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INDEX 



Abbadie (Antoine d'), Mount Wosho, 249 ; Measurement of 



Section of Paris Base Line with Jaderin's Apparatus, 358 

 Abbe(Prof. Cleveland), the Efficiency of Agricultural Apparatus, 

 88 ; the Part played by Carbonic Acid Gas in Air, 373 ; 

 Climate and Disease, 422 

 Abelsdorf (Dr.), the Visual Purple of Fishes, 503 

 Abernethy (James), Death of, 443 



Abney (Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.), Colour Vision: being the 

 Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution, 

 124 

 Abnormal Rainbows, C. E. Peek, 557 



V'^raham (H.), Compensation of Directing Forces, and Sensi- 

 ility of Galvanometer with Moving Coil, 624 

 -nlute Velocity of 61 Cygni, the. Dr. Belopolsky, 448 

 ilemy of Sciences, New York, Annual Exhibition of, 543 

 idents. Petroleum Lamp, 475 

 tylene, 349 



:ylene Lamp, Trouve's Calcium Carbide, 226 

 •ylene as a Photometric Standard, J. Violle, 288 

 ctylene Theory of Luminosity, V. B. Lewes, 357 

 Ackroyd (W. ), Permeability to Rontgen Rays, 479 ; Opacity of 



Various Substances to Rontgen Rays, 616 

 Acorns, the Disposal of, by Rooks, Clement Reid, 6 

 Acoustics : Curious Aerial or Subterranean Sounds, Prof. R. 

 Meldola, F.R.S., 4; C. Davison, 4; Dr. W. T. Blanford, 

 F.R.S., 30; E. Van den Broeck, 30; Prof. T. M. Hughes, 

 F.R.S., 30; Remarkable Sounds, C. Tomlinson, 78, 197, 

 291; ; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, loi ; W. F. Ganong, loi ; 

 W. Tucknell, loi ; C. Fox Strangways, 130; Rev. W. 

 S. Smith, 197; O. Firth, 198; William Stoney, 198; 

 Kumagusu Minakata, 317, 414, 605; Thos. Delprat, 

 510; Barisal Guns, Col. H. S. Olcott, 130; D. G. F. 

 Grant, 197 ; G. B. Scott, 197 ; Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 

 F.R.S., 247; T. D. La Touche, 248; Hy. Harries, 295; 

 R. Lloyd Praeger, 296 ; D. J. Scourfield, 296 ; W. G. 

 Brown, 296 ; Charles H. I^obinson, 487 ; How to Find Key- 

 note of Auditoriums, E. Cutter, 262 ; Resultant Tones, Prof. 

 J. D. Everett, 310 ; Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a 

 Bell, 223, 272, 367 ; Sensitive Flames, E. Bouty, 407 ; 

 the Wave-Siren, Rudolf Konig, 453 ; Communications on 

 Acoustics, Prof. J. G. McKendrick, 454 

 Actinic Rays, the New, A. W. Porter, 316 ; W. Saunders, 316 ; 

 R. B. H., 316 ; Lord Blythswood, 340; A. A. C. Swinton, 

 340 ; Sydney D. Rowland, 340 

 Adams (H.), Practical Trigonometry, lOl 

 Adams (Dr. Wellington), the Rontgen Rays, 421 

 Adkins's (Mr.) Collection of Orkney Lepidoptera, 70 

 Aerial or Subterranean Sounds, Curious, Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 4 ; C. Davison, 4 ; Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 30 ; 

 F.rnest Van den Broeck, 30 ; Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, 

 1 .R.S., 30 

 Aerolite, a Yorkshire, Harwood Brierley, 230 

 Aeronautics : Lieut. B. Baden Powell's Air-Car or Man-lifting 

 Kite, 116; Summary of Results of Forty-seven German 

 1-alloon Ascents, Dr. Assmann, 136; Flight and Flying Ma- 

 iiines. Dr. G. IL Bryan, F.R.S., 420 ; Geographical Use of 

 : alloons, A. Berson, 446 ; Balloon Voyages from the Meteor- 

 logical point of view, Prof, von Bezold, 503;^ Death of 

 l.ugene P'ariot, 517 

 .1 ther, MacCullagh's Theory of the, Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S.,5 

 Artiliated Scientific Societies, Meetings of, in America, 307 

 Africa: the New Rubber Industry in Lagos, 13; Current 

 Expeditions, 62 ; Scientific Description of German Colonies, 

 S9 ; Dr. A. D. Smith's Lake Rudolph Expedition, 107, 226 ; 

