ABBADIE (Antoine d'), Lightning-Flashes, 342

Abbe (Prof. Cleveland): Influence of Wind on Barometric
Readings, 29; Corrections to Refraction-Tables, 134;
Obituary Notice of William Babcock Hazen, 541

Abel, the Mathematician, Statue in Honour of, 352

Abel (Sir Fred., F.R.S.), Work of the Imperial Institute, 617
Abercromby (Hon. R.): on the Peculiar Sunrise Shadows of
Adam's Peak, 94; on the Relation between Tropical and
Extra-Tropical Cyclones, 430; an Equatorial Zone of almost
Perpetual Electrical Discharge, 487; Modern Developments
of Cloud Knowledge, 575

Aberdeen, Stone Circles near, 503

Aberration, New Method of determining the Constants of, M.
Lœwy, 263, 282, 407, 424, 431, 454, 479; M. Houzeau, 377
Aberration of Light, Phenomena connected with, 575

Abney (Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.), Sunlight Colours, 498
Abnormal-Toed Cats, Heredity in, William White, 125; Ε.
W. Claypole, 345; Dr. H. A. Hagen, 345; J. Herbert
Hodd, 53

Abnormal Hirudo medicinalis, an, R. J. Harvey Gibson, 392
Abnormalities in the Vertebral Column of the Common Frog,
Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 53

Abnormality in the Urostyle of the Common Frog, Prof. C.
Lloyd Morgan, 344

Afghan Delimitation Commission: Botany of the, W. Botting
Hemsley, 173; Geographical Results achieved by the Survey
Officers in the, 309; Fauna and Flora of the, J. E. T. Aitchi-
son, 381

Africa: Don Manuel Iradier's Explorations in Africa, 182;
Return of the Portuguese African Expedition, 182; Botany
of South, 1583; Study of the Coasts of North, Dr. Theobald
Fischer, 353; Dr. Lenz's Map of the Congo, 354; Pygmy
Tribes in, 497; My African Home, Eliza Whigham Feilden,

221

Aino Hairiness and the Urvolk of Japan, F. V. Dickins, 534
Air, the Coefficient of Viscosity of, Herbert Tomlinson, 165
Air, Compressed, Transmission of Power by, 272

Air, Resistance of, Dr. Thiesen, 408

Air, Movements of the, M. Ch. Weyher, 431

Air, some New Micro-organisms obtained from, G. C. Frank-

land and Dr. Percy F. Frankland, 477
Air-free Column of Water, Cohesion of an, Prof. Helmholtz,
456

Airy (Sir G. B., F. R.S.): on the Earlier Tripos of the University
of Cambridge, 397; on the Establishment of the Roman
Dominion in South-East Britain, 562

Aboriginal Art in California and Queen Charlotte's Island, Dr.
W. J. Hoffman, 285

Aitchison (J. E. T.), Fauna and Flora of the Afghan Boundary,
381
Alaska and the Seal Islands, an Arctic Province, Henry W.
Elliott, 243

Abrahall (Rev. John Hoskyns-), Meteors, 29

Acclimatisation of Flat-fish in American Waters, 473

Alaska, Alpine Region of, Lieut. H. Seton-Karr, 475
Albumen-precipitate with Salt, 455

David Salomons, 603

Albuminous Substances, Alimentary Values of Various, Prof.

Acetonuria in Children, 551

Zuntz, 480

375

of Health and Disease, 366

Acoustics, Hand-book of, T. E. Harris, 270

Alcohol, How to make Colourless Specimens of Plants to be

Actinometric Observations, 263

preserved in, Prof. Hugo de Vries, 149; Selmer Schönland,

Action, Instinctive, 392

173

Adams (Prof. J. C., F.R.S.), Values of Logarithms, 381

Adam's Peak, on the Peculiar Sunrise Shadows, Hon. R.

Abercromby, 94

Adelaide University, Sir W. W. Heughes's Contribution to the,

Alcohol, Effect of, on Metastasis in Man, 383
Alcohol, Clausius's Characteristic Equation for Substances
applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's Experiments on, Prof.
Fitzgerald, 574

255

Alcyonaria and Pennatulæ at the Arago Laboratory, 431
Alexander (Prof. W. D.), Kilauea after the Eruption of March
1886, 451

Aerial Eddies, Experiments on, 382

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

Aerial Vortices, 551

Aerial Vortices and Revolving Spheres, Experiments on, Ch.

