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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. i6, 1876 



Degrees, Science, of the University of London, 331 



Delsaulx (Rev Joseph), the Direct Motion in the Radiometer 



an Eflfect of Electricity, 288 ; the Inverse Rotation of the 



Radiometer an effect of Electricity, 449 

 Descent, Palceontolopy and the Doctrine of, J. W. Judd, 275 

 De Vico's Comet of Short Period, 277 

 Deville (M. C. Sainte-Claire), Death of, 559 ; Obituary Notice 



of. 575 



Diffusion of Gases through Absorbing Substances, Prof. Clerk- 

 Maxwell, F.R.S., 24 



Dionaa Muscipula, Dr. Burdon Sanderson on the, 486 



Distant (W. L.), Species and Varieties, 392 



D-line Spectra, Major W. A. Ross, 289 



Dobson (G. E.), Asiatic Chiroptera, 279, 472 



Dohm (Dr. A.), Missing Link between the Vertebrates and the 

 Invertebrates, 195 



Double Stars, 72, 152, 232, 337 



Drach (S. M.), Williams (?) Thermometer, 210 



Draper (Dr. J. W.), Presentation of Rumford Medals to, by 

 the American Academy of Sciences, 138 



Dresden, the Society for Incineration, 581 



Dresser's Birds of Europe, 61 



Drinking Water, Mr. Wanklyn on, 486 



Dumas (M.). Presidential Address at the French Association, 



379 

 Dumortier's " Hepaticje Europae, 121 

 Duncan (Prof. P. Martin, F.R.S.), Limestone Makers, 9 

 Dunlop (Dr. Andrew), a Rudimentary Tail, 450 

 " Dutch in the Arctic Seas," S. R. van Campen, 246 

 Dutch Society of Sciences, Prizes offered by the, 276 

 Dyer (W. T. Thistleton), on the Classification of the Vegetable 



Kingdom, 293 

 Dynamite, CapL I. Trauzlon, 367 

 Dynamometers, Spring, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 29 

 Dynamometers and Units of Force, Prof. Hennessy, 69 



Earthquakes : at Vienna, 279 ; in Samoa, 270 ; in Nithsdale, 



Scotland, 369 ; in Scotland, Dr. Bryce's Report on, 454, 456 ; 



