Denning's Comet (¿ 1892), Dr. R. Schorr, 569; Comet Swift 1892, 569 Winnecke's Comet, Dr. G. F. Haerdtl, 617 Commerce, Evolution of, Gardiner G. Hubbard, 588 Conchology of the West Coast of South America, Robert E. C. Stearns, 89
Congo, French, Copper Mines of, 135
Congress, Botanical International, to be held at Genoa in con- nection with Celebration of Quatercentenary of Discovery of America by Columbus, 545
Congress at Chicago, Proposed International Electrical, 64, 278 Connaissance des Temps, 186
Conn (Prof. H. W.), the Living World, Whence it Came and Whither it is Drifting, 317
Cons (Miss E.), Polytechnics and Recreation, 28
Coode (Sir John), Death of, 443
Cooke (M. C.), British Edible Fungi, 75
Cope (Prof. E. D.), Discovery of New Species of Frog in New Jersey, 208
Copeland (Ralph): New Star in the Milky Way, 325; New Star in Auriga, 454, 527
Copernic et la Découverte du Système du Monde, Camille Flam- marion, 77
Copper Mines of French Congo, 135
Cygni, the Relative Motion of 61, Prof. A. Hall, 547 Cygnus, Photographs of a Part of, M. Faye, 624 Cyst, Formation of a Temporary, in the Fresh-water Annelid Eolosoma, Frank E. Beddard, 28 Czapski (Prof.), the Calculable Limit of Microscopic Views, 575
Daffodil in the Basses Pyrénées, Extermination of the Wild, 545 Dairy Farming in Victoria, Results of the Government Travel- ling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39
Dakyns (J. R.), the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill and Meall Breac, 360
Dallas (W. L.), Cyclone Memoirs of the Arabian Sea, 135 Dallinger (Rev. W. H., F.R.S.), the Microscope and its Revelations, W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., Prof. E. Ray Lan- kester, F. R.S., 313
Darwin (Charles), Boehm's Statue of, 19
Darwin (Francis, F.R.S.), elected Member of Athenæum Club, 566
Darwin (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.): the Capture of Lexell's Comet by Jupiter, 526; "The Cause of an Ice Age," Sir Robert Ball, F. R.S., 289
Darwinian Society of Edinburgh, the, 19; William White, 53; John S. Flett, 104
Copper-mining on Lake Superior, Prehistoric Mines in Neigh- Dary (George), L'Electricité dans la Nature, 460
bourhood, E. B. Hinsdale, 39
Cordova Observatory, 446
Corleone, Earthquake at, 184
Cornaglia (Signor), Sul Regime delle Spiaggie e sulla Regola zione dei Porti, 362
Cortie (Rev. A. L.), the Chromosphere Line Ångström 6676′9,
Coste (F. H. Perry): Salts in Natural Waters, 176; on Insect Colours, 513. 541; Pigments of Lepidoptera, 605 Cotes (E. C.), the Wild Silk Insects of India, 520 Cotterill (Prof. James A., F. R.S.), Superheated Steam, 414 Courty (M.), Photography of the Eclipsed Moon, 117 Cox (E. J.), Problems in Chemical Arithmetic, 293 Cranbrook (Lord), and the University Extension Movement, 155
Crane (Agnes), the Mexican Atlatl or Spear-Thrower, 102 Crawford (A.), Results of the Government Travelling Dairy in Victoria, 39
Crawshay (Mrs. R. M.): the Recent Eclipse of the Moon, 134; a Double Moon, 224 Cremation, Progress of, 379
Crew (Dr. Henry), Observations of the Spectrum of Nova Auriga, 569
Crichton-Browne (Harold), Dwarfs and Dwarf Worship, 269 Crime, Photography applied to the Detection of, Dr. Paul Jeserich, 568
Crismer (M.), Two New Methods of preparing Free Solid Hydroxylamine, 185
Crocuses, Sparrows and, R. McLachlan, F. R.S., 441
Croft (W. B.): Nickel Heat Engine, 392; Sensitive Water Jets, 606
Cromer Drift, Striated Surface under the, William Sherwood, 511 Crookes (Prof. W., F.R.S.), Electricity in Relation to Science, 63 Croonian Lectures, 19
Crops, Farm, J. Wrightson, 247
Cruise on the Broads, How to Organize a, E. R. Suffling, 52 Crum (John), Prof. Wiborgh's Air Pyrometers, 304 Crustacea, Freshwater: a New "Isopod," Charles Chilton, 66 Cryptogams: British Edible Fungi, M. C. Cooke, 75 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, the Coming, 64 Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 113, 261, 356 Crystals, Ice, Gilbert Rigg, 319; Bernard Hobson, 365 Cuckoo, Torpid, A. Holte Macpherson, 416
Cundale (J. T.), Dissociation of Liquid Nitrogen Peroxide, 92 Cunningham (Dr. D. J., F.R.S.), the Skeleton of the Irish Giant Cornelius Magrath, 147
