388

Humphry (Geo. M., M.D., F.R.S.), Old Age, 484

Hyderabad Chloroform Commission, 154, 289

Hydra, New Variable Star in, 88

Hydraulic Motors, Turbines and Pressure Engines, G. R. Bod-
mer, 27

Hydrazine, Drs. Curtius and Jay, 547

Hydrobromic Acid, the Preparation of, A. Recoura, 599

Hydrophobia, the New Muzzling Regulation, 241

Hydrostatics, Stability of Rotating Spheroid of Perfect Liquid,
E. H. Bryan, 526

Hydroxylamine with Metallic Chlorides, New Compounds of,
Crismer, 401

Hygiene and Demography, Congress on, 401
Hygiene of French Native Colonists in Paris, 427
Hygiene or Public Health, Louis C. Parkes, 290

Hypnotic Subjects and the Eye, 94

Hypothesis, Nebular, Herbert Spencer, 450

Iapetus, Observations of the Magnitude of, 403

Ice Forms, Peculiar, Prof. J. G. MacGregor, 463

Iceland: Diminution in Population of, 473; M. Thoroddsen's
Explorations in, 165

Ichthyology: the Spiracle Gill of Selachians, Dr. Virchow, 119;
the Zuyder Zee Herring, Dr. Hoek, 216; Anchovies on South
Coast of England, J. T. Cunningham, 230; Drumming Fish
Balistes aculeatus), 263; Anatomy of Torpedo marmorata,
Prof. Fritsch, 264; Sardines in Moray Firth, Prof. Ewart,
282; the Bladder in Fishes, Prof. Liebreich, 359; Cranial
Nerves of Torpedo, Dr. J. C. Ewart, 477; Marine Fisheries
Society of Great Grimsby, 520; some Stages in Development
of Brain of Clupea harengus, E. W. L. Holt, 525

Identity of Comet Vico (1844) with Brooks's (1889), 233
Idylls of the Field, Francis A. Knight, 79

Im Hochgebirge, Wanderungen von Dr. Emil Zsigmondy, 291
Images, Visualized, Produced by Music, Geo. E. Newton, 417
Index of British Plants, Robert Turnbull, 196

Index Generum Avium, F. H. Waterhouse, R. Bowdler
Sharpe, 169

Index: a Suggested Subject-index to the Royal Society's Cata-
logue of Scientific Papers, 342, 391

Index of the Papers of the London Mathematical Society, 594
India: Science and the Indian Civil Service Examinations, 25,
265; Henry Palin Gurney, 53; Indian Geological Survey,
Death of Mr. E. J. Jones, 41; Recent Indian Surveys, 139,
230; Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 101;

Wanton Destruction of Forests in India, R. J. Crosthwaite,

210; Dr. Schlich, 470; Northern, Hailstorms in India, S. A.

Hill, 236; Olive Cultivation in India, 303; Travels in India,
Jean Baptiste Tavernier, 313; the Birds of India, E. W.
Oates, 388; the Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Allan
O. Hume, 3883; Locusts in India, E. C. Cotes, 403, 491;
Technical Education in Central, 470; Suggestion for Facili-
tating the Study of Botany in, G. Carstensen, 546; Provincial
Index of Minerals of, Dr. W. King, 546; Native Indian
Scientific Literature, 569; the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons
of India and Ceylon, Dr. E. Bonavia and C. B. Clarke, F. R.S.,
579; Catalogue of the Library of Indian Museum, 594

Indian, American, Languages, Use of Edison Phonograph in
Preserving, J. W. Fewkes, 560

Indian, American, Pipe, H. B. Bashore, 303

Indigo, New Method of Synthesizing, Dr. Flimm, 326
Inductive Capacity, Specific: W. A. Rudge, 10; Prof. Oliver

