INDEX 



[Naliire,June T, li 



Annual Meeting, 517 ; List of Grants made from the Research 

 Fund, 231 ; Agriculture in some of its Relations to, F. H. 

 Storer, icx) ; Tridimensional Formulae in Organic, Dix 

 Annees dans I'Histoire d'une Theorie, J. H. Van 't Hoff, 

 Prof. F. R. Japp, F.R.S., 121 ; New Naphthalene Deriva- 

 tives, M. Roux, 156; Exercises in Quantitative Chemical 

 Analysis, W, Dittmar, 174 ; Isolation of Fluorine, A. E, 

 Tutton, 179; Compressibility of the Solution of Ethyl- 

 amine in Water, F. Isambert, 192 ; Dr. B. Franke, 

 on the Preparation and Constitution of tlie Hydrates of 

 Manganic Oxide and Peroxide, 209 ; Lehrbuch der 

 Allgemeinen Chemie, Dr. Wilh. Ostwald, M. M. Pattison 

 Muir, 241 ; Practical Chemistry, by M. M. Pattison Muir and 

 Douglas Carnegie, 265, 318; Elementary Chemistry, M. 

 M. Pattison Muir and Charles Slater, 265, 318 ; Synthesis of 

 Glucose, Drs. Emil Fischer and Tafel, 283 ; Elements of 

 Chemistry, Ira Remsen, 317 ; Prof. Victor Meyer, en Carbon 

 Atoms, 327 ; Experimental Chemistry for Junior Students, 

 J. Emerson Reynolds, 388 ; the Teaching of Elementary, 389 ; 

 Institute of Chemistry, Boverton Redwood and Alf. Gordon 

 Salamon, 393 ; Chemical Equilibria, M. P. Duhem, 407 ; 

 New Fhiorides of Potassium, M. Moissan, 422 ; a Treatise on, 

 by Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., and C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 

 Vol. III., 460 ; the Teaching of Elementary, M. M. Pattison 

 Muir, 466 ; Tetrasulphide of Benzene, Dr. Otto, 473 ; on 

 Cinchoniline, by E. jungfleisch and E. Leger, 479 ; on the 

 Electric Conductibility of Concentrated Nitric Acid, by M. E. 

 Bouty, 479 ; Products Cif the Oxidation of the Hydronitro- 

 camphenes, by M. C. Tanret, 479 ; Nitrocamphene [azocam- 

 phine), M. C. Tanret, 479 ; on Terpinol, G. Bouchardat and 

 R. Voiry, 479 ; on the Transformation of the Nitrates into 

 Nitrous Organic Compounds, M. Berthelot, 479 ; the Teach- 

 ing of Elementary, 487 ; Bibliography of Russian Books and 

 Articles on, 525 ; Reactions of Direct Addition, on the Laws 

 presiding at, J. Kabloukoff, 525 ; on the Speed of Formation of 

 Acetic Ethers of Monatomic Alcohols, byN. Menshutkin, 525 ; 

 Elements and Meta-Elements, Prof. W. Crookes, F.R.S., 

 540 ; Experiments on Saturation Weights of Salts, M. UmofiF, 

 542; Calcium Chloride, S. W. Pickering, 551; Carboxy- 

 Derivatives of Quinone, Dr. J. U. Nef, 551 ; New Properties 

 of Carbon Atoms, Profs. Meyer and Riecke, 567 ; Modern 

 Chemistry, Prof. C. M. Tidy, 596 ; Sesquichloride of Rhodium, 

 600 ; Action of the Cyanide of Zinc on some Chlorides, 600 ; 

 Action of the Tetrachloride of Carbon on Oxygenated Mineral 

 Compounds free of Hydrogen, 600 



China in America, Stewart Culin, 88 ; Cause of September 

 Typhoons in Hong Kong, Dr. W. Doberck, 439 ; Crepuscular 

 Rays in China, Dr. W. Doberck, 464 ; China, its Social, 

 Political, and Religious Life, G. Eug. Simon, 268 ; Tele- 

 graphs in China, 564 ; Chinese Arithmetical Notation, Local 

 Value in, Dr. Edkins, 65 ; Chinese Scientific Book Depot 

 Report, 423 



Chloride, Calcium, S. U. Pickering, 551 



Chloride of Gold, a New, Prof. Julius Thomsen, 398 



Chloride of Nitrogen, Explosive Nature of, Prof. Victor Meyer, 

 349 ; Dr. Gattermann, 350 



Chlorophosphide of Nitrogen, Ward Couldridge, 596 



Chloridops koua, Scott Barchard Wilson, 526 



Cholic Acid, on the Empirical Formula of, P. LatchinofiF, 525 



Chorley, Lancashire, Earthquake Shock at, 138 



Chriitiania : Brilliant Meteor seen in, December 11, 231 ; Snow 

 falling from a perfectly Clear Sky in, 282 



Christmas Custom, Curious, observed in Bornholm, in the 

 Baltic, 352 



Christmas Island : J. J. Lister, 203 ; Captain W. J. L. Wharton, 

 F.R.S., 203; Dr. H. B. Guppy, 222 



Chromorganic Salts, E. A. Werner, 503 



Chromosphere, the, John Evershed, 79 



Chronic Intoxication by Alcohol, on the Eftects of, MM. Mairet 

 and Combemale, 528 



Church (Prof. A. IL), on Colour, 437 



Churchill (Lord Randolph), the Baih Lane Science and Art 

 School at Ne«castle-on-Tyne, 15 



Ciders, Congelation of, 24 



Cinchonamine, on the Crystalline Form of, 120 



Cinchonigine, E. Jungfleisch and E. Leger on, 360 



Cinchoniline, on, E. Jungfleisch and E. Leger, 479 



Cinchonine, on some Derivatives of, 264 



Circulars of Information, issued by the United States Bureau of 

 Education, 352 



Cirri, on the Movement of, and their Relation to Cyclones, M. 



