A.), 352

Earthquakes : in Columbia, 51; Hawaiian Islands, 51; Peru, Euclid, a Substitute for (Sec Geometry, Elementary)

51, 74, 169, 230, 418 ; Salvador, Valparaiso, 51; Celebes, Evans (Colonel Albert S.), “Our Sister Republic; a Gala Trip

85; China (fatal), 145; Chile, 150, 230, 418, 454; the through Tropical Mexico," 322
+ Himalayas, 150 ; Mexico, 169; America and Canada, 169; Everett (Prof. J. D., D.C.L.), on Units of Force and Energy,

India, Hayti, 212; Hawaiian Islands, 230 ; New York 6; 353; his Translation of Deschanel on Natural Philosophy.
State, 230; Himalayas, Cashmere, near New York, 287 ; 343, 425, 505 ; on Wet and Dry Bulb Formulæ 353 ; Cir-
China, 309; in Scotland, Report on, (Br. A.), 317 ; Simla, culation and Distribution of the Atmosphere (Br. A.), 353 ;
325; Boston, U.S., 326; at Worthing (alleged), 349, 385 ; Report on Underground Temperature (Br. A.), 396
Panama, 350; Australia, 350 ; New England, 373 ; West Exogenous Structures amongst the Stems of Coal Measures (See
Indies, Philippine Islands, 375 ; Jamaica, 387; Madeira, 436; Williamson, Prof. W.C., F.R.S.)
Callao, 494 ; Constantinople, 494

Examination Tests, Use and Abuse of, 467
Earwaker (J. P.) his Collection of Fossils, 96; on “ Psychic Force, “Experimental Mechanics,” by R. S. Ball, 510
278

Exploration of Palestine, 33, 52, 215
Eastbourne Natural History Society, 190

Explosion (?) on the Sun, 488
Echini, Cotteau and Triger on, 228

Fairlie, R., on the Gauge of Railways (Br. A.), 337
Echinoderms, Prof. Wyville Thomson on (Br. A.), 334

Falmouth, Meteorological Observatory at, 247, 248
Eclipse at Darmstadt, 1699, alarm caused by it, 418

Fawcus, George, on a Transparent Compass, 366
Eclipse, Solar, of 1868, 399

Fawcett (Thomas), on Science Lectures for the People, 101 ; on
Eclipse, Solar, of Dec. 22, 1870; photographs of, 85; J. Norman Drainage as a Cause of Drought, 386

Lockyer, F.R.S., his Lecture at Royal Society on, 230, 241 Fellowes (Lieut. John, R.N.), on Steam Lite Boats, 181
Eclipses, the Recent and Coming, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S. (Br. Ferrel (W.), Low Barometer in Polar Regions and Cyclones, 226

Fertilisation of the Bee Orchis, 222
Eclipse, Solar, of Dec. 12, 1871: Preparations to observe it, Finnis (M. M.), on Meteors in South Australia, 345

128, 197, 210, 228, 259, 290, 348, 373, 394, 435, 445, 492 ; Fish, as affected by Fresh and Salt Water, 245, 339
Map of Shadow Path over India, 258; Government Aid to Fish and Fisheries, New York Commission, 244
Observation, 324; Suggestions to Observers, by A. C. Ran- Fish, Fossil, in the British Museum, 77
yard, F.R.A.S., 327; Lieut.-Col. J. F. Tennant, R.E., Fish of Nicaragua, 207 ; of North America, 33
F.R.S., on, 339, 486 ; M. Janssen on (Br. A.), 352 ; French Fish, Phosphorescence in, 287
Expedition, 373; Sailing of the English Expedition, 512; Fish-Crow of Oregon and Washington, 287
"Instructions for Observers at the English Goverment Expe- Fixed Stars, Method of Estimating their Distances (Br. A.), 396
dition,” 516

Flammarion, Camille, on Aërostation, 3
Eclipses, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., on Total Solar Eclipses Visible Flamsteed (John), his Ghost, on the Sun's Parallax, 503
in England in 1954 and 1999, 260

Fletcher (A. E., F.C.S.), on the Rhysimeter (Br. A.), 338
Eclipse Photography, 121, 160, 327, 367, 445

Fletcher (L. E., C. E.), on Steam Boiler Legislation (Br. A.), 397
Economic Science and Statistics at the Br. A. (Section F), Open- Flight, Recent Researches on, 516 ; of Butterflies, 487, 494
ing Address, 298; Sectional Proceedings, 336

Flint, Hawkins Johnson, F.G.S., on, 154; Formation of, 223, 243
Edinburgh : Meeting of the British Association at (See British “Flora of Mentone and the Riviera,” 502

Association); its Medical School, 288; Prof. A. Geikie, * Flora of Tropical Africa,” 287
F.R.S., on its Geology, 277 ; (Br. A.) 315; Botanical Society, Flower (Prof., F.R.S.), on Rib Variations, 188
51; its Flora (Br. A.), 356; Naturalists' Field Club, 10; Fluid State of Matter, Speculations on its Continuity (Br. A.), 291
Royal Physical Society, 39 ; University, Prof. W. Thomson's Forbes (David, F.R.S.), “ On the Nature of the Earth’s Interior,
Introductory Lecture, 74, 90; Anatomy and Physiology at, 28 ; on the Thickness of the Earth's Crust, 65; on News.
168; Botanical Class, 374; Science at, 452, 514

paper Science, 406, 464
Edmonds (Richard) on the name “Britain,” 3, 27

Force and Energy, Units of, 6; Correspondence on, 69 ; Prof.
Education in Science : Lectures and Teaching for the People, Everett on (Br. A.), 353.

