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R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HII.L, E. C.

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Adams (Prof. Leith, F.R.S.), Remarkable Colour-Variation in Ammonia, the Manufacture of, 398
Lizards, 53

Aërated 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, 100, 438, 471, 556; the C.M.S.
Nyanza Expedition, 99, 100, 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

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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; Rainfall 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

Aleurone Grains, the Chemical Composition of, S. H. Vines, Arequipa, Earthquake at, 423
235

Aleutian Isles, Volcanic Eruptions in, 45

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Algae 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

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Asclepiadaceæ, Sensitive Organs in, 155

Allen (Grant), the Colour-Sense, 32, 120; Colour in Nature, 580 Ashby (Henry, M.B.), "Notes on Physiology for the Use of
Alligators in China, 351

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,

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Students," 51

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
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Astronomy: M. Houzeau on certain Phenomena of, 447; Dr. A.
Sawitsch's Work on Geographical Astronomy, 94; Our Astro-
nomical Column, 14, 42, 74, 99, 122, 154, 204, 221, 245,
268, 298, 347, 365, 388, 420, 437, 468, 484, 510, 531, 555,
582

Atlantic Cable, Duplexing the, 38; Herbert Taylor, 52
Atmosphere in the Moon, a Question raised by the observed
Absence of, S. Tolver Preston, 3

Atmospheric Electricity, G. M. Whipple, 220

Atmospheric Pressure, Sun-Spots, and the Sun's Heat, J. Allan
Broun, F.R.S., 6; S. A. Hill, 432; Joao Capello, 506
Auerbach (Dr. F.), the Phonograph and Vowel Sounds, 122; on
Undertoner, 183

Australia: Marsupials of, Henry Weld Blundell, 528; Aus-
tralian Fossil Corals, 469; Australian and Tasmanian Races,
R. Brough Smith, 549
Austrian Tourist Club, 326

Ayrton (Prof. W, E.), the Mirror of Japan and its Magic
Quality, 539

Ayrton and Perry (Professors), on the Music of Colour and Mo-
tion, ror; Magic Mirror of Japan, 186; the Contact Theory
of Voltaic Action, 498

Baber (Mr.) Journey in Szuchuen, 298

Back (Admiral Sir Geo.), Legacy to the Royal Geographical
Society, 43

"Bacon's Novum Organum," edited by Prof. T. Fowler, G. F.
Rodwell, 262

Raer (K. von), Proposed Monument to, 278, 375
Bailey (M.), his New Electric Spark Pen, 60
Bain (Prof. Alex.), "Education as a Science," 457

Balance, J. H. Poynting on using the, and its Employment to
determine the Mean Density of the Earth, 115
Balfour (Dr. I. B.), on Halophila, 584

Ball (Prof. R. S.), Speculations on the Source of Meteorites,
493

Balloons: the Rapid Inflation of, 18; Giffard's Captive Balloon,
46, 493, 517, 560; the Académie des Ascensions Météorolo-
giques, 560; Adoption of, for War Purposes, 592

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Balnacara, N.B., Earthquake at, 131

Baltimore, Report of the Johns Hopkins University, 66
Barker's Cave in Queensland, 423

Barometers: Experiments with Aneroid, in the Giffard Balloon,
17; Diurnal Oscillations of, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 366
Barometric Pressure, Prof. Bert on, 569

Barraud and Lund, Synchronised Clocks, 55

Barrett (Prof. W. F.), the Telephone, its History, and Recent
Improvements, 12, 56; History of the Speaking Telephone,

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Beccari (Dr.), Discovery of a New Gigantic Aroid, 45
Beer, Brewing of, in Japan, 397

Beerbohm (Julius), "Wanderings in Patagonia," 217

Bees' Sting, 289; Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 314; W. Radford,
340; J. P. Jackson, 385; E. W. Pringle, 410

Beetle, Destruction of Crops at Taganrog by Anisoplia austriaca,
182

Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 165

Belgium, African Expeditions, 491

Bert (Prof.), on Barometric Pressure, 569
Bessel's Nebula in Perseus, 555

Bibliography: Friedländer's Catalogues, 325; "Naturæ Novi.
tates," 376; a Universal Catalogue, 585

