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Avalanche in Western Switzerland, 181
Ayrton (Prof. W. E.), Electric Railways, 255

Bacillus of Tuberculosis (Koch), Preliminary Note on the, J.
W. Clark, 492; Watson Cheyne's Report on, 563
Backhouse (Thos. W.), Comet 1882 b, 52, 338; Aurora of
November 17, 1882, 141, 315, 418; the Heights of Auroras,
198
Baillie-Grohman (W. A.), " Camps in the Rockies," 551
Baird's Hare and its Habits, 241; T. Martyr, 266
Baker (B.), Sir Geo. Airy on the Forth Bridge, 222
Balkan Peninsula, Earthquake in the Northern Part of, 19
Ball (Dr. R. S.), Transit of Venus, 157; Great Tides, 201
Balloons Centenary of the Discovery of, 277; Tissandier's
Electromagnetic Engine for directing, 323; Extraordinary
Run of a small Hydrogen, 400; Electricity as a Motive
Power for, Napoli, 517

Baltic, Seals in the, 133

Baluchistan, Wanderings in, Major-General Sir C. M. Mac-
Gregor, Prof. A. H. Keane, 359

Barfoot (W.), the Sea-Serpent, 338

Barkas (T. P.), the Magnetic Storm and Auroræ, 87; an Extra-
ordinary Lunar Halo, 103

Baro-manometrical Experiments, Kraevit-ch, 324

Barometer, on the Movements of Air in Fissures and the,
A. Strahan, 375, 461

Batson (A.), Auroral "Meteoric Phenomena" of November 17,
1882, 100, 141, 412

Bavaria, Lower, Discoveries of Gold and Silver in, 399
Baxter College in Dundee, 247

Bear Festival among the Ainos, 19

Bees, Senses of, 46

Beetles, "Die Kafer Westfalens," F. Westhoff, 239

Belgrade, Skeleton of Mammoth found at, 63

Bellesme (Prof. J. de), on Claude Bernard, 317

Benevolence in Animals, Oswald Fitch, 580; Geo. J. Romanes,
F.R.S., 607

Ben Nevis, Meteorological Observatory on, 18, 39, 175, 399,
411, 487

Bennett (A. W.), Nesting Habits of the Emu, 530

Berlin: Physical Society of, 95, 143, 216, 236, 284, 380, 403,
476, 571, 620; Physiological Society of, 120, 191, 216, 355,
379, 493, 452, 524, 595; Berlin Agricultural Museum, 180
Bernard (Claude), Prof. J. de Bellesme on, 317
Berson (M.), Magnetisation of Metals, 183

Bertillon (Dr.), Death of, 444

Bhamo, Colquhoun's Journey to, 63

Bidwell (Shelford), "Electrical Resistance of Carbon Contacts,"
376

Binary Star, Cancri, 424

Binary Star, p Eridani, 589

Binary Stars, 518

Biology in Italy, 46; Biological Notes, 91, 230; New Lantern
Slides for Illustrating Biology, 276; Deductive Biology,
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 554

Bird of Paradise, New Species of, 276
Bird-track by Sea-shore, apparent, 91

Birds, a History of British, Part xv., Wm. Yarrell, 98
Birmingham (John), Transit of Venus, 1882, British Expeditions,
180; Intelligence in Animals, 337

Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 587
Bischoff (Dr. T. L. W. von), Death of, 180
Blackheath, "Denehole" at, 324

66

Blanford's Sheep, 415

Blasius (Dr.), Fossil Souslik in Northern Germany, 247
Blastopore, Prof. F. M. Balfour on the Existence of a, 215
Blackman (B.), Anthropology of the Jews, 113

Bles (E. J.), a "Natural Experiment in Complementary

Colours, 241

Blomfield (Rev. L.): Ticks, 552; Helix pomatia, L., 553
"Blowing Wells," 375

Bobenhausen Pile Dwellings, 160

Bohdalek (Dr.), Death of, 399
Bohemia, Earthquake in, 400

Bologna, Earthquake at, 445

Bombay, Deaths from Snake-bite in, Sir Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S.,
556

Bonney (Prof. T. G., F. R.S.): Hornblendic and other Schists of
the Lizard District, 71; Proceedings of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, 501

Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Report of the Royal, 114

Botanical Garden, Saharunpur, 588
Botanical Year Book, Pringsheim's, 502

Botany, Text Book of Morphological and Physiological, Julius
Sachs, Prof. E. P. Wright, 263

Botany of the Challenger Expedition, W. Botting Hemsley, 462
Bottomley (J. T.), Thomson's Mouse Mill Dynamo, 78

Boulger (Prof. G. S.), Epping Forest, 455

Bowditch (Dr. H. P.), Optical Illusions of Motion, 183
Bower (F. O.), Mr. Grant Allen's Articles on "The Shapes
Leaves," 552

Braces or Waistband? 531, 553, 580

Branfill (B. R.), an Extraordinary Meteor, 149

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Brassey (Sir Thomas), "The British Navy; its Strengtb, Re-
sources, and Administration," W. H. White, 549
Brault on Isanemones, 20

