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Solar Prominence, Prof. G. E. Hale, 326; Photography of
Solar Prominences, M. Deslandres, 405, 522; Photography
as a Branch of Technology, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 331;
Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses, J. Traill
Taylor, 364; Photographic Magnitudes of Stars, 380; the
Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, A. Fowler, 426; the
Ilford Manual of Photography, C. H. Bothamley, 460;
Photography Applied to the Detection of Crime, Dr. Paul
Jeserich, 568; Photography at the Cape Observatory, D.
Gill, 600; Spectrum of Nova Auriga, 616; Photographs
of the Region of Nova Cygni, 617; Photographs of a Part
of Cygnus, M. Faye, 624

Photometric Observations, Dr. Müller, 90

Photometry, Colour, Capt. Abney, F. R. S., 213

Phycomycetes and Ustilagineæ, British Fungi, G. Massee, 411
Phyllium, the, Dr. Sharp, 623

Physics: Some Experiments Made with the View of Ascertaining
the Rate of Propagation of Induced Magnetism in Iron, Fred.
T. Trouton, 42; on the Virial of a System of Hard Colliding
Bodies, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 80; Van der Waals's
Generalization regarding Corresponding Temperatures, Pres-
sures, and Volumes, Prof. Sydney Young, 93; Physical
Society, 93, 142, 191, 238, 358, 478, 524, 574; Annual
General Meeting, 452; Dynamic Action and Ponderosity of
Matter, by "Waterdale," 100; Experimental, on an Optical
Proof of the Existence of Suspended Matter in Flames, Sir G.
G. Stokes, F.R.S., 133; the Various Forms given to the
General Equation expressing Behaviour of Liquids and Gases
under Different Conditions of Volume, Temperature, and Pres-
sure, Dr. P. A. Guye, 142; a New Theory concerning the
Constitution of Matter, Dr. C. W. Burton, 142; Refraction
and Velocity of Sound in Porous Bodies, Herr Hesehus, 156;
the Thermal Emissivity of Thin Wires in Air, Ayrton and
Kilgour, 162; Effect of Flaws on the Strength of Materials,
J. Larmor, 166; Physical Theory of Solutions, W. Ostwald,
193; Smithsonian Standards for Physical Apparatus, Prof. S.
P. Langley, 197; on the Virial Equation for Gases and
Vapours, Prof. P. G. Tait, 199; Experimental Measurement
of Process of Dissolution of Glass in Water by Change in
Conductivity of Latter, Herr Pfeiffer, 209; the Theory
of Regelation, H. Le Chatelier, 288; the Cause of an
Ice Age, Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., Prof. G. H. Darwin,
F.R.S., 289; the Law of Elastic Lengthening, J. O.
Thompson, 311; Experiments on Cause of Emission of
Light by Gases, Dr. Pringsheim, 312; Wave Motion
Model, F. Cheshire, 347; Experimental, the Mechanical
Stretching of Liquids, A. M. Worthington, 358; Optical
Determination of High Temperatures, H. Le Chatelier, 260;
Collection de Mémoires relatifs à la Physique, Prof. J. J.
Thomson, F.R.S., 361; Superheated Steam, Lord Ray-
leigh, 375; J. Macfarlane Gray, 413, 486; Prof. James A.
Cotterill, F.R.S., 414; G. H. Bailey, 414; John Gamgee,
438; Quaternions as a Practical Instrument of Physical Re-
search, A. McAuley, 423; Mathematical Analogies between
various branches of Physics, Prof. Bragg, 423; Heat Engines
and Saline Solutions, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 438, 510;
Experimental, Supplementary Colours, Prof. S. P. Thompson.
F.R.S., 452; the Relation between Kinetic Energy and
Temperature in Liquids, Prof. Tait, 455; Long Rotating
Circular Cylinders, C. Chree, 455; Measurements of Latent
Heats of Evaporation by means of a Condensation Calori-
meter, Prof. Neesen, 456; a Lecture Experiment in Surface
Tension, E. D. Fridlander, 463; the Terms "Centrifugal
Force" and "Force of Inertia," Geo. S. Carr, 463; a Nickel
Heat Engine, W. B. Croft, 392; Rev. Fred. J. Smith, 464;
Aberration, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R. S., 499; Changes in
Dimensions of Elastic Solids due to given Systems of Forces,
M. C. Chree, 527; Law of Distribution of Velocities in a
System of Moving Molecules, A. H. Leahy, 527; on the
Tensions of Saturated Vapours of Different Liquids at same
Pressure, Edmond Colot, 528; a Standard Condenser, H.
Abraham, 528; Crystalline Absorption and the Choice between
the Different Theories of Light, E. Carvallo, 528; Aberration
Problems, Prof. O. Lodge, F. R.S., 549; Radiations of
Incandescent Bodies and Optical Measure of High Tempera-
tures, J. Violle, 552; Recent Advances in Physical Chemistry,
Prof. W. Ostwald, 590; Physiological Action of Diminished
Atmospheric Pressure, F. R. Mallet, 606

Physiography: Elementary Stage, J. Spencer, 27; the Realm
of Nature, Hugh Robert Mill, 390

