ABBE (Prof. Cleveland): Macclesfield Observations, 365; Note on his Work, 502
Abercromby (Hon. Ralph); a Meteorologist at the Royal Aca- demy, 225 the Weather in the "Doldrums," 238; and R. H. Scott, F. R.S., on Meldrum's Rules for Handling Ships in the Southern Indian Ocean, 358; Photographs of Lightning- Flashes, 547
Aberdare Hall, Cardiff, 257 Aberdeen University, 552 Aberration, Constants of, 185
Abney (Captain W. de W., F.R.S.): Colour Photometry, 212; Photometry of Colour, 286; on the Determination of the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar Eclipse of August 28, 29, 1886, 407
Abscess, Microbism and, Verneuil, 488
Absorption Spectra, the, of Crystals, M. Becquerel, A. E. Tutton, 343
Academy of Sciences, Proposed Czeck, 302 Acari, A. D. Michael on, 94
Acheson (E. G.): Measurements of Sparking Distance in Air of Alternate Currents used in Electric Lighting, 305; Inquiry into Influence of Disruptive Discharges of Powerful Alter- nating Currents, 577
Açores, Excursions Zoologiques dans les, Jules de Guerne, 113 Actinometer, Electro-chemical, Gouy and Rigollot, 119 Adam (Paul), New Organic Compounds of Diphenyl, 599 Adelaide Botanic Garden, Report of the, 623
Advancement of Science, the Australasian Association for the, 437
Eolotropic Elastic Solids, C. Chree on, 165
Aerolites, on the Orbits of, H. A. Newton, 63, 250 Aeronautics: Proposed Steel Vacuum Balloon, 185; Aëronaut- ical Society of Great Britain, 230; a Compressed-Air Engine for Flying Machine, L. Hargrave, 463; War Aerostation in France, 552
Agassiz Seaside Assembly, 203
Agriculture in Canada, 87; Agricultural Education in Nor- thern Italy and in Prussia, 138; the Principles of Agricultural Practice as an Instructional Subject, Prof. John Wrightson, 220; New School of Agriculture at West Lavington, 228; Report of the British Consul at Hakodadi, on Agriculture of Yezo, Japan, 373; the Rothamsted Experiments on the Growth of Wheat, Barley, and the Mixed Herbage of Grass Land, William Fream, 465; Professorship of Agriculture founded at Virginia University, 552; Rural School Education in Agriculture in Scotland, Prof. Robert Wallace, 576; Pro- posed Agricultural College, 598 Afforestation in America, 487
Afghans, the, M. L. Rousselet, 431
Afghan Delimitation Commission, the Botany of the, J. E. T. Aitchison, F. R.S., 219
Africa: Dwarf Races in, R. G. Haliburton, 112; Tropical Africa, Henry Drummond, 171; Lieutenants Kund and Tappenbeck's Expedition into Cameroons, 186; a Century of African Exploration, Dr. Supan, 186; Report of the South African Museum for 1887, 230; Jules Borelli's African Ex- plorations, 259; a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical Species
of South African Butterflies, Rowland Trimen, F.R.S., 266; Incwadi Yama, or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa, J. W. Matthews, 295; German East African Possessions, Dr. Hans Meyer, 305
Ain, Notes on the Département de l', Dr. Aubert, 431 Ainos: Folk-Lore of the, 87; Burial Customs of the, Rev. J. Batchelor, 331
Air: Determination of the Weight of, M. J. M. Crafts, 192; Movement of, in the Atmosphere, Dr. Lummer, 192
Air and Water, the Micro-organisms of, Dr. Percy F. Frank- land, 232
Aitchison (J. E. T., F.R.S), the Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission, 219
Aitken (Sir William, F.R.S.), the Animal Alkaloids, &c.,
Alaska, Lieut. Emmon's Ethnographical Collection from, 64 Al-Birûnî's India: an Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, &c., of India about A. D. 1030, 97
Albuminoid Substances in the White of an Egg, Study of, 164 Alcohol, a Treatise on, with Tables of Spirit Gravities, Thomas Stevenson, IOI
Alcoholism and Criminality, M. Marambat, 135 Aldrovandia vesiculosa, M. Korzchinsky on, 160
