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

44I

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

A 2

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,

104

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,

192

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

66

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

Bryn Mawr College, 255

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