Assam, History of the Province of, during the last Fifty Years,

422

Association's "Geometry," the, Prof. Geo. Bruce Halsted, 557
Asteroids, Comets and, Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, 474
Astigmatism in the Eye, Influence of, on Astronomical Observa-
tions, Prof. Seeliger, 59

Astronomy Astronomical Theory of the Great Ice Age, W.
H. S. Monck, 7; Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 53; Rev. E.
Hill, 101; Astronomical Refractions, Herr Oppolzer's, 17;
Binary Star Corona Australis, H. C. Wilson, 17; Binary
Star & Equulei, 401; Temple Observatory, 401; Brightness
and Mass of Binary Stars, W. H. S. Monck, 402; Astro-
nomical Column, 17, 37, 59, 85, 113, 134, 159, 181, 206, 231,
257, 282, 307, 329, 352, 377, 401, 424, 445, 474, 496, 546,
569, 595, 614; Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 18,
37, 59, 86, 113, 135, 160, 181, 207, 232, 258, 283, 308, 330,
353, 378, 402, 425, 446, 474, 497, 520, 546, 595, 614;
Habenicht on the Morphology of the Kosmos, 35; the
Leander McCormick Observatory, 35; New Map of the
Moon, 58; Influence of Astigmatism in the Eye on Astro-
nomical Observations, Prof. Seeliger, 59; Gould's Astro-
nomical Journal, 59; Ten Years' Progress in Astronomy,
Prof. C. A. Young, 67, 86, 117; Spectroscopic Method of
Determining the Distance of a Double Star, A. A. Rambaut,
206; Comet Barnard (1886 f), 207; T. W. Backhouse,
224; Prof. A. Riccò, 296; Discovery of a New Comet
(Barnard 2), 402; Comet Barnard (1887 c), Prof. S. Weiss,
352; Dr. H. Oppenheim, 424; Comet 1887 d (Barnard,
February 15), Prof. Boss, 424, 446; Names of Minor Planets,
207, 402; New Minor Planet, Prof. C. H. F. Peters, 282;
Observations of the Minor Planets, 312; Minor Planet No.
264, 353; Minor Planet No. 265, M. Bigourdan, 474; New
Minor Planet, Herr Palisa, 425; Comet Finlay (1886 e), Dr.
J. Holetschek, 207; Meteor, 224; Meteor of December 28,
1886, W. F. Denning, 248; the Andromedes, November 27,
1886, P. F. Denza, 231; Reduction of the Positions of Close
Polar Stars from one Epoch to another, Prof. W. A. Rogers
and Miss Anna Winlock, 231; Six Inner Satellites of Saturn,
Prof. Asaph Hall, 257; Stellar Parallax, Prof. Asaph Hall,
258; Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, O. T. Sherman, 378;
Astronomical Prizes of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 258
Madras Observatory, Mr. Pogson, 282; New Method for the
Determination of the Constant of Aberration, M. Loewy, 282,
424, 431; M. Houzeau, 377; New Variables in Cygnus, Dr.
Gould, 282; New Variables, S. C. Chandler, 307; the New
Algol-Type Variable, Mr. Chandler, 329; Gore's Variable near
x'Orionis, Dr. G. Müller, 329; Probable New Variable, 402;
Three New Comets, 307; Washington Observatory, 308;
Revue Mensuelle d'Astronomie populaire de Météorologie, et
de Physique du Globe, 310; Photography the Servant of Astro-
nomy, Edward S. Holden, 317; Progress of Astronomical
Photography, 321; the Southern Comet, 329, 438; a Short
Method for Computing Refractions, M. Schaeberle, 329;
Celestial Motions, W. T. Lynn, 350; Comet Brooks (1887 b),
Dr. Rud. Spitaler, 352, 424, 496; Minor Planet No. 262, 497;
Harvard College Observatory, 497; Mr. Peek's Report on
Rousdon Observatory, 353: Application of Photography to
the Determination of Stellar Parallax, Prof. Pritchard, 377;
Alleged Ancient Red Colour of Sirius, Mr. Lynn, 378;
Observations of Variable Stars in 1885, Edward Sawyer,
378; Note on the Origin of Comets, 381; Harvard College
Observatory, Prof. Pickering, 424; Solar Activity in 1886,
Prof. Tacchini, 445; Warner Observatory, Lewis Swift, 446;
Tails of the Comets of 1886, Prof. Th. Bredichin, 474;
Comets and Asteroids, Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, 474; Paris
Astronomical Congress, 584; Homeric Astronomy, A. M.
Clerke, 585, 607; U.S. Naval Observatory, 595; Researches
on the Sun's Diameter, Prof. Di Legge, 595; Liverpool
Astronomical Society, 402; Telegraphic Determination of
Australian Longitudes, 474; Researches on the Diameter of
the Sun, Herr Auwers, 496; the Parallax of ≥ 1516, M. O.
Struve, 546; Baron D'Engelhardt's Observatory, 546; New
Red Star, 546; Orbit of the Binary Star 14 (2) Orionis, J. E.
Gore, 569; Washington Observatory, Capt. R. L. Phythian,
569; Names of Minor Planets, 569; Barnard's First and
Second Comets 1887, 614; Probable Re-discovery of Hesperia,
614; Ellipticity of Uranus, 614; Washington Observatory,
614; Paris Conference, 614

