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Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 213, 534
Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 21, 93,
134, 213, 439, 455

July Meteoric Epoch, Shooting Stars of the, W. F. Dennirg,
351

Junker (Dr. W.), Explorations of A-Madi Country, 209, 404
Jupiter Great Red Spot upon Disk of, 403; A. Riccò, 487;
W. F. Denning, 622; Apparent Disappearance of Jupiter's
Satelli es, W. F. Denning, 563, 588

Kallos, a Treatise on the Scientific Culture of Personal Beauty
and the Cure of Ugliness," 171

Kalmuck Tribe at Jardin d'Acclimatation, 426

Kant's Prolegomena and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural
Science, R. B. Haldane, 561

Kautokeino, Dr. Tromholt's Auroral Observatory at, 397
Karelin (G. S.), Voyage on Caspian Sea, 611

Kazan University, Proceedings of the Medical Society of, 65 ;
Science at, 212

Keane (Prof. A. H.): Proposed Work on the Classification of
the Races of Mankind, 42; American Ethnology, 174; "The
Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern Persia," C. J. Wills,
266; Fuegian Ethnology, 344

Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean, the Fauna and Flora of, H. O.
Forbes, 78

Keeping (Walter), Neocomian Fossils, 433

Kent's Cavern, 524

Kepler's Nova of 1604, 158

Kerr (Dr.), Chinese Medical Compendium, 179

Kharkoff and Ekaterinoslav, Geology of, A. W. Guroff, 157
Kiell on Tycho Brahe's Nova 1572, 65

Kinchinjunga, Proposed Ascent of, 16

King (Dr.), Report on Bengal Government Cinchona Planta-
tions, 624

Kinship, Arithmetic Notation of, Francis Galton, F. R.S., 435;
Alex. MacFarlane, 588

Kireef (Dr.), Animals cannot be Bled by Cutting one Carotid,
384

Kitto (Edward), Meteorological Council and Falmouth Obser-
vatory, 318

Klein (E, F.R.S.), Elements of Histology, 412

Klein (M.), on the Law of Isomorphism, 18

Kobelt (Dr. W.), "Iconographie der schalentragenden euro-
Jäischen Meeres- conchylien," Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.,

224

Köhnlein's New Method of Preparing Paraffins, 18

Kotô (B.), Agriculture in Japan, 231, 445
Krakatoa, Volcanic Eruptions at, 134, 329, 425
Krause (Herr A.), South-Eastern Alaska, 359

Kronecker (Prof.), Influence of Temperature on the Conducti-
bility of Nerves, 215

Kuczumare (Austria), Earth Disturbance at, 209
Kum-bum, the Sacred Tree of, E. L. Layard, 79
Kyzyl-Kum Steppe, Formation of Dunes in, Borschoff, 158

Laboratory, New Biological, Johns Hopkins University, 425
Lachine Aerolite, E. W. Claypole, 319
Lady Graduate at Upsala University, 624
Lake-Dwellings at Ulrome, Yorkshire, 623

Lamp, Regnard's Incandescent, Arthur E. Shipley, 366
Lane (Denny), Clerk-Maxwell's "Devil on Two Sticks," 104
Lane-Fox on Storage Batteries, 307

Langdon (R.), Intelligence in Animals-Can a Viper Commit
Suicide? 319

Langegg (Herr van), "Nara ; eine alte Kaiserstadt," 182
Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.): Deductive Biology, 171;
Opening Address in Section D (Biology) at the Meeting of
the British Association at Southport, 517; on a Young Speci-
men of the Gray Seal (H. gryphus) from Boscastle, Cornwall,
580

"Lantern Readings," Lant Carpenter, 180

Last (J. T.), the Masai Country, 447

Lava, Floating, 532

Lawes (Sir J. P., Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.), Composition of Ash
of Animals used as Human Food, 335

Lawrence (G. F.), Paleolithic Implements at Stratford, 367;
a Paleolithic Flake, 564

Lawton (William), Zodiacal Light (?), 6

Layard (E. L.), the Sacred Tree of Kum-bum, 79; Curicus
Habit of a Brazilian Moth, 589
Leaves, the Shape of, E. M. Holmes, 29
Leaves and their Environment, J. Brown, 55
LeConte (Prof. John), Hydrogen Whistles, 54
LeConte (Prof. Joseph), Carson Footprints, 101
Lectures to Working Men, 33

Leibnitz, Statue of, 43

Leland (C. G.), Industrial Art in Schools, 207
Lelande and Chaperon, New Bat'ery, 354

Lemström (Prof. Selim), the Aurora Borealis, 61, 107, 128
Lena, the Arctic Meteorological Station on the, 59, 510

Lenz (Prof.): Proposed Observations on Terrestrial Currents,
156; Periodicity of Aurora Borealis, 545

Lepidoptera, the Mealy Odorous Spot in, Dr. H. A. Hagen,
244

Les sar (M.), Excursions in Central Asia, 158, 547

Ley (Rev. W. Clement): Sheet Lightning, 4, 54; Cirriform
Clouds, 34; Squall, 132; Remarkable Form of Cloud, 343
L'Hoste's Balloon Ascent, 471

