Bois (H. du), Earthquakes, 8

Bolivia, Thouar's Exploration of, 231

Bollettino of the Italian Geographical Society, 403, 446
Bolton (Sir Francis), Death of, 255

Bolton (Thomas), Civil List Pension to, 204
Bombay, Technical School at, 206

Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.): Volcanic Dust from New Zealand,
56; Volcanic Eruption in Niua-Fu Friendly Islands, 127;
Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the Older
Rocks of Brittany, 550; Oldhamia, 581

Börnstein (Prof.), Investigations into Thunderstorms of July
1884, 24

Borodin (M. Alexander), Death of, 473

Borzi, (Prof. A.), Nostoc ellipsosporum, 594

Bosanquet (R. H. M.), Determination of Coefficients of Mutual
Induction, by means of the Ballistic Galvanometer and Earth
Inductor, 478

Boscovich (Father), Centenary of the Death of, 375

Boss (Prof.), Comet 1887 d (Barnard, February 15), 424, 446
Botany Unpublished Drawings by G. J. Camelli, 34; British
Fungi, Hymenomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4; Autumnal
Flowering, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 11; Botanical Lecture
Experiment, Prof. Bayley Balfour, 126; Rogeria longiflora, 158;
Entyloma Ranunculi, Prof. H. M. Ward, 166; Hermann's
Ceylon Herbarium" and Linnæus's "Flora Zeylanica," Dr.
H. Trimen, 166; Narcissi, G. Maw, 166; Botany of the
Afghan Delimitation Commission, W. Botting Hemsley, 173;
the Honzo Dsufu work on Botany, 204; Native Plants of
South Australia, 205; Botanical Federation in the West
Indies, D. Morris, 248; Baron von Mueller on the Acacias
(Wattles) of Australia, 282; Hand-book of the British Flora,
Geo. Bentham, F.R.S., 341; the Crocus, Geo. Maw,
348; Manual of Botany, Prof. Bentley, 350; Report on the
Botanical Garden, Saharunpur, Mr. Duthie, 356; Botanical
Discoveries in the Tombs of Egypt, 405; Blight and Mildew
in the U.S., 422; Begonia Veitchii abnormal, 430; Lemons
irregularly developed, 430; Primula imperialis, 430; Wild
White Daffodil, 430; Addition of a Commercial Laboratory
to the Botanical Museum of Hamburg, 473; Dr. Urban's
Proposed Botanical Investigation of the Higher Mountains of
St. Domingo, 494; Thos. Moore's Botanical Collections
acquired for the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, 495; on some Ob-
servations on Palæobotany in Goebel's "Outlines of Classifica-
tion and Special Morphology of Plants," Prof. W. C. William-
son, F.R.S., 535; Botanic Garden of Glasgow, 545; Hand-
book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and
Private Student, Prof. E. Strasburger, 556; on the Term
"Latex" in, M. A. Trécul, 600

Bouinais (A.) and A. Paulus, La France en Indo-Chine,

221

Bourgeois (M. L.), Preparation of a Silicostannate of Lime
corresponding to Sphene, 335

Bourne (G. C.), Anatomy of the Madreporian Coral Fungia,

404

Boys (C. Vernon): Preliminary Note on the Radio-Micrometer,
549; on the Production, Preparation, and Properties of the
Finest Fibres, 575

Brain: Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, 208; on the Nomenclature of
the, Dr. Wilder, 255; Functional Topography of the, Prof.
Ferrier, F. R.S., 453

Braun (Dr. C.): Kalocsa Observatory, 59; Sunspot Observations
in Hungary, A. M. Clerke, 227

Brazil: Longitudes in, Admiral E. Mouchez, 100; the Birds of,

204

Bredichin (Prof. Th.), Tails of the Comets of 1886, 474
Bright (Sir Chas. T.), Electric Telegraph, 282
Brines, on Ice and, J. Y. Buchanan, 608

Bristol University College, Reduction of the Salaries of the
Professors, 326; Albert Fry on, 345

Britain, Natural History, its Rise and Progress in, Prof. Alleyne
Nicholson, 148

Britain, South-East, on the Establishment of the Roman
Dominion in, Sir G. B. Airy, F. R.S., 562

British Association and Local Scientific Societies, 78; Principal
Officers for the Manchester Meeting, 471

British Columbia, Indian Tribes of, Dr. Franz Boas, 568
British Flora, Hand-book of the, Geo. Bentham, F.R.S., 341
British Fossils, Catalogue of, Prof. Morris's, 158
British Fungi, Hymenomycetes, Rev. John Stevenson, 4
British Fungi, Text-book of, W. D. Hay, 364

British International Polar Expeditions, 147

British Islands, Coleoptera of the, Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531
British Medical Journal, Dr. Rayner W. Batten on Physical
Training of Girls, 495

British Museum, Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the, Rich.
Lydekker, 532

