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INDEX 



Abbay (R.), Shadow of Adam's Peak, 152 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), Popular Errors in Meteorology, 375 



Abel (Sir Frederick, C.B., F.R.S.), the Work of the Imperial 

 Institute, 17 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph) : Upper Wind Currents near the 

 Equator and the Diffusion of Krakatab Dust, 85 ; Shadow 

 of Adam's Peak, 197 ; Upper Cloud Movements in the 

 Equatorial Regions of the Atlantic, 222 ; the Meteorologiske 

 Institut at Upsala and Cloud Measurements, 319 ; the Different 

 Varieties of Thunderstorms, and a Scheme for their Systematic 

 Observation in Great Britain, 548 



Aberration, a General Method of Determining the Constant of, 

 M. Lcewy, 118 



Abrus precatorius, the Proteids of Seeds of, Dr. Sidney 

 Martin, 70 



Absolute Wave-length, Recent Determinations of, L. Bell, 524 



Absorption- Spectra of the Haloid Salts of Didymium, Dr. G, 

 H. Bailey, 570 



Absorption- Spectra of Rare Earths, Dr. G. H. Bailey, 570 



Abt (Dr.) and Dr. Noelting on the Constitution of Azimido 

 Compounds, 569 



Acetic Ether, Velocity of Formation of. Prof. Menschutkin, 569 



Acids, Cinnamic, on some New, Dr. Cohen and Prof. Perkin, 

 S70 , 



Acoustics : Experiments on Laws of Vibration of Tuning-Forks, 

 Prof. Munk, 383 



Adam's Peak, Shadow of, R. Abbay, 152 ; Hon. Ralph Aber- 

 cromby, 197 



Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, 255 



Aeronautics : Captive Kite-Balloon, E. Douglas Archibald, 278 



Aerostation, Academy of, in France, 429 



Affinity, Residual, Wm. Durham, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, 

 F.R.S., 30 



Affinity and Solution, Chemical, Wm. Durham, 318 



Africa : Capt. van Gele's Exploration of Mobangi Tributary of 

 Congo, 66 ; Mitteilungen of the German African Society, 91 ; 

 Dr. Junker's Explorations in Central, 257 ; News of African 

 Travel, Herr G. A. Krause, 258 ; Lieut. Wissmann's African 

 Expedition, 283 ; Return of Lieut. Wissmann from his Journey 

 across Africa, 616 ; Ethnology of the Ogoway and Lower 

 Congo Basins, Cav. A. Pecile, 377 ; Forestry of West Africa, 

 Alfred Moloney, 387 ; Dr. Holub's African Explorations, 452 ; 

 News of Stanley's Expedition, 475 ; Geology of Africa, Dr. 

 Giirich, 478 ; Religious Conditions of. Dr. Oppel, 589 



After-glows, J. Lloyd Bozward, 245 



After-glows at Helensburgh, Robert H. Scott, r.R.S., 17$; 

 Lewis P. Muirhead, 175 



Agardh (J. G.), Till Algernes Systematik, Mrs. Mary P. Merri- 

 field, 313 



Agricultural Chemistry, Experiments in, J. Raulin, 456 



Agricultural Pests of India, Surgeon- General Edward Balfour, 

 169 



Agriculture : Premium offered for the Best Text-book of Tropi- 

 cal Agriculture, 499 



Aino Studies, the Language, Mythology, and Geographical 

 Nomenclature of Japan viewed in the Light of, 25 



Air-Bubbles from Snow, Rev. A. Bonney, 215 



Air, Micro-Organisms in, a New Method for Determining, Prof. 

 Carnelley and Thos, Wilson, 570 



Airy (Sir G. B., F. R.S.), on the Establishment of the Roman 

 Dominion in South-East Britain, 78 



Aitken (Sir W.), the Growth of the Recruit and Young Soldier, 



587 



Ajax, H.M. Ship, the Steering of, 61 



Alaska, Shores and Alps of, A. W. Seton Karr, 220 



Albert Hall, Indian Antiquities at, 184 



Albert Medal, the, 135 



Albert Nyanza and Muta-Nzige, 499 



Albuquerque (J. A.), Primeiros Principios da Theoria dos 

 Determinantes, 51 



Alcock (Dr. Thomas), Natural History of the Coast of Lan- 

 cashire, 526 



Alcohol, Bichlorureted, M. Delacre, 116 



Alcohol, New Tetrahydric, M. Combes, 587 



Alcohol and Water Combinations, Prof. Mendeleef, 570 



Alcoholic Fermentation, Chemical and Physiological Equation 

 of, Prof. Delpino, 456 



Algae, Gelatinous Sheathing of Filaments of, Herr G. Klebs, 



IS 



Algae, the Classification of, J. G. Agardh, Mrs. Mary P. Mern- 



field, 313 

 Algebra, Higher, H. S. Hall and S. R. Knight, 409, 507 

 Algeria : the Grasshopper Plague in, 184 ; Earthquake in, 350 ; 



Volcanic Eruption on Algerian Coast, 376 

 Algiers, the Locust Plague in, 350 

 Algol Type, New Variable of the, E. Sawyer, 376 

 Alkali Trade, Present Position of the, A. E. Fletcher, 569 

 Alkaline Vanadates, 24 

 Alkyl Nitrites, the Reduction-Products of the Nitro-Paraffins 



and. Prof. Dunstan and T. S. Dymond, 570 

 Alloys : on the Electro-Deposition of. Prof. S. P . Thompson, 



547 ; Experiments on the Possible Electrolytic Decomposition 



of, Prof. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 547 

 Alphita, a • Medico- Botanical Glossary from the Bodleian 



Manuscript Selden B. 35, Dr. J. F. Payne, 529 

 Alpine Flowers, the Preservation of, in 

 Alps, Preliminary Note on Traverses of the Western and of the 



Eastern, made during the Summer of 1887, Prof. T. G. 



Bonney, F.R.S., 590 

 Alps of Alaska, Shores and, W. H. Seton Karr, 220 



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