[Akiliin,j!iiii (), 18S7 



Influence of Wind on Barometric Readings, G. J. SymoiiJs, 



F.R.S., 53 

 Ingram (William), the Recent Weather, 173 

 Inosite, Preparation, Properties, and Cons'.itution of, M. 



Maquenne, 335 

 Insect- Life in the East, 527 

 Insects and Petunias, J. \V. Slater, 70 

 Insects, Protective, Value of Coloufed Markings in, 502 

 Instantaneous Shutters : A. MallocU, 324 ; Col. H. Stuart- 



Wortley, 366 j 



Instinctive Action, 392 



Institute of France, Change of Professorships in the, 256 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 503 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 355 

 Institution of Naval Architects, 538 

 Intensity of Reflection from Glass and other Surfaces, on the. 



Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 64 

 Intermittent Downward Filtration, Ten Years' Experience in 



Works of, T. Bailey-Denton, 195 

 International Committee of Weights and Measures, 203 

 International Medical Congress at Washington, Ninth Triennial 



Meeting of the, 350 

 International Polar Expeditions, 147 

 International Statistical Institute, 255 

 Invertebrates, a New Function of the Otocysts in the, Yves 



Delage, 48 

 Invisible at Greenwich, A. C. Crommelin, 414 

 Ipecacuanha Cultivation in India, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 



F.R.S., 227 

 Iradier's (Don Manuel) Explorations in Africa, 182 

 Ireland, North America, Great Britain and. Comparative 



Studies upon Glaciation of. Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, 89 

 Iridescent Clouds, Jas. C. McConnel, 533 ; G. H. Stone, 581 

 Iron, Mazapil Meteoric, William Earl Hidden, 572 

 Iron in Strong Fields, Magnetisation of. Prof. J. A. Ewing, 



622 

 Iron Ships, Deviation of the Compass in, considered practically, 



W. H. Rosser, 437 

 Iron, Wrought, ]. Starkie Gardner, 422 

 Irritation in the Throat, Various Effects of, 575 

 Irving, (Rev. A.): Fresh-water Diatoms iu the Bagshot Beds, 



loi ; Physical History of the Bagshot Beds of the London 



Basin, 382 

 Isopyknal Lines, Rotation between the Gaseous and Liquid 



States of Matter by, 333 

 Italy : Geographical Society of, 60 ; Learned Society formed 



in Italy for the Study of Eastern Languages and Archaeology, 



32S ; Scientific Renaissance in, 350 ; Italian Emigration, 403 ; 



Italian Possessions on the Red Sea Coast, 446 ; New Edition 



of the Works of Galileo to be published at the Cost of the 



State, 473 ; Earthquake of Februaiy 23 in, 479 ; St.Uions 



established by the Italian Meteorological Society, 612 



Jackson (John R.), Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 81, 225 

 Jade-handled Brushes, on Two, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 31S 

 Jamaica : Temperature and Pressure in. Maxwell Hall, 437 ; 



Disease of Colocasia in, 478 

 Japan: Volcanoes of. Prof. Milne, 19; Seisinometry in, Prof. 

 John Milne, 36; Prof. J. A. Ewing, 75; Seismological 

 Society of, 518 ; the Active Volcano Asamayama, 133 ; 

 Japanese Mission to inquire into the Norwegian Cod- 

 Fisheries, 158 ; the Honzo Dsufu, Work on Botany, 204 ; 

 Japan Educational Society, 204 ; Education of Women in, 

 229 ; Magnetic Map of, 330 ; Physical Geography of. Dr. 

 Naumann, 330 ; Earthquake in, 399 ; Calendar of the 

 Imperial University of, 401 ; Aino Hairiness and the Urvolk 

 of, F. V. Dickins, 534 ; Important Points in the History of 

 Earthqua' e Investigati m in, Prof. John Milne, 559 

 Jastrow (Joseph), Longevity of Great Men, 10 

 Java, the Disease Beri-hcii in, 206 



Jaw, the Gecko moves its Upper, Edward B. Poulton, 511 

 Jeans (W. T.), Lives of the Electricians, 270 

 Jenner (J. H. A.), Macro-Lepid iptera of East Sussex, 230 

 Jersey, Geology of, Le P. Ch. Noury, 412 

 Jevons (W. Stanley), Letters and Journal of, 25 

 Johns Hop'<ins University : Marine Laboratory connected with, 

 329 ; Dr. Gil nan on, 399 



Johnston-Lavis (Dr. H. J.), Sounding a Crater, Fusion-Points, 



Pyrometers, and Seismometers, 197 

 Johnstone (Alex.), Top-shaped Hailstones, 536 

 Joule (James Prescott, F.R.S.), Joint Scientific Papers of, 461 

 Journal of Botany, 212, 404 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural .Society of England, Prof. 



