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INDEX 



\N attire, Dec. \, \\ 



Altai, Flora of the, A. Krasnoff, 325 



Alumina, on the Reduction of, M. G. A. Faurie, 528 



Aluminium, its History, &c., Joseph W. Richards, 292 



Alums formed by Selenic Acid, on the, C. Fabre, 287 



Alvarez (E.), Microbe of Indigo, 360 



Amagat (E. H.): Expansion and Compressibility of Water, 

 24 ; Solidification of Liquids by Pres<;ure, 312 



Amati (Prof A.), on the State "f Education in Italy, 45 



Amber, Remarkable Piece of, 63 



America : American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 14, 398, 429 ; American Woman's Education 

 Association, Seaside Laboratory for Study of Biology, 15 ; 

 American Journal of Science, 64, 113, 479, 551, 575 j 

 American Journal of Mathematics, 70, 262 ; American 

 Oriental Association, iii ; American Indian Dialects, 

 Gatschet's Ethnographic Map of, 112 ; Earthquakes in Central 

 America, 136 ; American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 

 161 ; American M'lseun of Natural History, 279 ; Education 

 in America, W Odell, 295 ; American Mining Industries, 

 R. Pumpelly, 315 ; American Meteorological Journal, 375 ; 

 Minerals at the American Exhibition, 381 ; British Museums 

 and American Museums, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 530 ; 

 Scientific Revival in the Southern States of America, 587 



Anales de la Oficina Meteorologica Argentina, iro 



Analysis, Qualitative Chemical, Dr. C. Remigius Fresenius, 

 411 



Analysis, Qualitative, Outlines of, A. H. Sexton, 410 



Analytical Statics, a Treatise on, I. Todhunter, 459 



Anatomical Researches on the Physiology of the Spinal Ganglia, 

 Dr. Joseph, 120 



Ancon, the Necropolis of. Prof. A. H. Keane, 281 



Andre (MM. Berthelot), on the Liberation of Ammonia by 

 Vegetable Soils, 72 



Animals, Breeding for Intelligence in. Dr. H. Rayner, 246 



Animals Liable to become addicted to Opium-Poisoning, 

 Jammes, 325 



Animals, Lower, Effects of Earthquakes upon. Prof. Milne, 

 350 



Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen Meteorologie, 136, 

 348, 617 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 165, 375 



Annales de I'Institut Pasteur, 112 



Annals of Botany, the New Botanical Periodical, 254 



Annatto, 279 



Antarctic Expedition, Proposed Victorian, 17 ; Antarctic Ex- 

 ploration, 277; Capt. C. Pasco, R.N., on, 399; Australian 

 Promotion of, 211 



Anthropology: Anthropological Institute, 72, 117, 143; on the 

 Relative Recuperative Powers of Man in Rude and Civilized 

 States, Dr. G. Harley, F.R.S., 143; a Suggestion for 

 Anthropologists, Dr. William F. Warren, 198 ; Opening 

 Address by Prof. A. H. Sayce, President of Section H at the 

 British Association, 511 ; the Primitive Seat of the Aryans, 

 Canon Isaac Taylor, 597 : the Non-Aryan and Non-Semitic 

 White Races and their Place in the History of Civilization, 

 J. S. Stuart Glennie, 598 ; on the Picture Origin of the 

 Characters of the Assyrian Syllabary, Rev. W. Houghton, 

 598 ; Boat-shaped Graves in Syria, Geo. St. Clair, 598 ; the 

 Effect of Town Life upon the Human Body, J. Milner 

 Fothergill, 598; on the Bosjes Pelvis, Prof Cleland, F.R.S., 

 598 ; Experimental Production of Chest Types in Man, 

 G. W. Hambleton, 599 ; Scientific Treatment of Consump- 

 tion, G. W. Hambleton, 599 ; Tattooing, Miss A. W. Buck- 

 land, 599 ; Early Ages of Metal in South-East Spain, Henri 

 and Louis Siret, 599 ; Certain Degenerations of Design in 

 Papuan Art, S. J. Hickson, 599 ; Origin of Totemism, C. 

 Staniland Wake, 599 ; Gypsies and an Ancient Hebrew Race 

 in Sus and the Sahara, R. G. Haliburton, 599 ; Colour-Names 

 amongst the English Gypsies, W. E. A. Axon, 599 : on the 

 Migrations of Pre-Glacial Man, Henry Hicks, F.R.S., 599; 

 Observations on Recent Explorations made by General Pitt- 

 Rivers, at Rushmore, J. G. Garson, 600 



Anticyclone, the jubilee, 248 



Anticyclones, is Cold the Cause of?, H. Helm Clayton, 268 



Ants at Nancy, Shower of, 349 



Apatite in Slag, Occurrence of, W. M. Hutchings, 460 



Aponogetonaceae, on the, A. Engler, 117 



Aquila, Meetings of the Geodynamical Committee of the Italian 

 Meteorological Society at, 614 



Arabia, South- West, General Haig's Journey to, 211 



Arabia, Southern, Contemplated Journey in, Ed. Glaser, 478 



Arago Statue, the, 254 



Archaeological Institute, Congress of the, 348 



Archaeology, Indian, 1X4 



Archibald (E. Douglas): Upper Wind Currents near the Equator 

 and the Diffusion of Krakatab Dust, 152 ; Captive Kite- 

 Balloon, 278 



Arctic Flora in Central Sweden, Discovery of Fossil Remains of 

 an. Prof. A. G. Nathorst, 211 



Ardennes, Walks in the, Percy Lindley, 340 



Areovolumeter, Dr. Sandrucci's, 45 



Areschong (Prof. J. E.), Death of, iii 



Argentine Republic, Meteorology in, 283 



Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.): Thought without Words, 52; the 

