Lakes, Italian and Tessin, Pelagic Fauna of, 525

Land Shells of the Austral Islands, 108
Landauer's "Blowpipe Analysis," 392

Langley (J. N.), Pepsine-forming Glands, 169

Lankester (Prof. E. Ray), "The Crayfish: an Introduction ot
the Study of Zoology," T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 353; the
Medusa, 413; the Destruction of Insect Pests, an Unforeseen
Application of the Results of Biological Investigation, 447 3
an American Sea Side Laboratory, 497; Does Chlorophyll
Decompose Carbonic Acid? 557

"Law of Mutual Help," Prof. Kessler on, 285

Layard (E. L.), the Papau, 201; Weaver Birds and Fire-Flies,
201; Meteors in New Caledonia, 397; Subject-Cataloguing,
525

Leadville, a Glacier near, 574

Leaves, Movement in the, of Conifers, 241

LeConte (John), Bone-Sucking-a Habit of Cattle, 12
Left Side and Right Side in Different Races, 262
Legge (James), "The Sacred Books of China,” 77
Legoff (Dr.), Death of, 408

Lehmke, Archæological Discovery near, 286
Leibnitz's Long-Lost Calculating Machine, Recovery of, 214
Leibnitz and Papin, Discovery of Original Letters by, 19
Leidy (Dr. Joseph) Receives the Walker Prize, 451; his Mono.
graph on the Freshwater Rhizopods of North America, 523
Lenz (Dr. Oscar), Letter from, 242

Lepidion, Haloporphyrus (Risso), Prof. Henry Hillyer Giglioli

on, 201

Leprosy, a Cochin-China Remedy for, 19, 35

Levasseur's (M. E.) "Tour du Monde," Geographical Game,
237

Ley (Rev. Clement), Cloud Classification, 207; the Tay Bridge
Storm, 468

Leyden Jars and "Toughened" Glass, 526; the Residual
Charge of, 526

Lick Observatory, the, 47, 91

:

Light Cintolesi's Researches on, 21; Experimental Determina-
tion of the Velocity of, by Albert A. Michelson, 94, 120, 226; |
a New Light Company, 115; a New Standard of, Louis
Schwendler, 158; the Intensity of, in Varying Colours, 189;
on a Mode of Explaining the Transverse Vibrations of, S.
Tolver Preston, 256; Lewis Wright, 370; the Transverse
Propagation of, W. M. Hicks, 301; S. Tolver Preston, 369;
Solar Parallax from the Velocity of, D. P. Todd, 331; the
Reflection and Refraction of, 460; and Chemical Develop.
ment, 620

Light and Colours, Hering's Theory of the Vision of, Dr. W.
Pole, F.R.S., 14

Light of Webb's Planetary Nebula (DM. + 41°, 4004), Prof.
Edward C. Pickering, 346

Lighthouses: Distinguishing Lights for, Sir W. Thomson, 109;
Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 154; New Modes of Showing
Different Characteristics over Small Arcs in Azimuth from
the same Lighthouse Apparatus, T. Stevenson, 156
"Lightning Conductors; their History, Nature, and Mode of
Application," by Richard Anderson, 415

Lindheimer (Ferdinand), Death of, 306

Lindsay (Lord), a New Nebula, 80; to Astronomers, 106
Lindsay (W. Lauder, M.D.), "Mind in the Lower Animals in
Health and Disease," 8

Linkages, J. D. C. De Roos, 441

Linnean Society, 51, 123, 170, 219, 315, 411, 459, 483, 530,
603

Lipari Islands, G. F. Rodwell, 400

Liquids, the Magnetisation of, 576

Lissauer's (Herr), Discovery of Unopened Graves in the "Reihen-
gräber," 382

Literature and Science, Society for the Encouragement of, W. S.
Dallas, 107; Prof. St. George Mivart, F. R.S., 107

Liveing (Prof. G. D., F.R.S.), on the Spectra of Sodium and
Potassium, 170; on the Reversal of the Lines of Metallic
Vapours, 193

Lizard, Jasper Cargill, 81

Lizard, Land, Remains of Gigantic, 626

London Clay, Diatoms in, W. H. Shrubsole, 132, 444, 538; W.
H. Penning, 494

London, Sewage of, 133

MacCarthy (M.) Nominated President of the Geographical Society
of Algiers, 73

Macdougall (Alan), Anchor-Ice, 612

Mackennal (Alex.), Intellect in Brutes, 397
McLachlan (R.), Indian Entomology, 173

