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Index 



XXI 



Currents at Chicago Exhibition, 451 ; Montenegro, 

 llassert, 453 ; the Mombasa- Victoria- Nyanza Survey, 

 ,53 ; Railways in Tropical Africa and Native Passengers, 

 ,53 ; Prof. Pouchet's Visit to Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, 

 453 ; Lieutenant Ryder's East Greenland Expedition, 453 ; 

 the First (Juan de la Cosa's) Chart of America, 453 ; 

 The Labrador Coast : a Journal of Two Summer Cruises 

 in that Region, Dr. A. S. Packard, 462 ; the Relief of the 

 Peary Expedition, 476 ; Sailing of the Dundee Antarctic 

 Whaling Expedition, 477 ; Completion of the Jaffa- Jerusalem 

 Railway, 477 ; the Gilbert Islands brought under British 

 Protection, 477 ; White and Hoffman's Journey in Sikkim, 

 477 ; Discovery by Th. Thoroddsen of Unknown Lake 

 in Iceland, 477 > Mount Milanji in Nyassaland, Alex- 

 ander Whyte, 482 ; Korea and the Koreans, 522 ; 

 ■the Discovery of Line of no Declination, 532 ; Change in 

 Samoan Calendar, 552 ; Return of Capt. Lugard, 552 ; Dr. 

 Modigliani's Recent Explorations in Central Sumatra and 

 Engano, Prof. Henry H. Giglioli, 565 ; the Melanesian Sub- 

 marine Plateau, an Alleged Submerged Continent, C. Hedley, 

 574 ; Reported Death of Prof. Cherski, 576 ; Progress of In- 

 dian Surveys during last Field Season, 576 ; Longmans' 

 School Geography for North America, Geo. G. Chisholm and 

 C. H. Leele, 585 ; Measurement of Mount Orizaba by J. 

 T. Scovell, 598 ; Change in Small Lakes near Mansfield, 

 North Germany, through Brine-pumping from Salt Mines, 

 598 ; Death of Dr. Karl Spruner von Merz, 598 ; 

 Camels in German South-west Africa, 598 ; Lieut. 

 Fromm's Explorations in Southern German East Africa, 525 ; 



^^^Physical Conditions of the Weissensee, Carinthia, Dr. K. 



^^^^rissinger, 525 ; Coas} Line of United States, 525 ; M. J. 



^^^Baullier's System of Photographic Surveying, 525 ; Mr. 



^B^^seph Thomson's Journey to the Lake Bangweola Region, 

 620 ; Dr. E. H. L. Krause's Forest Map of North Germany 

 during the Middle Ages, 620 : Geographical Society — See 

 Royal 

 Geology : the Division According to Terrestrial Latitudes and 

 Longitudes of the Geological Groups on the Earth, A. de 

 Tillo, 24 ; Brachiopoden der Alpinen Trias, A. Bittner, F. 

 A. Bather, 25 ; the Geology of Barbadoes, J. B. Harrison 

 and A. J. Jukes Browne, 59 ; Influence of Swamp Waters in 

 Formation of Phosphate Nodules of South Carolina, Dr. C. 

 L. Reece, 67 ; Geological Society, 70, 95, 165, 190, 238 ; 

 the Common Processes of Mineralization of Fossil Remains, 

 illustrated by Fossil Nautilus and Starfish, Prof. W. C. Wil- 

 liamson, F.R.S., 70 ; the Geology of the Northern Etbai or 

 Eastern Desert of Egypt, E. A. Floyer, 70 ; the So-called 

 Gneiss of Carboniferous Age at Guttannen, Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.R.S., 95 ; the Lithophyses in Obsidian of Rocche 

 Rosse, Lipari, Cole and Butler, 95 ; L'Annuaire Geologique 

 Universal, 109 ; Geology of the Bas Boulonnais, E. 

 Rigaux, 109 ; the Glacial Succession in Europe, Prof. 

 James Geikie, 143 ; Tertiary Microzoic Formations of Trini- 

 dad, by R. J. L. Guppy, 190 ; Geology of the Nile Valley, 

 E. A. Johnson Pasha and H. D. Richmond, 190 ; Russian 

 Geological Expedition to East Siberia, 212 ; on the Causes of 

 the Deformation of the Earth's Crust, Prof. E. Reyer, 224, 

 J. Mellard Reade, 315 ; the Saurischia of Europe and Africa, 

 Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 238; the Speeton Clays and 

 their Equivalents, Prof. A. PavlofF and G. W. Lamplugh, 

 257 ; Geology of Easter Island, 258 ; Post-Laramie Deposits 

 of Colorado, Whitman Cross, 311; Origin of Terraces in 

 Glaciated Regions, R. S. Tarr, 311 ; Cambrian Rocks of 

 Virginia, &c., C. D. Walcott, 311 ; Fossils in Archaean Rocks 

 of Central Piedmont, Virginia, N. H. Darton, 311 ; Inaugural 

 Address by Sit Archibald Geikie, LL.D., For.Sec.R.S. at 

 the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Association, 317 ; Open- 

 ing Address by Prof, C. Lapworth, F.R.S., in Section C of 

 the British Association, 372 : Messrs. Peach and Home on 

 the Radiolarian Chert of Arenig Age, 428 ; Palaeozoic Rocks, 

 Prof. SoUas and Prof. Bonney, 428 ; Glacial Papers, Dr. 

