Fundy, Tides at, Dr. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 432: Prof. Glass, Electric Perforation of, 592
J. D. Everett, 458

Furniss (James J.), Intellect in Brutes, 385

Gauss, the Statue to, 350, 544

Gaussius' Warning Regarding the Sluggishness of Ships' Mag.
netism, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 127

Geikie (Prof. Arch., F.R.S.), Smiles' "Life of Robert Dick,"
189; American Surveys and Explorations, 213; Geographical
Evolution, 490

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Geissler (Dr. Heinrich), Death of, 350; Obituary Notice of, 372
Geneva Observatory, New Instrument for the, 59
Geneva: High Level Attained by the Lake of, 351; the Lake-
Dwellings at, 445; Society of Physics and Natural History,
523, 548

Genoa (Duke of), Exploring Expedition, 471
Geodesy, 505

Geoghegan (Edward), Intellect in Brutes, 268
Geography: Geographical Notes, 15, 43, 76, 99, 123, 156, 180,
204, 222, 246, 270, 297, 323, 348, 372, 394, 421, 438, 470,
490, 515, 542, 556, 583; Geographical Distribution of Ani-
mals, Dr. A. Wilson's Handbook and Map of, 30; Geogra-
phical Magazine, Death of the, 99; New French Work on
Universal, 180; Berlin Geographical Society, 271, 324; Geo-
graphical Distribution and the Glacial Period, W. A. Forbes,
363; Geographical Professorships, Memorial of the Royal
Geographical Society, 421; Proposed Society of Commercial
Geography, 421; Geographical Evolution, Prof. A. Geikie,
F.R.S., 490; Geographical Society, see Royal
Geology Geological Survey of the United States, 15; Geolo-
gical Climate and Geological Time, William Davies, 33;
Ramsay's Manual of British Geology, 69; Geological Society,
91, 187, 210, 282, 356, 426, 451, 522, 571, 595; Medals, &c.,
of, 445; Reports of the U.S. Geological Survey, 130; Ame-
rican Surveys and Explorations, Prof. Arch. Geikie, F.R.S.,
213; Macfarlane's American Geological Railway Guide, 287;
G. St. Kinahan's "Geology of Ireland," 382
"Géometrie Cinématique," M. Mannheim's Proposed Work on,

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108

Geophilus, E. Metschnikoff's Researches on, 342
Germany Geological Map of, 85; Peat Fuel in, 160; Dr. E.
Lommel on German Degrees, 267; Report of the Forest
Meteorological Stations, 419

Gevaert's Work on the Fertilisation of Flowers, 506
Gibbs (John), First Catechism of Botany, 28

Gibson (Geo. A.) Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, 173
Giffard's Captive Balloon, 46, 423, 493, 517, 560
Gigantic Land Tortoises, Alexis A. Julian, 30; Dr. Jeffries
Wyman, 31

Giglioli (Dr. H. Hillyer), Colour-Variation in Lizards-Corsican
Herpetology, 97

Gill (David) appointed Astronomer at the Cape, 388

Gill (Mrs.), "Ascension," 240

Gladstone (Dr., F.R.S.), Science Teaching in Elementary

Schools, 181; Blue Flame from Common Salt, 582
Glaisher (J. W. L.), Circulating Decimals, 208
Glasgow Industrial Museum, 518

Glass Fibre, Dr. Hopkinson on, F.R.S., on the Torsional Strain
which remains in a, after Release from Twisting Stress, 187,
306

Glass, Toughened, G. C. Druce, 5
Globular Lightning, Charlotte Hare, 5
Goebel on Sprouting in Isoetes, 319
Gold-Leads of Nova Scotia, 523

Goodrich (C. F.), Internal Kesistance, 339

Goose, a Carnivorous, Duke of Argyll, 554
Gordon (J. E. H.), a new Relation between Electricity and
Light, 402

