.-■*^. \ \ "y-i^tav^A^ '&.^^/e^?z^/i^^^^ 2, 405, 427 Evans (J., F. R.S.), Anniversary Address at the Geological So- ciety, 354, 376 ; Water Supply of the MetropoUs, 425 Everett (Prof. J. D.), Prof. Tait on the Earth's Age, 4S6 Evers' (Dr. H.), "Mathematical Tables," 494 Examinations, School, and the University of London, 286 Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at South, Kensington, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 315, 349, 375, 413, 503 VI INDEX [Nature, May I J, 1876 Fatigue, the Law of, Dr. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 98 Faye on the Laws of Storms, 11, 87, 187 Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, Hermann Miiller, XIL, 210; XIIL, 289 Fertilisation, Plant, 427 "Fifteen Young Ladies Problem," 57 Finsch (Dr. Otto), Birds of the Pelew Islands, 152 Fire-Damp, Explosions from, E. W. Binney, F.R. S., 219 Firework Paper, Japanese, 236 Fish, Exhibition of, in United States, 217 Fish, Rapid Growth of, Robert U. S. Mitchell, 107 Fish-pigment, Spectrum of, 167 Fisheries of Norfolk, Report on, 1 14 Fishes of India, Mr. F. Day's Collection, 334 Fishes, Prof. Van Siebold's work on Freshwater, 366 Flame of Common Salt, T. N. Miiller, 448 Flight of Birds, 324 Flint Skin-scrapers from New Jersey, Dr. Charles C. Abbott, 270 Floods in Franc?, 197 ; in Somersetshire, 155 Flowtr (Prof., F.R.S.), a New Cetacean from New Zealand, 149; the Relation of Extinct to Existing Mammalia, 296, 307, 327. 350, 387, 409. 449, 487, 513 ; the Uintatherium, 404 Flowering of Spring Plants, Alex. Buchan, 249 Flowers and Bees, Dr. Miiller, 10 Flowers, Colour of. Grown in the Dark, H. C. Sorby, F.R. S., 465 Flowers, Fertilisation of, by Insects, H. Miiller, XIL, 210, XIIL, 289 Flowers, Seasonal Order of Colour in, 129, 150, 326, 348, 366, 427 Foehn Storms in Switzerland, 218, 440 Food, Dr. Hassall's work on, 345, 396 Forbes (Prof. George), Notes from Siberia, 469 Force, M. Crova's Apparatus for Demonstrating the Transfor- mation of, 434 Forestry, C. F. Amery's Notes on, 6 Forrest (J.), Explorations in Australia, 83 Forster (W. E., M.P.), on Science, 456 " Fossil Butterflies," S. H. Scudder, 222 Fossil Flora ol North America, 95 Fossil Horse of Buenos Ayres, Dr. Burmeister on, 53 Fossil Skeletons of Le Pay en Velay, 207 Foster (Prof. G. C), a New Form of Chronoscope, 139 Fractions, Estimation of, 127 France : Ancient Glacial Action in, 67, 404, 425 ; Floods in, 197 ; Geographical Society, 77, 174, 357, 473 ; Geographical Society's Bulletin, 16, 297 ; Glaciers in Central, 149, 166 ; Dr. J. D. Hooker on Glaciers in ; Maps at Railways, 77 ; Meteorology in, 356 ; Meteorology Stations in, 336 ; Ne.v Maps of, 335 ; National Library, 77 ; G. Poulett Scrope, F.R.S., on Glaciers in, 149, 166; Physical Society, 280 ; Society of Aerial Navigation, 113 ; see also Paris Francis (George), Spectrum of Fish-pigment, 167 Frankland (Dr. E., F.R.S.), Coloured Solar Halos, 404; how Typhoid Fever is Spread, 447 ; Organic Impurities of Drinking Water, 330 ; Water Supply of the Metropolis, 392 French Experimental Physiology, 44, 182 Freshwater Fishes of England, Prof. Van Siebold's Work on, 366 Friction between Water and Air, Dr. Ritter von Lang on, 533 "From Vineyard to Decanter," 217 Frost (Percival) " Treatise on Curve Tracing," 483 Froude (Wm., F.R. S.), "Stream Lines " in Relation to the Resistance of Ships, 50, 89, i^*, 130, 169 Fungus and House-fly, 168 Fusinieri, the Discoveries of, G. Nardi, in Gabb (Dr. W. M.), Exploration of Costa Rica, 257 Galabin (Dr. A. L.), Modified Cardiograph, 471 Gallium, on some Properties of, 136 Galton (F., F.R.S.), Heredity, 59 Galton (J. C), a New Palmistry, 8, 47, 68, 87 ; Protective Re- semblance in the .Sloths, 187 Galvanic Currents, the, 452 Galvanometer, a New, 379 Garaond (M. Thome de), death of, 335 Garrod (Prof. A. H. ), " Encyclopcedia Britannica," vol. iii., 221 ; the Article " Birds " in " Encyclopn^dia Britannica," 226 Gautier (Col. ), Meteorology in Labrador, 60 "Gegenschein " of the Zodiacal Light, 129 Geikie (Prof. A., F.R. S.), American Surveys, i ; Old Red Sand stone, 389 Geissler Tubes and Aurora Borealis, 237 ; the Spectrum of Nitrogen and that of Alkaline Metals in, 314 Geneva : International Medical Congress at, 77 ; Phy.sic^l find Natural History Society, 60, 120, 280, 400 Geographical Magazine, 114, 297, 376 Geographical Society, 52, 93, 134, 256, 315, 357, 397, 473 Geographical Society of France, 155, 174, 357; Bulletin, 297 Geographical Society of Italy, 136 Geographical Zoology, P. L. Sclater, P\R.S., 482 Geological Map of Australia, 352 Geological Record for 1874; W. Whilaker, 322 Geological Sketches ; L. Agassiz, 383 Geological Society, 57, 99, 139, 198, 238, 278, 339, 358, 379, 439f 479> 534 5 Anniversary Address, 354, 376 ; Mtdal