Weyher, 514

Affinity, Residual, Valency and, Prof. H. E. Armstrong,
F.R.S., 570, 596

Algebraic Forms with f Variables, on the Theory, M. R. Perrin,
335

Algebraic Notation of Kinship, Prof. Alex, Macfarlane, 126
Algeria, Artesian Wells in, M. de Lesseps, 287, 336
Algiers Observatory, the, 16

b

Algol-Type Variable, the New, Mr. Chandler, 329
Alimentary Values of Various Albuminous Substances, Prof.
Zuntz, 480

Alkaline Solutions, Electrolysis of, M. Duter, 382
Alkaline Vanadates, Study of the, M. A. Ditte, 600
Allen (Alfred H.), Commercial Organic Analysis, Dr. C. R.

Alder Wright, 293

Alloys, Moduli of, 333

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

Alpine Flora surviving in the Paris District, 431

Alpine Region of Alaska, Lieut. H. Seton-Karr, 475

Alpine Winter and its Medical Aspects, A. Tucker Wise, 170
Alps, Australian, on some Further Evidence of Glaciation in
the, James Stirling, 182

Altai Mountains, an Ice Period in the, E. Michaelis, 149; A.
Bialove-ki, 513

Alumina, Red Fluorescence of, 455, 527; Crimson Line of
Phosphorescent, William Crookes, F.R.S., 310

Amateurs, Practical Dynamo-Building for, Fred. W. Walker,

294

America: American Journal of Science, 16, 93, 141, 237, 380,
451, 524, 621; American Journal of Mathematics, 28, 99,
477; Early Chinese Intercourse with America, Dr. W. H.
Dall, 58; Industrial and High Art Education in the United
States, J. Edwards Clarke, W. Odell, 97; Education of
Women in, 229; American Society for Psychical Research,
281; Present Position of Science in the Secondary Schools
of America, Pres. Eliot, 375; American Meteorological
Journal, 376, 568; American Journal of Psychology, 400;
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 444;
Acclimatisation of Flat-fish in American Waters, 473;
Prehistoric Remains in America, 476; American Geographi-
cal Society, 497; American Naturalist, 518; American
Whitefish (Coregonus albus) at Burghley Park, 5463;
Restocking Streams in America, 546; American Exhibition,
612. See also United States.

Amides, Decomposition of, by Water and the Diluted Acids,

144

Ammonia, Caseine-like Substance obtained by the Addition of
Hydrogen-Peroxide to White of Eggs, heated with, 576
Ammoniacal Decomposition of Urine, Dr. W. R. Smith, 404
Ammoniaco-Magnesian Phosphate, M. Berthelot, 119
Anatomical Society of Berlin, 517

Anatomy, Comparative, of Vertebrates, Robert Wiedersheim,
W. Newton Parker, 121

Anatomy of the Madreporian Coral Fungia, G. C. Bourne, 404
Anatomy, a Work on, in Chinese, 568

Ancient History, Studies in, comprising a Reprint of "Primi-
tive Marriage," J. Ferguson McLennan, Dr. W. Robertson
Smith, 3

Ancient Monuments Act, 518

Anderson (W.), on the Conversion of Heat into Work, 387
Andree (Herr Richard), Cannibalism and its Prevalence in
Ancient and Modern Times, 350
Andrews (Thos.), Pyrometers and Fusion-Points, 224
Andromedes, the, November 27, 1886, P. F. Denza, 231
Ångström (Knut), Sur une nouvelle Méthode de faire des
Mesures absolues de la Chaleur rayonnante, 580

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

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

Animal Life, Apparatus for studying the Influence of Pressure

Annuaire of the Royal Observatory of Brussels, 351
Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, 497

Antedon rosacea, the Supposed Myzostoma-Cysts in, Dr. P.
Herbert Carpenter, F.R.S., 535