British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse, 532
Brittany, Notes on the Structure and Relations of some of the
Older Rocks of, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 550

Broeck (E. Van den) and A. Rutot, Observations nouvelles
sur le Tufeau de Ciply and sur le Crétacé supérieur du
Hainault, 317

Brooks, Comet (1887 b), Dr. Rud. Spitaler, 352, 424, 496
Brouardel (M. J.), elected Dean by the Medical School of Paris,
422

Brown (J.), Theory of Voltaic Action, 142

Brown (J. Allen), Discovery of Paleolithic Workshop Floor of
Drift Period near Ealing, 189; Palæolithic Man in North-
West Middlesex, 554

Brown-Séquard (Dr.), Experimental Researches connected with
Cerebral Functions, 47; elected President of the Society of
Biology, Paris, 544

Bruce (Eric S.), War and Ballooning, 259
Brunton (T. Lauder, M. D., F. R. S.): Action of Caffein and Theine
upon Voluntary Muscle, 599; and J. Theodore Cash, Con-
tributions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between
Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary
Communication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies,

599

Brushes, on Two Jade-handled, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 318
Brydges (Rev. Thos.), Curious Subdivision of Colour among the
People of Onisin, 283

Buchanan (J. Y.): Similarities in the Physical Geography of the
Great Oceans, 33, 76; on the Distribution of the Tempera-
ture in the Antarctic Ocean, 516; on Ice and Brines, 608
Buckland Museum, Fish-Hatching at, 400

Buckton (G. B., F.R.S.), Notes on the Recent Swarming of
Aphides, 15

Budden (Dr. E.), To prove that only One Parallel can be
drawn from a given Point to a given Straight Line, 92;
Prof. O. Henrici, F.R.S., 100

Buildings Bill, Sanitary Registration of, 282

Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 286,
310, 356

Bulletin of the Belgian Natural History Museum, 423
Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 404
Bulletin of the Paris Geographical Society, 353
Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 286
Bulletins des Sciences Mathématiques, 452

Bunge (Dr.), Success of his Expedition, 309

Burch (Dr. Geo. J.), Further Experiments on Flame, 165
Burgess (William), Red Worm, 445

Burmah, Lower and Upper, Resources of, 378
Butler (Philip J.), Lung-Sick, 54

Butterflies of India, Lionel de Nicéville, H. J. Elwes, 436

Cacciatore (Prof.), Barnard's Comet, 181

Caddy (Mrs. Florence), Through the Fields with Linnæus, 579
Cadmium, Chloride of, 551

Cæcilians, Classification of the, 280

Caffein, Action of, and Theine upon Voluntary Muscle, T.
Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., 599

Cairo Earthquake at, 112; Walks in, Major E. T. Plunkett,
256

Calcium, Phosphorescence of the Sulphuret of, 455
Caldwell (W. H.), Embryology of Monotremata and Marsu-
pialia, 524

Calendar and General Directory of the Science and Art Depart-
ment, 320

Calico-Printing, the Palissy of, the Life and Labours of John
Mercer, F. R.S., Edward A. Parnell, Prof. T. E. Thorpe,
F.R.S., 145

California Injurious Fungi in, Prof. W. G. Farlow, 521;
Floods in Southern, 376; Aboriginal Art in California and
Queen Charlotte's Island, Dr. W. J. Hoffman, 285
Calorimetric Bomb and Measurement of Heats of Combustion,
551

Calorimetric Studies on Sick Children, 528

Cambridge: Philosophical Society, 167, 454; Cholera Fungus,
Dr. E. Klein, F.K.S., 171, 295; Chas. Roy, 223; Walter
Gardiner, 271, 319; George Massee, 319; Edgar Crook.
shank, 344; on the Earlier Tripos of the University of Cam-
bridge, Sir G. B. Airy, F.R.S., 397; University Local
Examination Report, 494; University Local Lectures, 544
Camelida, the Phylogeny of the, 568

Camelli (G. J.), his Collection of Drawings of Plants, 34
Cameron (William), Death of, 180

Cameron (Capt.), Lecture on Urua, 259

Cameroons Territory, Estimate of the Native Population in the,
354

Canadian Plants, Catalogue of, Prof. J. Macoun, 350

Canadian Species, Hand-book of Zoology, with Examples from,
Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R. S., 295

Canal and River Engineering, David Stevenson, Major Allan
Cunningham, 169

Cannibalism and its Prevalence in Ancient and Modern Times,
Richard Andree, 350

Canoe, Discovery of a Prehistoric, 423

Capacity, Specific Inductive, Note on, John Hopkinson, F. R.S.,
334

Cape Boxwood, 444

Cape Horn, Temperature off, 568

Carbon, on the Action of the Chloride of, on the Anhydrous
Oxides, M. Eug. Demarçay, 288

