[fJature, June I, i8S6 



Part I, by H. W. Bates F.R.S., 77; Effect upon Wild 

 Animals of Settlement of North America, E. Ingersoll, 89 ; 

 American Geographical Society, 89 ; American Naturalist, 

 119, 548 ; Earthquake? in, 278 ; American Journal of Science, 

 285, 332, 548 ; Vicomte de Brette's Explorations in Southern 

 (irand Chaco, 468 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 531 ; 

 Bird-Murder in. Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 553 



Ammonium Carbamate, on the Limited Hydration of, H. J. II. 

 Fenton, 262 



Amniota, Remarks on the Cloaca and on the Copulatory Organs 

 of the. Dr. Hans Gadow, 573 



Amu-Daria River, Information concerning the Former Bed of 

 the. Baron Kaulbars, 611 



Analysis, Technical Gas, Clemens Winkler, 603 



Analytical Geometry, a Treatise on, J. Casey, F. R. S., 172 



.\nalytical Index, Want of, in Geographical Books, 378 



Anatomy of the Nettle, A. Gravis, 363 



Anatomy and Embryology, Microscopical, Methods of Research 

 in, C. O. Whitman, 243 



Anchor Frosts, T. Hands, 246 ; Dr. J. Rae, F.R.S., 269 



Anderson (J. W.), Prospector's Hand-book, 317 



Anderson (W.), Pictorial Arts of Japan, F. V. Dickins, 386 



Andes, Peruvian, Flora of the, John Ball, 70 



Andrews (Prof Thomas, F.R.S.), Death of, 105 ; Obituary 

 Notice of, 157 ; on the Properties of Matter in Gaseous and 

 Liquid States under Various Conditions of Temperature and 

 Pressure, 550 



Andries (Dr.), on Accidents from Lightning in Germany, 

 42s 



Andromeda, Spectrum of the Great Nebula in, 42 ; New Star 

 in the Great Nebula in. Prof. Seeliger, 397 ; Parallax of 

 Nova Andromedae, Prof. Asaph Hall, 566 



Anemometers, some Residts of Observations with Kite-Wire 

 Suspended, up to 1300 feet above the Ground in 1883-85, E, 

 Douglas Archibald, 593 



.^nemometry. Prof. Neesen, 95 



Animal, An, Can it Count?, Geo. J. Romanes, T'.R.S., 80 



Animal Life on the Farm, Prof G. T. Brown, 292 



.Animal Life, Marvels of, Chas. F. Holder, 532 



Animals : Thermic Sense in, 209 ; White Varieties of, in 

 Germany, 302 ; Ferocity of, Unus, 560 ; F. H. Collins, 583 ; 

 Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S. , 604; Wanderings of Plants 

 and. Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, Victor Hehn, 170 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 356, 523 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the Year 1S83, 126 



Antedoii phalangiiim, P. II. Carpenter on Variations of Cirri 

 in, 165 



.A.nthropology : Dr. Paul Topinard's "Elements d'Anthro- 

 pologie Generale," Dr. J. G. Garson, 3 ; Anthropology in 

 America, 17 ; Dr. Studcron Skulls found in the Pile-Dwellings 

 of the Lake of Bienne, 17 ; Anthropology in France, iS ; F. 

 Galton, F.R.S., on Anthropology, 94 ; Anthropological Insti- 

 tute, 94, 167, 190, 334, 382, 406, 598; the Races of Britain, 

 John Beddoe, Chas, Roberts, 217 ; Proposed Anthropological 

 Exhiliition, 276; Anthropological Society, 527, 551 ; J. W. 

 Powell on the Growth of Barbarism and Civilisation from the 

 Savage State, 537 



.Antimony, Salts of. Reciprocal Action of Hydrochloric and 

 Hydrosulphuric Acids and, Berlhelot, 287 



Apatite in Norway, Discovery of, Herr Enoksen, 40 ; Discovery 

 of, in Stavanger, 137 



Apes, Lumbar Curve in Man and, Prof D. J. Cunningham, 

 378 



-\pncea of the Foetus, Prof Zuntz on, 143 



Appendicularia, Distribution of. Prof. W. A. Herdman, 461 : 

