Electric Currents, Dr. C. W. Siemens on Measuring and Regu-
lating, 330, 427

Electric Light: the Werdermann, 16, 37, 44, 491; Edison's
Invention, 44, 60, 130, 517, 532; the Electro-Dynamic
Light Company's Method, 44; William Trant on the Divisi-
bility of the, 52; at Liverpool, 60, 107, 232; Divisi
bility of the, John Bridge, 73; Henry Wilde on Im-
proved Methods of Producing and Regulating the, 78, 152;
Edison's Invention for Measuring the Electric Current, 107;
and Dynamic Electricity, 131; in Paris, 130; and Measuring
the Height of Clouds, 148; on the Holborn Viaduct, 159,
492; J. Hopkinson on the, 174; Experiments at Havre, 181;
Mr. Louis Schwendler's Experiments on, 230; W. H. Preece
on, 242; at Liverpool Street Station, 255; on German River
Steamboats, 256; Gas versus Electricity, 261; Report of the
Paris Municipal Council, 280; Early Experiments in, Thos.
Stevenson, 302, H. J. Nicoll on, 340; at San Francisco, 351;
Mr. Shoolbred on, 379; at the British Museum, 395, 423;
the Select Committee of the House of Commons on, 491; for
War Purposes, 544; at the Albert Hall, 560
Electric Spark Pen, a New, 60

Electrical Observations at Montsouris Observatory, 207
Electrical Phenomenon on Sheldon Bridge, 182; on Mount Rosa,
220; Dr. Marshall Hall, 315

Electricity: Thermal Phenomena Produced by the Passage of,
through Rarefied Gases, Naccari and Bellati, 21; Dr. Mac.
farlane on the Disruptive Discharge of, 184; Atmospheric,
G. M. Whipple, 220; of the Torpedo, Dr. François Franck,
295, 320; Early Experiments in, Thos. Stevenson, 302; a
New Relation between Electricity and Light, J. E. H. Gor-
don, 402; and Water-Drops, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 486;
Animal, Dr. L. Hermann on, 561

Electromagnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation in a
Vapour, 519

Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection and Refraction of
Light, G. F. Fitzgerald, 282
Electrometer, Thomson, 560

Elements, on the Compound Nature of the, J. Norman Lockyer,
F.R.S., 157, 197, 225

Elephant: Indian, Anatomy of the, L. C. Miall and F. Green-
wood, 383; Intelligence in an, 385

Elephant, African, the Utilisation of the, 99, 516; Sir J.
Fayrer, 54

Ellis (Alex. J.), the Ancient Pitch of Organs, 171
Encyclopædia of Natural Science, New German, 376
Endowments, Medical, at Oxford, 20

Energy and Force, 315; Robert H. Smith, 194, 217, 249
Engelmann (Wilhelm), Sketch of, 473

Favre (Prof. Alphonse), on the Formation of Mountains, 103
Fawsitt (Chas. A.), Strange Properties of Matter, 98
Faye's Comet, 469

Fayrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), the Size of the Tiger, 9; the Utilisa-
tion of the African Elephant, 54

Female University Education, 353,

Ferlo, Senegambia, Proposed Exploration of, 491
Fertilisation of Flowers, Gevaert's Work on, 506
Fiji Islands, 492

Finck (Henry T.), Intellect in Brutes, 340

Finsch (Dr.), Expedition to the Polynesian Seas, 44, 373
Fire-Damp, Royal Commission on, 375

Firth of Clyde, Mollusca of, Alfred Broun, 217
Fisher (Rev. O.), the Formation of Mountains, 172, 266, 339
Fisheries of the United States, 429, 460

Fishes: Singular Fatality to, 86; Prof. E. Perceval Wright on
Fishes' Heads, 149; Intelligence of, 160; New Asiatic, 245,
389; the Food of, S. A. Forbes, 319; U.S. Fish Commission
on, 390

Fitzgerald (G. F.), Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection
and Refraction of Light, 282

122

Flame, the Bunsen, a Sensitive Flame, W. W. Haldare Gee,
Flammarion (M.) on the Lunar Observation, 181; on Double
Stars, 216

Flint Implement Workshop, Discovery of a Prehistoric, 351
Florence, the Expedition of the, 15, 43, 123

Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.) elected President of the Zoolo-
gical Society, 349; his Lectures at the College of Surgeons,
395

"Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," Kerner's, A. W. Ben-
nett, 214

Flowers, Hulme's Familiar Wild, 94

Flowers in the Carboniferous Epoch, R. MeLachlan, F.R.S.,
554; A. R. Wallace, 582

Fluorescing Substances, 493

Fly River, D'Albertis's Expedition up, 43

Fonvielle (Wilfrid de), "Comment le font les Miracles en
dehors de l'Eglise," 287

Forbes (Henry O.), Termites kept in Captivity by Ants, 4
Forbes (S. A.), the Food of Fishes, 319

