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INDEX 



BBADIE (M. Antuine u*), the Variation of Terrestrial Lati- 

 tudes, 65 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), Atmospheric Radiation of Heat, and its 

 Importance in Meteorology, 67 



Abbe's (Prof) Improved Spherometer, 472 



Abbot (Dr. W. L.), on the Climate of Kilima-Njaro, 160 



Abel's (Sir F.) Presidential Address to the Iron and Steel 

 Institute, III 



Aberration, Determination of the Constant of, Prof. G. C. 

 Comstock, 41 



Aberration Problems, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F. R.S., 497 



Abney (Capt., F. R.S.), Star Magnitudes, 41 ; Transmission of 

 Sunlight through Earth's Atmosphere, ii. Scattering at 

 different Altitudes, 69 



Abraham (H.), Electro-magnetic and Electrostatic C.G.S. 

 Unit.s 168 



Absorption, Experimental Proof that the Co-efficient of, is not 

 affected by Density of Illumination, Dr. \V. Peddie, 385 



Ab.sorption and Filteration of Sewage, R. F. Grantham, 429 



Acorn-eating Birds in Michigan, Dr. Morris Gibbs, 495 



Acoustics : An Acoustic Method whereby the Depth of Water in 

 a River may be Measured at a Distance, Frederick J. Smith, 

 246 ; Musical Sands, C. Carus Wilson, 44 ; T. S. Hall, 279 ; 

 Influence of Acoustic Clouds, David Cunningham, 430 



Acquired Characters, the Bearing of Pathology upon the Doctrine 

 of the Transmission of, Henry J. Tylden, 302 



Acquired Characters, the Transmission of, through Heredity, 

 Prof C. V. Riley, 504 



Active Lunar Volcanoes ? Prof. Pickering, 134 



Adams (Prof ), Proposed Memorial to, in Westminster Abbey, 

 208 



Addenbrooke (G. L,), the Use and Application of Alumi- 

 nium, 63 



Aden Survey, Completion of, 212 



Aeronautics: Modern Aerial Navigation, Capt. J. D. Fullertou. 

 63 ; Flying Machine Work, L. Hargrave, 556 



Africa : Tanganyika, Eleven Years in Central Africa, Edward 

 Coode Hore, 6 ; Emin Pasha's Return Expedition to the 

 Equatorial Lakes, Dr. Stuhlmann, no, 302 ; Lieut. Mizon's 

 Explorations, no; TwoPillars erected by DiogoCab, the First 

 Portuguese F^xplorer, on West Coast of Africa, brought back 

 to Lisbon, in ; the Pigmies of Africa, Dr. H. Schlichler, 

 135 ; Immunity of the African Negro from Yellow Fever, Dr. 

 C. Creighton, 200, 222 ; Meteorological Observatories at 

 Banana, Dr. Etienne, 255 ; the Uganda (^)uestion, 280 ; Dr. 

 O. Baumann's Survey of Road to Victoria Nyanza, 280 ; Dis- 

 covery of a New Great Lake (Lake Eiassi), 280 ; Diamond 

 Robbery from a South African Museum, 332 ; Geodetic 

 Survey of South Africa, 362 ; African Travels, 407 ; In- 

 dustrial Resourcesof Nyasaland, John Buchanan, 407 ; African 

 Meteorology, 407; the Mombasa-Victoria Nyanza Survey, 

 453; Railways in Tropical Africa and Native Passengers, 

 453 ; Founding of Robinson Commemoration Association 

 for Study of Hausa Language and People, 572 ; Camels in 

 German South- West Africa, 598 ; the Dra Dwarfs, E. G. 

 Donnenberg, 616 ; Mr. Joseph Thomson's Journey to the 

 Lake Bangweola Region, 620 



Agriculture : Egyptian Agriculture, Prof. Robert Wallace, 15 ; 

 Report on the Relations of Fruit Production in New South 

 Wales to the English Market, F. W. Ward, 39 ; Agriculture | 



in United States ; Official Denial of the reported intention of 

 the Government to introduce Mongoose to exterminate trouble- 

 some Rodents in the West, 39 ; Live Stock, Prof. Wrightson, 

 76 ; Appearance of the Diamond-back Moth in Yorkshire 

 and Northumberland, 108 ; Soils and Manures, John M. H. 