at Salonica, 497; at Digne, 517 ; at Bagneres de Bizarre, 



561 ; at Corleone, near Palermo, 561 

 Eaton (Rev. A. E.), the Birds of Kerguelen Island, 369 

 Ebonite, Action of Light on. Prof. Herbert McLeod, 525 

 Eclipses, Solar, of 1878, 210 ; Solar, of 1882, 357 ; Solar, of 



1885, 450 

 Edinburgh, University of, 200 

 Education, in France, 180; Compulsory, 491 

 Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, Death of, 443, 466 

 Elasmobranch Fishes, F. M. Balfour on, 485 

 Elbe, the Water of the River, 498 

 Electric Light Apparatus, Siemens', 1 33 

 Electric Light, a New System for dividing, 322 

 Electric Multiplier, Prof. G. Fuller's, 223 

 Electrical Induction, the Theory o*". Prof. Clerk Maxwell, 



F.R.S., 27 ; Rev. J. F. Blake, 68 

 Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, Day's Exercises in, 129 

 Electricity, Telephones and other Applications of, 353 

 Electricity, Velocity of, 358 

 •' Electro-Telegraphy," F. S. Beechy, 524 

 EUery (Robt. L. J.), Meteorology of Melbourne, 153 

 Ellis (Wm.), Extreme Temperature of Summer, 270 

 "Encyclopaedia Britannica," vol. iv., 390 

 Endowment of Research, E. Ray Lankester, F.R. S., 1265 and 



the Hopkins University, 181 ; and the Government, 185 

 Entomological Society, 82, 224, 282, 420, 499, 563 

 Entomology, Exhibition in Paris, 516 

 Equatorial, the Great, for the Vieana Observatory, 418 

 Etheric Force, S. P. Thompson, 18 

 Ethnology of the Papuans of Maclay Coast, New Guinea, 107, 



136 

 Eucalyptus globulus, 80 



Evans (A, J. ), Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina, 230 

 Evans (Capt. F. J., C.B., F.R.S.), Opening Address in the 



Geographical Section at the British Association, 412 

 Evans (John, F.R. S. ), Address in the Geographical Section at the 



Loan Collectioa Conferences, 114; "Petit Album de I'Age 



du Bronze de la Grande Bretagne," 517 

 " Evolution and the Origin of Life," Dr. Charlton Bastian, 44 

 Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, R. E. Day, 



129 

 Experiments on Animals, Dr. B. W. Richardson's Abstract Re- 

 port to Nature on, 149, 170, 197, 250, 289, 339, 369 



Falkenberg (Dr.), on Monocotyledons, 349 



Famines in India, A. L. Williams, 209 



Feistmantel on the Bohemian Coal Beds, 268 



Fenland Meteorological Circular, 80 



Fermentation, P. Schiitzenberger, 44 



Fermentation, Dr. Charlton Bastian, F.R. S., on the Physico- 



Chemical Theory of, 220 

 Fernet's Physics, 327 

 Ferns, Smith on, 286 

 Fertilisation of Flowers, C. F. White, 250 

 Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, xi v., Dr. Hermann Miiller, 



173 

 Fertilisation of Plants, 475, 543, 570 

 "Field Geology," W. H. Pennings, 471 

 Field Voles, Plague of, 35 

 Fiji, Prehistoric Spectacle in, 466 

 Firths, Dales, and Lakes, Valleys, and CaKons, 230 

 Fishes, the Gills of, 519 



Florida Shell Mounds, Prof. Jeffries Wyman, 531 

 Flower (Prof., F.R.S.), the Relation of Extinct to Existing 



Mammals, il 

 Flowers (E. F.), Sequel to " Bits and Bearing Rebs," 219 

 Flowers, Destruction of by Birds, 10 

 Flowers, Fertilisation of, 250, 475, 543, 570 

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



173 

 Folborth (Prof.), Palseontological and Mineraloglcal Collections 



of, 517 , , , 



Fonvielle (W. de), " Aventures Aeriennes et Experiences Memor. 

 ables des Grands Aeronautes," 8 ; New Meteorological Labo- 

 ratories at Montsouris, 156; Experiments on the Spectro- 

 scope and Radiometer, 181 ; the Radiometer in France, 296 ; 

 the Museum of National Antiquities of France, 312; the 

 Radiometer in a Balloon, 508 



Force, Pro*". Tait's Lecture on, 459 , P. T. Main on, 505 ; Oa 

 the Word, 568 



Forel(Prof. Dr.), on "Seiches," 164 



Forestry in India, 465 



"Fortnightly Review" on Vivisection, 259 



Fossil, Dr. W. B. Carpenter on a New Laurentian, 8, 68 



Fossil Plora of the Arctic Regions, 336 



France, Education in, 180 ; Agricultural Weather Warnings in, 

 266; the Museum of National Antiquities, 312; Interna- 

 tional Exhibition of 1878, 443 ; the School of Agriculture, 

 561 ; the Salaries of Frencli Professori, 561 ; see also Paris, 

 French, &c. 



Frankland (Dr., F.R.S.), Opening Address ia Chemistry at the 

 Loan Collection Conferences, 73 ; on the Analysis of Potable 

 Water, 467 ; on the Radiometer, 556 



Freezing Phenomena, 271 ; Wilmot H. T. Power, 191 



Fremy (E.), " Sur La Generation des Ferments," 44 



French Botanical Society, 121 



French Alpine Club, 279 



French Association for the Advancement of Science, 278, 297, 

 320, 331, 357, 379 



French Exhibition of 1878, 581 



French Geographical Society, 582 



Friswell (R. J.), Vogel's Chemistry of Light and Photography, 

 328 



Frost (Percival), " Solid Geometry," 47 



Frosts, Dr. Hamberg on, 261 



Fungi Exhibition in Paris, 560 



Gaboon Expedition, 158 

 Gaelic Language, Aryan Origin of, 88 

 Galileo and the Roman Court, Sedley Taylor, 226 

 Gatke's Ornithology of Heligoland, 582 

 Gallium, M. L. de Boisbaudran on, 62 



Galton (J. C), Protective Resemblance in the Sloths, 91 ; 

 Ethnology of the Papuans of Maclay Coast, New Guinea, 107, 



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Galvanism, Aldint Medal for Memoir on, 320 

 Gardner (H. Dent), Principles of Time- Measuring Apparatus, 



529, 554, 573 

 Gases, Diffusion of, through Absorbing Substances, Prof. Clerk 



Maxwell, F.R.S., 24 

 Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 17, 122, 220, 302, 323, 562 

 Gebler (Karl von), "Galileo Galilei und die Romische Curie," 226 

 Gee (William), the iEolian Formation on the Lancashire Coast, 



450 

 Gegenbaur's Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 383, 563 