Carbonic Acid in the Ground, 230; in the Air, 406
Carey (A. D.), his Journey in Central Asia, 475
Carlisle, the Climate of, T. G. Benn, 95

Carp, German: Importation of, 16; the Acclimatisation of, 58
Carpenter (Dr. P. Herbert, F.R.S.): the Supposed Myzostoma-
Cysts in Antedon rosacea, 535; and Robert Etheridge, F. R.S.,
on the Blastoidea, 267

Carr (G. S.), Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics, 292
Carroll (Lewis), To find the Day of the Week for any given
Date, 517

Cartailhac (M.), the Human Bones found in Quaternary
Caverns in France, 23

Cartailhac (M. Emile), Les Ages préhistoriques de l'Espagne et
du Portugal, 244

Carter (August), Deformities among Fish, 230

Carter (W. A.): the Axolotl in sicco, 16; Marine and Fresh-
water Fishes, 472

Casey (John), a Sequel to the First Six Books of the Elements
of Euclid, containing an Easy Introduction to Modern
Geometry, 28

Cash (J. Theodore) and T. Lauder Brunton, F. R. S., Contribu-
tions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between Chemical
Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary Com-
munication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, 599
Cassagnes (G. A.), Steno-telegraphy, 192
Cassia marilandica, Fertilisation of, 521
Cassiopeia, Prof. Colbert, 59

Castilloa Rubber-tree of Central America, 142
Catchpool (Edmund), Origin of Species, 76

Cats with an Abnormal Number of Toes, Observations on

Heredity in, Edward B. Poulton, 38; William White, 125;
J. Herbert Hodd, 53; Dr. H. A. Hagen, E. W. Claypole,
345

Caves, Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, 454.

Cecidomyia destructor and Barley, Miss Eleanor Ormerod's
Observations on, 256

Cecil (Henry), Tabasheer, 437

Celestial Motions, W. T. Lynn, 350

Celestine, Recently-discovered Deposit of, H. G. Madan, 391;
R. H. Solly, 414

Cell, Bichromate of Soda, 381

Cerebral Localisation, Prof. E. A. Schäfer, F. R.S., 438, 464
Ceylon Tea-Planting in, T. C. Owen, 268; the Veddas of,
205

Chatopoda of the Firth of Forth, 544

Chaffaujon (M.), Exploration of the Orinoco, 446
Chagos Archipelago Birds, Dr. Otto Finsch, 497
Chalande (M. J.), Respiration in Myriapods, 288
Chaldæa, Metals and Minerals from, 359

Chaleur rayonnante, Sur une nouvelle Méthode de faire des
Mesures absolues de la, Knut Ångström, 580

Chalk beneath the London Clay of the London Basin, on the
Water in the, Robert B. Hayward, F. R.S., 335
Challenger Expedition: Zoological Results of the, 49; Report
of the Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of the, 351
Chancourtois (M.), Death of, 57

Chandler (S. C.): New Variables, 307; the New Algol-Type
Variable, 329

Charleston Earthquake: Report on the, Prof. T. C. Mendenhall,
31; Influence upon the Health of the Inhabitants, 281; Capt.
Dutton's Report on, 351

Charts, Atlantic Weather, 469

Chauveau (A.), Action of Glycose in Development of Animal
Heat, 291

Chelonian Reptile, Preliminary Note on the Fossil Remains of
a Ceratochelys sthenurus, from Lord Howe's Island, Australia,
Prof. Thos. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 615
Chemistry Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action,
Connexion between, Dr. James Blake, 6; the Decomposition
of Bicarbonate of Ammonia by Water and Diffusion of its
Components through Atmosphere, Berthelot and André, 23;
on Atomic Weight of Oxide of Gadolinium, A. E. Nordensk-
jöld, 47; Chemical Society, 70, 143, 358, 384, 407, 453, 503,
526; Anniversary Meeting of the, 536; M. Moissan's Re-
searches on Isolation of Fluor, 71; Chemical Arithmetic,
Sydney Lupton, 74; Experimental Chemistry, C. W. Heaton,
74; Chemical Physics, Prof. Josiah Parsons Cooke's, 100;
Action of Manganese on the Phosphorescent Quality of Car-
bonate of Lime, Edmond Becquerel, 168; Old or New
Chemistry, Which is Fittest for Survival? Samuel Phillips,
270; a Treatise on Chemistry, Sir H. E. Roscoe and C.
Schorlemmer, 316; Principle of Maximum Labour and the
Laws of Chemical Equilibria, 382; on the Coefficients of
Chemical Affinity, 455; Recent Progress of Chemical Science,
Dr. Hugo Müller, 536; Chemical Action of Light on Mixed
Hydrogen and Chlorine Gas, Dr. Pringsheim, 552; a Question
for Chemists, Wm. West, 584; Chemical Constitution and
Physiological Action, Contributions to our Knowledge of the
Connexion between, Preliminary Communication on the
Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, T. Lauder Brunton,
F.R.S., and J. Theodore Cash, 599