Alexander (G. W.), Humming-bird and Mantis, 383 Alexander (Dr. H.), New Platinum Base obtained by, 256 Alexander (J.) and Prof. Carnelly on the Colour of some Carbon Compounds, 141
Alkaline Phosphites, on the Action of the, on the Alkaline- Earthy Oxides, M. L. Ouvrard, 168
Alkaloids, the Animal, Sir William Aitken, F.R.S., 170; A. M. Brown, 170
Allen (Grant), and Electro-physics, 221
Allene, the Gas, Gustavson and Demjanoff, 552
Alps, Western, on the Constitution and Structure of the Crystalline Schists of the, Prof. Ch. Lory, 506
Aluminium on Organic Compounds in their relations to Haloid Salts of, G. Gustafson, 139; in certain Vascular Cryptogams, on the Occurrence of, Prof. A. H. Church, 140, 228; Cowles's Process for the Production of, 162; the Vapour-density of, 239; Production of, H. T. Castner, 326; Present Position of the Manufacture of, 592; Freezing point of Solutions of Organic Compounds of, Louise and Roux, 608 Amaryllideæ, Hand-book of the, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 362 Amber in West Jutland, Discovery of, 598 America: Scandinavian Colonization of, 17; American Na- tional Academy of Sciences, 63; American Association for Advancement of Science, 64, 256, 452; American Journal of Science, 91, 189, 430, 462, 559; American Journal of Mathematics, 164, 582; American Meteorological Journal, 112, 204, 326, 502; Implements of Paleolithic Type in America, 184; New York "Blizzard," 204; Dr. David T. Day's Pottery Collection, 206; American Observa- tories, 231, 626; the International Congress of "Ame- ricanists," 256, 552; Trans-Mississippi Rainfall, 326; American Statistical Association, Water-power employed in the United States, 349; American Philosophical Society, 351; Native Birds of North America, 373; Cincinnati Exposition,
373; National Zoological Park at Washington, 397; Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Natural History, New York, 422; American Geology, 452; the Fourth Centenary of the Discovery of America by Columbus, 487; Afforestation in America, 487; American Association, 500, 552; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 511; American Geographical Society, 529
Amorétti (Félix) y Carlos M. Morales, Teoria Elemental de las Determinantes y sus Principales Aplicaciones al Algebra y la Geometria, 537
Amorphous Antimony, M. F. Hérard, 432
Ampère, Statue of, 598
Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 120, 216, 336, 632; Zoological Society, 62
Anagyrine, on, MM. E. Hardy and N. Gallois, 360
Analyst's Laboratory Companion, Alfred E. Johnson, 564
Anatomy, Comparative, Modifications of First and Second Visceral Arches, Hans Gadow, 47
Ancêtres, Les, de nos Animaux, dans les Temps Géologiques, Prof. Albert Gaudry, 4
Ancient Canoe in Norway, 134
Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., and W. H. Hudson, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 587
Argyll (the Duke of, F.R.S.): Functionless Organs, 341, 411: Prophetic Germs, 564, 615
Arithmetic Graphical, the Elements of, and Graphical Statics, John Y. Gray and Geo. 1owson, 4; Arithmetic for Beginners, Rev. J. B. Lock, 76; Arithmetic, a Higher, and Elementary Mensuration, P. Goyen, 218; Arithmetical Exercises, H. S. Hall and S. R. Knight, 490
Arizona, Discovery of Prehistoric Cities in, 42 Arizona, Hemenway Expedition in, Thos. Wilson, 629 Armour of the Middle Ages, a Collection of, 134 Armstrong (Lord), on Technical Education, 313
Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.): Report of the British Association Committee on Isomeric Napthalene Derivatives, 596; Valency, 596
Arnaud (M.), Strophanthine, 311
Aromatic Monamines, M. Léo Vignon, 216 Art Wood-carving, School of, 574