Leibscher (Dr.), on B. Kotó's " Agriculture in Japan," 445
Licherdopol (J. P.), Geology of Cephalonia, 173
Lick Observatory, 279

Light, Pillar of, R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 54

Light, New Mode of Measuring, W. Preece, F.R.S., 206
Light, Action of, on Indiarubber, Prof. Herbert McLeod, 226
Lightning, Sheet, So; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 4, 54; Antoine
d'Abbadie, 29; Prof. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 54; Fred. Pratt,
104; N. W. Taylor, 126; W. G. Stillman, 271

Lightning Phenomenon, Lieut.-Col. W. H. Godwin-Austen,
173

Lightning Effects of, Lieut.-Col. A. Parnell, 197; Indiana
University set on fire by, 352

Lime and Bones, 414

Linant Pasha, Death of, 353

Lindström (Prof. G.), on Operculate Corals, 35
Linnean Society, 22, 142, 191, 238

Linnean Society of New South Wales, 383, 536

Liquefaction of Oxygen and Nitrogen, Wroblewski and
Öl-zewski, 533

Liquids, the Freezing-Point of, 18

Liquid, olid and, Illuminating Agents, 282

Liquid Films and Molecular Magnitudes, Profs. A. W. Reinold
and A. W. Rücker, 389
Lisbon, Earthquake at, 623

Literary Piracy in Japan, 43

I ittleton (W.), Aldabra Island Tortoises, 398

Liveing and Dewar (Profs.): on the Reversal of Hydrogen
Lines, and on the Outburst of Hydrogen Lines when Water
is dropped into the Arc, 21; on Sunspots and the Chemical
Elements in the Sun, 550

Lizard, the Poisonous, 83

Local Scientific Societies, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 135
Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.): American Observations of the
Eclipse, 230; the Move rents of the Earth, 598

Lowe (E. J., F.R.S.), on Testacella hallotoidea, 581
Locusts in Russia, 258

Lodge (Prof. Oliver J.), I ord Rayleigh's Dark Plane, 297
Logan (Sir W. E.), Life of, by B. J. Harrington, Dr. A.
Geikie, F. R.S., 585

Logarithms, Hutton's Table of, Error in, Maxwell Hall, 225
"Logarithms, Accented Five-Figure," L. D'A. Jackson, 460
Lubbock, Sir John, Weakness of Educational System, 328
Luminosity of Gases, Siemens and Wiedeman, 181
Lunar Phenomenon at Weston-super-Mare, C. Pooley, 54

MacCormac (Dr. Henry): Antihelios, 299; Animal Intelligence,
541

Macdougall (Alan), Aurora and Thunderstorms, 436
Macfarlane (Alex.), Arithmetical Notation of, 588
Mackie (William), "Subsidence and Elevation," 488
Maclagan (Nellie), Intelligence in Animals, 150
Maclear (Mrs. J.), Waking Impressions, 270

McLeod (Prof. Herbert), Action of Light on Indiarubber, 226
MacMunn (Dr. C. A.), on the Colouring-Matters of the Bile of
Vertebrates and Invertebrates, 46; on the Occurrence of
Chlorophyll in Animals, 581

McNeill (Malcolm), Extinction of Flatfish, 226

Machines, Recent Influence, 12

Madrid Mining Exhibition, 157

Magnetic Susceptibility of Iron and Steel, Prof. Ewing, 625
Magnetism, Evident, in Iron, Steel, and other Magnetic Metals,
the Cause of, Prof. D. E. Hughes, F.R.S., 159, 183
Magnetophone, Prof. Carhart, 626

Main (J. F.)," Elem ntary Applied Mechanics," Thos. Alex-
ander and A. W. Tho nson, 364

Malacca Tin Mines, 330

Mallet (F. R.), Animal Intelligence, 342

Malta, Earthquake at, 623

Mammoth Bones, Discovery of, in Flintshire, 445

Manganese, the Atomic Weight of, Prof. Dewar and A. Scott,
551

Manganese-Bronze, P. M. Parsons on, 551

Manley (Rev. W. R.): Soaring of Birds, 198; a Green Sun in
India, 575, 611

Mantumba Lake, Discovery of, by H. M. Stanley, 572
Maori-English Lexicon, W. Colenso, 134

Marcel-Deprez System of Transmission of Power to a Distance,
470

Marcet (Wm, M.D., F.R.S.), "Southern and Swiss Health
Resorts," 434

Marine Zoology, a National Laboratory of, 569
Marmosets, Birth of Young, 572

Marno (Herr), Death of, 509

Marriott (W.), and Hon. R. Abercromby, Weather Prognostics
and Weather Types, 330

Marsh (Prof. O. C.), Supposed Human Footprints recently found
in Nevada, 370

Marshall (Prof.), the Polymorphism of Alcyonaria, 580
Martens (Prof. Ed. von), Die Weich- und Schaltiere gemein-
fasslich Dargestellt, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 148
Martin (H. Newell), Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection, 242
Masai Country, Last, Thomson, and Fischer's Visits to, 447
Mason (Mrs. Eleanor), the Nat Basket, 171