cf, 295 ; New Museum of, 227 Geological Society, Vienna, 220, 319 Geological Survey of the Unite! vStaies, 156, 314 Geological Time, Prof. McKenny Hughes on, 435 " Geoiogie der Kohlenlager," Dr. H. Mietzsch, 166 Geologists' Association, 159, 258, 318, 459 Geology, Abyssinian, 137 ; American Geological Surveys h Prof. A. Geikie, i ; Survey of United States, 356 ; U. S Survey Publications, 385 " Geology for Students," Prof. A. II. Green's, 505 Geometry, Burchett's Practical Plane, 223 ; French Works on, 509 ; the New, 102 Germany : Association of Natural Philosophers, &c., 32 ; Ger- man Chemical Society, 80, 119, 178, 289, 319, 360 ; Commis sion on Arctic Exploration, 34, 73 ; Germany and the Loai Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 470 ; German North Se; Commission, 125 ; Science in, 10, 30, 75, 112, 250, 452, 521 Scientific and Medical Association, 56 Germs, Prof. Tyndall on, 252, 26S, 324, 347 ; Dr.H.Charlto Bastian, F.R.S., 284, 285" Gerst (R.), Physical Science in Schools, 430 Glacial Action in Central France, VV. S. Symond>-, 67 Glacial Coal-beds of vSwitzerland, Traces ot Man in, 130 Glacial Period, Physical Geography of East Anglia during the 198 Glaciers, in California, iSo ; Evidence of, in Central Franc* 31, 149, 166, 404, 425 Gladstone (Mr.), at Gnenwich, 41 Gladstone (Dr. J. H., F.R.S. ), on the Replacement of Electro positive by Electro-negative Metals in a Voltaic Cell, 1 18 Glands of the Cherry Laurel, G. S. Boulger, 107 Glover (J. P.), Australian Implement, 27 Glow-worm in Scotland, 188, 208 Godwin-Austen (H. H.), Dr. Stoliczka's Collection of Mammals 106, 109 Gold Coast, M. Bonnat's Exploration of, 94 Goodenough (Commodore), Memoir of, C. K. Markham, 185 Gore (G., F. R.S. ), Bar Magnets and Conducting Wires, 176 " Gorilla Land and the Congo," R. F. Burton, 123 Gorilla, the Dresden, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 106 " Gould's "Birds cf New Guinea," 15 Gould (John, F. R.S.), "A Monograph of the Trogonida?," 166 Granitic Rocks of the Lake District, 139 Gratz, German Association at, 32 Gray (Dr. Asa), Collomia, 85 "Great Divide, the," Earl of Dunraven, 264 Green (Prof. A. H.), "Geology for Students and General Readers," 505 Greenland, Dr. Rink on, 103 "Greenstones " of Cornwall, 379 Gresham College, 273 Grieve (G. J. P.), further Linkage Work, 69 Grimm (Oscar), Fauna of the Casjiian Sea, 74 Grohman (W. A. B.), Tyrol and the Tyrolese, 206 Guillemin's " Le Citl," 494 Gum Arabic, 117 Guthrie (Prof), Stationary Liquid Waves, 99; " Magnetism and Electricity," 261 Hadden (A.), a New Galvanometer, 379 Haeckel (Prof.), "History of Creation," 121 ; on Universities, 135 Nature, May II, 1876] INDEX Vll Haemoglobin, H. C. Sorby, F.RTS., on the Evolution of, 306 Halos, Coloured Solar, 404, 426, 466, 512 Hamburg Naval Observatory, 217 Hanbury (Daniel), Proposed Memorial to, 455 Harpyopsis Nova GuhucF, 1 34 Harris (G., LL.D.), Caligraphy as a Test of Character, 77 Hartley (W. N.), Physical Science in Schools, 413; "Air and its Relation to Life," 243 "Haskell Portfolio," 175 HassaU (Dr.), "On Food," 345, 396 Hastings, Science in, 217, 267, 306 Haughton (Dr. S., F.R.S.), the Law of Fatigue, 98 Havana, Meteorological Observations at, 224 Hayden (Prof.), Bulletin of the Survey of the United States, 414 ; Geological Survey of the United States, i, 156, 314 "Health in the House," C. M. Buckton, 384 Heat of the Earth, J. WilUs on the Internal, 8 Hector (Dr., F.R.S.), Geology of New Zealand, 258 Hemiptera, List of American, 376 Henry (Prof), Smithsonian Report for 1874, 94 Hensley's Scholar's Algebra, 304 Henslow (Rev. George), Physical Science in Schools, 493 Hentz (N. M., M.D.), Arachnological Writings of, 281 Hepaticae, Irish, 38 Hermann (Prof. D. L.), " Human Phjrsiology," 22 Herring, the Migration of the, lOO; Report of tie Scotch Fishery Board on, 35 Herschel (Caroline), Memoir of, 361 Herwart's Multiplication Table, 40 Heuglin (Baron Th. von), Birds of North-Eastem Africa, 289 Hicks (George), Mechanical Action of Light, 347 Higgins (Rev, H. H.), the Boomerang, 168; Voyage to West Indies, 174 Himalayas, the Eastern, 246 Himalayas, Scientific Notes taken in the. Dr. A. Schuster, 393 Himalayas, A. Wilson's Journey in the Western, 4 Hinchliff (T. W.), " Over the Sea and Far Away," 509 Hinrichs (Dr. Gustavus), Meteor in Iowa, 113 "History of Creation," Prof Haeckel's, I2i HofTmeyer's Synoptic Weather Charts, 85 Hofmann (Prof, F.R.S.), Award of Royal Society Medal to, 34 ; Elected Associate of the Italian Society of Science, 235 Holland, Middle-Class Education in, 528 Holten (Prof C), Meteorological Tables, 197 Honolulu, Microscopic Club at, 256 Hooker (Dr. J. D., P.R.S.), Ancient Glaciers in France, 31 Hopkins University, U.S., 412 Horrocks (Jeremiah), Memorial of, 112 Horses, Case