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1V 
INDEX 
(Nature, Dec. 2, 1886 
Anesthetic Vapours, Influence of, on Living Tissues, R. Dubois, 
163 
Analysis, Quantitative, Fresenius, 2 
Anderson (W.), New Applications of the Mechanical Properties 
of Cork to the Arts, 181 
André and Berthelot, on the Formation of Oxalic Acid in 
Plants, 47, 71; on the Quantitative Analysis of Ammonia 
found in the Ground, 95, 163, 211; on the Tension of Dry 
Bicarbonate of Ammonia, 635 
Anemometer, Altazimuth, L. M. Casella, 95 
Animal Intelligence, Fred. Lewis, 265 ; Hy. Ling Roth, 289 
Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 354, 402, 462 
Anomalous Colour-Seeing from Alcoholism, Dr. Konig on, 48 
Antarctic Expedition, Proposed, 247 
Antarctic Exploration, Expediency of Deputation of Learned 
Societies to the Premier of Victoria, 398 
Antarctic Exploration: Capt. E. W. Creak on, 487, 634; John 
Murray on, 557 
Anthropology: Anthropological Society of Paris, 20; Capt. 
Temple on Folk-Lore and its Terminology, 38; M. Martel 
on Pottery in the Stone Age, 38; Stone Age in the Malay 
Peninsula, 53; Otis T. Mason on Carib Antiquities, 39 ; Otis 
T. Mason on the Progress of, 300 ; Anthropological Institute, 
70, 139, 186; Meeting of, at the Colonial Exhibition, 347 ; 
Egyptian Classification of the Races of Man, 139; Half- 
Castes of New Caledonia, 185 ; Hova and Sakalava Skulls, 
M. Trucy, 185 ; Primitive Forms of Numeration, M. Letour- 
neau, 185; Sign-Numbers in use among the Masai, J. Thom- 
son, 522; Development of Supernumerary Digits, M. 
Fauvelle, 185 ; Grave, in Belgium, of the Mammoth Period, 
M. Nadaillac, 492; Paleolithic Implements in Cambridge- 
shire, A. G. Wright, 521; Cereals of Prehistoric Times, 
545; Manguians of Mindoro, Prof. Blumentritt, 557 ; Abo- 
rigines of Formosa, Mr. Taylor, 602. See a/so British Asso- 
ciation, Section H, Anthropology 
Antimony from Tin, on the Separation of, M. Ad. Carnot, 332 
Ants, J. Jastrow, 560 
Apes, Anthropoid, at Zoological Gardens, 276 
Aquarium at the Colonial Exhibition, Re-stocking of, 38 ; 
Hybrid Trout at, 84; Supply of Fish for, 130; Indian Fish 
at, 501 
Aquarium, Brighton, Birth of Young Smooth-Hounds, 277 
Aquarium and Winter Garden, Projected, at Stockholm, 153 
Aquilina (Capt. L.) and W. J. L. Wharton, Recent Earth- 
quake in Greece, 497 
Arabic Analogies in Western Speech, E. M. Clerke, 578 
Arachnidz, Nerve-Centres in the, M. G. Saint-Remy, 540 
Arago, Proposed Centenary Statue of, 83 
Araneida: Second Yarkand Mission, Dr. F. Stoliczka, Rev. O. 
P. Cambridge, 120 
Arc and Glow Lamps, J. Maier, Ph.D., 542 
Arc Tangent to the Solar Halo of May 30, 1886, M. A. Cornu, 
139 
Archzology : Stone Slab, with Drawing of the Great Bear, 
found in Russia, 434 
Archibald (E. Douglas), Halos and Mock Suns, 313 
Arctic Expedition, Colonel Gilder’s, 490 
Arctic Sea, Ice in, 544 
Arenig Series of North Wales and Lake District, Prof. T. 
McKenny Hughes, 513 
Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.), Organic Evolution, 335 
Arithmetic for Schools, Rev. J. B. Lock, 51, 100 ; the Reviewer, 
143; Rev. J. B. Lock, 144 
Arithmetical Events, M. F. Cesaro, 158 
Arloing (S.), Tuberculosis and Scrofula in Guinea-Pigs, 564 
Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Chemical Physics, J. P. 