Physiology: a Text-book of Chemical Physiology and Patho-

logy, W. D. Halliburton and Dr. E. H. Starling, 51; Prof.
Stokvis on Mutual Antagonism, 72; on the Implanting of
Large Pieces of Decalcified Bones to fill up Losses of Substance
of Skeleton, Le Dentu, 95; the Renal Organs of certain
Decapod Crustacea, W. F. R. Weldon, 140; the Neph-
ridium of Lumbricus and its Blood Supply, Dr. W. B.
Benham, 140; the Formation and Fate of the Primitive
Streak in the Frog, Robinson and Assheton, 140; some
Points in the Development of Scorpio fulvipes, M. Laurie,
140; a New Mode of Respiration in the Myriapoda, F. G.
Sinclair, 164; the Foot as a Prehensile Organ in Hindoos,
F. Regnault, 192; Outlines of Practical Physiological
Chemistry, F. Charles Larkin and Randle Leigh, 292;
Development of Lung-books of Scorpio, Malcolm Laurie,
311; Action of the Auriculo-Ventricular Valves, Dr. Noel
Paton, 311; Influence of Blood Supply to Skin in Sweat-
secretion as seen in Paw of Cat, Dr. Max Levy, 312; Extra-
ordinarily Rapid Evaporation on Glacier, Prof. Boernstein,
312; Teeth Development in the Marsupialia, M. F. Wood-
ward, 335; an Introduction to Human Physiology, Augustus
D. Waller and Dr. E. H. Starling, 340; the Mechanism of
the Closure of the Larynx, Prof. T. P. A. Stuart, 357; Note
on the Behaviour of Sugar in Blood, Dr. Vaughan Harley,
407; Composition of Fibrin Ferment, Prof. Pekelharing,
408; the Development of the Oviduct in the Frog, E. W.
MacBride, 450; Contributions to the Physiology and Patho-
logy of the Mammalian Heart, Roy and Adami, 451;
Action of Lymph in producing Intravascular Clotting, Dr.
Shore, 455; the Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the
recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, J. S. R. Russell, 573; Dr.
Werigo's Experiments respecting Influence of Oxygen on
Elimination of Carbon Dioxide by the Lungs, Prof. Zuntz, 576;
Physiological Action of Diminished Atmospheric Pressure,
F. R. Mallet, 606; Physiology of Respiratory Centres, Dr.
Alfred Bienfait, 624

Pickering (Prof.), Distribution of Energy in Stellar Spectra,
159; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, 210; Astronomical
Possibilities at Considerable Altitudes, 498; the Objective
Prism, 521

Pictet's (Prof.) Laboratory at Berlin, Prof. R. du Bois-
Reymond, 31

Picton (H.), Metallic Hydrosulphides, 262; Physical Constitu-
tion of some Sulphide Solutions, 263; of Solution and Pseudo-
solution, ii., 263

Pigment in Yellow Butterflies, F. Gowland Hopkins, 197
Pigments of Lepidoptera, F. Gowland Hopkins, 581; F. H.
Perry Coste, 605; Prof. R. Meldola, F. R.S., 605
Pilchard or Sardine, Growth of the, Prof. J. T. Cunningham,
255

Pilchards, Matthias Dunn, 511; J. T. Cunningham, 558
Pillar, Sun, Annie Ley, 484

Piltschikoff (N.), Polarization of Atmosphere by Light of Moon,
456

Pinches (Thos. G.), the Tower of Babel and the Confusion of
Tongues, 210

Pisciculture, the Salmon Industry in British Columbia, 279
Pitt-Rivers (General), Typological Museums, 184

Pittier (H.), Meteorological Observations at San José during
1889, 234

Pittsburg Electric Club, the, 568

Placentation of certain Lemurs and Insectivora, Hubrecht, 600
Plane Trigonometry, the Elements of, R. Levett and C.
Davison, 509

Planets, Capture of Comets by, Prof. H. A. Newton, 186
Planets, Minor, the Elements of the, Dr. Paul Lehmann, 42
Planets, Periodic Perturbations of the Four Inner, Prof. New-
comb, 548

Plants, the Diseases of, New Journal devoted to, 20
Plants, Grafted, W. H. Beeby, 151

Plarr (Dr. Gustav), Obituary Notice of, 419

Pleyte (C. M.), Use of the Sumpitan and Bow in Indonesia, 235
Plover, Kentish, Threatened Extermination of the, W. Verner,
236

Podkamennaya Tunguska, Rocks collected by M. Lopatin on
the, 597

Poincaré (Prof. H.): Poincaré's Thermodynamics, 245, 414,
439, 485, 532; Electrodynamic Theories and the Electro-
magnetic Theory of Light, Prof. A. Gray, 367; Non-Euclidian
Geometry, 404; Poincaré and Maxwell, Prof. Geo. Fras.
Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 532

Poison, Arrow, A. Coppen Jones, 343

June 2, 1892

Poison, Arrow, of Sarro Savages, Laborde and Rondeau, 278
Foison of the Malay Peninsula, the Ipoh, Leonard Wray,
Jun., 278

Polaris, on the Observation of North Polar Stars in the Vertical
of, Truman Saffard, 159