 Munro, 125 ; A New Method of Rabbit Destruction in New 

 South Wales, 161 ; Perfume-flower Farming in New South 

 Wales 161 ; The Carob-bean Tree in New South Wales- 

 F. Turner, 210 ; Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, 262 ; 

 Vermin of the F'arm, J. E. Harting, 262 ; Yorkshire College, 

 Leeds : The County Lectures to Farmers, 300; Coffee, Cacao 

 and Rubber Cultivation in Ceylon, J. Ferguson, 300 ; Uti- 

 lization of Stripped Autumn Plants as Green Manure, P. P. 

 Deherain, 364 ; The Vole Plague in the Border Districts, 

 395 ; Copper Sulphate Spray as Fungicide, 422 ; Agricultural 

 Education at University College of North Wales, Bangor, 

 474 ; the Manufacture of Iron in its Relations with Agri- 

 culture, Sir Lowthian Bell, 525 ; Contagious Foot Rot in 

 Sheep, Prof. G. T. Brown, 560 ; A Text-book of Agricultural 

 Entomology, Eleanor A. Ornierod, 561 ; Allotments and 

 Small Holdings, Sir J. B. Lawes and Dr. Gilbert, 602 ; Dr. 

 Leather's Method of Detecting and Estimating Castor-oil 

 Seeds in Cattle Foods, 602 ; The Improvement of the Potato 

 in Australia, 617 ; Birds versus Insects in Malta, 618 



Aikman (C. M.) Farmyard Manure, 100 



Ainos of Japan, the, Mrs. Isabella Bishop, 119; R. Hitchcock, 

 421 ; Arrow Poisons used by, Romyn Hitchcock, 475 



Air, Radiation of Atmospheric, C. C. Hutchins, 67 



Air Leyden, A New Form of, Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 212 



Aitken (John, F.R.S.), on Some Phenomena connected with 

 Cloudy Condensation, 90 



Akroyd (William), the Law of Colour in relation to Chemical 

 Constitution, 23 



Alaska, Acclimatization of Reindeer in, by Dr. Sheldon Jack- 

 son, 109 



Alaskan Grave, Ancient Chinese Coins discovered in an, Lieut. 

 Dix Bolles, 574 



Albino Animals in Japan, Importance attached to, Herr J. L. 

 Jaiison, 493 



Albumen in Plants, the Active, O. Loew, 491 



Alcock (Dr. A.), the Marine Survey of India, 549 ; The Red 

 Ocypodc Crab, 549 ; the Little Estuarine Crab Gelasimus, 



574 

 Aldabra Island, Seychelles, the Gigantic Land Tortoise of, 



Riseley Griffiths, 398 

 Algeria, Miocene Formations of Western, Jules Welsch, 628 

 Alheilig(M.) Kecette, Conservation et Travail des Bois, 246 

 Alloys, the Microscopic Structure of, Behrens, 72 

 Alloys, on Certain Ternary, Aluminium, &c., C. R. A. Wright, 



F.R.S , 188 

 Alloys of Iron and Chromium, the, R. A. Hadfield, 526 

 Alluaud's (Charles), Researches in the Island of Mahe(Seychelles), 



230 

 Alpine Glaciers, the Present Extension of; the Glacier des 



Boisons, 370 

 Alpine Glaciers, the Periodic Variations of, ¥. A. Forel, 386 

 Alpine Trias, Brachiopods of the, A. Bittner, F. A. Bather, 25 

 Alterations of Personality, Alfred Binet, 219 

 Alternative Hypothesis, Natural Selection and, F. E. Beddard, 



F.R.S., Edwaid B. Poulton, F.K.S., 533 



