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INDEX. 



scription of, by Prof. E. C. Pickering, 

 622. 

 Hercules, the burial-place of, on Berber 

 and Guanche tradition as to, by R. G. 

 Haliburton, 914. 

 Herdman (Prof. W. A.) on the work of 

 the British Marine Area Committee, 

 95 ; the exploration of Liverpool Bay 

 and tlie neighbouring: parts of the 

 Irish Sea by the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee, 733. 

 Herschel (Prof. A.) on the work of the 

 Differential Gravity Meter Committee, 

 41. 

 Herzegovina, land tenure in the, by Miss 



Irby, 837. 

 Hessian fly, the, or American wheat- 

 midge, Cccidomyia destructor. Say, and 

 its appearance in Britain, Prof. W. 

 Fream on, 767. 

 Heywood (J.) on the teaching of science 



in elementary schools, lfi3. 

 Hick (T.) on the physiology of some 

 phiEophyceae, 761 . 



Hicks (Dr. H.) on the prehistoric in- 

 habitants of the British Islands, 168 ; 

 on the exploration of the Cae Gwyn 

 Cave, North Wales, 301 ; on the mi- 

 grations of pre-glacial man, 912. 



Hickson (S. J.), * marine zoology in 

 Banka Strait, North Celebes, 735 ; 

 * cocoa-nut pearls, 740 ; certain de- 

 generations of design in Papuan art, 

 907. 



Higgs (G.), exhibition of negatives of 

 photographs of the solar spectrum, 

 583 ; description of an induction coil, 

 616. 



Higher Eocene beds of the Isle of Wight, 

 report of the Committee for exploring 

 the, 414. 



*Hill (Dr. A.), the brain mechanism of 

 smell, 754. 



Hill (Kev. E.), the disaster at Zug on 

 July 5, 1887, 715. 



Hillhouse (Prof.) on the provincial mu- 

 seums of the United Kingdom, 97 ; 

 on the disappearance of native plants 

 from their local habitats, 130. 



Hinde (Dr. G. J.) on the organic ori- 

 gin of the chert in the carboniferous 

 limestone series of Ireland and its 

 similarity to that in the corresponding 

 strata in North Wales and Yorkshire, 

 688. 



His (Prof.) on the development of the 

 roots of the nerves, and on their pro- 

 pagation to the central organs and to 

 the periphery, 773. 



Hobkirk (C. P.) on a curious habitat of 

 certain mosses, 772. 



Holden (H.), W. W. H. Gee, and C. H. 

 Lees, experiments on electrolysis and 

 electrolytic polarisation, 589. 



Home (M.) on meteorological observa- 

 tions on Ben Nevis, 34. 

 Home education in its bearing on tech- 

 nical education, by Miss C. M. Mason> 

 846. 

 Hooper (W.), changes in real and la 



money prices, 830. 

 Hopkinson (Dr. E.) on the general theory 



of dynamo machines, 612. 

 Hopkinson (Dr. J.) on standards of light, 

 47 ; on standards for use in electrical 

 measurements, 206 ; on electrolysis in 

 its physical and chemical bearings, 

 336. 

 Hopkinson (J.) on the provincial mu- 

 seums of the United Kingdom, 97 ; on 

 the work of the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee, 459 

 Hop-plant louse {Phnrodon humiili, 

 Schrank), the problem of the, in 

 Europe and America, by Dr. C. V. 

 Riley, 7.50. 

 Horsfall (J.) and R. Law on the discovery 

 of carboniferous fossils in a conglome- 

 rate at Moughton Fell, near Settle. 

 Yorkshire, 690. 

 Horton (S. Dana), monetary jurispru- 

 dence, 829. 

 * Houghton, the African traveller, a 



note on, by Major Sir H. Perrot, 803. 

 Houghton (Rev. W.) on the picture 

 origin of the characters of the Assyrian 

 syllabar}% 898. 

 Hoyle (W. E.), note on the hectocotylisa- 



tion of the cephalopoda, 768. 

 Hughes (Prof. T. McK.) on the promotion 

 of the study of geography, 158 ; on the 

 erratic blocks of England, Wales, and 

 Ireland, 236 ; on the exploration of the 

 Cae Gwyn Cave, North Wales, 301. 

 Hughes (W. R.) on the herds of wild 

 cattle in Chartley Park and other parks 

 in Great Britain, 135. 

 Hull (Prof. E.) on the circulation of 

 underground waters, 358 ; on the effect 

 of continental lands in altering the 

 level of the adjoining oceans, 596 ; 

 note on a few of the many remarkable 

 boulder-stones to be found along the 

 eastern margin of the Wicklow moun- 

 tains, 691. 

 Hunt (Dr. T. S.), integral weights in 

 chemistrj', 637 ; Gastaldi on Italian 

 geology and the crystalline rocks, 703 ; 

 elements of primary geology, 704. 

 and J. Douglas, the Sonora earth- 

 quake of May 3, 1887, 712. 

 Hydracids of the halogens, the action of 

 light on the, in the presence of oxygen,^ 

 Dr. A. Richardson on, 638^ 

 Hydrated salts, Dr. E. Wiedemann on the 



resistance of, 546. 

 Hygrometry of Ben Nevis, H. N. Dick- 

 son on the, 594. 