Atkinson (W. N. and J. B.), Explosions in Coal-Mines, Prof.
T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., I

Atlantic Weather Charts, 469
Atlantic, Purity of the Air of, 595

Atlantica, Spolia, 603

Atom, Electric Charge on the, A. P. Laurie, 131
Atomic Weights of Elements, 612

Atmosphäre, Grundzüge einer Theorie der kosmischen Atmo-
sphären mit Berücksichtigung der irdischen, 389
Atmosphere, New Method for Quantitative Estimation of
Micro-organisms in, Dr. P. F. Frankland, 188

Atmosphere, on the Direct Fixation of the Gaseous Nitrogen of
the, by Vegetable Soils, M. Berthelot, 335
Atmosphere, Direct Fixation of the Gaseous Nitrogen of the,
479

Atmosphere of B Lyre, O. T. Sherman, 451
Atmosphere, Movements of the, 479; M. Faye, 455
Atmospheric Movements in Connection with Colladon and
Lasne's Cyclonic Theories, 527

Atmospheric Oxidation, Note on the Development of Voltaic
Electricity by, C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 598
Atmospheric Temperature in Germany, 504
Auk, the, 204

Aurora, Prof. F. Hahn, 8; Dr. M. A. Veeder, 54, 126, 272
Aurora Borealis : Display of, at Throndhjem in Norway, 112;
M. S. Lemström, A. M. Clerke, 433; in Northern Sweden,
443
Australia Australian Earthworms, J. J. Fletcher, 95; on some
Further Evidence of Glaciation in the Australian Alps, James
Stirling, 182; the Gould Collection of Australian Birds at
Philadelphia, 204; Native Plants of Australia, 205; Baron
von Mueller, on the Acacias (Wattles) of, 282; Sociology of
the Australian Races, 357; Manual of Physical Geography of
Australia, H. Beresford de la Poer Wall, 389; Bee-hives dis-
covered in a Gigantic Eucalyptus-Tree in, 423; Relief of the
Australian Mediterranean, Dr. Otto Krümmel, 447; Tele-
graphic Determinations of Australian Longitudes, 474; Cata-
logue of Minerals in the Australian Museum, 485; Australian
Rabbit, 569

Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 228
Austria, Ice Cavern in, Discovery of, 17
Autographometer, Floran de Villepigne, 444

Autumnal Flowering, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, II

Avifauna of the Western Spur of the Pamir Plateau, V. Bianchi,
328

Awaruite, Oktibehite or, Dr. Jas. Hector, F. R.S., 513
Axolotl, the, in sicco, 16

Ayrton (Prof. W. E.) and Prof. John Perry, Experiment to show
that Capacity varies inversely as a Thickness of the Dielectric,
526; Note on Magnetic Resistance, 526; Practical Electricity,

601

Azines, New Method of producing, 384

Babington (Dr. Churchill), Birds of Suffolk, 193
Bacillus, Luminous, 383

Bacillus, Swamp Fever and, 405
Backhouse (T. W.), Barnard's Comet, 54, 224
Backlund (Herr), Mass of Mercury, 85
Bacteria, on Staining, 404

Baert (Lieut.), Journey up the Mongalla, 446
Baginski (Dr. A.), Acetonuria in Children, 551

Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, Physical History of, Rev.
A. Irving, 382

Bahamas, a Balanoglossus Larva from the, W. F. R. Weldon,

Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.), Astronomical Theory of the Great
Ice Age, 53

Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth Inductor, Determination of
Coefficients of Mutual Induction by means of the, R. H. M.
Bosanquet, 478

Ballooning, War and, Eric S. Bruce, 259
Banbury, Remarkable Meteor near, 58
Bareggi (Dr.), Experiment on Rabies, 422

Barley, Examination of Specimens of Injured, Miss Ormerod's
Observations on, 256

Barnaby (Sir Nathaniel), on the Connexion between the Royal
Navy and the Merchant Service, 538
Barnard, Comets, 59; T. W. Backhouse, 54, 224; Prof.
Cacciatore, 181; Dr. Wentworth Erck, 198; at Perihelion,
Prof. A. Riccò, 296; Comet (1886 ƒ), 207; Dr. Oppenheim,
85; Dr. Aug. Svedstrup, 134; Comet (1887 c), Prof. E.
Weiss, 352; Dr. H. Oppenheim, 424; Comet (1887 d), Prof.
Boss, 424, 446; (Barnard 2), Discovery of a New Comet,
402; Second Comet, John I. Plummer on, 583; Barnard's
First and Second Comets 1887, 614

Barnard and Finlay, Comets, 17

Barograph, Dr. Sprung, 456

Barometer, on the Determination of the Air in the Vacuum of
the, Dr. Pernet, 72

Barometer free of Air, New Method of Filling, 432
Barometers, Comparison of, Dr. Pernet, 600
Barometric Readings, Low, Henry F. Blanford, 344
Barometric Readings, Influence of Wind on, Prof. Cleveland
Abbe, 29; G. J. Symonds, F.R.S., 53

Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Physical Properties of Manganese Steel,
311

Batavia, Zoological Station at, 376

Bateson (Anna) and Prof. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., on the
Effect of certain Stimuli on Vegetable Tissues, 429
Bathy-orographical Chart of the Clyde Sea-Area, 334
Batten (Dr. Rayner W.), Physical Training of Girls, 495
Battery, Water, Henry A. Rowland, 452

Bauxite Deposits in the South-East of France, on the Age of
the, 383; M. L. Collot, 288

Beam-Trawling, Fishery Board of Scotland and, 257.
Beaumont (W. Worby), Sounding a Crater, Fusion-Points,
Pyrometers, and Seismometers, 296

Beaver stated to be extinct in Northern Norway, 112

Beckley (Mrs. E. M.), Hawaiian Fishing-Implements and
Methods of Fishing, 327

Béclard (Prof.), Statistics of the Number of Female Medical
Students in Paris, 306; Death of, 375

Becquerel (Edmond), Action of Manganese on Phosphorescent
Quality of Carbonate of Lime, 168

Beds of Chert in the Carboniferous Limestone of Yorkshire, on
the Character of the, Geo. J. Hinde, 582

Bee, Cell of the Honey-, Geometrical Construction, Prof. H.
Hennessy, F.R. S., 502

Bee-hives discovered in a Gigantic Eucalyptus-Tree in Australia,
423

Beeby (W. H.), Flora of Shetland, 474

Beetle in Motion, the, 29; Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 7; A.
Wilkins, 414

Beetroot, on the Destruction of Nematodes, 455
Beetroot-Sugar, Production of, in the U.S., 351

Begonia Veitchii, Abnormal, 430

Beira Alta, Earthquake in District of, 59

Belgium, Ornithological Observations in, 423

Bell (Louis), on the Absolute Wave-length of Light, 524

Belladonna and Opium, Action of, in a Case of Acute Diabetes,
407

Bengal, Eastern, Letters on Sport in, Frank B. Simson, 388
Bengalis, Use of, in the Geological Survey of India, H. B.
Medlicott, 472

Ben Nevis Observatory, 517; Amount of the Rainfall at, 257;
Rainband Observations at the, A. Rankin, 588

Benn (T. G.), the Climate of Carlisle, 95

Bennett (Alfred W.), Genetic Affinities and Classification of the
Algæ, 478

Bentham (Geo., F.R.S.), Hand-book of the British Flora, 341
Bentley (Prof.), Manual of Botany, 350

Benzenoid Compounds, Henry Armstrong, F. R.S., 407

Bérésofsky (M.), MM. Potanin, Skassy, and, Return of, from
their Expedition to China and Mongolia, 309

Beri-beri, the Disease, 206

Berlin: Academy of Sciences, Grants for Zoological Research,
473; Proceedings of Anthropological Society, 496: Chemical
Society of, 552; Opening of Ethnological Society, 180;
Geographical Society, 60; Verhandlungen of the, 520;
Meteorological Society of, 24, 71, 360, 455; Physical Society
of, 24, 72, 264, 336, 408, 432, 456, 552, 600; Physiological
Society, 264, 383, 455, 480, 504, 551, 576

Bert (Paul): Obituary Notice of, 54; Proposed Memorial of, 84;
First Year of Scientific Knowledge, 221; One of his Last
Letters, 255

Berthelot (M.): on Ammoniaco-Magnesian Phosphate, 119; on
the Direct Fixation of the Gaseous Nitrogen of the Atmosphere
by Vegetable Soils, 335

Berthelot and André, the Decomposition of Bicarbonate of Am-
monia by Water, and Diffusion of its Components through
Atmosphere, 23

Bialoveski (A.), Ice-Period on the Altai Range, 513

Bianchi (V.), the Avifauna of the Western Spurs of the Pamir
Plateau, 328

Bicarbonate of Soda, Production of, 624

Bichloride of Copper, Combination of Örthotoluidine and, 383
Bichromate of Soda Cell, 381

Bicycles and Tricycles for the Year 1886, H. II. Griffen, 52
Bidwell (Shelford): Electrical Resistance of Suspended Copper
and Iron Wires, 526; Lecture Experiment in Self-Induction,
526

Bigourdan (M.), Minor Planet No. 265, 474
Bilobites, Striated, 407

Binary Stars: Coronæ Australis, H. C. Wilson, 17; 8 Equulei,
401; Orbit of the Binary Star 14 (2) Orionis, J. E. Gore,
569; Brightness and Mass of Binary Stars, W. H. S. Monck,
402

Biology: Proposed Biological Societies for London and Liver-
pool, 180; W. Baldwin Spencer appointed to the Melbourne
University Chair of, 280; General Biology, W. T. Sedgwick
and Edmund B. Wilson, 413; Injurious Fungi in California,
521; Fertilisation of Cassia marilandica, 521; Variations in
the Nerve-Supply of the Lumbricales Muscles in the Hand
and Foot, with some Observations on the Perforating Flexors,
521; Biological Notes, 521; Elementary Practical Biology-
Vegetable, Thos. W. Shore, 556

