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Ellis (William), Correspondence of Phenomena in Magnetic
Storms, 33; Magnetic Storm of 1880, August, 482
Elongation of Mimas, 255

Elsden (J. Vincent), Microscopic Structure of Malleable Metals,
391

Encke's Comet in 1881, 396

Encyclopædia Britannica," Vols. X., XI., 119
Endowment of Research in Birminghan, 304

Fisher (Rev. Osmond), "Physics of the Earth's Crust," 131;
Aurora of January 31, 329

Flame-Length, Note on, Lewis T. Wright, 527

Flammarion (M.), a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur, 439
Fletcher (Thos), Dr. Siemens' New Cure for Smoke, 91

Flight of the Albatross, Notes on the Mode of, Arthur W.
Bateman, 125

"Flora of Plymouth," T. R. Archer Briggs, 74

Entomological Collection, the late John Miers', F.R.S., Pre- Florence, Collection of Italian Vertebrates at, 41

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Eucalyptus in Rangoon, 370

Europe, Lava Fields of North-Western, Prof. Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 3

Europe, Prehistoric, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 309,
361, 482; Dr. James Geikie, F. R.S., 336, 458; Dr. James
Geikie, F.R.S., R. H. Tiddeman, 433, 528

Europeans and North American Birds, 277

Everett (Prof. J. D., F.R.S.), a General Theorem in Kine-
matics, 99

Eves (Florence), Girton and Newnham Colleges, 291
Evolution, Formula of, Prof. Tait on, 78

Evolution, Prof. Huxley on, 203, 227

Ewing (Prof. J.), Speed Governor for Continuous Motion, 473
Exner (Frank), on Thermo-Electricity, 44; a Correction, 170
Exner and Young, Professors, Prof. C. A. Young, 312
Exploration, Deep-Sea, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 300, 324
Explosion, Recent Gas, Herbert McLeod, F.R.S., 8
Explosions, Colliery, Mr. Plimsoll's cure for, W. Galloway, 170
Explosions, Colliery, and Coal-Dust, Hon. R. Russell, 193
Explosive Gas in a Lake, J. Shaw, 435

Exposé Historique concernant le Cours des Machines, dans
l'Enseignement de l'École Polytechnique," 75

Extinct British Animals, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S.,
431

Eye and Intensity of Colour, 543

Falb (Prof. Rudolph) on Earthquakes, 156, 205

Falls of Niagara in Winter, W. Lant Carpenter, 511

Faraday Lecture, Prof. Helmholtz's, 535

Fascination, L. P. Gratacap, 56; Arthur Nicols, 77; J. T.
Brownell, 314; Carl Ochsenius, 508

Faye's Comet, 115

Feeding a Gull with Corn, W. A. Forbes, 483

"Fer Bravais," Experiments on, 86

Ferns of North America, J. G. Baker, 479

Fiji, Baron A. von Hugel's proposed Work on, 45

Finland, Baron Nordenskjöld in, 340

Finland, Algae of the Gulf of, 494

Firth (Mark), Death of, 106

Fish, Jelly, F. C. Constable, 170

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Fogs of London, 165

Food of Birds, Fishes, and Beetles, 494
Forest, Subterranean, in India, 105

Formula of Evolution, Prof. Tait on, 78

Fossil Insects, Oldest, Dr. H. A. Hagen, 483; Rev. A. E.
Eaton, 507

France, Phylloxera in, Maxime Cornu, 127

Franz-Josef Land, Exploration of, 278

Free Libraries in Scotland, 64

Freezing Points of Alcoholic Liquids, M. Raout on, 85

Fremy (M.), on Chemistry at the Paris Museum of Natural
History, 83

French Institute, Annual Meeting of, 19

French Association, Meeting at Algiers, 319, 491, 515, 541; G.
F. Rodwell, 582, 606

French Learned Societies, Congress of, 619

Frere (Sir Bartle) at the Geographical Society's Meeting, 87
Fret, Greek, Alfred C. Haddon, 9

Fritsch's (Dr.) Method of taking Casts of Skeletons, 275

Frost, Vibration of Telegraph Wires during, T. Mellard Reade,
314; F. T. Mott, 338

Frost, the Effects of, on Chemicals, 347
Fryer (John), Acoustics in China, 448
Fungal Growths in the Animal Body, 277