Maclay Coast, New Guinea: Notes on the Papuans of, V. Ball,
251; Further Notes upon the Papuans of, J. C. Galton, 204,
226

Maclear (Commander J. P.), Intellect in Brutes, 250
Maclellan (Rev. J. Brown), Elected Principal of the Agricultural
College, Cirencester, 162

M'Leod (Herbert, F.R.S.), Electricity of the Blowpipe Flame,
347

McNab (W. R.), Cryptogamic Flora of Silesia, 391
Madagascar: Publication of a New Work on, 23; Rev. James
Sibree, jun., on, 365

Magdeburg, Grand Agricultural Exhibition at, 163

Magnet, on a New Action of the, on Electric Currents, 361;
Lines of Force due to a Small, J. Buchanan, 370, 445
Magnets, Cast-Iron, M. Carre's, 359

Magnetic Effects of Electric Convection, 359

Magnetic Gyroscope, De Fonvielle and Lontin, 573, 593
Magnetism, T. Murby, 106

Magneto-Electric Machine, De Meritens, and an Induction Coil,
Effects produced with, Wm. Spottiswoode, P.R.S., 433
Magnus (Philip), appointed Director of City and Guilds of
London Technical Institute, 524
Malakhoff on the Ural Crayfish, 454

Mallet (Robert, F.R.S.), Death of Captain Cook, 275
Mammalia of Scotland, E. R. Alston, 609
Mammalian Remains in Four Bone Caves of Upper Franconia,
264

Man: Osteology of, 222; Origin of, W. S. Duncan, 493; Pre-
historic, in Japan, Fred. V. Dickins, 350; S. Suguira, 371
Manchester, Literary and Philosophical Society, 196, 340
Manchuria, Lead and Copper in, 48

Map of the World, Stanford's New Library, 22

Map, how to Colour a, with Four Colours, A. B. Kempe, 399
Marangoni (Signor), on the Plasticity of Solid Substances, 21
Marat the Author of Several Essays on Electricity, 189
Marble, Pyrenees, 165

Marbre Griotte, Dr. Barrois on, 165

Marangoni's Theory of Crystallogenesis, 504

Mariette-Bey (M.), on the proposed Excavations in Egypt, 115
Marine Animals, an Account of some met with en route to the
Cape, Capt F. Proby Doughty, 32

Markham (Capt. A. H.), Comet observed by, 515; Paper on
the Arctic Campaign, 1879, in the Barents Sea, 92
Marriott (W.), the Frost of December, 1879, 435
Mars: the Satellites of, 72; Planets of the Season-Mars, Rev.
T. W. Webb, 212; Physical Observations of Mars, 507

Marsden (Dr. R. Sydney), Artificial Diamonds, 445
Marseilles, Lectureship of Astronomy at, 239

Marsh (Prof.), the Fossil Treasures at Yale College, 287
Mascart's Method of Observation of Atmospheric Electricity, 72
Maskelyne (Prof., F.R.S.), the asserted Artificial Production of
Diamonds, 203

Mathematical Society, 75, 194, 267, 388, 483, 578

"Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids," by Horace
Lamb, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., on, 342
Mathematical Tables chiefly to Four Figures, J. M. Peirce, 346
Mathematics to Physics, Galileo and the Application of, Prof.
W. Jack, LL.D., 40 58

Mathématiques, Bulletin des Sciences, 152
Matter, "Ideal," Percy R. Harrison, 275
Matteucci's proposed Exploration of Africa, 477

Maxwell (Prof. Clerk), Obituary Notice of, W. Garnett, 43;
proposed Memorial to, 218; on a possible Mode of detecting
a Motion of the Solar System through the Luminiferous
Ether, 314; Prof. P. G. Tait on his Scientific Work, 317
Mayer's (Prof. Alfred M.) "Topophone," 385

Mayer (John), Obituary Notice of James R. Napier, F.R.S., 206
"Meddelelser, om Grönland, udgivne af Commissionen for
Ledelsen af de geologiske og geographiske Undersogelser i
Grönland," 344

Medicinal Plants, Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen, 416
"Medicine Past and Present," Dr. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S.,
510

Medlicott (H. B.), Mourtain Ranges, 301

Medusa, the, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 413
"Mélanges Géologiques," 425