Polarization of Atmosphere by Light of Moon, N. Piltschikoff,
456

Political Economy and Taxation, David Ricardo, 4

Pollination, Evolution in Methods of, Miss Alice Carter, 596
Polynesians, Lieut. Vedel on the, 615

Polytechnic Institute, Regent Street, Appeal on behalf of the,
250

Polytechnics and Recreation, Miss E. Cons, 28i

Ponds, Isolated, Natural History of, Clement Reid, 325
Population in Austria-Hungary, the Increase of, 158
Population of the Five Continents, E. Levasseur, 552

Population and Surface of European States, Emile Levasseur,
528

Porter (T. C.), Alum Solution, 29; First Visible Colour of
Incandescent Iron, 558

Portland, Oregon, Earthquake at, 586

Post (Dr. A. H.), Strange Symbolical Marriage Custom in
India, 135

Poulenc (C.), Action of Potassium Fluoride on Anhydrous
Chlorides, 552

Poulton (Edward B., F. R.S.), a Difficulty in Weismannism, 52;
Warning Colours, 174

Pratt and Son, Spotted Eagle, 259

Precessional Globe, a New, Dr. K. Haas, 250

Precious Stones and Gems, their History, Sources, and
Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531

Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), the Specification of Insulated Con-
ductors for Electric Lighting, &c., 155

Prehistoric Animals in Endsleigh Street, Discovery of Remains
of, Dr. H. Hicks, F. R.S., 566

Prehistoric Antiquities, Russian; the Slavonians of the First
Centuries of our Era, Prof. Samok vasoff, 577
Prehistoric Mounds in Ohio, Excavation of the, 20

Prehistoric Remains, Opening of a Burial Mound in Florida,
C. B. Moore, 567

Prehistoric Tomb in Ohio, Discovery of Remarkable, 157
Prehistoric Weapons: the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau,
Silesia, Dr. O. Schoetersack, 379

Prehistory of Egypt, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 580
Prestwich (Joseph, F.R.S.), the Raised Beaches and Rubble-
drifts of the South of England, 453

Pringsheim (Dr.), Experiments on Cause of Emission of Light
by Gases, 312

Prior (Dr. R. C. A.), Ripe Seeds of the Monkey-Puzzle Tree
(Araucaria imbricata) of Chili, grown in England, 421
Prism, the Objective, Prof. Pickering, 521

Pritchard (Prof.), the Diffraction Effects produced by placing
Screens in Front of Object Glasses, 237

Professorial Duties, Exchange of, Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
F.R.S., Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, 557

Projectiles, Calculation of Trajectories of Elongated, Rev. F.
Bashforth, 473

Propagation of Induced Magnetism in Iron, some Experiments
made with the view of ascertaining the Rate of, Fred. T.
Trouton, 42

Pseudopodes of Diatoms, Alleged, Alf. W. Bennett, 177
Psychology: a Short Account of the Human Mind, F. S.
Granger, 76
Psychology, Experimental, 234

Psychology as a Science in the United States, the Study of, C.
W. Scripture, 568

Ptomaines Extracted from Urine in some Infectious Maladies,
A. B. Griffiths, 72

Pullinger (W.), Platinum Tetrachloride, 551

Puma, the, F. W. Tree, 445

Pupin (Dr. M. I.), on the Action of Vacuum Discharge
Streamers upon each other, 622

Putnam's (Prof.) Anthropological Exhibit at Chicago Exhibition,
259

Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Frank Clowes and J. Bernard
Coleman, 578

Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 140, 450
Quaternions as a Practical Instrument of Physical Research,
A. McAuley, 423

Quatrefages (Prof. de), Death and Obituary Notice of, 278;
Proposed Monument to, 612

Queensland Oyster Culture in, Saville-Kent, 66; on the
Habits of Ceratodus, the Lung Fish of, Prof. Spencer, 425 ;
Depredations of the Great Bower Bird in, 588

Race, the Manchu, 523

Radiant Points, Displacement of, Dr. J. Kleiber, 570
Rail, New Extinct, Prof. Henry O. Forbes, 416

Railway, New, from Upminster to Romford, Essex, T. V.
Holmes, 151

Railways, English, the Working and Management of, 116
Rainbows, Supernumerary, observed in the Orkneys, Robt. H.
Scott, F.R.S., 223; M. Spence, 223

Rainfall Experiments, Prof. G. Hellmann's Recent, 545
Ramsay (Sir Andrew Crombie), Obituary Notice of, 151
Ramsay (E. P.), Ethnological Purchases for the Australian
Museum, Sydney, 324

Ramsay (W.), Pedetic Motion in Relation to Colloidal Solu-
tions, 429

Rankin (Angus), Dust Counting on Ben Nevis, 582
Raoult (M.), Determination of the Freezing Point of very
Dilute Solutions, as Applied to Cane Sugar, 384

Rare Phenomenon, a, Alexander Graham Bell, 79
Ráthay (Dr.), the Ants attracted by Cynips calycis, a Protec-
tion to Quercus pedunculata, 546

