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INDEX 



[A'atttre, Nev. 22, i! 



373 ; National Zoological Park at Washington, 397 ; Report 



of the Trustees of the Museum of Natural History, New 



York, 422 ; American Geology, 452 ; the Fourth Centenary 



of the Discovery of America by Columbus, 487 ; Afforestation 



in America, 487 ; American Association, 500, 552 ; American 



Academy of Arts and Sciences, 511 ; American Geographical 



Society, 529 

 Amoretti (Felix) y Carlos M. Morales, Teoria Elemental de las 



Determinantes y sus Principales Aplicaciones al Algebra y la 



Geometria, 537 

 Amorphous Antimony, M. F. Herard, 432 

 Ampere, Statue of, 598 

 Amsterdam : Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 120, 216, 336, 



632 ; Zoological Society, 62 

 Anagyrine, on, MM. E. Hardy and N. Gallois, 360 

 Analyst's Laboratory Companion, Alfred E. Johnson, 564 

 Anatomy, Comparative, Modifications of First and Second 



Visceral Arches, Hans Gadow, 47 

 Ancetres, Les, de nos Animaux, dans les Temps Ge'ologiques, 



Prof. Albert Gaudry, 4 

 Ancient Canoe in Norway, 134 

 Ancient Monuments of Egypt, H. H. Howorth, M.P., Sir J. 



Fergusson, M.P., 326 

 Ancient Town, Kemains of, on Right Bank of Volga, 374 

 Andre (Ch.), on the Luminous Bridges observed during the 



Transits and Occultations of the Satellites of Jupiter, 359 

 Andrews (Thos.), Electro-chemical Effects on Magnetizing Iron, 



262 

 Anenometers : Prof. Waldo, 112 ; Report on Experiments with, 



G. M. Whipple and W. H. Dines, 191 

 Anglesey Rocks, Prof. Blake, 597 

 Animal Alkaloids, Sir William Aitken, F.R.S., 170; A. M. 



Brown, 170 

 Animal Life, Forms of, George Rolleston, F. R.S., 2$ 

 Animals, Effect of Earthquake on, Prof. Milne, 500 

 Animals' Institute, the, 500 

 Animals and Plants, Distribution of, by Ocean Currents, A. 



W. Buckland, 245 ; Isaac C. Thompson, 270 

 Another World, or, the Fourth Dimension, A. T. Schofield, 



363 



Anschiitz's Instantaneous Pho!ographs, 119 



Antagonism, F. Howard Collins, 7 ; Thomas Woods, 56 



Antarctic Islands, Flora of the, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 

 Dr. H. B. Guppy, 40 



Antarctic Regions, German Exploration of, 228 



Anthrarobin and Chrysarobin, Dr. Weyl's Researches on the 

 Physiological Action of, 144 



Anthropology: Les Pygmees, A. de Quatrefages, 4; Pygmy 

 Races of Men, Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 44, 66 ; Anthropological 

 Institute, 23, 214, 287 ; Dr. Topinard on the History of, in 

 1788, 212; Dr. P. Topinard on Neolithic Skull, 212; 

 Ethnographic Types from the Monuments of Egypt, Rev. H. 

 G. Tomkins, 214 ; Fixedness of the American Type, Dr. 

 Brinton, 256 ; Anthropology at the Cincinnati Exhibition, 

 279 ; the Nicobar Islanders, E. H. Man, 287 ; Paris 

 Anthropological Exhibition, 371 ; Journal of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, 396; Japanese " go-hei " and Shinto Worship, 

 Basil Hall Chamberlain, 396 ; Mr. Fawcett on the Saoros of 

 the Ganjam Hill Tracts, 453 ; Philosophy from an Anthropo- 

 logical Point of View, Dr. Fauvelle, 462 ; Anthropological and 

 Ethnological Study of Cambodia, Dr. E. Maurel, 463 ; the 

 Hand and Figure of Native East Indians, Dr. Mugnier, 463 ; 

 Flatycnemia in Man and the Anthropoda, Manouvrier, 463 



Anticyclones in Europe, Dr. P. Biounow, 63 



Antipodean Notes, 29 



Anutchin (M.), on Use of Sledges, &c, at Burials, 134 



Apparatus for the Measurement of the Co-efficient of Expansion 

 by Heat, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., and Prof. J. Perry, 

 F.R.S., 141 



Arabia Deserta, Travels in, C. M. Doughty, 195 



Archaeological Society of Sweden, 87 



Archer's (W. J.) Journey in the District of Chiengmai, 280 



Archibald (E. Douglas) : Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Storms, and 

 Rotating Spheres,C.L. Weyher, 104 ; Faye's Theory of Storms, 

 149 ; Cloud Electric Potential, 269 ; Life of Matthew 

 Fontaine Maury, 339 



Arcs, on the Supernumerary, accompanying the Rainbow, M. 

