ABBE (Prof. Cleveland): Macclesfield Observations, 365; Note
on his Work, 502

Abercromby (Hon. Ralph); a Meteorologist at the Royal Aca-
demy, 225 the Weather in the "Doldrums," 238; and R.
H. Scott, F. R.S., on Meldrum's Rules for Handling Ships in
the Southern Indian Ocean, 358; Photographs of Lightning-
Flashes, 547

Aberdare Hall, Cardiff, 257
Aberdeen University, 552
Aberration, Constants of, 185

Abney (Captain W. de W., F.R.S.): Colour Photometry, 212;
Photometry of Colour, 286; on the Determination of the
Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar
Eclipse of August 28, 29, 1886, 407

Abscess, Microbism and, Verneuil, 488

Absorption Spectra, the, of Crystals, M. Becquerel, A. E.
Tutton, 343

Academy of Sciences, Proposed Czeck, 302
Acari, A. D. Michael on, 94

Acheson (E. G.): Measurements of Sparking Distance in Air
of Alternate Currents used in Electric Lighting, 305; Inquiry
into Influence of Disruptive Discharges of Powerful Alter-
nating Currents, 577

Açores, Excursions Zoologiques dans les, Jules de Guerne, 113
Actinometer, Electro-chemical, Gouy and Rigollot, 119
Adam (Paul), New Organic Compounds of Diphenyl, 599
Adelaide Botanic Garden, Report of the, 623

Advancement of Science, the Australasian Association for the,
437

Eolotropic Elastic Solids, C. Chree on, 165

Aerolites, on the Orbits of, H. A. Newton, 63, 250
Aeronautics: Proposed Steel Vacuum Balloon, 185; Aëronaut-
ical Society of Great Britain, 230; a Compressed-Air Engine
for Flying Machine, L. Hargrave, 463; War Aerostation in
France, 552

Agassiz Seaside Assembly, 203

Agriculture in Canada, 87; Agricultural Education in Nor-
thern Italy and in Prussia, 138; the Principles of Agricultural
Practice as an Instructional Subject, Prof. John Wrightson,
220; New School of Agriculture at West Lavington, 228;
Report of the British Consul at Hakodadi, on Agriculture of
Yezo, Japan, 373; the Rothamsted Experiments on the
Growth of Wheat, Barley, and the Mixed Herbage of Grass
Land, William Fream, 465; Professorship of Agriculture
founded at Virginia University, 552; Rural School Education
in Agriculture in Scotland, Prof. Robert Wallace, 576; Pro-
posed Agricultural College, 598
Afforestation in America, 487

Afghans, the, M. L. Rousselet, 431

Afghan Delimitation Commission, the Botany of the, J. E. T.
Aitchison, F. R.S., 219

Africa: Dwarf Races in, R. G. Haliburton, 112; Tropical
Africa, Henry Drummond, 171; Lieutenants Kund and
Tappenbeck's Expedition into Cameroons, 186; a Century
of African Exploration, Dr. Supan, 186; Report of the South
African Museum for 1887, 230; Jules Borelli's African Ex-
plorations, 259; a Monograph of the Extra-Tropical Species

of South African Butterflies, Rowland Trimen, F.R.S., 266;
Incwadi Yama, or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in
South Africa, J. W. Matthews, 295; German East African
Possessions, Dr. Hans Meyer, 305

Ain, Notes on the Département de l', Dr. Aubert, 431
Ainos: Folk-Lore of the, 87; Burial Customs of the, Rev. J.
Batchelor, 331

Air: Determination of the Weight of, M. J. M. Crafts, 192;
Movement of, in the Atmosphere, Dr. Lummer, 192

Air and Water, the Micro-organisms of, Dr. Percy F. Frank-
land, 232

Aitchison (J. E. T., F.R.S), the Botany of the Afghan
Delimitation Commission, 219

Aitken (Sir William, F.R.S.), the Animal Alkaloids, &c.,

170

Alaska, Lieut. Emmon's Ethnographical Collection from, 64
Al-Birûnî's India: an Account of the Religion, Philosophy,
Literature, &c., of India about A. D. 1030, 97

Albuminoid Substances in the White of an Egg, Study of, 164
Alcohol, a Treatise on, with Tables of Spirit Gravities, Thomas
Stevenson, IOI

Alcoholism and Criminality, M. Marambat, 135
Aldrovandia vesiculosa, M. Korzchinsky on, 160

Alexander (G. W.), Humming-bird and Mantis, 383
Alexander (Dr. H.), New Platinum Base obtained by, 256
Alexander (J.) and Prof. Carnelly on the Colour of some
Carbon Compounds, 141

Alkaline Phosphites, on the Action of the, on the Alkaline-
Earthy Oxides, M. L. Ouvrard, 168

Alkaloids, the Animal, Sir William Aitken, F.R.S., 170;
A. M. Brown, 170

Allen (Grant), and Electro-physics, 221

Allene, the Gas, Gustavson and Demjanoff, 552

Alps, Western, on the Constitution and Structure of the
Crystalline Schists of the, Prof. Ch. Lory, 506

