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INDEX 



Abyssinia, Dr. Gerard Rohlf's journey in, 249 



Academical Study, Biology as an, Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 543, 



573 

 Acton, Occurrence of Neolithic Implements at, Spencer G. 



Perceval loi, 260; Worthington G. Smith, 141 

 Acoustic Phenomenon noticed in a Crooke's Tube, C. R. Cross, 



45 



Acoustics, the Student's Handbook of, John Broadhouse, 580 



Actinefe, Freshwater, Capt. W. Sedgwick, 189 



Adams (Prof. W. Grylls, F.R.S.), Vound of the Aurora, 29 



/Ecidiomycetes, Spermogonia of, 592 



Africa: Mittheilungen of the German African Society, 19; Pere 

 Law's Expedition, 19; Dr. Ilolub's African Travels, 35, 58; 

 the Sand Dunes of the Sahara, 67 ; F. C. Selous' Exploration 

 of, 114; the Government of Uganda, 114; African Explora; 

 liun, 149; Civilisation and Barbarism in South Africa, 227; 

 the Baptist Congo Expedition, 250 ; to the Central Lakes and 

 b.ick, &c., J. Thomson, 353 ; Afrika im Lichte unserer Tage 

 liodengestalt und geologischer Ban, Josef Chavanne, 581 ; 

 How I Crossed Africa, Major Serpa Pinto, 215 



Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), Polydonia froudo^a, 509 



Agram, Earthquake Shock at, 202, 611 



Albert Institute, Windsor, 87 



Alford Weaver- Botanist, the, John Duncan, 6; Death of, 361 



AIg?e, Notes on, 169; On some New Lower Green, 292; 



Algiers, French Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at, G. F. Rodwell, 31 



AI150I, Minima of, 542 



Allen (Grant), "Evolutionist at Large," 27 ; "Anglo Saxon 

 Britain," 566 



Allen (Capt. J. Allen), Singular Case of Shipwreck, 106; 

 Luminous Phenomena on Rupture of Sea Ice, 459 



AUman (Prof.), on the Development of the Ctenophora, 117 



Alluvion, Sea-Shore, 2S6 



Alpine Club, the Italian, 295 



Alpine Congress, International, 246 



Alpine Tunnel, Proposed New, 427 



America : Proposed Meeting of the British Association in 1S83, 

 16; American Naturalist, 45, 134, 158, 376, 479; American 

 Journal of Science, 70, 134, 479, 600; American Meteoro- 

 logical Observations, W. B. Hazen, 189; American Cretaceous 

 Flora, Prof. J. S. Newberry, 191 ; J. S. Gardner, 531 ; 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Meet- 

 ing of, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 146, 245 ; Prof. E. W. Claypole, 

 486 ; American Journalism, 265 ; American Degrees, 455 (see 

 also United States, &c. 



Anchor Ice, 301 



Ancient Star positions, 520 



Anderson (Wm.), the Hardening and Tempering of Steel, 21 



Anderson (Tempest, M.D.), Prismatic Optometer, 5iS 



Anemometer, a New Integrating, 467 ; Chas. E. Burton, 510, 

 582 ; H. S. Hele Shaw, 557 



Anemometers, Whirled, Prof. G. G. Stokes, 250 



"Anglo-Saxon Britain," Grant Allen, 566 



Animal Instinct, Dr. W. B. Kesteven, 381 



Animal Motion, Prof. J. Burdon-Sanderson, F.R.S., on Dis- 

 coveries relating to, 439 



Animal Life, Miscellanies of, Elizabeth Spooner, 566 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 70, 134, 376, 400, 480, 600 



Anthropology : Anthropological Institute, 47, 135, 232 ; Dis- 

 covery of Implements near Thebes, 108 ; Transactions of the 

 Washington Society of, no ; Anthropological and Anatomical 

 Researches in Melanesia and Australia, Dr. Miklucho Maclay's, 

 157 ; " Anthropology," Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S., Alfred R. 

