Nature, May 30, 1889] 



INDEX 



Solar Statistics for 1888, M. R. Wolf, 312 ; Nehulseof Orion, 

 Andromeda, and the Pleiades, Isaac Roberts, 326 ; Royal 

 Astronomical Society Medal, M. Lcewy, 326 ; Rousdon Ob- 

 servatory, Lyme Regis, 328 ; Partial Lunar Eclipse, January 

 16, 1889, 336 ; Colours of Variabl* Stars, S. C. Chandler, 

 352 ; New Minor Planets, 352 ; Comet 1888 ^ (Barnard, Sep- 

 tember 2), 352 ; Haynald Observatory (Hungary), 352 ; 

 Growth of our Knowledge of the Nebulas, 353 ; the Planet 

 Venus, 378 ; New Minor Planet. M. Charlois, 378 ; Obser- 

 vations of Variable Stars, Paul Vendall, 378 ; Winnecke's 

 Periodical Comet, Dr. von Haerdtl, 378 ; Barnard's Comet 

 1888 ^, 384; General Astronomy, Prof. C. A. V'oung, 386; 

 the Multiple Star C Cancri, 398 ; the Meteoric Theory of 

 Nebula;, &c., S. Tolver Preston, 436 ; the Sun's Corona, 

 1889, Prof. David P. Todd, 436 ; Meteor, Stavanger, Nor- 

 way, 446 ; Solar Activity in 1888, 448 ; Comet 1889 a, 449 ; 

 Observations of Uranus and Neptune, M. Giriot, 456 ; Solar 

 Activity in 1888, M. Schmoll, 456; 7 Arietis, M. Flammarion, 

 456; Lunar Eclipse of January 17, 456; Planetoids, General 

 Parmentier, 456 ; Thompson's Disks, M. Gunziger, 456 ; the 

 Meteoric Theoiy of Nebulae, Prof. G. H. Datwin, 

 F. R. S., 460; Meteor seen at Hampstead, B. Woodd 

 Smith, 462 ; Distribution of Sun-spots in Latitude, 469 ; 

 Comet 1887 L, Th. Rredichin, 477; Total Solar Eclipse 

 of January i, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 487; Variable 

 Stars and the Constitution of the Sun, A. Fowler, 492 ; 

 Mars, Prof. Schiaparelli, 494 ; Rowland's Photographic Map 

 of the Normal Solar Spectrum, 496 ; the Clinton Catalogue 

 of Stars, 497 ; Saturn's Ring, 497 ; the O'Gyalla Observatory, 

 497 ; Moon-culminating Stars, 1889, 497 ; the Satellite of 

 Procyon, J. M. Barr, 510; Jupiter, Dr. Boeddicker's Obser- 

 vations, 519; the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 545 ; 

 Death of W. E. Tempel, 546 ; Companion of Sirius, 546 ; 

 Comet 1888 e (Barnard, 1888 September 2), Herr A. 

 Berberich, 546; Comet 1888/ (Barnard, 1888 October 30), 

 546 ; Saturn's Ring, 546 ; Spectrum of the Rings of Saturn, 

 J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 564 ; Luminosity of Venus, 567 ; 

 the Spectra of R Leonis and R Hydrse, 567 ; the Sun-spot 

 Minimum, Prof. Ricco, 567 ; Discovery of a New Comet, 

 E. E. Barnard, 567 ; Observations of Variable StaVs in 

 1888, Sawyer, 568 ; the Shooting-stai-s of April, 588 ; 

 Melbourne Observatory, 592 ; Comet 1889 b (Barnard, 

 March 31), Herr Von Hepperger, 592 ; Variable Stars and 

 the Constitution of the Sun, Dr. A. Brester, 606 ; A. 

 Fowler, 606 ; the Constitution of Celestial Space, M. G. A. 

 Hirn, 615 ; Comets 1888 e and / (B.irnard, September 2 

 and October 30), 616 ; a Ursse Majoris, Burnham, 616 ; the 

 White Spot on .Saturn's Ring, 616 



Athens, Earthquake at, 305 



Atkinson (John), Animals' Institute, 31 



Atkinson (R. W.), Japanese "Koji," 487 



Atlantic Fauna, Proposed German Expedition for Investigation 

 of, 417 



Atlantic Ocean, North, Pilot Chart, 495 



Atlantic Weather Charts, the, 17 



Atlas Mountains, J. Thomson's Journey to, 115 



Atlas, Star, Dr. Hermann J. Klein, 7 



Atmosphere, Thermodynamics of, Prof, von Rezold, 167 



Atmospheric Physics, Proposed Exhibition of Instruments con- 

 nected with, 349 



Atomic Weight of Tin, Prof. Classen and Dr. Bongartz, 39 



Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 94 



Auerbach (Prof. Leopold), Presentation to, 230 



Austen (Peter T.), Chemical Lecture Notes, 577 



Australia : Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Au'^- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney, Dr. Lendenfeld, 282 ; the Drought 

 in, 377 ; A. W. Scott's Collection of the Lepidoptera of, 

 377; Feripatus m, A. Sedgwick, F.R. S., 412 ; Exploration 

 of Central Australia, 471 ; Tabular List of all the Australian 

 Birds, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 460 ; the History of Australian 

 Exploration, Ernest Favenc, 53 ; A. W. Howitt on Aus- 

 tralian Message Sticks, 215 



Australia, Meteorological Society of, 17 



Austria, Lower, Stalactite Cave, Eriach, 496 



Automatic Ganging of an Artificial Feeder, M. H. Parenty, 504 



Auwers (Dr.), Geometrical Isomers, Monoxims of Benzil, 518 



Aveling (Edward), Magnetism and Electricity, 580 ; Heat and 

 Light, 580 



Avi-fauna of Queensland, Post-Tertiary, C. W, De Wis, 157 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Electrical Measurement, 502 



Babingfon (Rev. Churchill), Death of, 281 



Bacillus heminecrobiophilns. General Effects of the Substances 

 produced by, under Natural and Artificial Culture, M. S. 

