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A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

VOLUME XXV.

NOVEMBER 1881 to APRIL 1882

"To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye."-WORDSWORTH

London and New York:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1882

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.

INDEX

ABBOTT (Chas. C.), "Primitive Industry, or Illustrations of the
Handiwork in Stone, Bone, and Clay, of the Native Races of
the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America," 27

Abel and Roscoe's (Profs.), Reception at the Crystal Palace, 491
Aberdeen, Sir Erasmus Wilson's Chair of Pathological Anatomy
at, 301

Abney (Capt., F.R.S.), Solar Physics, 162, 187, 252
Absolute Sine Electrometer, Geo. M. Minchin, 290
"Abyssinia," Father Lobo's, 365

Accidents in Mines Commission, 97

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Apus, Limulus and Scorpio, Studies on, Prof. E. Ray Lan-
kester, F.R.S., 479

Archæological Discovery at Angleur, near to Liége, 419
Archer (F.), Replacing Flint Flakes, 8

Archibald (E. Douglas), Variations in the Sun's Heat, 316;
Conservation of Solar Energy, 504
Architects, Institution of Naval, 533

Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 257, 401, 522, 618

Accumulators, Planté and Faure, Chemistry of the, Dr. J. H. Arctic Research: Dr. J. Rae, F.R.S., 53, 102; Clements R.

Gladstone, F.R.S., and Alfred Tribe, 221, 461

Acetylene, the Spectrum of, 290

Acoustics, Light and Heat, Thomas W. Piper, 51
Actinium, a New Metal, 394

Adams (Prof. W. Grylls, F.R.S.), Magnetic Disturbances,
Auroras, and Earth Currents, 66

Africa: Dr. Stecker's Exploration of Lake Tana, 209; Reimer's
"Beiträge zur Entdeckungsgeschichte Afrika's, 232; Raven-
stein's New Map of East Central, 250; Relief Map of the
Equatorial Region of, 275; German Exploration of, 302;
Dr. Max Buchner's exploration of the Lunda District, 395
Agram, Earthquake at, 63, 186, 326

Ainos, Bear Festival among the, 345

Air, Essays on the Floating Matter of the, in Relation to Putre
faction and Infection, John Tyndall, F.R.S., 6

Algæ, British Freshwater, Dr. M. C. Cooke's Work on, 565
Algae and Animals, Symbiosis of, 377

Algebra, E. J. Gross, 458

Algerian System of Meteorological Observations, 492

Alglave (Em.), and J. Boulard, "La Lumière Electrique son
Histoire, sa Production, et son Emploi," 359

Algol Type, Variable of the, 186

Allen (Chas. H.), Parhelia in the Mediterranean, 339
Allen (Grant), "Vignettes from Nature," 381, 435, 459, 480, 554
Alps, Prof. Civiale's work on the, 519

Amazons and Andes, between the, or Ten Years of a Lady's
Travels in the Pampas, Gran Chaco, Paraguay and Matto
Grosso, Mrs. M. G. Mulhall, 457

America: "American Naturalist," 47, 210, 426; "American
Journal of Science," 257; American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 324; "The Honey Ants of the Gar-
den of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American
Plains," Dr. Henry C. McCook, G. J, Romanes, F.R.S., 405
Amorphophallus Titanum, 206

Ancient Monuments, Preservation of, 393

Andaman Islands, Earthquake in the, Col. H. H. Godwin-
Austen, 386

Andromeda, the Great Nebula in, Rev. T. W. Webb, 341
Anemometers: Integrating, V. Ventosa, 79; Proposed Exhibi-
tion of, 249, 450; J. K. Laughton on, 547

Animals Illustrations of New or Rare, in the Zoological
Society's Living Collection, 295, 391, 608

Animals Containing Chlorophyll, Researches on, Patrick Geddes,
303, 361; Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 338; Dr. E.
Percival Wright, 361

Animals, Symbiosis of Alga and, 377

Animals, on the Sense of Colour among some of the Lower
Animals, Sir J. Lubbock Bart., F.R.S., 422

Animals, Aristotle on the Parts of, translated by W. Ogle,

Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 453 505

Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 142, 282, 401, 522
Ant Trap, Natural, J. Harris Stone, 151

