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INDEX 



Vll 



Geikie (Prof. A.), Geological Map of Scotland, 342, 567 

 Geneva, Physical and Natural History Society, 124, 344, 363, 



383, 540, 564 ; Centenary of Society of Arts, 157 ; Meteoro- 



logical Observations at, 363 

 Gentilli's Tacheometer, 296 

 Geodesical Association, the International, 560 

 Geographical Congress at Brussels, 278, 443, 466 

 " Geographical Distribution of Animals," A. R. Wallace, 165, 



186 

 Geographical Magazine, 36, 158 

 Geographical Society, 36, 78, 157, 200 

 Geological Magazine, 363 

 Geological Map of Scotland, 342 

 Geological Society, 38, 82, 163, 203, 282, 302 

 Geological Survey, Memoirs of, 545 

 Geological Survey of Newfoundland, 254 

 Geologists' Association, 83, 243, 282 

 Geology, Sharp's Rudiments of, 90; of Otago, F. W. Hutton, 



146 ; Miniature Physical, 423, 526 ; Penning's Field, 471 ; 



" Geology : its Influence on Modem Beliefs," Dr. Page's, 



504 ; Jukes' School Manual of, 504 ; " Geology of England 



and Wales," H. B. Woodward, 556 ; Geikie's Geological 



Map of Scotland, 567 

 Gerard (L. J. V.), "On the Comparative Method of Learning 



Foreign Languages," 503 

 Germ Theory, the Fermentation of Urine and the. Dr. H. 



Charlton Bastian, 309 

 Germany, Science in, 13, 119, 133, 252, 298, 358; German 



Chemical Society, 39, 63, 144, 183, 244, 283 ; German North 



Sea Commission, 307 ; German Expedition to Siberia, 358, 



514, 579; German Naturalists, Meeting at Munich, 496; 



German Naturalists, Meeting of, at Hamburg, 535 ; Zoologico- 



Botanical Stations in, 535, 570 

 Germination of Seeds kept between Ice, 322 

 Gessi's Circumnavigation of Lake Albert Nyanza, 260 

 Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, 60 

 Giant Tortoises at the Zoological Gardens, 180 

 Giles (Mr.), Journey across Australia, 560 

 Gill (Prof. Theo.), Wallace's Distribution of Animals, 569 

 Gills of Fishes, 519 

 Girard's Les Insectes, 329 

 Glaciers, of the Swiss Alps, 163 ; in Auvergne, Rev. W. S. 



Symonds on Ancient, 179 ; Action of, 230 

 Glasgow, Handbooks of Zoology, Geology, and Manufactures 



of, 447 ; Proposed Incorporation of Anderson's University, 



518 

 Gledhill (Joseph), an Unusual Optical Phenomenon, 29 

 Glen Roy, Parallel Roads of, 456 

 Gold, Thermo-Chemical Researches on, 498 

 Gorilla at Liverpool, 200, 242 

 Gottingen, Academy of Sciences, 20, 467 

 Gould (John, F.R.S.), Birds of New Guinea, 208 

 Gould (Dr.), the Cordoba " Uranometria," 417 

 Government Aid to Scientific Research, 185 

 Govi's (M.), Experiments with the Radiometer, 321 

 Graham, the late Mr., F.R. S., Apparatus employed by, in his 



Researches, W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 511 

 Greenwich Time Signal System, 50, no 

 Greenwood (Col. G.), "The Tree-lifter," 447 

 Griesbach (J. H.), his Collection of Acoustical Apparatus, 322 

 Gross (E. T.), Kinematics and Kinetics, 288 

 Grubb (Howard), the Great Equatorial for the Vienna Observa- 

 tory, 418 

 Gscheidlen (Dr. R.), " Physiologische Methodik," 47 

 Guadeloupe, 279 



Guldberg and Mohn on the Atmosphere, 561 

 Gymnospenns in Coal Measures, 182 



Haast (Dr. J. von), New Zealand Prehistoric Skeleton, 90 ; 



Recent Cavern Researches in New Zealand, 576 

 Haeckel's New Theory of Heredity, E. Ray Lankester, 235 

 Haeckel (Prof.), on Haliphysema and Gastrophysema, 485 

 Hailstorm in Belgium, G. A. Newman, 210 

 Halos, Solar, 79 



Ilamberg (Dr.), Night Frosts, 261 

 H anbury (Daniel, F.R,S.), Memorial to, 242; "Science Papers," 



