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IXDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 21, 1S70 



" Appalachia," 360 



Aquarium, the Edinburgh, 533 



Arago, Portrait of, 575 



Archaeological Association, 466 ; Institute, 393 



ArchcBopteryx lithographicus, a new Specimen of, 65 1 



Arctic Exploration : New Expeditions, 68; Capt.Nares' Narrative 

 of the English Arctic Expedition, Il8 ; Mr. Gordon Bennett's 

 Expedition, 131 ; Arctic Sea-Water and Ice, 135 ; Search for 

 the Relics of the Franklin Expedition, 180; Markham's "Great 

 Frozen Sea," 201 ; the Pandora re-christened the yeannette, 

 289 ; the Swedish North-East Passage Expedition, 308, 680 ; 

 the Dutch Expedition, 360, 521 ; the Polar Colony Scheme, 

 521, 551 ; Capt. Tyson's Expedition, 521, 551, 681 ; the Nor- 

 wegian Expedition, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 568 ; the Voyage 

 of the William Barends, 647 ; Discovery of a New Island in 

 the Polar Seas, 697 



Argentine Scientific Society, 601 



Arithmetic, Automatic, John Sawyer, 327 



Armenia, Science in, 502 



Armit (William E.), Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by 

 Wasps, 642 ; Mimicry in Birds, 643 ; Agricultural Ants, 643 



Arrow- Propulsion among the Maoris, 27 



Arsenic and Antimony, separation of, 679 



Articulate Vibrations, a Method of Recording by Means of 

 Photography, Prof. E. W. Blake, 338 



Artists, Physical Science for, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 29, 

 58, 87, 122, 154, 223 ; Tristram Ellis, 66; Robert J. Lecky, 

 116; F. Pollock, 249; G. Hubbard, 278; Rev. R. Abbay, 

 329 ; E. H. Pringle, 356 



Asbestos for Bank-Notes, 23 



Asia Minor, " Culture-Map" of, 434 



Asia, Stanford's Maps of, 647 



Aspergillus, an Ear Parasite, 182 



Assyria, Hormuzd Rassam's Researches in, 653 



Asten (Prof. Emil von), Death of, 502 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 552 



Astronomy: Our Astronomical Colnmn, 19, 67, 103, 130, 147, 

 179, 199, 225, 261, 281, 306, 334, 358, 385, 426, 433, 464, 

 501, 520, 552, 569, 588, 618, 669, 696; Newcomb's Astro- 

 nomy, 7 ; Catalogue of Works on Astronomy, 346 ; Astro- 

 niical Society, see Royal ; see also Stars, Planets, &c. 



Atkinson (R. W.), Brewing in Japan, 521 



Atlantic, North, the Norwegian Expedition, Dr. H. Mohn, 589 



Atmosphere, the Geological Relations of the. Prof. T. Sterry 

 Hunt, F.R.S., 475 



Atmospheric Pressure over the North Atlantic, &c., 680 



Aurora Observations of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedi- 

 tion, 1872-74, by Carl Weyprecht, 606 



Aurora Borealis in Scandinavia, 632 



Australia : Poisonous Lake in, Geo. Francis, 1 1 ; Heavy Rains 

 in, 77 ; Guano Islands near, 159 ; a Twenty Years' Error in 

 the Geography of, A. R. Wallace, 193 ; Use of Camels in, 

 337 ; Dr. Finsch's Expedition to, 387 ; Death of Two Aus- 

 tralian Geologists, 389 ; Australian Monotremes, 464 ; Ex- 

 ploration of North, 496 ; Gerard Kreflft and the Trustees of 

 the Australian Museum, 575 



Austria, Suicides among Students, 293 



Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition, 1872-74, the Aurora 

 Observations of, by Karl Weyprecht, 606 



Automatic Arithmetic, John Sawyer, 327 



Autophyllogeny : Dr. A. Ernst, 331 ; Dr. R. F. Hutchinson, 541 



Axle, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., on Uniformity in the Rate of 

 Rotation of an, III 



Ay?-Aye, the Anatomy and the Affinities of the, 645 



Ayrshire Coast, the Rocks of the, 243 



Ayrton(Prof.), the Electrical Properties of Bees'-Wax and Lead 

 Chloride, 294; a New Determination of the Number of 

 Electrostatic Units in the Electro-Magnetic Unit, 470 



Babbage's Analytical Machine, 438 



Back (Admiral Sir George, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 227 



