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INDEX 



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Japan : Transactions of the Asiatic Society of, 40 ; Tides on 

 the Yezo Coasts, 40 ; Earthquake at Ban-dai-san, Vaughan 

 Harley, 279 ; Journal of the College of Science, Imperial 

 University, 282 ; Astronomical Observatory of Tokio, 307 ; 



\ Educational Society, 494 ; Maine Club, 494 ; Earthquake in 

 Japan, 566 ; Japanese Koji, R, W. Atkinson, 487 ; Japanese 

 Patent Regulations, 615 



Jay (Dr.), Remarkable Salts of Amidogen, 419 



Jenner-Weir (J.), the Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 486 



jentink (Dr. F. A.), Mammals from East Sumatra, 500 



Jesse (O. ), Luminous Night-Clouds, 468, 537 



Jimma, Dr. L. Travesi's Expedition to, 159 



Johns Hopkins University, 208, 545 



Johnson (Edw.), Educational Annual, 232 



Johnston (A. H.), the Niger Delta, 62 



Johnston-Lavis (Dr. H. J.) : Alpine Haze, 55 ; Further Notes 

 on the Late Eruption at Vulcano Island, 109 ; the Recent 

 Eruption at Vulcano, 173; the State of Vesuvius, 301 ; the 

 Present State of Seismology in Italy, 329 



Johnstone (Alexander) : the Colouring Matter of the Testa of the 

 Seed of Rape {Brassica Naftis), 15 ; Hailstones, 148 ; Action 

 of Sea Water on Magnesium Silicates, 455 ; Action of Pure 

 Water, and of Water Saturated with Carbonic Acid Gas, on 

 the Minerals of the Mica Family, 478 



Jones (D. E.), Examples in Physics, 29 



Jones (Prof J. V.): Calculation of Coefficient of Mutual Induction 

 of Helix and Coaxal Circle, 1 18 ; the Use of Lissajous's Figures 

 to Determine Rate of Rotation, 573 ; Use of Morse Receiver to 

 Measure Periodic Time of Tuning-fork, 573 



Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 87, 113 



Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 136 



Journal of Botany, 142, 477 



Journal of North China Branch of Royal Asiatic Society, 59 



Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 94, 334 



Jukes-Browne (A. J.), the Building of the British Isles, 268 



Julien (Dr. A.), Sonorous Sands, 18 



Julien (Alexis A.), Building- Stones of New York City, 258 



Jumelle (M. Henri), Influence of Animal Substances on the 

 Structure of Plants, 479 



Jupiter: Recent Sketches of, Dr. F. Terby, 158; Observations 

 of. Dr. Boeddicker, 519 



Jutland, Primceval Remains Discovered in, 60 



Kamchatka, the Natives of. Resin, 420 



Kanaff, New Material from, M. O. Blakenbourg, 258 



Kars, Earthquakes at, 209 



Karyokinesis, Prof. E. Strasburger, 4 



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



Kashgar, Dr. Seeiand, 164 



Kashgaria and the Passes of the Tian-Shan, Dr. Seeiand, 500 



Kashmir, New F"lying Squirrel from, Thomas, 136 



Kaulbars (A.), Measurements in the Delta of the Amu-daria, 



329 

 Kazan Society of Naturalists' Collection of Skulls, 350 

 Keeler, on Saturn's Ring, 546 



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

 Kent, Discovery of Palaeolithic Flint Implements in, Joseph 



Prestwich, F.R.S., 406 

 Kerr (Graham), Appointed Naturalist to the Pilcomayo Expe- 

 dition, 395 

 Kew Bulletin, 12/0, 256, 350, 404, 566 

 Khanate of Kunjut, Exploration of, 380 

 Khangaloff (M.), the Customs of the Ancient Buriates, 185 

 Kief, Actinometric Observations at, R. Savelief, 407 

 Kiessling (Prof.), Researches on the Phenomena of Twilight, 287 

 Kilimanjaro, Ascent of. Otto F. Ehlers, 520 

 Kinahan (G. H.) : Economic Geology of Ireland, 305 ; Hares 



and Sheep Swimming, 306 

 Kinetic Theory of Gases, on the Virial Equation as Applied to, 



Prof. P. G. Tait, 383 

 King (G., F.R.S.), the Species of Ficus of the Indo- Malayan 



Archipelago, 246 

 Kingsett (C. T.), Nature's Hygiene, 604 

 Kjeldahl Method, on the Quantitative Analysis of Organic 



Nitrogen by the, M. L. L'Hote, 311 

 Kjellman (Prof. F. R.), Algae, genus Adenocystis, 456 