 Wallace, 242 ; Meeting of German Anthropologists at Ratis- 

 bon, 426 ; Meeting of Austrian Anthropologists at Salzburg, 

 426 



Ants, Sound-producing, Henry O. Forbes, loi ; S. E. Peal, 

 4S4 ; Observations on the Habits of. Sir J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 

 142 

 Aquatic Hymenopterous Insect, Edwin Postock, 556 



Arabia, Gleanings from the Desert of. Major R. D. Upton, 



Prof. W. Robertson Smith, 209 

 Archjeology, Proposed American Institute of, 176 

 Archaeological Discovery near Sewersk, Southern Russia, 541 

 Archaeological Congress at Tiflis, 599 

 Archer (Surgeon-Major H.), Medusa;, 307 

 Archer (W., F.R.S.), Public Libraries, 386 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Natnrelles, 94, 134, 278, 400, 



600 

 Arctic (Dutch) Expedition, Zoology of the, 57 

 Arctic Echinodermata, P. Martin Duncan, F. R.S., and W. 



Percy Sladen, 97 

 Arctic Regions : the International Polar Commission, 113 

 Arctic Exploration : the Polaris Expedition, Dr. Emil Bessels, 



194 

 Argentine Republic, Description Physique de la, d'aprfes des 

 observations personnelles et etrangeres, par le Dr. H. Bur- 

 meister, 209 

 Argyll (Duke of). Struggle of Parts in the Organism, 581 

 Arlberg Tunnel, Boring of the, 291 

 Armstrong (Sir W., F. R. S.), Opening Address in Section G at 



the British Association Meeting, 448 

 Artificial Flight, Fred. W. Brearey, 466 

 Ascidians, Hypophysis in, 56, 591 ; Hypophysal Gland in, W. 



A. Ilerdman, 68 

 Ashton-under-Lyne Linuean Botanical Society, 566 

 Asia and Europe, Unexplored Parts of, 312 

 Astrolabe Gulf, 149 



Astronomy: Astronomical Column, 18, 40, 65, no, 177, 248, 

 277, 291, 342, 375, 42s, 477, 520. 54'. 591. 612; Astronomy 

 for Amateurs, Cycle of Celestial Objects, Admiral W. H. 

 Smyth, 234; Astronomical Congress at Strassburg, 246; 

 Astronomische Nachrichten, 66 

 Athens Archaeological Society, 341 

 Atkinson (Prof. R. W.), Brewing in Japan, 509 

 Atlantic Cable, New, Messrs. Siemens, 245 

 Atlas -Geography, A. H. Macdonell, 556 

 Atomic Theory, Prof. A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., on the 



Growth of, 413 

 Atoms, Dr. Henry Muirhead, 459 



Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 46, 134, 206, 278, 400 

 Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienje Fisiche e Matermatiche 



Napoli, 118 

 Aurora, Sound of the, 109 ; Dr. John W. Ogle, 5 ; Mrs. E. 

 Hubbard, 5; Prof. W. Grylls Adams, F.R.S., 29; F. C. 

 Constable, S3 

 Auroral and Slagnetic Observations in High Latitudes, H. R. 



Procter, 241 

 Auroric Light, G. H. Kinahan, 142 

 Australia, Water in, F. J. Mott, 30 



Australia aud Melanesia, Anthropological and Anatomical Re- 

 searches in. Dr. Miklucho Maclay's, 157 

 Australian Cycadaceous Stem at Kew Gardens, 425 

 Australian Aborigines : the Languages and Customs of se«ral 

 Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, 

 Australia, James Dawson, Edw. B. Tylor, F.P.S., 529 

 Aveling (Edward B.), the Student's Darwin, Geo. J. Romanes, 



F.R.S., 429 

 Axolotl, Colour Change of, 388 



Baer (Karl Ernst von), the Proposed Monument to, 108 

 Bakmut discovery of Rock Salt at, 541 

 Ball (lohn), the Florence Herbarium, 78 

 Ball (Prof. R. S., F.R.S.), the Distances of the Stars, 91 

 Ball (V.), Diamonds, Coal, and Gold of India, 579 

 Balloon Ascent by W. de Fonvielle, 225 



Balloons: Double, Curious Experunent with, at La Villette 

 Gasworks, Paris, 541, 566 ; Comets and, W. de Fonvielle, 



381 

 Bangor, Maine, U.S., Earthquake at, 314 

 Banyuls.jur-Mer, New Zoological Station at, 610 



