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 June I, 1893 J 



INDEX 



Abastouman, a New Observatory at, 133 



Abbadie (M. d'), on the Variations in the Intensity of Terrestrial 

 Gravitation, 384 



Abbe (I'rof. C), Atmospheric Electricity, Earth-Currents and 

 Terrestrial Majjneiism, 261 



Abbott's (Dr. W. L.) Collections of African Mammals, F. W. 

 True, 39 



Abbott (vV. J. L.), Walru-; in the Thames Valley, 132 



Abney (Captain W. de W., F.R.S.), Sensitiveness of the Eye 

 to Light and Coljivr, 538 



Abnormality in the Veins of the Rabbit, on an, Prof. W. N. 

 Parker, 270 



Absorption of our Atmosphere, Photographic, Prof. Schaeberle, 

 304 



Abyssinia, Proposed Expedition of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore 

 Bent to, 115 



Academy, French, Science Prizes, 232 



Academy of Sciences, Turin Royal, the Bressa Prizes, 233 



Acoustics, on Plane and Spherical Sound-Waves of Finite 

 Amplitude, Dr. C. V. Burton, 500 



Addenbraoke (Mr.), Diffusion of Light, 191 



Aeronautics : Meteorological Balloon Ascent at Berlin, A. L. 

 Rotch, 40; Dirigible Balloon in Construcuon at Chalais- | 

 Meudon, 112; Exploration of the Higher Regions of the 

 Atmosphere by Means of Free Balloons provided with Auto- 

 matic Recorders, Gustave Hermite, 119; the First Aerial 

 Voyage across the English Channel, R. He C. Ward, 143 ; 

 the Longest Balloon Ascent on Record, Maurice Mallet, 182 



Africa : Marine Shells of South Africa, G. B. Sowerby, 27 ; 

 the Ferns of South Africa, Thos. R. Sim, J. G. Baker, 

 F.R. S., 291 ; Dromedaries in German South- West Africa, 

 Captain von Fran9ois, 38 ; New Harbour found in German 

 South- West, 452 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott's Collection of African 

 Mammals, F. W. True, 39 ; Mr. D. I. Rankin's Zambesi 

 Journey, 64; Kettler's Afrikanische' Nachrichten, 115; 

 Captain H. L. Gallwey's Travels in Benin Country, 134 ; 

 E. Wilkinson's Journey in Kalahari Desert, 134; M, 

 Alexandre Delcommune's Lomami Expedition, 209 ; the 

 Uganda Commission, 2io ; Proposed Exploration of Africa 

 by Telegraph, Cecil Rhodes, 210; the Bonjo , a Cannibal 

 Tribe, M. Dybowski, 257 ; Territorial Nomenclature, 282 ; 

 the Stanley Falls District of the Congo, M. Page, 282 ; 

 African Nomenclature, 304 ; Stoppage of M. Mizon's Ada- 

 mava Expedition, 304 ; Aston Chanler's Expedition to Lake 

 Rudolf, 327 ; the Soil of Sakalava Plain, Madagascar, Emile 

 Gautier, 327 ; the Frontier Delimitation between British 

 South Africa Company's Territory and Portuguese Pos- 

 sessions, Major Leverson, 327 ; Death of R. H. Nelson, 353; 

 Dr. Baumann's Journeys in the Nile-Sources Region, 377 ; 

 the Orthography of African Place-Names, 400; Two AkUa 

 Girh brought to Germany by Dr. Stuhlmann, 470 ; the 

 Katanga Conpany's Expeditions, 474 ; French Exploration 

 towards Lake Chad, 519 ; Arrival of Mr. and Mr-;. Theodore 

 Bent at Adowa, 519 ; at Aksum, 547 ; the Partition of Africa, 

 J. Scott Keltic, 580 ; Return of the Delcommune Expedi- 

 tion, 590 



Afterglow, the, Sireno E. Bishop, I02 ; Prof. Grenville A. J. 