of Intelligence in, 36 Horticultural Exhibition at Amsterdam, 135 Horticulture in Belgium, 95 Houghton (Rev. W.), "Sketches of British Insects," 365 House-fly and Fungus, 168 Hubrecht (Dr. A. A. W.), Exploration of Sumatra, 209 Huddersfield Naturalists' Society, 136 Hughes (Prof. McKenny), Geological Time, 435 "Human Physiology," Dr. Hermann's, 22 Hunterian Lectures, Prof Flower's, 307, 327, 350, {387, 409, 449, 487, 513 Hurricane in Manilla, 175 Hutchinson (T. N.), Physical ^ Science ^ in Schools, 353; radio- meters, 324 Hutchinson (T. J.), Summer Holidays in Brittany, 465 Huxley (Prof, F.R.S.), the Article " Birds" in the " Encyclo- paedia Britannica," 247; on Ceratodus, 196; Geological Society's WoUaston Medal, 295 ; Origin of Vertebrate Ani- mals, 388, 410, 429, 467, 514 Hygeia, Dr. Richardson's, 25 Hymenopterous Insects, Ocelli of. Dr. ■Hermann Miiller, 167 Hyperion, the Satumian Satellite, 326 Ice Machine, Raoul Pictet's Sulphurous' Acid, 432 Iceland, Volcanic Eruptions in, 135 ; Meteorology in, 493 India, Cultivation of Coffee and Tea in, 175 India, Maps of, 54, 95, 413 " Indian Alps and how we crossed them," by a Lady Pioneer, 246 Indian Fishes, Mr. F. Day's Collection, 334 Indiana and Kentucky, Archaeological Researches in, 109 Industrial Applications of Oxygen, 293, 336 Ingleby (Dr, C. M.), Floating Radiometers, 511 Insects, Houghton's Sketches of British, 365 ; the Ocelli in, 406 Insects of Michigan, A. J. Cook's Injurious, 424 Institute of Civil Engineers, 279, 319, 340, 358, 399, 440 International Bulletin, 273 International Medical Congress, 77 International Metric Commission in Paris, II. W. Chisholm, 452 Inundations in France, 197 " Inventions and Discoveries of the Nineteenth Century," by R. Routledge, 45 Iowa, Meteor in, 113; Physical Observatory at, 316; Iowa Weather Report, 197, 316 Ireland, Science and Art in, 309, 349, 370 Ireland, Science Commission Report on the Queen's Collies, 22 Irish Academy, lOO, 255, 297, 414 Irish Hepaticae, 38 Iron and Steel Institute, 77 Italian Expedition to Africa, 77, 155 Italy, Geographical Society, 136, 375 ; Meteorological Congress, 356; Meteorology of, 436; Science in, no Jackson (J. R.), Laslett's "Timber and Timber Trees," 181 Jahrbuch der k. k. Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 1 76 Jahrbucher fiir Wissenschaftliche Botanik, 156, 533 Japanese " Firework Paper," 236 jenesei. Prof Nordenskjold on the, 95, 275, 312 Jenkins (B. G.), Extraordinary Tides, 69 Tersey, Subsidence of Parts of, 238 Jevons (Prof S., F.R.S.), Sunspots and the Price of Corn, 15 Johnston's (W. and A. K.) Map of India, 54 Jones (Prof Rupert, F.R-S.) on Quartz and other Forms of Silica, 159 Journal of Anatomy and Physiolc^, 237, 532 Journal of Botany, 155 Journal of the Chemical Society, 78, 176, 277, 378, 477 Journal Geographique Internationale, 376 Journal d'Hygiene, 255 Journal of Mental Science, 196 Journal de Physique, 157, 237, 418 Jungken (Prof), Scientific Collections of, 155 Jupiter's Satellites, 288 Kansas City, U.S., Academy of Science at, 493 Kent (Saville) appointed to Yarmouth Aquanum, 77 ; Guide- book to the Manchester Aquarium, 85 Kent's Cave, Eleventh Report of Committee for Exploring, 1 7 Kentucky and Indiana, Archaeological Researches in, 109 Kerner (Prof), on the Auricula, 94 ; Hybrid Primulacese of the Alps, 113 Kesslerloch, Merk's Excavations at the, 401 Kiddle (Capt. W. W.), the Effect of Waves, io8 Kingdoms of Nature, the Three, 367, 386 Kjellman (Dr. F. R.), Swedish Arctic Expedition, Il6 Klein {E., F.R.S.), Small-pox of Sheep, 467 Labyrinthodontia, 479 Lake District, the Granitic Rocks of, 139 Lamont (James, F.G.S.), Yachting in the Arctic Seas, 264 Lang (Dr. Rutter von) on the Friction between Water and Air, 533 Lange (Prof F. A.), Death of, 94 Lankester (E. Ray, F.R.S.), Dr. Bastian and Prof. Tyndall on Germs, 324 ; Prof von Siebold's Fresh-water Fishes of Eng- land, 366 ; Translation of Haeckel's "History of Creation," 121 Lartet and Christy, " Reliquiae Aquitanicae," 401 Lasaulx (Prof A. von), Ancient Glaciers in France, 404 Laslett's "Timber and Timber Trees," J. R. Jackson, 181 Lateau (Louise), the Case of, 95 Law of Storms, Faye on the, 11, 87, 187; J. J. Murphy, 187 Lawes (J. B., F.R.S.), his Experiments in Farming, loi Leared (Dr. A.\ " Morocco and the Moors," 206 Leeds, Science in, 527 Leicester, Report on the Epidemic of Diarrhoea, 237 Lesquereux (Leo.), Fossil Flora of North America, 95 Letoumeau's "Biologic," 404 Leverrier (M.) at Astronomical Society, 314; on Weather Forecasts, 296 Lichens, the True Nature of, Dr. Lauder Lindsay, 168, 247 vlil INDEX [Nahtrt, May II, 1876 Light, Lommel's Nature of, 62 Light, Mechanical Action of, 347 "Light Mills," Dr. Geisler's, 479 Lightning-conductors, 357, 494 Lightning on Trees, Effects of, 1 20 Lindsay (Dr. W. Lauder), the True Nature of Lichens, 247 Linen and Caterpillars, 54 Linkages, 69 Linnaean Society, 39, 98, 112, 118, 134, 178, 298, 317, 359, 418, 458, 499 ; Transactions, 216 Lion, Remains of a British Species of, 396 Lippich (M.), the Luminiferous Ether, 494 Lisbon Academy of Science, 296 Lisbon Magnetic Observations, 301, 448 Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 16 Livingstone's African Expeditions, 197 Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 315. 