Arteries, on the Proliferation cf Endothelium-cells in, M. Pekelharing, 216
Ancient Monuments of Egypt, H. H. Howorth, M.P., Sir J. | Asbestos, its Production and Use, R. H. Jones, 148 Fergusson, M. P., 326
Ancient Town, Remains of, on Right Bank of Volga, 374 André (Ch.), on the Luminous Bridges observed during the Transits and Occultations of the Satellites of Jupiter, 359 Andrews (Thos.), Electro-chemical Effects on Magnetizing Iron, 262
Anenometers: Prof. Waldo, 112; Report on Experiments with, G. M. Whipple and W. H. Dines, 191 Anglesey Rocks, Prof. Blake, 597
Animal Alkaloids, Sir William Aitken, F.R.S., 170; A. M. Brown, 170
Animal Life, Forms of, George Rolleston, F. R.S., 25 Animals, Effect of Earthquake on, Prof. Milne, 500 Animals' Institute, the, 500
Animals and Plants, Distribution of, by Ocean Currents, A. W. Buckland, 245; Isaac C. Thompson, 270
Another World, or, the Fourth Dimension, A. T. Schofield, 363
Anschütz's Instantaneous Photographs, 119
Antagonism, F. Howard Collins, 7; Thomas Woods, 56 Antarctic Islands, Flora of the, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F. R.S., Dr. H. B. Guppy, 40
Antarctic Regions, German Exploration of, 228 Anthrarobin and Chrysarobin, Dr. Weyl's Researches on the Physiological Action of, 144
Anthropology: Les Pygmées, A. de Quatrefages, 4; Pygmy Races of Men, Prof. Flower, F.R. S., 44, 66; Anthropological Institute, 23, 214, 287; Dr. Topinard on the History of, in 1788, 212; Dr. P. Topinard on Neolithic Skull, 212; Ethnographic Types from the Monuments of Egypt, Rev. H. G. Tomkins, 214; Fixedness of the American Type, Dr. Brinton, 256; Anthropology at the Cincinnati Exhibition, 279; the Nicobar Islanders, E. H. Man, 287; Paris Anthropological Exhibition, 371; Journal of the Anthropo- | logical Institute, 396; Japanese "go-hei" and Shinto Worship, Basil Hall Chamberlain, 396; Mr. Fawcett on the Saoros of the Ganjam Hill Tracts, 453; Philosophy from an Anthropo- | logical Point of View, Dr. Fauvelle, 462; Anthropological and Ethnological Study of Cambodia, Dr. E. Maurel, 463; the Hand and Figure of Native East Indians, Dr. Mugnier, 463; Platycnemia in Man and the Anthropoda, Manouvrier, 463 Anticyclones in Europe, Dr. P. Brounow, 63
Anutchin (M.), on Use of Sledges, &c., at Burials, 134 Apparatus for the Measurement of the Co-efficient of Expansion by Heat, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F. R.S., and Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 141
Arabia Deserta, Travels in, C. M. Doughty, 195 Archæological Society of Sweden, 87
Archer's (W. J.) Journey in the District of Chiengmai, 280 Archibald (E. Douglas): Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Storms, and Rotating Spheres, C. L. Weyher, 104; Faye's Theory of Storms, 149; Cloud Electric Potential, 269; Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, 339
Arcs, on the Supernumerary, accompanying the Rainbow, M. Boitel, 143
Arctic Regions, Contributions to our Knowledge of the Meteoro- logy of the, 625
Asia, Central: Lieut. Younghusband's Journey across, General Prjevalsky's Proposed Fourth Journey in, 66 Asiatic Society of Japan, 87
Assaying, Manual of Practical, J. Mitchell, 148 Assessors, Scientific, in Courts of Justice, 289 Asteroids, the Short Period Comets and, Prof. Kirkwood, 114: Photometric Observations of, Henry M. Parkhurst, 554 Astronomy Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 18, 43, 65, 89, 115, 136, 161, 186, 207, 231, 258, 279, 304, 328. 351, 375, 398, 423, 454, 487, 503, 529. 