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INDEX 
XV 
a 
Methods of Teaching Geography, 476; Alaska Expedition, 
Lieut. Schwatka, 500; Hainan and its People, B. C. Henry, 
591 ; Geographical Society of Vienna, 605; of Russia, F. M. 
von Waldeck, 616; of Switzerland, Prof. J. J. Egli, 616; 
Antarctic Exploration, Capt. E. W. Creak, 634. See adso 
British Association, Section E, Geography 
Geology: of Turkestan, J. V. Moushketoff, 117; Sea- 
weeds, Shells, and Fossils, P. Gray, A.B.S., and B. B. 
Woodward, 28; United States Geological Survey, 57; of 
Japan, Prof. Milne on, 60 ; Jurassic Limestones of the Crimea, 
Prof. Lewakowsky, 67; Lower Silurian Fossils, 68 ; Geo- 
logical Society, 69, 138, 162, 210, 257; A. B. Wynne, 
F.G.S., Boulder Beds of the Salt Range, Punjab, 69; Mr. 
¥F. L. Cornet, Phosphatic Beds near Mons, 69; What is 
Histioderma ?, 53 ; A. Ramsay, 76 ; Cretaceous:Metamorphic 
Rocks, G. F. Becker, 80; Prof. Hull on the Palestine Expe- 
dition, 115 ; Geological Museum, Cambridge, 130; Ostra- 
coda, Prof. T. R. Jones, F.R.S., and J. W. Kirkby, 138 ; 
Vertebrata of the Red Crag, R. Lydekker, F.G.S , 139; 
Pleistocene Succession of the Trent Basin, R. M. Deeley, 
F.G.S., 139; Cretaceous Metamorphic Rocks of California, 
G. F. Becker, 158 ; Pre-Cambrian Age of Rocks in North- 
Western Pembroke-hire, H. Hicks, M.D, 162; T. G. 
Bonney, 162; Structure of the Lure Range, Lower Alps, W. 
Kilian, 188 ; Fossil Cetaceans from the Caucasus, P. J. Van 
Beneden, 208 ; a New Genus of Lower Silurian Brachiopoda, 
L. W. Ford, 208; the Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, 
Monckton and Herries, 210; Geology of Turkestan, J. V. 
Moushketoff, 237; Geology of Cape Breton Island, Nova 
Scotia, Edwin Gilpin, 258; on some Cupriferous Shales in 
the Province of Houpeh, China, H. M. Becher, 259; on the 
Relations of Geodesy to Geology, M. H. Faye, 355; Geo- 
logical Development of the North Atlantic Ocean, Sir J. W. 
Dawson, F.R.S., 411; Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., on 
Geological Time, 420; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., on the 
Microscopic Analysis of Rocks, 443; Prof. T. G. Bonney, 
F.R.S., on the Past Geographical History of the British Isles, 
449; Fossil Plants of Tertiary and Secondary Beds, J. S. 
Gardner, 479 ; Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palaeozoic Rocks, T. 
R. Jones, 481 ; Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, Rev. 
Dr. Crosskey, 481; Eocene Ferns of West France and 
Saxony, L. Crié, 492; Geological Age of the North Atlantic 
Ocean, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S , 496; Glacial Period in 
Australia, R. von Lendenfeld, 522; Sierra Nevada, J. Le 
Conte, 539; Devonian Lamellibranchiata, H. S. Williams, 
539; Pliocene Sandstones from Montana and Idaho, G, 
P. Merrill, 539 ; Carmaux Coal-Measures, MM. A. Caraven- 
Cachin and Grand, 540; Affinities of Oolitic Floras in West 
of France and England, 540; Constitution of District of 
Croix-Rousse, Lyons, M. Fontannes, 588; United States 
Survey, Fifth Report, 597 ; Origin of Mountain Ranges, T. 
M. Reade, 602. See a/so British Association, Section C, 
Geology 
Geometry : an Elementary Treatise on Geometrical Optics, W. 
Steadman Aldis, 334; Constructive Geometry of Plane 
Curves, T. H. Eagles, M.A., 74; Non-Euclidian Geometry 
Vindicated, F. W. Frankland, 521; Greek Geometry from 
Thales to Euclid, 548 ; Chinese Geometry, Dr. Mateer, Dr. 
Martin, 577 - 
Germ- Diseases, Dr. E. Salmon, 560 
Germ-Life in Water, Duration of, Arthur Downes, 265 ; Percy 
F. Frankland, 289 
German Association of Naturalists and Physicians, 488, 605 
German Naval Observatory, 622 
Germanium: M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran on, 163; C. Winkler 
on, 580 ; Atomic Weight of, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 463 
Geysers of Rotorua, New Zealand, E. W. Bucke, 512 
Gheyn (M. van den), Unity of Races in Australia, 372 
Giard (A.), Fecampia erythrocephala, 516 
Gibbs (Heneage, M.D.), Practical Pathology and Histology, 51 
Gibbs (Prof.), Multiple Algebra, 558 
Gibson (Dr. J. Lockhart), Blood Formation, 68 
Giglioli (Prof. Henry H.), a Singular Case, 313 
Giglioli (Dr. E. H.), Avifauna Italica, 593 
Gilbert (G. K.), Topographic Features of Lake Shores, 269 
Gilchrist (P. C.) and E. Riley, Iron-making Resources of British 
Colonies and India, 575 
Gilded Appearance in Chrysalises, Artificial Production of, E. 