Forbes (W. A.), the Glacial Period and Geographical Distribu-
tion, 363

Force and Energy, 315; Robert H. Smith, 194, 217, 242
Force, Sense of, and Sense of Temperature, 554
Forest Geography, Prof. Asa Gray on, 327

Forest Meteorological Stations of Germany, Report of, 419
Forests, Fossil, in Yellowstone Park, U.S., 257; and Silicified
Trunks, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314

Formosa, Affairs in, 301; Cultivation of Camphor in, 351
Forster (Prof., of Bern), Report on Weather Warnings, 232
Fossil Floras of the Arctic Regions, are they Eocene or Mio-
cene? and the Causes which enabled them to exist in High
Latitudes, J. Starkie Gardner, 124

Fossil Forests: in Yellowstone Park, U.S., 257; and Silicified
Trunks, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314

Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, the Organisation of, Prof.
C. Williamson, F.R.S., 521

Fossils, Handbill of an Old (1775) Lecture on, 208

Foster (Dr. M., F.R.S.) and the Study of Physiology at Cam-
bridge, 66; Studies from the Cambridge Physiological Labo-
ratory, Part III., 145.

Foster (P. le Neve), Obituary Notice of, 385

Fowler (Prof. T.)," Bacon's Novum Organum," G. F. Rodwell,
262

France: Education in, 66; Agriculture in, 160; Grant to the
Bureau of Meteorology, 206; Severe Weather in, 256; Tele
graph Lines broken by Sleet, 301; French Geographical
Explorations, 490; Sociétés Savantes, Annual Meeting, 590;
French Physical Society, 591; see also Paris, &c.

Franck (Dr. François), the Electricity of the Torpedo, 295,
320

Franklin Institute, Journal of, 67, 234, 306, 354, 594
Freezing of Lakes, J. Y. Buchanan, 380, 412, 433

French Guiana, Dr. Jules Crevaux's Exploration of, 298, 395,
515

Friedländer's Catalogues, 325

Frog having Eggs on its Back, Fritz Müller on, 462
Fuel, I. Lowthian Bell, F.R.S., on the Combustion of Dif.
ferent Kinds of, 175, J. A. Church, 339

A 2

Furniss (James J.), Intellect in Brutes, 385

Gabes Isthmus, 222
Gall-making Insects, 75

Galloway (W.), the Influence of Coal-Dust in Colliery Explo-
sions, 546

Galvanometer, a "New," R. E. Baynes, 33; the Cosine, Prof.
E. C. Pickering, 217

Galvanometers for Strong Currents, Eugen Obach, 98; John
Trowbridge, 121

Gardner (J. Starkie), Are the Fossil Floras of the Arctic Re-
gions Eocene or Miocene? and the Causes which enabled
them to exist in High Latitudes, 124

Garibaldi ((Menotti), Proposed Colonisation of New Guinea,
471, 542

Garpike, on the Development of the, Dr. E. Perceval Wright,

100

Gas versus Electricity, 261

Gas-Lighting, Experiments in, 326

Gastaldi (Bartolemeo), Obituary Notice of, 275

Gatehouse (T. E.), the Werdermann Electric Light, 37
Gauss, the Statue to, 350, 544

Gaussius' Warning Regarding the Sluggishness of Ships' Mag.
netism, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 127

Geikie (Prof. Arch., F.R.S.), Smiles' "Life of Robert Dick,"
189; American Surveys and Explorations, 213; Geographical
Evolution, 490

Geissler (Dr. Heinrich), Death of, 350; Obituary Notice of, 372
Geneva Observatory, New Instrument for the, 59

Geneva: High Level Attained by the Lake of, 351; the Lake-
Dwellings at, 445; Society of Physics and Natural History,
523, 548

Genoa (Duke of), Exploring Expedition, 471
Geodesy, 505

Geoghegan (Edward), Intellect in Brutes, 268
Geography: Geɔgraphical Notes, 15, 43, 76, 99, 123, 156, 180,
204, 222, 246, 270, 297, 323, 348, 372, 394, 421, 438, 470,
490, 515, 542, 556, 583; Geographical Distribution of Ani-
mals, Dr. A. Wilson's Handbook and Map of, 30; Geogra-
phical Magazine, Death_of the, 99; New French Work on
Universal, 180; Berlin Geographical Society, 271, 324; Geo-
graphical Distribution and the Glacial Period, W. A. Forbes,
363; Geographical Professorships, Memorial of the Royal
Geographical Society, 421; Proposed Society of Commercial
Geography, 421; Geographical Evolution, Prof. A. Geikie,
F.R.S., 490; Geographical Society, see Royal
Geology Geological Survey of the United States, 15; Geolo-
gical Climate and Geological Time, William Davies, 33;
Ramsay's Manual of British Geology, 69; Geological Society,
91, 187, 210, 282, 356, 426, 451, 522, 571, 595; Medals, &c.,
of, 445; Reports of the U.S. Geological Survey, 130; Ame.
rican Surveys and Explorations, Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S.,
213; Macfarlane's American Geological Railway Guide, 287;
G. St. Kinahan's "Geology of Ireland," 382
"Géometrie Cinématique,” M. Mannheim's Proposed Work on,
108

