Supplement to A^ature,! 

 June 2, 1892 J 



INDEX 



Aalia Paakai, the Salt Lake of, A. B. Lyons, 29 



Abbe (Prof, C), Cloud-Observations at Sea, 70 



Aberrant Fossil Ungulates of South America, 608 



Aberration, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R. S., 499 



Aberration Problems, Prof. O. Lodge, F.R.S., 549 



Aberration, Theory of Astronomical, M. Mascart, 68 



Abney (Capt), Colour Photometry, 213 



Aborigines of the Dominion of Canada, Hon. E. Dewdney, 587 



Abraham (R.), a Standard Condenser, 528 



Accidents in Germany, Workmen Killed and Wounded in, 

 Vacher, 350 



Acloque (A.), Les Champignons, 222 



Acoustics : Refraction and Velocity of Sound in Porous Bodies, 

 156 



Acquired Characters, Inheritance of, Alfred W. Bennett, 53 



Acromegaly : the Skeleton of the Irish Giant Cornelius 

 Magrath, Dr. D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., 147 



Across Thibet, Gabriel Bonvalot, 269 



Adami (J. G. ), Contributions to the Physiology and Pathology 

 of the Mammalian Heart, 451 



Adams (Prof. John Couch): Obituary Notice of, 301 ; the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society and, 322 ; Proposed 

 National Monument to, 401 



Addenbrooke (G. L. ), Aluminium and its Application to Photo- 

 graphy, 134 



Adelsberg Cave, the, 207 



Adhesion, the Limpet's Power of, Percy A. Aubin, 464 



yEoIosoma, Formation of a Temporary Cyst in the Fresh-water 

 Annelid, Frank E. Beddard, 28 



Aerial Locomotive Machines, Use of Chronophotography for 

 Study of, Marey, 71 



Aerodynamics, Experiments in. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 108 



Africa : Projected Expedition by Dr. Oscar Baumann in East, 

 65 ; Equatorial, My Personal Experiences in, as Medical 

 Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Thos. Heazle 

 Parke, 265 ; Travels in Africa during the years 1879-83, 

 Dr. Wilhelm Junker, 507 ; My Second Journey through 

 Equatorial Africa, Hermann von Wissmann, 507 ; Two 

 African Explorers, 376 ; Captain Dundas's Expedition in 

 East, Mount Kenia, Ernest Gedge, 566 ; African Diamond 

 Industry, the South, at the Chicago Exhibition, 567 



Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), Dredging Operations in the Eastern 

 Pacific, 281 



Agriculture : Results of Experiments in, at Rothamsted, on the 

 Question of the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Dr. J. H. 

 Gilbert, F.R.S., 32; Agricultural Department, Victoria, 

 Results of the Travelling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39 ; the 

 Weather Bureau of the United States, 86 ; the Reclaiming 

 and Cultivation of Land in the Camargue, M. Chambrelent, 

 143 ; Principles of Agriculture, 1 73 ; the Value of Maize as 

 Food, 234 ; Elements of Agriculture, Dr. W. Fream, 

 388 ; the Average Yield of Wheat in Ohio, 420 ; Proposed 

 Establishment of an Agricultural College in British Guiana, 

 520 ; Agricultural Needs of India, 588 ; Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society, 568 



Air Temperature, Sun-spots and, 271 



Air and Water, Vivian B. Lewes, 531 



Airy (Sir George Biddell), Obituary Notice of, 232 



Aitken (John, F.R.S.), on the Number of Dust Particles in the 

 Atmosphere of Various Places in Great Britain and on the 

 Continent, with Remarks on the Relation between the 

 Amount of Dust and Meteorological Phenomena, 299 



Alaska, the Boundaries of; the Geographical Position of 

 Mount St. Eiias, I. C. Russell, 472 



Alder (H. St. A.), Scientific Nomenclature, 104 



Algol, Dr. S. C. Chandler, 446 



Alkali-maker's Hand-book, by George Lunge, Ph.D., and F. 

 Hurter, Ph.D., Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 121 



Allbutt (Dr. T. C, F.R.S.), Appointment of, to be Regius Pro- 

 fessor of Physic in room of late Sir Geo. Paget, 402 



Allison (Mrs.), the Similkameen Indians of British Columbia, 

 164 



Alloys, Prof. W. C. Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., Report to the 

 Alloys Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers, 22 



Aloi (Prof.), Influence of Electricity on Growth of Plants, 520 



Alpine Rubi, T. D. A. Cockerell, 320 



Alternate Currents of High Potential and Frequency, Lectures 

 on, Nikola Tesla, 345 



Altitudes, Astronomical Possibilities at Considerable, Prof. 

 Pickering, 498 



Alum Solution, T. C. Porter, 29 



Aluminium : and its Application to Photography, G. L. Adden- 

 brooke, 134 ; the Manufacture and Use of, from an Engi- 

 neering Point of View, A. E. Hunt, 568 



Amazons, Obituary Notice of Henry Walter Bates, F.R.S., the 

 Naturalist of the, 398 



America : American Journal of Mathematics, 45 ; Spanish 

 Arrangements for the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the 

 Discovery of America, 64, 567 ; American Meteorological 

 Journal, 70, 189, 357, 597 ; American Journal of Science, 

 118, 310, 445, 622; American Superiority in Mechanics, 

 Coleman Sellers, 157; the Utilization of the By-products of 

 the Coke Industry, Dr. B. Teme, 157 ; McKinley Tariff and 

 Scientific Instruments, 208 ; Fisheries of the Great American 

 Lakes, 259 ; Fishing through the Ice in the Great American 

 Lakes, 280 ; Remarkable Display of Aurora Borealis in, 378 ; 

 Kalm's Account of his Visit to England, on his way to, in 

 1748, 412 ; American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals, Report of, 496 ; Influenza in. Prof. Edward S. 

 Holden, 582 ; American Town Trees, J. Robinson, 603 ; 

 Forestry in, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 611 ; Ancient Civilization 

 of Central, Alfred P. Maudslay, 617 



Amorphous Boron, the Properties of, A. E. Tutton, 522 



Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 48, 72, 240, 408, 576, 

 600 



Anatomy, Comparative : the Cranial Nerves of Man and Sela- 

 chians, Prof. Cossar Ewart, 527 



Anatomy of the Dog, 16 



Ancient Civilization of Central America, Alfred P. Maudslay, 

 617 



Ancient Monuments, Orientation of. Rev. Fred. F. Grensted, 

 464 



Ancient Tombs and Burial Mounds of Japan, Prof. Hitchcock, 

 381 



Andalusite at. Ariege, on the Relations existing between the Form 

 and Nature of the Beds of, M. A. Lacroix, 624 



Andaman Islands, Disappearance of the Aborigines of the, 587 



Anderson (Thos. D. ), the New Star in Auriga, 365 



Andes of the Equator, Travels among the Great, Edward 

 Whymper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 561 



Andoyer (M.), Orthochromatic Plates for Astronomical Photo- 

 graphy, 280 



Andre (M.), the Spontaneous Oxidation of Humic Acid and 

 Vegetable Soil, 288 ; the Manifestation of Negative Elec- 

 tricity during Fine Weather, 528 



Anemometer Comparisons, W. H. Dines, 623 



Anemometers, Two New Forms, in use at Kew Observatorjv 

 587 



Aneroid Barometer, How to LTse the, Edward Whymper, 339 



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