B. Poulton, 538 
Gilder (Colonel), Expedition to the North Pole, 490 
Gilpin (Edwin) Geology of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 258 
Gills, Rudimentary, of the Common Limpet (Patd/a vulgata), 
J. R. A. Davis, 185 
Giornale d’Agricoltura e Commercio, 578 
Glacial Deposits, Evidence of Man and Pleistocene Animals in 
North Wales prior to, Henry Hicks, F.R.S., 216 
Glacial Epochs, Periodicity of, Adolphe d’Assier, 216 
Glacial Erratics of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, Rev. W. 
Tuckwell, 512 : 
Glacial Formations in Gothland, F. Tegrzeus, 164 
Glacial Period in Australia, R. von Lendenfeld, 522 
Glaciation in the Australian Alps, James Stirling, 307 
Glaciation of South Lancashire, &c., Aubrey Strahan, F.G.S., 
162 
Glacier, What is a ?, Israel C. Russell, 243 
Glaciers in the Alps, Number of, Prof. Heim, 245 
Glaciers in Russia, M. Nikitin, 604 
Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S.), on Refractometers, 192 ; on the 
Essential Oils, 511 
Glasgow : Microscopical Society, 14 ; Photographic Exhibition 
at, 275 
Glass, New Optical, 622 
Glass and Steel, Strain-Effect of Sudden Cooling in, Barus aud 
Strouhal, 208 
Globe, Proportion of the Areas of Land and Water on the 
Surface of the, Prof. Penck, 372 
Godeffroy, Museum, Dispersion of, 174 
Gold, Crystallisation of, Edward S. Dana, 402 
Gold-Fields, Chemistry for the, James G. Black, 238 
Goldscheider (Dr.), Effects of Menthol on Nerves of Tempera- 
ture, 7I 
Goldsmid (Major-General Sir F. J.), Opening Address of Sec- 
tion E (Geography), British Association, 474 
Goodeve (T. M.), a Manual of Mechanics, Prof. Geo. M. 
Minchin, 358 
Goolden and Trotter’s Dynamos, 627 
Gop Cairn and Cave, Recent Explorations of, Prof. B. Dawkins, 
608 
Gordon (Lieut. A. R.), Ice-Movements in Hudson’s Bay, 304 
Gore (G., LL.D., F.R.S.), Relation of Transfer Resistance to 
the Molecular Weight and Chemical Composition of Electro- 
lytes, 94 
Gore (J. E.), Nova Orionis, 202 ; Binary Star r Cygni, 603 
Gorgeu, A., Silicates of Alumina, Potassa, and Soda, 96 
Gothland, Glacial Formations in, F. Tegraeus, 164 
Gottsche (Dr.), on Corea, 248 
Goudatti (M.), in Siberia, 41 
Gould (Dr. B. A.), Photographic Determinations of Stellar 
Positions, 502, 560; his Astronomical Journal, 502 
Gould (J.), Trochilide, B. Sharpe, 602 
Govi (M.), Volta on Lavoisier’s Pneumatic Theory, 491; 
Plano-Convex Lens by Torricelli, 491; Hostility of Jesuits 
to Galileo, 491 
Grabham (M. C., M.D.), Bugio, the Biological Relations of an 
Atlantic Rock, 538 
Grand and Caraven-Cachin (MM.), Carmaux Coal-Measures, 540 
Granton, Scotland, Marine Biological Station at, 484 
Grasses, Indigenous Fodder, of North-Western India, J. F. 
Duthie, W. Fream, 494 
Grave, in Belgium, of the Mammoth Period, M. Nadaillac, 492 
Grave of Stone Age at Crécy-sur-Morin, A. Thieullen, 636 
Gray (P.) and B. B. Woodward, Seaweeds, Shells, and 
Fossils, 23 
Grease of Sheep’s Wool, Soap from, 530 
Greece, Recent Earthquake in, W. J. L. Wharton and Capt. 
L. Aquilina, 497 
Greece, Earthquake in, L. Vidal, 564 
Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid, 548 
Green (A. G.) and R. J. Friswell, Diazoamidobenzene, 492 
Green (J. R.), Composition of Edible Bird’s-Nest, 81 
Greenwich Observatory, Measures of Terrestrial Magnetic Force 
at, 54 
Geshaea (M. N.), Priestley’s Experiment 
Aquatic Animals and Plants, 404 
Grenada : Arrival of the British Observing Party for the Eclipse 
of the Sun, 370; Eclipse Expedition, Dr. MacAlister on the, 
441 ; Botanical Garden, 489 ; Murray’s Botanical Researches 
in, 489 
Grenfell (J. G.), Iridescent Clouds, 3 
Griffith (G.), Scientific Nomenclature, 122 
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