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INDEX 



[Natun; Nov. 28, 18S9 



Huggins (Dr. W., F.R.S.) : the Wave-length of Principal Line 

 in Spectrum of Aurora, 68 ; the Photographic Spectrum of 

 Great Nebula of Orion, 95 ; Spectrum of the Great Nebula 

 in Orion, 405, 429 



Hugo (W.), a Brilliant Meteor, 594 



Hull (Prof. E., F.R.S. ), on Coral like Structures from the 

 Limestone of Culdaff, 608 



Human Physiology, a Text-book of, Dr. Austin Flint, 74 



Humour, a Chimpanzee's, Harold Picton, 224 



Humpback Whale, Anatomy of the Megaptera longimana, 

 Tohn Struthers, 592 



Humphreys (Alex. C), on Water-gas in the United States, 630 



Hunter (H. St. J.), Key to Todhunter's Integral Calculus. 593 



Huron- Iroquois of Eastern Canada, the, Sir Daniel Wilson, 



557 

 Hutchins (Prof. C. C), Recent Determinations of the Amount 



of Lunar Radiations, 209 

 Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.K.S.), and M. Pasteur on Hydrophobia, 



224 

 Huygens (Christiaan), Oiluvres Completes de, A. M. Clerke, 



591 

 Hydracids, the Action of Light on the, Dr. Richardson, 587 

 Hydrazine, Methyl, Isolation of, Dr. Gustav von Briining, 628 

 Hydrocarbons, Nomenclature of Unsaturated, M. Calderon, 



369 

 Hydrodynamics : on an Electro-magnetic Interpretation of 



Turbulent Liquid Motion, Prof. Geo. F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 



32 ; Treatise on, A. B. Basset, 412 

 Hydrogen, Chlorine, and Oxygen, on the Explosion of a Mixture 



of, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 587 

 Hydrophobia: the Prevention of, 197, 204; Prof. Huxlev and 



M. Pasteur on, 224 ; the Mansion House Fund tor the P.isieur 



Institute, 537 

 Hygiene of Japanese Houses, the, Dr. Seymour, 15 

 Hygiene and Demography, Congress on, at Paris, 252, 326, 350, 



372 

 Hygrometry in the Meteorological Journal, Prof. C. Piazzi 



Smyth, 585 

 Hyland (J. Shearson), on the Remarkable Form of Hailstones, 



544 

 Hyponitrites, Heat of Formation of, Berthelot, 239 

 Hysteresis in the Relation of Strain to Stress, Prof. J. A. 



Ewing, F.R.S., on, 584 



Jce Blocks on a Moraine, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R S., 391 

 Ice, Columnar Structure in, T. D. La Touche, 35 ; Prof. T. G. 



Bonney, F.R.S., 55 

 Ice Growth, Dr. Stelan, 400, 447 

 Icebergs in North Atlantic, 133 

 Icebergs, Sir Edwin Arnold upon, 536 

 Icelandic Naturalist's Society, 516 



Iguanas in Philadelphia Zoological Garden, A. E. Brown, 180 

 Ikosahedron, Lectures on the. Dr. Felix Klein, 35 

 Imperial Institute, School of Oriental Studies, 251 

 Implements, Palaeolithic, from the Hills near Dunstable, Worth- 



ington G. Smith, 151 

 Implements of Stags' Horns Associated with Whales' Skeletons 



found in the Carse Lands of Stirling, Sir William Turner, 



F.R.S., on, 634 

 Ince (Dr. W. H.), the Formation of Phenylindoles, 166 

 Incrustations, on the Formation of Marine Boiler, Prof. Vivian 



B. Lewes, 19 

 Index to Science, an, J. Taylor Kay, 226 ; James Blake Bailey, 



245 

 Index of Spectra, W. Marshall Watts, 641 

 Indexing : Classified Cataloguing, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 392 

 India: Botany in, J. F. Duthie, 13; the Bhils and their 

 Country, Sir Lepel Griffin, 1 16 ; a Practical Guide to the 

 Climates and Weather of India, Ceylon, and Burmah, Henry 

 F. Blanford, F.R.S., 221 ; Discovery of Old Mining Imple- 

 ments in, Bosworth-Smith, 229 ; Neolithic Objects Discovered 

 at Ranchi, 230; Sun-spots and Weather in India, 230 ; Deaths 

 by Snake-bites in, 283 ; Statistics of Education Department 

 in, 402 ; Technical Education in Central, 595 ; the Survey of 

 India, Colonel Thuillier, 444 ; Atlas of Meteorological Obser- 

 vations in the Indian Ocean, 447 ; the Early History of India, 

 Mr. Kitts, 480 ; Importation of Injurious Insects in Indian 

 Wheat, Charles Whitehead, 481 ; Government Survey Map 

 of, 483 ; Use of Flowers of Calligomtm folygonoides as Food 



in North-West India, J. F. Duthie, 537 ; Proposed Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory at Verawal, 547 ; Cultivation of Egyptian 

