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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1890 



Gulia (Dr.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 302 



Gulick (Rev. John T.) : Evolution and the Darwinian Theory, 

 309 ; " Like to Like," a Fundamental Principle in Bionomics, 

 536 



Gull (Sir William), Death of, 324 



Guppy (Dr. H. B.) : a Contribution to the Physical History 

 and Zoology of the Somers Archipelago, with an Examination 

 of the Structure of Coral Reefs, Angelo Heilprin, 193 ; Coral 

 Reefs of the Java Sea and its Vicinity, 300 ; the Dispersal 

 of Plants, as Illustrated by the Flora of the Keeling Islands, 

 492 



Gurney (Henry Palin), Science and the India Civil Service 

 Examinations, 53 



Guzzi (P. ), Determination of Coefficient of Dynamic and Elec- 

 tromotor Produce, 380 



Haga (T.), Oxyamidosulphonates and their Conversion into 



Hyponitrites, 143 

 Hagen (Dr. B.), the Malay Peoples, 21 

 Hagen (Rev. John G.), Observations of some Suspected 



Variables, 233 

 Hailstones : Remarkable, at Philadelphia, Prof. E. J, Houston, 



43; Remarkable, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 134 

 Hailstorms in Northern India, S. A. Hill, 236 

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

 Hall (Asaph), Mass of Saturn, 429 



Hall (Maxwell), on the Spectrum of the Zodiacal Light, 351, 402 

 Hall (T. H.), Beetle Settlement in Disused Gasometers, 520 

 Haller (A. ), the o Dextro- and Lsevo-rotatory Borneol Camphor- 



ates, 503 

 Hallett (Holt S.), a Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the 



Shan States, 265 

 Halos, Solar, and Parhelia, J. Lovell, 560 

 Hamburg : Interesting Remains Discovered in, 21 ; Ground- 

 water Variations and the Typhus Epidemic, 570 

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



406 

 Hamy (Dr.), French Scientific Missions under Old Monarchy, 427 

 Handtmann (Pastor), Inheritance of Acquired Mental Pecu- 

 liarity, 209 

 Harcourt(L. F. V.), Effects of Training Walls in Mersey Estuary, 



380 

 Hardening and Tempering of Steel, Prof. W. C. Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., on the, il, 32 

 Harding (Chas.) : Weather in January, 425; on the Cold in 



March 1890, 598 

 Harker (Alfred), the Bala Volcanic Series of Caernarvonshire 

 and Associated Rocks, being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for 

 1888, 414 

 Harris (P. A.), Brilliant Meteors, 105 

 Harris (Walter B.), the Land of an African Sultan, 270 

 Harrison (J. T,), on the Creation and Physical Structure of the 



Earth, 151 

 Harrison (W. Jerome), an Elementary Text-book of Geology, 



Prof A. H. Green, F.R.S., 75 

 Hartog (Prof. Marcus M. ), Achlya, 298 



Hartog (P. J.), a First Foreshadowing of the Periodic Law, 186 

 Harvard College, the Astronomical Observatory of, 446 

 Harvey (Augustus), Influenza, 270 

 Hauck (Dr. F.), Death of, 256 



Hawes (F. B.), Carbon Deposit in Blake Telephone Trans- 

 mitter, 477 

 Haycraft (Dr. J. B.), Voluntary Muscular Contraction, 495 

 Haze, the Causes and Character of, Hon. F, A. R. Russell, 60 

 Hazen (Prof H. A.), Use of " Sling" Thermometer in Predic- 

 tion of Frosts, 501 

 Head-hunters, a Naturalist among the, C. W. Woodford, 582 

 Health, Hygiene or Public, Louis C. Parkes, 290 

 Heat, Animal, M. Berthelot, 119 

 Heat and Light, Rev. F. W. Aveling, 558 

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

 Hebert (M.), Funeral of, 545 



Heilprin (Angelo), a Contribution to the Physical History and 

 Zoology of the Somers Archipelago, with an Examination of 

 the Structure of the Coral Reefs, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 193 

