Apex of the Sun's Way, Lewis Boss, 548

Aplin (O. V.), the Birds of Oxfordshire, R. Bowdler Sharpe,
169

Aquaria, the Management of, W. P. Seal, 18
Arc Light, Joseph McGrath, 154

Archæology: Interesting Remains discovered in Hamburg, 21;
Archæological Congress at Moscow, 283; Cambridge Arch.eo-
logical Museum, 324; Proposed Archeological Survey of
Ceylon, 372; Vaphio (Morea) Rock-Sepulchre, S. Reinach,
500; Archæology and Ethnology of Easter Island, Walter
Hough, 569

Arctic Ice Cap, is Greenland our, S. E. Peal, 58
Arctic (North Pole) Expedition, Dr. Nansen's Plan for, 374
Arctic Voyagers, Cause of Change of Skin-Colour in, Prof.
Holmgren, 546

Area of the Land and Depths of the Oceans in Former Periods,
T. Mellard Reade, 103

Argentina, Dr. Hermann Burmeister on the Fossil Horses and I
other Mammals of, 82

Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., and W. H.
Hudson, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 7

Argyll (the Duke of, F.R.S.): Acquired Characters and Con
genital Variation, 173, 294, 366; and the Neo-Darwinians,
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 247

Arloing (M.), Diastases Secreted by Bacillus heminecrobiophilus,

Russian Expeditions in, 352

Asia Minor, Prof. Bornmuller's Botanical Tour through, 136
Asiatic Cholera, Bacteria of, Dr. E. Klein, F. R.S., 509
Assaying, Text-book of, C. Beringer and J. J. Beringer, Thomas
Gibb, 245

Assmann (Dr.): Aspiration Thermometers, 239; Climatological
Considerations about Influenza, 325

Association for Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, 207, 282
Association of Public Sanitary Inspectors, 324
Assyrian Sculptured Group, Explanation of, Dr. E. B. Tylor,
F.R.S., 283

Asteroid, a New, 450
Asteroids, Discovery of, Dr. Palisa, 522; M. Charlois, 522
Astronomy: Our Astronomical Column, 19, 44, 68, 87, 114,

138, 163, 210, 232, 256, 285, 304, 326, 350, 374, 402, 428,
449, 472, 496, 521, 548, 571, 595; Stellar Parallax by means of
Photography, Prof. Pritchard, 19; Measurements of Double
Stars, S. W. Burnham, 19; Barnard's Comet, 1888-89, 19;
Biographical Note on J. C. Houzeau, M. A. Lancaster, 20;
Karlsruhe Observatory, 20; Objects for the Spectroscope, A.
Fowler, 20, 44, 68, 87, 114, 138, 163, 183, 210, 232, 256,
285, 304, 326, 350, 374, 402, 428, 449, 472, 496, 521, 548,
571, 595; Large Scale Charts of the Constellations, Arthur
Cottam, 45; Barnard's Comet, II. 1889, March 31, 45; the
Structure of Jupiter's Belt 3. III., Dr. Terby, 45; Hand-book
of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, G. F. Chambers,
49; Ancient Chinese Astronomical Instruments, 66; the
Minimum Sun-spot Period, M. Bruguière, 68; Return
of Brorsen's Comet, Dr. E. Lamp, 69; the Companion
of η Pegasi, 69; General Bibliography of Astronomy, 69; J.
C. Houzeau's Vade Mecum, 69; a New Comet discovered
by Lewis Swift, 69; Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 88; Palermo
Observatory, 88; Variable Star Y Cygni, 88; Paramatta |
Observatory, 88; Minor Planet, 282 (Clorinde), 88; Comet |
Davidson (e 1889), 88; New Variable Star in Hydra, 88;
Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., on Sun-spots in High Southern
Latitudes, 88; Origin of Shooting-Stars, 92; M. Η.
Faye on the Orbit of Winnecke's Periodical Comet, 94;
Jupiter's Satellites, Ch. André, 94; Star Distances,
Miss A. M. Clerke, 81; Sun-spot of June, July, and
August 1889, 115; Photographic Star Spectra, 115;
Comet Brooks (d 1889, July 6), Dr. Knopf, 115; Comet
Swift (f 1889, November 17), Dr. Zelbr, 115; S Cassio-
peiæ, Rev. T. E. Espin, 115; New Double Stars, Miss A.
M. Clerke, 132; Brazilian Honours to French Astronomers,
135; Photometric Intensity of Coronal Light, 139; Corona of
January 1, 1889, Prof. Tacchini, 139; Minor Planet

