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INDEX 
[Vature, Dec. 10, 1885 
Heights of Clouds, 630 4 
Heliometer, Investigations with the, Dr. Elkin, 329 
Hell Gate, the Blowing Up of, 552, 575; and Rackarock, Dr. 
H. Sprengel, F.R.S., 625 
Helm-Wind, the, 23 
Helmersen (G. P.), Obituary Notice of, 134 
Helmholtz (Prof. von, F.R.S.), Sir William Thomson’s 
' **Mathematical and Physical Papers,” 25; Wernicke’s Ex- 
periments on the Reflection of Light, 312 
Hemsley (W. Botting), Vegetation of the Earth, A. Grisebach, 
315; the Forster Herbarium, 501 
Henderson (J. R.), 181 
Herat, Exploration of Afghan Frontier Commission of Country 
round, 164 
Herbarium, the Forster, W. Botting Hemsley, 5or 
Hereditary Nature, Francis Galton, F.R.S., on, 507 
Heredity, 543 
Herendeen (Capt. ), Prehistoric Structures in Micronesia, 13 
Heureux (Jean L’), an Ancient Sacrificial Stone of North-West 
Canada, 46 
Heyes (J. F.), Statigrams, 597 
Hick (Thomas), the Caulotaxis of British Fumariacez, 614 
Hicks (Prof. W. M.), on the Constitution of the Luminiferous 
Ether on the Vortex Atom Theory, 537 
Hickson (Dr. Sydney J.), Botanical Gardens in Java, 576 
Highland Controversy : Chas, Lapworth on the Highland Con- 
troversy in British Geology—its Causes, Course, and Conse- 
quences, 558 
High-Level Meteorological Stations, Dr. A. Woeikof, 54 
High-Pressure, Life of Aquatic Animals at, 399 
Higher Mathematics, 302 
Hildebrandsson (Dr.), the Mean Direction of Cirrus Clouds 
over Europe, 190 
Hill (Alex.), Evidence of Comparative Anatomy with regard to 
Localisation of Function in the Cortex of the Brain, 561 
Hill (Rev. E.), on the Average Density of Meteorites compared 
with that of the Earth, 556 
Hill Tribes, Chittagong, Dr. Emil Riebeck, 169 
Hippisley (J.), Pulsation in the Veins, 389, 574 
Histology, Essentials of, E. A. Schafer, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 
388 
Hoang-Ho Journey, Prijevalsky’s, 15 
Hoar Frost, Mrs. Caroline W. D. Rich, 30 
Hock (Dr. L.), ‘‘ Die Nutzbaren Pflanzen und Tiere Amerikas 
und den alten Welt vergleichen in Bezug auf ihren Kultur- 
einfluss,” 413 
Hodgkinson (Alex.), Unusual Atmospheric Phenomenon, 173 
Hoffmann (Dr. H.), ‘‘Resultate der wichtigsten pflanzen- 
phanologischen Beobachtungen in Europa nebst einer Friih- 
lingskarte,” 146 : 
Holtzke (Dr.), Intra-ocular Pressure, 191; the Influence of 
Blood-Pressure on Intra-ocular Pressure, 336 
Homersham (Collett), Notes on Deep Boring at Richmond, 
Surrey, 310 
Homing Faculty of Hymenoptera, Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 
630 
Hong-Kong Observatory, the, 84 
Hopkinson (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Magnetisation of Iron, 68 
Horse, on the Development of the Foot of the, Prof. Struthers, 
560 
Horsley (Victor), Motor Centres of the Brain and the Mechanism 
of the Will, 377 
Ifosie (A.), Chinese Insect White Wax, 562; Journeyings in 
South-Western China, 564 7 
Horticultural Congress, Antwerp International Botanical and, 182 
Howden (Dr. J. C.), on the Glacial Deposits of Montrose, 555 
Elowes (G. B.), “An Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology,” 
3 
Hudson’s Bay, A/ert Expedition to, 114, 611 
Huggins (Wm., F.R.S.), the New Star in Andromea, 465 
Hughes (W. R.), Fauna of the Seashore, 294 
Hugo, Victor, 119 
Hull (Prof. Edward, F.R.S.), Notice of an Outline Geolozical 
Map of Lower Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and Palestine, 556; 
on the Occurrence of Lower Old Red Conglomerate in the 
Promontory of the Fanad, North Donegal, 556 ; on the Cause 
of the Extreme Dissimilarity between the Faunas of the Red 
Sea and the Mediterranean, 560; Origin of the Fishes of the 