81, 101, 120, 141, 192, 211, 281 ; Science in Schools, 243, Foreign Scientific Associations, 43
257, 285, 308, 314, 296, 349, 417, 421, 452, 437, 461; Prof. Formosa, Birds and Beasts of, 44
Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 296 ; G. F. Rodwell on, 455, Forth, Estuary of the, its Geology, 422
Report of London School Board, 198, 192 ; Prof. Huxley on Fossiliferous Boulder in Northumberland, 386, 467
the Duties of the State, 495 ; Education for Farmers, 66, Foster (Dr. M.), his Physiological Class, Cambridge, 107 ; on
89, 101 (See Female Education, Technical Education)

the Action of Codeia Derivatives, 174
Edwards and Kidd, Illustrations of the Heliotype Process, 85 Foliage, the Various Tints of, 341
Eel's Skull, its structure, W. K. Parker, F.R.S., on, 146 "Fragments of Science,” by Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., 237
Egyptian Antiquities, Mr. R. Hay's Collection, 130

France, Baron Liebig on its Scientific Men, 190
Elastrus dolosus in the Azores, 162

Frankland (Prof. E. F., F.R.S.), on Metropolitan Water Supply,
Electric Double Lever, by Czermak, 5

349 ; on Ice Fleas, 426
Electricity, Animal, 29

Frankland Institute, Journal of the, 211, 229, 452
Elementary Examination Papers, their Defects, 202, 285

Fraser (George) on Scientific Lectures for the People, 120 ; on
Ellery (Robert J.), on the Spectrum of the Aurora, 280

Psychic Force,” 279
Elliot (Sir Walter) on Provincial Museums (Br. A.), 377

Frigate Bird at the Zoological Gardens, 394
Embryology, Prof. Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 295

Freke (H.), on “ Dependence of Life on Decomposition,” 422
Encke's Comet, 394 ; Observations by J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 435, French Recent Zoological Discoveries, 369
492 ; by M. Stephan, 492, 499

Freshwater Bathybius, Dr. R. Greef on, 49
Engelman (Dr. R.), Light of Jupiter's Satellites, 442

“Fruit Classification, Suggestions on,” by Alex. Dickson, M.D.
Engineering, its Study at the London University, 67

(Br. A.), 347, 475
Entomological Society, Proceedings, 39, 154, 215

Fruit, International Exhibition at the Horticultural Society, 394
Entomology, its Study in Great Britain, 194

Fungi, New and Rare, 240
Entomology at the Br. A., 333

Fungi in Living Birds (Br. A.), 356
Entomology of America, 30; of New South Wales, 436; of New Fungi, Exhibition at the Horticultural Gardens, 476, used for
Zealand, 40; of Palestine, 55; of Texas, 51

food in China, 494
Entozoa, Dr. F. Cobbold on, 479 ; Stephanurus in Hogs, 508, Futtle's Comet, Ephemeris of, 374
Eozoon Canadense, John B. Perry on, 28 ; Notes on, 72, 85

Galton (Francis), on Pangenesis, 5, 25
Ericsson (J.), the Temperature of the Sun, 204, 449

Ganoid Fish discovered in Queensland, 406, 428, 447
Ernst (A.), Yellow Rain in New Granadı, 68

“Gaseous and Liquid States of Matier,” Dr. Andrews on, 186
Erskine (Lieutenant Vincent), “Meteorology at Natal,” 305 Gasteropoda, Strated Muscular Fihre in, 144 ; Auditory Organ,
Essex Institute, Salem, U.S., Proceedings of, 43, 501

518
Ethnological Classifications, 56

Geikie (Prof. Archibald, F.R.S.) Opening Address at Geo-
Ethnological Society, Journal of, 76

logical Section, 277 ; Geological Survey of Scotland, 292
Ethnology in America, 12, 32, 89, 154 ; at the Br. A., 289 ; of Geneva, Natural History Society of, 36

the Coasts of Behring's Sea, 519; of Palestine, 34, 53 ; of Geographical Distribution of Insects, G. R. Crotch on, 65
South Wales, 261

Geographical Surveys in India, 418

:

Geographical Society, Proceedings, 37, 50, 72, 129, 195, 211; Harkness (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Ancient Rocks of South Wales, 77

its Memorial to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, 244 Harris (John), “ Kuklos,” 25
Geographisches Jahrbuch,” by E. Behm, 44.

Harrison (William H.) on the Heliotype Process, 85
Geography at the Br. A. (Section E), Opening Address, 297; Hartley Institution, Southampton, 350, 453
Sectional Proceedings, 335, 358

Hartman (Dr.), “ History of Domestic Animals,” 253
Geography: International Congress at Antwerp, 168 ; Lectures artog (N. E ), Senior Wrangler, his Death, 148

at Maidstone, 417 ; St. Martin's Année Géographique, 44 Hartt (Prof. C. F.), his Expedition to Brazil (Br. A.), 299
Geological Atlas of England, by W. Stephen Mitchell, 373 Haughton (Rev. Prof.), Lectures on “The Principle of Least
Geological Magazine, 36, 76, 194 254, 453

Action," 177
Geological Society, Proceedings, 18, 37, 77, 115, 153, 234 Hayden (Dr.), on Geology of America, 24, 109; his Expedition,
Geological Society, Dublin, 135

213, 293, 387
Geological Survey of Scotland (Br. A.), 292

Hayward (George), Murdered in Kashmir, 297
Geologists' Association, 10, 73, 95, 154, 168, 211, 229, 254 Health, National," H. W. Acland, F.R.S., on, 463
Geology in America, 12; American, by Dr. Hayden, 24

“Heat," A. P. Deschanel on, 343, 405, 426
Geology at Christ's Hospital, 130 ; at Oxford, 485

Heat in August 1871, 325; in Iceland, 202
Geological Science, at Br. A. (Section C), Opening Address, Heat, its Action on Protoplasmic Life, 57
277 ; Sectional Proceedings, 317, 332, 354, 376

Heat, Mechanical Equivalents of, 27, 68
Geology: Endowment by Mr. James Yates at University College, Hector (Dr. James, F.R.S.), on Recent Remains of the Moa,

260; of Edinburgh and Neighbourhood (Br. A.), 315; Glou- 184, 228, 306, 324
cestershire, 32 ; Estuary of the Forth, 422 ; Thames Valley, Heis (Dr. Edward), Correspondence of Aurora Australis and
157 ; the Ural and Caspian Sea, 417

