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 Observations of," Eleanor A.
Ormerod, 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

"Island 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. Rand 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

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 on, 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

Landslips: Thos. Ward, 144; the Cheshire Subsidences, T.
Mellard Reade, 219

Language, Philosophy of, Ludwig Noiré, A. H. Keane, 124
Lankester (Prof. E. Kay, 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

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

F.R.S., 485

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

Mineral Resources of Newfoundland, Alex. Murray, 46
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

Missouri, Magnetic Survey of, Prof. Francis E. Nipher, 583
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

Molecular Electromagnetic Induction, Prof. D. E. Hughes,
F.R.S., 519

Molison (A. R.), Photophone, 78

Moll (M.), Death of, 156

Molloy (Gerald), “Outline of a Course of Natural Philosophy,"
32

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), Dynamic 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

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

New England, Marine Isopods of, 543

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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
Oldest Picture in the World," 555

Niagara, Falls of, in Winter, W. Lant Carpenter, 511
Niépce (Nicephore), Statue of, 296

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

Niger, the Discovery of the Sources of, 87

"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
Nordenskjöld's (Baron) Arrival at St. Petersburg, 23; 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

Palæolithic Man, Worthington G. Smith, 604

Paola, Earthquake at, 614
Parallax, Solar, 441, 493, 591
Parhelion, J. Rand Capron, 291

Paris Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 116, 140, 163, 187,
236, 255, 260, 283, 308, 332, 356, 380, 428, 451, 466, 476,
493, 518, 524, 548, 572, 596, 620; Muséum d'Histoire Natu-
relle, 63; M. Fremy on Chemistry at, 83; a Case of Medical
Etiquette in, 64; Paris Observatory, 533; the Object-glass of
the New Telescope, 64; Annual Soirée at, 346; Proposed
International Congress of Electricians at, 84, 347, 369, 439;
Medical Gymnasium in, 297; the Time of Day in, 367
Parnell (J.), Meteors, 508

Pascoe (Francis P.), the Thresher, 35; Flying-fish, 312
"Past in the Present, What is Civilisation?" Arthur Mitchell,
166

Paukhurst (E. Alloway), Sound of the Aurora, 484

Peal (S. E.), Soaring of Birds, 10; Pile Dwellings, 218
Peat, Ice Intrusive in, T. Mellard Reade, 339

Pechüle's Comet, 207

Perseids in August, 1880, 372

Peruvian Antiquities, W. Reiss and A. Stübel, 75
Peruvian Bark, 189

Peshawur, Earthquake at, 275

Petermann's Mittheilungen, 87, 185, 279, 399, 566, 495

Peyton (J. E. H.), Mock Sun, 314

Phenomena in Magnetic Storms, Correspondence of, W. Ellis,
33

Phenomenon, Oceanic, Dr. R. W. Coppinger, 482

Philippines, Report on the, 299

Philosophy of Language, Max Müller and, A. H. Keane, 30
Philosophy of Language, Ludwig Noiré, 124; A. H. Keane, 124
Phonograph, a New Kind of, 441

Phonograph, Enlarged Impressions from, 373

Phosphorescence of the Sea, Thos. B. Groves, 411
Phosphorescent Centipedes, B. E. Brodhurst, 99
Photographic Society, 163, 235, 355, 428, 524

Photography and the Stereoscope, on Estimating the Height of
Clouds by, John Harmer, 194

Photometer, Dr. Fuchs' New, 278; a New Centigrade, 442
Photophone: Prof. Graham Bell's, 15; Shelford Bidwell on, 58;
Experiments with the, Prof. Graham Bell and M. Janssen,
86; a Foreshadowed Photophone, 63; A. R. Molison on, 78;
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., on, 274; Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson
on, 331; Photophone Experiments, 354; Mercadier's Re-
searches on the Photophone, 366; Herbert Tomlinson on,
457; Photophonic Music, 124

