Nature, Nov. 2i, 1878] 



INDEX 



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Grapes : Chemical Changes taking place during the Ripening of, 

 336 ; Ripening of, after Removal from the Vine, 337 



Graphic Formulae, on a Simplification of, Oliver J. Lodge, 472 



Grass, English, for Paper Making, 682 



Grasses of Mexico, 534 ; of New Zealand, 534 



Grasshoppers in Germany during 1873, 291 ; in Costa Rica, 344 



Gray (Andrew), and Thomas Gray on the Tasimeter and 

 Magnetisation, 329 



Gray (Prof. Asa), his "Flora of North America," 181 ; Synop- 

 tical Flora of North America, Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., 325 



Gray (Thomas), " Under the Red Ensign," 380 



Great Britain, Fossil Flora of, Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 



35 



"Great Frozen Sea, the," Capt. A. H. Markham, 201 



Greece, Austrian Geological Work in, 206 



Greek Geometry, Dr. G. J. AUmann on, 291 



Greenland, Exploration of from the West Coast, 697 



Greenland Eskimo, A. Bordier, 16, 169 



Greenow (Edward), New Lunar Crater, 220 



Greenwell (W.), and Prof. RoUeston's "British Barrows," Prof. 

 Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 429 



Greenwich Observatory, Annual Report, 183 



Griffith (Sir Richard), Obituary Notice of. Prof. E. PIuU, 

 F.R.S., 627 



Groot (Hugo de), 300th Anniversary of, 49 



Grosvenor Gallery, open on Sundays, 372 



Groth's Zeitschrift fiir Crystallographie, 106 



Grouse, a White, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 518 



Grubb (Thomas, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 570 



Guachos in Paris, 373 



Guano, Discovery of, near Oizowo, 106 



Guano Islands near Australia, 1 59 



Guano in Texas, 344 



Guiana, French, Gold in, 698 



Gulf of Mexico, Deep-Sea Dredgings off the, 198, 357 ; Currents 

 of the, 359 



Gulf Stream, the Hydroids of the, Dr. G. J. Allmann, F.R.S., 

 326 



Gulf- Weed, Mary P. Merrifield, 708 



Gulls and Terns, Haward Saunders on, 83 



Gylden (Prof.), on the Mean Parallax of a Star of First Magni- 

 tude, 669 



Gyno-dicecious Plants, Thomas Whitelegge, 588 



Haarlem Society of Science, Award of Medal to Prof. S. New- 

 comb, 132 

 Haeckel (Prof.), on the Doctrine of Evolution, 509 

 Halberstadt, Fata Morgana at, 466 

 Hall (Marshall), the Jura, 221 

 Halle, University of. New Buildings, 484 

 Hambiu-g Geographical Society, 46 

 Harbour Dredging in Japan, 600 

 Hardman (Edward T.), the Influence of Strike on the Physical 



Features of Ireland, 506 ; on Hullite, a Mineral from Carn- 



money Hill, Co. Antrim, 507 

 Ilarkness (Robert, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 628 

 Harley (R., F.R.S. ), the Stanhope "Demonstrator" or Logical 



Machine, 506 

 Harmonic Engine, Edison's, 674 



Harrison (Henry), Proposed Landscapes of the Moon, 182 

 Harrison (J. Park), Description of a Male Skeleton found at 



Cissbury, 215 

 Hartog (Marcus M.), the Lichen Gonidia Question, 302 

 Hartt (Prof. C. F.), Obituary Notice of, 174 

 Harvey Tercentenary, 145; Prof. Huxley's Speech at, 146; the 



Memorial Fund, 238 

 Haughton (Prof. S., F.R.S.), Physical Geology, 266 

 Hawaii, " Mikrographie der Glasbasalte von Hawaii: petro- 



grapliische Untersuchung," 248 

 Hayden (Dr. F. V.), United States Surveys, 316; Honours 



Conferred on, 343 ; Geological and Geographical Atlas of 



Colorado, Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S., 516 

 Hearing of Insects, A. Simson, 540 ; Dr. W. L. Dudley, 568 

 Heat, Report on the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent 



of, 440 

 Heat Theory, Cosmical Results of the Modem, J, Loschmidt, 184 

 Heat- Energy, on the Availability of Normal Temperature, S. 



Tolver Preston, 92 

 Heath Plant in America, 682 



Heath's Expedition to Angola, 697 



Hebrides, the Glacial Phenomena of the Long Island or Outer 



Hebrides, Dr. James Geikie, F.R.S., 187 

 Hekla, Moimt, on an Ascent of, and the Eruption of February 



27, 1878, G. F. Rodwell, 596 ; the Height and Shape of, G. 