 Miss Kingsley's West Coast Journey, 107; the Austrian 



Red Sea Expedition, Dr. J. Hann, 134 ; the Arrow poison 

 of the Namaqualand Bushmen, 227 ; Mount Wosho, Antoine 

 d'Abbadie, 249 ; Effect of African Grass-fires on Vegetation, 

 Mr. Scott-Elliot, 444 ; Mr. J. E. S. Moore's Expedition to 

 Lake Tanganyika, 470 ; New Wild Dog from Western Mata- 

 beleland. Dr. L. V. Lorenz, 492 ; Mr. Elliot's Somaliland 

 Expedition, 542 ; the Palaeolhhic Stone Age in Somaliland, 

 H. W. Seton Karr, 544 ; Meteorological Observations at 

 Boroma (Zambesi), 573 



Agamennone (Dr. G.), the Paramythea Earthquake of May 

 13-14, 1895, 205 



Agassiz (Prof. A.), Underground Temperature at Great 

 Depths, 161 ; Cactacese in the Galapagos Islands, J99 



Agassiz (Louis), Life, Letters, and Works of, Jules Marcou, 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 529 



Age of the Wealden, the, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 436; A. C. 

 Seward, 462 



Agriculture : New Ten-Cow Milking Machine, 35 ; the 1895 

 Diminution of British Wheat Area, 35; Possible Reclamation 

 of Dordogne Heath-lands by Lime Phosphatic Manure, Raoul 

 Bouilhac, 48 ; Influence of Weather on Sugar-beet Growth, 

 Dr. Kassner, 72 ; the Efficiency of Agricultural Apparatus, 

 Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 88 ; the Common Crow a Farmer's 

 Friend, Prof. W. B. Barrow, E. A. Schwarz, Hart Merriam, 

 88 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. P. Kostycher, 

 160 ; Cattle poisoned by Indian Corn Stalks, 255 ; Circula- 

 tion of Air in Soil, P. P. Deh^rain and Demoussy, 311 ; 

 Irrigation in America, W. E. Smythe, 428; Board Report on 

 Swine Fever, 518; "Bogus Land" in Indiana, H. A. 

 Huston, 545 ; Fallow Ground, P. P. Deherain, 599 



Ahlborn (Dr. F. ), the Use and Meaning of AsymmelricaJ 

 Types of Tail-fin in Fishes, 327 



Aikman (C. M.), Milk, its Nature and Composition, loi 



Air, Liquefaction of, and Research at Low Temperatures, Prof. 

 J. Dewar, F.R.S., 329 ; the New Process for the Liquefac- 

 tion of Air and other Gases, 515 ; the Part played by 

 Carbonic Acid Gas in Air, Prof. Abbe, 373 ; the Distribution 

 of Carbon Dioxide in, 374 ; the Temperature of Air, and 

 the Problem of an Ice Age, Luigi de Marchi, 376 



Alaska, Discovery by Prof. W. H. Dall of Frozen Mammoth 

 Fat and Ice-bear in, 160; Botany of Yakutat Bay, F. V. 

 Coville, 327 



Albinos, the Deafness of Imperfect, Dr. Rawitz, 576 



Albrech (Prof.), the Movements of the Terrestrial Pole during 

 the Years 189095, 404 



Alexander the Great, the Life and Exploits of, E. A. Wallis 

 Budge, 483 



Algebra, Elementary, J. W. Welsford and E. H. P. Mayo, 267 



Algebra of Quantics, an Introduction to the, E. B. Elliott, 

 F.R.S., 147 



Algol Type, New Variable Star of the, 206 



Algol Variable, Wells', 403 



Allantoic Placenta, Marsupial with an. Prof. G. B. Howes, 

 270 



Allen (A. H.), Improved Method of determining Urea by 

 Hypobromite Process, 406 



Allen (Grant), Moorland Idylls, 486 



Allen (Dr. Harrison), the Use of the Cranio-facial Line, 502 



Aloi (Prof. A.), Influence of Electricity on Vegetation, 179 



Alps, the, from End to End, Sir W. M. Conway, 193 



Altels Glacier, the Fall of the, September li, 1895, Dr. Leon 

 Du Pasquier, 317 



Aluminium, the Manufacture of, by Electrolysis, 380 



Amagat (E. H.), Variations in Ratio of Two Specific Heats of 

 Gases, 288 



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