IV 



INDEX 



[Nature, Dee. 27, 1883 



Annular Solar Eclipse of October 31, 1883, 208 

 Anthropology, Lectures on, by Dr. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 8, 55 

 Anthropology in America, 273 

 Anthropology, Dr. Meyer's Hints to Officers of German Navy 



visiting Indo-Paciic Waters, 446 

 Anthropological Institute, 94, 144, 179, 311 

 Antihelios, Dr. Henry M^Cormic, 299 

 Antiquities saved by Protective Resemblance, Worthington G. 



Smith, 462 

 Ants and their Ways, Rev. Farren White, Alfred R. Wallace, 293 

 Apparatus, M. Wolf's New, Dr. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 366 

 Applied Mechanics, Elementary, Thos. Alexander and A. W. 



Watson, J. F. Main, 364 

 Aquarium, Cloudiness of, 102 ; W. Saville Kent on, 102 

 Archeology of Southern California, L. P. Gratacap, 249 

 Archer (S.), Garfish, 226 

 Archibald (E. D.), Indian Meteorology, 477 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 93, 142, 262, 431, 



4 * 6 ' 53S 



Archives Italiennes de Biologie, lis 



Arctic Regions, Voyage of the VVillem Barents to, 42 ; the Meteo- 

 rological Station on the Lena, 59 ; Oscar Dickson's Green- 

 land Expedition under Baron Nordenskjold, 37, 116, 182, 280, 

 469, 530, 541 



Arctic and Subarctic Portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Meteoro- 

 logy of the, Alexander Buchan, 398 



Aristotelian Society, 571 



Arma^hevsky (M.), Geology of Chernigoff, 402 



Aron (Dr.), on Electrical Accumulators, 23 



Aronsohn (Herr), Physiology of Smell, 384 



Armstrong (R. Y ), Clouds, 271 



Art, Science and, 50, 73 ; Latimer Clark, 125 



Art (Industrial) in Schools, C. G. Leland, 207 



Asbestos Paint for Coating Jablochkoff Candles, Scott Snell, 



545 



Ash of Animals used as Food, Composition of, Sir J. B. Lawes, 



LL.D., F.R.S., and J. H. Gilbert, LL.D., F.R.S., 335 

 Asia (Central), M. Les^ar's Excursions in, 158 ; Col. Prejevalsky's 



Fourth Journey to, 158,182 

 Asia, Eastern, Recent Travel in, 361 

 Asia Minor, Sparrows in, J 16 

 Astronomical Column, 44, 65, 89, 116, 158, 181, 208, 259, 281, 



3°8, 334. 377. 4°3. 426. 446, 47>> 540..624 

 Astrono nical Experiments at High Elevations in the Andes, 606 

 Astronomische Gesellscbaft, 334, 565 

 Atkinson (A. S.), the Great Comet b 1882, 225 

 Atkinson (T. W.), Helix pomalia, 81 



Atkinson (W. C), Breeding of Hapale iacchus in Captivity, 590 

 Atlantic Ocean, Meteorology of the Arctic and Subarctic Portions 



of the, Alexander Buchan, 39S 

 Atmosphere, the Living Organisms of the, H. de Varigny, 76 

 Atmosphere, the State of the, which produces the Forms of 



Mirage observed by Vince and by Scoresby, Prof. P. G. Tait, 



84 

 Atmospheric Absorption in the Infra-Red of the Solar Spectrum, 



Capt. Abney and Lieut. -Col. Festing, 45 

 Atoms, the Size of, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 203, 250, 



2 74 



Atti dell' Accademia Reale dei Lincei, 70, 408, 608 



Aural Test in Education, 376 



Aurora Borealis : Prof. Selitn Lemstrom, 61, 107, 128; Trom- 

 hoh's Researches on, 133 ; in Sweden, 134 ; Periodicity of, 

 Prof. Lenz, 545 



Aurone : of October 2 and November 17, 1882, Dr. J. A. C. 

 Oudemans, 196 ; Spectrum of the Aurora, Thos. William 

 Backhou-e, 209 ; the True Orbit of the Auroral Meteroid of 

 November 17, 1882, H. T- H. Groneman, 105 ; Thunder- 

 storms and Aurora?, E. is. Chadbourn, 388 ; A. Ramsay, 

 414 ; Alan Macdougal, 436 ; Prof. Edlund's Theory' of Con- 

 nection between, 446 ; Dr. Tromholt's Auroral Observatory 

 at Kautokeino, 397 ; Connection between Auroras and Sun- 

 spots, Prof. Lenz, 545 



Austen (Lieut.-Col. Godwin , F.R.S.), Opening Add-ess in 

 Secti in E (Geography) at the Mee'ing of the British Associa- 

 tion at Soulhport, 552 



Australia, Ernest Giles' Proposed Expl .ration of, 64 ; Report 

 of Australian Museum, 352 ; Wholesale Destruction of 

 Australian Forests, 469 ; Exploring Expedition to North- 

 west, 133 ; Report on Botanic Garden of South, by Dr. 

