A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE VOLUME XXI. NOVEMBER 1879 to APRIL 1880 "To the solid ground London and New York: 1880 INDEX ABBAY (Rev. R.), a Consolidated Beach in Ceylon, 184 Abney (Capt., F.R.S.), on the Photographic Method of Mapping 359 Adam's Valley (Moravia), Discovery of a Stalactite Cavern in, Aeronautics: Balloon Accident, 71; Baumgartner's Navigable Africa: Belgian Expedition, 73; the South African Public Agassiz (Prof. Alex), the Antiquity of Oceanic Basins, 587 Agriculture: Agricultural College, Cirencester, Rev. J. Brown Air, the Temperature of, at various levels, L. Hajniš, 176 50, 122, 314, 458; American Quarterly Microscopical Journal, Anatomy, an Atlas of, by Mrs. Fenwick Miller, 9 Anderson (Richard), "Lightning-conductors, their History, "Animal Life," Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 232 Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 27, 122, 218, 289, 361, 530 Ansdell (Gerrard), the Physical Constants of Liquid Hydro- Antarctic Expedition, proposed Italian, 578, 598 Anthracite, a Valuable Bed of, at Ching-mên chow, 307 "Air at the Equator, why it is not hotter in January than in Antimony, the Atomic Weight of, 554 Akhal-Tekkes, the, 455 Algeria: Exploration of, 216, 239; Algerian Company for Cultivating the Sahara, 424; Algerian Scientific Association, 474; Rainfall in, 549 Algiers, Observatory of, 263 Allen (J. Romilly), a Museum Conference, 468, 515 Alumayû, Who was Prince? A. H. Keane, 61 Ants, the "Parasol," of Texas: how they cut and carry Leaves: Aralo-Caspian Basin, Geology and Physical Geography of, 577 Archives des Sciences Physique et Naturelles, 28, 362, 459, 530 Arctic Exploration: Capt. Howgate's Proposed Expedition, II, Argyll (Duke of), Ice-crystals, 274, 368 Armstrong (Prof. Henry F., F.R.S.), Dissociation of Chlorine, A L'Asonval's (M.), Suggestion for the Improvement of Planté's Secondary Batteries, 409 Artisan Reports on the Paris Exhibition of 1878, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 397 Aryan Tribes of India, 598 "Asia Minor," in the "Encyclopædia Britannic," 82 Asia, Eastern, the Climate of, Dr. H. Fritsche, 175 Asia, Central, the Races of, 266 Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions, 264 Astronomy: our Astronomical Column, 20, 71, 91, 117, 141, 164, 240, 264, 286, 307, 331, 359, 383, 453, 475, 502, 525, 575, 597, 618; School of, at the Observatory of Paris, 19; to Astronomers, Lord Lindsay, 106; Rev. J. Challis' "Practical Astronomy,” 105; "Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques et Astronomiques," 152; Astronomical SubjectIndex, J. L. E. Dreyer, 154; new journal of Astronomy and Meteorology, "Ciel et Terre," 424; French School of Astronomy, 452; a Bibliography of Astronomy, 453; Prof. Thury on Astronomical Observations, 474 Astrophytida and Ophiuridae of the Challenger Expedition, Atlantic, the Temperatures of the, 142 Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 530, 578 "Audiphone," Rhodes, 243, 469; Prof. Colladon on, 426; Thos. Fletcher, 515 Audition, Binaural, Prof. Silvanus Thompson's Monograph on, 21; Experiments relating to, 310 Aurora J. Rand Capron, 127; Catalogue of, 384; Aurora at Last, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 492; Auroral Response in America, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 609 Austral Islands, Land Shells of the, 108 Australian Colonies, Infantile Mortality in our, 48 Australia, Western, Demand for Flax grown in, 141; Mr. Alex. Forrest in, 165; Discovery of Coal in, 264 Australia, South, Meteorology of, 281 "Australasia," A. R. Wallace's, A. Hart Everett, 535; A. R. Wallace, 562 Austria-Hungary, Rainfall of, Dr. Hann, 385 Austria, Cave Exploration in, 457; Tumuli in, 457 Ayrton (Mrs. Chaplin), M.D. Degree from the Medical Faculty of Paris, 162 Ayrton (W. E.) and John Perry on Seeing by Electricity, 589 Azimuth, New Modes of showing Different Characteristics over Small Arcs in, from the Lighthouse Apparatus, T. Stevenson, 156 Balfour (Dr. I. B.) appointed Naturalist to the Socotra Expedition, 237; News from, 381; his Exploration of Socotra, 504, 515; Return from Socotra, 616 Ball (V.), Notes on the Papuans of Maclay Coast, New Guinea, 251; Jungle Life in India, 373 Balloons: Accident to a, 71; Baumgartner's Navigable, 549; Ballooning in France, 575 Balmain's Luminous Paint, 576 Barbadoes, Science in, 548 Barometer, on the Construction of a New Glycerine, 377 Barometrical Variations in India, S. A. Hill, 513 