554, 577, 601, 626: Astronomical Column, 43, 88, 114, 185, 206, 231, 258, 328, 350, 375, 397, 423, 503, 528, 553, 576, 600, 626; New Minor Planets, Herr Palisa and M. Charlois, 43; Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal), 43; Cincinnati Zone Catalogue, 43; Publi cations of Lick Observatory, 43; Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal). Prof. Lewis Boss, 88; New Minor Plant, 88; Observations of the Channels in Mars, 95; Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal), 114, 186, 258, 328; the Short Period Comets and Asteroids, Prof. Kirkwood, 114; New Minor Planet, 115; Study of Mars, F. Terby, 119; Prof. Russell on Chinese Astronomy, 134; Report of the Astronomer-Royal, 153; Report of the Paris Observa- tory, 179; Dr. Gill's Proposed Star Catalogue, 180; Photo- graphic Chart of the Heavens, 180; the Constant of Aber- ration, 185; the Markings on Mars, 185; New Rings of Saturn, Dom Lamey, 191; Rings of Saturn and on the Planet Mars, M. Perrotin, 216; American Observatories, 231; Minor Planets, 231; the Rings of Saturn, 231; Rota- tion Period of the Sun from Faculæ, Dr. J. Wilsing, 206; Researches on the Accidental Errors occurring in the Obser vations of Transits, M. G. Rayet, 216; the Canals of the Planet Mars, 239; the Markings on Mars, M. Perrotin. 258, 311; Liverpool Astronomical Society, 277; the New Astronomy, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, A. M. Clerke, 291: Projected Astronomical Observatory at Pekin, 302; Astro nomical Instruments for International Photographic Survey of the Heavens, Sir H. E. Roscoe, M.P., F.R.S., 325; Variable Stars, Mr. Sawyer, 328; Paris Astronomical Society. 336; the Red Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 342; Michell's Prob lem, Joseph Kleiber, 342; Encke's Comet, 350; the Ma of Titan, 350; Names of Minor Planets,. 351: the Lick Observatory, Prof. Holden, 355 on the Luminous Bridge observed during the Transits and Occultationsfof the Satellite- of Jupiter, M. Ch. André, 359; Globular Star Clusters, A. M. Clerke, 365; Partial Eclipse of August 7, A, E. Cromme lin, 364; Macclesfield Observations, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 363; a Lunar Rainbow, T. D. A. Cockerell, 365: Further Cometary Discoveries, 375 Comet 1888 (Books), Dr. H. Kreutz, 307. Yale College Observatory, 397: Gravitation in the Stellar Systems, Prof. Asaph Hall, 398; on the Determination : the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 407; Summary of the Solar Observations made at the Royal Observatory the Collegio Romano, Second Quarter of 1888, M. P. Tacchini, 408; Resignation of Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 421; the Spectram of R Cygni, 423; Encke's Comet, 1888 d, 423, 503; Milan Double-star Observations, 423; Faye's Comet, 432; Satel- lites of Mars, 432, 553; Brooks's New Comet, 432; Mars
during Opposition of 1888, L. Niesten, 511; Comet 1888.e (Barnard), 528; Comets Brooks and Faye, Dr. H. Kreutz, 528; Comet 1888 (Brooks), Dr. H. Kreutz, 503; Dis- covery of a New Comet, 1888 e, E. E. Barnard, 503; the Total Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 553; Photometric Obser- vations of Asteroids, Henry M. Parkhurst, 554 New Cata- logue of Variable Stars, S. C. Chandler, 554; Minor Planet No. 275, 554; the Light-curve of U Ophiuchi, S. C. Chandler, 576; Comets Brooks and Faye, 576; Comet 1888 e (Barnard), W. R. Brooks, 576; Astronomical Instruments, Lord Craw- ford's Collection of, 598; the Solar Parallax from Photographs of the last Transit of Venus, 600; the Markings of Mars, 601; Fresh Calculation of Jupiter's Mass, E. de Haertl, 608; Prof. Egoroff's Report on the Observations made in Russia and Siberia during the Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887, 625; the Ring Nebula in Lyra, Prof. Holden, 626; Comets Brooks and Faye, 626; Comet 1888 e (Barnard), Herr A. Berberich, 626; American Observatories, 626; Fearnley and Geelmuyden Zone Observations of the Stars, 626 Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, Publications of the, 206 Atkinson (W. S.), Description of the New Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of Frederick Moore, 266 Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, Charts Showing the Mean Barometrical Pressure over the, 196