Brewer, Distiller, and Wine Manufacturer, 311

Brewer (W. H.), Evolution of the American Trotting Horse,
609

British Association, Proposed Visit to Canada, 41, 88, 299, 398,
538, 546, 587; Protest against Meeting in Canada, 209; and
Local Societies, 132

British Birds, a History of, Part xv., Wm. Yarrell, 98
British Circumpolar Expedition, Capt. Dawson, R.A., 484
"British Navy; its Strength, Resources, and Administration,
Sir Thomas Brassey, W. H. White, 549

Britten (F. J.), Watch and Clockmaker's Handbook, H. Dent
Gardner, 76

Brocklehurst (T. U.), "Mexico To-day," 503
Bronze Hatchets Discovered at Salez, 540

Brown (E.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86; Meteor, 508,
the Zodiacal Light (?), 605

Brown (J. Campbell), Practical Chemistry, 75

Brunton (Dr. T. Lauder, F.R.S.): on Inhibition (of Structural
Functions) and Action of Drugs thereon, 419, 436, 467, 485
Action of Calcium, &c., on Muscle, 450

Brussels Observatory, 445.

Buchan (A.), Diurnal Variation of Wind on Open Sea and near
and on Land, 413

Buckley (Arabella), Winners in Life's Race, 51
Buenos Ayres, the Comet 1882 bat, 62

Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, 71,
281, 473

Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Péters
bourg, 94

Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 214
Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscou, 47, 189
Burmah, Colquhoun's Journey to, 92

"Burman, The," Shway Yoe, 5; Dr. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 6
Burmeister (Dr. H.), "Description Physique de la République
Argentine d'après des Observations Personnelles et Etran-
gères," 28

Burton (Richard F.) and Verney Cameron, "To the Gold Coast
for Gold," 335

Burton (F. M.), Sap-flow, 530

Butterflies, Natural Enemies of, Henry Higgins, 338
Butterflies of India, Burmab, and Ceylon, Marshall and Nicé-
ville's, H. J. Elwes, 50

Cacao: How to Grow and How to Cure it, D. Morris, 566
Cacciatore (Prof.), Transit of Venus, 180

Calcium, Lockyer's Dissociation Theory of, Hermann W.
Vogel, 233

Calcium, Barium, and Potassium, Action of, on Muscle, Doctor
Brunton and Cash, 450

Calcutta: Report of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 114; Catalogue
of Mammalia in the Museum, Dr. Anderson, F.R.S., 172
Proposed Exhibition in, 209

Callard (T. K.), Paleolithic River Gravels, 54
Cambridge: New Professorships at, 469; Philosophical Society,
62, 119, 143, 403

Cameron (Verney), Richard Burton and, "To the Gold Coast
for Gold," 335

Campbell (Lewis, LL.D.), the Life of James Clerk Maxwell, 26
"Camps in the Rockies," W. A. Baillie-Grohman, 551

Canada, Proposed Visit of the British Association to, 41, 88,
299, 398, 538, 546, 587; Protest agai st, 209
Candolle (A. de), "Origine des Plantes Cultivées," 429
Cape Horn, French Mission to, 344

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INDEX

Cash (Dr.), Action of Calcium, &c., on Muscle, 450

Caspian, Changes of Level of, 541

Cassell's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 423

Cassell's Natural History, 367

Cassine, Earthquake at, 299

Cassini Division of Saturn's Ring, 374

Cassowary, the One wattled, 153

Cathodes, Chemical Corrosion of, Dr. Gore, F R.S., 374

Caucasus: Volcanic Eruption in the, 63; Geography of the,
470; Administration of Public Instruction of, 497; Geogra-
phical Society of, 424; Bulletin of Society for History and
Archæology, 497

Cecil (Henry): Comet 1882 6, 52; the Transit of Venus, 159;
Hovering of Birds, 388; Meteors, 483

Central Asia, "Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian

during the Years 1879-81, including Five Months' Residence

among the Tekkés of Merv," Edmond O'Donovan, Prof.

A. H. Keane, 359

Ceraski's Variable Star, U Cephei, 424

Cesati (Baron V.), his Botanical Collection, 20
"Ceylon, Lepidoptera of," L. Reeve and Co., 150

Challenger Expedition, Botany of the, W. Botting Hemsley,
462

Challenger Reports (Zoology, ii., iii., and iv.), 73

Challis (Prof. James, F.R.S.), Death of, 132

Chambery, Phylloxera in, 133

Chandler (Prof.), the Comet, 81

Changy on Incandescent Lamps, 209

Channel, Mountainous Seas in Calm Weather, 540

Channel Tunnel, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 338

Chavanne (Dr. J.), "Afrika's Ströme und Flüsse," 447

Chemistry: the Chemical Society, 47, 118, 191, 234, 306, 402,
426, 522, 570, 595; Recent Chemical Synthesis, 49; Prac-
tical Chemistry, J. Campbell Brown, 75; Elementary Che-
mical Arithmetic, Sidney Lupton, 76; Principles of Che-
Chemical Notes, 301;

mistry, Prof. Mendeléeff, 113;

