RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, PRINTERS
Action of very Minute Particles on Light, J. Spear Parker, 481 Adenine, Dr. Kossel on, 380
Aerostat (L'), Dirigible de Meudon, W. de Fonvielle (see also Balloons), 109
Afghan Boundary Commission, 158
Afghan, North, Border Tribes, Prof. A. H. Keane, 220 Afghanistan, Geology of, 281
Africa: African Natural History Museum at Brussels, 17; Capt. Becker's African Expedition, 19; Lieut. Delizie's Ex- pedition, 66; Boundaries of French North-West Africa, Faidherbe, 90; the People of Eastern Equatorial, H. H. Johnston, 379; Proposed German Expeditions to Central, 516; Return of the Austrian African Expedition, 613; on the Foundation of European Colonies in, L. Paladini, 613; the Stone Bridge over the River Temcha, Count Augusto Salimbeni, 613; Recent Acquisitions of Spain in West Africa, 614
After-Glow, Solar Corona and, Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 192
Agassiz (Alexander), Resignation of his Fellowship of Harvard College, 393
Agrarian Meteorology, Prof. G. Cantoni, 618
Agriculture: Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 137; Agricultural Education, 137; on the Higher Teaching of Agriculture, Rev. J. B. McClellan, 167; Lectures on Agri- cultural Science, 407
Air-Breathers, Ancient, Ben. N. Peach, 295
Air-Currents, the Generation of Whirling. Dr. Boernstein, 284 Aitken (John), Pupil of the Eyes during Emotion, 553
American Geology, 256; American Journal of Archaeology, 279; Marine Biology in America, 395; New American Clock, 438; Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 455; "American Naturalists," 448; Education in America, 467; Lobster Fishery in, 467; Report of American Museum of Natural History, 563 America, South, Thouar's New Expedition to, 66, 323 Amezaga's (Commodore de) Collection, 64 Amsterdam Geographical Society, 159 Amu-Darya, the Basin of the, 590
Anciennes Mers, les Organismes problématiques des, Marquis de Saporta, 386
Ancient Air-Breathers, Ben. N. Peach, 295 Ancient Chinese Geography, 58
Ancients, the Use of Artificial Teeth by the, 578 Andalusia, the Earthquakes in, 277; M. Noguès on, 417 Anderson (J. G. S.), Earthquake, 316
Anemometer Readings, Kite-Wire Suspended, E. Douglas Archi- bald, 600
Angelus on the "Messenger of Mathematics," 172 Animals, Arctic, Colours of, R. Meldola, 505 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 569 Annam and Tonquin, Mineral Wealth of, 181 Annisquam Marine Laboratory, 395
Ants' Ñests, Birds Breeding in, Wm. Davison, 438 Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, Prof. M. Foster, 479
Antedon rosaceus, Pentacrinoid Stage of, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 27 Anthropological Institute, 95, 186, 306, 330, 379, 427, 474, 498, 595 Anthropological Notices, Leyden, 396 Anthropometric Measurements, Cost of, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 150
Antwerp International Exhibition, 107
Anthropometric Per-Centiles, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 223 Anti-Cyclones and Cyclones, H. Hildebrandsson, 75
Alabama, Meteorology in, 180
Antiquities, Malayan, Prof. A. H. Keane, 478
Alaska, Exploration of, 443
Alhama, Earthquake at, 322
Albrecht (Prof.), the Swimming-bladder in Fish, 380
Apospory in Ferns, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 151, 216 Application of Science, New, 154
15, 612; Ancient Occultations of, 539
Aldebaran : Occultations of, 181, 322; on March 21, 442; May Arago, Centenary of the Birth of, Proposal to Celebrate the,
Algiers, Earthquake at, 322, 396
Allen (Rev. F. A.), Polynesian Antiquities, 18
Algol, Minima of, 91
Amat (Dr.), the Beni M'Zab, 256