Geophilus, E. Metschnikoff's Researches on, 342

Germany Geological Map of, 85; Peat Fuel in, 160; Dr. E.
Lommel on German Degrees, 267; Report of the Forest
Meteorological Stations, 419

Gevaert's Work on the Fertilisation of Flowers, 506
Gibbs (John), First Catechism of Botany, 28

Gibson (Geo. A.) Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, 173
Giffard's Captive Balloon, 46, 423, 493, 517, 560

Gigantic Land Tortoises, Alexis A. Julian, 30; Dr. Jeffries
Wyman, 31

Giglioli (Dr. H. Hillyer), Colour-Variation in Lizards-Corsican
Herpetology, 97

Gill (David) appointed Astronomer at the Cape, 388
Gill (Mrs.), "Ascension," 240

Glass Fibre, Dr. Hopkinson on, F.R.S., on the Torsional Strain
which remains in a, after Release from Twisting Stress, 187,
306

Glass, Toughened, G. C. Druce, 5
Globular Lightning, Charlotte Hare, 5
Goebel on Sprouting in Isoetes, 319
Gold-Leads of Nova Scotia, 523

Goodrich (C. F.), Internal Resistance, 339
Goose, a Carnivorous, Duke of Argyll, 554

Gordon (J. E. H.), a new Relation between Electricity and
Light, 402

Gore (Dr. G., F.R.S.), the Art of Scientific Discovery, G. F.
Rodwell, 285

Gotha, Cremation at, 232

Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 356, 596

"Graham " Lecture and Medal, John Mayer, 254; W. C.
Roberts, F. R.S., on Molecular Mobility, 291

Granite, Graphic, Frank Johnson, 122

Graphite, Discovery of, at Wellington, New Zealand, 300
Grasses, Colonial, as Paper-making Materials, 132
Gray (Prof. Asa) on Forest Geography, 327

Green (W. S.), Electrical Phenomenon, 220
Greenland, Exploration of, 556

Ground, Dry, the Gas Absorption of, 544
Grunow on the Algae of the Caspian Sea, 319
Gruss (Dr.), the Physical Nature of the Sun, 424
Guano in New Caledonia, 423

Guiana, British, Preservation of Birds in, 301; the Indians of,
394

Guiana, French, Dr. Jules Crevaux's Exploration of, 298, 395
Gulf of Mexico, Dredging Operations, 389
Gulf-Weed, a Means of Migration for Fishes and Marine Inver-
tebrates, J. M. Jones, 363

Guns: the last Experiment with the Eighty-ton, 148; Our Big
Guns, 294; Moving of Heavy Ordnance, 373; the Thun-
derer Explosion, 333, 414

Gurney (H. P.), "Crystallography," 171

Guthrie (Fredk. F.R.S.), "Physics," 311, 384; Vibration of
Metal Rods, 331

"Habit and Intelligence," J. J. Murphy, 477

Haeckel (Prof. Ernst) on the Liberty of Science and of Teaching,
113, 135

Hail, the Formation of, 397
Hainan, the Island of, 421

Hall (Prof. Asaph), the Trans-Neptunian Planet, 481
Hall (Dr. Marshall), Electrical Phenomena, 315
Halley (Edmund), Autograph of, 422
Halley's and Biela's Comets, 204

Hallowes (W. A. T.), Unseen Universe-Paradoxical Philoso-
phy, 219

Halophila, Dr. I. B. Balfour on, 584

Halosphæra, a New Genus of Unicellular Algæ, 584
Hanbury Memorial Fund, 374

Hannay (J. B.) on the Microthermometer, 378
Hardman (E. T.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 267
Hare (Charlotte), Globular Lightning, 5
Harkness (Prof.), Memorial to, 44
Harmer (John), Ear Affection, 365

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

Hartog (Dr. Marcus G.), Eichler's "Blüthendiagramme,” 70
Harvard University, Library Bulletin of, 517
Harvey, the Remains of, 85

Haughton (Dr. Samuel, F.R.S.), the Tides at Chepstow and
Fundy, 432

Hayden (Prof. F. V.), Geological Survey of the United States,
15; Vote of Thanks to, by the Colorado Legislature, 350;
Health Statistics, 108

Heath (Dr. Edwin R.), Expedition in South America, 394
Heddle (Prof.) receives the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 346

Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173

Gladstone (Dr., F.R.S.), Science Teaching in Elementary
Schools, 181; Blue Flame from Common Salt, 582
Glaisher (J. W. L.), Circulating Decimals, 208
Glasgow Industrial Museum, 518

during the Eruption of February 27, 1878, G. F. Rodwell,
280

Heliostat, the, H. Baden Pritchard, 508

Heliotropism in Plants, Herr Wiesner on, 161

Helmholtz (Prof. H., F.R.S.), Lord Rayleigh's "Theory of
Sound," Vol. II., 117

Hennessy (H., F.R.S.), the Figure of the Planet Mars, 31
Henslow (Rev. George), Intellect in Brutes, 385, 433
Hereditary Transmission, E. L. Layard, 197

Isomorphism, Prof. Hermann Kopp on, 387
Istituto Reale Veneto, Prizes of the, 376

Isvestia of the Russian Geographical Society, 247, 270

Herpetology, Corsican, Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 97

Herpetology, Papuan, 176

Herring Culture, 469

Herschel (Dr. J.), Was Homer Colour-Blind? 72

Higgin (George, C.E.), Deltaic Growth, 555

Highlands, St. John's Wild Sports of the, 193

Hilda, the Minor Planet, 510, 583

Hill (E.), the Formation of Mountains, 289

Hill (S. A.), Atmospheric Pressure and Solar Heat, 432

Histology, Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of, 544

Hollis (Dr. W. Ainslie), Ear Affection, 364

Holloway (John), a New Process in Metallurgy, 410

Holmgren (Prof.), Experiments on the Visual Purple of the

Retina, 350

Homer, was, Colour-Blind? 72, 73; R. C. A. Prior, 119

Hooker (Sir J. D., C.B.), Presidential Anniversary Address at

the Royal Society, 109, 132

Hooker and Ball's "Marocco and the Great Atlas," 366

Hopkins (Johns) University, Baltimore, Report of, 66

Hopkinson (Dr. J., F.R.S.), Electric Lighting, 174; on the

Torsional Strain which remains in a Glass Fibre after Release

from Twisting Stress, 187, 306

Hornets, Wm. Wilson Saunders, 147

Horse, the Movements of the, 438, 464, 488

Horses, Sagacity in, M. Carey-Hobson, 147

Lakes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173; Chemico-Agricultural Station
in, 390; Mathematics in, 407; Phylloxera in, 375, 408

Jackson (Chas. I..), United States Fisheries, 460
Jackson (J. P.), Bees' Stings, 385

Janssen's Paper on Recent Advances in Solar Physics, 301
Japan: Cotton Mills in, 61; Farming in, 86; the Magic Mirror
of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 186; Traces of an Early Race in,
278; its Relations with Corea, 298; Dr. Woeikoff's Travels
through, 349; Brewing of Beer in, 397; Teas of, 423; Agri-
cultural Colleges in, 425; Petroleum in, 473; Cannibalism in,
474; Population of, 516; Japanese Mirrors and their Magic
Quality, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 539; Education in Kioto, 560
Java, Charnay's Exploration of, 491

Jenkins (B. G.), Vulcan and Bode's Law, 74; Cape Diamonds,
582

Jenkins (H. L.), Utilisation of the African Elephant, 99
Jevons (Prof. W. Stanley, F.R.S.), Commercial Crises and
Sun-Spots, 33, 588; Sun-Spots and the Plague, 338

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Report of, 66

Johnson (Frank), Graphic Granite, 122

Johnson's Patentee's Manual, 362

Johnston (Keith), Expedition to Africa, 43, 204

Jones (Alfred S.), Sewerage and Drainage, 53; Absorption of

Water by the Leaves of Plants, 244

Houzeau on Certain Phenomena of Astronomy, 447

Howe Sound, Discovery of Copper at, 279

Howgate (Capt.), Proposed Arctic Colony, 18

and Marine Invertebrata, 363

Joseph II. Adit, 509

Journal de Physique, 88, 235, 401, 521

Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 87

Ice Pearls, J. Shaw, 508

Illumination in Spectroscopy, Piazzi Smyth, 400, 458
"Index Medicus," Drs. Billings and Fletcher, 431
India: Floods in Ferozepore, 131; Marine Surveys of the
Coasts of, 298; Botanic Garden for, 375; Indian Meteorology,
269, 293; Indian Antiquary, 584

Indians: the, of British Guiana, 394; North American, Casts
of the Heads of, 544
Indo-Oceanic Races, 258

Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 244; Leibnitz
and the Royal Society, 267, 364

Insects: in Tertiary Rocks, 246; Petzold's Method of Preserving,
301; Observations of Injurious, Miss E. A. Omerod, 492;
the Early Types of, 584

Institute of Naval Architects, 530

Institution of Civil Engineers, 350, 356, 547

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 324, 473

Intellect in Brutes, 409, 458, 481, 496, 519; Edw. Geoghegan,

268; Walter Severn, 291; H. T. Finck, 340; Arthur Nicols,

365, 409, 433; Rev. George Henslow, 385, 433; James J.

