Nature, Dec. i, 1887] 



INDEX 



XI 



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 



British Birds, Provincial Names and Folk-lore of, Rev. Chas. 

 Swainson, 49 



British Flora, Illustrations of the, 171 



British Isles, Distribution of Rain over the, during the Year 

 1886, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 388 



British Isles and Surrounding Seas, Report of theB. A. Com- 

 mittee appointed to make Suggestions with reference to the 

 Production of a Bathy-hypsographical Map of the, 518 



British Isles, Pictorial Geography of the, Mary E. Palgrave, 

 580 



British Medical Association, 15 



British Museum, 14 ; Additions to Natural History Branch of, 

 62 ; Dr. Henry R. Woodward, F.R.S., on the Natural 

 History Branch of, 345 ; the Vote for, 398 ; the British Museum 

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



British Pharmaceutical Conference, 429 



British Race-types of to-day, Prof Huxley's Remarks on, 563 



British Rainfall, Symons's, 430 



Brittain (Harry), Notes on the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, 457 



Broads, Land of the, Ernest R. Suffling, 457 



Broads, Norfolk, a Month on the, Walter Rye, 457 



Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk, Notes on the, Harry 

 Brittain, 457 



Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk, Handbook to the, 

 G. C. Davies, 457 



Broca (Paul), Statue of, 324 



Brockbank (W.), Narcissus rejlexus, 70 



Brocken Spectre, the, H. Sharpe, 118 



Brodie (Fredk. J.), the Recent Drought, 395 



Bromley Industrial Institute, 18 



Brooks s New Comet, 480, 504, 552 ; H. V. Egbert, 454 ; Dr. 

 Franz, 478 



Brooks (W. H.), Olbers' Comet, 1887, 527 



Brouardel (M.), Typhus Abdominalis, 524 



3rown (N. E.), Vaccinum intermedium, 70 



3rown (J. Croumbie), School of Forestry in Germany, 193 



Brown (W. G.), a Light Fog, 556 



3rown-Sequard (M.), Duality of the Brain and the Spinal 

 Marrow, 624 



Brttgmansia Lowii, Microscopic Sections of, Deby, 167 



Brussels International Exhibition of 1888, 282 



Brussels Observatory, Removal of, 41 



Buchanan (J. Y.), on Ice and Brines, 9 



Buckland (Miss A. W.), Tattooing, 599 



Bulletin de I'Academie de Belgique, 45, 116, 262, 503 



Bulletin of Lyons Anthropological Society, 162 



Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 285, 309 



Junge's (Dr.) New Siberian Islands Exhibition, 113 



Bunter Conglomerate, on the Rounding of Pebbles by Alpine 

 Rivers, with a Note on their Bearing upon the Origin of. 

 Prof T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 573 



Burmah, Ruby Mines of, G. Skelton Streeter, 596 



Burnett Lectures, Prof G. G. Stokes, P. R. S., on the 

 Beneficial Effects of Light, 98 



Jurnham (S. M.) Precious Stones in Nature, Art, and Litera- 

 ture, 482 



iusk (Geo., F.R.S.), Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 

 Challenger, 74 



Jutler (A. G. ), Birds and Caterpillars, 279 



Jutter, a New Method for preserving, M. Grosfils, 376 



!able-Anchor, M. Pagan's, 541 



'acciatore (Prof.), the Total Solar Eclipse of August 19, 1887, 



45 

 ladaverin, Dr. Ladenburg, 453 

 lae Gwyn Cave, North Wales, Second B.A. Report on, by Dr. 



H. Hicks, 516 

 !ailletet (L. )and E. Mathias, Density of Sulphurous Acid in 



Liquid and Vapour State, 167 

 'airo Observatory, 281 

 Calais and Dover, Proposed Aerial Postal Tube between, 



Arnaudeau, 349 



Calcareous Organisms, Mineralogical Constitution of, Vaughan 

 Cornish and Percy F. Kendall, 571 



Calculus, Easy Lessons in the Differential, indicating from the 

 Outset the Utility of the Processes called Differentiation and 

 Integration, R. A. Proctor, 602 



Calcutta, Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Vol. I., 242 



Calcutta Indian Museum, 306 



Calico-Printing, the Extent to which, and the Tinctorial Arts 

 have been affected by the Introduction of Modern Colours, 

 Chas. O'Neill, 569 



Callaway (Dr. Chas. ), the Scenery of Scotland, 604 



Calorific Conductibility of Bismuth in Magnetic Field, A. 

