


Abbe (Cleveland) on Sunspots and Earth Temperature, 133 
_ Abbott, (F., F.R.A.S.), Observations on 7 Argus 475 
Aberdeen, Aurora at, Lord Lindsay on, 347, 365; Meteoro- 
logical Observatory at, 246 : 
Acclimatisation in Australia, 109, 305 
_ Acclimatisation Society of Otago, 51 
_ Acland (H. W., F.R.S.) on National Health, 463 
_ Adipose Tissue, the Nucleus of, Dr. L. S. Beale on, 367 
_ Adulteration of Butter, 90 ; of Manures, 301 
Aerolitic Shower in Sweden, 398 
Affinities of the Sponges, H. J. Carter and W. S. Kent, F.Z.S., 
on, 184, 201, 224 
_ Africa: Dr. Hooker’s Expedition, 11, 89, 129, 149, 168, 196 
Africa (South), Ethnology of, 56 
“ Africa (Tropical), Flora of,” 287 
_ Agassiz (A.) on Cotteau’s ‘‘ Echinides de la Sarthe,” 220 
Agricultural Society, 168; its Keports on Adulteration of 
Manures, 301 
Agriculture in America, 286; Government Department of, 302 
Ainsworth (Thomas) on Hematite Ores (Br. A.), 292 
_ Aiken (J.) on Moss Lochs, 144; Is Blue a Primary Colour? 465 
- Airy (Prof. G B., F.R.S.), his Services to Science ; on the 
__ ** Determination of a Ship’s Place at Sea,” 57 
_ Airy (Hubert), on Pendulum Autographs, 310, 37 
_ Algiers, Jardin d’Essai at, 447 
_ Allen (A. H., F.C.S.), Lecture Experiments on Colour, 346 
_ Allen (Nathaniel, M.D.) on the Laws of Population, 462, 463 
Alpine Floras, 162; Sculpture, 198 
_ America: Department of Agriculture, 286, 302; Earthquakes 
and Inundations, 51 (and see Earthquakes) ; Eozoén Canal 
_ dense, 28 ; Fish and Fisheries, 33, 244; Meteorology, 390, 410, 
430, 461 ; Science in, 32, 43, 56, 89, 109, 114, 130, 149, 170 
212, 233, 294, 307, 319, 338, 340, 350, 375, 417, 421, 454, 
480, 495, 497, 499, 501, 519; Lyceum of Natural History, 
_ New York, 155, 212, 340 ; Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 
ton, 56, 260, 401, 436 ; Scientific Society at Middleton, Con- 
necticut, 89 
America, Central, Ruined Cities of, 466 
America, South, Botany of, 52 
American Annual of Scientific Discovery, 239 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Meeting 
at Indianapolis, 373 
_ American Coleoptera, M. Boucard on, 50 
_ American Geology, Report by Dr. Hayden, 24 
_ American Polar Expedition, 309, 349 
_ Anatomy and Physiology at the Br. A., 357 
_ Anatomy at Edinburgh University, 168 
Anatomy, Human, by Dr. Lionel S. Beale, 343, 367 
Andrews (Dr.) on ‘‘ Liquid and Gaseous States of Matter,” 186 
_ Andrews (Dr.) on the Vapour of Iodine; on the Action of 
Heat on Bromine (Br. A.), 316 
Andiews (Prof., F.R.S.), on Chemical Science (Br. A.), 273 
Ant-eating Woodpecker, 230 
_ Anthropological Institute, Journal, &c., of, 115, 196, 229, 379 
Anthropological Institute, New York, 12 
_ Anthropology, Academy of, Berlin, 56 
: Anthropology and Archeology, Congress at Bologna, 244, 306 
_ Anthropology and M. Comte, 466 
' Anthropology at the Br. A., 289, 317, 334, 357, 378 
Anthropology, Prof. Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 294 
Antilles, the Lesser Birds of the, 473 
Ants of Panama, 245 
Antwerp, Congress of Geographical Science, 286 
Ape, the, and Man, Capt. Wake on (Br. A.), 335 
Aquaria, Rockwork in Tanks, 507 
Aquarium at Brighton, 394 ; at the Crystal Palace, 469 
Arboricultural Society of Scotland, 73 
Archzological Institute, 261 
Archeology, Endowment by Mr. Yates at Uniy. Col., 260 
Arctic Auroras, 142 
Arctic Expeditions : American, 309, 349 ; German, 395, 439, 513 
Arctic Regions, Low Barometer in, 226 


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Arctic Scenery, Paintings by W. Bradford, 210 