349, 375, 413, 455, 47°, 474, 503 Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R. S. ), Recent Methods of Spectroscopy, 239 Locomotives, Compressed Air, 489 Lodge (O. J.), the Flow of Electricity in a Plate, 459 Lohse (Dr. O. ), Bothkamp Sun Observations, 402 Lommel's " Nature of Light," 62 ; Optics, 87 Lorrain (Dr.), Death of, 16 Loudon's *' Algebra for Beginners," 404" Lubbock (Sir J., F.R.S.), Bees, Wasps, and Ants, 37; on Ants, 359 Luminiferous Ether, the, 494 Macleay's Expedition to New Guinea, 94, 153 M 'Nab (Prof. ) on Penicillium glaucu7/i, 36 ; Pfeffer's " Periodic Movements of Leaf-organs," 24 Macrurous Crustacea, some new, 57 Madagascar, Dr. Hartlaub's work on the Birds of, 272 ; Natural History, 308 Magnetic Observations at Lisbon, 301, 448 "Magnetism and Electricity," Dr. Guthrie's, 261 Magnetism, the Early History of, 523 Magnus (P.), School Examinations and the University of Lon- don, 286 " Maladies which are special to Mystics," 95 Mallett (R.), Prismatic Basalt, 7 Mammalia, Prof. Flower's Hunterian Lectures 011 the 307, 327, 350, 387, 409, 449, 487, 513 Mammaio of Yarkand, 109 Man, Traces of, in the Glacial Coal-beds of Switzerland, 130 Manchester Aquarium, additions to, 77 ; Saville Kent's Guide- book to, 85 ; Literary and Philosophical Society, 118, 178, 219, 259, 399 ; Science Lectures, 82 ; Scientific Students' Asso- ciation, 40 "Mandalay to Momien," Dr. J. Anderson, 422 Manilla, Hurricane in, 175 Maoiis of New Zealand, 239 Map-drawing, C. Bird's Twelve Maps for, 7 Maps, at French Railway Stations, 77 ; of India, Catalogue of, 413; Stanford's Orographical, 396 Marey's " Physiologic Experimentale," I44, 182 Marine Algje of the United States, 38 Marine Aquai'iums, 208 Markham (C. R.), Memoir of Commodore Goodenough, 185 Marine Deposits, A. Tylor, 199 Mars, the Equator of, 449 Marsden's " Numismata Orientalia," Part II., 302 Marsh (Prof. O. C. ) on the Dinoceratse, 374 Mason (Sir Josiah), College at Birmingham, 174 "Mass" and "Weight," the Use of the Words, 325, 385, 405, 446, 466, 484 Matches, Safety, 208, 469, 512 Mathematical Science, C. Pine's Further Researches in, 6 Mathematical Society, 57, 138, 238, 317, 399, 534 Mathematical Tables, Dr, H, Evers, 494 Maxwell (Prof. Clerk, F.R.S.), Tait's "Recent Advances in Physical Science," 461 Mayo (Earl 01), Sport in Abyssinia, 384 Mechanical Action of Light, 347 Medical, International, Congress, 77 Medusse, Abnormal Multiplication and Abortion of Parts in, G. J. Romanes, 496 Melbourne, The Observatory, 173 ; Rocks and Minerals in the Museum at, 165 Melde (Dr. Franz), Theorie und Praxis der Astronomischen Zeitbestimmung, 88 Meldola (R.), Crace-Calveri's Dyeing and Calico-printing, 283 ; Tissandier's Photography, 204 Memorie della Societi degli Spettroscopisti Italian!, 137, 497 Mercury, the Visibility of, 427 Merk (Conrad), Excavations at the Kesslerloch, 401 Metachromism, 298, 347, 385, 426, 467 Meteors, 113, 187, 207, 287, '467 Meteorolite at Wolverhampton, 531 Meteorological Congress at Poitiers, 94 Meteorological Society, 79, 158, 279, 340, 440, 536 ; Journal ot the, 436, 531 Meteorological Society of Paris, 196 Meteorological Society of Scotland, 100, 135 Meteorological Stations in France, 336 Meteorology, Algerian, 217 ; Atlas Meteorologique de I'Obser- vatoire de Paris, 375 ; in Baden, 25 ; of Bengal, W. G. Willson, 66 ; Bulletm of the Pyrenees-Oricntales, 113 ; Charts of the United States, 53 ; Congress in Italy, 356 ; Congress at Poitiers, 35 ; of Copenhagen, 197 ; in France, 356 ; at Havana, 224; Dr. Hellmann on Atmospheric Strata, 137 ; Hoffmeyer's Synoptic Weather Charts, 85 ; in Iceland, 493 ; in India, 340 ; Italian, 436 ; Italian Commission, 234 ; M. Leverrier on Weather Forecasts, 296 ; New Office of, m Paris, 54; of Norway, 154; " Notizblatt der Vereins," 136; Observatories, 413 ; Poitiers Congress, 77 ; in the Pyrenees, 135 ; the Rainfall of India, 86 ; Weather Maps of the U.S., 95 ; Weather Reports of the U.S., 397 Metric Commission at Paris, H. VV. Chisholm, 452 Mexico, New, Lieut. Wheeler's Expedition to, 76 Meyer (Dr. A. B.), the Dresden "Gorilla," 166; Saw-fish in- habiting Fresh Water, 167 Michelet (Jules), " The Sea," 106 Michigan, A. J. Cook's Injurious Insects of, 424 Michigan State Medical Society, Transactions of, 