Cunningham (Prof. J. T.), Growth of the Pilchard or Sar- dine, 255, 558
Cunningham (Rev. Prof. W.), the Relativity of Economic Doctrine, 519
Cuthbertson (Clive), Mental Arithmetic, 78
Cyclone Memoirs of the Arabian Sea, W. L. Dallas, 135 Cyclone, the Samoan, of March 16, 1889, 161
Cyclone in Siam, 86
Cyclones in the Arabian Sea, 276
Cyclones in Europe, 114
Cyclopædia of Nature Teachings, H. Macmillan, 248
David (T. W. E.), on Volcanic Action in Eastern Australia and Tasmania, 424
Davis (Floyd), "An Elementary Hand-book on Potable Waters," Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F. R.S., 25
Davison (C.), the Elements of Plane Trigonometry, 509 Dawes (Prof. W. M.), Ferrel's View of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere, 357
Dawson (Sir J. William, F. R.S.), Dr. Carpenter, on Eozoon, 461, 606
Deep-Sea Deposits (Challenger Expedition), Murray and Renard's Report on, Prof. John Judd, F. R. S., 409
Delagoa Bay, its Natives and Natural History, Rosa Monteiro, 124
Deniker (J.), and P. Hyades, Mission Scientifique de Cap Horn, 577
Denning (D.), the Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making, 459 Denning (W. F.): the Red Spot on Jupiter, 272; Large Meteor of January 24, 1892, 317; Rotation of Jupiter, 473; New Comet, 484; a New Comet, 513
Denning's Comet (b 1892), Dr. R. Schorr, 569 Derrécagaix (General), New Measurement of the Perpignan Base, 384
Deslandres (M.), the Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, 117; Photography of Solar Prominences, 404, 522 Determinants, the Theory of, in the Historical Order of its Development, Thomas Muir, 481
Deutsches Meteorologisches Jahrbuch, 1890, 587
Devonian Limestone of South Devon, on the Microscopic Structure and Residues insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid in the, Edward Wethered, 597
Devonshire, the late Duke of, and Science, 182 Devonshire (Duke of), Election to Chancellorship of the Uni- versity of Cambridge, 233; Preliminary Installation as Chancellor of University of Cambridge, 257
Dewar (Prof.), Attractions of Liquid Oxygen by Faraday Magnet, 154
Dewdney (Hon. E.), Aborigines of the Dominion of Canada, 587
Diamond Industry at the Chicago Exhibition, the South African, 567 Diamonds in the Iron, a new Locality for Meteoric Iron, with a Preliminary Notice of the Discovery of, Prof. A. E. Foote, 178
Diatoms, Alleged Pseudopodes of, Alfred W. Bennett, 177 Dictionary, the Century, W. Dwight Whitney, 316 Dielectric Power, the, Julien Lefebvre, 95
Dietrich (Dr. F. C.), Death of, 155.
Diffraction Effects produced by placing Screens in Front of Object Glasses, Prof. Pritchard, 237
Dines (W. H.), Anemometer Comparisons, 623
Dinornis, Evidence of a Wing in, Henry O. Forbes, 257 Diphtheria, its Natural History and Prevention, by R. Thorne Thorne, F.R. S., 123
Diptera, an Account of British Flies, Hon. M. Cordelia E. Leigh and F. V. Theobald, 173
Disease, a Zoologist (Dr. Elie Metschnikoff) on, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R. S., 505
Distant (W. L.), Warning Colours, 174 Distribution of Energy in Stellar Spectra, Prof. Pickering, 159 Dittmar (William), Obituary Notice of, 493
Dixon (Edward T.), the Implications of Science, 125, 272, 391
Dixon (J. E.), Curious Death of a Ring-tailed Opossum, 88 Dixon (Mr.), the Logical Foundations of Applied Mathema- tical Sciences, 407
Dobbie (J. J.), Corydaline, 383
Dobbin (Leonard), Arithmetical Exercises in Chemistry, 76 Dog, the Anatomy of the, 16
Dog, the Tubercular Vaccination of the, Héricourt and Richet, 576
Dog working in a Treadmill, Assimilation of Diet investigated on a, Dr. Rosenberg, 599
Dogs, Intelligence of, 177
Dorp (W. A. van), Action of Aqueous Solution of Ammonia on Phthalic Chloride, 72
Double Orange, Gerald B. Francis, 607
Downing (F. S.), Death of, 85
Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, A. Fowler, 427
Dredging Operations in the Eastern Pacific, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, 281
Drouin (R.), Fixation of Nitrogen by Arable Soils, 192
Du Bois-Reymond (Prof. E., F.R.S.), on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, 200, 224
Dublin Royal Society, 166, 287, 407, 455.