12

(Victoria), 139; Comet Swift of 1889. November 171, Dr. R.
Schorr, 139; Periodic Comets, 139; the Eclipse Parties,
139; Period of U Coronæ, S. C. Chandler, 163; Identity of
Brooks's Comet (d 1889) with Lexell's Comet, S. C. Chand-
ler, 163; some Photographic Star Spectra, 163; Magnitude
and Colour of η Argus, 164; Ortal of Barnard's Comet,
1884 11., 164; Spectrum of Alg 1, 164; the Newall Tele-
scope for the University of Cambridge, 166; Variable Star
in Cluster G.C. 3636. Prof. Pickering, 183; Changes in
Lunar Craters, Prof. Thury, 183; the Satellite of Algol, W.
H. S. Monck, 198; Recent Observations of Jupiter, W. F.
Denning, 206; Dr. Peters's Star Catalogue, 210: Longitude
of Mount Hamilton, 211; Comet Bore lyg 1889, December
12), 211; Comet Brooks 1889, July 6, 211; the Solar
Eclipse, 211; Identity of Comet Vico 11844 with Brooks's
(1889), 233; Observations of some Suspected Variables, Rev.
John G. Hagen, 233; Spectrum of a Metallic Prominence,
233; Comet Swift (1889, November 17, Dr. Zelor, Dr.
Lamp, 233; Solar Spots and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233;
Meteor, Rev. T. W. Morton, 249; the Temperature of the
Moon, Prof. Langley, 257; on the Orbit of Struve 228, J.
E. Gore, 257; Orbit of Swift's Comet V. 1880, 257; on
the Variability of R Vulpeculæ, 257; on the Rotation of
Mercury, 257; the Cluster G.C. 1420, and the Nebula
N.G.C. 2237, Dr. Lewis Swift, 285; on the Spectrum of