Bacteria and Oxygen, 505 



Baer (Prof, von), a Biography of, 434 



Bailey (James B.), a Subject-Index to Scientific Periodical Litera- 

 ture, 251 



Baily (Walter), on the Effect of Various Substances on Polarised 

 Light, 322 



Baird's Annual Record of Science and Industry, 665 



Balseonoptera, Geographical Distribution of, 242 



Balfour (Edward), Albinism in Birds, 568 



Balfour (F. M,), " Elasmobranch Fishes," Prof. E. Kay 

 Lankester, F.R.S., 113 



Ball (Prof. R. S.), Researches made'at Dunsink on the Anntial 

 Parallax of Stars, 505 



Ball (V.), Indian Ethnological Objects, 478 



Balloons : Results of the French Commission on, 133 ; Experi- 

 ments with, 206 ; Ascents in Paris, 291, 683 ; the Great 

 Giffard, 318, 345, 371, 435, 534, 577, 705 ; Prof. Mende- 

 leefT's Proposed Work on Aeronautics, 434 ; Military Balloon- 

 ing, H. Baden Pritchard, 491 ; the Aeronautical Society, 576 ; 

 Experiments at Woolwich, 620; Tissandier's "Histoire de 

 mes Ascensions, 639 ; Escape of a Balloon, 653 



Balmat (Jacques), Monument to, 393 



Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 635 ; the Chemical 

 Laboratory at, 181 



Bamboo as a Paper Material, 50 



Bank-notes, Asbestos for, 23 



Barham (Eustace), Cyclones and Anticyclones, 249 



Barometer, Diurnal Variations of the, 198 



Barrett (S, T.), the Microphone, 540 



Barrett (Prof. W. F.), the Microphone, 356 ; on the Telephone, 

 631 ; the Telephone, its History and Recent Improvements, 

 698 



" Barrows, British," Greenwell and RoUtston's, Prof. BoyJ 

 Dawkins, F.R.S., 429 



Bartley (Dr. R.), Translation of Topinard's " Anthropolog)'," 

 192 



Basaltic Rocks of Hawaii, 248 



Basilica Spider, the Snare of the, 387 



Bastian (Prof.), Expedition to Asia, 308 



Bastie's Toughened Glass, Caution against, 653 



Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences, 372 



Bats, Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the British Museum, G. E. 

 Dobson, 585 



Battery, Byrne's, W. Ladd on, 506 



Bavaria, Discovery of Prehistoric Remains in, 555 ; Lake- 

 dwellings in, 601 



Bedwell (F. A.), Hints to Workers with the Microscope, 141 



Beer, the Scientific Brewing of, 503 



Bees : in Java, 238 ; Frederick Smith on, 313 ; Fertilisation of ' 

 Flowers by, 334; the Cell of the Bee, Edward Geoghegan, 



385 



Bees'-wax and Lead Chloride, the Electrical Properties of, 294 



Beetz (Dr. W. von), •'Grundziige der Electricitatslehre," 300 



Behn (Prof. W. F. Georg), Death of, 158 



Belgium, Bulletin de I'Academie Royal de Belgique, see Bulletin 



Belt (Thomas, F.G.S.), Obituary Notice of, 570 



Beluga at Westminster Aquarium, 1 59 



Bennett (A. W.), " Henfrey's Botany," 217 



Benson's "Facts and Figures for Mathematicians," and "New 

 Mathematical Discoveries," 22 



Benson (Col. R.), Indian Buildi ig Timber, 569 



" Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants," 50 



Berkeley (Rev. M. J.), Obituary Notice of ^Dr. Thomas Thom- 

 son, F.R.S , 15 



Berlin : Geographical Society, 45, 76 ; Ethnographical Museum, 

 48 ; Anthropoid Apes at, 49 ; Paper Exhibition in, 424 ; 

 Annual Meeting of Ornithologists, 575 



Berne, Discovery of a Roman Town near, 207 



Berthelot (M.), and M. Pasteur, 435 



Berzelius (J. J. von). Centenary of his Birth, 683 



Bettany (G. T.), the Transformation of the Alpine Sala- 

 mander, 108 



Bibliography : New Scientific Books, 317, 583, 600, 631 ; New 

 German Scientific Books, 77, 134, 207, 503, 600; Ronald's 

 Catalogue of Works on Electricity and Magnetism, 393 ; 

 Catalogue of Works on Astronomy, 346 ; New American 

 Scientific Books, 600 



Bibra (Baron Ernst von). Obituary Notice of, 236 



Bidder (George P.), the Phonograph, 302 



Biela's Comet, 588 



Binary Stars, a Centauri, 225 



Binney (E. W., F.R.S.), a Fossil Plant, 555 



Biology: Dunman's "Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, and 

 Physiological Terms," 614 ; Biological Notes, 226, 252, 307, 

 385, 645 



Bioplasm, the Influence of Light upon, 398 



Bird (C), the Sea-Serpent Explained, 519 , 



Bird, a Fossil Sparrow-like, 204 