 Arloing, 479 

 Backhouse (T. W.): Bishop's Ring, 412, 462; the Formation 



of Ice, 437 

 Bacon, R. W. Church, Prof. T. Fowler, 3 

 Bacteria, Dr. George M. Sternberg on, 231 

 Bacteria in Faeces of Children fed on Milk, the. Dr. Baginski, 



407 

 Baddeley (W. St. Clair), Travel Tide, 605 

 Baginski (Dr.), the Bacteria occurring in Faeces of Milk-fed 



Children, 407 

 Baker (H. B.), Combustion in Dried Oxygen, 117 

 Baker (J. G., F.R.S.), Flowering Plants of Wihs, &c., Rev. T. 



A. Preston, 123 

 Baku Petroleum, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 481 

 Balfour (Dr. Isaac Bayley, F. R.S), Botany of Socotra, 99 

 Ball (Sir Robert Stawell, F.R.S.), the Story of the Heavens, 



232 

 Ball (\V. W. Rouse), the History of Mathematics, 265 

 Ballo (Prof.), Preparation of Iso-arabin by, 613 

 Bangweolo, Lake, Mr. Ravenstein, 470 



Barbados : Origin of the Radiolarian Earth of, J. B. Harrison 

 and A. J. Jukes Browne, 367 ; Tertiary Chalk in, A. J. 

 Jukes Browne and J. B. Harrison, 607 

 Barbary Ape in Algeria, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R. S., 30 

 Bardet (G.), Physiologic^il and Therapeutic Action of Ortho- 



methyl-acetanilide, 528 

 Barnard (E. E. ) : Discovery of a New Comet, 42, 567 ; Comets 

 Faye and Barnard, 42, 186; October 30, Drs. Lamp and 

 Spitaler, 114; Barnard, September 2, Comet 1888 e, 158, 

 352 : Herr A. Berberich, 546 ; October 30, Comets 1888 e 

 and/, 616 ; Comet 1888/, Dr. R. Spitaler, 546 ; Comet 1889 

 b, Herr Von Hepperger, 592 

 Barometer, Diurnal Variation of the, M. Alfred Angot, 239; 



Dr. J. Hann, 517 ; F. C. Bayard, 623 

 Barometric Oscillations, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 



Captain Pelham Aldrich, 38 

 Baron (Rev. R.), the Geology of Madagascar, 551 

 Barr (J^ M.), the Satellite of Procyon, 510 

 Barth (Dr.), Method of preparing the Membranous Labyrinth, 



264 

 Basset (A. B.), the Cremation of the Dead, 249 

 Basset on the Steady Motion of an Annular Mass of Rotating 



Liquid, 310 

 Bassia latifolia, on the Chemical Constitution and Industria 

 Value of the Guttapercha yielded by, MM. Ed. Heckel and 

 Fr. Schlagdenhauffen, 312 

 Bateman (C. S. L. ), the First Ascent of the Kasai, 460 

 Bather (F. A.) : Trigonocrinus, 263 ; the Basals of Eugenia- 



crinidee, 599 

 Battle-ships, Designs for New First-class, VV. H. White, 589 

 Baubigny (M. H.) : Action of Sulphuretted Hydrogen on the 

 Sulphate of Zinc in a Neutral or x\.cid Solution, 263 ; 

 Separation of Zinc and Cobalt, 479 

 Baumann (Dr. O. ), African Explorations, 259 

 Bayard (F. C), Diurnal Range of Barometer, 623 

 Bayley (W. S. ), a Quartz-keratophyre from Pigeon Point and 



Irving's Augite-syenites, 310 

 Beach lines. Alteration of, M. A. Blytt, 613 

 Beale (W. E.), Joint Nest of Thrush and Hedge Sparrow 



566 

 Beard (Dr. J.): some Annelidan Affinities in the Onto^^eny of 

 the Vertebrate Nervous System, 259 ; Fishery Boaid for 

 Scotland, 494 

 Beaver : Remains of the, Signor Giuseppe Terrenzi, 262 ; 



Beavers in Sweden, 352 

 Bechamp (A.), the Nature of Milk, 96 



Becker (Dr. L.), Comet 1888 c (Barnard, September 2), 114 

 Becquerel (Edmund), the Preparation of Phosphorescent Sul- 

 phides of Calcium and Strontium, 167 

 Beddard (Frank E.): Tail-Bristles of a West Indian Earth- 

 worm, 15 ; Sumatran Rhinoceros, 311 ; Anatomy and Phy- 

 siology of Phreoryctes, 455 

 Bedford College, Proposed New Laboratories for, 85 

 Beech-Tree, Mass of Oxalate of Potash found in Decayed, S. 



H. Wintle, 397 

 Beech-Wood, Prof, H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 511 

 Bees, Ventilating, E. M. A. Brewster, 224 



