Nature, Dec. 2, 1886 
LN Dex 
ABACUS in Europe and the East, Dr. Knott, 93 “", 
Abbott (Chas. C.), Upland and Meadow, a Poaetquissings 
Chronicle, 190 
Abel (Sir Fredk., F.R.S.), and Colonel Maitland, Erosion of 
Gun-Barrels, 575 , 
Abel (Niel-Henrik), his Life, &c., Prof. C. A. Bjerknes, 9¢ 
Abercromby (Hon. Ralph): Upper Wind-Currents over the 
Bay of Bengal in March, and Malaysia in April and May, 
288 ; Peculiar Sunrise Shadow of Adam’s Peak, Ceylon, 509, 
596 
Aberdare Hall, Report of, 108 
Abich (Dr. Hermann), Death of, 245, 274 ; Obituary Notice of, 
290 
Abrahall (Rey. J. H.), Fine Meteor, 602 ; 
Absorption-Spectra, on the Variation of the, in Non-Isotropic 
Mediums, M. Henry Becquerel, 307 
Absorption-Spectrum of Didymium, Note on the, William 
Crookes, F.R.S., 266 
Absorption-Spectrum of Oxygen, M. Janssen, 176, 187 
Acclimatisation Society of Otago, 501, 555 
Acetonitril, on the Mono-substituted Haloid Derivatives of, M. 
Louis Henry, 403 
Acid, a New, Prof. G. Korner, 159 
Ackroyd (William) and W. Emmott, an Electric-Light Fire- 
damp Indicator, 210 
Acorn-Shell, Peculiar Growth of the, F. P. Pascoe, 596 
Acoustics, Light, and Heat, W. Lees, 27 
Actinometry by Oxalic Acid, A. Downes, 547 
Actinotrocha of the British Coasts, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 
387; W. H. Shrubsole, 439; W. C. McIntosh, 468 
Actinotrocha, Tornaria and, of the British Coasts, J. T. Cun- 
ningham, 361 
Adams. (John Couch, F.R.S.), Biographical Sketch of (With 
Portrait Engraved on Steel), 565 
Adam’s Peak, 509, 596 
Adelaide Botanic Garden, 558 
Adrian (M.), Piliganine, 163 
Aérial Photography, M. Gaston Tissandier, 347 
Aérolite, New, L. Haepke, 439 
Aéronautics: M. L’Hoste’s Successful Balloon Journey, 324 ; 
M. Van Tassel’s Large Balloon, 371. See a/so Balloons 
Aérostatic Machine, General Meusnier’s Projected, 331 
Afghan Delimitation Commission, Zoological Collections of, 
108 
Africa : African Ethnography at the British Museum, 14 ; Count 
Teleky’s Expedition, 61; Sketch of the Flora of South 
Africa, H. Bolus, F.L.S., 77; Flora of South Africa, C. 
