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INDEX 



Abbadie (Antoine d'), the Earthquake of April 22, 1884, 101 ; 

 Animal Intelligence, 125 



Abbott (Dr. C. C), the Ancestor of the Dipper (Cinclus), 30 



Abercromby (Hon. R.), on the Origin and Course of the Squall 

 that Capsised II. M.S. Eurydice, 22 



Abrus Poison, the non-Bacillar Nature of, Warden and Waddell, 

 263 



Absorption of Water by Plants, Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 7 



Acheenese, Work on, by Brau de Saint-Pol Lias, 643 



Acta Mathematica (Scandinavian Journal) and its Reputation in 

 France, 153 



Actinolite, Scottish Localities for, Paper Read before Minera- 

 logical Society, 181 



Acupuncture by Chinese Doctors, Use of, 324 



Adams (Prof. J. C), Delegate to International Prime Meridian 

 Conference, 129 



Adelaide University, 276 



Afghan Frontier Commission, Zoology and the, 324. 



Africa : Proposed Circumnavigation of, 275 ; Return of Mr. 

 Joseph Thomson from East, 298 ; Brief Account of Maurizio 

 Buonfanti's Expedition across North, 131 ; African Explora- 

 tion, 172 ; African Volcanoes, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis. 62 ; 

 Tropical African Mountain Flora, Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., 



635 



After-Glow, Major Robert D. Gibney, 634 



Agram, Earthquake at, 300 



Agricultural Institute of Beauvais, 367 



Agriculture in the United States. 77 



Aitken (John, J. P.), Geologist, Death of, 371 



Alabama, Geological Survey of, Ed. Smith, 77 



Alabaster (Henry), Obituary Notice of, 546 ; Scientific Services 



of, in Siam, 546 

 Albania, Ethnography and Statistics of, 644 

 Albatross, Curious Behaviour of a Booby during the Cruise of 



the, 130 

 Albert Medal of the Society of Arts Awarded to Capt. James 



Buchanan Eads, 152 

 Albertite Beds of Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, W. Morrison on, 181 

 Alchemy, Mercury in Chinese, 299 

 Alcock (Nathaniel), Why Tropical Man is Black, 401 

 Alert, H.M.S., Sailing of the, 63; Report on the Zoological 



Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage 



of the, 485 

 Alexandra House, Laying the Foundation-Stone of, 222 

 Algae, upon the Occurrence of Bacteria and, on the Surface of 



Paper Money, Jules Schaarschmidt, 360 ; on Old Coins, 478 ; 

 Algic Flora of the Arctic Seas, Veit Brecher Wittrock, 

 638 



Algebraic Geometry, Conic Sections and, an Elementary 

 Treatise on, G. Hale Puckle, 631 



Algol, Minima of, 253 



Allen (Grant), Flowers and their Pedigrees, 167 



Alps, the Building of the, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 44. 65 



Alternation of Generations, 67 ; Is Salpa an Example of, W. 

 K. Brookes, 367 



America : Fossil Mollusca of North, by C. A. White, Dr. J. 

 G. Jeffreys, F.R.S., 99 ; American Law Decisions on Details 

 of Education, Digest of, 108 ; American Journal of Science, 

 118, 232, 378, 459 ; American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, 152, 566, 596 ; American Jurassic Dinosaurs, 

 201 ; Proposed American Exhibition, 275 ; Native American 

 Literature and Ethnology, Prof. A. H. Keane, 341 ; Ameri- 

 can Initiative in Methods of Deep-Sea Dredging, R. Rath- 

 bun, 399 ; American Vines near Nimes, 429 ; American 

 Ornithologists' Union, 616 



Ammonia, Action of, upon some Lepidopterous Pigments, 

 Geo. Coverdale, 571 



Amour, Exploration of, 615 



Analysis, Chemical, as applied to the Examination of Pharma- 

 ceutical Chemicals, Hoffmann and Power, 5 1 



Analysis, Chemical, for Schools, A. H. Scott White, 51 



Analysis, Qualitative, for Beginners, Stoddard's, 51 



Anatomy, Pathological, Ziegler's Text-Book of, 263 



Anatomy, Work on, by Dr. Dudgeon, from Tung Wen College 

 at Pekin, 458 



Andalusite Schists of Aberdeenshire, Origin of, Paper by John 

 Home, F.R.S.E., read before Mineralogical Society, 181 



"Andes, Across the Pampas and among the," Robert Craw- 

 ford, 36 



Angara, Rapids of the, 132 



Animals, Intelligence in, Duncan Stewart, Dr. John Rae, 

 F.R.S., 6; E. A. Lonergan, 77; Col. T- Herschel, 125; 

 Antoine d' Abbadie, 126; T. W. Kirk, Dr. 11. McCormac, 

 240; T. H. Potts, 265 ; Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 267; 

 R. J. Harvey Gibson, Thomas Harrison, 538; Dr. Hyde 

 Clarke, 561 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 160, 556, 579 



Annam, Fish in Hue River, Tirant, 21 



Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, 222 



Antananarivo Magazine, the, 275 



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