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INDEX 



XVI 1 



Hume (Allan O.), the Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Vol, I., 



388 

 Humphry (Geo. M., M.D., F.R.S.), Old Age, 484 

 Hyderabad Chloroform Commission, 154, 289 

 Hydra, New Variable Star in, 88 

 Hydraulic Motors, Turbines and Pressure Engines, G. R. Bod- 



mer, 27 

 Hydrazine, Drs. Curtius and Jay, 547 

 Hydrobromic Acid, the Preparation of, A. Recoura, 599 

 Hydrophobia, the New Muzzling Regulation, 241 

 Hydrostatics, Stability of Rotating Spheroid of Perfect Liquid, 



E. H. Bryan, 526 

 Hydroxylamine with Metallic Chlorides, New Compounds of, 



Crismer, 401 

 Hygiene and Demography, Congress on, 401 

 Hygiene of French Native Colonists in Paris, 427 

 Hygiene or Public Health, Louis C. Parkes, 290 

 Hypnotic Subjects and the Eye, 94 

 Hypothesis, Nebular, Herbert Spencer, 450 



lapetus, Observations of the Magnitude of, 403 



Ice Forms, Peculiar, Prof. J. G. MacGregor, 463 



Iceland : Diminution in Population of, 473 ; M. Thoroddsen's 



Explorations in, 165 

 Ichthyology : the Spiracle Gill of Selachians, Dr. Virchow, 119 ; 

 the Zuyder Zee Herring, Dr. Hoek, 216 ; Anchovies on South 

 Coast of England, J, T. Cunningham, 230 ; Drumming Fish 

 {Balisies aculeatus), 263 ; Anatomy of Torpedo marmorata, 

 Prof. Fritsch, 264; Sardines in Moray Firth, Prof, Ewart, 

 282 ; the Bladder in Fishes, Prof. Liebreich, 359 ; Cranial 

 Nerves of Torpedo, Dr. J. C. Ewart, 477 ; Marine Fisheries 

 Society of Great Grimsby, 520 ; some Stages in Development 

 of Brain of Clupea harengus, E, W. L. Holt, 525 

 Identity of Comet Vice (1844) with Brooks's (1889), 233 

 Idylls of the Field, Francis A, Knight, 79 

 Im Hochgebirge, Wanderungen von Dr, Emil Zsigmondy, 291 

 Images, Visualized, Produced by Music, Geo. E. Newton, 41 7 

 Index of British Plants, Robert TurnbuU, 196 

 Index Generum Avium, F. H. Waterhouse, R. Bowdler 



Sharpe, 169 

 Index : a Suggested Subject-index to the Royal Society's Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Papers, 342, 391 

 Index of the Papers of the London Mathematical Society, 594 

 India : Science and the Indian Civil Service Examinations, 25, 

 265 ; Henry Palin Gurney, 53 ; Indian Geological Survey, 

 Death of Mr. E. J. Jones, 41 ; Recent Indian Surveys, 139, 

 230 ; Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, loi ; 

 Wanton Destruction of Forests in India, R. J. Crosthwaite, 

 210; Dr. Schlich, 470; Northern, Hailstorms in India, S. A. 

 Hill, 236 ; Olive Cultivation in India, 303 ; Travels in India, 

 Jean Baptiste Tavernier, 313 ; the Birds of India, E. W. 

 Oates, 388 ; the Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Allan 

 O, Hume, 388 ; Locusts in India, E. C. Cotes, 403, 491 ; 

 Technical Education in Central, 470 ; Suggestion for Facili- 

 tating the Study of Botany in, G. Carstensen, 546 ; Provincial 

 Index of Minerals of, Dr. W. King, 546 ; Native Indian 

 Scientific Literature, 569 ; the Cultivated Oranges and Lemons 

 of India and Ceylon, Dr. E. Bonavia and C. B. Clarke, F.R. S., 

 579 ; Catalogue of the Library of Indian Museum, 594 

 Indian, American, Languages, Use of Edison Phonograph in 



Preserving, J. W. Fewkes, 560 

 Indian, American, Pipe, H. B. Bashore, 303 

 Indigo, New Method of Synthesizing, Dr. Flimm, 326 

 Inductive Capacity, Specific : W. A, Rudge, 10 ; Prof, Oliver 



J. Lodge, F.R.S., 30 

 Influenza : the Epidemic of, 145 ; W. Greatheed, 270 ; Augustus 

 Harvey, 270 ; the Suspected Connection between Influenza 

 and Cholera Epidemics, Dr. Smolenski, 282 ; Climatological 

 Considerations about Influenza, Dr. Assmann, 325 ; Children's 

 Growth in Weight checked by Influenza, 471 ; Supposed 

 Chinese Source of Russian Influenza, 593 ; Influenza and 

 Weather, Mitchell and Buchan, 596 

 Inheritance of Acquired Characters : 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. Ray Lankester, 