Ursæ Majoris, Prof. Pickering, 285; Spectroscopic Obser-
vations of Algol, Prof. Vogel, 286; the Meteorite of Mighei,
J. Rutherford Hill, 298; Total Eclipse of January 1, 1889,
Prof. Holden, 305; Orbits of the Companions of Brooks's
Comet (1889, V., July 6, 305; Greenwich Observatory, 305;
Star Land, Sir Robert S. Ball, F. R.S., 315; Eight Rainbows
seen at the same time, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 316;
Dr. Percival Frost, F.R.S., 316; Annuaire du Bureau des
Longitudes, 1890, 327; Annuaire de l'Observatoire Royal de
Bruxelles, 1890, 327; Royal Astronomical Society, 327;
Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, Dr. Schuster, F.R.S., 327;
Solar Halos and Parhelia, 330; a Photographic Method for
Determining Variability in Stars, Isaac Koberts, 332; Earth
Tremors from Trains, and their Effects on Astronomical In-
struments, H. H. Turner, 344: the Nuclei of Great Comet
II. of 1882, F. Tisserand, 358; Spectrum of the Zodiacal
Light, Maxell Hall, 351; Solar and Stellar Motions, Prof.
J. R. Eastman, 351; Dun Echt Observatory, 351; Transit
Observations at Melbourne Observatory, 351; the Maintaining
and Working of the Great Newall Telescope, 357; Is the
Copernican System of Astronomy True? W. S. Cassedy, 366;
Progress of Astronomy in 1886, Prof. Winlock, 374: Maximum
Light Intensity of the Solar Spectrum, Dr. Mengarini, 374;
Spectrum of Borelly's Comet 1889), 374; Spectra of 8 and u
Centauri, 374; on the Star System & Scorpii, 374; the Total
Eclipse, Prof. David P. Todd, 379; Scenery of the Heavens,
by J. E. Gore, 391; the Distance of the Stars, Dr. W. H. S.
Monck, 392; Ephemeris of Brooks's Comet (d 1889), 403;
New Short Period Variable in Ophiuchus, 403: Observations
of the Magnitude of lapetus, 403; Observations of Ursæ
Majoris and ẞ Auriga, 403; the Movement of Planets, F.
Tisserand, 406; Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1889,
M. A. De La Baume Pluvinel, 428; Comets and Asteroids
discovered in 1889, 428; Mass of Saturn, Asaph Hall, 429;
the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 446; the
Solar and the Lunar Spectrum, Prof. Langley, 450; the
Corona of 1889, December 22, W. II. Wesley, 450; Nebular
Hypothesis, Herbert Spencer, 450; Nebula, General Cata-
logue No. 4795, W. E. Jackson, 450; a New Asteroid, 450;
Hues's Treatise on the Globes (1592), 459; Astronomy with
an Opera Glass, Garrett P. Serviss, 462; Méguéia Meteorite,
Prof. Simaschko, 472; Velocity of the Propagation of
Gravitation, J. Van Hepperger, 472; Vatican Observatory,
472; Double-Star Observations, S. W. Burnham, 472; Sun-
spot in High La'itudes, G. Dierckx, 472; the Elements of
Astronomy, Prof. C. A. Young, 485; Death and Obituary Notice
of, Prof. C. M. V. Montigny., 479; Observatory at Madagascar,
497; the Great Comet of 1882, 522; Melbourne Star Cata-
logue, 522; Brocks's Comet (a 1890), 522; Discovery of
Asteroids, 522; Solar Activity in 1889, 522; New Light from
Solar Eclipses, William M. Page, William E. Plummer, 529;
the Apex of the Sun's Way, Lewis Boss, 548; Stability of the
Rings of Saturn, O. Callandreau, 548; Brooks's Comet (a 1890),
549; Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, Rev. J. E. Espin,
549; the Moon in London, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 586;
the Effect of Railways on Instruments in Observatories, 592;

Atlas of Algæ, a New, Dr. J. Reinke, 127

Becker (G. F.), Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the
Pacific Slope, 532

Porcupine, 152

Bedford College, London, Physical and Chemical Laboratories

at, 160, 279

Bee, Wax Organs of, G. Carlet, 407

Atmosphere, General Circulation of, Dr. Pernter, 325

Atmospheric Circulation, A. Buchan, 363

Attention, Psychology of, Th. Ribot, 460

Auger (V.), a New Class of Diacetones, 215

Australia: Australasian Association for the Advancement of
Science, 400; Prof. Orme Masson, 441; Decrease of
Kangaroos, 43: Exploration of the Musgrave Ranges, 86;
Sheep Farming in, Prof. Wallace, 113; the Useful Plants of,
J. H. Maiden, 1943 Among Canibals, Carl Lumholtz, 200;
Tietkens's Explorations in Central, 286; Australia Twice
Traversed, Ernest Giles, 341; Report on the Meteorology of
Australia, C. L. Wragge, 348; A. J. Campbell's Collections
of Bird Skins and Eggs from Western Australia, 593

Austria (H.I. H. the late Prince Rudolph of), Notes on Sport
and Ornithology, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Aveling (Rev. F. W.), Light and Heat, 558
Avian Anatomy, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on, 594
Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Galvanometers, 310, 381

B-Inosite, Maquenne, 215

Beevor (C. E., M.D.), Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of

Internal Capsules of Bonnet Monkey, 166

Before and After Darwin, Prof. G. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 524
Behal (A.), a New Class of Diacetones, 215

