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A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

VOLUME XX.

MAY 1879 to OCTOBER 1879

"To the solid ground

Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye."-WORDSWORth.

London and New York:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1879

13441

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HII.L, E. C.

INDEX

ABEL (Prof., F.R.S.), on Detonating Agents, 19, 42, 67
Aberdeenshire Agricultural Association, 288, 316

Acid Reaction of Flowers, 303

Amu-Darya, Exploration of the, 5c8

Anatomy, Comparative, of Man, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S.,
222, 244, 267

Ackroyd (Wm.), Black Lizards, 339; Crossley's Modification of Andaman Island, Osteology of the Natives of, 258
Hughes's Microphone, 503

Acrochordus javanicus, at the Paris Jardin des Plantes, 231
Adams (Prof. W. G.), New Measuring Polari cope, 282
Adelaide, Report on the Botanic Garden, 232
Afghanistan, 491, 492; Col. C. M. MacGregor's Work on, 453
Africa: Proposed Expedition by H. M. Stanley, 15; Missionary
Exploration of Lake Nyassa, 15; Proposed Portuguese
Expedition, 16; M. Soleillet's Exploration of, 96; Dr.
Lenz's Sketches from West, 119; Major Serpa Pinto's
Expedition, 157, 221, 491; Cambier and Dutrieux's Expedi-
tion, 158; Abbé Debaze's Expedition through, 181; L'Afrique,
182, 271; Keith Johnston's Expedition, 205; German Ex-
ploration of, 206; Elton's Journals of Travels in, 218; Rev.
C. T. Wilson's Journey Across the Victoria Nyanza, 249;
Use of Elephants in Explorations of, 266; Col. Prjevalsky's
Journey Across, 266; Map of Major Pinto's Journey Across,
271; Proposed Railway Across the Sahara, 271; Elec
tric Light in, 278; Dr. G. Rohlfs's Expedition, 344,
508; New Expeditions to, 364; Otto Schütt's Expedition,
425; Dr. Holub's Explorations, 560; "La Cambébasie,”
582

Agram, Earthquake at, 256

Agriculture: aud Science, 189; Agricultural Education in
France, 208; Agricultural Show at Kilburn, 221, 247; and
the Science and Art Department, 258; A. S. Wilson's
"Agricultural Botany," 312; Aberdeenshire Association,
288, 316; Johnston's Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry,
455
Airy (Sir George B., F.R.S.), Annual Report of the Royal
Observatory, 153; Greenwich Meteorological Observations,
525

Aitken (John), Colour Blindness, 627
Aldabra I-lands, Colonisation of, 536

Alexandra Palace, Water Supply Exhibition at, 326, 401, 513
Algæ, on some Marine, Ed. Bornet, 155

Algebra of Logic, Dr. A. Macfarlane on the, 446
Algebraic Forms, the Fundamental Invariants of, 443
Algeria, Subterranean Lake in, 271

Algero-Spanish Triangulation, 508, 541

Algiers: the Proposed Inland Sea in, 16, 205; Discovery of a
Cavern in, 461

Allen (A. H.), on the Presence of Nitrogen in Steel, 469
Alligator, an Enormous, 401

Allman (Prof. G. J., F.R.S.), Inaugural Address at the British
Association Meeting at Sheffield, 384

Aloes, Paper from the Fibre of, 484

Andrews (Dr., F.R.S.), Resignation of, 507
Anemograph, 321

Animal, the Rights of an, E. B. Nicholson, 287, 338, 362, 427;
Geo. J. Romanes, 427

Animation, Suspended, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 107
Annalen der Phy-ik und Chemie, 45, 136, 234, 307, 522
Annelids of the Virginian Coast, 302; on Budding in the Syl.
lidean, 488

Annuaire pour l'an 1879, publié par le Bureau des Longitudes, 59
Antares, the Occultation of, July 28, 180
Anthropological Exhibition, Moscow, 45, 134
Anthropological Institute, 91, 139, 164, 187, 258
Anthropology: in Austria, 373; in France, 376; in Germany,
434
Anthropometry, Report of B. A. Committee on, 485
Antiquity of Man, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 571
Antiquity of Orchids, D. Wetterhan, 53
Ants: Habits of, W. Whitman Bailey, 244; the Agricultural
Ants of Texas, H. C. McCook, 501; the Galleries of the
Cutting Ants of Texas, 583
Apiculture in Germany, 327
Apprentice Schools in France, 493
April Meteors, W. F. Denning, 29
Aquarium Notes, Dr. Andrew Wilson, 196
Aqueous Fluids, the Electric Conductivity of, 232
Arago, Statue to, 373, 434, 513, 546
Arago's Rotation, Researches on, 47
Archæological Congress in Russia, 401

Archibald (E. D.), Barometric Pressure and Sun-Spots, 28;
Barometric Pressure and Temperature in India, 54; the
Weather and the Sun, 626

Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 90, 210
Arctic Expedition, 1875 76, Magnetical Observations of, 136
Arctic Exploration: the Search for the Vega, 37, 38; the Vega
Expedition, 248; the Jeannette Expedition, 249; Hellwald's
"Im ewigen Eis," 97; Nordenskjöld's Expedition, 364, 365;
Proposed New British Expedition, 364; Capt. Howgate
Expedition, 433; Willem Barents Expedition, 561; Norden-
skjöld's "Arctic Voyages," 606, 631

Arctic Meteorology, Conference to consider, 423

Arctic Regions, are there no Eocene Floras in the? J. Starkie
Gardner, 10

Argentine Republic, Science in the, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 358
Arithmetic, Dr. Evers's, 313; Kicks's Elementary, 144
Arizona, Proposed Inland Sea in, 16
Armbruster (Carl), Meteor, 197

Alpine Clubs: International Conference on, 364; Marshall Hall Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.K.S.), the Dissociation of Chlorine,
on, 427

Altai Mountains, 433

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