Nature, Mav lo, 1877] 



INDEX 



Abbay (Rev. R,), Patenas or Grass Lands of the Mountaiaous 



Kegion of Ceylon, 398 ; Lowest Temperature, 471 

 Abbott (Dr. Chas. C), Pre-Glaciil Man in America,, 274 

 Abel (Prof. F.R.S.), Chemistry and Telegraphy, 321 

 Abercromby (Ralph), Is Meteorology a Science? 510 

 Abney (Capt. F.R.S ) " Instruction in Photography," 253 ; On 

 the Photographic Innag", 543 



Abraham (Phin. S. ), "Stone Ri/ers," 431 



Absorption Bands, M. Lippich on, 209 



Absorption of Light in the Blood, 362 



Absorption of Organic Matter by Plants, 108 



•' Accipitres of Canada," Vennor's, 546 



"Acoustics, Light, and Heat," by William Lees, Dr. W. 11. 

 Stone, 352 



Ac'inophrys, 108 



Adams (Prof. A. Leith), Sense of Hearing in Eird«, 33 j; 

 Gigantic Land Tortoises, 347 



Aeronauts. French Schools ot, 383 



Afiica : Piaggia's Exploration of, 89 ; Exploration of Central, 

 188 ; Antinori's Exploration o', 188; Portuguese Exploration 

 of, 208; Cameron s "Across Africa," 277; The Berlia 

 African Society, 283 ; Stanley's Exploration of, 480 ; Hydro- 

 graphy of W. Central Africa, 517 ; v. Bary's Expedition, 540 



Agassiz (Prof.), the Challenger Collections, 256 



Agriculture, French National School of, 128 



Agriculture in the United States, 525 



Air, Heated, 283 



Airy (Sir G. B., F.R.S. ), Ancient Solar Eclipses, 115; Solar 

 Physics at the Present Time, 196 



Aldis(W. Steadman), Owens College, Manchester, 509 



Alga: : a New Parasitic Green, 416 ; of the Gulf of Finland, 

 459 ; of the Kara Sea, 461 



Algeria, Sirocco in, 89 



Algoid Swarm Spores, 15, 178 



Alpenverein, German and Austrian, 68 



Alpine Club, the Swiss, 383 



Alpine Flowers, Corcct-ons of, 150 



America, Traces of Pre-Glacial Man in, 274, 295 



American Geographical Society, 345 



American Journal of Science and Arts, 267, 286, 385, 541 



Americanist?, Con ;ress of, at Luxemburg, 208 



Ampere, Bust of, 69 



Amphibia, Carboniferous, in Nova Scotia, 264 



Amyl, Nitrite of, Dr. B. W, Richardson, F.R.S., 24 



Anaesthetics, New Alcoholic, 209 



"Andes and the Amazon," James Orton, 154 



Aneroid Barome'er, Improvement in, 460 



Aniline in Photographs, 207 



Animals, Colours of, 1 6 



Antarctic, The Conditions 'of the, Sir Wyville Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 104, 120 



Antedated and Undated Books, 17 



Antedon Rosaceus (Comatula rosacea), 7, 58, 158, 159, 197, 366 



Antimony Pentachloride, action of, on certain Organic Sub- 

 stances, 282 



" An'ihracen," Auerbach's, 507 



Anthropological Society at St. Petersburg, 363 



Anthropology : Beitrage zur Anthropologic und Urgeschichte 

 Bayerns, 89 ; Society at Munich, 89; Prof. Virchow on the 

 present position of, 149 ; Paris School of, 149 j Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, 131, 151, 171, ^8, 307, 327, 3S7, 42.J, 483, 



523, 543 

 Ants, Sir John Lubbock on, 386 ; Mr McCook on, 439 

 Apatite and Nephehn, 384 

 Aquirium, proposed, at Birmingham, 170 



"Archaeological Frauds," 150 



Archer (S.), MimeHc Habits of B4ts, 313 



Arcbiv fiir Anthropologic, no 



Archiv fiir mikroskopische Anatomic, iil 



Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 542 



Arctic Expedition, English: i, 11, 68; Capt. Nares' Report, 



24 ; Prof. Osborne Reynolds on, 87 ; Medals commemorative 



of, 89; Dr. Petermann's Map of the, 109; Wordsworth Donnis- 



thorpe, 116; Dr. Pe^erminn on the, 148; Natural History 



and Geological Results of the, 432 ; Sir George Nares on the, 



480 ; the Blue-Book on, 505 

 Arctic Expedition, Payer's Narrative of the Austrian, 62, 81 

 Arctic Expedition, the German, 148 

 Arctic Exploration, 51 ; German Society for, 17 ; by Bxlloons 



148 ; Capt. Howgate's Method of attaininT; the North Pole, 



284, 365 

 Arctic Seas, Tides of the, 562 

 " Are We Dryinj Up ? " 6, 217 

 Argyll (Duke o', F.R.S.), Holly-Berries and Rare Birds, 273 ; 



Hibernation of Birds, 527 

 Asphronemus olfax, 265 

 Astronomxal Bibliographies, 455 



Astronomical Clock, a New, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 227 

 Astronomical Column, 14, 48, 65, 86, 107, J25, 146, 166, 186, 



206, 243, 262, 281, 303, 323, 342, 361, 381, 414, 437, 457, 



478, 500, 519, 531, 549 

 "Astronomical Myths," John F. Blake, 351 

 Astronomical Socie'y. See Royal 



Astronomy, Sidereal, Knobel's Catalogue of the Literature of, 48 

 Atkins (Edward), " Elements of Algebra, " 115 

 Atlmtic: Meteorology of the, 49 ; Temperature of the Northern 



part of the, 107; Physics of the, 263; Atlantic Ridge and 



the Distribution of Fossil Plants, 1 58 ; Atlantic Soundings, 



J. J. Wild, 377 

 Atmosphere of the Rocky Mountains, Dr. Henry Draper, 354 

 Atmospheric Currents, 294, 374, 450, 510 

 Atmospheric and Ocean Currents, 333 

 Atmosoheric Pressure in Russia, 457 

 Auerba':h (G.), " Anthracen," 507 

 Auroric Lights, G. H. Kinahan, 334 

 Australia, Drought in, 523 



Austrian Arctic Expedition, Payer's Narrative o'', 62, Si 

 Austrian Novara Expedition, Report on the, 261 



Backhouse (T. W.), Spectrum of the New Star in Cygnus, 295 



Baer (Karl Ernst von), Obituary Notice of, 138 



Baer Medal, Award for 1877, 363 



Bain (Alexander), Obituary Notice of, 218 



Bakarganj, Beveridge's District of, 135 



Ball Lightning. 539 



Balloons: Large, at the Paris Exhibition, 501 ; Apparatus for 

 Steeling, no; Sale of French, 266; for Meteorological Pur- 

 poses, 458 



Ballot (Dr. Buys), on a Mode of Investigating Storms and 

 Cyclones, 216 ; the Physics of the Atlantic Ocean, 263 



Baltic Provinces, Geological Map of, 70 



Barkley (H. C), "Between the Danube and the Black Sea," 134 



Barometer, South Polar Depression of the, 157, 198, 253 



Barometers: of Southern Russia, 49; Variations^ of, J. AUaa 

 Broun, F.R S., 151 ; Distribution of, in France,;S38 



Barometric Range at High and Low Levels, 187, 275 



Barometric Pressure, Experiments on, 502 



Barth (Baron), Death of, 325, 344 



Bashkirs, Anthropological Sketch of the, 382 