H. Faye, 143 

 Clarke (Sam. F.), Conspiracy of Silence, 200 

 Class Experiments, Magnus Maclean, 612 

 Classification of Clouds, Rev, W. Clement Ley, 177 

 Classification of the Gasteropoda, H. de Lacaze-Duthiers, 504 

 Classification of the Various Species of Heavenly Bodies, 



Suggestions on the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. , 585, 606 

 Clausius's Fundamental Law of Electro-dynamics, Recalcula- 

 tion of, Dr. Budde, 408 

 Climate of the British Empire, Annual Table of the, 38 

 Climatological Dictionary, Universal, 542 

 Clinton Catalogue, 234 

 Clodd (Edward), Story of Creation, 388 

 Cloud Movements in the Tropics, and Cloud Classification, 



Captain David Wilson-Barker, 129 

 Clouds : the Forms of, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 129 ; Classifi- 

 cation of, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 177 ; Constitution of Clouds 



and Fogs, Prof. F. Palagi, 404 

 Clone (Vice- Admiral G.), Le Filage de I'Huile, 435 

 Coal discovered in Cashmere, 301 

 Coatham (E.), Star of Bethlehem, 221 

 Cockran (William), Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor, 126 

 Cod,. Iceland, to Norway, Importation of Live, 258 

 Coelom, the, and the Vascular System of the Mollusca and 



Anhropoda, Prof Ray Lankester, 498 

 Coffee-Leaf Disease, Remedy for. Dr. Burck, 351 

 College of William and Mary, Dr. H. B. Adams, 352 

 Coleman (J.), on a New Diffusimeter, 527 

 Coleoptera, W. Champion, 503 

 Collins (F. Howard), on some Unappareiit Contradictions at 



the Foundations of Knowledge, 294 

 Colombo Museum, Effects of Climate on Specimens in, 16 

 Colonies, British, Fruit-growing in, 257 

 Colour : A. H. Church, 437 ; Origin of, and the Constitution 



of Colouring Matters, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 502; 



Perception of, C. E. Stromeyer, 79 

 Colour-blindness, Cause of, Prof W. Ramsay, 65 

 Colour-hearing, on, Tito Vignoli, 500 

 Columbia, Republic of. New Grenada, Geography, History, 



and Present Social Conditions of the, Signor A. Borda, 211 

 Colza Oil, 142 

 Combemale (M.) and M. Mairet on the Chronic Effects of 



Intoxication by Alcohol, 528 

 Combination of Measures of the same Magnitude, M. J. Ber- 



trand on the, 504 

 Comet : a New, 424 ; a New Historic ?, Prof Cargill G. Knott, 



344; W. H. S. Monck, 393; Olbers' (1887), 37, 158, 285; 



Herr Tetens, 114; Dr. Krueger, 233; Dr. Lamp, 233; M. 



Charlois, 263 ; Comet a 1888 (Sawerthal), T. W. Backhouse, 



536 ; Dr. L. Becker, 597 

 Commercial Certificates Examinations, 492 

 Commercial Products Collection, the Forbes Watson, 379 

 Common (A. Ainslie, F.R.S.), Making Glass Specula by Hand, 



382 

 Comparative Anatomy, Pineal Gland in the Walrus, Sir W. 



Turner, 239 

 Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, Mycetozoa, 



and Bacteria, A. De Bary, 436 

 Compressibility of Glass at Different Temperatures, Prof. Tait, 



527 

 Composition of Water, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 313; Dr, 



Sydney Young, 390, 417 

 Computation, the Art of, for the Purposes of Science, Sydney 



Lupton, 237, 262 ; Prof W. Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 



294; E. Erskine Scott, 319; George King, 319 

 Congelation of Ciders, 24 

 Congo : Geology and Natural History of, Edouard Dupont, 



421 ; Dr. Schwerin's Discovery of the Mouth of the River, 



65 ; Proposed Swedish Colony at the, 65 

 Congress, International Geological, 87 

 Coniothyriiim diplodiella, on the Invasion of, in 18S7, 72 

 Coniston Lake, Bernicle Geese on, William R. Melly, 585 

 Conspiracy of Silence, a. Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 25, 77 ; 



the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 53, 246, 293; Samutl F. 



Clarke, 200 ; an Old Pupil of Wy ville Thomson's, 200 ; Prof. 



John W. Judd, F.R.S., 272 

 Constant P in Observations of Terrestrial Magnetism, on the. 



Prof Wm. Harkness, 127, 272; Arthur W. Riicker, F.R.S., 



127, 272 