Melbourne Observatory, 240

Meldola (R.), Ice Filaments, 302

Meldrum (C., F.R.S.), Sun-Spots and the Rainfall of Paris, 166
Melochia parvifolia, on the Heterostylism of, Dr. A. Ernst, 217
Membranes in Sounding Columns, Herr Kohlrausch, 309
Memory, a Feat of, Edwyn Anthony, 562

Menlo Park, Edison's New Electric Light at, 215, 285
Mercadier (M.), a Vibration Micrometer, 189

Mercurial Electrodes, Thermo-electric Behaviour of Aqueous
Solutions with, G. Gore, F.R.S., 169
Mercury, Electrical Experiments with, 360, 526
Mercury, the Planet, observed in Paris, 474

Meritens (De), Magneto-Electric Machine and an Induction
Coil, Effects produced with, Wm. Spottiswcode, P.R.S., 433
Metallic Vapours, on the Reversal of the Lines of, G. D.
Liveing, F.R.S., and J. Dewar, F.R.S., 193

Metalliferous Mines and Mining, a Treatise on, D. C. Davies,

129

Metalloid Elements, Pictet's proposal to Dissociate the, 445;
Sir B. C. Brodie, 491

Metals: Chemico-Electric Relations of, in Solutions of Salts of
Potassium, Dr. Geo. Gore, F.R.S., 218; various Conductivity
of, 243

Meteors: 518; at Strassburg, 48; the November, Rev. S. J.
Perry, F.R.S., 55; Meteors on October 19, 164; the Biela
Comet Meteors, 71, 240; J. S. Thomson, 303; in New
Caledonia, E. L. Layard, 397; at Gröningen, H. T. H.
Groneman, 444; Meteor Showers of January 2, W. F.
Denning, 527; F. T. Mott, 537; Syd. Evershed on a, 563;
Meteor Showers, W. F. Denning, 621
Meteoric Dust, a Shower of, 574
Meteorite, a remarkable, 574

Meteorology: Sun-spots in earnest, Prof. A. Winnecke, 10;
proposed Meteorological Observatory on Mont Ventoux, 18;
Meteorological Notes, 48, 142, 264, 384, 503; the Paris
Stations, 71; Meteorological Society, 123, 195, 363, 455,
507; a possible Consequence of our Present Weather, W.
Mattieu Williams, 130; New Meteorological Station at Prato,
140; French Meteorologists on the Severe Winter, 140; the
Chinese Typhoons, 141; Prof. Nipher's "Missouri Weather
Service Report," 142; the Temperatures of the Atlantic, 142;
Meteorology of South Australia, 281; Aratus' "Skies and
Weather Forecasts," 329; Col. Ward on the Meteorology of
Switzerland, 329; International Meteorological Conference at
Sydney, 382; Meteorological Phenomena of India, F.
Chambers, 384; Meteorological Report, Scotland, Prof.
Piazzi Smyth's, 407; New Journal of Meteorology and
Astronomy, "Ciel et Terre," 424; the Briançon Observatory,
452; the United States Signal Service and the German
Government, 473; H. F. Blanford on the Barometric See-

Saw between Russia and India in the Sun-spot cycle, 477;
U.S. Weather Maps, 500; Canada Monthly Weather
Review, 503; Loomis' Isobars for United States, 503; the
Annual Variation of the Barometer in India, S. A. Hill,
513; Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., on the Long Period
Inequality in Rainfall, 541

Methyl Chloride, Manufacture of from Beet-root, Prof. C.
Vincent, 358

Metric Commission, the International, 423
Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Exploration of Timor, 108

Meyer's Spectrum, Analytical Comparison of Gas, Sun, Day,
and the Electric Light, 504

Mica, the Chemical Monography of, 526

Michelson (Albert A.), Experimental Determination of the
Velocity of Light, 94, 120, 226

Micrometer, M. Mercadier's Vibration, 189
Microscopical Society, Journal of the Royal, 27
Microscopic Serenade, Jacob F. Henrici, 112
Microscopic Structure of Scottish Rocks, 333

Miers (John, F.R.S.), Dr. Henry Trimen, 11; his Bequest to
the British Museum, 71
Miksche's (Herr), Account of Waterspouts off Cape Spada, 265
Milk, Something about, 402

Miller (Mrs. Fenwick), an Atlas of Anatomy, 9

Mills (Edmund J., F. R.S.), Chemical Repulsion, 290

Milne (Prof.), his Method of Detecting Seismic Trembling, 382
Milner (James W.), Death of, 329