Chert, on the Character of the Beds of, in the Carboniferous.
Limestone of Yorkshire, Geo. J. Hinde, 582

Chevreul (M.), Medal presented to, 144; Resignation of his
Membership of the Academy of Sciences, 255

Chicago Manual Training School, 444

China Folk Lore of, J. H. Stewart Lockhart, 281; Return of
MM. Potanin, Skassy, and Bérésofsky from their Expedition
to China and Mongolia, 309; Early Chinese Intercourse with
America, Dr. W. H. Dall, 58; Best Mode of conveying
Scientific Knowledge to the Chinese, 112; a Work on
Anatomy in Chinese, 568; Animal Worship amongst the
Chinese, 613

Chinook Winds, M. W. Harrington, 568
Chios, Earthquake at, 112, 158

Chlorochromic Acid and the Phosphates of Sesquioxide, on the
Action of Tetrachloride of Carbon on, M. H. Quantin, 335
Cholera Fungus, Cambridge, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 171, 295;
Chas. Roy, 233; Walter Gardiner, 271, 319; George Massee,
319; Edgar Crookshank, 344

Christiania Society of Science, 336

Christie (W. H. M., F.R.S.), the Earthquake, 462
Chrysalides, Gilded, Edward B. Poulton, 470

Church (A. H.), Food-Grains of India, Prof. John Wrightson,
51

Cider, on the Composition of the Ashes of, M. G. Lechartier,
382

Cinnabar, Gold, and Associated Sulphides, Natural Solutions of,
524

City and Guilds of London Institute, Distribution of Prizes, 158;
Conversazione, 494

Claim of Priority, a, V. Ventosa, 513

how to make, Prof. Hugo de Vries, 149; Selmer Schönland,

173

United States, W. Odell, 97

Austen, F.R.S., 106

Classification of the Cæcilians, 280

Colours, a Method of illustrating Combinations of, H. G.

Clausius's Characteristic Equation for Substances applied to
Messrs. Ramsay and Young's Experiments on Alcohol, Prof.
William Ramsay and Dr. Sydney Young, 262, 346; Prof.
Fitzgerald, 574

Madan, 513

Colson (M. Albert), Erythrite, 288

Clayden (A. W.), on the Internal Capacity of Thermometers, 94
Claypole (E. W.), Abnormal Cats' Paws, 345

Cleland (Prof. John), Culminating Sauropsida, 391

Clerke (A. M.): Sunspot Observations in Hungary, Carl Braun,
227; Aurora Borealis, M. S. Lemström, 433; Dr. K. R.

Koch, 433; Homeric Astronomy, 585, 607

Clifford (W. K., F.R.S.), Lectures and Essays, 270
Climate of Northern Europe and the Gulf Stream, 91
Climatology of the Croydon District, 14

Clocks, Electricity and, T. Wilson, 1733 Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, 224; H. Dent Gardiner, 198, 231; "Horloge "
on, 438

Cloez (M. Ch.) and M. E. Grimaux, Erythrene, 288
Cloud Knowledge, Modern Developments of, Hon. Ralph
Abercromby, 575

Clouds: Aspects of, Robert James Reilly, 391; on the Forms
of, A. F. Osler, F.R.S., 164; Iridescent, Jas. C. MeConnel,
533; G. H. Stone, 581; Nomenclature of, 406

Clyde Sea-Area, Bathy-orographical Chart of the, 334

Coahuila Meteorites, O. W. Huntingdon, 451

Coal, on the Age of, found in the Region traversed by the Rio
Grande del Norte, 380

Coal-Dust Theory, W. Galloway, 222, 296, 343

Coal-Mines, Explosions in, W. N. and J. B. Atkinson, Prof.
T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., I

Coasts of North Africa, Study of the, Dr. Theobald Fischer,
353

Cobra, Death from the Bite of a, III; Supposed Suicide of
the, R. D. Oldham, 560

Cochenille at Rodriguez, 179

Cockroach, Structure and Life-History of the, L. C. Miall, 365
Coco de Mer (Lodoicea seychellarum), Gen. Gordon's Collec-
tion illustrative of the, presented to Kew Gardens, 494

Cod, Curious Knife found in the Thick Flesh of a, 545
Cod-Fisheries (Norwegian), Japanese Mission to inquire into the,
158

Codices, Mexican, Z. Nuttall, 307

Coefficient of Mutual Induction of Two Coils, Method of
measuring, Prof. G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., 143, 478
Coefficient of Self-Induction, on the Determination of the,

551

Coils, Inductionless, Dr. Aron, 383

Coils, Method of measuring the Mutual Induction of Two, 478

Colbert (Prof.), Cassiopeiæ, 59

Colchicine, Properties of, 408, 432

Coleoptera, New Zealand, David Sharp, 177

Coleoptera of the British Islands, Rev. W. W. Fowler, 531
Colin (Dr.), on the Population of Bambouk, 22

