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INDEX 



Abba Tree, Commercial Rubber from, 65 



Abbe's (Prof. Cleveland) Work in Meteorology, Dr. D. P. 

 Todd, 134; on Terrestrial Physics, 528; on Deductive 

 Methods in Storm and Weather Predictions, 574 



Abel (Sir Frederick Augustus, F.R. S.), Inaugural Address at 

 the Meeting of the British Association at Leeds, 1890, 433 



Accipitres, Australian Diurnal, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 485 



Acland (Sir H. W.), Oxford and Modem Medicine, 233 



Acoustics : Doppler's Principle, G. H. Wyatt, 7 ; E. P. 

 Perman, 54; Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 81 ; Dr. Rudolf 

 Kcenig on Musical Sounds and the Theory of Timbre, 34 ; 

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

 246 ; Acoustics in Relation to Wind-instruments, D. J. 

 Blackley, 510 



Acquired Characters, the Inheritance of, 5, 6 ; J. J. Murphy, 

 5 ; W. Ainslie Hoilis, 6 



Actinaria of the Bahama Islands, Dr. Macmurrich, 32 



Actinic Light of the Solar Corona, Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, 

 138 



Actinida of the North Atlantic, Dr. D. C. Danielssen, 367 



Adami (J. G. ), the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, Edinburgh, 97 



Adelsberg Cave Explorations, 108 



Advancement of Science, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 339 



Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 65 



Affinities of Heliopora caerulea, Dr. Sydney J. Hickson, 370 ; 

 A. B. Haddon, 463 



Afghanistan, Mr. Griesbach's Geologico-Industrial Mission to, 

 280 



Africa : Cycles of Drought and Good Seasons in South, D. E. 

 Hutchins, 4 ; the United States Scientific Expedition to 

 West Africa, Prof. David P. Todd, 8 ; Newr Edition of Du 

 Chaillu's Adventures in the Great Forest of Equatorial 

 Africa and the Country of the Dwarfs, 19; Darkest Africa, 

 H. M. Stanley, 223 ; Captain Gaetano Casati's African Ex- 

 plorations, 280; Travels in Africa, Dr. Wilhelm Junker, 316 ; 

 Prof. Seeley in South Africa, 327 ; Native African Disease- 

 Treatment, 376 ; Travels and Discoveries in North and 

 Central Africa, Henry Barth, 368 ; Deniker and Laloy on 

 the Negroes of West Africa, 534 ; Dr. Kerr Cross on Africa, 

 580; Dr. R. A. Freeman on Ashanti, 580; J. Scott Keltie 

 on the Commercial Geography of Africa, 580 ; Proposed 

 Government Scientific and Commercial Expedition to the 

 West Coast of Africa, 647 



Age of Science, Earl of Derby, F.R.S., 556 



Agenda du Chimiste, MM. Salet, Girard, and Pabst, 340 



Agriculture : the Fixation of Free Nitrogeu, Sir J. B. Lawes, 

 F.R.S., and Prof. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 41 ; Bulletin of the 

 Hepartment of Agriculture, Melbourne, 43 ; Tea in Japan, 

 121; Presence of Hessian Fly in Lincolnshire, &c., 327; 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 328; 

 Congress of Agriculture and Forestry at Vienna, 458 



Air-Analysis, with an Appendix on Illuminating Gas, J, 

 Alfred Wanklyn and W. J. Cooper, 591 



Aitken's Apparatus, Observations of Number of Dust Particles 

 in Atmosphere with, 278 



Akerman (Prof), on Regenerating Gas in Siemens's Furnaces, 

 69 



Alaska, Investigation of the Fur-seal and other Fisheries of, 

 171 



Aletsch Glacier, Prince Roland Bonaparte on the, 5 1 



Algae and Allied Forms, T. Spencer Smithson, 171 ; Fresh- 

 water Algae in relation to the Purity of Public Water-supplies, 

 G. W. Rafter, 300 ; Introduction to Fresh-water Algae, M. 

 C. Cooke, LL.D., A. W. Bennett, 385 ; Algae of North 

 Wales, 47 



Algebra, Elementary, Charles Smith, 518 



Algology, a New Journal of, 87 



Alix (E.), L'Esprit de nos Betes, 413 



Allen (Dr. Harrison), a Clinical Study of the Skull, 87 



Alpine Club, German and Austrian, Scientific Committee of, 

 134 



Alpine Exploration : Dr. J. M. Pemter's Winter Expedition ta 

 the Sonnblick, 273 ; Wind Avalanches, F. M. Millard, 296 



Alpine Plants, Exhibition of Association pour la Protection des 

 Plantes, 160 



Alternate Current Transformer, Vol. I., Dr. J. A. Fleming, 

 Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 49 



Aluminium in Carburetted Iron, W. J. Keep, 69 



Aluminium, its History, Occurrence, Properties, Metallurgy, 

 and Applications, including its Alloys, Jos. W. Richards, H. 

 Baker, 537 



Aluminium, Specimens of, 92 



America : the Extermination of the American Bison, W. T. 

 Hornaday, ii, 28 ; on the Origin of the Great Lakes of Ame- 

 rica, Prof. J. W. Spencer, 23 ; American Meteorological 

 Journal, 43, 260, 383, 583, 655 ; 400th Anniversary of the 

 Discovery of America by Columbus, 109 ; American Electri- 

 cians and Electrical Units, 109 ; American Journal of Science, 

 117, 260, 311, 432, 534, 655 ; the English Sparrow in North 

 America, 161 ; American Meteor, Rev. G. Henslow, 271 ; 

 American Spiders and their Spinning Work, Harvey C. 

 McCook, 244 ; American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, Meeting at Indianopolis, 299 ; Dr. Wm. H. Hale, 

 528; American Journal of Mathematics, 311, 583; Gems 

 and Precious Stones of North America, George Frederick 

 Kunz, 315; the Quebec Meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association, 426 ; the International Congress of Americanists 

 in Paris, 426 ; the Standard of Living in. Prof. J. R. Dodge, 

 529 ; the American Iron and Steel Congress, 553 ; the 

 Peopling of America, M. de Quatrefagcs, 618 



Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 48, 216, 312, 584 



Anaesthetics, Comparative Influence on Chlorophyllian Assi- 

 milation and Transpiration, H. Jumelle, 560 



Analytical Mechanics, a Treatise on. Prof. Bartholomew Price, 

 F.R.S., Prof A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 585 



Anatomy : of the Frog, Dr. Alexander Ecker, translated by 

 George Haslam, M.D., 27, 54; Anatomy for Senior Students, 

 Edmund Owen, 98 ; Anatomical Researches on Hybrids, 

 Marcel Brandza, 408 ; Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 

 Henry Gray, F.R.S., 614 



Ancient Eclipses, John Stockwell, 354 



Anderson (John), the Louisville Tornado and the Barometer, 



215 

 Andre (M.), Method for Estimation of Sulphur in Organic 



Bodies, 288 

 Andrew (Dr.), Changes in Relationship between Medicine 



and Physiology, 618 

 Andrews (Thos., F.R.S.), the Passive State of Iron and Steel,. 



213 ; Observ.itions on Pure Ice, 213 



