, on her subsequent offspring,
and the effect of maternal impressions
during pregnancy on the offspring,
interim report on the, 346.

FIDLER (Prof. T. C.) on the strength and
plastic extensibility of iron and steel,

750.

Fijians, the pantheon of the, Basil H.
Thomson on, 786.

Fish-hatching, marine, and the Dunbar
establishment of the Fishery Board
for Scotland, Prof. W. C. McIntosh on,
688.

FISHER (Prof. I.), mechanics of bimetal-
lism, 729.

Fishery Board for Scotland, the Dunbar
establishment of the, Prof. W. C.
McIntosh on marine fish-hatching and
the, 688.

Fishes, cartilaginous, the 'reduction
division' in the, J. E. S. Moore on, 338.

the relations of the cranial nerves
to the sensory canal system of, W. E.
Collinge on, 698.

FISON (Rev. Lorimer) on the classifica-
tory system of relationship, 788.
FITZGERALD (Prof. G. F.) on practical

electrical standards, 117.

FITZMAURICE (M.) on tunnel construc-
tion by means of shield and compressed
air, with special reference to the tun-
nel under the Thames at Blackwall,
751.
FITZPATRICK (Rev. T. C.) on practical
electrical standards, 117.

on the specific resistance of copper
and of silver, 131.
FLEMING (Dr. J. A.) on practical elec-
trical standards, 117.

FLETCHER (A. E.) on the electrolytic
methods of quantitative analysis, 160.

(L.), Address to the Geological
Section by, 631.

*Flight, discussion on, 557.
FLOWER (Sir W. H.) on the compilation
of an index generum et specierum ani-
malium, 347.

on the work of the anthropometric
laboratory at the Nottingham meeting,
444.

Address to the Anthropological
Section by, 762.

*Flowers, the interiors of, a method of
taking casts of, Miss N. F. Layard on,
696.

| *Fluids, the resistance experienced by
solids moving through, Lord Kelvin
on, 557.
Fluorene diacetate, Prof. W. R. Hodg-
kinson and A. H. Coote on, 629.
FLUX (A. W.), a few remarks on fifty
years' accounts of the Bank of England,
734.

FOOTE (R. B.) on prehistoric man in the

old alluvium of the Sabarmati River in
Gujarat, Western India, 664.
FORBES (G.) on practical electrical
standards, 117.

FORBES (H. O.) on making geographical,
meteorological, and natural history
observations in South Georgia or other
Antarctic island, 358.

'Force,' how the misuse of the word in
attractions, electricity, and magnetism
may be avoided without much de-
parture from existing practice, by Dr.
G. J. Stoney, 586.

FÖRSTER (Prof. W.) on the displacements
of the rotational axis of the earth, 476.
FOSTER (Dr. C. Le Neve) on underground
temperature, 107.

(Prof. G. C.) on practical electrical
standards, 117.

(Prof. M.) on the occupation of a
table at the zoological station at Naples,

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FRASER (James) on the character of the

high-level shell-bearing deposits at Clava,
Chapelhall, and other localities, 307.
FREDERICO (Prof. Léon) on an aerotono-
meter and a gas-burette, 807.
Freezing-point of aqueous solutions which
freeze at temperatures just below 0°
C., Dr. M. Wildemann on P. B. Lewis'
method for accurately determining
the, 567.

Fresnel's diffraction theory and Babinet's
principle, a lecture-room experiment to
illustrate, by Prof. A. Cornu, 480.
Fuchsian functions, Prof. Mittag-Leffler
on, 577.

Fuegian, a young, the brain of, Prof. L.

Manouvrier on, 787.

GALLOWAY (W.) on underground tem-
perature, 107.

GALT (A.) and Lord KELVIN, preliminary
experiments for comparing the dis-
charge of a Leyden jar through differ-
ent branches of a divided channel, 555
-, Lord KELVIN, and M. MACLEAN,
preliminary experiments to find if sub-
traction of water from air electrifies
it, 554.
GALTON (Francis) on the work of the
Corresponding Societies Committee, 19.

on an ethnographical survey of the
United Kingdom, 419.

GALTON (Sir Douglas) on the work of the
Corresponding Societies Committee, 19.
on the circulation of underground
waters, 283.

on the physical deviations from the
normal among children in schools, 434.
Galvanometers, delicate, Prof. A. Schuster
on the construction of, 572.

*GARDNER (J. A.) and J. E. MARSH on
some derivatives of camphene, 629.
GARSON (Dr. J. G.) on the work of the
Corresponding Societies Committee, 19.
on the cave at Elbolton, 270.
on the exploration of Hadramont,
in Southern Arabia, 354.

on the prehistoric and ancient
remains in Glamorganshire, 418.

on an ethnographical survey of the
United Kingdom, 419.

on the physical deviations from the
normal among children in schools, 434.
on anthropometric work in schools,

439.

on the work of the anthropometric
laboratory at the Nottingham meeting,
444.

on the long barrow skeletons from
Rushmore, 784.

*GARSTANG (W.) on the ancestry of the
Chordata, 683.

GARWOOD (E. J.) on the collection, pre-
servation, and systematic registration
of photographs of geological interest in
the United Kingdom, 274.

Gas-burette and an aerotonometer, Prof.
Léon Fredericq on a, 807.

Gases, polyatomic, the application of the
determinantal relation to the kinetic
theory of, Prof. L. Boltzmann on,

102.

GAULE (Prof. Justus) on trophic changes
in the nervous system, 794.
GEIKIE (Sir A.) on underground tem-
perature, 107.

on the traces of two rivers belong-
ing to Tertiary time in the Inner
Hebrides, 652.

(Prof. J.) on the collection, pre-
servation, and systematic registration
of photographs of geological interest in
the United Kingdom, 274.
Geographical, meteorological, and natural
history observations in South Georgia
or other Antarctic island, report of the
Committee for making, 358.

- photography, John Thomson on, 714.
Section, Address by Capt. W. J. L.
Wharton to the, 699.
Geography of Lower Nubia, S. Clarke on
the, 718.

*Geological classification and nomencla-
ture, the current method of, with pro-
posals for its revision, Sir H. Howorth
on, 663.

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