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INDEX to VOL. XIV 



Absorption, on a property of 



the coefficient of, 483. 



Accumulators, on the construction 

 and charging of, 249. 



Aerial vibrations, on an instrument 

 capahle of measuring the intensity 

 of, 186. 



Air-thermometer, on an, 2-33. 



Amagat (E. H.) on the elasticity of 

 rarefied, gases, 403. 



Anemometer, on an integrating, 

 212. 



Aniline, on the melting-points of 

 some derivatives of, 6. 



Atmosphere, on carbon dioxide as a 

 constituent of the, 387. 



Atom, on the motion of a spherical, 

 in an ideal gas, 157. 



Attwood (G.) on the geology of Costa 

 Rica, 141. 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E.) on the Faure 

 accumulator, 41 ; on a simplified 

 dispersion-photometer, 45. 



Babo (L. v.) on the connexion be- 

 tween viscositv and density in 

 fluids, 51. 



Baily (W.) on an integrating anemo- 

 meter, 212. 



Barometric pressure, on the mecha- 

 nical effects of, on the earth's sur- 

 face, 409. 

 Battery, on the oscillations of the 

 plane of polarization produced by 

 the discharge of a, 79. 

 Benzol, on the melting-points of some 



derivatives of, 2. 

 Bevan (E. J.) on the correlation of 

 the chemistry of the carbon com- 



Eounds with the phenomena of 

 fe, 346. 



Bichat (D.) on the oscillations of the 

 plane of polarization produced by 

 the discharge of a battery, 79. 



Blondlot (R.) on the oscillations of 

 the plane of polarization produced 

 by the discharge of a battery, 79. 



Boltzmann (Prof.) on the average 

 distribution of energy in a system 

 of material points, 299. 



Bonney (Prof. T. G.) on the Horn- 

 blendic and other schists of the 

 Lizard district. 477. 



Books, new: — Selwyn's Geological 

 and Natural History Survey of 

 Canada, 70; Geikie's Geological 

 Sketches, 71 ; Clifford's Mathema- 

 tical Papers, lS5 ; Muir'a Theory of 

 Determinants, l40 ; Lunge's Distil- 

 lation of Coal-tar, 228 ; Hulme's 

 Examination Questions in Plane 

 Geometrical Drawing, 230 ; Lati- 

 mer Clark's Treatise on the Transit 

 Instrument, 319; Geology of Wis- 

 consin, 319 ; Stuckenberg's Life of 

 Immanuel Kant, 322; Stallo's 

 Concepts and Theories of Modern 

 Physics, 396; Chalmers's Gra- 

 phical DetenninatioE of Forces in 

 Engineering Structures, 472 : Steg- 

 galTs Questions in Pure Mathema- 

 tics, 476; Prof. Morris's Geolo- 

 gical Chart, 476. 



Bosanquet (R. H. M. ), notes on prac- 

 tical electricity by, 241. 



Boys (C. V.) on the measurement of 

 curvature and refractive index, 30. 



