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INDEX 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), the "Rollers" of Ascension and St. 



Helena, 585 

 Abel (Sir Frederick, F.R.S.), Smokeless Explosives, 328, 352 

 Abercromby (Hon. John), a Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, 



391 

 Abercromby (Hon. R.), the Motion of Dust, 406 

 Abney (Captain W. de W., F. R.S.), Photo-nephograph, 491 

 Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, W. F. R. Weldon, 464 

 Aborigine, a Surviving Tasmanian, Hy. Ling Roth, 105 

 Acetic Acid Solutions, Vapour-pressure of, Raoult and Kecoura, 



431 



Accumulations of Capital in the United Kingdom in 1875-85, 

 Robert Giffen, 211 



Achlya, Prof. Marcus M. Hartog, 298 



Acoustics ; Melde's Vibrating Strings, Rev, W. Sidgreaves, 

 355 ; Propagation of Sound, Violle and Vautier, 359 ; the 

 Testing of Tuning-forks, Dr. Lehmann, 383 



Acquired Characters, Palaeontological Evidence for the Trans- 

 mission of, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227 



Acquired Characters and Congenital Variation : the Duke of 

 Argyll, F.R.S., 173, 294, 366; W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 F.R.S., 315; F. V. Dickins, 316; Right Rev. Bishop R. 

 Courtenay, 367 ; Dr. J. Cowper, 368 ; Herbert Spencer, 414 ; 

 Prof. E. Kay Lankester, F.R.S., 415. See also Panmixia 



Actinometric Observations at Kiev, 1888-89, ^- Savelief, 359 



Acworth (W. M.) : Railways of England, 434; Railways of 

 Scotland, 434 



Adams (Prof. J. C, F.R. S.), on certain Approximate Formulae 

 for Calculating the Trajectories of Shot, 258 



Adamson (Daniel) : Death of, 256 ; Obituary Notice of, 279 



Advancement of Science, Australasian Association for the, Prof. 

 Orme Masson, 441 



Africa : H. M. Stanley's Exploration of, 20, 73 ; Reported 

 Massacre of Dr. Peters's Party, 21 ; South African Gold-fields, 

 the, G. D. Cocorda, 164 ; the Land of an African Sultan, 

 Walter B. Harris, 270 ; East Africa and its Big Game, Cap- 

 tain Sir J. Willoughby, 298 ; African Monkeys in the West 

 Indies, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 368; Meteorology of 

 the Gold and Slave Coast, Dr. Danckelmann, 479 



Agriculture : Sheep Farming in Australia, Prof Wallace, 1 13 ; 

 Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses and other 

 Pasture Plants, William Wilson, 196 ; Field Experiments on 

 Wheat in Italy, Prof. Giglioli, 404 



Ahrens's Polarizing Binocular Microscope, 93 



Aitken (John, F.R.S.), On the Number of Dust Particles in 

 the Atmosphere of Certain Places in Great Britain and on 

 the Continent, with remarks on the relation between the 

 Amount of Dust and Meteorological Phenomena, 382, 394 



Aitkens (Sir William), Animal Alkaloids, Second Edition, 161 



Aka Expedition of 1883, Colonel Woodthorpe, 86 



Algse, a New Atlas of. Dr. J, Reinke, 127 



Algebra : an Elementary Text-book for the Higher Classes of 

 Secondary Schools and for Colleges, Prof G. Chrystal, 338 



Algebraic Equations, Roots of, Prof. A. Cayley, F.R.S., 335 



Algeria, Earthquake in, 113 



Algol, Satellite of, W. H. S. Monck, 198 



Algol, Spectroscopic Observations of. Prof. Vogel, 164, 285 



Alpine Chain, a Geological Map of the, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., 483 



Alpine Expeditions of Dr. Emil Zsigmondy, 291 



Aluminium and Nitric Acid, A. Ditte, 599 



Amber, Mexican, G- F. Kunz, 372 



America : Sir Daniel Wilson on the Recent Toronto Meeting of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 17 ; 

 European Weeds in, 18 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 71, 

 332, 525 ; American Resorts, with Notes upon their Climate, 

 Dr. Bushrod W. James, 79 ; American Journal of Science, 

 46, 92, 309, 405, 500, 598 ; American Meteorological Journal, 

 92, 357) 501 ; American Meteorological Society, 324 ; Ameri- 

 can Ethnological Reports, J. W. Powell, 99 ; American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 136; American Naturalist, 



231 



Among Cannibals, Carl Lumholtz, 200 



Amsterdam, Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 96, 216, 383, 552, 

 600 



Analytical Tables, Coloured, H. W. Hake, 29 



Anatomy : a Glossary of Anatomical, Physiological, and Bio- 

 logical Terms, T. Dunman, 173; a Text-book of Human 

 Anatomy, Prof. Alex. MacAlister, F. R.S., 269 



Anchovies on the South Coast of England, J. T, Cunningham, 

 230 



Anderson (Joseph), Sugar losing its Attractions for Lepidoptera, 



349 



Andre (Ch.), Jupiter's Satellites, 94 



Anemometers, W. H. Dines, 212 



Angot (Alfred) : Wind-Velocity at Top of Eiffel Tower, 48, 67 ; 

 the Observations of Temperature on Top of Eiffel Tower, 

 167 ; on the Eiffel Tower Observations, i8i ; Diurnal Range 

 of Barometer, 449 



Animal Life, Glimpses of, W. Jones, 409 



Animals and Plants, Distribution of, by Ocean Currents, 

 Rev. Paul Camboue, 103 



Animals, Effects of Music on, A. E. C. Stearns, 470 



Animaux, Les Industries des, F. Houssay, 409 



Annuario Meteorologico of the Italian Meteorological Society, 

 231 



Anomalies, Temperature, Dr. R. Spitaler, 303 



Anoura, the Metamorphosis of, E. Bataillon, 23 



Anthropology : the Malay People, Dr. B. Hagen, 21 ; the Last 

 Living Aboriginal of Tasmania, 43 ; Prehistoric Burial-ground 

 discovered in Caucasus by Beyern, 43 ; Anthropological 

 Institute, 119, 256, 406 ; Journal of the Anthropological In- 

 stitute, 594 ; Inheritance of Acquired Mental Peculiarity, 

 Handtmann, 209 ; L' Anthropologic, 300 ; the Veddahs of 

 Ceylon, Dr. Arthur Thomson, 303 ; Classification of Races, 

 Based on Physical Characters only, M. Denniker, 332 ; 

 Modern Crania in Montpellier, De Lapouge, 357 ; the 

 Cephalic Index of Corsican Population, Dr. A. Fallot, 357 ; 

 the Chin Tribes of North Burma, G. B. Sacchiero, 375 ; 

 Characteristic Survivals of Celts in Hampshire, T. W. Shore, 

 406 ; Charlotte Corday's Skull, Dr. Topinard, 500 ; Jacques 

 Bertillon on the Identification of Criminals by Measurement, 

 592 



Anthropometry, Cambridge : Dr. John Venn, F.R.S., 450, 560 ; 

 Francis Galton, F.R.S., 454 



Antilles, the Lesser, Owen 17. Bulkeley, 268 



Antiparallel, the Use of the Word, W. J. James, 10 ; E. M. 

 Langley, 104 



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