Galloway (W.), Mr. Plimsoll's Cure for Colliery Explosions,
170

"Gardens of the Sun," F. W. Burbidge, 143

Gardner (J. Starkie), Geological Climates, 53, 193; a Chapter
in the History of the Coniferæ, 251, 412; Geologising at
Sheppey, 293

Garrod (Prof. A. H.), Publication of his Scientific Papers, 491
Gas Burner, Regenerative, Herr F. Siemens', 131
Gas Explosion, Recent, Herbert McLeod, F.R.S., 8
Gas, Explosive, in a Lake, J. Shaw, 435

Gas-Grate, Dr. Siemens's, Dr. R. Douglas Hale, 145

Gases and Vapours, their Dissolving Power on one another, 86
Gases and Vapours, Spectra of, Influence of Pressure and Tem-
perature on, G. Ciamician, 169

Gas and Electricity as Heating Agents, C. W. Siemens, F.R.S,
326, 351

Gases, on the Thermic and Optic Behaviour of, under the
Electric Discharge, Dr. Arthur Schuster, F. R.S., 258
Gases, Viscosity of, at High Exhaustions, W. Crookes, F.R.S.,
421, 443

Gaseous Matter, Action of an Intermittent Beam of Radiant
Heat upon, Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 374

Fish, Flying-, Francis P. Pascoe, 312; R. E. Taylor, 388; Geelong Vineyards, Phylloxera in the, 181
Allan D. Broun, 508

Fi-h-Culture in the United States, 532

"Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland," Dr. Francis Day, 107,
264

Fishes, Birds, and Beetles, Food of, 494

Fishes, Dr. Günther, F.R.S., on, 213

Fishes, British, Frank Buckland, 576

Fisheries, German, Union, Offer of a Prize by the, 205

Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich, 564, 588

Fishery Society, Khenish, foundation of, at Cologne, 158

Fisher (Dr. Ferd.) appointed Editor of the Jahresbericht für die
chemische Technologie, 106

Gegenbaur's Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 283

Geikie (Prof. Arch., F.R.S.), Lava Fields of North-Western
Europe, 3; Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, 150; Geology of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 224;
Murchison Medal awarded to, 346; Wallace's "Island Life,"
357, 391

Geikie (Dr. James, F.R.S.), "Prehistoric Europe," 336, 433
Geography: Geographical Notes, 21, 44, 87, 134, 159, 184,
210, 233, 255, 278, 299, 323, 398, 420, 443, 495, 518, 544,
565; Geographical Results of the Afghan Campaign, Capt
T. H. Holdich, 159; Geographical Societies of the World,
299, see also Royal Geographical Society

:

Geology Geological Changes of Level, Sir C. Wyville Thomson,
F.R.S., 33; Geological Society, 71, 140, 161, 211, 330, 403,
426, 449, 523, 547, 595; Medals Awarded by, 394; Geological
Notes, 184; Geological Age of the North Highlands of Scot-
land, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 289; Geological Climates,
Prof. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 8, 98, 145, 241, 290, 313,
384; Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 145; Dr. A. Woeikoff,
241, 362; J. J. Murphy, 290; J. Starkie Gardner, 53, 193;
Alfred R. Wallace, 124, 217, 266; Dr. Maxwell T. Masters,
266; William Ingram, 169; Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 337;
Geology of East Central Africa and the Subterranean Forest
in Bombay, W. T. Blanford, 145; Geological Survey of
Belgium, 184; Geology of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prof.
Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 224; Geologising at Sheppey, J.
Starkie Gardner, 293; Geology of the Corean Archipelago,
H. B. Guppy, 417; International Geological Congress, C. E.
de Rance, 510; Geological Relations of Gold in Nova Scotia,
J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 578

Geometrical Optics, W. G. Logeman, 125; Phenomena of, 372
Geometrical Teaching, 414

German Rivers, the Quantities of Water in, 94

German Fisheries Union, Offer of a Prize by the, 205

German Chemical Society, 436

Gifford (Lord) on Scientific Education, 64

Giglioli (Prof. H. H.), Lophiomys Imhausi, 291

Gilmour (Rev. James), Mongol Doctors, 132

Girton and Newnham Colleges, Florence Eves, 291

Glaciers, Retrograde Motion of, Herr W. Grömer on, 181
Glaciation of British Columbia, Prof. Whitney on, Geo. M.
Dawson, 290

Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S.), the Refraction_Equivalents of
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen in Organic Compounds, 378
Glisenap (M.), on Refraction, 373

Glasgow, Naval and Marine Engineering Exhibition at, 41
Gleanings, Nile, 526

Gnat with Two Kinds of Wives, 277

Gnats, Winter (Trichocera), Rev. A. E. Eaton, 554

Godeffroy Museum at Hamburg, 320

Godwin Austen (H. H.), Squirrel Cro-sing Water, 340

Gold in Newfoundland, 472

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Habich (E. J.), "Études géométriques et cinématiques," &c., 603
Haddon (Alfred C.), Greek Fret, 9

Hagen (Dr. H. A.), Oldest Fossil Insects, 483
Hailstones, Remarkable, Col. Foster Ward on, 233
Hailstorm in Dorsetshire, Dr. George J. Allman, F.R.S., 146
Hale (Dr. R. Douglas), Dr. Siemens' Gas Grate, 145
Hampe (Prof. Ernst), Death of, 156

Hand, Skin-furrows of the, Sir W. J. Herschel, 76
Hankow, Banks of the Yang-tse at, H. B. Guppy, 507
Hannay (J. B.), Hot Ice, 504

Harcourt and Madan's Chemistry," 181

Harmer (John), on Estimating the Height of Clouds by Photo-
graphy and the Stereoscope, 194; Aurora of January 31, 329
Hartwig's Comet (1880 d), 43

Hartwig and Swift, Comets of, 158

Harvard College, U.S., Observatory of, 321

Haughton (Prof. Samuel, F.R.S.), Geological Climates, 8, 98,
145, 241, 290, 384

Hay (J. A. C.), New Cure for Smoke, 360, 386

Hay (Col. Drummond), Birds of the Estuary of the Tay, 516
Heart, Blood-Vessels of Valves of the, 159

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Herculaneum, Discovery by Prof. Giuseppe Novi of a Magnificent
Bathing Establishment near, 182

Herring, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., 607

Herschel (Sir W. J.), Sin-furrows of the Hand, 76

Herschel's First Observation of Uranus, 299

Herschel (Sir William), J. R. Hind, F. R.S., 429, 453, 573

Herschel 3945, the Double Star, 591

Herschel (Prof. A. S.), Infusible Ice, 383

Herzegovina and Bosnia, Geology of, Prof. Archd. Geikie,
F.R.S., 224

Herzen (Herr A.), Acetous Fermentation, 86

Hewitt (William), "Class-Book of Elementary Mechanics," 53
Highbury Microscopical and Scientific Society, 64
Highlands, North, of Scotland, Geological Age of, Prof. Edward
Hull, F.R.S., 289

Hill (S. A.), Barometric and Solar Cycles, 409; Indian Winter
Rains, 604

Hincks (T., F.R.S.), "A History of British Marine Polyzoa," 51
Hind (J. R., F.R.S.), Sir William Herschel, 429, 453, 573
Histology, Atlas of, 382

Hochstetter (Prof. v.) on the Agram Earthquake, IC6

Hodgson (Brian Houghton, F.R.S.), Presentation of Drawings
to the Anthropological Institute, 107

Holdich (Capt. T. H.), Geographical Results of the Afghan
Campaign, 159

Holub (Dr.), on the Art Faculty of the Australians, 20; Pro-
posed Journey Across Africa, 22

Hoorweg (Herr), on Electricity, 43

Horner (F.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31, 348
Hot Ice, see Ice

Hubbard (Fred.), Squirrels Crossing Water, 484

Hugel (Baron A. von), Proposed Work on Fiji, 45

Hughes (Prof. McK.), Scientific Use of the Late Severe Weather,
346

Hughes (Prof. D. E., F.R.S.), Molecular Electro-magnetic In-
duction, 519; Permanent Molecular Torsion of Conducting
Wires produced by the Passage of an Electric Current, 569
Hull (Prof. Edward, F.R.S.), Geological Age of the North
Highlands of Scotland, 289