America: Academy of Natural Sciences: Meeting at Newport, 16; on the Denudation of the Two Americas, T. M. Reade, 17; American Journal of Science, 41, 46, 94, 256, 422, 521; Meteorology in America, 91, 394; American Summer Zoo- logical Stations, Ralph S. Tarr, 174; American Storm Warnings, 197; American Journal of Mathematics, 189; American Entomology, Lieut. Casey on 'Stenini," 250;
Archæology of Tunis, the, 203
Archæology, Proposed British School of, at Athens, 320 Archer (Thos. C.), Death of, 394
Archibald (Prof. E. Douglas), an Account of some Preliminary Experiments with Biram's Anemometers Attached to Kite Strings and Wires, 66; an Error in Ganot's Physics, 361, 505; Kite-Wire Suspended Anemometer Readings, 600 Architecture, Bird, Chas. Dixon, 533 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 41 Arctic Animals, Colours of, R. Meldola, 505; Alfred K. Wallace, 552
Arctic Exploration, Lieut. Greely upon Future, 350 Argentine Expedition to the Chaco, 229, 300 Argentine Institute of Geography, 159
Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.), How Thought Presents Itself among the Phenomena of Nature, 433
Armstrong (H. E., F.R.S.), Natural Science in Schools, 19 Aronsohn (Herr), Discovery of a Thermal Centre in the Cere- brum, 48
Artificial Teeth, the Use of, by the Ancients, 578 Asia, Central, Beliaffsky's Explorations in, 251 Asiatic Society of Japan, 587
Association of Assistant Mistresses, 279
Astronomy Astronomical Column, 18, 65, 91, 137, 158, 181, 228, 251, 280, 322, 370, 396, 419, 442, 468, 515, 539, 588, 612; Telescopes for Astronomical Photography, A. Ainslie Common, 38, 270; Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 265, 301, 323, 351, 370, 396, 420, 443, 468, 493, 515, 540, 565, 589, 612; Views of Hindu Astronomers on Form and Attraction of Earth, 298; the Warner Astronomical Prizes, 321; Liverpool Astronomical Society, 321; Early Astro- nomical Expeditions to the Cape, 370; Proposal to Extend the Decimal System to Astronomical Distances and Time, 441 Athens, Proposed British School of Archæology at, 320 Atlantic, the Meteorology of the, 501
Atmospheric Absorption, S. P. Langley, 46
Atmospheric Influences, Effect of, in Varying the Distance at which Lights are Visible, 490
Atomic Weights, Variations of the, E. Vogel, 42
Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 258
Attraction, Exercises in Calculating, Prof. Lampe, 211
Attraction (Solids of), Note on Calculations respecting, Prof. Lampe, 260
Aurora, E. Brown, 458
Aurora Borealis, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 128
Aurora at Christiania, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 479
Aurora, the Recent, Willoughby Smith, 506
Author's Gratitude, an, Dr. Richard Wormell, 409 Autumn Flowering, J. J. Murphy, 54
Autumnal Foliage, the Fall of, A. T. Fraser, 388; Rev. Geo. Henslow, 434; Rev. A. Irving, 482 Autumnal Tints of Foliage, H. C. Sorby, 105
Austen, Godwin- (Robert A. C., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of,
Australia: Proposed Australasian Association, Prof. Liversidge, 40; Prof. Sars' Experiments with Australian Lake-Mud, 64; Marriage Customs among Australian Aborigines, Sir John Lubbock, 186; Notes on the Aborigines of, 205; Proposed Canoe Voyage on Australian Rivers, 205; Wragge's New Meteorological Observatory, 227; the Geographical Society of Australasia, 443; Lendenfeld's Survey of the Australian Alps, 469; Australian Fossil Chilostomatous bryozoa, 475; Baron von Müller on Australian Plants, 587; New Meteoro- logical Station in South, 64; Earthquake in Western, 396 Austria: Earthquake in, 17; Return of African Expedition, 613; Services rendered by the Austrian Navy to Geographical Science, Herr von Haardt, 18
Austro-Hungarian Geography, Umlauft's, 183
