INDEX 



Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), Evaporation, 283 



Abbott (Dr. George), Proposed Union of South-eastern 

 (English) Natural History Societies, 16 ; on a Plan for the 

 Organisation of Local Natural History Societies, 636 



Abbott's (Dr. W. L. ) Natural History Collections, 423 



.\berration and Atmospheric Refraction, an Investigation on, 

 G. C. Comstock, 426 



.\bney (Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.), Spectrum Photography with 

 Capt. .\hney's Colour Patch Apparatus, 37 ; Becquerel's 

 Colour Photographs, 125 



.\bram (Dr.), on Detection of Lead in Organic Fluids, 636 



Absorption Force, Distance Action of, W. Miiller-Erzbach, 456 



Acetylene, Laboratory use of, A. E. Munby, 414 ; on the 

 Limiting Explosive Proportions of Acetylene, and Detection 

 and Measurement of this Gas in the Air, Prof. F. Clowes, 583 ; 

 Explosive Properties of, MM, Berthelot and Vieille, 591 ; Ex- 

 plosion in Paris, 597 



.\ckroyd (William), the Old Light and the New, 76, 173 



Acoustics: Barisal Guns, 102 ; Sir Edw. Fry, F. R.S., 8 ; New 

 Synchronising Sound Generator, Joseph Goold, 36 ; The 

 Determination of Overtones, C. Stuninf, 45 : Diminution of 

 Sound-Intensity with Distance, K. L. Schacfcr, 45 ; Remark- 

 able Sounds, Ivumagusu Minakat.i, 78 ; ihe Direction of 

 Signals at Sea, E. Hardy, 373 ; I'roi'. McKendrick on the 

 Application of the Phonograph to the Analysis of Sound, 633 



.\cquired Characters, the Ankle-joint in Man, and the Inherit- 

 ance of, Prof. Retzius, 162 



.\dulteration. Food, Rontgen Rays as Detector of. \V. .Vrnold, 

 356 



Aerators, Read, Campbell, and Co. s, 37 



Aerodrome, Prof. Langley's, 61 



Aeronautics: the Aeronautical .-Annual, 1S96, 25 ; Zur Mcchanik 

 des Vogelflugcs, Dr. Fr. .-\hlliorn, 25: Prof. Lungley's 

 Aerodrome, 61 ; Experiments in Mechanic.il Flic;ht, Prof. S. 

 P. Langley, Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, 8o ; .Vulre's Polar 

 Expedition, Si ; Flying Engines, Hon. Chas. A. Parsons, 148 ; 

 the Death of Herr 'l.ilienthal, 371 ; Prof. A. du Bois 

 Reymond,4i3 ; Sailing Flight, Dr. R, von Lendenfeld, 436 ; 

 the Dune Park Experiments, Octave Chanute and A. M. 

 Bering, 518; Accident to William Paul, 577 



Africa : a Naturalist in Mid-,\frica, G. F. E. Scott Elliot, 5 : 

 Geology of British East, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 38; I'aUeoliihic 

 Implements from Somaliland, H. W. .Seton-Karr, 92 ; ihe 

 South African Museum, 107 ; Cattle Plague in Africa. Sir 

 John Kirk, F.R.,S., 171; the Preservation of Rare Cape 

 Plants, Sir F. von Mueller, 184; a (ieological Sketch Map 

 of Africa South of the Zambesi, E. P. T. Struben, 221 ; 

 through Jungle and Desert, Travels in Eastern Africa, 

 W. A. Chanler, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 313: the Great Rift 

 Valley, Dr. J. W. Gregory, Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 347 ; Hausaland, C. H. Robinson, 364 ; Ruined Temples in 

 Mashonaland, R NL W. Swan, 424; the Livingstone Tree, 

 E. J. Glave, 454 ; Death of Dr. J. A. Moloney, 549 ; on the 

 Influence of African Climate and Vegetation on Civilisation, 

 G. F. Scott Elliot, 587 ; Mr. Alexander Whyte's Botanical 

 Expedition into Nyika Plateau, 629 ; the Preservation of Big 

 Game in German East Africa, M. Gosselin, 630 



Agamennone(Dr. G. ), New Sei.smometrograph, 68 ; Velocity of 

 Propagation of Paramythia Earthquake of May 13-14, 1895, 

 311 : Record of Mediterranean Earthquakes for 1S95, 373; 

 Turkish Earthquakes in 1895, 424 ; Observations of Turkish 

 Earthquakes, 447 



Aga.ssiz (A.), the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 488 

 Agriculture : the Reclamation of the Australian Deserts, 41 ; Ma- 

 nurial Experiments on Turnips, Prof. Somerville, 62 ; Bangor 



Agricultural Department Field Experiment, 62 ; Agriculture 



in Connecticut, 206 ; Calcium Carbide as an Insecticide, M. 