Birch (G. J.), on a Perspective Microscope, 358

Bird (Charles), Lecture Notes and Problems on Sound, Light,
and Heat, 52

Birds Siberian, presented by Mr. Seebohm to Natural History
Museum, 15: Dispersion of Plants by Birds, D. Morris, 151;
Birds of Suffolk, Dr. Churchill Babington, 193; the Gould
Collection of Australian Birds at Philadelphia, 204; the Birds
of Central Asia, 204; Types of Birds in the Vienna Natural
History Museum, 204; Arctic Species of, Henry Seebohm
on, 256; Morphology of, Prof. W. K. Parker, F.R. S., 331;
Mechanism of the Flight of Birds, studied by Chrono-
photography, M. Marey, 335; Morphology of the Wings of,
599; Movement of a Bird's Wing, represented according
to the Three Dimensions of Space, M. Marey, 382; Birds'
Nests and Eggs, H. Seebohm, 236

Birmingham, Mason Science College, 494
Birnbaum (Dr.), Death of, 444

Birth-rate, on the Decline of, in France, 357

Bischoffsheim Observatory, the Great Refracting Telescope of
the, 84

Bishop's Ring in Colorado, Disappearance of, G. H. Stone,
581

Black (Dr. W. J.), Ozone Papers in Towns, 76

Blake (Dr. James), on the Connexion between Chemical Con-
stitution and Physiological Action, 6

Blanford (Henry F.), Low Barometric Readings, 344
Blaschko (Dr.), Structure of the Epidermis, 551

Blastoidea, the, Robert Etheridge and P. Herbert Carpenter,
267

Blight and Mildew on Fruit in the U.S., 422
Blomefield (L.), Vitality of Seeds, 463

Blood, Influence of Extremes of Temperature on the Colour of
the, 576

Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, U.S., 472

Boas (Dr. Franz), Indian Tribes of British Columbia, 568
Boehmer (G. H.), Norse Naval Architecture, 445
Bohemia, Nationalities of, 518

Boileau (Major-Gen. J. T., F. R.S.), Death of, 57, 84; Proposed
Memorial to, 84

Bois (H. du), Earthquakes, 8

Bolivia, Thouar's Exploration of, 231

Bollettino of the Italian Geographical Society, 403, 446
Bolton (Sir Francis), Death of, 255

Bolton (Thomas), Civil List Pension to, 204
Bombay, Technical School at, 206

Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.): Volcanic Dust from New Zealand,
56; Volcanic Eruption in Niua-Fu Friendly Islands, 127;
Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the Older
Rocks of Brittany, 550; Oldhamia, 581

Börnstein (Prof.), Investigations into Thunderstorms of July
1884, 24

Borodin (M. Alexander), Death of, 473

Borzi, (Prof. A.), Nostoc ellipsosporum, 594

Bosanquet (R. H. M.), Determination of Coefficients of Mutual
Induction, by means of the Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth
Inductor, 478

Boscovich (Father), Centenary of the Death of, 375

Boss (Prof.), Comet 1887 d (Barnard, February 15), 424, 446
Botany Unpublished Drawings by G. J. Camelli, 34; British
Fungi, Hymenomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4; Autumnal
Flowering, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, II; Botanical Lecture
Experiment, Prof. Bayley Balfour, 126; Rogeria longiflora, 158;
Entyloma Ranunculi, Prof. H. M. Ward, 166; Hermann's
Ceylon Herbarium" and Linnæus's "Flora Zeylanica," Dr.
H. Trimen, 166; Narcissi, G. Maw, 166; Botany of the
Afghan Delimitation Commission, W. Botting Hemsley, 173;
the Honzo Dsufu work on Botany, 204: Native Plants of
South Australia, 205; Botanical Federation in the West
Indies, D. Morris, 248; Baron von Mueller on the Acacias
(Wattles) of Australia, 282; Hand-book of the British Flora,
Geo. Bentham, F.R.S., 341; the Crocus, Geo. Maw,
348; Manual of Botany, Prof. Bentley, 350; Report on the
Botanical Garden, Saharunpur, Mr. Duthie, 356; Botanical
Discoveries in the Tombs of Egypt, 405; Blight and Mildew
in the U.S., 422; Begonia Veitchii abnormal, 430; Lemons
irregularly developed, 430; Primula imperialis, 430; Wild
White Daffodil, 430; Addition of a Commercial Laboratory
to the Botanical Museum of Hamburg, 473; Dr. Urban's
Proposed Botanical Investigation of the Higher Mountains of
St. Domingo, 494; Thos. Moore's Botanical Collections
acquired for the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, 495; on some Ob-
servations on Palæobotany in Goebel's "Outlines of Classifica-
tion and Special Morphology of Plants," Prof. W. C. William-
son, F.R.S., 535; Botanic Garden of Glasgow, 545; Hand-
book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and
Private Student, Prof. E. Strasburger, 556; on the Term
"Latex" in, M. A. Trécul, 600

Bouinais (A.) and A. Paulus, La France en Indo-Chine,

221

Bourgeois (M. L.), Preparation of a Silicostannate of Lime
corresponding to Sphene, 335.