Bellati (Prof. M.), the Absorption of Hydrogen by Iron, 380
Belt, Fighting for the, F. C. Constable, 199
Ben Nevis Observatory Report for January 1890, 348
Benda (Dr.), the Coiled Glands in the Skin, 24
Beneden (P. J. Van), Histoire Naturelle des Cétacés des Mers
d'Europe, 223

Benedikt (Dr. R.) and Dr. E. Knecht, Chemistry of the Coal

Tar Colours, 8

Bengal, Technical Education in, 66

Benham (W. B.), Earthworms from Pennsylvania, 560
Bennett (Alfred W.): Fossil Rhizocarps, 154; the Revised Ter-
minology in Cryptogamic Botany, 225

Benzoic Acid, New Form of, 594

Berget (Alphonse), Relation between Electric and Thermal
Conductivities of Metals, 287

Beringer (C.) and J. J. Beringer, Text-book of Assaying,
Thomas Gibb, 245

Baker (T. W.), a Meteor, 418

Bala Volcanic Series of Caernarvonshire and Associated Rocks ;
being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1888, Alfred Harker, 414
Ball (John, F. R.S.), Botanical Bequest, 17

Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.): "Time and Tide, a Romance of

the Moon," 30; "Star Land," 315
Ball (V., LL.D., F.R.S.), Tavernier's Travels in India, 313
Ballarat School of Mines, Melbourne, 593

Balloon, Asbestos Hot-air, in India, Successful Use of, Percival
Spencer, 325

Ballot (Christoforus Henricus Diedericus Buys), Obituary Notice
of, 371

504,528, 599; Berlin Academy of Sciences, Money Grants,
42; Research Grants, 426; Physical Society, 95, 167, 215,
239, 263, 383, 407, 480, 504, 551; the Proposed Berlin In-
ternational Horticultural Exhibition, 283; Berlin Nachtigall
Gesellschaft, 426; Meteorological Society of, 95, 215, 383,
479, 504; Berlin Natural Science Museum, Opening of, 112
"Bermuda Islands," the, Angelo Heilprin, Dr. H. B. Guppy,
193

Bermuda Islands, Proposed Meteorological Station at the, 85

Bernoulli on the St. Petersburg Problem, 165

Bernthsen (A.), a Text-book of Organic Chemistry, 172
Berry (David), Bequest of £100,000 to the University of St.
Andrews by, 41

Berthelot (M.): Animal Heat, 119; the Carbon Graphites,
311; Formation of Nitrates in Plants, 311; Berthelot and P.
Petit on Animal Heat and the Combustion of Urea, 94

Bertillon (Jacques): Application of Photography to Study of
Physical Peculiarities engendered by different Occupations,
230; on the Identification of Criminals by Measurement, 592
Bertrand (J.), Calcul des Probabilités, 6

Bertrand's Refractometer, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 526

Berwickshire, the Birds of, Geo. Muirhead, R. Bowdler Sharpe,

169

Barnard (E. E.): Measurements of Double Stars, 19; Comet

1888-89, 20; Comet II. 1889, March 31, 45; Comet 6
1889, Comet c 1889, discovered by, 428

Barnard (James), the Last Living Aboriginal of Tasmania, 43
Barometer, Diurnal Range of, A. Angot, 449
Barrows (W. II.), the Food of Crows, 137

Bartholomew (John), Library Reference Atlas of the World, 413
Barus (Carl), the Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of
Iron and Steel, 369

Bashore (H. B.), [American] Indian Pipe, 303

Basset (A. B., F.R.S.): Extension and Flexure of Cylindrical
and Spherical Thin Elastic Shells, 238; on the Effect of Oil
on Disturbed Water, 297

Besson (M.): Combination of Ammonia and Phosphorette d
Hydrogen with Dichloride and Dibromide of Silicon, 359;
Combination of Gaseous Phosphoretted Hydrogen with
Boron and Silicium Fluorides, 287

