[iVa/ur(, Die. 2, iSSo 



yres^ of, 433 ; German ilor.icului.al E.\lubidou proposid, 

 130; German Associadon of Naturalists and Physiciars, 

 Meeting at Danzie, 29S, 493, 527, 559 

 Ghosts, Faraday Kxliibiting, 5S3 

 Gifford (Annt), Lunar Rainbows, 319 

 Gilbert (Dr. T. H., F.R.fi.), Agricultural Chemistry, 472, 497, 



523 

 GUI (Capt. W.) " The River of Golden Sand," 26 

 Giltay (T. W.), Hardening of Steel, 461 

 Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S.), The Refraction Equivalent of 



Diamonds and the Carbon Compounds, 449 

 Glaisher (J. W. L., F.R.S.), American Journal of Mathematics, 



Pure and Applied, 73 

 Glasgow, proposed Exhibition of Naval and Marine Engineer- 

 ing Models at, 16 ; Mitchell Library of, 65 

 Glass, Expansion of, by Heat, 157 ; Prof. John LeConte, 318 

 Glass, Toughened, Noble Taylor, 241 ; T. B. Sprague, 293 

 Glass Tubes, Experiment with, J. T. Pottoniley, 291 

 Glass, Compressibility of, 377 



Glycerin, Citric Acid from, Grimaux and Adam, 567, 585 

 Godeftroy Museum, the, 1 10 

 Godetia, I\udimentary Coma in, 395 

 Gold, Discovery of, in the Bathurst district near Tueua, 275 ; in 



Queensland and Tasmania, 329 

 Golden Sand, the River of, Capt. W. Gill, 26 

 Goode (G. Brown), the Menhaden, 335 ; First Decade of the 

 United States Fish Commission, its Plan of Work and Ac- 

 complished Results, Scientific and Economical, 597 

 Gordon (J. E. H.), "A Physical Treatise on Electricity and 



Magnetism," 263 

 Gore (G., F.R.S.), "Effects of Electric Currents on the Sur- 

 faces of Mutual Contacts of Aqueous Solutions," 21 

 Goss (Herbert), " Geological Antiquity of Insects," g 

 Gottingen, Royal Society of Sciences, 48, 332 

 Grass, Floating, in Queensland, 110 

 Grasses, Indigenous, of New Zealand, Manual of, J. Buchanan 



532 

 Gratacap (L. P.), Intellect in Brutes, 408 

 Gray (Prof. Asa), Botanical Te.xt-Book, 482 

 Great Southern Comet of 1S80, 156, 231 

 Green (J. R. and Alice S.), "A Short Geography of the British 



Islands," 119 

 Greenwich Observatory, Report, 158 

 Greenwood (F. R.), Depraved Taste in Animals, 364 

 Gregory (J. R.), Medal Awarded to, at the Sydney Exhibition, 



204 

 Grimaux and Adam, Synthesis of Citric Acid, 567, 585 

 Grimm (M. O.), Organs of Deep-Sea Animals, 278 

 Grube (Adolf Eduaid), Obituary Notice of, 435 

 Guano Island, Meteorology of a, W. A. Dixon on, 254 

 Guiana, British, E. F. imThurn's Journey to, 41 

 Guns, Woolwich, 293 

 Gimther (Dr. A. C. L. G, F.R.S.), Opening Address in 



Section D at the British Association Meeting, 393 

 Guppy (Surgeon 11. B.), the Yang-tse, the Yellow River, and 



the Pei-ho, 486; the Classification of Rivers, 6o5 

 Gyroscope, Electro-magnetic, W. d; Fonvielle, 40; New 

 Method of Rotating, 131 



Haddon (A. C), his Temporary Zoological Station at Torbay 



517, 560; Air-Bladder of Herring, 534 

 Hzematopoetic Function, the, 520 

 HiEmoglobin in Echinoderms, 595 

 Hagenbach (I'rof.), the Phenomena of Explosion of Bombs by 



Freezing of Water, 302 

 Hailstones, Large, George Peterson, 292 

 Hail-storm at Mussooree, India, 229 

 Haldeman (l^rof. S. S.), Death of, 517 

 Hall (Prof. Asaph), on the Progress of Astronomy, 570 

 Halo, A, L. Soam.es, 435 



Hamburg, Thunderstorms at, G. Ambrose Pogson on, 155 

 Hand, on the Skin Furrows of the. Dr. H. Faulds, 605 

 Hanging, Death by, 595 

 Ilannay (J. B.), Artificial Diamonds, 241, 255 ; Experiments on 



the States of Matter, 483 

 Hart (W. Hume), Rainfall of Sierra Leone, 585 

 Hartwig's Comet, 569, 593 ; .Spectrum of, W. H. M. Christie, 



557 

 Ilaitz Mountains, Forest Fire in, i;i 



Harvie-Brown (J. A.), Ornithological Journal of the Winter of 



187S-79, 31S 

 Hats and Memory, 252 



Haughton (Rev. Prof., F.R.S.), on the Law of Fatigue in the 

 Work done by Man or Animals, 128 ; Geological Chmates, 

 532 

 Heat, Expansion of Glass by, 157; the Mechanical EquivaUnt 



of, 596 

 Heat-rays, the Absorption of, by Powders, 350 

 Heliograph, an Improved, Dr. Tempest Anderson, 499] 