Dublin, Trinity College, Tercentenary Celebration of, 378 Dufour (M.), Influence on Electro-Magnetic Resonance of Un. symmetrical Arrangement of Propagation Circuit, 408 Dundas (Capt.), Expedition to Mount Kenia in East Africa, Ernest Gedge, 566
Dunn (Matthias), Pilchards, 511
Dunstan (W. R.), the Aconite Alkaloids, ii. and iii., 525; Conditions of Combination between Cyanides of Zinc and Mercury, 551
Duppa-Crotch (W.), Migration of the Lemming, 199, 294 Durham (H. E.), Wandering Cells in Echinoderms, &c., 450 Durrant (Reginald G.), a Lecture Experiment on Sound, 415 Dust Particles, on the Number of, in the Atmosphere of Various Places in Great Britain and on the Continent, with Remarks on the Relation between the Amount of Dust and Meteoro- logical Phenomena, John Aitken, F. R.S., 299 Dust Counting on Ben Nevis, Angus Rankin, 582
Economic Doctrine, the Relativity of, Rev. Prof. W. Cunning- ham, 519
Economists, Austrian, William Smart, 268
Economy, Political: the Relativity of Economic Doctrine, Rev. Prof. W. Cunningham, 519
Edinburgh Royal Society, 239, 311, 431, 454, 527, 623 Edinburgh University Darwinian Society, 19, 53, 104 Edmunds (Walter), a Treatise on the Ligation of the Great Arteries in Continuity with Observations on the Nature, Pro- gress, and Treatment of Aneurism, Dr. M. Armand Ruffer, 530 Education: the Speaker of the House of Commons on Technical Education, 19; Report on 1891 Technological Examina- tions of City and Guilds of London Institute, 38; the Place due to Horticulture in Technical Education, W. Wilks, 38; True Relation of Technical Education to the Study of Pure Science, Dr. Sorby, 38; Record of Technical and Secondary Education, 65: Scientific and Technical Education in New South Wales, 88; Technical Education in Essex, 155, 234; in Scotland, 377; in London, 403; the New London County Council and Technical Education, 566; Examinations in Science, 85; Lord Cranbrook and the University Extension Movement, 155; Education in the United States, 156; the English Language in Japanese Schools, 303; the Registration of Teachers, 324; Free Education in Ireland, 403; Dr. Thomas Muir appointed Superintendent-General of Education for Cape Colony, 443; the Government and Scientific Educa- tion, 470; the Government and the proposed Teaching Univer- sity for London, 470; Royal Commission to investigate the Question of a Teaching University for London, 612; Ter- centenary of the Birth of J. A. Comenius, 495; Report of Committee on Grants to University Colleges in Great Britain, 544
Edwards (Amelia B.), Death of, 586; Chair of Egyptology endowed by, 613
Edwards (E. P.), Burning Oils for Lighthouses, 379
Egg of the Extinct Gigantic Bird of Madagascar, Epyornis maximus, 586
Egypt under the Pharaohs, H. Brugsch-Bey, 363 Egypt Exploration Fund, the, 470
Egypt, Prehistory of, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 580 Egyptian Antiquities, proposed Grant on behalf of, 113 Egyptian Astronomy, on some Points in Ancient, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 296, 373
Dutch Academy of Sciences, Haarlem, Prize Subjects proposed Egyptology, Chair of, endowed by Amelia B. Edwards, 613 by, 37
Dwarfs of Mount Atlas, the, R. G. Haliburton, 66 Dwarfs and Dwarf Worship, Harold Crichton-Browne, 269 Dyer (J. M.), Elementary Trigonometry, 174
Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.), Botany of the Emin Relief Expedition, 8; Instruction in Horticulture, 402
Dymond (T. S.), Mydatic Alkaloid Hyoscyamine in Lettuce,
Dynamic Action and Ponderosity of Matter, by "Waterdale,"
Dynamics and Statics, Rev. J. B. Lock, 101
Eagle, Spotted, Capture near Colchester of, 158 Earth Vibrations, on, Dr. Emil Oddone, 510
Earth's Shadow, Increase of the, during Lunar Eclipses, Dr. Hartmann, 498
Earthquakes in Japan, 286; Effects of Earthquake in Japan, 38; Seismometry and Engineering in relation to the recent Earthquake in Japan, Prof. John Milne, F. R.S., 127; the recent Earthquake in Japan, Prof. F. A. Forel, 199; Earth- quake-observing Stations in Japan, 471; Earthquake at Pan- telleria, 120; at Corleone, 184; in Jamaica, 207; in Italy, Greece, and New York State, 259; in Rome (Province) and France, 304; in California, 471, 614; in Nicaragua, 471; Effect of Earthquakes on Vegetation, Signor Goiran, 520; Earthquake at Portland, Oregon, 586 (see also Seismology) Earthworm, a Rare British, Rev. Hilderic Friend, 365 Echinoderms collected during the Fishing Survey on the West Coast of Ireland, Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, 598
Eckert (J. P.), some Peculiar Changes in Colour of Flowers of Swainsonia procumbens, 185
Eclipse, Total Lunar, of November 15, 42 Eclipse of the Moon, Robert C. Leslie, 53
Eclipses, Lunar, Increase of the Earth's Shadow during, Dr. Hartmann, 498
Economic Congress at Antwerp, Proposed International, 586
Elder (H. M.), Thermodynamical View of Action of Light on Silver Chloride, 524