Bichat's Method of Measuring the Velocity of Sound, 86
Bichromate of Potash Battery, Dr. Erck's New, 331
Biela's and Halley's Comets, 204
Biela's Comet and Jupiter in 1794, 75
Bienne, Lake, Discovery of Lake-Dwellings at, 61
Billing's and Fletcher's "Index Medicus,"
431
Binary Stars, Orbits of, 99; a Centauri, 437
Biological Notes, 75, 155, 245, 319, 389, 469, 584
Birds: Migration of, 422; Col. J. F. D. Donnelly, 289; Dr. Palmén,
433; Dr. A. Weismann, 433, 579; Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S.,
433, 580; E. H. Pringle, 481; Capt. Legge's Work on "Birds
of Ceylon," 505; Infection caused by Birds, 559; New Birds
from the Portuguese Possessions in Western Africa, 585
Birmingham: Destruction of the Free Library, 257; Proposed
Natural History Museum for, 300; Science College, 400
Black (Clementina), Colour-Blindness, 5

Black Rat, Distribution of the, R. Morton Middleton, 460;
W. Claypole, 581

Blaikie (J.), Elements of Dynamics (Mechanics), 30
Blanford (Henry F.), Works on Indian Meteorology, 293
Bleekrode (Dr. L.), Observations on the Microphone, 221
Blood, the Carbonic Acid in, 474

Blowpipe Experiment, Lieut.-Col. W. A. Ross, 220

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Blue Flame from Common Salt, A. Percy Smith, 483; Dr. J.
H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 582

Blundell (Henry Weld), Marsupials of Australia, 528

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Blüthendiagramme," Dr. A. W. Eichler, 70

Blyth (James), the Microphone as a Receiver, 72; Experiments
with Telephone, 283

Bode's Law and Vulcan, B. G. Jenkins, 74
Bog Oak, Irish, W. F. Sinclair, 74
Bokhara, Southern, Exploration of, 156
Bonn, Roman Remains at, 45

Bonney (Rev. T. G.), Earthquake in North Wales, 555
Borneo: Northern, Colonisation of, 16; Cave Research in, 352
Bort (L. T. de), a Mirror Barometer, 586
"Bosnien in Bild und Wort," 205

Boston, U.S.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 140,
211, 428, 547; Society of Natural History, 403, 452
Botany: "Botany of Three Historical Records," A. Stephen
Wilson, 3; Gibbs's First Catechism, 28; Eichler's Blüthen.
diagramme, 70; Calcutta Botanic Garden, 86; Botanical
Chemistry, 93; Morren's "Correspondance Botanique," 108;
Prof. McNab's Class-books of, 143; Botanic Garden for
India, 375; Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 445; Botanical
Exchange Club, 445, 591

Bottomley (J. T.), Thermal Conductivity of Water, 547
Bouton (L. S.), Death of, 279

Brains, Sexual Difference in, 396

Braun (Prof.), Bust of the late, 257

Brazilian Rivers, Dr. E. R. Heath's Exploration of, 100

Bread: Aërated, Prof. A. H. Church, 174; Prison, Prof. A. H.
Church, 387

Brewin (Robert), Shakespeare's Colcur Names, 221, 290
Bridge (John), Divisibility of the Electric Light, 73

British Association: Date of Meeting at Sheffield, 17; Preli
minary Arrangements, 84, 422

British Guiana, Preservation of Birds in, 301; the Indians of,
394; im Thurn's Expedition, 556

Bell (I. Lowthian, F.R.S.), on the Combustion of Different British Museum: the Library, 253; Reforms in, 350; Electric

Kinds of Fuel, 175

Bells and their Harmonics, 242, 290

Belsham (Maurice), Intellect in Brutes, 459

Bennett (A. W.), Kerner's "Flowers and their Unbidden
Guests," 214

Ben Nevis, the Proposed Meteorological Station on, 237, 255,
279, 342, 445

Bentley and Trimen's "Medicinal Plants," 109
Berg (H.), "Die Lust an der Musik," 578
Berghama, Excavations at, 86

Berkeley (Rev. M. J.), Mycology, 514

Berlin: Telegraphic Museum at, 18; Ornithological Society, 18;
New Scientific Society at, 85; Piscicultural Exhibition at,
232; Geographical Society, 271, 324; Grants of the Berlin
African Society, 395