Bourne (G. C.), Anatomy of the Madreporian Coral Fungia,

404

Boys (C. Vernon): Preliminary Note on the Radio-Micrometer,
549; on the Production, Preparation, and Properties of the
Finest Fibres, 575

Brain: Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 208; on the Nomenclature of
the, Dr. Wilder, 255; Functional Topography of the, Prof.
Ferrier, F. R.S., 453

Braun (Dr. C.): Kalocsa Observatory, 59; Sunspot Observations
in Hungary, A. M. Clerke, 227

Brazil: Longitudes in, Admiral É. Mouchez, 100; the Birds of,

204

Bredichin (Prof. Th.), Tails of the Comets of 1886, 474
Bright (Sir Chas. T.), Electric Telegraph, 282
Brines, on Ice and, J. Y. Buchanan, 608

Bristol University College, Reduction of the Salaries of the
Professors, 326; Albert Fry on, 345

Britain, Natural History, its Rise and Progress in, Prof. Alleyne
Nicholson, 148

Britain, South-East, on the Establishment of the Roman
Dominion in, Sir G. B. Airy, F. R.S., 562

British Association and Local Scientific Societies, 78; Principal
Officers for the Manchester Meeting, 471
British Columbia, Indian Tribes of, Dr. Franz Boas, 568
British Flora, Hand-book of the, Geo. Bentham, F.R.S., 341
British Fossils, Catalogue of, Prof. Morris's, 158
British Fungi, Hymenomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4
British Fungi, Text-book of, W. D. Hay, 364

British International Polar Expeditions, 147

British Islands, Coleoptera of the, Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531
British Medical Journal, Dr. Rayner W. Batten on Physical
Training of Girls, 495

British Museum, Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the, Rich.
Lydekker, 532

British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse, 532
Brittany, Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the
Older Rocks of, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R. S., 550

Broeck (E. Van den) and A. Rutot, Observations nouvelles
sur le Tufeau de Ciply and sur le Crétacé supérieur du
Hainault, 317

Brooks, Comet (1887 b), Dr. Rud. Spitaler, 352, 424, 496
Brouardel (M. J.), elected Dean by the Medical School of Paris,

422

Brown (J.), Theory of Voltaic Action, 142

Brown (J. Allen), Discovery of Paleolithic Workshop Floor of
Drift Period near Ealing, 189; Paleolithic Man in North-
West Middlesex, 554

Brown-Séquard (Dr.), Experimental Researches connected with
Cerebral Functions, 47; elected President of the Society of
Biology, Paris, 544

Bruce (Eric S.), War and Ballooning, 259
Brunton (T. Lauder, M. D., F. R. S.): Action of Caffein and Theine
upon Voluntary Muscle, 599; and J. Theodore Cash, Con-
tributions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between
Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary
Communication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies,

599

Brushes, on Two Jade-handled, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 318
Brydges (Rev. Thos.), Curious Subdivision of Colour among the
People of Onisin, 283

Buchanan (J. Y.): Similarities in the Physical Geography of the
Great Oceans, 33, 76; on the Distribution of the Tempera-
ture in the Antarctic Ocean, 516; on Ice and Brines, 608
Buckland Museum, Fish-Hatching at, 400

Buckton (G. B., F. R.S.), Notes on the Recent Swarming of
Aphides, 15

Budden (Dr. E.), To prove that only One Parallel can be
drawn from a given Point to a given Straight Line, 92;
Prof. O. Henrici, F.R. S., 100

Buildings Bill, Sanitary Registration of, 282

Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 286,
310, 356

Bulletin of the Belgian Natural History Museum, 423
Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 404
Bulletin of the Paris Geographical Society, 353
Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 286
Bulletins des Sciences Mathématiques, 452

Bunge (Dr.), Success of his Expedition, 309

Burch (Dr. Geo. J.), Further Experiments on Flame, 165
Burgess (William), Red Worm, 445

Burmah, Lower and Upper, Resources of, 378
Butler (Philip J.), Lung-Sick, 54

Butterflies of India, Lionel de Nicéville, H. J. Elwes, 436

Cambridge: Prosophical Society, 167, 454; Cholera Fungus,
Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 171, 295; Chas. Roy, 223; Walter
Gardiner, 271, 319; George Massee, 319; Edgar Crook-
shank, 344; on the Earlier Tripos of the University of Cam-
bridge, Sir G. B. Airy, F.R.S., 397; University Local
Examination Report, 494; University Local Lectures, 544
Camelida, the Phylogeny of the, 568

Camelli (G. J.), his Collection of Drawings of Plants, 34
Cameron (William), Death of, 180

Cameron (Capt.), Lecture on Urua, 259

Cameroons Territory, Estimate of the Native Population in the,
354

Canadian Plants, Catalogue of, Prof. J. Macoun, 350

Canadian Species, Hand-book of Zoology, with Examples from,
Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R. S., 295