35 Microscope and Molecules of Matter, Relation between, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 332 Microscopical Science, Quarterly Journal of, 257 Microscopical Society, 39, 118, 159, 219, 299, 384, 399, 499 Microscopy, American Journal of, 297 ]\Iiddle-class Education in Holland, 528 Mietzsch (Dr. H.), "Geologic der Kohlenlager," 166 Migration of Species, Rev. M. Dasent, 367 MiUepora, the Animal of, Prof. Martin Duncan, F.R. S., 465 Miller (Mrs. Hugh), Death of, 414 Millington (Sir Thomas) and the Sexuality of Plants, 85, 127, 166, 185 Miniature Physical Geography, 310 "Mind," 477 Mineralogical Society, 274, 357 Minerals, Collection of, in United States, 77 Minerals of New South Wales, 382 Minor Planets, 27, 47, 69, 87, 109, 150, 208, 227, 268, 307, 326, 349, 407, 513 Mirage in Upper Thibet, 67 Misti and its Cloud, A. Agassiz, 107 Mitchell (R. U. S.), Observations on Fish, 107 Moa Bones, Discovery of, in New Zealand, 273 Mohn (Prof.), Meteorology of Norway, 154 Mohr (E.), " Victoria Falls of Zambesi, 384 Molecules of Matter and Microscope, Relation between, II. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 332 Molluscs, Freshwater and Land, Prof. Nordenskjold, 284 Momien and Mandalay, Dr. Anderson's Work on, 422 Mont Blanc, Ascent of, by a Lady, 315, 336 ; Temperature on, 296 Monteiro (J. J.), "Angola and the River Congo," 161 Montsouris Physical Observatory, 217, 255 Morell's "Euclid Simplified," 202, 405, 427 Moresby (Capt. J.), "New Guinea and Polynesia," 235, 2>(>t, Morocco and the Moors, Dr. A. Leared, 206 Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 20, 176 Mosso (Dr.), Flethysmograph, 336 Mott (F. T.), a New Palmistry, 68 Muir (Thomas), Early History of Continued Fractions, 448 Muir (M. M. Pattison), Routledge's " Discoveries and Inven- tions," 45 ; Dr. Youman's " Class-book ^of Chemistry,'* 424 A'lUure, Afay ii, 1876] INDEX IX Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Bees and Flowers, 10 ; Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, XII., 210; XIII., 289; Ocelli of Hy- menopferous Insects, 167 Miiller (Fritz), Brazil Kitchen Middens, Habits of Ant?, 304 Miiller (J. J.), the Luminiferous Ether, 494 Miiller (Prof. Max) at Oxford, 1 12, 335 Miiller ( F. N. ), Flame of Common Sal', 448 Munro (J,), the Formation of Coral Sand, 510 Murphy (J. J.), Law of Storms, 187 ; Physical Constitution of Steam, 466 Musical Instruments at South Kensington, 443 Musical Intervals, Dr. Wm. Pole's Method of representing, Xl6 Musical Pip:s, Hermann Smith on, 511 Music, Beats in, Dr. Wm. Pole, F. R.S., 212, 232 Nachtigal (Dr.), Medal awarded to, 456 Naples, Cambridge Students at the Zoological Station, 113 Xardi (Sig. G.), the Discoveries of Fusinieri, in Natural Science, Miervatories : Brussels, 254 ; Cincinnati, 357 ; Melbourne, ! 73 ; Paris, 229, 493 ; Pawlowsk, 97 ; Vienna, 192 ; at Iowa, 316 ; Montsouris, 255 ; Puy de Dome, 273 ; on Pic du Midi, 251 '• Observer of Nature," 531 Oceanic Circulation, James Croll, 66 Ocelli of Hymenopterous Insects, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 167, 406 Oldham (Dr. Thomas, F.R.S.), award of Royal Society Medal to. 34 Old Red Sandstone, Prof. Geikie, F.R.S., 389 Oppenheim (Dr. A.), Association of German Natural Philo- sophers &c., 32 ; German Scientific and Medical Association, 56 ; Industrial Applications of Oxygen, 293, 336 Optical Barometer, Proposed, J. Stevenson, 150 Ordnance Survey, 197 Orientalists, Meeting of, in St Petersburgh, 76 Ornithological Collection, H. Seebohm's, 14 Omithosauria, Prof. H. G. Seeley on, 98 " Over the Sea and Far Away," Hinchliff's, 509 • en (Prof. R., F.R.S), Dinosaurian Vertebrae, 99 ; Evidences >f a Carnivorous Reptile, 339 ; on Prorastomus Sorenoides, 114 Oxford Botanic Garden, 61, 94, 315 ; Johnson Memorial Prize, 256 ; Observatory, Visitors of, 54 ; Scholarships at Balliol College, 37 ; Science Lectures, 376 ; University Commission, "2, 434 Oxygen, the Industrial Applications of, 293, 336 Palmistry, a New, 47, 68, 87 " Pandora" Expedition, 457 Pangenesis, Darwin's Theory of, 333 Papuans, Poisoned Arrows of, 235 Paris Academy, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 175, 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 360, 379, 400, 420, 440, 460, 480, 500, 530 ; Award of Prizes, 195 ; Physical Observatory, 235 Paris, Electric Lighting in, 256 ; Exhibition of Electrical Ap- pliances, 54; Geographical Society, 155 ; National Library, 77 ; Observatory, 229, 493 ; Public Instruction in, 375 ; Rail- way Exhibition, 135 ; Steam-engines on Tramways, 77 Parker (Prof., F.R.S.) on Birds' Skulls, 178 ; Lectures at Royal College of Surgeons, 356 ; on the Woodpeckers and Wrj-- necks, 173 Parkes (Dr.), Obituary Notice of, 435 Paradoxes, among the Cyclometers and other, 28 Pasteur (L.), Prof. Tyndall on Germs, 305 Pawlowsk, Observatorv at, 97 Pelew Islands, Birds of the, 152 Penicilmm glaucum. Prof. M 'Nab on, 36 Penikese School, U. S., 89 Penning (W. H.), Physical Geography of East Anglia during the Glacial Period, 198 Perigord, Archaeology of, 401 Periodic Movements of Leaf-organs, Dr. PfeflTer, 24 Pesth, Water Supply of, 336 Petermann's Mittheilungen, 16, 76, 236, 297, 396, 401, 530 Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Estimation of Fractions, 127 ; Meta- chromism, 347, 426 Pfeffer (Prof. W.), "Die Periodischen Bewegungen der Blatt- organe," 24 Pharmaceutical Conference, 136 Philadelphia, Museum at, 77 ; Academy of Natural Sciences, 299 Philippine Islands, 435 Photographic Society, 255 Photography in the Challenger, CoL Stuart Wortley, 25 Photography of the Red End of the Spectrum, Capt. W. de W. Abney, 432 Photography, Year Book of, 256 : Photographic Almanac, 256 Photometer, a New, by Prof. J. Reynolds, 478 Physical Constitution of Steam, J. J. Murphy, 466 Physical Geography, Miniature, 310 Physical Observatories in France, 235; at Iowa, 316; Mont- souris, 217 ; on the Pic du Midi, 251 Physical Science in Schools, 329, 353, 371, 386, 412, 430, 454, 472, 491 Physical Society, 59, 99, 139, 239, 298, 318, 379, 419, 459, 535 Physical Society of France, 280 Physiological Research, Proposed Society for, 455 Physiology, Dr. Hermann's Human, 22 Physiology, Recent French Experimental, 144, 182 Pic du Midi, Physical Observatory on the, 251 Pictet (M. Adolphe), Death of, 235 _ ". Pictet (Raoul), Sulphurous Acid Ice Machine, 432 Pine (C. ), Researches in Mathematical Science, 6 Pirie's " Rigid Dynamics," 323 Planets, the Minor, 27, 47, 69, 87, 109, 151, 208, 227, 26S, 307, 326, 349, 407, 513 Plant Fertilisation, 427 Plants, Darwin on Climbing, 65 ; the Flowering of Spring, Alex. Buchan, 249 ; Sir Thos. MiUington and the Sexuality of, 166, 185 ; Sexuality of, 85, 127 Playfair (Dr. Lyon), on Compulsory Education, 35 Plethysmo^raph, Dr. Mosso's, 336 Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 2,%, 78, 317, 358, 497 Poisoned Arrows of the Papuans, 235 Poitiers Meteorological Congress, 77, 94 Pole (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), Beats in Music, 212, 232 ; Method of Representing Musical Intervals, 116 Pollution of Rivers, Wm. Hope, 81 Polynesia and New Guinea, Capt. Moresby on, 363 .NDEX {Nature, May ii, 1876 Poncelet (General) Eloge on, 196 Porto Rico, Earthquake in, 155 Potato Disease, 459 ; Worihington G. Smith on, 524 Pouchtt's " Universe," 77 Preece (W. H.), Bryant and May's Matches, 208 " Preece and Sivewright's Telegraphy," 441, 511 Prehistoric Cave, Discovery of, in France, 456 Primroses and Bullfinches, 427 Primulacese, Hybrid, of the Alps, 113 Pringsheim (Dr.), " Jahrbuch fiir Botanik," 156 Prismatic Basalt, 7, 47 Procter (W., M.D.), Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements, 446 Proctor (R. A.), the Late Eclipse, 186 Procyon, Struve's Companion o', 406 Frorasfomiis siretioidcs, Prof. Owen, F. R. S., on, 114 Pryor (R. A.), a New Palmistry, 47 ; Seasonal Colour in Flowers, Psychological Society, 77 Public Analysts,, 242, 287 Puckle (Col. J.), the Rainfall, Putnam's Archaeological Researches in Kentucky and Indiana, 109 Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society, 531 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 257 Queen's Colleges in Ireland, 22 ; Commission on, 530 Quetelet (Prof. E.), Statistics, Brussels, 296 Radiation and Repulsion, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 391, 450 Radiation and Thermal Energy, Capt. J. Ericsson, 114 Radiometers, 10, 324, 366, 420, 458, 473, 489, 511 Railway Exhibition in Paris, 135 Railway Stations in France, Maps at, 77 Rainbow Projected on Blue Sky, 348 Rainfall in 1875, 70, 86 Rainfall on the Continent, Decrease of, 15 Rainfall of Sweden, 436 Ramsay (Prof., F.R.S.), Anglesey, how it became an Island, 279 Rankine (Prof.), Memorial to, 374 Rare Plants in the Alps, Unequal Distribution of, 516 " Recent Origin of Man," J. S. Southall, 245, 484, 510 Red Snow, 414 Refraction, Apparatus for illustrating the Law of, 535 Refraction of Light and Sound through the Atmosphere, Dr. A. Schuster, 67 Refraction of Sound, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 218 Rekhert and Du Bois Reymoad's Archiv, 258 "Reliquice Aquitanicee," Lartet and Christy, 401 Renshaw (A. G. ), Screw-Propeller in Nature, 367 Reptilia and Batrachia of Costa Rica, 25 7 Repulsion and Radiation, W. Crookes, F. R.S., 391, 450 Research Fund for the Chemical Society, Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S.,461 Retriever Dog, and Cat, ^6 ; a Criminal, 69 Revue Philosophique, 477 Reynolds (Prof. Osboine), Hartley's "Air and its Relation to Life," 243 ; Refraction