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INDEX 
[Nature, Fume 21, 1883 
Geographical Notes, 21, 43, 63, 92, 161, 400, 424, 541, 589 
Geography in Schools, 209 
Geography of the Caucasus, 470 
Geology : Railway Geology—a Hint, 8; Aims and Method of 
Geological Inquiry, Prof. James Geikie, F.R.S, 44, 64; 
Geological Society, 71, 118, 215, 282, 331, 355, 426, 474, 
5c0, 547; Distribution of Medals, 427; Geology, Part 1, 
A. H. Green, 98 ; Geology of Hong Kong, F. W. Eastlake, 
177; ‘‘ Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad,” Arch. 
Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., G. K. Gilbert, 237, 261 ; ‘‘ Text- 
Book of Geology,” Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., G. K. 
Gilbert, 237, 261; New Appointments for the Geological 
Survey of Scotland, 246; Geologists’ Association, 523 
Geometrical Teaching, the Association for the Improvement of, 
246, 299, 580 
German A€éronautical Society, Meeting of, 348 
Geran African Expedition, Drs. Wissmann and Pogge, 92 
German African Society, Report of, 92 
German Fishery Society, 276 
German North Polar Expedition, 43 
German Ornithological Society, Annual Meeting at Berlin, 19 
German Society for Prevention of Pollution of Rivers, &c., 89 
Gibney (Robert Dwarris), the Zodiacal Light (?), 605 
Giglioli (Dr.), New Deep-Sea Fish from Mediterranean, 198 
Gilbert (G. K.), Arch. Geikie’s “*Geological Sketches at 
Home and Abroad,” and ‘‘ Text-Book of Geology,” 237, 261 
Gill (H. C.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 85 
Glacial Formations of Russia, 497 
Glacial Phenomena in Denmark, Prof. Johnstrup, 373 
Glacier Motion, Solar Radiation and, Rey. A. Irving, 553 
Glacier Studies, Prof. Forel on Recent Rhone, 183 
Glaciers, Decrease of the Dachstein, 42 
Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S.), Chemistry of the Planté and 
Faure Accumulators, 583 
Glaisher (J. W. L., F.R.S.), Mathematics in America, 193 
Glazebrook (R. T., F.R.S.): a Common Defect of Lenses, 198 ; 
“ Physical Optics,” 361 
Goddard (A. F.), Intra-Mercurial Planets, 148 
Gold-leaf Electroscope, a Modification of the, F. J. Smith, 102 
‘*Gold Coast, to the, for Gold,” Richard F. Burton and Verney 
L. Cameron, 335 : 
Good (S. A.), Extraordinary Lunar Halo, 150 
Goolden’s Simple Dip Circle, 127 
Gore (Dr., F.R.S.) : Electrolytic Balance of Chemical Corro- 
sion, 326; Chemical Corrosion of Cathodes, 374 
Gorham (John), Novel Experiment in Complementary Colours, 
294 
poem (Karel Wessel van), Handbook of Cinchona Culture, 
287 
Gottingen, Royal Society of Sciences of, 48, 452 
Gould (Dr. B. A.), Comet 1882 4, 267 
Gout and Rheumatic Patients, an Algerian Winter Resort fir, 113 
Govi (Prof.), Expansion of Bulbs of Liquid Thermometers, 209 
Granite, Metamorphic Origin of, Duke of Argyll, 578 
Gratings, Concave, Prof. Rowland’s, 95 
Gravels, Palolithic River: C. Evans, 8; Wm. White, 53; 
T. K. Callard, 54; Worthington G. Smith, 102 
Gray (Andrew), on the Graduation of Galvanometers for the 
Measurement of Currents and Potentials in Absolute Measure, 
32, 105, 319, 339 
Gray (Prof, Asa), Natural Selection and Natural Theology, 291, 
527 
Gray and Milne’s Seismographic Apparatus, 5. 
Greece, Earthquake in, 248 a oe. 
Greek Archipelago, Volcanic Phenomena in, 445 
Green (A. H.), Geology, Part i., 95 
Green (John Richard), Obituary Notice of, 462 
Greenland, New Danish Expedition to, 446; Nordenskjéld’s 
Expedition, 424, 496; Dr. O. Dickson on, 541 
Grenfell (J. G.), Geological Traces of Great Vides, 222; ‘In- 
telligence in Animals, 292 ; Holothurians, 508 
Gresham Funds, the, 292 
Grey, (F. W.), Snow Rollers, 507 
Griffith (J. W.) and A. Henfrey, Micrographic Dictionary, 603 
Griffith (R. W. S.), a Meteor, 434 
Grocers’ Company, the Scheme of the, for the Encouragement 
of Original Research in Sanitary Science, 574 
Groneman (Dr. H. 
the Meteoric Auroral Phenomenon of November 17, 1882, 
296; the Auroral Meteoric Phenomena of November 27, 
1882, 388 
J. H.): Remarks on and Ob-ervations of | 
Ground, Observations of Periodic Movements of the, 300 
Gudvangsoren, Landslip at, 423 
Guns, Wire, James A. Longridge, 11, 35, 53 
Guppy (Surgeon-Major H. B.): Coral-eating Habits of Holo- 
thurians, 7; Habits of Scypho-Medusz, 31 ; Anthropological 
Notes in the Solomon Islands, 607 
Gwynne (Bertram), Curious Case of Ignition, 580 
Gyrostatics, Sir William Thomson, 548 
Hagen (Dr, H. A.), Invertebrate Casts, 173 
Hakonson-Hansen’s (Herr), Observations of the November 
Auroral Displays, 347 
Halo, a Curious, Father Mare Dechevrens, 30; Rev. W. 