Electricity: Electricity and Magnetism, translated from the French of Amédée Guillemin, Prof. A. Gray, 1; Proposed International Electrical Congress at Chicago, 19, 64, 85, 278; Electric Snow-sweeper, 39; Experiments on the Production of Ozone by Electric Silent Discharge, Siemens and Halske, 39; an Experiment of Sir Humphry Davy's, G. F. C. Searle, 47; some Notes on Clark's Cells, Glazebrook and Skinner, 47; some Notes on the Fra kfort International Electrical Exhibition, 54, 105; Electricity in Relation to Science, Prof. W. Crookes, F.R.S., 63; Electrical Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 64, 113, 261, 356; Experimental Determination of Velocity of Propagation of Electro-magnetic Waves, R. B. Blondlot, 72; Electro-magnet and Electro-magnetic Mechan- ism, S. P. Thompson, F. R. S., Prof. A. Gray, 73; Electrolysis of Potassium Acetate Solutions, Dr. T. S. Murray, 93; the Dielectric Power, Julien Lefebvre, 95; the Specification of Insulated Conductors for Electric Lighting, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 155; the Thermal Emissivity of Thin Wires in Air, Ayrton and Kilgour, 162; the Self-induction of two Parallel Conductors, H. M. Macdonald, 166; Electricity in relation to Mining, Ernest Scott, 184; Rotary Currents, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 191; a Thermo-Electric Standard of Electro- motive Force, H. Bagard, 192; Electrical Engineering at School of Mines, Columbia College, New York, 207; Repulsion and Rotation produced by alternating Electric Currents, G. T. Walker, 213; Study of Light and Heat Phenomena accompanying Electrolysis, Lagrange and Hoho, 216; Interference with Alternating Currents, M. H. Kilgour, 238; a First Book of Electricity and Magnetism, W. Perren Maycock, 248; Electricity on the Stage, 259; Influence of Electric Discharge during Thunderstorms on Apparatus registering Terrestrial Magnetism, Em. Marchand, 264; Electro-capillary Phenomena and Differences of Poten- tial produced by Contact, Gouy, 264; Electrical Exhibition
at St. Petersburg, 303; the Specifications for Conduit System for Electrical Conductors at Chicago Exposition, 303; Elec- trical Transmission of Power fron Lauffen to Frankfort, the, 303; Gaseous Carbonic Acid not capable of Generating Electricity by Mechanical Friction on Metal, Prof. Wesen- donck, 306: Heat-radiation of Gases under the Electric Discharge, Herr Ångström, 306; Electrotechnics, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F. R.S., 325; on Hertz Oscillations, A. Perot, 336; Lectures on Alternate Currents of High Potential and Frequency, Nikola Tesla, 345; the Driving of Electro-mag- netic Vibrations by Electro-magnetic and Electrostatic Engines, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, F. K. S., 358; Vacuum Tubes and Electric Oscillations, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F. R.S., 366; Electro-dynamic Theories and the Electro-magnetic Theory of Light, M. Poincare, Prof. A. Gray, 367; the English Exhibit at the Chicago Exhibition, 377; Electric Fans to blow away Smoke from Guns of American Turret Ship, 403; Influence on Electro-magnetic Resonance of Unsymmetrical Arrangement of Propagation Circuit, Blondlot and Dufour, 408; Medical Utilization of Alternating Currents of High Potential, Gautier and Larat, 456; L'Electricité dans la Nature, Georges Dary, 460; Fifteenth Convention of the National Electric Light Association, 470; Modes of repre- senting Electromotive Forces and Currents in Diagrams, Prof. S. B. Thompson, F. R.S., 478; the coexistence of Dielectric Power and Electrolytic Conductivity, E. Bouty, 480; Execu- tion by Electricity, 519; Influence of Electricity on Growth of Plants, Prof. Aloi, 520; Choking Coils, Prof. Perry, F.R.S., 524; some Experiments on Electric Discharge, Prof. Thomson, 526; the Manifestation of Negative Electricity during fine weather, Ch. André, 528; the Pittsburgh Electric Club, 568; Electromotive Forces of Gold and Platinum Cells, Prof. Herroun, 574; some Electrical Instruments, R. W. Paul, 574; the Attraction between two Disks separated by a Dielectric, Julien Lefebvre, 575; Experi nents on the Electrical Polarization at the two sides of a Metallic Plate immersed in an Electrolyte at Right Angles to the Current, Dr. Arons, 576; Working of the Search Light, W. B. Lefroy Hamilton, 587; Relation of Voltaic Electromotive Force to Molecular Velocity, Dr. G. Go ́e, F.R. S.,_596; Decomposition of Sulphur tested Electrolytically, Dr. Gross, 599; the Behaviour of Spermatozoa towards Electric Currents, Dr. Schweizer, 599
Elements, on the Line Spectra of the, Prof. C. Runge, 607 Eliot (John), Report on the Meteorology of India in 1889, 217 Elliott (E. B., F.R.S.) Dualistic Differential Transformation, 503
Ellison (Allan), Migratory Birds passing over Dublin, 20 Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, my Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer to the, Thos. Heazle Parke, 265
Emin Relief Expedition, Botany of the, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F. R. S., 8; Major I. A. M. Jephson, 9
Encyclopædia, Chambers's, 196
Endlicher Stephen), Proposed Monument to, 419
Energy, Prof. Burnside's Paper on the Partition of, R. S. E., July 1887, S. H. Burbury, F. R. S., 533
Engelenburg (Mr. E.), the New Director of the Dutch Meteoro- logical Observations on Land, 183
Engine, a Simple Heat, Fred. J. Smith, 294, 464; Prof. Kon- stantin Karamate, 416