 Kjerulf (Prof. Dr. Theodor), Daath of, 38 

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

 Klemperer (Dr.), the Proteid Needs of the Animal Economy, 624 



Klossovski (M.), Meteorology of South Russia, 466 



Knowledge of the Nebula, Growth of our, 353 



Knowlton (T. H.), Description of a Problematical Organism 



from the Devonian, at the Falls of the Ohio, 525 

 Kobb (Gustave), on the Movement of a Material Point on a 



Sphere, 528 

 Kohlenhydrate, Kurzes Handbuch der, Prof. B. Tollens, 433 

 Kohlrausch (F.), Determination of the Ohm, 308 

 Koji, Japanese Yeast, Prof. Georgeson, 469 ; R. W. Atkinson, 



487 

 Kolmodin (Dr. L. ), Discovery of Remains of Cave-dwellers in 



Scandinavia, 40 

 Kolthoff (Dr.), Fauna of Scandinavia, 256 

 Konig (Dr. A.) : Instantaneous Photography of Projectiles, 24; 



the Action of Santonate of Soda on the Colour- Sense, 407 ; 



Dependence of Visual Acuteness on Intensity of Light under 



Spectral Colour-Illuminations, 408 

 Konkoly (Dr. N. de). the O'Gyalla Observatory, 497 

 Korteweg, Taenodal Points, 192 

 Krafft (Prof.) and Dr. von Hansen, Derivatives of the Unknown 



Tri-hydrocyanic Acid, 590 

 Krakatab Committee of the Royal Society, the Report of the, 



345 



Krakatab Dust, Fiery Sunsets in Central Asia due to, Prje- 

 valsky, 398 



Kremsmiinster, Austria, Rainfall and Thunderstorms at, 209 



Kriesch (Prof. Johann), Death of, 39 



Krukenberg (Prof.) Death of, 517 



Krliss (Dr.) : Decomposition of Nickel and Cobalt, 325 



Kiickenthal (Dr.), Arctic Journey, 517 



Kiihne (Dr. W.), on the Origin and the Causation of Vital 

 Movement, 43 



Kuleschoff (P.), Skulls of Horned Cattle of the Kalmucks, 477 



Kundt (Prof.): Behaviour of Metals to Light, 360; Photo- 

 graphs of Spectra, 120 



Kunjut, Khanate of. Exploration of, 380 



Kurzes Handbuch der Kohlenhydrate, Prof. B. Tollens, 433 



Kuznetsofr(N.), the Flora of Archangelsk, 571 



Kwakiutl Indians, the Houses of the. Dr. Franz Boas, 545 



La Touche (J. D.), Nose- Blackening as Preventive of Snow 



Blindness, 105 

 Laboratory, Research, of the Royal College of Physicians, 



Edinburgh, 68 ; School Laboratory at Eastbourne College, 



III 

 Labrador, Meteorological Observations in, 613 

 Ladureau (M. A.), a Chemical Study of the Algerian Soils, 263 

 Lafitte (M. de), Friendly Societies and their Funds, 332 

 I^font(J L ), Transformation of Terpilene into a Menthene, 167 

 Lamarck, Darwin versus, Prof Ray Lankester, F.R.S. , 428 

 Lagoa Santa of Brazil, the Race of. Dr. Loren Hansen, 500 

 Lake Dwelling, Szontag Lake, East Prussia, 258 

 Lake Huron, Temperatures in, A. T. Drummond, 582 

 Lake Ice, the Crystallization of, Thos. H. Holland, 295 ; 



James C. McConnel, 367 

 Lake Superior, A. T. Drummond, 468 

 Lamb (Dr.), an Eighth Rib in Man, 17 

 Lameness caused by Pain, Marey, 23 

 Laminaria, a New Species of, J. Rodriguez, 569 

 Lamp (Dr.) and Dr. Spitaler, Comets Faye and Barnard, 



October 30, 1 14 

 Lancashire, the Earthquake in, T. R. H. Clunn, 390 

 Lancetta (Prof), Experiments with Crookes's Radiometer, 94 

 Land Rising in Sweden, Baron A. E. Nordenskiold, 488 

 Langley (J. N., F.R.S.), Salts in Saliva, 117 

 Langley (Prof. S. P ) : Energy and Vision, 156 ; the Invisible 



Solar and Lunar Spectrum, 189 ; Perception of Colour, 308 ; 



Histor)' of a Doctrine, 310 

 Lankester (Prof E. Ray, F.R.S.) : Gresham College, i, 29; 



Prophetic Germs, 7 ; the Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 



485 



Lansdell (Dr.), Travels, 471 



Lantern: the Book of the, T. C. Hepworth, 172; the In- 

 dispensable Hand-book to the Optical, W. D. Welford and 

 Henfy Sturmey, 270 



Lapland, the Glaciers of, Rabot, 138 



Lapps : D. N. Ostrovski on the, 209 ; Prof. G. Storm on the, 

 545 ; Lapps at Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris, 350 



