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INDEX 



IX 



Goh-samp, the, Dr. H. F. Hutchinson, 553 



Go'.d, Discovery of, in Nova Scotia, 184 



Golden Eagle and a Decoy, Prof. A. Lakis, 122 



Goldfields of Tasmania, 354 



Goldie's Exploration of New Guinea, 87 



Gbttingen Academy of Sciences, 500 



Gower's Improved Telephone, 138 



Grabham, (Dr. M.), Report on Atmospheric Electricity in 



Madeira, 444 

 Granitoid Rocks, C. Callaway, on the Origin of Certain, 219, 



266 ; H. Hicks, 242 

 Grasshoppers, Plague of, in Hungary, 305 ., 

 Gravitation Experiments in Liquids, 17 

 Gravitation, Illustrations of, 543 

 Greenland Scientific Expedition, 604 

 Greenwich Meteorological Observations, Alex. Buchan, 525, 



602 ; W. Ellis, 576, 624 

 Greenwich Observatory, the Visitation of, 153 

 Grisebach (Prof.), Death of, 65 



Groves (T. 13.), Intellect in Brutes— a Cat and a Mirror, 291 

 Growth of Plants and Animals, Mechanical Difficulty in, 



290 

 Grubb (Howard), Solar Halo, 628 

 Gun, the 100- Ton, 183 

 Ganninjj (W. D.), Intellect in Brutes, 29 

 Gusts of Wind and Showers of Rain, A. Mallock, 56 

 Gymnadenia conopsea, Embryology of, 488 



Hachijo, the Island of, 64" 



Hagen (Dr. H. A.), on Museum Pests, 106 



Hail, the Origin of, 242 



Hailstones, the Size of, 432 



Hailstorm at Ilala, 208 



Hailstorm, the Recent, C. F. White, 432 



Hailstorms, Theory of, J. A. B. Oliver, 603 



Hainan, the Island of, 205 



Haines (H. H.), Butterfly Swarms, 243 



Hair Worms, 535 



Hall (Marshall), Alpine Clubs, 427 



Hamilton (Charles BaiUie), Intellect in Brutes, 147 



Hampshire, Notes on the Flora of, 616 



Hanover, Polytechnic Institution at, 434 



Harmonic Curves, Machine for Drawing Compound : Prof. 



E. W. Blake, 103 ; Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 145 

 Harmonic Ratios in the Spectra of Gases, Dr. A. Schtister, 



533 



Plarmonograph, a New, 187 

 I Hart (H. C), Flora of North-West Donegal, 353 

 j Hartenthurm (J. H. von), Death of, 373 

 i Harvie-Brown (J. A.), Capercaillie in Scotland, 550 



Hassall (Dr. A. H.), San Remo and the Western Riviera, 



Hastings, Earthquake Shock at, 161 



Haugliton (Rev. Dr.), Friction of Water upon Water at Low 



Velocities, 445 

 Haviland (Alfred), Geology in Relation to Sanitary Science, 643 

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

 Hawkshaw (J. Clark), Insect-Swarms, 426 

 " Health, a Ministry of," Dr. B. W. Richardson, 576 

 Health Primers, 168 

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



Tolver Preston, 366 

 Heat, Radiation of, and Temperature, Relation between, 89 

 Heat, the Action of, in Vacuo, on Metals, T. A. Edison, 545 

 Heat, the Mechanical Equivalent of, British Association Report 



on, 442 

 Hector (Dr. James), the Pacific Salmon, 338 

 Helix aspersa. Vitality of, 363 



Helix, Spicula in, Edw. B. Parfitt, 316 ; Dr. P. H. Stokoe, 339 

 Henslow (Rev. Geo.) on Intellect in Brutes, 21 ; Frc^s and 



Glow-Flies, 220 

 Herefordshire Pomona, 542 

 Her ng's Theory of the Vision of Light and Colours, Dr. Wm. 



