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INDEX TO 
Acclimatation Society of Paris, 236 
Actuaries, Institute of, 247 
Aerolites, Falls of, 120. (See AZeteors.) 
Agassiz (Prof. Alexander) on Corals in the Atlantic, 147 
Agricultural Chemistry, 424 ; in France, 353 
Agricultural Map of France, $6 
Air, Organic Matters contained i in, 327, 339, 351, 361, 392, 405 
Airy (G. B.), Report of his Paper on Magnetic Disturbances and 
Iffects, &c., 390 ; Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion, 87 
Airy (Hubert) ona Dradinet Form of Transient Hemiopsia, 445 
Albite in Granite, Report of Prof. Haughton’s Paper on, 175 
Alcohol], New Test for, 61; its Effect on Animal Heat, 62; Dr. 
Dupré on Elimination of, $5 ; Reactions of, 392 
Alizarine, Artificial, 369 
Allen’s Mammalia of Massachusetts, 625 
Amagat on the Law of Mariotte, 567 
American Association, Meeting of, $3 
American Government and Science, 86, 113 
American Recent Total Eclipse, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 14; 
see also 170, 532 
Analogy of Colour and Music, 384; see Colour 
natomical Lectures to Female Students, 337 
Andral (M.) on the Temperature of tne iSlivyesara Body, 201 
Anemometer, New, 640 
Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England, by Dr. Rolleston, F.R.S.,661 
Antarctic Explorations, Report of Papers, &c., 563 
Anthracite Deposits in Carinthia, 178 
Anthropological Society, 62, 198, 368, 445, 491, 568, 639, 642, 
664. 
Aveholbntls (Professor) Report of his Paper on the Analysis of 
Sugar, 175 
Archzeology, Pre-historic, by John Evans, F.R.S., 77 
/eanaer's Freshwater Radiolaria, 189 
‘i Arctic Regions, German and Swedish Expeditions to, by R. A 
\ Proctor, 313 2 
icc (Sir W.) on the Meteor of November, 1869, 112 
romatic Acids, Synthesis of, 207 
scidians and Vertebrates, kinship of, 90 
‘Asiatic Society of London, II7 
Assured Lives, Mortality of, 521 
‘Astronomical Congress at Vienna, 26 
Astronomical Society, 145, 221, 390, 543, 663 
Astronomy, Chinese, 221. (For Astronomy, consult the several 
. | headings Zclzpse, Meteors, and the like.) 
‘Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion, Correction of, 87 
tmospheric Germ Theory, 351 
‘Atomic Controversy, The, 44 
Atoms, size of, 551 
Aurora Borealis, 347 
Australian Mesozoic Geology and Palzontology, 90 
Australia, Telegraphic Communication with, 267 
Australia, Western, 615 
Babington (Prof.) on the Flora of Iceland, 345 
Bail on Androgynous Inflorescence, 293; on Parasitic Fungi, 
[293 
Baillon’s History of Plants, by Professor Oliver, F.R.S., 52 
Baily’s Our Own Birds, 356 
Baker’s (Sir Samuel) Expedition, 512 
Balfour’s (Prof.) Letter on the Transactions of the Royal Society 
| of Edinburgh, 534 
Barrett’ s (W. F.) Notes on une Correlation of Colour and Music, 
286; Letter on, 406 
Barrows, Ancient British, 460, 583 
: Bartholomew’ s emanecal Atlas, 380 
Bastian (Dr.) on Sensation and Perception, 213, 309; on Pro- 
‘toplasm, 424. 
Bate (C. Spence) on Prismatic Ice, 536 
Lates’s Address to the Entomological Society, 357 
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Becquerel (M.) on the Action of Light upon Bodies, 120; his 
Memoir on Electro-capillary Phenomena, 147: 
Beke (Dr.) on Dr. Livingstone’s Explorations, 
Solution of the Nile Problem, 405 
Bell’s New Tracks in North America, 163 
Bell (Melville), Report of his Paper on Pronouncing all Lan- 
guages (Philological), 199 
Bennett (Alfred W., F.L.S.) on the Fertilisation of Winter 
Flowering Plants, 11, 58; on Vegetable Monstrosities, 323 
Benzol, Novel Te vont of, 244 
Berkeley (Rev. M. J.) on Oliver’s Indian Botany, 234 
Berlin Academy of Sciences, 177, 416 
Berlin : German Chemical Society, 63, 121, 226, 297, 322 
446, 493, 546 
Bessemer Process under Pressure, 292 
Bettinger’s Sandwich Islands, 108 
Bheel Tribes (Royal Asiatic Society), 117 
Bibliothéque des Merveilles, by G. . Rodwell, F.C.S., 187 
Bidgood (W.) on the T urdus Whitei, 363 
Binnie (Francis G.) on Cuckows’ Eggs, 508 
Binz (Prof.), New Body obtained from Quinine, 322 
Birchall (Edwin) on Irish Lepidoptera, 267 
Birds, Flight of, 363, 431 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 63, 639 
Blood, Coagulation of, 117 
Blood Corpuscles, 587 
Blood-letting, Origin of, by E. Ray Lankester, 76 
Boillot (M.) on Euclid’s Postulate, 321 
Bonn Natural History Society, 177, 332 
Bonney (Rev. T. G.) on. Veined Structure in Ice, 
Natural Science in the University of Cambridge, 451, 
Book Shelf, Our, 17, 53, 80, 108, 134, 165, 188, 
260) 283, 306, 329, 355, 380, 403, 428, 450, 480, 503. 
sult also the names of the several A uthors. ) 
Boston Society of Natural History, 348, 369, 418, 569 
Brachiopoda obtained near Budleigh Salterton, Notes on; Re- 
port on Mr. Davidson’s Paper at the Geological Society, 222 
Brady on Foraminifera, 477 
Brain, development of grey matter of, 62 
Breath, Human, in Health and Disease, 520 
Bremiker’s Geodesy, 54, 
Bridge’s Physiology, 480 
Brighton and Sussex, Natural Histery Society, 
469, 593 
British Museum Herbarium, 343 
Brome, Capt. I. (the late), 509 % 
Browning on Changes in Jupiter, 138 
Brussels, Royal Academy of Sciences, 92, 226, 641 
Bryce (Dr.) on the Geological Structure of Skye and the. West 
Highlands, 368 
Busk (Prof.) on Capt. Fred. Brome, 509 
Butler’s Iéxotic Lepidoptera, 17 
240; on the 
, 369, 
99 . 
337 3 
628 
DID DB, 
(Con- 
2, 201, 394, 
Calamites, Organisation of, 393 
Caldwell’s Agricultural Analysis, 428 
Calvaria, Ancient (Ethnological Soc.), 247 ° 
Cambridge, Notes from, 26, 140, 586; Science at, by James 
Stuart, 58 ; Scholarships and i xhibitions for Natural Science, 
" 168 
Coren Philosophical Society, 468, 493, 639 
Camera, ‘Improved Eclipse, 313 
Campbell of Islay (Mr.) on British Mythology (Report), 592 
Cafions, by Archibald Geikie, F.R.S , 434 
Carbonic Acid decomposed by Leaves, 142 
Carpenter (Dr. W. B.) on the Temperature and Animal Life 
of the Deep Sea, 489, 540, 563 
Carpmael (Ernest) on the Solar Prominences, 607 
Carruthers (W.) on the Plants of Middlesex, 107 
Cassell’s Technical Manuals, 814 