Mason's Science College Catalogue of Periodicals, 545
Matthews (Duncan), on Wool Plugs and Fertilised Fluid, 580
Matter, the Chemical Constitution of, Prof. A. W. Williamson,
F.R.S., on, 551

Matter of Space, Prof. Chas. Morris, 148; Prof. A. S. Herschel,
294

Mathematical Society, 72, 192, 215, 622

Maynard (C. J.), "Manual of Taxidermy," 317

Maxwell (Clerk), "Devil on Two Sticks," Denny Lane, 104
Measure, Foot, in China, 207

Measures, Weights and, the International Bureau of, 464
Mechanics, Elementary Applied, Thos. Alexander and A. W.
Thomson, J. F. Main, 364

Mechanical Engineers in Belgium, Institution of, 356
Mechanics, Student's, W. R. Browne, 317, 344
Medical Congress, Amsterdam International, 469

Medical Profession, Prof. Huxley's Address on Relations of
State to, 570

Medusæ, the Freshwater, W. Sowerby, 7
Medway, Discovery of Oyster Bed in, 446
Melbourne Age Expedition to New Guinea, 158

Meldola (R.): “Decentralisation in Science," 413; the Colour-
ing Matters of the Diazo Group, 551
Melvin (James), Sand, 245, 344

Memoirs of Society of Naturalists at Kharkoff University, 157
Memoirs of Topographical Department of Russian General
Staff, 547

Mendeléeff (M.): Derivatives of Benzene, 182; Modified Method
of Fractional Distillation of Baku Petroleum Oils, 182
Merchant Steamships, Stability of, Sir E. J. Reed, M.P.,
F.R.S., 419

Meridian Lines, Addition of, to Bradshaw's Railway Guide Map
of Great Britain, 622

Meridian, Prime, International Congress to Establish a, 570
Merrifield (Mrs.): "Die Bangiaceen des Golfes von Neapel,"
Dr. G. Berthold, 271; Snow and Ice Flora, 304

Metallic Lines, on Real and Pseudo-Reversals of, Prof. W. N.
Hartley, 123

Metals, Molten, Prof. W. C. Roberts on the Rapid Diffusion of,
605

Metamorphic Rocks of Scandinavia and Scotland, 7
Metamorphosis and Development, Dr. Otto Taschenberg, 100
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, the, R. B. Hal-
dane, 561

Meteoric Epoch, Shooting Stars of the July, W. F. Denning,
351

Meteoric Blocks from Greenland, Prof. Nordenskjöld, 597
Meteoroid, Auroral, the True Orbit of the, of November 17,
1882, H. J. H, Groneman, 105

Meteorology in Russia, 42; the Arctic Meteorological Station
on the Lena, 59; the Ben Nevis Observatory, 64, 88, 328;
Meteorological Society, 119, 239, 622; Russian Meteoro
logical Stations, 156; Meteorology of the North-West
Provinces of India, 258; Meteorological Council and Fal-
mouth Observatory, Edward Kitto, 318; Prof. J. Couch
Adams, F.R.S., 318; Meteorology of the Arctic and Sub-
Arctic Portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Alex. Buchan, 398;
Northernmost Polar Meteorological Station, 404; Indian
Meteorology, E. D. Archibald, 405, 428, 477; Proposed
Meteorological Observatory for Bristol Channel, 470; Lena
Meteorological Station, 510

Meteors in Norway, 88; at Epinal, 88; A. Hall on, 126; a
Large, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 150; T. P. Barkas, 150;
of June 3, W. W. Taylor, 174; in Germany, 207; a Remark-
able, 269; B. G. Jenkins, 300; in Sweden, 377; of August
19, 462; A. Trevor Crispin, 389, 414; Alfred J. Mott, 389,
437; W. M. Pooley, 414; in Sweden and Norway, 425;
Thos. H. Potts, 462; C. Fortescue, 541; A. Taun, 564:
Donald Cameron, 589

Meters for Power and Electricity, C. Vernon Boys, 162
Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Hints to Officers of German Navy visiting
Indo-Pacific Waters, 446

Meyer (Dr.), Notornis hochstetteri, 375
Microphone, the, Shelford Bidwell, 27

Microscopic Objects, on Mounting and Photographing, 300, 321
Migration of Birds, B.A. Report on, 547

Miguel (Dr. M. P.), "Les Organismes Vivants de l'Atmo-
sphere," Henry de Varigny, 76

Milk, a New Preparation of, 47

Mill (H. R.), Sulphur in Bitumen, 414

Miller (W.), "Heavenly Bodies, their Nature and Habita-
bility," 338

Mimicry, A. Hale, 245

Mimas, Saturnian Satellite, 158
Mineral Waters of France, 280

Minerals of Hungary, Prof. M. Tóth, 78

Minineh, Voyage of the, 544

Mining Exhibition, Madrid, 157

Minister of Public Instruction, 221

Minnesota, Tornado in, 425

Minor Planets: Andromache, 116; No. 234, 403

Mint, Annual Report of the Deputy Master of, 82

Mirage, State of the Atmosphere which produces the Forms of,
observed by Vince and by Scoresby, Prof. P. G. Tait, 84
Mirage in Sweden, 158