Borealis, 213
Geometry, Elementary Practical ; J. M. Wilson on Teaching, Heliotype Process, 85

387; a Substitute for Euclid, 366, 404, 505 ; R. Wormell on Helmholtz (Prof.,) Axioms of Geometry, 481
425; W. D. Cooley and Thomas Jones on, 485, 486

Henle (Prof.), “ Handbuch der Systematischen Anatomie," 101
Geometry, Elements of Plane and Solid," by H. W. Watson, Hennessy (H., F.R.S.), Internal Structure of the Earth, 182

Geometry, Practical and Plane,” by J. W. Palliser, 484 Herschel (Prof. A. S.) on the Marseilles Meteorite, 503
Geometry, The Axioms of, Prot. Helmholtz on, 481

Herschel (Sir John) on Ocean Currents, 71; Deep Sea Tempe-
Germ Theory, Dr. Bastian on, 178, 458 ; Notes on, 125, 165, 378 rature, 98; his Death, 50 ; Obituary Notices, 69, 73, 89; re-
Gernian Arctic Expedition, 439, 513

marks on, by Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S. (Br. A.), 262
Germany, Science in, 60, 108, 169, 170, 229, 234, 439, 453, 477, Highton (Rev. H.), Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 27, 68
493

on Thermodynamics, 46
Gibraltar Current, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., on, 468 Hincks (Rev. W., F.L.S.), Obituary Notice of, 436
Ginsburg (Dr.), his Expedition to Moab, 492

Hind (J. R., F.R.S.,) on Total Solar Eclipses visible in
Glacial Fossils at Finchley, 514

England, 260; Observations of Encke's Comet, 435, 492
Glacier Ice, the Bending of, Prof. Tyndall on, 447

Hinrichs (Prof. Gustavus, A.M.), “Elements of Physical Science
Glacier Sculpture, 198

and School Laboratory,” 421
Gladstone (John Hall

, F.R.S., and Alfred Tribe), on Chemical Hippocrateaceæ of South America,” by J. Miers, F.R.S., 135
Dynamics, 195 ; (Br. A.) 291 ; on the Corrosion of Copper- Hippopotamus, Skeleton of, 37
plates by Nitrate of Silver (Br. A.), 353

His (Prof.) “ Theories of Sexual Generation," 114
Glaisher (James F.R.S.), his “ Travels in the Air,” 3; on Day Histology, Prof. Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 294
Auroras, 209

Hodge (George), Obituary Notice of, 387
Glaisher (J. W. L.), on Tables of Prime Numbers, 6

Hofmann (Dr. F.R.S.), on the Royal College of Chemistry, 16
Glasgow : Anderson's University, 190 ; Meteorological Observa. Holmes (N. J.) on Submarine Telegraphs, 8
tory, 256 ; Geological Society, Transactions, 443

Holmes (N.), his Inextinguishable Storm Signal Light, 49
Glass, Researches on, by Rev. W. V. Harcourt (Br. A.), 351 Home (D, M.), “ The Estuary of the Forth,” 422
Gold at Penang and New Grenada, 419

Homoplastic Agreements in Plants, 507
Gould (John), on a New Humming Bird, 77

Hooker (Dr. J. D.), his African Expedition, it, 89, 129, 149,
Government, the, and Prof. Sylvester, 324, 326

168, 196 ; his Report on Kew Gardens, 210
Government aid for Observing the Eclipse of December 12, 1781, Hopkins (W.) on the Thickness of the Earth's Crust, 28, 45,,
and Transit of Venus, 324

65, 141, 182, 383
Government aid to Science, 462, 495

Horses,” by Amateur, 321
Gratz, Physiological Researches at, 402

Horological Institute, 229
Gravitating Currents in Relation to Auroras, 497

Horticultural Society, 210; International Exhibition, 1866, 307 ;
Gravitation, Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S., on the Law of, Remarks Exhibition of Fungi, 476
by E. Ray Lankester, F.L.S., 368

Hospital for Domestic Animals, 210
“Great Pyramid Papers,” by Sir John Vincent Day, C.E., Hough (Prof. S. W.), Self-registering Barometer and Meteoro-
“ Plan and Object of its Construction,” 303

graph, 410, 430
Greeff (Dr. R.), Freshwater Bathybius, 49

Howorth (Henry H.), "A New View of Darwinism," 161, 180,
Green (A. H., F.G.S.), Thickness of the Earth's Crust, 45, 383; 181, 200, 221, 240
the Geology of Donegal, 234

Huggins (Dr. William, F.R.S.), on the Spectrum of Uranus,
Green (Jas.), his Standard Barometer, 412

88 ; of a Comet, 95
Green Light for Ships, Prize Offered for, 418

Hulk (J. W., F.R.S.), Fossil Vertebrata from Kimmeridge Bay,
Greenwich, Visitation to the Observatory, 50, 103

153
Greytown : Noises at Sea, 26; Crocodiles, 27; its Climate, Hunt (Dr. T. Sterry, F.R.S.), on Palæozoic Crinoids, 72 ; on
View of the Harbour, 206

Hydroussilicate in Fossils, 162
Grierson (Dr.), on Provincial Museums (Br. A.), 377

Human Anatomy and Physiology, edited by Dr. L. S. Beale, 343
Grote (George), his Illness and Death, 107, 148 ; Legacy to Uni- “ Human Locomotion,” by Prof. B. G. Wilder, 437
versity College, 260

Humphry (Prof.), his Anatomical Classes, Cambridge, 107 ;
Gulf Stream, Dredging of the, 87

his Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 359
Gun Cotton Explosion at Stowmarket, 309, 518

Huxley (Prof.), on the Duti of Civil Engineers, 12 ; on
Günther (Dr. A., F.R.S.), New Ganoid Fish (Ceratodus) dis- Ethnology, 76; at the Br. A., 290 ; his Instruction to Science
covered in Queensland, 406, 428, 447

