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INDEX 



Abbadie (Antoine d'), Lightning-Flashes, 342 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland) : Influence of Wind on Barometric 



Readings, 29 ; Corrections to Refraction-Tables, 134 ; 



Obituary Notice of William Babcock Ilazen, 541 

 Abel, the Mathematician, Statue in Honour of, 352 

 Abel (Sir Fred., F.R.S.), Work of the Imperial Institute, 617 

 Abercromby (Hon. R. ) : on the Peculiar Sunrise Shadows of 



Adam's Peak, 94 ; on the Relation between Tropical and 



Extra-Tropical Cyclones, 430 ; an Equatorial Zone of almost 



Perpetual Electrical Discharge, 487 ; Modern Developments 



of Cloud Knowledge, 575 

 Aberdeen, Stone Circles near, 503 

 Aberration, New Method of determining the Constants of, M. 



Lcewy, 263, 282, 407, 424, 431, 454, 479 ; M. Houzeau, 377 

 Aberration of Light, Phenomena connected with, 575 

 Abney (Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.), Simlight Colours, 498 

 Abnormal-Toed Cats, Heredity in, William White, 125 ; E. 



W. Claypole, 345 ; Dr. H. A. Hagen, 345 ; J. Herbert 



Hodd, S3 

 Abnormal Hiriido mcdkinalis, an, R. J. Harvey Gibson, 392 

 Abnormalities in the Vertebral Column of the Common Frog, 



Prof C. Lloyd Morgan, 53 

 Abnormality in the Urostyle of the Common Frog, Prof. C. 



Lloyd Morgan, 344 

 Aboriginal Art in California and Queen Charlotte's Island, Dr. 



W. J. Hoffman, 285 

 Abrahall (Rev. John Hoskyns-), Meteors, 29 

 Acclimatisation of Flat-fish in American Waters, 473 

 Accumulators,. Complete Hand-book on the Management of. Sir 



David Salomons, 603 

 Acetonuria in Children, 551 

 Acland (Dr., F.R.S.), -Address to the General Medical Council, 



375 . 



Acoustics, Hand-book of, T. E. Harris, 270 



Actinometric Observations, 263 



.\ction, Instinctive, 392 



.\dams (Prof. J. C, F.R.S.), Values of Logarithms, 381 



Adam's Peak, on the Peculiar Sunrise Shadows, Hon. R. 

 Abercromby, 94 



Adelaide University, Sir W. W. Heughes's Contribution to the, 

 255 



.\den. Earthquakes at, 593 



Aerated Water, on some Phenomena connected with the Freez- 

 ing of, George Jfaw, 325 



Aerial Eddies, E.xperiments on, 382 



Aerial Vortices, 551 



Aeri.1l Vortices and Revolving Spheres, Experiments on, Ch. 

 Weyher, 514 



Affinity, Residual, Valency and. Prof. H. E. Armstrong, 

 F.R.S., 570, 596 



Afghan Delimitation Commission : Botany of the, W. Bolting 

 Hemsley, 173 ; Geographical Results achieved by the Survey 

 Officers in the, 309 ; Fauna and Flora of the, J. E. T. Aitchi- 

 son, 381 



Africa : Don Manuel Iradier's Explorations in Africa, 182 ; 

 Return of the Portuguese African E.xpedition, 182 ; Botany 

 of South, 158 ; Study of the Coasts of North, Dr. Theobald 

 Fischer, 353 ; Dr. Lenz's Map of the Congo, 354 ; Pygmy 

 Tribes in, 497 ; My African Home, Eliza Whigham Feilden, 

 221 



Aino Hairiness and the Urvolk of Japan, F. V. Dickins, 534 



Air, the Coefficient of Viscosity of, Herbert Tomlinson, 165 



Air, Compressed, Transmission of Power by, 272 



Air, Resistance of. Dr. Thiesen, 40S 



Air, Movements of the, M. Ch. Weyher, 431 



Air, some New Micro-organisms obtained from, G. C. Frank- 

 land and Dr. Percy F. Frankland, 477 



Air-free Column of Water, Cohesion of an, Prof. Ilelmholtz, 

 456 



Airy (Sir G. B., F.R.S.) : on the Earlier Tripos of the University 

 of Cambridge, 397 ; on the Establishment of the Roman 

 Dominion in South-East Britain, 562 



Aitchison (J. E. T. ), Faima and Flora of the Afghan Boundary, 

 381 



Alaska and the Seal Islands, an Arctic Province, Henry W. 

 Elliott, 243 



Alaska, Alpine Region of, Lieut. H. Seton-Karr, 475 



Albumen-precipitate with Salt, 455 



Albumen, Serous, Prof. Kronecker on, 504 



Albuminous Substances, Alimentaiy Values of Various, Prof. 

 Zuntz, 480 



Alcock (Surgeon- Major Nathl.), Life-Energy, or the Dynamics 

 of Health and Disease, 366 



Alcohol, How to make Colourless Specimens of Plants to be 

 preserved in, Prof Hugo de Vries, 149; Selmer Schonland, 



173 

 Alcohol, Effect of, on Metastasis in Man, 383 

 Alcohol, Clausius's Characteristic Equation for Substances 



applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's Experiments on. Prof 



Fitzgerald, 574 

 Alcyonaria and PennatuliE at the Arago Laboratory, 43 1 

 Alexander (Prof. W. D.), Kilauea after the Eruption of March 



1S86, 451 

 Algoe, Classification of the, and Genetic Affinities, Alfred W. 



Bennett, 478 

 Algebraic Forms with/ Variables, on the Theory, M. R. Perrin, 



335 

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

 Algeria, Artesian Wells in, M. de Lesseps, 287, 336 

 Algiers Observatory, the, 16 