Mind in the Lower Animals, by Lauder Lindsay, M.D., George
J. Romanes, 8

Mineral Deposits, Dr. Albrecht von Groddeck on, 174
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 28, 524, 580
Mines and Mining, Metalliferous, a Treatise on, D. C. Davies,
129

Minié (M. Claude Etienne), Death of, 162
Minor Planets, 20, 240, 359, 475
Mission, the Second Yarkand, 389
"Missions Catholiques," 477

"Missouri Weather Service Report," Prof. Nipher's, 142
Mitchinson (Alexander), his return from Africa, 288

Mivart (Prof. St. George, F.R.S.), Society for the Encourage-
ment of Literature and Science, 107

"Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry,"
by Ogden N. Rood, Prof. Silvanus Thompson on, 78, 395
Moldavia, Earthquakes in, 524

Molecular Velocity of Gases, 201; L. Hajnis, 302
Molecules, the Mean Free Path of, 537

Momentum and Force, 108

"Monatshefte für Chemie und verwandte Theile anderer
Wissenschaften," Vienna, 407

Moncrieffe (Sir Thomas), Proposed Memorial to, 237
Mongolia, Exploration of, 118

Monkeys in the West Indies, Edmund Watt, 131; P. L.
Sclater, F.R.S., 153; John Imray, 371

Mont Ventoux, Proposed Meteorological Observatory on, 18
Monti's (M. Michelangiolo) "Acoustico-Electrical Kaleido-
scope," 359

Montigny (M.), on the Supernumerary or Spurious Rainbows,
267

Montreal, McGill University, Gift to, 595
Monuments, Ancient, in France, 115

Moore (Capt. P.), Ornithological Tables, 440
Morgan (H. A.), a Clever Spider 276

Morgue, the Paris, and Artificial Cold Processes, 19
Morin (Gen.), Obituary Notice of, 349
Morphine, Reaction for, 360
"Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 75, 530

Morren's (Prof. E.) “ Correspondance Botanique," 141
Morris (Alfred), the Kangaroo, 302

Morse (Prof. Edward S ), the Ômori Shell-Mounds, 561
Morton (George H.), "The Carboniferous Limestone and
Cefn-y-Fedw Sandstone of the Country between Llanymynech
and Minera, North Wales," 105

Morton (Henry), Koenig's Collection at the Philadelphia Ex-
hibition, 368

Mosasauroid Reptiles, New, 308

Moseley (H. N., F.R.S.), Easter Island, 32; Deep-Sea Dredg·
ing and Life in the Deep Sea, 543, 569, 591
Moser (Dr. Ludwig), Death of, 473
Moths, Bees Eeating Entrapped, 308

Motion of Fluids, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 342

Palestine, the New Map of, 620

Papin and Leibnitz, Dr. Gerland's Discovery of Original Letters
by, 19

Papau, the, E. L. Layard, 201

Papuans, Notes upon, of Maclay Coast, New Guinea, J. C.
Galton, 204, 226; V. Ball, 251

Para, Rubber Plants, Dr. King on, 238
Parallax of a Small Star, 117

Parallax, the Solar, 141

Pfeiffer's (M.), Electric Toy, 267

Phenomenon, a Strange, R. E. Harris, 409

Philadelphia Exhibition, Koenig's Collection at the, Henry
Morton, 368

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society Centenary, 500
Philadelphia Academy, 627, 628

Philosophy, Mythologic, Prof. J. W. Powell, 312, 333
Phonograph, Forms Produced in the, Signor Fautrier on, 21;
M. C. E. Séguin fils, on the Invention of the, 266

Paris: Anthropological Society of, Felyx-Denys-Rapontayabo's
Letter to the, 19; School of Astronomy at the Observatory,
19; the Lenses of the Great Refractor at the, 500; Appoin -
ment of astronome titulare, 475; the Use of Ice in the
Morgue, 19; the Telephone in, 20; Academy of Sciences, 28,
52, 76, 100, 124, 148, 172, 219, 244, 268, 292, 316, 340, 364,
388, 412, 436, 484, 508, 532, 556, 580, 604, 628; Archives
of the, 71; Statistics of the Members, 573; M. Perrier ap-
pointed a Member of, 237; Prizes of, 421; Meteorological
Commission, 47; the Meteorological Stations in, 71; Scheme
for erecting a Memorial of the Siege of, 115; Geographical
Society, 118; Bulletin, 266, 428; Gas-Lighting in, some
Statistics of, 140; Snow-storm in, 140; the Frost in, 162;
the Rainfall of, and Sun-Spots, C. Meldrum, F.R.S., 166;
the Thaw in, 239; Gas and Electricity in, W. de Fonvielle,
282; Experiments in Electric Lighting in, 307; Electric
Light in, 423; Exhibition of 1878, Artisan Reports on, Prof.
Silvanus P. Thompson, 397; the Damage to Trees by Frost,
501; Physical Society, 548