Electrolytic Balance of Chemical Corrosion, Dr. Gore,

F.R.S., 326; Properties (Physical and Chemical) of Simple

and Compound Bodies, De Heen, 422; Chemistry of the

Planté and Faure Accumulators, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S.,

and Dr. A. Tribe, F.R.S., 583

Chevreul (M.): nominated President of the French Société

Nationale d'Agriculture, 277; his long Scientific Career, 422

Cheyne (Watson), the Bacillus of Tubercle, 563

China: Foreign Education in, 90; Chinese Definition of Death,

160; the Electric Light in, 209; R. K. Douglas on, 221;

'Chinarinden in Pharmakognos

Comets as Portents in, 229;

tischer Hinsicht dargestellt, Die," F. A. Flückiger, 287;

Scientific Heresies in, 342; Chinese Educational Mission,

566; Miss Dr. Howard's Success in, 567; Lead Ore dis-

covered in, 588; Telegraph Extension in, 588; Waste Paper

in, 588; Coroners' Science in, Robert K. Douglas, 612

Chlorophyll Corpuscles of Hydra, Prof. E. Kay Lankester,

F.R.S., 87

Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora,

82

Cinchona Culture, Handbook of, Karel Wessel van Gorkom,
287

Circle, Medioscribed, 607

Clerk-Maxwell on Stress, 314

Clouds, Magnetic Arrangement of: C. H. Romanes, 31; Rev.
W. Clement Ley, 53

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Comets: Schmidt's Cometary Object, 20; the Great Comet

1882 b, 4, 21, 43, 56, 80, 161, 210, 300, 349, 400, 446, 540,

589; Major J. Herschel, Geo. M. Seabroke, Arthur Watts,
4; Spectroscopic Observations of, 24, 42; C. J. B. Williams,
29; W. J. Millar, 29; W. Higginson and B. Manning, 29;
seen at the Paris Observatory, 42; J. P. McEwen, 52; T.
W. Backhouse, 52, 338; G. M. Seabroke, 52; H. Cecil,
Buenos Ayres, 62;
Tail
52; B. J. Hopkins, 62, 78; at
"Anomalous'

J. K. Rees, Prof. Chandler, 81;

of, Rev. T. W. Webb, 89; Major J. Herschel, 101;

Commander Sampson, U.S.N., Dr. C. J. B. Williams,

F.R.S., 108; Division of the Nucleus of the, 113; W. C.

Winlock, 128; Dr. Doberck, 128; A. Ainslie Common,

150; F. Stapleton, 150; Photograph of, 180; during last

November and December, C. J. B. Williams, F.R.S., 198;

Elements of, Vice-Admiral Rowan, Prof. E. Frisby, 226; J.

P. McEwen on, 247; W. T. Sampson, 266; Dr. B. A.

Gould, 267; E. Ristori, 314; Orbit of, E. Ristori, 388;

Ephemeris of, Prof. Frisby, 415; Prof. Schiaparelli on the,

Francis Porro, 533; Comet 1882c, 161, 248; Comets as

Portents in China, 229; Figure of the Nucleus of Comet of

1882 (Gould), Prof. Holden, 246; D'Arrest's Comet, 324,

567, 589, 618; Reported Discovery of a Comet, 324;

Denning's Comet, 348; Comet of 1771, 374; Comet 1883 a,

445, 517; Comet of 1812, 498

Common (A. Ainslie), the Comet, 150
150; at Niagara Falls, H. G. Madan, 174; a

Complementary Colours, 78; J. J. Murphy, 8; C. R. Cross,

Experiment in, E. J. Bles, 241; Chas. T. Whitmell, 266:

Novel Experiment in, John Gorham, 294

Cookery, the Rudiments of," A. C. M., 323

Cooley (W. Desborough), Death of, 469

Copernicus, Darwin and, Prof. E. du Bois Reymond, 557
Guppy, 7; Saville Kent, 433; J. G. Grenfell, 508

Coral-eating Habits of Holothurians, Surgeon-Major H. B.

Cordiner (R.), Age of Dogs, 79

Coroners' Science in China, Robert K. Douglas, 612

Corona, Photographing the, Dr. W. Huggins, F.R.S., 199

Corpuscles, Red Blood, Prof. Quincke on, 355

Cosmical Dust collected by M. Marx, Prof. Lenz, 422

Cothenius Medal, 540

Cowan (Mr. D.), Explorations in Madagascar, 372

Crombie (J. M.), Function of Membrana Flaccida of Tympanie
Membrane, 129

Cross (C. R.), Complementary Colours, 150

Crystal Palace Electricity and Gas Exhibition, 180

Cryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Mary
P. Merrifield, 385

Cryptophycea, a New Genus of, 230

Cumming (Miss Gordon), "Fire Fountains,"

Cunningham (David), Hovering of Birds, 336

Cunningham (Major Allan), Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments, 1;
the Indian Survey, 97