J. Lodge, F.R.S., 30

Influenza: the Epidemic of, 145; W. Greatheed, 270; Augustus
Harvey, 270; the Suspected Connection between Influenza
and Cholera Epidemics, Dr. Smolenski, 282; Climatological
Considerations about Influenza, Dr. Assmann, 325; Children's
Growth in Weight checked by Influenza, 471; Supposed
Chinese Source of Russian Influenza, 593; Influenza and
Weather, Mitchell and Buchan, 596

Inheritance of Acquired Characters: the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S.,
173, 294, 366; W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 315; F. V.
Dickins, 316; Right Rev. Bishop R. Courtenay, 367; Dr. J.
Cowper, 368; Herbert Spencer, 414; Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
F.R. S., 415. See also Panmixia

Inheritance of Acquired Mental Peculiarity, Handtmann, 209
Inherited Characters and Panmixia, Prof. Geo. J. Romanes,
F.R.S., 437

E. W. Carlier, 197

Institution of Civil Engineers, 229
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 21

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 331; Anniversary Meeting,

591

Institution of Naval Architects, 494, 515

Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, 209, 372

Iron and Steel Institute, Visit to America of, 469
Iron and Steel Manufacture, Arthur H. Hiorns, 150

Iron and Steel, Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of,

Carl Barus, 369

Iron, the Relation between Atomic Volumes of Elements
present in, and their Influence on its Molecular Structure,
Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 420

Iron, the Villari Critical Points in Nickel and, Herbert
Tomlinson, F.R.S., 574

Irving (Rev. A.), Chemical and Physical Studies in the Meta-
morphism of Rocks, 49

Isefiord, Denmark, Zoological Floating Station at, 569
Italy, Southern, Geological Excursion to the Active and Extinct
Volcanoes of, 133

Italy: Earthquake in, 136; Activity of Queccia de Salsa, 181
Ivy, Abnormal Shoots of, W. F. R. Weldon, 464
Izvestia of the Russian Geographical Society, 352

Jackson (W. E.), Nebula, General Catalogue No. 4795, 450
Jacobi (Mary Putnam), Physiological Notes on Primary Educa-

tion and the Study of Language, 28

James (Dr. Bushrod W.), American Resorts, with Notes upon
their Climate, 79

James (W. J.), the Use of the Word Antiparallel, 10

Jamieson (Prof.), Magnetism and Electricity, 461

January, Weather in, Chas. Harding, 425

Japan: Cyclone of September 11-12, 1889, in, M. Wada, 208;
Great Volcanic Eruption in, 400; Meteorology in 1887,
M. Wada, 400; Japanese Dwarf Tree (Thuja obtusa), 86
Japp (Prof. F. R., F.R.S.): α-β-Dibenzoylstyrolene and Zinin's
Lepiden Derivatives, 142; Compounds of Phenanthraquinone
with Metallic Salts, 191

Jastrow (Prof.), the Cradle of the Semites, 569
Java Sea, Coral Reefs of the, and its Vicinity, Dr. H. B.

Guppy, 300

Jay (Dr.), Hydrazine, 547

Jenkins

Jenkins (Prof. P.), the Strength of Ships, 515
Jerusalem, Troglodytic Remains in, Herr Schick, 284
Jesse (O.), Photographs of Luminous Night Clouds, 592

Jerusalem, Troglodytic

Johns Hopkins University, 448
Johnson (W. E.), Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces, 153
Johnson (Prof. W. W.), a Treatise on Ordinary and Partial

Differential Equations, 270

Johnston (Miss E. J.), the Relation of Physiological Action to
Atomic Weight, 189

Johnston (R. M.), Variability of Tasmanian Unio, 303
Joly (A.), Double Nitrites of Ruthenium and Potassium, 23
Joly (J.): the Steam Calorimeter, 212; Resonance Method of
Measuring Constants of Gravitation, 256
Jones (E. J.), Death of, 41
Jones (W.), Glimpses of Animal Life, 409
Jörgensen (Alfred), the Micro-organisms of Fermentation prac-
tically considered, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339
Joule (Prof. J. P.), Proposed Memorial to, 89, 160, 281
Journal of Botany, 405

