IV 



INDEX 



[Naturi, D,c. 2, 1883 



Argentine Entoinolo^y, W. L. Distant, 23S 



Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.), the Leiier Spotted Woodpecker, 95 ; 

 a Fourth State of Mitter, ;i63 ; a FragJieat of Primeval 

 Europe, 407 



Aristotelian Society, 519 



Armstrong (I'rof. H. E., F.R.S.), Miller's Elements of Che- 

 mistry, 559 



Arrow Heads, Stone, W. L. Distant, II 



Arrow-heads, Chipped, Dr. R. W. Coppinjer, 97 



Arthropods, Transverse Comnissure in, 520 



Artificial DiaTnonds, R. Mallet, F.R.S., 192; J. E. Ilannay, 



241, 255 

 Asia, Central, Geology of, 34S 

 Asteral)ad, the Province of, 2S1 

 Astigmatism, Dr. Tempest Anderson on, 476 

 Astronomical Column, iS, 67, 8S, 112, 131, 156, 1S4, 205, 231, 



276, 301, 347. 374. 399. 454. 466, 495. 54i, 569, 593. 616 

 Astronomy, Prof. Asaph Hall on the progress of, 570 

 Atmospheric Phenomenon, 362, 607 

 Atoms, Vortex, S. Tolver Preston, 121 

 Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 234 

 Audiphone, a New, Thos. Fletcher, 145 

 Audition, binaural, Prof. Graham Bell's E.xperiments in, 586 

 August Perseids of iSSo, W. F. Denning, 470 

 Aurora : the Inevitable Test for. Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 76 ; Warren 

 De La Rue, F.R.S., .and Hugo W. Midler, F.R.S., 96 ; J. R. 

 Capron, 291 ; Height of the, John I. Plummer, 362; Aurorse 

 in Scotland, 373 ; Observations of Aurora: on August 12 and 

 13, Ralph Copeland, 510; Auroras in America, S94 ; Aurora 

 Borealis, the, Warren De La Rue, F.R..S,, and Hugo W. Miiller, 

 F.R.S., 33; Robert H. Scott, F.R.S., 33; Aurora Borealis 

 and its Colours, T. W. Backhouse, 145 ; Warren De La Rue, 

 F.R.S., and Ilugo W. Midler, F.R.S., 169; Aurora Borealis 

 and Magnetic Storms, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 361; J. A. 

 B. Oliver, 361 ; F. J. Mott, 361 ; Auroral Observations, 

 Prof. Sophus Tromholt, 192 

 "Australian Orchids," R. O. Fitzgerald, 53 

 Australia, Meteorology of South, C. Mann, 120; C. Todd, 120 

 Australia, a supposed Survivor of Leichhardt's Expedition, 1S4 

 "Automatic Multiplier and Calculator," J. Sawyer, 316 

 Ayrton (Prof. W. E.), Seeing by Telegraphy, 31 ; Wire Torsion, 



604 ; on Technical Education, 616 

 Axon (William E.), Stone in the Nest of the Swallow, 242 

 Azores, supposed New Island in the, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 

 509 



Bach (Albertis B.), Lecture at Royal Academy of Music on the 

 Cultivation of the Voice, and his Resonator, 204 



Backhouse (T. W. ), Aurora Bore.ilis and its Colours, 145 



"Bacterium foitidum : an Organism Associated with Profuse 

 Sweating from the Soles of the Feet," Geo. Thin, M.D., 209 



Taer, Karl Ernst von, proposed Monument to, 64 



Pailey (Prof. W. Whitman), Intellect in Brutes, 607 



Eaillon and Decaisne, 12 



Eaillon (Prof.), on a Case of .■\pparent Insectivorism, 277 



Ealfour (F. M., F.R.S. ), Address in Section D at the British 

 Association, 417; "Comparative Embryolog}-," Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester, F.R.S., 601 



Balfour (Dr. J. B.), on Socotra, 477 



Ball Lightning, W. F. Smith, 267 



Balloons: as Advertising Mediums, 17; Balloon Expedition 

 from France to England, 1 1 1 ; another project for reaching 

 the North Pole by, 134 ; Photographs from a,i83, 204 ; Balloon 

 Accident at Le Mans, 253 ; new .Scheme for Directing, W. 

 de Fonvielle, 304 ; Manufacture of War Balloons in France, 

 346 ; Accident to an Aeronautist, 374 ; Ascent at Cherbour/, 

 398 ; Balloon Contest in London, 441 ; Balloon Society of 

 Great Britain, 441, 495 ; Military B.allooning, 441 ; Balloon 

 Contest at the Crystal Palace, 519. 592, 615; Proposed 

 Captive at Milan, 615 



Barfoed (Dr. Chr. Th.), "Lehrbuch der organischen Qualita- 

 liven Analyse," 581 



Barrow-in-Furness, Summer Meeting of the Institution of 

 Mechanical Engineers, 300 



Barrows, Round and Long, Prof. Rolleston on, 478 

 Bathurst, near Tuena, Di-covery of Gold in, 275 



Batrachia, on the Structure and Development of the" Skull'in 



the, W. K. Parker, F.R.S., 161 

 Tattery, Secondary, a New, 521 



Bautzen, Discovery of Ancient Burial-Ground near, 66 



Bavaria, Prof. H. Ohlenschlager's Prehistoric Map of, 68 



Bay of Biscay, French Deep-Sea Exploration of. Dr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, F.R.S., 46S 