Antarctic Expeditions, 473, 613

Markham, C.B., F.R.S., 78; D. Wetterham, 102; General
Hazen on, 112; the Search for the Jeannette, 44, 62, 89, 275,
326, 350, 375; the Eira Expedition, 123, 209; the Season
of 1881, 136; International Polar Research, 113; Ice Fields
in the Arctic Regions, 536; an Arctic Night at the Geogra-
graphical Society, 159; Arctic Success and Disaster, 169
Arendts (Dr. Carl), Death of, 63

Argentine Republic, Cameos from the Silver Land; or, the
Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the, E. W. White, 480
Argyll (Duke of, F.R.S.), Struggle of Parts in the Organism, 6
Aristotle on the Parts of Animals translated by W. Ogle, Dr.
Benjamin Ward Richardson, F.R.S., 453, 505
Aristotle on the Heart, W. Ogle, 528

Aristology; or, the Art of Dining, Thos. Walker, 478
Aroid, a Gigantic, 206

Arosenius (Herr J. N.) on the Ethnographical Frontier between
Finns and Swedes in Northern Sweden, 113

Artificial Deformation of the Human Skull in the Malay Archi-
pelago, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 132

Asbestos Paint, Experiments with, at the Crystal Palace, 276
Asia, Central, Dr. Regel's Journey in, 349

Askabad and Sarakhs, Levelling of the Country between, 421
"Astral Origin of the Emblems and Hebrew Alphabet," J. H.
Broome, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 525

Astronomy Astronomical Column, 19, 43, 94, 114, 126, 186,
209, 218, 278, 326, 349, 375, 421, 450, 471, 493, 519, 538,
566, 593, 616; Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Tele-
scopes, 98; Observatory added to the University of St.
Petersburg, 230; Astronomical Observations, on the Climate
of North Northumberland as regards its fitness for, Rev.
Jevon J. Muschamp Perry, 317, 364; J. Lingwood, 339;
New Astronomical Magazine; "Les Etoiles et les Curiosités
du Ciel," C. Flammarion, 456; "Populäre Astronomie von
Sim. Newcomb, Astronom in Washington," Dr. Phil, 456
Atacama, Climate of, Hyde Clarke, 9

Atkinson (A. S.), Telescopic Definition in a Hazy Sky, 483
Atlantic, Chemistry of the, J. Y. Buchanan, 387, 411
Atlas of Universal Geography, Stanford's London, 383
Atmosphere, Movements of Jupiter's, W. Mattieu Williams, 338;
G. H. Darwin, F.R.S-, 360

Atmospheric Phenomenon, J. B. Hannay, 125
Atomic Weights, Prof. F. W. Clarke's Recalculations of, 537
Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 305, 353, 545
Attitudes retained by Soldiers who have Died on the Battle-
field, 230

Audible Photometer, J. W. Giltay, 125
Aurora, the, 319, 368

Auroras, Earth Currents, and Magnetic Disturbances, Prof. W.
Grylls Adams, F.R.S., 66

Aurora and its Spectrum, J. Rand Capron, 53

Auroral Display, Thos. Gwyn Elger, 386; W. G. Koch, 461
Australia, Water in, F. T. Mott, 507; Sparrows in South, 18
Autumn Sky, Rev. T. W. Webb, 9, 36

Anthropological Institute, 71, 143, 235, 355, 380, 451, 475, Aveling (Edward B.), Natural Philosophy for London Univer

499, 571, 619

Antiseptic, New, Prof. Barff's, 535

Anti-vivisection, versus Humanity, 73.

Antlers in the Ruminants, Evolution of, Prof. W. Boyd
Dawkins, F.R.S,, 84

Ants, Sound-producing, H. F. Blanford, 32; J. Fotheringham,
55; D. M. Lewis, 266

sity Matriculation, 76

Awned Carpels of Erodium, Prof. G. Macloskie, 174
Axon (W. È. A.), Pronunciation of Deaf-Mutes who have been
Taught to Articulate, 101, 409

Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), on the Economical Use of Gas-
Engines for the Production of Electricity, 280; Storage of
Energy, 495

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