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INDEX 



[Nature, Mav 22, 1879 



Fundy, Tides at, Dr. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 432 : Prof, 



J. D. Everett, 458 

 Furaiss (James J.), Intellect in Brutes, 385 



Gabes Isthmus, 222 



Gall-making Insects, 75 



Galloway (W. ), the Influence of Coal-Dust in Colliery Explo- 

 sions, 546 



Galvanometer, a "New," R, E. Baynes, 33; the Cosine, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, 217 



Galvanometers for Strong Currents, Eugen Obach, 98 ; John 

 Trowbrid^fe, 121 



Gardner (J. Starkie), Are the Fossil Floras of the Arctic Re- 

 gions Eocene or Miocene? and the Causes which enabled 

 them to exist in High Latitudes, 124 



Garibaldi (Menotti), Proposed Colonisation of New Guinea, 

 47'. 542 



Garpike, on the Development of the, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 

 100 



Gas versus Electricity, 261 



Gas-Li;^hting, Experiments in, 326 



Gastaldi (Bartolemeo), Obituary Notice of, 275 



Gatehouse (T. E.), the Werdermann Electric Light, 37 



Gauss, the Statue to, 350, 544 



Gaussius' Warning Regarding the Sluggishness of Ships' Mag- 

 netism, Sir Win. Thomson, F.R.S., 127 



Geikie (Prof. Arch., F.R.S.), Smiles' "Life of Robert Dick," 

 189; American Surveys and Explorations, 213; Geographical 

 Evolution, 490 



Geis-ler (Dr. Heinrich), Death of, 350 ; Obituary Notice of, 372 



Geneva Observatory, New Instrument for the, 59 



Geneva : High Level Attained by the Lake of, 35 1 ; the Lake- 

 Dwellings at, 445 ; Society of Physics and Natural History, 

 523. 548 



Genoa (Uuke of). Exploring Expedition, 471 



Geode>y, 505 



Geoghegan ( Edward), Intellect in Brutes, 268 



Geography : Ge >graphical Notes, 15, 43, 76, 99, 123, 156, 180, 

 204, 222, 246, 270, 297, 323, 348, 372, 394, 421, 438, 470, 

 49^. 5 '5. 542, 556, 583; Geographical Distribution of Ani- 

 mils, Dr. A. Wilson's Handbook and Map of, 30; Geogra- 

 phical Magazine, Death of the, 99 ; New French Work on 

 Uiiivers^al, 180 ; Berlin Geographical Society, 271, 324 ; Geo- 

 graphical Distribution and the Glacial Period, W. A. Forbes, 

 363 ; Geographical Professorships, Memorial of the Royal 

 Gejgraphical Society, 421 ; Proposed Society of Commercial 

 Geography, 421 ; Geographical Evolution, Prof. A. Geikie, 

 F. R.S., 490; Geographical Society, see Royal 



Geology : Geolsgical Survey of the United States, 15 ; Geolo- 

 gical CliiDate and Geological Time, William Davies,. 33; 

 Ramsay's Manual of Briti-h Geology, 69 ; Geological Society, 

 91, 187, 210, 282, 356, 426, 451, 522, 571, 595 ; Medals, &c., 

 of, 445 ; Reports ot the U.S. Geological Survey, 130 ; Ame- 

 rican Surveys and Explorations, Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 

 213 ; Macfarlane's American Geological Railway Guide, 287; 

 G. St. Kinahan's " Geology of Ireland," 382 



" Geometric Cinematique," M. Mannheim's Proposed Work on, 

 108 



Geophilus, E. Metchnikoff's Researches on, 342 



Germany : Geological Map of, 85 ; Peat Fuel in, 160; Dr. E. 