Gore (Dr. G., F.R.S.), the Art of Scientific Discovery, G. F.
Rodwell, 285

Gotha, Cremation at, 232

Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 356, 596

"Graham Lecture and Medal, John Mayer, 254; W. C.
Roberts, F.R.S., on Molecular Mobility, 291

Granite, Graphic, Frank Johnson, 122

Graphite, Discovery of, at Wellington, New Zealand, 300
Grasses, Colonial, as Paper-making Materials, 132
Gray (Prof. Asa) on Forest Geography, 327
Green (W. S.), Electrical Phenomenon, 220
Greenland, Exploration of, 556

Ground, Dry, the Gas Absorption of, 544
Grunow on the Algae of the Caspian Sea, 319
Gruss (Dr.), the Physical Nature of the Sun, 424
Guano in New Caledonia, 423

Guiana, British, Preservation of Birds in, 301; the Indians of,
394

Guiana, French, Dr. Jules Crevaux's Exploration of, 298, 395
Gulf of Mexico, Dredging Operations, 389
Gulf-Weed, a Means of Migration for Fishes and Marine Inver-
tebrates, J. M. Jones, 363

Guns: the last Experiment with the Eighty-ton, 148; Our Big
Guns, 294; Moving of Heavy Ordnance, 373; the Thun-
derer Explosion, 333, 414

Gurney (H. P.), "Crystallography," 171

Guthrie (Fredk. F.R.S.), "Physics," 311, 384; Vibration of
Metal Rods, 331

Haughton (Dr. Samuel, F.R.S.), the Tides at Chepstow and
Fundy, 432

Hayden (Prof. F. V.), Geological Survey of the United States,
15; Vote of Thanks to, by the Colorado Legislature, 350;
Health Statistics, 108

Heath (Dr. Edwin R.), Expedition in South America, 394
Heddle (Prof.) receives the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 346

Glacial Period and Geographical Distribution, W. A. Forbes, Hekla, on the Lavas of, and on the Sublimations Produced
363
during the Eruption of February 27, 1878, G. F. Rodwell,
280

Glaciation of the Italian Lakes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173

Harkness (Prof.), Memorial to, 44

Harmer (John), Ear Affection, 365

Harmonium, on the Determination of Absolute Pitch by the,
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 275

Hartog (Dr. Marcus G.), Eichler's "Blüthendiagramme,” 70
Harvard University, Library Bulletin of, 517
Harvey, the Remains of, 85

Heliostat, the, H. Baden Pritchard, 508

Heliotropism in Plants, Herr Wiesner on, 161

Helmholtz (Prof. H., F.R.S.), Lord Rayleigh's "Theory of
Sound," Vol. II., 117

Hennessy (H., F.R.S.), the Figure of the Planet Mars, 31
Henslow (Rev. George), Intellect in Brutes, 385, 433
Hereditary Transmission, E. L. Layard, 197

Isomorphism, Prof. Hermann Kopp on, 387
Istituto Reale Veneto, Prizes of the, 376
Isvestia of the Russian Geographical Society, 247, 270

Hermann (Dr. L.), the Results of Recent Researches in Animal Italy: Italian African Expedition, 78.; Glaciation of the Italian