Aluminium on Organic Compounds in their relations to Haloid
Salts of, G. Gustafson, 139; in certain Vascular Cryptogams,
on the Occurrence of, Prof. A. H. Church, 140, 228; Cowles's
Process for the Production of, 162; the Vapour-density of,
239; Production of, H. T. Castner, 326; Present Position of
the Manufacture of, 592; Freezing point of Solutions of
Organic Compounds of, Louise and Roux, 608
Amaryllideæ, Hand-book of the, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 362
Amber in West Jutland, Discovery of, 598
America: Scandinavian Colonization of, 17; American Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, 63; American Association for
Advancement of Science, 64, 256, 452; American Journal
of Science, 91, 189, 430, 462, 559; American Journal of
Mathematics, 164, 582; American Meteorological Journal,
112, 204, 326, 502; Implements of Paleolithic Type in
America, 184; New York "Blizzard," 204; Dr. David
T. Day's Pottery Collection, 206; American Observa-
tories, 231, 626; the International Congress of "Ame-
ricanists," 256, 552; Trans-Mississippi Rainfall, 326;
American Statistical Association, Water-power employed in the
United States, 349; American Philosophical Society, 351;
Native Birds of North America, 373; Cincinnati Exposition,

during Opposition of 1888, L. Niesten, 511; Comet 1888.e
(Barnard), 528; Comets Brooks and Faye, Dr. H. Kreutz,
528; Comet 1888 (Brooks), Dr. H. Kreutz, 503; Dis-
covery of a New Comet, 1888 e, E. E. Barnard, 503; the
Total Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 553; Photometric Obser-
vations of Asteroids, Henry M. Parkhurst, 554 New Cata-
logue of Variable Stars, S. C. Chandler, 554; Minor Planet
No. 275, 554; the Light-curve of U Ophiuchi, S. C. Chandler,
576; Comets Brooks and Faye, 576; Comet 1888 e (Barnard),
W. R. Brooks, 576; Astronomical Instruments, Lord Craw-
ford's Collection of, 598; the Solar Parallax from Photographs
of the last Transit of Venus, 600; the Markings of Mars, 601;
Fresh Calculation of Jupiter's Mass, E. de Haertl, 608; Prof.
Egoroff's Report on the Observations made in Russia and
Siberia during the Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887,
625; the Ring Nebula in Lyra, Prof. Holden, 626; Comets
Brooks and Faye, 626; Comet 1888 e (Barnard), Herr A.
Berberich, 626; American Observatories, 626; Fearnley and
Geelmuyden Zone Observations of the Stars, 626
Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, Publications of the, 206
Atkinson (W. S.), Description of the New Indian Lepidopterous
Insects from the Collection of Frederick Moore, 266
Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, Charts Showing the Mean
Barometrical Pressure over the, 196

Atlantic, North, Currents, Monthly Charts, M. Simart, 143
Atlantic, North, Pilot Chart of, 86, 204, 422
Atlantic Ocean, Models of the Bed of the, 327

Atlantic Slope, Three Formations of the Middle, W. J. McGee,

190

Atlas, Mr. Joseph Thomson's Proposed Expedition to the, 112,
555

Atmosphere in Channel, Extraordinary Rarefaction of, 256
Atmosphere, Thermo-dynamics of the, Prof. von Bezold, 144
Atmosphere, Transparency of the, J. Parnell, 270
Atmospheric Nitrogen, on the Relations of, to Vetable Soil, M.
Th. Schlæsing, 383

Atolls, Formation of, 5

Atomic Weight, Prof. Hartley, F.R.S., 142

Aubert (Dr.), Notes on the Département de l'Ain, 431

Aurivillius (Dr. C.), on the Skeleton of the so-called Sweden-
borg Whale, Eubalena svedenborgü, Lillj., 134

Aurora Borealis observed at Motala, Sweden, 16; at Örebro in
Central Sweden, 16

Aurora Borealis, Origin of, Jean Luvini, 143
Aurora Borealis at Rock Ferry, 54

Aurora in Spitzbergen, Dr. H. Hildebrandsson, 84
Australia: the Rabbit Pest in, 42; Curious Apparent Motion
of the Moon seen in, T. Mellard Reade, 102; Wraggs's Daily
Weather Charts for Australia, 303; Lieut. Israel's Exploring
Party, 374; the Australasian Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, 437; Report of the Australian Museum,
575; a New Australian Mammal, E. C. Stirling, 588;
Female Figures modelled in Wax discovered among Aus-
tralian Aboriginals, 623; Australian Association for the
Advancement of Science, 623; Catalogue of the Fishes in the
Australian Museum, Sydney, 624

Austria, Curious Relic of Mediaeval Superstition in, 454
Austrian Alps, New Measurements of the, 280
Aveling (Edward), Mechanics, 587

