Supploncnt to AVz/»rc,T 

 December 5, 1895 J 



Index 



2438, 375 ; Atmospheric Refraction, Prof. E. C. Comstock, 

 399 ; some I'hotographic Star-Charts, F. Renz, 407 ; Riither- 

 furd's Stellar I'hutographs, 655 : Photographs of Star-Spectra, 

 T. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 660; Reappearance of Swift's 

 Comet, 421 ; Swift's Comet (August 20, 1895), G. Le Cadet, 

 456 ; Ephemeris of Swift's Comet, 446 ; Elements and 

 Ephemeris of Comet a, 1895 (Swift), Dr. Berberich, 553 ; 

 •y Virginis, Dr. See, 553; the Latitude Variation Tide. 421 ; 

 the Solar Parallax from Mars" Observations, 421 ; Comets 

 and the .Sun-spot Period, Herr J. Unterweger, 446 ; the 

 Rotation of Venus, 487 ; \'isibility of the Dark Side of \'en\is, 

 M. Camille Flammarion, 603 ; the Surface of Venus, M. 

 Perrotin, 660 ; .Apparatus to Illustrate Doppler's Principle, 

 515 : the Pnesepe Cluster, Dr. Wilhelm Schur, 515 : .Satellite 

 Evolution, James Nolan, Prof. (1. H. Darwin, F.R.S.,518; 

 the Orbit of m'- Bootis (2 1938), Dr. T. J. J. See, 525 : Return 

 of Faye's Comet, 553 ; Ephemeris for B^aye's Comet, 603 ; 

 Suggestions for .Astronomical Research, Dr. Isaac Roberts, 

 579 ; Measurement of Planetary Diameters, Prof. Campbell, 

 579 ; the Observatory on Mont Blanc, Dr. Janssen, 602, 611 : 

 the Melbourne Observatory, R. L. J. Ellery, 603 ; a New 

 Observatory, 603 ; Planetary Perturbations, Prof. A. Weiler, 

 629 ; the System of a Centauri, A. W. Roberts, 629 ; Holmes' 

 Comet, Dr. II. J. /.weirs, 629 ; the Cape Observatory, 655 



Atavism and Evolution, Prof. Lombroso, 257 



Athens, the British School at, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 

 249 



Atkinson (R. W. ), Transformation of .Moulds into Yeasts, 438 



Atlantic, North, Fog during 1894 on, 302 



Atlantic Ocean, North, .Atmospheric Pressure of the, Cajit. C. 

 Rung, 76 



Atlantic Waves, Abnormal, James Vate Johnson, 569 



Atlas of Classical Antiquities, Th. Schreiber, 100 



Atmospheric Pressure of the North Atlantic Ocean, Capt. ('>. 

 Rung, 76 



Atmospheric Refractions, Prof. E. C. Comstock, 399 



Atomic Theory and its Author, the, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S., 169 



Aubel (Prof. \'an). Hall's Phenomenon as investigated on Thin 

 Layers of Bisnnith deposited electrolytically, 71 



Aubry ( Prof. ), .Antinonnin, 62S 



-Auden (H. .A.), on the .\ction of Nitric O.xide on certain Salts, 



536 



August Meteors, the, 327: W. \ . Denning, 507; Heights of 

 August Meteors, Prof. -\. S. Herschel, F. R.S., 437 



August, Rain in, 519 



Aurelia atirila. Variation of Tentaculocysts of, Y.. T. Browne, 

 284 



Australasia, Royal Geographical Society of, 540 



Australasian Association, the, 65 



Australia, the Geological Development of, 20; Mr. W. 

 Saville- Kent's Collection of Australian Madreporaria, pre- 

 sented to Natural Hi.story Museum, 301 ; Systematic Arrange- 

 ment of .Australian Fungi, Dr. Mc.Alpine, 435 



Austria, Storms and Earthquakes during June in, C. V. Zenger, 



432 . . 



Auto-Mobile Carriages in France, the Recent Race of, 300 ; 



Display of, 600 

 Avalanche in L'pperGemmi Pass, 511 

 Ayrton (Prof.), Students' Apparatus for Determining Mechanical 



Equivalent of lleat, 39 ; .Argument against the existence of a 



Back Eleclro-moiive Force in the Electric .Arc, 536 

 Ayrton (.Mrs.), on the Connection between Potential Difference, 



Current, and Length of Arc, in the Electric .Arc, 535 

 Azimuth of Polaris, .Altitude and, .A. Tanakadate, 305 



Babington (Prof. C. C, F'.R.S.), Death of, 300: Obituary 



Notice of, 371 

 Babington (\V. D. ), Fallacies of Race Theories as applied to 



National Characteristics, 220 

 Bache (R. M.), Reaction Time according to Race, 627 

 Backhaus (Dr.), .Artificial Human Milk prepared by, 512 

 Bacteriology : Infection by Flies. W. T. Burgess, 38 : a Course 

 of Elementary Practical Bacteriology, .A. .A. Kanthack and 

 J. H. Drysdale, 53 ; the .Action of Light on -Animal Life, 

 Mrs. Percy Frankl.ind, 86: Death of Dr. John Byron, 133; 

 the Extra-cellular Destruction of Bacteria in the Organism, 

 Prof. Metchnikoff, 134: Dairy Bacteriology, Dr. Ed. von 

 Freudenreich, 220 ; Effects of Water-weeds on Anthrax 

 Bacilli, Dr. Iloeber, 153; the B.acterial Contents of Mar- 



garine, Messrs. Jolles and Winkler, 230; Distribution of 

 Thermophilic Bacteria, Dr. L. Rabinowitsch, 276 ; Three 

 New Vibrios from Polluted Well-water, A. Zawadzki and (•. 