Electricity, 561

Lakes, Geo. A. Gibson, 173; Chemico-Agricultural Station

in, 390; Mathematics in, 407; Phylloxera in, 375, 408

Herpetology, Corsican, Dr. H. Hillyer Giglioli, 9.7

Herpetology, Papuan, 176

Herring Culture, 469

Herschel (Dr. J.), Was Homer Colour-Blind? 72

Higgin (George, C.E.), Deltaic Growth, 555

Highlands, St. John's Wild Sports of the, 193

Hilda, the Minor Planet, 510, 583

Hill (E.), the Formation of Mountains, 289

Hill (S. A.), Atmospheric Pressure and Solar Heat, 432

Histology, Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of, 544

Hollis (Dr. W. Ainslie), Ear Affection, 364

Holloway (John), a New Process in Metallurgy, 410

Holmgren (Prof.), Experiments on the Visual Purple of the

Retina, 350

579

Hulme's Familiar Wild Flowers, 94

Homer, was, Colour-Blind? 72, 73; R. C. A. Prior, 119

Hooker (Sir J. D., C.B.), Presidential Anniversary Address at

the Royal Society, 109, 132

Hooker and Ball's "Marocco and the Great Atlas," 366

Hopkins (Johns) University, Baltimore, Report of, 66

Hopkinson (Dr. J., F.R.S.), Electric Lighting, 174; on the

Torsional Strain which remains in a Glass Fibre after Release

from Twisting Stress, 187, 306

Hornets, Wm. Wilson Saunders, 147

Horse, the Movements of the, 438, 464, 488

Horses, Sagacity in, M. Carey-Hobson, 147

Horsley (V.), the Fissures of the Cerebral Hemispheres in Un- Jones (J. Matthew), Gulf-Weed, a Means of Migration for Fishes

gulata, 276

and Marine Invertebrata, 363

Houzeau on Certain Phenomena of Astronomy, 447

Humboldt's Monument, Unveiling of the, 3007

"Hume," Prof. Huxley's, Prof. J. Veitch, 453
Huth (Alfred H.), Sense of Temperature, 582
Huxley (Prof.), "Hume," Prof. J. Veitch, 453
Hyaline Cartilage, Dr. George Thin on, 307
Hydrogenium, Prof. Dewar on the Physical Contents of, 163
Hygiene, Parkes Museum of, 107

Ice Pearls, J. Shaw, 508

Illumination in Spectroscopy, Piazzi Smyth, 400, 458
"Index Medicus," Drs. Billings and Fletcher, 431
India: Floods in Ferozepore, 131; Marine Surveys of the
Coasts of, 298; Botanic Garden for, 375; Indian Meteorology,
269, 293; Indian Antiquary, 584

Indians: the, of British Guiana, 394; North American, Casts
of the Heads of, 544

Indo-Oceanic Races, 258

Ingleby (Dr. C. M.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 244; Leibnitz

and the Royal Society, 267, 364

Insects: in Tertiary Rocks, 246; Petzold's Method of Preserving,
301; Observations of Injurious, Miss E. A. Omerod, 492;
the Early Types of, 584

Institute of Naval Architects, 530

Institution of. Civil Engineers, 350, 356, 547

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 324, 473

Intellect in Brutes, 409, 458, 481, 496, 519; Edw. Geoghegan,
268; Walter Severn, 291; H. T. Finck, 340; Arthur Nicols,
365, 409, 433; Rev. George Henslow, 385, 433; James J.
Furniss, 385; W. P. Buchan, 409, 459; Henry Muirhead,
409, 459; Dr. John Rae, 409, 459; C. W. Strickland, 410;
E. H. Pringle, 459; Maurice Belsham, 459; R. M. Middle-
ton, 459

Internal Resistance, C. F. Goodrich, 339
Intra-Mercurial Planet Question, 260, 347, 437; Prof. Lewis
Swift, 96

Ipswich, Science Lectures at, 544

Ireland: Geology of, G. St. Kinahan, 382; Irish Bog Oak, W.
F. Sinclair, 74

Iron, Magnetic Properties of Powdered, 352

Ismene, the Minor Planet, 42

Isoetes, on Sprouting in, 319

Jackson (Chas. I..), United States Fisheries, 460

Jackson (J. P.), Bees' Stings, 385

Janssen's Paper on Recent Advances in Solar Physics, 301

Japan: Cotton Mills in, 61; Farming in, 86; the Magic Mirror

of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 186; Traces of an Early Race in,

