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INDEX 



IX 



Hennessy (H., F.R.S.), the Figure of the Planet Mars, 31 

 Ilenslow (Rev. George), lutellect in Brutes, 385, 433 

 Hereditary Transmis-ion, E. L. Layard, 197 

 Hermann (Dr. L.), the Results of Recent Researches in Animal 



Electricity, 561 

 Herpetolo^', Corsican, Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 97 

 Herpetolo^y, Papuan, 176 

 Herring Culture, 469 



Herschel (Dr. J.), Was Homer Colour- Blind? 7.2 

 Higgin (George, C.E.), Deltaic Growth, 555 

 Highlands, St. John's Wild Sports of the, 193 

 Hilda, the Minor Planet, 510, 583 

 Hill (E.), the Formation of Mountains, 289 

 Hill (S. A.), Atmospheric Pressure and Solar Heat, 432 

 Histology, Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of, 544 

 Hollis (Dr. W. Ainslie), Ear Affection, 364 

 Holloway (John), a Ne^v Process in Metallurgy, 410 

 Holmgren (Prof.), Experiments on the VisusJ Purple of the 



Retina, 350 

 Homer, was, Colour- Blind ? 72, 73 ; R. C. A. Prior, Hg 

 Hooker (Sir J. D., C.B.), Presidential Anniversary Address at 



the Royal Society, 109, 132 

 Hooker and Bali's " Marocco and the Great Atlas," 366 

 Hopkins (Johns) Univer.-ity, Baltimore, Report of, 66 

 Hopkinson (Dr. J., F.R.S.), Electric Lighting, 1 74 ; on the 



Torsional Strain which remains in a Glass Fibre after Release 



rrom Twi>ting Stress, 187, 306 

 Hornets, Wm. WiLson Saunders, 147 

 Horse, the Movements of the, 438, 464, 488 

 Horses, Sai^acity in, M. Carey- Hobson, 147 

 Horsley (V.), the Fissures of the Cerebral Hemispheres in Un- 



gulata, 276 

 Houzeau on Certain Phenomena of Astronomy, 447 

 Howe Sound, Discovery of Coppei at, 279 

 Howgate (Capt), Proposed Arctic Col ny, 18 

 Muggins (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, 



579 

 Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, 94 

 Humboldt's Monument, Unveiling of the, 306^ 

 "Hume," Prof. Huxley's, Prof. J. Veiich, 453 

 Huth (Alfred H.), Sense of Temperature, 582 

 Huxley (Prof.), "Hume," Prof. J. Veitch, 453 

 Hyaline Cartilage, Dr. George Thin on, 307 

 Hydrogeiiium, Prof. Dewar on the Physical Contents of, 163 

 Hygiene, Parkes Museum of, 107 



Ice Pearls, J. Shaw, 508 



Illumination in Spectroscopy, Piazzi Smyth, 400, 458 



" Index Medicu-," Drs. Billings and Fletcher, 431 



India : Floods in Ferozepore, 131 ; Marine Surveys of the 



Coasts of, 298 ; Botanic Garden for, 375 ; Indian Meteorology, 



269, 293 ; Indian Antiquary, 584 

 Indians : the, of British Guiana, 394 ^ North American, Casts 



of the Heads of, 544 

 Indo-Oceaaic Races, 258 

 Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 244 ; Leibnitz 



and the Roy J Society, 267, 364 

 Insects: in Tertiary Rocks, 246; Petzold's Method of Preerving, 



301 ; Oliservations of Injurious, Miss E. A. Omerod, 492; 



the Early Types of, 584 

 Institute ot Naval Architects, 530 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 350, 356, 547 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 324, 473 

 Intellect in Brutes, 409, 45S, 481, 496, 519; Edw. Geoghegan, 



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



365, 409, 433 ; Kev. George Hen<low, 385, 433 ; James J. 



Farni>^s, 385 ; W. P. Buchan, 409, 459 ; Henry Muirhead, 



409. 459 ; Dr. John Rae, 409, 459 ; C. W. Strickland, 410 ; 



E. H. Pringle, 459; Maurice Belsham, 459; R. M. Middle- 

 ton, 459 



Internal Resistance, C. F. Goodrich, 339 



Intra-Mercurial Planet Question, 260, 347, 437 ; Prof. Lewis 



Swift, 96 

 Ipswich, Science Lectures at, 544 

 Ireland : Geology of, G. St. Kinahan, 382 ; Irish B<^ Oak, W. 