Mitchell and Reichart (Drs.), on the Chemical Characters of the
Venom of Serpents, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 114

Mock Moons, 7; F. T. Mott, 30; R. C. Johnson, 31; T. W.
Backhouse, 81

Moffat (Dr. Robert), Death of, 375

Molecular Magnitudes, Liquid Films and, Profs. A. W.
Reinold and A. W. Rücker, 389

Mollusca, British, Proposed Monograph on, J. W. Taylor, 180
Mongols, Among the, Rev. James Gilmour, 361
Montgolfier Statue, Inauguration of, 352, 375, 402
Montreal, Opening of the Redpath Museum at, 65
Moon, Positions of, E. J. Stone, F.R.S., 71

Moons, Mock, 7; F. T. Mott, 30; R. C. Johnson, 31; T. W.
Backhouse, 81

Moravia, Earthquake in, 597

Morphology of the Pitcher of Cephalotus follicularis, Prof.
W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 140, 150

Morris (Prof. Chas.), Matter of Space, 148
Morris (D.), a Complete Solar Rainbow, 436, 515

Morton (G. H.), on a Section across the Trias at Liverpool, 578
Moscow, the Observatory of, 65

Moscow, Coronation Illuminations, 207

Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.): Prof. Lindström on Operculate
Corals, 35; Garfish, 436; the Bernissart Iguanodon, 439;
Iguanodon, 514

Moth, Brazilian, Curious Habit of a, E. Dukinfield Jones, 55;
E. L. Layard, 589

Moths, Ravages on Pine Trees by, 64

Mott (Alfred J.), the Meteor of August 19, 1883, 389, 437

Mott (F. T.), Mock Moons, 30

Moule (William) and H. Newell Martin, Handbook of Verte-
brate Dissection, 242

Mudirië Rohl Expedition, Dr. Emin Bey, 547
Muir (Wm), Metamorphic Origin of Granite, 6

Müller (Hermann): Effect of the Change of Colour in the
Flowers of Pulmonaria officinalis upon its Fertilisers, Dr.
Hermann Müller, 81; "Fertilisation of Flowers," Translated
by D'A. W. Thompson, 513; Obituary Notice of, 462
Munk (Prof. H.), Functional Restoration of Cerebrum, 431
Munro (J.),
Electricity and its Uses," 538

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Murphy (J. J.), Flight of Crows, 7; Graft-Hybridisation, 225
Murray (John), Elevation and Subsidence, 365

Muscular Movements and Complex Motions, Dr. R. J. Ander-
son, 582

Museum, the Parkes, New Premises of, 16

Museum, Orange Free State, 179

Museums, the Opening of, on Sundays, 63

Naphtha, Lamps for Burning, 134

Naphtha Springs in Caucasus, M. Potylitzin, 545

Naples, Zoological Station, the American Table at, 88
"Nara; eine alte Kaiserstadt," Herr van Langegg, 182
Nasmyth (James), Engineer, Samuel Smiles, 337
Nat Basket, the, Mrs. Eleanor Mason, 171

Nathorst (Dr. A. G.): Fossil Algæ, 52; the Greenland Nor-
denskjöld Expedition, 541

Natural Philosophy, the New Principles of, W. L. Jordan, 169
Natural Science, How to Teach, 425

Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa Gray, 78;
Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 100.

Nautilus, Pearly, Difference between the Males and Females of
the, A. G. Bourne, 580

Navigation, Stellar, W. H. Rosser, 316

Negretti and Zambra's Deep-Sea Thermometer, 306

Nebula, the Great, in Orion, 616

Neocomian Fossils, Walter Keeping, 433

Nephrite and Jade in Further India, 571

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Obach (Dr.): Movable Coil Galvanometer, 215; Tangent Gal-
vanometer, 257

Observatories: Royal, 136; Rio Janeiro, 65; Moscow, 65; Re-
port of the Paris Observatory for the year 1882, 154; In
auguration of New, at Vienna, 156; Ben Nevis, 156, 328,
468, 596, 622; the Lick, 279; Bischoffsheim at Nice, 377;
Dr. Tromholt's Auroral, at Kautokeino, 397; Reorganisation
of Montmartre, 445; Proposal for Bristol Channel Meteoro-
logical, 470; Tashkend, 531; Chinese, 532; Cordoba, 606
Oceans and Continents, Permanence of, Elevation and Subsi-
dence, or, J. Starkie Gardner, 323

Oil in Calming Waves, 605

Oken (Lorenz), Monument to, 207

Olszewski and Wroblewski, Liquefaction of Oxygen and Nitro-
gen, 533

Omnibus, Electrical, Philippart's, 353, 544

Ongouz River, M. Lessar's Exploration of, 547

Operculate Corals, Prof. Lindström on, 35

Orange Free State National Museum, 179

O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.): the Earthquake of Ischia, 461; Scientific
Aspects of the Java Catastrophe, 515