Ratzel (Friedrich), Anthropogeographie, 557
Rayet (G.), the Temporary Star in Auriga, 408
Rayleigh (Right Hon. Lord, F.R.S.): on the Virial of a System
of Hard Colliding Bodies, 80; Experiments in Aerodyna-
mics, 108; Superheated Steam, 375; Heat Engines and
Saline Solutions, 438, 510; Aberration, 499

Reade (T. M.), Drift Beds of North and Mid Wales Coast,
525

Realm of Nature, the, Hugh Robert Mill, 390
Reboul (E.), Butylene Monobromides, 47

Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of
Marianne North, 602

Records of the Australian Museum, 421

Recoura (A.), a Green Solid Chromic Sulphate, 192
Recreation, Polytechnics and, Miss E. Cons, 28
Red Light after Sunset, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 30

Red Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 272

Reflection, on Selective and Metallic, A. B. Basset, F.R.S.,

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Reid (Clement), Natural History of Isolated Ponds, 325; the
Pleistocene Deposits of the Sussex Coasts, 454
Reinholm, the late Dr., 496

Relation of Natural Science to Art, on the, W. Ainslie Hollis,
319

Religion, Savage, the Limits of, Dr. Tylor, 71
Reliques of Constance Naden, Further, 389
Renard (Rev. A. F.), Deep-sea Deposits, 409

Respiratory Centres, on the Physiology of, Dr. Alf. Bienfait,
624

REVIEWS and OUR BOOK SHELF:-

Electricity and Magnetism, translated from the French of
Amédée Guillemin, Revised and Edited by Silvanus P.
Thompson, F. R.S., Prof. A. Gray, I

Die indo-malayische Strandflora, A. F. W. Schimper, 3
Ueber die Mangrove-Vegetation im malayischen Archipel,
G. Karsten (Bibliotheca Botanica, Heft 22), W. Botting
Hemsley, F. R. S., 3

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, David Ricardo, 4
Photographic Pastimes, a Hand-book for Amateurs, Hermann
Schnauss, 5

On Surrey Hills, by a Son of the Marshes, 5
Heroes of the Telegraph, J. Munro, 5

An Elementary Hand-book on Potable Water, Floyd Davis,
M. Sc., Ph.D., Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 25
The Intra-cranial Circulation and its Relation to the Physio-
logy of the Brain, James Cappie, M.D., 26
Physiography, Elementary Stage, J. Spencer, 27

Reviews-continued.

Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Doctor, Revised and Improved,
James Irvine Lupton, 27

Handleiding tot de Kennis der Flora van Nederlandsch Indië,
Dr. J. G. Boerlage, 28

By Seashore, Wood, and Moorland, Peeps at Nature, Edward
Step, 28

The Ninth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland,
being for the Year 1890, 49

Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta,
W. L. Sclater, 50

A Text-book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology, W. H.
Halliburton, Dr. E. H. Starling, 51

Practisches Taschenbuch der Photographie, Dr. E. Vogel, 51
An Introduction to the Differential and Integral Calculus,
J. Hugh Miller, 52

Star Groups, J. Ellard Gore, 52

The Universal Atlas, 52

La Transcaucasie et la Péninsule d'Apchéron, Calouste S.
Gulbenkian, 52

How to Organize a Cruise on the Broads, E. R. Suffling, 52
The Electro-magnet and Electro-magnetic Mechanism, S. P.
Thompson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 73

British Edible Fungi, how to Distinguish and how to Cook
them, M. C. Cooke, 75

Psychology: a Short Account of the Human Mind, F. S.
Granger, M. A., 76

Arithmetical Exercises in Chemistry, Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D.,
with Preface by Prof. Crum Brown, 76

The Colliery Manager's Hand-book, Caleb Pamely, 77
Photography Applied to the Microscope, F. W. Mills, 77
Copernic et la Découverte du Système du Monde, Camille
Flammarion, 77

Annals of British Geology, 1890, J. F. Blake, 77
Outlines of Field Geology, Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R.S., 97
The Land of the Lamas, Notes of a Journey through China,
Mongolia, and Tibet, William Woodville Rockhill, 98

A Text-book of the Science of Brewing, E. R. Moritz and
G. H. Morris, 100

Fresh Light on the Dynamic Action and Ponderosity of
Matter, Waterdale," 100

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Indischer Ozean: Ein Atlas die physikalischen Verhaltnisse
und die Verkehrs-Strassen darstellend, 101

Mechanics for Beginners, Part I., Dynamics and Statics,
Rev. J. B. Lock, 101

The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland, Edward
Hull, F. R.S., 102

The Ouse, A. J. Foster, M. A., 102

A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of
Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, George Lunge-Vol. I., Sul-
phuric Acid, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R.S., 121

The Alkali Maker's Hand-book, George Lunge, Ph.D., and
F. Hurter, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 121
Diphtheria, its Natural History and Prevention, R. Thorne
Thorne, F.R.S., 123

Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, a Historical
and Critical Review of Mathematical Science, 124
Delagoa Bay, its Natives and Natural History, Rosa
Monteiro, 124

A Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, Samuel P.
Sadtler, 125

Progressive Mathematical Exercises, A. T. Richardson, 125
Text-book of Comparative Anatomy, Arnold Lang, Prof. E.
Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 145

Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden Entwickelungsgeschichte der
Wirbellosen Thiere, Dr. E. Korschelt und Dr. K. Heider,
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F. R.S., 145

The Artillery of the Future and the New Powders, James
Atkinson Longridge, 146

The Skeleton of the Irish Giant Cornelius Magrath, Dr. D. J.
Cunningham, F.R.S., 147

With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps, George
Edward Manning, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 147
Manual of the Science of Religion, P. D. Chantpie de la
Saussaye, translated by Beatrice S. Colyer Fergusson,
148

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Book XI., A. E. Layng, 149
Illustrations of the Flora of Japan, to serve as an Atlas to the
Nippon-Shokubutsushi, Tomitaro Makino, 149

About Ceylon and Borneo, Walter J. Clutterbuck, 149
Revisio Genera Plantarum Vascularium omnium, atque

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Cellularium multarum, secundum Leges Nomenclaturæ
Internationales, cum Enumeratione Plantarum in Itinere
Mundi collectarum, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 169

Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine and other Heat
Engines, C. H. Peabody, 172

An Account of British Flies (Diptera), Hon. M. Cordelia
E. Leigh and F. V. Theobald, 173

Principles of Agriculture, R. P. Wright, 173

Elementary Trigonometry, J. M. Dyer and Rev. R. H.
Whitcombe, 174

Solutions, W. Ostwald, translated by M. M. Pattison Muir,
193
Colour-blindness and Colour-perception, F. W. Edridge
Green, 195

Instructions Météorologiques, A. Angot, 196
Chambers's Encyclopædia, Vol. VIII., 196

La Place de l'Homme dans la Nature, Prof. T. H. Huxley,
F.R.S., 197

Report on the Meteorology of India in 1889, John Eliot, 217
Reports on the Administration of the Meteorological Depart-
ment of the Government of India, 1885-91, 217

Les Coquilles Marines des Côtes de France, Description des
Familles et Espèces, A. Locard, 219

Nature and Man in North America, N. S. Shaler, 220
Stones for Building and Decoration, George P. Merrill, 222
Les Champignons, A. Acloque, 222

Theory of Heat, J. Clerk Maxwell, 222

The Chemistry of Paints and Painting, A. H. Church,
F.R.S., Dr. Hugo Müller, F.R.S., 241
Thermodynamique, H. Poincaré, 245

Hand-book of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, C. French,
246

Farm Crops, John Wrightson, 247

Arithmetic for Schools, Charles Smith, 247

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L.
Bird), 248

A First Book of Electricity and Magnetism, W. Perren May-
cock, 248

A Cyclopædia of Nature Teachings, Hugh Macmillan, 248
My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical
Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, T. H. Parke,
265

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An Introduction to the Theory of Value, William Smart, 268
Across Tibet, Gabriel Bonvalot, translated by C. B. Pitman,
269

Light, Sir Henry Trueman Wood, 269

The Cause of an Ice Age, Sir Robert Ball, Prof. G. H. Dar-
win, F.R.S., 289

Animal Sketches, C. Lloyd Morgan, 291

Outlines of Practical Physiological Chemistry, F. C. Larkin
and Randle Leigh, 292

Problems in Chemical Arithmetic, E. J. Cox, 293

The Microscope and its Revelations, the late Dr. Carpenter's,
Seventh Edition by Rev. W. H. Dalliger, F.R.S., Prof. E.
Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 313

Elementary Thermodynamics, J. Parker, 314

The Century Dictionary, an Encyclopedic Lexicon of the
English Language, William Dwight Whitney, Ph.D.,
LL.D., 316

List of the Snakes in the Indian Museum, W. L. Sclater, 317
The Living World, Whence it Came and Whither it is Drift-
ing, H. W. Conn, 317

Adventures amidst the Equatorial Forests and Rivers of South
America, also in the West Indies and the Wilds of Florida,
Villiers Stuart, 317

Catalogue of Scientific Papers compiled by the Royal Society
of London, 338

How to Use the Aneroid Barometer, Edward Whymper, 339
An Introduction to Human Physiology, Augustus D. Waller,
340

Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, 341
Guide to the Examinations in Chemistry, W. Jerome Harri-
son, 342

Manipulation of the Microscope, Edward Bausch, 342
Harrow Birds, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, 342
Collection de Mémoires relatifs à la Physique, La Société
Française de Physique, Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 361
Sul Regime delle Spiagge, e sulla Regolazione dei Porti,
Signor P. Cornaglia, 362

Egypt under the Pharaohs, H. Brugsch-Bey, M. Brodrick, 363

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Reviews-continued.

