ABBE (Prof. Cleveland), the "Rollers" of Ascension and St.
Helena, 585

Abel (Sir Frederick, F.R.S.), Smokeless Explosives, 328, 352
Abercromby (Hon. John), a Trip through the Eastern Caucasus,
391

Abercromby (Hon. R.), the Motion of Dust, 406
Abney (Captain W. de W., F. R.S.), Photo-nephograph, 491
Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, W. F. R. Weldon, 464

Aborigine, a Surviving Tasmanian, Hy. Ling Roth, 105

Acetic Acid Solutions, Vapour-pressure of, Raoult and Recoura,
431

Accumulations of Capital in the United Kingdom in 1875-85,
Robert Giffen, 211

Achlya, Prof. Marcus M. Hartog, 298

Acoustics: Melde's Vibrating Strings, Rev. W. Sidgreaves,
355; Propagation of Sound, Violle and Vautier, 359; the
Testing of Tuning-forks, Dr. Lehmann, 383

Acquired Characters, Palæontological Evidence for the Trans-
mission of, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227
Acquired Characters and Congenital Variation: 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
Actinometric Observations at Kiev, 1888-89, R. Savelief, 359
Acworth (W. M.): Railways of England, 434; Railways of
Scotland, 434

Adams (Prof. J. C., F.R.S.), on certain Approximate Formulæ
for Calculating the Trajectories of Shot, 258
Adamson (Daniel): Death of, 256; Obituary Notice of, 279
Advancement of Science, Australasian Association for the, Prof.
Orme Masson, 441

Africa: H. M. Stanley's Exploration of, 20, 73; Reported
Massacre of Dr. Peters's Party, 21; South African Gold-fields,
the, G. D. Cocorda, 164; the Land of an African Sultan,
Walter B. Harris, 270; East Africa and its Big Game, Cap-
tain Sir J. Willoughby, 298; African Monkeys in the West
Indies, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 368; Meteorology of
the Gold and Slave Coast, Dr. Danckelmann, 479

Agriculture: Sheep Farming in Australia, Prof. Wallace, 113;
Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses and other
Pasture Plants, William Wilson, 1963; Field Experiments on
Wheat in Italy, Prof. Giglioli, 404

Ahrens's Polarizing Binocular Microscope, 93

Aitken (John, F.R.S.), 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, 382, 394
Aitkens (Sir William), Animal Alkaloids, Second Edition, 161
Aka Expedition of 1883, Colonel Woodthorpe, 86
Algæ, a New Atlas of, Dr. J. Reinke, 127

Algebra: an Elementary Text-book for the Higher Classes of
Secondary Schools and for Colleges, Prof. G. Chrystal, 338
Algebraic Equations, Roots of, Prof. A. Cayley, F. R.S., 335
Algeria, Earthquake in, 113

Algol, Satellite of, W. H. S. Monck, 198

Algol, Spectroscopic Observations of, Prof. Vogel, 164, 285.
Alpine Chain, a Geological Map of the, Prof. T. G. Bonney,
F.R.S., 483

Alpine Expeditions of Dr. Emil Zsigmondy, 291
Aluminium and Nitric Acid, A. Ditte, 599

Amber, Mexican, G. F. Kunz, 372

America: Sir Daniel Wilson on the Recent Toronto Meeting of

the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 17;
European Weeds in, 18; American Journal of Mathematics, 71,
332, 525; American Resorts, with Notes upon their Climate,
Dr. Bushrod W. James, 79; American Journal of Science,
46, 92, 309, 405, 500, 598; American Meteorological Journal,
92, 357, 501; American Meteorological Society, 324; Ameri-
can Ethnological Reports, J. W. Powell, 99; American
Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 136; American Naturalist,

Rev. Paul Camboué, 103

Animals, Effects of Music on, A. E. C. Stearns, 470
Animaux, Les Industries des, F. Houssay, 409

Annuario Meteorologico of the Italian Meteorological Society,
231

Anomalies, Temperature, Dr. R. Spitaler, 303
Anoura, the Metamorphosis of, E. Bataillon, 23
Anthropology: the Malay People, Dr. B. Hagen, 21; the Last
Living Aboriginal of Tasmania, 43; Prehistoric Burial-ground
discovered in Caucasus by Beyern, 43; Anthropological
Institute, 119, 256, 406; Journal of the Anthropological In-
stitute, 594; Inheritance of Acquired Mental Peculiarity,
Handtmann, 209; L'Anthropologie, 300; the Veddahs of
Ceylon, Dr. Arthur Thomson, 303; Classification of Races,
Based on Physical Characters only, M. Denniker, 332;
Modern Crania in Montpellier, De Lapouge, 357; the
Cephalic Index of Corsican Population, Dr. A. Fallot, 357;
the Chin Tribes of North Burma, G. B. Sacchiero, 375;
Characteristic Survivals of Celts in Hampshire, T. W. Shore,
406; Charlotte Corday's Skull, Dr. Topinard, 500; Jacques
Bertillon on the Identification of Criminals by Measurement,
592

Anthropometry, Cambridge: Dr. John Venn, F.R.S., 450, 560;
Francis Galton, F.R.S., 454

Antilles, the Lesser, Owen T. Bulkeley, 268
Antiparallel, the Use of the Word, W. J. James, 10; E. М.
Langley, 104

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