Cunningham (J. T.), Zoological Station in Naples, 453
Currie (James), Flamingoes and Cariamas, 389

Cutting Tools worked by Hand and Machine, Robert H. Smith,
577

Cyprus, Earthquake in, 497

Dachstein Glaciers, Decrease of, 42
Dairy Industry in France, 90

D'Arrest's Comet, 324, 567, 589, 618

Darwin (Charles), on Tower-like Dejections made by Worms,
20; Enthusiasm in Sweden on the Memorial to, 275; Darwin
and Copernicus, Prof. E. du Bois Reymond, 557; Hostile
Criticism in Germany of the Address on, 565
Darwin (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), Numerical Estimate of the
Rigidity of the Earth, 22; Elected Plumian Professor of
Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, 275;
Formation of Mudballs, 507

Darwinism, Dr. Le Conte on, 275

Dary (Georges), on Electric Navigation, 41, 42
Davis Lectures for 1883, 565

Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd), Channel Tunnel, 338

Dawson (Capt.), Notes on Circumpolar Expedition from Letters
of, 103, 242, 484

De La Rue's Diaries, &c., 161

De Morgan (Augustus), Memoir of, R. Tucker, 217

Death, Chinese Definition of, 160

Deaths from Snake Bite in Bombay, Sir Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S.,
556

Dechevrens (Father Marc), a Curious Halo, 30

Deductive Biology, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F. R.S., 554
Deep-Sea Exploration, French, 587

"Deneholes at Blackheath, 324

Denmark Oyster Fisheries of, 346; Glacial Phenomena in,

Prof. Johnstrup, 373

Denning (W. F.): Transit of Venus, 158; Markings on Jupiter,
365; Amateurs and Astronomical Observation, 434; the
Large Meteor of March 2, 1883, 461

Denning's Comet, 348

Deprez's Electrical Theories, 399

Derby Free Library, Reference Catalogue, 62

Desborde (Col.), on Banks of Niger, 424

Dewar (Prof.) and Prof. Liveing, Origin of Hydrocarbon Flame
Spectrum, 257

Diamond in its Matrix, a, 90

Dickert (Herr Thomas), Death of, 399

Dickson (Dr. Oscar): his liberality in aiding Scientific Research,
444; Account of Swedish Expedition to Greenland, 541
Dier (Prof.), Shadows after Sunset, 150

Dijmphna, Search Expedition for the, 64

Diluvial Mammals, Discovery of Remains of, on Wolga, 373
Dip-Circle, Goolden's Simple, 127

Direct-Vision Prisms, 182

Distant (W. L.): an Urgent Need in Anthropology, 101;
"Rhopalocera Malayana," 444

Diurnal Variation in the Velocity of the Wind, E. Douglas
Archibald, 461

Djighit (the), Domojiroff's Anemometric Observations on, 445
Doberck (Dr. W.): the Comet 1882 6, 129; Transit of Venus,
158; appointed to the Hong Kong Observatory, 565
Dobson (J. L.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87
Doe with Horns, 209

Dogs, Age of, R. Cordiner, 79

Dolmen, Discovery of, at St. Pierre Quiberon, 540

Domojiroff's Anemometric Observations on board the Djighit, 445
Doradûs, Supposed Variable μ, a Spurious Star, 498
Double Stars, Measures of, 182

Douglas (Robert K.): China, 221; Coroners' Science in China,
612

Draper (Prof. Henry): Death of, 88; Obituary Notice of, 108
Dredging Implement, a New: Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, II;
W. A. Her man, 54

Dreyer (J. L. E.), Transit of Venus, 158

Dublin: Roval Society of, 235; Experimental Science Associa-
tion, 571; Aurora at, 589

Dumas (J. B. A.): Presentation to, 132; his Address at the Com-
memoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Membership of
the Paris Academy, 174; the Dumas Medal, 227; Illness of, 346
Duncan (Prof. P. Martin, F. R.S.), Heroes of Science, 76
Dust Showers in Norway, 496

"Dutton (Capt. C. E.), a Monograph by," Tertiary History of
the Grand Cañon District, Dr. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 357
Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.): Influence of "Environment"
on Plants, 82; the Sacred Tree of Kum-Bum, 224; Deductive
Biology, 554

Dynamics, Introductory Treatise on Rigid, W. Steadman Aldis,
265

Dynamo, Thomson's Mouse-Mill, J. T. Bottomley, 78
Dynamo Machine, Elphinstone-Vincent, 516

Dynamo-electric Machine with Continuous Induction, Prof.
Pfaundler the Inventor of, 517

Dynamo-electric Machines, Recent, 58

Earth, Numerical Estimate of the Rigidity of the, Prof. G. H.
Darwin, F.R.S., 22

Earth Currents during Magnetical Perturbations, 89
Earth's Crust, Physics of the, Rev. O. Fisher, 76
Earth's Surface, Causes of Elevation and Depression of, W. F.
Stanley, 523

