Index 



Ancestry of the \'ertebrates, on the, Dr. Gaskell, 606 ; Prof. 

 W. K. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 606 ; Prof. C. .S. Minot, 606 ; E. 

 W. MacBride, 606 ; Walter Garstang, 606 ; F. A. Bather, 

 606 



Anchovy, on the Occurrence of the Pelagic Ova of the, off 

 Lythani, 296 



Ancient British Interment in Somersetshire, on the Discovery of 

 an, V. T. Elworthy, 611 



Anderson (T. D. ), New Variable in Hercules, 327 



Anderson (Dr.), on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rail, 608 



Andre (G.), the Volatility of Lfevulic Acid, 3S4 ; the Acid 

 Decomposition of Sugars, 639 



Andre's Polar Expedition, 81 



Andrews (T. ), Microscopic Internal Flaws in Steel Axles, 159 



Angelini (Dr. S.), Observations on Transparency of Waters of 

 Venetian Lagoon and Gulf of Gaeta, 352 



Anglesey, Sir Archiliald Geikie on some RocUs hitherto de- 

 scribed as Volcanic Aggregates in, 585 



.\ngot (A.), the Paris Diurnal Rain-variation, 192; Wind- 

 velocity at Top of iMffel Tower, 230 ; the Paris Tornado of 

 September 10, 1896, 520 



Animals, Domesticated, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 220 



Ankle-joint in Man, the, and the Inheritance of .Acquired 

 Characters, Prof. Retzius, 162 



AnthrDpology : Anthropological Institute, 71; .\nthropology 

 of Australia, Prof. R. Semon, 135; Pithecanthropus erectiis. 

 Dr. Dubois, 135; Dr. R. Martin, 135 ; L. Manouvrier, 135; 

 O. C. Marsh, 189 ; the Reason of Right-handedness, Dr. D. 

 (_;. Brinton, 230; Centralblatt fiir Anthropologie, 237 ; the 

 Novilara Necropolis, Dr. P. Orsi, 237 ; Comparison between 

 Mortalities of Vale Graduates in 1701-1744 and 1745-1762, 

 Prof. H. A. Newton, 254 ; the Metopic Suture, Dr. G. 

 Papillault, 254 ; the Structure of Man : .an Index to his Past 

 History, Prof. R Wiedersheim, 291 ; Osteology of Pigmy 

 Peoples, Dr. R. Verneau, 325 ; Prehistoric Graves in Penn- 

 sylvania, 325; the Utility of .Specific Characters, Prof. David 

 Wetterhahn, 342 ; Prof E. R. Lankester, F.R.S., 365; the 

 Anthropology of British India, Edgar Thurston, 404 ; Ruined 

 Temples in Mashonaland, R. M. W. Swan, 424 ; the Khmer 

 of Kamboja, S. E. Peal, 461 : the Ancient City of Coapan, 

 Honduras, Prof. F. W. Putnam, 4S0 ; Fossil Tridacnid Arm- 

 Rings in the Solomon Islands, Dr. Arthur Willey, 523 ; the 

 Bertillon System of Identification, Francis Gallon, !•". R.S., 

 569 ; Human Evolution an Artificial Process, H. G. Wells, 

 589. See also Section H, British Association 



Antarctic Exploration, Projects for, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 

 29 



Anthrax disseminated by Horse-hair, Dr. Silberschmidt, 204 



-■Vntichrist Legend, the, W. Bousset, 491 



Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria, the, Dr. Lennox Browne, 

 260 



Antonovich (M.A. ), Charles Darwin and his Theory, loi 



.■\nts, Parasol, J. H. Hart, 526 



.\pollonius of Perga : Treatise on Conic Sections, 314 



.•\ppleyard (R.), Dielectrics, 93 



Applied Mechanics, a Text-book of, Alexander Jamieson, 7 



Aquatic Hymenoptera, Fred. Enock, 28 



Arachnids : Habits and Distribution of Galeodes, Surgeon- 

 Major E. Cretin, 366 ; R. I. Pocock, 367 



Aragonite, on the Effects of Solution on Organisms with, and on 

 those with Calcite Shells, Mr. Kendall, 587 



Archiiiology : Rambles and Studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and 

 Dalmat'ia, Robert Munro, Prof W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 

 78 ; Archaeology of South-west Florida, Prof. F. N. Gushing, 

 230 ; the Reliquary, 237 ; the Novilara Necropolis, Dr. P. 