Atlantic, North, Currents, Monthly Charts, M. Simart, 143 Atlantic, North, Pilot Chart of, 86, 204, 422 Atlantic Ocean, Models of the Bed of the, 327
Atlantic Slope, Three Formations of the Middle, W. J. McGee,
Atlas, Mr. Joseph Thomson's Proposed Expedition to the, 112, 555
Atmosphere in Channel, Extraordinary Rarefaction of, 256 Atmosphere, Thermo-dynamics of the, Prof. von Bezold, 144 Atmosphere, Transparency of the, J. Parnell, 270 Atmospheric Nitrogen, on the Relations of, to Vetable Soil, M. Th. Schlæsing, 383
Atolls, Formation of, 5
Atomic Weight, Prof. Hartley, F.R.S., 142
Aubert (Dr.), Notes on the Département de l'Ain, 431
Aurivillius (Dr. C.), on the Skeleton of the so-called Sweden- borg Whale, Eubalena svedenborgü, Lillj., 134
Aurora Borealis observed at Motala, Sweden, 16; at Örebro in Central Sweden, 16
Aurora Borealis, Origin of, Jean Luvini, 143 Aurora Borealis at Rock Ferry, 54
Aurora in Spitzbergen, Dr. H. Hildebrandsson, 84 Australia: the Rabbit Pest in, 42; Curious Apparent Motion of the Moon seen in, T. Mellard Reade, 102; Wraggs's Daily Weather Charts for Australia, 303; Lieut. Israel's Exploring Party, 374; the Australasian Association for the Advance- ment of Science, 437; Report of the Australian Museum, 575; a New Australian Mammal, E. C. Stirling, 588; Female Figures modelled in Wax discovered among Aus- tralian Aboriginals, 623; Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, 623; Catalogue of the Fishes in the Australian Museum, Sydney, 624
Austria, Curious Relic of Mediaeval Superstition in, 454 Austrian Alps, New Measurements of the, 280 Aveling (Edward), Mechanics, 587
Baker (C. Weatherall), a Magnificent Meteor, 203 Baker (J. G., F.R.S.): Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, William Hillebrand, 49; Preserving the Colour of Flowers, 245; Synoptical Flora of North America, Prof. Asa Gray, 242 ; Hand-book of the Amaryllideæ, 362
Balance, Physical, Theory and Use of, J. Walker, 146 Balance, the Voltaic, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335
Balland (M.), on the Development of the Grain of Wheat, 168
Balloon, Captive, at Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction by Lightning of, 578
Balloon Journey, a, Lieut. Moedebeck, 48 Balloon, Proposed Steel Vacuum, 185
Ballot (Dr. Buys), on the Distribution of Temperature over the Surface of the Earth, 374
Baltic, Remarkable Mirage on the, 304
Bamford (Alf. J.), Turbans and Tails, or Sketches in the Un- romantic East, 269
Banaré (A.), Experiments with Marine Telephone, 464
Banbury (G. A. Lethbridge), Sierra Leone, or the White Man's Grave, 244
Bandai-San Eruption, the, 452
Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction of Captive Balloon by Light- ning, 578
Barley, Experiments on Hybridism or Crossings with Common, 336
Barnard (E. E.), Discovery of a New Comet, 1888 e, 503; Comet 1888 e, W. R. Brooks, 576, 626
Baroda, Science in, 41
Barometer, a New, T. H. Blakesley, 287
Barometrical Pressure over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, Charts showing the, 196
Barttelot (Major), Murder of, 499
Bashforth (Rev. F.), Calculation of Ranges, &c., of Elongated Projectiles, 468
Basingstoke, Discovery of Prehistoric Remains near, 553 Basset (A. B.), Treatise on Hydro-dynamics, 243
Batavia, Dr. Guppy's Expedition to the Coral Reefs of the Indian Archipelago, 228