 Righi, 312 



Calorimeter, a Vapour, Prof Neesen, 288 



Cambridge (Rev. O. P.), Classification of Spiders, 12 



Cambridge: the New Degrees at, Outis, 175, 196; Observa- 

 tories at Oxford and, 18 1 ; the Proposed New Geological 

 Museum at, 586 



Cameroons : Observations taken on board the Habicht at the, 

 88; Scientific Station at, 113; H. H. Johnston's Natural 

 History Collections, made near the, 254 ; Report of the B.A. 

 Committee appointed for the Purpose of investigating the 

 Flora and Fauna of the Cameroons Mountain, 517 ; Planta- 

 tions in, 564 



Canada, Fossil Wood from the Western Territories of. Sir J, 

 William Dawson, F. R.S., 274 



Canada, Tidal Observations in. Report of the B.A. Committee 

 on, 499 



Canadense, Eozoon, New Facts relating to. Sir J. William 

 Dawson, F.R.S., 574 



Canal between Bailie and German Ocean, Proposed, 15 



Candler (C), the Prevention of Consumption, Dr. E. Klein, 

 F.R.S., 340 



Cantor Lectures, 15 



Cantoni (Giovanni), Observations on the Luminous Solar Rays, 



45 

 Cape Colony, Report of the Meteorological Commission of, 



565 

 Capillarity, Curious Phenomenon in, S. A. Hill, 125 

 Capron {]. Rand), the Droseras, 341 

 Captive Kite- Balloon, E. Douglas Archibald, 278 

 Carbon, Graphitic, Cubic Crystals of, L. Fletcher, 304 

 Carboniferous Fossils, on the Discovery of, in a Conglomerate 



at Moughton Fell, near Settle, Yorkshire, Robert Law and 



James Horsfall, 571 

 Carboniferous Limestone Series of Ireland, on the Organic 



Origin of the Chert in the, and its Similarity to that in the 



Corresponding Strata in North Wales and Yorkshire, Dr. 



Geo. Jennings Hinde, 591 

 Carey, Safety of Mr., 17 

 Carnatic Rainfall, Eleven-Year Periodical Fluctuation of the, 



Henry F. Blanford, F. R. S. , 227, 293 ; General Richard 



Strachey, F.R.S., 267 

 Camelley (Prof Thos.), Melting- and Boiling-Point Tables, 



411 ; Solubility of Isomeric Organic Compounds, 569 

 Carnelley (Prof) and Thos. Wilson, a New Meihod for deter- 

 mining Micro- Organisms in Air, 570 

 Carniola, Central, Hydrography of, 564 

 Carniola, Proposed Memorial Tablet to Sir Humphrey Davy in, 



66 

 Carnivorous Plants, German, Kerner and Wettstein, ,209 

 Carnoy (T. B. ), La Cytodierese chez les Animaux : Etude com- 



paree du Noyau et du Protoplasme, Rev. Dr. L. Martial 



Klein, 170 

 Carpenter (Alfred), Monkeys opening Oysters, 53 

 Carrington (J. T.), Disappearance of Moths at High Water, 



137 

 Carroll (Lewis), the Game of Logic, Alfred Sidgwick, 3 

 Case for a London Teaching University, the, 329 

 Casey's Journey in Central Asia, 139 

 Caspary (Dr. Robert), Death of, 586 



Caspian Steppes, Prof. Mushketoff's Exploration in the, 541 

 Cat and Dog, Friendship of, 173 

 Caterpillars, Birds and, A. G. Butler, 280 

 Caucasus, Moritz von Dechy's Explorations of the, 17 ; Zoology 



of the, 376 

 Cell-Division in Animals, T. B. Carnoy, Rev. Dr. L. Martial 



Klein, 170 

 Cell Question, the Present Aspect of the. Prof. Schafer, 592 



