December 5, 1895

ABBE (Prof. Cleveland), Meteorological Problems for Physical
Laboratories, 208; Dust- and Snow-storm in Western United
States, 419

Abbott (W. J. Lewis), on the Hastings Kitchen Midden, 580
Abnormal Atlantic Waves, James Yate Johnson, 569
Aboriginal Indian Remains in Jamaica, Discovery of, J. E.
Duerden, 173; on Recently Discovered Aboriginal Inhabitants
of Jamaica, Sir W. H. Flower, F.R.S., F. Cundall, J. E.
Duerden, 607

Abraham (M.), Measurement of very High Potentials by means
of a Modified Attracted Disc-electrometer, 628
Acadie, Nature in, H. K. Swann, 220

Acetylene for Illuminating Purposes, Combustion of, Prof. V. B. Lewis, 39

Ach (Lorenz), Synthesis of Caffeine, 86

Acokanthera Schimperi, Prof. T. R. Fraser, F.R.S., and Dr. Joseph Tillie, 237

Acoustics Photographic Records of Motion of Piano-wire when struck, W. Kaufmann, 84; the Projection of Ripples, Prof. C. V. Boys, 180; the Audibility of Fog-horn Signals at Sea, 347; Transverse Vibrations of Cords, A. Cornu, 382 Actor and Dramatist, Evolution of Orator and Poet, Herbert Spencer, 356

Adams' Masses of Jupiter's Satellites, 399

Adams (Frank D.), Hutton's Theory of the Earth, 569
Adams (Prof. J. C.), Unveiling of Memorial Tablet to, 59
Adulteration, Simple Methods for Detecting Food, J. A.
Bower, 642

Aeronautics: Projected Balloon Expedition to Arctic Regions,
S. A. Andrée, 47; the Maxim Flying Machine, Prof. A. G.
Greenhill, F.R.S., 321

Esthetic Principles, Henry Rutgers Marshall, 292
Africa: the Best Routes to Uganda, G. F. Scott-Elliot, 257;
Expedition across Masai-land to Uganda, Oscar Neumann,
373: Sir Samuel Baker: a Memoir, A. Silva White, 409;
North Africa, Stanford's Compendium of Geography and
Travel, A. H. Keane, 409; Death of Joseph Thomson, 346;
Obituary Notice of Joseph Thomson, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 440
After Image, a Curious Optical Phenomenon, R. A. F., 508
Agriculture Vitality of Seeds, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S.,
5; Irrigation in the United States, W. E. Smythe, 44 ;
Potatoes as Cattle Food, A. Girard, 71; Agricultural Educa-
tion in United States, P. G. Craigie, 84; Experimental
Small Fruit, &c., Culture in Indiana, 112: Continuous Treat-
ment with Copper Compounds Harmless to Vine or Potato
Crops, A. Girard, 144; Sale of Mr. R. E. Lofft's Herd of
White-Polled Cattle, 153; Dairy Bacteriology, Dr. Ed. von
Freudenreich, 220; Statue to Boussingault, 275; Michigan
Treatment of Tomato Rot and Apple-Scab, 276; Agriculture,
Practical and Scientific, Prof. James Muir, 338; Agriculture,
R. Hedger Wallace, 338; Fruit best Grown under Clear Glass,
Prof. Zacharewiez, 486; the Woburn Experimental Fruit
Farm, 508; Prune and Groundsel Rusts, D. McAlpine, 540;
Calcium Cyanate, a New Nitrogenous Manure, Camille Faure,
588; Chemical Study of Eight Lower Congo Earths, E.
Stuyvaert, 611; Death of Prof. H. Hellriegel, 651
Air, on the Electrification of, and Thermal Conductivity of Rock
at Different Temperatures, Lord Kelvin, P. R.S., 67
Air and other Gases, Electrification and Diselectrification of,
Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., Magnus Maclean, and Alexander Galt,
608

Akinfieff (M.), the Flora of the Caucasus, 304

Alcyonium digitatum, Chemical Constitution of Mesogla of, W. L. Brown, 285

Algebra, M. H. Senior, 127

Algebra, Longmans' School, W. S. Beard and A. Telfer, 220 Algiers, Earthquake Shock at, 301

Algol, 61

Alkali, a Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and, George Lunge, J. T. Dunn, 290 Allen (Grant), the Story of the Plants, 364

Alloys, the Rarer Metals and their, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 14, 39

Alloys Research Committee, Third Report to, Messrs RobertsAusten, Allan Gibb, and Alfred Stansfield, 18

Alps and Caucasus, My Climbs in the, A. F. Mummery, Prof.
T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 219

Altitude and Azimuth of Polaris, A. Tanakadate, 305
Aluminium Utensils, M. Balland, 456

Aluminium for Chemical Instruments, Prof. Norton, 607
Ameghin (Señor F.), Late Cretaceous Ungulates from Patagonia,
303
America : Scientific Education in America, 357; on the Origin
of European and North American Ants, C. Emery, 399;
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr.
Wm. H. Hale, 506; the Affiliated Societies of the American
Association, 606; American Forestry Association, 606;
Botanical Work of the American Government, J. M. Coulter,
251; American Journal of Mathematics, 70, 237, 610;
American Journal of Science, 118, 212, 285, 431, 539;
American Mathematical Society, 335, 587; American Meteoro-
logical Journal, 45, 118, 308, 335, 455, 587; the American
Metrological Society, III

Ames (J. S.), the Relation of Spectra to Molecular Structure, 275

Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 168, 240, 360 Anesthesia with Chloroform, Utility of Oxysparteïne Injections before, P. Langlois and G. Maurange, 359

Analysis, Micrographic, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, F. R.S., 367

Analytical Key to the Natural Orders of Flowering Plants, Franz Thonner, 543

Anatomy: the Relation between the Movements of the Eyes and the Movements of the Head, Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S., 184; Text-book of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses, D. C. Kimber, 77

Ancodus, Prof. W. B. Scott, 524

Anderson (A. P.), Grand Period of Growth in Fruit of Cucurbita pepo, 10

Andrée (S. A.), Projected Balloon Expedition to Arctic Regions, 47

Andrews (C. W.), on the Stereornithes, 561

Andrews (E. R.), Action of Nitrous Acid on Dibromaniline, 166

Andrews (Thos., F.R.S.), Micro-Metallography of Iron, 213 Ani, the Papyrus of, in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge, I

Animal Life, the Action of Light on, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 86 Animals, Studies in the Evolution of, G. Bonavia, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 411

Animals, True Instincts of, C. W. Purnell, 383

Animals, Popular History of, for Young People, Henry Scherren, 642

Antarctic, the Voyage of the, to Victoria Land, C. E. Borchgrevink, 375

Anthony (Dr. John), Death of, 133

Anthropology: the Cook Collections of South Sea Island Weapons, &c.. Dr. V. Ball, 11; the Pygmies, A. de Quatrefages, Sir W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 25; the Stone Age in the Ukraine Baron de Baye, 45; the Potters' Art in New