278; its Relations with Corea, 298; Dr. Woeikoff's Travels

through, 349; Brewing of Beer in, 397; Teas of, 423; Agri-

cultural Colleges in, 425; Petroleum in, 473; Cannibalism in,

474; Population of, 516; Japanese Mirrors and their Magic

Quality, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 539; Education in Kioto, .560

Java, Charnay's Exploration of, 491

Joseph II. Adit, 509

Howe Sound, Discovery of Copper at, 279

Journal de Physique, 88, 235, 401, 521

Howgate (Capt.), Proposed Arctic Colony, 18

Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 87

Huggins (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, Journal of the Franklin Institute, 67, 234, 306, 354, 594

Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Societies of St.
Petersburg, 23

Jenkins (B. G.), Vulcan and Bode's Law, 74; Cape Diamonds,
582

Jenkins (H. L.), Utilisation of the African Elephant, 99
Jevons (Prof. W. Stanley, F.R.S.), Commercial Crises and
Sun-Spots, 33, 588; Sun-Spots and the Plague, 338
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Report of, 66
Johnson (Frank), Graphic Granite, 122
Johnson's Patentee's Manual, 362

Johnston (Keith), Expedition to Africa, 43, 204

Jones (Alfred S.), Sewerage and Drainage, 53; Absorption of
Water by the Leaves of Plants, 244

Journal, Royal Agricultural Society, 312

Jucuapa, Earthquake at, 85

Julien (Alexis A.), Gigantic Land Tortoise, 30

Julius (Dr. V. A.), the Microphone, 266

Jupiter and Biela's Comet in 1794, 75; Occultation of 64

Aquarii by, 154; Occultation of Stars by Jupiter's Satellites,,

154

Jurassic Dinosaurs, American, 76

Kaieteur Fall of the Potara River, 205

Kaltbrunner (D.), "Manuel du Voyageur," 71

Karataghin, Exploration of, 247

Karmarsch (Prof.), Death of, 517

Keane (A. H.), Pratt's Grammar of the Samoan Language, 335;

Australian and Tasmanian Races, 549

Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 346
Kemp (John), Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, 97
Kerner's "Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," A. W. Bennett,
214

Kinahan (G. St.), "Geology of Ireland," 382

Kinetic Theory, Temperature Equilibrium in the Universe in

Relation to the, S. Tolver Preston, 555

King (Prof. Samuel), Method for Rapidly Inflating Balloons, 18

King's College, London, the Physical Laboratory of, 594

Kingzett (C. T.), "Animal Chemistry," 358

Kioto, Education in, 560

Klein and Noble Smith's Atlas of Histology, 544

Knight (John Henry), Nitric Acid Batteries, 581

Kopp (Prof. Hermann), Isomorphism, 387

Kosmos, 449

Krause (Dr. Ernst), the Colour-Sense, 120

Krümmel (Dr.), on the Mean Depth of the Sea, 348

Kuntze (Dr. Otto), Fossil Forests and Silicified Trunks, 314

Laboratory, Zoological, Prof. Alex. Agassiz, 317
Lactin, Dr. Mills' Researches on, 330

Ladein (Joseph), Tour through Central Africa, 349
Lake Constance, Examination of, 85

Lake-Dwellings Objects from Neufchâtel, 17; Discovery of

on Lake Bienne, 61; of the Lake of Geneva, 445; of the
Pfohrener Ried, 445

Mayer (John), the "Graham" Lecture and Medal, 254
Mayer (Dr. Robert Julius), Proposed Monument to, 59, 350
Medical Endowments at Oxford, 20

"Medicinal Plants," Bentley and Trimen's, 109
Medusa, the Locomotor System of, G. J. Romanes, 282
Melbourne Observatory, 204

Meldola (R.), Butterflies with Dissimilar Sexes, 586
Memorie della Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani, 22
Mercury, Transits of, 73

Mercury and Venus, Relative Brightness of, 23
Meridian, Proposals for a New Initial, 247
Merten, Excavations at, 327