Phylloxera in France, Maxime Cornu, 127; the Probability of
Phylloxera Crossing the Tropics, 147; in the Geelong Vine-
yards, 181; in the Crimea, 253

Physical Notes, 43, 86, 133, 208, 278, 372, 397, 441, 517, 616
Physical Society, 95, 162, 187, 331, 403, 450, 499, 547, 595
Physical Science at Bedford College, 181

Physical Nature of the Sun, Study of the, Prof. Piazzi Smyth,
554

66

Physics of the Earth's Crust," Rev. Osmond Fisher, 131
Physiological Botany, Atlas of, Dr. Dodel-Port's, 157
Physiological Significance of Transpiration of Plants, 494
Physiology of Plants, Francis Darwin, 178

Piano, Stenographic, 440

Pickering (Prof. Edward C.), the Star Oeltzen 17681, 338;
Spectrum of the Star Ll. 13412, 604

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

Pile-Dwellings, S. E. Peal, 218

Pinguicula Alpina, 159

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

Planets, Minor, 396, 517

Plants of Madagascar, J. G. Baker, 125

Plants: Chlorophyll in the Epidermis of, 158; Light and the
Transpiration of, 159; Physiology of, Francis Darwin, 178
Plants, Biology of, 310

Plants, Australian, in India, Dr. G. Bidie, 555
Plants, Movement of, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 409
Plants, Physiological Significance of Transpiration of, 494
Plimsoll's (Mr.) Cure for Colliery Explosions, W. Galloway, 176
Plymouth, Flora of, T. R. Archer Briggs, 74

Poggendorff's Biographical Dictionary, Supplement to, 231
Polar Research, the Future f, 49

Polar Reconnaissance, Albert H. Markham, 455
Polarisation of Light, Experiment in, 442

Polarised Light, "Natural" Experiment in, Charles T. Whit-
mell, 268

Political Economy, Dr. Luigi Cossa, 97

Po'yergus lucidus, the Shining Slave-Maker, 543
Polyzoa, British Marine, T. Hincks, F. R.S., 51
"Pompeii," a New Journal, 232

Pompeii, Discoveries at, 371; Excavations in the Ninth Region
of, 440

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Meteorological Observatory at, 516
Portuguese Pompeii, a, 297

Post Office in Magellan Straits, 254

Practical Plane Geometry, Complete Course of Problems in, J.
W. Palliser, 264

Predicter, Tide, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 578; Edward
Roberts, 555

Preece (W. H.): On the Conversion of Radiant Energy into
Sonorous Vibrations, 496; Dust, Fogs, and Clouds, 336;
Aurora and Electric Storm of January 31, 348

Prejevalsky (Col.): his Travels in China, 21, 45, 173; Account
of, 399; at St. Petersburg, 418

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

Prehistoric Man, Exploration of the Remains of, in Russia, 107
Preston (S. Tolver), on some Points relating to the Dynamics of
"Radiant Matter," 461

Prevost (G. W.), Aurora of January 31, 329

Primitive Marriage Customs, D. MacLennan, 584

Prism, the Passage of Light through a, 397

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 401

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 449,
522

Radiophone, the, 209, 373

Rae (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Geological Climates, 337; Migration
of the Wagtail, 411; Sound of the Aurora, 605
Rainbow, Inverted, seen at Innsbruck, 157
Rains, Indian Winter, S. A. Hill, 604
Ramsay (Dr. W.), Oxidation of Quinine, 243

Rance (C. E. de), Blackheath Holes, 365; International Geo-
logical Congress, 510

Rankine's (Macquorn, F.R.S.) Scientific Papers, Prof. Osborne
Reynolds, F.R.S., 477

Raout (M.), Experiments on the Freezing-Points of Acoholic
Liquids, 85

Rayleigh's (Lord) Solution for Waves in a Plane Vortex Stratum'
on a Disturbing Infinity in, Sir William Thomson, 45, 70;
the Photophone, 274

