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INDEX 



Aberystwith, University College Magazine, 87 



Absolute Pitch, on the Determination of, by the Harmonium, 

 Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 275 



Absorption Spectra, Recent Researches on, 495 ; Photc^nraphic 

 Records of, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 523; Prof. Soret's Re- 

 searches on, 524 



Actonian Prize of the Royal Institution, 256 



Adams (Prof. Leith, F.R.S.), Remarkable Colour- Variation in 

 Lizards, 53 



Aerated Bread, Prof. A. H. Church, 174 



Aeronautics, New Society in Paris, 395 ; see also Balloons 



Afghan War, the Scientific Aspect of, 396 



Afghanistan, 40 ; Dr. Chavanne's work on, 222 



Africa : the Tanganyika Expedition, 15 ; Keith Johnston's East 

 African Expedition, 43, 204 ; the Utilisation of the African 

 Elephant, 54, 99, 516 ; Rev. J. P. Farler on Usambara, 76 ; the 

 Italian Expedition, 78 ; Road-making at Lake Nyassa, 77 ; 

 the Portuguese Expedition, 78, ico, 438, 471, 556 ; the C.M.S. 

 Nyanza Expedition, 99, icx3, 542 ; M. Soleillet's Exploration 

 of, 124 ; Sudden Change in Temperature in the Transvaal, 

 131 ; a South African Folk-Lore Society, 206 ; the German 

 Scientific Expedition, 323 ; the Position of Blantyre, 324 ; 

 T. J. Coomber on the District of Mount Cameroons, 348 ; 

 Proposed Central African Railway, 247, 348 ; Ladein's Tour 

 through Central, 349 ; Berlin African Society, 395 ; the 

 French Missionary Expedition, 422, 584 ; Dr. Buchner's Ex- 

 pedition, 422 ; Lake Nyassa, 438 ; the French Expedition to 

 Central Africa, 438, 556 ; Madagascar Forms in, 470, 527 ; 

 the Belgian African Expedition, 470, 491 ; the Algerian Ex- 

 pedition, 471 ; New Telegraphic Lines in, 516; " L'Afrique 

 Centrale en, 1522," 556 



Afridee Family, Description of, 376 



Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), his New Zoological Laboratory, 317 



Agassiz (Louis), Notice of (xwVA Portrait), 573 



Agricultural College, Cirencester, 453, 544 



Agricultural Colleges in Japan, 425 



Agricultural Society, Journal of, 312 



Agriculture in France, 160 



Air-Temperature, its Distribution and Range, J. H. Laughton, 

 177 



Airy (Sir G. B.) on the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge, 497 



Alaghir, Earthquake at, 446 



Albertis's Exploration of New Guinea, 43 



Aleurone Grains, the Chemical Composition of, S. H, Vines, 



235 



Aleutian Isles, Volcanic Eruptions in, 45 



Algse : of the Caspian Sea, 319 ; Fossil Calcareous, Prof. E. 

 Perceval Wright, 485 ; Discosporangium, 584 ; Halosphaera, 

 a New Genus of, 584 



Algebraischen Gleichungen, Theorie der. Dr. Jul. Petersen, 3 



Algeria, Proposed Railway from, to Senegal, 395 



Algol : the Variable-Star, 298 ; the Companion of, 365 



Allen (Grant), the Colour-Sense, 32, 120 ; Colom: in Nature, 580 



Alligators in China, 351 



Amazon, Decrease of the River, 324 



Amazonian Devonian, Fossils of the, 469 



America : American Journal of Science and Arts, 66, 185, 209, 

 378, 400, 520 ; American Jurassic Dinosaurs, 70 ; American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, 140, 211, 428, 547; Ameri- 

 can Microscopical Journal, 145 ; American Surveys and Ex- 

 plorations, Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 213; Ripley and 

 Dana's "American Cyclopaedia," 264; American Weather, 



E. D. Archibald, 266 ; American Geological Railway 

 Guide, J. Macfarlane, 287 ; Reorganisation of the American 

 Surveys, 370 ; American Aphides, 585 ; Technical Education 

 in, 591; American • Chemical Journal, 592; se also United 

 States, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, &c. 



Amia, Respiration of, 246 



Amianthus, Discovery of a Mine of, 376 



Ammonia, the Manufacture of, 398 



Amu-Daria, the Exploration of, 556 



Anarrhichas lupus, 556 



Anatomy and Physiology, Journal of, 87 



Aneroid Barometers, Experiments with, in the Giffard Balloon, 



Angola, New Birds from, 585 



Aniline Black, the Use of Vanadium in making, 280 



" Animal Chemistry," C. T. Kingzett, 358 



Animal Electricity, Dr. L, Hermann on, 561 



Anisoplia austriaca. Destruction of Crops at Taganrog by, 182 



Annalen der Physik imd Chemie, 66, 185, 259, 330, 426, 521 



Annular Eclipse of January 22, 1879, 99 



Anthropological Institute, 91, 163, 331, 356, 403, 451, 499, 547, 



595 ; Legacy to, 374 

 Anthropological Exhibition at Moscow, 280, 300, 375 

 Anthropometry, a Manual of, Charles Roberts, 29, 73 

 Ants, Termites kept in Captivity by, Henry O. Forbes, 4 

 Ants, Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., on, 377 

 Antwerp Geographical Society, Bulletin, 583 

 Aphides, American, 585 



Appleton (Dr. C. E.), Death of, 374; Obituary Notice of, 386 

 Archibald (E. D.), Locusts and Sun-Spots, 145 ; American 



Weather, 266 ; Rainfall of the World, 305 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Natiu-elles, 306, 546, 570 

 Arcimis (Augusto T.), Earthquake at Cadiz, 555 

 Arctic Exploration : 123 ; the Use of Balloons for, 18 ; Capt. 



Tyson's Expedition, 123; Nordenskjold's Expedition, 77, 102, 



222, 247, 270, 298, 349, 373 ; Capt. Howgate's Proposed 



Colony, 349, 5S4 ; Mr. Gkirdon Bennett's Expedition, 422 ; 



the Dutch Willem Barentz, 542 

 Arctic Ocean, the Temperatiure and Density of the Water of, 



270 

 Arctic R^ons, are the Fossil Floras of the. Eocene or Miocene, 



and the Causes which enabled them to exist in High Latitudes, 



J. Starkie Gardner, 124 

 Arequipa, Earthquake at, 423 

 Argentine Scientific Society, Anales of, 232 

 Argyll (Duke of), a Carnivorous Goose, 554 

 Arithmetic, Muir's Text-Book of, 30 

 Aroid, Discovery of a New Gigantic, 45 

 Art, Unscientific, John W. Buck, 460 ; Chas. Coppock, 484 

 Arvonian, Pre -Cambrian, Rocks, 427 

 "Ascension," Mrs. Gill, 240 

 Asclepiadacese, Sensitive Organs in, 155 

 Ashby (Henry, "M.B.), /'Notes on Physiology for the Use of 



Students," 51 

 Asia : Col. Prjvalsky's Exploration of, 323; Russian Expeditions 



to Central, 271, 349, 438, 515 

 Asiatic Fishes, New, 245 

 Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions, 583 

 Asparagin in Plants, 390 

 Aspiorhynchus prjvalskU, 389 



Association Scientifique de France, Lectures of, 233 

 Astrakan, the Plague in, 325 