Orfe, a Fish recently Acclimatised in England, 304

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'Organismes Vivants de l'Atmosphere," Dr. M. P. Miguel, 76

'Origines Celticæ," &c., Edwin Guest Prof. A. H. Sayce, 242
Orion, the Great Nebula in, 619

Ornithological Works, Recent, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 126
Ornithologists, International Congress of, 353

Ornithologists' Union, American, 532, 623

Ostrich, a New, 531

Ostwald, Relative Affinities of Acids, 181

Oudemans (Dr. J. A. C.), Aurora of October 2 and November
17, 1882, 196

Ovibos moschatus, Discovery of Remains of, 310
Owen (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Thylacoleo, 119

Owen (T. C.), Cinchona Planter's Manual, 170
Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, 135

Oxygen, Liquefaction of, Wroblewski and Olszewski, 533
Oyster Bed, Discovery of, in Medway, 446

Oyster-Culture (Ryder's), by Artificial Impregnation, 470

Nerves, Influence of Temperature on the Conductibility of, 218 Oyster Fishing and Oyster Culture at the Fisheries Exhibition,
Nest-Building, Curious-"Scarecrows," 126

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Paleolithic Implement, a Large and Rude, Worthington G.
Smith, 617

Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Extraordinary Flight of Dragon Paleozoic Sclerotic Plates, T. P. Barkas, 225
Flies, 271

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Niger Expedition, Proposed, Dr. E. Riebeck, 404

Nipher (Prof. Francis E.), Intelligence in a Dog, 82
Nitrogen, Liquefaction of, Wroblewski and Olszewski, 533
Nomenclature, Anatomical, Dr. Burt G. Wilder, 77
Nordenskjöld (Baron): on the Zeni Narrative, 14; Expedition
to Greenland, 37, 116, 182, 280, 469, 530; Dr. A. G.
Nathorst, 541; on the Supposed Old Icelandic Map of North
Europe, 427; and the Dutch Government, 280

Normal School of Science, South Kensington, New Scholarships,
305

North Atlantic Ocean, on the Geological Age of, Prof. E. Hull,
F.R.S., 578

North-East Passage, Baron Nordenskjöld and the Dutch
Government, 280

North Sea Expedition, Norwegian, 348, 371

Norway: Increase of Small Birds in, 281; Potato Disease in,
281; the Fossils of, 307; Meteor in, 425; the Beaver in,
Prof. R. Collett, 470; Norwegian North Sea Expedition, 348,
371; Acclimatisation of Norwegian Ptarmigan, 544; Nor.
wegian Circumpolar Station, A. S. Steen, 566
Notornis hochstetteri, Dr. Meyer, 375

Nottingham, Technical School at University College, 532
Nova 1572, Kiell on Tycho Brahe's, 65
Numeration, Indian, Frederick Drew, 245
Nyam Nyam Country, Dr. Junker's Excursions in, 209
Nyangue, Report of Dr. Pogge's Return Journey from, 209

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Parfitt (W.), Mid-Height of Sea-Waves, 82
Paraffins, New Method of Preparing, 18

Paris: Proposed Extension of, 17; Academy of Sciences, 24,
48, 96, 120, 144, 168, 215, 240, 263, 287, 311, 336, 360, 383,
408, 431, 456, 480, 536, 560, 584, 608, 632; Aeronautical
Exhibition in, 88; Paris General Catalogue of Stars, 181;
Electric Tramcars in, 257, 469; Electric Light in, 307;
Report of the Paris Observatory for the Year 1882, 154;
Balloon of the Paris Observatory, 257; Paris International
Society of Electricians, 469

Parker (C. F.), Death of, 624

Parkes Museum, the New Premises of, 16, 115
Parnell (Lieut.-Col. A.), Effects of Lightning, 197
Parpi River, Discovery of, 404

"Parrots in Captivity," W. T. Greene, 611

Pasteur (M.): Increase of Pension to, 156; on the Generation of
Cholera, 329

Pattison (S. R.), Geology of the Congo, W. Holman Bentley,
243

Peak of Teneriffe not very Active again, Prof. Piazzi Smyth,
572

Pearson (A. N.), Contribution to the Study of the Transmission
Eastwards Round the Globe of Barometric Abnormal Move-
ments, 354, 377, 562; Simultaneous Affections of the Baro-
meter, 612

Pengelly (William, F.R.S.), Address in the Department of
Anthropology at the Meeting of the British Association at
Southport, 524

Penny Science Lectures at Victoria Coffee Hall, 532
Perak Tin-Mines, J. Errington de la Croix, 202
Pergamos, Sparrows in, 116

Permian System in Russia, 165

Permian v. Dyas, Rev. A. Irving, 578

Perouse (La), Letters and Journals of, 209

Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), a Large Meteor, 150

Persia, Modern, the Land of the Lion and Sun, C.5J. Wills,
Prof. A. H. Keane, 266

Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, 117, 404, 547
Peters (Dr. Wilhelm), Death of, 15

Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Earliest Known Plotting Scale, 341
Petroleum Oils (Baku), Modified Method of Fractional Distilla-
tion of, Mendeléeff, 182

Pettersen (Dr. Karl), International Polar Researches, 423
Philadelphia: Electrical Exhibition (1884), 544; Zoological
Gardens, 329

Philippart's Electrical Omnibus, 544

Philosophical Criticism, Essays in, Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S.,
386

Philosophy, Modern, Mr. Romanes and, Alfred Stapley, 461
Philosophy, Natural, the New Principles of, W. L. Jordan, 169
Phlebotomy: Animals cannot be Bled by Cutting one Carotid,
Dr. Kireef, 384

Photography and Still Life, A. R. Hunt, 540

Photography, Stellar, at Harvard, 255

Photometer, a New, 47

Phylloxera in Sardinia, 306

Physical Notes, 308, 625

Physical Society, 23, 47, 94, 143, 215, 239

Physics, Historical Notes in, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 130

Physics, Text-Book of, J. D. Everett, 364

Physiological Cruelty, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 537

Physiological Society, 288

Pidgeon (D.), Waterspout, 173

Pigeons, Carrier, Replacing of, by Ravens, 403

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Pozzuoli, the Fumaroles of the Solfatara of, 83
Pratt (Fred.): Sheet Lightning, 104; Pocky" Clouds, 104
Pre-Cambrian Rocks of St. David, on the Supposed, Archibald
Geikie, F.R.S., 18

Preece (W. H., F.R.S.): Effect of Temperature on Electro-
motive Force and Resistance of Batteries, 191; New Mode of
Measuring Light, 205

Prejevalsky (Col.), Fourth Journey to Central Asia, 159, 182,
546

Pressure, Influence of Great, on Chemical Reactions, M. Spring,
181

Primæval Man and Working Men Students, Worthington G.
Smith, 320

Primary Rainbow, Treble, 344

Prime Meridian, International Congress to Establish a, 570
Pritchard (H. Baden), Table of Different Velocities, 612
Privat-docenten System to be Tried in France, 330
Professorial Salaries in United States, 376

Protective Resemblance, Antiquities Saved by, Worthington G.
Smith, 462

Protoplasm and Cell-Wall in the Vegetable Cell, F. O. Bower,
581

Protoplasm, the Continuity of, through the Walls of Vegetable
Cells, Walter Gardiner, 582

Protoplasmic Continuity in the Floridex, 581

Protoplasts, on the Intercellular Connection of, Prof. W. Hill-
house, 582

Ptarmigan, Norwegian, Acclimatisation of, 544

Public Instruction, Minister of, 221

Pulmonaria officinalis, the Effect of the Change of Colour in the

Flowers of, upon its Fertilisers, Dr. Hermann Müller, 81

Pumice, Floating, H. O. Forbes, 539

Pyro-Electric Phenomena of Boracite, &c., Friedel, 426

Quadrennial Discovery Prize, Grocers' Company's, 133
Qualitative Analysis, Concise and Explanatory, Notes on,
H. G. H. Fenton, 148

Pigment Bodies in Plants, Chlorophyll Corpuscles and, Prof. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 166, 534

H. Marshall Ward, 267

Pillar of Light, R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 54

Pine Trees, Ravages on, by Moths, 64

Plane, Dark, Lord Rayleigh's, Prof, Oliver J. Lodge, 297
Planets, Minor: Andromache, 116; No. 234, 403

Plant (Thomas), Obituary Notice of, 445

Plants, Chlorophyll Corpuscles and Pigment Bodies in, Prof.
H. Marshall Ward, 267

Plateau (Prof. J. A. F.), Death of, 509; Obituary Notice of,
529

Plexus, Brachial, on the Motor Roots of the, Prof. Ferrier,
F.R.S., 214

Plotting Scale, Earliest Known, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 341
"Pocky" or "Festooned "Cloud (Mammato-Cumulus), Hon.
Ralph Abercromby, 79; Fred. Pratt, 104

Pogge (Dr.), Journeys Across Africa, 64, 209

Point Barrow Exploring Party, 573, 623

Poirier Bequest, 404

Poisonous Lizard, 83

Poisons in Animal Substances, 48

Poisons, Violent, formed by Animal Decomposition, Prof.
Krieger, 192

Pola Expedition, 426

Polar Expeditions, Dutch and Danish, Safety of, 447

Polar Meteorological Station, Northernmost, 404

Polar Researches, International, Dr. Karl Pettersen, 423

Polar Station, Sagastyr, 182

Polytechnic, Exhibition at, by Members of Young Men's Chris-
tian Institute, 135

Polyzoa: Fossil, B.A. Report on, 550; Budding in, Prof. Had-
don, 580

Pons' Comet, 606, 624

Pooley (C.), Lunar Phenomenon at Weston-super-Mare, 54
Pooley (W. M.), Meteor of August 19, 414

Portrush, Siemens' Electric Railway, 43, 544

Potatoes, Disease of, 284; Worthington G. Smith, 299; A.