Hull's (Prof.) "Coal-Fields of Great Britain," 321

Human Brain, Concealed Bridging Convolutions in a, W.
Carter, 556

Human Intelligence, Development of, 617

Humblot (M. Léon), Return to Paris from Madagascar, 41
Humboldt Institution for Natural Research and Travel, 371
Hungary, Earthquake Shock in, 232
Hunterian Lectures, the, 395

Hutton (F. Wollaston), "Manual of the New Zealand Mol-
lusca," 7

Huxley (Prof. T. H., F.R.S.), First Volume of the Publications
of the Challenger, I; Challenger Publications, 33; on Evolu-
tion, 203, 227; Appointed to the Inspectorship of Fisheries,
275; Herring, 607

Hydrochloric Acid, the Influence of, on Metallic Chlorides, 397
Hypotheses in School Education, Introduction of, Dr. Hermann
Müller, 157

Ice, Hot, 34; Prof. John Perry, 288; Dr. Oliver J. Lodge,
264, 504; J. F. Hannay, 504; Geo. B. Richmond, 504; Ice
intrusive in Peat, T. Mellard Reade, 339; Experiments on Ice

under Low Pressures, Dr. Thos. Carnelley, 341; Infusible
Ice, Prof. A. S. Herschel, 383; Ice-Casts of Tracks, J. T.
Brownell, 484

Incandescent Electric Lights, 104

Index of Refraction of Ebonite, Measuring the, Professors
Ayrton and Perry, 519

India, Subterranean Forest in, 105; on the Identity of some
Ancient Diamond Mines in, especially those mentioned by
Tavernier, V. Ball, 490; Australian Plants in, Dr. G. Bidie,
555

Indian Empire, Census of the, 419

Indian, American, Languages, A. H. Keane, 503
Indian Winter Rains, S. A. Hill, 604

Indians of Southern California, 253

Indigo, 390

Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races-Types and Affinities, A. H.
Keane, 199, 220, 247, 271

Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races, Classification of the, H. J.
Murton, 508; A. H. Keane, 529

Induction Current from Leyden-Jar Discharge, W. Larden, 529
Infinity, Disturbing, in Lord Rayleigh's Solution for Waves in a
Plane Vortex Stratum, Sir William Thomson, 45, 70
Infusible Ice, Prof. A. S. Herschel, 383

Infusoria, a Manual of the, W. Saville Kent, 264
Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Auroral Phenomena, 363
Ingram (William), Geological Climates, 169

Inherited Memory, an Experiment on, W. Mattieu Williams,
508

"Injurious Insects, Notes of Observations of," Eleanor A.
Ormerod, 432

Innes (Cosmo), Dr. Siemens' New Cure for Smoke, 91
Innsbruck, Inverted Rainbow seen at, 157

"Insects, Aid to the Identification of," 98

"Insects, Injurious, Notes of Obervations of," Eleanor A.
Ornierod, 432

Insects, Organs of Smell in, 440

Insects, Oldest Fossil, Dr. H. A. Hagen, 483; Rev. A. E.
Eaton, 507

Instinct, Aberration of, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 433; Rev.
T. H. Waller, 484

Institution of Civil Engineers, 162, 212, 308, 356, 380, 451,
475, 524, 595

Integral Calculus, Elementary Treatise on, B. Williamson,
F.R.S., 241

Intelligence, Development of Human, 617

Intensity of Colour, the Eye and, 543

International Medical Congress, 418

International Geological Congress, C. E. de Rance, 510
Iodide of Lead, Coefficients of Expansion of, 594
Ireland, North of, Earthquake Shocks felt in, 106

Ireland and Scotland, Earthquake of November 28, 1880, in,
591

Irish Espart Grass, 437

Iron and Steel Institute, 491; Annual Meeting of the, 614
Ischia, Earthquake in, H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 497

Isoetes lacustris, 544

"I-land Life," Correction of an Error in, Alfred R. Wallace,
195

"Island Life," Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 357, 391

Isopods, Marine, of New England, 543

Isotherms of the North of Europe, 470

Italy, Statistics of Disease in, 543

Jevons (W. Stanley, F.R.S.), the August Auroras, 148; Recent
Mathematico-Logical Memoirs, 485

Jochenstein, Discovery of Bronze Implements at, 157
Johns Hopkins University Fellowships, 259

