INDEX TO VOLUMES I. TO XII. 



Abel, Sir F. A., Application of Science 

 to Military Purposes, ii. 283; iii. 

 . 243 ; of Electricity, v. 479. 



Explosions and their Military 



Applications, in. 438. 



Chemical History and Applica- 

 tion of Gun-cotton, iv. 245. 



Substitutes for Gunpowder, iv. 



616 ; VI. 517. 



Accidental Explosions, vii. 390. 



Detonating Agents, ix. 62. 



Dangerous Properties of Dusts, x. 



88. 



Accidental Explosions by Non- 

 explosive Liquids, xi. 218. 



Work of the Imperial Institute, 



XII. 99. 



Abney, Capt., Spectrum Analysis in the 

 Infra Red of the Spectrum, x. 57. 



Sunlight Colours, xii. 61. 



Absorption of Heat, iv. 487,489. 



Absorption Spectra, ix, 204,493; x.250. 



Abyssinia, v. 404. 



Acetylene, iv. 18. 



Acids and Salts, iii. 234. 



Acoustic Experiments of M. Lissajous, 

 II. 441. 



Acoustical Phenomena, viii. 536 ; of 

 Gunpowder, &c. 546. 



Action at a Distance, vii. 44. 



Actonian Prize (1851), awarded to 

 Wharton Jones, i. 54 ; (1858), Sub- 

 ject announced, ii. 1 ; No Award, 

 526 ; (1865), awarded to G. Waring- 

 ton, IV. 399; (1872) to Eev. G. 

 Henslow, and to B. Thompson 

 Lowne, vi. 561 ; (1879), to G. S. 



' Boulger, ix. 283 ; (1886), to G. G. 

 Stokes, XI. 376. 



Adams, J. C, on Orbit of Meteors, ix. 

 44. 



W. G., Researches on Selenium, 



VIII. 70 ; IX. 527. 



Magnetic Disturbance, Aurorse 



and Earth Currents, ix. 656. 



Aeby, C, Nervous Contraction, iv. 589, 

 ^olian Harp, vii. 488. 

 Aerial Echoes, viii. 556. 

 Aeronautics and Flight, v. 94. 



Africa, North, Geology of, viii. 594. 

 African Customs, ix. 391, 395. 

 Agassiz, L., on Glaciers, viii. 239. 

 Aggregation, Material, i, 254 ; its re- 

 lation to Radiation, iv. 487. 

 Agrarian Laws of Lycurgus, iv. 268. 

 Ainger, Rev. Canon, True and False 



Humour in Literature (wo Abstract), 



xii. 446. 

 Air, Estimation of Organic Matter in, 



III. 89 ; see Atmosphere. 



Thermometer, vi. 439, 



Airy, G, B., Total Eclipse of 1851, i. 



62. 



Eclipse of Thales, &c. i. 243. 



Pendulum Experiments in Harton 



Colliery, ii, 1 7. 



on Solar Eclipse, vi, 292. 



Akkas, XII. 280. 



A*lbert Nyanza Lake discovered, iv. 



503. 

 Albert, Prince Consort, Present from, 



III. 163 ; Address respecting his De- 

 cease, IV. 404, 418. 

 Alcohol, Effect on Medusae, viii, 177. 

 Alcohols, VIII. 92 ; of Paraffins, viii. 



86 ; from Flint and Quartz, vii, 107. 

 Alexandrian Museum and Libraries, x. 



12. 

 Alison, S, S., Auditory Phenomena, 



III. 63. 

 Alizarine, vi. 120. 

 Alkali Metals discovered, vi. 390. 

 Allcroft, J. D., Donation, iv. 231. 

 Allen, Grrant, Colour Sense in Insects, 



IX. 201. 



Ralph, Postal System, in. 459, 



Allman, G. J. A., Coral Islands, vii. 58. 

 Allotropic Changes, i, 133, 201; xii. 



367. 

 Alloys, their uses, v. 335 ; properties, 



XII, 367. 

 Alphabet, its Origin, vi, 464 ; Roman, 



Greek, and Phoenician, vi. 468. 

 Alps, Geology of, i, 31 ; of Savoy, vi. 



142 ; Pre-Miocene, vii. 455 ; Build- 

 ing of the, XI. 53. 

 Aluminium-Ethide and Methide, iv. 



343, 