of Sound, 218 Rhabdomancy, Miss Buckland on, 200 Richardson (Dr., F.R.S.), Dr. F. de Chaumont on his Hygeia, 25 ; " Diseases of Modern Life," 508 Rink (Dr. Henry), "Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo," 103 River-beds of the Riviera, 406, 448 Rivers, Wm. Hope on the Pollution of, 81 Riviera, the Dry River-beds of the, 406, 448 Romanes (G. J.) on Medusa, 496 Rome, Academia dei Lincei, 536; Excavations at, 155; the University of, 1 14, 296 Roscoe (Prof., F.R. S.), on Popular Science Lectures, 82 ; Phy- sical Science in Schools, 353, 386 Ross (Major W. A.), " Pyiology, or Fire Chemistry," 164; Blow-pipe Analysis, 186 ; D-line Spectra, 366 Rosse (Lord), Bronze Statue of, 435 Rotherham, Science Classes at, 135 Routledge (R., F.C.S.), "Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century," 44 Royal Arsenal, Chemical Society at, 395 Royal Institution, Lectures at, 75 Royal School of Mines, Annual Dinner, 155 Royal Society, 78, 98, 118, 134, 138, 158, 176, 198, 218, 237, 277, 298, 397, 418, 458, 478, 498, 533; Anniversary Meeting, 93 ; Committees, 193 ; Conversazione, 473 ; Election of Officers and Council, 35 ; Medals of the, 34, 93 ; New Fellows, 474 Rogers (C. E. H.), Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 129 Rugby Catalogue of Double Stars, 287 Russell (Dr. W. J., F.R.S.), a Research Fund for the Chemical Society, 461 Russia, Expedition to Behring's Straits, 217 Riitimeyer on Traces of Man in the Glacial Coal-beds of Swit- zerland, 130 Safety Matches, 469, 512 St. Gothard's Tunnel Works, Compressed Air Locomotives used in, 489 St. Helena, the Natural History of, 272 St. Petersburg, Meeting of Orientalists, 76 Salet (M.), the Spectrum of Nitrogen and that of Alkaline Metals in Geissler Tubes, 314 Salmon, Investigation into the Habits of, 53 ; in New Zealand, 256, 257 Salt, the Flame of Common, 287, 306, 448 Satellites of Uranus, 208 Saturn, Occultations of, 188 ; Rings of, 307 ; Satellite Hyperion, 326 Saw-fish inhabiting Fresh Water, 107, 167 Scheerer and Blanford's " Introduction to the Use of the Mouth- Blowpipe, 164 School Examinations and the University of London, 261, 286 Schools, Physical Science in, 311, 329, 353, 371, 386, 412, 430, 454, 472, 491 Schott (Chas. A.), Meteorological Charts of the United States, 53 Schuster (Dr. A.), the Bothkamp Sun Observations, 402 ; the Flame of Common Salt, 306 ; the Late Eclipse, 86, 207 ; on the Radiometer, 458 ; Refraction of Light and Sound through the Atmosphere, 67 ; Scientific Notes taken in the Himalayas, 393 Schweinfurth (Dr. G.), " Artes Africanae," 142 Science and Art in Ireland, 309, 349, 370 Science Classes and Penny Lectures in Birmingham, 149 Science Commission, Seventh Report of, 21 Science : in Germany, 10, 30, 75, 112, 250, 452, 521 ; in Italy, no ; in Leeds, 527 Science in Schools {See Schools) Science Lectures at Manchester, 82 Science Teaching to Young Children, G. H. West, 48 Scientific Agriculture, Prof. T. Baldwin, loi Scientific Apparatus, Loan Exhibition of, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 315. 349, 375. 413. 455, 47°, 474, 503 " Scientific Culture," Josiah P. Cooke, 284 Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, 371 Scientific Notes taken in the Himalayas, Dr. A. Schuster, 393 Scientific Research, Lord Derby on the Endowment of, 141 ^ Scientific Research for the Promotion of Science, Prof. Piazzi Smith, 45 Scientific Societies of Dublin, 470 Scientific Worthies, VIL — Sir Charles Wheatstone, 501 Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.), Geographical Zoology, 482; the Island, of Socotra, 414, 426 Scorpion, H. Woodward, F.R.S., on a Fossil, 58 Scotland : Scotch Herring Fishery Board, Report of, 35 ; Scotch Universities, Science Commission, Report on, 21 ; Royal Agricultural Society, loi ; Meteorological Society of, 53, 76, 100, 135 Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Hoffmeyer's Synoptic Weather Charts, 85 Screw Propeller, Origin of, 367, 386, 428, 465, 512 Screws, Dr. Ball, F.R.S., on, 463 Scrope (G. Poulett, F.R.S.), Cup-shaped Joints in Prismatic Basalt, 47 ; Glaciers in France, 149, 166 ; Obituary Notice of, 241 Scudder (S. H.), Fossil Butterflies, 222 Sea, the, Jules Michelet, 106 Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 150, 326, 348, 366, 427 Sea Trout on the Norfolk Coast, 114 Sea-water, the Expansion of, by Heat, 237 Secchi (Padre), Ericsson's Researches on the Sun, 46 ; Spectra of Stars, 480 Sedgwick Memorial, 375 Nature, May il, 1876] INDEX XI Secbohm (H.), Ornithological Collection, 14 Seeley (Prof. H. G.), the Omithosauria.. 