[Nature, May 27, 1880 



Artificial Diamonds, Dr. R. Sydney Mar. den, 445 



Anus (Dr. Wilibald), Death of, 451 



Ars. nic in Animals, 94 



b'Aisonval's (M.I, Suggestion for the Improvement of Plants s 



Secondary Batteries, 409 

 Artisan Reports on the Paris Exln 1 ition of 1S7S, 1 rof. Silvanus 



P. Thompson, 397 

 Aryan Tribes of India, 598 



" Asia Minor," in the " Encyclopaedia Britain c\" $2 

 Asia, Eastern, the Climate of, Dr. II. Fritsche, 175 

 Asia, Central, the Races of,- 266 

 Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions, 264 



Astronomy: our Astronomical Column, 20, 71, 91, 117, '4 1 . 

 164, 240, 264, 286, 307, 331, 359, 3S3, 453. 475, 502, 525, 

 575. 597, 6l8 '> School of, at the Observatory of Paris, 19; 

 to Astronomers, Lord Lindsay, 106 ; Rev. J. ChaUis" 

 "Practical Astronomy," 105; " Bulletin des Sciences Mathe- 

 matiques et Astronomiques," 152; Astronomical Subject- 

 Index, J. L. E. Dreyer, 154 ; new journal of Astronomy and 

 Meteorology, " Ciel et Terre," 424; French School of 

 Astronomy, 452 ; a Bibliography of Agronomy, 453 ; Prof. 

 Thury on Astronomical Observations, 474 

 Astrophytidre and Ophiuridce of the Challenger Expedition, 



Theodore Lyman, 513 

 Atlantic, the Temperatures of the, 142 1 



Atmospheric Electricity, the ob erving of, 72 

 Atthey (Thomas), Death of, 616 

 Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 530, 57S 

 "Audiphone," Rhodes, 243, 469; Prof. Colladon on, 426; 



Thos. Fletcher, 515 

 Audition, Binaural, Prof. Silvanus Thompsons Monograph on, 



21 ; Experiments relating to, 310 

 Aurora;: |. Rand Capron, 127; Catalogue of, 3S4 ; Aurora at 

 Last, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 492 ; Auroral Response in America, 

 Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 609 

 Austral Islands, Land Shells of the, 10S 

 Australian Colonies, Infantile Mortality in our, 48 

 Australia, Western, Demand for Flax grown in, 141 ; Mr. Alex. 



Forrest in, 165 ; Discovery of Coal in, 264 

 Australia, South, Meteorology of, 2S1 

 " Australasia," A. R. Wallace's, A. Hart Everett, 535 ; .A. R. 



Wallace, 562 

 Austria-Hungary, Rainfall of, Dr. Hann, 3S5 

 Austria, Cave Exploration in, 457 ; Tumuli in, 457 

 Ayrton (Mrs. Chaplin), M.D. DegreeTiour the Medical Faculty 



of Paris, 162 . . 



Ayrton (W. E.) and John Perry on Seeing by Electricity, 5.S9 

 Azimuth, New Modes of showing Different Characteristic- over 

 Small Arcs in, from the Lighthouse Apparatus, T. Stevenson, 

 156 



Balfour (Dr. I. B.) appointed Naturalist to the Socotra Expe- 

 dition, 237 ; News from, 3S1 ; his Exploration of Socotra, 

 504, 515 ; Return from Socotra, 616 



Ball (V.), Notes on the Papuans ol Maclay Coast, New Guinea, 

 251 ; Jungle Life in India, 373 . 



Balloons: Accident to a, 71 ; Baumgartner s Navigable, 549; 

 Ballooning in France, 575 



Balmaiti's Luminous Taint, 576 



Barbadoe, Science in, 548 



Barometer, on the Construction of a New Glycerine, 377 



Barometrical Variations in India, S. A. Hill, 513 



Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Novel Source of Fnctional Electricity, 

 417 ; the Loud-speaking Telephone, 483 ; Trevelyan Rocker, 

 426, 507 



Barrett (S. T.), Ice-Crystals or Filaments, 537 



liarrington-Kennett (V. B.), the Paces of the Horse, 107 



Barrois (Dr. Charles), Tertiary Quartzites of the Ardennes, 

 164 ; Marbre Griotte, 165 



Barton (Boiling W.), Stags' Horns, 325 



Bastian (Prof.), his Arrival at Batavia, 216 



Batavia, Trof. Bastian's Arrival at, 216 , 



Batteries, Planters Secondary, M. d'Arsonvals Suggestion for 

 the Improvement of, 409 



Bauke (I 'r. IL), of Berlin, Death of, 262 



Beach, Note on a Consolidated, in Ceylon, Rev. R. Abbay, I04 



Bedford (llenrv), Sun-Spots, 276 



Bees: ami Centipedes, 12; Infectious Disease among, 163; Eat- 

 ing Entrapped Mollis, 308 



Beet-root, Manufacture of Me hyl Chloride from, Trof. C. 



