INDEX. 
PAGE 
Absolute Pitch in Music 214 
Achinese, Osteology of the 84 
Acoustical Researches 106 
Acoustic Vibrations caused by 
Heat 210 
Agassiz (A.) on American Dredg- 
ings in the Caribbean Sea 352 
^Esthetics 194 
Alcohol, Conversion of Sugar into 199 
Allotropic Copper 424 
American Dredgings ^in the Carib- 
bean Sea 352 
„ Jurassic Mammals 421 
„ Minerals, new 434 
,, Surveys 99 
Ammonia and Hydrogen Chloride, 
new compounds of, 317 
„ in Atmospheric Deposits 201 
Anatomy of the Elephant 180 
„ „ Organ of Hearing, 
its relation to the principle of 
the Microphone 211 
Animal Chemistry 61 
,, Morphology 175. 
„ Organisms, New Organic 
Base in 93 
Animals, Extinct, of the Colonies 
of Great Britain 253 
„ Light emitting, facts and 
thoughts about 225 
Annelids, Fossil remains of. 209 
Annular Eclipse of January 22, 
1879 87 
Anthropoid Ape in the Siwaliks ... 320 
Anthropology 83, 308 
Anthropometry 416 
Ants, Sir J. Lubbock on 222 
Ape, Anthropoid in the Siwaliks... 321 
Aphides, Migrations of. 220 
Archibald’s “ Rainfall of the 
World ” 192 
Armstrong’s “ ^Esthetics” 194 
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Asclepiads, Flowers of, Sensitive 
Organs in the 89 
Astronomy 85, 196, 308, 417 
„ Babylonian 420 
Audiometer, the ... 330 
Auditoria, the Acoustics of 217 
Australian Minerals, new 434 
Babylonian Astronomy 420 
Barometer, Mirror 237 
Bedford Catalogue, the 198 
Bee-keeping 405 
Biela’s Comet 417 
Binaural Audition 103 
Birds, British, 304 
„ Nest-building, is it an In- 
stinct? 275 
Black Mildew of Walls 313 
Blake’s “ Sewage-poisoning ” 193 
Blister Beetles, Metamorphoses of 
the 333 
Books, Reviews of... 61, 173, 297, 403 
Botanical Text-Book 406 
Botany 89, 313, 421 
Bovidae, the 331 
Brachycephalism and Civilization 413 
Brearey (F. W.) on Flight, and its 
Imitation T 395 
British Birds 304 
,, Mean Temperatures 39 
„ Plants 410 
„ „ a Catalogue of 89 
Brorsen’s Comet, Spectrum of. 311 
Burnham Beeches 412 
Buzzing of Insects Ill 
Callaway (C.) on the Oldest Moun- 
tain in England... 15 
Cambridgeshire Geology 299 
Canadian Palaeontology 411 