Avé-Lallemant (Dr. R.), Obituary Notice of, 229 Aymonier's Explorations in Indo China, 183
Bacillus, the Cholera, 97
Backhaus (Capt. E.). Earthquake experienced at Sea, 348 Backhouse (Jas.), Bos primigenius, 482
Backhouse (T. W.), Sky-Glows, 28; Iridescent Clouds, 192, 360 Bacteriology, 49
Bagnall (J. E.), Elected Associate of Linnean Society, 321 Bailey (G. H.), Science Teaching in Schools, 338
Bailey (W. H.), on the Reign of Law in relation to Engineering Work, 250
Baily's (Waller) Instrument for showing Equilibrium of Three Forces acting at a Point, 329
Balbi (Prof. Eugenio), Death of, 17, 159
Balfour (Dr. Bayley), Chair of Botany at the University of Glasgow resigned by, 441
Balloons Third Trip of the Meudon Balloon, 41; “L'Aërostat Dirigible de Meudon," W. de Fonvielle, 109; Honours con- ferred on the Officers of the Meudon Steering Balloon, 157; Balloons in the Soudan Campaign, 368; Ballooning in America, 394; Ballooning and Electricity, 467; Photography from Captive Balloon in Paris, 564
Barry (A. de), Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetable Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns," 213
Basalt-Fields of New Mexico, Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 88; C. E. Dutton, 88
Batson (Alf.), Earthquake in Spain, 200 Batteries, New Primary, 203
Battery, Jablochkoff's New, 203 Becker's (Capt.) African Expedition, 19
Bee, Reproductive Organs in the, Cheshire, 209 Bee, the Honey-, W. H. Harris, I Bees and Flowers, G. W. Bulman, 409 Bees as Storm-Warners, 587
Bee-Keeping in India, I
Beetles, Lieut. Casey on Stenini," 250
Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, Annual Report of the, 418 Belgian Telephonic Service, 90
Belgique Horticole," 328, 423
Beliaffsky's Explorations in Central Asia, 251
Bell (Alex. Graham), Hereditary Deafness, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 269
Bell (Prof. F. Jeffrey), Forbes Memorial, 103 Bemrose (H. Arnold), Tracing-Paper Screen, 409
Ben Nevis, Ascent of, by Rev. John M'Kintosh and Colin Livingstone, 490
Ben Nevis, on the Formation of Snow Crystals from Fog on, R. T. Omond, 532
Beni M'Zab, the, Dr. Amat, 256
Bentham (George), Will of, 249
Bentley (Robert), Student's Guide to Systematic Botany, 51 Bergh (Dr.), on the Nudibranchs and Onchidia of the Challenger Expedition, 165
Berkeley Research Fellowship, 155
Berlin: Academy of Sciences, Prize for Leibnitz Anniversary, 277; Geographical Society of, 516, 590; Meteorological Society of, 120, 284, 331; Physical Society of, 96, 211, 260, 308, 356, 475; Physiological Society of, 48, 187, 212, 259, 380, 404, 452, 547, 619
Bernburg, Opening of Prehistoric Tombs near, 64 Berry (Geo. A.), Čivilisation and Eyesight, 386 Berzelius and Wöhler, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 196 Bhamo, the Destruction of, 205
Binary Star a Centauri, 158
Biological Association, Marine, 63, 89 Biology, Marine, in America, 395
Biram's Anemometers, an Account of some Preliminary Ex- periments with, attached to Kite-Strings or Wires, Prof. E. Douglas Archibald, 66
Bird Architecture, Chas. Dixon, 533
Birdkilling Plants: the Pisonias, R. H. Govett, 23
Bird, New, in Natal, Rev. James Turnbull, 554
Bird's Nest, Edible, Jos. R. Green, 126
Bird's-Nest Soup, E. S. Layard, 82; Mr. Pryer on, 562 Birds Breeding in Ants' Nests, Wm. Davison, 438 Bishop (S. E.), Krakatoa, 288
Bixby's (H. L.), New System of Weather Warnings, 441 Black River Tribes in Tonquin, 300
Blackness of Tropical Man, A. T. Fraser, 6
Blanford (Henry F., F.R.S.), Solar Corona and After-Glow,
Blood-Pressure in Capillary Vessels, Prof. Du Bois-Reymond's Method of Determining, 212
Blood-Vessels of the Test in the Tunicata, Evolution of the, W. A. Herdman, 247