 Brunner, 305 ; the Sand Filtration of Water, Dr. Kurth, 

 346 ; the Part of Sedimentation in Water-purification, Dr. 

 H. J. van 'I Hoff, 578 ; the Bacillus of Influenza Cold, Dr. 

 Cautley, 355 ; Recent Studies in Diphtheria, 393 ; the Pas- 

 teurisation of Milk, Dr. II. L. Russell, 419; Effect of 

 P'ever Temperature on Typhoid Bacillus, Dr. .Max MiiUer, 

 444 ; Bactericidal Properties of Disinfectant Ointment, Dr. 

 Breslauer, 524 ; .Antinonnin, Prof. Aubry, 628 ; the Fonna- 

 tion of Bacterial Colonies, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 

 658 

 Baden-Powell (Lieut. B. ), on Navigating the Air by Means of 



Kites, 584 

 Bagdad Date- Mark, the. Colonel -A. T. Fraser, 31 

 Baginski (Prof.), Experiments on Children's Bile, 336 

 Baginsky (Prof.), the .Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria, 354 

 Bailey (J. B. ), Rules of Reference, 601 



Bailey (Prof. L. H.), the Plant-Individual in the Light of Evo- 

 lution, 59; the Horticulturist's Rule-Book, 33S 

 Bailey (S. I.), the Forms of Jupiter's Satellites, 445 

 Bailey (Vernon), Pocket Gophers of the United States, 275 

 Baillon (Prof.), Death of, 301 ; Obituary Notice of, 371 

 Baily (F. G.), on Hysteresis of Iron in an Alternating Magnetic 



Field, 536 

 Baker (H. F.), Albrege de la Theorie des Fonctions Elliptiques, 



Charles Henry, 567 

 Baker (R. T. ), New Elctocarpus, 540 

 Baker (Sir Samuel), a Memoir, T. Douglas Murray and A. Silva 



White, 409 

 Balanus, Mouth Parts of Cypris Stage of, T. T. Groom, 2S4 

 Baldwin (Prof. Mark), Consciousness and Evolution, 627 

 Ball (Sir Robert) and "The Cause of an Ice Age," Sir Henry 



H. Howorth, F.R.S., 594 

 Ball (Dr. V., F.R.S.), the Cook Collections of South Sea Island 

 Weapons, i.\;c., II ; Reputed Traces of Negrito Pygmies in 

 India, 80 

 Ball (Dr. Valentine, F. R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



■77 

 Balland (M.), .Aluminium Utensils, 456 



Ballooning : Proposed Balloon \"oyage to the North Pole, 226 

 Ballore (F. de M. de), a Superior Limit to Mean .Area afTecled 



by an Earthquake, 516 

 Baralta (M.), the X'iggianello (Basilicata) Earthquake of May 



28, 1894, 335 

 Barber (C. .A.), the Tick Pest in the Tropics, 197 

 Barbier (P. ), Condensation of .Aldehydes and Saturated Ketones, 



192 ; the Essence of Linaloc, 312 

 Bardeleben (Prof.), Death of, 522, 577 

 Baris.al Guns and Mist Pouffers, Prof. G. II. Darwin, F. R.S., 



650 

 Barnard (Prof.), Saturn's Rings, 11; Barnard Medal awarded 

 to Lord Rayleigh for Discovery of Argon, S3 ; (Barnard) 

 Comet 1892 v., J. G. Porter, J. Coniel, 155; Ephemeris for 

 Barnard's Comet, 1S84 II., Dr. Berberich, 327 ; the Satel- 

 lites of Jupiter, 203 ; a Great Nebula in Scorpio, 305 

 Barnett (K. F..), \'ellow^ Phosphate of Platinum, 95 

 Barrett (Charles G.), the Lepidoptera of the Briti.sh Islands, 27 

 Basevi (Colonel C. E.), .Argon and the Kinetic Theor)', 221 ; 



Clausius' Virial Theorem, 413 

 Basset (.A. B., F.R.S.), MacCullagh's Theory of Double Re- 

 fraction, 595 : the Theory of Magnetic Action on Light, 618 

 Ba.stin (Paul Edson), Laboratory Exercises in Botany, 316 

 Bateson (W.), Origin of the Cultivated Cineraria, 29, 103 

 Bauer (Dr. L. .A.), .some Bibliographical Discoveries in Terres- 

 trial Magnetism, 79 : Halley's Equal V.ariation Chart, 197 ; 

 the Earliest Magnetic Meridians, 267 ; the Distribution and 

 Secular Variations of Terrestrial Magnetism, 431 : Distribu- 

 tion and Secular Variation of Terrestrial Magnetism, 539 

 Baur (Dr. G.), the Flora of the Galap.igos Islands, W. Botting 



Hemsley, F.R.S., 623 

 Baye (Baron de), the Stone Age in the Ukraine, 45 

 Baylee (J. Tyrrell), Incubation among the Egyptians, 414 

 Baynes(R. E. ), Clausius' Virial Theorem, 569 ; Oxford Endow- 

 ments, 644 

 Beard (W. S.) and .A. Telfer, Longmans' School Algebra, 



220 

 Bebber(Prof. Dr. W. J. van), Ilygienische Meteorologie, 49 ; 



the Inqirovement of Storm-warning Signals, 653 

 Beck (Dr. .A.), Velocity of Blood in Portal Vein, 556 



