Nature, June T, i8S8] 



INDEX 



XVll 



Heusler jnd Wallach (Drs.)i the Physical Nature of Fluorine, 



301 

 Hicks (Dr. Henry, F.R.S.), Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn 



Caves, 129, 202 

 Hickson (Dr, Sydney), the Sexual Reproduction of Millepora 



plica/ O) 164 

 Highcleie Bagshots, the, Rev. A. Irving, 128 

 Hip-Region, Dr. Virchow on the, 480 

 Hirondtlle, Scientific Voyage of the, 24 

 Historic Comet, a New, W. H. S. Monck, 393 

 Hittites, with Special Reference to Very Recent Discoveries, 



Thon-as Tyler, 511, 536, 559, 590, 609 

 Hoar Frost, Formation of, John Aitken, 138 

 Hoft" (J. H. Van 't), Dix Annees dans I'Histoire d'une Theorie, 



Prof F. R. Japp, F.R.S., 121 

 Hofmanr (Prof.), his Seventieth Birthday, 566 

 Holder iC. F.), Living Lights, a Popular Account of Phos- 

 phorescent Animals and Vegetables, 411 

 Holm's Report of the Flora of Nova Zembla, 173 

 Holmes (R. F.), Explorations of Labrador, 381 

 Holmes (W. H.), on the Use of Metals among the Ancient 



Inhabitants of Darien, 568 

 Holub's (Dr. E. ) Proposed South African Exhibition, 566 

 Home Experiments in Science, T. O'Conor Sloane, 556 

 Homoeopathy, Discussions regarding, 289 



Hooper (David), the Mineral Concretion of the Teak Tree, 523 

 Hopkinson (J., F.R.S.), Specific Inductive Capacity, 142 

 Horns of the Red Deer found in the Duddon Estuary, 543 

 Horticultural Society, 145, 550 

 Horticulture : the Royal Horticultural Society, Dr. Maxwell T. 



Masters, F.R.S., 176 

 Howes (Prof. G. B.) and W. Ridewood, on the Carpus and 



Tarsus of the Anura, 503 

 Howorth (Henry 11.), the Mammoth and the Flood, 123, 200, 



295 

 Howth, the Flora of, H. C. Hart, 245 

 Huggins (Dr. W., F.R.S.), Photography in the Determination 



of the Motions of Stars in the Line of Sight, 616 

 Hughes (Alfred), Geography for Schools, 412 

 Hughes (Prof. T. McKenny), on the Cae Gwyn Cave, 1 66 

 Hughes's Induction Balance, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 6 

 Hukeng Valley, J. F. Needham engaged to conduct an Expe- 

 dition to, 354 

 Hull (Edward, F.R.S.), a Sketch of Geological History — being 



the Natural History of the Earth, and of its Pre-Human 



Inhabitants, 103 

 Humidity of the Air, Experiments on. Dr. Assmann, 215 ; Dr. 



Robert von Helmholtz, 215 

 Humpidge (Prof), Death of, 155 

 Hunt (A. R.), Raised Beaches z/^;-i-z« High- Level Beaches, 275 ; 



the Bathymetrical Range of Deep-Sea Fishes, 321 

 Hunt (Robert, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 14 

 Hunter (IL St. J.), Key to Todhunter's Differential Calculus, 



412 

 Huronian Group, is there a?, R. D. Irving, 47, 163 

 Huronian Series in the Neighbourhood of Sudbury (Canada), 



Notes on a Part of the, Prof T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 143 

 Hutchins (C. C.) : John Trowbridge and. Oxygen in the Sun, 



47 ; New Instrument for Measurement of Radiation, 358 

 Hutchins (D. E.), Vegetation and Moonlight, 275 

 Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.R.S.): the Duke of Argyll's Charges 



against Men of Science, 342 ; a Course of Elementary In- 

 struction in Practical Biology, 505 

 Huxley and Goschen on English Culture, 337 

 Huxley and Martin's Practical Biology, 187 

 Hydrate of Sulphurated Hydrogen, on the, by MM. de Forcrand 



and Villard, 528 

 Hydrates of Manganic Oxide and Peroxide, on the Preparation 



and Constitution of the. Dr. B. Franke, 209 

 Hydraulic Cements, Experimental Researches on, M. H. Le 



Chatelier, Prof W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 554 

 Hydrocarbons and their Derivatives, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 



