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INDEX 



ABEL (Prof., F.R.S.), on Detonating Agents, 19, 42, 67 



Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association, 288, 316 



Acid Reaction of Flowers, 303 



Ackroyd (\Vm.), Black Lizards, 339 ; Crossley's Modification of 

 Hughes's Microphone, 503 



Acroc/wrdu! Javankus, at the Paris Jardin des Plantes, 231 



Adams (Prof. W. G.), New Measuring Polariscope, 282 



Adelaide, Report on the Botanic Garden, 232 



Afghani-tan, 491, 492; Col. C. M. MacGregor's Work on, 453 



Africa : Proposed Expedition by H. M. Stanley, 15 ; Missionary 

 Exploration of Lake Nyassa, 15 ; Proposed Portuguese 

 Expedition, 16 ; M. Soleillet's Exploration of, 96 ; Ur. 

 Lenz's Sketches from West, 1 19; Major Serpa Pinto's 

 Expedition, 157, 221, 491 ; Cambier and Uutrieux's Expedi- 

 tion, 158 ; Abbe Debaze's Expedition through, l8l ; VAJrique, 

 182, 271 ; Keith Johnston's Expedition, 205 ; German Ex- 

 ploration of, 206 ; Elton's Journals of Travels in, 218 ; Rev. 

 C. T. Wilson's Journey Across the Victoria Nyanza, 249 ; 

 Use of Elephants in Explorations of, 266 ; Col. Prjevalsky's 

 Journey Across, 266 ; Map of Major Pinto's Journey Across, 

 271 ; Proposed Railway Across the Sahara, 271 ; Elec- 

 tric Light in, 278 ; Dr. G. Rohlfs's Expedition, 344, 

 508; New Expeditions to, 364; Otto SchUtt's Expedition, 

 425 ; Dr. Holub's Explorations, 560 ; " La Cambebasie," 

 582 



Agram, Earthquake at, 256 



Agriculture : and Science, 189 ; Agricultural Education in 

 France, 208; Agricultural Show at Kilburn, 221, 247 ; and 

 the Science and Art Department, 258 ; A. S. Wilson's 

 "Agricultural Botany," 312; Aberdeenshire Association, 

 288, 316; Johnston's Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry, 



4SS 

 Airy (Sir George B., F.R.S.), Annual Report of the Royal 

 Observatory, 1 53 ; Greenwich Meteorological Observations, 



.525 

 Aitken (John), Colour Blindness, 627 

 Aldabra Islands, Colonisation of, 536 



Alexandra Palace, Water Supply Exhibition at, 326, 401, 513 

 Alga;, on some Marine, Ed. Bornet, 155 

 Algebra of Logic, Dr. A. Macfarlaiie on the, 446 

 Algebraic Forms, the Fundamental Invariants of, 443 

 Algeria, Subterranean Lake in, 271 

 Algero-Spanish Triangulation, 508, 541 

 Algiers : the Proposed Inland Sea in, 16, 205 ; Discovery of a 



Cavern in, 461 

 Allen (A. H.), on the Presence of Nitrogen in Steel, 469 

 Alligator, an Enormous, 401 

 AUman (Prof. G. J., F.R.S.), Inaugural Address at the BritUh 



Association Meeting at Sheffield, 384 

 Aloes, Paper from the Fibre of, 484 

 Alpine Clubs : International Conference on, 364 ; Marshall Hall 



on, 427 

 Altai Mountains, 433 

 Alvord (Benj.), Intellect in Brutes, 428 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 48, 1 88 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 493, 589 

 American Chemical Journal, 331 

 American Journal of Science and Arts, 22, 136, 280, 355, 499, 



572 

 American Naturalist, 452, 6ig 

 American Suggestion, an, 127 

 Americanists, International Congress of, 41, 255 



Amu-Darya, Exploration of the, 508 



Anatomy, Comparative, of Man, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 



222, 244, 267 

 Andaman Island, Osteology of the Natives of, 258 

 Andrews (Dr., F.R.S.), Resignation of, 507 

 Anemograph, 321 

 Animal, the Rights of an, E. B. Nicholson, 287, 338, 362, 427 ; 



Geo. J. Romanes, 427 

 Animation, Suspended, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 107 

 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 45, 136, 234, 307, 522 

 Annelids of the Virginian Coast, 302 ; on Budding in the Syl- 



lidean, 488 

 Annuaire pour I'an 1879, public par le Bureau des Longitudes, 59 

 Antares, the Occultation of, July 28, 180 

 Anthropological Exhibition, Mo.scow, 45, 134 

 Anthropological Institute, 91, 139, 164, 187, 258 

 Anthropology : in Austria, 373 ; in France, 376 ; in Germany, 



4.34 

 Anthropometry, Report of B. A. Committee on, 485 

 Antiquity of Man, Prof. Boyd Daw kins, 571 

 Antiquity of Orchids, D. Wetterhan, 53 

 Ants : Habits of, W. Whitman Bailey, 244 ; the Agricultural 



Ants of Texas, H. C. McCook, 501 ; the Galleries of the 



Cutting Ants of Texas, 583 

 Apiculture in Germany, 327 

 Apprentice Schools in France, 493 

 April Meteors, W. F. Denning, 29 

 Aquarium Notes, Dr. Andrew Wilson, 196 

 Aqueous Fluids, the Electric Conductivity of, 232 

 Arago, Statue to, 373, 434, 513, 546 

 Arago's Rotation, Researches on, 47 

 Archaeological Congress in Russia, 401 

 Archibald (E. D.), Barometric Pressure and Sun-Spots, 28 ; 



Barometric Pressure and Temperature in India, 54 ; the 



Weather and the Sun, 626 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 90, 210 

 Arctic Expedition, 1875-76, Magnetical Observations of, 136 

 Arctic Exploration : the Search for the Vega, 37, 38 ; the Vega 



Expedition, 248 ; the yeanmtte Expedition, 249 ; Hellwald's 



" Im ewigen Ei^," 97 ; Nordenskjold's Expedition, 364, 365 ; 



Proposed New British Expedition, 364 ; Capt. Howgate 



Expedition, 433 ; Willem Barents Expedition, 561 ; Norden- 

 skjold's " Arctic Voyages," 606, 631 

 Arctic Meteorology, Conference to consider, 423 

 Arctic Regions, are there no Eocene Floras in the? J. Starkie 



Gardner, 10 

 Argentine Republic, Science in the, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 358 

 Arithmetic, Dr. Evers's, 313 ; Ricks's Elementary, 144 

 Arizona, Proposed Inland Sea in, 16 

 Armbmster (Carl), Meteor, 197 

 Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), the Dissociation of Chlorine, 



357 

 Armstrong (Sir William George, F.R.S.), Society of Arts Medal 



awarded to, 40 

 Arrow-Heads, the Making of Flint, 483 

 Arsenic in the Brain, Localisation of, 303 

 Artesian Wells, Tides in, 462 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, 619 

 Asiatic Society of Japan, 64 ; Transaction?, 135 

 Asterophyllitcs, Sphenophyllum, and Calamites, Professors 



Williamson and Weiss on, 375 

 Astronomy: Stellar Magnitudes, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 14; 



