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INDEX 



Abbay (Rev. R.), Patenas in Ceylon, 42 ; Restoration of the 

 Ancient Tank System of Irrigation in Ceylon, 509 



Abel (Prof., F.RS.), Opening Address in Section B at the 

 meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, 314 



Aberdeen University and Indian Civil Service Students, 566 



Aberystwith, University College, 153 



Abyssinions in Paris, 279 



Acarians and Hypopes, 133 



Acclimatisation Society of Paris, 53 



Acid, a New, 442 



Aconitic Acid in Cane Juice and Raw Sugar, 167 



Aconite, Alkaloids of, 37S 



Adams (Prof. J. C), on Leverrier, 462, 478 



Adams (Prof. W. G.), New Form of Optical Bench, 219 



Adelaide, University of, 154 : Report on the Botanic Garden, 297 



Admiralty Islands, Deformity of Teeth among the Inhabitants 

 of, 251 



Advertising »nd Magic Lanterns, 91 



/Eronautics, " Societe Fran^iaise de Navigation Aerienne," 93 



Africa: Exploration of, 17; Bishop Crowther's Notes on Journeys 

 in, 131 ; R. G. S.'s African Exploration Fund, 173, 236 ; 

 International Association for Exploring Centr.1l Africa, 217; 

 Portuguese Exploration of, 236 ; Italian Exploration of, 257 ; 

 the proposed Saharan Sea, 336, 353 ; Steameisfor Exploring 

 Albert Nyanza, 351 ; Stanford's Library Map of, 351 ; Com- 

 mander Cameron on the Exploration of, 409 ; Iniernational 

 Station in, 429 ; Stanley's Exploration of, 465, 529 ; Belgian 

 Exploration of, 529 ; and Madagascar, Zoological Relations 

 of, A. R. Wallace, 54S 



Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), on De.ep-Sea Dredging, 149 



Agathocies, the Solar Eclipse of. Prof. Haughton, F.R.S., 563 



Agriculture : in Wale.=, 153 ; Collections of Grain, 351 ; Experi- 

 ments at Wobuin, 129 



Air, Temperature and Humidity of the, at Different Heights, 

 Dr. H. E. Hamberg, 369 



Albert Hall, Proposed Pneumatic Railway to, 217 



Albumen of Commerce, Kingzett and Zingler on, 37S 



Aldebaran, the Ilerschelian Companion of, 266 



Alexandra Palace : Nubians at the, 447 ; Rhinoceroses at, 466 



Algebra, Fisher's Book of, 437 



Algiers, the Longitude of, 53 ; an Algerian Inland Sea, 353 



"Alkali Trade," C. T. Kingzett, iSo 



Alkali Manufacture, Improved Systems of, James Mactear, 377 



Allan (Grant), " Physiological .Esthetics," G. J. Romanes, 9S 



Allen (T. Romilly), Local Museum=, 266 



Alps, Pfaff's " Naturkriifte in der Alpen," 542 



America : Mathematics in, 21 ; Cretaceous Flora of, J. S. New- 

 berry, J. Starkie Gardner, 264, 285 ; Across Central, J. W. 

 Boddam Whetham, 339 ; Fish and Fisheries of, 395 ; Verte- 

 brate Life in. Prof O. C. Marsh on, 44S, 470, 489 ; American 

 Association at Nashville, 446, 469 ; Tlie American Insectivora, 

 504; American Science, 515. See also United States, &c., &c. 



American Journal of Science and Art, 18, 114, 154, 355, 432 



Americanists, International Congress of, 465 



Amherst (U. S.), The Shepard Scientific Collections at, 389 



Amis des Sciences, the French, 1 12 



Ampere, Statue to, 131 



" Anatomy of the Invertebrated Animals," Huxley's, 517 



Anchor-Ice, Influence of, upon Fishing Grounds, 14S 



Ancient Characters at Cissbury, J. Park Harrison, 8 



Angara, the Exploration of the, 92, 113 



Annalender Physik und Chemie, 18, 21S, 355, 432 



Anthelm's Star of 1670, 102 



Antibes, Thunderstorm at, 51 



Antiquity of Man, 69, 97, 106 ; Dr. James Geikie, F. R. S., 141 ; 



Sydney B. J. Skertchley, 142, 163 ; Thomas Belt, 162 ; Rev. 