Bernard (Claude), his Posthumous Papers, 107; the Funeral of,
325; M. Paul Bert on, 325; M. Renan's Eloge on, 543

Lighting at, 395, 423, 445; the Grant to the Zoological Depart-
ment, 543 Proposed Printed Catalogue of the Library, 585
British Newts, 75

Brittle Stars of the Challenger, 319

Brorsen's Comet: 299, 420, 510, 527, 532, 555, 582; Prof. C. A.
Young on the Spectrum of, 559; Dr. Wm. Huggins, F.R.S.,
on the Spectrum of, 579

Broun (J. Allan, F.R.S.), Sun-Spots, Atmospheric Pressure,
and the Sun's Heat, 6; Diurnal Oscillations of the Barometer,
366

Brown Institution, 151

Brown (Alfred), Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde, 217
Brown (Dr. R.) "Countries of the World," 554

Brutes, Intellect in, 409, 458, 481, 490, 519; Edw. Geoghegan,
268; Walter Severn, 291; H. T. Finck, 340; Arthur Nicols,
365, 409, 433; Rev. George Henslow, 385, 433; James J.
Furnis, 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. Middleton, 459
Buchan (W. P.), Intellect in Brutes, 409, 459
Buchanan (J. Y.), on the Freezing of Lakes, 380, 412, 433
Buchner (Max), "Reise durch dem Stillen Ocean," 430
Buck (John W.), Unscientific Art, 460, 508

Buckley (Arabella), "The Fairy-Land of Science," 265
Buir, Earthquake at, 17

Buller (Samuel), Life and Habit, 477

Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Peters-
bourg, 23, 449

Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 22, 306, 354, 475,
594;

Bunsen Flame a Sensitive Flame, W. W. Haldare Gee, 122
Burgess (A. Hutton), Storm Warnings, 313

Butterflies Chilian, 246; Edwards's Work on Butterflies of
North America, 257; with Dissimilar Sexes, R. Meldola, 586
Caddis-Flies, on the Abortion of Hairs on the Legs of certain,
Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 462; Fritz Müller, 462
Calcareous Algæ, Fossil, Prof. E. Perceval Wright, 485
Calcutta Botanic Gardens, Report of the, 86
California, New, Nickel Mines in, 16
Cambridge: Mathematics at, 22, 49, 87; Philosophical
Society, 23, 47, 163, 211, 332, 451; Dr. M. Foster and
the Study of Physiology at, 66; the Mechanical Work-
shops at, 66; the Sedgwick Memorial Museum, 115; the
Wort's Travelling Fund, 350; the Study of Applied Science
at, 448; Anatomy at, 449; Mathematics and Greek at, 497;
the Local Examinations, 497; Affiliation of Local Colleges to,
520; Natural Sciences Examinations at, 546
Cameroons, Mount, the District of, 348
Camphor, Cultivation of, in Formosa, 351
Campion's "On Foot in Spain," 288

Cannibalism in Japan, 474

Canoe, a Prehistoric, 473

Cape, the, Mr. David Gill appointed Astronomer at, 388

Cape Diamonds, B. G. Jenkins, 582

Capello (Joao), Atmospheric Pressure, 506

Carbon Process of Photography, Dr. Paul E. Liesegang, 362

Carbon Telephone, the, 12, 68

Carbonic Acid in Blood, 474

Chauffod (M.), Death of, 376

Chavanne (Dr. J.), "Die Sahara," 100; his Work on Afghan-
istan, 222

Chelone midas, the Skull of the, Prof. Parker, F.R.S., 593
Chemistry: Roscoe and Schorlemmer's Treatise on, 169; Dr.
Wettstein's Work on the Chemistry of Plants, 93; Chemical
Equivalence, 330; Chemico-Agricultural Station in Italy,
390; American Chemical Journal, 592; Chemical Society, 67,
90, 210, 282, 355, 426, 451, 522, 571, 591; Research Fund
Grants, 491; Annual Meeting, 516

Chepstow, Tides at, Dr. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 432; W.
B. Clegram, 481; Dr. John Yeats, 507, 582
Cheshire, Science in, 322

