IV 



INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1879 



Our Astronomical Column, 37, 59, 83, 97, 129, 156, 180, 

 204, 226, 248, 269, 319, 351, 363, 402, 425, 432, 459, 4S1, 

 5^2, 533, 559. 583. 603. 629 ; High School of, at Paris, 232 ; 

 Astronomical Museum at the Paris Observatory, 275 : Rear- 

 Admiral John Rodgers to Astronomers, 433 ; the International 

 Astronomical Society, Prof. A, Winnecke, 585 



Atai, his Head, 641 



Athens, Earthquake at, 326 



Atkins (Chas. G.), Salmo salar and the Schoodic Salmon, 29 



Atlantic Stalk-Eyed Crustaceans, 535 



Atmo^raph, 321 



Atmosphere, the Gases of the, in Relation to Health, S. Tolver 

 Preston, 366 



Atmospheric Air, Variability of, Herr von Jolly, 41 



Audacity of a Hawk, Prof. A. Lakis, 122 



Audiometer, the, 102 



August Perseids, W. F. Denning, 457 



Australasia, Wallace and Keane, 598, 625 



Australia : Exploration of Western, 86, 87 ; the Position of 

 Places in, 131; Map of, 267; the Electric Light in, 278; 

 Alex. Forrest's Exploration of, 582 



Austria, Prehistoric Investigations in, 135 



Austrian Anthropological Meeting, 373 



Avalanche from the Jungfrau, 89 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E.t, a Machine for Drawing Compound Har- 

 monic Curves, 145 ; Electricity as a Motive Power, 568 



Bacteria, Do they or their Germs exist in the Organs of Living 



Healthy Animals? 580 

 Baden-Baden, the German Naturforscher at, 352, 400 

 Bailey (Jas. B. ), the Price of the "Memoirs of the Geological 



Survey," 289 ; Subject-Indexes to Transactions of Learned 



Societies, 580 

 Bailey (\V. Whitman), Habits of Ants, 244 

 Baird's Annual Record of Science and industry, 502 

 Balance, Induction, Experiments with the, 485 

 Ball (V.), the Coal-Fields of India, 469 



Ballooning: Mdlle. Adelaide Montgolfier, 16; the Giflard Bal- 

 loon, 135, 255 ; Paris Meteorological Ascents, 160; Balloon 



Ascent at Rouen, 231 ; Balloon Accident in Berlin, 353 ; 



Ascent by G. Tissandier, 353 ; Ascent at Nancy, 374 ; Ascents 



in Paris, 591 ; the New York Captive, 616 

 Baly Medal awarded to Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 65 

 Bananas, Bud-Variations in, Fritz MUUer, 146 

 Banda Forests, 277 



" Banka und Billiton," Dr. Reyer, 624 

 Barbed Hooklets on Spines of a Brachioijod, Prof. J. Young, 



242 

 Barclay (H. D.), Intellect in Brutes, 147 

 Barnard (Frank), Earthquake Shock at Hastings, 161 

 Barnett (H. C), the SeaSerpent, 289 

 Barometer- Registering, 320 



Barometric Pressure and Sun-Spots, E. Douglas Archibald, 28 

 Barometric Pressure and Temperature in India, E. Douglas 



Archibald, 54 

 Bathurst (Kev. W. H.), Roman Antiquities at Lydney Park, 285 

 ' Bathybius," Prof. Huxley on, 405 

 Beaumont (W. Worby), Mice and Beetles, 29 

 Beckett (Sir E.), " Origin of the Laws of Nature," Prof. P. G. 



Tait, 264 

 Bedriaga (Dr. J. von). Local Colour-Variation in Lizards, 480 

 Bees : the Indirect Utility of, 424 ; an Invasion of, 562 

 Beetle, Parthenogenesis in, J. A. Osborne, 430 

 Beetles and Mice, W. Worby Beaumont, 29 

 Belgian Academy, Prizes of the, 40 

 Belgian Geographical Society, 206 

 Belgian Museum at Shanghai, 161 

 Belknap (Morris B.), Underground Tides, 693 

 Bell (Prof. Graham), on Vowel Theories, ico 

 Bell (H. S.), on the Manufacture of Crucible Steel, 468 " 

 Bellamy (Edw.), a Suggestion on the Action of the Oblique 



Muscles of the Eye-Ball, 362 

 Berkeley (Rev. M. J.), Kew Gardens, 630 

 Berlin : Geographical Society, 206, 27 1, S8l, 582 : Ethnology 



in, 207 ; Academy of .Sciences, Prize Theme of the, 353 ; 