Collections, National Science, 252, 272

College of France, proposed Enlargement of the Buildings of
the, 517

College of Physicians, Edinburgh, proposed Establishment of a
Laboratory for the Prosecution of Original Research, 399

Colleges, University, Prof. Jowett, 441

Collins (F. Howard): Herbert Spencer's Definition of Life, 487;

Vitality and its Definition, 580

Collot (M. L.), on the Age of the Bauxite Formation in the
South-East of France, 288

Colocasia, Disease of, in Jamaica, 478

Colonial Conference, Sir Henry Holland, 544

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, John R. Jackson, 16, 81, 225
Colonial Science and Art Schools and the Department of
Science and Art, 442

Colorado, Disappearance of Bishop's Ring in, G. H. Stone,
581

Colorado, Phenacite from, Sam. L. Penfield, 451
Colour of the Blood, Influence of Extremes of Temperature on

the, 576

Colour-Hearing, 613

Colour-Mixing Apparatus, Von Kries, Dr. König, 336

Colton (B. P.), Practical Zoology, 458
Comets: Barnard's, 59; T. W. Backhouse, 54, 224; Prof.
Cacciatore, 181; Dr. Wentworth Erck, 1983; Prof. A. Riccò,
296; (1886 f), 17, 207; Dr. Oppenheim, 85; Dr. Aug.
Svedstrup, 134; (1887 c), Prof. E. Weiss, 352; Dr. H.
Oppenheim, 424; 1887 d (Barnard, February 15), Prof. Boss,
424, 446; First and Second of 1887, 614; Second of 1887,
John I. Plummer, 583; Brooks (1887 b), 352; Dr. R.
Spitaler, 424, 496; Finlay's 1886 e, 17, 59; Dr. Krueger,
85, 134; Dr. J. Holetschek, 207; Three New Comets, 307;
Note on the Origin of Comets, 381; Discovery of a New,
1887 d (Barnard 2), 402; Tails of the Comets of 1886, Prof.
Th. Bredichin, 474; the Southern, 329, 438; Comets and
Asteroids, Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, 474

Commercial Organic Analysis, Alfred H. Allen, Dr. C. R.
Alder Wright, 293

Compass in Iron Ships, Deviation of the, considered practically,
W. H. Rosser, 473

Compressed Air, Transmission of Power by, 272

Conchology, J. C. Melvill on Conus gloria maris, 230
Conder (Capt.), Translation of Hittite Inscriptions, 422
Congo: Dr. Lenz's Exploration of, 232; his Map of the, 354;
Rev. Geo. Grenfell's Exploration of the, 596; H. M.
Stanley's, 615

Coral Reefs of the Solomon Islands, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 77
Corea, Geology of, 518

Coregonus albus, American Whitefish at Burghley Park, 546
Corona, Extension of the, Prof. S. P. Langley, 52

Counterpoint, Harmony and, Elements of, F. Davenport, 339
Cranial Nerves of a Human Embryo, 336

Crater, Sounding a, Prof. John Milne, 152; Fusion-Points,
Pyrometers, and Seismometers, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis,
197; W. Worby Beaumont, 296

Crayfish, Fresh-water, Green Gland of, 455
Crimson Line of Phosphorescent Alumina, on the, William

Crommelin (A. C.), Invisible at Greenwich, 414
Crookes (William, F.R.S.): on the Crimson Line of Phosphor-
escent Alumina, 3103 on Radiant-Matter Spectroscopy,

Examination of the Residual Glow, 425, 447
Crookshank (Dr), Flagellated Protozoa in Animals' Blood, 191
Crookshank (Edgar), Cambridge Cholera Fungus, 344
Cross as a Sun Symbol, Dr. Chas. R. Dryer, 345

Croydon District, Climatology of the, 14

Cruise of the Marchesa, F. H. H. Guillemard, 369
Cruls (M.), Geographical Co-ordinates of Punta-Arenas, 382
Crustacea of Singapore, 525

Crustacea, British Stalk-eyed, and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse,

Cunningham (Prof.), the Lumbar Curve in Man and Apes, 46
Cunningham (Major Allan): Canal and River Engineering,
David Stevenson, 169; Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic
Machinery, H. Robinson, 460

Current Sheets, on Ellipsoidal, Horace Lamb, F. R.S., 574
Currents, North Atlantic, Experiments made to determine the
Direction of the, Prince Albert of Monaco, 288
Curvature, Critical Mean of Liquid Surfaces of Revolution,
Prof. A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., 143

Curve, Lumbar, in Man and Apes, Prof. Cunningham, 46
Curves, Traube-Hering, 576

Cutting of Polarising Prisms, on the, Prof. Silvanus P. Thomp-
son, 184

Cycling Budget, 231

Cyclones, on the Relation between Tropical and Extra-Tropical,
Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 430

