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INDEX 



{Nature, May 30, 1878 



Giinther (Dr., F.R.S.). Gigantic Land Tortoises, 483 



Hailstones, Rain-drops, and Snow-flakes, the Formation of, 

 Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 207 



Hailstorm at Brisbane, 455 



Hair, Human, the Colouring Matter of, 355 



Halle, University Intelligence, 235, 478 



Haller (Albert von), 90, 223 



Halogen Derivatives of Amines, 151 



Handwriting, Restoration of the, of Old MSS., 351 



Hanover, the Polytechnic at, 335 



Harmonograph, 394 



Harrison (Park), Exploration of the "Cave Pit," Cissbury, 53 



Harrison (W. H,), " Lazy Lays," 38 



Harrison (W. J.), Geology of Leicestershire and Rutland, 58 



Harrow School Bathing-Place, Arthur G. Watson, 487 



Hartlaub's " Birds of Madagascar," Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 9 



Harvard College, U.S., Observatory, 363 



Harvey (William), Notice of, by Prof. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 

 417 ; the Proposed Statue of, 435 



Hatfield (H.), Meteor, 342 



Hauer (F. R. von), «' Die Geologie," 78 



Hayden (Dr.) Geological Work of the U.S. Survey in 1877, 129 



Head-Masters on Science Teaching, Rev. W, Tuckwell, 317 



Hearing and Smell in Insects, lienry Cecil, 102, 381 



Heat, B. Loewy, 43 



Heat, Evolution of, during Muscular Action, Prof. A. Fick, 285 



Heat-Motion, on a Means of Converting the, Possessed by 

 Matter at Normal Temperature in Work, S. Tolver Preston, 

 202 ; John Aitken, 260 



Hebrides, Low Barometric Readings in the, Nov., 1877, 307 



Hecla, Mount, Eruption of, 454 



Heddle (Prof. M. Forster), Glaciation of Orkney, 182 



Heidelberg, University of, 195 



Helmholtz (Prof. H., F.R.S.), Lord Rayleigh's "Theory of 

 Sound," 237; Helmholtz's Vowel Theory and the Phonograph, 

 384, 411, 423 



Henderson (Richard) Manual of Agriculture, 280 



Hennessey (J. B. N., F.R.S.), Optical Spectroscopy of the Red 

 End of the Solar Spectrum, 28 



Henry Telephone, 437 



Hensen (M,), the Earthworm in Relation to the Fertility of the 

 Ground, 18 



Henslow (Rev. G.), on the Self-Fertilisation of Plants, 221 



Hering (M.), on the Sense of Temperature, 372 



Hermann (Otto), Hungarian Spiders, 128 



Herring Fisheries and the Telegraph, 351 ; the Swedish, 391 



Herschel (Prof. A. S.), the " Phantom" Force, 302, 321, 340 



Hicks (Henry), Dimetian and Pebidian Rocks of Pembroke- 

 shire, 155 



Higgins (H. H.), " Notes by a Field Naturalist in the Western 

 Tropics," 121 



High Tides, Prediction of, 38, 45, 58, loi 



Hildebrandt (Dr. J. M.), Ascent of Mount Kenia, 72 ; Explo- 

 ration of Africa, 194 



Hilgard (J. E.), Transatlantic Longitudes, 244 



Hind (J. R., F.R.S.), Wolf's "History of Astronomy," 259 

 (Translation), 359 



Hinde (G. J.), Earthquake in Canada, 90 



Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, 239 



Hippopotamus, Death of, in the Zoological Gardens, 392 



Hissarlik, Antiquities from, 397 



Hofmann (Prof. A.), a " Commers " in Honour of, 393 



Hofmeister's Cryptogamia, 344 



Holden (J. Sinclair), Strychnia and its Antidote, 360 



Hollis (W. Ainslie), Supplementary Eye-brows, 124 



Hopkins, Johns, University, Baltimore, Anniversary, 459 j Fel- 

 lowships at, 517 



Horology, Modern, M. Claudius Saunier, 484 



Horse-Shoe Crabs, 289 



" Horticulture," F. W. Burbidge, 142 



Hovelacque (Abel), the Science of Language, 464 



Howgate (Capt,), Arctic Expedition, 153, 171 



Hubbard (E.), the Wasp and the Spider, 402 



Humboldt Institution for Naturalists and Travellers, 311 



Hungary: Spiders of, 128; Rotifers of, 128 



Hunter (Dr. W. W.), Rainfall in the Temperate Zone in Con- 

 nection with the Sun-spot Cycle, 59 ; Great Waterfalls, 242 



Hunterian Lectures for 1878, 350 



Huxley's "Physiography," 178 



Hydrophobia, 117, 139 



Hygrometer, a new Condensing, 14, 28; M. AUuard's, 132 



Ice : as an Electrolyte, 56; R. Pictet on the Formation of 154; 

