Nature, May lo, 1877] 



INDEX 



Vll 



Grove (Sir William, F.R.S.), on the Radiometer, 435 

 Guiana, Dutch, W. G. Palerave, 311 

 Giinther (Dr. A. F.R.S. ), Gigantic Land Tortoises, 327 

 Gurnet Bay, Discovery of Celts in, 128 



Hanrlem, Gold Medal of the Dutch Society of Sciences, 207 



Haggerston Entomological Society, 69 



Hail, Prof. 11. Fritz on the Geographical Distribution of, 17 



Hailstones in India, 538 ; Hailstones and Raindrops, Forma- 

 tion of, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 163 



Hair and Eyes, Statistics of the Colour of, 346 



Halipbysema, New Forms of, 439 



Halo Round Shadow, Amulph Malloch, 375 



Hamberg (Dr.), his Meteorological Tour, 17 



Hamburg, Meeting of German Naturalises aN 149 



Hampshire, the Tropical Forests of, J. Starkie Gardner, 229, 

 258, 279 



Hansen's Lunar Tables, Ncwcomb's Corrections of, 166 



Ifpnrken (Max von), "Die Fauna der Clavulina SzaLoi 

 Schichten," 115 



Hardman (E. T.), Deep-sea Manganiferous Muds, 57 



Harris (Mr.), Challenge to Mathematician';, 117 



Harrison (W. Jerome), Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 97 



Harvard University, Science at, 432 



Harting's "While's Selborne," 128 



Haughton (Prof, F.R.S.), Notes on Physical Geology, 542; the 

 Tides of the Arctic Seas, 562 



ITayden (Dr. F. V.), Survey of the United States, 335 



Hfaring, Sense o'^, in Birds arid Insects, G. J. Romanes, 177; 

 292 ; R. M'Lachlan, 254 ; Prof. A. Leith Adams, 334 



Heated Air, 283 



Heelis (E. ), Patenas of Ceylon, 548 



Heer (Prof.), "The Primeval World of Switzerland," 140 



Heiligbrodt (Dr. L.), Coloenis Juli;i in Texas, 399 



Ilein (Dr. Isidor), the Sensation of Sound, ro8 



Heligoland and Kiel, Proposed Zoological Stations in, 57 



Helmholtz (Prof.), Notice of, IjyProf Clc»rk Maxwell, F.R.S., 3S9 



Ilelsingfors, Ethnological Museum at, 418 



Hennessy (Prof. H.), the Internal Fluidity of the Earth, 78 



Henry (Prof.), on Fog-Signnls, 129 



Henslo'v (Rev. George), Non-Amphibious l>a!rachians, 548 



Heredity Typical Laws of, Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 492, 512, 532 



Ileughlin (Theodor von), Death of, 67 



Hibernation of Birds, 465, 527 



lliggins (II. II.), Squirrels, 1 17; the 6V/(7//c';/^w- Collections, 274 



IIif,'gs (Dr. Paget), J-lectro-Capillary Phenomena, 7; Electric 

 Motor Pendulum, 98 



Ilil'er (M.), Pock Lymph, 15 



Histology, Dr. Rutherford's Outlines of, 4 



Hofmann (A. W., F.R.S.), the Life Work of L'ebig in Experi- 

 mental and Philosophic Chemistry, 193 



Ilofmeister (Prof. Wilhelm, F. B.), Death of, 2S4 



Hog WalloM's, or Piairie Mounds, 431, 530 



Holdswortli (E. W. I!.), Sei Fisheries, 23, 135, 198 



Holly Berries, Scarcity of, 266; and Rare Birdi, Duke of Argyll, 



273. 295 

 Iloncydew in Plants, 324 

 Hopkins Univerfity, 501 



Ilorck (Ilerr v. Horn von der) and the Sioux Indians, 245 

 Ho-ne (John), Glaciation of the Shetland Isles, 139 

 Howga*e(Capt.), Method of Attaining the North Pole, 284, 365 

 Hewitt (A. W.), the Boomerang, 312 



Huggins (Wm., F.R.S.), Photographic Spectra oi Stars, 171 

 Hughes (Prof.), Existence of Man during the Glacial Period, 87 

 Hull (Prof. E., F.R.S.), Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 78, u5 

 Hughes (W. R.), Antedon Rosaceus [Comatula rosacea), 7, 158 

 Humbert (AlVi.), Eyeless Crustaceans, 559 

 Hummocky Moraine Drift, G. II. Kinahan, 379 

 Hunterian Lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons, 383 

 Hurricane in Belgium and Holland, 343 

 Huxley (Prof. T. II., F.R.S ), on the Study of Biology, 219 ; 