 Crosskey, Mr. Lomas, Mr. Bell, Messrs. Peach and Home, 

 428 ; Palseontological Papers, E. J. Newton, M. Laurie, 

 428 ; Petrological Papers, Mr. Ussher, Mr. Goodchild, 

 Mr. Harker, Mr. Teall, Mr. Somervail, 428 ; Landslips in 

 the South Tyrol, Miss Ogilvie, 428 ; the Pliocene MoUusca 

 of New Zealand, Prof. F. W. Hutton, 474 ; International Geo- 

 logical and other Records, H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 441 ; the 

 Passage of Granite Rock into Fertile Soil, Alexander 

 Johnstone, 517 ; Earth Fractures and Mars " Canals," Prof. 



G. A. Lebour, 61 1 ; Miocene Formations of Western Algeria 

 Jules Welsch, 628 ^ ' 



Geometrical Deductions, James Blaikie, W. Thomson, 291 

 Geometry : to Draw a M creator Chart on one Sheet represent- 

 ing the whole of any complexly continuous closed Surface 

 Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 541 ' 



, German Anthropological Congress, 420 

 German Scientific Expedition to West Greenland under Dr. 



von Drygalski, 38 

 Germany : on Anomalies of Temperature in. Observations based 



on Synoptic Weather Chart, Dr. Schwalbe, 120 

 Germany : Exhibition at Niirnbergby the German Mathematical 



Association, 204 

 Germany, North, during Middle Ages, Forest Map of. Dr. 



E. H. L, Krause, 620 

 Gibbs (J. Willard), Thermodynamische Studien, 245 

 Giglioli (Prof. Henry H.), Dr. Modigliani's Recent Explora- 

 tions in Central Sumatra and Engano, 565 

 Gignac, Remarkable Jade Head found at, M. de Lapouge, 



421 

 Gilbert (Prof. G. K.), the Origin of Coon Butte, Arizona, 454 

 Gilbert (Dr.), Allotments and Small Holdings, 602 

 Gilbert Islands brought under British Protection, 477 

 Gill (Dr.), Comparison Stars of the Planet Victoria, 423 

 Gillespie (Dr. Lockhart), on Proteid-hydrochlorides, 403 

 Gilson (Prof. G.), on the Affinity of Nuclein for Iron and other 



Substances, 405 

 Giltay (Dr. E,), the Use of the Camera Lucida in Drawing 



Bacteria, 69 

 Giordano (Dr. Felice), Death of, 331 

 Glacial Papers, Dr. Crosskey, 428 ; Mr. Bell, 428 

 Glacial Succession in Europe, the. Prof. James Geikie, 143 

 Glaciers : Glacier Slip Disaster at St. Gervais les Bains, 254 ; 

 Theories of the Cau^e of. Profs. Duparc and Ford, 299 ; the 

 Lava of July 12, 1892 (St. Gervais Catastrophe), P. Dementzey, 

 387 ; Causes of St. Gervais Catastrophe, 420 ; Alpine Glaciers, 

 the Present Extension of, the Glacier des Boissons, 370 ; the 

 Periodic Variations of Alpine Glaciers, F. A. Forel, 386 ; 

 Crater-like Depressions in Glaciers, R. von Lendenteld, 

 466 

 Gladstone (Dr.): Some Points connected with Electromotive 

 Force of Secondary Batteries, 214 ; Molecular Refraction and 

 Dispersion of Metallic Carbonyls and of Indium, Gallium and 

 Sulphur, 402 

 Glasgow, Marine Machinery at, 430 

 Glass Mirrors, Silvering, Mr. Common, 597 

 Glassford (W. A.), Progress of Meteorology in United States, 



483 

 Glazebrook (R. T., F.R.S.), the Discussion on a National 



Physical Laboratory, 383 

 Gleed (W.), a Mnemonic Table for Changing from Electrostatic 



to Practical and C.G. S. Electro-magnetic Units, 23 

 Giendinning (T. A.), Note on Diastatic Action, 142 

 Globe, Prof. Penck's Proposed New Map of the, 407 

 Gnetum, Embryogeny of, Herr Karsten, 260 

 God of the Ethiopians, the, W. Hammond Tooke, 78 

 Godwin- Austen (H. H.), the Mustakh Exploration, 464 

 Goebel (Prof.), on the Simplest Form of Moss, 554 

 Gold Brick Exhibit, Solid, at Chicago Exhibition, 256 

 Goldstein (Prof. E.), Phenomena Exhibited at Negative Poles 



of Vacuum Tubes, 594 

 Gomphostemma, the Genus, D. Prain, 122 

 Gooch (F. A.), Certain Points in Inter-action of Potassium 



Permanganate and Sulphuric Acid, 627 

 Goodchild (Mr.), Petrological Papers, 428 

 Goodfellow (John), the Dietetic Value of Bread, 54 

 Gooseberries, Rats and, by G. Reade, 550 

 Gorilla, the Brain of the. Dr. H. G. Chapman, 229 

 Gothard (Herr E. von), the Spectrum of Nova Aurigse, 620 

 Gottingen Royal Scientific Society, 580 

 Gottingen Royal Society of Sciences, 72 

 Gouilly (Al.), Air Comprime ou Rarefie, 221 

 Grabham (M.), Peripatus Re-discovered in Jamaica, 514 

 Graff (Dr. Ludwig von), Bibliothek des Professors des 



Zoologie und Vergl. Anatomie, 54 

 Grammar of Science, the, 221 ; Karl Pearson, 97, 199, 247 ; 

 Edward T. Dixon, 269; Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 

 269 

 Granite Rock, the Passage of, into Fertile Soil, Alexander 

 Johnstone, 517 