Engineering, Sanitary, C. Napier Bell, on, 426 Engineering, Seismometry and, in Relation to the Recent Earthquake in Japan, Prof. John Milne, F. R.S., 127 Engineering: the Manufacture and Use of Aluminium from an Engineering Point of View, A. E. Hunt, 568
Engineers, Annual Meeting of Institution of Mechanical, 355 Engiand, Kalm's Account of his Visit to, on his way to America in 1748, 412
English Language in Japanese Schools, the, 303
Entomology: Silk-producing Moths, Col. Swinhoe, 38; Ento- mological Society, 46, 71, 166, 430, 454, 526, 575, 623; Presi- dential Address, F. D. Godman, F.R.S., 359; Mr. Albert Koebele and the Enemies of Insect Pests, Sir James Hector, 65; the Macro-Lepidoptera of Winchester, 115; Le Pamir et sa Faune Lepidoptérologique, Grum-Grshimailo, 115; the karya purchasi at St. Helena, 115; Variations in the Colour of Cocoons, W. Bateson, 143; Association between Gamasids and Ants, A. D. Michael, 164; a New Herbarium Pest, Dr. C. V. Riley, 235; Dr. Riley's New Herbarium Pest, R. McLachlan, 259; the West Indian Ticks, 303; Orcus
chalybeus, an important enemy of the Red Scale, M. Koebele, 323; the Insects, &c., that injure Tobacco, Prof. A. T. Tozzetti, 325; Ants' Nest Beetles, J. J. Walker, 351; a new case of Mimicry, Prof. A. Giard, 379; two Species of Indian Ants, E. A. J. Rothney, 454; the Wild Silk Insects of India, E. C. Cotes, 520; the Plague Locust of New South Wales, A. S. Olliff, 520; the Ants attracted by Cynips calycis a protection to Quercus pedunculata, Dr. Ráthay, 596; Hellebore as an Insecticide, W. W. Smith, 596; Abbreviated Wings of the Male Caddis-fly, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 623; Dr. Sharp on the Phyllium, 623
Eozoon, Dr. W. B. Carpenter on, Sir J. William Dawson, F. R.S., 461, 606; the Tudor Specimen of, J. W. Gregory, 486 Epidemic, a New, in Vienna, 349
Epidemics, Untenability of Atmospheric Hypothesis of, Hon. R. Russell, 431; the Origin of Influenza Epidemics, H. Harriss, 431
Equation, Virial, for Gases and Vapours, Prof. P. G. Tait, 199 Equations, Personal, in Transit Observations, 617 Equator, Travels among the Great Andes of the, Edward Whymper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 561
Equatorial Africa, my Second Journey through, Hermann von Wissmann, 507
Equatorial Forests and Rivers of South America, Adventures amidst the, Villiers Stuart, 317
Ermling (Dr.), on the Nurhagi of Sardinia, 114 Eruption North-West of Pantelleria, the October, G. W. Butler, Prof. John W. Judd, F. R.S., 154; on the Matter thrown up during the, Gerard W. Butler, Geo. H. Perry, 251; Abstract of Mr. A. Ricco's Account of the, G. W. Butler, 584
Eskimo Throwing Sticks, Prof. O. T. Mason, 66; Agnes Crane, 103
Essex, Technical Education in, 155, 234, 613 Ethnology: the Dwarfs of Mount Atlas, R. G. Haliburton, 66; Prints of Havesu-pai Indians, Dr. Shufeldt, 235; Use of the Sumpitan and Bow in Indonesia, C. M. Pleyte, 235; Purchases for the Australian Museum, Sydney, E. P. Ram- say, 324; Surface and Population of European States, E. Levasseur, 528
Euclid's Elements of Geometry, A. E. Layng, 149
Euclid II. 9 and 10, Simple Proof of, Miss Hilda Hudson, 189; Percival and Co., 250
Euclid's Elements, the First Book of, Rev. J. B. Lock, 460 Eugen (Herr), New Star in Auriga, 473
Europe, Research on Extremes of Temperature in, Dr. Lach- mann, 576
Europe, Central, the Temperature of the Rivers of, 114 European States, Surface and Population of, Emile Levasseur, 528
Evans (Dr. Evan), Death of, 118
Evaporation on Glacier, Extraordinarily Rapid, Prof. Boern- stein, 312
Everett (Prof. J. D., F.R.S.): Wet and Dry Bulb Formulæ, 95; C.G.S. System of Units, 581
Evolution of Life, or Causes of Change in Animal Forms, Hubbard Winslow Mitchell, 364
Evolution of Man, Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 482
Evolution in Methods of Pollination, Miss Alice Carter, 596 Ewart (Prof. Cossar) on Scottish Zoology, 87; the Lateral Sense Organs of Elasmobranchs, 239; the Cranial Nerves of Man and Selachians, 527
Ewart (Prof. J. G.), the Electric Organ of the Skate, 451 Examinations in Science, 85 Execution by Electricity, 519
Exhibition in Celebration of Quatercentenary of Discovery of America, Projected Spanish, 64
Exhibition, the Chicago, Economic British Minerals at, 155; Proposed Indian Bureau Exhibit, 184; Proposed U.S. Patent Office Exhibit in Illustration of Progress of Mechanical Illus- tration, 207; Messrs. Siemens and Halske's Exhibit, Electrical Engineering, 207; Prof. Putnam's Anthropological Exhibit at, 259
Exhibition, the Coming Crystal Palace Electrical, 64 Exhibition, Electrical, at St. Petersburg, 303
Exhibition of Instruments Relating to Climatology, Projected, 258
Explorers, Two African, 376
"Extension" Psychology, 76
Eyes, Peculiar, Jas. Shaw, 104; G. K. Gude, 151; E. B. Titchener, 177
Fabre (M.), Orthochromatic Plates for Astronomical Photo- graphy, 280
Falconry, a Bibliography of, J. E. Harting, 67
Famine in Russia, Causes of the, Dr. A. Woeikof, 378 Farm Crops, J. Wrightson, 247
Farrington (O. C.), Composition of Iolite, 510
Fauconnier (M.), New Liquid Compounds of Carbon, Oxygen, and Chlorine, 306
Fauna, Freshwater, of Sumatra, Java, &c., Prof. Max Weber, 408
Faye (M.), on the Variation in Latitude, 570; Photographs of a part of Cygnus, 624