Canal and River Engineering, David Stevenson, Major Allan
Cunningham, 169

Cannibalism and its Prevalence in Ancient and Modern Times,
Richard Andree, 350

Canoe, Discovery of a Prehistoric, 423

Capacity, Specific Inductive, Note on, John Hopkinson, F. R.S.,
334

Cape Boxwood, 444

Cape Horn, Temperature off, 568

Carbon, on the Action of the Chloride of, on the Anhydrous
Oxides, M. Eug. Demarçay, 288

Carbonic Acid in the Ground, 230; in the Air, 406
Carey (A. D.), his Journey in Central Asia, 475
Carlisle, the Climate of, T. G. Benn, 95

Carp, German: Importation of, 16; the Acclimatisation of, 58
Carpenter (Dr. P. Herbert, F.R.S.): the Supposed Myzostoma-
Cysts in Antedon rosacea, 535; and Robert Etheridge, F. R. S.,
on the Blastoidea, 267

Carr (G. S.), Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics, 292
Carroll (Lewis), To find the Day of the Week for any given
Date, 517

Cartailhac (M.), the Human Bones found in Quaternary
Caverns in France, 23

Cartailhac (M. Emile), Les Ages préhistoriques de l'Espagne et
du Portugal, 244

Carter (August), Deformities among Fish, 230

Carter (W. A.): the Axolotl in sicco, 16; Marine and Fresh-
water Fishes, 472

Casey (John), a Sequel to the First Six Books of the Elements
of Euclid, containing an Easy Introduction to Modern
Geometry, 28

Cash (J. Theodore) and T. Lauder Brunton, F.R. S., Contribu
tions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between Chemical
Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary Com-
munication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, 599
Cassagnes (G. A.), Steno-telegraphy, 192
Cassia marilandica, Fertilisation of, 521
Cassiopeia, Prof. Colbert, 59

Castilloa Rubber-tree of Central America, 142
Catchpool (Edmund), Origin of Species, 76

Cats with an Abnormal Number of Toes, Observations on

Heredity in, Edward B. Poulton, 38; William White, 125;
J. Herbert Hodd, 53; Dr. H. A. Hagen, E. W. Claypole,
345

Caves, Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, 454

Cecidomyia destructor and Barley, Miss Eleanor Ormerod's
Observations on, 256

Cerebral Localisation, Prof. E. A. Schäfer, F.R.S., 438, 464
Ceylon Tea-Planting in, T. C. Owen, 268; the Veddas of,
205

Chatopoda of the Firth of Forth, 544

Chaffaujon (M.), Exploration of the Orinoco, 446
Chagos Archipelago Birds, Dr. Otto Finsch, 497
Chalande (M. J.), Respiration in Myriapods, 288
Chaldæa, Metals and Minerals from, 359

Chaleur rayonnante, Sur une nouvelle Méthode de faire des
Mesures absolues de la, Knut Angström, 580

Chalk beneath the London Clay of the London Basin, on the
Water in the, Robert B. Hayward, F. R.S., 335
Challenger Expedition: Zoological Results of the, 49; Report
of the Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of the, 351
Chancourtois (M.), Death of, 57

Chandler (S. C.): New Variables, 307; the New Algol-Type
Variable, 329

Charleston Earthquake: Report on the, Prof. T. C. Mendenhall,
31; Influence upon the Health of the Inhabitants, 281; Capt.
Dutton's Report on, 351

Charts, Atlantic Weather, 469

Chauveau (A.), Action of Glycose in Development of Animal
Heat, 291

Chelonian Reptile, Preliminary Note on the Fossil Remains of
a Ceratochelys sthenurus, from Lord Howe's Island, Australia,
Prof. Thos. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 615
Chemistry: Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action,
Connexion between, Dr. James Blake, 6; the Decomposition
of Bicarbonate of Ammonia by Water and Diffusion of its
Components through Atmosphere, Berthelot and André, 23;
on Atomic Weight of Oxide of Gadolinium, A. E. Nordensk-
jöld, 47; Chemical Society, 70, 143, 358, 384, 407, 453, 503,
526; Anniversary Meeting of the, 536; M. Moissan's Re-
searches on Isolation of Fluor, 71; Chemical Arithmetic,
Sydney Lupton, 74; Experimental Chemistry, C. W. Heaton,
74; Chemical Physics, Prof. Josiah Parsons Cooke's, 100;
Action of Manganese on the Phosphorescent Quality of Car-
bonate of Lime, Edmond Becquerel, 168; Old or New
Chemistry, Which is Fittest for Survival? Samuel Phillips,
270; a Treatise on Chemistry, Sir H. E. Roscoe and C.
Schorlemmer, 316; Principle of Maximum Labour and the
Laws of Chemical Equilibria, 382; on the Coefficients of
Chemical Affinity, 455; Recent Progress of Chemical Science,
Dr. Hugo Müller, 536; Chemical Action of Light on Mixed
Hydrogen and Chlorine Gas, Dr. Pringsheim, 552; a Question
for Chemists, Wm. West, 584; Chemical Constitution and
Physiological Action, Contributions to our Knowledge of the
Connexion between, Preliminary Communication on the
Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, T. Lauder Brunton,
F.R.S., and J. Theodore Cash, 599