Furniss, 385; W. P. Buchan, 409, 459; Henry Muirhead,

409, 459; Dr. John Rae, 409, 459; C. W. Strickland, 410;

E. H. Pringle, 459; Maurice Belsham, 459; R. M. Middle-

ton, 459

Internal Resistance, C. F. Goodrich, 339

Intra-Mercurial Planet Question, 260, 347, 437; Prof. Lewis

Swift, 96

Ipswich, Science Lectures at, 544

Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Societies of St.

Petersburg, 23

Journal, Royal Agricultural Society, 312

Jucuapa, Earthquake at, 85

Julien (Alexis A.), Gigantic Land Tortoise, 30

Julius (Dr. V. A.), the Microphone, 266

Jupiter and Biela's Comet in 1794, 75; Occultation of 64

Aquarii by, 154; Occultation of Stars by Jupiter's Satellites,,

154

Jurassic Dinosaurs, American, 76

Kaieteur Fall of the Potara River, 205

Kaltbrunner (D.), "Manuel du Voyageur," 71

Karataghin, Exploration of, 247

Karmarsch (Prof.), Death of, 517

Keane (A. H.), Pratt's Grammar of the Samoan Language, 335;

Australian and Tasmanian Races, 549

Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 346
Kemp (John), Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, 97
Kerner's "Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," A. W. Bennett,
214

Kinahan (G. St.), "Geology of Ireland," 382

Kinetic Theory, Temperature Equilibrium in the Universe in

Relation to the, S. Tolver Preston, 555

King (Prof. Samuel), Method for Rapidly Inflating Balloons, 18

King's College, London, the Physical Laboratory of, 594

Kingzett (C. T.), "Animal Chemistry," 358

Kioto, Education in, 560

Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of Histology, 544

Knight (John Henry), Nitric Acid Batteries, 581

Kopp (Prof. Hermann), Isomorphism, 387

Kosmos, 449

Krause (Dr. Ernst), the Colour-Sense, 120
Krümmel (Dr.), on the Mean Depth of the Sea, 348
Kuntze (Dr. Otto), Fossil Forests and Silicified Trunks, 314

Laboratory, Zoological, Prof. Alex. Agassiz, 317
Lactin, Dr. Mills' Researches on, 330

F. Sinclair, 74

Iron, Magnetic Properties of Powdered, 352

Ismene, the Minor Planet, 42

Isoetes, on Sprouting in, 319

Lake Constance, Examination of, 85

Lake-Dwellings: Objects from Neufchâtel, 17; Discovery of

on Lake Bienne, 61; of the Lake of Geneva, 445; of the

Pfohrener Ried, 445

Lakes Glaciation of the Italian, Geo. A. Gibson, 173; the
Freezing of, J. Y. Buchanan, 383, 412, 433

Lalande's Stars, 99

Lancashire, Science in, 322

Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), Research under Difficulties,
342; Moseley's Naturalist on the Challenger, 415

Lanthanum, Cerium, and Didymium, Prof. Cossa on the Occur-
rence of, 424

Latham (Baldwin), "Sanitary Engineering," I-

Laughton (J. K.), on Air Temperature, its Distribution and
Range, 177

Lavas of the Glyder Fawr, North Wales, 522
Lavoisier's Chemical Apparatus, 591

Lawes (Rev. W. G.), on Indo-Oceanic Races, 258

Layard (Consul E. L.), Time and Longitude, 197; Hereditary
Transmission, 197.; Transportation of Seeds, 527; Rayons du
Crépuscule, 527

Leaf Sheaths and the Growth of Plants, John Munro, 147
Leaves of Plants, Absorption of Water by, 75, 183; Alfred S..
Jones, 244; Chemical Composition of, 90
Leben, das, Prof. Philipp Spiller, 384

Leeds, the Exhibition by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 232
Legge (Capt. W. Vincent), "Birds of Ceylon," R. Bowdler
Sharpe, 505

Lehmann (Dr. R.), Ueber ehemalige Strandlinien in anstehen-
dem Fels in Norwegen, 578

Leibnitz's Mathematics, A. B. Nelson, 196; James Bottomley,
267; Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 267, 364; Prof. P. G. Tait, 288,
384; Thomas Muir, 482

Leighton's Lichen-Flora of Great Britain, &c., 376

Leipzig, Aquarium at, 45

"Leisure-Time Studies," Dr. A. Wilson, 286-

Letts's Diaries, &c., 181

Leverrier's Great Refracting Telescope, 109

Lewes (George Henry), Obituary Notice of, 106

Ley (Annie), Rayons du Crépuscule, 54

Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Clouds and Weather Signs, 178; In-
clination of the Axes of Cyclones and Anticyclones, 275
Liberty of Science and- of Teaching, Prof. Ernst Haeckel on,
113, 135

