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GENERAL INDEX 
* Australia, explorations in, by Burke, 
Wills, &c., Sir C. Nicholson on late, 
1862, 196 
-Free Trade and Protection in, W. 
Westgarth on the battle between, 1887, 
833 
-geology and palaeontology of, con¬ 
tributions to the, by Charles Moore, 
1862, 83 
* -journey across, J. McDouall Stuart’s 
account of his, 1861, 148 
- journey across, and discovery of 
traces of Leichhardt, Dr. F. Mueller on 
McIntyre’s, 1865, 124 
-land-transfer of, as applicable to 
Ireland, Colonel Torrens on the, 1864, 
179 
-languages of, the position of the, 
Dr. Bleek on, 1870, 144 
- languages of, in connection with 
those of the Mozambique and Portu¬ 
guese Africa, Hyde Clarke on the Yarra 
dialect, and the, 1879. 381 
-message-sticks and messengers of, 
A. W. Howitt on, 1888, 842 
-the religion of, notes on, by J. W. 
Fawcett, 1890, 969 
*—— rivers of the interior of, Rev. J. E. 
Wood on the, 1863, 148 
- salmon to, T. Johnson on the at¬ 
tempts to transport, 1863, 105 ; 1864, 99 
-—— volcanoes of, J. Bonwick on the 
extinct, 1861, 109 
-- Central, expedition across, an ac¬ 
count of the latest, by W. H. Tietkens, 
1877, 150 
■-Central, explorations in, J. S. O’Hal- 
loran on Charles Winnecke’s, with 
notes on the employment of camels, 
1884, 812 
* -North, T Baines on the Victoria 
and Albert rivers of, 1868, 130 
-North-west, letter from the Colo¬ 
nial Office on the exploration of, 1861, 
197 
* -North-west, J. G. Bartholomew on, 
1885, 1132 
t-Western, J. Forrest on, 1887, 803 
Auvergne, volcanoes of, Dr. Tempest 
Anderson on the, 1885, 1017 
Avares, H. H. Howorth on the, 1870, 
152 
Avery (Thomas) on the municipal ex¬ 
penditure of the borough of Birming¬ 
ham, 1865, 135 
Aviculop/ecten and other marine shells, 
the occurrence of, in deposits associated 
with seams of coal containing salt 
water in the Ashby coal-field, W. Moly- 
neux on, 1877, 73 
Avifauna of the Canary Islands, the 
peculiarities of the, Rev. Canon H. B. 
Tristram on, 1889, 616 
Avon, the river ( Bristol ) ; its drainage- 
area, tidal phenomena, and dock jvorhs , 
T. Howard on, 1875, 175 
Axe valley, some Palaeolithic implements 
found in the, J. Evans on, 1877, 116 
Axis of the earth, the influence of the 
position of land and sea upon a shifting 
of the, A. W. Waters on, 1877, 77 
* -of least moments in a rectangular 
beam. J. Neville on the, 1873, 32 
Axon (W. E. A.), corn or cattle; a com¬ 
parison of the economic results of 
agriculture and cattle-raising in rela¬ 
tion to national food-supply, 1881, 749 
-. on the number of the deaf and 
dumb in the wmrld, 1883, 616 
-on the increase of wealth and popu¬ 
lation in Lancashire, 1887, 852 ; 
colour-names amongst the English 
gipsies, 909 
Aye-Aye, A. D. Bartlett on the habits of 
the, living in the gardens of the Zoo¬ 
logical Society of London, 1862, 103 
- Prof. Owen on the characters of the, 
as a test of the Lamarckian and Dar¬ 
winian hypothesis of the transmutation 
and origin of species, 1862, 114 
*Aynsley (Capt.) on the experiments of 
the Boiler Committee of the Admiralty, 
1877, 199 
Ayrton (W. E.) on an instrument for 
detecting fire-damp in mines, 1879, 131 
- on devising and constructing an im¬ 
proved form of high insulation hey for 
electrometer work, 1880, 29 ; on accu¬ 
rately measuring the specific inductive 
capacity of a good Sprengel vacuum, and 
the specific resistance of gases at dif¬ 
ferent pressures, 197 
- on experiments to determine the 
thermal conductivities of certain rocks, 
1881, 126 
— on standards for use in electrical 
measurements, 1881, 423 ; 1882, 70 ; 
1883, 41 ; 1884, 29 ; 1885, 31 ; 1886, 
145 ; 1887, 206 ; 1888 , 55 ; 1889, 41 ; 
1890, 95 
- on fixing a standard of white light, 
1882, 38 ; 1883, 127 ; 1885, 61 ; 1886, 
39 ; 1887, 47 
* -- and Prof. J. Perry on the contact 
theory of voltaic action, 1876, 42 
* -and Prof. J. Perry on the viscosity 
of dielectrics, 1877, 33 ; * *011 the con¬ 
tact theory of voltaic action. 33 
-and Prof. J. Perry, a new determina¬ 
tion of the number of electrostatic 
units in the electro-magnetic unit, 
1878, 487 ; on the electrical properties 
of bees’ v-ax and lead chloride, 497 
--and Prof. J. Perry on a dynamometer 
coupling. 1881, 553 
* -J. Perry, and Sir W. Thomson, 
electrometric determination of ‘ v,' 
1888, 616 