Chert, on the Character of the Beds of, in the Carboniferous
Limestone of Yorkshire, Geo. J. Hinde, 582

Chevreul (M.), Medal presented to, 144; Resignation of his
Membership of the Academy of Sciences, 255

Chicago Manual Training School, 444

:

China Folk Lore of, J. H. Stewart Lockhart, 281; Return of
MM. Potanin, Skassy, and Bérésofsky from their Expedition
to China and Mongolia, 309; Early Chinese Intercourse with
America, Dr. W. H. Dall, 58; Best Mode of conveying
Scientific Knowledge to the Chinese, 112; a Work on
Anatomy in Chinese, 568; Animal Worship amongst the
Chinese, 613

Chinook Winds, M. W. Harrington, 568
Chios, Earthquake at, 112, 158

Chlorochromic Acid and the Phosphates of Sesquioxide, on the
Action of Tetrachloride of Carbon on, M. H. Quantin, 335
Cholera Fungus, Cambridge, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S, 171, 295;
Chas. Roy, 233; Walter Gardiner, 271, 319; George Massee,
319; Edgar Crookshank, 344

Christiania Society of Science, 336

Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S.), the Earthquake, 462
Chrysalides, Gilded, Edward B. Poulton, 470

Church (A. H.), Food-Grains of India, Prof. John Wrightson,
51

Cider, on the Composition of the Ashes of, M. G. Lechartier,
382

Cinnabar, Gold, and Associated Sulphides, Natural Solutions of,
524

City and Guilds of London Institute, Distribution of Prizes, 158;
Conversazione, 494

Claim of Priority, a, V. Ventosa, 513

Clarke (Dr. Hyde), Svastika Cross and Sun, 366

Clarke (J. Edwards), Industrial and High Art Education in the
United States, W. Odell, 97

Classification of the Cæcilians, 280

Clausius's Characteristic Equation for Substances applied to
Messrs. Ramsay and Young's Experiments on Alcohol, Prof.
William Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 262, 346; Prof.
Fitzgerald, 574

Clayden (A. W.), on the Internal Capacity of Thermometers, 94
Claypole (E. W.), Abnormal Cats' Paws, 345

Cleland (Prof. John), Culminating Sauropsida, 391

Clerke (A. M.): Sunspot Observations in Hungary, Carl Braun,
227; Aurora Borealis, M. S. Lemström, 433; Dr. K. R.
Koch, 433; Homeric Astronomy, 585, 607
Clifford (W. K., F.R.S.), Lectures and Essays, 270
Climate of Northern Europe and the Gulf Stream, 91
Climatology of the Croydon District, 14

Clocks, Electricity and, T. Wilson, 173; Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, 224; H. Dent Gardiner, 198, 231; "Horloge'
on, 438

Cloez (M. Ch.) and M. E. Grimaux, Erythrene, 288

Cloud Knowledge, Modern Developments of, Hon. Ralph
Abercromby, 575

Clouds: Aspects of, Robert James Reilly, 391; on the Forms
of, A. F. Osler, F.R.S., 164; Iridescent, Jas. C. McConnel,
533; G. H. Stone, 581; Nomenclature of, 406

Clyde Sea-Area, Bathy-orographical Chart of the, 334
Coahuila Meteorites, O. W. Huntingdon, 451

Coal, on the Age of, found in the Region traversed by the Rio
Grande del Norte, 380

Coal-Dust Theory, W. Galloway, 222, 296, 343

Coal-Mines, Explosions in, W. N. and J. B. Atkinson, Prof.
T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., I

Coasts of North Africa, Study of the, Dr. Theobald Fischer,
353

Cobra, Death from the Bite of a, III; Supposed Suicide of
the, R. D. Oldham, 560
Cochenille at Rodriguez, 179

Cockroach, Structure and Life History of the, L. C. Miall, 365
Coco de Mer (Lodoicea seychellarum), Gen. Gordon's Collec-
tion illustrative of the, presented to Kew Gardens, 494
Cod, Curious Knife found in the Thick Flesh of a, 545
Cod-Fisheries (Norwegian), Japanese Mission to inquire into the,
158

Codices, Mexican, Z. Nuttall, 307

Coefficient of Mutual Induction of Two Coils, Method of
measuring, Prof. G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., 143, 478
Coefficient of Self-Induction, on the Determination of the,
551

Coils, Inductionless, Dr. Aron, 383

Coils, Method of measuring the Mutual Induction of Two, 478
Colbert (Prof.), Cassiopeia, 59

Colchicine, Properties of, 408, 432

Coleoptera, New Zealand, David Sharp, 177

Coleoptera of the British Islands, Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531
Colin (Dr.), on the Population of Bambouk, 22
Collections, National Science, 252, 272

College of France, proposed Enlargement of the Buildings of
the, 517

College of Physicians, Edinburgh, proposed Establishment of a
Laboratory for the Prosecution of Original Research, 399
Colleges, University, Prof. Jowett, 441

Collins (F. Howard): Herbert Spencer's Definition of Life, 487 ;
Vitality and its Definition, 580

Collot (M. L.), on the Age of the Bauxite Formation in the
South-East of France, 288