Reade (T. Mellard), Landslips-the Cheshire Subsidences, 219;

F. Jacob, 527

Refraction, M. Glasenap on, 373

Regelation, Rev. George Henslow, II

Reiss (W.) and A. Stübel, Peruvian Antiquities, 75
Research, Endowment of, in Birmingham, 304

Revista of the Society of Instruction of Oporto, 298
Revue d'Anthropologie, 83

Revue des Science; Naturelles, 47, 283

Revue des Sciences, 515

Revue Internationale des Sciences, 594

Revue Internationale des Sciences biologiques, 95, 161, 306, 449
Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), Macquorn Rankine's Scientific
Papers, 477

Rhenish Fishery Society, Foundation of a, at Cologne, 158
Rhine, Electric Light and Navigation on the, 132

Rhinoceros, Colossal, Discovery of in Siberia, 275

Rhinoceros Merckii in Siberia, Recent Discovery of the Body of,
466

Ricarde-Seaver (Major F. J.), Bi-Centenary of Calderon, 457
Richmond (Geo. B.), Hot Ice, 504

Rivers, German, the Quantity of Water in, 94

Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 47, 115, 211, 402, 425, 474,
594

Roberts (Dr. William), Temperature of the Breath, 55; "On
the Digestive Ferments, and on the Preparation and Use of
Artificially Digested Food," 169

Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Introductory Lecture to
the Course of Metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, 65
Roberts (Edward), Tide Predicter, 467, 555

Rodwell (G. F.), French Association for the Advancement of
Science at Algiers, 582, 606

Rogers (J. Banting), New Game, "A Voyage Round the
World," 134

Rogers (J. Innes), Colours of British Butterflies, 435

Rolleston (Prof.), His Lecture on the Modifications of the
External Aspects of Organic Nature Produced by Man's
Interference, 19

Romanes (George J., F.R.S.), Butler's "Unconscious Memory,"
285, 335; Aberration of Instinct, 433; Mind in Animals,
501; the Locomotive System of Echinodermata, 345; Conscious
Matter, 553

Roscoe (Prof. H. F., F.R.S.), Prof. Lunge's "Sulphuric Acid
and Alkali," 73, 99, 215; "Scientific Worthies," Robert
Wilhelm Bunsen, 597

Roth (Herr), Compressibility of Gases, 43
Roumania, Earthquake Shock in, 232
Rousdorf, Shock of Earthquake felt at, 253

Rouse (M. L.): Movements of Leaves, 195; Tacitus on the
Aurora, 459; Sound of the Aurora, 556

Routledge (Robert), "Popular History of Science," 52
Royal School of Mines, Introductory Lecture to the Course of
Metallurgy at the, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 65
Royal Society, 283, 330, 355, 378, 402, 425, 474, 499, 545, 569,
594; Officers and Council, 41; Medals awarded, 62, 138;
Address of the President, Dr. William Spottiswoode, III,
135; the Times on Dr. Spottiswoode's Address at, 130; pro-
posed New Fellows, 563

Royal Society of Literature, 163

Royal Asiatic Society, 162, 332

Royal Astronomical Society, Anniversary Meeting, 394
Royal College of Science, Dublin, 297

Royal Geographical Society, 21, 398, 420, 443, 495, 518, 544,
565; Medals, 565; Sir Bartle Frere at, 87

Royal Institution, Lecture Arrangements of, 19, 254; Friday
Evening Lecture, 130; Prof. Dewar on Atoms at the, 181
Royal Microscopical Society, 140, 162, 427, 500
Ruchonnet's (Charles), "Exposition Géométrique des Propriétes
générales des Courbes," "Éléments de Calcul approximatif,"
481

Russell (Hon. Rollo), Colliery Explosions and Coal-Dust, 193;
Dust and Fogs, 267

Russia: Account of Communes, &c., 45; Exploration of the
Remains of Prehistoric Man in, 107