Pole, F.R.S., 611, 637 

 Herschel (J.), the P'igure of the Earth, 33 

 Heslop's Winding and Pumping Engine, 134 

 Hicks (Henry), on the Origin of Certain Granitoid Rocks, 



242 ; on the Classification of the British Pre-Cambrian Rocks, 



471 



Hincks (Thomas), Insect-Swarms, 455 



Higgs (Dr. Paget), " The Electric Light in its Practical Appli- 

 cation," 165 



High Vacua, Molecular Physics in, W. Crpokes, F.R.S., 228, 

 250 



Hind (J. R., F.R.S.), Historical Sun-Darkenings, 189 



Hissarlilt, Sir John Lubbock, 265 



Historical Sun-Darkenings, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 189 



llolden (J. Sinclair), Inherited Memory in Birds, 266 



Hollis (W. Ainslie), Insect Galls Buds, 95 



HoUoway (T.), his Proposed New College for Women, 379 



HoUoway's New Application of Rapid Oxidation by which 

 Sulphides are utilised as Fuel, 278, 469 



Ilolub (Dr.), his African Explorations, 560 



Horsfall (W.), Intellect in Brutes, 505 



Hosie (Alex.), First Observations of Sun-Spots, 131 



Houghton (Rev. W.), " British Fresh-water Fishes, 289 



Howgate (Capt. ), his North Pole Expedition, 433 



Hughes (Prof. D. E.), Induction-Currents Balance, 77 ; Audio- 

 meter, 102 



Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, 328 



"Human Species," the, by Prof. A. de Quatrefages, W. L. 

 Distant, 429 



Hunt (Sterry, F.R.S.), Chemical and Geological Essays, 621 



Hunterian Lectures Prof. Flower's, 222, 244, 267 



Hutchinson (Dr. H. F.), about Snakes, 528; the Bis-Cobra, 

 the Goh-Samp, and the Scorpion, 553 ; Certain Animal 

 Poisons, 553 ; the Hunting-Spider, 581 



Huxley (Prof., F.R.S.), on ie Characters of the Pelvis in the 

 Mammalia, 22 



Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.R.S.), on " Bathybius," 405 



Hydrocyanic Acid, Formation of, in the Electric Arc, 235 



Hydro-Electric Batteries, 561 



Hydrogen Peroxide, Effects of Sunlight on, Downes and Blunt, 

 S2I 



Hydrophobia, Cure of, by Curare, 183 



Hygiene, Parkes Museum of, 588 



Hyperion and Mimas, the Satellites, 204, 363, 629 



Ice-Cavern of Dobschau, W. Bezant Lowe, 151 



Ice, the Optical Structure of, 461 



Iceland, Notes from, G. F. Rodwell, 532 



Illuminated Buoys, Distinguishing Characteristics for, Thomas 



Stevenson, 86 

 Index to Zoological Genera, S. H. Scudder, 551 

 Indexes, Subject : to Transactions of Learned Societies, 554, 



580 ; to the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, H. 



B. Wheatley, 627 

 India: the Marine Survey of, 15; Barometric Pressure and 



Temperature in, E. D. Archibald, 54 ; a Manual of the 



Geology of, H. B. Medlicott and W. T. Blanford, 191 ; the 



Coil-Fields of, V. Ball, 469 ; George Catlin's Collection of 



Indian Portraits, &c., 249 ; Distribution of the Indian 



Museum, 277 

 Induction- Balance, a New, 187 



Induction-Currents Balance, Prof. D. E. Hughes, 77 

 Infusoria : Function of some Contractile Vacuoles in, 303 ; 



Fertilisation of Seaweeds by, 463 

 Inherited Memory, 77; James Ellis, 122; J. Sinclair Holden, 



266 

 Insect, a New Shellac-Producing, 18 

 Insect Galls Buds, A. Stephen WiLon, 55 ; W. AinsKe HoUis, 



95 

 Insect Swarms : J. Clark Hawkshaw, 426 ; Edith Pycroft, 431 ; 



Thomas Hincks, 455 ; J. H. A. Jenner, 481 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 24, 48, 275 ; Conversaziones, 40, 



III 

 In-titution of Mechanical Engineers, 326 

 Intellect in Brates, 21, 29, 77, 96, 122, 147, 196, 220, 243, 291, 



3' 5. 338, 339. 428, 505, 580 

 Inter-Oceanic Canal Congress, its Work in Paris, 59, 97 

 lutra-Mercurial Planet Question, 597 



lodobroniite of A. R. Lasaulx, Note on, G. F. Rodwell, 77 

 Irido-Platinum, 341 

 Irish University Bdl, 234 

 Irkutsk, Fire at, 482 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 16, 56, 423, 541 

 Isthmus of Darien, the Propjsed Canal Across, 296 

 Ivory, Vegetable, 89 



