Nature, Jw.. 9, iSSi] 



INDEX 



Aberdeen University, Duncan's Herbarium presented to, 252 



Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association, 576 



Aberration of Instinct, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 433; Kev. 



T. H. Waller, 484 

 Acetous Fermentation, A. Herzen on, 86 

 Ackroyd (Wm.), Lecture Representation of the Aurora Borealis, 



Acoustical Constant, Note on an, W. J. Grey and J. T. Dunn, 



146 

 Acoustics in China, John Fryer and Dr. W. H. Stone, 448 

 Actinia, Crabs and. Col. H. Stuart-Wortley, 529 

 Adams (Prof. W. Grylls, F.R.S.), Scientific Principles involved 



in Electric Lighting, 580, 605 

 Aeronautical Society's Annual Report, 2o 



Aeronautics in Russia, 298 , , r- . t, „ 



Afghan Campaign, Geographical Results of, Capt. 1. H. 

 Holdich, IS9 , ^ o T T 



Africa: Dr. Holab's Proposed Journey across, 22; Kev. 1. J. 

 Comber's New Map of, 22 ; Keith Johnston and J. Thomson s 

 Expedition, 38 ; Notes on the Geology of East Central, 

 Joseph Thomson, 102 ; J. Thomson's Report on the East 

 African Expedition, 134 ; Geology of East Central, and the 

 Subterranean Forest in Bombay, W. T. Blanford, 145 ; Pro- 

 gress of Exploration in, 160 ; Exploration of the Ogowe and 

 Congo, 323; Mitchinson's " Expiring Continent," 399; Birds 

 of, 467 ; E. G. Ravenstein's Map of Eastern Africa, 518 

 Agram, the Earthquakes at, 63, 83, 106, 156, 182, 253, 297, 



419. 439. 492, 516. 53° „ 



" Agricultural Chemistry of Japan, Contributions to, 456 

 Agrfcultural Association, Aberdeenshire, 576 

 Agricultural Communism in Greece, W. Mattieu Williams, 579 

 " Aide-Memoire du Voyageur," D. Kaltbrunner, 217 

 Air, Analysis of the, at Montsouris, by M. Davy, 63 

 Aitken (John), Dust, Fogs, and Clouds 195, 204, 311, 384 

 Albatross, Notes on the Mode of Flight of the, Arthur W. 



Bateman, 125; Howard Sargent, 362 

 Alcoholic Liquids, Freezing Points of, M. Raout on, 85 

 Algje, 359 ; of the Gulf of Finland, 494 

 Algiers : Observatory, M. Tripier appointed Director of, 107 ; 



French Association for the Advancement of Science at, 319, 



491. 515. 54' i G. F. Rodwell, 582, 606 

 Algol in 1880, Minima of, 255, 517 

 Alkali and Sulphuric Acid, Prof. Lunge, Prof. H. E. Roscoe, 



F.R.S., 73. 99, 215 , , 



Allen (J. A.), North American Pinnipeds, 261 

 AUman (Dr. Geo. J., F.R S.), Hailstorm in Dorsetshire, 146 

 Almeida (Prof. J. Charles d'). Death of, 63 ; Obituary Notice of, 



106 

 Alpine Flowers, Francis Darwin, 333 

 Alston (Edward Richard), Obituary Notice of, 485 

 Amber, the Collecting of, 29S 

 American Naturalist, 161, 2S2, 378, 449, 499 

 American Indian Languages, A. H. Keane, 503 

 American Entomologist, 321 

 American Journal of Science, 402 

 Anabaena Living in Botrydium, 158 



Ancient Stone Implements, Modern Use of, D. Buide, 218 

 Ancient Monuments, Sir John Lubbock's Motion on, 467 

 Ancient Astronomy, 493 

 Anemone, Sir John Dalzell's, 495 

 Animal Reasoning, 219 . 