The Story of the Hills, a Popular Account of Mountains, and
how they were made, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 364
The Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses, J.
Traill Taylor, 364

The Evolution of Life, or Causes of Change in Animal Forms,
Hubbard Winslow Mitchell, M.D., 364

Manual of Chemical Technology, Rudolf von Wagner, trans-
lated by William Crookes, F. R.S., 386
Elements of Agriculture, W. Fream, 388

Further Reliques of Constance Naden, George M. McCrie,
389

The Realm of Nature, Hugh Robert Mill, 390
Grasses of the South-West, Dr. George Vasey, 390
Sporting Sketches in South America, Admiral Kennedy,
390

Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.
Challenger in 1873-76, prepared by the late Sir Wyville
Thomson, F.R.Ş., and John Murray, Prof. J. W. Judd,
F.R.S., 409

British Fungi, Phycomycetes and Ustilagineæ, G. Massee,

411

A Treatise on the Geometry of the Circle and some Exten-
sions to Conic Sections by the Method of Reciprocation,
W. J. M'Clelland, M. A., 412

Kalm's Account of his Visit to England on his Way to
America in 1748, translated by Joseph Lucas, 412
Euvres Complètes de Christiaan Huygens, A. M. Clerke,
434

The Horse, a Study in Natural History, William Henry
Flower, C. B., F.R.S., 436

A System of Sight-Singing from the Established Musical
Notation, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation, Sedley
Taylor, 437

The Statesman's Year-book for the Year 1892, J. Scott
Keltie, 437

The Optical Lantern as an Aid in Teaching, C. H. Botham-
ley, 437

L'Homme dans la Nature, par Paul Topinard, 457
The Art and Craft of Cabinet Making, D. Denning, 459
L'Électricité dans la Nature, Georges Dary, 460

The First Book of Euclid's Elements, Rev. J. B. Lock, 460
The Ilford Manual of Photography, C. H. Bothamley, 460
The Advanced Class-book of Modern Geography, William
Hughes and J. Francon Williams, 460

The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of its
Development, Thomas Muir, 481

Anthropogenie, oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen,
Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 482

Philosophical Notes on Botanical Subjects, E. Bonavia, 483
The Zoological Record for 1890, Frank E. Beddard, 483
Leçons sur la Pathologie comparée de l'Inflammation faites à
l'Institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai, 1891, Élie Metschnikoff,
Prof. E. Ray Lankester F. R.S., 505

Travels in Africa during the Years 1879-83, Dr. Wilhelm
Junker, translated by A. H. Keane, 507

My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa, Hermann von
Wissmann, translated from the German by Minna J. A.
Bergmann, 507

New Fragments, John Tyndall, F. R.S., 508

A Treatise on Chemistry, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F. R.S., and C.
Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 509

The Oak, a Popular Introduction to Forest Botany, H.
Marshall Ward, F. R.S., 509

The Elements of Plane Trigonometry, R. Levett and C.
Davison, 5c9

Les Fleurs à Paris, Culture et Commerce, Philippe L. de
Vilmorin, 510

Health Springs of Germany and Austria, F. O. Buckland,
510

The Principles of Chemistry, D. Mendeléeff, translated from
the Russian by George Kamensky, and edited by A. J.
Greenaway, 529

A Treatise on the Ligation of the Great Arteries in Con-
tinuity with Observations on the Nature, Progress, and
Treatment of Aneurism, C. A. Ballance and Walter
Edmunds, Dr. M. Armand-Ruffer, 530

Precious Stones and Gems, their History, Sources, and
Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531

Air and Water, Vivian B. Lewes, Professor of Chemistry at
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 531

Reviews-continued.

The Naturalist in La Plata, W. H. Hudson, Dr. Alfred R.
Wallace, 553

A Study of Influenza and the Laws of England concerning
Infectious Diseases, Richard Sisley, 556

Anthropogeographie, Zweiter Theil, Die Geographische Ver-
breitung des Menschen, Freidrich Ratzel, 557

Within an Hour of London Town, among Wild Birds and
their Haunts, by a Son of the Marshes, edited by J. A.
Owen, 557

Mission Scientifique de Cap Horn, tome vii., Anthropo-
logie, Ethnographie, P. Hyades et J. Deniker, 577
Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Frank Clowes and J. Bernard
Coleman, 578

Elementary Mathematical Astronomy, C. W. C. Barlow and
G. H. Bryan, 579

Practical Fruit Culture, J. Cheal, 579

Blowpipe Analysis, J. Landauer, edited by James Taylor,
580

Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry, Lothar Meyer, translated
by P. Phillips Bedson and W. Carleton Williams, Prof. M.
Pattison Muir, 601

Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of
Marianne North, edited by Mrs. John Addington Symonds,
602

Our Trees, John Robinson, 603

Synopsis of Non-Metallic Chemistry, William Briggs, 604
Chemical Calculations, R. Lloyd Whiteley, with Preface by
Prof. E. Clowes, 604

The Year-book of Science, edited by Prof. T. G. Bonney,
F.R.S., 604

Handy Atlas of Modern Geography, 605

Rew (R. Henry), on the Statistics of the Production and Con-
sumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614

Reynolds (J. E.), Silver Compounds of Thiourea, 383
Ribbentrop (Dr.), Government Forestry in India, 41
Ricardo (David), Principles of Political Economy and Taxa-
tion, 4

Ricco (A.), Earthquakes at Pantelleria, 120; Account of the
Submarine Eruption North-west of Pantelleria, October 1891,
Abstract of ditto, G. W. Butler, 584

Richardson (A. T.), Mathematical Exercises, 125

Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), New Year's Address to
Sanitary Inspectors' Association, 234

Richet (Prof.), Death of, 258

Richet (Ch.), the Tubercular Vaccination of the Dog, 576
Rigg (Gilbert), Ice Crystals, 319

