INDEX ABEL (Prof. F. A., F.R.S.), Some of the Dangerous Properties Abietineæ, the, a Chapter in the History of Coniferæ, J. Starkie Abney (Capt.) and Prof. Schuster on Results obtained during Aborigines, Australian, A. W. Howitt, 452 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 17, 480, American Woodcock Carrying its Young, 542 Accumulators, Kabath's Electric, 180; Chemistry of Planté and Analysis, Commercial Organic, A. H. Allen, 28 Faure's Gladstone and Tribe, 603 Acoustics, Koenig's Experiments in, 203, 275 Aerial, Panoramic Photography, 482 Anatomie, Handbuch der vergleichenden, Prof. Schmidt, 385 Anatomie der Wirbelthiere, Lehrbuch der, Prof. Wiedersheim, Aeronautics, Ascent by M. Eloy, 67, 88; Aëronautical Society, Anderson (R.), Lightning Conductors, 557 335; French Military Aeronauts, 482 Erorthometer, the, 467 Aschna cyanea, Curious Fact regarding, Signor Stefanelli, Africa, Italian Exploration of, 41; Report of South African Agardh (Dr. J. G.), Algæ, 65 Aino Ethnology, A. H. Keane, 524 Air in Guns, Resistance of the, Prof. D. Colladon, 353 Alaska, Seal Islands of, 199; Lieut. Schwatka's Expedition to Aldis (Mary Steadman), "The Great Giant Arithmos," 123 Algæ, Dr. J. G. Agardh on, 65 Algol, the Variable Star, 483 Allen (A. H.), "Commercial Organic Analysis," 28 Altitudes, Sunlight and Skylight at, 586 Aluminium for Movable Coil, Dr. E. Obach, 245; The Mecha- Umazulu: the Zulus, their Past History, Manners, Customs, Andes, Note on Soroche (Mountain Sickness) in the, J. Ball, Andrews (G. H.), " Boats of all Nations,” 556 Anemometrical Observations on Board Ship, 83 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 45, 166, 286, 359, 472 Annual Record of Published Scientific Work, Prof. Sollas's Antarctic Region, Meteorology of the, J. J. Murphy, 366 Anthropological Institute, 47, 71, 167, 215, 230, 287, 306 Ants in Horticulture, Utilisation of, Prof. C. V. Riley, 126 Ants, White, Surgeon Major Bidie, 599 Arc Electric Lamp, New, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 526 Arctic Exploration: the Dutch Expedition, 19; Danish Expe- Arctic Voyage Round Asia and Europe, Nordenskjöld's, Lieut. Aristotelian Society, 530 Arithmetic, "The Great Giant Arithmos, a most Elementary A 2 Armagh Observatory, Appointment of J. L. E. Dreyer as Armstrong (Sir Wm.) on the Treatment of Steel for the Con- struction of Ordnance, 494 Arnoglossus Lophotes, Specimen of, 556 Arran, Dr. Geikie, F.R.S, in, 39 Arsenious Sulphide in Arsenious Oxide, Colloidal Form of, Art, Primer of, John Collier, Miss L. S. Bevington, 5 Asia, the Central Plateau of, Sir Richard Temple, 437 Atlases, McAlpine's, 175; Prof. T. J. Parker, 292; Dr. Atmosphere at the Surface of the Earth, Mean Temperature of, Atomic Weights, 271 Atomic Attraction, F. D. Brown, 332 Atta della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 23, 71, 94, 360, 519 Auroraæ: 453; Aurora Australis, T. H. Potts, 126; in Green B.A. Unit, R. T. Glazebrook, 597 Backhouse (T. W.), Spectrum of Wells' Comet, 56 Bacteria, Influence of Light on Development of, Jas. Jamieson, Bagot (Alan), Colliery Ventilation, W. Galloway, 339 Balbi's Universal Geography, New Edition of, 282 Ball (J, F.R.S.), Note on Soroche (Mountain Sickness) in the Ball (Prof. R. S., F.R.S.), Dunsink Observatory, 236 Balliol College, Oxford, Endowment of Lectureship in Physical Ballion (E.), Index to Bulletin of Moscow Impl. Society of Balloons: Experiments on the Steering of, 17; Vote of Subsidy Bamberg, Bequest by Dr. Remeis for Observatory in, 230 Bark imported into England from Columbia, 66 Baron, Rev. R.), Notes on the Aye-Aye of Madagascar, 504 