Library Bulletin of Harvard University, 517

Liesegang (Dr. Paul E.), Manual of the Carbon Process of
Photography, 362

Life and Habit, Samuel Butler, 477

Life in the Universe and the Tendency to Temperature-Equi-
librium, S. Tolver Preston, 460

Light and Electricity, a New Relation between, J. E. H.
Gordon, 402

Light on Organic Infusions, Note on the Influence exercised by,
Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 210

Light, the Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection and Refrac-
tion of, G. F. Fitzgerald,, 282

Light, the Motion of a Luminous Source as a Test of the Un-
dulatory Theory of Light, S. Tolver Preston, 178
Lighthouses in France, 517

Lighthouses, on the Vertical Distribution of the Light from,
placed at High Elevations above the Sea-Level, T. Stevenson,

19

Lightning Conductors, the Earth Connection of, 475.

Lightning, Globular, Charlotte Hare, 5,; the Spectrum of, Dr.
A. Schuster, 427,

Limestones, the Structure and Origin of, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S.,
424

Linear Equations, on a Machine for the Solution of Simul-
taneous, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 161

Linnean Society, 67,.90, 162, 235, 355, 378, 426, 476, 499, 570
Littrow (Karl von), Medal of, 256

Liveing and Dewar (Professors), Studies in Spectrum Analysis,
163

Liverpool, Proposed New College at, 46

Lizards, Colour-Variation in, Alfred R. Wallace, 4; Prof. Leith
Adams, 53; J. Wood-Mason, 53; Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli,
97; F. Herbert Carpenter, 122

Llanos of Venezuela, Dr. Carl Sachs's Work on, 456
Local Societies, the Association of, J. Clifton Ward, 165.
Lockwood (E.), "Natural History, Sport, and Travel," 337
Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), on the Compound Nature of the
Elements, 157, 197, 225; Preliminary Note on the Substances
which produce the Chromospheric Lines, 292.

Locomotion: a Study in, Prof. Marey, 438, 464, 488; Photo-
graphy of Animals in Motion, 517

Locusts and Sun-Spots, E. D. Archibald, 145
Lommel (Dr. E.), German Degrees, 267
"London Science Class-Books," 143

London, the Crace Collection of Maps, &c., of, 351
London University, Registrarship of, 130, 149

Longitude and Time, 290; E. L. Layard, 197; Latimer Clark,

220

Loomis (Prof.), on Storms in the United States, 270
Lord Howe Island, 223

Lorentz (Dr. Don, P. G.), "La Vegetacion del Nordeste de la
Provincia de Entre-Rios," 119

Lösche (Dr. Edward), Death of, 350
Lott (Frank E.), Snow Flakes, 529
Lubbock (Sir John, F.R.S.), on Ants, 377

Ludwig (Dr. Phil. Hubert), "Morphologische Studien an Echino-
dermen," 406
Lunar Researches, Newcomb's, 166

Macalister (Prof. A.), Class-Books of Zoology, 143
McClure (Edmund), Colour-Blindness, 5

Macfarlane (Dr. A.), the Disruptive Discharge of Electricity, 184
Macfarlane's American Geological Railway Guide, 287
Macintosh (H. W.), on the Spines of Echini, 319
Mackay (A. M.), his Nyanza Expedition, 99.
McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), Phylloxera in Italy, 375; did Flowers
Exist in the Carboniferous Epoch? 554

Maclay (Dr. Miclucho), on Proposed Zoological Stations,
472; on Opium Smoking, 492

McLeod (Herbert), Schwendler's Testing Instructions for
Telegraph Lines, 231

M'Nab (James), Obituary Notice of, 84

M'Nab (Prof. W. R.), Class-Books of Botany, 143

Madagascar Forms in Africa, 470; Prof. W. T. Thiselton
Dyer, 527

Madagascar, J. M. Hildebrandt's Tour through, 324
Madeira, the River, Expedition up, 44

Madrid Geographical Society, 422

Magic Lantern Manual," Chadwick's, 327
Magic Mirror of Japan, 186, 539

Magnetic Storms: W. H. Preece, 432; of May 14, 15, 1878,
Henry C. Mance, 148, 409; W. H. Preece, 173; Rev. S. J.
Perry, F.R.S., 220; C. P. Patterson, 288; C. A. Schott, 288
Magnetism, a Study in, Prof. Sylvanus P. Thompson, 79
Magnets, on the Magnetism of Artificial, V. S. M. van der
Willigen, 552

Magnus's "Hydrostatics" and the "London Science Series," 32
Majendie (Major) on Dynamite, 473
Malta, Winterberg's Book on, 77

Mammalian Foot, the Muscles of the, 155

:

Mammoth the, 91; the Range of the, Clement Reid, 122; J.
J. Wild, 146

Mance (Henry C.), Magnetic Storm, May 14, 1878, 148, 409
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 23, 260, 452,