 Production of, 212 



Iceland: Volcanic Eruption in, 171; no Butterflies in, 243, 

 260 



Ilford Fossils, Dr. R. P. Cotton's Collection of, 231 



Index Society, 37 



India : Methods for Determining Solar Radiation in, 131 ; the 

 Rainfall of, 273, 505 ; the Climate of, 307 



Indium in British Blendes, Prof. N. S. Maskelyne, F.R.S., 5 



"Inductive Metrology," Flinders Petrie, 357 



Indus River, 38, 250 . 



" Industrial Art," 272 



Inflexible, the, 131, 137 



Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Philadelphia Diplomas, 183 



Injurious Insects, Report on, 330 



Innsbruck University Statistics, 25-1 



Insectivorous Plants, Francis Darwin, 222 



Insects : and Flowers, 1 1 ; Fritz Mliller on Insects and Flowers, 

 78 ; Insects, Hearing and Smell in, Henry Cecil, 102, 381 ; 

 Insects and Artificial Flowers, 133, 162 ; Selective Discrimina- 

 tion of Insects, 62, 163, 402, 425 ; Insect Fauna of Chili, 

 R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 162; A. R. Wallace, 182; Insects 

 of Chili and New Zealand, 221, 260 ; Sense in, W. M. Gabb, 

 282; Report on Injurious, 330; Digestion in, 411 



Institute of Chemistry, 273, 291, 309 



Institute of Civil Engineers, 54, 76, 156, 215, 276, 356, 416, 

 460, 500, 520 



International Geological Congress, 65 



International Polar Expeditions, E. J. Reed, C.B., M.P., 29 



lodates of Cobalt and Nickel, 150 



Iquique, Earthquake at, 90, 272 



Iron and Steel Institute, 436, 458 



Iron, Red-hot and Light, 17 



Iron Ships, Compass Adjustment in, Sir William Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 331, 352, 387 



Iron, the Fracture of, 491 



Islam and its Founder, J. W. H. Stobart, 239 



Island, a Volcanic, 194 



Isomerism, Influence of, on the Formation of Ethers between 

 Acids and Alcohols, 151 



Italian Cryptogamic Society, 491 



Italian Geographical Society, 37, 132 



Jack (Robert L.), Research in Libraries, 486 



Jackson (J. G.), the Great Pyramid, 243 



Jahrbiicher f. wissenschaftliche Botanik, 158 



Jahresbericht fiir Chemie, 171 



Janssen's Researches on the Sun's Photosphere, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 23 



Japan: Edward S. Morse on Traces of Early Man in, 89; 

 Exploration of, 171 ; Archaeological Society in, 271 ; Geo- 

 graphical Work in, 290 ; Japanese Students in England, 491 



Jena, University Statistics, 254 



Jenkins (Prof. Fleeming) and J. A. Ewing on Helmholtz's 

 Vowel Theory and the Phonograph, 384, 423 



Jenkins (B. G.), Expected High Tides, 45, loi ; Sun-spots and 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, 259 



Jersey, Earthquake in, 272 



Jewell (Lieut. Theo. F.), Sounding Apparatus, 230 \ 



Johns Hopkins Scientific Association, 113 



Joliet (M. L.), French Polyzoa, 382 



Jordan (Dr. D. S.), the Distribution of Freshwater Fishes, 128 



Journal de Physique, 294, 314 



Journal of Forestry, 153 



Judd (Prof. J. W„ F.R.S.), the Strata of the Westeni Coast 

 and Islands of Scotland, 335 



Jupiter's Satellites, 149. 



" Kames " in Connecticut, 213 



Kampf (Dr. Frederick), Death of, 513 



Kant (Immanuel), Proposed Monument to, 391 



"Katzen, Das Buch der," 351 



Keane (A. H.), Translation of Hovelacque's Science of 



Language, 464 

 Kekule (Prof.), on the Position of Chemistry, 55 

 Kelsief (M.), Exploration of Russia, 38 

 Kenia, Mount, Dr. J. M. Hildebrandt's Ascent of, 72 



