November 29, 1894

ABBÉ (PROF. C.), Meteorology and Geodesy, 141; Remarkable
Hailstones at Vicksburg, 430; Schools of Meteorology, 576
Abbott (Charles Conrad), Travels in a Tree-top, 295
Abbott (Miss E. C.), on the Evolution of the Vertebral Column
of Fishes, 516

Abney's (Capt.) Photographs of Flames, 285

Aborigines of Western Australia, the, Albert F. Calvert, 474 Abraham (H.), Method for Measuring Self and Mutual Induction, 15

Academy, American; Election of Officers, 153
Accademia dei Lincei, the, Annual Meeting at Rome, 304
Acoustics: New Method for Determining Pitches of High
Tuning-forks, F. Melde, 155; Transmission of Sounds, H.
Gilbault, 167; Hawksley's Sonometer, 182; on the Veloci-
ties of Sound in Air, Gases, and Vapours for Simple Tones
of Different Pitches, James Webster Low, 334; Prof. Müns
terberg and Mr. A. H. Pierce on the Localisation of Sound.
621

Acquired Characters, the Inheritance of, Leonard Hill, 617
Adam (Paul), the Emetics, 167

Adler (Dr. Hermann), Alternating Generations: a Biological
Study of Oak Galls and Gall Flies, 545
Adulteration of Compressed Oxygen, 620
Aero-Therapeutics, or the Treatment of Lung Diseases by
Climate, Charles Theodore Williams, 99
Aeronautics: Herr Otto Lillenthal's Serious Accident, 393;
towards the Efficiency of Sails, Screw-Propellers in Water
and Air, and Aeroplanes, Lord Kelvin, P. R. S., 425; Aero-
planes, Hiram S. Maxim, 489; Steam and Aerial Navigation
foreshadowed by Roger Bacon, 481; Progress in Flying
Machines, O. Chanuté, 569; Manual Pratique de l'Aéronaute,
V. de Fonvielle, 569

Aerotonometer, a New, Prof. Fredericq, 461

Esthetics, Pain, Pleasure, and, Henry Rutgers Marshall, 3 Affiliated Societies of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the, 608

Africa: Scheme for the Protection of African Mammals, 130;
Timbuktu, 154; Stratigraphy and Physiography of Libyan
Desert of Egypt, Capt. H. G. Lyons, 166; Geology of South
Africa, D. Draper, 167; Occurrence of Dolomite in South
Africa, D. Draper, 167; Geology of British East Africa, Dr.
J. W. Gregory, 167; the Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave |
Coast of West Africa, Col. A. B. Ellis, 221; the Cultivable
Land on Kilimanjaro, Dr. Brehme, 305; Mr. Scott Elliot's
Ruwenzori Expedition, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F. R. S., 549;
Agamennone (Dr. G.) on the New Continnous-Record Seismo-
metrograph of Collegio Romano, 362

Agassiz (Alexander), the Coral Reefs of the Bermudas, 235 Agriculture: the Potato Disease Phytophthora infestans, Thomas Carrol, 63; the Origin of Cultivation, Grant Allen, 66; Manures and the Principles of Manuring, C. M. Aikman, 75; Carbon Bisulphide as a Fertiliser, Aimé Girard, 94; the Employment of Disease-causing Microbes for Destroying Field Vermin, Gerald McCarthy, 131; Agricultural Entomology, Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, C. French, 243; Grass-destroying Caterpillar Plague in Scotland, Miss Ormerod, 251; Insect Ravages in India, Hon. J. Buckingham, 274; Algæ and Nitrogen-Fixation, Herr Kosso witch, 276; Pasteur Institute, Paris, Experimental Study of Means of Defence against Destructive Insects, 482; Assimilability of Potash by the Action of Nitrates in poor Siliceous Soils, P. Pichard, 491; on Diptera harmful to Cereals, Paul Marchal, 516; Agricultural Zoology, Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, 567