Earthquakes: in the Northern part of the Balkan Peninsula, 19;
at Cascia, 63; in Perugia, 90; in the Valais, 181; in Greece
and Panama, 248; at Murcia, in Spain, at Archena, &c., 277;
at Halifax, Prof. Geo. Lawson, 293; Clifton, Geo. F.
Burder, 293; Hastings, R. H. Tiddeman, 293; at Cassine,
299; at Agram, 348; at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, 374; in
Silesia and Bohemia, 400; in Hungary, 423; at Bologna,
445; in Japan, Proposed Study of, 469; in Cyprus, 497;
at Amsterdam, 517; in Hungary and Italy, 540; at Pedara
in Sicily, 567

Earthslip in Switzerland, 209

Earthworms in New Zealand, 91

Eastlake (F. W.), Geology of Hong Kong, 177

Eclipse, Total Solar, of May 6, 1883, 111, 248; the English
Observers, 346, 398, 556, 567

Eclipse, Solar, Total, of May 17, 1901, 424

Eclipses, Solar, the Recent Coming and Total, J. Norman
Lockyer, F.R.S., 185

Edinburgh: Royal Society of, 168, 283, 307, 403, 428, 452, 548,
571, 595; Mathematical Society of, 346, 500, 595

Education: Foreign Education in China, 90; of our Industrial
Classes, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 248; A. J. Mundella
on, 276; Prof. Huxley on, 396; Minister of, 495; in Japan, 617
Edwards (E. W. W.) and Higgins (C.), the Electric Lighting
Act, 1882, 410

Eggs, Effect of Railway Transport on, 444
Egyptian Exploration Fund, 401

Elastiche Nachwirkung, M. Hesehus, 183
Electricity International Electrical Conference, 18; Tricycles
propelled by, 19; Electric Illumination of a Railway Bridge
over the Ticino, 20; Electric Lighting, Sir C. W. Siemens,
F.R.S., 67; Electric Lighting at Society of Arts, 133; Elec-
tric Light in China, 209; "Electric Illumination," Conrad
Cooke, &c., 264; Priority in Photographing with Electric
Light, 276; Public Electric Lighting, 384; Electric Lighting
Act, 1882, C. Higgins and E. W. W. Edwards, 410; Elec-
tric Light at Savoy Theatre, 418; Electric Lighting in Switz-
erland, 497; in Paris, 516; Some Points in Electric Lighting,
Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., 592; Electric Navigation,
Georges Dary, 41, 42; M. Tresca's Papers on Electrical
Measures, 62; Electrical Transmission of Force and Storage
of Power, Sir C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 67, 518; Electrical
Disturbances in Sweden and Norway, 89; Electrical Exhibi-
tion at the Crystal Palace, 180; Electric Reaction, Prof.
Melde, 183; Electrical Phenomena, 199; Electric Railways,
Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 255; "Electricity," by Robert M.
Ferguson, 264; Electrical Exhibition at Vienna, 373, 444;
Electricity," a New Hungarian Journal, 299; Il Potentiale
Elettrico nell' Insegnamento Elementare della Elettrostatica,
Prof. A. Serpieri, 312; Electric Railways, 338; "Electrical
Resistance of Carbon Contacts," Shelford Bidwell, 376; Elec-
trical Theories, Deprez's, 399; Light-Phenomena of Electric
Discharges, Dr. Hertz, 403; Influence of Vacuum on Elec-
tricity, A. M. Worthington, 434; Electro-technical Society
formed at Vienna, 469; Successful Trial of an Electrically-
moved Tram-car, 470; Electricity as a Motive Power for
Balloons, Napoli, 517; Proposed Electric Railway from
Charing Cross to Waterloo, 566

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Electrolytic Balance of Chemical Corrosion, Dr. Gore, F.R.S.,
326

Electromotive Force and Resistance of Batteries, Effects of
Temperature on, W. H. Reece, F.R.S., 426

Electromotive Force of Galvanic Combinations, Kittler's Normal
Element of, 325

Electronomie Industrie, Manuel d', R. V. Picou, 146
Electroscope, a Modification of the Gold Leaf, F. J. Smith, 102
Elephant in Italy, Discovery of Fossil, 181; Threatened Ex-
tinction of the, E. E. Prince, 509

Elger (P. G.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 85
Elphinstone Vincent Dynamo Machine, 516

Elwes (H. J.), Marshall and Nicéville's Butterflies of India,
Burmah, and Ceylon, 50

Emu, Nesting Habits of, A. W. Bennett, 530
Encyclopædic Dictionary, 423

Enemies, Natural, of Butterflies, Henry Higgins, 338

Energy in the Spectrum, Distribution of, Lord Rayleigh,
F.R.S., 559

Energy, Transmission of, on Marcel-Deprez System, 372
Engineering Laboratory, University College, 160

"Ensilage in America," Prof. James E. T. Rogers, Prof.
Wrightson, 479

Entomological Society, 451, 500

"Environment" on Plants, Influence on, W. T. Thiselton Dyer,
F.R.S., 82; Howard Fox, 315

