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INDEX 



XV 



King Charles Land, 234 ; a Thousand Miles on an Elephant 

 in the Shan States, Holt S. Hallett, 265 ; the Lesser Antilles, 

 by Owen T. Bulkeley, 268 ; Tietkens's Explorations in Central 

 Australia, 286 ; Tavernier's Travels in India, translated by 

 V. Ball, F.R.S., 313 ; Area of Austro-Hungarian Empire, 

 Dr. Penck, 325 ; Discovery of Pass from Nia to Tibet by 

 Colonel Pevtsoff and M. Roborovsky, 327 ; Search and 

 Travel in the Caucacus, Douglas W. Freshfield, 351 ; the 

 Russian Expeditions in Central Asia, 352 ; Dr. Nansen's 

 Plan for a North Polar Expedition, 374 ; SirWm. McGregor's 

 Explorations in New Guinea, 374 ; a Trip through the 

 Eastern Caucasus, by the Hon. John Abercromby, 391 ; 

 Further Explorations of Solomon Islands, C. M. Woodford, 

 403 ; proposed Danish Exploration of Greenland, 403 ; 

 Geographical Society of Vienna, 403 ; Bartholomew's Library 

 Reference Atlas of the World, 413 ; Hues's Treatise on the 

 Globes (1592), 459 ; Limits of Ever- frozen Soil in Siberia, 

 Yatchevsky, 472 ; Diminution in Population of Iceland, 473 ; 

 Climate of German Togoland, Dr. von Danckelmann, 545 ; 

 Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, by A. 



E. Nordenskiold, 558 ; Dr. Hans Meyer's Ascent of Kilima- 

 Njaro, 572 ; Modigliani's Exploration of Nias Island, Prof. 

 Giglioli, 587 ; a Naturalist among the Head-hunters, C. M. 

 Woodford, 582 



Geology : Indian Geological Survey, Death of E. J. Jones, 41 ; 

 Geological Survey of India, 140 ; Formation of the Earth's 

 Crust, Le Conte, 46 ; Chemical and Physical Studies in the 

 Metamorphism of Rocks, Rev. A. Irving, 49 ; the Murrum- 

 bidgee Limestone, R. Etheridge, Jun., 67 ; an Elementary 

 Text-book of, by W. Jerome Harrison, Prof, A. H. Green, 



F. R. S., 75 ; Dr. Hermann Burmeister on the Fossil Horses 

 and other Mammals of Argentina, 82 ; Geological Society, 

 94, 190, 238, 310, 333, 382, 502, 527, 550; Medals awarded 

 by the Geological Society, 301 ; Presidential Address at the 

 Geological Society, Dr. Blanford, F.R.S., 455 ; Physics of 

 the Sub-oceanic Crust, J. Starkie Gardner, 103 ; Geological 

 Excursion to the Active and Extinct Volcanoes of Southern 

 Italy, 133 ; Dr. W. Hind on the Geology of Suffolk, 149 ; on 

 the Creation and Physical Structure of the Earth, by J. T. 

 Harrison, 151 ; Glaciation of Valleys in Kashmir Himalayas, 

 Captain Stiffe, 190 ; Geology of Witwatersrand Gold-fields, 

 Dr. II. Exton, 190 ; the South American Pampas Formation, 

 Herr Roth, 231 ; Occurrence of Girvanella Genus, and on 

 Oolitic Structure, E. Wethered, 238 ; Relation of Pebbly 

 Sands of Suffolk to those of Norfolk, Parts II. and HI., Prof. 

 Joseph Prestwich, F.R. S., 238, 502 ; H. S. Williams on the 

 Devonian System, 309 ; some British Jurassic Fish Remains, 

 A. S. Woodward, 310 ; the Pebidian Volcanic Series of St. 

 David, Prof. C. L. Morgan, 311; Terraced Hill Slopes of 

 the Midlands, E. A. Walford, 325 ; Crystalline Schists and 

 their Relations to Mesozoic Rocks in Lepontine Alps, Prof. 

 T, G. Bonney, F.R.S., 333; Geological Mechanism, by J. 

 Spottiswoode Wilson, 390 ; Sedgwick and Murchison, Cam- 

 brian and Silurian, Prof. James D. Dana, 421 ; Former Glacial 

 Periods, Dr. James Croll, F. R. S-, 441 ; Mica in Mourne 

 Mountain Granite Geodes, Prof. SoUas, F. R. S., 469; Geo- 

 logische Uebersichtskarte der Alpen, Dr. Franz Noe's, Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, F. R. S., 483 ; a Geological Map of the Alpine 

 Chain, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F. R.S., 483 ; a Deep Channel of 

 Drift in the Valley of the Cam, Essex, W. Whitaker, 527 ; 

 Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, G. 