 Orsi, 237 ; Death of Prof. E. Curtius, 252 ; the British School 

 at Athens, 254 ; Archxological Studies in Mexico, Alfred P. 

 Maudsley, 274 ; Ruined Temples in Mashonaland, R. M. W. 

 Swan, 424 ; the Ancient City of Coapan, Honduras, Prof. F. 

 W. Putnam, 480 ; Prehistoric European Sculpture, Salomon 

 Reinach, 482 



Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy, 17 



Arcidiacono (S. ), Irruption Phenomena in Sicily and Adjacent 

 Islands, September- December 1895, 68 ; the Syracuse Earth- 

 quake of April 13, 1895, 525 



Artesian Leakage, the alleged, J. P. Thomson, 156 



.\rctica : Andre's Polar Expedition, 81; Arciic Hail and 

 Thunderstorms, H. Harries, 215 ; Glacial Geology of Arctic 

 Europe, II., Colonel H. W. F'eilden and Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F. R S. , 263 ; the Conway Spitzbergen Expedition, 324, 401 ; 



Trevor-Battye, 543 ; Dr. Nansen's Polar Expedition, 374 ; 

 the Ice-Voyage of the Fram, Captain Sverdrup, 430 ; the 

 Arctic Record of 1896, Dr. II. R. Mill, 392 ; Submarine 

 Range in Davis Strait, 400 ; Return of Mr. Jackson's Expedi- 

 tion, 445 ; Suggested Submarine Boat Expedition to North 

 Pole, (i. L. Pence, 519 ; Return of the Peary Greenland 

 Expedition, 524 



Argentina, the Extinct Vertebrates of, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 86 



Argon, Combination with Water of, P. Villard, 432 



Argon of Fire-Damp, the Nitrogen and, Th. Schloesing, jun., 

 336, 359 



Argon and Helium, Inactivity of. Prof. William Ramsay, 

 F'. R.S., and Dr. J. N. Collie, 143 ; Homogeneity of. Prof. 

 W. Ramsay and Dr. J. N. Collie, 336, 406, 546 



Arloing (S.), Bactericidal Power of Blood Serum, 192 



Armstrong (Dr. H. E., F.R.S.), Purification of Sulphur, 225 ; 

 Frank Campbell's Theory of National and International 

 Bibliography, 617 



Arnaud (A.), Transformation of Tariric and Stearoleic Acids 

 into Stearic Acid, 47 



Arnold (W. ), Rontgen Rays as Detectors of Food Adulteration, 

 356 ; Luminosity of Solids under Rontgen Rays, 356 



Arnold-Bemrose (H. H.), Mammalian Remains in old Derwent 

 River-gravels near Derby, 70 



Arsonval (A. d'). Physiological and Therapeutic .-Xction of High 

 Frequency Currents, 264 



.\rthur ( Prof. J. C. ), the Germination of Cockle-bur Seeds, 34 



Artificial Silk, the Manufacture of, 66 



Asconida;, Development of Leiicosolenea variabilis and other, E. 

