Nature, Nov. 22, 1888] 



INDEX 



IX 



Bodies, Prof. Michael Foster, 596 ; Incompleteness of 

 Combustion on Explosion, Prof. H. B. Dixon, and II. VV. 

 Smith, 596 ; Report of the Committee on the Teaching of 

 Chemistry, Pro.f Dunstan, 596 ; Chemistry as a School 

 Subject, Rev. A. Irving, 596 ; Discussion on Valency, Prof. 

 Armstrong, Dr. Morley. 596 ; Report of the Committee on 

 Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives, Prof. Armstrong, 596 ; 

 '.Vote on the Molecular Weight of Caoutchouc and other 

 Bodies, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and VV. J. Hibbert, 

 596 ; the Action of Light on Water Colour-, Dr. Richard- 

 son, 596 ; Pyrocresols, Dr. VV. Bott and J. B. Miller, 596 ; 

 Geology at the, 596; Recent Eruption in Vulcano, Dr. 

 Johnston- Lavis, 596 ; Report on Vesuvius, Dr. Johnston - 

 Lavis, 597; 1-orroation of Lava, Logan Lobley, 597; 

 Tables to show the Distribution of Japanese Earthquakes 

 i 1 Connection with Years, Seasons, Months, and Hours of 

 the Day, Prof. J. Milne, 597 ; Papers on the Oolitic and 

 Carboniferous Rocks, Horace Woodward, 597 ; Report on 

 the Manure Gravels of Wexford, Bell, 597 ; Report 0.1 the 

 Carboniferous Flora, Prof. Williamson, 597 ; Mineralogical 

 Evolution, Dr. Sterry Hunt, 597 ; Anglesey Rocks, Prof. 

 Blake, 597 



Section A (Mathematual and Physical S ieuce) — Opening 

 Address by Prof. G. F. -Fitzgerald, M.A., F.R.S.. Presi- 

 dent of the Section, 446 ; Lightning Conductors, W. II. 

 l'reece, F.R.S , 546; Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 546; 

 Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 547; Lord Rayleigh, F. R.S., 

 547 ; Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 547 ; VV. de Fon- 

 viellc, 547; Sidney Walker, 547 : G. J. Symons, F.R.S. , 

 547 ; a Simple Hypothesis for Electro-magnetic Induction 

 of Incomplete Circuits, with Consequent Equations of 

 Electric Motion in Fixed Homogeneous or Heterogeneous 

 Solid Matter, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 569 ; on the 

 Transference of Electricity within a Homogeneous Solid 

 Conductor, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 57 ' » Five 

 Applications of Fourier's Law of Diffusion illustrated by a 

 Diagram of Curves with Absolute Numerical Values, Sir 

 William Thomson, F.R.S., 571 ; on the Mechanical Con- 

 ditions of a Swarm of Meteorites and on Theories of Cos- 

 mogony, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 573; Dr. Janssen 

 on the Spectrum of Oxygen, 605 



Section B {Chemical Science) — Opening Address by Prof. 

 William A. Tilden, D.Sc. Lond., F.R.S., F.C.S., Presi- 

 dent of the Section, 470 



Section C (Geology) — Opening Address by W. Boyd Dawkins, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A., Professor of Geology and 

 Palaeontology in Owens College, President of the Section, 



449 

 Section D (Biology) — Opening Address by VV. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, C.M.G., M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S., President 

 of the Section, 473 

 Section E (Geography)— Opening Address by Colonel Sir C. 