 Prof W. C. Mcintosh, 514 



Aquarium, New, at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 1 82, 

 495 



Arabia, Kinship aud Marriage in Early, W. Robertson Smith, 

 Andrew Lang, 529 



Arago, Centenary of the Birth of, 254, 301, 383 ; Arago Labo- 

 ratory, 449 



Archer (F.), Stone Implements and Changes of Level in the 

 Nile I3asin, 317 



Archibald (E. Douglas) : Universal Secular Weather Periods, 

 52 ; some Results of Observations with Kite-Wire Suspended 

 Anemometers up to 1300 feet above the Ground in 1883-85, 

 593 ; the Krakata~o Dust-Glows of 1S83-84, 604 



Archives Italiennes de Bio'ogie, 189, 380, 619 



Arctic Expedition, Lecture by Lieut. Greely on his, 90 



Arctic Regions, Botany of the, Buysman, 550 



Arctic Service, Three Years of, Adolphus W. Greely, 481 



Argentine Republic, Dr. Gould's Work in the, g 



Argostoli, Sea-Mills at, J. Lloyd Thomas, 129; L. Frieder- 

 ichsen, 154 



Arithmetic, Principles of, Homersham Cox, 29 



Arithmetic, Practical, on an entirely New Method, John Jack- 

 son, 29 



Armagh Observatory, 498 



Arsonval's (D') Water-Microscope, Crisp, 70 



Art, Pictorial, of Japan, F. V. Dickins, 418 



Artesian Well near Alnwick, 349 



Artiodactyla in the British Museumj 365 



Artist's Manual of Pigments, H. C. Standage, 530 



Aseismatic Tables, 438 



Asia Minor, Earthquakes in, 161, 184 



Asia, Central : Prjevalsky's Explorations in, 283 ; his Fourth 

 journey to, 468; Potanin's Expedition to, 539 



Asiatic Society, lournal of the, 209 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, Journal of, 234 



.\stacid«, Faxon on the, 519 



Asteroid Orbits, Relation of, to that of Jupiter, Prof H. A. 

 Newton, 592 



Astronomy : Astronomical Phenomena for the W^eek, 18, 43, 62, 

 go, 107, 13S, 162, 185, 211, 236, 256, 279, 304, 328, 350, 377, 

 398, 426, 451, 466, 498, 519, 538, 567, 592, 6[3 ; Our Astro- 

 nomical Column, 42, 8g, 107, 161, 184, 210, 235, 256, 279, 

 303, 32S, 350, 376, 397, 425, 450, 466, 498, 518, 538, 566, 

 592, 612 ; Astronomical Prizes of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences, 235 ; Photography as a Means of Discovery in 

 Astronomy, Janssen, 287 ; New Method of Determining the 

 Amount of Astronomical Refraction, 303 ; Astronomy during 

 the Nineteenth Century, Agnes M. Gierke, Sir Robert S. Ball, 

 F. H.S., 313; the Story of Biola's Comet, Prof H. A. 

 Newton, 392, 418 ; the Apparent Movements of the Planets 

 and the Principal Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 

 18S6, W. Peck, 438 ; Astronomical Work for Amateurs, 

 449 ; Astronomical Directory, M. Lancaster, 53S ; the 

 Pleiades, Miss A. M. Gierke, 561 ; Proposed Change in the 

 Astronomical Day, M. Raoul Gautier, 592 



Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam, 376 



Atkinson (A. S.), the Late Total Eclipse, 175 



Atlantic Doldrums, Clouds and Lf|>per Wind-Currents over the. 

 Lion. Ralph Abercomby, 294 



Aubel (E. van), on the Influence of Magnetism on Polarisation 

 in the Dielectrics, 332 



Aubert (M. Eugene), Proposed Scientific Expedition to the 

 Amazon by, 64 



Auer (Dr.), New Gaslight, 208 



Aurigre, Parallax of >|/', Herr W. Schur, 612 



Aurora, H. P'rilsch, 559 



Aurora Borealis in Norway, 397 



Auroric Displays in Ireland, 537 



Australia : Australian Lyre Bird, Alfred Morris, 30 ; Drawings 

 of Australian Fish at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 

 233 ; Australian Grasses at the Indian and Colonial Exhibi- 

 tion, 301 ; Australian Museum, Sydney, 355 ; Sponges of 

 Australia, 359 



Austria, Meteorology in, 40 



Austria, Upper, Shamanism in. Dr. Zehden, 211 



Austria, Dr. A. B. Meyer on the Prehistoric Settlements of 

 Gurina, 517 



Autopsy Society, 396 



Aveling (Dr. E. B. ), Chemistry of the Non-Metallics, 557 



Ayrton (Prof W. E.), Note on Ramsay and Young's Paper on 

 some Thermodynamical Relations, 334 



Backhouse (Thos. W.) : Iridescent Clouds and their Height, 199, 

 486 ; Fabry's Comet, 366 



Bacteriological Research, Dr. Klein, F.R.S., 405 



Bacteriorology, Practical, Edgar M. Crookshank, 361 



Baffin's Land, Dr. Boas's Journeys in, 211 



Bagamoyo, a Shower of Stars seen at, 424 



Bagnall (Jas. E.>, Hand-book of Mosses, 557 



Baily (Walter), on a Map of the World in which the Propor- 

 tion of Areas is Preserved, 479 



Bakhuyzen (H. G. Van de Sande), the Rotation-Period of Mars, 

 42. ^"ii 



