Nature, D.c. 27. I^j) 



INDEX 



Abbadie (Antoine D'), Sheet Lightning, 29 



Abel (Sir F. A., F.R.S.). Electricity applied to Explosive Pur- 

 poses, 66 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph) : " Festooned " or " Pocky " 

 Clouds (Mammato-Cumulus), 79 ; and W. Marriott, Weather 

 Prognostics and Weather Types, 330 



Aberration, Constant of, 259 



Abney(Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.) and Lieut.-Col. Festing on 

 Atmospheric Absorption in the Infra-Red of the Solar Spec- 

 trum, 45 ; the Standard of White Light, 605 



Accra, Earthquakes at, 572 



Accumulators : Electrical, Dr. Aron on, 23 ; French Storage 

 Company's, applied to Tramcars, 207 



Acids, Relative Affinities of, Ostwald, 181 



Acoustics, on the Function of the Souud-Post, and on the Pro- 

 portional Thickness of the Strings of the Violin, Dr. William 

 Hugging F.R.S., 259 



Adams (Prof. J. Couch, F.R.S. ), Meteorological Council and 

 Falmouth Observatory, 318 



Adriatic, the Fisheries of the, G. L. Faber, 609 



Aerolite, Lachine, E. W. Claypole, 319 



Aeronautics : Pompeieu's Elongated Balloon, 16 ; Paris Exhibi- 

 tion of, 88 ; Ascent at Nogent-sur-Marne, 426 (see also 

 Balloons) 



Africa : Dr. Pogge's Journey across, 64 ; German Society 

 Mittheilungen, 309 ; Herr Stegel's Exploration of, 309 ; Last, 

 Thomson and Fischer's Vi>its to the Masai Country, 447 



Agram, Earthquake in, 327, 426, 545 



Agriculture: Institute of, 43; Agricultural Student's Gazette, 

 65 ; in India, J. F. Duthie, 195 ; Prof. J. Wrightson, 195 ; in 

 Japan, B. Koto, 231 ; Dr. Liebscher on B. Koto's Article, 445 ; 

 Tropical, Prof. W. Fream, 459; "Agricultural Chemical 

 Analysis," P. F. Franklanrl, 5S7 ; Agriculture, its Needs and 

 Opportunities, Prof. Wrightson, 618 



Ainos, the, 90 



Air, on the Dark Plane which is farmed over a Heated Wire in 

 Dusty, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 139 



Airy (Dr. Hubert), the Soaring of Bird', 103 



Alaska : Exploration of, 209 ; South-Eastern, A. Krause, 359 



Albany (Duke of), Speech at the Opening of the New Parkes' 

 Museum of Hygiene, 115 



Alcyonaria, Polymorphism of, Prof. Marshall, 580 



Aldabra Island Tortohes, W. Littleton, 398 



Alexander (Stephen), Death of, 2S0 



Alexander (Thos.) and A. W. Thomson, " Elementary Applied 

 Mechanics," J. F. Main, 364 



Alga: : Fossil, Dr. A. G. Nathorst, 52 ; J. S. Gardner, 53 ; Dr. 

 Berthold on, Mrs. Merrifield, 271 



Algeria, Earthquake in, 572 



Alkalimetry, Methods of, 18 



Allen (Grant), "Colin Clout's Calendar ; 1 the Record of a 

 Summer, April to October," Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 



194 



Alpine Railways, J. B. Fell on, 5S3 



A-Madi Country, Dr. Junker's Exploration of the, 404 



Amber Flora, J. Starkie Gardner, 152 



America : the Trotting-Horse of, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 29 ; 

 American Journal of Science, 79, 141, 213, 286, 430 : 

 American Naturalist, 118, 534; American Ethnology, Prof. 

 A. H. Keane, 174; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 206 ; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 206, 305, 444, 469, 510; American Obseivations of the 

 Eclipse, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 230: Anthropology in 

 America, 273 ; American Copyright and Scientific Journals, 

 280 ; American Journal of Science, 534 ! American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, 622 (see also United States) 



America (South), Earthquake in, 134 



Americanists, International Congress of, 156 



Amezaga, C. de, Gr.lapagos Islands, 427 



Ammonias, Substituted, the Molecular Weights of, Prof. Dewar 

 and A. Scott, 551 



Amsterdam International Medical Congress, 469 



Analysis, Qualitative, Concise and Explanatory, H. G. H. 

 Fenton, 148 



Anatomical Nomenclature, Dr. Burt G. Wilder on, 77 



Anatolia, Earthquake in, 597 



Anderson (Dr. R. J.), Muscular Movements and Complex 

 Motions, 582 



Andes, Astronomical Experiments at High Elevations in the, 

 606 



Andreeff, White Sea Hydrographical Researches, 183 



Andromache, the Minor Planet, 116 



Anemometer, New Form of, 605 



Angara River Expedition, Return of, 623 



Angiosperms, on the Closed Condition of the Seed Vessel in, 

 Alex. S. Wilson, 580 



Animal Electricity, Prof du Bois Reymond on, 95 



Animals, Intelligence in, W. R. Hughes, 31 ; Duncan Stewart, 

 31 ; P. Dudgeon, 174 ; G. Bidie, 244 ; F. R. Mallet, 342 ; 

 Joseph Stevens, 343 ; M. J. Roberts, 436, 461 ; F. Welch, 

 389 ; Alfred O. Walker, 389 ; Dr. H. McCormac, 541 ; and 

 Cape Bees, Hon. Sir J. H. de Villiers, 5 ; Can a Viper com- 

 mit Suicide? R. Langdon, 319 



Animal Technology as applied to the Domestic Cat, Dr. Burt 

 G. Wilder and S. H. Gage, 77 



Animal World, the Links of the, Albert Gaudry, Henry de 

 Varigny, 193 



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

 Bart., F.R.S., and J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 335 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 70, 141, 181, 237, 383, 534 