Chuard, 229 ; Crows and Turnips, 255 ; the " Running Out" 



of Peas, 279 ; Dr. Nobbe's Nitragin, 326 ; Oxidation of 



Organic Soil-matter, P. P. Deherain and E. Demoussy, 359 ; 



County Councils and Agriculture, 368 ; Prof. R. P. Wright's 



Scotch Manuring, c&c. , Experiments, 403 ; English Weeds as 



Pasture-grasses in France and Australia, 423 ; Shade-tree 



Insects in the United States, 424; a Cure for Locusts, 424 



Ahlborn (Dr. Fr.), Zur Mechanik des Vogelfluges, 25 



Air, Measurement of Odours in, A. Gerardin and M. Nicloux, 23 



Air, Dr. J. Haldane on his Calorimelric Method of Estimating 



Small Amounts of Carbon Monoxide in the, 5S4 

 Air-pump, New Mercurial, R. W. Wood, 190 

 Aitken (John, F.R.S. ), Notes on Clouds, 164 

 AlbatroFs Flying Machine, Accident to William Paul, 577 

 Albertus Magnus, Bird and Beast Names in. Prof. D'Arcy 



Thompson, 118 

 Alcohol, Influence on Digestion of, Drs. Chittenden and Mendel, 



59S 

 Alkali Metals, the Amides of the, and some of the Derivatives, 



Dr. A. W. Titherley, 584 

 AUbult (Dr. T. C, F.R.S.), a System of Medicine, vol. i., 



edited by, 361 

 Allen (G. V.), Myricetin, the Colouring Matter of Sicilian 



Sumach, 408 

 Allen (Dr. Harrison), Ptedomorphism, 240 

 Allen (Prof.), on the Phy.sical Basis of Life, 635 

 Allmann (Prof. G. J., F.R.S. ), Linnean Society's Gold Medal- 

 list, 81 

 Alloys, the Electrical Resistance of. Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R.S., 



154; Walter G. McMillan and Robert H. Housman, 171 

 AlpenglUhen, W. Larden, 53 

 Altcar, Mr. iNIorton on a Boring near, 586 

 Alumina Factory at Lame Harbour, J. Sutherland, 329 

 Aluminium and its Alloys, Resistance to Corrosive Liquids of, 



J. W. Richards, 253 

 Alzola (Pablo de), the Spanish Iron Industry, 515 

 Amazon River, Cable-laying on the, Alexander Siemens, 162 

 Amazons, Capture of a Specimen of " Lepidosiren " in the River, 



Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., 270 

 America : University Observations in, 64 ; the Water Supply 

 of the City of New York, Edward Wegmann, 242 ; Archae- 

 ological Studies in Mexico, Alfred P. Maudsley, 274 ; 

 American Association, 450, 480 ; American Journal of 

 Mathematics, 22, 431, 639 ; American Journal of Science, 

 45, 91, 189, 285, 383, 488, 639 ; American Meteorological 

 Journal, 68 ; American Museum of Natural History, S3 ; an 

 American Professor, Sir J. G. Fitch, 409 ; American Public 

 Health Association Meeting, 525 

 .'\merica. South, Mine of Vanadium Compounds in, 300 

 Amides of the Alkali Metals, and some of their Derivatives, 



Dr. A. W. Titherley, 584 

 Amphibia, Remarkable Blind Batrachian, Dr. Stejneger, 156 

 Ampliipod, Nest-building, in the Broads, Henry Scherren, 367 

 .-Xmphoteric Solutions, Dr. T. Bradshaw on the Behaviour of 



Litmus in, 584 

 Amsterdam .\cademy of Sciences, 48, 96, 240, 360, 639 

 Antenna, IIi;;h Altitudes and. Dr. Kuthy, 577 

 Anxsihelics, the Jubilee of Ether in Surgery, 597 

 Analylicnl Cliciiistry, N. Menschutkin, 6 

 Anaspidcs, Al.liiities of, to Fossil Crustacea, W. T. Caiman, 



119 

 Anatomy : Death of Dr. Theodor Margo, 597 ; Death of Dr. 

 \!v. II. Ross, 597 ; Death of Dr. Rudinger, 401 



