INDEX 



Abbeville, discovery of human 

 skeletons at, 164. 



Abel, F. A., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 69 ; communi- 

 cations from, 200, 204, 207, 220. 



Abney, W. de W., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 83. 



Abyssinia, gadflies in, 112. 



Academies, Mr. Grove's objection 

 to, 63. 



A cari, immune from strychnine, 



157- 



Acetylene gas, experiments in pro- 

 ducing, 222. 



Adams, J. C., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 48 ; resigna- 

 tion of, 62. 



Adams, W. G., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 84. 



Adelaide, expeditions from, to 

 explore Australia, 153. 



Africa, Genoese expedition round 

 the Cape to India, 146. 



Agassiz, J. R. L., ancient types 

 among North American fishes, 

 1 08 ; biographical note, id. ; on 

 bubbles from thawing glacier ice, 



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Agos Garcia, selected for a coaling 

 station, 229. 



Aiguille Blanche de Peuteret, fatal 

 fall of Professor F. M. Balfour 

 and guide, Z2i. 



Ailurus fulgens, living specimen of, 

 received at the Zoological Gar- 

 dens, 183. 



Air currents through tubes, an 

 effect of, 1 06 ; a simple process of 

 liquefying it described, 248. 



Aitkens, Mr. John, on the nature of 

 clouds, 213. 



Akkas, skeletons of, forwarded by 

 Emin Bey, 232. 



Albert, Prince, and juxtaposition 

 of Societies, 44. 



Albert Nyanza, Lake, discovery 

 of, 172. 



Alcohol, made from olefiant gas, 

 127 ; and aldehyde, 159 ; Pro- 

 fessor Tyndail in danger from a 

 tube of it bursting over a lamp, 

 229. 



Aldehyde and alcohol, 159. 



Allman, Professor, election of, and 

 biographical note on, 65 ; com- 

 munications from, 212, 230 ; on 

 a deep-sea hydroid, 230. 

 '. Aluminium, medal of, 126 ; use for 

 voltaic processes suggested, 127. 



American expeditions to observe 

 the transit of Venus, 223 ; effi- 

 ciency of their workmen increased 

 by early education, 224. 



Ammonia and phosphuretted hy- 

 drogen, analogy of, 130. 



Amphioxus, geological position of, 



175. 



j Animals in rapid motion, instru- 

 ment for observing, 221. 



Ansted, D. T., biography of, 5 ; 



retirement of, 50. 



I Anthropometric records in Messrs. 

 Bury's ledgers, the weights and 

 mode of living of aristocratic 

 customers, 225. 



Antitoxins, rapid development in 

 their preparation and export, 246. 



Ants, their nests and captive 

 spiders, 243. 



Ants, white, their ravages at St. 

 Helena and Pointe de Galle, 207. 



Aquadolce, ossiferous cave at, 150. 



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