Bartoli and Papasogli, Mellogen, 568 Battery, New Forms of Secondary, 308; Chemistry of Planté Bergen, Metamorphic Rocks of, 567 Berger and Bardonnant, Translation of Cully's Practical Tele- Bergsina (Dr. P. A.), Death of, 159 Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesell- Berlin Physical Society, 144, 167, 215; Proceedings of, 239 Berne, Plätrage of Wines in, 380 Berthelot's Generalisation as to Presence of Four Salts in Mixed Besançon, Observatory E-tablished at, 88 Bevington (Miss L. S.), "Primer of Art," John Collier, 5 Binocular Perspective, W. Le Conte Steveus, 68 : Biology Biological Notes, 42, 542; Biology and Agriculture, Birmingham (J.), Red Variable Stars, "Variable Cygni x Black, W. J. the Rainfall of the Globe, 222 Blake (J. F.), “A Monograph of British Fossil Cephalopods," Blindness, Prof. Plateau on, 41 Bloxam (Prof.), and the Royal Military Academy, 40 "Boats of all Nations," G. H. Andrews, 556 Bobbers, Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 501 Bonn, Phylloxera at, 584 Bornet and Grunow, a New Genus of Cryptophyceæ, 557 "Botanical Atlas; a Guide to the Practical Study of Plants," Botanical Society, German, 280 Botany, Jackson's Guide to the Literature of, Jas. Britten, Bottomley (J. T.), James Prescott Joule, 617 Boulder, Preservation of Granite, from Mount Sorrel, 257 Bowerbank (Dr.), a Monograph of the British Spongidæ, Bowman (W.), the Researches of, Prof, Arthur Gamgee, 410 Bradford, Opening of the Technical School at, 207 Bramwell (Sir F. J.) on Compressed Air as applied to Locomo- Brazza's (M. de) Discoveries in Ogowe, 209 Breathing, Course of Air in Nasal Cavity in, Dr. Paulsen, Breguet (Antoine), Death of, 257 Bristol, New Technical School in, 184 BRITISH ASSOCIATION: Meeting at Southampton, 16; General Nature, Jan. 4, 1883] INDEX preparing a New Series of Wave-lengths Tables of the Spectra of the Elements, 458; Report of Committee on Methods of Calibrating Mercurial Thermometers, 458; Report of Committee for Investigating the Ultra-Violet Spark-Spectra emitted by Metallic Elements, 458; Report of Committee on the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity, 459; Report of Committee on the Present State of Spectrum Analyis, 459; Report of Committee on the Natural His- tory of Socotra, 459; Report of Committee on the Revised New Code and the Teaching of Science in Schools, 459; Preliminary Report of Committee on Erratic Blocks, 460; Report of Committee on Caves in Ireland, 461; Report of Committee on Underground Waters, 461; Report of Com- mittee for obtaining Photographs of the Typical Races in the British Isles, 463; Report of Committee on the Scottish Zoological Station, 464; Report on the International Geo- logical Map of Europe, 464; Report on the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan, 464; Report of Committee on Fossil Polyzoa (Jurassic Species-British Area only), 486; Report of Committee on Electrical Standards, 488; Report of Committee on Meteoric Dust, 488; Report of Committee on Wind Pressure, 488; Report of Commitee on Screw Gauges, 488; Meeting, 1884, 634 Section A (Mathematical and Physical).—Opening Address by the President, the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 400; Lord Rayleigh on the Absolute Measurement of Elec- tric Currents, 465; on the Duration of Free Electric Cur- rents in a Conducting Cylinder, 465; on the Equilibrium of Liquid-conducting Surfaces charged with Electricity, 465; Prof. Schuster and Capt. Abney on Results obtained during Section B (Chemical Science).