Nature, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



pC<^ia's Comet {b 1890), Dr. Berberich, 355, 404 ; Coggia's 

 and Denning's Comets {hz.nAc 1890), Dr. Berberich, 378, 404 ; 

 Meteors, \V. J. Lockyer, 370 ; Lightning Spectra, W. E. Wood, 

 377 ; Solar Activity, Prof. Tacchini, 378; the Eclipse of Thales, 

 William E. Plummer, 390 ; Moscow Observatory, Prof. Th. 

 Bredichin, 404 ; Leander McCormick Observatory, 404 ; 

 Stellar Variability, Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 415, 

 545 ; Observations of Saturn at the Disappearance of the 

 Ring, M. E. L. Trouvelot, 429 ; Objects having Peculiar 

 Spectra, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 429 ; a Fine Group of Sun- 

 spots, W. F. Denning, 456 ; Variable Stars near the Cluster 

 5 Messier, 460 ; Prof. S. C. Chandler on Variable Stars, 

 52S ; the Parallax of Ononis, Dr. Gill, 487 ; United States 

 Naval Observatory, Washington, Report of, 488 ; the Urania 

 Gesellschaft, 511 ; the Natal Observatory, 526; Graphic 

 Lessons in Physical and Astronomical Geography, Joseph H. 

 Cowham, 542 ; Astronomy and Numismatics, Dr. A. Vercoutre, 

 556 ; Lunar Photography, Richard A. Gregory, 568 ; Dr. J. W. 

 Draper, 568 ; Warren De La Rue, 569 ; Prof. J. Phillips, 569 ; 

 Prof. Crookes, 569 ; S. Fry, 569 ; Rutherford, 569 ; Dr. Henry 

 Draper, 571 ; Paul and Prosper Henry, 571 ; Observations of 

 Comets, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 576 ; Photographing Stars in 

 the Daytime, Prof. Holden, 576 ; Theory of Solar Radiation, 

 W. Goff, 600 ; Satellites of Saturn, Dr. Hermann Struve, 

 600 ; a New Comet {d 1890), E. E. Barnard, 601 ; the Story 

 of the Heavens, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D., 614; 

 Photographs of Nebulae, Admiral Mouchez, 619; Stars 

 having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 619 ; 

 Photographic Chart of the Heavens, 619 ; D' Arrest's Comet, 

 Prof. Krueger, 619 ; General List of Astronomical Societies, 

 &c., Mr. A. Lancaster, 648 ; Friedlander and Son's Catalogue 

 of Astronomical Books, 648 ; Spectroscopic Observations 

 (Sawerthal's Comet 1881 I., and j8 Lyrae), Dr. Nicolaus von 

 Konkoly, 650 ; Spectroscopy at Paris Observatory, M. 

 Deslandres, 650 ; Two Solar Prominences, Jules Fenyi, 656 

 Atlantic Square (Central North), lat. zd'-y:)" N., long. 3o''-40° 

 W., Meteorological Observations made on German and Dutch 

 Ships for, 376 

 Atmosphere, Observations with Aitken's Apparatus of the 



Number of Dust Particles in, 278 

 Atmospheric Circulation, M. A. Veeder, 126 

 Atmospheric Electricity, Prof. L. Weber on, 574 

 Atolls, Drowned, P. W. Bassett-Smith, 222 ; Captain W. J. L. 



Wharton, F.R.S., 222 

 Auk, the, 647 

 Aurochs, Bison not, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 28, 53, 81 j 



R. Lydekker, 53 

 Aurorce, Comparison of the Spectra of Nebulae and Stars of 

 Groups I. and IL with those of Comets and, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S. , 342, 393 

 Australia : the Present Use of Stone Implements in, 18 ; W. 

 Saville-Kent on the Embryology of the Australian Rock 

 Oyster, 18 ; Australian Mining Exhibition at the Crystal 

 Palace, 65 ; Records of the Australian Museum, 65 ; " Has 

 Man a Geological History in Australia?" R. Etheridge, 160; 

 Latitudes and Longitudes of Australian Capitals, 208 ; Or- 

 ganization of Australian Tribes, A. W. Howitt, 328 ; New 

 Australian Flora and Fauna, 329 ; Australasian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 352, 374 ; Australian 

 Diurnal Accipitres, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 485 ; Expedition to 

 the Unexplored Regions of Australia, 573 ; on the Religion 

 of the Australian Aborigines, J. W. Fawcett, 580 ; the New 

 Australian Mammal, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 645 

 Austria-Hungary, Earthquakes in, 327 

 Automatic Vacuum Brake, the North- Western, 88 

 Avalanches, Wind, F. M. Millard, 296 

 Avian Osteology, 74 

 Awaruite, a Remarkable Nickel-Iron Alloy of Terrestrial 



Origin from New Zealand, Prof. Ulrich, 210, 214 

 Axles in India, Railway, 554 



Babylonians, G. Bertin's Lectures on the Manners and Customs 

 of, 86 



Bacillus anthracis, the Loss of Virulence in, 72 ; Chemical Pro- 

 ducts of the Growth of, and their Physiological Ad ion, 

 Sydney Martin, 118 



Backhouse (lames, Jun.), a Hand-book of European Birds for 

 the Use of Field Naturalists and Collectors, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 74 



Backhouse (T. W.), Night-Shining Clouds, 246 



Dr. Macmurrich, 32 ; Flora 

 i ; the Lucayan Indians, the 



Bagshot Beds of Essex, Horace W. .Monckton, 198 ; Dr. A. 