Colocasia, Disease of, in Jamaica, 478

Colonial Conference, Sir Henry Holland, 544

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, John R. Jackson, 16, 81, 225
Colonial Science and Art Schools and the Department of
Science and Art, 442

Colorado, Disappearance of Bishop's Ring in, G. H. Stone,
581

Colorado, Phenacite from, Sam. L. Penfield, 451

Colour of the Blood, Influence of Extremes of Temperature on
the, 576

Colour-Hearing, 613

Colour-Mixing Apparatus, Von Kries, Dr. König, 336
Colourless Specimens of Plants to be preserved in Alcohol,

how to make, Prof. Hugo de Vries, 149; Selmer Schönland,
173

Colours of Metals and Alloys, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts-
Austen, F. R.S., 106

Colours, a Method of illustrating Combinations of, H. G.
Madan, 513

Colson (M. Albert), Erythrite, 288
Colton (B. P.), Practical Zoology, 458

Comets Barnard's, 59; T. W. Backhouse, 54, 224; Prof.
Cacciatore, 181; Dr. Wentworth Erck, 198; Prof. A. Riccò,
296; (1886 ƒ), 17, 207; Dr. Oppenheim, 85; Dr. Aug.
Svedstrup, 134; (1887 c), Prof. E. Weiss, 352; Dr. H.
Oppenheim, 424; 1887 d (Barnard, February 15), Prof. Boss,
424, 446; First and Second of 1887, 614; Second of 1887,
John I. Plummer, 583; Brooks (1887 b), 352; Dr. R.
Spitaler, 424, 496; Finlay's 1886 e, 17, 59; Dr. Krueger,
85, 134; Dr. J. Holetschek, 207; Three New Comets, 307;
Note on the Origin of Comets, 381; Discovery of a New,
1887 d (Barnard 2), 402; Tails of the Comets of 1886, Prof.
Th. Bredichin, 474; the Southern, 329, 438; Comets and
Asteroids, Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, 474

Commercial Organic Analysis, Alfred H. Allen, Dr. C. R.
Alder Wright, 293

Compass in Iron Ships, Deviation of the, considered practically,
W. H. Rosser, 473

Compressed Air, Transmission of Power by, 272
Conchology, J. C. Melvill on Conus gloria maris, 230
Conder (Capt.), Translation of Hittite Inscriptions, 422

Congo: Dr. Lenz's Exploration of, 232; his Map of the, 354;
Rev. Geo. Grenfell's Exploration of the, 596; H. M.
Stanley's, 615

Conics, Pencils of, 477

Connecticut Valley, Triassic Formation of the, 141
Constant of Aberration, New Method of determining the, M.
Lowy, 263, 282, 407, 424, 431, 454, 479; M. Houzeau, 377
Constants of Fluids, Dielectric, Prof. G. Quincke, 334
Constitution of Matter, on certain Modern Developments of
Graham's Ideas concerning the, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.,
522, 547

Continuity of the Liquid and Gaseous States of Matter, Pre-
liminary Note on the, William Ramsay and Sydney Young,
262

Conis gloria maris, J. C. Melvill on, 230

Cooke's (Prof. Josiah Parsons) Chemical Physics, 100
Coombe Rock, Clement Reid on, 502

Copper, the Higher Oxides of, 141

Coral Reefs of the Solomon Islands, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 77
Corea, Geology of, 518

Coregonus albus, American Whitefish at Burghley Park, 546
Corona, Extension of the, Prof. S. P. Langley, 52
Counterpoint, Harmony and, Elements of, F. Davenport, 339
Cranial Nerves of a Human Embryo, 336

Crater, Sounding a, Prof. John Milne, 152; Fusion-Points,
Pyrometers, and Seismometers, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis,
197; W. Worby Beaumont, 296

Crayfish, Fresh-water, Green Gland of, 455

Crimson Line of Phosphorescent Alumina, on the, William
Crookes, F. R.S., 310

Critical Temperatures of Nitrogen and Oxygen, 331
Crocus, the, George Maw, 348

Crommelin (A. C.), Invisible at Greenwich, 414

Crookes (William, F.R.S.): on the Crimson Line of Phosphor-
escent Alumina, 310; on Radiant-Matter Spectroscopy,
Examination of the Residual Glow, 425, 447

Crookshank (Dr), Flagellated Protozoa in Animals' Blood, 191
Crookshank (Edgar), Cambridge Cholera Fungus, 344
Cross as a Sun Symbol, Dr. Chas. R. Dryer, 345
Croydon District, Climatology of the, 14

Cruise of the Marchesa, F. H. H. Guillemard, 369

Cruls (M.), Geographical Co-ordinates of Punta-Arenas, 382
Crustacea of Singapore, 525

Crustacea, British Stalk-eyed, and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse,
532

Cryptogams, Flora of Leicestershire, including the, J. G.
Baker, 411

Crystalline Elliptically-polarising Media, on Reflection at the
Surface of, 333

Crystallographic Notes, 141

Crystals, Absorption of Light in, 312

Culminating Sauropsida, Prof. John Cleland, 391