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), Novel Source of Frictional Electricity, 417; the Loud-speaking Telephone, 483; Trevelyan Rocker, 426, 507 Barrett (S. T.), Ice-Crystals or Filaments, 537 Barrington-Kennett (V. B.), the Paces of the Horse, 107 Barrois (Dr. Charles), Tertiary Quartzites of the Ardennes, 164; Marbre Griotte, 165 Barton (Bolling W.), Stags' Horns, 325 Bastian (Prof.), his Arrival at Batavia, 216 Batteries, Planté's Secondary, M. d'Arsonval's Suggestion for the Improvement of, 409 Bauke (Dr. H.), of Berlin, Death of, 262 Beach, Note on a Consolidated, in Ceylon, Rev. R. Abbay, 184 Bedford (Henry), Sun-Spots, 276 Bees: and Centipedes, 12; Infectious Disease among, 163; Eating Entrapped Moths, 308 Beet-root, Manufacture of Me hyl Chloride from, Prof. C. Begbie (Major Elphinstone), Intellect in Brutes, 325 Bell (Graham), Prix de Volta awarded to, 329 Bell (Thomas, (F.R.S.), Death of, 473; Obituary Notice of, 499 Bellew (H. W.), on Kafiristan, 427 Benson (C.), the Saidapet Experimental Farm Manual and Guide, 54 Bentley (Robert) and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, 416 Berlin: "Geographentag" at, 73; International Piscicultural Exhibition, 163; Berlin Geographical Society, 242, 477; Zeitschrift, 266, 386; German Anthropological Congress at, 285; Berlin Society of Commercial Geography, 427; Electrical Railway in, 473, 501 Bernier's (M. Théodore) "Dictionnaire Géographique, Historique, Archéologique, Biographique, et Bibliographique du Hainault," 360 Berrot (M.), Death of, 357 Berwick (Dr. George), Lunar Rings, 33, 155 Bettany (G. T.), the "Parasol" Ants of Texas; how They Cut and Carry Leaves; Origin of Castes by Evolution, 17; the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos, 86 Beynen (Koolemans) Death of, 92 Bibliography: Catalogue of Scientific Serials, Mr. S. H. Biermann (Adolf), Death of, 548 Binary Stars, Orbits of, 141 Binaural Audition, Prof. Silvanus Thompson's Monograph on, 21; Experiments Relating to, 310 Biology Biological Notes, 93, 240, 308, 453; "CentraliAmericana," F. Duncan Godman and Osbert Salvin, 321; a New Biological Atlas, 262; the Destruction of Insect Pests an Unforseen Application of the Results of Biological Investigation, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 447; Studies from the Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, 618 Bird (C.), "Lecture Notes on Physics," 153 Birds British, the Times on, 260; Moore's Ornithological Tables, 440; the Song of Birds, 590, 612 Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Annual Meeting of, 358; Conversazione of the, 424; Philosophical Society, Proceedings, 452; the Endowment of Research at, 487 Bischofsheim (M.), his New Observatory at Nice, 19, 407 Blanford (W. T.), the Himalayan Ranges, 442 Bleekrode (Prof. L.), a Lecture Experiment on Ice-Crystals, 444 Blood-Corpuscles, the Coloured, of the Frog, 453 'Blowpipe Analysis," J. Landauer, 392 Blowpipe "Flame," Electricity of the, Col. W. A. Ross, 275; H. M'Leod, F.R.S., 347 Blunt (Wilfrid S.), his Account of a Journey to Nejd, 142 Bock (Carl), Exploration in Borneo, 241, 468 Bod (Lewis), Carnivorous Wasps, 538 Boll (Prof. Franz), Death of, 214 Bombay, Severe Thunderstorm in Dharwar, 616 Bon's (M. Le) Observations on Skulls, 285 Borneo Exploration in, Carl Bock, 241, 468; Negritoes in, A. Hart Everett, 588; the Caves of, 627 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Geology of, 426 Boston (U.S.): and Harvard, 149; Society of Natural History, Proceedings of, 243, 501; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 532 Botany: List of Works on Commercial, 115; Study of, at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 262; Botanical Garden at Hakodate, Japan, 357; Proposed Botanisches Centralblatt, 382; Botanische Jahrbücher, 474; Unintelligible Descriptions in Botanical Writings, 548; Dr. N. J. C. Müller's Handbook of Botany, 559 Bottomley (J. T.), Flow of Viscous Materials-a Model Glacier, 159 Boulak Museum, Robbery of a Collection belonging to, 140 Bournemouth, the Eocene Flora of, J. Starkie Gardner on, 181 "Bracteæ," Discovery of so-called, 286 Brault's (M. L.) Wind-Charts, 265 British Museum, John Miers's Bequest to, 71 Broca (Dr.), Elected a Life Member of the French Senate, 356 Brodie (Sir B. C.), Dissociation of the Metalloid Elements, 491 Bromine, Chlorine, and Iodine, Dissociation of, Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 461 Broun (J. Allan, F.R.S.), Death of, 89; Obituary Notice of, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F. R.S., 112 Broun (Wm. Le Roy), Ice-Filaments, 589 Brown (F. D.), Subject-Indexes, 10; Alternative Interpretation Brown Institution Lectures, 115 Brunton (Dr. Lauder, F.R.S.), "Medicine Past and Present," 510 Brutes, Intellect in, "Lindsay's Mind in the Lower Animals," 8; James Turnbull, 12: S. E. Peal, 34; Sophie Frankland, 82; C. F. Crehore, 132; Commander J. P. Maclear, 250; Francis E. Colenso, 251; W. Thompson, 324; J. R. Gregory, 324; Major Elphinstone Begbie, 325; T. E. Wilcox, 372; Alex. Mackennal, 397; W. Brown, 397, 494 Buchanan (John), Series of Force due to a Small Magnet, 370, 445 Buda-Pesth, University of, Centenary of, 549 Bühler (Georg), "The Sacred Laws of the Aryas," 77 Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, 51, 218, 362, 530, 578 Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 51 Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques et Astronomiques, 152 Burnham (S. W.), Double-Star Observations at Chicago, 53 Calcite, on the Crystallography of, J. R. McD. Irby, 200 Cambridge, Natural Science at, 26; Health of, 26; the Natural Sciences Tripos at, G. T. Bettany, 86; New Statutes, 146; Philosophical Society, 460 Canada Monthly Weather Review, 53 Canal Saint Martin, Ice on, 307 Candolle (Alph. de), on Unintelligible Descriptions in Botanical Works, 548 Capello and Ivens, Arrival of, at Loanda, 118 Capillary Electroscope, G. Gore, F.R.S., on the, 194 Capper (Samuel J.), Tidal Phenomenon in Lake Constance, 397 Carbon and Water Figures, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 225 Carbonic Acid, does Chlorophyll Decompose? Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 557 "Carboniferous Limestone and Cefn-y-Fedw Sandstone of the Country between Llanymynech and Minera, North Wales," George H. Morton, F.G.S., 105 Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, 306 Carniola, Prehistoric Stations in, F. von Hochstetter and Ch. Carnivorous Wasps, Sir David Wedderburn, Bart., 417; R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 494; Lewis Bod, 538; Worthington G. Smith, 563 Carpenter (Lant), the Application of Electricity to the Purposes of Practical Life in the United States, 116 Carpenter (Dr. W. B., F.R.S.), the Antiquity of Oceanic Basins, 609 Carré's Cast-Iron Magnets, 359 Carrie (Père), on Stanley's Expedition, 360 Caspian Sea and the Amu-Darya, Proposed Connection of, 216 Ca sell's Natural History, Edited by P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 135 Cast-Iron Magnets, M. Carré's, 359 Castlenau (Count de), Death of, 500 Caucasian Region, Dr. Abich's Petrographical Descriptions of 287 Caudal Disk, E. H. Pringle, 34 Cave Exploration in Austria, 457 Caves, a "Verein für Höhlenkunde," 285 Cell, the Primeval, 332 Cement for Glass, Herr II. Schwarz, 360 Centrifugal Foree, Proposed Uses of, 526 Ceylon, Note on a Consolidated Beach in, Rev. R. Abbay, 184 Challis's "Practical Astronomy," 105 Chambers (F.), Meteorological Phenomena of India, 384 Chappell (Wm.), Hearing through the Mouth, 250 Chesapeake Sea-side Laboratory, 497 Chevallier (Jean Baptiste Alphonse), Obituary Notice of, 132 Chicago, Double Star Observations at, S. W. Burnham, 53 Chili, a New Geography of, 386 Chimborazo, Mount, Whymper's Ascent of, 620 China: Earthquake in, 12; Grand Canal, 360; J. H. Riley's Explorations in, 455; G. F. Eaton's Exploration of, 526; Woollen Manufactory in, 617 Chinese Goose, Fertility of Hybrids from, Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 207; Lewis Wright, 302 Chinese Placard regarding the Consumption of Cow's Milk, Translation of, 187 Ching-Mêm-chow, Bed of Anthracite at, 307 Chloral Hydrate, the Dissociation of Gaseous, 424 Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine, Dissociation of, Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 461 Chlorine, the Density of, Fred D. Brown, 513; Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 561 Chlorophyll, the Functions of, Sydney H. Vines, 85; does it Decompose Carbonic Acid? Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 557 Chromatics, Modern, Prof. Ogden N. Rood, 78, 395 Church Missionary Society's Proposed Sanatorium in Africa, 23 "Ciel et Terre," new Journal of Astronomy and Meteorology, 424 Circle, the Circumference of the, L. Hajnis, 324 Clarke (Dr. Samuel), on the development of Amblystoma punctatum, 454 Clarke (Col. A. R., F.R.S.), "Geodesy," Major J. Herschel, 605 Clans (Prof.), his Report on the Work done at Zoological Station, Trieste, 163 A 2 |