Sea of Galilee, 563 
ee W. F. Stanley ona Portable Scale of Proportion 
ot, 5 
Humble-Bees, Dead, under Lime-trees, Edward Saunders, 427 
Humboldt (Alexander von), the Primitive Peoples of America, 
464 
Hume Collection of Asiatic Birds, 317 ; Dr. Albert Giinther, 
F.R.S., 500 
Hunt (Arthur R.), Fauna of the Seashore, 390; Influence of 
Wave Currents on the Fauna of Shallow Seas, 547 
Hunt (Cyril B. Holman), Larvae of Ceruravinula, 574 
“‘Hunterian Oration,” John Marshall, F.R.S., 51 
Hut Circles, Worthington G. Smith, 29 
Hiitterott (Herr), on the Japanese Sword, 635 
Hutton (Capt.), Correlations of the ‘‘Curiosity-Shop ” Beds, New 
Zealand, 311 ; the Supposed Glacial Epoch in Australia, 640 
Huxley (Prof.), F.R.S., Honorary Degree of D.C.L. conferred 
on, 181; and the Normal School of Science, 327 
Hybridisation of Salmonidze at Howietoun, Francis Day, 562 
Hydrocarbons at High Temperatures, on the Decompositions 
and Genesis of, I., H. E. Armstrong and A. K. Miller, 286 
Hydrographical Bureau at Washington, 110 
Hydrology and Climatology Congress, the, 84 
Hydromechanics, 164 
Hygiene : Principles of, Albert Carey, 221 ; Hygiene, Edward F. 
Willoughby, 221 ; a Manual of Health Science, A. Wilson, 
221; Hygiene, a Manual of Personal and Public Health, 
Arthur Newsholme, 221 ; the Laws of Health, Dr. W. H. 
Corfield, 221 
Hymenoptera, Homing Faculty of, Dr. 
Geo. J. Romanes, 
F.R.S., 630 
Ibbetson (W. J.), Terminology of the Mathematical Theory of 
Elasticity, 76 
Ice in Atlantic Ocean, Chart of the, 302 
Ice (Floating) off Coast of Bergen, Unprecedentedly Early 
Appearance of, 515 
Ice, Some Experiments on the Viscosity of, Prof. C. Lloyd 
Morgan, 16 
Icebergs, Preventing Collisions with, in a Fog, Prof. Alex. 
Graham Bell, 273, 353; J. Joly, 367 
Iceland: Avalanche in, 230; a Lava Desert in, Th. Thor- 
oddsen, 403; Inclement Summer in, 427; Barley- 
Growing successfully attempted in, 494 ; a Lava Desert in the 
Interior of, Th. Thoroddsen, 554 
Ichthyological Museum, the International, 5$80 ; Additions to, 
634 
Igneous Rocks, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., on Bastite-Serpen- 
tine and Troktolite in Aberdeenshire, with a Note on the 
Rock of the Black Dog, 556 
Illumination in a Fog, the Theory of, Lord Rayleigh, 22 
Im Thurn (E. F.), on the Red Men about the Roraima in 
British Guiana, 587 
Images, on Certain Spectral, produced by a Rotating Vacuum 
Tube, Shelford Bidwell, 30; Dr. Henry Muirhead, 55 
Images, Ocular, and After-lmages, W. M. Laurin, 197 
Imaginary and Infinite, a New Example of the Use of the, in 
the Service of the Finite and Real, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, 
FR-S., 103 
Incandescent Lamps, Molecular Radiation in, Dr, J. A. Fleming, 
263 
India : the Zoology of the Indian Seas, 35 ; Wheat-Production 
in India, Prof. John Wrightson, 79; British Geographical 
Mission to, 87; Rains in, 218; Mr. Allan Hume’s Ornitho- 
logical Collection, 327: Earthquakes in Indian Archipelago, 
427; Statistics of Rainfall in, 494; on Levelling Operations 
of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Major A. W. 
Baird, 536; on the Development ot Cholera in, Gustave Le 
Bon, 543; Indian Forest School, Major F. Bailey, 564; Archzeo- 
logy in India, 634; Proposed Daily Synoptic Charts of the 
Indian Ocean from 1861, 502; on a Supposed Periodicity of 
the Cyclones of the Indian Ocean South of the Equator, 
Chas. Meldrum, F.R.S., 613; the Value of Indian Ink in 
Microscopy, Léo Errera, 37 
India-rubber, on the Behaviour of Stretched, H, G. Madan, 
625 
Indiana, Proposed State Academy in, 633 
Induction Machine, Wimshurst, Notes on the Action of, G. B. 
Buckton, F.R.S., 51 