Teachers at South Kensington, 325, 361 ; Palæontological Ex.
Hackney Scientific Association, 379

cavations at Lossiemouth, 417, 436; State Aid to Scientific
Hæmatite Ores, Thos. Ainsworth on (Br, A.), 292

Teaching, 462 ; Duties of the State, 495
Hairy Family in Burmah, 454, 477

Hybridisation, A. C. Ranyard on, 26, 46, R. Meldola and Dr.
Hall (Capt.), his Polar Expedition, 309, 349

L. S. Beale on, 46
Hall (Marshall), Education for Farmers, 89; Sea-Water Hydraulic Buffer for Heavy Guns, 105
Aquaria, 507

Hydrobromic Acid, C. R. A. Wright on, 174
Halley's Magnetic Chart Discovered, 103

Hydrocarbons, by C. Schorlemmer, 95
Halo in the Zenith, 160

Hylobates Ape,
Harcourt (the late Rev. W. V.), Researches on Glass (Br. A.), 351 Ice for India, 325

;

Ice Fleas, Prof. E. F. Frankland, F.R.S., on, 426; Rev. C. A. Laughton (J. K.) on West Winds, 8; on Ocean Temperature
Johns, F.L.S., 446; Rev. T. G. Bonney, F.G.S, 467

and Currents, 162, 183, 223, 243 ; “A Plane's Aspect ?” 466

Ice, Glacier, the Bending of, Prof. Tyndall on, 447

Lea, Isaac, LL.D., "Synopsis of Unionidæ,” 119

Iceland, Great Heat in, 202

Lead, Metallurgy of, 218

Ichthyosaurus from Kimmerridge Bay, 153

Lecocq (M. Henri), his Bequests for Scientific Purposes, 512
Im Thurn (Everard F.), on the Irish Fern in Cornwall, 68 Le Conte (Prof. John A.), Velocity of Meteoric Stones, 398
India : Cotton Cultivation, 33; Geographical Survey, 418; Lecture Experiment on Colour, 346

Science, 32, 89, 150, 192, 212, 287, 307, 325, 418, 437, 514; Lectureships at London Medical Schools, 1, 61
Snake Bites, 74; Tea Cultivation; 169; “ Ancient Geo- Lee (Alec), “Romance of Motion,” 45
graphy," by Major-General A. Cunningham, R. E., 381; Lee (Edwin, F.L.S.) on Black Rain, 161
Wheat Cultivation, 108

Leicester Literary and Scientific Society, 211

Indian Education, Jiram Row on (Br. A.), 336

Leighton (Rev. W. A., F.L.S.), “The Lichen Flora of Great

Indianapolis, Meeting of the American Association for Advance. Britain," 482

ment of Science, 373

Lepidosiren, its Characteristics, 406

India-rubber, Collection and Manufacture of, 207

Leslie (A., C.E.), on Salmon Ladders for Reservoirs (Br. A.), 337

Inextinguishable Storm and Danger Signal Light, 49

Leyden, Science at, 31

Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), on Lee Shelter, 183 ; on Recent Neolo- “Lichen Flora of Great Britain," Rev. W. A. Leighton,

gisms, 201, 242, 385

F.L.S, on the, 482

Insects of Missouri, Official Report on, 302

Liebig (Baron), on the Scientific Men of France, 190

Institution of Civil Engineers, 12 ; of Naval Architects, 149 “Life, its Dependence on Decomposition,” H. Freke, M.D., 422

Intellectual Qualities, Transmissibility of, 154

Liseboats, Steam, John Fellowes on, 181

Iowa State University, 229, 308, 421

Light, Prismatic Analysis of, Sir W. Thomson, on (Br. A.), 266

Irish Fern in Cornwall, 8, 68

Light of Jupiter's Satellites, 442

Iron and Steel, W. M. Williams on, 226

Lighthouses, New Relector for (Br. A.), 396
Iron and Steel Institute, Meeting at Dudley, 348, 361

Lima, International Exhibition at, 418
Iron-paper Making, 494

Lindley Library, at the Horticultural Society, 307
Iron Telegraph Poles, 287

Lindsay (Dr. W. L., F.R.S. E.) on Mind in the Lower Animals,
Italian Journal of Chemistry, 73

169; on Leighton's“ Lichen Flora of Great Britain,” 482
Italian Mosses, Dr. de Notaris on, 383

Lindsay, Lord, Aurora at Aberdeen, its Spectrum, 347, 366 ; his
Italy, Science in, 98, 153, 254, 468

Aid to Observing the Eclipse of December 12, 1871, 435
Jack (R. L.) on Thunderstorm near Glasgow, 202

Linnean Society, Proceedings, II, 19, 36, 72, 39, 135 ; Anni-
James (Sir Henry), “Notes on the Great Pyramid,” 303

versary Address by Bentham, 92, 110, 156, 170, 192
Janssen (M.) on the Eclipse of December 12, 1871 (Br. A.), "Liquid and Gaseous States of Matter,” Dr. Andrews on, 186
352; appointed to Observe it, 373

Little (W.), on Technical Education for Farmers, 66

Jardin d'Essai, Algier, 447

Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 211

Japan : Science, 44 ; Typhoon, 375 : Meteorological Notions, 435 Livingstone (Dr.), Intelligence of, 31, 195, 297, 349, 417

Jeffreys (J Gwyn, F.R.S.) on Dr. Lea's “Synopsis of Unionidæ, Lloyd (W. A.) on the Crystal Palace Aquarium, 469

119; Dall's “ Brachiopoda of the United States Coast Survey," Local Scientific Effort, Organisation of, 281

238 ; his Visit to America, 418, 512

Local Societies, Duties of, 141, 463

Jenkin (Prof. Fleeming, F.R.S.), Opening Address on Mecha- | Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), on R. A. Proctor's Treatise on
nical Science (Br. A., Section G), 318

the Sun, 83 ; on Observations of the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12,
Jeremiah (John) on Daylight Auroras, 7, 47, 142; on Yellow 1871, 197 ; Lecture “On the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 1870,'
Rain, 160