 A. Minchin, 286 



Ashworth (J. H.), Tubers oi Anthrocertis tiiberosiis, 591 



Asia : the Roborovsky Expedition to Central Asia, 282 ; Cata- 

 logue of the Described Diptera from South Asia, F. M. Van 

 der Wulp, 435 ; Sand-buried Towns in Central Asia, Sven 

 Hedin, 550 



Asteroids, Mass of the, G. Ravene, 206 



Astronomy: Daylight Meteor, .April 12, C. E. Stromeyer, 9 ; 

 Two Brilliant Meteors, W. F. Denning, 27 ; a Brilliant 

 Meteor, C. H. H. Walker, 271 ; November Meteors, G. 

 Johnstone Stoney, 301 ; W. F. Denning, 623 ; Horary 

 Variation of Meteors, G. C. Bompas, 296 ; Meteor Trails, 

 354 ; Meteors transiting the Solar and Lunar Discs, 449 ; 

 Our Astronomical Column, 17, 35, 63, 84, 108, 137, 15S, 185, 

 206, 231, 256, 2S0, 301, 327, 354, 374, 403, 426, 448, 487, 

 519, 526, 551, 579, 599, 632 : Comet Swift, 1896, 7, 137 ; 

 Dr. Schorr, 35 ; the Planet Mercury, 17, 84 ; New Divisions 

 of Saturn's Rings, M. Flammarion, 17 ; the Planet Saturn, 

 Prof Barnard, 327 ; Determination of the General Brightness 

 of the Corona, Joseph Lunt, 17 ; Inclinational Terms in 

 Moon's Coordinates, P. H. Cowell, 22 ; the Astronomy of 

 Milton's "Paradise Lost," Thomas N. Orchard, W. T. 

 Lynn, 26 ; Milton's Astronomy, C. F. Clarke, 83 ; a 

 Photographic Transit Circle, Dr. H. C. Russell, 35 ; 

 Mr. Tebbutt's Observatory, 35 ; the Total Solar Eclipse of 

 April 16, 1893, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 46; M. 

 Deslandres, 301 ; the Eclipse of the Sun, August 9, 1896, 

 I53> 344' 369; J- Norman Lockyer, F'.R.S., 197, 395, 

 418, 441 ; M. Tisserand, 487 : Prof. H. Geelmuyden, 519 ; 

 Sir G. Baden-Powell's Solar Eclipse Expedition, Mr. 

 Shackleton, 400 ; the Russian Solar Eclipse Expedition, 400 ; 

 the Solar Eclipse in North Finland, 427 ; the Total Solar 

 Eclipse at Bodo, Dr. .\. Brester, jun. ,'390 ; .Air Temperature 

 during Solar I^clipse, Dr. H. R. Mill, 391 ; Thermometer 

 Readings during the Eclipse, H. Wollaston Blake, F.R.S., 

 436 ; the System of Castor, Dr. Belopolsky, 63 ; Etficiency 

 of Photographic Telescopes, Dr. Isaac Roberts, 63 ; Solar 

 Photography at Meudon, Dr. Janssen, 64 ; University 

 Observatories in America, 64 ; Stellar Photography with 

 Small Telescopes without Driving Clocks, Joseph Lunt, 84 ; 

 Temperature Errors in Meridian Observations, M. Ilamy, 

 84; Search Ephemeris for Comet, 1889 V. (Brooks) Dr. 

 Bauschinger, 84 ; Return of Comet Brooks (1889 V.), 185; 

 W. F". Denning, 251 ; M. Javelle, 354; Brooks's Periodic 

 Comet, 231 ; Comet Brooks, Prof. E. Lamp, 487 ; Comet 

 Brooks (1896), 448; Constants for Nautical Almanacs, 84; 

 Carbon and Oxygen in the Sun, J. Trowbridge, 91 ; Remark- 

 able Eclipses, W. T. Lynn, 76 ; the Ring Nebula in Lyra, 

 Prof. Barnard, 108; Variable Star Clusters, 108; Variable 

 .Stars, 206 ; Variable Star Observations, 426 ; Variable Stars, 

 Dr. Chandler, 426 ; New Variable in Hercules, T. D. Ander- 