 F. R. S., 415. See also Panmixia 

 Inheritance of Acquired Mental Peculiarity, Handtmann, 209 

 Inherited Characters and Panmixia, Prof. Geo, J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 437 



Insect, Note on a Probable Nervous Affection observed in an, 



E. W. earlier, 197 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 229 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, 21 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 331 ; Anniversary Meeting, 



591 

 Institution of Naval Architects, 494, 515 

 Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, 209, 372 

 Iron and Steel Institute, Visit to America of, 469 

 Iron and Steel Manufacture, Arthur H. Hiorns, 150 

 Iron and Steel, Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of, 



Carl Barus, 369 

 Iron, the Relation between Atomic Volumes of Elements 



present in, and their Influence on its Molecular Structure, 



Prof. W. C. Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 420 

 Iron, the Villari Critical Points in Nickel and, Herbert 



Tomlinson, F.R. S. , 574 

 Irving (Rev. A.), Chemical and Physical Studies in the Meta- 



morphism of Rocks, 49 

 Isefiord, Denmark, Zoological Floating Station at, 569 

 Italy, Southern, Geological Excursion to the Active and Extinct 



Volcanoes of, 133 

 Italy: Earthquake in, 136; Activity of Queccia de Salsa, 181 

 Ivy, Abnormal Shoots of, \V. F, R. Weldon, 464 

 Izvestia of the Russian Geographical Society, 352 



Jackson (W. E.), Nebula, General Catalogue No. 4795, 450 



Jacobi (Mary Putnam), Physiological Notes on Primary Educa- 

 tion and the Study of Language, 28 



James (Dr. Bushrod W.), American Resorts, with Notes upon 

 their Climate, 79 



James (W. J.), the Use of the Word Antiparallel, lo 



Jamieson (Prof), Magnetism and Electricity, 461 



Januarv, Weather in, Chas. Harding, 425 



Japan : Cyclone of September 11- 12, 1889, in,^M, Wada, 208 ; 

 Great Volcanic Eruption in, 400 ; Meteorology in 1887, 

 M. Wada, 400 ; Japanese Dwarf Tree {Thuja obtusa), 86 



Japp (Prof. F. R., F.R.S.) : o-j3-Dibenzoylstyrolene and Zinin's 

 Lepiden Derivatives, 142 ; Compounds of Phenanthraquinone 

 with Metallic Salts, 191 



Jastrow (Prof. ), the Cradle of the Semites, 569 



Java Sea, Coral Reefs of the, and its Vicinity, Dr. H. B. 

 Guppy, 300 



Jay (Dr.), Hydrazine, 547 



Jenkins (Prof, P,), the Strength of Ships, 515 



Jerusalem, Troglodytic Remains in, Herr Schick, 284 



Jesse (O.), Photographs of Luminous Night Clouds, 592 



Johns Hopkins University, 448 



Johnson (W. E.), Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces, 153 



Johnson (Prof. W. W.), a Treatise on Ordinary and Partial 

 Differential Equations, 270 



Johnston (Miss E. J.), the Relation of Physiological Action to 

 Atomic Weight, 189 



Johnston (R. M.), Variability of Tasmanian Unio, 303 



Joly (A. ), Double Nitrites of Ruthenium and Potassium, 23 



Joly (J.) : the Steam Calorimeter, 212 ; Resonance Method of 

 Measuring Constants of Gravitation, 256 



Jones (E. J.), Death of, 41 



Jones (W.), Glimpses of Animal Life, 409 



Jorgensen (Alfred), the Micro-organisms of Fermentation prac- 

 tically considered. Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339 



Joule (Prof. J. P.), Proposed Memorial to, 89, 160, 281 



Journal of Botany, 405 



Jukes-Browne (A. J.) : Physics of the Sub-oceanic Crust, 53; 

 Is the Bulk of Ocean Water a Fixed Quantity?, 130 



Jungfrau Railway, Proposed, Herr Trautweiler, 303 



Jupiter, Recent Observations of, W. F. Denning, 206 



Jupiter's Belt 3, HI., the Structure of. Dr. Terby, 45 



Jupiter's Satellites, Ch. Andre, 94 



Kane (Sir Robert, F.R.S.): Death of, 371 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 398 

 Kangaroos, Decrease of, 43 

 Karlsruhe Observatory, A. Fowler, 20 

 Kater Pendulum, Shuckburgh Scale, O. H. Tittmann, 538 

 Katzenstein (Dr.), Experiments on Influence of Bodily Labour 



on Metabolism of Man, 479 

 Kaulbars (Baron), Geography in Russia, 208 

 Keeling Islands, Flora of, Dr. H, B, Guppy, W. B. Hemsley, 



F.R.S., 492 