Johnston, Keith, and Thomson's African Expedition, 38
Johnston-Lavis (H. J.), Earthquake in Ischia, 497

Jolly (William), John Duncan, the Alford Weaver and Botanist,
269

Jones (Thomas Rymer, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 174
Journal of the Indian Archipelago, 42

Journal de Physique, 47, 115, 235, 402, 449, 594
Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, 95
Journal of the Franklin Institute, 115, 211, 402, 449

Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Normal and Pathological,
161, 378

| Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 161, 259, 449
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South
Wales, 401

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 449
Journal of Physiology, 449

Jupiter, Condition of, J. Kand Capron, 34; Near Appulse of,
to a Fixed Star, 158, 170; Occultation of 73 Piscium by,
183; Red Spot upon Jupiter's Disk, 517

Jupp (H. B.), Localisation of Sound, 386

Kaltbrunner (D.), " Aide-Mémoire du Voyageur," 217
Kant (Immanuel), Marble Bust of, 205

Keane (A. H.), "Max Müller and the Philosophy of Lan-
guage," 30; "Philosophy of Language," Ludwig Noiré, 124;
Indo Chinese and Oceanic Races-Types and Affinities, 199,
220, 247, 271; American-Indian Languages, 503; Classifica
tion of the Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races, 529
Keene (T. H.), Practical Fisherman," 603

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Kent (W. Saville), "A Manual of the Infusoria," 264
Kent's Cavern Committee, 296

Kew Gardens Report, 22

Kew Museums, Enlargement of, 564

Kiew, Russo-Byzantine Antiquities found near, 321

Kinahan (G. H.), Aurora Observed at Ovoca, co. Wicklow,
November 3, 100; Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31,
348; Auroric Light, 410

Kinahan (Gerrard A.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31,
348

Kinematics, a General Theorem in, Geo. M. Minchin, 62, 170;
Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 99; J. J. Walker, 125
King (Capt. H., R.N.), Instances of Fascination, 84

King (Clarence), Resignation of, 540

Kingfisher, the Great, and Snakes, 298
Knowles (W. J.), Minerva Ornaments, 411

Kölliker (Albert), on Animal Development, 480
Kosmos, 47, 211

Krefft (Gerard), Death of, 589

Krause (Dr. Ernst), "Unconscious Memory," Mr. Samuel Butler,
288

Krause (Karl Christian Friedrich), Centenary of the Birth of, 371
Kuhlmann (Charles Frederick), Obituary Notice of, 316
Kuntze (Dr. Otto), Sargassum, 70, 146

Kweichow, Opium Harvest at, Mr. Baller or, 158

Lake Leman, Warm Winter at, 254

Lamp, Prize for the Invention of a New, 347

Land, Subsidence of, Caused by Natural Brine Springs, Thos.
Ward, 388

Mellard Reade, 219

Jablochkoff Light, Introduction of, by M. Hervé-Mangon, into | Landslips: Thos. Ward, 144; the Cheshire Subsidences, T.
the Conservatoire, Paris, 64; at Victoria and Charing Cross
Stations, 64

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Language, Philosophy of, Ludwig Noiré, A. H. Keane, 124
Lankester (Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S.), Natural Conditions and
Animal Life, 405

Larden (W.), Soaring of Birds, 77; Induction-Current from
Leyden-jar Discharge, 529

Latzel (Dr. Robert), Austrian Myriopods, 167

Laurie (A. P.), Heat of Formation of a Compound, 35

Lava Fields of North-Western Europe, Prof. Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S, 3

Leaves, Movements of, M. L. Rouse, 195; Charles Darwin,
F.R.S., 603

Lécard (M.), Death of, 181

Le Conte (Prof. Joseph), Coral Reefs and Islands, 77; on the
Space Protected by Lightning-conductors, 386
Leichhardt, Discovery of Relics of, 420, 443

Leipzig, Proposed Zoological Garden at, 253

Level, Geological Changes of, Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 33
Level of the Sea, on the Practicability of Living at Great Eleva-
tions above the, Edward Whymper, 459
Leverrier and his Theory of Saturn, 298

Ley (Rev. W. Clement), Colours of British Butterflies, 458
Leyden-jar Discharge, Induction Current from, W. Larden, 529
Libya, the Languages of, 84