Fayrer (Sir Joseph, F. R. S.), elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, 585 Featherwork, Surviving Specimens of Ancient Mexican, 66 Fens, the Gradual Extinction of many Species of Lepidoptera in the, Dr. Wheeler, 567
Ferrel's View of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere, Prof. W. M. Davis, 357
Ferric Oxychloride, a New Crystalline, 24 Fertilization of the Casuarinaceæ, 548
Féry (C.), a new Spectrometer, 239
Fewkes (J. W.), the Ceremonial Circuit of the Cardinal Points among the Tusayan Indians, 546
Field Geology, Outlines of,, Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R.S., Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., 97
Field (Eleanor), Chromic Acid, 525
Finland, Meteorology of, 87
Finlay (George), the Working and Management of an English Railway, 116
Finnish Archæology, the late Dr. Reinholm, 496
Finn (Frank), a Tortoise inclosed in Ice, 320
Fish and other Animals, a Medium for Preserving the Colours of, 212
Fish: Destructon of Immature Sea-Fish, Alfred O. Walker, 176; Ernest W. L. Holt, 249; on the Habits of Ceratodus, the Lung Fish of Queensland, Prof. Spencer, 425; Pilchards, Matthias Dunn, 511
Fisher (Prof. W. R.), Forestry in America, 611
Forbes (Prof. Henry O.): Evidence of a Wing in Dinornis, 257; New Extinct Rail, 416; on a Recent Discovery of the Remains of Extinct Birds in New Zealand, 416; Aphanapteryx in the New Zealand Region, 580
Forel (Prof. F. A.), the Kecent Earthquake in Japan, 199 Forestry in America, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 611 Forestry in India, Government, Dr. Ribbentrop, 41
Fossil Birds in the British Museum, Catalogue of, Richard Lydekker, 33
Fossil Fauna in Central Iowa, C. R. Keyes, 208
Fossil Lepidodendrons, on the Discovery of Two Specimens of, in the Neighbourhood of Bathurst, New South Wales, W. J. C. Ross, 424
Fossil Ornithology: Aphanapteryx in the New Zealand Region, Prof. Henry O. Forbes, 580
Fossil Ungulates, Aberrant, of South America, 608 Fossils recently discovered near Boston, Warren Upham, 622 Foster (Michael), proposed Portrait of, 18
Foster (W.), the Carbon deposited from Gas Flames, 525 Fowler (A.), Telescopic Objectives, 204; the Draper Cata- logue of Stellar Spectra, 426
Foxes, California, Prof. Edward S. Holden, 8
France Learned Societies in, 20; Les Coquilles Marines des Côtes de France, A. Locard, 219; Earthquake in, 304 Franchimont (M.), Ethylaldoxime, 576
Francis (Gerald B.), Double Orange, 534, 607
Frank (Herr von), Cause of Floating of Particles of Cloud or Fog, 259
Frankfort International Electrical Exhibition, some Notes on the, 54, 105
Frankland (Prof. Percy F., F.R.S.), an Elementary Hand-book on Potable Water, Floyd Davis, 25
Frankland (P. F.), a Pure Fermentation of Mannitol and Dalci- tol, 383
Fream (Dr. W.), Elements of Agriculture, 388
French (C.), Hand-book of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, 246
Freshwater and Terrestrial Fauna of Tasmania, Prof. W. Bald- win Spencer, 425
Frew (W.), a Pure Fermentation of Mannitol and Dulcitcl, 383
Fisheries of the Great American Lakes, 259; Fishing through Fridlander (E. D.), a Lecture Experiment in Surface Tension, the Ice, 280
Fison (Rev. Lorimer), on Anthropological Study, 426 Fitch (Walter Hood), Obituary Notice of, 302 Fitzgerald (C.), Squirrels in Winter, 136
Fitzgerald (Prof. G. F., F.R.S.), the Driving of Electro- magnetic Vibrations by Electro-magnetic and Electrostatic Engines, 358; Value of Useless Studies, 392; the Functions of Universities, 513; M. Poincaré and Maxwell, 532 Fitzgerald (Prof. M.), the Flexure of Long Pillars under their own Weight, 479
Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Results of Experiments at Rotham- sted on the Question of the, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F. R. S., 32 Fizeau (M.), Measurement of Solar Prominences, 422 Flame Coloration, Origin of Prof. Smithell's, 306 Flames, on an Optical Proof of the Existence of Suspended Matter in, Sir G. Stokes, F. R. S., 133
Flammarion (Camille), Copernic et la Découverte du Système du Monde, 77
Flett (John S.), the Darwinian Society, 104
Florence, the Sanitary State of, 19
Florida, Opening of a Burial Mound in, C. B. Moore, 567
Flower (William Henry, F. R.S.), the Horse, a Study in Natural History, 436
Flowers, Travels of a Painter of, 602
Foerste (A. S.), Relationship of Autumn- to Spring-Blossoming Plants, 478
Foerster (Dr.), New Compounds of Carbonyl Platinum Chloride and Bromide with Ammonia Derivatives, 236 Fog in London, 1871-90, the Prevalence of, F. J. Brodie, 215 Fogs, Effect of, on Plants grown in the Houses at Kew, W. Watson, 16
Fogs, Town, and their Effects, 53; Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S.,
Foot as a Prehensile Organ in Hindoos, the, F. Regnault, 192 Footprints, supposed Human, on Eolian Rocks at Warrnam- bool, 115
Foote (Prof. A. E.), a New Locality for Meteoric Iron, with a Preliminary. Notice of the Discovery of Diamonds in the Iron, 178
Friend (Rev. Hilderic), a Rare British Earthworm, 365 Friswell (R. G.), the Action of Dilute Nitric Acid on Coal, 383
Fritz (Dr. Adolf), the Fauna of Yezo, 89