Parker (T. Jeffery), Scottish Zoological Station, 159; "On the
Histology of Hydra fusca," 244

Parker (Prof. W. K., F.R.S.), Series of Lectures at the Royal
College of Surgeons, 329

Passivity of Iron, M. Louis Varenne on the, 117

Pasteur's "Studies on Fermention; the Diseases of Beer, their
Causes, and the Means of Preventing them," 274
Paterno, Appearance of a Small Crater near, 382
Paterson (W. G. Spence), Earthquakes in Iceland, 132
Pathological Histology of Epizoötic Pleuropneumonia, by Chas.
S. Roy, M.D., Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., on, 175
Paton (Jas.), a Museum Conference, 442, 514
Patterson (C. P.), Trans-Atlantic Longitudes, 467

Pavesi (Prof.), on the Pelagic Fauna of the Lakes of Tessin
and Italy, 525

Peal (S. E.), Intellect in Brutes, 34; Voice in Fish, 55
Pegasi, the Close Binary 85, 240

Peirce (C. S.), Mutual Attraction of Spectral Lines, 108
Peirce (J. M.), "Mathematical Tables chiefly to Four Figures,"
346

Pelagic Fauna of Italian and Tessin Lakes, 525

Pendulum, Employment of the, for Determining the Figure of
the Earth, Major J. Herschel, 599

Penning (W. H.), "Text Book of Field Geology," Second
Edition of, 264; Diatoms in the London Clay, 494
Pepsine-forming Glands, 169

Percy (Dr.), his Resignation of the Lectureship on Metallurgy,
162

Perforated Stones in River Beds, W. Curran, 348

Pergamon, Archæological Investigations at, Prof. Conze on, 408
Perini (N.), New Planetarium, 111, 568

Periodicity of Rainfall, Result of an Inquiry into the, G. M.
Whipple, 338

Perrier (M.) Appointed a Member of the Academy of Sciences,
237

Perry (John) and W. E. Ayrton, on Seeing by Electricity, 589
Perry (Rev. S. J., F. R.S.), the November Meteors, 55
Persia, the Existence of a Blonde Race in, 266
Petermann's Mittheilungen, 49, 242, 361, 455
Petermann (Dr. August), Monument to, 451

Pethö (Julius), Hungarian Earthquakes and the Kolumbács
Flies, 202

Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Carbon and Water Figures, 225
Petrographical Descriptions of the Caucasian Region, Dr.
Abich's, 287

Photographic Process, New, discovered in Japan, 243
Photographic Spectra of Stars, W. Huggins, F.R.S., on, 269
Photographic Society, 364, 436, 507

Photography, the New Hydrogen Lines Observed by the Star
Lines, and the Dissociation of Calcium, Dr. H. W. Vogel, 410
Photometry, Celestial, 23

Phylloxera in the French Vine-growing Districts, 356, 452, 597;
in the Vines of Cape Colony, 356; in Sicily, 452
Physics, Galileo and the Application of Mathematics to, Prof.
W. Jack, LL.D., 40, 58

Physics, Lecture Notes on, by C. Bird, 153

Physical Notes, 21, 72, 117, 189, 242, 266, 287, 309, 359, 385,
408, 426, 526, 575

Physical Society, 75, 147, 194, 339, 363, 411, 506, 531, 627
Physiology, Vocal, and Hygiene, by Gordon Holmes, Dr.
William Pole on, 271

Pickard-Cambridge's (Rev. O.) Spiders of Dorset, 273
Pickering (Prof. Edward C.), Light of Webb's Planetary
Nebula (DM. + 41°, 4004), 346; Harvard College Observa-
tory, 359

Pictet's Proposal to Dissociate the Metalloid Elements, 445
Pictet (Raoul), on the Artificial Production of Cold, 524
Pilous System in Man, 424

