INDEX 



Abbott (Pruf. C. C), American Flint Arrow-heads, 392, 515 



Aberystwith College, 4St 



Abnormal Dispersion of Bodies with Surface Colours, 130 



Acclimatisation, 13, 70, 190, 421 



Achatinellin^, and Variation of Species, 222 



Acoustical Experiments: by Prof. Mayer, Ph.D., 37; On the 

 Seine, 447 



Adams (Prof. W. G., F. R.S.), London University Examina- 

 tions, 514 



Adhesion Figures, 122. 



Agassiz (Prof. ), South American Expedition, 14, 69, 129, 209, 

 210, 216, 229, 270,^^14, 455, 460, 495, 509 ; Address at San 

 Francisco, 509 ~55i. 



Agricultural Academies, 543 



Agricultural Colleges at Proskau and Bombay, 502 



"Air and Rain," by A. R. Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S., 325 



Airy (Sir G. B., F.R.S.) on Solar Outbursts and Magnetic 

 Storms, 32S 



Aitken (John), Melting and Regelation of Ice, 396 



Albumen in Fats (Br. A.), 405 



Alexandra Park, proposed School of Horticulture, 503 



Alligator's Eggs hatched by a Hen, 170 



Alligator's Nest, 90 



AUman (Prof, F. R.S. ), Mitraria, VorticelUdse, Noctiluca, 

 Edwarlsia, Cyphonautes (Br. A.), 425, 426, 427 



Alpine Maps, 203 



America: Entomological Reports. 197; Preparations for the 

 Transit of Vtnus, 4^4; .Xsaoci.iiion for the Advancement of 

 Science, j2'^, 442 ; Academy of Sciences, 45 ; Exploring Ex- 

 pedition, 465 {A >iJ Sid Agzssiz, Prof.) ; " Flint" Arrow-heads, 

 392, 413, 515 ; Journal of Science and Art, 18, 93 



American Naturalist, 133, 1 54, 466, 507 



Amiens, Societe Liuneenne. 37S 



Anatolia, Vestiijes of Glacial Action, 536 



Andeison (J. F.). Luminous Matter in the Atmosphere, 221 



Andrews (Prof. E. B., Ohio) on Coal, 443 



Anemometer at Sandwic'i<, Orknej', 269 



Ants and Aphides, Dr. Bree on, 279 



Anteaters, Placenta of, 273 



Anthropologic.il Institute, 19, 39, 74, 114, 194 j 



Anthropology {See Br. A., Section U) 



Anthropology ; French Association at Bordeaux, 445 



Antiquaries, S'icitty of, and the Government, 277 



Aquaria: Brighton, 305, 378, 462; Berlin, 170; Great Yar- 

 mouth, 481 ; Manchester, 37S ; Naples, 202 ; Vienna, 441 j 



-■Xrch^ological Institute, Meeting at Southampton, 281 



Archaeology, International Congress at Brussels, 355, 373 | 



Arctic Exploration, iS. 34, 90, 109, 150, 228, 330, 355, 414 j 



"' Aiithnietic, Concrete," by T. A. Orme, 178 



Arrow-heads, Flint, 206, 225, 392, 413. 515 I 



" Astronomy and Geology Compared," by Lord Orinathwaite, 4 



" .\s!ronomy, History of," by Dr. J. H. von Madler, $S 



Atmospheric Effect at Sunset, Prof. Tyndall on, 260; J. R. 

 Capron, 279 



Atmospheric Germs, 372 



Atkinson (E., Ph.D ), his edition of Ganot's "Natural Philo- 

 sophy," 47 [ 

 Atoms ai.d .MoUcuIes, by S. D. Tillman, LL.D,, 171 

 Aurora: of Feliruary 4, 1S72, Sydney, 202; Tobago, 454; 

 Aus'.ralis, at Naal, 90 ; Borealis, Christ's Hospital, 515; 

 Dublin, 220; Bridport, 21 ; Sevres, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, 

 4S2 ; Borealis, White, at Angers, 482 ; by Daylight, 492 ; 

 tipectrum of, 260, 329 

 Australia: Eclipse Expeditii n, 44 ; Land Telegraph, 482 (&^ 



Melbourne) 

 Ayiton (Right Hon. W. S., M.P.), his treatment of Dr. Hooker, 

 209, 211, 249,280, 304, 332, 401 ; and of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries, 277 