Bethnal Green Free Library, Proposed Enlargement of, 349
Betts (Benjamin), a New Logical Machine, 79

Bevan (E. J.): Acetylation of Cellulose, 142; the Constituents
of Flax, 143

Beyerinck (Dr.), Luminous and Plastic Food of Phosphorescent
Bacteria, 552

Beyern, Prehistoric Burial Ground in Caucasus discovered by,

43

Beynon (Richard), Effect of Oil on Disturbed Water, 205
Bezold (Prof. von), on the Production of Clouds, 95

Bible, the Religion of the Semites, Prof. W. Robertson Smith,

337

Bigelow (Prof. F. H., Mathematical Study of Solar Corona,
595

Biology: Proposed Lacustrine Station on Lake Plon, 18; Prof.
Weismann's Essays, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 38;
Marine Biology, the Puffin Island Station, 304; Biology of
Апасrobic Bacteria, Dr. Weyl, 359; the Botanical Institute
and Marine Station at Kiel, 397

Bionomics, "Like to Like," a Fundamental Principle in, Prof.
Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 535; John T. Gulick, 535
Bird-preservation in the Farne Islands, H. G. Barclay, 112
Birds of Berwickshire, Geo. Muirhead, R. Bowdler Sharpe,

Birds: Count Salvadori on the Birds of New Guinea and the
Malacca lands, 85

Birds, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on Avian Anatomy, 594
Birds of India, Vol. L., E. W. Oates, 388

Birds in My Garden, W. T. Greene, R Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Birds of Oxfordshire, O. V. Aplin, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Birds, Sea, the Wanton Destruction of, G. W. Lamplugh, 490
Black Sea: Proposed Scientific Investigation of, 348; the Level
of the, 356

Bladder in Fishes, the, Prof. Liebreich, 359

Blanchard Prof. Raphael): Discovery of Carotine Pigment in
Alpine Lake Crustacean, 325; a Colouring-matter from
Diaptomus analogous to Carotin, 383

Blanford (Dr., F.R.S.), Presidential Address to the Geological
Society, 455

Blind Species, Cave Fauna of North America, with Remarks
on the Anatomy of the Brain and Origin of the, A. S.
Packard, 507

Blumentritt (Dr. F.), Ethnology of Philippine Islands, 327
Blunfield (R. W.), Alexandrian Garden Pest, 181
Boat, Submarine, Periscope for Navigating, 349