 Helvetic Society of Natural Science, 131 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera, the number of Known Species of, Dr. 



Buchanan White, 606 

 Hemsley(W. B.), Evolution of the Vegetable Kingdom, 190 ; 



Engler's " Botanische Jahrbiicher," &c., 434 

 Henslow (Rev. George), Reversals by Memory, 241 ; Intellect 



in Brutes, 319 ; Swiss Chalets, 534 

 Henry Mountains, Geology of, Robert Mallet, F.R S., 266 

 Herbarium Royal Gardens, Kew, Important Accessions to, 22S 

 Herbert (Auberon), Preservation of Ancient Monuments, 228 

 Herr Flegel on West Africa, 41 

 Herring, Visceral Anatomy of, 520 ; Air-Bladder of, Alf. C. 



Haddon, 534 

 Herschel (Prof. A. S.), Carbon and Carbon Compounds, 320 

 Herschel (Major J., F.R.S.), Wire Torsion, 557 

 Hill (Mr. Edward Smith), Death of, 65 



Hindus, Weapons and Politics of the Ancient, G. Oppert, 5S1 

 Hobson (Captain), Death of, 570 

 Hodgson (Richard), Fascination, 383 

 Holmes (E. M.), Museum Conference, 10 

 Holmes (Gordon), "The Science of Voice Production and Voice 



Preservation, for the Use of Speakers and Singers," 143 

 Holub's (Dr.) E.xhibition at Vienna, 68 

 Hoorweg (Herr), on the Thermic Theory of the Galvanic Current, 



90 

 Hopkinson (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Electric Lighting, 42 

 Hoppe-Seyler on Chlorophyllan, 279 

 Horner (Pere), Death of, 114 

 Horns, Stags', E. W. Claypole, 146 ; Herbert Ellis, 221 ; C. 



Overton, 221 

 Horse, Intestinal Worms in the, H. Krabbe on, 277 

 Horticulture and Electricity, 135 

 " Howard Medal," Essays for, 276 



Howgate Polar Expedition, 1877-78, Scientific Results of, 171 

 Huggins (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), Spectrum of the Flame of 

 Hydrogen, 283 ; Obituary Notice of Dr. William Lassell, 

 F.R.S., 565 

 Ilughci (John), "Ceylon Coffee Soils and Manures : Report to 



the Ceylon Coffee Planters' Association," 144 

 Ilulme (F. E. ), "Famihar Wild Flowers.." 532 

 Fluman \'oice, the Mechanism of the, Emil Behnke, 239 

 Human Hybernation, 366 

 Humphry (Prof., F.R.S.), Rede Lecture, 115 

 Humpidge (Prof. T. S.), New Metals, 232 

 Huntington (Prof. A. K.), Report on the Ultra-Violet Spectra, 



444 

 Hurricane, the Jamaica, and the Botanical Gardens, D. Morris, 



53S 

 Hutchinson (P. O.), Peat Bed in the Drift at Oldham, 583 

 Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.R.S.), The Coming of Age of the 

 Origin of Species, i ; at the Science College, Birmingham, 

 1 5 ; Science and Culture, 545 

 H-iuang-nao, Mr. Trembtt on, 1S3 

 Hyacinths, Curious Grov\th of, 30 

 Hybernation, Human, 366 

 HydrK, Variable R., 542 

 Hydrates, Formation of Water of, 542 

 Hydrogen, Iron and, H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 220 ; Walter R. 



Browne, 242 

 Hydrogen, Spectrum of the Fl.ame of, W, Huggins, F.R.S. , 



2S3 

 Hydrographic Department, 86; Lieut. Geo. T. Temple, 192 

 ■' Hygiene, Nature's: A Series of Essays on Popular Scientific 

 Subjects, with Special Reference to the Chemistry and 

 Hygiene of the Eucalyptus and the Pine," C. T. Kingzett, 

 142 

 Hygiene, Parkes Museum of, First Annual Meeting in connec- 

 tion with, 300 

 Hygiene, Congress at Hamburg, 493 

 "Hyper-Space," 383 



