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INDEX

ABERYSTWITH, University College Magazine, 87
Absolute Pitch, on the Determination of, by the Harmonium,
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 275

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.

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

Amia, Respiration of, 246
Amianthus, Discovery of a Mine of, 376

Actonian Prize of the Royal Institution, 256
Adams (Prof. Leith, F.R.S.), Remarkable Colour-Variation in Ammonia, the Manufacture of, 398

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

Lizards, 53

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

Anatomy and Physiology, Journal of, 87

Aneroid Barometers, Experiments with, in the Giffard Balloon,
17

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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

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

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

UNIYA
LIBRARY
ILLINOIS

235

Aleutian Isles, Volcanic Eruptions in, 45

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

Albertis's Exploration of New Guinea, 43

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

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

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

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 privalskii, 389

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

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

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Ayrton and Perry (Professors), on the Music of Colour and Mo-
tion, 101; 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

Baer (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,

121.

Barry (J. W.), the Derivation of Life from the North, 173
Bars, the Law of Cooling of, Prof. P. G. Tait, 379
Baynes (R. E.), "A New Galvanometer," 33
Bears in the Alps, 280

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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. K. Stebbing, 314; W. Radford,
340; J. P. Jackson, 385; E. W. Pringle, 410
Beetle, Destruction of Crops at Taganrog by Anisoplia austriaca,

182

Berg (H.), "Die Lust an der Musik," 578

Berghama, Excavations at, 86

Bert (Prof.), on Barometric Pressure, 569
Bessel's Nebula in Perseus, 555
Bibliography: Friedländer's Catalogues, 325;
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; E.
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
Blue Flame from Common Salt, A. Percy Smith, 483; Dr. J.
H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 582

Blundell (Henry Weld), Marsupials of Australia, 528
"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

"Naturæ Novi.

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

Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 16ɔ

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

Belgium, African Expeditions, 491

Bell (I. Lowthian, F.R.S.), on the Combustion of Different British Museum: the Library, 253; Reforms in, 350; Electric
Kinds of Fuel, 175

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

Bells and their Harmonics, 242, 290
Belsham (Maurice), Intellect in Brutes, 459
Bennett (A. W.), Kerner's "Flowers and their Unbidden
Guests," 214

Brittle Stars of the Challenger, 319

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

Bentley and Trimen's "Medicinal Plants," 109

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

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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

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, 133; Rev. George Henslow, 385, 433; James J.
Furni s, 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

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

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

Chauffod (M.), Death of, 376

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

Clarke (Hyde), the Drought, 53

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

Carbonic Acid in Blood, 474

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

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

Cleopatra's Needle and the Wind Pressure, 25

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

Chalmers (Rev. Jos.), Journeys in New Guinea, 351
Chambers (Charles, F.R.S.),

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Meteorology of the Bombay

Presidency," 293
Chappell (Wm.), Speaking-Trumpets, 5; Molecular Vibrations,

242

Channel Tunnel, the, 592

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.Sí, 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, 1233
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

Characæ, Structure and Affinities of, 156
Charcoal, Absorption of Gases by, Dr. R. Angus Smith,
F.R.S., 354

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,

Clark (Latimer), Time and Longitude, 220

Clark's South America, 312

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

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"Coal: its History and Uses," 238

Coal Measures, Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the, Prof.

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

Collie Dog, Heredity in a, 234

Ceylon: Cultivation of Cinchona in, 397; the Birds of, Capt.

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

Legge, 505; Australian Trees in, 516

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Chadwick's Magic Lantern Manual," 327

Cologne, Earthquake in, 160

Challenger: Moseley's Notes by a Naturalist on the, 415; the Colorado River and Plateaus, the Geological History of, Capt.
Brittle Stars of the, 319
C. E. Dutton, 247, 272

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

Colour and Motion, the Music of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 10I
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