 Lommel on German Degrees, 267 ; Report of the Forest 

 Meteorological Station^, 419 



Gevaert's Work on the Fertilisation of Flowers, 506 



Gibbs (John), First Catechism of Botany, 28 



Gibson (Geo. A.) Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, 173 



Giffard's Captive Balloon, 46, 423, 493, 517, 560 



Gigantic Land Tortoises, Alexis A, Julian, 30 ; Dr. Jeffries 

 Wyman, 31 



Giglioli (Dr. H. Hillyer), Colour- Variation in Lizards — Corsican 

 Herpetolo/y, 97 



Gill (David) appointed Astronomer at the Cape, 388 



Gill (Mrs.), " Ascension," 240 



Glacial Period and Geographical Distribution, W. A. Forbes, 



363 

 Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173 

 Gladstone (r)r., F.R.S.), Science Teaching in Elementary 



Schools, 18 1 ; Blue Flame from Common Salt, 582 

 Glaisher (|. W. I .), Circulating Decimal-, 208 

 Glasgow industrial Museum, 518 



Glass, Electric Perforation of, 592 



Glass Fibre, Dr. Hopkinson 0.1, F.R.S., on the Torsional Strain 

 which remains in a, after Release from Twisting Stress, 187, 

 306 



Glass, Toughened, G. C. Druce, 5 



Globular Lightning, Charlotte Hare, 5 



Goebel on Sprouting in Isoetes, 319 



Gold -Leads of Nova Scotia, 523 



Goodrich (C. F.), Internal Ke>istance, 339 



Gooi^e, a Carnivorous, Duke of Argyll, 554 



Gordon (J. E. H.), a new Relation between Electricity and 

 Light, 402 



Gore (Dr. G., F.R.S.), the Art of Scientific Discovery, G. F. 

 Rodwell, 285 



Gotha, Cremation at, 232 



Gottingen Academy of Sciences, 356, 596 



"Graham" Lecture and Medal, John Mayer, 254; W. C. 

 Roberts, F. U.S., on Molecular Mobility, 291 



Granite, Graphic, Frank Johnson, 122 



Graphite, Discovery of, at Wellington, New Zealand, 300 



Grasses, Colonial, as Paper-making Materials, 132 



Gray (Prof. Asa) on Forest Geography, 327 



Green (W. S.), Electrical Phenomenon, 220 



Greenland, Exploration of, 556 



Ground, Dry, the Gas Absorption of, 544 



Grunow on the Algse of the Caspian Sea, 319 



Gruss (Dr. ), the Physical Nature of the Sun, 424 



Guano in New Caledonia, 423 



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

 394 



Guiana, French, Dr. Jules Crevaux's Exploration of, 298, 395 



Gulf of Mexico, Dredging Operations, 389 



Gulf- Weed, a Means of Migration for Fishes and Marine Inver- 

 tebrates, J. M. Jones, 363 



Guns : the last Experiment with the Eighty-ton, 148 ; Our Big 

 Guns, 294 ; Moving of Heavy Ordnance, 373 ; the Thun- 

 derer Explosion, 333, 414 



Gurney (H. P.), "Crystallography," 171 



Guthrie (Fredk. F.R.S.), "Physics," 311, 384; Vibration of 

 Metal Rods, 331 



"Habit and Intelligence," J. J. Murphy, 477 



Haeckel (Prof. Ernst) on the Liberty of Science and ofjTeaching, 



"3,^35 

 ' ail, the Formation of, 397 

 Hainan, the Island of, 421 



Hall (Prof. Asaph), the Trans-Neptunian Planet, 481 

 Hall (Dr. Marshall), Electrical Phenomena, 315 

 Halley (Edmund), Autograph of, 422 

 Halley's and iiiela's Comets, 204 



Hallowes (W. A. T.), Unseen Universe — Paradoxical Philoso- 

 phy, 219 

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

 Halosphcera, a New Genus of Unicellular Algse, 584 

 Hanbury Memorial Fund, 374 

 Hannay (J . B. ) on the Microthermometer, 378 

 Hardman (E. T.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 267 

 Hare (Charlotte), Globular Lightning, 5 

 Harkness (Prof.), Memorial to, 44 

 Harmer (John), Ear Affection, 365 

 Harmonium, on the Determinaiion of Absolute Pitch by the, 



Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 275 

 Hartog (Dr. Marcus G.), Eichler's " Bliithendiagramme," 70 

 Harvard University, Library Bulletin of, 517 

 Harvey, the Remains of, 85 

 Haughton (Dr. Samuel, F.R.S.), the Tides at Chepstow and 



Fundy, 432 

 Haydeu (Prof. F. V.), Geological Survey of the United States, 



15 ; Vote of Thanks to, by the Colorado Legislature, 350; 



Health Statistic^, 108 

 Heath (Dr. Edwin R.), Expedition in South America, 394 

 Heddle (Prof.) receives the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of 



Edinburgh, 346 

 Hekla, on the Lavas of, and on the Sublimations Produced 



during the Eruption of February 27, 1878, G. F. Rodwell, 



280 

 Heli(jstat, the, H. Baden Pritchard, 508 

 Heliotropism in Plants, Herr Wiesner on, 161 

 Helmholtz (Prof. H., F.R.S.), Lord Rayleigh's "Theory of 



Sound," Vol. II., 117 _ 