Jukes-Browne (A. J.): Physics of the Sub-oceanic Crust, 53;
Is the Bulk of Ocean Water a Fixed Quantity?, 130
Jungfrau Railway, Proposed, Herr Trautweiler, 303
Jupiter, Recent Observations of, W. F. Denning, 206
Jupiter's Belt 3. III., the Structure of, Dr. Terby, 45
Jupiter's Satellites, Ch. André, 94

Kane (Sir Robert, F.R.S.): Death of, 371; Obituary Notice
of, 398

Keiser (Dr. E. H.), Redetermination of Atomic Weight of Pal-
ladium, 44

Kent, Discovery of Coal in, 400

Kerville (Henri Gadeau de), Les Animaux et les Végétaux
Lumineux, Prof W. A. Herdman, 293

Kew Bulletin, 42, 136, 283, 325, 448, 569

Kew Observatory Report, 208

Lapouge (M. de), Modern Crania in Montpellier, 357
Larden (W.), Mirage in the South American Pampas, 69
Lascelles (B. P.) and R. P. Williams, Introduction to Chemicaأ

Science, 128

Latitude, Redetermination of, in Tokio, Watanabe, 427
Latter (Prof. Oswald H.), Who Discovered the Teeth in Omi-
thorhynchus?, 130, 174

Khürbet 'Ajlân, Excavations at, 592

Kiel, the Botanical Institute and Marine Station at, 397

Kiev, Actinometric Observations (1888-89) at, R. Savelief, 359
Kilima-Njaro, the Ascent of, Dr. Hans Meyer and Purtscheller,

164, 572

Lawes (Sir J. B., F.R.S.), a Field laid down to Permanent
Grass, 229

Lea (A. S.), a Comparative Study of Natural and Artificial
Digestions, 430

Leak-stopping in Steel Ships, Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald,
R.N., 516

Lean (Wm. Scarnell), a Brilliant Meteoг, бо

King (Dr. W.), Provincial Index of Minerals of India, 546

Kirby (W. F.), Systems of "Russian Transliteration," 534
Kirschbaum (Madame Rosa), First Lady Physician admitted to
Medical Practice in Austria, 509

Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.), the Bacteria of Asiatic Cholera, 509
Klingemann (Dr. F.), a-β-Dibenzoyltyrolene and Zinin's Lepiden
Derivatives, 142

Knight (Francis A.), Idylls of the Field, 79

Knopf (Dr.), Comet Brooks (d 1889, July 6, 115

Knott (Prof. Cargill G.), the Earthquake of Tokio, April 18,
1889, 32

Kny (Herr), on Trees Growing in an Inverted Position, 86
Kolaba District, Flint Remains in, W. E. Sinclair, 114

Kossel (Prof.), Microscope as applied to Physiological Chemis

try, 23

Krakatão, the Period of the Long Sea-waves of, James C.
McConnel, 392

Chemistry, 510

Least Squares, Theory of, a Formula in the, D. Wetterhan, 304
Lebeau (P.): Volumetric Estimation of Copper, 431; Estimation
of Free Halogen and Iodides in Presence of Chlorine and
Bromine, 479

Le Conte, Formation of the Earth's Crust, 46
Lefroy (Sir John H., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of,
568

Lehmann (Dr.): the Babylonian Metrical System, 167; the
Testing of Tuning-forks, 383

Leicester Museum Grounds, on a Mite of the Genus Tetranychus
found Infesting Lime Trees in the, F. R. Rowley, 31
Leicestershire and Rutland, the Vertebrate Animals of, Montagu
Browne, 220

Lendenfeld (Dr. Robert von): a Monograph of the Horny
Sponges, 146; Physiology of Sponges, 570; Foreign Sub-
stances attached to Crabs, 317

Lepidoptera, Sugar losing its Attractions for, Joseph Anderson.