Aikman (C. M.), Manures and the Principles of Manuring, 75

Air, the Electrification of, Lord Kelvin, P. R. S., and Magnus
Maclean, 280; Prof. J. J. Thomson, F. R.S., 296
Akas, the Poisoned Arrows of the, Prof. L. A. Waddell, 395
Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Report of, 275
Albatross, Flight of the, A. Kingsmill, 572

Albion Colliery Explosion, the, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 429
Albrecht (Prof. K. M.), Death of, 553
Alchemy: The Alchemical Essence and the Chemical Element.
M. M. Pattison Muir, Prof. Herbert McLeod, F. R.S., 50
Algae and Nitrogen-fixation, Herr Kossowitch, 276
Algae which deposit Calcareous Matter in their Tissues, Prof.
Johnstone on, 434

Algedonics: Pain, Pleasure, and Esthetics, Henry Rutgers
Marshall, 3

Allen (Edgar J.), Studies on the Nervous System of Crustacea, 611

Allen (Grant), the Origin of Cultivation, 66

Alloy, Separation and Estimation of Tin and Antimony in Air, M. Mengin, 311

Alloys, Electrical Resistance of some New, M. van Aubel, 84 Alloys, Experiments with Tin-lead, ranging from PbSn12Pb12Sn, Bernhard Wiesengrund, 394

Alloys, Thermoelectric Heights of Antimony and Bismuth, C. C. Hutchins, 515

Alpenverein, German and Austrian, 414

Alpine Geology: Ein Geologischer Querschnitt durch die Ost
Alpen, A. Rothpletz, Dr. Maria M. Ogilvie, 27
Alps, M. Bertrand on the Structure of the French, 510
Alps, Prof. Suess on the Southern and Northern, 510
Alps, Eastern, with Prof. Heim in the, 526
Alps, the Glacial System of the, B. Hobson, 602
Alps of Dauphiny, Observations of the Pendulum in the, 635
Alsace and Lorraine Meteorological Observations, 1892, 430
Aluminium upon the Carbon in Ferro-carbon Alloys, Mr. T. W.
Hogg on the Influence of, 460

Aluminium Violins, Mr. Springer, 485

America: American Meteorological Journal, 21, 141, 188, 334, 612; American Journal of Mathematics, 69, 283; American Journal of Science, 91, 235, 334, 440, 515, 634; Mount Logan the loftiest Peak in North America, 131; American Academy, Election of Officers, 153; Biological Station established at Havana, Illinois River, 275; Migration and the Food Quest, a Study in the Peopling of America, O. T. Mason, 361; International Congress of Americanists, 393: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. W. H. Hale, 458; Meeting at Brooklyn, 458; Prof. Hark. ness on the Magnitude of the Solar System, 458, 532; George C. Comstock on Binary Stars, 458; Dr. Daniel G. Brinton on the Aims of the Association, 485; Miss Mary Noyes on the Influence of Heat and Electricity upon Young's Modulus for a Piano Wire, 485; Aluminium Violins, Mr. Springer, 485; some Peculiar Lightning Flashes, A. McAdie, 485; on a Phonographic Method of Recording the Change in Alternating Electric Current, C. J. Rollesson, 485; on the Resistance of Materials under Impact, Dr. Mansfield Merriman, 486; Methods of Testing Automatic Fire Sprinkler Heads, Prof. Jacobus, 486; Niobrara Chalk, Samuel Calvin, 486; on the Water Resources of the United States, Major J. W. Powell, 486; the Age of Niagara Falls, Prof. Spencer, 486; the Relation of the Age of Type to Variability, Prof. L. H. Bailey, 487; on the Struggle for Existence under Cultivation, Prof. L. H. Bailey, 487; Human Faculty as determined by Race, Dr. Frank Boaz, 487; Variations in the Human Skeleton and their Causes, Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, 487; Conclusions on the Hieroglyph "pax," M. H. Saville