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[Nature, May 30, 1889 



Delcommune's Exploration of the Lomami, 593 ; Petermann's 

 Mittheilungen, 593 : the Natives of Ecuador, 593 ; Return 

 of M, Rogozinski, 593 ; Deaih of V. A. Malte-Hrun, 593 ; 

 a Class-book of Geography, C. B. Clarke, 605 

 Geology : Death of Prof. Dr. Theorlor Kjerulf, 38 ; Superficial 

 Geology of Central North-West Canada, J. B. Tyrrell, 95 ; 

 the Permian Rocks of the Leicestershire Coal-field, 11. T. 

 Brown, 95 ; Geological Society, 95, 144, 191, 263. 406, 478, 

 551. 574. 599; Medals and Funds, 326; Annual Meeting, 

 454 ; Geological Society of Stockholm, 327 ; Dr. Dawson's 

 Collection of Graptolites, 137 ; Geological Investigations in 

 Nova Zembla, Nossilow's, 137 ; Dislocations of Primitive 

 Formations in North Central Plateau of France, L. de 

 Launay, 192 ; N. Andrusoff on the Geological History of 

 the Caspian Depression, 208 ; Record of the Excursions 

 of the Geo'ogists" Association, 210; on the Discovery 

 of the Olenellus Fauna in the Lower Cambrian 

 Rocks of Britain, Prof. C. Lapworth, F.R.S., 212; 

 Fruit of tlie Hornbeam, Clement Reid, 262 ; Irigonocrimis, 

 F. A. Bather, 263 ; Archaccyathus, Dr. J. G. Hinde, 263 ; 

 Deposit of Fossil Bones in the Island of Samos. Forsyth 

 Major, 263 ; the Artificial Reproduction of Volcanic Rocks, 

 M. Alphonse Renard, LL.D., 271 ; the Petrology of the 

 Igneous Rocks associated with the Cambrian (Sedgwick) of 

 Carnarvonshire, Alfred Harker, 286 ; Rocks and Soils, their 

 Origin, Composition, and Characteristics, Horace Edward 

 Stockbridge, 292 ; Rocks and Soils, Prof. John Wrightson, 292 ; 

 Supposed Fossils from the Southern Highlands, 300 ; Duke 

 of Argyll, F. R.S., 317 ; Economic Geology of Ireland, Mr. 

 Kinahan, 305 ; Falls of Rock at Niagara, E. W. Claypole, 

 367 ; Monazite as an Accessory Element in Rocks, O. A. 

 Derby, 429 ; Origin of Coral Islands, J. Starkie Gardner, 

 435 ; Nodular Feistones of the Lleyn Peninsula, Miss 

 Catherine A. Raisin (communicated by Prof. T. G. Bonney), 

 478 ; Cotteswold, Midford, and Yeovil Sands, and the Divi- 

 sion between Lias and Oolite, S. S. Buckman, 478 ; United 

 States Geological Survey, 484 ; Upper Carboniferous Glacial 

 Period, Prof. W. J. Stephens, 496 ; Record of Excursions of 

 the Geologists' Association, T. V. Holmes, 518; Geology of 

 Madagascar, Rev. R. Baron, 551 ; Societe Geologique de 

 France, Proposed Meeting in Paris, 590 ; the Basals of 

 Eugeniacrinidse, F. A. Bather, 599 ; Further Notes on the 

 Geology of the Eastern Coast of China and the Adjacent 

 Islands, 610 



Geometry : Solid Geometry, Solutions, P. Frost, 26 ; Practical 

 Solid Geometry, Major W. Gordon Ross, 26 ; Association 

 for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, 207, 304 ; 

 Examinations in Elementary Geometry, 464 ; Geometrical 

 Isomers, Monoxims of Benzil, Dr. Auwers and Prof. Victor 

 Meyer, 518 



Georgeson (Prof.), Koji, Yeast, 469 



Georgia, the Kingdom of, Oliver Wardrop, 293 



Gerard (Eric), New Registering Process, 262 



Germany : German Government Grants to the Berlin Univer- 

 sity and Natural History Museum, 350 ; German Expedition 

 for Investigation of Atlantic Fauna, 417; Report on the 

 Fores' Meteorological Stations of, 41 



Germs, Prophetic, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R. S., 7 



Gesellschaft Urania, 494 



Geyler (Dr. H. T.), Death of, 565 



Giant Earthworm, the, of Gippsland, Prof. James W. H. Trail, 

 437 



Giard (Prof.), 16 



Gibson (R. J. Harvey), Textbook of Elementary Biology, 482 



Gilbert (Dr.), Results of Experiments upon the Growth of 

 Potatoes at Rothamsted, 595 



Giles (A. E.), Development of Fat Bodies in Rana iemporaria, 

 164 



Ginnunga Gap and Davis Straits, 40 



Girard (Aime), Cultivation of the Potato in France, 456, 551 



Girton College, Gamble Prize Medal, Award of, 210 



Glacier and other Ice, on the Plasticity of, James C. McConnel, 

 203 



Glaciers of Greenland and Lapland, the. M. Rabot, 138 



Glaciers of the Selkirk Range, Rev. W. Spotswood Green on, 

 379. 



