INDEX to VOL. XLII. 



ABERCROMBY (R.) on the relation 

 between tropical and extra-tropical 

 cyclones, 138. 



Abney (W. de W.), total eclipse of the 

 snn observed at the Caroline Islands 

 on May 6, 1883, 482. 



— transmission of sunlight through 



the earth's atmosphere, 170. 



Abrus precatorius (jequirity), the pro- 

 teids of the seed3 of (Martin), 331. 



Adams (J. C), supplementary note on 

 the values of the Napierian logarithms 

 of 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10, and of the 

 modulus of common logarithms, 22. 



Air, further experiments on the distri- 

 bution of micro-organisms in, (by 

 Hesse's method) (Frankland and 

 Hart), 267. 



• of sewers, the (Carnelley and 



Haldane),394, 501. 



studies of some new micro-or- 

 ganisms obtained from (Frankland 

 and Frankland), 150. 



Alcohol, a study of the thermal proper- 

 ties of methyl (Ramsay and Young), 

 37. 



Clausius's formula for the change 



of state from liquid to gas applied to 

 Messrs. Ramsay and Young's observa- 

 tions on (Fitzgerald), 216. 



Alloys, note on the electrodeposition of, 

 and on the electromotive forces of 

 metals in cvanide solutions (Thomp- 

 son), 387. 



Alternate current dynamo, note on the 

 theory of the (Hopkinson), 167. 



Alumina, on the crimson line of phos- 

 phorescent (Crookes), 25. 



Anatomy of Asiatic cholera, note on the, 

 as exemplified in cases occurring in 

 Italy in 1886 (Sherrington), 474. 



Andrews (T.), electrochemical effects on 

 magnetising iron, 459. 



Anschutz (R.) and P. N. Evans, contri- 

 butions to our knowledge of anti- 

 mony pentachloride, 379. 



Anthrax, note on protection in (Wool- 

 dridge), 312. 



Antimony pentachloride, contributions 

 to our knowledge of (Anschutz and 

 Evans), 379. 



Aromatic bodies, preliminary commu- 

 nication on the action of certain 

 (Brunton and Cash), 240. 



Atmosphere, transmission of sunlight 

 through the earth's (Abney), 170. 



Atmospheric oxidation, note on the 

 development of voltaic electricity by 

 (Wright and Thompson), 212. 



Auricular appendices, note on the func- 

 tions of the sinuses of Valsalva and, 

 with some remarks on the mechanism 

 of the heart and pulse (Collier) 469. 



Baird (Major A. W.) admitted, 189. 



Bakerian lecture (Thomson), 343. 



Balanoglossus larva from the Bahamas, 

 preliminary note on a (Weldon), 146. 



[ ] note on the above (Weldon), 473. 



Barometric pressure, some anomalies in 

 the winds of Northern India and 

 their relation to the distribution of 

 (Hill), 35. 



Bee, second note on the geometrical con- 

 struction of the cell of the honey 

 (Hennessy), 176. 



Beevor (C. E.) and V. Horsley, a fur- 

 ther minute analysis, by electric sti- 

 mulation, of the so-called motor region 

 of the cortex cerebri in the monkey 

 (Macacus sinicus), 483. 



Birds, on the morphology of (Parker), 

 52. 



the development of the branchial 



arterial arches in, with special refer- 

 ence to the origin of the subclavians 

 and carotids (Mackay), 429. 



Bismuth, contributions to the metal- 

 lurgy of (Matthey), 89. 



Blechnum occidentals (L.). and Osmunda 

 regalis (L.), on the structure of the 

 mucilage cells of (Ito and G-ardiner), 

 353. 



Blood serum, note on a new constituent 



of (Wooldridge), 230. 

 Blood-vessels of Mustelus antarcticus, 



note to a paper on the (' Phil. Trans./ 



1886) (Parker), 437. 

 Boileau, John Theophilus, obituary 



notice, i. 



Bonney (T. Gr.), note on the geological 

 bearing of Mr. Davison's paper, 328. 