Argus, Observations of 7, and its surrounding Nebulz, 478 
Armagh, Meteorological Observatory at, 246 
Armstrong (Dr.) his ‘‘ Manual of Organic Chemistry,” 50 
Armstrong (Jas.) Catalogue of the Carboniferous Fossils of West 
Scotland, 443 
Artesian Wells in America, 32 ; in India, 89 
Asaphus platycephalus, its supposed legs, 152, 254 
** Asiatic Cholera, Treatise on,” by C. Macnamara, 302 
Asiatic Society, Bengal, Proceedings of, 32, 89, 339 
Astronomical Observation, its Present State, 30 
Astronomy in Constantinople, 128 
Astronomy, Klein and Kiinkerfues on, 24 
Astronomy, Visitation of the R. Observatory, Greenwich, 50, 103 
“At Last ; a Christmas in the West Indies,” by the Rev. Canon 
Kingsley, 282 
Atmosphere, Circulation and Distribution of, by Prof. Everett, 353 
Atmosphere, Universal, 487 
August Meteors, J. Edmund Clark on, 304 
| “ Aunt Rachel’s Letters on Water and Air,” 24 
Aurignac, Cave with Human Remains at, 208 
Aurora Australis and Borealis, their Correspondence, 213 
Aurora Australis, 345 ; Davis on, 385; A. B. Meyer on, 84, 
Aurora at Aberdeen, Lord Lindsay on, 347, 366 
Aurora by Daylight, 7, 27, 121, 142; Jas. Glaisher on, 209 ; 
John Jeremiah on, 47; J. Lucas on one at Oxford, 183, 305 ; 
D. Winstanley on, 280; George F. Burder on, 84 
Aurora, Spectrum of the, 280; T. W. Backhouse on, 66 
“Aurora, Some Speculations on the,” by J. M. Wilson, 372 
Aurora, Arctic, 142 
Auroras, are they Periodical? by Prof. D. Kirkwood, 505 ; 
Height of, 280; Their Relation to Gravitating Currents, 497 
Aurora Island, its reported Submergence, 74, 108 
Australia: Acclimatisation, 308; Entomological Society of 
New South Wales, 436; Mineral Statistics, Reports of Mining 
Surveyors, Victoria, 365 ; Royal Society, Victoria, its Eclipse 
Expedition, 394, 400; its Transactions, 418 ; the Melbourne 
Telescope, 109 ; Science at Melbourne, 211 ; Commission on 
Foreign Industries, 453 ; Science in Victoria, 109, 211 
Austria: Science in Vienna, 498 ; Imperial Academy of Sciences, 
Vienna, 79, 216, 256; Imperial and Royal Geological Insti- 
tution, Vienna, 60, 176; International Exhibition, Vienna, 
1873, 434 
Austrian Meteorological Society, Journal of the, 502 
Avebury, destruction of the Druidical Temple at, 476, 494 
Ayrton (W. E.), ona Quantitative Method of Tesunga ‘‘ Tele- 
graph Earth,” 399 
Babbage, Charles, his death, 512 
Backhouse (T. W.), on the Spectrum of the Aurora, 66; onthe 
“Height of Auroras,” 280; on a Sun Spot, 359 
Bacteiia, Dr. Bastian on, 178, 459 
Baillon (Prof. H.), his ‘* Histoire des Plantes,” 199 
Ball (John), on the Temperature of the Sun, 487 
Ball (Robert Stawell), ‘* Experimental Mecharics,” 510 
Barker (G. F., M.D.) on Elementary Chemistry, 4 
Barometer in Polar Regions and Cyclones, 226 
Barometers, Self-registering, at Washington, by Prof. G. W. 
Hough, 410, 430; by Prof. Wild, 432 
Barometer, Standard, by J. Green, New York, 412 
Barrington (R. M.) on a Halo in the Zenith, 160 
Basevi (Captain, R. E.), Obituary Notice of, 413 
Bastian (H, Charlton, M.D., F.R.S.), on Protoplasmic Life, 59; 
on the Origin of Life, 178 (Br. A.), 378; on Fungi in Living 
Birds (Br. A.) 356; on the Germ Theory, 458 
Bathybius, Freshwater, Dr. R. Greeff on, 49 
Beacons and Lighthouses, Towers of Cement Rubble, 366 
Beale (Dr. Lionel S., F.R.S.) on Pangenesis, 25 ; on Mr. Ho- 
worth’s New View of Darwinism, 221, 240; “The Physio- 
logical Anatomy and Physiology of Man,” 343 ; on the Nucleus 
of Adipose Tissue, 367 
Beaumont, M. Elie de, on the Scientific Use of the Mont Cenis 
Tunnel, 434 