 Schomburgk, 572 



Austrian Jan Mayen Expedition, Return of, 



Autumn Sanitation, 458 



Ayrton (Mrs. Chaplin), Death of, 306 



175 



Babuchw (Prof.), Adaptability of Electric Fish to their 



Surroundings, 216 

 Bacillus, the Cholera, 614 

 Backhouse (T. W.), Mock Moons, 81 ; Spectrum of the Aurora, 



209; a Complete Solar Rainbow, 515 

 Bacterium, Experiments on Hay-Bacillus, 580 

 Batrachia, the British Museum Catalogue of, 170 

 Baels (Dr.), Physical Characteristics of the Japauese, 402 

 Bahama Bank, "Waterspouts" on the Little— Whirlwind at 



Grand Cayman, Morris H. Smith, 269 

 Baker (J. G.), Ferns of India, Col. R. H. Beddome, 146 

 Balfour Memorial Fund, 114 

 Ball (Prof. Valentine, F.R.S.), appointed Director of Dublin 



Museum of Science and Art, 509 

 Balloons: Channel Ballooning, W. de Fonvielle, 173; Close 



of French Balloon Exhibition, 207 ; Continuous Process for 



filling Balloons with Hydrogen, MM. Tissandier, 445 ; M. 



L'Hoste's Balloon Ascent, 471 ; Simmon's Balloon Ascent, 



510 ; see also Aeronautics 

 Balston (W. E ), Tertiary Coral, 270 ,.,-.« 



" Bangiaceen des Golfes von Neapel," Dr. G. Berthold, Mrs. 



Merrifield, 271 

 Barcelona, Statue to Columbus at, 157 

 Barety (Dr. A.), "Nice and its Climate," 437 

 Barkas(T. P.), a Large Meteor, 150 ; Paleozoic Sclerotic Plates, 



Barometer, Simultaneous Affections of the, Prof. Balfour 

 Stewart, F.R.S., 387 ; A. N. Pearson, 612 ; Oscillations of 

 the, A. Buchan, 191 ; Contributions to the Study of the Trans- 

 mission Eastwards round the Globe of Barometric Abnormal 

 Movements, A. N. Pearson, 354, 377. 5 62 

 Barrande (Joachim), Obituary Notice of, 564 

 Basalt Glass, Prof. ludd, F.R.S., and G. A.J. Cole, 167 

 Batteries, Effect of Temperature on Electromotive Force and 



Resistance of, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 191 

 Battery, New, Lelande and Chaperon, 354 

 Beaver in Norway, The, Prof. R. Collett, 47S 

 Beddome (Col. R. H ), Ferns of India, J. G. Baker, 146 

 Bedford (Henry), a Green Sun, 588 • 



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



Villiers, 5 ; M. Carey Hobson, 81 

 Behring's I -land, Reindeer in, 42 

 " Beiblatter," 142 



Belgium, Institution of Mechanical Engineers in, 356 

 Bell (Alex. Melville), Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, 102 

 Belluno, Earthquake at, 623 _ 



Bengal Government Cinchona Plantaticns, Dr. Kings Report 



Ben *Nevis Meteorological Observatory, 64, 88, 156, 328, 468, 



596 ; Inauguration of, 622 

 Bentham and Hooker's "Genera Plantarum," Em. Cosson, 485 

 Bentley (W. Holman), Geology of the Congo, S. R. Pattison, 



243 

 Benzene, Derivatives of, Mendeleeff, 182 

 Berlin: Geognphical Society, 64, 310; Physical Society, 23, 



72, 120, 240, 2S7 : Physiological Society, 47, 95. ,2 °> I 9 2 . 



216, 264, 312, 3S4, 431 ; Grants of Academy of Sciences 



306 

 Berthold (Dr. G.), "Die Bangiaceen des Golfes von Neapel, 



Mrs. Merrifield, 271 

 Berthelot (M.), Speed of Gaseous Explosions 445 

 Beryllium, Spectrum of, 22 



Bernis-art Iguanodon, the, Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 439 

 Besant (Walter), the Life of Edward Henry Palmer, Prof. W. 



Robertson Smith, 292 

 Bessemer Steel, 69 



" Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis et Mathematica, ' 609 

 Bidie (G.), Intelligence in Animal-, 244 

 Bidvvtll (Shelford), the Microphone, 27 

 Bile of Invertebrates and Vertebrates, on the Colouring Matters 



of the, Dr. C. A. MacMunn, 46 

 Binary Star 7 Cororre Australis, 158 

 Biological Station, Edinburgh, 467 



Biological Laboratory, New, Johns Hopkins University, 425 

 Biology, Deductive, William White, 124 



