[Nature, Dec. iS, 1S84 



Antarctic and Arctic Seas, Voyages of Discovery in, R. McCor- 

 mick, 239 



Antedon rosaeeus, the Pentacrinoid Stage of, Prof. \V. A. Herd- 

 man, 634 



Anthropological Banquet to Gabriel de Mortillet, 40 



Anthropological Institute, 47, 162, 187, 235 



Anthropological Picture, an, 41 



Anthropology of Brazil, Early, 395 



Aquarius, Variable Star in, 346 



Ararat, Ascents of, 396 



Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum, Catalogue 

 and Handbook of, John Anderson, 511 



Archibald (E. Douglas), Science and Military Examinations, 

 239 ; Solar (Dust ?) Halo, 559 



Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 330 



Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles (de Geneve), 508 



Arcimis' Observations of Sunset Phenomena in Spain, 324 



Argyll (Duke of), Diffusion of Species, 462 



Arithmetical Chemistry, C. J. Woodward, 4 



Arlberg Tunnel, 615 



Arnesen (Capt. M. E.) of Tromso, Particulars of his Voyages 

 in Spitzbergen Seas, 132 



Arctic and Antarctic Seas, Voyages of Discovery in, R. McCor- 

 mick, 239 



Arctic Seas, Algic Flora of the, Veit Brecher Wittrock, 63S 



Ascent of Water in Plants, 561 



Aseismatic Tables for Mitigating Earthquake Shocks, Chas. A. 

 Stevenson, 193 



Asia (Central), Regel's Explorations in, 275 



Asia Minor, Earthquake in, 83 



Asiatic Turkey, Natural History Collections of, 615 



Association of German Naturalists and Physicians, 625 



Astronomy: Astronomical Column, 21, 41, 64, 83, 131, 154, 

 1S1, 200, 253, 300, 325, 346, 374, 397, 431, 45S, 479, 496, 

 5 '9' 547) 594. 615, 643; Recent Improvements in Astrono- 

 mical Instruments, 1S1 ; a New Astronomical Journal, 173; 

 Astronomical Photography, 496; Pending Problems of Astro- 

 nomy, Prof. C. A. Young, 501 ; Handy Book of Celestial 

 Motion, W. T. Lynn, 606 



Athens, Report of the School of Classical Studies at, 10S 



Atkinson (A. S.), Pons' Co net, 55, 463 ; Pink Glow, 463 



Atlantic Ice and Mild Winters, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 76 



Atlantic Sea-Surface, Temperature of, 545 



Atmospheric Appearances at Berlin, 199 



Atmospheric Dust, R. Brough Smyth, 170; Alexander 

 McAdie, 194 



Atmospheric Glow at Berlin, 546 



Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 161, 379, 403 



Aumoitte (M.), Journey in Tonquin, 276 



Aurora Borealis, the Artificial, 252 



Aurora; in Northern Europe, Dr. S. Tromholt, 592 



Auroral Researches in Iceland, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, So 



Australasia, Early Discoveries in, E. A. Petherick, 109 



Australian Museum, 642 



Australian Orchids, 437 



Austrian Geological Institute, 202 



Ave-Lallemant (Dr. Robert), Obituary Notice of, 615 



Axis of Rotation, Earth's, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, 29 



Axis, Shifting of the Earth's, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 512, 561 ; 

 W. H. M. Christie, F.R.S., 536; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., FJR.S.), New Form of Spring fur Electric 

 and other Measuring instruments, 205 



Bachmetieff (M.), Magnetic Heat, 223 



Bacillus, Comma-Shaped, Alleged to be the Cause of Cholera, 



Timothy Richards Lewis, 513 

 Backhouse (T. W.), the Supposed Volcanic Dust Phenomena, 



54. 359. 633 ; Sky- Glows, 511 

 Bacteria and Minute Algse on the Surface of Paper Money, 



upon the Occurrence of, Jules Schaarschmidt, 360 

 Bacteria, Fungi and, A. de Bary, 433 

 Bacteria on Old Coins, 478 

 Baden-Powell (Lieut.), Balloon Ascent, 20 

 Baginski (Dr. A.), Xanthines, 236 

 Baker (Henry B.), Cholera Germ, 407 

 Baker (J. G., F.R.S.), "Manual of the Mosses of North 



America," Leo Lesquereux and Thos. James, 461 ; Synopsis 



of the British Mosses, C. P. Hobkirk, 582 

 Baker (T. W.), Sextants, 464 

 Baku Naphtha and Specific Weight*, 374 

 Balding (A.), Voracity of the Drosera, 241 

 Balearic Isles, Natural History Collections of, 615 

 Ball Lightning, M. Plante on its Cause and Explanation, 569 

 Ball (Prof. R. S.), Comets, 454 

 Ball (Prof. V., F.R.S.), the Distribution of Scientific Works 



Published by the British Government, 634 

 Balloons : Ascent by Lieut. Baden-Powell, 20 ; Ascent of 



Three from Finsbury Armoury, 494 ; Directing of, 373, 45 7, 



494. 641 

 Baltic, Migrations of Salmo salar (L.) in the, Prof. And. Joh. 