Stephen Wilson, 343; Prof. A. Blytt, 367

Potts (Thos. H.), Meteor, 462

Potylitzin (M.), Naphtha Springs in Caucasus, 545

Power and Electricity, Meters for, C. Vernon Boys, 162

Races of Mankind, Proposed Classification of, by Prof. A. H.
Keane, 42

Radicke (Dr. Gustav), Death of, 15

Radivanovsky's Work on "Gunpowder and other Explosives,"
16

Rae (John, F.R.S.): Wild Duck and Railways, 226, 270;
Instinct and Intelligence, 270; Causes of Glacier Motion,
244

Ragg (Rev. F. W.), Organic Evolution and the Fundamental
Assumptions of Natural Philosophy, 589

Railway, Electric, Portrush, 544

Railways and Docks, James Brunlees on, 558

Railways, Wild Duck and, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 226, 270
Rainbow Triple, R. P. Greg, 300; Treble Primary, 344;

a Complete Solar, D. Morris, 436, 515; T. W. Backhouse,
515; a Remarkable, 541, 564

Ramsay (A.): Thunderstorms and Aurora, 414; a Remark-
able Rainbow, 564

Rance (C. E. de), Post-Glacial Geology of Country round
Sonthport, 490

Ravens, Replacing of Carrier-Pigeons by, 403

Raygill Fissure Exploration, B. A. Report on, 550

Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), on the Dark Plane which is formed

over a Ileated Wire in Dusty Air, 139; Prof. Oliver J.
Lodge on, 297

Reactions, Chemical, Influence of Great Pressure on, M. Sprig,
181

Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 214

Reale Istituto Lombardo, 71, 214, 238, 262, 335, 43, 535
Recent Influence-Machines, 12

Rede Lecture, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., 187

Redman (J. B.), Sea-Shore Alluvion, Dungeness, 125

Redpath Museum at Montreal, Opening of, 65

Red Spot upon Jupiter's Disk, Great, 403, 487, 622

Red Star, Trouvelot, 546

Reed (Sir E. J., M.P., F.R.S.), Stability of Merchant Stea
ships, 419

Regnard's Incandescent Lamp, Arthur E. Shipley, 366

Reichart and Mitchell (Drs.), on the Chemical Characters of the
Venom of Serpents, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 114
Reindeer in Behring's Island, 42

Reinold (Prof. A. W.), on the Limiting Thickness of Liquid
Films, 142; and Prof. A. W. Rücker, Liquid Films and
Molecular Magnitudes, 389

Rendiconti of the Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere,
71, 214, 238, 262, 335, 431, 535

Reusch (Dr. H.), on the Geology of Norway, 307
Revue Internationale des Sciences, 142

Revue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques, 214
Reymond (Prof. du Bois), on Animal Electricity, 95
Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), the Term "Stability
used in Naval Literature, 582

as

Rhinoceros Group, Origin and Development of the, Scott and
Osborne, 579

Rhone, Current of, tp be utilised for Lighting Geneva, 353
Riccò, A., the Red Spot upon Jupiter, 487

with Notes and Ques-

Ricketts (Chas.), "Elevation and Subsidence," 413, 539
Riebeck (Dr. E.), Proposed Niger Expedition, 4c4
Rio Janeiro, the Observatory of, 65
Kipper (William), Practical Chemistry,
tions on Theoretical Chemistry, 148
Ristori (E.), the Great Comet b 1882, 225
Kivista Scientifico-Industriale e Giornale del Naturalista, 584
Roberts (M. J.), Animal Intelligence, 436

Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), the Decimal System at
the Mint, 82

Roche (Prof. Arthur), Obituary Notice of, 11

Roebling (Mrs. Washington) and Brooklyn Bridge, 156

Rogers (Prof. W. A.), German Survey of Northern Heavens,
471

Rolleston Memorial, 328

Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.): Galton's "Human Faculty and its
Development," 97; Natural Selection and Natural Religion,
100; "Colin Clout's Calendar; the Record of a Summer, April
-October," Grant Allen, 194; "A Few Words on Evolution
and Creation," Henry S. Boase, F.R.S., "Notes on Evolu-
tion and Christianity," J. F. Yorke, 222; Essays in Philoso-
phical Criticism, 386; "A Visit to Ceylon," Prof. Haeckel,
410; and Modern Philosophy, Alfred Stapley, 461; Physio-
logical Cruelty, 537; the Uselessness of Vivisection, 589
Roscoe and Stewart (Profs.), on the Heating Powers of the Sun's
Rays at London and at Kew, 605

Rosser (W. H.), Stellar Navigation, 316

Royal Academy, 50, 73.