Chevreul (M.), Resignation of, 374
Chilian Butterflies, 246

China: Statistics of the Plague in, 61; Trade-Routes in, 123;
the Telegraph in, 131; Overland Route to, 157; Mines in,
159, 181; the Grand Canal of, 181: Baber's Journey in
Szuchuen, 298; Coal Mining at Kaiping, 325; the Cultivation
of Opium in, 327; the Alligators of, 351; Cotton Growing
in Shantung, 351; Woollen Manufactory at Lanchow-fu, 446;
Map of Part of, 542; John Milne's Journey Across, 583
Chinchona : Cultivation in the Wynaad, 181; Cultivation of, in
Ceylon, 397

Chords, a Method of Showing the Vibratory Movement of, 396
Christy (Thos.), "New Commercial Plants," 265
Chromospheric Lines, Preliminary Note on the Substances which
produce the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 292
Church (Prof. Å. H.), Aërated Bread, 174; Prison Bread, 387
Church (John A.), on the Combustion of Different Kinds of Fuel,

339

"Cinder" Microphone, 60

Circulating Decimals, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., 208
Cirencester, Royal Agricultural College, 453, 544

Citrus, the Genus, Prize for Essay on, 422

City Companies and Technological Education, 354

Clark (Latimer), Time and Longitude, 220

Clark's South America, 312

Clarke (Hyde), the Drought, 53

Clarke (Lieut. George S.), the Microphone for Military and
Tonometric Purposes, 72

Claypole (E. W.), the Black Rat, 581

Carboniferous Epoch, did Flowers Exist during the? R. Clegram (W. B.), Tides at Chepstow, 481

McLachlan, F.R.S., 554; A. R. Wallace, 582
Carey-Hobson (M.), Equine Sagacity, 147
Carnivorous Goose, Duke of Argyll, 554

Carpenter (F. Herbert), Colour-Variation in Lizards, 122; Pre-
liminary Report on the Comatula of the Challenger Expe-
dition, 450

Carrier-Pigeons, Thomas Stevenson, 5

Caruel (Prof. T.), Quarantine in Italy (the Phylloxera), 408
Carus (Prof. J. Victor), "Zoologischer Anzeiger," 118

Caspian Sea the Road to Merv from the, 271, 297; Algæ,

319; Crustaceans of the, 446

Cassell's Popular Natural History, 345

Cassini (Jean Dominique), Notice of, 122
Catalepsy, the Production of, 351

Catalogue, a Universal, 585

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Caucasus the Snow-Limit in the, 159; Natural History of the,
319

Caves: Styrian, 161; Barker's Cave in Queensland,4 23; Cave-
Research in Borneo, 352

Caylloma, Discovery of Silver Ores at, 423

Cecil (Henry), the Power of Stupefying Spiders Possessed by
Wasps, 54

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

Ceylon: Cultivation of Cinchona in, 397; the Birds of, Capt.
Legge, 505; Australian Trees in, 516
Chadwick's Magic Lantern Manual," 327

Challenger: Moseley's Notes by a Naturalist on the, 415; the
Brittle Stars of the, 319

Chalmers (Rev. Jos.), Journeys in New Guinea, 351

Chambers (Charles, F.R.S.), "Meteorology of the Bombay
Presidency," 293

Chappell (Wm.), Speaking-Trumpets, 5; Molecular Vibrations,

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Cleopatra's Needle and the Wind Pressure, 25
Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 280

Clifford (Prof. W. K.), his State of Health, 256; Arrival at
Madeira, 278; Proposed Testimonial to, 349; Death of,

422; Obituary Notice of, 443; Funeral of, 491; his Posthu
mous Works, 543

Clocks, Synchronised, 55

Clouds and Weather Signs, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 178

Clouds, Measuring the Height of, J. F. Wilke, 148,

"Coal and Coal Mines," Thomas's Work on, 405

"Coal and Iron in all Countries," M. Pechar, 336

Coal-Dust, on the Influence of, in Colliery Explosions, W.
Galloway, 546

Coal in New Zealand, Discovery of a New Seam, 131
"Coal: its History and Uses," 238

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

Coal Mine Commission, 357

Coal Mining in China, 325

Coal, Wiltshire's History of, 407

Cobb (Francis), Sun-Spots and the Nile, 299
Coffee Planters, the Training of, 591
Coffee-Tree, the Leaf Disease in, 423

