[Nature, yune II, I i 



Arctic Exploration, Lieut. Greely upon Future, 350 



Argentine Expedition to the Chaco, 229, 300 



Argentine Institute of Geography, 159 



Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.), How Thought Presents Itself among 

 the Phenomena of Nature, 433 



Armstrong (H. E., F. R.S.), Natural Science in Schools, 19 



Aronsohn (Herr), Discovery of a Thermal Centre in the Cere- 

 brum, 48 



Artificial Teeth, the Use of, by the Ancients, 578 



Asia, Central, Beliaffsky's Explorations in, 25 1 



Asiatic Society of Japan, 587 



Association of Assistant Mistresses, 279 



Astronomy: Astronomical Column, 18, 65, 91, 137, 15S, 1S1, 

 228, 251, 280, 322, 370, 396, 419, 442, 468, 515, 539, 588, 



612 ; Telescopes for Astronomical Photography, A. Ainslie 

 Common, 38, 270 ; Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 

 265, 301, 323, 351, 370, 396, 420, 443, 468, 493, 515, 540, 

 565, 589,612; Views of Hindu Astronomers on Form and 

 Attraction of Earth, 298 ; the Warner Astronomical Prizes, 

 321 ; Liverpool Astronomical Society, 321 ; Early Astro- 

 nomical Expeditions to the Cape, 370 ; Proposal to Extend 

 the Decimal System to Astronomical Distances and Time, 441 



Athens, Proposed British School of Archaeology at, 320 



Atlantic, the Meteorology of the, 501 



Atmospheric Absorption, S. P. Langley, 46 



Atmospheric Influences, Effect of, in Varying the Distance at 

 which Lights are Visible, 490 



Atomic Weights, Variations of the, E. Vogel, 42 



Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 258 



Attraction, Exercises in Calculating, Prof. Lanipe, 211 



Attraction (Solids of), Note on Calculations respecting, Prof. 

 Lampe, 260 



Auroras, E. Brown, 45S 



Aurora Borealis, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 128 



Aurora at Christiania, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 479 



Aurora, the Recent, Willoughby Smith, 506 



Author's Gratitude, an, Dr. Richard Wormell, 409 



Autumn Flowering, J. J. Murphy, 54 



Autumnal Foliage, the Fall of, A. T. Fraser, 388 ; Rev. Geo. 

 Henslow, 434 ; Rev. A. Irving, 482 



Autumnal Tints of Foliage, H. C. Sorby, 105 



Austen, Godwin- (Robert A. C, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 

 104 



Australia: Proposed Australasian Association, Prof. Liversidge, 

 40; Prof. Sars' Experiments with Australian Lake-Mud, 64; 

 Marriage Customs among Australian Aborigines, Sir John 

 Lubbock, 186 ; Notes on the Aborigines of, 205 ; Proposed 

 Canoe Voyage on Australian Rivers, 205 ; Wragge's New 

 Meteorological Observatory, 227 ; the Geographical Society 

 of Australasia, 443; Lendenfeld's Survey of the Australian 

 Alps, 469; Australian Fossil Chilostomatous bryozoa, 475; 

 Baron von Miiller on Australian Plants, 587 ; New Meteoro- 

 logical Station in South, 64; Earthquake in Western, 396 



Austria: Earthquake in, 17; Return of African Expedition, 



613 ; Services rendered by the Austrian Navy to Geographical 

 Science, Herr von Haartlt, IS 



Austro-Hunganan Geography, Umlauft's, 1S3 

 Ave-Lallemant (Dr. R.), Obituary Notice of, 229 

 Aymonier's Explorations in Indo China, 183 



Bacillus, the Cholera, 97 



Backhaus (Capt. E.). Earthquake experienced at Sea, 348 



Backhouse (las.), Iios primivcniit*, 4S2 



Backhouse (T. W.), Sky-Glows, 28 ; Iridescent Clouds, 192, 360 



Bacteriology, 49 



Bagnall (J. E.), Elected Associate of Linnean Society, 321 



Bailey (G. H.), Science Teaching in Schools, 338 



Bailey (W. H.). on the Reign of Law in relation to Engineering 

 Work, 250 



Baily's (Waller) Instrument for showing Equilibrium of Three 

 Forces acting at a Point, 329 



Balbi (Prof. Eugenio), Death of, 17, 159 



Balfour (Dr. Bayley), Chair of Botany at the University of 

 Glasgow resigned by, 441 



Balloons : Third Trip of the Meudon Balloon, 41 ; " L'Aerostat 

 Dirigible de Meudon," W. de Fonvielle, 109 ; Honours con- 

 ferred on the Officers of the Meudon Steering Balloon, 157 ; 

