Nature, May 27, 1SS0] 



INDEX 



Abbay (Rev. R.), a Consolidated Reach in Ceylon, 184 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), the Tay Bridge Storm, 443, 502 



Abich (Dr.), his Petrographical Descriptions of the Caucasian 

 Regions, 287 



Abney (Capt., F.R.S.), on the Photographic Method of Mapping 

 the Least Refrangible End of the Solar Spectrum, 267 



Abruzzi, Existence of the Chamois in the, 240 



Absorption of Ga^es, on the Nature of, Dr. S. Wroblewski, 190 



Ackroyd (William), Change in Apparent Position of Geometrical 

 Figures, 108 ; on the Eye as an Automatic Photometer, 627 



" Acoustico-Electrical Kaleidoscope," M. Michelangiolo Monti's, 

 359 



Adam's Valley (Moravia), Discovery of a Stalactite Cavern in, 

 358 



Aeronautics : Balloon Accident, 71 ; Baumgartner's Navigable 

 Balloon, 549 ; Ballooning in France, 575 



Afghan Ethnology, A H. Keane, 276 



Africa : Belgian Expedition, 73 ; the South African Public 

 Library, 115; the Abbe Debaize's Expedition, igo ; Dr. 

 Junker's Expedition, 216 ; Dr. Rohlfs' Expedition, 241 ; 

 French Stations in, 242 ; Mr. Hore's Explorations, 242 ; 

 Ascent of the River Binue, 266, 504 ; Dr. Holuh's Exploration 

 of, 288, 310 ; Dr. Bradshaw's Exploration of the Zambesi, 

 288 ; the East African Expedition, 331, 455 ; German African 

 Society, 360; "Africa Past and Pre-ent," 368; French 

 Missions to Northern, 385 ; Ivens and Capello's Exploration 

 of Angola, 455 ; Stanley's Congo Expedition, 455 ; Mook and 

 Holzhausen's Journey in, 455 ; German Grants to African 

 Research, 456 ; J. W, Moir's Expedition, 505 ; James Stewart's 

 Exploration of, 527 ; the Second Belgian Expedition, 550 ; 

 Masai and Rovuuia District, 577 



Agassiz (Prof. Alex), the Antiquity of Oceanic Basins, 587 



Agostini's Experiments with Mercury, 526 



Agram, Earthquake at, 215 



Agriculture : Agricultural College, Cirencester, Rev. J. Brown 

 Maclellan elected Principal of, 162 ; " The Science of Agri- 

 culture," J. B. Fuller, 200; Principles of Agriculture, S, 

 Tomlinson, 466; New College of, 523, 547; Fanning for 

 Pleasure and Profit, Arthur Roland, 534 



Air, the Temperature of, at various levels, L. Hajnis, 176 



"Air at the Equator, why it is not hotter in January than in 

 July," A. Woeikof, 249 



Akbal-Tekkes, the, 455 



Albumen and Fat, 618 



Alga;, 282 



Algeria: Exploration of, 216, 239; Algerian Company for 

 Cultivating the Sahara, 424 ; Algerian Scientific Association, 

 474 ; Rainfall in, 549 



Algiers, Observatory of, 263 



Allen (J. Romillv), a Museum Conference, 468, 515 



Alloys, Copper-Tin, W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 272 



Alpine Flowers, Fertilisers of, Dr. Hermann Muller, 275 



ALtcn (E. R.), Mammalia of Scotland, 609 



Alternative Interpretation of Sensation, Fred. D. Brown, 1 77 



Unm Bay, the Fossil Flora of, Baron Ettingshau>en, 555 ; J. 