Cyclones and Concurrent Storms and Hurricanes, on the Rela-
tions that exist between, M. H. Faye, 599

Cyclonic Storms, Central Calm in, 575

Dielectric Constants of Fluids, Prof. G. Quincke, 334
Dielectric, Experiment to show that Capacity varies inversely
as a Thickness of the, Profs. W. E. Ayrton and John Perry,
526

Diener (Dr. Carl), the Geology of the Lebanon, Prof. Edward
Hull, F.R.S., 10

Diet in Disease, Prof. G. Sée, 327
Di-isobutylamine, on the Hydrochlorate and Platinochlorate of,
383

Dimensions of Physical Quantities, the Engineer on, 462
Dimmock (George), Fish-destroying Insects in the United States,

327

Disinfection by Heat, B. Strachan, 7

Dispersion of Plants by Birds, D. Morris, 151

Ditte (M. A.), Study of the Alkaline Vanadates, 600
Doberck (Dr. W.): Typhoons, 36; Law of Storms in the
Eastern Seas, 135; and the Hong Kong Observatory, 229
Dodge (Frank S.), Kilauea after the Eruption of March 1886,
451

527

Daffodil, Wild White, 430

Dalcarlia, Central Sweden, Brilliant Meteor seen in, 495

Dall (Dr. W. H.), Early Chinese Intercourse with America, 58
Dallinger (Rev. Dr., F.R.S.), Changes of Temperature to
which the Lower Forms of Organisms can be adapted by
Slow Modifications, 550

Dana (Jas. D.): Revelations of a Dissected Volcano, 93; Vol-
canic Action, 451

Danger, Rule for Escaping a, Frank Morley, 345

Darwin (Capt.), Preliminary Account of the Observations of the
Eclipse of the Sun at Grenada in August 1886, 287

Darwin (Prof. Francis, F.R.S.), on the Effect of Certain
Stimuli on Vegetable Tissues, 429

Darwin (Dr. G. H., F.R.S.): on Jacobi's Figure of Equilibrium
for a Rotating Mass of Fluid, 188; on the Dynamical Theory
of the Tides of Long Period, 287

Davenport (F.), Elements of Harmony and Counterpoint, 339
Dawson (Sir J. W., F.R.S.), Hand-book of Zoology, with
Examples from Canadian Species, 295
Day (Dr. Francis): Lochleven Trout, 166; Fish Culture, 282
Day of the Week for any given Date, to find the, Lewis
Carroll, 517

Decrement, Vertical, of Temperature and Pressure, S. A. Hill,

606

Definition, Vitality and its, F. Howard Collins, 580

Deighton (H.), the Elements of Euclid, 269

Delage (Yves), a New Function of the Otocysts in the Inverte-
brates, 48

Demarçay (M. Eug.), on the Action of the Chloride of Carbon
on the Anhydrous Oxides, 288

Démoniaques dans l'Art, Les, 376, 454

Deniker (J.), Recherches Anatomiques et Embryologiques sur
les Singes Anthropoides, 509

Denning (W. F.): Meteor, 10I; Meteor of December 28, 1886,
248; April Meteors, 606; Fireball of December 4, 1886,
151

Denza (P. F.), the Andromedes, November 27, 1886, 231
Department of Science and Art, Schools of Science and Art in
the Colonies and the, 442

Deposits of Volcanic Dust, Prof. Geo. P. Merrill, 174

Deprez (Marcel), on the Intensity of the Magnetic Field in
Dynamo-Electric Machines, 23

Dessau (B.), Metal Films arising from the Disruption of a
Kathode, 333

Deutsche Geographische Blätter, 497

Diabetes, Action of Belladonna and Opiumiin a Case of Acute,

584

Dolmens of Enfida, 551

School of Mines, 271; Industrial Studentships, 413
Dorno (Alessandro), Notice of, 231

Double Star, Spectroscopic Method of Determining the Distance

of a, A. A. Rambaut, 206

Draper (Andrew S.), Educational System in New York, 445
Draught and Dust, Permanent Matrix Excluder of, T. J. Porter,
569

Dryer (Dr. Chas. R.), the Cross as a Sun Symbol, 345
Dublin, Royal Society of, 311

Dundee University College, proposed Chair of Anatomy at,
158; proposed Medical School in connection with, 349

Duner (M.), Gore's Nova Orionis, 85
Dungate (E. J.), Lung-Sick, 29

Dust, Coal-, Theory, W. Galloway, 222, 296, 343
Dutch Colonies in South America and the West Indies, K.
Martin, Dr. A. Ernst, 459

Duter (M.), Electrolysis of Alkaline Solutions, 382
Duthie (Mr.), Report on the Botanical Gardens, Saharunpur,
356