 Cole, 127 



.\fterglows and Bishop's Ring, the, T, W. Backhouse, 582 



Agassiz (Prof. A.), Observations in the West Indies, 608 



Ai;e, the Earth's, Bernard Hobson, Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, 

 175, 226 ; Clarence King, 285 



.Vges, Ancient Ice, J. Lomas, 227 



Aggressive Mimicry, the Volucella as Examples of, Edward B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., 28 



Aggressive Mimicry, the Alleged, of Volucellce, William Bate- 

 son, 77 



Agriculture : the South Australian Rust in Wheat Conference, 

 86; the Plague of Field Voles in Scotland, 155 ; the Plague 

 of Field Mice in Thessaly and Scotland, 396 ; Agriculture in 

 the United States, Experiment Stations, A. Warrmgton, 

 F.R.S., 157; Investigations in Soils, 157; Influence of 

 Manure on Development of Roots, M. Deherain, 280 ; Journal 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 285 ; F'ield 

 Experiments on the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, James Mason, 

 285 ; Yew Poisoning, E. P. Squarey, Charles Whitehead, 

 W. Carruthers, F. R. S., and Dr. Munro, 285 ; Proposed In- 

 vestigation of Chemical Composition of Soil in Cape Colony, 

 301 : a Text-book of Tropical Agriculture, H. A. Alford 

 Nicholls, 313 ; the Florida Phosphate Beds, T. N. Lupton, 

 325 ; the New York State Pecuniary Contribution to Agri- 

 culture, 349; Wood Ashes as a Medicine for Farm Animals, 

 J. M. Stahl, 397 ; Prop sed Commemoration of the Jubilee 

 of Sir John Lawes' Rothamsted Experiments, 448 ; Orni- 

 thology in Relation to Agriculture and Horticulture, John 

 Watson, 533 ; Manual of Dairy Work, Prof. James Muir, 

 Walter Thorp. 555 ; Agricultural Chemistry ; the Food of 

 Plants, A, P. Laurie, 556 



Aids to Experimental Science, Andrew Gray, 173 



Aigran (M. A.), Action of Temperature upon the Rotatory 

 Power of Liquids, 576 



Ainu, Yezo and the, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., 330; A. H. 

 Savage Landor, 330 



Air-pumps, Automatic Mercurial, Dr. August Raps, 369 



Aitken (John), on the Particles in Fogs and Clouds, 



Akka Girls, Two, brought to Germany by Dr. Stuhlmann, 470 



Alabama, Great Meteor in, 86 



Alcohol Solutions, Temperature of Maximum Density of, L. de 

 Coppet, 48 



Alcyonaria Stolonifera, Revision of Genera of, Dr. Hickson, 

 215 



Alexander (Peter), Treatise on Thermodynamics. 388 



Algebra : Principles of the Algebra of Vectors, A, Macfarlane, 

 3; the Algebra of Co-planar Vectors and Trigonometry, R. 

 Baldwin Hay ward, F.R.S., 266; Quaternions and the 

 Algebra of Vectors, Prof. J. Willard Gibbs, 463 ; AIgel)ra 

 for Beginners, H. S. Hall and S. R. Knight, 28 ; the Theory 

 of Substitutions and its Applications to Algebra, Dr. Eugen 

 Netto, 338 ; a new Algebra, T. B. Sprague, 527 



Alkali Metals, the Colours of the, G. S. Newth, 55 ; Wm. L. 

 Dudley, 175 



Allen (E'igar), Anatomy of Larva of Palcsmonetes varians, 237 ; 

 on the Minute Structure of th6 Gills of Palcemoneles varians, 

 261 



Allen (F. J.), Dust Photographs, 341 



Allen (Grant), Science in Arcady, 173 



Alligators' Nest, the, S. Devenish, 587 



Alloys, on Iron, 58 



Alloys Research Committee, Second Report of the. Prof. W. 

 C. Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 617 



Almanac, the Nautical, for 1896, 326 



Alpes Francaises, les, Albert Falsan, 76 



Alpine Flowers, on the Cause of Bright Colours of. Dr. J. Joly, 

 F.R.S., 431 



Alpine Lakes, the Glacier Theory of. Dr. Alfred Russel 

 Wallace, 437 



Alsace-Lorraine, Statistics of Wine-growing in, 614 



Aluminium Slate Pencils, 131 



Am^gat (E. H.): the Laws of Compressibility of Liquids, 48 ; 

 Laws of Dilitation of Gases under Constant Pressure, 96 ; 