Frog, Discovery of New Species of, in New Jersey, 208 Frogs, a Plague of Small, R. Haig Thomas, 8; Lieutenant B. A. Muirhead, 30
Fruit Culture, Practical, J. Cheal, 579 Fruit-growers' Conference at Sydney, 420
Function of a University, the, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 439 Functions of Universities, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 513
Fungi, British Edible, M. C. Cooke, 75
Fungi, British: Phycomycetes and Ustilagineæ, G. Massee, 411 Furniture Woods, D. Denning, 459
Fuzziness of some Variable Stars, Cuthbert G. Peek, 497
Gadolinia, Molecular Weight of, 237
Gale of November 11, the Severe, Chas. Harding, 181 Game, Big in India, Harold Littledale, 158
Gamgee (John), Superheated Steam, 438
Gases under the Electric Discharge, Heat Radiation of various Rarefied Gases, Herr Ångström, 306
Gases, Experiments on Cause of Emission of Light of, Dr. Pringsheim, 312
Gases and Vapours, on the Virial Equation for, Prof. P. G. Tait, 199
Gasparis (Prof. Annibale de), Death and Obituary Notice of, 612 Gauge, Proposed Standard, G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 598 Gautier (A.), Fixation of Nitrogen by Arable Soils, 192 Gautier (G.), Medical Utilization of Alternating Currents of High Potential, 456
Gautier (H.), the Direct Combination of Metals with Chlorine and Bromine, 47
Geikie (Sir Archibald, F.R.S.), Outlines of Field Geology, Prof. A. H. Green, F. R.S., 97; Volcanic Action in the British Isles, 398
Gems, Precious Stones and their History, Sources, and Charac- teristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531
Geneva, Temperature Observations at, M. Chaix, 304 Genoa, Botanical International Congress to be held at, in con- nection with Celebration of Quatercentenary of Discovery of America by Columbus, 545
Genvresse (M.), New Mode of Synthesizing Tartaric Acid, 472 Geodesy, New Mode of Measurement of Perpignan Base, General Derrécagaix, 384
Geodetic Bureau of Vienna, the Government and the Inter- national, 495
Geography: M. Grum-Grzimailo's Journey to Central Asia, 40; Tibet Expedition, General Pevtsoff, 45; the Sierra Leone Anglo-French Frontier Delimitation Commission, 64; Pro- jected East African Expedition by Dr. Oscar Baumann, 65; Mr. and Mrs. Littledale's Journey across the Pamirs, 90; the Land of the Lamas, William Woodville Rockhill, 98; the Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, Edward Hull, F.R.S., 102; the Ouse, A. J. Taylor, 102; Geographical Nomenclature, 115; Delagoa Bay, Rosa Monteiro, 124; Carl Lumholtz's Explorations in Northern Mexico, 136; the Eastern Taurus and the Anti-Taurus, D. G. Hogarth, 138; Reported Discovery of Ultimate Source of the Nile, 154; the Royal Geographical Society's System for Spelling Geographical Names, 183; Proposed Expedition for Relief of Lieutenant Peary, 183; Orthography of Geographical Names, 186; Korea, Chas. W. Campbell, 307; Expedition to Explore the Glaciers of the Karakoram Range, 279; Formation of Crimean Alpine Club, 349; the Gran Chaco, J. G. Kerr, 351; Journeys in the Pamirs and Adjacent Countries, Captain Younghusband, 353; the Zimbabwe Ruins, Theodore Bent, 402; Captain Pasco on Early Discoveries in Australia, 425; Dr. Murray on Mr. Lindsay's Expedition in Western Australia, 425; J. P. Thomson on Recent Explorations and Discoveries in British New Guinea, 425; the Advanced Class-book of Modern Geography, W. Hughes and J. Francon Williams, 460; the Position of Mount St. Elias, Israel C. Russell, 472; Mr. Alexander Ross's Journey to Head Waters of the Ecayali, Central Peru, 519; Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator, Edward Whymper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R. S., 561; Handy Atlas of Modern Geography, 605; Captain Bower's Journey from China to Simla, 615; Lieutenant Vedel on the Polynesians, 615; Branch of Royal Scottish Geographical Society Established in London, 544; Captain Dundas's Expedition to Mount Kenia, Ernest Gedge, 566 Geology: Geological Photographs, 64; Annals of British Geology, 1890, J. F. Blake, 77; Geological Society, 94, 165, 263, 287, 359, 453, 525, 597; Geological Society Medals, 257; Geological Society, Election of Officers, 402; Dacry- therium ovinum, R. Lydekker, 94; Supplementary Remarks on Glen Roy, T. F. Jamieson, 94; Outlines of Field Geology, Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R. S., Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., 97; the Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, Edward Hull, F.R.S., 102; Geology of Lake Winnipeg, J. B. Tyrell, 115; the Tertiary Silicified Woods of Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth Call, 119; Pfaff's Allgemeine Geologie als Exacte Wissenschaft, J. Joly, 126; New Railway from Up- minster to Romford, Essex, T. V. Holmes, 151: Comparison of South Devon Coast Red Rocks with those of Midland and