Collie Dog, Heredity in a, 234

Colliery Explosions, the Influence of Coal-Dust in, W. Galloway,
546

Cologne, Earthquake in, 160

Colorado River and Plateaus, the Geological History of, Capt.
C. E. Dutton, 247, 272

Colour and Motion, the Music of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, IOI
Colour-Blindness, Clementina Black, 5; Edmund McClure, 5;
Dr. J. Herschel, 72; Frank Podmore, 73; R. C. A. Prior,
119; Dr. Wm. Pole, F.R.S., 120, 148

Colour in Nature, Grant Allen, 501, 580; Alfred R. Wallace,
501, 581

Colour-Names, Shakespere's, Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 244; C. T.
Hardman, 267; Robert Brewin, 290

Colour-Sense, the, Grant Allen, 32; Dr. Ernst Krause, 120

Colour-Variation in Lizards, Remarkable Local, Alfred R.
Wallace, 4; Prof. Leith Adams, 53; J. Wood-Mason, 53;
Dr. Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 97; P. Herbert Carpenter, 122
Columbus (Christopher), Letters of, 323

Comatulæ, Report on the, of the Challenger Expedition, P.
Herbert Carpenter, 450

Comets of Short Periods, 42; Biela's Comet and Jupiter in
1794, 75; the Second Comet of 1582, 123; Biela's and Hal-
ley's, 204; Tempel's Comet, 1867, II., 217, 347, 389, 457;
Olbers' of 1815, 268, 366; Brorsen's, 299, 420, 510, 527,
532, 559, 579, 582; Prof. H. A. Newton on the Relation of
Meteorites to, 315, 340; Comet 1871, V., 365; Faye's Comet,
469
Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, Prof. Stanley Jevons,
F.R.S., 33, 588; John Kemp, 97; A. Stephen Wilson, 196
Commercial Geography, Proposed Society of, 421
Commercial Plants, New, Thos. Christy, 265

"Commercial Products of the Sea," P. L. Simmonds, 3
Conroy (Sir John) on Metallic Reflexion, 259
Constance, Lake, Examination of, 85

Cook (Capt.), Centenary of, 324, 334, 373; Statue of, at Syd-
ney, 394; his Accuracy in his Charts, Rev. S. J. Whitmee,
408; his Collections, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 409

Coomber (T. J.), the District of Mount Cameroons, 348

Copernican Society at Thorn, 516

Copernicus, a Descendant of, 302

Copper, Discovery of, at Howe Sound, 279

Coppock (Chas.), Unscientific Art (?), 484

Corals, Australian Fossil, 469

Corea, Japanese Relations with, 298

Corsican Herpetology, Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 97

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Dog, Intelligence in a, 458

Donax fossor, 470

Donnelly (Col. J. F. D.), Migration of Birds, 289
Dorthesia, Plague of, in America, 396

Double Stars: Flammarion on, 216; South, 190, 583
Dove (Heinrich Wilhelm), Obituary Notice of, 529

Cossa (Prof.) on the Occurrence of Cerium, Didymium, and Doyle (Pat.), Deltaic Growth, 506

Lanthanum, 424

Cotopaxi, the Volcano, 17

Cotton Mills in Japan, 61

"Countries of the World," Dr. Robert Brown's, 554

Cowper (E. A.), Telegraphic Writing Machine, 323

Crace Collection of Maps, &c., of London, 351

Craig Christie (A.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 221
"""Cram" Books, 51

Crane (A.), "Survival of the Fittest," 197

Crannog, Discovery of a, in Ayrshire, Dr. Buchanan White,
32; Robert Munro, 54

Crayfish, Physiology of the Nervous System of, James Ward,
451; Action of the Heart of the, 470

Cremation at Gotha, 232

Crevaux (Dr. Jules), Exploration of French Guiana, 298, 395,
515

Crocodile, the Skull of the, L. C. Miall, 383
Crocodiles, Dwarf, 91

"Crónica Cientifica," 232

Crookes (Wm., F.R.S.), on Repulsion from Radiation, Part VI.,
88; Experimental Researches on the Repulsion arising from
Radiation, 511, 533; Experiment with a Vacuum Tube, 458
Crustaceans of the Caspian Sea, 446