349

Kremser (Dr.), Frequency of Mist, 215

Laccadive Islands, Rat-plague in, 303

Life, Animal, Glimpses of, W. Jones, 409

Lamarck's and Darwin's Theories as to Transmission of Acquired
Characters, Prof. E. R. Lankester, F. R. S., 486

Lamb (Prof. Horace, F.R.S.): on a Certain Theory of Elastic
After-strain, 463; on the Deformation of an Elastic Shell, 549
Lamp (Dr. E.): Return of Brorsen's Comet, 69; Comet Swift
(f 1889, November 17), 233

Lampert (Dr.), Zoogeography, Wolves, &c., in Germany, 182
Lamplugh (G. W.), the Wanton Destruction of Sea-birds, 490
Lancaster (M. A.), Biographical Note on, J. C. Houzeau, 20
Land, Area of the, and Depths of the Oceans in Former Periods,
T. Mellard Reade, 103

Langley (E. M.), the Use of the Word Antiparallel, 104
Langley (J. N., F.R.S.), Local Paralysis of Peripheral Ganglia
and Connection of Nerve-Fibres with them, 118
Langley (Prof.), the Solar and the Lunar Spectrum, 450
Language, Study of Physiological Notes on Primary Education
and the, Mary Putnam Jacobi, 28

Languages, American Indian, Use of Edison Phonograph in
Preserving, J. W. Fewkes, 560

Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.): Darwinism, 9; E. D. Cope
on the Causes of Variation, 128; the Inheritance of Acquired
Characters, 415; Transmission of Acquired Characters and
Panmixia, 486; Panmixia, 558

J. Romanes, F.R.S., 535; John T. Gulick, 535
Lime, Crystals of, H. A. Miers, 515. 560
Lime Trees in Leicester Museum Grounds, on a Mite of the
Genus Tetranychus found Infesting, F. R. Rowley, 31

Linear Differential Equations, a Treatise on, Thomas Craig,
508

Ling (A. R.), Studies on Isomeric Change, IV., Halogen De-
rivatives of Quinone, 527

Linnean Society, 143, 191, 239, 334, 405, 431, 478, 527, 599
Linnean Society of New South Wales, 161, 284

Linossier (G.), Morphology and Biology of Oidium albicans, 72
Liquid Surfaces, Tension of Recently-formed, Lord Rayleigh,
566

Liquids, Determination, by Measurement of Ripples, of Surface
Tensions of, Prof. C. Michie Smith, 575

Lissa (Baron de), the Pioneer Plants of British North Borneo,

Lobley (J. Logan), Mount Vesuvius, 195

Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.): the Physical and Chemical
Characteristics of Meteorites as throwing Light upon their
Past History, 305; on the Zodiacal Light, 402
Locomotive, the Latest Express Compound, 448
Locusts in India, E. C. Cotes, 403, 491

Locusts in the Red Sea, G. T. Carruthers, 153

Lodge (Prof. Dr. Oliver J., F. R.S.): Modern Views of Electricity,

5, 80; Specific Inductive Capacity, 30; the Peltier Effect and
Contact E.M.F., 224; Easy Lecture Experiment in Electric
Resonance, 368; Electrical Radiation from Conducting
Spheres, an Electric Eye and a Suggestion regarding Vision,

Longitudes, Annuaire du Bureau des, 327

Loochoo Islands, Proposed Meteorological Observatory in, 401
Loomis on Rainfall of Earth, Dr. van Bebber, 43

Lott (Francis Edw.) and Chas. Geo. Mathews, the Microscope

in the Brewery and Malt-house, 246

Lovell (J.), Solar Halos and Parhelia, 560

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

Lucas (W.) and T. A. Garrett, Wimshurst Machine and Hertz's
Vibrator, 515

Ludwigshafen, Antediluvian Remains Discovered at, 520
Lumholtz (Carl), Among Cannibals, 200

