VI 



INDEX 



[Nature, May lo, 1877 



Electro-Capillary Phenomena, Dr. Paget Higg, 7 



r Elettricista, 441 



Ellery (Robt. L. J.), Southern Double Stars, 470 



Elliptic Functions, Cayley's, 252 



Ellis (Alex. J., F.R.S.), Recently proposed Improvements in 



Musical Intonation, 475 

 Eltoft (Thomas), "Combined Note-book and Lecture Notes 



for Chemical Students," 195 

 Embryology : The Progress of, 6$ ; Packard's Life- Histories of 



Animals, 271 

 " Encylopsedia Britannica," vol. v., 269 

 Endogens, Re-arrangement of the Order of, 108 

 lintomological Society, 92, 210, 421, 483 

 Entomology of the Polar Regions, 208 

 Epigomethys Cultellus, 66 

 " Equine Anatomy," J. H. Steele, 310 

 Esthonia, The Post-Glacial period in, 88 

 Ethnology, Museum at Berlin, 89 

 Etna, Observatory on, 262, 312 

 Euganeen Mountains, Dr. Reyer on the, 447 

 Europe, the Weather of, 538 

 Evolution in Geology, 285 

 Evolution in the Netherlands, 410 

 Evolution and the Vegetable Kingdom, 467 

 Ewing (J. A.), Sumner's Method at Sea, 22 

 Examinations in Science, W. Baptiste Scoones, 137 

 Explosions, Velocity of Sound-waves in, 266 

 Eyeless Crustaceans, 559 



Fairbairn (Sir Wm., F.R.S.),Lireof, by Dr. Wm. Pole, F.R.S., 



370 ; Statue of, 416 ; Scholarship in Memory of, 416 

 Falkland Islands, 359 

 Faraday, Foley's Statue of, 70 

 Faraday Lecture for 1875, 193 

 Fawcett (Thomas), Minimum Thermometers, 97 

 Fermentation, Charles Graham, 213, 249 

 Ferrier (David, M.D., F.R.S.), "The Functions of the B'ain," 



G. H. Lewes, 73, 93 

 Fertihsation, Darwin on. Prof. Thiselton Dyer, 329 

 Fertilisation of Flowers by Insect-, XV., Dr. Hermann Miiller, 



317 ; XVI., 473 ; Thomas Meehan, 138 ; by Birds, 416 

 Fertilisation of i'lants, 168 



fisheries, vSea, and the British Association, 23, 55 

 Fishes : New Species, 66 ; of the Aralo-Caspio-Euxine Region, 



66; Fresh-water, of India, 150 ; Nest-bui;ding, 265 

 Fitzgerald (G. F.), the Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation of 



Light, 306 

 Fixed Stars, the Spectra o^, 344 

 Flints, Pro''. Hughes on, 132 

 Floods and Storms, 263 

 Floods in Russia, 266 



Floods in Switzerland and. South-Eastern France, 418 

 Flora of New Guinea, 438 



Flower (Prof. W. IL), "Osteology of the Mammalia," 96 ; Mu- 

 seum Specimens for Teaching Purposes, 144, 184, 204 

 F"Iowers, Fertilisation of, 138, 178, 237, 317, 473 

 Fluorescence: M, Lallemand on, 209; M. Lommel on, 441 

 Fogs, the Nature of, 305 

 Fog-Signals, Prof. Henry on, 129 



Fonvielle (W. de), Exploration of Arctic Regions by Balloons, 14S 

 Foraminifera, 461 



Foraminifera of Clavulina Szaboi, Dr. von Hantken, 115 

 Forbes (David, F.R.S.), Death of, 127 ; Obituary Notice of, 139 

 Forbes (Prof. George), Electrical Phenomenon, 450 

 Forbes (W. A.), Mr. Wallace on the Distribution of Passerine 



Birds, 58 

 Force, Newton on, P. T. Main, 8 

 "Force," on the Word, 96 

 Forests, Influence of, on Ozone, 188 



Form of the Earth, Action of Winds in Dete mining the, 239 

 Forster (Prof), Scientific Lectures, 167 

 Fossil Plants : the Atlantic Ridge and the Distribution of, 158 ; 



from Greenland and Spitzbergen, 208 

 ■Foster (Dr. Michael, F.R.S.), "Elementary Physiology," 53 ; 