Clement Ley, 53; Kev. Gerard Hopkins, 53 ; a Lunar Halo, 
J. Rand Capron, 78; T. P. Barkas, 103 ; S. A. Good, 180 
Hammam k’Irha, an Algerian Winter Resort for Gout and 
Rheumatic Patients, 113 $ 
szammond, Kinetic Theory of Chemical Actions, 183 
Hannay (J. B., F.R.S.), Natural Selection and Natural Theo- 
logy, 362 
Harding (C. W.), ‘* Weather Forecasts,” 79 
Hare, Baird’s, and its Habits, 241 ; T. Martyr, 266 
Harkness (Prof.), on the Transits of Venus, 114 
Harnett (W. L.), Meteor, 103 
Harrison (J. Park), Projection of the Nasal Bones in Man and 
the Ape, 266, 294 
Hart (Samuel): the Late Transit of Venus, 483; a Remarkable 
Phenomenon—Natural Snowballs, 483 
Harting (J. E.), Incubation of the Ostrich, 480 
Hatton (Frank), Death of, 515 
Hawk Moth Larva, Surgeon-Major Johnson, 126 
Heating by Acetate of Soda, 344 
Heen (De), Relations between Physical and Chemical Properties 
of Simple and Compound Bodies, 422 
Heilprin (Prof. Angelo), on the Value of the “ Nearctic” as 
one of the Primary Zoological Regions, 606 
Helix pomatia, L., Rev. L. Blomefield, 553 
Heloderm, the Sonoran, 153 
Hemsley (W. Botting): Botany of the Chad/enger Expedition, 
462 ; on the Relations of the Fig and the Caprifig, 584 
Henfrey (A.), J. W. Griffith and, Micrographic Dictionary, 603 
Henson (Samuel), on a Fine Specimen of Apatite froma Tyrol, 
lately in the possession of, 608 
Herdman (W. A.), a Dredging Implement, 54 
Heresies, Scientific, in China, 342 
Heroes of Science, Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 76 
Herring and Salmon Fisheries, 442 
Herschel (Prof. A. S.), The Matter of Space, 458, 504 
Herschel (Major J.): the Comet 1882 4, 4, 101; Soda Flames 
in Coal Fires, 78; the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87; 
Ignition by Sunlight, 531 
Hertz (Dr.): Pressure of Saturating Vapour of Mercury, 183; 
Light-Phenomena of Electric Discharges, 403 
Hesehus (N.): Zlastische Nachwirkung, 183; 
Russia during the last ten years, 567 
Hicks (Henry), Metamorphic Rocks of Ross and Inverness, 474 
Hickson (Sydney J.), ‘‘ Zoological Record,” 366 epee) t 
Higgins (C.) and E. W. W. Edwards, ‘‘ The Electric Lighting 
Act 1882,” 410 
Higgins (Henry), Natural Enemies of Butterflies, 338 
Higginson (Walter), the Comet 1882 4, 29 
High Tides, Abnormal, River Thames, J. B. Redman, 6 
Hildebrandsson (Prof.), on the Ben Nevis Observatory, 18 
Hippopotamus, Death of the old kemale, 247 
Histology, Vegetable, Tables of D. P. Penhallow, 458 
Hofmann (Prof.), Lecture Experiments, 301 
Holden (Prof.), Figure of Nucleus of Comet of 1882 (Gould), 246 
Holley (G. W.), ‘* Niagara and other famous Cataracts,” 146 
Holothurians, Coral-eating Habits of, Surgeon Major H. B. 
Guppy, 7; W. Saville Kent, 433; J. G. Grenfell, 508 
Holub’s (Dr. Emil), New African Expedition, 542 
Home (D. M.), Ben Nevis Observatory, 411 
Hong Kong, Geology of, F. WW. Eastlake, 177 ; Observatory 
Scheme, 565 
Hopkins (B. J.), the Comet 18824, 62, 78 
Hopkins (Rey. Gerard), a Curiou. Halo, ne : , 
Hopkinson (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Some Points in Electric Light- 
ing, 592 ae E 
Hornblendic and other Schists of the | izard District, Prof. T. G. 
Bonney, F.R.S., 71 
Physics in 
| Hornstein (Dr. Carl), Death of, 247 