230, 248; “ The Recent and Coming Solar Eclipses,” 352

Jevons (Prof. W. Stanley), “Helmholtz on the Axioms of Geo- Loess," a Chinese Clay Deposit, 38; M. Engelhardt on, 134

metry,” 481

Login (T.), Cotton and Wheat Cultivation in India, 33, 108

Johns (Rev. C. A., F.L.S.) on Ice Fleas, 446

Lombardy, Royal Institution of Science, 99
Johnson (M. Hawkins, F.G. S ) on Flint, 154, 223

London Institution, Educational Lectures at, 107 ; Proceedings,
Johnston (Alex. Keith, LL.D.), medal of Geographical Society 148, 452, 514
awarded to, 108; his Death, 210 ; Obituary Notice, 225

London Medical Schools, 1, 324

Jones (T.) on Science in Schools, 243, 285; on Elementary London University: Lectureships at, 2 ; Proceedings, 11, 31, 73,

Geometry, 486

168, 349 ; Degrees for Engineering Students, 67; Female

Joseph (D.), Velocity of Sound in Coal, 487

Students at, 50, 89; Physiological Scholarship, 189 ; the

Joule (Dr. J. P., F.R.S.), Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 68. Brown Trust, 190, 210; Sharpey Scholarship, 210, 260; Ex-

Journal of Botany, 77, 108, 233, 359, 399, 453

aminations, 229; Proposed Mathematical Chair, 259 ; Elec-

Jupiter, Drawings of its Bands, 32; Observations of, 175

tion of President and Professors, Legacies to, 260; Slade
Jupiter's Satellites, Light of, 442

Professorship, 50
Kaines (J.), on Anthropology and M. Comte, 466

Longet (M.), Obitua Notice of, 12
Kea (Nestor notabilis), Progress of Development in, 489, 506 Low (D.), on Daylight Auroras, 121
Kent (W. S. F.Z.S.), on Affinities of the Sponges, 184, 201 ; Lowne (B. F., F.R.C.S.), on Mr. Howorth's New View of

Dredging Expedition of Spain and Portugal (Br. A.) 456. Darwinism, 221, 240
Kent's Cavern Explorations (Br. A.), 332

Lubbock (Sir J., F.L.S.), on Scientific Teaching, 461
Kew Gardens, Dr. J. D. Hooker's Report on, 210

Lucas (John), on Day Auroras, 183, 305
Kew, Meteorological Observatory, 247, 248, 289; Sir W. Thom- Ludlow Natural History Society, 418
son (F.R.S.) on (Br. A.) 263

Luminous Meteors of 1870–71, Observations of (Br. A.), 350
Key (Rev. Henry Cooper) on Daylight Aurora, 121

Lunar Halo seen at Clifton, 33
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., on Lunar Objects suspected of Change, Report on (Br. A.), 352
(Br. A.), 265

Lunar Rainbow at New York (Br. A.), 300 ; in Cheshire, 466
King (Prof. William) on Eozoon Canadense, 85

Lynn (W. T., F.R.A.S), on Prof. Newcomb and Mr. Stone, 465
Kingsley (Rev. Canon) on the Colours of the Sea, 203 ; “ At McLeod (Herbert), on Red and Blue, 122

Last: a Christmas in the West Indies,” 282 ; Cyclone in the McMaster (Lt. Col. W.), on the Colours of the Sea, 203
West Indies, 464

McNab (Dr. W. R.), on Prof. Williamson's Classification of

Kirkwood (Prof. Daniel), Great Sun Spot of June, 1843, 172; Vascular Cryptogams, 426, 504;

on the Classification of

“Are Auroras Periodical ? ” 505

Fruits, 475

Klein (Von H. J.) on Astronomy, 24

Macnamara (C.), “ Treatise on Asiatic Cholera,” 302
Klinkersues (Dr.), his Theoretical Astronomy, 24

Madreporaria (See Corals)
Kropotkine (P.), Arctic Auroras, 142

Magnetic Storms in Higher Latitudes, 441
Lake (John J.), Colours of the Sea, 305

Magnetism, Discovery of Halley's Magnetic Chart, 103
Lamp (New) for Street Lighting, 477

Magnetism, Terrestrial, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., on, 264
of Biogenesis, and the Law of Gravitation,” 308

Magneto-electric Light, for the Clock Tower at Westminster, 107
Latham (R G.) on the word “ Prolificness,” 324

Magnus (Dr. Hugo), on the Bones of the Head of Birds, 364

La terade (M.) “ Theory of Two Suns," 216

Maidstone Natural History Society, 308, 417

)

Maitland (Edward), a “Vital Question," 386

Moggridge (J.T., F.L.S.), “ Flora of Mentone and the Riviera,"
Manatee, the, 27, 207

502
Manchester ; Scientific Students' Association, 51 ; Science Lec- Mohn (M.), Storm Atlas for Norway, 63

tures for the People, 81; Owens College, Distribution of Molecular Theory of the Properties of Matter, Sir W. Thomson,
Prizes, 190 ; Literary and Philosophical Society, 155; Grammar F.R.S., on (Br. A.), 265
School, 374 ; Mechanics' Institute, 452 ; Geological Society, Mont Cenis Tunnel, its Temperature, 36, 349 ; Opening of, 415;
Transactions, 479

ils Scientific use, 434
Marcet (Wm., M.D., F.R.S.), “Constitution of the Blood,” 57 Montreal Natural History Society, 210
Marlborough College, Botanic Garden, 31; Science at, 129 ; Moon, Inequalities of its Motion, 85

Lecture by G. F. Rodwell, F.C.S., on Science Teaching, 437, Moore (D., F.L.S.), on British Mosses, 487
455, 514 ; Natural History Society, 476

Moore (Thomas), his Lectures at Chelsea Botanic Gardens, 89
Mars, Observations of, 175

