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I.VDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1879 



Astronomy : M. Ilouzeau on certain Phenomena of, 447 ; Dr. A. 

 Sawitsch's Work on Geographical Astronomy, 94 ; Our Astro- 

 nomical Column, 14, 42, 74, 99, 122, 154, 204, 221, 245, 

 268, 298, 347, 365, 388, 420, 437, 468, 484, Sio, 531, 555, 

 582 



Atlantic Cable, Duplexing the, 38 ; Herbert Taylor, 52 



Atmosphere in the Moon, a Question raised by the observed 

 Absence of, S. Tolver Preston, 3 



Atmospheric Electricity, G. M. Whipple, 220 



Atmospheric Pressure, Sun-Spots, and the Sun's Heat, J. Allan 

 Broun, F.R.S., 6 ; S. A. Hill, 432 ; Joao Capello, 506 



Auerbach (Dr. F.), the Phonograph and Vowel Sounds, 122 ; on 

 Undertoner, 183 



Australia : Marsupials of, "Henry Weld Blundell, 528 ; Aus- 

 tralian Fossil Corals, 469 ; Australian and Tasmauian llaces, 

 R. Biough Smith, 549 



Austrian Tourist Club, 326 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E.), the Mirror of Japan and its Magic 

 Quality, 539 



Ayrton and Perry (Professors), on the Music of Colour and Mo- 

 tion, loi ; Magic Mirror of Japan, 186 ; the Contact Theory 

 of Voltaic Action, 498 



Baber (Mr.) Journey in Szuchuen, 298 



Back (Admiral Sir Geo.), Legacy to the Royal Geographical 



Society, 43 

 " Bacon's Novum Organum," edited by Prof. T. Fowler, G. F. 



Rodwell, 262 

 Baer (K. von), Proposed Monument to, 278, 375 

 Bailey (M.), his New Electric Spark Pen, 60 

 Bain (Prof. Alex.), "Education as a Science," 457 

 Balance, J. H. Poynting on using the, and its Employment to 



determine the Mean iJensity of the Earth, 115 

 Balfour (Dr. I. B.), on Halophila, 584 

 Ball (Prof. R. S.), Speculations on the Source of Meteorites, 



493 

 Balloons : the Rapid Inflation of, 18 ; Giffard's Captive Balloon, 



46, 493, 517, 560; the Academic des Ascensions Meteorolo- 



giques, 560 ; Adoption of, for War Purposes, 592 

 Balnacara, N.B., Earthquake at, 131 

 Baltimore, Report of the Johns Hopkins University, 66 

 Barker's Cave in Queensland, 423 

 Barometers : Experiments with Aneroid, in the Giffard Balloon, 



17; Diurnal Oscillations of, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 366 

 Barometric Pressure, Prof. Bert on, 569 

 Barraud and Lund, Synchronised Clocks, 55 

 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), the Telephone, its History, and Recent 



Improvements, 12, 56; History of the Speaking Telephone, 



121 

 Barry (J. W.), the Derivation of Life from the North, 173 

 Bars, the Law of Cooling of, Prof. P. G. Tait, 379 

 Baynes (R. E.), "A New Galvanometer," 33 

 Bears in the Alps, 280 



Eeccari (Dr.), Discovery of a New Gigantic Aroid, 45 

 Beer, Brewing of, in Japan, 397 

 Beerbohm (Julius), " Wanderings in Patagonia," 217 

 Bees' Sting, 289 ; Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 314 ; W. Radford, 



340 ; J. P. Jackson, 385 ; E. W. Pringle, 410 

 Beetle, Destruction of Crops at Taganrog by /i«iVi?///a ausiriaca, 



182 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 160 

 Belgium, African Expeditions, 491 

 Bell (I. Lowthian, F.R.S.), on the Combustion of Different 



Kinds of Fuel, 175 

 I^ells and their Harmonics, 242, 290 

 Belsham (Maurice), Intellect in Brute?, 4S9 

 Bennett (A. W.), Kerner's ''Flowers and their Unbidden 



Guests," 214 ■ 



Ben Nevis, the Proposed Meteorological Station on, 237, 255, 



279, 342, 445 „ . 



Bentley and Trimen's " Medicinal Plants, 109 

 Berg (H.), " Die Lust an der Musik," 578 

 Berghama, Excavations at, 86 

 Berkeley (Rev. M. J.), Mycology, 514 

 Berlin : Telegraphic Museum at, 18; Ornithological Society, 18; 