Beaumont (Col.), Air-Engine, 567 



Becquerel (M. Henri), on the Magneto-Optic Properties of 

 Gases, 2S0 



Bedfordshire Pomona, 615 



Bees, Exhibition of Apparatus rehating to, 17 



Bee-Keeping, English and American Works on, 433 



Beetles, Monstrous, 520 



Beetles, Branch-Cutting, Fritz Miiller, 533 



Behnke (Emil), "The Mechanism of the Human Voice," 239 



"Belfast Lough, Birds, Fishes, and Cetacea commonly fre- 

 quenting," Robert Lloyd Patterson, 289 



Belgium, the Nation.il Exhibition at Brussels, 345 ; the Geology 

 of, 348 



Bell (Prof. Graham), Photophone, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 481 ; 

 Selenium and the Photophone, 500 ; Experiments in Binaural 

 Auilition, 5S6 



Bennett (A. \V.), the Classification of Cryptogams, 451 



Eergsma (Dr. P. A.), Rainfall of the East Indian Archipelago, 



434 



Berlin, Formation of Society of Zoology at, 65 ; the Geogra- 

 phical Society of, 254, 618, 624; Anthropological Congress 

 at, 345 



Bermuda, Remarkable Discovery of a Murder in, H. N. Moseley, 



170 



Berthelot's Essay on Chemical Dynamics, 2S5 



Beryllium, 350 



Bessemer (Sir Henry, F.R.S.), Presentation of the Freedom of 

 the City of London to, 64 



Betti (Prof. E.), " Teorica delle Forze Newtoniane e sui appli- 

 cazioni all' Elettrostattica e al Magnetismo," 557 



Bibliography, the "Ronalds" Catalogue of Works on Elec- 

 tricity, M.ignetism, &c. , 87 



Bichromate Battery, an Improved, 375 



Bidie (Dr. G.), Calcareous Concretions in Timber, 169 



Eiedermann (Dr. Richard), De.ath of, 87 



Binary Stars a Centauri, 399, 541 ; 85 Pegasi, 467 ; 5 Equulei, 



593 



Binaural Audition, Prof. Graham Bell s Experiments m, jSS 



Binocular Glasses, the Inventor of, 567 



Binomio di Newton, Ignazio Cameletti, 582 



Biological Notes, 112, 277, 520, 594 



Biology, a New Term Wanted, D. Sharp, 364 



Bird (Isabella), " Unbeaten Tracks in Japan," 610 



Birds, the Songs of, 97 ; James Macfadzean, 12; Prof. Alfred 

 Newton, F.R.S., 122; Frank J. Allen, 122; Migratory, at 

 Lighthouses, 25 ; Notes of — Wild Swans, J. Birmingliam, 

 171; "Birds, Fishes, and Cetacea commonly frequenting 

 Belfast Lough," Robert Lloyd Patterson, 2S9 ; the Toothed 

 Birds of Kansas, 457 ; Migration of. Prof. Newton, F.R.S., 

 477; Classification of, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 549 



Birmingham Philosophical Society's Fund for the Endowment of 

 Original Research, 203, 299 



Birmingham, Mason Science College, SH! Prof. Huxley at, 16 



Birmingham Natural History Society, 539 



Birmingham ( fohn). Notes of the Cuckoo, 76 ; Variability ot 

 60 Cancri, 76 ; Wild .Swans — Notes of Birds, 171 ; Chipped 

 Flints, 319 ; a New Red Star, 408 



Bismuth, the Density of Fluid, 44S 



Black Beetles and Veait, 1 1 



Blight, Mosquitos, Flies, &c.. Protection against, Wm. Chappell, 

 F.S.A., II 



Blowpipe Analysis, Alphabetical Manual of. Col. W. A. Ross, 

 336 



Blue Pike, American, Parasite on, 1 14 



Blyth (James), on Currents produced by Friction between Con- 

 ducting Substances, and on a New Form of_ Telephone Re- 

 ceiver, 330 



Boguslawski on Ocean Temperature, 1 14 



Bohemian Physicians and Naturalists, Congress of, 379 



Books, &c. , Recall of Appearance of, Cornelius Walford, 220 



Borchardt (Prof. C. W.), Death of, 251 



Borneo, Geological Formation of Soil of, 41 



Bo^-ton, U.S., Meeting of the American Association at, 345, 397, 

 424, 493 ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 332 



Botany : Curious Botanical Phenomenon, 30 ; Prof. Thiselton 

 Dyer on Botanic Gardens, 39 ; Safe Arrival of Botanical Col- 



