Assam, History of the Province of, during the last Fifty Years,
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,
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,
Bourgeois (M. L.), Preparation of a Silicostannate of Lime corresponding to Sphene, 335.
Bourne (G. C.), Anatomy of the Madreporian Coral Fungia,
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,
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,
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,
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-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
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
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