Riley (Dr. C. V.), a New Herbarium Pest, 235

Ring and Disk Blinds in Micrometic Measurements, on the
Influence of, Herr Dr. Walter Wislicenus, 137
Rings, Atmospheric, Dr. Sprung, 599

Rivers of Central Europe, the Temperature of, 114
Roberts (Thomas), Death and Obituary Notice of, 303
Roberts-Austen (Prof., F.R.S.): the Report to the Alloys
Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, 22; Value of Metallurgical Science, 257; Bronze
in the London Atmosphere, 443; Metals at High Tempera-
ture, 534

Robertson (W. T.), Tea-culture in New South Wales, 260
Robinson (Dr. A.) the Formation and Fate of the Primitive
Streak in the Frog, 140

Robinson (John), Our Trees, 603

Robinson (Margaret), the Nauplius Eye persisting in some
Decapods, 450

Rochester Academy of Sciences, U.S., 588

Rockhill (William Woodville), the Land of the Lamas, 98

Rocks collected by M. Lopatin on the Podkamennaya
Tunguska, 597

Rodger (J. W.), Theory of Solutions, 342, 487

Roemer (the late Ferdinand), Proposed Memorial of, 322

Rogers (Fred. J.), Magnesium as a Source of Light, 622
Rolling of Ships, 559

Romanes (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S.), Migration of the Lemming,
249

Rome (Province), Earthquakes in, 304

Roscoe (Sir H. E., F. R.S.): Action of Water-Gas on Iron, 92;
a Treatise on Chemistry, 509

Rosenberg (Dr.), Assimilation of Diet investigated in a Dog
Working on a Treadmill, 599

Ross (Alexander), Journey to Head Waters of Ecayali, Central
Peru, 519

Ross (W. J. C.), on the Discovery of Two Specimens of Fossil
Lepidodendrons in the Neighbourhood of Bathurst, New
South Wales, and the Inferences to be drawn from their
Occurrence, 424
Rossiter (E. C.), Sulphochloride of Isomeric Dibromonaph-
thalene, 263; Action of Alcohols on Sulphonic Chlorides as
Means of producing Ethereal Salts of Sulphonic Acids, 263;
Action of Bromine on Mixture of Ortho- and Paranitro-a-
Acenaphthalide, 263

Rotation of Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 473

Rotation of Venus, Herr Loschardt, 210

Rotch (A. L.), Meteorology of French Association at Mar-
seilles, 189; the Mountain Meteorological Stations of the
United States, 403

Rothamsted, Results of Experiments at, on the Question of the
Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 32
Rothney (E. A. J.), Two Species of Indian Ants, 454
Roumania, the Meteorological Service of, 444

Rousseau (G.), Manganates of Potash, 288

Roy (Prof., F. R.S.), Contributions to the Physiology and
Pathology of the Mammalian Heart, 451

Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Sir Joseph Fayrer,
F.R.S., elected Corresponding Member of, 585

Royal College of Physicians, Sir Andrew Clark elected (fifth
time) President, 566

Royal Geographical Society, 183; Appointment of Mr. J. S.
Keltie to the Assistant-Secretaryship in room of late Mr. H.
W. Bates, 402; Dr. H. R. Mill appointed Librarian to, 566
Royal Institution, Lectures at the, 155, 586

Royal Meteorological Society, 95, 215, 335, 431, 551, 623
Royal Microscopical Society, 46, 143, 165, 239, 311, 479, 574
Royal Military Academy, Science at the, 563

Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Branch established in
London, 544

Royal Society, 37, 141, 162, 190, 212, 311, 357, 381, 407, 429,
451, 549, 573; Anniversary Meeting, 110; Sir William
Thomson's Anniversary Address, 110; Medallists, 111;
Officers and Council, 112; Catalogue of Scientific Papers,
338

Royal Society of New South Wales, 95; Prizes Offered by,
443; Award of Clarke Memorial Medal to Mr. W. T.
Thiselton-Dyer, 495

Royal Statistical Society, R. Henry Rew on the Statistics of the
Production and Consumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614
Rubens (Dr.): New Method of Determining Dispersion and
Refraction in Ultra-Violet Rays, 48; the Dispersion of the
Ultra-Red Rays, 576

Rubi, Alpine, T. D. A. Cockerell, 320

Rücker (Prof., F.R.S.): Royal Society Medallist, III; Speech
at the Royal Society Dinner, 112

Ruffer (Dr. M. Armand), a Treatise on the Ligation of the
Great Arteries in Continuity, with Observations on the
Nature, Progress, and Treatment of Aneurism, Charles A.
Ballance and Walter Edmunds, 530

Rugby School Natural History Society, 520

Runge (Prof. C.), on the Line Spectra of the Elements, 607
Russell (F.) Results of Meteorological Observations at Akassa,
95

Russell (H. C., F. R.S.), the Grouping of Stars in the Southern
Part of the Milky Way, 423

Russell (H. L.), the Effect of Mechanical Movement on the
Growth of Certain Plants, 478

Russell (Prof. Israel C.): Cirques, 317; Geographical Position
of Mount St. Elias, 472

