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INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. 27, 1883 



580 ; A. G. Bourne on the Differences between the Males 

 and Females of the Pearly Nautilus, 580 ; Prof. Haddon 

 on Budding in Polyzoa, 580 ; Prof. Lankester on a Young 

 Specimen of the Gray Seal (H. gryphus) from Boscastle, 

 Cornwall, 580 ; Duncan Matthews on Wool Plugs and 

 Fertilised Fluid, 580 ; Dr. Carpenter on the Germ Theory 

 of Disease from a Natural History Point of View, 580 ; 

 Marshall Ward on some Cell Contents in Coffee and other 

 Plants, 580 ; Alex. S. Wilson on the Closed Condition of 

 the Seed Vessel in Angiosperms, 5S0 ; Thomas Hick on 

 Protoplasmic Continuity in the Floridece, 581 ; E. J. Lowe, 

 F.R.S., on some Newly Discovered Localities of the Rare 

 Slug, Testacella hallotoidca, 581 

 Department of Anatomy and Physiology. — F. O. Bower on 

 the Relation of Protoplasm and Cell- Wall in the Vegetable 

 Cell, 581 ; Dr. C. A. MacMunn on the Occurrence of 

 Chlorophyll in Animals, 581 ; Prof. W. Hillhouse on the 

 Intercellular Connection of Protoplasts, 582 ; Walter 

 Gardiner on the Continuity of Protoplasm through the 

 Walls of Vegetable Cells, 5S2 ; R. J. Anderson on the 

 Muscular Movements that are associated with certain Com- 

 plex Motions, 582 

 Section E (Geography). — Opening Address by the President, 



Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., 552 

 Section G (Mechanical Science). — Opening Address by the 

 President, James Brunlees, F.R.S.E. ; Hyde Clarke on a 

 Comparison of Morecambe Bay, Barrow-in-Furness, North 

 Lancashire, West Cumberland, &c, in 1836 and 1883, 582 ; 

 Prof. Osborne Reynolds on the Term " Stability" as used 

 in the Literature of Naval Architecture, 582 ; J. B. Fell 

 on the Construction and Working of Alpine Railways, 

 5S3 ; J. B. Fell on the Euphrates Valley Railway as an 

 Alternative Route to India, 583 ; J. H. Greathead on In 

 jector Hydrants, 583 ; Prof. Fleeming Jenkins on Nest- 

 Gearing, 583 ; A. Reckenzaun on Electric Launches, 583 ; 

 Killingworth Hedges on the Fire Risks of Electric Lighting, 



British Fishes, Francis Day, oil 



British Isles, the Facial Characteristics of the Races of, B.A. 