F. Sinclair, 74 



Iron, Magnetic Properties of Powdered, 352 



Ismene, the Minor Planet, 42 • 



Isoetes, on Sprouting in, 319 



Isomorphism, Prof. Hermann Kopp on, 387 

 Istituto Reale Veneto, Prizes of the, 376 

 Isvestia of the Russian Geographical Society, 247, 270 

 Italy : Italian African Expedition, 78 ; Glaciation of the Italian 

 L^kes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173; Chemico- Agricultural Station 

 in, 390 ; Mathematics in, 407 ; Phylloxera in, 375, 408 



Jackson (Chas. L.), United States Fisheries, 460 



Jackson (J. P.), Bees' Stings, 385 



Janssen's Paper on Recent Advances in Solar Physics, 301 



Japan: Cotton Mills in, 61 ; Farming in, 86 ; the Magic Mirror 

 of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 186 ; Traces of an Early Race in, 

 278 ; its Relations with Corea, 298 ; Dr. Woeikoff's Travels 

 through, 349 ; Brewing of Beer in, 397 ; Teas of, 423 ; Agri- 

 cultural Colleges in, 425 ; Petroleum in, 473 ; CannibaUsm in, 

 474 ; Population of, 516 ; Japanese Mirrors and their Magic 

 Quality, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 539 ; Education in Kioto, 5^ j 



Java, Charnay's Exploration of, 491 



Jenkins (B. G.), Vulcan and Bode's Law, 74; Cape Diamonds, 

 582 



Jenkins (H. L.), Utilisation of the African Elephant, 99 



Jevons (Prof. W. Stanley, F.R.S.), Commercial Crises and 

 Sun-Spots, 33, 588 ; Sun-Spots and the Plague, 338 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Report of, 66 



Johnson (Frank), Graphic Granite, 122 



Johnson's Patentee's Manual, 362 



Johnston (Keith), Expedition to Africa, 43, 204 



Jones (Alfred S.), Sewerage and Drainage, 53 ; Absorption ot 

 Water by the Leaves of Plants, 244 



Jones (J. Matthew), Gulf- Weed, a Means of Migration for Fishes 

 and Marine Invertebrata, 363 



Joseph II. Adit, 509 



Journal de Physique, 88, 235, 401, 521 



Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 87 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 67, 234, 306, 354, 594 



Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Societies of St. 

 Petersburg, 23 



Journal, Royal Agricultural Society, 312 



Jncuapa, Earthquake at, 85 



Julien (Alexis A.), Gigantic Land Tortoise, 30 



Julius (Dr. V. A.), the Microphone, 266 



Jupiter: and Biela's Comet in 1794, 75; Occultation of 64 

 Aquarii by, 154 ; Occultation of Stars by Jupiter's Satellites, 

 154 



Jurassic Dinosaurs, American, 76 



Kaieteur Fall of the Potara River, 205 



Kaltbrunner (D.), " Manuel du Voyageur," 71 



Karataghin, Exploration of, 247 



Kannarsch (Prof.), Death of, 517 



Keane (A. H.), Pratt's Grammar of the Samoan Language, 335 ; 



Australian and Tasmanian Races, 549 

 Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 346 

 Kemp (John), Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, 97 

 Kerner's " Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," A. W. Bennett, 



214 

 Kinahan (G. St.), "Geology of Ireland," 382 

 Kinetic Theory, Temperature Equilibrium in the Universe in 



Relation to the, S. Tolver Preston, 555 

 King (Prof. Samuel), Method for Rapidly Inflating BalIoon5, 18 

 King's College, London, the Physical 1 aboratory of, 594 

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

 Kioto, Education in, 560 



Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of Histology, 544 

 Knight (John Henry), Nitric Acid Batteries, 581 

 Kopp (Prof. Hermann), Isomorphism, 387 

 Kosmo-, 449 



Krause (Dr. Ernst), the Colour-Sense, 120 

 Krii.umel (Dr.), on the Mean Depth of the Sea, 348 

 Kimtze (Dr. Otto), Fossil Forests and Silicified Trunks, 314 



Laboratory, Zoological, Prof. Alex. Agassiz, 317 



Lactin, Dr. Mills' Researches on, 330 



Ladein (Joseph), Tour through Central Africa, 349 



Lake Constance, Examination of, 85 



Lake- Dwellings : Ot>jects from Neufchatel, 17; Discovery of 



on Lake hienne, 61 ; of the Lake of Geneva, 445 ; of the 



Pfohrener Ried, 445 