 Scenery of Scotland, 603 



Aristotelian Society, Abstract of its Proceedings, 586 



Arizona, Earthquake in, no 



Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Residual Affinity, 30; Note 

 on Valency, 569 



Anaudeau (M.), Proposed Aerial Postal Tube between Dover 

 and Calais, 349 



Arnold (Edwin Lester), Bird Life in England, Prof. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 435 



Arrol (William), Machinery employed at the Forth Bridge, 356 



Art and Literature, the Connectiou between Science and. Prof. 

 Huxley, 14 



Artists, Science for, 199 ; Ed. L. Garbett, 221 



Aryans, the Primitive Seat of the. Canon Isaac Taylor, 597 



Ascherson's (Prof Paul) Botanical Researches in Egypt, 254 



Asia, Central, MM. Bonvalot Capus and Pepin's Journey in, 

 588 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, 95 



Assyrian Syllabary, on the Picture Origin of the Characters of 

 the, Rev. W. Houghton, 598 



Astronomy: Astronomical Column, 16, 43, 65, 90, I12, 138, 

 161, 185, 232, 256, 282, 308, 376, 401, 431, 454, 477, 501, 

 527, 542, 564, 588, 616 ; Astronomical Phenomena for the 

 Week, 16, 44, 65, 90, 113, 138, 161, 186, 210, 232, 257, 282, 

 308, 326, 350, 377, 401, 431, 456, 478, 502, 527, 544, 565, 

 588, 616 ; the Orbit of the Minor Planet Eucharis, Dr. L. de 

 Ball, 16 ; New Organization for furthering Astronomical 

 Research (Draper Memorial), 41 ; Miss Gierke's Popular 

 History of Astronomy, 43 ; Melbourne Observatory, 44 : 

 Transit of Venus in 1882, 44 ; on the Movements of the Solar 

 System in Space, P. Ubaghs, 45 ; Diurnal Nutation, L. 

 Niesten on, 45 ; Paris Astronomical Congres-;, 54 ; Inter- 

 national Astronomical Congress, 429 ; Total Solar Eclipse of 

 August 19, 1887, 60 ; Dr. A. Woeikof, 77 ; in Japan, Prof 

 David P. Todd, 609 ; Microme^ric Measures of Jupiter and 

 Saturn, Dr. Dobrck, 65 ; Present Appearance of Saturn's 

 King, M. Stuyvjert, 65 ; the Red Spot upon Jupiter, 65 ; 

 Discovery of a New Comet, 65 ; on a General Method for 

 Determining the Constant of Aberration, M. Lcewy, 72, 118 ; 

 I'hotography the Servant of Astronomy, M. de Gothard, 

 90 ; a New Minor Planet, 90 ; Comet 1887 e (Barnard, 1887, 

 May 12), 138 ; Dr. E. Lamp, 90 ; Astronomical Photo- 

 graphy, Prof. C. A. Young, 113; Paris Observatory, M. 

 Mouchez, 112; Astronomical Photography, 113; Comet 

 1887 ^ (Barnard, May 12), Dr. H. Oppenheim, 113; Minor 

 Planet No. 266, 138 ; Parallax of o Tauri, 138 ; Madras 

 Meridian Observations, 138 ; Annual Visitation of the Royal 

 Observatory, 139 ; the Great Southern Comet (1887 a), 161, 



185 ; New Minor Planets, 161 ; Companion of Sirius, 186 ; a 

 Short Method of Computing Refractions for all Zenith Distances, 



186 ; Relative Positions of the Principal Stars in the Pleiades, 

 Dr. W. L. Elkin, 232 ; Researches on the Diameter of the 

 Sun, Prof. Auwers, 256 ; the Nice Observatory, M. Faye, 

 282 ; Photographic Chart of Heavens, Mouchez, 287 ; Total 

 Solar Eclipse of 1886, W. H. Pickering, 308 ; New Variable 

 of the Algol Type, E. Sawyer, 376 ; Annals of the Astrono- 

 mical Observatory of Harvard College, Edward C. Pickering, 

 388 ; Magnitudes of Nautical Almanac Stars, [401 ; Comet 

 1887 e (Barnard, May 12), 401 ; Note on Work carried out at 

 Meudon Observatory, J. Janssen, 408 ; Variable Star in the 

 Ring Nebula in Lyra, Herr Spitaler, 431 ; New Variable 

 Star, Mr. Espin, 431 ; Discovery of a Comet, W. R. Brooks, 

 431; Brooks's Comet, H. V. Egbert, 454; Dr. Franz,. 

 478 ; Observations of Brooks's New Comet, 504 ; thq 

 Morrison Observatory, 455 ; New Observatory at Juvisj 

 455 ; Total Solar Eclipse of August 19, M. Niesten, 455! 



