iv INDEX 
-[Nature, Dec. 10, 1885 
nal, 181 ; Mceting of American Association at Ann Arbor, 
207, 374, 510; lectricity at, 207 ; Excursions, 207 ; Ameri- 
can Earthquakes, C. G. Rookwood, 300; American Journal 
of Mathematics, Pureand Applied, 364 ; Geology in America, 
374; American Ornithologists’ Union, 401, 461; American 
Philosophical Society, 402 ; the Primitive Peoples of America, 
Alexander von Humboldt, 464; Mr. Lehmann’s Researches 
into the Flora of Tropical America, 514 ; Chemical Compo- 
sition of American Grasses, Clifford Richardson, Prof. W. 
Fream, 525; H. F. C. Ven Kate, ‘‘ Reizen en Onderzoekin- 
gen in Noord-Amerika,” Prof. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 593 ; 
Prehistoric America, Marquis de Nadaillac, Dr. E. B. Tylor, 
F.R.S., 593 ; Two Early Italian Adventurers in South Ame- 
rica, 376 
Ammonia from Blast-Furnaces fed with Raw Coal, the Recovery 
of, Wm. Jones, 430 
Amour, Proposed Russian Scientific Expedition to, 495 
Anesthesia unattended with Sleep, M. Brown-Sequard, 144 
Anzesthetic:, Medieval, Lagneau, 301 
Analcite Crystals, S. L. Penfold, 554 
Analysis, Commercial Organic, Alfred H. Allen, 410 
Anatomical Method, Application of, to the Determination of 
the Materials of the Linnean and Old Herbaria, Prof. L. 
Radlkofer, 563 
Anatomy, Dr, Dudgeon’s Chinese Translation of Gray’s, 514 
Anatomy and Physiology, Comparative, F. Jeffrey Bell, 569 
Ancestors, Our, 317, 343 
Andalusian Earthquakes, on the Causes of the, A. Rzehak, 133 
Andaman Islands, Aboriginal Inhabitants of the, Edward 
Horace Mann and A. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 409 
Anderson (Alex.), a White Swallow, 523 
Andreau on the Prairies of Guiana, 164 
Andrée (Dr.), Was Iron known in America before Columbus ?, 
110 
Andrena (Wild Bees), a Colony of, 6 
Andromeda, Nebula in, Lord Rosse, F.R.S., 437; the New 
Star in, 460, 465; Lord Rosse, F.R.S., 465; Dr. William 
Huggins, F.R.S., 465; W. F. Denning, 465 ; J. Edmund 
Clark, 499; A. A. Common, F.R.S., 522; Geo. M. Sea- 
broke, 523; A. Ricco, 523; Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 579 
Andrusoff, Geology of the Kertch Peninsula, 580 
Anemogene, Mgr. Rougerie, Bishop of Pamier, the, 519 
Animal Parasites of the Sugar Cane, H. Sing Roth, 268 
Animals : the Locomotion of, Dr. Miillenhoff, 496 ; Colours of 
Arctic and Alpine, Lorenzo Camerano, 77 ; Prof. RK. Meldola, 
172 
Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 44, 309, 518 
Annual Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 523 
Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 1884, 281 
Antarctic Discovery, Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, F.R.S., 
56 
adatelints Nova of 1670, 355 
Anthony’s (Prof.) Tangent Galvanometer, 634 
Anthropology, 85, 168; Anthropological Institute, 46, 93, 
168, 216 ; Anthropological Society of Vienna, 110 ; Summary 
of Anthropology for 1884, 355 ; Criminal Anthropology, 375 ; 
the Races of Brazil, 408 ; M. de Mortillet on ‘Tertiary Man, 
494 ; Opening Address by Francis Galton, F.R.S., in Section 
H at the British Association, 507; Prof. W. Turner, on the 
Index of the Pelvic Brim as a Basis of Classification, 586; 
W. F. Stanley, on a Portable Scale of Proportions of the 
Human Body, 586; J. Theodore Bent, on Insular Greek Cus- 
toms, 587; Gen. Pitt-Rivers, on the Preservation of Ancient 
Monuments, 587; Miss A. W. Buckland, on American Shell- 
Work and its Affinities, 587; E. F. im Thurn, on the Red 
Men about Roraima in British Guiana, 587 ; J. W. Crombie, 
on a Game with a History, 587; George Campbell, on the 
“ Rule of the Road from an Anthropological Point of View, 
587; Jeanie M. Laing, on the Modes of Grinding and Drying 
Corn in Old Times, 587; A. J. Evans, on the Flint-Knappers’ 
Art in Albania, 588 ; W. M. Flinders Petrie, on the Discovery 
of Naukratis, 588; Thomas Wilson, on a New Man of Men- 
tone, 588; Dr. R. Munro, on the Archzeological Importance 
of Ancient British Lake Dwellings, and their Relation to 
Analogous Remains in Europe, 588 ; Prof. D. J. Cunningham, 
on Certain Points of Comparison between the Chimpanzee and 
Man, 588; Dr. J. G. Garson, on Abnormal and Arrested 
Development as an Induction of Evolutionary History, 589; 
Dr. Robert Laws, on the Manners and Customs of the Bantu 
“Tribes of Lake Nyassa, 589; E. H. Man, on the Nicobar 
Islanders, 589; American Anthropology, Dr. E. B. Tylor, 
F.R.S., 593; Anthropometric Instruction for Travellers, Dr. 
