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 NotcftibeT 30, 1893 J 



INDEX 



AiiBADiE (M. AND MiME. d'), Gift to Paris Academy of 



Sciences by. 421 

 Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), Smithsonian Institution Documents, 

 6 ; Ice Columns in Gravelly Soil, 20 ; Charts of Storm 

 Frequency, 140 

 Abbott (Dr. E. A.), Antipodean Retrenchment, 249 

 Abbott (Geo.), Potstoi^es found near Seaford, 315 

 Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), Prize offered for study of " Southerly 



Burster " by, 77 

 Aberration, the Constant of. Prof. Chandler, 112 

 Aberration, a Petermination of the Constant of. Prof. Geo. 



C. Comstock, 460 

 Abney (Capl., F. R S.), Failure of Photographic Law of Equal 

 Chemical Action, 285 ; Colours of Sky, Sun, Cloud, and 

 Candle Light, 333 

 Abraham (M.), a New Standard Condenser, 206 

 Academy, Belgian, Prize Subjects for 1894, 107 

 Acephala, Elimination of Foreign Bodies in, Henri Coupin, 



484 

 Acoustics : The Motion of Vibrating Strings, Messrs. Krigar 

 Menzel and Raps, 324 ; Sound Interference Illustrated, C. J. 

 Woodward, 159 ; Apparatus for Demonstrating Oscillation 

 of Air, Prof. V. Dvorak, 13 

 Acquired Characters, Non-Inheritance of, Dr. Alfred R. 



Wallace, F.R.S.. 267 ; Dr. C. Herbert Hurst, 368 

 Actinometer, the Electrochemical, M. Rigollot, 38 

 Adams (Prof. F. D.), the Norian Rock of Canada, 298 

 Adams (Prof. John Couch), Memorial to, 107 

 Adelaide, Meteorological Observations (1890) in, 132 

 Adler (Hanna), a Substitute for Ampere's Swimmer, 370 

 Adriatic, Earthquake on Shores of, 376 

 Aerial Navigation, 502 



Aeronautics : Thermometer Soundings in the High Atmo- 

 sphere, W. de Fonvielle, 1 60; New Flying Apparatus, Otto 

 Lilientbal, 571 ; Chicago Congress on Aerial Navigation, 

 596 

 .'Etiology and Life-History of some Vegetal Galls and their In- 

 habitants, on the, C. B. Rothera, 575 

 Africa : Death and Obituary Notices of W. Cotton Oswell, 

 62 ; the Arrow-Poison of East Equatorial Africa, Dr. T. 

 R. Fraser, F.R.S., and Dr. Joseph Tillie, 92; Oil Rivers 

 Protectorate renamed Niger Coast Protectorate, 112; 

 Adoption of Responsible Government by Natal, 112; Gun 

 and Camera in Southern Africa, H. Anderson Bryden, 125 ; 

 Capt. Stairs' Katanga Expedition, Dr. Moloney, 135 ; Report 

 of South African Museum, 207 ; South-West Africa, Count 

 Pfeil, 301 ; the Alleged Death of Emin Pasha, 356, 481 ; 

 Return of Rev. R. P. Ashe, 356 ; Geographical Society 

 established at Tunis, 356 ; Projected Railway in French 

 Congo, 380 ; Commencement of the Central African Tele- 

 graph Line, 380 ; Habits of South African Animals, Dr. 

 Alfred Wallace, F.R.S., 390; Dr. Gregory's Expedition to 

 Lake Baringo, 397; Return of Dr. J. W. Gregory, 618; 

 Return of Mr. Selous to Mashonaland, 426 ; Discovery of 

 Temple on the Limpopo, R. M. W. Swan, 426 ; Proposed 

 Exploration of Uganda by Mr. Scolt Elliott, 444 ; Death of 

 Surgeon-Major Parke, 481 ; Geology of Central East Africa, 

 Walcot Gibson, 533 ; Dr. Baumann's Exploration to North- 

 East of Lake Tanganyika, 548 ; Resurvey by Mr. Mohun 

 of Lake Leopold II., 601 

 Afterglows in Spain, Prof. Augusto Arcimis, 29 

 Agassiz (Louis), his Life and Work, Charles Frederick Holder, 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 52 