Western Counties, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 165; High Level Glacial Gravels near Oswestry, A. C. Nicholson, 165; Geology of Pantelleria, G. Jervis, 207; Geology of New Guinea, R. L. Jack, 209; Geological Excursion in Maryland, a, Prof. G. H. Williams, 235; Formation of Cordierite in Sedimentary Rocks fused by Coal Fires, A. Lacroix, 240; Gravels South of the Thames, from Guildford to Newbury, H. W. Monckton, 263; Fresh Evidence concerning the Dis- tribution of Arctic Plants during the Glacial Epoch, Dr. A. G. Nathorst, 273; the Geology of the Himalayas, 308; Theory of an Interglacial Submergence in England, G. F. Wright, 310; the Permian of Texas, R. S. Tarr, 310; Relation of Melting Point to Pressure in Igneous Rock Fusion, C. Barus, 311; Cirques, Prof. G. Frederick Wright, 317; Prof. Israel C. Russell, 317; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 391; Note on Specimens of Rock Exposed to High Temperatures, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 357; the Hornblende-Schists, Gneisses, and other Crystalline Rocks of Sark, Rev. Edwin Hill and Prof. T. G. Bonney, 359; the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill and Meall Breac, Dakyns and Teall, 360; the Cause of an Ice Age, Sir Robert S. Ball, F. R.S., 365; Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 289; Henry Howorth, 440; the Sponge Remains in Lower Tertiary Strata, near Oamaru, New Zealand, Hinde and
Holmes, 384; Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, Prof. John Judd, F.R.S., 409; Geologists' Association Proposed Excursion to Hornchurch, 420; Geology of Ohio, in connection with the aver- age yield of Wheat, 420; the Stratigraphic Position of the Bear River Formation, T. W. Stanton, 450; the Raised Beaches and Rubble-Drift of the South of England, Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., 453; the Olenellus Zone in the North-West High- lands, B. N. Peach and J. Horne, 453; the Pleistocene Deposits of the Sussex Coasts, Clement Reid, 454; the Basal Conglomerate of Howth, Prof. Sollas, F. R.S., 455; the Variolite of Annalong, County Down, Prof. G. A. J. Cole, 455; Proposed Austrian Geological Expedition to Central Himalayas, 495; the North-West of England Boulder Com- mittee, 495; Striated Surface under the Cromer Drift, William Sherwood, 511; the Part played in the Growth of Geological Opinion by Regions near great Universities, Prof. G. H. Williams, 519; New Railway Cutting between Upminster and Romford, T. V. Holmes, 525; Drift Beds of North and Mid Wales Coast, T. M. Reade, 525; the Alleged Sub- mergence in Scotland during the Glacial Epoch, Dugald Bell, 527; Testimonial to Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S., by the Geologists' Association, 544; Mr. A. S. Woodward appointed Assistant-Keeper of Geological Department at the British Mu- seum, 566; on the Microsc pic Structure and Residues In- soluble in Hydrochloric Acid in the Devonian Limestone of South Devon, Edward Wethered, 597; Rocks Collected by M. Lopatin on the Podkamennaya Tunguska, 597; Geo- logy of the Gold-bearing Rocks of the Southern Transvaal, Walcot Gibson, 598; the Precipitation and Deposition of Sea-borne Sediment, R. G. Mackley Browne, 598 Geometry: Prof. Kikuchi's Treatise on, 20; Euclid's Elements of Geometry, A. E. Layng, 149; Non-Euclidian Geometry, Prof. H. Poincaré, 404; a Treatise on the Geometry of the Circle, and some Extensions to Conic Sections by the Method of Reciprocation, W. J. M'Clelland, 412; a Defect in the Oxford Pass Examination Papers, 443
Gedge (Ernest), Captain Dundas's Expedition to Mount Kenia, 566
German Anthropological Society, 39
German Mathematical Association, 278
German Technology for English Manufacturers, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 121
Germany and Austria, Health Springs of, Dr. F. O. Buckland, 510
Germany, Workmen Killed and Wounded in Accidents in, M. Vacher, 350
Giard (Prof. A.), a New Case of Mimicry, 379 Gibson (Dr.), Rules for Determining whether a given Benzene Mono-Derivative shall give a Meta-di-derivative or a Mixture of Ortho- and Para-di-derivatives, 525
Gibson (Walcot), Geology of the Gold-bearing Rocks of the Southern Transvaal, 598
Gifford (W.), the Resolution of Amphipleura pellucida, 143 Gilbault (Henri), New Condensation Hygrometer, 288 Gilbert (Dr. J. H., F. R.S.), Results of Experiments at Roth- amsted on the Question of the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, 32 Gill (D.), Photography at the Cape Observatory, 600 Ginger-beer Plant, the, Prof. H. M. Ward, F. R. S., 190 Giraffe at the Zoological Gardens, the Death of the, 518 Giraffes, 585
Glacial Epoch, Fresh Evidence concerning the Distribution of Arctic Plants during the, Dr. A. G. Nathorst, 273 Glacial Period, the Astronomical Theory of the, Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., Prof. G. H. Darwin, F. R.S., 289 Glacialists' Association, the, 495
Glaciers of the Karakoram Range, Expedition to Explore the, 349
Glaciers, Measures of Variations in Lengths of Dauphiny, Prince Roland Bonaparte, 576
Glasgow Geological Society, 527
Glass, Measurement of Process of Dissolution of, by Change in Electric Conductivity of Water, Herr Pfeiffer, 209 Glazebrook (R. T.), some Notes on Clark's Cells, 47 Globe, a new Precessional, Dr. K. Haas, 250
Godman (F. D., F. R.S.), Presidential Address to Entomological Society, 359
Godwin-Austen (Mrs. Jessie), a Swan's Secret, 416 Goiran (A.), Earthquakes and Vegetation, 478, 520 Gold-bearing Rocks of the Southern Transvaal, Geology of the, Walcot Gibson, 598
« AnteriorContinuar » |