A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

VOLUME IX.//

NOVEMBER 1873 to APRIL 1874

"To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye."-WORDSWORTH

London and New York:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874

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Actino-chemistry, 113

Adelaide; Philosophical Society, 391; University, 17

Admiralty Charts of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans,
289

Adulteration of Food and Drink, 335

"Adulterations of Food," by R. J. Atcherly, Ph.D., 342
Aeronautics in France and Italy, 457
Aeronautic Experiments, 427
Aeronautic Society, Paris, 373

Africa; Count d'Alviella's "Sahara and Lapland," 261;
Fritsch's South African Races," 479; "The Heart of
Africa," by Dr. Georg Schweinfurth, 340 (See Livingstone)
Agassiz (Alex.) Radiata and Echinoderms, 53; Zoological Mu-
seum, Cambridge, Mass., and Zoological School, Penikese,
350

Agassiz (Prof. L.), Obituary Notices of, 121, 130

Agave, Flowering, at Kew, 470

Apes; "Man and Apes," by St. George Mivart, 180
Aquaria; Brighton, 113, 451; Margate, 249; Central Park,
New York, 243, 272; Liverpool, 272

Arctic Exploration, 17, 35, 37, 91, 97, 138, 240, 241, 272, 372,
404, 411

Argentine Pampas, Excursion to the," by Federico Leybold,
at Cordoba, 230

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Argentine Republic; Flight of Locusts
Cordoba Observatory, 264

Argyll (The Duke of, Pres. G.S.), "Physical Geography of
Argyleshire," 90, 110; Address to Geological Society, 354
Flight of Birds, 381, 403

Arnott (Neil, M.D., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 364
Artistic Representation of Nature, 84
Astronomical Almanacs, 123, 210

Astronomical Society, 55, 136, 229, 415, 475

Astronomical Speculations in Relation to Geology, 388
Astronomy: at Oxford, 52; in the Argentine Republic, 264;
Results of the Polaris Expedition, 404; Celestial Chemistry,
by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 411, 429; Quito University,
France, 428

Atcherley (R. J., Ph.D.), "Adulterations of Food," 342
Atlantic Occan, Admiralty Chart of, 289

Agriculture at Rothamsted, Report on the Growth of Barley, Athenian Text-Books of Science, 298
317

Agriculture and Birds, 232

Agricultural Society, Committee on Potato Disease, 211

Air, Microscopic Examinations of, 330, 439, 485

Airy (Hubert), Microscopic Examination of Air, 330, 439, 485

Aitken (John), Photographing the Transit of Venus, 183

Alaska, Fur Seals, 471

Albany (U.S.) Institute, Transactions, 439

Atmosphere; Prof. Tyndall on its Acoustic Transparency and
Opacity, 251, 267

Atmospheric Refraction and the Setting Sun, 20

Atmospheric Telegraph, 64, 83, 105

"Attraction, Mathematical Theories of," by J. Todhunter,
M.A., F.R.S., 378, 399

Auroral Display, near Whitehaven, 303

Austria, Science in, 181, 184, 411 (See Vienna)

Alcohol, its effects on Warm-blooded Animals (Br. A.), 132; on Australia; Adelaide University, 17; Ballarat School of Mines,

Temperature, Pulse, and Respiration, 352

Algiers, French Map of the Coast, 313

Alglave (M.), Prof. of Law, Douai, suspended, 371, 512

Allman (Prof., F. R.S.), Results with the Towing net, South
Coast of Ireland, 73; Royal medal awarded to, 91
Allward (M.), Puy de Dome Observatory, 470
Almanacs, Astronomical, 69, 123, 210
America; Academy of Science, California, 351; Albany Insti-
tute, 439; Bahama Islands, 35; Museums in Brazil, 463;
New York Aquarium, Menagerie, and Museum, 242, 272;
Philadelphia, 116, 196, 256, 356, 435, 452; Baltimore, Aca-
demy of Sciences, 396; Natural History Museum, New York,
9; Association for the Advancement of Science (Portland),
53; Peabody Academy of Science, 151; Alleghany, Cincin-
nati, Cordoba Rocky Mountains, and Washington Observa-
tories, 93, 264, 313, 332, 394, 512; The Hoosac Tunnel,
170; Fluctuations in Lakes, 504; Exploring Expeditions,
192, 391; "North American Birds," 498; Academy of
Science, St. Louis, 499; Scientific Enterprise, 243;
dide of North America," by Cyrus Thomas, Ph.D., 299;
Weather Reports for September 1872, 299; Exploration of
the Amazons, 315; Cambridge (Mass.) Zoological Museum,
Penikese Zoological School, 350; Dr. Hayden's Survey, 452;
Harvard's University, Exposition at Philadelphia, 452;
Andrews (Dr., F.R.S.), Ozone, 347, 364

"Acri-

Animal Locomotion, by Dr. J. B. Pettigrew, F.R.S., 221, 260,
301, 381, 403, 422, 440

"Animal Mechanics, Principles of," by the Rev. S. Haughton,
F.R.S., 239

Anthropological Institute, 56, 95, 156, 195, 235, 275, 315, 354,
395, 434, 470, 495

Anthropological Society, The London, 95, 156

229; Magnetic Iron, 171; Sydney Museum, 249; Abori-
ginal Artists, 322; Exploration in Western Australia, 331;

in Queensland, 331; Botany of Brisbane, 452
Axiom," "The Word, 462

Axioms, Physical, 402, 420, 421, 461, 477, 484, 499
Axolotls Hatched at Brighton Aquarium, 451

Bacteria, 421, 482

Baer (Dr. K. E. v.), "Historic Questions," and "Studies of
Natural History," 241
Bahama Islands, Geography and Mollusca of, 35
Bain (Prof. Alex., LL.D.), Review of "Darwin on Expression,"
2; "Relation of Mind and Body," 178

Baker (Sir S.), African Slave Trade, 91, 113; appointed Rede
Lecturer, 229

Balances (See Weighing)
Balances, Ancient, 8

Balfour (Prof. John H., F.R.S.), The Medical Curriculum, 121,
Ballarat School of Mines, 229

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Balloons in the 9th century, 72; Direction of, 312
Balloon Ascent Extraordinary in Siam, 350
Baltimore, Maryland Academy of Sciences, 396
Bardwell (W.), What a House should be," 60
Barley, Report of its Growth for twenty years at Rothamsted,
317

Barnes (Philip, F.I..S.), Obituary Notice of, 349
Barraude (Joachim), Trilobites, 228, 261

Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Dr. Tyndall and Sensitive Flames, 223,
241

Bastian (Dr. H. C.), Bacteria and Spontaneous Generation, 421,
482

Anthropology; the Todas of South India, 99; Remains of Beech pierced by a Thorn Plant, 441, 463
Petrarch, 171

Ants, Leaf-cutting, 219; Recent Researches on, 308

Bee-keeping, 193

Bees, Power of Memory in, 484