Luminous Clouds: T. W. Backhouse, 297; Joseph John
Murphy, 298

Luminous Night Clouds, Evan McLennan, 131
Luminous Organisms, Henri Gadeau de Kerville, Prof. W. A.
Herdman, 293

Lummer (Dr.), Abbe's Apparatus for Testing Transparent
Films with Plane Parallel Surfaces, 552

Lunar Craters, Changes in, Prof. Thury, 183

Lund Museum in the University of Copenhagen, 26
Lunge (Prof.), Improved Apparatus for Gas Measurements, 471
Lupton (Sydney), the St. Petersburg Problem, 165

Lussana (S.), the Absorption of Hydrogen by Iron, 380
Lydekker (Richard), Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and
Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), 534
Lynn (W. T.), Obituary Notice of Lorenzo Respighi, 254

-

Macalister (Prof. Alex., F.R.S.), a Text-book of Human
Anatomy, 269

M'Alpine (A. N.), How to know Grasses by their Leaves, Prof.
John Wrightson, 557

McConnnel (James C.): the Period of the Long Sea-Waves
of Krakatão, 392; Key to the Royal Society Catalogue, 342,
391, 418

McGrath (Joseph), the Arc Light, 154
MacGregor (Prof. J. G.), Peculiar Ice Forms, 463
McGregor (Sir W.), Explorations in New Guinea, 374
McIntosh (Prof. W. C., F.R.S.), the Administration of Foreign
Fisheries, 497

McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Galls, 131

McLennan (Evan), Luminous Night Clouds, 131

Macmahon (Major P. A., R.A.): a New Theory of Symmetric
Functions, II, 71; Symmetrical Functions of Roots of
Systems of Equations, 380

McNab (Dr. William Ramsay): Death of, 112; Obituary Notice
of, 159; Proposed Memorial to, 347
Madagascar, Astronomical Observatory at, 497
Magnetic Observatory, Potsdam, Dr. Eschenhagen, 479
Magnetic Surveys of Special Districts in the British Isles, Profs.
A. W. Rucker, F.R.S., ani T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 598
Magnetical Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger,
Report on the, Commander E. W. Creak, F.R.S., 105, 363,
Magnetism in Brick Buildings, R. W. Willson, 405
Magnetism, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 249, 273
Magnetism and Electricity, Arthur W. Poyser, 52

Magnetism and Electricity, Prof. Andrew Jamieson, 30, 461

Magnetism, a Proposed Gilbert Club, 84
Magnetization of Cobalt, Effects of Pressure on, C. Chree, 237
Maiden (J. H.), the Useful Plants of Australia, 194
Malaga, Earthquake at, 470

Malay Peoples, the, Dr. B. Hagen, 21

Malayan Peninsula, Materials for a Flora of the, Dr. Geo. King,
F.R.S., 437

Malic Acid and its Compounds, D. Gernez, 94
Maltese Butterflies, George Fraser, 199
Mammalian Molars, Primitive Types of, 465
Mammoth Skeleton in Russia, Discovery of, 448
Manchester Conference on the Technical Instruction Act, 97
Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, 593

Manchester Free Libraries, the, 181

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 373; Annual
Report of, 137

Manchester, Proposed Planting of Evergreen Shrubs in, 401
Manchester, Street Plants in, 42

Manganese, New Mode of Preparing, Dr. Glatzel, 67
Manure, Stable, the Fermentation of, Th. Schlesing, 143
Manures and their Uses, Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 222, 272
Manuscripts, Ancient Cingalese, 349

Manx Geological Society, 208

Maori Cave-dwelling, Discovery of, H. O. Forbes, 209

Maps: Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography,

A. E. Nordenskiöld, 558

Maquenne (M.), β-Inosite, 215

Marcet (Dr.), Atmospheric Dust, 358, 473
Marchand (Em.), Observations on Sun-spots made at Lyons
Observatory in 1889, 599