Mr. Trotter on University Refo»m, 428 

 France, University of, 479 

 Frankland (E., F. R.S.), Transport of Solid and Liquid Particles 



in Sewer Gases, 385 

 Frankland (F. W.), the Simplest Continuous Mamfoldness of 



Two Dimensions and of Finite Extent, 515 



Freeman (A.), Tints and Polarisation of Moonlight in Eclipse, 



398 

 French Accent, A. H. Keane, 396 

 French Anthropological Society, 41S 

 French Geographical Society, no, 365 

 French Guiana, Exploration of, 149 

 Freshwater Fishes of India, 150 

 Friswell (R. J.). Eltoft's Combined Note-book and lecture 



Notes for the Use of Chemical Students, 195 

 Fritz (Prof. H.), the Geographical Distribution of Hail, 17 

 Fungus Disease of India, by Lewis and Cunningham, 21 



Gaffron (Ed.), Collections of Alpine Flowers, 150 



Gallaway (Charles), L^ngmynd Rocks, 313 



Gallium, Physical Properties of, 362 



Galton's Whistles, Dr. Lawson Tait, 294 



Galton (F., F.R.S.), Typical Laws of Heredity, 492, 512, 532 



Gamgee (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), Photo-Chemical Processes in 



the Retina, 296, 477 

 Gardner (H. Dent), Principles of Time-Measuring Appa- 

 ratus, 9 

 Gardner (J. S.), Tropica! Forests of Hampshire, 229, 258, 279 

 Garrod (Prof A. H., F.R.S. ), Lectures on the Human Form, 460 

 Gas-Synthesis in Plants, M. Merget on, 71 

 Gas Molecules, M. Boltzmann on, 306 

 Gases : Specific Heat of, 282 ; Solution of Gases in Iron, Steel, 



and Manganese, 362 

 Gasteropods, Natural Selection in, 168; the Ei&bryology of, 65 

 Gauss (Carl Friedrich), Statue to, 324, 363 ; Notice of, by R. 



Tucker, M.A., 533 

 Gazelle Expcditon, Collections o'', 283 

 Geikie (Prof. A., F.R.S.), The Upper Colorado, 337 

 Geikie (James, F.R.S.), The Movement of the Soil- cap, 397 

 Gelatine in Relation to Nutrition, 168 ; Manufacture of, 344 

 Geneva: P'aculty of Medicine at, 51 ; Climate of, 152, 187; 



Physical and Nat. Hist. Society, 152, 192, 423, 464, 484, 564 

 Geographical Curiosities, 233 

 Geographical Society, See Royal 



Geological Society, 130, 151, 192,287, 347.366, 387,443,482,5/13 

 Geological Survey of Ohio, 485 

 Geologists' Association, 211 

 Geology : Indian, 98 ; Geology in Brazil, 149 ; Evolu ion in 



Geology, 285 ; Miniature Physical Geology, 410 ; Geology of 



the Lake Country, J. C. Ward, 545 

 Geometrid Moths of the United States, Dr. A. S. Packard, 75 

 Germ Theory, Dr. Maclagan on the, 446, 5 1 1 

 German African Society, 522 

 German Arctic Expedition, 148 

 German Chemical Society, 211, 327, 367, 422 

 German Naturalists, Meeting at Ilambu'-g, 149 

 German Universities, Statistics of, 51 

 Germany, Science in, 45 1 

 Gessi (M.), Exploration of the Nile, 68 

 Giglioli (Prof. Henry J.), the Basking Shark, 273 

 Gill (Mr.), Expedition to Measure the Paralhx of Mars, 539 

 Gisard (M.) on Marine Mosses, 15 

 Glacial Drift in California, A. R. Wallace, 274 

 Glacial Period, the Existence of Man during, 87 

 Glaciation of the Shetland Isles, John Home, 139 

 G'aciers, Prof Bianconi on, 69 

 { ilasgow. Proposed Chair of I'nysiology a*^, 326 

 GIass, Imperviousness of, 523 

 (jokcha. Fauna of Lake, 438 

 Gold Mines in Australia, 382 

 Goldsmiths' Company, Gift to the Chemical Society's Research 



Fund, 88 

 Gordon (Cok), Exploration of the Nile, 68 

 Gorilli : in the Berlin Aquiriuna, 51, 208 ; the Anatomy of the, 



127 ; the Braia of the, G. D. Thane, 142 

 Giittingen Academy of Sciences, 308 

 Government Grants in Aid of Scie ice, 369, 398 

 Graham (Charles), Fermentation, 213, 249 

 Graham's Chemical and Physical Researches, W. Chandler 



Roberts, F.R.S., 153 

 Gray (Prof. Asa), Sel -Fertilisatioa of P'iowers, 24 

 Green (Prof. A, IL), the Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 97 

 Greenland and Spitzbergen, Fossil Plants from, 208 

 Greenwich as a Meteorological Station, 450, 489, 528 

 Grenfeld (J. G.), Supersaturated Solutions, 138 

 " Grimm's Law," T. Le M. Douse, Rev. A. H. Sayce, 309 

 Groth (P.), " Krystallographie," 372 