Number of Speci'ss of Insects 275 

 Hydrogen, Absorption of, by Organic Substances under the In- 

 fluence of the Silent Discharge, 520 

 Hydrography in France, 284 

 Hydrography of West Central Africa, 517 

 Hydrophobia, Wistering Beetles a Cure for, 264 

 HygioscOj.)ic Seeds, Francis Darwin, 374 

 Hypobromite, Estimation of Urea by, Dr. A. Dupr^, 399 



J;V, the, 69 



Ice, Prof. Bianconi's Experiments on, 69 



Ilmenium, the Metal, 520 



India : Fungus Disease of, 21 ; Freshwater Fishes of, 150 ; the 

 Northern I3arriers of, 396 ; Proposed Museum for, 459 ; Hail- 

 stones in, 538 ; Geology of, 98 



" Indian jNIiscellany," Munsell's, 265 



Indians : N. American, 194 



Industrial University, London, 519 



Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Rooks Buildmgat Christmas, 217 ; Meteor, 

 375 



Insects : Our Insect Foes, 84 ; Insecticides and Phylloxera, 

 200 ; Numbfr of Species of, 275 ; Fertilisation of Flowers by, 

 Dr. PI. Miillfr, XV. 317, XVI. 473 ; Sense of Hearing in 

 Insects and Birds, 254, 292, 354 ; on the Relation between 

 Insects and Flowers, Dr. II. Midler, 178 



Institute of Civil Engineers, 131, 151, 327, 348, 484 



Intonation, Just, 159, 196, 253, 291, 353, 430 



Intra-Mercurial Planet Question, 14, 68, 282, 437, 442, 457, 509 



Iron and Steel Institute, Dr. Siemen's Presidential Address, 462 



Irtysh and Obi, Exploration of, 207 



Italian Meteorological Society, Proposed, 363 



Jahrbuch der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt zu Wien, 210 



Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Chemie, 247 



James (Dr.), Death of, 67 



Janson College, Paris, 265 



Janssen (M.), Planets between Mercury and the Sun, 171 



Jardin des PI antes, Paris, 50 



Jelinek (Dr. Carl), Death of, 16 ; Obituary Notice of, <S5, 115 



Jellett (Rev. J. H. ), on the Potato Disease, 263 



Jena, University of, 344 



Jenissei, Nordenskjold's Expedition to the, 123, 265 



Jenkins (B. G.), Sea Fisheries, 176 



Jordan (D. S., M.D.), Manual of the Vertebrates of the 



Northern United States, 216 

 Joubert (M.) and Pasteur (M.), the Spontaneous Generation 



Question, 313 

 Journal de Physique, 20, 191, 210, 346, 419 

 Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Societies, 542 

 Judd (Prof. J. W.), "Darwin's Geological Observations," 289 

 Jupiter : Coloured P»elts of, 282 ; the Brightness of Jupiter's 



Satellites, 65 ; Damoiseau's Tables of Jupiter's Satellites, 414 

 Just Intonation, 159, 196, 253, 291, 353, 430 



" Kames," the, near Newport, N.B., 266 



Kara Sea, Algse of the, 461 



Keane (A. H.), French Accent, 396; Rices and Tribes of the 

 Chad Basin, 550 



Kerner (M.) on the Means of Protection in Flowers against Un- 

 welcome Visitors, 237 



Kiel : New University Buildings, iio ; the New Observatory, 438 



R-iel and Heligoland, Proposed Zoological Stations in, 57 



Kimberley Diamond Mine, South Africa, 440 



Kinahan (G. II.), Towering of Birds, 217; Auroric Lights, 

 334 ; Hummocky Moraine Drift, 379 



Kinj (Dr.), Report of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 71 



King (George, M.B.), " Cinchona Cultivation in India," 446 



Knol^el's Catalogue of the Literature of Sidereal Astronomy, 48 



Konkoly (Dr. N. v.), Observations on the Spectra of the Fixed 

 Stars, 344 



Koorgans, the Ancient, of Russia, 384 



Kiihne's Researches on Photo-Chemical Processes in the Retina, 

 Prof. Arthur Gamgee, 296 



Lake Country, Geology of the, J. C. Ward, 54S 



Lake-Dwellings on Lake Neuchatel, 188 



Lallemand (M.), Fluorescence, 209 



Langley (Prof.), Sun-spots, 90 



Lanke£ter(E. Ray, F.R.S.), Packard's Life-Histories of Ani- 

 mals, 271 



Lapland, Russian, 382 



Lees (William), "Acoustics, Light, and Heat," Dr. \y. H. 

 Stone, 352 



Letters Patent, Goodeve's Abstract of Cases relating to, 22 



Lewes (G. II.), " Fe.rier's Functions of the Brain," 73, 93 



Lewis and Cunningham's Fungus Disease of India, 21 



Ley (Rev. W. Ciemeni), Ocean Currents, 157, 198 ; South 

 Polar Depression of the Barometer, 253 ; Ocean and Atmo- 

 spheric Currents, 333 ; Atmospheric Curienls, 450 



Libyan Desert, Meteorology of the, 342 



Lick (Mr.), Legacy, 383 