and C. Schorlemmer, F. R.S., 460 

 Hydrogen and Oxygen, Explosion of a Mixture of, obtained by 



Electrolysis, Prof. Oettingen, 311 

 Hydrogen and Oxygen, Relative Densities of, Lord Rayleigh, 



F.R.S., 418 

 Hydrographic Office of the United States, New Forms for 



Reports of Storms, &c. , issued by the, 67 



Hydrometer, Dr. Derham's, 497 



Hydrostatics, Dynamics and, by R. II. Pinkerton, 412 



Hygiene, School, Proposed Sanitary Reforms at Baltimore, 



United States, America, 379 

 Hygrometer, the Use of the Spectroscope as a, F. W. Cory, 



143 

 Hygrometric Methods, Report on, W. N. Shaw, 404 

 Hygrometric State of the Atmosphere, Crepuscular Hints in 



connection with the. Prof. Costantino Rovelli, 404 



Ibbetson (W. J.), a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of 

 Perfectly Elastic Solids, 97 



Ice Drift, in the Arctic Seas, Dr. Karl Pettersen on the State 

 of, 16 



Ice Machines, Prof. Pictet's Experiments with his, 167 



Ice in Norway, Late, 186 



Iceland, Harvest in, 65 ; Unusual Weather in, 16 ; Earthquake 

 in, 113 ; Importation of Live Iceland Cod to Norway, 258 ; 

 Curious Archaeological Discoveries in, 140 ; the Recent 

 Earthquakes in, Th. Thoroddsen, 201 ; Proposed Research 

 in Icelandic Waters, 38 



Ichthyology : the Fish Fauna of Rameswaram Island, Edgar 

 Thurston, 380 



Illegitimacy in the Parish of Mamoch, by George Seton, 527 



Impact, Duration of, by Prof P. G. Tait, 527 



Incorrect Footnote and its Consequences, an, Thos. Muir, 

 246 ; Ralph Copeland, 343 



Index Catalogue to the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 

 United States Army, A. T. Myers, 292 



India : Meteorology of, 18 ; Report of Meteorological Depart- 

 ment, 444 ; Proposed New Meteorological Observatories in 

 India, 187 ; Survey of India, 35 ; Catalogue of the Moths of 

 India, E. C. Cotes and Colonel C. Swinhoe, H. J. Elwes,386 ; 

 Report on Indian Fibres and Fibrous Substances, 443 ; the 

 Public Gardens of British India, 476 ; Tank Angling in India, 

 H. Sullivan Thomas, 518; Payment by Results in Primary 

 Schools in India, 519 ; Tea Cultivation in India, 409; Rain- 

 fall of India, 472 ; a Manual of the Geology of India, F. R. 

 Mallet, 556 



Indian Ocean : Soundings in the, 302 ; the Egeria Deep-Sea 

 Soundings in the, 327 ; the Atoll of Diego Garcia and Coral 

 Formations of the. Prof. G. C. Bourne, 546 



Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago, Miscellaneous Papers 

 Relating to, 218 



Induction Balance, Hughes's, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 6 



Induction Sparks, Some Effects Produced by. Prof. E. 

 Canestrini, 525 



Influence-Machines and Dynamos, on the Analogies of. Prof. S. 

 P. Thompson, 165 



Infusorial Earth, T. V. Lister, 30 



Injuries caused by Lightning in Africa, Dr. Emin Pasha, 582 



Insect Development, Untimely : John Morison, 321 ; John 

 Morison's Letter on, Edward Buckell, 350 



Insects, Scale, New Zealand, an Account of, W. M. Maskell, 



125 

 Insects, Post-Glacial, Alfred Bell, 232 

 Instability of Freshly Magnetized Needles, Prof. Francis E. 



Nipher, 392 

 Institute of Chemistry, Boverton Redwood and Alfred Gordon 



Salamon, 393 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 119 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, 303 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 299, 355 

 " Instructive " Bibliography of the Foraminifera, Charles Davies 



Sherborn, 583 

 Inter-Diurnal Variability of Temperature at Places in the 



Argentine Republic and South America generally, Dr. Oscar 



Doering, 39 

 International Geological Congres«, 87 

 International Tables, Robert H. Scott, F.R.S.,415 

 Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, 568 

 Invariants, Functional, a Class of, A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., 550 

 Invertebrata, Researches on the Problematical Organs of the, 



Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 518 

 Invertebrates, Mucous Cells in. Dr. Rawitz, 168 

 Ireland : Autumnal Migration of Birds in, Allan Ellison, 232 ; 



Early Christian Art in, Margaret Stokes, 341 ; Facts about, 



A. B. Macdonald, 474 