Morgan (N.), “Phrenology, and how to use it in Analysing
Marseilles Meteorite, 454, 503

Character,”_422
Marsh (Prof.), his Expedition to the Far West, 244

Morris (Rev. F. 0.) on Encroachments of Sea in Yorkshire, 336
Mathematical and Physical Science at the Br. A. : Opening Moscow, “ Bulletin de la Société I. des Naturalistes,” 194;

Address, 270 ; Sectional Proceedings, 291, 315, 352, 375, 396 International Exhibition at, 393
Mathematical Society, Proceedings of, 78, 154

Moss Lochs, John Aitken on, 144
“ Matter for Materialists,” by Thos. Doubleday, 321

Mosses of Italy, Dr. de Notaris on, 383, 446
Mauritius, Climate and Health of, 51 ; Meteorological Soc. 254 Moth, Rare, 446
Maury (T. B.) on Meteorology in America, 390, 410, 430, 466 “Motion, Romance of," by Alec Lee, 45
Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.,), on Saturn's Rings, 1594 Mouse's Ear, as an Organ of Sensation, 253
Measurement, Minute and Accurate, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., Müller (Prof. Max) on General Cunningham's “Ancient Geo.
on (Br. A.), 265

graphy of India,” 381
Mechanical Drawing, 467

Murchison (Sir R. J.), his Retiring Address at the Geographical
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 261

Society, 72, 89, his Death, 512
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 27 ; Rev. H. Highton and Murie (Dr., F.Z.S.), on Fungi in Living Birds (Br. A.), 356 ;
Dr. James P. Joule on, 68

Recent Researches on Flight, 516
Mechanical Science at the Br. A. (Section G), Opening Address, Murphy (J: J., F.G.S.) on the Sensation of Colour, 27; on
318 ; Sectional Proceedings, 337

West Winds, 102 ; on Alpine Floras, 162 ; on the Origin of
“ Mechanics, Experimental,” by R. S. Bail, 510

Cyclones, 305 ; on a Meteorological Phenomenon, 66
Medical Schools, Lectureships at, 1, 61

Murray (Andrew, F.L.S.) on the Blight of Plants, 210
Medicine, Practical, Dr. Dobell's Report on, 140

Museum of Strasbourg, described, 123
Medicine, State, Remarks on, 137, 148

Museums of the Country, 367
Meinicke (Prof.) on the Population of the Indian Islands, 254 Museums, Provincial, Dr. Grierson and Sir Walter Elliot on
Meldola (R., F.C.S), on Pangenesis, 46

(Br. A.), 377
Mental Philosophy, at University College, Endowment by the “Mycological Illustrations," New and Rare Fungi, 240
late Geo. Grote, 260

Myers (H. M.), his Scientific Expedition, 307
Mentone, Flora of, 230, 502

Natal Diamond Fields, 190, 418; Meteorology at, 305
Metals, Thermal Conductivity of, Report on (Br. A.), 352 “National Health,” H. W. Acland, F.R.S., on, 463
Meteorograph, by Prof. G. W. Hough, 410, 430, 431

Natural History Museum at Kensington, 181
Meteorograph from Sweden in the International Exhibition, 466 Natural History Societies, Local, Duties of, 141
Meteorological Magazine, Symon's, 359

Naval Architects, Institution of, 149
Me'eorological Observatories, 245; Phenomenon, 466

Nicholson (N. A.), on the Conservation of Force, 47
Meteorological Society, 189; of Austria, its Journal, 502 ; of | Neaves, (Lord) his Opening Address on Economic Science and
Mauri'ius, 254 ; of Scotland, 251

Statistics (Br. A.), 298
Meteorology, Balloon Observations, 3 ; Errors of Amateurs, 253 Neologisms, Recent, 201, 222, 242; R. G. Latham on, 324; J.
Meteorology in America, 390, 410, 430, 466 ; in Canada, 349 ; M. Wilson, 367 ; C. M. Ingleby, 385; R. A. Proctor, 385

in India, 150 ; in Nova Scotia, 32, 235; in South America, 109; Nepenthes, Pitcher of, 44
at Natal, 305

Nerve Endings in Glands, 10
Meteorology, Japanese Ignorance of, 435 ; Lieut. A. M. Davies, Nervous Atmosphere, Dr. Richardson's Theory, 29

F.R.A.S., on, 159 ; Observations at Greenwich, 104; Rain Newbury District Field Club, 395
after Fire, 83 ; Storm-Allas for Norway, 63 (Sue Rainfall) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, College of Physical Science 21, 189, 284,
Meteoric Stone found in Australia, 212

416, 435, 493
Meteoric Stones, their Maximum Velocity, 398

Newcomb (Prof. S.), on Père Secchi and R. A. Proctor's Work
Meteoric Theory of Saturn's Rings, by Lieut. A. M. Davies, 159 on the Sun, 41; on the Inequalities of the Moon's Motion, 85;
Meteors in the Isle of Man, 385; in Lima, 56 ; at Marseilles, on the Solar Parallax, 160, 183 ; on the Temperature of the

454, 503; at Panama, 149 ; in Peru, 169; in S Australia, 345 Sun, 204, 322; on the Phenomena of Contact, 423; R. A,
Meteors of 1870-71, Observations of (Br. A.), 350

Pructor on Prof. Newcomb and Mr. Stone, 465, 487
Meteors, August, J. Edmund Clark on, 304

New Dynameter, Rev. T. W. Webb, F.R.A.S., on, 427, 446
Metric System, 120, 286

Newman (Edward, F.L.S.), his “Natural History of British
Mexico, Tropical, by Col. Albert S. Evans, 321

Butterflies,”.219
Meyer (Dr. A. B.), his Natural History Collections in Celebes, Newspapar Science, 406, 425, 446, 464

50 ; on Aurora Australis, 84 ; on a Volcano near Celebes, 286 Newton (Prof.), Edition of Yarrell's “ British Birds,” 89, 403
Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 498