F. Rodwell, 641 

 Helmholtz (Prof., F.R.S.), on Academic Liberty in German 



Universities, 50, 78 ; his Vowel Theory and the Phonograph, 



Chas. R. Cross, 93 

 Helvetia, Society of Naturalists of, 321 

 Hemipterous Fauna of St. Helena, 135 

 Hemsley (W. B.), Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum vel Minus 



Cognitarum Mexicanarum et Centrali-Americanarum, 466 

 Hemsworth, New Coalfield near, 394 

 "Henfrey's Botany," A. W. Bennet, 217, 278 

 Henry (Prof. Joseph, LL.D.), Death of, 75 ; Funeral of, 104 ; 



Obituary Notice of, 143 

 Hereditary Transmission, Edmund Watt, 94 ; G. S. Watson, 116 

 "Herefordshire Pomona," 706 

 "Hermetically Sealed," 66 

 Herschel (Prof. A. S.), the Virial in Thermodynamics, 39, 142 ; 



Measuring Scales for Pocket Spectroscopes, 300 

 Hewitson (Wm. C), Obituary Notice of, 196 

 Hicks (Dr. Henry), on some New Pre- Cambrian Areas in Wales, 



477 



Highbury, Microscopical Society at, 631 



Highlands, the Fossils of the North- West, 470 ' 



H^ll (S. h-\, Indian Rainfall, 193 ; Cyclones and the Winter 

 Gales of Europe, 616 



Himalayas, Glaciers of the Western, 263 



Hind (J. R,, F.R.S.), " Newcomb's Astronomy," 7; Stellar 

 Objects seen during the Eclipse of 1869, 663 



Hissar and Amu-daria, Exploration of, 496 



Hoeffer (M. Ferdinand), Death of, 76 



Hpek (P. P. C), the Zoological Record, 569 



Hoffmeyer (Capt.), on Atmospheric Pressure over the North 

 Atlantic, &c., 680 



Hofmann (Prof.), Illness of, 262 ; a New Camera Lucida, 312 



Holland, see Dutch 



Holmes (E. M.), "Botanical Note- Book," 299 



Homer, Colour Blindness in Relation to the Homeric Expres- 

 sions for Colour, Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 676, 700 



Hong Kong, "Afforestation" of, 238 



Hooker (Sir J. D,, P.R.S.), Botany in America, 325 



Hopkins, Johns, University, Baltimore, 635 ; the Chemical 

 Laboratory, 181 



Horck (Dr. van der). Scientific Expedition, 359 



Houston (Edwin J.) and E, Thomson, the 'I'elephone Relay or 

 Repeater, 194 



Howorth (H. H.), the Spread of the Slavs, 479 ; the Extinction 

 of the Mammoth in Siberia, 483 



Hubbard (G.), Physical Science for Artists, 278 



Huddlestone (W. H.), the Coralline Oolites of Yorkshire, 136 



Hudson (W. H. H.), Euclid, L, IL, 641 ; Algebra, 641 



Hughes (Prof. D. E. ), Microphone, 57 ; Physical Action of the 

 Microphone, 239 ; Edison's Microphone and the Telephone, 277 



Hull (Prof. E., F.R.S.), Oiituary Notice of Sir Richard Griffith, 

 627; "The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland," 

 Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 354 j the Progress of the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Ireland, 476 



Hullite, a Mineral from Carnmoney Hill, Co. Antrim, Edward 

 T. Hardman, 507 



Hulme (F. E.), P'amiliar Wild Flowers, li 



Hutton Collection of Fossil Plants, Prof, Lebour's Catalogue of, 

 632 



Humboldt (Alex, von). Colossal Statue of, 576 



Humboldts, Monunreats to the, 393 



Humming of Insects, 536 



Humphry (Piof. G. M., F.R.S.), the Limbs, 427 



Hiiningen, the Piscicultural Establishment, 504 



Hungary, Natural Science in, for the Last Ten Years, 5S2 



Hunt (Prof. T. Sterry, F.R.S.), the International Geological 

 Congress, 148 ; the Origin and Succession of the Crystalline 

 Rocks, 443 ; the Geological Relations of the Atmosphere, 475 



Hutchinson (T. J.), Habits and Customs of Tribes of Tropical 

 Aborigines, 479 



Hutchinson (Dr. R. F.), Autophyllogeny, 541 



Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.R.S.), Speech at the Harvey Tercen- 

 tenary, 146 ; Address in the Department of Anthropology at 

 the British Association, 44$; on the Use of Historical National 



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