 Agriculture : Agricultural Education, Durham College of 

 Science Scholarships, 36 ; Photographs Relating to Working 



of Rothamsled Laboratory, 63 ; the Rothamsted Jubilee 

 Fund, 228 ; the Rothamsted Jubilee, 289, 296, 327 ; the 

 Quantities of Water contained in Arable Lands after a Pro- 

 longed Drought, MM. Demoussy and Dumont, 72 ; the 

 Principles of Agriculture, G. Fletcher, 73 ; Journal of Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, 91 ; the Disadvantages of 

 Irrigation, W. Roe, 1 10; Hawks and Owls the Farmer's 

 Friends, Dr. A. K. Fisher, 133 ; Agriculture-Teaching in 

 Russian Schools, 156; the Future of British Agriculture, Prof. 

 Sheldon, 174; Relation of Number of Eyes on Potato Seed 

 Tuber to Crop obtained, J. C. Arthur, 353 ; Catlle-Poisoning 

 Species of Homeria (Cape Tulip) in Victoria, Dr. McAlpine, 

 378 ; Statistics for 1891-2 of Cattle Losses in Madras, 424 ; 

 Statue of Duhamel-Dumonceau, 596 



.Mr Pump, a New Form of. Prof. J. J. Thompson, 529 



Aitken (John), Breath Figures, 71 



Alaska and the-Adjacent Islands, Grasses of the Pacific Slope, 

 including. Dr. Geo. Vasey, 411 



Alaska, the Alleged Undiscovered Island ofT North, 356 



Algae, some Protococcoidse, Al. Artari, 92 



Allaire (H.), Chloroborate of Iron, 119 



Allen (E. J.), Nephridia of Decapod Crustacea, 115 



Allen (J. Romilly), Origin and Development of Early Christian 

 Art, 558 



Alpine Guide, an, 314 



Alpine Lakes, Glacier Theory of, Graham Officer, 198 ; Dr. 

 Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., 198 



Alps, the Iodine Value of Sunlight in the High, Dr. S. Rideal, 

 529 



Altehoefer (Herr), Bactericidal Action of Peroxide of Hydrogen 

 599 



Altschul (Herr), Critical Constants of Fatty and Aromatic 

 Hydrocarbon?, 2c6 



Amagat (E. H.), Crystallisation of Water by Decompression 

 below Zero, 632 



Amazon Basin Scienti6c Expedition, Projected, 601 



Amber, Burmite, a New Variety of. Dr. Noetling, 13 



Amber, the Indian Origin of Ancient, A. B. Meyer, 422 



America : An American Text-Book of Physics, Geo. F. Barker, 

 Prof. Oliver Lodge, F. R.S., i; Astronomy Popularised in 

 America, 15; American Meteorological Journal, 20, 140, 239, 

 583,631; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 38; 

 American Journal of Science, 70, 187, 309, 431, 535, 631 ; 

 American Journal of Mathematics, 140, 606 ; University and 

 Educational Endowment in America, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 

 F.R.S., 248 ; North American Butterflies, Samuel Hubbard 

 Scudder, W. F. Kirby, 338 ; the Fungus Gardens of certain 

 South American Ants, John C. Willis, 392 ; the Geography 

 of South America, 425 ; American Cyclone of August 28 and 

 29, the, 444 ; American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Dr. William H. Hale, 460 ; Meeting at Madison, 

 Wisconsin, 460 ; Dr. Daniel G. Brinton on the Earliest 

 Men, 460; Section A (Astronomy and Mathematics), Prof. 

 Doolittle on Variations of Latitude, 451 ; Latitude Deter- 

 mination at Bethlehem in 1892-3, 460 ; Prof. Geo. C. Com- 

 stock on a Determination of the Constant of Aberration, 

 460 ; Section B (Physics), Prof. Wm. A. Rogers on the Mot- 

 ley Interferential Comparator, 461 ; Profs. Macfarlane and 

 G. W. Pierce on the Electric Strength of Solid Liquid and 

 Gaseous Dielectrics, 461 ; Josq)h O. Thompson on Fatigue 

 in the Elasticity of Stretching, 461 ; Section C (Chemistry), 

 Prof. Morley's Final Determination of the Atomic Weight of 

 Oxygen, 461 ; Section D (Mechanical Sc ence and Engineer- 

 ing), Prof. J. J. Stevenson on the Use of the term CatskiH, 

 462 ; Frank Leverett on Changes of Drainage in the Rock 



