Nature, Nov. 22, iS38] 



INDEX 



Vll 



during Opposition of 18S8, L. Nieslen, 511 ; Comet 1888 e 

 (Barnard), 528 ; Comets Brooks and Faye, Dr. H. Kreutz, 

 528 ; Comet 1888 c (Brooks), Dr. H. Kreutz, 503 ; Dis- 

 covery of a New Comet, 1888 e, E. E. Barnard, 503 ; the 

 Total Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 553 ; Photometric Obser- 

 vations of Asteroids, Henry M. Parkhurst, 554 ; New Cata- 

 logue of Variable Stars, S. C. Chandler, 554 ; Minor Planet 

 No. 275, 554 ; the Light-curve of U Ophiuchi, S. C. Chandler, 

 S;6 ; Comets Brooks and Faye, 576 ; Comet 1888 ^ (Barnard), 

 W. K. Brooks, 576 ; Astronomical Instruments, Lord Craw- 

 ford's Collection of, 598 ; the Solar Parallax from Photographs 

 of the last Transit of Venus, 600 ; the Markings of Mars, 601 ; 

 Fresh Calculation of Jupiter's Mass, E. de Haertl, 608 ; Prof. 

 Egoroff's Report on the Observations made in Russia and 

 Siberia during the Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887, 

 625 ; the Ring Nebula in Lyra, Prof. Holden, 626 ; Comets 

 Brooks and Faye, 626 ; Comet 1888 e (Barnard), Herr A. 

 Berberich, 626 ; American Observatories, 626 ; Fearnley and 

 Geelmuyden Zone Observations of the Stars, 626 



Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, Publications of the, 206 



Atkinson (W. S.), Description of the New Indian Lepidopterous 

 Insects from the Collection of Frederick Moore, 266 



Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, Charts Showing the Mean 

 Barometrical Pressure over the, 196 



Atlantic, North, Currents, Monthly Charts, M. Simart, 143 



Atlantic, North, Pilot Chart of, 86, 204, 422 



Atlantic Ocean, Models of the Bed of the, 327 



Atlantic Slope, Three Formations of the Middle, W. J. McGee, 

 190 



Atlas, Mr. Joseph Thomson's Proposed Expedition to the, 1 12, 



555 

 Atmosphere in Channel, Extraordinary Rarefaction of, 256 

 Atmosphere, Thermo-dynamics of the, Prof, von Bezold, 144 

 Atmosphere, Transparency of the, J. Parnell, 270 

 Atmospheric Nitrogen, on the Relations of, to Vetable Soil, M. 



Th. Schlcesing, 383 

 Atolls, Formation of, 5 



Atomic Weight, Prof. Hartley, F.R.S., 142 

 Aubert (Dr.), Notes on the Departement de 1'Ain, 431 

 Aurivillius (Dr. C), on the Skeleton of the so-called Sweden- 



borg Whale, Eubalena ivedenborgii, Lillj., 134 

 Aurora Borealis observed at Motala, Sweden, 16 ; at Orebro in 



Central Sweden, 16 

 Aurora Borealis, Origin of, Jean Luvini, 143 

 Aurora Borealis at Rock Ferry, 54 

 Aurora in Spitzbergen, Dr. H. Hildebrandsson, 84 

 Australia : the Rabbit Pest in, 42 ; Curious Apparent Motion 

 of the Moon seen in, T. Mellard Reade, 102 ; Wraggs's Daily 

 Weather Charts for Australia, 303 ; Lieut. Israel's Exploring 

 Party, 374 ; the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 437 ; Report of the Australian Museum, 

 575 ; a New Australian Mammal, E. C. Stirling, 588 ; 

 Female Figures modelled in Wax discovered among Aus- 

 tralian Aboriginals, 623 ; Australian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 623 ; Catalogue of the Fishes in the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, 624 

 Austria, Curious Relic of Mediaeval Superstition in, 454 

 Austrian Alps, New Measurements of the, 280 

 Aveling (Edward), Mechanics, 587 

 Avocet Rock, the, 222 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F. R.S. ) : Apparatus for the Measurement 

 of the Coefficient of Expansion by Heat, 141 ; and Prof. 

 J. Perry, on Electromotors, 190 ; Electric Transmission of 

 Power, 508, 533 

 Azonaphthol Compeunds, on the Constitution of the, Prof. 

