864 



INDEX. 



American and English railways, W. P. 

 Marshall on, in reference to couplings, 

 buffers, and gauge, with a suggested 

 improvement in couplings, 802. 



Anderson (Dr. T.) on a varying c)'lindri- 

 cal lens, 520. 



Anderson (W.) on the Lafitte process of 

 welding metals, 800. 



Anorthosite rocks of Canada, the, by 



F. D. Adams, 660. 



Antarctic regions, report of the Committee 

 for drawing attention to the desirability 

 of further research in the, 277. 



Anthropological Section, Address by Sir 



G. Campbell to the, 826. 



Arenig series of North Wales and the 

 Lake district, notes on some sections 

 in the, by Prof. T. McK. Hughes, 663. 



Armstrong (Prof.) on isomeric naphtha- 

 lene derivatives, 216; on the teaching 

 of science in elementary schools, 278; 

 on electrolysis in its physical and 

 chemical bearings, 308 ; *on electroly- 

 tic conduction and residual affinity, 

 308 ; *on the determination of the 

 constitution of carbon compounds from 

 thermo-chemical data, 591. 



Arrhenius (Dr. S.) on electrolysis, 310; 

 on the conductivity of mixtures of 

 aqueous acid solutions, 315 ; contribu- 

 tion to our knowledge of the action of 

 fluidity on the conductivity of electro- 

 lytes, 344 ; recherches sur la conducti- 

 bilite galvanique des electrolytes, 357; 

 th6orie chimique des electrolytes, 362 ; 

 viscosity and conductivitj', 387. 



Artificial production of a gilded appear- 

 ance in certain lepidopterous pupaj, 

 E. B. Foulton on the, 692. 



Arvan, what is an ? by Sir G. Campbell, 

 842. 



Atchison (A. T.) on the endurance of 

 metals under repeated and vaiying 

 stresses, and the proper working 

 stresses on railway bridges, &c., 284. 



•Australians, aboriginal, Prof. A. Mac- 

 alister on the anatomy of, 845. 



Automatic pumping of sewage by high- 

 pi essure water, by B. Latham, 810. 



Autumnal fall of leaves, preliminary notes 

 on the, by Prof. W. Hillhouse, 700. 



Axial rotation of the earth, the influence 

 of, on the interior of its crust, J. Gunn 

 on, 660. 



Ayrton (Prof.) on standards of light, 39 ; 

 on standards for use in electrical mea- 

 surements, 145. 



Bacteria, the culture of usually aerobic, 

 under anaerobic conditions. Prof. M. 

 M. Hartog and A. P. Swan on, 706. 



Bailey (Dr. G. H.), an apparatus for main- 

 taining constant temperatures up to 

 500°, 599. 



Baird (Major) on preparing instructions 

 for the practical work of tidal observa- 

 tion, 40. 



Baker (B.) on the endurance of metals 

 under repeated and varying stresses, 

 and the proper working stresses on rail- 

 way bridges, &c., 284. 



Baker (J. T.), description of a new calori- 

 meter for lecture purposes, 525. 



Balanced locomotive engines, T. K. 

 Crampton on, 819. 



*Balfour (Prof. B.) on the value of the 

 ' type system ' in the teaching of 

 botany, 685. 



Banking, the mathematical theory of, by 

 F. Y. Edgeworth, 777. 



Barlow (C.) on the endurance of metals 

 under repeated and varying stresses, 

 and the proper working stresses on rail- 

 way bridges, ice, 284. 



Barlow (VV. H.) on the endurance of 

 metals under repeated and varying 

 stresses, and the proper working stresse.s 

 on railway bridges, Sic, 284. 



Barrington (R. M.) on the migration of 

 birds, 264. 



Basalt of Rowley Regis, C. Beale on the, 

 665. 



Basic Bessemer process in South Stafford- 

 shire, W. Hutchinson on the, 593. 



Bates (H. W.) on the depth of the per- 

 manently frozen soil in the Polar re- 

 gions, 271 ; on the combination of the 

 Ordnance and Admiralty surveys, and 

 the production of a bathy-hypsographi- 

 cal map of the British Isles, 277. 



Bathy-hypsographical map of the British 

 Isles, report on the combination of the 

 Ordnance and Admiralty surveys, and 

 the production of a, 277 



Bauerman ( H.) on the volcanic phenomena 

 of Vesuvius and its neighbourhood, 226. 



Beale (C.) on the basalt of Rowley Regis, 

 665. 



*Beaugrand (H.), remarks on a curious 

 album, 731. 



Beaumont (W. W.) on a new system of 

 mechanism for imparting and record- 

 ing variable velocity, 818. 



*Bechuanaland, by Capt. Conder, 736. 



Becker (Miss L.) on the teaching of science 

 in elementary schools, 278. 



Begg (A.), the Canadian Pacific Railwa}', 

 727. 



Beggiatoa alba. Prof. W. Hillhouse on the 

 cultivation of, 701. 



Bell (C. N.), remains of prehistoric man 

 in Manitoba, 845. 



Ben Nevis, meteorological observations 

 on, report of the Committee for co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society in making, 68. 



Benton (Prof. W. E.), surface subsidence 

 caused by lateral coal mining, 628, 