Batchelor (Rev. J.): on Aino Folk-Lore, 87; Burial Customs of the Ainos, 331
Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field-Club, 304; Meeting of the British Association, 346, 382
Bather (F. A.), Lightning and Milk, 30
Baudot (M.), an Isochronous Regulator, 384
Bauer (G.), Spelin, Eine Allsprache, I
Beat of the Human Heart, on the Electromotive Variations which accompany the, Dr. Augustus D. Waller, 619 Beatty-Kingston (W.), a Wanderer's Notes, 196 Becquerel (M.), the Absorption Spectra of Crystals, 343 Beddard (Frank E.), the Nephridia of Earthworms, 221 Bedford (H.), Derivation of the Word Claret, 113 Bedford College, Shaen Wing, 372
Beevor (Dr. Charles E.) and Victor Horsley, F. R.S., Note on some of the Motor Functions of certain Cranial Nerves and of the Three First Cervical Nerves in the Monkey (Macacus sinicus), 357
Belgium, Report of Royal Commission on Condition of Labour, 133
Bell (Prof. A. Graham), and Deaf Mutes, 132
Bell (Mr.), on Manure Gravels of Wexford, 597 Belladonna, the Constituents of, 240
Benda (Dr.), the Structure of Striated Muscle-Fibres, 360 Benham (Dr. Wm. B.), British Earthworms, 319 Bengal, Meteorological Report for, 574
Bengal, Monsoon Storms in, 158
Bentham (George), Prof. W. T. T. Dyer on, 116 Bérenger-Férand (M. le Dr.), Recurrence of the Myth of Ibicus among Provençals, 212
Berget (M. Alphonse), Measurement of the Coefficients of Thermic Conductibility for Metals, 359
Berichte, Chemistry of the Rare Earths, Drs. Krüss and Kiesewetter on the, 326
Berlin: Academy of Sciences, 302; Awards of, 16; Meteoro- logical Society, 48, 119; Report of the Berlin Meteorological Society, 278; Physiological Society, 24, 95, 119, 144, 240, 264, 312, 360, 464; Physical Society, 72, 119, 143, 192, 311; Skull of Rhinoceros tichorrhinus found near, 304 Bernheim (M. J.) and M. G. Rousseau on the Decomposition of the Ferrate of Baryta, 216
Bernoulli and Haecker, Formulæ of, for the Lifting Power of Magnets, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190
Bert (Paul), First Elements of Experimental Geometry, 295 Berthelet and Fabre, the Chemistry of Tellurium, 63 Berthelot (M.): Experiments on the Fixation of Nitrogen by certain Vegetable Plants and Soils, 408; and G. André, Remarks on the Quantitative Analysis of Nitrogen in Vegetable Soil, 359
Bertrand (M. J.), Note on Target Practice, 359 Bessarabia, Disease of the Tobacco Plant in, 278
Bezold (Prof. von), Thermo-dynamics of the Atmosphere, 144 Bhabur Grass, the Kew Bulletin on, 277
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Brauner (Dr. B.), Sun Columns, 414
Brazil: the Bahia or Bendego Meteorite, 349; Meteorological Observatory established in Brazil, 42; Brazilian Government Expeditions for Exploration of Interior of, 455
Bridge Construction, a Practical Treatise on, T. Claxton Fidler, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F. R. S., 2 Bridge, the Forth, 39
Bright (Sir Chas.), Death of, 41
Brinton (Dr. David G.): Fixedress of the American Type, 256; the Alleged Mongoloid Affinities of the American Race, 552 Bristol Naturalists' Society, 486
British Archæological Association, 421 BRITISH ASSOCIATION: Fresident for 1889, 16; General Ar- rangements, 85; the Bath Meeting of the, 346, 382; Ad- dress of the Ketiring President, Sir Henry Roscoe, M.P., F.R.S., 439; Inaugural Address by Sir Frederick Bram- well, F.K.S., President, 440; Attendance at the, 469; Chemistry at the. 595; Report of the Committee on the Action of Light on the Hydracids in Presence of Oxygen, Dr. Richardson, 595; the Study of Mineralogy, Prof. Sterry Hunt, 596; Chemical Problems presented by Living
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