New Zealand, Wellington Philosophical Society, 39, 380;
Microscopical Society, 479

Acc imatisation, 51; Recent Specimens of the Moa, 1841
Miers (J., F.R.S.),“On South American Hippocrateacea, ” 135 22°, 324 ; Maori Cooking Ovens, 185; Progress of Develop-
Migration of Quail, 447

ment in the Kea (Nestor notabilis), 489
Milk, Chemistry of, 96

Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 245
Miller (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), Proposed Memorial to, 244 Northumberland, Natural History Society, Transactions of, 108
Mimicry in Plants (Br. A.), 355

Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society, 513
Mind in the Lower Animals, 169

Nova Scotia, Inst. of Natural Science, 32, 78, 235 ; Science in, 74
Mineral Statistics of Victoria, 365

Ocean Cables, Injuries to, 436
Mines, Royal School of, 259

Ocean Currents, Sir J. Herschel on, 71; Dr. Carpenter on, 97,
Mirage seen from a Balloon, 3; in Scotland, 89

183 (Br. A.), 315, 435, 446, 468 ; Jas. Croll on, 304 ; J. K.
Missouri, Official Reports on Insects affecting Agriculture, 302 Laughton on, 162, 223; kichd. A. Proctor on, 121, 243; R.
Mitchell (W. Stephen). his Geological Atlas of England, 373 Russell on, 122
Mivart (St. George, F.R.S.), on the Vertebrate Skeleton, 36; Oldham School of Science and Art, 130, 476
on Rib Variations, 188

Oliver (Lieut. S. P., R.A.), on Noises at Sea, 26; on Elateridz
Moa, the, Recent Remains of, in New Zealand, 184, 228, 306, 324 in the Azores, 162 ; Description of Greytown and Adjacent
Mob, Expedition to, 492

Country, 206
Moffatt (Dr.) on Ozonometry (Br. A.), 292

Optical Phenomena, Thos. Ward on, 68

Organic Chemistry, Prof. Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 295 Physiological Classes at Cambridge, 107
Organisation of Local Scientific Effort, 281

Physiological Researches at Gratz, 402
Origin of Life, Dr. C. Bastian, F.R.S., on (Br. A.), 378 ; Sir Physiology and Anatomy of Man, by Dr. L. S. Beale, 343, 367

W. Thomson, F.R.S., on (Br. A.), 269, 305, 386 ; Mungo Physiology at Edinburgh University, 168
Ponton, F.R.S. E., on, 321

Pilgrim (Thos.), Obituary Notice of, 476
Orme (T. A), on Cramming for Examinations, 285

“Plants, Natural History of,” by Prof. Baillon, 199
Ornithology; at the Br. A., 333 ; Brown on the Anatomy of Plane's Aspect, Position, or Slope, 466, 506,

Birds, 32 ; Californian Vulture, 52 ; of the Island of Celebes, Platycnemic Men, Discoveries in Denbighshire, 388
37 ; Chinese Notions about Pigeons, 44 ; of the Lesser Plymouth, Science and Art Schools at, 89.
Antilles, 473 ; of New Zealand, 51; of Palestine, 54 ; Poëy (Prof. André), on a New Form of Cloud, 489

Magnus (Dr.) on the Bones of the Heads of Birds, 364 Ponton (Mungo,), “The Beginning ; its When and its How,” 321
Ornithosauria, H. G. Sceley on, 100

Poppy, its cultivation in China, 230
Otago, Acclimatisation Society of, 51

Population, the Laws of, by Nathaniel Allen, M.D., 462, 463
Our Sister Republic" (Mexico), by Col. Albert S. Evans, 322 Potts (Thos. H.), Progress of Development in the Kea, 489, 506
Owen (Prof., R., F.R.S.), on the Fossil Mammals of Australia, Pow (J. Brough, F.G.S.) on the Dinnington Boulder, 386, 467

173; his suggested Survey of the Sussex Wealden Deposits, 493 Poynter (E. J.,) Slade Professor at University College, 50
Oxford, Science at, 31, 129, 149, 244, 263, 349, 453, 476, 485, Pratt (Ven. Archdeacon, F.R.S.) on the Thickness of the
488, 493, 513

Earth's Crust, 28, 45, 65, 141, 182, 344, 383
Ozone, Dr. Debus, F.R.S., on, 134

Prime Numbers, Tables of, 6
Ozonometry, Dr. Moffatt on (Br. A.) 292

“ Primitive Culture," by Edward B. Tylor, 117, 138
Paget (Sir James, F.R.S.), his Retirement from Bartholomew's Prism, Compound, for Spectrum Microscope, 511
Hospital, 10; appointed Consulting Surgeon, 107

Proctor (R.' A., F.R.A.S.) on Recent Neologisms. 385; on
Paläolithic Stone Implements, 50

Ocean Currents, 121, 183, 243 ; on Phenomena of Contact,
Palæontographica,'

," Fossil Plants of the German Wealden, 35 445 ; on Saturn's Rings, 223, 346; on the Cycloid, 465, 487;
"Palæontographica,” by Drs. Dunker and Zittel, 195

on the Solar Parailax, 183, 424 ; on the Sun, 41, 83, 322 ; on
Palæozoic "Crinoids in New Brunswick, 72 ; Prof. Wyville Mr. Stone and Prof. Newcomb, 346, 487; on Elementary
Thomson, F.R.S., on their Structure, 496

Geometry, 404; on Mr. Todhunter's Solution of a Geometrical
Palestine Exploration Fund, its Quarterly Journal, 33

Problem, 464; on a Plane's Aspect, Slope, or Position, 506
Palestine, Flora of, 215

Progress of Development in the Kea (Nestor notabilis), 489, 506
Palliser (J. W.),“ Problems in Practical and Plane Geometry,"484 * Psychic Force,” W. Crookes, F.R. S., on, 237, 278, 518
Palmer, E. H., his Explorations in Palestine, 33