Russian Geographical Society, 44, 255, 443; and Universal
Time, 255; Prof. Nordenskjöld and, 299
Russian Imperial Yacht Livadia, 27, 63

Russo-Byzantine Antiquities found near Kiew, 321

Ryde, Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at, 131

Sachs (E. T.), Natural History Notes from Batavia, 275

St. Ivan-Zelina, Earthquake at, 439

St. Michael's in the Azores, Earthquake at, 419

St. Petersburg Geological Society, Meeting of, 107

St. Petersburg, Earthquake at, 370

St. Petersburg Dynamite Mine, 531

Salts of Zinc, S. W. Bott, 78

Salvadori's Ornithology of New Guinea, 240

San Cristobal, Earthquake at, 564

Sands, Moving, and Dunes, 569

Sandstones, Cambrian, near Loch Maree, Curious Impressions
in, 93

Sanitary Assurance Association, 50

Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 320

Santarem and Citania, 297

Sargassum, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 70, 146

Sargent (Howard), Mode of Flight of the Albatross, 362
Saturn, Leverrier's Theory of, 298

Schipka Cave, 296; Animal Rewains in the, 446
Schloss Trako tyan, Earthquake at, 205

Schmeltz (J. D. E.) und Dr. med. R. Krause, "Die ethno-
graphisch-anthropologische Abtheilung des Museum Godeffroy
in Hamburg. Ein Beitrag zur Kunde der Südsee-Völker,” 168
Schriften der physikalisch ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königs-
berg, 306, 402

Schuster (Dr. Arthur), on the Thermic and Optic Behaviour of
Gases under the Influence of the Electric Di charge, 258
"Science, a Popular History of," Robert Routledge, 52
Scientific Education, Lord Gifford on, 64; Mr. Mundella on,
134

Science, Natural, for Women, Alfred W. Bennett, 195
Science at Algiers, French Association for the Advancement of,
G. F. Rodwell, 582, 606

Sciences, Songs of the-I. Zoology, 143
Scientific Societies of Dublin, 316

SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES, XVII.-Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Prof,
H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 597

Scotch Fisheries Improvement Association, 232
"Scotland, Free Librarie- of," 64

Scotland, Slight Shocks of Earthquake in, 106, 591
Scott-Moncrieff (W. D.), Smokeless London, 193

Sea, Phosphorescence of the, Thomas B. Groves, 411
Seabrooke (George M.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January
31, 348

Sea Lion, Death of, at the Brighton Aquarium, 253
Seeing by Electricity, 423

Selenium, 218, 412

Semellé (Count de), Death of, 45

Semper (Prof. Karl), "Natural Conditions of Existence and
Animal Life," 405

Shadows cast by Venus, Charles T. Whitmell, 579
Sharp (Dr.), "Avis préliminaire d'une Nouvelle Classification
de la Famille des Dytiscidæ," 98

Shaw (J.), Explosive Gas in a Lake, 435 ; Sound of the Aurora,
484

Shaw-Lefevre's Collections, 369

Sheep, Black, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 193
Sheppey, Geologising at, J. Starkie Gardner, 293
Shining Slave-Maker (olve gus lucidus), 543

Siberia, Recent Discovery of the Body of Rhinoceros Merckii in,
466

Siberian Meteorology, Dr. A. Woeikof, 437

Siemens' (Dr. C. William, F.R.S) New Cure for Smoke, 25,
366; D. A. Stevenson, Cosino Innes, Thomas Fletcher, Dr.
C. W. Siemens, F.R.S, 91; Gas-Grate, Dr. R. Douglas
Hale, 145; Gas and Electricity as heating Agents, 326, 351
Siemens (Herr F.), on his Regenerative Gas-Burner," 131
Signs of Death, 494

Sitka in Alaska, Cyclone accompanied by Earthquake Shocks
at, 83
Sitzungsberichte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis
in Dresden, 594