Animal Life, Natural Conditions and. Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 F.R.S., 405 



Animals, Mind in, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 501 



Animal Development, Albert Kblliker, 480 



Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 71, 187, 306, 449, 474. 545 



Antarctic Expedition, the Italian, 87 



Anthropology: Anthropological Institute, 96, 162, 212, 331, 

 405 450 475, 499, 571, 620; Presentation of Drawings to, 

 by Mr. B. H. Hodgson, F.R.S., 107 ; Prehistoric Anthropology 

 of the Crimea, M. Merijkovsky on, 63, 107 ; the Washington 

 Society of Anthropology, 84 ,,..,■„. 



Ants, Bees, and Wasps, Observations on. Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., 

 F.R.S., 255 



Apprenticeship Schools in Paris, 321 . 



Appulse, near, of Jupiter to a Fixed Star, 158 ; J. Birmingham, 

 170 . 



Architopteryx macrura, 276 , 



Archibald (E. Douglas), Average Height of Barometer in London, 

 243; Abnormal Variations of Barometric Pressure in the 

 Tropics and their Relations to Sun-Spots, Ramfall, and 

 Famines, 399 ; Abnormil Barometric Gradient between 

 London and St. Petersburg in the Sun-Spot Cycle, 618 



Architects, Naval, 56S ,0 



Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 71, 235, 283, 

 425, 594 



Arctic Exploration, Commander Cheyne's Scheme, 134 



Arlberg Tunnel, 321 r , r- ^ c- -a n 



Armstrong (Prof. Henry E.), Chemistry of the Future, Sir B. C. 

 Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., 141 . t. . j 



Artificially Digested Food, on the Digestive Ferments, and on 

 the Preparation of. Dr. Wm. Roberts, 169 



Aryan Village, An, Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S., 525 



Asparagine,''the Function of, 277 



Astronomy: Astronomical Column, 21, 43, 65, 85, 114, I5», 

 182, 206, 254, 276, 298, 321, 371, 396, 441.. 493. 517. 542. 

 S9I ; Astronomische Nachrichten, 372 ; Urania, 383 ; Ancient 



Astronomy, 493 „ r. r^ . , t. ., ,..., 



" Atlas of Physiological Botany,' Dr. Dodel-Port s, 157 

 Atmospheric Pressure of the British Islands, 470 

 "Atomic Theory," Ad. Wurtz, Translated by E. Cleminshaw, 5 

 Atoms, Prof. Dewar on, at the Royal Institution, 181 

 Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 235, 474- 594 „ ^ „ . 

 Attwood's (Geo.) " Practical Blowpipe Assaying, Dr. C. Le 



Neve Foster, 191 „ ,t ^ 



Aurora : Display of, 42 : Height of the H. T. H. Groneman, 

 c6; Aurora of November 3, T- Rand Capron, 76 ; Aurora 

 observed at Ovoca, Co. Wicklow, November 3, G. H. K>"ahan, 

 100- the August Auroras, W. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 

 148 • Bottomley's Experiments with Vacuum Tubes and the. 

 Prof' Silvanus P. Thompson, 289 ; Observations of Aurora 

 Borealis, 84 ; Lecture Representation of tlie Aurora Borealis 

 Wm. Ackroyd, 458; Aurora of January 3'. Prof. Osmond 

 Fisher, John Harmer, R. W. Taylor, G. W Prevos^ 329 ; 

 Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31, W. H Preece, 

 George M. Seabrooke, G. M. Whipple, Rev. S. J. Perry. 

 F R S , T. Rand Capron, E. J Lowe, G. Henry Kinahan, 

 Gerard A. Kinahm, F. Horner, W. J. Spratling, D. Trail , 

 148 ; Aurora of January 31, Position of Auroral Rays 1 W. 

 Backhouse, 410 ; Tacitus on Aurora, 459. 4^4 ; Sound of the 

 Aurora, E. Alloway Paukhurst, J. Shaw, 484; ^leorge F. 

 Burder, 529; M. L. Rouse, 556; Dr. John Rae, F.K.b., 