Pterodactyls, H. G. Seeley, F.G.S. on, 100
Panama, Coal in, 309; (Br. A.), 332

Quail, Migration of, 447
Pangenesis, 5 ; Dr. L. S. Beale on on, 25; R. Meldola on, 46 ; Quarterly Journal of Science, 338
A. C. Ranyard on, 69

Quekett Microscopical Club, 229, 261, 418
Pankhurst (E. A.), on the Supposed Earthquake at Worthing, 385 Queensland Botanical Expedition, 349 ; New Ganoid Fish
Paper-making, New Plant for, 494

(Ceratodus) discovered in, 406, 428, 447
Parasites, Disease Produced by, 125, 165

Radford (W. T.), a Hint to the Longsighted, 142
Parfitt (Edward), on Affinities of the Sponges, 201

Rain after Fire, G. P. Serocold on, 83 ; Chicago, 494
Paris : Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 156, 255 ; Rain, Black, Edwin Lee, F.R.S., on, 161

Académie des Sciences, it, 40, 59, 73, 80, 116, 136, 155, Rain, Yellow, J. Jeremiah, on, 68, 161
176, 215, 236, 255, 300, 339, 360, 380, 400, 419, 440, 480, Rainfall, A. Buchan on (Br. A.), 358 ; W. Pengelly, F.R.S., on,
498, 519 ; Académie des Sciences, Morales, et Politiques, 196, 169; in Bombay, 375; in Calcutta, 514; in Chile, 418; in
235; Association Scientifique de France, 320; National Library, Scotland (Br. A.), 398
32; Observatory Injured by the Communists, 120, 155; the Ranyard (A. C., F.R.A.S.), on Hybridisation, 26; on Coronal
Conflagrations, 87 ; Science in, 73, 129, 130, 152, 189, 325, Rifts, 27 ; on Pangenesis, 69 ; Suggestions to Observers of the
338, 373, 395, 417, 436, 439, 453, 492 ; Société d'Acclimata- Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871, 327 ; on the Corona, 466
tion, 374 ; Society of Civil Engineers, 307; Vendôme Rawlinson (Sir H.), Elected President of theGeographical Soc., 72
Column, 89

Regnault, on the Conversion of Heat in the Steam Engine, 203
Parker (W. K., F.R.S.) on the Structure of the Eel's Skull, 146 Respighi (Prof.) on Stellar Scintillation, 99
Patagonia, Geology of, 115 ; Ethnology of, 116

Respiration, Mechanism of, 95
Payen (M.), Speech at his Funeral, 136 ; his Chemical Works Respirators of Cotton Wool and Charcoal, 126
and Investigations, 260

Reynolds (Dr. J.) on the “ Chemistry of Milk," 96
Peabody (Francis), his Death, 374

Reynolds (Prof. Osborne), Radial Appearance of the Corona, 46
Peat Lochs, John Aitken on, 144

Rhysimeter, the, A. E. Fletcher, F.C.S., on (Br. A.), 338
Pendulum Autographs, Hubert Airy on, 310, 370 ; W. Swan Richardson (Dr.), his Theory of Nervous Atmosphere, 29; on
and S, M. Drach on, 365, 366

Writers on Science, 144
Pengelly (Wm , F.R.S.) on Rainfall, 169

Riga, Society of Naturalists, 236
People's University, Proposed, 41

Riley (Chas. V.) Official Report on the Insects of Missouri, 302
Percival (Rev. J.), and Cliston College School, 329

Riviera, Flora of the, 502
Percy (John, M.D., F.R.S.) on the Metallurgy of Lead, 218 Roberts (W. M.) on Thunderstorm, Aug. 13, 1871, 305
Perkins (Thos.) on Sun Spots, 224

Robertson (Prof. G. C.) on Taine's “ De l'Intelligence,” 62
“Permanent Commission on State Science Questions,” proposed Robinson (W.), his “Sub-Tropical Garden,” 159
by Lt.-Col. Strange, F.R.S., 130

Rock Carvings, Mode of Obtaining fac-similes, 233
Perry (John B.), on Eozoon Canadense, 28

Rock-Inscriptions in Brazil, 114
Perthshire, Lepidoptera of, 190

Rodwell (G. F., F.C.S.) on the Study of Science in Schools,
Peru, Earthquakes in, 51, 74, 169, 230, 418; Inundations in, 51; 437, 455
Electric Phenomena in, 56

Rolleston, Prof., F.R.S., on Saxon Pagan Remains, 56
PAuger on Nerve-endings in Glands, 10

Rollett (Dr. Alexander), Physiological Researches at Gratz, 402
Phenomena of Contact, Prof. S. Newcomb and R. A. Proctor, “Romance of Motion,” by Alec Lee, 45
F.R.A.S., on, 423, 445

Roscoe (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Proposed People's University,
Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences, 480, 499, 519; 41 ; Science Lectures for the People, 81

American Philosophical Society, 236, 256 ; Franklin Institute, Ross (Dr. J.), Howorth's New View of Darwinism, 221, 240, 242
211, 229, 452

Royal Commissions, on Coal, 148 ; on Scientific Instruction, 107,
Phosphorescence in Fish, 287

130
Photographic Apparatus for Use in the Diving Bell, 477 Royal Institution, Proceedings, 18, 36, 107, 115, 195, 453
Photographs of Transit of Venus, Government Grant for, 107 Royal Society, Election of Fellows, 13; Proceedings, 17, 57, 85
Photographs of the Solar Eclipse of 1870, 85

95, 173, 195 ; its Origin and Early Proceedings, 439
Photography, Eclipse, A. Brothers, F.R.A.S., 327, 367, 445 Rugby School Natural History Society, 32, 149
Phrenology, by Nicholas Morgan, 422

Ruined Cities of Central America, 466
Physics, Applied, proposed Chair at Glasgow, 190

Rushton (Wm.) on “Science in Plain English,” 142, 166
“Physics, Experimental,” by Adolph F. Weinhold, 158

Russell (R.) on Ocean Currents, 122 ; Obituary Notice of, 394