Nature, Dec. iS, lSS4l 



International Weights and Measures, 612 



Inventions, International Exhibition of, 373 



Iridescent Lunar Halos, T. H. Potts, 464 



Iron and Steel Institute, 42 ; Meeting at Chester, 476, 517 



Irving (Rev. A.), Cole's Pit, 560 



Ischia, Earthquake at, 324, 6 14 



Italian Geographical Congress, the, 323 



Italy, Earthquakes in, 64 



Jackson (John R.), Forestry, 194 



Jacob (Ernest), " The Ores of Leadville," 437 



Jacobsen (Capt. Adrian), Collecting Ethnographical Objects in 

 Asia, S47 



Jacobsthal (Prof.), on the Evolution of Ornament, 248, 272 



Jagnaux (Raoul), " Traite Pratique d'Analyses Chimiques et 

 d'Essais Induslriels," 311 



James (Thos. ) and Leo Lesquereux, Manual of the Mosses of 

 North America, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 461 



Jamieson and Munro's Pocket-Book of Electrical Rules and 

 Tables, A. Gray, 262, 290 



Jamin (M.), Elected Perpetual Secretary in the Section of 

 Physical Sciences in Paris Academy, 179 



Japan : Educational Statistics of, 276, 490 , Department in 

 Health Exhibition, 567, 592, 641 ; Meteorological System of 

 Japan, 299, 478, 642 ; Medical Progress in, 345 ; Introduc- 

 tion of Vaccination into, &c, 345 ; Earthquake in, F. War- 

 rington Eastlake, 435 ; Japanese Divination, 495 ; Japanese 

 Nomenclature of Plants, 495 ; Pharmaceutical Factory, 519; 

 Leon de Rosny on the Japanese, 570 



Jardin des Plantes, the Young Gorilla of the, 12S 



Jeffreys (Dr. J. Gwyn, F.R.S.): White's Fossil Mollusca of 

 North America, 99 ; Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Liasischen 

 Brachiopodenfauna von Sudtyrol und Venetien, Haas Hyp- 

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Jelly-fish, Phosphorescence of the, R. Meldola, 289 



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3" 



Johns Hopkins University, 640 



Johnston-Lavis (Dr. H. J.), Volcanoes on the Shore of Lake 

 Nyassa, 62 ; Earthquakes, 608 



Joly (Prof. J.) : Note on Microscopical Examination of the Vul- 

 canic Ash from Krakatoa, 23 ; Measuring Heat, 361 



Jouffroy Statue, 394 ; Jouffroy Claimed to be the Inventor of 

 Steam Navigation, 394 



Joule's (Dr.) Scientific Papers, 27 



Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 330 



Journal of Botany, 209 



Journal of the Chemical and Physical Society, 378 



Journal of the Franklin Institute, 160, 508, 579, 627 



Journal of Physiology, 330 



Journal de Physique, 209 



Journal de Physique theorique et appliquee, 556, 580 



Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 94, 118, 

 209, 555 



Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 20 



Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 125 



Jupiter's First Satellite, Dark Transit of, W. F. Denning, 77 



Jurassic Dinosaurs, American, 201 



Kadiak Island, Advices from, 275 



Kamchatka, Peninsula of, its Geography and History, 569 



Kannonikow's Experiments in Measuring the Refraction- 

 Equivalents of Metals, 84 



Kansas, G. Phillips Bevan, 295 



Kara Sea, 345 ; Trade between Europe and Siberia through 

 the, 132 



Kasai, Exploration of, 546 



Keane (A. H.), Native American Literature and Ethnology, 

 341 



Kendal Museum, 154 



Kephir, 216 



Kepler's Nova of 1604, 431 



Kerosene Emulsion, New Remedy against Phylloxera, 429 



Kerry Nicholls (J.), "King Country; or, Exploration, in New 

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Kew Gardens, 316 ; Opening on Sundays, 180 



Kew, Royal Herbarium, 591 



Kief, University of, 567 



Kigoro Otano, Interpreter of the Corean Language into Chinese, 



Kilimanjaro, Mount, Letter of H. H. Johnstone from, 457 



Kinahan (Gerrard A.), Notes on the Canadian North-West, 340 



Kinahan (J. Henry), Earthquake, 125 



"King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand," J. Kerry 

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Kirk (T. W.), Animal Intelligence, 240 



Kishm, Earthquake at, 130 



Koch (Dr.), Award to, 63 



Kohlrausch's Meter-Bridge, Dr. W. H. Stone, 145 



Kola Peninsula, Proposed Explorations of, 324 



Konig (Dr.), Complementary Colours, 308 



Krakatoa Eruption, the, 279 ; R. D. M. Verbeek, 10, 

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 Microscopical Examination of the Volcmic Ash from, J. Joly, 

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 372 ; Krakatoa Smoke at Strong's Island, September Stream 

 of, S. E. Bishop, 537 



Krasheninnikoff, Exploring Expeditions in the Last Century of, 

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Kyanite and Staurolite Localities in the North, Paper Read 

 before Mineralogical Society, 181 



La Belgique Horticole, 233 



La Nuova Scienza, 252 



Laboratory at Paris, Municipal, 199 



Lake Tanganyika, Rhyolitic Rock from, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., 193 

 Lakes, Extinct, of the Great Basin, 197 



Lankester (Prof. E. R., F.R.S.), the Marine Biological Associa- 

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 Lapps, 52; Skeletons of, 518 

 Larden (W. ), Sky-Glows, 489 

 Larva, Worm-Eating, W. E. Darwin, 146 

 Lattakia, Syria, Remarkable Raised Sea-Bed near, Prof. E. Hull, 



F.R.S., Rev. Dr. G. E. Post, 3S4 

 Lawes (Sir J. B ), Experimental Farm at Rothamstead, 642 

 Lawrence Smith Medal, Award to Scientific Merit in U.S., 373 

 Lawson (George), Wasps as Fly-Killers, 539 

 Layard (E. L.), Circular Rainbow seen from Hill-top, 361 ; 



Meteors, 538 

 Leadville, Ores of, Ernest Jacob, 437 

 Leaping and Running, Greek and English Records, 324 

 Lea,t Squares, Text-Book on the Method of, Mansfield Merri- 



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 LeConte (Prof. Joseph), Right-sidedness, 76 

 Lehmann (Dr. Johannes), Origin of the Crystalline Schists, 



Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 121 

 Lena, Survey of Two Branches of, 130 

 Lena Delta, Ravages of Small-Pox at, 567 

 Lens, a Model, for Use in Class Demonstrations, John B. 



Haycraft, 543 

 Lenses, Charles Pendlebury, 310 

 Lepidoptera, G. Lovell Gulland, 560 

 Lepidopterous Pigments, Action of Ammonia upon some, Geo. 



Coverdale, 571 

 Lepsius (Prof.), Death of, 274 

 Leslie (Robert), Sky-Glows, 463, 512, 583 

 Lesquereux (Leo) and Thos. James, Manual of the Mosses of 



North America, J. G. Baker, F.R.S , 461 

 Leuckart (Prof. L.), elected Foreign Corresponding Member 



of Vienna Academy of Sciences, 129 

 Lewis (Timothy Richards), "Comma-Shaped Bacillus" alleged 



to be the Cause of Cholera, 513 

 Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Carnivorous Wasps, 407 

 Leyden Museum, Notes from the, 389 

 Lias (Brau de Saint-Pol), 615, 643 

 Library Catalogues, W. Odell, jun. , 636 

 Library, the Mitchell, at Glasgow, 82 

 Licherdopol (Prof.), Chimie Elementara, 239 

 Lick Observatory, 613 



