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INDEX 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland) : Macclesfield Observations, 365 ; Note 

 on his Work, 502 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph): a Meteorologist at the Royal Aca- 

 demy, 225 ; the Weather in the "Doldrums," 238; and R. 

 II. Scott, F.R.S., on Meldrum's Rules for Handling Ships in 

 the Southern Indian Ocean, 358 ; Photographs of Lightning- 

 Flashes, 547 



Abenlare Hall, Cardiff, 257 



Aberdeen University, 552 



Aberration, Constants of, 185 



Abney (Captain W. de W., F. R.S.) : Colour Photometry, 212 ; 

 Photometry of Colour, 286 ; on the Determination of the 

 Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar 

 Eclipse of August 28, 29, 1886, 407 



Abscess, Microbism and, Verneuil, 488 



Absorption Spectra, the, of Crystals, M. Becquerel, A. E. 

 Tutton. 343 



Academy of Sciences, Proposed Czeck, 302 



Acari, A. D. Michael on, 94 



Acheson (E. G. ): Measurements of Sparking Distance in Air 

 of Alternate Currents used in Electric Lighting, 305 ; Inquiry 

 into Influence of Disruptive Discharges of Powerful Alter- 

 nating Currents, 577 



Acores, Excursions Zoologiques dans les, Jules de Guerne, 113 



Actinometer, Electro-chemical, Gouy and Rigollot, 119 



Adam (Paul), New Organic Compounds of Diphenyl, 599 



Adelaide Botanic Garden, Report of the, 623 



Advancement of Science, the Australasian Association for the, 



437 



.l.ulotropic Elastic Solid*, C. Chree on, 165 



Aerolites, on the Orbits of, H. A. Newton, 63, 250 



Aeronautics: Proposed Steel Vacuum Balloon, 185 ; Aeronaut- 

 ical Society of Great Britain, 230 ; a Compressed-Air Engine 

 for Flying Machine, L. Hargrave, 463 ; War Aerostation in 

 France, 552 



Agassiz Seaside Assembly, 203 



Agriculture : in Canada, 87 ; Agricultural Education in Nor- 

 thern Italy and in Prussia, 138 ; the Principles of Agricultural 

 Practice as an Instructional Subject, Prof. John Wrightson, 

 220 ; New School of Agriculture at West Lavington, 228 ; 

 Report of the British Consul at Hakodadi, on Agriculture of 

 Yezo, Japan, 373 ; the Rothamsted Experiments on the 

 Growth of Wheat, Barley, and the Mixed Herbage of Grass 

 Land, William Fream, 465 ; Professorship of Agriculture 

 founded at Virginia University, 552 ; Rural School Education 

 in Agriculture in Scotland, Prof. Robert Wallace, 576 ; Pro- 

 posed Agricultural College, 598 



Afforestation in America, 487 



Afghans, the, M. L. Rousselet, 431 



Afghan Delimitation Commission, the Botany of the, J. E. T. 

 Aitchison, F. R. S., 219 



Africa: Dwarf Races in, R. G. Haliburton, 112; Tropical 

 Africa, Henry Drummond, 171 ; Lieutenants Kund and 

 Tappenbeck's Expedition into Cameroons, 186 ; a Century 

 of African Exploration, Dr. Supan, 186 ; Report of the South 

 African Museum for 1887, 230; Jules Borelli's African Ex- 

 plorations, 259 ; a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical Species 



of South African Butterflies, Rowland Trimen, F.R.S., 266; 

 Incwadi Yama, or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in 

 South Africa, J. W. Matthews, 295 ; German East African 

 Possessions, Dr. Hans Meyer, 305 

 Ain, Notes on the Departement de I', Dr. Aubert, 431 

 Ainos : Folk-Lore of the, 87 ; Burial Customs of the, Rev. J. 



Batchelor, 331 

 Air : Determination of the Weight of, M. J. M. Crafts, 192 ; 



Movement of, in the Atmosphere, Dr. Lummer, 192 

 Air and Water, the Micro-organisms of, Dr. Percy F. Frank- 

 land, 232 

 Aitchison (J. E. T., F.R.S), the Botany of the Afghan 



Delimitation Commission, 219 

 Aitken (Sir William, F.R.S. ), the Animal Alkaloids, &c, 



170 

 Alaska, Lieut. Emmon's Ethnographical Collection from, 64 

 Al-Biruni's India : an Account of the Religion, Philosophy, 



Literature, &c, of India about ad. 1030, 97 

 Albuminoid Substances in the White of an Eg'.;, Study of, 164 

 Alcohol, a Treatise on, with Tables of Spirit Gravities, Thomas 



Stevenson, 101 

 Alcoholism and Criminality, M. Marambat, 135 

 AUrovandia vesiculosa, M. Korzchinsky on, 160 

 Alexander (G. W.), Humming-bird and Mantis, 383 

 Alexander (Dr. H.), New Platinum Base obtained by, 256 

 Alexander (J.) and Prof. Carnelly on the Colour of some 



Carbon Compounds, 141 

 Alkaline Phosphites, on the Action of the, on the Alkaline- 

 Earthy Oxides, M. L. Ouvrard, 168 

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



A. M. Brown, 170 

 Allen (Grant), and Electro-physics, 221 

 Allene, the Gas, Gustavson and Demjanoff, 552 

 Alps, Western, on the Constitution and Structure of the 



Crystalline Schists of the, Prof. Ch. Lory, 506 

 Aluminium : on Organic Compounds in their relations to Haloid 

 Salts of, G. Gustafson, 139 ; in certain Vascular Cryptogams, 

 on the Occurrence of, Prof. A. H. Church, 140, 228 ; Cowles's 

 Process for the Production of, 162 ; the Vapour-density of, 

 239 ; Production of, H. T. Castner, 326 ; Present Position of 

 the Manufacture of, 592 ; Freezing-point of Solutions of 

 Organic Compounds of, Louise and Roux, 608 

 Amaryllidea?, Hand-book of the, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 362 

 Amber in West Jutland, Discovery of, 598 



America: Scandinavian Colonization of, 17; American Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences, 63 ; American Association for 

 Advancement of Science, 64, 256, 452 ; American Journal 

 of Science, 91, 189, 430, 462, 559 ; American Journal of 

 Mathematics, 164, 582 ; American Meteorological Journal, 

 112, 204, 326, 502; Implements of Palaeolithic Type in 

 America, 184; New York "Blizzard," 204; Dr. David 

 T. Day's Pottery Collection, 206 ; American Observa- 

 tories, 231, 626; the International Congress of "Ame- 

 ricanists," 256, 552 ; Trans- Mississippi Rainfall, 326 ; 

 American Statistical Association, Water-power employed in the 

 United States, 349 ; American Philosophical Society, 351 ; 

 Native Birds of North America, 373 ; Cincinnati Exposition, 



