INDEX 
Government and the Eclipse Expedition, 409, 512 
Grape Sugar, a new Acid from, 19 ; Estimation of, 487 
Great Tunnel through the Alps, by Prof. Ansted (Br.A.), 481 
Grisons, Red Snow in the, 169 
Guattari Atmospheric Telegraph, the, 257 
Gulf Stream, Correspondence on the, 334, 353, 374 
Gulf of Suez, Marine Mollusca of the, R. McAndrew (Br.A.), 
464 
Guns and Gunpowder, 378 
Giinther (A.) on the Snakes of Australia, 64; on Modern 
Angling, 512 
Hzematozoon, the Embryonal Development of the, Dr. Cobbold, 
(Br. A.), 528 
Hairy Structure of various Families of Dicotyledons, 19 
Hammering and Stone-driving Machinery, Dr. J. H. Lloyd 
(Br. A.), 507 
Harrison (W. H.) on Curious Facts in Molecular Physics, 7 
Harvard Museum, 138 
Harveian Oration, the, 242 
Haughton (Rev. S.) the Geological Effects of the Opening of | 
the Suez and Darien Canals, 58; Animal Mechanics (R. Soc.), 
114; Natural Laws of Muscular Exertion, 324 
Haute Savoie, Temperature of, 90 
Haze accompanying Auroral Display, the, 453 
Heart, Magnitude of the Areas of the Orifices of the, 14 
Heat Engine, New, A. W. Bickerton (Br. A.), 483 
Heavy Forgings, Production of, Lieut.-Col. Clay (Br. A.), 506 
Height and Weight, by E. Lankester, 230 
Henocque’s Investigations on the Mode in which Nerves termi- 
nate in Smooth Muscular Tissue, 93 
Hereditary Deformities, 493 
Herschel’s (Sir John) Meteorology, 140 
Heterogeneous Evolution of Living Things, by H. C, Bastian, 
170, 193, 219 
Hibberd’s (Shirley) Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, 140 
Higher Hydrocarbons of Coal-tar, 366 
Hind (H.Y.), on Two Gneissoid Series in Nova Scotiaand New 
Brunswick (Geological Society), 36 
Hinks (Rev. W.) on the Darwinian Theory, 108, 127 
Hirschwald’s Reactions-Schema fiir die Qualitative Analyse, 274 | 
Hofmann (Prof.) on Substituted Melamines, 155 
Holly Berries, 103; and Birds, 103, 274, 356, 374 
Hooker’s British Flora, by A. W. Bennett, 293 ; Letter on, by 
Henry Reeks, 335 
Hopkins versus Delaunay, 264 
Hoppe-Seyler’s ‘‘ Handbuch,” B. Finkelstein, 5 
Horse-Chestnut, derivation of the term, 212, 277, 297, 313 
Hugel, Baron, 356 
Hulke (J. W.), Plesiosaurian Remains obtained by Mr. J. C. 
Mansel, in Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset (Geol, Soc.), 245 
Humphrey (Prof.), Case of Asymmetry in the Human Body, 134 
Huxley (Prof.) on the Ethnology of Britain, 56; on the Chief 
Modifications of Mankind and their Geographical Distribution 
(Ethnological Society), 153 ; on some Observations of Prof. 
Haeckel, 187 ; Opening Address to the British Association, 
400; Remarks on Mr. Gladstone, 414; Speech before the | 
Working Men of Liverpool, 415 ; Speech on Vivisection, 466 ; 
Letter on Dr. Bastian and Spontaneous Generation, 473 
Huyton, Remarks on the Fossils from the Railway Cutting at, 
Carruthers (Br. A.), 527 
Hydraulic Bucketing Engine for Graving Docks and Sewerage, 
Percy Westmacott (Br. A.), 506 
Hydrogenium Amalgam, Paper by Mr, O. Loew, 367 
Ice Age in Switzerland, the, by A. Geikie, 310 
Ice Marks in Newfoundland, 246 
Ice, Prismatic Structure in, 141 
Ichthyological Notes, W. Andrews (Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc.), 58 
India, the Races of, 73; the Armenians of, 133 
Tnfusoria, 246 
Ingleby’s ‘‘ Reflections, Historical and Critical,” &c., 373 
Insects and Swallows, 495 
Institution of Civil Engineers, 134 
Treland, Crustacea of the West Coast of, 155; the Kelts of, 266 
Towa State University, Scientific Instruction at the, 382 
Irish Cairns, &c., Dr. Conwell (Br. A.), 505 
Iron and Steel, Papers on, by W. Mattieu Williams, 322, 363; 
the condition of Carbon in, 395 
Tron and Steel Institute, Second Provincial Meeting of, 394 
Tssel’s (Arturo) Malacologia del Mar Rosso, $3 
| Isthmus of Panama, Lines for Ship Canals across, General W. 
