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INDEX 



Aach, the, and the Danube, 233 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), the Eurydice Squall, 466 



Abney (W. de W., F.R.S.), "A Treatise on Photography," 

 378 ; the Acceleration of Oxidation caused by the Least Re- 

 frangible End of the Spectrum, 518 



Absolute Pitch, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. , 12 



Ackroyd (W.), on the Telephone, 330 



Acoustic Repulsion, 515 



Acoustical Effects of Atmospheric Pressure, G. Rayleigh Vicars, 

 244 



Adulteration : in Berlin, 91 ; Anti-Adulteration Society at 

 Leipzig, 91 



^olian Harps, 33 



Africa: H. M. Stanley's Exploration of, 17, 49, 90, 193, 270, 

 297; International African Exploration Society, 71, 346; 

 French Exploration of, 91 ; Italian Exjiedition to, 132 ; Ex- 

 ploration of Lake Albert Nyanza, 192, 364 ; the Belgian 

 Expedition to, 193, 346, 467 ; Dr. Hildebrandt's Expedition, 

 194; Herr Gerhard Rohlf's Expedition to the Sahara, 211 ; 

 the Marquis Antinori's Expedition, 21 r, 249; an Early African 

 Explorer, 270; Mr, Stanley in England, 270; D'Anvers' 

 History of North African Discovery, 280 ; Proposed Language 

 Map of, 293 ; Herr Schiitt's Expedition, 308 ; Prof. Oliver's 

 "Flora of Tropical Africa," 319; German Exploration of, 

 324 ; Mr. Stanley's New Work on, 364 ; Exploration of 

 South- West Africa, 364; African Dwarfs, 364; Proposed 

 New Expedition, 383 ; Ancient Maps of Central Africa, 383 ; 

 Dr. Effendi's Expedition, 408 ; the Lake Nyassa Region, 435 ; 

 Exploration of Angola, 453 ; Dr. Bastian on African 

 Weapons, 455; Trollope's "South Africa," 463; Church 

 Missionary Society Expedition, 467 ; Exploration of, 279, 

 383, 468 ; Geographical Notes, 489 ; New Map of, 489 ; 

 French Expedition to, 508 



Agassiz (Alex.), North American Starfishes, 98 ; Cruise in the 

 Gulf of Mexico, 151, 192, 454 



Agriculture, Henderson's Manual of, 280 



Agricultural Society, the Royal, 301 



Air-Pump, Improvement of the, 310 



Aitken (John), on a Means for Converting the Heat Motion pos- 

 sessed by Matter at Normal Temperature into Work, 260 



Aix-la-ChajDelle, the Polytechnic at 335 



Albert (Herr Josef), Photography of Natural Colours, 92 



Albert Nyanza, Exploration of, 364 



Aldebaran, New Companion to, 488 



Algre, Green, 289 



Algae of the White Sea, 345 



Algebra and Chemistry, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 284, 309 



Algeria, Proposed Schools in, 393 



Allen (J. A.), on the American I3ison, 127 



Alloys of Tin, &c.. Hardening of, 311 



Alluard's New Condensing Hygrometer, 14, 28 



Alpine Club, German, 468 



Amber, Production of, 132 



Amblyornis inornata, no 



America : American Journal of Science and Art, 18, 293 ; 

 American Science, 18, 39, 113, 213, 293, 438, 497; American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 37 ; American 

 Bison, 127; American Philosophical Society, Proceedings 

 of, 199 ; Entomology in, 222 ; American Naturalist, 232, 

 293 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 293 ; American 

 Geographical Society, 346, 409 ; the Inland Fisheries, 382 ; 

 American Longitudes, 408 ; American Geological Surveys, 

 Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S., 431 ; Bibliographical Index of 



North American Plants, 514. See also United States, New 



York, Philadelphia, &c. 

 Amines, Halogen, Derivatives of, 151 

 Amsterdam and St. Paul, the Islands of. Prof. E. Perceval 



Wright, 326 

 Analogies of Plant and Animal Life, Francis Darwin, 388, 41 1 

 Ancient History from the Monuments, George Smith, 119 

 Angara, Exploration of the, 308 

 Angola, Exploration of, 453 



Animal and Plant Life, Analogies of, Francis Darwin, 388, 41 1 

 Animal Eggs, the Earliest Changes in, 509 

 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 39, 214, 254, 294, 394 

 Annuaire Bureau des Longitudes of France, 211 

 Anthony (John G.), Death of, 39, 133 

 Anthropology: Anthropological Exhibition in Moscow, 16; 



Anthropological Institute, 76, 171, 176, 215, 315, 355, 415, 



470, 499; Anthropological Literature, 1876, 133; Anthro- 



pologische Gesellschaft of Berlin, 438 ; Anthropology in 



Moscow, 171; of Central Asia, 172; Russian Collection at 



the Paris Exhibition, 350 

 Antibes, Thuret's Garden al, 351 

 Antimony, Atomic Weight of, 293, 439 

 Antinori (Marquis), Supposed Death of, 71, no; his African 



Expedition, no, 2n, 249 

 Antiquity of Man, 315 

 Antiseptic Vapours, the Action of Certain, on the Ripening of 



Fruits, 150 

 Ants, the Habits of. Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., 355 ; the 



Agricultural Ants of Texas, 433 

 Apiculture at the Paris Exhibition, 309 

 Apothecaries, Society of. Prizes in Botany, 109 

 Appunn and Koenig — Beats in Confined Air, Alex. J. Ellis, 



F.R.S., 26 

 Aquatic Respiration, 290 



Ararat, Prof. Bryce's, Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S., 205 

 Archibald (E. D.), Indian Rainfall, 505 

 Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, 172 

 Arctic Aurorae, J. Rand Capron, 162 

 Arctic Exploration: 132, 271, 290, 324, 408, 468; Prof. 



Nordenskjbld's Expedition, 90 ; Discovery of Arctic Fossil 



Plants, 115; the II owgate Expedition, 153 

 Arctic Fauna, 155 

 Arctic Map, the Zenis', 71 

 Artesian Well at Pesth, 109 



Articulate Speech, Elements of. Dr. W. II. Corfield, 447 

 Artificial Flowers and Insects, 133, 162 

 Arthropods, Sound-producing, W. Saville Kent, li ; Origin of 



Tracheoe in, 284, 340 

 Ascidians, Deep Sea, 289 

 Asseline (M. ), Death of, 490 

 Astronomy : Proctor's " Myths and Marvels of Astronomy," 



180 ; Wolf's History of Astronomy, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 



259; English Translation of, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 359; 



Astronomisches Jahrbuch, Berlin, 507 ; Our Astronomical 



Column, 14, 36, 46, 63, 82, 104, 129, 149, 163, 189, 209, 



231, 247, 269, 288, 306, 323, 343, 363, 381, 407, 432, 452, 



418, 507 ; Astronomical Society, see Royal 

 Atlantic Shells, Wollaston's, 503 

 "Atlas Celeste," Ch. Dien, 141 

 Atmospheric Movements, 307 

 Atmospheric Pressure of Europe, 15 

 Atmospheric Pressure, Acoustical Effects of, G. Rayleigh Vicars, 



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