Marine Fisheries Society of Great Grimsby, 520

Marine Laboratory, New, at St.-Wast-la-Hougue, 160

Marine Millipede, a, 104; Edward Parfitt, 153; R. I. Pocock,
176

Marine Phenomenon at Batoum, Curious, 426

Marine Station at Kiel, 397

Marine Survey of India, 140

Markham (Clements R., F.R.S.), a Life of John Davis, 52
Marlborough College Natural History Society, 545

Marriott (William), Royal Meteorological Society's Exhibition,

491

Mascart (M.), Relation of certain Magnetic Perturbations to
Earthquakes, 23

Mascart (M. E.), Traité d'Optique, J. D. Everett, 224

Mass of Saturn, Asaph Hall, 429

Massaja (Cardinal G.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 164
Masson (Prof. Orme), Australasian Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, 441

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Oates, R. Bowdler
Sharpe, 169

Mathematics: Calcul des Probabilités, J. Bertrand, 6; the
Method of Quarter Squares, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., 9;
the Use of the Word Antiparallel, W. J. James, 10; a Phy-
sical Basis for the Theory of Errors, C. V. Burton, 47; a
New Theory of Symmetric Functions (II.), Major MacMahon,
71; a New Logical Machine, Mary Boole, 79; Geometrical
Teaching, 80; Mathematical Society, 94, 214, 287, 503, 575,
594; W. E. Johnson on the Proof of the Parallelogram of
Forces, 153; the St. Petersburg Problem, Sydney Lupton,
165; Glissette of Hyperbola, Prof. Tait, 214; the Extension
and Flexure of Cylindrical and Spherical Thin Elastic Shells,
A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 238; a Treatise on Ordinary and
Partial Differential Equations, Prof. W. W. Johnson, 270 ;
the Parallelogram of Forces, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S.,
298; Roots of an Algebraic Equation, Prof. A. Cayley,
F.R.S., 335, 359; B. A. Muirhead on Ten and Tenth Nota-
tion, 344; Determination of Regulated Harmonic Surfaces,
L. Raffy, 359; Symmetrical Functions of Roots of Systems
of Equations, Major P. A. MacMahon, R.A., 380; Unit of
Length of Sir G. Shuckburgh's Standard Scale, General J.
T. Walker, R.E., F.R.S., 381; the Exponential Function,
Stieltjes, 382; a Formula in the Theory of Least Squares,
D. Wetterhan, 394; Newton in Perspective, Robert H.
Graham, 439; the Elastical Researches of Barré de Saint-
Venant, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 458; on a Certain
Theory of Elastic After-Strain, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S.,
463; Oxford "Pass" Geometry, 467; a Treatise on Linear
Differential Equations, Thos. Craig, 508; Four-Figure
Mathematical Tables, J. T. Bottomley, F.R.S., 510; Equa-
tions aux derivées partielles de la Physique Mathématique,
Poincaré, 525; the Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum,
O. H. Tittmann, 538; Deformation of an Elastic Shell, Prof.
Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 549; Index of the Papers of the
London Mathematical Society, 594; Mathematical Teaching
at Sorbonne, Prof. Ch. Hermite, 597

Mather (T.): Galvanometers, 310, 381; Shape of Movable
Coils used in Electrical Measuring Instruments, 574

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

Maximum Light-Intensity of the Solar Spectrum, Dr. Mengarini,

Mersey Estuary, Effects of Training Walls in, L. F. V. Har-
court, 380

Meslans (M.), Isolation of Fluoroform, 521
Metallic Prominence, Spectrum of a, 233

Metallurgy: on the Hardening and Tempering of Steel, Prof.
W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 11, 32; Iron and Steel
Manufacture, by Arthur H. Hiorns, 150; Physical Properties
of Nickel Steel, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 332; the Rupture
of Steel by Longitudinal Stress, C. A. Carus-Wilson, 574;
the Villari Critical Point in Nickel and Iron, Herbert Tom.
linson, F.R.S., 574; International Exhibition of Metallurgy
and Mining at the Crystal Palace, 592