Libyan Desert, Dr. Karl Zittel on, 19

"Life and her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life from the
Amoeba to the Insects," Arabella B. Buckley, 123
Light, Easy Lessons in, Mrs. W. Awdry, 32

Light and Electricity, the Relation between, Dr. O. J. Lodge,
302

Light and the Transpiration of Plants, 159
Lighthouses, Lighting by Electricity, 296, 347

Malleable Metals, Microscopic Structure of, J. Vincent Elsden,

391

Mammee Apples, Exportation of, 65

Man, Paleolithic, Worthington G. Smith, 604

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 236, 475
Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, 370

Maps, United States Weather, 1878, 39
Mariette (M.), "Mariette Bey," Death of, 320

Marine Isopods of New England, 543

Markham (Albert H.), a Polar Reconnaissance, 455

Marriage Customs, Primitive, D. MacLennan, 584
Marsden's "List of British Birds," 467

Martineau (C. A.), Easy Lessons in Heat, 32

Masters (Dr. Maxwell T.), Geological Climates, 266; Dimorphic
Leaves of Conifers, 267

Mathematical Society, 71, 161, 283, 379, 474, 577, 594

Lightning Conductors: Richard Anderson on, 296; on the Mathematico-Logical Memoirs, Recent, Prof. W. Stanley Jevons,

Space protected by, Prof. J. Le Conte, 386

Li nmat, Dredging the Bed of the, 297

Lindsay (Dr. Lauder), Death of, 131
Linnean Society, 71, 115, 330, 379, 426

Liquids: the Rapidity of the Evaporation of, 86; Viscosity of,
397

Liquids and Solids at High Temperatures, John Aitken, 34
Livadia, Russian Imperial Yacht, 27; the Accident to, 63
Liveing (Prof. G. D., F.R.S.), on the Spectrum of Carbon,
265, 338

Liverpool College of Chemistry, Re-opening of, 468

Living at Great Elevations above the Level of the Sea, on the
Practicability of, Edward Whymper, 459

Livingstone, Life of, by W. Garden Blaikie, D.D., 238
Lizard, the Horned, of Australia, 402

Lloyd (Rev. Humphrey), Death of, 275; Obituary Notice of,
292

Localisation of Sound, H. B. Jupp, 386

Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), on the Iron Lines Widened in
Solar Spots, 425

Locusts, the Natural Enemies of, 565

Lodge (Dr. Oliver J.), Dr. Carnelley's Hot Ice, 264, 504; the
Relation between Light and Electricity, 302
Logeman (W. G.), Geometrical Optics, 125
Logic, Symbolical, Hugh MacColl, 578

London, Smokeless, W. D. Scott Moncrieff, 151, 193; W.
Mattieu Williams, 169; Average Height of Barometer in,
184; Fogs of, 165

London Mathematical Society, 577

Loomis (Prof.), Storm Centres in Tropical Regions, 322
Lophiomys Imhausi, Prof. H. H. Giglioli, 291

Lorenz (Prof.), on his Theory of "Refraction-Constants," 43
Low Temperature, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 268

Lowe (E. J.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31, 348
Löwenberg's "Geschichte der geographischen Entdeckungsreisen
im Alterthum und Mittelalter," 481

Lubbock (Sir J., Bart., F.R.S.), Observations on Ants, Bees,
and Wasps, 255

Lunar Eclipses, 1810-84, 114

Lunge (Prof. George), "Sulphuric Acid and Alkali," Prof.
H. E. Roscoe, F. R.S., 73

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Mechanics, Class-Book of Elementary, William Hewitt, 53
Mechanics, Text-Book of, Edward S. Dana, 552
Medical Catalogue, a, 28

Medical Etiquette in Paris, a Case of, 64
Medical Gymnasium, Paris, 297

Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de
Bordeaux, 433

Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 474
Memory, Unconscious, Samuel Butler, Geo. J. Romanes,
F.R.S., 285; S. Butler, Dr. Ernst Krause, 288; S. Butler,
312; Butler's, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., T. R. R. Stebbing,
335

Memory, an Experiment on Inherited, W. Mattieu Williams,
508

Memphis, Discovery of Two Pyramids to the North of, 297
Mendeleef (Prof.), and the St. Petersburg Academy, 156, 205
Mercadier's Researches on the Photophone, 366