Heine, 506 
Jack (William) on Miiller’s ‘‘ Physics and Meteorology,” 272 
Jackson (John R.) on Coffee, 126; on Tea, 215; on Cocoa, 497 
Jahrbuch der K. K. geologischen Reichsanstalt, 163 
Jahresbericht tiber die Fortschritte der Chemie, 353 
Jeffreys (J. Gwyn) on Issel’s Malacologia del mar Rosso, $3 
| Jersey, Relics of Non-historic Times in, by Lieutenant Oliver, 166. 
Jevons (Prof. W. S.) on ‘* Choice and Chance,” 4 ; on the Na- 
tural Laws of Muscular Exertion, 158 ; Opening Address to 
Section F (Br. A.), 428 
| Jones (T. Rupert) on Catlin’s ‘‘ American Geology,” 371 
Jones’s (T. Grafton) Coal-getting Machine, 346 
Johnson’s (S. W.) ‘‘ How Crops Feed,” 373 
Johnston’s (W. and A. K.) Illustrations for Bot. Lectures, 35 
Jupiter’s Cloud Belts, Letter by R. A. Proctor, 236 
Kangaroos, Paraplegia in, 143; Parturition of, 155, 211, 313 
Kant’s Distinction between Affection and Function, 296; be- 
tween Sensibility and Understanding, 355, 375 
Karl Koch on Tree-cultivation, by D. Oliver, 351 
| Karsten, Harms and Weyer’s “‘ Einleitung in die Physik,” 99 
Kepler, the Monument to, 240 
Kent’s Cavern, Exploration of, W. Pengelly (Br. A.), 441 
| Kerry, on some Corries and their Rock-basins in, 155 
| King (Major Ross), Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgini Hills, 37 
King and Romney on ‘‘ Eozobn Canadense,”’ 209 
Kingfisher, the Meal of a, 356 
Kingsley (Rev. C.) on strange Noises heard at Sea, off Grey- 
town, 46 ; on Mirage, 414 
Kirk (Dr.) on Copals, 37 
Lake District, Green Slates and Porphyries of the, Prof. Hark- 
ness and Dr. Nicholson (Br. A.) 480 
Lake of Geneva and the Mediterranean Sea, Colour of, by Prof. 
Tyndall, 489 
Lamé, Professor, 52 
Lancashire Alkali Trade, W. Gossage (Br. A.), 480 
Language, the Origin of, Correspondence on, 48, 66, 103 
Lankester (Dr. E.) on the Extract of Meat, 62; on Height and 
Weight, 230 ; on the representation of Science and Art at the 
School Board, 509 
Lankester (E, Ray) on the Microscope, 213 ; Colour of the Sky, 
235; Carpsand Toads, 67; Nicholson’s Manual of Zoology, 
490 ; a Stock-form of the Parasitic Flat-worms (Br. A.), 527; 
Worms from Thames Mud (Br. A.), 527; Methzemoglobin 
(Br. A.), 528; the action of certain Vapours and Gases on the 
Red-Blood Corpuscles (Br. A.), 528 
Learned Societies, the Building for the, 21; House Accommoda- 
| tion for, 429 
Lectures, the Gresham, 15 
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 75 
Left -handedness, 25, IOI 
Leonardo da Vinci as a Botanist, by A. W. Bennett, 43 
| Light, Ponderable Molecules and Dispersion of, 327 
Linnzean Society, 37, 94 
Liquid Drops, the Formation of, 18 
Liverpool : the Museums and Scientific Institutions of, 389 ; the 
Geology of the Country around, by C. E. De Rance, 391 ; Geo- 
logical Discovery in, by J. P. Earwaker, 387 
Liverpool, Sewage of, J. N. Shoolbred (Br. A.), 483 
Llandudno, Glacial and Post-glacial Beds in the neighbourhood 
Ofpbi ae) Etalll (Br As); 527 
Lockyer (J. N.) on Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun 
(Royal Soc.), 131 
| Loew (O.) on Hydrogenium Amalgam, 367 
Lofoten Islands, the Geology of, 245 
| Login (T.), Abrading and Transporting Power of Water, 72 
Longevity in Men and Animals, by H. Power, 98 
Lower Silurian Trilobites, 94 
Lunar Activity or Quiescence, Paper by W. R. Birt (Br. A.), 462 
| Machine Guns, 358 
| Maclachlan’s (Robert) Catalogue of British Neuroptera, 45 
| Macvicar’s Sketch of a Philosophy, 295 
| Magnus, Heinrich Gustay, 143 
Malet’s (H. P.) ‘‘Interior of the Earth,” 121 