Russell (J. S. R.), the Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, 573

Russell (Lucy J.), Bedford College and the Gresham University,
391

Russell (Hon. Rollo), Untenability of Atmospheric Hypothesis
of Epidemics, 431

Russell (Dr. W. J., F. R.S.): Town Fogs and their Effects, 10 ;
Bedford College and the Gresham University, 391
Russia the Grain Production of, Borkovsky, 67; Russian
Geographical Society, 92; Awards, 444; European, Fre-
quency and Geographical Distribution of Heavy Daily
Rainfall in Russia, E. Berg, 258; Mercury Mining in, 305;
Causes of the Famine in, Dr. A. Woeikof, 378; Russian Pre-
historic Antiquities, the Slavonians of the First Centuries of
our Era, Prof. Samokvasoff, 547; Sunflower Cultivation in
Southern Russia, 568

Rust Fungus in Wheat, 615

Rusting of Iron, A. Liversidge, F. R.S., on the, 424
Rutherfurd's Photographs, Catalogue of, 21

Sabatier (Paul), Sulphides and Selenides of Boron and Silicon
Selenide, 41

Sacken (C. R. Osten), Meretrix, Lamarck 1799, versus Cytherea,
Lamarck 1806, 30

Sadtler (Samuel P.), a Hand-book of Industrial Organic
Chemistry, 125

Saffard (Truman), on the Observation of North Polar Stars in
the Vertical of Polaris, 159

St. Malo Bay, the Tides of, M. Heurtault, 143

St. Petersburg Electrical Exhibition, 303

St. Thomas's Hospital, Lectures on Systematic Botany at, 586
Saline Solutions, Heat Engines and, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S.,
438, 510

Salmon Industry in British Columbia, 279

Salt Lake of Aalia Paakai, A. B. Lyons, 29

Salts in Natural Waters, 78; F. H. Perry Coste, 176; Robert
B. Hayward, F.R.S., 176

Samoan Cyclone of March 16, 1889, 161

Samoan Hurricane, Everett Hayden, 461

Samokvasoff (Prof.) the Slavonians of the First Centuries of our
Era, 547

Sanderson (Prof. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Sir
William Bowman, 564

Sandwich Islands, Mr. R. C. L. Perkins Selected to Investigate
the Zoology of the, 322

Sandwich Isles, Ornithology of the, Prof. Alfred Newton,
F.R.S., 465, 532; Albert F. Calvert, 485, 558; J. E.
Harting, 532

Sanitary Conference, International, 233

Sanitary Engineering, C. Napier Bell on, 426

Sanitary Inspectors' Association, New Year's Address, Dr. B.
W. Richardson, F.R. S., 234

Sanitation in Schools, 185

Sapper (Dr.), the Climate of Alta Verapaz, 41

Sardine, Growth of the Pilchard or, Prof. J. T. Cunningham,
255

Sardinia, the Nurhagi of, Dr. Ermling, 114

Sarro Savages, Arrow-Poison of, Laborde and Rondeau, 278
Saussaye (P. D. Chantpie de la), Manual of the Science of
Religion, 148

Saville-Kent (W.), Oyster-Culture in Queensland, 66
Scandinavia, Chronology of the Neolithic Age in, Prof.
Montelius, 39

Scheele (Carl Wilhelm), Letters and Memoirs of, 207
Scheurer-Kestner (M.), Decomposition of Sulphurous Acid by
Water at very High Temperatures, 384

Schimper (A. F. W.), Die indo-malayische Strandflora, W.
Botting Hemsley, F. R.S., 3

Schloesing (Th., Jun.), the Fixation of Free Nitrogen by Plants,
143

Schnauss (Hermann), Photographic Pastimes, a Hand-book
for Amateurs, 5

Schoetensack (Dr. O.), the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau,
Silesia, 379

Schorlemmer (C., F. R.S.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 509
Schorr (Dr. R.), Denning's Comet (b 1892), 569

Schoute (Prof.): Lemoine's Two Problems of Stamps, 72; the
Stamp-folding Problem, 335

Schweizer (Dr.), the Behaviour of Spermatozoa towards Electric
Currents, 599

Science Electricity in Relation to, Prof. W. Crookes, F. R. S.,
63; Examinations in, 85; Elizabeth Thompson Science
Fund, 91; a Text-book of the Science of Brewing, E. R.
Moritz and G. H. Morris, 100; Scientific Nomenclature, H.
St. A. Alder, 104; Manual of the Science of Religion, P. D.
Chantpie de la Saussaye, 148; Implications of Science, Dr.
St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 60, 82, 222, 343; Edward T.
Dixon, 125, 272, 391; Miss E. E. C. Jones, 223, 366; on
the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Prof. E. du Bois-
Reymond, F.R. S., 200, 224; Science in Japan, Prof. E.
Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 256; Royal Society Catalogue of
Scientific Papers, 338; Science Museum and Gallery of
British Art at South Kensington, 348; Science Museum and
the Tate Gallery, 385, 433; Forthcoming Scientific Books,
476; Science at the Royal Military Academy, 563; the New
York "Scientific Alliance," 544; the Year-book of Science,
1891, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 604

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