Piazzi Smyth, 99; Explorations of Lieut. von Nimptsch, 
226; News of Dr. Junker’s Expedition, 248 ; Colonel Serpa- 
Pinto ani Lieut. Cardoza at the African Lakes Region, 557 ; 
L. Wolf on Central Africa, 605; Europe’s Mission and 
Prospects in, G. Schweinfurth, 605 
After-Glows of 1883-84, A. W. Clayden, M.A., 95 
After-Glows at Ferdinandea in 1831, M. A. Riccd, 71 
Agaricini, Rev. A. Johnson, 626 
Agricultural Students’ Gazette, 14 
Ahrens (C. D.), Polarising Prism, 162 
Aigoual, Meteorological Station of I’, M. F. Perrier, 331 
Ainos, Mr. Penhallow on the, 108, 176 
Air and Water, Microscopic Organisms in, M. le Dr. Miquel, 
318 
_Airy (Sir George, F.R.S.), on Magnetic Force, 54 
‘Alaska, Proposed Expedition by Lieut. Schwatka to, 226, 500 
Albert of Monaco (Prince), on the Gulf Stream, 458 
Albeit Victor (Prince), and Prince George of Wales, Cruise 0 
the Bucchante, 166 
Albrecht (Prof.), Auditory Ossicles, 72 
Alcantara (H.M. dom Pedro a’), Earthquake in Brazil, May 9, 
187 
Alchemie in alterer und neuerer Zeit, H. Kopp, G. H. Bailey, 
544 
Alcoholism, Ur. Konig on Anomalous Colour-Seeing from, 48 
Aldis (W. Steadmau), an Elementary Treatise on Geometrical 
Optics, 334 
Alexander (Prof. F.), Retires from Japan University, 458 
Alexander (J. M.), the Craters of Mokuaweoweo on Mauna 
Loa, 232 
Alexander (Prof.), Presentation to at Tokio, 544 
Alexejew (W.), Solutions, 355 
Algebra, Prof. G. Chrystal, 614 
Algebra, Multiple, Prof. Gibbes, 558 
Algebraic Notation of Kinship, C. Davison, 571 
Algebraic Surfaces, Transformation of, E. Picard, 563 
Algeria, Earthquake in, 153 
Algeria, the Optical Telegraph in, 277 
Algeria, Bouzareah Observatory, 576 
Algiers, Mirage preceding Thunderstorms at, 277 
Alligator in the Bahamas, J. Gardiner, 546 
Allman (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S.}, Obituary Notice of George 
Busk, F.R.S., 387 
Alps, Number of Glaciers in the, Prof. Heim, 245 
Alps, High, Lightning Holes in the, Prof. Brun, 458 
Alston (E. R.), Mammals of Central America, 615 
Altazimuth Anemometer, L. M. Casella, 95 
Alteration induced by Heat in Certain Vitreous Rocks, F. 
Rutley, F.GS., 137 
Aluminium, New Alloy of, M. Bourbouze, 163 
Amagat (M. E. H.), Atomic Volume of Oxygen, 95 
Amber, Occurrence of, in the Prehistoric Graves of the Départe- 
ment des Basses Alpes, M. Bonnemére, 379 
America: American Ethnography at the British Museum, 14 ; 
American Journal of Science, 46, 68, 80, 158, 207, 322, 330, 
402; American Naturalist, 68; American Academy, 153 ; 
A.O.U. Code and Check-List of North American Birds, R. 
Bowdler Sharpe, 169 ; American Shell-work, 187 ; American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 245; Meeting 
of, at Buffalo, 299, 396, 558; Earthquakes of North and 
South, Prof. Rockwood, Jun., 322; Late American Earth- 
quake and its Limits, J. P. O'Reilly, 569; Acclimatising 
Flatfish to American Waters, 322; Entomology of Central, 
Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 333; Mammals of Central, E. R. 
Alston, P. L. Sclater, 615; American Journal of Mathe- 
matics, 521 ; Production of Prof. Sylvester’s Lectures on his 
New Theory of Reciprocants in, 346; American Men 
of Science, 348; American Meteorological Journal, 348 ; 
American Vines, E. W. Claypole, 571 
Amines, Primary, Preparation of, J Tafel, 492 
Ammonia, Quantitative Analysis of, MM. Berthelot and André, 95 
Ammonia in the Ground, MM. Berthelot and André, 95, 163, 211 
Ammonia, on the Displacement of, by other Bases, and on its 
Quantitative Analysis, MM. Berthelot and Andre, 307, 355 
Ammonia present in the Ground, T. Schleesing, 140, 187 ; 
the Quantitative Analysis of, M. Th. Schloesing, 355 
Ammonia, Hydrochlorate of, Action of Oxide of Lead on, F- 
Isambert, 163 
Ammonium Formate, R. Leukhardt and E: Bach, 464 
Ampeére’s Rule, G. Daehne, 168; L. Cumming, 192; Geo. M- 
Minchin, 193 ; H. G. Madan, 217 
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