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INDEX 



Abel (Sir Frederick, F. R.S.), Accidental Explosions Produced 

 by Non-Explosive Liquids, 469, 493, 518 



Abney (Capt., F.R.S ), on Radiation, 523 



Abnormal Season in the Niger Delta, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 578 



Aboriginal Tribes of Western China, 252 



Aborigines of Australia, the, 205 



Actiniae, the, 198 



Action of very Minute Particles on Light, J. Spear Parker, 481 



Adenine, Dr. Kossel on, 380 



Aerostat (L*), Dirigible de Meudon, W. de Fonvielle (see also 

 Balloons), 109 



Afghan Boundary Commission, 158 



Afghan, North, Border Tribes, Prof. A. H. Keane, 220 



Afghanistan, Geology of, 281 



Africa: African Natural History Museum at Brussels, 17; 

 Capt. Becker's African Expedition, 19 ; Lieut. Delizie's Ex- 

 pedition, 66 ; Boundaries of French North- West Africa, 

 Faidherbe, 90 ; the People of Eastern Equatorial, H. H. 

 Johnston, 379 ; Proposed German Expeditions to Central, 

 516 ; Return of the Austrian African Expedition, 613 ; on the 

 Foundation of European Colonies in, L. Paladini, 613 ; the 

 Stone Bridge over the River Temcha, Count Augusto 

 Salimbeni, 613 ; Recent Acquisitions of Spain in West 

 Africa, 614 



After-Glow, Solar Corona and, Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 192 



Agassiz (Alexander), Resignation of his Fellowship of Harvard 

 College, 393 



Agrarian Meteorology, Prof. G. Cantoni, 618 



Agriculture : Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 137 ; 

 Agricultural Education, 137 ; on the Higher Teaching of 

 Agriculture, Rev. J. B. McClellan, 167 ; Lectures on Agri- 

 cultural Science, 407 



Air-Breathers, Ancient, Ben. N. Peach, 295 



Air-Currents, the Generation of Whirling. Dr. Boernstein, 284 



Aitken (John), Pupil of the Eyes during Emotion, 553 



Alabama, Meteorology in, 180 



Alaska, Exploration of, 443 



Alhama, Earthquake at, 322 



Albrecht (Prof.), the Swimming-bladder in Fish, 380 



Aldebaran : Occultations of, 181, 322 ; on March 21, 442 ; May 

 15, 612 ; Ancient Occultations of, 539 



Algiers, Earthquake at, 322, 396 



Allen (Rev. F. A.), Polynesian Antiquities, 18 



Algol, Minima of, 91 



Amat (Dr.), the Beni M'Zab, 256 



America : Academy of Natural Sciences : Meeting at Newport, 



16 ; on the Denudation of the Two Americas, T. M. Reade, 



17 ; American Journal of Science, 41, 46, 94, 256, 422, 521 ; 

 Meteorology in America, 91, 394 ; American Summer Zoo- 

 logical Stations, Ralph S. Tarr, 174 ; American Storm 

 Warnings, 197 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 189 ; 

 American Entomology, Lieut. Casey on " Stenini," 250 ; 



American Geology, 256 ; American Journal of Archaeology, 

 279 ; Marine Biology in America, 395 ; New American 

 Clock, 438 ; Proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 455 ; " American Naturalists," 448 ; 

 Education in America, 467 ; Lobster Fishery in, 467 ; 

 Report of American Museum of Natural History, 563 



America, South, Thouar's New Expedition to, 66, 323 



Amezaga's (Commodore de) Collection, 64 



Amsterdam Geographical Society, 159 



Amu-Darya, the Basin of the, 59° 



Anciennes Mers, les Organismes problematiques des, Marquis de 

 Saporta, 386 



Ancient Air-Breathers, Ben. N. Peach, 295 



Ancient Chinese Geography, 58 



Ancients, the Use of Artificial Teeth by the, 578 



Andalusia, the Earthquakes in, 277 ; M. Nogues on, 417 



Anderson (J. G. S. ), Earthquake, 316 



Anemometer Readings, Kite-Wire Suspended, E. Douglas Archi- 

 bald, 600 



Angelus on the " Messenger of Mathematics," 172 



Animals, Arctic, Colours of, R. Meldola, 505 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 569 



Annam and Tonquin, Mineral Wealth of, 181 



Annisquam Marine Laboratory, 395 



Ants' Nests, Birds Breeding in, Wm. Davison, 438 



Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, Prof. M. 

 Foster, 479 



Antedon rosaceus, Pentacrinoid Stage of, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, 

 F.R.S., 27 



Anthropological Institute, 95, 1S6, 306, 330, 379, 427, 474, 498, 



595 

 Anthropological Notices, Leyden, 396 

 Anthropometric Measurements, Cost of, Francis Galton, F. R.S., 



150 

 Anthropometric Per-Centiles, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 223 

 Anti-Cyclones and Cyclones, H. Hildebrandsson, 75 

 Antiquities, Malayan, Prof. A. H. Keane, 47S 

 Antwerp International Exhibition, 107 



Apospory in Ferns, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S. , 151, 216 

 Application of Science, New, 154 

 Arago, Centenary of the Birth of, Proposal to Celebrate the, 



441 

 Archeology of Tunis, the, 203 



Archaeology, Proposed British School of, at Athens, 320 

 Archer (Thos. C), Death of, 394 

 Archibald (Prof. E. Douglas), an Account of some Preliminary 



Experiments with Biram's Anemometers Attached to Kite 



Strings and Wires, 66 ; an Error in Ganot's Physics, 361, 



505 ; Kite-Wire Suspended Anemometer Readings, 6oo r 

 Architecture, Bird, Chas. Dixon, 533 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 41 

 Arctic Animals, Colours of, R. Meldola, 505 ; Alfred R. 



Wallace, 552 