Bodmer (G. R.), Hydraulic Motors, Turbines and Pressure

Engines, 27

Bogdanovitch (M.), in Central Asia, 352

92: Journal of Botany. 02: Nuova Giornale Botanico Italiano,
92; Cool Cultivation of Tropical, &c. Plants. Thiselt on Dyer,
136; Botanica: Tour through Asia Minor. Prof Bornmuller's,
136; Tubercles on koots of Leguminous Plants, Prof. H.
Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 140; the Flora of Suffolk, by Dr.
W. M. Hind, 149: Noxious Grass, Lalang, at Singapore.
182; the Useful Plants of Australia, J. H. Maiten, 1947
Index of British Plants, Robert Turnbal 146 Hand-book of
Practical Botany for the Botanical Laborar ry and Private
Student, E. Strasburger, 223; the Revised Terminology in
Cryptogamic Botany, Aifred W. Bennert, 225; Flower-Land,
an Introduction to Botany. Robert Fisher. 247: the Coce de
Mer, 256; Malayan Plants in Calcutta Herbariam, 283; the
Weather Plant/Abrus precatorius), Lt. Francis Oiver, 283;
St. Louis, the Shaw Bequest for the Endowment of Botanic
Garden at, 324; the K-w Bulletin, 325, 426; Sweet-scented
Fern, 349; Das australische Fiorenelement in Europa, Dr.
Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshansen, 365: Effects of Fog
on Plants under Glass, 372; Metur ad Bokhara Clover)
as a Weed in Western States of America, 372; Germination
of Castor-oil Flant Seed. J. R. Green, 380; Die Arten der
Gattung Ephedra, von Dr. Otto Stapf, 390; the Botanical
Institute and Marine Station at Kiel, 397; Hygrometric Club
Moss from Mexico, 401; Botanical Gazette, 405; Diseases of
Plants, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 436; the Botanical
Laboratory in the Royal Gardens, Peradeniya. Ceylon, 445;
Haudleiding tot de Kennis der Flora van Nederlandsch Indie,
461; Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, W. F. R. Weldon, 464; Seed-
ing of Sugar-Cane, D. Morris, 478: True Nature of Callus,
Spencer Moore, 478; the Dispersal of Plants, as Illustrated by
the Flora of the Keeling Islands, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 492;
Salad-plants, H. de Vilmorin, 494; the Native Ebony of St.
Helena, Morris, 519; Self-colonization of Coco-nut Palm, W.
B. Hemsley, 537: Suggestion for Facilitating the Study of
Botany in India, G. Carstensen, 546: Self-colonization of
Coco-nut Palm, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 585;
Organization of Fossil Plants of Coal-measures, Prof. William-
son, F.R.S., 572; Botanical Condition of German Ocean,
Major Reinhold, 569; a Blue Primrose, 569; Threatened Ex-
tinction of Cyclamen in Savoy, 569; How to know Grasses
by their Leaves, A. N M'Alpine, Prof. John Wrightson, 557
Bottomley J. T., F.R.S., Four-Figure Mathematical Tables,
510

Boilers, Marine and Land, T. W. Traill, 486

Boilers, the Evaporative Efficiency of, C. E. Stromeyer, 516
Boisbaudran (Lecoq de), some New Fluorescent Materials, 287
Bollettino of Italian Geographical Society, 164

Bonavia (Dr. E.), the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India
and Ceylon, C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., 579
Bone and Dentine, the Longevity of Textural Elements, par-
ticularly in, John Cleland, 392

Bonn, Earthquake at, 470

Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F. R.S., 517

Diseases, 48

Bourdon's Pressure-Gauge: Prof. A. M. Worthington, 296;

Bournemouth Industrial and Loan Exhibition, Science Exhibits
in, 545

Boussingault (M.), Proposed Statue to the late, 207, 348
Boutzoureano (M.), on a New Series of Salts of Selenite, 87
Bower (J. A.), Science of Every-day Life, 78

Boys (C. V., F. R.S.), on the Cavendish Experiment, 155

Brande (Dr.), Taxine, a New Alkaloid from Yew Leaves, &c.,
496

Brandis (Sir D., F.R.S.), a Manual of Forestry, William
Schlich, 121

Brassart Brothers' New Seismoscopes, 137

Brazil, Dr. Lund's Exploration of the Limestone Caverns of, 26
Brazilian Honours to French Astronomers, 135

Bréal (M.), Fixation of Nitrogen of the Leguminosæ, 23

| Breathing, Thought and R. Barrett Pope, 297; Prof. F. Max
Müller, 317; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 317; Mrs. J. C. Murray-
Aynsley, 441

Brewery and Malt-House, the Microscope in the, Chas. Geo.
Mathews and Francis Edw. Lott, 246

Brezina (A.), Die Meteoritensammlung des kk. mineralog.
Hofkabinetes in Wien, 127

Brezina (A.) and E. Cohen, Die Structur und Zusammensetzung
der Meteoreisen erläutert durch photographische Abbildungen
geätzter Schnittflächen, 127

Brick Buildings, Magnetism in, R. W. Wilson, 405
Bridge across the Bosphorus, Proposed, 568
Bridge, Chenab, Testing of, 372