 Starkie Gardner, 588 



\lumayu, Who was Prince? A. H. Keane, 61 



Imblystoma punctatum, Development of, 454 



imerica : North, Prof. Geikie, F. R.S., on the Geology of, 67 ; 

 the New French Cable for, 307 ; American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, 196, 460, 532 ; American Journal of Science 

 and Arts, 50, 122, 267, 301, 45S, 626 ; American Naturalists, 



50, 122, 314, 45S ; American Quarterly Microscopical Journal, 

 50 ; American Arctic Exploring Expedition, proposed, 310 ; 

 American Biology, Central, 321 ; American Entomologist, 

 441, 626 ; American Geological Surveys, 476 ; Catalogue of 

 Official Reports, 332; American Sea-Side Laboratory, l'rof. 

 E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 497; see alio United States, &c. 

 Ampere, proposed Statue to, 89 

 Amu-darya Expedition, the, 22 



Amn-darya and Caspian Sea, proposed connection of, 216 

 Anatomical Model, Prof. Riidinger's, 306 

 Anatomy, an Atlas of, by Mrs. Fenwick Miller, 9 

 Anchor-ice, Dr. J. Rae, 538 ; Allan Macdougall, 612 

 Ancients, Natural History of the, Rev. W. Houghton, M.A., 



'5' 



Anderson (Richard), "Lightning-conductors, their History, 



Nature, and Mode of Application," 415 

 Andrews (Dr. Thomas, F. R.S.), proposed Testimonial to, 162, 



381 



"Angler's Note- book and Naturalist's Record," 263 



Animal-, Mind in the Lower, by W. Lander Lindsay, M.D., 8 



Animals and the Musical Scale, Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., 1 1 



Animal Heat of Fishes, 156 



"Animal Life," Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 232 



Animal Kingdom, diffusion of Copper in, Dr. T. H. Norton, 

 305 ; Prof. Leon Fredericq, 370 



Annalen der Physik und Chemic, 27, 122, 218, 289, 361, 530 



Annales de l'Extreme Orient, 360 



Annua're for Turkestan, 22 



Ansdell (Gerrard), the Physical Constants of Liquid Hydro- 

 chloric Acid, 387 



Antarctic Expedition, proposed Italian, 578, 598 



Anthony (Edwyn), a Feat of Memory, 502 



Anthracite, a Valuable Bed of, at Ching-men-cbow, 307 



Anthropology: Anthropological Institute, 99, 195, 291, 363, 

 J 35. 459. 4S3, 555; Anthropological Society of Paris. Felyx- 

 Denys-Kapontayabo's letter to, 19; Anthropological Di-covery 

 at Sypniewo by Herr Wilckens, 216 : Removal of Barnard 

 Davis's Anthropological Collection to the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum, 329 ; Recent Progress in, Dr. B. Tylor, 

 F.R.S., 3S0 ; German Exhibition o f , 595 



Antimony, the Atomic Weight of, 554 



Ants, the " Parasol," of Texas : how they cut and carry Leaves : 

 Origin of Castes by Evolution, G. T. Bettany, 17 



Arago, Dr. Janssen on, 418 



Aralo-Caspian Bain, Geology and Physical Geography of, 577 



" Aratus' Skies and Weather Forecasts," 329 



Archives des Sciences Physique et Naturelles, 28, 362, 459, 530 



Archibald (E. Douglas), a Correction, 131 ; Sunshine Cycles, 



393 

 Arctic Exploration : Capt. Howgate's Proposed Expedition, 11, 



526; the Swedish North-east Passage Expedition, 37, 57, 326 ; 



Proposed Submarine Expedition, 550 

 Ardennes, Tertiary Quartzites of the, 164 

 Argacus, Mount, Eruption of, 620 

 Argentina, Uranometria, 240 

 Ar/yll (Duke of), Ice-crystaK-, 274, 368 

 Aristotle, on certain Errors respecting the Structure of the 



Heart attributed to Prof. Huxley, F. K.S., 1 

 Arithmetic, Strange, 468 

 Armstrong (l'rof. Henry F.., F.R.S.), Di 'oeiatirn of Chlorine, 



Bromine, and Iodine, 461 ; the Dcnitv ot Chlorine, 56' 

 Arrow Heads, Stone, 613 



