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INDEX 



Abbay (Rev. R.). Physical Science for Artist?, 329 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), the Reduction of Meteorological 

 Observations, 83 



Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association, 640 



Abney (Capt. W. de \V„ F.R.S.), on Photographing the least 

 Refrangible End of the Spectrum, 163 ; Physics in Photo- 

 graphy, 489, 52S, 543 



Abyssinian Tube- Well, Improvement on, 105 



Academic Liberty in German Universities, Prof. Ilelmholt/, 

 F.R.S,, 50, 78 



Acid?, Dilute, the Action of, on some Amalgam Surface?, 

 Robert Sabine, 441 



Acoustical Phenomena, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. , on the Explana- 

 tion of, 319 



Adams (Prof. A. Leith), Extinct and Recent Irish Mammals, 

 141 



Adelaide Botanic Garden, Catalogue of, 344 



Adulteration of Food, Laboratory for Detecting, m Pan?, 393 



.4iolotropy, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on, 180 



Aeronautical Society, $76 



Aeronautics, see Balloons 



Afghan and Indian Frontiers, Stanford's Map of, 647 



Africa : D'Anvers' Heroes of South African Discovery, 1 1 ; 

 Lake Nyassa, 20 ; Exploration of, 68 ; Exploration of the 

 Gabun and Ogovai, 95, 180, 359; Geographical Society's 

 Expedition to, 131 ; French Exploration of, 131 ; Old Maps 

 of, 149 ; Commander Goodrich on, 617 ; Stanley's " Through 

 the Dark Continent," 175 ; Church Missionary Society's Expe- 

 dition, 180; African Exploration Fund, 200; German Ex- 

 ploration of, 387 ; Paul Soleillet's Expedition, 521 ; Gerhard 

 Rohlfs' Exploration of, 521, 601, 681 ; African Poisons, 534; 

 the Belgian Expedition, 601 ; Keith Johnston Expedition to 

 Lake Nyassa, 646 ; the East African Expedition, 647 



Agassiz (Alex.), Deep Sea Dredging off the Gulf of Mexico, 

 198; his New Laboratory, 465 



Agriculture : Proceedings of the Aberdeenshire Agricultural 

 Association, 640 



Agricultural Ants, William E. Armit, 643 



Airy (Sir Geo. B., F.R.S.), the Interior of the Earth, 41 ; an 

 Intra-Mercurial Planet, 380, 495 ; Notice of, by Prof. A. 

 Winnecke ( With Portrait), 689 



Airy (Hubert), Blackburn's Double Pendulum, 617 



Albinism in Birds, Herbert W. Page, 540 ; Edward Balfour, 

 568 ; Wm. Lyall, 568 



Alcoholic Fermentation, Bernard's Experiments, 435 



Al?ce, New Work on North American, 158 ; Gulf- Weed, Maiy 

 P. Merrifield, 708 



Algebra, W. II. H. Hudson, 64! 



Algeria, Triangulation of, 632 



Algeria and Tunis, Playfair's Travels in, 91 



Algiers, Education in, 321 " . . 1. 



Alimentary Substances, a Direct Method for Determining the 

 Calorific Power of, 48 1 



Alkalimetry, a New Method of Dr. Louis Siebold, 473 



Allen (J. A.), a Fossil Sparrow-Like Bird, 204 



AUman (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.), on Greek Geometry, 291 ; the 

 Hydroids of the Gulf Stream, 326 



Alpine Flowers, Dr. Hermann MuUer, 519 



Alpine Salamander, the Artificial Transformation of, G, T. 

 Bettany, 108 



Alternate Vision, 169 



Alternate and Stereoscopic Vision, \\. M. Fhnders Petrie, llj 



Alumina, W. A. Ross, 279 



Alums, Electric Conductivity of Various, 48 



Amazon, the U.S. Survey of the, 521 



America : American Storm Warnings, Jerome J. Collins and Dr. 

 Woeikof, 4, 31, 61, 517 ; American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, 82, 536, 687 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 105, 

 316, 484; American Association, Meeting for 1878, 132, 316, 

 532 ; Ethnology of North- West America, 165 ; Jordan s 

 Vertebrates of the Northern United States, 167 ; Lesquereaux s 

 Tertiary Flora of North America, 189 ; American Geological 

 Survey?, Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S., 315, 694 ; Capt. W. A. 

 Jones, 667; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 538; Botany in America, 

 Sir J. D. Hooker, P.R.S., 325 ; the Settlement of, by Asiatics, 

 359 ; American Geographical Society, 434 ; ^^^^}J^' ^"'l' 

 Mexico, proposed New Work on the Botany of, 466; Prof. 

 E D Cope on the Remains of a Permian Fauna in North 

 America, 482 ; Prof. Hayden's Geological and Geographical 

 Atlas of Colorado, 516; American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences 576 712; New American Scientific Books, 600; 

 Microsco'pical Congress, 601 ; Heath Plant in, 682 ; Sea-Fish 

 in Rivers, 681 ; _see a'so United States, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, &c. 



Ammonites iphicerus, 106 t-, •!-> 



Ammonium, Selenate of, the Action of Heat upon, Dr?. Davy 

 and Cameron, 472 



Amphibians, the Tailed, W. H. Smith, 193 



Amsterdam, Canals at, 632 



Amu-Darya, its Return to its original Bed, 698 



Analytical Machine, Babbages, 438 



Anatomical Preparations for Museum and Class I urposes, L. C. 



IVTi3.ll ^12 



" Anatomisch-physiologisch Atlas der Botanik," Dr. Arnold 



Dodel-Port, 317 .,..-, j 



Anatomy, Dunman's "Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and 



Physiological Tenns," 614 

 Anderson (Richard) on Lightning Conductors, 554 

 Andree (Dr. R.), Ethnographical Parallels and Comparisons, 49 

 Andromedes I., Meteor Shower of, W. F. Denning, 568 

 Anemometer, Cup, Determination of the Constants of the. Dr. 



T. R. Robinson, F.R.S., 82 

 Angola, Heath's Expedition to, 697 

 Animal Intelligence, Geo. J. Romanes, 642 

 Annalen der Hydrographie, 159 

 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 82, 242, 321, 560 

 Ansted (Prof. D. T., F.R.S.), "Elements of Physiography, 



563 



Anthropoid Apes at Beriin, 49 



Anthropology : Anthropological Institute, no, 135,215,271, 

 ^qi xn/L- Dr Bartley's Translation of "Topinard s Anthro- 

 pology," 192 ; in France, 357, 436 ; German Anthropologists 

 at Kiel, 466; International Congress of, 532; Anthropo- 

 logical Exhibition at Moscow, 632 



Anticyclones and Cyclones, Eustace Barham, 249 



Antimony and Arsenic, Separation of, 679 ^^ ., , 



Ants : " Socialism " among, F. E. Colenso, 194 ; the Toilet 

 Habits of, 386 ; the Mode of Recognition among, 3»6 ; Sir 

 John Lubbock on the Habits of, 482 ; Agricultural, William 

 E, Armit, 643 



Ape.?, Anthropoid, at Berlin, 49 



Apiculture in Germany, 6oi 



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