Cooke, Jun., 405 ‘ 
Arnaud (A.), Carotine, 96 ; Cholesterine in the Carrot, 163 
Arolla Glacier, Valais, Natural Gallery in, 457 
Arseniates, Crystallised, Researches on some, M. Coloriano, 
332 
Arsenic, an Application of the Copper Reduction Test to the 
Quantitative Determination of, Henry Carmichael, 402 
Arsenic, Removal of, from Hydroch'oric Acid, R. Otto, 492 
Arsonval (A. d’), Chronometer with Magnetic Coupling, 163 
Art Teaching in Bombay, 529 
Arthur (J. C.., Chas. R. Barnes and John M. Coulter, Hand- 
book of Plant-Dissection, 261 
Artimini (Prof. Filippo), New Kegistering Thermic Instruments, 
355 
| 
Arts, Cork and the, W. Anderson, 181 
Aryan Maori, the, Edward Tregear, 286 
Aryan, what is an?, Sir G. Campbell, 609 
Asamayama, Attempt to Sound the Crater of, 130; Ascent of, 
554 
Ascidians, Compound, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 437 ; 
Ashmont (G.), Dogs, their Management and Treatment in 
Disease, 167 
Asiatic Quarterly Review, 578 
Asiatic Society of Japan, 93 
Assier, (Adolphe a’), Periodicity of Glacial Epochs, 216 
Astronomy : Our Astronomical Column, 16, 39, 61, 84, I10, 
131, 155, 176, 202, 225, 247, 278, 435, 459, 490, 502, 531, 
555, 579, 603, 627; Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 
16, 40, 61, 85, 110, 131, 156, 176, 203, 225, 247, 278, 301, 
324, 349, 37%, 398- 435, 459) 491, 502, 532, 556, 579, 604, 
627; Dr. G. Muller on the Varying Brightness of the Minor 
Planets, 16; Application of Photography to Astronomy, Prof. 
Harkness, 16; Prof. Harkness on Flexure of Meridian In- 
struments, 39 ; Astronomical Photography, P. and P. Henry, 
35; M. Trépied on the Spectrum of Fabry’s Comet, 40; 
New Minor Planet, 40; Two New Comets, 40; Sun 
and Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 41, 204, 227, 
280 ; Sunspots and Prices of Indian Food-Grains, Frederick 
Chambers, 100; Report of the Astronomer Royal, 122; 
Astronomical Day, 125; Prof. M. Bredichin on the Re- 
vision of the Numerical Values of the Repulsive Force, 
208; a Treatise on Nautical, for the Use of Students, 
John Merrifield, 262 ; Stockholm Observatory, 277 5 Schul- 
hof’s Researches on the Orbit of Comet 1873 VII., 278 ; Solar 
Activity during the First Half of 1886, 278; Changes on 
Surface of Mars, 459 ; Planetary Perturbations, T. Tisserand, 
464; Progress of Astronomy in 1885, Prof. W. C. Winlock, 
490; Astronomical Theory of the Great Ice Age, Sir R. S. 
Ball, F.R.S., 606; Astronomische Gesellschaft, Zone Obser- 
vations of the, 131 
Ataxy, Paralytic, of the Heart, Mariano Semmola, 491 
Athanasesco (M.) Researches on some Crystallised Basic 
Sulphates, 332 
Athens, British School of Archzeology at, 692 
Atkinson on Indian Rhynchota, 603 
Atlantic, Summer Isobars, Winds and Cloudiness on the, L. T. 
de Bort, 188 
Atlantic Ocean, North, Geological Development of, Sir J. W. 
Dawson, 411 ; Geological Age of, Prof. E. Hull, F. R.S., 496 
Atmospheric Pressure and Tidal Wave, Capt. W. N. Green- 
wood, F.R.Met.Soc., 187 
Atomic Volume of Oxygen, M. E. H. Amagat, 95 
Atomic Weight of Cerium, H. Robinson, M.A., 511 
Atomic Weight of Germanium, M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 463 
Atomic Weights of Certain Rare Metals, Baron Nordenskjold, 
464 
Attraction, Capillary, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 270, 290, 
366 
Auditory Ossicles, Prof. Albrecht, 71 
August Perseids, W. F. Denning, 372 
Aumale (Duc d’), Bequeathes Chantilly to French Institute, 577 
Aurore: G. H. Kinahan, 312; Donald Cameron, 312; W. H. 
M. Christie, F.R.S., 336; M. A. Veeder, 469 ; Bright Clouds 
and the Aurora, T. W. Backhouse, 386 ; Earth Currents and 
Aurora, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 408 
Australia : Naturalist’s Holiday in, Dr. J. E. Taylor, 168 ; Notes 
on some Australian Tertiary Fossils, Capt. F. W. Hutton, 
307 ; Glaciation in the Australian Alps, James Stirling, 307 ; 
Unity of Races in Australia, M. Van den Gheyn, 372; Notes 
on Australian Earthworms, J. J. Fletcher, 379 ; Indigenous 
Plants of Australia, Baron Ferd. von Miiller, F.R.S., 462; 
Glacial Period in, R. von Lendenfeld, 522 ; Adelaide Botanic 
Garden, 558; Orchideze of the Mudgee District, A. G. 
Hamilton, 611; Coleoptera of Australia, A. S. Olliff, 611; 
Australasian Meteorological Society, an, 201 
Austrium, Dr. E. Linnemann, 59 
Austrium, a New Metal, on the Discovery of, Lecoq de Bois- 
baudran, 211 
Avifauna Italica, Dr. E. H. Giglioli, 593 
Axial Nervous Current, Researches on the, M. Maurice Mendels- 
sohn, 350 
Bacchante, Cruise of the, Prince Albert Victor and Prince 
George of Wales, Rey. John N. Dalton, 166 