P. Topinard, 615 ‘ 
Anti-Cholera Inoculations of Dr. Ferran, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 
617 
Antigua, Geology of, Purves, 553 
Antiquities of the Isle of Man, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 579 
Ants at Solothurn, Enormous Swarais of, 515 ; 
Antwerp International Botanical and Ilorticultural Congress, 
182; Prof. W. R. McNab, F.R.S., 416 
Aonuest (Violet d’), Meteoric Formations in Mexico, 376 
April Meteors, W. F. Denning, 5 
Aquarium at the Inventions Exhibition, the, 36 ; Re-stocking of 
the, 541; Additions to, 634 
Aquatic Animals, Life of, at High Pressure, 399 
Arabia, Glaser’s Exploration of, 88, 233 
Arago (Francois), Centenary of Birth of, gor 
“« Araucana,”’ the Historical Value of the, H. Polakowsky, 429 
Archeology in India, 634 
Archer (M.), ‘‘ William Hedley, the Inventor of Railway Loco- 
motion on the Present Principle,”’ 595 
Archer (T. A.), Prehistoric Burial-Grounds, 548 
Archer, on Silk Culture in Siam, 611 
Archibald (E. Douglas), Eleven-Year Meridional Oscillation of 
tbe Auroral Zone, 414 
Archiv fiir die Naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchforschung 
von Bohmen, 113 
Arctic Exploration, Return of the Alert, 611 
Arctic and Alpine Animals, Colours of, Lorenzo Camerano, 77 ; 
Prof. R. Meldola, 172 
Argyll (Duke of), Iona, 413 
Armstrong (G. F.), Appointed Professor of Engineering at 
Edinburgh, 426 
Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 
B (Chemical Science) at the British Association, 449, 467 
Armstrong (H. E.), A. K. Miller on the Products of Gas 
Manufacture from Petroleum, 286 
Arnett (Braithwaite), Euclid, Book I., 221 
Aromatic Series, Thermic Studies of the, Berthelot, 592 
Aronsohn (Prof.), Physiology of the Sense of Smell, 520 
Artesian Well in the Sahara, the, 110 
Artificial Earthquakes, 114; T. C. Lewis, 295 
Aryas, the European Origin of the, M. van den Gheyn, 114 
Asia (Central), the New Route to, M. Belavsky, 113 
Asia (Eastern), Rainy Summer in, 461 
Asiatic Birds, Hume Collection of, Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., 
500 
Asiatic Cholera, Case of, at Cardiff, 460 
Asiatic Society of Bengal, Centenary of, 427 
Asiatic Society of Japan, 110 
Astronomy: Our Astronomical Column, 13, 37, 86, 112, 162, 
183, 231, 280, 301, 355, 402, 553, 610, 636; Astronomical 
Phenomena for the Week, 14, 38, 65, 86, 113, 134, 162, 183, 
209, 232, 255, 281, 301, 330, 356, 377, 403, 428, 463, 495, 
516, 542, 554, 581, 611, 636; McCormick Observatory, 13; 
the Floating Telescope Dome for Nice Observatory, 62; 
Prof. Zinger on the Determination of Time by Corresponding 
Heights of Different Stars, 63; the Proposed Change in 
Time for beginning the Astronomical Day, 132; Popular 
Education in Astronomy at Christiania, 133 ; the Question of 
Civil and Astronomical Time, 245 ; Belgian Observations of 
the Transit of Venus in 1882, 254; the Heliometer, 329; 
Astronomische Gesellschaft, 278, 280; Astronomical and 
Meteorological Observatories at Pekin, 403; Astronomy in 
the United States, 460; ‘Practical Astronomy,” Prof. 
Doolittle, 462 ; Astronomical Notes, 464; Closing of Beloit 
College (Wisconsin) Observatory, 514; Astronomical Asso- 
ciation, 516; Prof. Weiss on the Present State of Computa- 
tions of Orbits of Comets, 516; Proposed Change in the 
Astronomical Day, 523 F 
Astrophysical Notes, 610 
Atavism in Man, Dr. R. Blanchard, 615 
Atlantic, Chart of Ice in, 302 
Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology, G. B. Howes, 388 
Atmosphere, Sunlight and the Earth’s, S. P. Langley, 17, 40 
Atmospheric Air, Extraction of Oxygen and Nitrogen from, 
354 d : i 
Atmospheric Phenomenon, Unusual, Alex. Hodgkinson, 173 
Atmospheric Phenomenon in Switzerland, a Remarkable, Prof. 
Calladon, 426 