Bridge, Testing of the New Forth, 281; Opening of the, 429
Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, Rev. J. E. Espin, 549
Brinton (Dr. D. G.): Ethnologic Affinity of Ancient Etruscans,
66; Etruscans a Libyan Offshoot, 448; the Cradle of the
Semites, 569

British Association, Second Report of the Committee on Teach-
ing Chemistry, 160

British Guiana, the Journal Timehri, 549

British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1890, 510

British Museum: Reading Room, 199; Electric Light at the,
301; Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the,
Richard Lydekker, 534

British Plants, Index of, Robert Turnbull, 196
Brodhun (Dr.), New Contrast-Photometer, 552
Brook and its Banks, the, Rev. J. G. Wood, 53

Brooks (W.): Comet a 1889, Comet d 1889, discovered by, 428;

Comet (d 1889, July 6) Dr. Knopf, 115, 211; Brooks's Comet
(1889), Identity of Comet Vico (1844) with, 233; Orbits of
the Companions of, 305; Brooks's Comet (a 1890), 522, 549;
Dr. Bidschof, 571

Brorsen's Comet, Return of, Dr. E. Lamp, 69

Brown (Arthur), Mirages, 225

Brown (A. B.), the Steering of Steam-ships, 516

Brown (Prof. Crum), a New Synthesis of Dibasic Organic Acids,

Browne (Montagu), the Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire
and Rutland, 220

Bruce (E. S.), an Optical Feature of Lightning Flashes, 406
Bruguière (M.), Minimum Sun-spot Period, 68
Brush-Turkeys on the Smaller Islands north of Celebes, Dr.
A. B. Meyer, 514

Bryan (G. H.), Stability of Rotating Spheroid of Perfect Liquid,
526

Bryce's (Prof. J.) Speech on Presentation of A. R. Wallace for
Degree of D.C. L. at Oxford, 112

Buchan (A.), Atmospheric Circulation, 363

Buchan (Dr.), Influenza and Weather, 596

Buffalo in Northern Australia, Increase of, 18

Bulk of Ocean Water, Is the, a Fixed Quantity, A. J. Jukes-
Browne, 130

Bulk of Ocean Water, Does the, Increase, T. Mellard Reade,
175; Rev. Osmond Fisher, 197

Bulkeley (Owen T.), the Lesser Antilles, 268

Bulletin de l'Académie Royal de Belgique, 212, 237
Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie, 332

Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 92
Bummelen (Van), Composition of Tobacco-growing Soils in
Deli and Java, 384

Burder (Geo. F.), Self-luminous Clouds, 198

Burmah, a Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States,
Holt S. Hallett, 265

Burmeister (Dr. Hermann), on the Fossil Horses and other
Mammals of Argentina, 82

Burnham (S. W.): Measurements of Double Stars, 19; Double-
Star Observations, 472

Burton (C. V.), a Physical Basis for the Theory of Errors, 47
Burton (F. M.), Chiff-Chaff Singing in September, 298
Burton (Prof. W. K.), Electrical Cloud Phenomena, 10

Buschan (Herr), Prehistoric Textiles, 182

Butter, Cocoa-Nut, 162, 284

Butterflies, Maltese, George Fraser, 199

Buys-Ballot (Prof. C. H. D.), Death of, 324

Callandreau (O.), Stability of the Rings of Saturn, 548
Calorimeter, the Steam, J. Joly, 212

Camboué (Rev. Paul), Distribution of Animals and Plants by
Ocean Currents, 103

Cambrian and Silurian, Sedgwick and Murchison, Prof. James
D. Dana, 421

Cambridge: University of, Appointment of Examiners, 23;
the Mechanical Workshops at, 23; the John Lucas Walker
Fund, 23; Election of Fellows at St. John's College, 23;
Science and the Indian Civil Service, 25; Physiology at, 41;
the Newall Telescope, 166; Archæological Museum, 324;
University Natural Science Club Conversazione, 371; An-
thropometry at, 560; Dr. John Venn, F.R. S., 450; Francis
Galton, F.R.S., 454

and Eggs, 593

Canada, Mining and Mineral Statistics of, 87

Canary, Effects of Musical Sounds on a, 593

Cannibals, Among, Carl Lumholtz, 200

Capacity, Specific Inductive, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 30
Capital, Accumulations of, in the United Kingdom in 1875-85,
Robert Giffen, 211

