GENERAL INDEX. 
299 
phy of certain groups of Invertebrata , 
1884, 270 
Newton (Prof. A.) on the definition of 
the area of the British Marine Fauna 
and Flora, 1887, 95 ; on the promotion 
of the study of geography , 158 
-Address to the Biological Section, 
1887, 726 
- on the present state of our know- 
ledge of the zoology and botany of the 
West India Islands , and on the steps 
taken to investigate ascertained defi¬ 
ciencies in the fauna and flora , 1888, 
437 ; 1889, 93 ; 1890, 447 
- on the steps taken for investigating 
the natural history of the Friendly 
Islands, or other groups in the Pacific 
visited by H.M.S. ‘ Egeria' 1889, 113 
-- *on the ornithology of the Sand¬ 
wich Islands, 1890, 852 
-—— (Edward) on a remarkable dis¬ 
covery of bones of Bidus in the island 
of Rodriguez, 1865, 92 
- (E. T.) and G. Sharman on the 
geology of the Atlas ranges in the 
Empire of Morocco, 1889, 167 
--(Prof. H. A.) on the meteoric shower 
of April 1863, 1863, 325 
——- on the height of shooting-stars, 1864, 
95 ; on November star-showers, 96 
- on the direct motion of periodic 
comets of short period, 1879, 272 
- (Dr. W.), specific and latent heat 
in relation to the combining heats of 
the chemical elements, 1889, 541 
- (W. E.) on the sand-blast process 
for cutting and ornamenting stone, 
glass, and other hard substances, 1873, 
215 
Newton Abbot and Torquay, notes on the 
Devonian rocks near, by H. B. Wood¬ 
ward, with remarks on the subject of 
their classification, 1877, 78 
- Stone, Aberdeenshire, decipher¬ 
ment of the Phoenician inscription on 
the, by the Rev. Dr. Mill, 1862, 147 
Newtonian telescopes, G. Johnstone 
Stoney on collimators for adjusting, 
1869, 52 
Niagara, the upward jets of, W. H. 
Barlow on, 1877, 199 
-notes on, by P. Hallett, 1884, 744 
^Nicaragua, Commander B. Pirn on the 
volcanic phenomena and mineral and 
thermal waters of, 1864, 66 
-Captain M. F. Maury on the phy¬ 
sical geography of, with reference to 
interoceanic transit, 186 7, 125 
- Lieut. S. P. Oliver on two routes 
through, 1867, 127 
--Captain Bedford Pirn on the mining 
district of Chontales, 1867, 127 
—— Ralph Tate on the land and fresh¬ 
water Mollusca of, 1869, 117 
Nicaragua, the geology of, Dr. J. Craw¬ 
ford on the, 1890, 812 
-human footprints in recent volcanic 
mud in, Dr. J. Crawford on, 1890, 812 
Nicholas (Dr. T.) on the ethnological 
affinities of the French and English 
peoples, 1872, 191 
- a new paragraph in early English 
history, 1875, 177 
Nichols (Kerry), explorations in the 
islands of the Coral Sea, 1876, 167 , 183 
^Nicholson (Sir C.), late explorations 
in Australia by Burke, Wills, &c., 
1862, 196 
-Address to the Section of Geo¬ 
graphy, 1866, 98 
--(H. A.) on the geology of the Lake 
country, 1865, 57 
-on the Silurian rocks of the Isle of 
Man, 1865, 58 
-on some fossils from the graptolitic 
shales of Dumfriesshire, 1866, 163 
-on the nature and systematic posi¬ 
tion of the Graptolitidm, 1867, 71 , 96 ; 
on the Graptolites of the Skiddaw 
slates, 71 
-on some new forms of Graptolites, 
1869, 98 
-[Prof. H. A.] on the geology of the 
Thunder Bay and Shabendowan mining 
districts on the north shore of Lake 
Superior, 1872, 118 ; on Ortonia, a 
new genus of fossil tubicolar annelids, 
with notes on the genus Tentaculites, 
ib. ; report on dredgings in Lake 
Ontario, 137 ; notice of a silicified 
forest in the Rocky Mountains, with an 
account of a supposed fossil chip, 192 
-on Favistella stellata and Favistella 
calicina , with notes on the affinities 
of Favistella and allied genera, 1874, 
89 ; description of species of Alecto 
and Hippothoa from the Lower Silurian 
rocks of Ohio, with a description of 
Aulopora arachnoidea, 90 ; descriptions 
of new species of Polyzoa from the 
Lower and Upper Silurian rocks of 
North America, ib.; descriptions of 
new species of Cystiphyllum from the 
Devonian rocks of North America, 91 
- on Azygograptus , a new genus of 
graptolites from the Skiddaw slates, 
1875, 78 
- on the ‘ Geological Record ,’ 1880, S 7 
- on the establishment of a marine 
biological station at Granton , Scotland, 
1885, 474 ; 1886, 251 ; 1887, 91 
-W. H. Ellis on a remarkable frag¬ 
ment of silicified wood from the Rocky 
Mountains, 1874, 88 
-and Prof. Harkness on the green 
slates and porphyries from the Lake 
district, 1870, 74 
*-and Prof. Harkness on the strata 