Balloon Accident in, 353 

 Bernaith (J.), Mineral Waters of Hungary, 551 

 Berzeliu^, Centenary of hLs Birth, 482 

 Bessemer Steel, 160 



Bettany (G. T.), the Galleries of the Cutting Ants of Texas, 583 



Bibliographical Notes, 276, 591 



Bidie (G.i, Intellect in Brutes, 96 



Biela's Comet, 129, 156, 459, 512, 583 



Binary Stars, 402, 603 



Biological Notes, 106, 302, 534 



Biological Society of the Tokio dai Gaku, 373 



" Birds of the Colorado Valley," Elliott Coues, I 



Birds : Migration of, E. II. Pringle, 6 ; H. Gatke, 97 ; Charles 



Dixon, 219 ; Inherited Memory in, J. Sinclair Holden, 266 ; 



Intellect in Finches, 432 

 Birmingham (John), Lunar Crater, 121 

 Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 160, 



275 

 BisCobra, the, Goh-Samp, and the Scorpion, Dr. H. F. 



Hutchinson, 553 

 Black Lizards, Wm. Ackroyd, 339 

 Biack Rat : Distribution of. Dr. A. B. Meyer, 29 ; Distribution 



of, in Italy, Dr. H. Giglioli, 242 

 Blake (Prof. E. W.), Machine for Drawing Compound Har- 

 monic Curves, 103 

 Blake (J. F.), on Geological Episodes, 470 

 Blanford and Medlicott's Geology of India, 191 

 Blasewitz, Natural History Museum at, 304 

 Blowpipe Cone-Spectrum, and the Distribution of the Intensity 



of Light in the Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra, Dr. J. N. 



Draper, 301 

 Blyth (A. Wynter), Manual of Practical Chemistry, 4 

 Boar Fish, Occurrence of, John T. Carrington, 243 

 Board Schools, Science Teaching in London, 117, 492 

 Bologna, Earthquake at, 42 

 Bonavia (Dr.), "Nightly Resurrection," 505 

 Bone Caves : in Moravia, 305 ; of Derbyshire, 471 ; in France, 



376 

 Bones, Cattle Chewing, II. C. Donovan, 457 

 Books, the Insects which Injure, 471 

 B3ring Mollusc, Dr. P. II. Stokoe, 42S 

 Borneo: Northern, 178; Caves of, 484 

 Bornet (Ed.), on some Marine Al^oo, 155 

 Boston, U.S., American Academy of Arts and Sciences, see 



American 

 Bouty (M.), on the Action of Heat on Metallised Thermometers, 



305 



Brachiopod, Barbed Hooklets on Spines of a. Prof. J. Young, 242 



Bradley (Frank A.), Death of, 40 



Brain, Localisation of Arsenic in the, 303 



" Brain, and Mind," Calderwood's, 309 



Brandt (Prof. J. Fr.), his MSS., 352; his Death, 373 



Braun (Prof. Alex.), Monument of, 255 



Br.izil, O. A. Derby's Exploration of, 5S2 



Brezilia (Aristides), a Universal Catalogue, 94 



Brisbane, Hurricane at, 542 



Bristol Naturalists' Society, 401 



Bristol University College, 547 



British Archseological Association, 255 



British Association : Sheffield Meeting.^ — Officers and Pre- 

 liminary Arrangements, 87, 254, 304; Excursions, Lectures, 

 Foreign Visitors, &c., 352; General Arrangements, 383; 

 Inaugural Address of the President, Prof. G.J. AUman, 

 LL.l')., F.K.S., 384; Prof. Huxley on " Bathybius," 405 ; 

 W. Crookes's Lecture on Radiant Matter, 405 ; Prof. Ray 

 Lankester's Lecture on Degeneration, 405 ; W. E. Ayrton's 

 Lecture on the Transmission of Power by Electricity, 405 ; 

 General Sectional Work, 405, 406; Soiries, &c., 406 ; the 

 Memorial on the Removal of the Natural History Collec- 

 tions and the Reply thereto, 406, 407 ; the Annual Grants, 

 407 ; the Excursions, 440 ; the Committee on Science 

 Teaching in Schools, 440 ; Report of the Committee on 

 Erratic Blocks, 440 ; Report of the " Geological Record " 

 Committee, 440 ; Fifteenth Report of the Committee for 

 Exploring Kent's Cavern, Devonshire, 441 ; Report on the 

 Miocene Flora, &c., of the North of Ireland, 441 ; Sixtli 

 Report on the Thermal Conductivities of Certain Rocks, 



441 ; Report of the Committee for Secular Experiments on 

 the Elasticity of Wires, 441 ; Report of the Committee for 

 Effecting the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent 

 of Heat, 442 ; Report on the Procuring Reports on the 

 Progress of the Chief Branches of Mathematics and Physics, 



442 ; Report of the Committee for Calculating Tables of 

 the Fundamental Invariants of Algebraic Forms, 443 ; Re- 