Eocene Section, the Lower, J. Starkie Gardner, 331
Episodes in the Life of an Indian Chaplain," 99

Epping Forest and the Railway Companies, 399; Prof. G. S.
Boulger, 455; Conservation of, from the Naturalist's Stand-
Point, 447

Equal Temperament of the Scale, C. B. Clarke, 240
Ergot, Poisonous Principle of, 517

Eridani, Binary Star, 589

Ernst (Dr. A.), Abnormal Fruit of Opuntia Ficus-Indica, 77
Essex County, Mass., Flora of, 173

Essex Field Club, 298, 347

Ether, the, and its Functions: Prof. Oliver Lodge, 304, 328;
S. Tolver Preston, 579

Ethnographical Exhibition at Stockholm, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 370
Ethnology, Aino: Dr. J. J. Rein, 365; Prof. A. H. Keane, 389
Ethnology of North Africa, Prof. A. H. Keane, 408
Etna (Mount), Eruption of, 422, 496, 515, 539
Evans (C.), Palæolithic River Gravels, 8

Evolution of the American Trotting Horse, W. H. Brewer, 609
Evolution, Hypothesis of Accelerated Development, by Primo-
geniture and its Place in the Theory of, Prof. A. A. W. Hubrecht,
279, 301

Explosive Waves, Berthelot and Vielle on, 301

Eye, Internal Reflections in the, H. Frank Newall, 376

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Fishes, the Skeleton of Marsipobranch, W. K. Parker, F.R.S.,
330

Fissures, on the Movements of Air in, and the Barometer, A.
Strahan, 375, 461

Fitch (Oswald), Benevolence in Animals, 580
Flames in Coal Fire, 103

Flamingoes and Cariamas, James Currie, 389
Flegel (Robert), News of, 230

Fleische (E. von), Wartmann's Rheolyzer, 127

Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts, John Robinson, 173
Flora, Siberian, 445.

Flora, Vernal, Origin of our, J. E. Taylor, 7

Flower (Prof W. H.), Lectures on Anatomy of the Horse, 372
Flower, Two Kinds of Stamens with Different Functions in the
same, Dr. Hermann Müller, 30; Dr. Fritz Müller, 364
Flowers, Double, Dr. M. T. Masters, 126

Flowers, Insects Visiting, 498

Flückiger (F. A.), "Die Chinarinden in Pharmakognostischer
Hinsicht dargestellt," 287

Foamballs, J. Rand Capron, 531

Föhn, the, A. Irving, 605

Fonvielle (W. de), "Les Passages de Venus," 132

Food Adulteration Act of 1881, 301

Foraminifera in British Museum, Catalogue of Fossil, Prof. T.
Rupert Jones, 173

Forbes (H. O.), Forbes' Visit to Timor-Laut, 159

Forbes (W. A.), Zoological Expedition up the Niger, 14;
Letters from Shonga, 276; Death of, 614

Force, Transmission of, by Electricity, Dr. C. W. Siemens,
F.R.S., 67

Forecasts, Weather: Bishop of Carlisle, 4, 51; Rev. W.
Clement Ley, 29; C. W. Harding, 79

Forel (Prof.), Recent Rhone Glacier Studies, 183
Forest Fires in Russia, 113

Formic and Acetic Acid in Plants, 91

Forms of Leaves, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 605

Forth Bridge, New, 62, 89; Sir Geo. B. Airy on the, C. S.
Smith, 99, 131; Herbert Tomlinson, 147; B. Baker, 222
Fossil Elephant in Italy, Discovery of, 181

Fossil Souslik in Northern Germany, Dr. Blasius, 247
Fountain (J. M.), the Weather, 32

Fox (Howard), Influence of "Environment" on Plants, 315
France Annual Meeting of Institute of, 18; Dairy Industry
in, 90; Heavy Kains in, 229; French Mission to Cape Horn,
344; Annual Meeting of French Learned Societies, 539
Frankland (Lr. E., F.R.S.): Smoke Abatement, 407; Chemistry
of Storage Batteries, 568

Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Earthquake at, 374

Freshwater Lakes, Pelagic Fauna of, 92

Friele (Hermann), "Der Norske nord-hass-expedition, 1876–
1878," Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 457

Frisby (Prof. E.): Elements of the Great Comet 1882 b, 226;
Ephemeris of it, 415; Transit of Venus, 266
Fritsch (Prof.), On the Torpedo, 403
Fulgurite found near Warmbrunn, 540

Galloway (William), Hovering of Birds, 336
Galton (Francis, F.R.S.), Hydrogen Whistles, 491

Galvanometers, on the Graduation of, for the Measurement of
Currents and Potentials in Absolute Measure, Andrew Gray,
32, 105, 319, 339; New Torsion, 620
Gambetta's Body, Autopsy of, 247

Gardner (H. Dent), Britten's Watch and Clockmaker's Hand-
book, 76

Gardner (J. Starkie), the Lower Eocene Section between Recul-
vers and Herne Bay, 331