 Balloons in the Soudan Campaign, 368 ; Ballooning in 

 America, 394 ; Ballooning and Electricity, 467 ; Photography 

 from Captive Balloon in Paris, 564 



Baltic, the Level of the, 156 



Baltimore Lectures, Sir William Thomson's, F.R.S., 407 



Bangor, University College, Laboratories at, 320, 391 



Barnard's Comet, 18, 158, 280, 540 



Barrenness of the Pampas, Edwin Clark, 263, 339 ; Arthur 



Nicols, 289 

 Bartoli Cell, the, 203 

 Barry (A. de), " Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetable 



Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns," 213 

 Basalt-Fields of New Mexico, Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 88; C. E. 



Dutton, 88 

 Batson (Alf. ), Earthquake in Spain, 200 

 Batteries, New Primary, 203 

 Battery, Jablochkoff's New, 203 

 Becker's (Capt.) African Expedition, 19 

 Bee, Reproductive Organs in the, Cheshire, 209 

 Bee, the Honey-, W. H. Harris, 1 

 Bees and Flowers, G. W. Bulman, 409 

 Bees as Storm-Warners, 587 

 Bee-Keeping in India, 1 

 Beetles, Lieut. Casey on "Stenini," 250 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, Annual Report of the, 418 

 Belgian Telephonic Service, 90 

 " Belgique Horticole," 328, 423 

 Beliaffsky's Explorations in Central Asia, 251 

 Bell ( Alex. Graham), Hereditary Deafness, Francis Galton, 



F.R.S., 269 

 Bell (Prof. F. Jeffrey), Forbes Memorial, 103 

 Bemrose (H. Arnold), Tracing-Paper Scieen, 409 

 Ben Nevis, Ascent of, by Rev. John M'Kintosh and Colin 



Livingstone, 490 

 Ben Nevis, on the Formation of Snow Crystals from Fog on, 



R. T. Omond, 532 

 Berii M'Zab, the, Dr. Amat, 256 

 Bentham (George), Will of, 249 



Bentley (Robert), Student's Guide to Systematic Botany, 51 

 Bergh (Dr.), .on the Nudibranchs and Onchidia of the Challenger 



Expedition, 165 

 Berkeley Research Fellowship, 155 

 Berlin: Academy of Sciences, Prize for Leibnitz Anniversary, 



277; Geographical Society of, 516, 590; Meteorological 



Society of, 120, 284, 331 ; Physical Society of, 96, 211, 260, 



308, 356, 475 ; Physiological Society of, 48, 187, 212, 259, 



3S0, 404, 452, 547, 619 

 Bernburg, Opening of Prehistoric Tombs near, 64 

 Berry (Geo. A.), Civilisation and Eyesight, 386 

 Berzelius and Wohler, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R.S., 196 

 Bhamo, the Destruction of, 205 

 I'.iuary Star a. Centauri, 158 

 Biological Association, Marine, 63, S9 

 Biology, Marine, in America, 395 



Biram's Anemometers, an Account of some Preliminary Ex- 

 periments with, attached to Kite- Strings or Wires, Prof. E. 



Douglas Archibald, 66 

 Bird Architecture, Chas. Dixon, 533 

 Birdkilling Plants : the Pisonias, R. H. Govett, 23 

 Bird. New, in Natal, Rev. James Turnbull, 554 

 Bird's Nest, Edible, Jos. R. Green, 126 

 Bird's-Nest Soup, E. S. Layard, S2 ; Mr. Pryer on, 562 

 Birds Breeding in Ants' Nests, Wm. Davison. 43S 

 Bishop (S. E.), Krakatoa, 28S 



Bixby's (H. L.), New System of Weather Warnings, 441 

 Black River Tribes in Tonquin, 300 

 Blackness of Tropical Man, A. T. Fraser, 6 

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



192 

 Blood-Pressure in Capillary Vessels, Prof. Du Bois-Reymond's 



Method of Determining, 212 

 Blood- Vessels of the Test in the Tunicala, Evolution of the, W. 



A. Herdman, 247 

 Blue Rays, a Method of Isolating, for Optical Work, H. G. 



Madan, 263 

 Blumentritt (F.), Account of the Negrito Tribes in Luzon, 18 

 Bodinus (Dr. Heinricli), Death of, 156 

 Boeddicker (Otto), a Large Meteor, 194 ; on the Aspect of Mars 



in 1884, 210 

 Boernstein (Dr.), the Generation of Whirling Air-Currents, 



284 

 Bois-Reymond (Prof. Du\ Method of Determining Blood- 

 Pressure in Capillary Vessels, 212 



