Nature, Dec. 2, iSSo] 



INDEX 



Aberdeen, Museum of Science anJ Art in, 66 

 Aberoromby (Hon. Ralph), Tay Bridge Storm, 533 

 Absorption Bands in Certain Colourless Liquids, Dr. W. J. 



Russell, F.R.S., and William Lapraik, 36S 

 Abyssinia, Count Louis Pennazzi's proposed Journey in, 232 

 Accademia dei Lincei, 257 

 Acidulated Water, Immersion of Steel and Iron in, W. H. 



Johnson, II 

 Actinism of the Sun's Rays and of Daylight, Measurement of. 



Dr. R. Angus Smith, 70 

 A''ams (Prof. W. G., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section A 

 at the British Association, 41 1 ; on the Comparison of Declina- 

 tion Magnetographs at various Places, 447 

 Adelaide BDtanic Garden, 253 



Acron.autics : and Advertising, 17; Aeronautical Society of 

 Great Britain, 155 ; New Scheme for directing Balloons, W. 

 de Fonvielle, 303 ; see also Balloons 

 Africa : Association for the Exploration and Civilisation of 

 Central, ig; Missionary Societies' Exploration of, 19; German 

 African Society, 114; Marno's Expedition, 114; New Map 

 of Equatorial, by E. G. Ravenstein, 134; African Explora- 

 tion Fund's Expedition, 303 ; Baptist Society's Map of 

 Equatorial, 351; International Expedition to, 376; Royal 

 Geographical Society's East African Expedition, 479 ; London 

 Missionary Society's Expedition to Tanganyika, 544 ; German 

 African Society's Mittheilungen, 544 ; Italian Expedition to 

 Shoa, 570; French Expedition to the Upper Senegal, 570; 

 Plants from Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika, 5S6 ; Dr. Lenz' 

 Expedition, 61S 

 " After Images of Motion," Herr Zehfuss on, 90 

 Agassiz (Prof. Alexander) : Obituary Notice of Count L. F. de 

 Pourtales, 371 ; PaL"eontological and Embryological Develop- 

 ment, 424 

 Agi-iculture : the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 64, 

 154 ; Establishment of Two Scholarships at the, 185 ; Meeling 

 of National Society for the Encouragement of, 66; Education 

 of the People in, in France, 155 ; Earl Spencer on Agriculture 

 and Science, 1S2; Establishment of a New School of Agri- 

 culture at Canterbury, New Zealand, 1 82 ; Agricultural Show 

 at Carlisle, 253, 275 ; Prof. Church on Agricultural Chemistry, 

 275. 300; Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., on Agricultnral 

 Cliemistry, 472, 497, 523 

 Air-Bladder of Herring, Alf. C. Haddon, 534 

 Air-Engine, Col. Beaumont's, 567 

 Alabama, Geological Survey of, 34S 

 Albania and the Albanians A. H. Keane, 243 

 Aldis (W. Steadman), "Elementary Treatise on Solid Geo- 

 metry," 531 

 Aleurone-Grains, the Chemical Composition of. Dr. Vines, 91 

 -Mexander (T.), Elementary Applied Mechanics, 265 

 Alexandra Palace, Arctic Exhibition at, 254 

 r\lg.-e of the Siberian Polar Sea, 376 

 Alga;, G. F. Chantrel), 3S2 



.Mgeria: Decrease of Lions in, 204; Population of, 230 

 -•Vlgiers Observatory, M. Coggia appointed Director, 154 

 .\1gol, Minima of, 156 



Allen (J. Romilly) Cup and Ring Stones, 97 

 Allen (Frank J.), Songs of Birds, 122 

 Allen (Grant), a Doubthil British MoUusk, 435 

 Alligators, Chinese, 112 



Allman (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S.), the Freshwater Medusa, 177, 

 218, 290 



Alhvood (T.), Double-Egg, 78 



Alpine Flowers, Dr. Hermann Midler's work on, 204 

 Alrese ? What is. Dr. A. Ernst, 585 

 Altai Mountains, Jurassic Roclis of, 349 

 American Naturalist, 20, 137, 2S2, 551, 623 

 American Journal of Science, 45, 1S6, 257, 480 

 American Journal of Mathematics, 73, 276 

 American (East Coast) Siphonopliora, 113 

 American Blue Pike, Parasite on, 114 

 American Journal of Philology, 167 

 American Journal of Microscopy, 329 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 332 

 American Association for the Advancementof Science, 345, 397, 

 498 ; the Entomological Club of tlie, 397 ; Prof. Agassiz's Ad- 

 dress on Palreontogical and Embryological Development, 424 

 American Antiquarian Society, 442 

 Amphipods, Nest-Building, 594 



Anatomy of Man, Comparative, Prof. Flo ver, F.R.S., Sg, 78, 97 

 Anchor-Ice, 31, 54, 171 



Ancient Monuments, Preservation of, Anberon Her'aert on, 22S 

 Ancient Geography, Bunbury's History of, 333 

 Anderson (R.), New Zinc-Carbon Battery, 133 

 Anderson (Richard), on the Neces.sity for a Regular Inspection 



of Lightning-Conductors, 446 

 Anderson (Dr. Tempest), on Astigmatism, 476 ; Improved 



Heliograpli or Sun Signal, 499 

 Andersson (Dr. Nils Johann), Obituary Notice of, 39 

 Anemometer, Cup, Constants of. Rev. Dr. Robinson,'F.R.S., 



404 

 Angel's "Plane Geometry," 557 

 Animals, Depraved Tastes in, 329, 339 ; Arthur Nichols 



F. R. Greenwood, 364 

 Annalen der Physikund Chemie, 46, 70, 185, 307, 551 

 Annelidan Entozoon, G. E. Dobson, 583 

 Ansted (Prof. David Thomas, F.R.S.), Death of, 86 

 Anthropology: Anthropological Institute, 22, 47, 72, 163 

 235 ; Annual Congress of the German Anthropological So- 

 ciety, 345, 453 ; International Congress of, 440 ; General Pitt 

 Rivera's (Lane-Fox) Anthropological Collection, 4S9, 511 

 Antipatharia of the ^/a/v Expedition, 113 

 Antisana, E. Whymper's Ascent of, 19 

 Ants, Sir John Lubbock on the Habits of, 1S4 j'Sounds made 



by, S. E. Peal, 583 

 Antwerp Geographical Society's Bulletin, 206 

 Apiary, A. J. Coolv's Manual of the, 433 

 Apiculture, Exhibition of Apparatus relating to, 17 

 Aquarius, Variable Star in, 205 

 Aqueous Vapovir in relation to Perpetual Snow, Dr. J. Croll, 



F.R.S., 191 

 AvduropUrvx, the, at Berlin, S6 

 Archib-ild (E. Douglas), a Fourth State of Matter, 21S; the 



Naini Tal Landslip, 533 

 Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 20, 160, 257, 3S0 

 Arctic Exploration: Proposed Expedition under Lieut. Bove, 

 42; the proposed Observing Station;, 90; Breaking-up of 

 the Ice, 115; another Balloon Scheme, 134; the Howga/c 

 Expedition, 134 ; Scientific Results of the Howgate Polai- 

 Expedition, 1S77-7S, 171 ; Bessel's proposed Expedition, 

 157; Departure of the Eira from Peterhead, 1S4 ; Arctic 

 Exhibition at the Alexandra Palace, 254 ; the Franklin Search 

 Expedition, 544 ; Arctic Fossil Flor.as and Temperature, J. S. 

 Gardner, 3.{.i ; Arctic News, 506 ; Leigh Smith's Cruise, 593 



339; 



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