Report on, 549 

 British Museum Catalogue of Batrachia, 170 

 Britten (James), Flora of Hampshire, Frederick Townsend, 



122 



Bronze and Copper Wires for Electric Lines, Comparative Re- 

 sistance of, E. Vander Ven, 626 

 Brooklyn Bridge, Mrs. Washington Roebling and, 156 

 Brough Science Lectureship, 329 

 Brown (E.), Solar Halo, 563 

 Brown (J.), Leaves and their Environment, 55 

 Brown (J. Croumbie) : " Forests of England and the Manage- 

 ment of them in Bygone Times," 268; French Forest 

 Ordinance of 1669, 268 

 Browne (W. R.), Copper and Cholera, 414 ; on the Causes of 



Glacier Motion, 47, 235 ; Student's Mechanics, 317, 344 

 Brunlees (James), Opening Address in Section G (Mechanical 

 Science) at the Meeting of the British Association at South- 

 port, 558 

 Bryce-Wright, "Zoology at the Fi-heries Exhibition," 344, 589 

 Buch (Max), " Finland and its Nationality Question," 183 

 Buchan (Alex.) : the Meteorology of the Arctic and Subarctic 

 Portions of the Atlantic Ocean, 39S ; Oscillations of the Baro- 

 meter, 191 

 Buchanan (J. S.), on the Properties of Water and Ice, 417 

 Bullay-Grenay, Discovery of Fossil Bodies at, 180 

 Bulletin de l'Academie Riyale des Sciences, des Lettre-", et des 



Beaux- Arts, 119 

 Bulletin of the Belgian Academie Royale des Sciences, 214, 383, 



534 

 Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 261, 286, 310, 



607 

 Bulletin de la Societe" d'Encouragement pour l'lndustrie Na- 



tionale, 262 

 Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 455 

 Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society, 359 

 Buys-Ballot Island, 623 



Cable, Proposed, for Tonquin, 135 



Cable Routes, Survey of, between Spain and Portugal and the 

 West Coast of Africa, 531 



Cahague (Rev. P. T.), Historic Survey of Harar District, 359 



Calendars, Old, of the Icelanders, Herr Geelmuyden, 303 



Cambridge, Science at, Prof. M. Foster, F.R.S., 374 



Camera Back, Multiple, 479 



Cameron (Donald), Meteors, 5S9 



Canada, Royal Society of, 2S3 



Cape Bees and "Animal Intelligence," Hon. Sir J. H. de 



Villiers, 5 ; M. Carey-Hobson, 81 

 Capron (J. R.), the New (Pons) Comet, 539 

 Carbon in Steel, 22 

 Carbonic Acid and Bisulphide of Carbon, Resemblance between, 



JohnTyndall, F.R.S., 22 

 Carhart (Prof.), Magnetophone, 626 

 Cardwell (Sergeant E.), Solar Halo, 30 

 Carey-Hobson (M.), Cape Bees, 81 

 Carotid, Animals cannot be bled by Cutting One, Dr. Kireef, 



384 



Carpenter (Dr.), Germ Theory of Disease fron a Natural 



History Point of View, 580 

 Carpenter (Lant), "Lantern Readings," 180 

 Carpenter (P. H.), a New Crinoid from the Southern Seas, 



166 

 Carson Footprints, Prof. LeConte, IOI 

 Cartography of Corea, 547 

 Casamicciola, Earthquake at, 470, 532 

 Casella (Charles F.), Fireball, 367 

 Caspian Sea, Voyage of G. S. Karelin on, 611 

 Cat, Animal Technology as Applied t) the, Dr. Burt G. Wilder 



and S. H. Gage, 77 

 Cat and a Chicken, Henry Cecil, 320 

 Catalogue, a Scientific, 609 

 Catanzara, Earthquake at, 329 

 Caucasus, Naphtha Springs in, M. Potylitzin, 545 

 Cave, B.A. Report on the Shandon, 550 



Cayley (Arthur, F.R.S.) : Notice of, by Prof. George Salmon, 

 F.R.S., 481, 541 ; Inaugural Address at the Meeting of the 

 British Association at Southport, 491 

 Cecil (Henry), Helix pomatia, 31 ; a Cat and a Chicken, 320 ; 



Birds and Cholera, 342 ; the Green Sun, 612 

 Cell Contents in Coffee and other Plant--, Marshall Ward, 580 

 Centres of a Triangle, 104 

 Cephalonia, Geology of, J. P. Licherdopol, 173 ; Dr. J. Gwyn 



Jeffreys, 199 

 Cephalotus Jolliadaris, on the Morphology of the Pitcher of, 



Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 140, 150 

 Cerebri, Hypophysis, in Tunicata and Vertebrata, Prof. W. A. 



Herdman, 284 

 Cerebrum, Functional Restoration of, Prof. H. Munk, 431 

 Ceylon : a Visit to, Prof. Haeckel, Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S. , 410; Green Sun in, 597; Botanical Gardens of, 234 

 Chadbourn(E. R.), Thunderstorms and Aurora;, 388 

 Chambers (Dr. William), Death of, 88 

 Chambers (V. T.), Death of, 445 

 Channel Ballooning, W. de Fonvielle, 1 73 

 Chemical Characters of the Venom of Serpents, Sir J. Fayier, 



F.R.S , 199 

 Chemical Constitution of Matter, Prof. A. W. Williamson, 



F.R.S., on, 551 

 Chemical Elements in the Sun, Sunspots and the, Profs. Dewar 



and Liveing, 550 

 Chemical Notes, iS, 1S1 

 Chemical Reactions, Influence of Great Pressure on, M. Spring, 



181 ; the Computing of the Speed of, 551 

 Chemical Society, 22, 71, 119, 191, 238 

 Chemistry, an Easy Introduction to, 243 

 Chemistry in England, Backward State of, 613 

 Chemistry, Practical, with Notes and Questions on Theoretical 



Chemistry, William Ripper, 148 

 Chernigoff, Geology of, Armaschevsky, 402 

 Chersonese, the Golden, Isabella L. Bird, 361 

 Chester Society of Natural Science, 571 

 Chicken, a Cat and a, Henry Cecil, 320 

 Chili, Survivors of Crevaux Expedition to, 183 

 China : the Kidnapping of Girls in, 16 ; Scientific Progress, 

 in, by Sinensis, 34 ; Invention of Gunpowder in, 89 ; the 

 Telegraph between Canton and Hong Kong, 89 ; Exploration 

 of, 90; Chinese Medical Compendium, Dr. Kerr, 179; Fossils 

 in, 1S0; Crackers and Chinese Superstitious Observances, 

 180 ; Foot-Measure in, 207 ; Cholera in, 234 ; Earthquakes 

 in, 307 ; the Electric Telegraph in, 330 ; Promise and Per- 