571

Marey (Prof.), a Study in Locomotion, 438, 464, 488
Marine Flowering Plants, 584

Marlborough College Natural History Society, 592
"Marocco and the Great Atlas," Hooker and Ball's, 366
Marocco, E. de Amici's Account of, 438

Mars and Saturn, the Conjunction of, 154

Mars, the Figure of the Planet, H. Hennessy, F.R.S., 31
Marshall (A. Milnes) on the Olfactory Nerve and Organ of
Vertebrates, 401

Marshall (Prof. J.), Pechar's "Coal and Iron," 336
Marston (R. B.), "Translation of Liesegang's "Manual of the
Carbon Process of Photography," 362

Marsupials of Australia, Henry Weld Blundell, 528
Mathematics: at Cambridge, 22, 49, 87, 497; Mathematical
Society, 89, 162, 260, 378, 475, 570; Proceedings of, 527;
Mathematical Drawing Instruments, 128; Spanish and Italian
Journals of, 407; Mathematical Visitor, 592

Matter in the Gaseous State, the Constitution of, Prof. Wurtz on,
62; Dimensional Properties of, Prof. Osborne Reynolds,
F.R.S., 435

Matter, Strange Properties of, Chas. A. Fawsitt, 98
Mauritius Meteorology in, 17; the Museum of the Society of
Arts and Sciences, 279

Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), "Paradoxical Philosophy,"
141; Guthrie's "Physics," 311; Verses on his Review of
Guthrie's "Physics," 384

Mayer (John), the "Graham" Lecture and Medal, 254
Mayer (Dr. Robert Julius), Proposed Monument to, 59, 350
Medical Endowments at Oxford, 20

"Medicinal Plants," Bentley and Trimen's, 109
Medusa, the Locomotor System of, G. J. Romanes, 282
Melbourne Observatory, 204

Meldola (R.), Butterflies with Dissimilar Sexes, 586
Memorie della Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 22
Mercury, Transits of, 73

Mercury and Venus, Relative Brightness of, 23

Meridian, Proposals for a New Initial, 247

Merten, Excavations at, 327

Merv, the Road to, from the Caspian, 271, 297

Metallic Reflexion, Sir John Conroy on, 259

Metallurgy, a New Process in, John Holloway, 410

Metal Rods, Vibration of, Dr. F. Guthrie, F.R.S., on, 331
Metals, the Condensing of, 474

Meteoric Steel, 61

Meteorites: Relation of, to Comets, Prof. H. A. Newton, 315,
340; Speculations on the Source of, Prof. R. S. Ball, 493
Meteorology: Meteorological Society of Mauritius, 17; Hyde
Clarke on Droughts, 53; Meteorological Society, 91, 210,
307, 403, 523, 595; the Publications of the Washington
Signal Corps Central Office, 159; in Russia, 159;
Meteorological Society Lectures, 177; Grant to the French
Bureau of, 206; a Scottish Mountain Observatory, 237, 255,
279, 342, 445; American Weather, E. D. Archibald, 266;
Meteorological Notes, 269, 419; Indian, 269, 293; Prof.
Loomis on Storms in the United States, 270; Proposed Ob-
servatory on the Top of Ventoux, 270, 423; International
Congress at Rome, 325; Curious Phenomenon in Switzerland,
326; the Russian Repertorium für Meteorologie," 375;
Report of the Forest Meteorological Stations of Germany,
419; Missouri Weather Report, 420; Observations at Pola,
420; Proposed Observatory on Ballon de Servance, 423;
Weather Warnings in Switzerland, 446; Meteorological Office
and Reports on the Weather, 472, 543; Weather Report of
the U.S. Signal Service, 473; Meteorological Organisations,
514; Montsouris Observatory, 560; the International Con-
gress at Rome, 590

Meteors, 131, 396; at Stanislas, Austria, 17; the expected
Meteor Shower, W. F. Denning, 33; the Shower of January
2, W. F. Denning, 221; at Prague, 326; a Meteor with
Short Period of Revolution, 484

Metschnikoff (E.), Researches on Geophilus, 342
Meyer (A. B.), Capt. Cook's Collections, 409; on Herring
Culture, 469; Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen Museum
zu Dresden, 553

Miall (L. C.), "Studies in Comparative Anatomy," I. and II.,
383

Michigan State Board of Health, Report of, 518
Microphone: New Form of, 60; for Military and Tonometric
Purposes, Lieut. George S. Clark, 72; as a Receiver, James
Blyth, 72; Thos. S. Tait on the, 146; and Volcanic Pheno-
mena, 207; Observations on the, Dr. L. Bleekrode, 221; Dr.
V. A. Julius on the, 266

Microscopy: The American Quarterly Microscopical Journal,
145; the Postal Microscopical Society, 301; the Limits of
Microscopic Vision, 332; Microscopical Society, see Royal
Microtelephone, Dr. Julian Ochovowicz, 482
Microthermometer, the, J. B. Hannay, 378