Avocet Rock, the, 222

Baker (C. Weatherall), a Magnificent Meteor, 203
Baker (J. G., F.R.S.): Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, William
Hillebrand, 49; Preserving the Colour of Flowers, 245;
Synoptical Flora of North America, Prof. Asa Gray, 242 ;
Hand-book of the Amaryllideæ, 362

Balance, Physical, Theory and Use of, J. Walker, 146
Balance, the Voltaic, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335

Balland (M.), on the Development of the Grain of Wheat,
168

Balloon, Captive, at Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction by
Lightning of, 578

Balloon Journey, a, Lieut. Moedebeck, 48
Balloon, Proposed Steel Vacuum, 185

Ballot (Dr. Buys), on the Distribution of Temperature over the
Surface of the Earth, 374

Baltic, Remarkable Mirage on the, 304

Bamford (Alf. J.), Turbans and Tails, or Sketches in the Un-
romantic East, 269

Banaré (A.), Experiments with Marine Telephone, 464

Banbury (G. A. Lethbridge), Sierra Leone, or the White Man's
Grave, 244

Bandai-San Eruption, the, 452

Barcelona Exhibition, Destruction of Captive Balloon by Light-
ning, 578

Barley, Experiments on Hybridism or Crossings with Common,
336

Barnard (E. E.), Discovery of a New Comet, 1888 e, 503;
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Baroda, Science in, 41

Barometer, a New, T. H. Blakesley, 287

Barometrical Pressure over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific
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Barttelot (Major), Murder of, 499

Bashforth (Rev. F.), Calculation of Ranges, &c., of Elongated
Projectiles, 468

Basingstoke, Discovery of Prehistoric Remains near, 553
Basset (A. B.), Treatise on Hydro-dynamics, 243

Batavia, Dr. Guppy's Expedition to the Coral Reefs of the
Indian Archipelago, 228

Batchelor (Rev. J.): on Aino Folk-Lore, 87; Burial Customs of
the Ainos, 331

Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field-Club, 304;
Meeting of the British Association, 346, 382

Bather (F. A.), Lightning and Milk, 30

Baudot (M.), an Isochronous Regulator, 384

Bauer (G.), Spelin, Eine Allsprache, I

Beat of the Human Heart, on the Electromotive Variations
which accompany the, Dr. Augustus D. Waller, 619
Beatty-Kingston (W.), a Wanderer's Notes, 196
Becquerel (M.), the Absorption Spectra of Crystals, 343
Beddard (Frank E.), the Nephridia of Earthworms, 221
Bedford (H.), Derivation of the Word Claret, 113
Bedford College, Shaen Wing, 372

Beevor (Dr. Charles E.) and Victor Horsley, F. R.S., Note on
some of the Motor Functions of certain Cranial Nerves and
of the Three First Cervical Nerves in the Monkey (Macacus
sinicus), 357

Belgium, Report of Royal Commission on Condition of Labour,
133

Bell (Prof. A. Graham), and Deaf Mutes, 132

Bell (Mr.), on Manure Gravels of Wexford, 597
Belladonna, the Constituents of, 240

Benda (Dr.), the Structure of Striated Muscle-Fibres, 360
Benham (Dr. Wm. B.), British Earthworms, 319
Bengal, Meteorological Report for, 574

Bengal, Monsoon Storms in, 158

Bentham (George), Prof. W. T. T. Dyer on, 116
Bérenger-Férand (M. le Dr.), Recurrence of the Myth of
Ibicus among Provençals, 212

Berget (M. Alphonse), Measurement of the Coefficients of
Thermic Conductibility for Metals, 359

Berichte, Chemistry of the Rare Earths, Drs. Krüss and
Kiesewetter on the, 326

Berlin: Academy of Sciences, 302; Awards of, 16; Meteoro-
logical Society, 48, 119; Report of the Berlin Meteorological
Society, 278; Physiological Society, 24, 95, 119, 144, 240,
264, 312, 360, 464; Physical Society, 72, 119, 143, 192, 311;
Skull of Rhinoceros tichorrhinus found near, 304
Bernheim (M. J.) and M. G. Rousseau on the Decomposition
of the Ferrate of Baryta, 216

Bernoulli and Haecker, Formulæ of, for the Lifting Power of
Magnets, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190

Bert (Paul), First Elements of Experimental Geometry, 295
Berthelet and Fabre, the Chemistry of Tellurium, 63
Berthelot (M.): Experiments on the Fixation of Nitrogen by
certain Vegetable Plants and Soils, 408; and G. André,
Remarks on the Quantitative Analysis of Nitrogen in
Vegetable Soil, 359

Bertrand (M. J.), Note on Target Practice, 359
Bessarabia, Disease of the Tobacco Plant in, 278

Bezold (Prof. von), Thermo-dynamics of the Atmosphere, 144
Bhabur Grass, the Kew Bulletin on, 277

Bialoveski (A.), Dreams, 56

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