Blue Rays, a Method of Isolating, for Optical Work, H. G. Madan, 263
Blumentritt (F.), Account of the Negrito Tribes in Luzon, 18 Bodinus (Dr. Heinrich), Death of, 156
Boeddicker (Otto), a Large Meteor, 194; on the Aspect of Mars in 1884, 210
Boernstein (Dr.), the Generation of Whirling Air-Currents, 284
Bois-Reymond (Prof. Du), Method of Determining Blood- Pressure in Capillary Vessels, 212
Boletin de la Institucion libre de Enseñanza, Meteorological Branch of the Observatory attached to, 349 Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, 419 Bombyx mori, Morphology of, Dr. Tichomirow, 620 Bonaparte (Prince Roland), the Population of Dutch Guiana, 469
Bonavia (Dr. E.), Fly-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars, 29 Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), the Canadian Geological Survey, 265; Resignation of his Post as Secretary of the British Association, 416
Boomerang in India, Arthur Nicols, 389
Borealis, Aurora, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 128
Borneo Coal-Fields, Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, 583 "Bosnien, Land und Leute," Adolf Strausz, 192 Bos primigenius, Jas. Backhouse, 482
Boston Society of Natural History, New Arrangements of the Library, 40
Botany: Students' Guide to Systematic, Robert Bentley, 51; Journal of Botany, 70; Bower and Vines's Practical Instruc- tions in Botany, 136; Importance of Government Botanic Gardens, 155; Botanical Record Club, 369; Facilities for Botanical Research, 460; Botany of Jamaica, Mr. Morris, 538 (see also Flora)
Bottone (S. R,), the "Dynamo," how made and how used, 52 Boulders, Scotch, 395
Bourke (Capt. J. G.), Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 429
Bourne (Alfred Gibbs), Hydriform Phase of Lymnocodium Sowerbii, 107
Bove (Lieut.), Second Expedition to Terra del Fuego, 138 Bower and Vines's Practical Instruction in Botany, 136 Brakes, Continuous Automatic, 84
Bramwell (Sir F., F. R.S.), on Recent Engineering Inventions, 249; Recent Engineering Patents, 420
Brandy as a Fish Restorer, 350
Bread, on the Healthy Manufacture of, Benjamin Ward Richard- son, F.R.S., 148
Breeding of the Quadrumana, Arthur Nicols, 54
Brehm (Dr. Alfred), Death of, 64
"Brigades topographiques," Departure of Sixteen, 350
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 155
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 37; Presi- dents of Sections, 155; Visit to Canada, 249; British Association and Local Societies, 482
British Government, the Distribution of Scientific Works Pub- lished by the, 7
British Islands, Flora of the, Sir J. D. Hooker, 191
British Museum: Lectures, H. Cecil on, 298; Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, R. Lydekker, 597; Hume Collection expected at the, 610; the Staff of the Zoo- logical Department of the, 610
Brittany, Prehistoric Smithy discovered in, 136
Brock (Geo.), the Five-Bearded Rockling, 70
Brockhurst (W.), Seeding Power of Double Daffodils, 118 Brodie (Fredk. J.), Rainfall of 1884, 56
Brown (E.), the Aurora, 458
Brown J. Croumbie), Forestry in the Mining Districts of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia," 124 Brown (M. Walton), "On the Observation of Earthshakes or Tremours in order to Foretell the Issue of Sudden Outbursts of Firedamp," "A Theory of Mine Ventilation," 312 Brown (Prof. Crum), Hexagonal System of Crystallography, 546
Brown (Prof. W. G.), Sky-Glows, 5; Iridescent Clouds, 315 Brussels: African Natural History Museum, 7; the Spanish Earthquake Felt in, 249
Bryozoa, Australian Fossil Chilostomatous, A. W. Waters, 475 Buchanan (J.), Campbell Island and its Flora, 23
Buckland Museum Collection at the Inventions Exhibition, 587 Buckman (James), Death of, 89
Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Civilisation and Eyesight, 407 Budden (W.), Government Scientific Books, 81
Buddhist Theory of Evolution, J. Starkie Gardner, 55 Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 258, 422, 592 Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 423 Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 418
Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 257 Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, 118, 280
Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Belgique, 323
Buysman (Dr. M.), Influence of Direct Sunlight on Vegeta- tion, 324
Bywater (Rev. M. J.), a Cannibal Snake, 264
Cacao-Bug of Ceylon, Dr. Henry Trimen, 172 Caillaud (Romanet de), on Tonquin, 138 Caïman-Brac, Carribean Sea, Underground Noises heard at, on August 26, 1883, Dr. F. A. Forel, 483 Calculating Machines, Joseph Edmondson, 570 Calculus, Differential, for Beginners, Alex. Knox, 527 Caldwell, Ceradotus Embryos, 236
California, Discovery of Ancient Tattooing Instruments in, 299 Californian Migrants, 280
Callaway (C.), the Granitic and Schistose Rocks of Donegal, 546
Cambon (M.), Pumice from Krakatoa found in Madagascar, 611
Cambridge: Philosophical Society, 16, 403, 451, 499, 572; Natural Science at, 107; Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., appointed Rede Lecturer at, 277
Camera Obscura in Torpedo Work, 389
Cameron (A. G.), Fuller's Earth as a Filter, 389 Cameron's (W.), Map of the Malay Peninsula, 300 Campbell (John Francis), Death of, 394
Campbell Island and its Flora, J. Buchanan, 23
Canada: Visit of the British Association to, 249; Meteorology in, 250; Bell Telephone Patent Void in the Dominion of, 347; Ethnological Work included in the Geological Survey Publications of, 348; Weather in, 537; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., on the Canadian Geological Survey, 265; Canadian Salmon and Sea Water, 370
Canal Commission, Krao, 323 Cancri, Variable Star S, 419
Cannibal Snake, Rev. Edward F. Taylor, 264; Rev. M. J. Bywater, 264
Canoe Voyage (Proposed) on the Australian Rivers, 205 Cantoni (Prof. G.), Agrarian Meteorology, 618 Cape, Early Astronomical Expeditions to the, 370 Capellini (G.), a Fossil Ziphioid, 618
Capillary. Coefficients of Liquid Carbon Compounds, Schiff and Traube's Experiments on the, 204
Capillary Vessels, Blood-pressure in, Prof. Du Bois-Reymond's Method of Determining, 212
Caporali (Prof.), Psychogenesis, 64; La Nuova Scienza, 394 Capron (J. Rand), Civilisation and Eyesight, 359
Capsules, Supra Renal Effect of Removal of, Prof. G. Tizzioni, 619
Carbon Compounds (Liquid), Schiff and Traube's Experiments on the Capillary Coefficients of, 224
Carex, New Zealand Species of, T. F. Cheeseman, 23 Carnivora, Natural History Sketches among the Wild and Domesticated, Arthur Nicols, 240
Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), Pentacrinoid Stage of Antedon rosaceus, 27; Human Hibernation, 408
Carpenter (Herbert), Report on the Stalked Crinoidea collected during the Challenger Expedition, 573
Carpentry, Elementary Principles of, Thomas Tredgold, 525 Carracciolo Expedition, the, Commander de Amezaga's Collec- tion, 64
Carter (R. Brudenell), Civilisation and Eyesight, 386 Cartilage in Invertebrates, Chemical Composition of the, Dr. Halliburton, 283
Casein, Dr. Weyl on, 404
Casey (Lieut.), on Stenini, 250
Catalogue of Earthquakes, Jos. P. O'Reilly, 351
Cataracts on the Parana River, 66
Catchpool (Edmund), an Unnoticed Factor in Evolution, 4 Caterpillars: Fly Maggots Feeding on, Dr. E. Bonavia, 29; R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 54; F. W. Elliot, 54; F. N. Pierce, 82; J. H. A.Jenner, 103
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