Merv, the Road to, from the Caspian, 271, 297
Metallic Reflexion, Sir John Conroy on, 259
Metallurgy, a New Process in, John Holloway, 410
Metal Rods, Vibration of, Dr. F. Guthrie, F.R.S., on, 331
Metals, the Condensing of, 474

Mimas, the Saturnian Satellite, 42

Mineralogical Magazine, 181

Mineralogical Society, 283

Minor Planets, 14, 420, 437, 532, 556; Ismene, 42; Hilda, 510,

583

Mira Ceti, 510

Mirror Barometer, L. T. de Bort, 585

Mirror of Japan and its Magic Quality, 186, 539

Missouri Weather Service Report, 420

Meteoric Steel, 61

Meteorites: Relation of, to Comets, Prof. H. A. Newton, 315,
340; Speculations on the Source of, Prof. R. S. Ball, 493
Meteorology: Meteorological Society of Mauritius, 17; Hyde
Clarke on Droughts, 53; Meteorological Society, 91, 210,
307, 403, 523, 595; the Publications of the Washington
Signal Corps Central Office, 159; in Russia, 159;
Meteorological Society Lectures, 177; Grant to the French
Bureau of, 206; a Scottish Mountain Observatory, 237, 255,
279, 342, 445; American Weather, E. D. Archibald, 266;
Meteorological Notes, 269, 419; Indian, 269, 293; Prof.
Loomis on Storms in the United States, 270; Proposed Ob-
servatory on the Top of Ventoux, 270, 423; International
Congress at Rome, 325; Curious Phenomenon in Switzerland,
326; the Russian Repertorium für Meteorologie," 375;
Report of the Forest Meteorological Stations of Germany,
419; Missouri Weather Report, 420; Observations at Pola,
420; Proposed Observatory on Ballon de Servance, 423;
Weather Warnings in Switzerland, 446; Meteorological Office
and Reports on the Weather, 472, 543; Weather Report of
the U.S. Signal Service, 473; Meteorological Organisations,
514; Montsouris Observatory, 560; the International Con-
gress at Rome, 590
Meteors, 131, 396; at Stanislas, Austria, 17; the expected
Meteor Shower, W. F. Denning, 33; the Shower of January
2, W. F. Denning, 221; at Prague, 326; a Meteor with
Short Period of Revolution, 484
Metschnikoff (E.), Researches on Geophilus, 342
Meyer (A. B.), Capt. Cook's Collections, 409; on Herring
Culture, 469; Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen Museum
zu Dresden, 553
Miall (L. C.), "Studies in Comparative Anatomy," I, and II.,
383

Michigan State Board of Health, Report of, 518
Microphone: New Form of, 60; for Military and Tonometric
Lieut. George S. Clark, 72; as a Receiver,
Blyth, 72; Thos. S. Tait on the, 146; and Volcanic Pheno-
mena, 207; Observations on the, Dr. L. Bleekrode, 221; Dr.
V. A. Julius on the, 266
Microscopy: The American Quarterly Microscopical Journal,
145; the Postal Microscopical Society, 301; the Limits of
Microscopic Vision, 332; Microscopical Society, see Royal
Microtelephone, Dr. Julian Ochovowicz, 482
Microthermometer, the, J. B. Hannay, 378

Middleton (R. Morton), Intellect in Brutes, 459; Distribution of Nebula, Missing, 221

the Black Rat, 460
"Midland Naturalist," 131

Migration of Birds, 422; Col. J. F. D. Donnelly, 289; Dr.
Palmén, 433; Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., 433, 580; Dr.
August Weismann, 433, 579; E. H. Pringle, 481

Mittheilungen aus der zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 2
Molecular Mobility, W. C. Roberts, F.R.S., on, 291
Molecular Pressure, on the Illumination of Lines of, and the
Trajectory of Molecules, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 137