Royal Geographical Society, Award of Medals, &c., 15; Annual
Meeting, 104

Royal Institution of Great Britain, 623

Royal Observatory, 136

Samuelson (B., F.R.S.), on the Iron and Steel Industries, 68

Sand, J. S. Gardner, 224; James Melvin, 245, 344; J. G.
Waller, 300

Sanitary Congress, the, on House Sanitation, 564
"Sanitary Engineer," 624

Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 42

Sanitation: Autumn, 458; House, the Sanitary Congress on, 564
Saponine, Viscosity of, 23

Saporta's Work on Fossil Algæ, 52

Sardinia, Phylloxera in, 306

Satellites, Ephemerides of the, 335
Satellites of Saturn, 158, 377

Satsuma Ware, 306

Saturnian Satellites, 158, 377

Sayce (Prof. A. H.), "Origines Celticæ," &c., Edwin Guest, 242
Scale, Earliest Known Plotting, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 341
Scandinavia and Scotland, Metamorphic Rocks of, 7

66

'Scarecrows," Curious Nest-building, 126

Schools Science in, 23; Industrial Art in, C. G. Leland, 207;
Maternal Schools in France, 207

Schomburgk (Dr.), Report on Botanic Gardens of South
Australia, 572

Schulhof's Elements of Tempel's Comet, 1873 II., 446
Schuster (Dr. A.), Internal Constitution of the Sun, 606
Schwatka's (Lieut.) Expedition to Alaska, 209

Schweinfurth (Dr. G.), the Flora of Ancient Egypt, 15, 109
Science in Schools, 23

Science and Art, 50, 73; Latimer Clark, 125

Science at Kazan, 212; at Cambridge, Prof. M. Foster, F.R.S.,
374; in Russia, 379; Decentralisation in, 385

SCIENCE WORTHIES, Arthur Cayley (with Portrait), Prof.
George Salmon, 481

Science, a Plea for Pure, Prof. H. A. Rowland, 510

Science, Natural, Metaphysical Foundations of, R. A. Haldane,
561

Science Classes in Warwick, 622

Science, the Study of, Leonard Courtney, M.P., 623
Scientific Progress in China and Japan, by Sinensis, 34
Scientific Societies, Local, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 135
Scientific Journals and American Copyright, 280

Scoresby and Vince, on the State of the Atmosphere which
produces the Forms of Mirage observed by, Prof. P. G. Tait,
84

Scotland and Scandinavia, Metamorphic Rocks of, 7

Scott and Osborne on the Origin and Development of the Rhi-
noceros Group, 579

Scottish Meteorological Society, 88, 306

Scotsmen, Two Eminent, 337

Scudder (S. H.), Ravages on Pine Trees by Moths, 64
Sea-Shore Alluvion, Dungeness, J. B. Redman, 125

Royal Society, 15, 21, 45, 71, 93, 119, 142, 166, 191, 214, 256, Sea-Waves, Mid-Height of, W. Parfitt, 82
335, 535

Royal Society of Canada, 283

Royal Society of Edinburgh (see Edinburgh)

Royal Society of New South Wales, 560, 584

Rücker (Prof. A. W.) on the Limiting Thickness of Liquid
Films, 142; and Prof. A. W. Reinold, on Liquid Films and
Molecular Magnitudes, 389

Russia: Chemical and Physical Society of, 21, 93, 134, 213,
430, 455; Meteorology in, 42; Russian Geographical So-
ciety, 117, 158, 573, 596; New Expeditions, 596; Sup-
pression of Ecclesiastical Censorship of Scientific Writings
in, 157; Permian System in Russia, 165; Russian Polar Sta-
tion at Sagastyr, 182; Russian Meteorological Stations, 186;
Locusts in, 258; Science in, 379; Wind Velocity in, Dr.
Woeikof, 571

Ryder's Oyster Culture by Artificial Impregnation, 470

[blocks in formation]

Seal, Gray, Prof. E. Ray Lankester on a Young Specimen of,
from Boscastle, 580

Secondary Batteries, the Electrolysis of Dilute Sulphuric Acid
in, 551

Seebohm (Henry), "History of British Birds," 126
Seismic Investigations in Japan, 550

Seismograph, New Form of, C. A., Stevenson, 117; Prof.
Ewing's New Duplex, 308

Serpents, on the Chemical Characters of the Venom of, Sir J.
Fayrer, F.R.S., 114, 199
Shadows, Double, 366

Shandon Cave, near Dungarvan, B. A. Report on, 550
Shape of Leaves, E. M. Holmes, 29

Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Recent Ornithological Works, 126
Sheet-Lightning, 80; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 4, 54; Antoine
d'Abbadie, 29; Prof. John Tyndall, F. R.S., 54; Fred. Pratt,
104; N. W. Taylor, 126; W. G. Stillman, 271
Shipley (Arthur E.), Regnard's Incandescent Lamp, 366
Ships, on the Deviations of the Standard Compass in Iron-
Plated, 93

Shooting Stars of the July Meteoric Epoch, W. F. Denning, 351
Siberia: Tigers in South Usuri, 134; Sibiriakoff's Exploration
of, 233; Siberian Stone Period Remains Exploration, 596;
Earthquake in, 597

Sibiriakoff's Exploration of Siberia, 233
Siemens (Sir William, F.R.S.), Solar Physics, 19
Siemens' Electric Railway at Portrush, 43

Siemens (W.), the Luminosity of Gases, 181
Siemens and Halske's Torsion Galvanometer, 571

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