—Opening Address by the Presi- dent, Prof. G. D. Liveing, F.R.S., 402; Professors Liveing and Dewar on the reversals of the Spectral Lines of Metals, 466; F. A. Abel on the Legal Flashing Test for Petroleum, 466; Prof. J. M. Crafts on the Boiling-points and Vapour- tensions of Mercury, &c., determined by the Hydrogen Thermometer, 466; H. B. Dixon on the Velocity of Ex. plosion of a Mixture of Carbonic Oxide and Oxygen, with Varying Quantities of Aqueous Vapour, 466; C. T. Kingzett on the Action of Oxygen and the Mode of Formation of Hydrogen Dioxite, 466; Prof. Sakurai on Metallic Compounds containing Bivalent Hydrocarbon Radicals, Part III., 467; Prof. W. A. Tilden on Hydro- carbons of the Formula (C,Hg)n, 467; A. Vernon Harcourt on the Ærorthometer, an Instrument for Correcting the Measure of a Gas, 467; C. T. Heycock on a Revision of the Atomic Weight of Rubidium, 467; W. Marriott on a Method of Obtaining Ammonia from Shoddy, 467; Prof. von Baumhauer on the Application of the Diamond to Mineralogical and Chemical Analysis, 467; Prof. Divers and M. Shimos on the Occurrence of Tellurium and Selenium in Japan, 467; J. M. Thomson on the Action of the Component Salts as Nuclei on Supersaturated Solutions of certain Double Salts, 467; Prof. Crafts and A. Killiet on the Decomposition by Heat of Potassium Chlorate, 467 Section C (Geology).-Opening Address by the President, Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., 422; J. S. Gardner on the Cause of Elevation and Subsidence of Land, 468; Prof. Prestwich on the Drift Phenomena of Hampshire, 468; Prof. V. Ball on the Sources of the Salt Supply of India, 468; Prof. V. Ball on the Identification of certain Ancient Diamond Mines in India, 468; H. B. Woodward on the Bure Valley Beds and Westleton Beds, 468; C. E. de Rance on the Iron and Lead Measures of Tyne-Head, Alston, 468 Rev. A. Irving on Alpine Rocks, 468; W. Pengelly on the Post-Miocene Deposits of Bovey Tracey, 469; Rev. E. Hills on Problems of the Channel Islands, 469; T. W. Shore and E. Westlake on the Southampton Artesian Well, 469; W. Topley on the Synclinal Structure on the Origin of the Hæmatite Deposits in the Carboni- ferous Limestone, 469; Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins on the Geology of the Channel Tunnel, 491; C. E. de Rance on the Channel Tunnel in its Geological Aspects, 491; A. R. Hunt on the Evidence of Wave Action at a Depth of Forty Fathoms in the English Channel, 491; Prof. Prestwich on the Equivalents in England of the "Sables de Bracheux," &c., 491; Prof. W. J. Sollas on the Formation of Flints, 491; Prof. James Thomson on Sandstone Conglomerate, 491; J. S. Gardner on a Revised Classification of the British Eocene, 491 ; J. W. Elwes on the Oligocene Strata in the Hampshire Basin, 492; E. Tawney on the outcrop of the Brockenhurst Beds, near Lyndhurst, 492 Section D (Biology).—Opening Address by the President, Prof. Department of Anthropology.-Opening Address by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.K.S., 434; W. S. Duncan on Evidence as to the Scene of Man's Evolution and the Prospects of Proving the same by Falæontological Discovery, 494; G. Harris on Ebb and Flow in Mental Endowment, 494; F. Bonney on some Customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling, N.S.W., 494; Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the Light thrown by the Exploration of Caves on the Conquest of Department of Zoology and Botany.-Prof. Du Bois Rey- mond on a new principle affecting the Systematic Dis- tribution of the Family of the Torpedinida; and on the Probable Occurrence of the T. occidentalis (Storer) on the British Coast, 492; Prof. McIntosh on Cephaliseus, a new form allied to Rhabdopleura (Allman), 492; T. Mott on an Instructional System of Arrangement in Provincial Museums, 492; Dr. Cobbold on the Injurious Parasites of Egypt, 492; Dr. Arthur Angell on the Brown Coloration of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology.-Dr. Fraser on the Early Development of certain Rodents, 493; Dr. G. E. Dobson on the Homologies of the Long Flexor Muscles of the Feet of Mammalia, 493; Dr. Hartog on the Nature of the "Telson" and "Caudal Fusca of the Crustacea," 493; F. J. Faraday on Considerations arising from Koch's Dis- covery of the Bacillus Tuberculosis, 493; W. Newton Parker on the Kidneys of Teleostei, 493; Dr. S. N. Mac- donald on the Perception of Colour in Man and Animals, 493; T. W. Shore on the Structure of the Muscular Tissue of the Leech, 493; E. A. Shafer on an Improved Method of Direct Determining of the Contraction Wave in Curarised Muscle, 494; G. B. Howes on the presence of a Tympanum in the Genus Raca, 494; Prof. H. N. Mortin's Method of Isolating the Mammalian Heart for experimental purposes, 494; T. S. Ralph on some Toxic Conditions of the Blood illustrated by the Action of Hydrocyanic Acid, 494 Section E (Geography).—Opening Address by the President, Section G (Mechanical Science).-Opening Address by the President, John Fowler, C.E., F.G.S., 441; B. Baker on the Forth Bridge, 494; Sir Wm. Armstrong on the Treat- ment of Steel for the Construction of Ordnance, 494; T. R. Wrighton on the Increased Tenacity in Perforated Test Bars of Iron and Steel, 494; J. Clarke Hawkshaw on the Channel Tunnel, 494; T. R. Crampton on excavating the Channel Tunnel by Hydraulic Machinery, 494; Major Allen Cunningham on the Hydraulic Experiments at Roor- kee, 495; Sir F. J. Bramwell on Compressed Air as applied to Locomotion, 495; Dr. Fleming on Recent Progress in Electric Railways, 495; Prof. Forbes on Wires conveying Currents, 495; Barlow on the Mechanical Properties of Aluminium, 495; A. Giles on the Southampton Docks, 495; Prof. W. C. Unwin on Current Meter Observations in the Thames, 495; Sir F. J. Bramwell on a Speed Indi. cator, 495; the B.A. Unit, 597 British Fossil Cephalopods, a Monograph of, J. F. Blake, 25 Britten, James: Old English Plant-Names, 243; Jackson's Guide Bromine, Vapour-Density of, Jahn, 567 Brooks (W. K.), Handbook of Invertebrate Zoology, Prof. E. Brown (Elizth.), the Recent Aurora, 548 Brown (Robert), "Law of Kosmic Order: an Investigation of the Physical Aspect of Time," 79 Brussels Chronograph, the, 107 Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 46, 472 Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, 94, 262, Bulletin de l'Academie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 166 Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Naturalistes de Moscou," 213 Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club, 286 Burmah, Birds of, Eugene Oates, 305 Burman, the," by Shway Yeo, Dr. Tylor, F.R.S., 593 Bursera, Seed-Leaves of, 558 Butterflies, South African, Roland Trimen, 556 Cable, Plan for passing Ships sending Messages by, 258 Cailletet, Pump for Compressing Gases, 308 Cailletet's Gas-Condensing Pump, R. J. Lecky, 343 Cailletet, Vaseline as Lubricant in presence of Mercury, 308 Calibrating Mercurial Thermometers, B. A. Report on, 458 Cambodia, Delaporte on Remains of, 280 Cambridge University Press, New Publications, 612 Campbell (J. F.), Caution to Solar Observers, 105 Canada, Royal Society of, 186 Canals, Rivers and, a Treatise on, L. F. Vernon-Harcourt, Major Allan Cunningham, 5 Candolle (Alph. de) on Charles Darwin, 183 Canoe, Lacustrine (?), found, 67, 114 Cape Horn, French Expedition to, 231 