Capital, the Growth of, Robert Giffen, 553

Carbutt (Mrs. E. H.), Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada,

Western United States, and Mexico, 247

Cardani (Signor), New Method of measuring Small Elongations
of a Bar, 427

Carinthia, Earthquake in, 284

Carlet (G.), Wax Organs of Bees, 407

Carlier (E. W.), Note on a Probable Nervous Affection observed
in an Insect, 197

Carnelley (Prof.): the Relation of Physiological Action to
Atomic Weight, 189; Attempt to express Periodic Law of
Chemical Elements by Algebraic Formula, 304

Carotine Pigment in Alpine Lake Crustacean, Discovery of, by
Prof. Raphael Blanchard, 325, 383

Carruthers (G. T.), Locusts in the Red Sea, 153
Carstensen (G.), Suggestion for Facilitating Study of Botany in
India, 546

Cartailhac (Emile), La France Préhistorique, 102

Carter (Brudenell), Vision-Testing for Practical Purposes, 302
Cartography, Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of, A. E.
Nordenskiöld, 558

Carus-Wilson (Charles A.): Behaviour of Steel under Mechanical
Stress, 213; the Rupture of Steel by Longitudinal Stress,

574

Cashmere, North-West, Dauvergne's Journey in, 165
Cassedy (W. S.), Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True?,

366

Cassiopeiæ, S, Rev. T. E. Espin, 115

Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British
Museum (Natural History), Richard Lydekker, 534

Cattle-poisoning by Ergotized Lolium, 569

Caucasus, Prehistoric Burial Ground in, Beyern, 43

Caucasus, Search and Travel in the, D. W. Freshfield, 351
Caucasus, a Trip through the Eastern, Hon. John Abercromby,

391

Causes of Variation, E. D. Cope on, Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
F.R.S., 128

Cave Dwelling in New Zealand, Discovery of, H. O. Forbes

209

Cave Fauna of North America, with Remarks on the Anatomy
of the Brain and Origin of the Blind Species, A. S. Packard,
507

Cavendish Experiment, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., on the, 155
Cayley (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Roots of an Algebraic Equation,
335,359

Celebes Photographs, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 471; Brush-Turkeys
on the Smaller Islands north of, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 514

Celts in Hampshire, Characteristic Survivals of, T. W. Shore,
406

Centauri, Spectra of 8 and μ, 374

Cetacea, Rorqual musculus stranded in Médoc District, 113
Cétacés des Mers d'Europe, Histoire Naturelle des, P. J. Van
Beneden, 223

Ceylon: Geodetical Survey of, 86; the Veddahs of, Dr. Arthur
Thomson, 303; Asiatic Society, 349; Proposed Archæological
Survey of, 372

Chabrié (M.): the Chlorides of Selenium, 284; Gas obtained
by Heating Silver Fluoride with Chloroform in Sealed Tube,
521

Chaffinch, the, E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 394

Challenger Expedition: Report on the Magnetical Results of the
Voyage of H. M.S., E. W. Creak, F.R.S., 105; Zoological
Results of the, 217; Report on the Scientific Results of the
Exploring Voyage of H.M.S., 361; Meteorological Report
of the, 443

Chambers (G. F.), Hand-book of Descriptive and Practical
Astronomy, 49

Chandler (S. C.): Period of U Coronæ, 163; Identity of
Brooks's Comet (d 1889) with Lexell's Comet (1770), 163
Characters, Acquired: and Congenital Variation, the Duke of
Argyll, F.R.S., 173, 294; Palæontological Evidence for the
Transmission of, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227; Congenital
Variation, the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 366; Right Rev.