Crystal Palace, Proposed Permanent Exhibition at, 18
"Crystallography," H. P. Gurney's, 171

Cumberland Association of Literature and Science, 132
Cunnington (H. A.), Experiment with a Vacuum Tube, 458
Cyclones and Anticyclones, Inclination of the Axes of, Rev. W.
Clement Ley, 275

Cyclopædia, Ripley and Dana's American, 264

Darien Isthmus, Proposed Canal Across, 516, 542
Darwin (Chas., F.R.S.), Fritz Müller on a Frog having Eggs
on its Back-on the Abortion of the Hairs on the Legs of
Certain Caddis-Flies, &c., 462; Rats and Water-Casks, 481;
the Darwin Memorial Fund, 445

Darwin (G. H.), on a Theory of the Viscosity of the Earth's
Mass, 292; the Formation of Mountains and the Secular Cool-
ing of the Earth, 313

Davies (William), Geological Climate and Geological Time, 33
Davy (Sir Humphrey), Centenary of his Birth, 59; Celebration
of, at Penzance, 374

Dawson (George M.), Salmon in Rivers of the Pacific Slope, 528
Decimal Weights and Measures, 207

Declination Magnet, Notes on the Inequalities of the Diurnal
Range of the, as Recorded at Kew Observatory, 259
De La Rue's Diaries, &c., 181

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Dragon Cave," Mixniz, Styria, 161

Drainage and Sewerage, Alfred S. Jones, 53

Draper (J. C.), Oxygen in the Sun, 352

Draper (Dr. J. W.), "Scientific Memoirs," 25; and the Electric
Light, 242

Dresden Mittheilungen of the Zoological Museum, 553; Edu-
cational Exhibition in, 591

Drought, the, Hyde Clarke, 53

Dry Ground, the Gas-Absorption of, 544

Dublin, Science at Trinity College, 234

Duncan (Prof. Martin), "Popular Natural History," 345
Dundee: Naturalists' Society, 85; the Free Library of, 352
Duplexing the Atlantic Cable, 38; Herbert Taylor, 52
Dutch Geographical Society, 44

Dutton (Capt. C. E.), the Geological History of the Colorado
River and Plateaus, 247, 272

Dyer (Prof. W. T. Thiselton), Madagascar Forms in Africa, 527
Dynamics, Blaikie's Elements of, 30
Dynamite, Major Majendie on, 473

Eagle, Golden, and Goslings, 554

Ear Affection, 315; Dr. G. L. Wallich, 340; Dr. W. Ainslie
Hollis, 364; Dr. Urban Pritchard, 364; John Harmer, 365
Earth, the Secular Cooling of the, and the Formation of Moun-
tains, G. H. Darwin, 313

Earth's Mass, Viscosity of the, G. H. Darwin, 292
Earthquakes: 560; at Buir, in Prussia, 17; at Sierra Leone,
60; at Jucuapa, 85; at Suram and Borjom, 108; at Balna-
cara, N.B., 131; in Cologne, 160; at Seefeld, 207; in
France, 256; in Switzerland, 352; in Shetland, 396; at Are-
quipa, 423; at Alaghir, Caucasus, 446; Southern Austria,
446; in Persia, 493; in North Wales, 555; at Cadiz, 555;
in France, 591

Eastern Yucatan, Dr. A. Woeikof, 554
Eccentric Anomalies, Calculation of, 14
Echini, Spines of, 319; New Species of, 389
Echinoderms, the Morphology of, Dr. Ludwig's Work on, 406
Eclipses: the Solar, of July 19, 1879, 42; the Total Solar, of
January 11, 1880, 74; the Annular, of January 22, 1879, 99;
Dr. Hayden's Party's Observation of the Solar Eclipse of
July 29, 1878, 159

Edinburgh: Botanic Garden, 445; Royal Society, 116, 260,
283, 379, 571; Keith Medal of the Royal Society of, 346
Edison's Electric Light Inventions, 44, 60, 517, 532; his Micro-
tasimeter and Carbon Telephone, 68; his Invention for Mea-
suring the Electric Current, 107; his Telephone, 471
"Education as a Science," Prof. Alex. Bain, 457

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