Malmgren, 521 

 Baltimore, Peabody Institute of, 299 

 Barnard's Comet, A. A. Common, 511 

 Barometer of January 26, 1S84, the Low, 5S 

 Barral (J. A.), Obituary Notice of, 517 

 Bary (A. de), Fungi and Bacteria, 433 

 Bashworth (Rev. Fras.), on the Motion of Projectiles, 5 

 Bates (E. F.), Carnivorous Wasps, 408 

 Batteries, Storage, 585 

 Battery with Two Carbon Electrodes, 518 

 Batuta's (Ibn) Travels to Ceylon and the Maldive Islands, 



Translation into English of, 132 

 Bauerman (Hilary), " Text- Book of Descriptive Mineralogy,' 



461 

 Beauvais, Agri ultural Institute of, 367 

 Beddard ( F. E.), a Gigantic Earthworm, 570 

 Beetz, Standard Cell, 568 

 Belgian Erratics, 154 

 Belgiu n, Geological Survey of, 201 

 Bell (Dr. F. Jeffrey), a Rare British Holothurian, 146 ; the 



Cotton-Spinner, 193, 335 

 Bell (J. Lowthian, F.R.S.), Address to Mechanical Engineering 



Institute at Cardiff, 343 

 Bell (Dr. Robert), Geology and Mineralogy of Northern Canada, 



22S 

 Bellio (Prof.), Account of MS. by Castelli, 569 

 1Mb, Water, 408 

 Ben Nevis: Observatory, 179, 613, 640; Plants from, 429; 



Meteorology of, Alexander Buchan, 336 

 Bentham (George, F. R. S.), Death of, 476; Obituary Notice of, 



539 ; Memorial of, at Royal Herbarium, 591 

 Bfergsman (Dr. M.), Difference between Sea and Continental 



Climate with Regard to Vegetation, 392 

 Berlin : Geographical Society, 570 ; Thiiringo-Saxon, 592 ; Me- 

 teorological Society, 652 ; Physical Society, 24, 188, 308, 



356; Physiological Society, 48, 96, 140, 212, 236, 260, 308, 



3^0, 531 

 Bernard (Mrs. K. M.), the Earthquake, 145 

 Bertrand and the Academie Francaise, 613 

 Beryllium Chloride, Preparation of Pure, Nilson and Petterson, 



84 

 Bevan (G. Phillips), London Water-Supply, 165 ; Kansas, 295 

 Bibliography, New Guinea, E. C. Rye, 275 

 Bidwell (Shelford), on a Relation between the Thomson Effect 



and other Physical Properties of Metals, 94 

 Binaries, Southern, 594 

 Binary-Star /3 Delphini, 301 

 Biological Association, Marine, 123, 350 

 Biological Coast Survey, Proposed, Prof. E. R. Lankester, 



F.R.S., 76 

 Biology at St. Andrew's, 107 

 Biology v. Botany, Rev. Geo. Henslow, 537 

 Birds : Meyer's Skeletons of, 7S ; Instinct in, 102 ; W. Brown, 



56 ; Yarrell's History of British, 2S7 ; British Birds at the 



Natural History Museum, 491 ; Birds'-Nest Soup, 271 ; 



Bird's Nests, Henry Seebihm, 276; on the Preservation of 



Birds (Wild) in India, R. H. Elliott, 276 

 Bishop (S. E.), Red Glow, 194; September Stream ofKrakatoa 



Smoke at Strong's Island, 537 

 Bismuth, Electrical Resistance of, 569 

 Black, Why Tropical Man is, N. Alcock, 401 

 Blanford (H. F., F.R.S.), Connection of the Himalayan Snow- 

 fall with Dry Winds and Drought in India, 46 ; Theory of 



the Winter Rains, of Northern India, 304 

 Blavier (E. E.), " Etude des Courants Telluriques," 106 