Vincent 

 Begbie (Major Elphinstone), Intel'ect in Brutes, 325 

 Belgium: Belgian State Prize awarded to M. llouzeau, 162; 



Geology of, 425; Dr. Michel Mourlon on the Geology of, 



2S7 ; Annual Public Sfance of the Belgian Academy, 407; 



Prizes of the, 548: " Bibliotheca Belgica," 215; Devonian 



Rocl:s of, Prof. Malaise, 576 

 Bell (Graham), Prix de Volta awarded to, 329 

 Hell (Thomas, (F.R.S.), Death of, 473; Obituary Notice of, 



499 

 Bellew (II. W.), on Kafinstan, 427 

 Benson ((.'.), the Saidapet Experimental Farm Manual and 



Guide, 54 

 Bentley (Robert) and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, 416 

 Berlin: " GeOgraphenta - "' at, 73; International Piscicr,: 

 Exhibition, 163; Berlin Geographical Society, 242,477; 

 Zeitschrift, 266, 3S6 ; German Anthropological Congress at, 

 2S5 ; Berlin Society of Commercial Geography, 427 ; Elec- 

 trical Railway in, 473, 501 

 Bernier's (M. Theodore) " Dictionnaire Ge 



rique, Archeologique, Biographique, et Bibliographique du 

 Hainault," 360 

 Berrot (M.), Death of, 357 

 Berwick (Dr. George), Lunar Rings, 33, 155 

 Bettany (G. T.), the "Parasol" Ants of Texas ; how They Cut 

 and Carry Leaves ; Origin of Ca-tes by Evolution, 17 ; the 

 Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 86 

 Beynen (Koolemans) Death of, 92 

 Bibliography: Catalogue of Scientific Serials, Mr. S. II. 



Scuilder's New, 89 ; an Astronomical Bibliography, 453 

 Biela Comet Meteors, 71, 240 

 Biermann (Adolf), Death of, 54S 

 Binary Stars, Orbits of, 141 

 Binaural Audition, Prof. Silvanus Thompson's Monograph on, 



21 ; Experiments Relating to, 310 

 Biology : Biological Notes, 93, 240, 308, 453 ; " Ccntrali- 

 Ameiicana," F. Duncan Godman and Osi.ert Salvin, 321 ; a 

 New Biological Atlas, 262 ; the Destruction of Insect Pests an 

 Unforseen Application of the Results of Biological Investiga- 

 tion, Prof. E. Ray Lankc-ter, F.R.S., 447 ; Studies from the 

 Laboratory ofthe Johns Hopkins University, 618 

 Bird (C), "Lecture "Notes on Physics," 153 

 Birds : British, the lima on, 260; Moore's Ornithological 



Tables, 440 ; the Song of Birds, 590, 612 

 Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Annual 

 Meeting of, 35S : Conversazione of the, 424; Philosophical 

 Society, Proceedings, 452 ; the Endowment of Research at, 

 487 

 Bischofsheim (M.), his New Observatory at Nice, 19, 407 

 Bjerknes's |M.) Theory of Electricity and Magoeti-m, 72 

 Blanford (H. F.) on the Barometric See-Saw between Russia 



and Ii dia in the Sun-Spot Cycle, 477 

 Blanford (W. T.), the Himalayan Ranges, 442 

 Bleaching, Improvements in, 14 



Bleekrode (Prof. L.), a Lectin e F.xperiment on Ice-Crystals, 444 

 Blomefield (I.., late |enyns), Scale of Colour, 201 

 Blood-Corpuscles, the Coloured, of the Frog, 453 

 " Blowpipe Analysis," 1. Landauer, 392 

 Blowpipe " Maine," Electricity of the, Col. W. A. Ross, 275; 



II. M'Leod, F.R.S., 347 

 Blunt (Wilfrid S.), his Account of a Journey to Nejd, 142 

 Bock (Carl), Exploration in B .rneo, 241, 46S 

 Bod (Lewi-), Carnivorous Wasps, 538 

 Boilers, the Safety-Valves of, 1S9 

 Boisduval (Dr.), Death of, 451 

 Bill (Prof. Franz), Death ..f, 214 

 Bologna, Monument to Galvani in, 47 

 Bolton's Natural History Discoveries, St 

 Bombay, Severe Thunderstorm in Dharwar, 616 

 Bon's (M. Le) Observations on Skulls, 285 

 Bone-Sucking— a Habit of Cattle, W. Frazer, J. Lc Conte, 12 

 Bonwick (James), " Who are the Irish?" A. H. Keane, 464, 



B irneo : Exploration in, Carl Bock, 241, 46S ; Negritoes in, A. 



Hart Everett, 5SS ; the Caves of, 627 

 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Geology of, 426 

 Boston (U.S.) : and Harvard, 149 ; Society of Natural History, 



Proceedings of, 243, 501; American Academy of Arts and 



Sciences, 532 