 Boitel, 143 



Arctic Regions, Contributions to our Knowledge of the Meteoro- 

 logy of the, 625 



Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F.R. S., and W. I 

 Hudson, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 587 



Argyll (the Duke of, F. R.S.) : Functionless Organs, 341, 411 

 Prophetic Germs, 564, 615 



Arithmetic : Graphical, the Elements of, and Graphic 

 Statics, John Y. Gray and Geo. Lowson, 4 ; Arithmet 

 for Peginners, Rev. J. B. Lock, 76; Arithmetic, a Highe 

 and Llementary Mensuration, P. Goyen, 218 : Arithmetic 

 Exercises, H. S. Hall and S. R. Knight, 490 



Arizona, Discovery of Prehistoric Cities in, 42 



Arizona, Hemenway Expedition in, Thos. Wilson, 629 



Armour of the Middle Ages, a Collection of, 134 



Armstrong (Lord), on Technical Education, 313 



Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.): Report of the Briti 

 Association Committee on Isomeric Napthalene Derivatives 

 596 ; Valency, 596 



Arnaud (M.), Strophanthine, 311 



Aromatic Monamines, M. Leo Vignon, 216 



Avt Wood-carving, School of, 574 



Arteries, on the Proliferation cf Endothelium-cells in 

 Pekelharing, 216 



Asbesto=, its Production and Use, R. H. Jones, 148 



Asia, Central: Lieut. Younghusband's Journey across, 6? 

 General Prjevalsky's Proposed Fourth Journey in, 66 



Asiatic Society of Japan, 87 



Assaying, Manual of Practical, J. Mitchell, 148 



Assessors, Scientific, in Courts of Justice, 289 



Asteroids, the Short Period Comets and, Prof. Kirkwood, 1 14 

 Photometric Observations of, Henry M. Parkhurst, 554 



Astronomy: Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 18, 4j 

 65, 89, 115, 136, 161, 186, 207, 231, 258, 279, 304, 32J: 

 35i. 375. 398, 423, 454, 487, 5<>3, 529, 554, 577, 601, 626; 

 Astronomical Column, 43, 88, 114, 185, 206, 231, 258, 328, 

 35°, 375, 397, 423, 5°3, 5 2 8, 553, 576, 600, 626 ; New Minor 

 Planets, Herr Palisa and M. Charlois, 43 ; Comet 1888 a 

 (Sawerthal), 43 ; Cincinnati Zone Catalogue, 43 ; Publi- 

 cations of Lick Observatory, 43 ; Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal), 

 Prof. Lewis Boss, 88 ; New Minor Plant, 88 ; Observations of 

 the Channels in Mars, 95 ; Comet 1888 a (Sawerthal), 114. 

 186, 258, 328 ; the Short Period Comets and Asteroids, Prof. 

 Kirkwood, 114; New Minor Planet, 115 ; Study of Mars, F. 

 Terby, 119 ; Prof. Russell on Chinese Astronomy, 134 ; Report 

 of the Astronomer-Royal, 153; Report of the Paris Observa- 

 tory, 179; Dr. Gill's Proposed Star Catalogue, 180; Photo- 

 graphic Chart of the Heavens, 180 ; the Constant of Aber- 

 ration, 185 ; the Markings on Mars, 185 ; New Rings of 

 Saturn, Dom Lamey, 191 ; Rings of Saturn and on the 

 Planet Mars, M. Perrotin, 216 ; American Observatories. 

 231 ; Minor Planets, 231 ; the Rings of Saturn, 231 ; Rota- 

 tion Period of the Sun from Faculse, Dr. J. Wilsing, 206 ; 

 Researches on the Accidental Errors occurring in the Obser- 

 vations of Transits, M. G. Rayet, 216 ; the Canals of the 

 Planet Mars, 239 ; the Markings on Mars, M. Perrotin. 

 258, 311 ; Liverpool Astronomical Society, 277 ; the New 

 Astronomy, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, A. M. Clerke, 291 ; 

 Projected Astronomical Observatory at Pekin, 302 ; Astro- 

 nomical Instruments for International Photographic Survey of 

 the Heavens, Sir H. E. Roscoe, M.P., F.R.S., 325 ; Variable 

 Stars, Mr. Sawyer, 328 ; Paris Astronomical Society. 336 ; the 

 Red Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 342 ; Michell's Prob- 

 lem, Joseph Kleiber, 342 ; Encke's Comet, 350 ; the Mass 

 of Titan, 350; Names of Minor Planets, 351; the Lick 

 Observatory, Prof. Holden, 355 ; on the Luminous Bridges 

 observed during the Transits and Occultationsjfof the Satellites 

 of Jupiter, M. Ch. Andre, 359; Globular Star Clusters, A. 

 M. Clerke, 365 ; Partial Eclipse of August 7, A. E. Cromme- 

 lin, 364 ; Macclesfield Observations, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 365; 

 a Lunar Rainbow, T. D. A. Cockerell, 365 ; Further Cometary 

 Discoveries, 375 ; Comet 1888c (Books), Dr. H. Kreutz, 397 ; 

 Yale College Observatory, 397 ; Gravitation in the Stellar 

 Systems, Prof. Asaph Hall, 398; on the Determination of 

 the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the 

 Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886, Captain W. de W. 

 Abney, F.R.S., and T. E. Thor| e, F.R.S., 407; Summary 

 of the Solar Observations made at the Royal Observatory of 

 the Collegio Romano, Second Quarter of 1888, M. P. Tacchini, 

 408 ; Resignation of Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 421 ; the Spectrum 

 of R Cygni, 423 ; Encke's Comet, 1888 d, 423, 503; Milan 

 Double-star Observations, 423 ; Faye's Comet, 432 ; Satel- 

 lites of Mars, 432, 553; Bixoks's New Comet, 432; Mars 