366 

 Harcus (W.) South Australia, 90 

 Harris Cubit of Kamak, 168 

 Hartley (W. Noel), the Chemical Society, 169 

 Harvest Bugs, Remedy for, 499 



Hastings Naturalists' Field Club, 201 

 Hayden (Dr.), Geological Survey of the United States, 497 

 Heart, the Action and Sounds of the, 487 

 Heer (Dr.), Arctic Fossil Flora, 336 



Heighway (Wm.), "Practical Portrait Photography," 448 

 Heligoland and Kiel, Proposed .Zoological Stations at, 535, 570 

 Heligoland, Gatke's Ornithology of, 582 

 Heliotropism, 261 



Helland (A.), " Cirques and Sack-valleys," 422 

 Hell Gate, Removal of, 496 

 Helvetic Society of Natural Science, 259 

 Hennessy (Prof. H.), Djmamometers and Units of Force, 69 

 Henslow (Rev. George), the Self- Fertilisation of Plants, 543 

 " Hepaticse Europse," Damortier's, 121 

 Heredity, Habits of Animals Transmitted to Offspring, 544 

 Herring, Natural History of the, 352, 381 

 Higgins (Rev. H. H.), The Cruise of the Argo, 48 

 Highland Race and Language, Papers on the, 457 

 Highlands, the Duke of Argyll's Paper on the Physical Struc- 

 ture of the, 435 

 Hind (J. R., F.R.S.), the Intra- Mercurial Planet or Planets, 



469 

 "Historia Filicum," Smith's, 286 

 Hooker (Dr. J. D., F.R.S.), " Primer of Botany," 8 ; Report 



on Kew Gardens, 292 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S., and the Endowment of 



Research, 181 ; Prof. Huxley's Opening Address at. 546 

 Horizon, the Visible, B. J. Jenkins, 49 

 Horns, Ancient Reindeer, Use of, 61 



Horsfall ( Wm. ), the Memoirs of the Geological Survey^ 545 

 House Flies, Death of, 1 7 



Hovelacque on the Science of Language, Rev. A. H. Siyce, 306 

 Howitt (A. W.), the Boomerang, 248 

 Hull (Prof. E., F.R.S.), on Carboniferous Rocks, 480; on a 



Deep Boring for Coal at Scarle, 480 

 Hulsenstein (Madame), Death of, 300 



Humboldt (Alexander von), the National Monument to, 496 

 Hungary, Volcanoes of, 39 

 Hunterian Lectures, See Prof. Flowers 

 Huth's " Moving Star" of 1801-2, 291 

 Hutton's " Geology of Otago," 146 

 Huxley (Prof., F.R.S.), Origin of Vertebrate Animals, 33 ; on 



the Challenger Expedition, 238 ; in America, 320, 443, 463 ; 



Address on University Education at Hopkins University, 546 

 Hygienic Society of St. Petersburg, 517 



Ibis, the, 202, 363 



Ice, Action of, 230 



Ice, Germination of Seed kept between, 322 



Iceland, Volcanoes of, 83 ; Exploration of, 181 



Incineration, the Dresden Society for, 581 



India, J. A. Broun, F. R.S., on Barometric Variations in, 162 ; 



Proposed Museum for, 173 ; Famines in, A. L. Williams, 



209 ; Forestry in, 465 

 Indian (American) Stone Tubes and Tobacco Pipes, Dr. Chas. 



C. Abbott, 154 

 Insane, the, and Asylums for them, Dr. Rothe on, 553 

 Insectivorous Plants, 218 

 Insects, Fertilisation of Flowers by, xiv., Dr. Hermann Miiller, 



173 

 Insects of Missouri, 308 

 Institute of Civil Engineers, 39, 260 

 International Meteorology, 11 

 International Anthropological and Archaeological Society at 



Buda-Pesth, I2i 

 International Congress of Americanists, 355 

 International Congress of Orientalists, 380, 442 

 International Geodesical Association, 560 

 Intestinal Secretion and Movement, 477 

 Intra-Mercurial Planet or Planets, 469, 505, 507, 570 

 Intra-Mercurial Observations, Cautions as to, 534 

 Inverness, Scientific Society at, 36 

 Iowa Weather Reports, 219, 382 

 Iowa, Academy of Sciences, 303 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 464 

 Islands, Influence of, on Colour of Animals, 527 

 Isle of Wight, Jenkinson's Guides to the, 349 

 Italian African Expedition, 444 

 Italy, Rainfall of, 158 ; Science in, C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 333 