Gleanings in Science, Gerald Molloy, 534 



Gletscher der Ostalpen, Die, Dr. Eduard Richter, Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.R.S., 361 



Glucine, Silicated Combinations of, Hautefeuille and Perrey, 96 



Glucose and Mannite, the Syntheses of, Fischer and Tafel, 351 

 Godfroy (Bernard), New Method of improving Capacity of 



Long Telegraphic Lines, 96 

 Gold, the Metallurgy of, M. Eissler, Prof. W. C. Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 100 

 Gomont (Maurice), the Envelopes in Nostocacea;, 569 

 Gonnessiat (M.), Errors affecting the Observations of Transits, 24 

 Goodwin (H. B.), Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, 26 

 Gopcievic (Spiridion), Ethnographical Conditions of Macedonia 



and Old Servia, 520 

 Gore (Dr. George, F.R.S.), New Instrument of Research, 308 

 Gore (Prof J. LI.), Bibliography of Geodesy, 327 

 Goschen (Right Hon. G. J., F.R.S.), on University Colleges 



and Government Grants, 207 

 Gotch (Francis), Electromotive Changes in the Mammalian 

 Spinal Cord following Electrical Excitation of the Cortex 



Cerebri, 500 

 Goursat (M. E.), Isogonal Transformations in Mechanics, 479 

 Gouy (M.), Transformations and Equilibrium in Thermo- 

 dynamics, 504 

 Government Service in China, Education for, 420 

 Gowland (M. W.), Retirement and Notice of, 612 

 Grabfield (J. P.), Chemical Problems, 173 _ 



Grablovitz (Prof^. G. ), Seismolog'cal Observations in Italy, 330 

 Gran Chaco, the, Captain John Page, 328 

 Granites, Altaic, Dr. A. Bialoveski, 30 

 Grant (Colonel J. A.), Notes on Stanley's Journey, 609 

 Graptolites, Dr. Dawson's Collection of, 137 

 Gravity, Dr. Thiessen's Experiments on, 288 

 Gravity, Variations of, in Hawaiian Islands, E. D. Preston, 70 

 Gray (Prof. Andrew) : Mass and Inertia, 342 ; Weight and 



Mass, 437 

 Gray (Robert), Contents of the Stomachs of Hooded Seals, 



Cystophora ciistala, 44S 

 Gray (R. W.), Stomach of the Narwhal, 528 

 Greaves (J.), Elementary Statics, 26 

 Greely (Lieutenant A. W.), Report of the Proceedings of the 



United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell 



Land, 435 

 Greely (General), Average Velocities of Low-area Storms and 



Upper Air-Currents in the United States, 447 

 Green ( X. G.), P'omeric Sulphonic Acids of ^S-Naphthylamine, 



166 

 Green (Prof. A. H., F.R.S.), British Tertiary Volcanoes, 131 

 Green (A. P.), Ritigala, Ceylon, 468 

 Green (Rev. W. Spotswood), Exploration of the Glacier Regions 



of the Selkirk Range, British Columbia, 379 

 Green Algce, New Genus of, Boodlea, Mr. Murray, 454 

 Greenhill (Prof. A. G., F.R.S.) : Engineers versus Professors 



and College Men, 175 ; Weight and Mass, 390 ; Weight, 



Mass, and Force, 461 

 Greenland Exhibition, Paris, 350 



Greenland Expedition, Dr. Nansen's, 62, 88, 184, 395, 446 

 Greenland, the Glaciers of, Rabot and Rink, 138 

 Gresham College, Prof. E. Ray Lankester. F. R.S., i, 30 ; E. D. 



Roberts, 29 ; Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 54 

 Griffiths (Dr. A. B.) : Liver of Carcinus nicenas, 455 ; Treatise 



on Manures, 496 ; Micro organisms, 528 

 Grombchevski (Captain), Exploration of the Khanate of Kunjut, 



380 

 Gros (Durand de). Ethnology of Le Rovergne, 70 

 Gross (Dr. Victor), Palaeontology in Switzerland, 164 

 Grouse, Sand, Pallas's, Syrrliaptes paradoxus. Dr. A. B. 



Meyer, 9; John Cordeaux on, 40; T. Southwell, 137 ; in 



Ireland, Dr. Robert Scharff, 448 

 Growth of our Knowledge of the Nebulae, 353 

 Gruey (M.) : Theory of the Sextant, 455 ; Cooaplete Rectification 



of the Sextant, 479 

 Gscheideln (R.), Death of, 517 

 Guatemala, the Land of the Quetzal, William T. Brigham, 



412 

 Guiana, French, M. Maurel, 329 

 Guiot (M.), Observations of Uranus and Neptune, 456 

 Gulick (John T. ), Divergent Evolution, 54. 

 Gunziger (M.), Thompson's Disks, 456 

 Guppy (Dr. H. B.), Keeling Atoll or Cocos Islands, 236 

 Guttapercha Plant, a, Heckel and Schlagdenhaufifen, 192 

 Gulta yielded by Bassia latifolia, on the Chemical Constitution 



and Industrial Value of the, MM. Ed. Heckel and Fr. 



Schlagdenhauffen, 312 



