Nature, Jan. 4, 1883] 



INDEX 



Abel (Prof. F. A., F.R.S.), Some of the Dangerous Properties 



of Dust, 19 ; the Legal Flashing Test for Petroleum, 466 

 Abercromby (Hon R.), Spectroscope and Weather Forecasting, 



572 

 Abietinere, the, a Chapter in the History of Conifene, J. Slarkie 



Gardner, 106 

 Abney (Capt. ) and Prof. Schuster on Results obtained during 



the late Total Solar Eclipse, 465 

 Aborigines, Australian, A. W. Howitt, 452 

 Absorption of Heat by Gas-mixtures, Heine, 308 

 Accidents from Electricity in Paris, 378, 415 

 Accumulators, Kabath's Electric, 180 ; Chemistry of Plants and 



Faure's Gladstone and Tribe, 603 

 Acoustics, Kcenig's Experiments in, 203, 275 

 Adams (Prof. Leith), Death of, 377 

 Aerial, Panoramic Photography, 482 

 Aeronautics, Ascent by M. Eloy, 67, 88 ; Aeronautical Society, 



335 ; French Military Aeronauts, 482 

 ^Erorthometer, the, 467 

 ACschna cyanea, Lurious Fact regarding, Signor Stefanelli, 



89 

 Africa, Italian Exploration of, 41 ; Report of South African 

 Museum, 231 ; New English Expedition, 304 ; Lieut. Giraud's 

 Expedition, 3C9 ; Dr. Holub's New Expedition to South 

 Africa, 558 ; Ravenstein's Map of Ea-tern Equatorial Africa, 

 558 ; African Rivers and Meteorology, Prof. O'Reilly, 597 ; 

 Hamburg Geographical Society's Expedition to Central East 

 Africa, 615 

 Agardh (Dr. J. G.), Algaj, 65 

 Agriculture and Biology, 101 

 Aino Ethnology, A. H. Keane, 524 

 Air in Guns, Resistance of the, Prof. D. Colladon, 353 

 Airy (Sir G. B., F.R.S.), the Proposed New Forth Bridge, 



598 

 Alaska, Seal Islands of, 199 ; Lieut. Schwatka's Expedition to 

 Northern, 231 ; Joan Petroff on Limit of Innuit Tribes on 

 Alaska Coast, 257 

 Aldis (Mary Steadman), "The Great Giant Arithmos," 123 

 Alexandria, Climate of, 338 ; Telephonic Experiment at Malta 



during Bombardment of, 287 

 Algae, Dr. J. G. Agardh on, 65 

 Algol, the Variable Star, 483 



Allen (A. II.), "Commercial Organic Analysis," 28 

 Allen (Grant), Colours of Flowers, 299, 323, 346, 371 

 Alluvion, Sea-Shore, Langley Point, 30; Galshot and Hurst 



Beaches, 104; the "Chesil," J. B. Redman, 150 

 Altitudes, Rapid-view Instruments for Momentary, Fras. 



Galton, F.R.S., 249 

 Altitudes, Sunlight and Skylight at, 586 



Aluminium for Movable Coil, Dr. E. Obach, 245 ; The Mecha- 

 nical Properties of, 495 

 " Umaznlu : the Zulus, their Past History, Manners, Customs, 



and Language, &c," Rev. J. B. Jenkinson, 522 

 America : Free Libraries in, 329 ; Convention of Photographers 

 Asvociation of, 378 



American Association for the Advancement of Science, 17, 4S0, 



505 „ „ 



American Journal of Science, 22, 94, 280, 3S3 



American Mathematical Text-books, some Recent, R. Tucker, 



59 

 American Naturalist, 70, S8, 591 

 American Woodcock Carrying its Young, 542 

 Amicis' (De) "Morocco," German Edition, 614 

 Amu-Daria, Geological History of Delta of, 2S2 

 Anxsthesia of Larynx by Carbonic Acid, Brown-Seqmr.l, 



557 

 Analysis, Commercial Organic, A. II. Allen, 28 

 Anatomie, Handbuch der vergleichenden, Prof. Schmidt, 



335 

 Anatomie der W'irbelthiere, Lehrbuch der, Prof. Wiedersheim, 



385 

 Anderson (R.), Lightning Conductors, 557 

 Andes, Note on Soroche (Mountain Sickness) in the, J. Ball, 



F.R.S., 477 

 Andrews (G. H.), " Boats of all Nations," 556 

 Andreyew Expedition, 558 

 Anemometrical Observations on Board Ship, 83 

 Angell(Dr. A.), the Brown Coloration of Southampton Water, 



493 

 Animal Intelligence: Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., J. Whit- 

 taker, 449 ; C. Lloyd Morgan, 523 ; Rev. Geo. Henslow, 



573 

 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 45, 166, 286, 359, 472 

 Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 585 

 Annual Record of Published Scientific Work, Prof. Sollas's 



Scheme for, 377 

 Antarctic Region, Meteorology of the, J. J. Murphy, 366 

 Antarctic Expedition, Wreck of Italian, 37S 

 Anthelm's Nova of 1670, 42 



Anthropological Institute, 47, 71, 167, 215, 230, 287, 306 

 Anthropological Society, Congress of German, 37S 

 Ants, Bees, and Wasps, Sir J. Lubbock, F.K.S., Dr. G. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 121 

 Ants in Horticulture, Utilisation of, Trof. C. V. Riley, 



126 

 Ants, White, Surgeon Major Bidie, 599 

 Apo, Ascent of Mount, 257 

 "Apple Weevil," Miss Ormerod, 447 

 Arc Electric Lamp, New, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 526 

 Archibald (E. Douglas), Cyclones, 9, 31 ; Recent I'n easonable 



Weather, 197 ; Is the Axis of a Cyclone Vertical? 222 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 70, 213, 3S3, 



616 

 Arctic Exploration : the Dutch Expedition, 19; Danish Expe- 

 dition, 282 

 Arctic Voyage Round Asia and Europe, Nordenskjold's, Lieut. 



A. Hovgaard, 29 

 Aristotelian Society, 530 

 Arithmetic, " The Great Giant Arithmos, a most Elementary 



Arithmetic," Mary Steadman Aldis, 123 