 W. Wilson, R.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL D., 

 F.R.S., F. R.G.S., Director-General of the Ordnance 

 Survey, President of the Section, 480 

 Section G (Mechanical Science) — Opening Address by Wil- 

 liam Henry Preece, F.R.S., M. Inst. C.E., &.C., Pre.-ident 

 of the-Section, 494 

 Section H (Anthropology) — Opening Address by Lieutenant- 

 General Pitt-Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A., 

 President of the Section, 516, 542 

 British Birds : Key List of, Lieut. -Colonel L. Howard Irby, 



Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 587 

 British Earthworms, Dr. VVm. B. Benham, 319 

 British Medical Association, Annual Meeting, 347 

 British Museum, Parliamentary Paper on, 486 

 British Petrography, J. J. Harris Teall, Prof. John W. Judd, 



K.R.S., 385 

 British Pharmaceutical Association, 452 

 Brooks (VV. K.), on the Life-History oi\Epenthesis mccraydi, 



356 

 Brooks (W. R.), Further Cometary Discoveries, 375 

 Brooks's New Comet, 432, 576, 626 ; Dr. H. Kreutz, 397, 503, 



528 

 Brough (Bennett H.), a Treatise on Mine-Surveying, C. Le Neve 



Foster, 317 

 Brounow (Dr.), Anticyclones in Europe, 63 

 Brown (A. M.), Treatise on the Animal Alkaloids, 170 

 Brown (H. T.) and Dr. G. H. Morris's Determination of 

 Molecular Weights of Carbo-hydrates, 117 



Brown (J Allen), Discovery of Elephas primigenius associated 



with Flint Implements at Southall, 283 

 Brown (Marie), on the Scandinavian Colonization of North 



America, 17 

 Brown (Robert), Eulogy on, Sir J. Hooker, 116 

 Brown-Sequard (M.), on the Action of the Brain, 168 

 Bnin'g Railway, the, 502 

 Brunn (Dr. Otto), Elimination of Arseniuretted Hydrogen from 



Sulphuretted Hydrogen by means of Iodine, 575 

 Bruyne (Dr. de), Pulsation in the Lower Animal Organisms, 310 

 Buchheim (Arthur), Obituary Notice of, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, 



F.R.S., 515 

 Buckland (A. W.), Distribution of Animals and Plants by 



( >cean Currents, 245 ; Preserving the Colour of Flowers, 270 

 Budge (Dr. Ludwig Julius), Death of, 302 

 Buitenzorg, Java, Annales du Jardin Botanique de, 344 

 Bull (Dr. H. G.), Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire, 125 

 Buller (Sir Walter), History of the Birds of New Zealand, 159 

 Bulletin de 1'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 



512 

 Bulletin de 1'Academie Royale de Balgique, 20, 91, 164, 310, 



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Bulletin of Paris Geographical Society, 455 

 Bulletin de la Societe d' Anthropologic de Paris, 309 

 Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 139 

 Burbury (S. H.), on the Induction of Electric Currents in 



Conducting Shells of Small Thickness, 333 

 Burial Customs, the, of the Ainos, Rev. J. Batchelor, 331 

 Burials, on the Use of Sledges, Sec, at, M. Anutchin, 134 

 Burma, Upper, the Survey of, 115 

 Burma, Upper, Major Hobday on Operations in, 136 

 Burton (C. V.), on Electromotive Force by Contact, 94 

 Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, S. H. 



Scudder, 624 

 Butterflies, South African, a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical 



Species, Rowland Trimen, F.R.S., 266 

 Bussorah, Agriculture in, 278 

 Butler (E. A.), Silkworms, 386 



Caddis-flies, Bohemian, Transformations of, Prof. Klapalek, 



553 

 Cae-Gvvyn Cave, North Wales, 22 

 Cailletet (M.) and M. E. Colardeau, Researches on Refrigerant 



Mixtures, 191 

 Calcium, Influence of Temperature on, 23 

 Calculation of Ranges, &c, of Elongated Projectiles, Rev. F. 



Bashforth, 468 

 Calculus, a Chapter in the Integral, A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 218 

 Calcutta : Indian Museum, and the Insect Pests of India, 17 ; 



Botanic Garden, the Centenary of the, 493 

 California : Live Lobsters sent to, 327 ; Hand-book of the Lick 



Observatory of the University of California, Prof. Edward S. 



Holden, 410 

 Calorimeter, an Ether, Prof. Neesen, 312 



Cambodia, Anthropological, &c, Study of. Dr. E. Maurel, 463 

 Cambrian Faunas in North America, Stratigraphical Succession 



of the, Prof. Chas. B. Walcott, 551 

 Cambridge: Head Growth in Students at the University of, 



Francis Galton, F.R.S., 14; Speeches delivered, June 9, by 



Dr. Sandys at, 163 ; Dr. Alex. Hill elected Master of Down- 

 ing College, 182 ; Natural Science Examinerships, 189 ; 



Awards in Natural Science, 189 ; Cambridge Philosophical 



Society, 215 

 Cameron (Sir C. A.) and John Macallan, on the Compounds of 



Ammonia with Selenium Dioxide, 46 

 Cameroons Territory : Valdau and Knutson's Explorations in 



the, 136; Lieutenants Kund and Tappenbeck's Expedition, 



186 

 Campbell (F. M.), on the Reappearance of Pallas's Sand Grouse 



(Syrhaptcs paradoxus) in Europe, 77 

 Canada: Agriculture in, 87; Sir J. VV. Dawson, F.R.S., on 



the Eozoic and Palaeozoic Rocks of the Atlantic Coast of 



Canada, 142 ; Geological and Natural History of, 257 

 Candles, Soaps and, Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 292 

 Canoes, Ancient : found in Norway, 134 ; in Sweden, 304 ; in 



the River Hamble, 598 

 Canton, Medical Missionary Society of, 279 

 Cape of Good Hope, Meteorological Service of, 454 