Metals: Molecular Stability of, particularly of Iron and Steel,
Carl Barus, 369; Relation between Electric and Thermal
Conductivities of, Alph. Berget, 387

Metamorphism of Rocks, Chemical and Physical Studies in the,
Rev. A. Irving, 49

Meteorology: Electrical Cloud Phenomena, Prof. W. K.
Burton, 10; Quarterly Weather Report for 1880, 18; Loomis
on the Rainfall of the Earth, Dr. van Bebber, 43; Remark-
able Hailstones at Philadelphia, Prof. E. J. Houston, 43;
the Causes and Character of Haze, Hon. F. A. R. Russell,
60; Dr. Bushrod W. James's American Resorts, with Notes
on their Climate, 79; Proposed Meteorological Station at
the Bermuda Islands, 85; Annual Report of the Deutsche
Seewarte, 85; Berlin Meteorological Society, 96; Deutsche
Seewarte Observations, 231; Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic
Ocean, 85, 161, 401; Rainfall of Germany during 1876-85,
Dr. H. Meyer, 85; American Meteorological Journal, 92;
Thunderstorms in England and Wales, 93; Prof. von Bezold
on the Production of Clouds, 95; Meteorological Society, see
Royal; Meteorology of New South Wales, H. C. Russell, 113;
Meteorology of the Straits Settlements, 114; a Popular Treatise

on

the Winds, William Ferrel, 1243; Luminous Night
Clouds, Evan McLennan, 131; Meteorology of Suffolk, 149;
Barometric Gradients, Teisserenc de Bort, 161; the Observa-
tions of Temperature on top of Eiffel Tower, Alfred Angot,
167, 181; Meteorological Institute of Roumania, 181;
Cyclone of September 11-12, 1889, in Japan, M. Wada,
208; Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands, 208;
Anemometers, W. H. Dines, 212; Frequency of Mist, Dr.
Kremser, 215; Self-luminous Clouds, C. E. Stromeyer, 225;
Remarkable Electrical Phenomena seen at the Säntis Obser-
vatory, 231; Meteorology in the United States, 231; Me-
teorology of Mexico for Twelve Years ending 1888, 256;
Rainbow due to Sunlight reflected from the Sea, Sir William
Thomson, F.R.S., 271; William Scouller, 271; Exact Ther-