Dutton's (Capt.) Report on the Charleston Earthquake, 351
Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.): Ipecacuanha Cultivation in
India, 227; Tabasheer, 396; a Plant which destroys the
Taste of Sweetness, 557

Dynamical Theory of the Tides of Long Period, on the, G. H.
Darwin, F.R.S., 287

Dynamical Units, Mass, Weight and, Robt. F. Hayward,
F.R.S., 604

Dynamics, Lessons in Elementary, H. G. Madan, 51
Dynamics of Health and Disease, Life Energy or the, Surgeon-
Major Nathl. Alcock, 366

Dynamo-Building, Practical, for Amateurs, Fred. W. Walker,

294

Earth's Current in the Telegraph Lines of the German Empire,
Dr. Weinstein's Observations, 336

Earthquakes: Dr. F. A. Forel, 8; H. du Bois, 8; Thos. W.
Kingsmill, 319; M. Oppermann on, 600; the Earthquake of
February 23, 1887, 419; Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 438; W.
H. M. Christie, F.R.S., 462; the Charleston Earthquake,
Report on, Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, 31, 36, 134; Influence
upon the Health of the Inhabitants, 281; Earthquake in
Beira Alta District, 59; in Switzerland, 84, 205; Prof. Forel,
442; at Cairo, 112; at Chios, 112, 158; Nordheinsund, West
Coast of Norway, 158; at Smyrna, 112, 158; Earthquake
Shock at Tashkend, 112, 399; at Tchesme, 112; in Sierra
Leone, J. S. Hay and Jos. M. Metzger, 141; at Sea,
Reginald H. Hertslet, 157; the Recent, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly,
197; at Aquila, 350, 376; in Venice, 350; in Zurich,
350; at Vilayet Konia, Asia Minor, 376; in Japan, 399;
Important Points in the History of Earthquake Inves
tigation in Japan, Prof. John Milne, 559; Earthquake in
South Eastern Illinois, 444; in South-Western Indiana, 444;
in Philiatra, 444; Earthquake of February 23, 551; Note on,
at Marseilles Observatory, 455; in Italy, 479; at Antibes,
527; Earthquake Shock felt at Mandalay, 472; Earthquakes
in Norway, Dr. Hans Reuch, 517; in the Riviera, Clement

Reid, 534; in Travnik, 545, 568; in Campfer and St. Moritz,
545; in Stuttgart, 545; in Savona, 545; at Friedau, 568; at
Forli, 568; at Aden, 593; at Lisbon, 612; Pre-Scientific
Theories of the Causes of, 428; Magnetic Effects of Recent,
479; Earthquakes in Connexion with Fire-Damp, 527;
Possible Cause of the Earthquakes of 1755, 1884, and 1887,
528; Sekei Sekiya on the Comparison of, 593

Earthworms, Australian, J. G. Fletcher, 95

Eastern Seas, Law of Storms in the, Dr. W. Doberck, 135
Eclipse of the Sun at Grenada in August 1886, Preliminary
Account of the Observations of the, Capt. Darwin, 287; Dr.
Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 549

Ecuador, Travels in the Wilds of, Alfred Simson, 437

Edinburgh: Mathematical Society, 71, 191, 454; Royal Society,
191, 311, 454, 479,551,599; College of Physicians, 399;
Royal Physical Society, 454; Scottish Meteorological Society,

575

Edison (Mr.), Illness of, 257

Education: Industrial and High Art, in the United States, J.
Edwards Clarke, W. Odell, 97; Association for Promoting
a Teaching University in London, 179; Japan Educational
Society, 204; the State and Higher Education, 457; Neces-
sity for a Minister of Education, 481; Organisation of Indus-
trial Education, Prof. Huxley, 493; Technical Education,
592; Educational Exhibits and Conventions at the World's
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans,
245; Educational System in New York, Andrew S. Draper,

445

Eels discovered in Masonry, 400

Eggs, Birds' Nests and, H. Seebohm, 236

Egypt: Specimens of the Different Strata of Soil in the Delta
received from, 111; Botanical Discoveries in the Tombs of,
405

Eichler (Dr. August Wilhelm): Death of, 443; Obituary Notice
of, 493

Eight Squares, Product of Two Sums of, 455
Ekaterinburg, Scientific and Industrial Exhibition at, 133,

400

Elastic Fluid, on the Movement of an Indefinite and Perfectly,

120

Elasticity, History of the Theory of, Isaac Todhunter, F.R.S.,
A. G. Greenhill, 313