 Date-Palm in, 595 ; Geology in, 536 ; on the Study of Ethno- 

 logy in, H. H. Risley, 633 



Indians, the Canadian, 231 



Indies, Dutch East, Prof. Wichmann's Exploration of, 353 



Indo-China, Rosset's Exploration of, 599 



Industrial Education, Sir Philip Magnus, 245 



Industries, Curious, Dr. A. H. Japp's Days with Industrials, 619 



" Infernito," 429 



Inheritance, on Feasible Experiments on the Possibility of 

 transm.itting Acquired Habits by Means of, Francis Gallon, 

 F.R.S., 610 



Inheritance of Injuries, 327 ; Dr. August Weismann on, 303 ; 

 C. Pitfield Mitchell, 391 



Inheritance, Natural, Francis Galton on, Hiram M. Stanley, 

 642 



Inorganic Chemistry, Ira Remsen, 339 



Insanity. Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, 253 

 ' Insect House at the Zoological Gardens, 105 



Insects, Scarce, lately added to the Zoological Gardens, 305 



Insects of South Africa, Notes and Descriptions of a Few In- 

 jurious Farm and Fruit, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 385 



Instinct, Bird-, a Cordial Recognition, W. J. Stillman, 245 



Institution of Civil Engineers, 166 



Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 207, 261, 595 



Instruments, Musical, and their Homes, Mary E. Brown and 

 W. Adams Brown, 436 



Integral Calculus, Key to Todhunter's, H. St. J. Hunter, 593 



Intermittent Sensations, Thos. Reid, 318 



International Chemical Congress, a Correction, 394 



International Congress of Celestial Photography, 597 



International Medical Congress, the, 576 



Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographic, 15, 254, 548 



Inventions, Chinese, Priority of, 165 



Inventions Exhibition in Edinburgh, Proposed, 653 



Ireland, Recent Researches into the Origin and Age of the 

 Highlands of Scotland and the West of, Dr. Archibald Geikie, 

 F.R.S., 299,320 



Iridescent Crystals, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 227 



Iris, the Minor Planet, Meridian Observations of, 109 



Iron Age : Swedish Antiquities from, 163 ; Discovery in Norway 

 of Objects belonging to, 283 



Iron, Chemical Analysis of, Andrew Alexander Blair, 51 



Iron Founding, Practical, 390 



Iron, the Magnetic Viscosity of. Prof. J. A. Ewing on, 584 



Iron, Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., F.R.S., on the Manufacture of, 



473 



Iron and Steel Institute, 58, 421, 536, 560, 576 



Iron and Steel, International Standards for the Analysis of, John 

 W. Langley, 558 



Iron, Temporary Thermo- currents in, F. T. Trouton, 587 



Irvine (Robert), and Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, on the Secretion 

 of Carbonate of Lime by Animals, 611 



Island, the Floating, in Derwentwatcr, 290 



Italy : Italian Meteorological Society, 85 ; Seismology in. Prof. 

 Giulio Grablovitz, 246 ; Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 294 ; the 

 Excursion to the Volcanoes of, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 

 294 ; an Italian's View of English Agricultural Education, 

 Prof. John Wrightson, 428 ; Forests of North- East Italy, 

 537 ; Scientific Excursion to Volcanic Regions of, 537 ; 

 Ornithology in. Prof, Giglioli, 549 ; Lake Dwellings in 

 Northern, P. Castelfranco, 562 ; the Stone Age in, P. Castel- 

 franco, 659 



tzvestia of Moscow Society of Friends of Natural Science, 352 



Jahn (Prof.), Synthesization of Formaldehyde, 85 



Jahrbuch der Naturwissenschaften, 163 



Jamaica, the Department of Public Gardens and Plantations in, 



352 



Jamaica, Handbook of, for 1889-90, A. C. Sinclair, 593 



Jamieson ( Prof. Andrew), a Text-book on Steam and Steam- 

 Engines, 642 



Janssen (I.), on the Telluric Origin of the Oxygen Lines in the 

 Solar S ectrum, 104 



Japan : the Hvgiene of Japanese Houses, Dr. Seymour, 15 ; 

 Gleanings from Japan, "W. G. Dickson, 76 ; Japanese Clocks, 

 A. A. R.mbaut, 86; V. Ball, F.K.S., 151 ; the Recent 

 Great Kaithquakes iin Japan, 162,327,461; Prof. Milne's 