Balfour (Prof. J. H., F.R.S. ), " Paloeontological Botany," 429 



Ball (John, F.R.S.), Chain of the Great Atlas (Br. A.), 386 



Balloons during the Siege of Paris, 88 



Baltimore, Peabody Institute, 250 



Barnard (F. A. P., LL.D.), " Metric System of Weights and 



Measure?," 472 

 Barograph, Electrical, 493 



Barrett (W. F., F.C.S.), Analogy of Colour and Music, 434 

 Bass brought alive from America, 270 



Baslian (H. C, F.R S. ), "The Beginnings of Life," 284, 299 

 Bate (C. Spence), Fauna of South Devon (Br. A.), 363; Tu- 

 muli on Dartmoor (Br. A.), 3S5 

 Bats in New Zealand, 162 

 Beaufort's Wind Scale. 493 



Beazeley (.Alexander, C. E. ), Vibration of Glasses, 221 

 Beer, Pasteur's Process of Manufacture, 41S 

 Bees, Parthenogenesis in, 4S3, 523 

 Bees V. Mechanism, 242 



" Beginnings of Life," byH. C. Bastian, M.D., F.R.S., 2S4, 299 

 Beke (Dr.), Sources of the Nile (Br. A.), 347 

 Bell (F. Jeffrey), Aurora Borealis, 515 



Beneden'iProf. Van), Whales of the Antwerp Crag (Br. A.), 425 

 Bennett (A. W., F.L.S.), Consciousness and Volition, 473 

 Bent (Silas), "Thermal Paths to the Pole," loi 

 Bentham (George, F.R.S.), Anniversary Address to the Linnean 



Society, in, 131 

 Berthelot (M.), Scientific Relations of Germany, France, and 



England, 191 

 Berlin : German Chemical Society, 76 ; Science in, 34S 

 Bermudas, the. Recent Observaiions, 262 

 Bessemer (H.), Albert Medal awarded to, 1 28 

 Bethnal Gieen Museum, 109, 169 

 Bibliial Archaeology, Society of, 75, 195 

 Biela's Comet, J. R. Hind, F.R.S,, on, 442 

 Bigelow (Dr.), Medical Education, 217 



" Biology, Introduction to," by H. A. Nicholson, ^LD., 25S 

 Biology (S,Y Br. A., Section D) 

 " Birds of Europe," by Sharpe and Dresser, 390 

 Birds of Europe and America, 129 ; Preservation of, 5 ; Repo.t 



of " Close Time" Committee (Br. A.), 363 

 Birds' EgJS, Instructions for Preserving, 191 

 Birmingham, College of Physical .Science, 304 ; Great Storm, 



i6[, 169, 242 ; Industries, 97 ; Science, no, 169 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute, Address by CanonTCingsley, 



4S9 

 Birt (W. R.), Lunar Objects suspected of Change (Br. A.), 381 

 Blind Fishes of the Mammoth and Wyandotte Caves, 246,292,415 

 Blood Relationship, by Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 173 

 Board of Trade and Beaufort's Wind Scale, 493 

 Bologna, Academy of Sciences, 440 



Bombay, Destructive Rains, 502, 534 ; Magnetic Work, 352 

 Bone Cave in Bavaria, 87 

 Boi.e-setter, a Scientific, 82 

 "Bone-setting," by W. P. Hood, M.D., 22 

 Bonney (Rev. T. G., F.G. S, ), Kind's "Mountaineering in the 



Sierra Nevada," 78; Volcanoes of Central France, 141 

 Bordeaux, Meeting of the French Association, 13, 290, 355, 374, 



444, 475 

 Boston (U.S.), Society of Natural History, 249, 275, 279 

 j Botanical Museums, W. Carruthers, F.R.S., on, no, 449, 516 



Botanical Terminology, 413, 455 

 I ' Botany for Beginneis," by Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S., 59 

 I Botany : Fiench Association at Bordeaux, 445 ; in the Oxford 

 Scientific School, 77; Journalof, 17, n3, 274, ';27 ; " Botany, 

 j Pp'reontological," by Prof. I. H. Balfour, F.R.S., 429 ; Leaves 

 ' ol Drosera, 92 ; (6V:? British Association, Section 1>.) 

 Bot ..niley (J. T., F. R.S.E), Physical Science m Gla.sgow Uoi- 

 ve..^ity, 29 