Irving, 222 

 Bahama Islands : Ac'inaria of the, 

 of the, 323 ; John Gardiner, 8S 

 Original Inhabitants of the, 253 

 Bailey (Dr. G. H.) : on the Spectrum of the Haloid Salts of 

 Didymium, 530; and A. A. Read on the Behaviour of 

 Different Metallic Oxides when Exposed to High Tempera- 

 tures, 530 ; and J. C. Cain on a Method of Quantitative 

 Analysis by Weighing Precipitates Suspended in Water, 530 

 Baker (Sir Benjamin), proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 14 

 Baker (Dr. Frank), the Ascent of Man, 529 

 Baker (H.), Aluminium, its History, Occurrence, Properties, 

 Metallurgy, and Applications, Including its Alloys, Jos. W. 

 Richards, 537 

 Baker (J. G., F.R.S.), Daffodils, 426 

 Balanoglossus, the Anatomy of, 94 

 Balbiano (Prof.), the Synthesis of Pyrazol, III 

 Balder, the Story of, 81 

 Balfour (Prof. Isaac Bayley, F.R.S.), the Pilcomayo Expedition, 



J. Graham Kerr, 543 

 Balkan Peninsula, Geological Annals of the, 535 

 Ball (Dr. E. J.), on the Changes in Iron produced by Thermal 



Treatment, 69 

 Ball (Sir Robert Stawell, F.R.S.) : Theory of Screws, Prof. O. 



Henrici, F.R.S., 127 ; the Story of the Heavens, 614 

 Ball of Fire, Charles Randolph, 615 

 Ballistics, Theoretical, Rev. Francis Bashforth, Prof. A, G. 



Greenhill, F.R.S., 409 

 Baltic, Observations on the Growth of Lake- Vegetation East of 



the, Herr Klinge, 402 

 Baltimore, School of Manual Training at, 376 

 Banning (Mary E.), Illustrations of the Fungi of Maryland, 87 

 Earbier.(Ph.), Researches on Dispersion of the Fatty Alcohols, 



143 

 Barbier (Ph.), Optical Dispersion of the Fatty Acids, 360 

 Barbour (E. H.), Remarkable Meteor in Iowa, 136 

 Barking Sands of the Hawaiian Islands, H. Carrington Bolton, 



389 

 Barnard (Prof. E. E.): Brorsen's Comet, 331 ; Observations of 



Comets, 576 ; a New Comet {d 1890), 601 

 Barometer, Large Water, at the Tour St Jacques, Paris, 160 

 Earth (Henry), Travels and Discoveries in North and Central 



Africa, 368 

 Barthe (L.), Allyl-cyano-succinic Ethers, New Synthesis by 



means of Cyano-succinic Ether, 432 

 Bartrum (C. O.), on the Soaring of Birds, 457, 637 

 Barus (C.) : Fluid Volume and its Relation to Pre-isure and 

 Temperature, 260 ; the Electrical Conductivity of Liquids, 

 534 

 Barwick (Captain), Expedition to the Upper Course of the 



Irawadi, 329 

 Bashforth (Rev. Francis), a Revised Account of the Experiments 

 made with the Bashforth Chronograph, to find the Resistance 

 of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 

 F.R.S., 409 

 Bassett-Smith (P. W.), Drowned Atolls, 222 

 Bastian (Prof.) : his Ethnological Collections made in Russian 

 Central Asia, 64 ; Researches for the Anthropological Museum, 

 Berlin, 280 

 Bateman (Frederick), Aphasia or Loss of Speech, and the 

 Localization of the Faculty of Articulate Language, Dr. 

 Ernest S. Reynolds, 386 

 Bateman (Rev. Gregory C), Freshwater Aquaria, 591 

 Bathing, Butterflies, G. A. Freeman, 545 

 Barlow (W.), on A torn- Grouping in Crystals, 578 

 Baye (Baron J. de), Mediaeval Archaeology, 535 

 Beans and Columns, Treatise on the Strength of, Robert H. 



Cousins, 76 

 Beard (W, S.) and C. Pendlebury, Elementary Arithmetic, 414 

 Beats, Dr. Koenig's Theory of. Very Rev. Dr. Gerald Molloy, 



246 

 Beaver, the Survival of, in Western Europe, 35 

 Beaver and Otter Traps, Prehistoric, Dr. Munro, 581 

 Beccafico, the Italian, and the Worthing Fig Gardens, Henry 



Cecil, 520 

 Becker (Alex.), Natural Causes Checking over increase of 



Plants and Animals, 136 

 Beddoe (Dr. John), the Original Seat of the Atyan Race, 88 

 Bedford College, London, 277 

 Beer, Should it be Drunk out of a Glass, Dr. Schultze, 525 