 Meldola, 623 



Babylonian Characters, the Old, and their Chinese Derivates, 

 by Terrien de Lacouperie, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 122 



Backhouse (T. W.)= the Sky-coloured Clouds, 196, 270; the 

 Zodiacal Light and Meteors, 434 



Bacteria in Women's Milk, 24 



Bacterial Disease of the Duck, MM. Cornil and Toupet, 216 



Bahia or Bendego Meteorite, 349 



Bailey (Wm. H.), Death of, 396 



Baillie (Nav. -Lieutenant, R.N.), Charts of Mean Barometrical 

 Pressure over Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, 196 



Bait for Sea-Fishermen, the Supply of, G. C. Bourne, 318 



Baker (C. Weatherall), a Magnificent Meteor, 203 



Baker (J. G., F.R.S.) : Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, William 



Hillebrand, 49 ; Preserving the Colour of Flowers, 245 ; 



Synoptical Flora of North America, Prof. Asa Gray, 242 ; 



Hand-book of the Amaryllidete, 362 

 Balance, Physical, Theory and Use of, J. Walker, 146 

 Balance, the Voltaic, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335 

 Balland (M.), on the Development of the Grain of Wheat, 



16S 

 Balloon, Captive, at Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction by 



Lightning of, 578 

 Balloon Journey, a, Lieut. Moedebeck, 48 

 Balloon, Proposed Steel Vacuum, 185 

 Ballot (Dr. Buys), on the Distribution of Temperature over the 



Surface of the Earth, 374 

 Baltic, Remarkable Mirage on the, 304 

 Bamford (Alf. J.), Turbans and Tails, or Sketches in the Un- 



romantic East, 269 

 Banare (A.), Experiments with Marine Telephone, 464 

 Banbury (G. A. Lethbridge), Sierra Leone, or the White Man's 



Grave, 244 

 Bandai-San Eruption, the, 452 



Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction of Captive Balloon by Light- 

 ning, 5J8 

 Barley, Experiments on Hybridism or Crossings with Common, 



336 

 Barnard (E. E.), Discovery of a New Comet, 1888 e, 503 ; 



Comet 1888 e, W. R. Brooks, 576, 626 

 Baroda, Science in, 41 

 Barometer, a New, T. H. Blakesley, 287 

 Barometrical Pressure over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific 



Oceans, Charts showing the, 196 

 Barttelot (Major), Murder of, 499 

 Bashfbrth (Rev. F. ), Calculation of Ranges, &c, of Elongated 



Projectiles, 468 

 Basingstoke, Discovery of Prehistoric Remains near, 553 

 Basset (A. B.), Treatise on Hydro- dynamics, 243 

 Batavia, Dr. Guppy's Expedition to the Coral Reefs of the 



Indian Archipelago, 228 

 Batchelor (Rev. J. ) : on AinoFolk-Lore, 87 ; Burial Customs of 



the Ainos, 331 

 Bath : Natural History and Antiquarian Field-Club, 304 ; 



Meeting of the British Association, 346, 382 

 Bather (F. A.), Lightning and Milk, 30 

 Baudot (M.), an Isochronous Regulator, 384 

 Bauer (G.), Spelin, Eine Allsprache, 1 

 Beat of the Human Heart, on the Electromotive Variations 



which accompany the, Dr. Augustus D. Waller, 619 

 Beatty-Kingston (W.), a Wanderer's Notes, 196 

 Becquerel (M. ), the Absorption Spectra of Crystals, 343 

 Beddard (Frank E. ), the Nephridia of Earthworms 221 

 Bedford (II.), Derivation of the Word Claret, 113 

 Bedford College, Shaen Wing, 372 

 Beevor (Dr. Charles E.) and Victor Horsley, F. R. S., Note on 



some of the Motor Functions of certain Cranial Nerves and 



of the Three First Cervical Nerves in the Monkey {Macacus 



sinicus), 357 

 Belgium, Report of Royal Commission on Condition of Labour, 



. *33 



Bell (Prof. A. Graham), and Deaf Mutes, 132 



Bell (Mr.), on Manure Gravels of Wexford, 597 



Belladonna, the Constituents of, 240 



Benda(Dr.), the Structure of Striated Muscle-Fibres, 360 



Benham (Dr. Wm. B.), British Earthworms, 319 



Bengal, Meteorological Report for, 574 



Bengal, Monsoon Storms in, 158 



Bentham (George), Prof. W. T. T. Dyer on, 116 



Berenger-Ferand (M. le Dr.), Recurrence of the Myth of 

 Ibicus among Provencals, 212 



Berget (M- Alphonse), Measurement of the Coefficients of 

 Thermic Conductibility for Metals, 359 



BcricJue, Chemistry of the Rare Earths, Drs. Kriiss and 

 Kiese wetter on the, 326 



Berlin : Academy of Sciences, 302 ; Awards of, 16 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 48, 119 ; Report of the Berlin Meteorological 

 Society, 278 ; Physiological Society, 24, 95, 119, 144, 240, 

 264, 312, 360, 464; Physical Society, 72, 119, 143, 192, 311 ; 

 Skull of Rhinoceros tichorrhinus found near, 304 



Bernheim (M. J.) and M. G. Rousseau on the Decomposition 

 of the Ferrate of Baryta, 216 