 Helmholtz (Prof. ), on the Production of Waves, 95 

 Helsingfors University, 400 



Hempel (Dr. ), Experiments upon Simultaneous Production of 

 Pure Crystals of Sodium Carbonate and Chlorine from Common 

 Salt 16 



Hemsley(W. Botting, F.R.S.) : Scientific Papers of Dr. Asa 



Gray, 221 ; Flora of Keeling Islands, 492 ; Self-Colonization 



of Coco-Nut Palm, 537 

 Henry (Louis), Glycollic Nitrile and direct Synthesis of Glycollic 



Acid, 576 

 Henry (Paul and Prosper), Suppression of Halos in Photographic 



Plates, 576 

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



472 ^ ^ 



Herdman (Prof W. A.) : Les Animaux et les Vegetaux 



Lumineux, Henri Gadeau de Kerville, 293 ; Foreign Sub- 

 stances attached to Crabs, 344 

 Heredity and Effects of Use and Disuse, F. H. Collins, 559 

 Heredity, Theory of. Prof A. Weismann, 317, 373, 439 

 Hermite (Prof Ch.), Mathematical Teaching at Sorbonne, 597 

 Herring, the Zuyder Zee, Dr. Hoek, 216 

 Herschel (Prof A. S., F.R.S.) : a Natural Evidence of High 



Thermal Conductivity in Flints, 175 ; the Spectrum of Sub- 

 chloride of Copper, 513 

 Hertz's Vibrator, Wimshurst Machine and, T. A. Garrett and 



W. Lucas, 515 

 Hertz's Vibrators, Multiple Resonance obtained in. Prof Geo. 



Eras. Fitzgerald, 295 ; Fred T. Trouton, 295 

 Herzegovina, Earthquakes in, 136 

 Hess (Carl), the Eye of the Mole, 373 

 Heymans (Dr.), MyeUn, 528 

 Hicks (W. M., F.R.S.), Elementary Dynamics of Particles and 



Solids, 534 

 Hickson (Sydney J.), a Naturalist in North Celebes, Dr. F. H. 



H. Guillemard, 457 

 High Latitudes, Sun-spot in, G. Dierckx, 472 

 Hilger (Dr.), Taxine, a New Alkaloid from Yew Leaves, &c., 



496 

 Hill (J. Rutherford), the Meteorite of Mighe'i, 298 

 Hill (S. A.), Hailstorms in Northern India, 236 

 Himalayas, Glaciation of Valleys in Kashmir, Captain Stiffe, 



190 

 Hind (Dr. W. M.,), the Flora of Suffolk, 149 

 Hind (Dr. Wheelton), on the Geology of Suffolk, 149 

 Hiorns (Arthur H.), Iron and Steel Manufacture, 159 

 Hirn (Gustave Adolphe) : Death of, 281 ; the Life and Work 



of. Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 323 

 Hissar, Illustrations of some of the Grasses of the Southern 



Punjab, being Photographs of some of the Principal Grasses 



found at, William Coldstream, 533 

 History of Modern Philosophy, Descartes and his School, Prof 



Kuno Fisher, 171 

 Holden (Prof), Total Eclipse of January i, 1889, 305 

 Hollis (W. Ainslie), Galls, 131, 274 

 Holmgren (Prof), Cause of Change of Skin-colour in Arctic 



Voyagers, 546 

 Holt (Ernest W. L.) : Foreign Substances attached to Crabs, 



463, 5i5> 586; some Stages in Development of Brain of 



Clupea harengus, 525 

 Hopkins (George M.), Experimental Science, 102 

 Hopkins (W. B.), Behaviour of more Stable Oxides at High 



Temperatures, 502 

 Hopkinson (Dr. J., F.R.S,): Magnetism, 249, 273; Physical 



Properties of Nickel Steel, 332 

 Horny Sponges, Robert von Lendenfeld, 146 

 Horses, Fossil, of Argentina, Dr. Hermann Burmeister, 82 

 Horsley (Victor, F.R.S.), Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of 



Internal Capsules of Bonnet Monkey, 166 

 Horticultural Exhibition, the Proposed Berlin International, 283 

 Horticulture, the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India and 



Ceylon, Dr. E. Bonavia, C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., 579 

 Hough (Walter), Archaeology and Ethnology of Easter Island, 



569 

 Houssay (F.), Les Industries des Animaux, 409 

 Houston (Prof E. J.), Remarkable Hailstones at Philadelphia, 43 

 Houzeau (J. C.) : Biographical Note on, A. Lancaster, 20, 69 ; 



Vade Mecum, 69 

 Hudson (Dr. C. T., F.R.S.), on some Needless Difficulties in 



the Study of Natural History, 375 

 Hudson ( W. H. ), Argentine Ornithology, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 7 

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

 Hughes (Mrs. Watts), Voice Figures, 42 

 Hulme (F. Edward), Wayside Sketches, 270 

 Human Anatomy, a Text-book of, Prof. Alex. Macalister, 



F.R.S., 269 

 Human Foot, the, Thos. S. Ellis, 365 