Garman (S.): Scream of Young Burrowing Owl like Warning
of Rattlesnake, 174; a Possible Cause of the Extinction of
the Horses of the Post-Tertiary, 313

Garrod (Dr. A. B., F.R.S.), on Uric and Hippuric Acid, 451
Gases, Action of Gravity on, Kraevitsch, 324

Geestemünde, Aurora at, 374

64

Geikie (Dr. Arch., F.R.S.): a Search for "Atlantis" with the
Microscope, 25; Recent Researches in Metamorphism of
Rocks, 121; Geological Sketches," G. K. Gilbert, 237, 261;
"Text-Book of Geology," G. K. Gilbert, 237, 261; Tertiary
History of the Grand Cañon District, 357

Geikie (Prof. James, F.R.S.), Aims and Method of Geological
Inquiry, 44, 64

Geodetical Operations, Norwegian, 224, 341

Geographentag, Third German, 447

Geographical Notes, 21, 43, 63, 92, 161, 400, 424, 541, 589
Geography in Schools, 209
Geography of the Caucasus, 470

Geology Railway Geology-a Hint, 8; Aims and Method of
Geological Inquiry, Prof. James Geikie, F.R.S, 44, 64;
Geological Society, 71, 118, 215, 282, 331, 355, 426, 474,
5co, 547; Distribution of Medals, 427; Geology, Part 1,
A. H. Green, 98; Geology of Hong Kong, F. W. Eastlake,
177; "Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad," Arch.
Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., G. K. Gilbert, 237, 261;"Text-
Book of Geology," Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., G. K.
Gilbert, 237, 261; New Appointments for the Geological
Survey of Scotland, 246; Geologists' Association, 523
Geometrical Teaching, the Association for the Improvement of,
246, 299, 580

German Aeronautical Society, Meeting of, 348

Ger.nan African Expedition, Drs. Wissmann and Pogge, 92
German African Society, Report of, 92

German Fishery Society, 276

German North Polar Expedition, 43

German Ornithological Society, Annual Meeting at Berlin, 19
German Society for Prevention of Pollution of Rivers, &c., 89
Gibney (Robert Dwarris), the Zodiacal Light (?), 605
Giglioli (Dr.), New Deep-Sea Fish from Mediterranean, 198
Gilbert (G. K.), Arch. Geikie's "Geological Sketches at
Home and Abroad," and "Text-Book of Geology," 237, 261
Gill (H. C.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 85
Glacial Formations of Russia, 497

Glacial Phenomena in Denmark, Prof. Johnstrup, 373
Glacier Motion, Solar Radiation and, Rev. A. Irving, 553
Glacier Studies, Prof. Forel on Recent Rhone, 183
Glaciers, Decrease of the Dachstein, 42

Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S.), Chemistry of the Planté and
Faure Accumulators, 583

Glaisher (J. W. L., F.R.S.), Mathematics in America, 193
Glazebrook (R. T., F.R.S.): a Common Defect of Lenses, 198;
'Physical Optics," 361

66

Goddard (A. F.), Intra-Mercurial Planets, 148

Gold-leaf Electroscope, a Modification of the, F. J. Smith, 102
"Gold Coast, to the, for Gold," Richard F. Burton and Verney
L. Cameron, 335

Good (S. A.), Extraordinary Lunar Halo, 150
Goolden's Simple Dip Circle, 127

Gore (Dr., F. R.S.): Electrolytic Balance of Chemical Corro-
sion, 326; Chemical Corrosion of Cathodes, 374

Gorham (John), Novel Experiment in Complementary Colours,

294

Gorkom (Karel Wessel van), Handbook of Cinchona Culture,
287

Göttingen, Royal Society of Sciences of, 48, 452
Gould (Dr. B. A.), Comet 1881b, 267

Gout and Rheumatic Patients, an Algerian Winter Resort for, 113
Govi (Prof.), Expansion of Bulbs of Liquid Thermometers, 209
Granite, Metamorphic Origin of, Duke of Argyll, 578
Gratings, Concave, Prof. Rowland's, 95

Gravels, Paleolithic River: C. Evans, 8; Wm. White, 53;
T. K. Callard, 54; Worthington G. Smith, 102
Gray (Andrew), on the Graduation of Galvanometers for the
Measurement of Currents and Potentials in Absolute Measure,
32, 105, 319, 339

Gray (Prof. Asa), Natural Selection and Natural Theology, 291,
527

Gray and Milne's Seismographic Apparatus, 547

Greece, Earthquake in, 248

Greek Archipelago, Volcanic Phenomena in, 445
Green (A. H.), Geology, Part i., 98

Green (John Richard), Obituary Notice of, 462

Greenland, New Danish Expedition to, 446; Nordenskjöld's
Expedition, 424, 496; Dr. O. Dickson on, 541

Grenfell (J. G.), Geological Traces of Great Tides, 222; 'In-
telligence in Animals, 292; Holothurians, 508
Gre-ham Funds, the, 292

Grey, (F. W.), Snow Rollers, 507

Griffith (J. W.) and A. Henfrey, Micrographic Dictionary, 603
Griffith (R. W. S.), a Meteor, 434

