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Aberdeen Mechanics’ Institution, 73 
Acclimatisation in New South Wales ; The Silkworm, 473 
Acorns as Food for Cattle, 313 
Acoustics (see Echoes, Helmholtz, Royal Albert Hall) 
Adams (Prof. W. G.), on the Augusta Eclipse Expedition, 250, 
289 ; on Physical Laboratories, 323 
ZEther, Queries respecting, 109 
Africa, Central, Letters from, 215 
Agassiz (Prof.), on Ceratodus Forsteri, 166 
Aguilar (Senhor A.), on the Eclipse Expedition to Spain, 69 
Airy (G. B., Astronomer Royal), nominated President-elect of 
the Royal Society, 413 
Akin (Dr. C. K.), on Practical Physics, 121 
Alcedinidze, or Kingfishers, Monograph of, 466 
Alcohol, John Allen, M.D., on the Evils of (1730), 173 
oe Suffolk, Notes or Jottings about, by N. F. Hele, 
495 
Algaroba, its use in Argentine Republic, 313, 347, 371 
Allport (W. S.) on Petrography, 388 
Alsace, Statistics of, 133 
Amcebze, Researches on the, 136 
America, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Boston, 114. 
America, Object Teaching and Science in, 256, 475 
American Arctic Exploration, 274 
American Eclipse Expedition, 228 
American Institute, Lectures, 254 
American Journal of Microscopy, 494 
American Journal of Science, 172 
American Naturalist, 57, 217, 299, 417 
America, Notes on Science in, 352, 372, 393, 408, 432, 433, 
452, 490, 512, 514 : 
American Philosophical Society, 371, 499 
Animals, their Intelligence and Perfectibility, 182 
Anthropological Society, 58, 77, ! 38, 177, 218, 299 
Anthropological Institute, 253, 294, 339; 378, 394, 419, 477, 518 
Anthropology, German Society of, 512 
Anthropology, Journal of, 457 
Ants, White, their Ravages in St. Helena, 352 
Ape Resemblances to Man, by St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 481 
Aquarium at the Crystal Palace, 493 
Aqueous Vapour, its Influence on Meteorology, 495 
Archzeology, discoveries in Guano Islands in Peru, 394 
Archzology in Toman (Russia), 373 
Argentine Republic, its Resources, 83 ; its Fauna, 252 
Arithmetic, by Sonnenschein and Nesbitt, 45 
Artificial Introduction of Plants, 208 
Artillery, Heavy, its Construction, 69, 128 
Assaying Silver in the Indian Mint, 275 
Association for the Reform of Geometrical Teaching, 169 
Asphalt Used for Fuel in Paris, 295 
Atmosphere, its great Movements, 75 
Atmospheric Currents, 228 
Aurora Australis, 348, 447 
Aurora Borealis, of Oct. 1870, 5, 6, 27, 104; Edinburgh, 
February 1871, 309 ; York, April 1871, 468 ; Glasgow, April 
1871, 486, 487 ; New Zealand, 414; By Daylight, 104, 126, 
348, 510; Early Notices of, 46, 104, 174; As an Electrical 
Phenomenon, 207, 247 ; its Spectrum, 68, 104, 126, 346, 369, 
468, 509 
Augusta Eclipse Expedition, 249 
Australian Gum Trees, 494 
Axon (W. E. A.), on Societies and the Condition of Science and 
Learning, 162 
Azores, Natural History of the, 303 
Bailey (J. B.), Books wanted, 426 
Bain (Prof. A.), remarks of Prof. Tait on his “Logic of Phy- 
sies,” 89 ; his reply, 125 
Balloon Ascents for Military purposes, 115, 132, 134, 175, 192, 
274, 312, 370 (See De Fonvielle) . 


Barber (S.), on Lunar Bows, 245; on Sanitary Tests, 360; on 
Lunar Halos, 407 
Bastian (Dr. H. Charlton, F.R.S.), on Spontaneous Generation, 
247 
ae (Dr. Lionel S., F.R.S.), on Glycerine Solutions of Pepsine, 
C., 20 
Bedford (Dr. J.), on Tails of Comets, Solar Corona, and Aurora, 
207 
Beetles, the Food and Habits of, 255, 313 
Beet Root Sugar, its Manufacture, 4, 230 
Belfast Naturalists’ Club, 115 
Belfast, Queen’s College, 413, 471 
Belgium, Plants Naturalised in, 193 
Bengal, Asiatic Society, 179, 499 
Bennett, (A. W., F.L.S.), on Natural Selection, 30, 38, 49, 
65, 147, 162, 270, 272, 426 ; on the Genesis of Species, 270 ; on 
the Fertilisation of the Hazel, 347 
Berlin: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 100, 360, 479 ; 
Society of Anthropology, 399 
Berwickshire Naturalists’ Field Club, 434 
Bessemer Process for the Conversion of Iron (Sve Iron and 
Steel) 
Betel Nuts, Trade in, 434 
Bevan (E., M.D.), on the Honey Bee, 385 
Biblical Archzeological Society, 432, 439 
Biology at British Association, 18, 37 
Biology of Plants, by Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, 242 
Birmingham Natural History Society, 14 
Bischof (Prof. C. G.), Obituary Notice of, 212 
Blake (J.), on Extreme Seasons, 28 
Blyth (Dr. E.), Proposed Zoological Divisions of the Earth, 427 
Bonavia (Dr. E.) on Man’s Bare Back, 127 
Bonney (Rey. T. G., F.G.S.), on Prismatic Structure in Ice, 
105, 288 
Book Shelf, Our, 24, 45, 64, 84, 103, 123, 145, 164, 183, 205, 
fee 264, 285, 304, 344, 365, 385, 404, 424, 444, 460, 454, 
05 
Boston, America, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 114 
Botanical Museums, 401, 425 
Botanical Society, 99 
Botany in Honolulu, 173 
Botany in Japan, 173 
Botany, Journal of, 58, 138, 192, 216, 299, 417, 517 
Botany, Lady Harly’s “‘ Catalogo Poliglotto delle Piante,” 506 
Bowditch (Dr. H. P.), on the Physiological Laboratory at Leipzig, 
142, 189 
Brehm (Dr.), his Work on Popular Ornithology, 402 
Bretschneider (Prof. C. A.), ‘* Die Geometrie und die Geometer 
vor Euklides,” 483 
Brett (J.), on Mount Etna, 266. 
Bristol Observing Astronomical Society, 40, 218 
“« Britain,” Derivation of the Word, 446, 487 
British Naturalists’ Society, 494 
British Association, Sectional Proceedings, 17, 37: Report of 
Kew Committee, 55 ; Resignation of Dr. Hirst, 35 
“British Diatomacez,” by A. S. Donkin, M.D., 210 
British Museum, Natural History Collections, 108 ; W. Car- 
ruthers, F.L.S., appointed Keeper of Botanical Department, 
332; Catalogue of Fishes in the, 342 
British Plants, Popular Names of, 262 
Brooke (C.), on Aither, 109 
Brothers (A., F.R.A.S.), on the Eclipse as Photographed at 
Syracuse, 328, 369 
Brough (R. S.), on Earth Currents, 245 
Brown (Dr. R., F.L.S.), on Californian Oaks, 327 
Browning (J., F.R.A.S.), his Spectroscope, 53, 126, 248 
Buchan (Alex.), on the Great Movements of the Atmosphere, 75. 
Buchanan (Dr.), on the Forces that carry on the Circulation of 
the Blood, 173 
Buckton (G. B.), on Pitcher Plants, 34 