John Wrightson, 14S 

 Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 569 

 Journal of the Society of Telegraph-Engineers, 569 

 Jo.vett (Prof.), on University Colleges, 441 

 jubilee. Science and the, 217, 241 ; the Jubilee in India, 349 

 Judd (Prof. Jo'in W., F.R.S.) : the Relations between Geology 



and the Minerilogical Sciences, 392, 414 ; the Relation of 



Tabasheer to Mineral Substances, 48S ; Vitality and its 



Definition, 511 

 Jukes-Browne (A.J.), Student's Hand-book of Historical Geology, 



Prof. A. H. Green, 218 

 Junker (Dr.), on the Best Route by which to reach Emin Pasha, 



258, 475 

 Jupiter : Rotation-Time of the Red .Spot on. Prof. Young, 181 ; 



Mean Periodicity of the Spots of, 359 

 Jurassic Mammals, American, 622 



KaVke, the Disease, 206 



Kalocsa Observatory, Dr. C. Braun, 59 



Kan (Prof.) Proposed Geographical and Geologic.il Exploration 



of the Moluccas, 1S2 

 Karachi Museum, W. D. Cumming at, 593 

 Kathode, Metal Films arising from the Disru,)tion of a, B. 



Dessau, 333 

 Keane (Prof. A. H.) : European Prehi-toric Races, 564; the 



Eskimo, Dr. H. Rink, 309 

 Kempe (A. B., F.R.S.), on the Theory of Mathematical Form, 



574 

 Kennedy (Prof. Alex. B.), on the Use and Equipment of 



Engineering Lab )ratories, 235 

 Kent (Saville), Report on Tasmanian Fisheries, 233 

 Kew, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information issued from the 



Royal Gardens, 306 

 Kew Gardens : Presentation to, of Gen. Gordon's Collection 



Illustrative of the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea scychcllaruin), 494 ; 



Thos. Moore's Botanical Collection acquired for the Her- 

 barium, 495 

 Kew, a Plant of Manilla Hemp at, 567 

 Kew Observatory, Report of the Committee, 307 

 " Khevir," or Great Salt Desert, 232 

 Kilauea after the Eruption of March 18S6, 451 

 Kdogramme, Standard, 408 

 Kinetic Theory of Gases, Prof. Tait, 311 

 King (Dr. Geo.), on the Genus Ficus, 525 

 Kingsmill (Thos. W.), Earthquakes, 319 

 Kinship, Algebraic Notation of. Prof. Alex. Macfarlane, 126 

 Kirchenpauer (Dr. Gustav Heinrich), Death of, 473 

 Kirkwood (Prof. Daniel), Co nets and Asteroids, 474 

 Kitchen-Midden discovered at Ginnerup in Denmark, 112 

 Kiu Sawa, Proposed Investigation of the Fish-bearing Properties 



of, 444 

 Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.): the Cambridge Cholera Fungus, 171, 



295 ; Etiology of Scarlet Fever, 452 

 Klein (Dr. L. Martial), Vitality of Seeds, 463 

 Klein (Sydney T. ) : the Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera of 



Middlesex, 167 ; Best Method of capturing Lepidoptera, 



282 

 Kkmipke (Miss), Assistantship in the Paris Hospitals, 306 

 Knife of Curious Workmanship found in the Thick Flesh of a. 



Cod, 545 

 Knowledge, Scientific, First Year of, Paul Bert, 221 

 Koch (Dr. K- R.), Aurora Borealis, A. M. Gierke, 433 

 Kolenko (B .-on), Pyro-Electricity of Quartz, 333 

 Konig (Dr.), Von Kries' Colour-mixing Apparatus, 336 

 Konig (Dr.), Acuteness of Hearing and its Estimation by 



means of Tuning-Forks, the Sound of which gradually died 



away, 480 

 Kosmos, Habenicht on the Morphology of the, 35 

 Kotter (Dr.), Mean Rate of I'low of a Fluid from a Smalt 



Aperture, 600 

 Krause (Herr G. A.), News from, 547 