Molecular Vibration, 290; Wm. Chappell, 242
Mollusc, the "Digger," 470

Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde, Alfred Brown, 217

Moncel (Comte du), "Le Téléphone, le Microphone, et le
Phonographe," 12, 56
Monckhoven (Dr. Van), End-on Vacuum Tubes in Spectroscopy,
458

Monghyr, Lockwood's Work on the Natural History of, 337
Montigny (M.), Scintillation of Star:, 233, 326
Montsouris Observatory, 207, 256, 560

Moon: a Question raised by the Observed Absence of an At-
mosphere in the, S. Tolver Preston, 3; Prof. Newcomb's
Researches on the Motions of the, 166; M. Flammarion on
the Observation of the, 181
"Moore's Columbarium," 474

Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 186, 449

Morren's Correspondance Botanique," 108

Morse (Prof. E. S.), on the Traces of an Early Race in Japan,
278

Moscow: Anthropological Exhibition at, 280, 300, 375; Statistics
of the University of, 378
Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), the Highest Tide on Record, 363;
"Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger," 415

Motion and Colour, the Music of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 101
"Mound-Builders," the Age and Race of the American, 397
Mountains: the Formation of, Prof. Alphonse Favre on, 103;
Alfred R. Wallace, 121, 244, 289; Arthur Ransom, 121;
Rev. O. Fisher, 172, 266, 339; E. Hill, 289; G. H. Darwin,
313
Muir (Thomas), Text-Book of Arithmetic, 30; Leibnitz's Mathe-
matics, 482

Muirhead (Henry), Intellect in Brutes, 409, 459
Müller (Fritz), on a Frog having Eggs on its Back-on the
Abortion of the Hairs on the Legs of Certain Caddis-Flies, 462
Müller (Johannes), Classification of Passeres, 525
Mummy from Erroob, 595
Munich, New Botanical Society at, 130
Munro (John), Leaf-Sheaths and the Growth of Plants, 147
Munro (Robert), the Ayrshire Crannog, 54
Murphy (J. J.), Shakespeare's Colour-Names, 197; Habit and
Intelligence, 477

Museum of Practical Geology, the Library of, 559
Music: H. Berg's "Die Lust an der Musik," 578
Music of Colour and Visible Motion, 59; Profs. Ayrton and
Perry on the, IOI
Musical Association, 223

Musical Notes from Outflow of Water, 244
Musters (Commander G. C.), Death of, 297
Muybridge's Method of Photographing
Mycology: New Journal on, 301
Russia, 561

mmals in Merion, 517
Bedley on 14

Naccari and Bellati, on the Thermal Phenomena protluced
the Passage of Electrici through Rarefied Gases, 21
Naples Zoological Station, Mittheilungen of the 2
Nasmyth (James), Relative Brightness of Venus and Mercury,

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Natal and Zululand, Geology of E. De Rance, 467
Natural History, Prof. Martin Duncans Popular, 345
"Natural History Journal," the, 45

Negretti and Zambra's Deep-Sea Thermometers, 412, 433
Nelson (A. B.), Leibnitz's Mathematics, 196
Neptune, the Trans-Neptunian Planet, 481

Netherlands Zoological Society, 107; the Zoological Station of,
107

Neufchatel, Lake of: Objects from the Lake-Dwellings, 17,
543; Tidal Phenomenon on the, 446

New Caledonia: Nickel Mines in, 16; Guano in, 423
"New Commercial Plants," Christy's, 265

New Guinea: Exploration of, 15, 471; D'Albertis's Expedition
up the Fly River, 43; Andrew Goldie's Exploration of, 43;
Chalmer's Journeys in, 351; Colonisation of, 471, 542; Ex-
pedition from New Zealand to, 491

New South Wales, the Linnæan Society of, 281

New York, Reports of the Museum of Natural History, 18
New Zealand: Notes from, 21, 234; Discovery of a Seam of
Coal in, 131; Discovery of Graphite at Wellington, 300;
Wellington Philosophical Society, 308