Piscicultural, International, Exhibition at Berlin, 193

Pitch, Musical, 533; the History of, Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 550
Planetary Nebula (DM + 41° 4004), Light of Webb's, Prof.
Edward C. Pickering, 346

Planetarium, a New, N. Perini, 111, 568

Planets, Minor, 20, 240, 359, 475; the Red Spot upon Jupiter,
20; Saturn, T. W. Webb, 87; Mars, Rev. T. W. Webb,
212; on the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of
a Satellite Revolving about a Planet Distorted by Tides,
G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 235; the Intra-Mercurial Planet
Question, Prof. Lewis Swift, 299; the Small Planets observed
at Greenwich, Admiral Mouchez, 407; Mercury observed in
Paris, 474

Plantamour (Prof.), on the Temperature of St. Bernard, 330
Planté (M. Gaston), his Researches on Voltaic Electricity, 21;
Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 150; Improvements in Plante's
Secondary Batteries, 409

Plants, Chronological History of, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 104
Plants, Effects of Uninterrupted Sunlight on, 311

Plants, Medicinal, Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen, 416
Plasticity of Solid Substances, Signor Marangoni on, 21

Platinum, Intensity of the Rays emitted by Glowing, Dr. E. L.
Nichols on, 267

Platysomid Fishes, R. H. Traquair, 55

Pleuropneumonia, Epizootic, Report on the Pathological Histology
of, by Dr. Chas. Roy, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 175
Pliocene Period in England, 578

Plough, the Origin of the, 459; the largest, 597
Plymouth, publication of a Flora of, 262
Pneumatic Clocks in Paris, 500

Poey (Prof. André), Cloud Classification, Rev. W. Clement
Ley on, 207

Polariscope, Measuring, Herr E. Schneider's, 242

Pole (Dr. William, F.R.S.), Animals and the Musical Scale,
11; Hering's Theory of the Vision of Light and Colours, 14;
on Vocal Physiology and Hygiene, by Gordon Holmes, 271
Politics and Science, 348

Pollen, John Miers on the Action of, II

Post (Dr. Jul.), "Grundriss der chemischen Technologie," 55
Post Office and the Telephone, W. H. Preece, 349

Potassium, Salts of, Chemico-Electric Relations of Metals in
Solutions of, Dr. Geo. Gore, F.R.S., 218

Radiation, Recent Experiments on, Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S.,
183

Rae (J.), Stags' Horns, 349; Anchor-Ice, 538
Rainbow, a Curious, J. B. Hannay, 56

Rainbows, Supernumerary or Spurious, M. Montigny on, 267
Rainfall: Result of an Inquiry into the Periodicity of, G. M.
Whipple, 338; in the Tropics, Dr. A. Woeikof, 347; of
Austria-Hungary, Dr. Hann on, 385; of Paris and Sun-Spots,
C. Meldrum, F.R.S., 166; on the Long Period Inequality in,
Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 541

Rammelsberg (Prof.), on the Chemical Monography of the Mica
Group, 526

Ranyard (A. C.), Observations made during Total Solar Eclipses,
Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 488

Rayleigh's (Lord) Election to the Chair of Experimental Physics
at Cambridge, 162

Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 290, 338, 433,
530; Prizes, 263

Recall of Sights and Tastes, Dr. A. Ernst, 611

Red Crag, the, 578

Redhouse (J. W.), "False Dawn," 33

Reflection of Sound Waves, New Method of Studying, Prot. O.
N. Rood, 426

Regensburg (Ratisbon), Discovery of a Roman Structure at, 116
Registrar General, Sir Brydges Henniker, Bart., Appointed, 214
"Reihengräber," Herr Lissauer's Discovery of Unopened Graves,
382

Reptiles: New Jurassic, 241; New Mosasauroid, 308
Repulsion, Chemical, Edmund J. Mills, F. R.S., 290
Re-Reversal of Sodium Lines, C. A. Young, 274
Research, the Local Endowment of, 487

Retina, the Human, 453

Revista de Canarias, 264

Revista Geografica Internationale, New Geographical Journal,
266

Revue des Sciences Naturelles, 314

Revue d'Anthropologie, 458

Revue Internationale des Sciences, 99, 169, 362
Revue Internationale des Sciences biologiques, 530

Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), "A Treatise on the Mathe-
matical Theory of the Motion of Fluids," by Horace Lamb,
342