Meredith (Louisa Anne), "Tasmanian Friends and Foes:
Feathered, Furred, and Finned," 143

Mereshkovsky (M.), Prehistoric Anthropology of the Crimea,
63, 107

Mesembrianthemum, not Mesembryanthemum, 158
Messina, Tea Plantation Established near, 254

Metallurgy, Introductory Lecture to the Course of, at the Royal
School of Mines, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 65
Metals, the Conduction of Electricity and Heat in, 44
Metals, Microscopic Structure of Malleable, J. Vincent Elsden,
391
Meteorology: Meteorological Society, 96, 211, 307, 427, 500,
620; Meteorological Notes, 183, 322, 470; State of Meteoro-
logy in United States, 183; Average Height of Barometer in
London, 184; E. Douglas Archibald, 243; Prof. Loomis on
Storm Centres in Tropical Regions, 322; Dr. Meldrum's
Observations at Mauritius, 1877, 322; the Recent Severe
Weather, 329, 363, 411; Siberian Meteorology, Dr. A.
Woeikof, 437; Meteorology in Mexico, 489; Meteorological
Observatory at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 516, see also Barometer
Meteors, 516; Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 34; M. A. Veeder,
147; November Meteors, 158; J. Parnell, 508
Meteoric Stone, Fall of, at Wiener Neustadt, 297

Metz Geological and Archæological Society, Details of the
Roman Antiquities found near Metz, 321

Mexico, Meteorology in, 489

Miao-tze Tribes of China, 518

Microphone, M. Boudet's New, 278

Microscopical Society, see Royal

Microscopic Structure of Malleable Metals, J. Vincent El-den,
391

"Midgets," Abnormal Dentition of the, 419

Migration of the Wagtail, 529; Prof. E. W. Claypole, 387;
Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 411

Migration of Birds, 484

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Mineral Resources of Newfoundland, Alex. Murray, 45
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Prof. Arch.
Geikie, F.R.S., 150, 212; General Meeting, 182

-Minerva Ornaments at Troy, and Net-Sinkers, Prof. E. W.
Claypole, 292; W. J. Knowles, 411

Minerva Club, 297

Mines, Cause of Accidents in, 320

Mines, Ventilation of, 517

Minimum Energy, on an Experimental Illustration of, Sir

William Thomson, F.R.S., 69

Minor Planets, 517; in 1881, 396

Net-Sinkers, Minerva Ornaments at Troy v., Prof. E. W. Clay-
pole, 292

New England, Marine Isopods of, 543

New Guinea, Alfred R. Wallace, 152, 175; Salvadori's
Ornithology of, 243

New Zealand Molluscs, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 7
New Zealand, the Forests of, 65

Newcastle Libraries, Catalogue of, 262

Newfoundland: Mineral Resources of, Alex. Murray, 46; Gold
in, 472

Newton (Prof. Alfred, F. R.S.), British Birds, 287; "The
Olde-t Picture in the World," 555

Missouri, Magnetic Survey of, Prof. Francis E. Nipher,, 583 Niagara, Falls of, in Winter, W. Lant Carpenter, 511
Mitchell (Arthur), "Past in Present, What is Civilisation?" 166
Mitchinson (A. W.), "The Expiring Continent," 399
"Mock Sun," J. E. H. Peyton, 314

Moebius (Prof. K.), Zoological Results of his Visit to Mauritius,

H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 514

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Molluscs, New Zealand, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 7
Moncrieff (W. D. Scott), Smokeless London, 151

Montsouris, Analysis of the Air at, by M. Davy, 63
Montsouris Observatory Annuaire, 469

Mont Cenis Tunnel, New Entrance to, 253
Montgolfier (Mdlle. de), Death of, 181

Mont Pourri, Avalanche from, 396

Mook (Dr. Fr.), Death of, 234

Morren's (Prof. E.), Correspondance Botanique, 253

Morris (Mr.), Superiority of Jamaica Cinchona Bark, 157

Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), Zoological Results of Prof. K.
Moebius' Visit to Mauritius, 514

Mott (F. T.), Vibration of Telegraph Wires during Frost, 338
Movements of Leaves, M. L. Rouse, 195

