ABERYSTWITH, University College Magazine, 87

Absolute Pitch, on the Determination of, by the Harmonium,
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 275

Absorption Spectra, Recent Researches on, 495; Photographic
Records of, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 523; Prof. Soret's Re-
searches on, 524

Actonian Prize of the Royal Institution, 256

E. D. Archibald, 266; American Geological Railway
Guide, J. Macfarlane, 287; Reorganisation of the American
Surveys, 370; American Aphides, 585; Technical Education
in, 591; American Chemical Journal, 592; se also United
States, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, &c.
Amia, Respiration of, 246

Amianthus, Discovery of a Mine of, 376

Aerated Bread, Prof. A. H. Church, 174

Aeronautics, New Society in Paris, 395; see also Balloons
Afghan War, the Scientific Aspect of, 396
Afghanistan, 40; Dr. Chavanne's work on, 222
Africa: the Tanganyika Expedition, 15: Keith Johnston's East
African Expedition, 43, 204; the Utilisation of the African
Elephant, 54, 99, 516; Rev. J. P. Farler on Usambara, 76; the
Italian Expedition, 78; Road-making at Lake Nyassa, 77;
the Portuguese Expedition, 78, Ico, 438, 471, 556; the C. M. S.
Nyanza Expedition, 99, Ico, 542; M. Soleillet's Exploration
of, 124; Sudden Change in Temperature in the Transvaal,
131; a South African Folk-Lore Society, 206; the German
Scientific Expedition, 323; the Position of Blantyre, 324;
T. J. Coomber on the District of Mount Cameroons, 348;
Proposed Central African Railway, 247, 348; Ladein's Tour
through Central, 349; Berlin African Society, 395; the
French Missionary Expedition, 422, 584; Dr. Buchner's Ex-
pedition, 422; Lake Nyassa, 438; the French Expedition to
Central Africa, 438, 556; Madagascar Forms in, 470, 527;
the Belgian African Expedition, 470, 491; the Algerian Ex-
pedition, 471; New Telegraphic Lines in, 516; “L'Afrique
Centrale en, 1522," 556

Afridee Family, Description of, 376

Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), his New Zoological Laboratory, 317
Agassiz (Louis), Notice of (with Portrait), 573
Agricultural College, Cirencester, 453, 544
Agricultural Colleges in Japan, 425

Agricultural Society, Journal of, 312
Agriculture in France, 160

Air-Temperature, its Distribution and Range, J. H. Laughton,
177

Airy (Sir G. B.) on the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge, 497
Alaghir, Earthquake at, 446

Albertis's Exploration of New Guinea, 43

Amu-Daria, the Exploration of, 556
Anarrhichas lupus, 556

Anatomy and Physiology, Journal of, 87

Aneroid Barometers, Experiments with, in the Giffard Balloon,
17
Angola, New Birds from, 585

Aniline Black, the Use of Vanadium in making, 280
"Animal Chemistry," C. T. Kingzett, 358
Animal Electricity, Dr. L. Hermann on, 561
Anisoplia austriaca, Destruction of Crops at Taganrog by, 182
Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 66, 185, 259, 330, 426, 521
Annular Eclipse of January 22, 1879, 99
Anthropological Institute, 91, 163, 331, 356, 403, 451, 499, 547,
595; Legacy to, 374
Anthropological Exhibition at Moscow, 280, 300, 375
Anthropometry, a Manual of, Charles Roberts, 29, 73
Ants, Termites kept in Captivity by, Henry O. Forbes, 4
Ants, Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., on, 377
Antwerp Geographical Society, Bulletin, 583
Aphides, American, 585

Appleton (Dr. C. E.), Death of, 374; Obituary Notice of, 386
Archibald (E. D.), Locusts and Sun-Spots, 145; American
Weather, 266; Kainfall of the World, 305

Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 306, 546, 570
Arcimis (Augusto T.), Earthquake at Cadiz, 555

Arctic Exploration: 123; the Use of Balloons for, 18; Capt.
Tyson's Expedition, 123; Nordenskjöld's Expedition, 77, 102,
222, 247, 270, 298, 349, 373; Capt. Howgate's Proposed
Colony, 349, 584; Mr. Gordon Bennett's Expedition, 422;
the Dutch Willem Barentz, 542

Arctic Ocean, the Temperature and Density of the Water of,
270

Arctic Regions, are the Fossil Floras of the, Eocene or Miocene,
and the Causes which enabled them to exist in High Latitudes,
J. Starkie Gardner, 124

Aleutian Isles, Volcanic Eruptions in, 45

Alga: of the Caspian Sea, 319; Fossil Calcareous, Prof. E.
Perceval Wright, 485; Discosporangium, 584; Halosphæra,
a New Genus of, 584

Algebraischen Gleichungen, Theorie der, Dr. Jul. Petersen, 3
Algeria, Proposed Railway from, to Senegal, 395
Algol: the Variable-Star, 298; the Companion of, 365

Argentine Scientific Society, Anales of, 232
Argyll (Duke of), a Carnivorous Goose, 554
Arithmetic, Muir's Text-Book of, 30
Aroid, Discovery of a New Gigantic, 45

Art, Unscientific, John W. Buck, 460; Chas. Coppock, 484
Arvonian, Pre-Cambrian, Rocks, 427
Ascension," Mrs. Gill, 240
Asclepiadaceæ, Sensitive Organs in, 155

Amazon, Decrease of the River, 324
Amazonian Devonian, Fossils of the, 469
America American Journal of Science and Arts, 66, 185, 209,
378, 400, 520; American Jurassic Dinosaurs, 70; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 140, 211, 428, 547; Ameri-
can Microscopical Journal, 145; American Surveys and Ex-
plorations, Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 213; Ripley and
Dana's "American Cyclopædia," 264; American Weather,

Students,"

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Asia: Col. Prjvalsky's Exploration of, 323; Russian Expeditions
to Central, 271, 349, 438, 515.
Asiatic Fishes, New, 245

Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions, 583
Asparagin in Plants, 390
Aspiorhynchus prjvalskii, 389

Association Scientifique de France, Lectures of, 232
Astrakan, the Plague in, 325