Molecular Vibration, 290; Wm. Chappell, 242
Mollusc, the "Digger," 470

Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde, Alfred Brown, 217

Moncel (Comte du), "Le Téléphone, le Microphone, et le
Phonographe," 12, 56

Monckhoven (Dr. Van), End-on Vacuum Tubes in Spectroscopy,
458

Monghyr, Lockwood's Work on the Natural History of, 337
Montigny (M.), Scintillation of Star, 233, 326

Montsouris Observatory, 207, 256, 560

Moon: a Question raised by the Observed Absence of an At-
mosphere in the, S. Tolver Preston, 3; Prof. Newcomb's
Researches on the Motions of the, 166; M. Flammarion on
the Observation of the, 181

"Moore's Columbarium," 474

Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 186, 449

Morren's "Correspondance Botanique," 108

Morse (Prof. E. S.), on the Traces of an Early Race in Japan,
278

Moscow: Anthropological Exhibition at, 280, 300, 375; Statistics
of the University of, 378

Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), the Highest Tide on Record, 363;
"Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger," 415

Motion and Colour, the Music of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 101
"Mound-Builders," the Age and Race of the American, 397
Mountains: the Formation of, Prof. Alphonse Favre on, 103;
Alfred R. Wallace, 121, 244, 289; Arthur Ransom, 121;
Rev. O. Fisher, 172, 266, 339; E. Hill, 289; G. H. Darwin,
313

Muir (Thomas), Text-Book of Arithmetic, 30; Leibnitz's Mathe-
matics, 482

Muirhead (Henry), Intellect in Brutes, 409, 459
Müller (Fritz), on a Frog having Eggs on its Back-
-on the
Abortion of the Hairs on the Legs of Certain Caddis-Flies, 462
Müller (Johannes), Classification of Passeres, 525
Mummy from Erroob, 595

Munich, New Botanical Society at, 130
Munro (John), Leaf-Sheaths and the Growth of Plants, 147
Munro (Robert), the Ayrshire Crannog, 54
Murphy (J. J.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 197; Habit and
Intelligence, 477

Museum of Practical Geology, the Library of, 559
Music: H. Berg's "Die Lust an der Musik," 578
Music of Colour and Visible Motion, 59; Profs. Ayrton and
Perry on the, IOI

Musical Association, 223

Musical Notes from Outflow of Water, 244
Musters (Commander G. C.), Death of, 297
Muybridge's Method of Photographing
Mycology: New Journal on, 301;
Myopia in Russia, 561

Brais in Motion, 517

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On 14

Naccari and Bellati, on thThermal Phenomena produced
the Passage of Electrici through Rarehel Gases, 21
Naples Zoological Station, Mittheilungen of the 2
Nasmyth (James), Relative Brightness of Venus and Mercury,
23

Natal and Zululand, Geology of C. E. De Rance, 467
Natural History, Prof. Martin Duncan's Popular, 345
"Natural History Journal," the, 45

"Midland Naturalist," 131

Migration of Birds, 422; Col. J. F. D. Donnelly, 289; Dr.
Palmén, 433; Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 433, 580; Dr.
August Weismann, 433, 579; E. H. Pringle, 481

Mimas, the Saturnian Satellite, 42

Mineralogical Magazine, 181

'Mineralogical Society, 283

Minor Planets, 14, 420, 437, 532, 556; Ismene, 42; Hilda, 510,
583

Mira Ceti, 510

Mirror Barometer, L. T. de Bort, 585

Mirror of Japan and its Magic Quality, 186, 539

Missouri Weather Service Report, 420

Mittheilungen aus der zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 2

Molecular Mobility, W. C. Roberts, F.R.S., on, 291

Molecular Pressure, on the Illumination of Lines of, and the

Trajectory of Molecules, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 137

Negretti and Zambra's Deep-Sea Thermometers, 412, 433
Nelson (A. B.), Leibnitz's Mathematics, 196
Neptune, the Trans-Neptunian Planet, 481

Netherlands Zoological Society, 107; the Zoological Station of,
107
Neufchatel, Lake of: Objects from the Lake-Dwellings, 17,
543; Tidal Phenomenon on the, 446

New Caledonia: Nickel Mines in, 16; Guano in, 423
"New Commercial Plants," Christy's, 265

New Guinea: Exploration of, 15, 471; D'Albertis's Expedition
up the Fly River, 43; Andrew Goldie's Exploration of, 43;
Chalmer's Journeys in, 351; Colonisation of, 471, 542; Ex-
pedition from New Zealand to, 491

New South Wales, the Linnean Society of, 281

New York, Reports of the Museum of Natural History, 18
New Zealand: Notes from, 21, 234; Discovery of a Seam of
Coal in, 131; Discovery of Graphite at Wellington, 300;
Wellington Philosophical Society, 308