IXDEX OF VOLUMES I TO XX. 83 



Notes : vol.. page 

 Tooth ; Difference of Live and Dead Flesh ; Proposed Changes in 

 Survey Work of the United States; California Salmon in Maryland 

 Waters; English Milk Law; Superstition regarding Ascent of 

 Mount Ararat; Lime-Juice; Proposed Astronomico-Meteorological 

 Observatory on Mount Etna ; Composition of Eoot of the Straw- 

 berry Plant ; Iridescent Glass xiv 407 



Death of Gr. H. Lewes ; Advertisements on the Eocks ; New Illu- 

 minating Gas ; Protection of Teaching as a Profession ; Gas-Wells 

 of East Liverpool, Ohio ; Profits of Wheat-growing ; Eoyal As- 

 tronomers of Siam ; Prayers for Eain xiv 552 



Work of United States Fish Commission ; Aniline Dyes in Artificial 

 Flowers; " Black Mildew " ; Cretinism ; Anthropological Exhibition 

 at Paris Exposition ; Gas and Book-Covers ; Boring Power of the 

 Sponge " Cliona Sulphurea"; New Explosive; Test of Purity of 

 Water ; Marquis of Tweeddale ; Locust-Trees in New Jersey ; 

 Death of J. McNab; Cross between the Elk and the Moose xiv 695 



Medal to Professor A. Hall ; Death of Geissler ; French Canadians ; 

 Animals and the Sense of Eidicule ; Swiss Military Examination ; 

 Cremation ; Temperature and Mortality in London ; Missionaries 

 from Japan to Europe and the United States ; Smallest of Known 

 Insects ; Cowper's Writing Telegraph ; Sydney World's Fair ... xiv 840 



Dew; Mode of Propagation of the Eel; Loss of Sense of Smell; 

 Blood of Cephalopoda; American Cartridges; Population of To- 

 kio ; Tobacco as a Poultice ; Yearly Consumption of Quinine ; 

 Cremation in England and the United States; Eighteenth Cente- 

 nary of Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum ; Honey Mes- 

 quite ; Remains of an Old Roman Bridge xv 143 



" Cave Find " in Ohio ; Mortality of Whites and Blacks in Yellow 

 Fever ; Extreme Variations of Temperature ; Decrease of Theologi- 

 cal Students in Germany; Underground Telegraph Cables; Air 

 in Buildings; Death of P. Le Neve Foster; Bigsby Medal to E. D. 

 Cope ; A Coffee- Plant Parasite ; Larva of Tapeworm ; New Life- 

 Line Projectile xv 288 



Forty-ninth Meeting of the British Association ; Meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association (1879); Meeting of French Association (1879); 

 Johns Hopkins Summer Zoological Laboratory; Pipes found in a 

 Mound ; Death of H. W. Dove ; Election of J. L. Smith Corre- 

 sponding Member of the French Academy; Metric System in Pub- 

 lic Schools; Charnay's Explorations; Cleanliness in Schools in 

 Holland ; Experiment in teaching Physical Geography ; Electri- 

 cal Resistance of Water ; Election of A. Hall Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the French Academy ; Works by Clifford ; Borax for pre- 

 serving Butter ; Algeria through the Sahara xv 431 



Trichinaa in American Meat ; Election of nuxley Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy ; Digging Post-Holes by Explosives ; 

 Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue ; Bamboo for Paper-making ; W. M. 

 Williams on the Cost of the Electric Light ; Work of Bees in col- 

 lecting Honey ; Two Christian Names ; Election of Professor 

 Stokes Corresponding Member of the Paris Academy ; Old Astro- 

 nomical Record xv 576 



Death of Sir William F. Cooke ; Death of Rev. Canon Beadon ; 