New "Scientific Society at, 85 ; Piscicultural Exhibition at, 



232 ; Geographical Society, 271, 324; Grants of the Berhn 



African Society, 395 

 Bernard (Claude), his Posthumous Papers, ^107 ; the Funeral of, 



325; M. Paul Bert on, 325; M. Renan's Eloge on, 543 



Bert (Prof.), on Barometric Pressure, 569 



Bessel's Nebula in Perseus, 555 



Bibliography: Friedlander's Catalogues, 325; "Naturae Novi- 

 tates," 376; a Universal Catalogue, 585 



Bichat's Method of Measuring the Velocity of Sound, 86 



Bichromate of Potash Battery, Dr. Erck's New, 331 



Biela's and Halley's Comets, 204 



Biela's Comet and Jupiter in 1794, 75 



Bienne, Lake, Discovery of Lake- Dwellings at, 61 



Billing's and Fletcher's " Index Medicus," 431 



Binary Stars, Orbits of, 99 ; a Centauri, 437 



Biological Notes, 75, 155, 245, 319, 389, 469, 584 



Birds : Migration of, 422 ; Col. J . F. D. Donnelly, 289 ; Dr. Palmen, 

 433; Dr. A. Weismann, 433, 579; Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 

 433, 580; E. H. Pringle, 481 ; Capt. Legge's Work on "Birds 

 of Ceylon," 505 ; Infection caused by Birds, 559 ; New Birds 

 from the Portuguese Possessions in Western Africa, 585 



Birmingham : Destruction of the Free Library, 257 ; Proposed 

 Natural History Museum for, 300 ; Science College, 400 



Black (Clementina), Colour-Blindness, 5 



Black Rat, Distribution of the, R. Morton Middleton, 460 ; E. 

 W. Claypole, 581 



Blaikie {].), Elements of Dynamics (Mechanics), 30 



Blanford (Henry F.), Works on Indian Meteorology, 293 



Bleekrode (Dr. L.), Observations on the Microphone, 221 



Blood, the Carbonic Acid in, 474 



Blowpipe Experiment, Lieut. -Col. W. A. Ross, 220 



Blue Flame from Common Salt, A. Percy Smith, 483 : Dr. J. 

 H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 582 



Blundell (Henry Weld), Marsupials of Australia, 528 



" Bliithendiagramme," Dr. A. W. Eichler, 70 



Blyth (James), the Microphone as a Receiver, 72 ; Experiments 

 with Telephone, 283 



Bode's Law and Vulcan, B. G. Jenkins, 74 



Bog Oak, Irish, W. F. Sinclair, 74 



Bokhara, Southern, Exploration of, 156 



Bonn, Roman Remains at, 45 



Bonney (Rev. T. G.), Earthquake in North Wales, 555 



Borneo : Northern, Colonisation of, 16 ; Cave Research in, 352 



Bort (L. T. de), a Mirror Barometer, 586 



" Bosnien in Bild und Wort," 205 



Boston, U.S.A. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 140, 

 211, 428, 547 ; Society of Natural History, 403, 452 



Botany: "Botany of fhree Historical Records," A. Stephen 

 Wilson, 3 ; Gibbs's Fjrst Catechism, 28 ; Eichler's Bliithen- 

 diagramme, 70 ; Calcutta Botanic Garden, 86 ; Botanical 

 Chemistry, 93 ; Morren's " Correspondance Botanique," 108; 

 Prof. McNab's Class-books of, 143 ; Botanic Garden for 

 India, 375 ; Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 445 ; Botanical 

 Exchange Club, 445, 591 



Bottomley (J. T.), Thermal Conductivity of Water, 547 



Bouton (L. S.), Death of, 279 



Brains, Sexual Difference in, 396 



Braun (Prof.), Bust of the late, 257 



Brazilian Rivers, Dr. E. R. Heath's Exploration of, 100 



Bread : Aerated, Prof, A. H. Church, 174 ; Prison, Prof. A. H. 

 Church, 387 



Brewin (Robert), Shakespeare's Colour- Names, 221, 290 



Bridge (John), Divisibility of the Electric Light, 73 



British Association: Date of Meeting at Sheffield, 17; Preli 

 minary Arrangements, 84, 422 



British Guiana, Preservation of Birds in, 301 ; the Indians of, 

 394 ; im Thurn's Expedition, 556 



British Museum : the Library, 253 ; Reforms in, 350 ; Electric 

 Lighting at, 395, 423, 445 ; theGrant to the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, 543 ; Proposed Printed Catalogue of the Library, 585 



British Newts, 75 



Brittle Stars of the Challenger, 319 



Brorsen's Comet : 299, 420, 510, 527, 532, 555, 582 ; Prof. C. A. 

 Young on the Spectrum of, 559 ; Dr. Wm. Huggins, F.R.S., 

 6n the Spectrum of, 579 



Broun (J. Allan, F.R.S.), Sun-Spots, Atmospheric Pressure, 

 and the Sun's Heat, 6 ; Diurnal Oscillations of the Barometer, 

 366 



Brown Institution, 151 



Brown (Alfred), Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde, 217 



Brown (Dr. R.) "Countries of the World," 554 



Brutes, Intellect in, 409, 458, 481, 490, 519 ; Edw. Geoghegan, 

 268; Walter Severn, 291; H. T. Finck, 340; Arthur Nicols, 

 36s, 409, ^33 ; Rev. George Henslow, 385, 433 ; James J. 

 Furnis, 385 ; W. P. Buchan, 409, 459 ; Henry Muirhead, 409, 