Rheo tatic Machine, M. Plante's, 21

Rhizopoda: a New Class of, Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 449; Fresh-
water, Prof. Leidy's Monograph on, 523

Rhodes' (R. G.) "Audiphone," 243; Prof. Colladon on, 426,
469

Rhone, Discovery of Interesting Objects in the Bed of the, 163
Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), Fleuss's Method of Diving
and remaining under Water, 62

Ridout (R. H.), on a New Copying Process, 155; on Vibratory
Motion in Fluids, 506

Right Side and Left Side in Different Races, 262

Riley (J. H.), Explorations in China, 455

Riley (Dr. C. V.), the Cotton-Worm, 466

River Beds, Perforated Stones in, W. Curran, 348
River Water, Prof. Tidy on, 507

Riviera, Sanitary Science in the, 382

Rivista Scientifico Industriale, 27, 458, 578

Roberts (W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Copper-Tin Alloys, 272; on
the "Flashing" in Cu elled Buttons of Gold and Silver, 531
"Rocker," the Trevelyan, Prof. Barrett on the, 426, 507
Rocks, Upper Devonian, of the North of France, 164
Rocks, Stratified, the Structure and Origin of, H. C. Sorby,
F.R.S., 431

Rodwell (G. F.), the History of Vesuvius during the Year 1879,
351; on Etna, 396; the Lipari Islands, 400; Notes from
Italy and Sicily, 457

Rohlfs' (Dr. Gerhard) Expedition in North Africa, 23, 49, 241;
Arrival at Rome, 216
Roland (Arthur), Farming for Pleasure and Profit," 534
Roman Structure, Recent Discovery of, at Regensburg (Ratis-
bon), 116

Romanes (George J., F.R.S.), Mind in the Lower Anima's, by
W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., 8

Rome, Science Teaching in, 458

Rood's (Prof. Ogden N.), "Modern Chromatics, with Applica-
tions to Art and Industry," Prof. Silvanus Thompson on, 78,
395; New Method of Studying the Reflexion of Sound Waves,
426

Roos (J. D. C. De), Linkages, 441

Roots, the Action of Salts on Water-Absorption by, 576
Ross (Col. W. A.), Electricity of the Blow pipe "Flame," 275
Roth (W. E.), the "Gastric Mill" of the Crayfish, 395
Roy (Dr. Chas.), Report on the Pathological Histology of Epi-
zootic Pleuropneumonia, 175

Royal College of Surgeons, Prof. W. K. Parker, F.R.S., Series
of Lectures at, 329

Royal Institution, Lectures at, 239, 523

Royal Microscopical Society, 99, 195, 358, 434, 556; Journal,
432

Royal Society, 99, 123, 146, 169, 193, 218, 244, 267, 290, 314;
338, 362, 387, 433, 482, 506, 555, 626; Officers, &c., 46;
Medals, 69; proposed Arrangements for the Friday Evening
Lectures, 114; Anniversary Meeting of, 118; the New
Fellows, 616

Royal Geographical Society, see Geography

Rowney and King (Professors), on the Origin of the Mineral,
Structural, and Chemical Characters of Ophites and Related
Rocks, 529

Rüdinger's (Prof.) Anatomical Model, 306

Russia Russian Geographical Society, 22, 118, 522, 620;
Works Recently Published by the, 23; Isvestia, 311; Medals
of the, 428; Journal of Rus ian Chemical and Physical So-
ciety, 75; Annual Meeting of, 285; Sixth Congress of Rus-
sian Naturalists, 288; Scheme for Introducing the Gregorian
Calendar into Russia, 408; the Barometric See-Saw between
Russia and India in the Sun-Spot Cycle, H. F. Blanford, 477
Rutenburg (Dr. Chr.), Stone Monument to, 73
Rye (E. C.), Zoological Record, 467

Ryleke (M.), Measurements on the Levels of the Baltic and
Black Seas, 73

Sabine (Lady), Obituary Notice of, 114

"Sacred Books of the East," Edited by F. Max Müller, Vols.
I., II., III., Prof. A. H. Sayce, 77
Sadebeck (Dr. Alexander), Death of, 215
Safety-Valves of Boilers, 189

Sahara and Sudan, Dr. Gustav Nachtigal, 198; French Expe-
dition for Exploring, 310; Formation of an Algerian Com-
pany for Cultivating the, 424

Saidapet Experimental Farm Manual and Guide, C. Benson, 54