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INDEX. 



Alkali manufacture, A. E. Fletcher on 

 the present position of the, 638. 



Alkyl nitrites, the reduction -products 

 of the, by Prof. Dunstan and T. S. 

 Dymond, 649. 



Allen (A. H.) on the utilisation of blast- 

 furnace creosote, 640. 



Alps, traverses of the western and of 

 the eastern, made during the summer 

 of 1887, preliminary note on, by Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, 705. 



Alternation of generations in green 

 plants, by J. K. Vaizey, 771. 



Anderson (W.) and E. A. Cowper, ex- 

 periments on the mechanical equiva- 

 lent of heat on a large scale, 562. 



*Andrev?s (W.), history of the cotton 

 trade, 849. 



Anglesey, the older rocks of, report on 

 the microscopical examination of, 230. 



Anglo-Indian monetary problem. Prof. 

 L. Wahas on tlie solution of the, 849. 



Anharmonics, note on the general theory 

 of, by A. Buchheim, 607. 



♦Antarctic regions, second report of the 

 Committee for drawing attention to 

 the desirability of further research in 

 the, 805. 



Antedon rosacea, the early stages in the 

 development of, H. Bury on, 735. 



' Anthropological Notes and Queries,' 

 report of the Committeee for editing 

 a new edition of, 172. 



Anthropological Section, Address by 

 Prof. A. H. Sayce to the, 885. 



Archfean rocks, G. H. Kinahan on, 709. 



, the older, of Malvern and Angle- 

 sey, notes on, by Dr. C. Callaway, 

 706. 



Archibald (Prof. E. D.), the direction of 

 the upper currents over the equator in 

 connection with the Krakatoa smoke- 

 stream, 619. 



Ardagh (Col.), the feasibility of the 

 Ea'ian reservoir, 800. 



*Are acquired characters hereditary ? 

 discussion on, 755. 



Armstrong (Prof.) on the desirability of 

 combined action for the translation of 

 foreign memoirs, 41 ; on the teaching 

 of science in elementary schools, 163 ; 

 on isomeric naphthalene derivatives, 

 231 ; on electrolysis in its physical and 

 chemical bearings, 336 ; *note on 

 valency, especially as defined by Helm- 

 holtz, 647. 



and Dr. Arrhenius, comparison 



between the views of, on Electrolysis, 

 by Prof. O. Lodge, 361 ; reply thereto, 

 by Prof. Armstrong, 354. 



*Arrow release, ancient and modern 

 methods of, by Prof. E. S. Morse, 904. 



Arteries of the base of the brain, by 

 Prof. B. C. A. Windlc, 753. 



♦Arthropods, the vascular system ancP 

 colour of. Prof. Lankester on, 736. 



Aryans, the primitive seat of the, by 

 Canon I. Taylor, 895. 



Ascaris megalocephala, the fecundation 

 of the, some remarks on the recent 

 researclies of Zacharias and Dr. Boveri 

 upon, by Prof. J. B. Carnoy, 756. 



♦Assimilation and the evolution of oxygen 

 by green plant cells. Prof. Pringsheim 

 on, 763. 



Assyrian syllabary, the picture origin of 

 the characters of the, by Rev. W. 

 Houghton, 898. 



Atchison (A. T.) on the endurance of 

 metals under repeated and varying 

 stresses, and the proper working 

 stresses on railway bridges, &c., 424. 



Atkinson (E.) on ' mono-metallists ' and 

 ' bi-metallists,' 849. 



Atomic weight of gold, preliminary 

 notice of a re-determination of the, 

 with some remarks on the present 

 state of our knowledge as to the de- 

 termination of atomic weights in 

 general, by Prof. J. W. Mallet, 635. 



Atomic weight of zirconium, the, by Dr. 

 G. H. Bailey, 636. 



Atropine, Prof. Ladenburg on tlie consti- 

 tution of, 647. 



*Aty2ms niger, a Florida spider. Dr. 

 McCook on the nesting habit of the, 

 759. 



^Australia, Western, by J. Forrest, 803. 



Axon (W. E. A.) on the increase of 

 wealth and population in Lancashire, 

 852 : colour-names amongst the English 

 gipsies, 909. 



Ayrton (Prof.) on standards of light, 

 47 ; on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 206. 



Azimido-compounds, Drs. Noelting and 

 Abt on the constitution of the, 642. 



*B.A. standards of resistance, E. T, 



Glazebrook on the permanence of the, 



608. 

 *B.A. unit of electrical resistance, final 



value of the, as determined by the 



American Committee, by Prof. H. A. 



Rowland, 609. 

 Badger (E. W.) on the disappearance of 



native plants from their local habitats, 



130. 

 *Bahr Yusuf, the, by Capt. E. H. Brown, 



801. 

 Bailey (C), Juncits aljnmis, Vill., as 



new to Britain, 745. 

 Bailey (Dr. G. H.), the atomic weight of 



zirconium, 636 ; the absorption spectra 



of rare earths, 654 ; the absorptioa 



spectra of the haloid salts of didy- 



mium, ib. 