Elasticity of Bending of Pure Zinc, Copper, Tin, and their
Alloys, 333

Electricity: Dynamo-Electric Machines, on the Intensity of the
Magnetic Field in, Marcel Deprez, 23; Electro-Metallurgy,
57; Electric Conductibility of Vapours and Gases, the,
Prof. Giov. Luvini, 85; Electric Charge on the Atom, A. P.
Laurie, 131; Electrical Metronome established at the Paris
Opera House, 158; an Error in Maxwell's "Electricity and
Magnetism," 172; James C. McConnel, 172; Rev. Henry W.
Watson, 223; Prof. A. Seydler, 512; Electrical Phenomenon,
Thos. Higgin, 173; Electricity and Clocks, T. Wilson, 173;
Henry Dent Gardner, 198, 231; Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson,
224; "Horloge" on, 438; Electro-Statics, M. A. Vaschy,
263; Lives of the Electricians, W. T. Jeans, 270; Electric
Telegraph, Sir Chas. T. Bright, 282; Latest Industrial
Application of Electric Welding, 331; Electromotive Force
of the Voltaic Arc, 331; Quadrant Electrometers, 331;
Pyro-Electricity of Quartz, B. von Kolenko, 333; Propaga-
tion of, in Telegraph-Wires, Ed. Hagenbach, 333; Prize
offered to the Inventor of a Cheap Method for the Applica-
tion of, 350; Spiders and Electric Light, 351; Electrolysis
of Alkaline Solutions, M. Duter, 382; Formation of Peroxide
of Hydrogen by Electrolysis, Dr. Richarz, 384; Electric
Motor and its Applications, T. C. Martin and Jos. Wetzler,
Prof. S. P. Thompson, 410; Equatorial Zone of almost Per-
petual Electrical Discharge, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 487;
Experiments on Electrical Resistance of Suspended Copper
and Iron Wires, Shelford Bidwell, 526; Gas-Lighting by
Electricity, 569; Electrical Discharges in the Doldrums,
David Wilson-Barker, 584; Train Lighted by Electricity,
595; Note on the Development of Voltaic, by Atmospheric
Oxidation, C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 598; Practical
Electricity, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 601; Electric
Locomotion, 613

Elemore Pit, W. Galloway on the Recent Explosion at, 133
Elephantiasis, Species of, Investigations of, 473

Eliot (President), Present Position of Science in the Secondary
Schools of America, 375

Elliot (Sir Walter, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 543
Elliott (Archd. C.), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 605
Elliott (Henry W.), an Arctic Province, 243
Ellipsoidal Current Sheets, on, Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 574
Elliptical Integrals, 575

Ellipticity of Uranus, Prof. W. Valentiner, 614
Elwes (Capt. H. J.), Butterflies of India, Lionel de Nicéville,
436; Lepidoptera-Heterocera, 503

Embryogeny of the Anthropoid Apes, J. Deniker, 509

Embryology of Monotremata and Marsupialia, W. H. Caldwell,

Enfida, Dolmens on, 551

Engelhardt's (Baron D'), Observatory, 546
Engineer, the, on the Dimensions of Physical Quantities, 462
Engineering, Canal and River, David Stevenson, Major Allan
Cunningham, 169

Engineering Laboratories, on the Use and Equipment of, Prof.
Alex. B. Kennedy, 235
Engineering, Marine, 242

Engineering: on the Conversion of Heat into Work, W.
Anderson, 387; Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinery,
H. Robinson, Major Allan Cunningham, 460

Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher, 405

English Coasts, Erosion of the, W. Topley, 37
Entomology: Notes on the Recent Swarming of Aphides,
G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., 15; Entomological Society, 70,
191, 335, 453, 503, 623; the Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera
of Middlesex, S. T. Klein, 167; Macro-Lepidoptera of East
Sussex, J. H. A. Jenner, 230; Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod on
the Hessian Fly, 256; Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,

Indies, K. Martin, 459

Erosion of the English Coasts, W. Topley, 37
Eruption, Volcanic, in Niua-Fu Friendly Islands, Prof. T. G.
Bonney, F.R. S., 127

Eruption of Mount Tarawera, 406, 472; Meteorological Con-
ditions at the Time of the, Capt. F. W. Hutton, 322
Eruption of March 1886, Kilauea after the, 451
Eruptions, New Zealand, Red Sunsets and, Lieut. Col. A. T.
Fraser, 224

Erythrene, MM. E. Grimaux and Ch. Cloez, 288
Erythrite, M. Albert Colson, 288

Eskimo, Dr. H. Rink, Prof. A. H. Keane, 309
Eskimos, some Popular Errors in regard to the, John Murdoch,
518

Essex Field Club, the, 158
Essex Naturalist, 545

Etheridge (Robert, F.R.S.) and P. Herbert Carpenter, the
Blastoidea, 267

Ethnological Collection presented by Lieut. Quedenfeldt to the
Anthropological Society, 423

Ethnological Collection presented by Gen. Genè to the Ethno-
graphic Museum of Rome, 496

Ethnological Museum at Berlin, Opening of, 180

Ethnology: Cannibalism and its Prevalence in Ancient and
Modern Times, Herr Richard Andree, 350
Etiology of Scarlet Fever, E. Klein, F. R.S., 452
Eucalyptus-Tree, Bee-hives discovered in, 423