Anthropoid Apes, 383; Embryogeny of the, J. Deniker, 509
Anthropology: Horatio Hale on the Origin of Language and
the Antiquity of Speaking Man, 17; Dr. Colin on the Popu-
lation of Bambouk, 22; M. Topinard on the Simian Cha-
racters of the Naulette Jaw, 22; M. de Quatrefages on Pre-
historic Man, 23; M. Cartailhac, on the Human Bones found
in France in Quaternary Caverns, 23; Anthropological Insti-
tute, 95, 143, 358, 431, 453, 503; Journal of the, 422; Les Ages
Préhistoriques de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Emile Cartailhac,
Anthropological Society of Bombay, 328; General Pitt-
Rivers's Anthropological Collection at Oxford University
Museum, 349; Observations in Anthropology, by Dr. Ten Kate,
357; Revue d'Anthropologie, 357; Sociology of the Australian
Races, 357; Anthropological Discovery in the Valley of
Rebas, Prof. Miguel Marazta, 379; Histoire Générale des
Races Humaines, A. de Quatrefages, 389; Anthropological
Find in Belgium, 405; Ethnological Collection presented by
Lieut. Quedenfeldt to the Anthropological Society of Berlin,
423; French Translation of Cæsar Lumbroso's "Uomo Delin-
quanti," 423

Antifebrine, Dr. Weill, 445
Antimony, Tartrate of, M. Guntz, 528
Anti-Phylloxeric Disinfection of the Grape Vine, 382
Antiquities of Spain and Portugal, M. Emile Cartailhac, 244
Antituberculous Vaccination, 144
Ants, Habits of, Sir John Lubbock, 518
Apes: an Anthropoid Ape, 383; Embryogeny of the, J.
Deniker, 509; the Lumbar Curve in Man and Apes, Prof.
Cunningham, 46; Domestication of Apes, 495

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

Apochromatic Lenses, the Value of the New, 467

Appalachia, 354

April Meteors, W. F. Denning, 606
Aquarium constructed for the Fisheries Exhibition, Sale of, 306
Aquila, Lower Italy, Earthquake Shock in, 350, 376
Arabia, South, Herr Glaser's Journeys in, 520
Arago (François), Proposed Statue of, 84

Arago Laboratory, Flourishing Condition of the. Alcyonaria and

Pennatulæ at, 431

Arcetri, Observations of Nebulæ at, Wilhelm Tempel, 198
Architects, Naval, Institution of, 538

Arctic Province, an, Alaska and the Seal Islands, Henry W.
Elliott, 243

Arctic Species of Birds, Henry Seebohm on, 256
Ardtun Leaf-beds, J. Starkie Gardner, 382
Argentine General Catalogue of Stars, 113
Arithmetic, Chemical, Sydney Lupton, 74

Armagh Catalogue of 3300 Stars, Second, 159

Armstrong (Prof. Henry E., F.R.S.): on the Nature of Solution,
64; Benzenoid Compounds, 407; Valency and Residual
Affinity, 570, 596

Army Candidates, Geometrical Drawing for, H. T. Lilley, 28
Aroids, Walter Gardiner on, 454

Aroko or Symbolic Letters, Specimens of, 422
Aromatic Bodies, Preliminary Communication on the Action of
certain, T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., F.R.S., and J. Theodore
Cash, 599

Aron (Dr.), Theory of the Inductionless Coils, 383
Arrow-Release, Ancient and Modern Methods of, Edward S.
Morse, 12

Art and Science in a New Light, 250

Artesian Well, Attempt to sink an, to obtain Hot Water at

St. Augustine, Florida, 376

Artesian Wells in Algeria, M. de Lesseps, 287

Artesian Wells and New Oases created in the Wed Rir', South
Algeria, 336

Asamayama, the Active Volcano in Japan, 133
Ashes of Cider, on the Composition of the, 382

Asia, Central: Central Asian Commercial Company Koudrine
in, 258; A. D. Carey's Journey in, 475; Journeys and Dis-
coveries in, 547

Asia, Russian Central, Proposed Administrative Changes in, 258
Asiatic Society of Bengal, 474

Asiatic Society, Calcutta, Annual Address to, 375

Aspects of Clouds, Robert James Reilly, 391