Grocers' Company, the Scheme of the, for the Encouragement
of Original Research in Sanitary Science, 574

Groneman (Dr. H. J. H.): Remarks on and Ob-ervations of
the Meteoric Auroral Phenomenon of November 17, 1882,
296; the Auroral Meteoric Phenomena of November 27,
1882, 388

Ground, Observations of Periodic Movements of the, 300
Gudvangsören, Landslip at, 423

Guns, Wire, James A. Longridge, II, 35, 53
Guppy (Surgeon-Major H. B.): Coral-eating Habits of Holo-
thurians, 7; Habits of Scypho-Medusæ, 31; Anthropological
Notes in the Solomon Islands, 607

Gwynne (Bertram), Curious Case of Ignition, 580
Gyrostatics, Sir William Thomson, 548

Hagen (Dr. H. A.), Invertebrate Casts, 173
Håkonson-Hansen's (Herr), Observations of the November
Auroral Displays, 347

Halo, a Curious, Father Marc Dechevrens, 30; Rev. W.
Clement Ley, 53; Rev. Gerard Hopkins, 53; a Lunar Halo,
J. Rand Capron, 78; T. P. Barkas, 103; S. A. Good, 180
Hammam R'Irha, an Algerian Winter Resort for Gout and
Rheumatic Patients, 113

Hammond, Kinetic Theory of Che nical Actions, 183

Hannay (J. B., F.R.S.), Natural Selection and Natural Theo-
logy, 362

Harding (C. W.), "Weather Forecasts," 79

Hare, Baird's, and its Habits, 241; T. Martyr, 266
Harkness (Prof.), on the Transits of Venus, 114
Harnett (W. L.), Meteor, 103

Harrison (J. Park), Projection of the Nasal Bones in Man and
the Ape, 266, 294

Hart (Samuel): the Late Transit of Venus, 483; a Remarkable
Phenomenon-Natural Snowballs, 483

Harting (J. E.), Incubation of the Ostrich, 480
Hatton (Frank), Death of, 515

Hawk Moth Larva, Surgeon-Major Johnson, 126
Heating by Acetate of Soda, 344

Heen (De), Relations between Physical and Chemical Properties
of Simple and Compound Bodies, 422

Heilprin (Prof. Angelo), on the Value of the "Nearctic" as
one of the Primary Zoological Regions, 606
Helix pomatia, L., Rev. L. Blomefield, 553
Heloderm, the Sonoran, 153

Hemsley (W. Botting): Botany of the Challenger Expedition,
462; on the Relations of the Fig and the Caprifig, 584
Henfrey (A.), J. W. Griffith and, Micrographic Dictionary, 603
Henson (Samuel), on a Fine Specimen of Apatite from Tyrol,
lately in the possession of, 608

Herdman (W. A.), a Dredging Impleinent, 54
Heresies, Scientific, in China, 342

Heroes of Science, Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 76
Herring and Salmon Fisheries, 442

Herschel (Prof. A. S.), The Matter of Space, 458, 504
Herschel (Major J.): the Comet 1882 b, 4, 101; Soda Flames
in Coal Fires, 78; the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87;
Ignition by Sunlight, 531

Hertz (Dr.): Pressure of Saturating Vapour of Mercury, 183;
Light-Phenomena of Electric Discharges, 403

Hesehus (N.): Elastische Nachwirkung, 183; Physics in
Russia during the last ten years, 567

Hicks (Henry), Metamorphic Rocks of Ross and Inverness, 474
Hickson (Sydney J.), "Zoological Record," 366
Higgins (C.) and E. W. W. Edwards, "The Electric Lighting
Act 1882," 410

Higgins (Henry), Natural Enemies of Butterflies, 338
Higginson (Walter), the Comet 1882 6, 29

High Tides, Abnormal, River Thames, J. B. Redman, 6
Hildebrandsson (Prof.), on the Ben Nevis Observatory, 18
Hippopotamus, Death of the old Female, 247
Histology, Vegetable, Tables of D. P. Penhallow, 458
Hofmann (Prof.), Lecture Experiments, 301

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Holden (Prof.), Figure of Nucleus of Comet of 1882 (Gould), 246
Holley (G. W.), Niagara and other famous Cataracts," 146
Holothurians, Coral-eating Habits of, Surgeon Major H. B.
Guppy, 7; W. Saville Kent, 433; J. G. Grenfell, 508
Holub's (Dr. Emil), New African Expedition, 542
Home (D. M.), Ben Nevis Observatory, 411

Llong Kong, Geology of, F. W. Eastlake, 177; Observatory
Scheme, 565

Hopkins (B. J.), the Comet 1882 b, 62, 78

Hopkins (Rev. Gerard), a Curiou Halo, 53

Hopkinson (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Some Points in Electric Light-
ing, 592

Hornblendic and other Schists of the Lizard District, Prof. T. G.
Bonney, F.R.S., 71

Hornstein (Dr. Carl), Death of, 247

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