 F. Becker, 532 ; certain Devonian Plants from Scotland, Sir 

 J. W. Dawson, F. R. S., 537; Composite Spherulites in Ob- 

 sidian from Hot Springs near Little Lake, California, Frank 

 Rutley, 551 ; Magnetic Surveys of Special Districts in the 

 British Isles, Profs. A. W. Rucker, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, 

 F.R.S., 598 



Geometry : How not to Teach Geometry, Herbert J. Woodall, 

 60 ; Geometrical Teaching, 80 ; Association for the Improve- 

 ment of Geometrical Teaching, 207; Oxford "Pass" Geo- 

 metry, 467 



Geophilus maritimns, Edward Parfitt, 153 



German Chemical Society^ 468 



German Contributions to Ethnology, 433 



Germany, Zoogeography, Wolves, &c., in. Dr. Lampert, 182 



Germination, Retarded, 31 



Gernez (D.), Malic Acid and its Compounds, 94 



Giard (Prof.), Discovery of Micro-organism conferring Phos- 

 phorescence oh Crustaceans, 137 



Gibb (Thomas), Text-book of Assaying, C. Beringer and J. J. 

 Beringer, 245 



Giffen (Robert) : Accumulations of Capital in the United King- 

 dom in 1875-85, 211 ; the Growth of Capital, 553 



Giglioli (Prof.) : Field Experiments on Wheat in Italy, 404; 

 Modigliani's Exploration of Nias Island, 587 



Gilbert Club, Proposed, 84, 112 



Giles (Ernest), Australia Twice Traversed, 341 



Gill (Dr.), Minor Planet (12), Victoria, 139 



•Girard (Jules), Recherches sur les Tremblements de Terre, 583 



Glacial Periods, Former, Dr. James Croll, F.R.S., 441 



Glaciation of Valleys in the Kashmir Himalayas, Captain Stifle, 

 190 



Glaisher (J. W. L., F.R.S.), the Method of Quarter Squares, 9 



Glatzel (Dr.), New Mode of Preparing Manganese, 67 



Glimpses of Animal Life, W. Jones, 409 



Globes, Hues's Treatise on the (1592), 459 



Globular and other Forms of Lightning, Reuben Phillips, 58 



Glories, A. P. Coleman, 154 



Glossary of Anatomical, Physiological, and Biological Terms, 

 T. Dunman, 173 



Glow of Phosphorus, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 523 



Gold, Earth-currents and the Occurrence of, Geo. Sutherland, 

 464 



Gold Exploration in British North Borneo, 182 



Gold in Suspension, Fungoid Growths in, 96 



Goldscheider(Dr.), Sensitiveness of Articular Surfaces of Joints, 

 528 



Goode (George Brown), Fishery Industries of the United States, 

 178 



Gore (J. E. ), Scenery of the Heavens, 391 



Gottingen Royal Society of Sciences, 600 



Graham (Robert H.), Newton in Perspective, 439 



Granada, Earthquake at, 161 



Grant (J.), Influence of Different Oxides on Decomposition of 

 Potassium Chlorides, 502 



Grass, a Field laid down to Permanent, Sir J. B. Lawes, 

 F.R.S., 229 



Grasses, How to Know, by their Leaves, A. N. M' Alpine, Prof. 

 John Wrightson, 557 



Grasses of the Southern Punjab, Illustrations of some of the, 

 being Photo-lithographs of some of the Principal Grasses 

 found at Hissar, William Coldstream, 533 



Gravitation: the Constant of, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 155 ; Re- 

 sonance Method of measuring Constant of, J. Joly, 256 



Gravitation, Velocity of the Propagation of, J. Van Hepperger, 



472 



Gray (Andrew), Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Mag- 

 netism, 561 



Gray (Dr. Asa), Scientific Papers of, W. Botting Hemsley, 

 F.R.S., 221 



Greatheed (W.), Influenza, 270 



Greely (General), Bibliography of Meteorology, 303 



Green Vegetable Colouring- matter, a New, C. Michie Smith, 



573 

 Green (Prof. A. H., F.R.S.) : an Elementary Text-book of 



Geology, W. Jerome Harrison, 75 

 Green (J. R.), Germination of Castor-oil Plant Seed, 380 

 Greene (W. T.), the Birds in my Garden, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



169 

 Greenhill (Prof. A. G., F.R.S.): the Parallelogram of Forces, 



298 ; Foot-pounds, 317 ; the Life and Work of G. A. Him, 



323 ; the Elastical Researches of Barre de Saint-Venant, 



458 ; Bourdon's Pressure Gauge, 517 

 Greenish Meteor, a, T. D. A. Cockerell, 369 

 Greenland, is it our Arctic Ice Cap?, S. E. Peal, 58 

 Greenland, the Proposed Danish Expedition to the East Coast 



of, 403,545 

 Greenwich Observatory, 305 ; Meteorological Observations for 



1887 at, 570 

 Gregory (W. G.) : a New Electric Radiation Meter, 47; a 



Method of Driving Tuning-forks Electrically, 47 

 Grensted (Rev, Fred. F.), Protective Coloration of Eggs, 53 

 Griffiths (Dr. A. B.), Manures and their Uses, 222, 272 

 Grombchevsky (Colonel), in Central Asia, 352 

 Ground-movements, Periodic, Plantamour, 373 

 Groves (Chas. E., F.R.S.), Systems of "Russian Translitera- 

 tion," 534 

 Growth of Capital, Robert Giffen, 553 

 Guillaume (Ch. Ed.), Traite pratique de la Thermometrie de 



precision. Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F.R.S., 100 

 Guillemard (Dr. F. H. H.), a Naturalist in North Celebes. 



Sydney Hickson, 457 