Carbon and Iron in Steel, on the Mutual Relations of, George Carbonic Acid, Anesthesia of Larynx by, Brown-Séquard, Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Report of, 89 Carnelley, Experiments on Melting-points of Mercuric Chloride, Chemistry, Dynamics of, Prof. G. D. Liveing, F.R.S., 402 "Chesil, The," Sea-shore Alluvion, J. B. Redman, 150 Chiasmodon Niger, Theo. Gill, 574 Chicago Observatory, Report of, 613 China, Maps of, 19; Extension Seaward of the Waters of the Chinese Rivers, Surgeon-Major H. B. Guppy, 38; Telegraph in, 113; Meteorology in, 136; Mines in, 136; Earthquakes in, Marc Dechevrens, 175; the Geology of, Dr. Archibald Geikie, F. R.S., 241; Translation of Modern Scientific Works into Chinese, 379; Coast, Meteorological service of, 414; Printing in, 612; Chinese Deities made subservient to Political Chlorine at high Temperatures, Smith and Lowe's Experiments Chlorophyll-Granules, Researches on the Division of the, and Chlorophyll, Spectroscopic Study of, 636 Choughs, Domesticated, Lady Dorothy Nevill, 556 Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S.), Sun Spots and Magnetic Chronograph, the Brussels, 107 Chronograph, Washburn, E. S. Holden, 368 Circumpolar Expedition, Swedish, 378, 447 City and Guilds of London Institute, Report of Technological Clarke (Hyde), Early History of Mediterranean Populations, 341; Gesture Speech of Man, 419 Cleveland Technical School, B. Samuelson, M.P., 351 Clifford (Leigh), Physico-Chemical Lecture Experiments, 126 Clifford (W. K.), Mathematical Fragments and Papers, 217 Climate in Town and Country, Dr. Frankland, 380 Clouds consisting of Liquid or of Frozen Water, how may they Coal by means of Caustic Lime, "Getting," W. Galloway, Coal Mining in Great Britain, a History of, R. L. Galloway, Coal Tar Distillation, Prof. Lunge, 281; Prof. T. E. Thorpe, Cobbold (Dr., F.R.S.), the Injurious Parasite of Egypt, 492 | Coils, Aluminium for Movable, Dr. E. Oback, 245 Cole (A. C.), Studies in Microscopical Sciences, 89 Collier (John), "Primer of Art," Miss L. S. Bevington, 5 Cephaliseus, Prof. McIntosh on, 492 Cephalopods, British Fossil, a Monograph of, J. F. Blake, Ceylon, Prof. Haeckel in, 375, 388, 502, 574 "Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Lan- Channel Tunnel, 160, 229; M. Berthelot on, 230; J. Clark Chase (Prof. Pliny Earle), Conservation of Solar Energy, Chemical Society, 47, 95, 191; Froceedings of, 239 Chemical Calculations, Notes on, with Examples, for use in the Chemistry of Planté and Faure Cell, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 339 Colonial Forest Cultivation, Memorial for School of, 280 Colour Perception, Napier Smith, 30; J. W. Swan, 246 Colour Blindness, Decision of the Swedish Government, as to Employment of Railway Officials, 482; Russian Physicians "Natural" Experiment in Complementary, C. T. Whitmell, 573; W. R. Brown, 597 Colours of Flowers, Grant Allen, 299, 323, 346, 371 Colours and Dyewares, Manual of, J. W. Slater, 89 Combing" of Waves, A. M. Worthington, 198 Comets 1882a (Wells), 18, 42, 68, 114, 137, 161,223, 308, 551, 582; Prof. E. J. Stone on, 104; A. Percy Smith on, 124; F. T. Mott on, 124; A. A. Common on, 501; A. Ricco on, 609; G. M. Seabroke on, 621; Major Herschel on, 622; C. J. B. Williams on, 622; W. Larden on, 623; General Sir J. H. Lefroy on, 623; Wentworth Erck on, 573, 597, 623; H. Collett on, 623; Daylight Observations of, 210, 281; Spectrum of, T. W. Backhouse, 56; A. Percy Smith, 124; Dr. B. Hasselberg, 344; Comet of May, 17, 210; Comet of 1881, 11, on June 11; Cordoba Observation of, 186; Comet of 1812, expected return of, 448; Comet of |