O. Fisher, 182 

 Anthropological Exhibition, proposed, in Paris, III 

 Anthropological Institute, 36, 53, 55, 69, 155, 220 

 Anthropology of New Guinea, 54 

 Ants : Domestic Animals, 399 ; Great Vitality of Ants, 523 ; 



Importation of Australian, 556 

 Apple Tree, Curious Change of Character in an, 2SS 

 Aquamarine, Discovery of a Large White, 237 

 Aquarium, Tynemouth, 410 

 Aquatic Plants, Movements of Submerged, 554 

 Arago, Statue to, 131 

 Aralo-Caspian Region, 411, 474 

 Araucaria, the, 43 

 Archaeological Society of Great Britain, Annual Congress at 



Hereford, 296 

 Arcliaopteryx hthogt-aphka, 297 

 Archibald (E. Douglas), Sun-Spots and Rainfall of Calcutta, 267 ; 



Relations between Sun and Earth, 339, 359 ; Indian Rainfall 



and Sun-Spots, 396, 438 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 218, 355 

 Arctic Expedition : Coal brought Home by the Late, 377 ; 



Fossils brought Home by, 37S ; Photographs of, 526, 529 

 Arctic Exploration, Capt. Howgate's Expedition, 412, 4S7 

 Arctic Meteorology, 35S 



Arcturus and a UrsK Majoris, the Colours of, 330 

 Argentine Republic, Science in the, 395 

 Arran, Dredging in, 466 

 Arrow Poison, the Gombi, 504 

 Artesian Wells in America, 149 

 Ascension, Mr. Gill's Expedition to, 14 

 Ascidians, the Eggs of, 568 



Asoka, Jainism, or, the Early Faith of, by E. Thomas, 329 

 Assab, Chart of the Bay of, 487 

 Astronomy : Meteoric Astronomy, 441 ; Astronomical CoUuiin, 



14, 29, 49, 70, 93, 102, 124, 143. 169, 194, 212, 234, 255, 



266, 287, 330, 341, 363, 397, 427, 441, 4'io, 477, 522, 55 1 

 Astronomical Society, sei Royal 

 Astronomical Symbolism of the East, 25S 

 Astronomy, Ancient, 155 

 Astronomy in the Classics, 155 

 Atkins's " Elements of Geometry," 226 

 Atkinson (R. W.), Japanese Mirrors, 62 

 Atlantic : Passage of Plants across the, Henry II. Higgins, 41 ; 



the Norwegian Exploring Expedition, 271 

 " Atlas Meteorologique " of the Observatory of Paris, 89 

 Atmospheric Currents, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, S3 

 Atoms and Equivalents, 293 



Attraction, the Influence of the Form of Bodies on their, 4S8 

 Auroras and Sun Spot Periods from 1743 to 1S27, 167 

 " Auster und die Austernwirthschaft," von Karl Moebius, 499 

 Australia : Weather Maps in, go ; Adelaide University, 154 ; 



Meteorology in South Australia, 169 ; Forests and Clinate 



of, 217 ; the Iron in Austrahan Wines, 237 ; Exploration of, 



409 ; Importation of Ants from, 556 

 Austria, Geological Survey of, 254 

 Automatism, Dr. Sharp, 286 



Avogadro's Law, Vapour Volumes in Relation to, 442 

 Axis of the Earth, the Shifting o( the, 406 

 Ayrton (W. E.) and John Perry, Lightning Conductors, 502 



Backhouse (T. W. ), the Colours of o Ursre Majoris and Arc- 

 turus, 330 