Movements of Plants, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 409
Muir (William), Dynamics of "Radiant Matter," 483
Müller's (Dr. Fritz), "Ueber die von den Trichopterenlarven der
Provinz Santa Catharina verfertigen Gehaüse," 192
Müller (Dr. Hermann), Introduction of Hypotheses in School
Education, 157; New Cases of Dimorphism in Flowers,
Errors Corrected, 337

Müller (Prof. Max), and the Philosophy of Language, A. H.
Keane, 30; at University College, 381

Mulsant (Etienne), Death of, 107

Multiple Centres of Species, Cave Animals and, D. Wetterhan,
458

Mundella (Right Hon. A. J.), on Education, 106, 134

Murphy (Joseph John), Geological Climates, 290

Murray (Alex.), Mineral Resources of Newfoundland, 46

Murton (H. J.), Classification of the Indo-Chinese and Oceanic
Races, 508

Museums, Opening of, on Sundays, 395

Museum, New, of Natural History, 549, 577

Music, Photophonic, 124

Musk Deer, 36

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Niépce (Nicephore), Statue of, 296

Nice Observatory, Information regarding, 156
Nicols (Arthur), Fascination (?), 77

Niger, the Discovery of the Sources of, 87

66

'Niger and the Benueh: Travels in Central Africa," Adolphe
Burdo, 169

Niger, Sources of the, M. Henri Duveyrier on, 184
Nile Gleanings, 526

Nipher (Prof. Francis E.), Magnetic Survey of Missouri, 583
Nordenskjold's (Baron) Arrival at St. Petersburg, 231; at the
Meeting of the Russian Geographical Society, 299; in Fin-
land, 340

Noiré (Ludwig), "Max Müller and the Philosophy of Lan-
guage," A. H. Keane, 30; Philosophy of Language, A. H.
Keane, 124

North American Pinnipeds, J. A. Allen, 261

North American and European Birds, 277

North America, Ferns of, D. C. Eaton, J. G. Baker on, 479
Northern Microscopist, 440

Northern Thuringia, Formation of a Botanical Society for, 181
Nova of 1600, the So-called, 371

Nova Scotia, Geological Relations of Gold in, J. W. Dawson,
F.R.S., 578

Novak (Dr.), on Earthquakes, 156
November Meteors, 158

Oberthür's "Études d'Entomologie," 84

Observatories: M. Tripier appointed Director of the Algiers,
107; Nice, 156; Harvard College, U.S., 321; Paris, 533;
Etna Observatory, 559

Occultation (?) of 73 Piscium by Jupiter, 183; Col. H. Collett,
458

Oceanic Races, Indo-Chinese and, Types and Affinities, A. H.
Keane, 199, 220, 247, 271

Oceanic Races and Indo-Chinese, Classification of the, H. J.
Murton, 508; A. H. Keane, 529

Oceanic Phenomenon, Dr. R. W. Coppinger, 482; H. B.
Guppy, 507

Ochsenius (Carl), Fascination, 508

Oeltzen, the Star 17681, Prof. Edward C. Pickering, 338

"Oldest Picture in the World," Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S.,
555

Oleomargarine, 469

Oliver (Capt. S. P.), Les Lettres d'Outre-Mer, 434

Ophiurans, Deep-Sea, 464

Opium Harvest at Kweichow, Mr. Baller on, 158

Optics, Geometrical, 125, 372

Optical Telegraph, an, 372

O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), British Earthquakes, 170

Ormerod (Eleanor A.), "Notes of Observation of Injurious
Insects," 432

Ornithology of New Guinea, Salvadori's, 240

Oscillations, Periodic, of Barometric Pressure, Dr. J. Allan
Broun, F.R.S., 556

Outre-Mer, Les Lettres d', Capt. S. P. Oliver, 434

Owen (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Horned Lizard of Australia, 402
Oxford, Proposed New Statutes, 23, 115; Report of Oxford
University Commission, 466, 471, 509

Oxidation of Quinine, Dr. W. Kamsay and J. J. Dobbie, 243
Oxygen and Ozone, 207

Ozone, 125, 363; J. Rand Capron, 219; Liquefaction of, 86;
Ozone and the Colour of the Sky, 373

Palestine, Eastern, Exploration of, 495
Palladium, the Elasticity of, 133

Paleolithic Man, Worthington G. Smith, 604

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