mometry, Dr. Sydney Young, 271; Weather Forecasting.
278; Meteorology of the North Atlantic for December
1889, 284: Luminous Clouds, T. W. Backhouse, 297
Joseph John Murphy, 298; Proposed Exhibition illustrating
Application of Photography to Meteorology, 301; Tem-
perature "Anomalies," 303; Bibliography of Meteorology.
General Greely, 303; Report on the Meteorology of Austra
lia, C. L. Wragge, 348; the Ben Nevis Observatory Report
for January 1890, 348; Atmospheric Dust, Dr. Marcet, 358;
Atmospheric Circulation, A. Buchan, 363; Shining Night
Clouds, Robert B. White, 369; Dependence of Force of Winds
upon Surface over which they blow, Dr. van Bebber, 372 :
Behaviour of Water in Soil, Dr. Wagner, 383; Sun-spots in
1889, Prof. Sporer, 383; on the Number of Dust Particles in
the Atmosphere of Certain Places in Great Britain and on the
Continent, with Remarks on the Relation between the
Amount of Dust and Meteorological Phenomena, John Aitken,
F.R.S., 382, 394; Meteorology in Japan, 1887, M. Wada,
400; Proposed Meteorological Observatory in Loochoo
Islands, 401; the Motion of Dust, Hon. Ralph Abercromby.
406; an Optical Feature of Lightning Flashes, 406; Weather
in January, Chas. Harding, 425; Meteorology of Central
America, Boletin Trimestral of San José (Costa Rica) Ob-
servatory, 427; Meteorological Report of the Challenger
Expedition, 443; Diurnal Range of Barometer, A. Angot,
449; Waterspout in Atlantic, 470; Preponderance of North-
East Wind during past Five Years, C. L. Prince, 470;
Meteorology of the Gold and Slave Coast, Dr. Danckel-
mann, 479; Royal Meteorological Society's Exhibition,
William Marriott, 491; Captain Abney's Photo-Nephograph,
491; Pickering's Pole-star Recorder, 491; Photo-Nepho-
graph, Captain Abney's, 491; Report of the Meteorological
Council for Year ending March 31, 1889, 495; Use of
"Sling" Thermometer in Prediction of Frosts, Prof. H. А.
Hazen, 501; Photography in Relation to Meteorological
Work, G. M. Whipple, 503; Fire-damp Explosions losions in Mines
in Relationship to Cosmic and Meteorological Conditions,
504; Meteorological Observatory at Fort William, 518; D.
Dewar's Weather and Tidal Forecasts for 1890, 546; Varia-
bility of Temperature of British Isles (1859-83), R. H. Scott,
F.R.S., 550; Solar Halos and Parhelia, J. Lovell, 560;
New Way of giving Information as to Weather on Coasts,
568; Meteorological Observations for 1887 at Greenwich
Observatory, 570: Increase of Coldness in China, 570;
U.S.A. Signal Service Monthly Weather Review for January
1890, 570; Relative Prevalence of North-East and South-West
Winds, William Ellis, 586; Influenza and Weather, Mitchell
and Buchan, 596; C. Harding on the Cold in March 1890, 598
Meteors: a Brilliant, Paul A. Cobbold, 32; Remarkable Meteor
at Pontevedra, Dr. E. Caballero, 303; a Brilliant Meteor, Wm.
Scarnell Lean, 60; a Brilliant, J. Cockburn, 81; Brilliant
Meteors, P. A. Harris, 105; R. H. Tiddeman, 105; Rev. T. W.
Morton, 249; a Greenish Meteor, T. D. A. Cockerell, 369; a
Meteor, T. W. Baker, 418; a Remarkable Meteor, J. Dunn,
560; Meteorites of Mexico, M. Daubrée, 71; on the Supposed
Enormous Showers of Meteorites in the Desert of Atacama,
108; Die Mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteoriten erläutert
durch photographische Abbildungen, G. Tschermak, 127;
Die Structur und Zusammensetzung der Meteoreisen erläutert
durch photographische Abbildungen Geätzter Schnittflächen,
A. Brezina und E. Cohen, 127; Die Meteoritensammlung des
k.k. Mineralog. Hofkabinetes in Wien, A. Brezina, 127;
Examination of the Mighet, of June 9, 1889, Stanislas Meunier,
232; J. Rutherford Hill, 298; Prof. Simaschko, 472;
Analogy of South African Diamantiferous Matrix to Meteorites,
M. Daubrée, 263; the Physical and Chemical Characteristics of
Meteorites, as throwing Light upon their Past History, J.
Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 305

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Metric System of Weights and Measures, Thuillier and Water-
house's Conversion Tables, 66

Metrical System, the Babylonian, Dr. Lehmann, 167
Meunier (Stanislas), Examination of Mighei (June 9, 1889)
Meteorite, 232

Mexican Amber, G. F. Kunz, 372
Mexico for Twelve Years ending 1888, Meteorology of, 256
Mexico, Hygrometric Club Moss from Mexico, 401
Mexico, the Eruption of the Volcano Popocatepetl, 592
Meyer (Dr. A. B.): Evolution of Sex, 272; Celebes Photo-
graphs, 471; Brush-Turkeys on the Smaller Islands north of
Celebes, 514

Meyer (Dr. H.), Rainfall of Germany 1876-85, 85