98 Selenium, Action of Light on, 238, 407, 419 ; Herr W. Siemen's Researches on, 112 Settle Cave Committee, Report of, 55 Sexuality of Plants and Sir Thomas MUlington, 85, 127, 166, 1S5 Sheep, Small-pox of, E. Klein, F.R.S., 467 Siberia, Notes from, Prof. George Forbes, 469 Siberia, Northern, German Expedition to, 36S Siebold (Prof, von), Fresh-water Fishes of England, 366 Siemens (Dr. C. W., F,R.S.), the Action of Light on Selenium, 407 ; Bathometer, 431 ."^^iemens ^Herr W.), Researches on Selenium, 112 Silica, Prof. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., on various Forms of Silica, Sirius, the Companion of, 428 vSivewright (J.), Preece and Sivewright's "Tel^raphy," 511 Skeleton, Inquest on a, in New Zealand, 196 Skin-scrapers, Flint, from New Jersey, 270 Sloths, Protective Resemblance in the, J. C.Galton, 187 Small-pox of Sheep, E. Klein, F.R.S., 467 Smith (Hermann) on the Nature of ^Musical Pipes having a Pro- pulsive Mode of Action, 511 Smith (Worthington G.}, Fertilisatioa of Basidiomycetes, 186; Potato Disease, 524 Smithsonian Institution, Report of, 94 Sm)rth (R. B.,) Geological Map of Australia, 352 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Scientific Research the [Promotion of Science, 45 Snow, Red, 414 Socotra, the Island of, 414, 426 Solar Eclipses of 1605, 108 ; of 1999, 169 ; of 1876, March 25, 248 ; Total, of 1876, 268 ; of 1706, 307 ; of 1883, 406 , Solar Halos, 49^, 512 ; Coloured, 404, 426, 466 Solar Spectra, Capt. Abney on Photographing, 419 Solar Spots, Veiled, Mr. Trouvelot on, 497 Somerset House and the Public Analysts, 242 Somersetshire, Floods in, 155 Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), Address at Microscopical Society, 3S4 ; Apparatus for Measuring Spectra, 159 ; Colour of Flowers Grown in the Dark, 465 ; the Evolution of Hsemoglobin, 306 ; Measuring Bands in Spectra, 39 ; Relation between Micro- scope and Molecules of Matter, 332 Sound, Prof. Osborne Reynolds on the Refraction of, 218 ; Prof. Stein on the Formation of, 78 South Kensington, Lectures on Botany at, 436 ; Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 315, 349, 375) 413. 503 ; Musical Instruments at, 443 Southall (J. C), "The Recent Origin of Man," 245, 4S4, 510 Southport, Aquarium, 197 ; Botanic Garden and Museuni at, 495 South worth (A. S.), "Four Thousand Miles of African Travel," 43 Spectra, D-line, Major W. A. Ross, 366 : Prof. G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., 247 Spectra, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., Apparatus for Measuring, 159; Measuring Bands in, 39 ; of Solutions, New Form of Tube for Observing, 74 ; of Stars, Padre Secchi, 480 Spectroscopy, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., on some Recent Methods of, 239 Spectrum Analysis, Prof. Stokes, F.R.S., on the Early History of, 188 Spectrum of Fish-pigment, George Francis, 167 Spectrum, Photography of Red End of the, Capt. W. de W. Abney, 432 Sphygmograph, M. Bouilland on the, 114 Spiders, Old and New "World, 281 Spinoza, Proposed Statue of, 315 Spottiswoode (W., F.R.S.), Experiment on Electro-magnetic Rotation, 49S Spring Plants, the Flowering of, Alex- Bachan, 249 Snin.rrels, Cherry Blossoms destroyed by, 26 •ford's Map of India, 95 ; Geographical Maps, 396 ^ aiey's Exploration of Africa, 35, 53, 76, 93 Stars, 226; Atlas Pleiadum, 2 453, 129; B.A.C. 793, 419; Bmary, 69, 287, 249 ; the Binary 7 Coron^e Australia. 248 ; Double, 449 ; Double, Rugby Catalogue of, 2S7 ; 40 Eridani, 8 ; Proper Motion of a- Centauri, 8 : Variable. 27, 150, 227, ^ 306, 326, 367, 467, 486 Stationary Liquid Waves, Dr. Guthrie, 99 Steam, Physical Constitution of, J. J. Murphy, 466 Stein (Prof.) on the Formation of Sound, 78 Stenographic Exhibition at Rome, 1 14 Sterlets at the Manchester Aquarium, 77 Stevenson (Thos.^, Proposed Optical Barometer, 150 Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.) on Measuring tlie Heat of the Sun, 118 Stieler's Hand Atlas, 236 Stockholm Academy of Sciences, 320 Stockwell (J. N.), Theory of the Moon's Motions, 88 Stokes (Prof. G. G., F.R.S.) D i ne Spectra, 247 ; the i!.arly History of Spectrum Analysi-, iS8 Stoliczka's (Dr. ) Collection of Mammals, 106, 109 .Stone (Dr ). on Thermopiles, 59 Stoney (Prof. Johnstone, F.R.S.), on Radiometers, 420 Storer (F. H.), Cherry Blossoms destroyed by Squirrels, 26 Storms: Blasius on, 421 ; T. S. Usborne, 406 ; Faye on the Laws of, II, 87, 187 Stranga (Col., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice ot, 396, 408 Strata, Bristow's Tables of British, 464 Stream Lines, Wm. Froude, F.R.S. on, 50, 89, 130, 169 Stnive's Companion of Procyon, 406 Submarine Explorations, W. Topley, 133 Sub- Wealden Exploration, 175, 334, 396 Sulphurous Acid Ice-Machine, Raoul Pictet's, 432 Sumatra, Exploration of. Dr. A. A. W. Hubrecht, 209 Sun : Prof. Balfour Stewart on Measuring tha Heat of the, 1 18 ; P. A. Secchi on Eric-son's Researches on the, 46 ; Origin of the Heat of the, "\V. Coutie, 126 : the Bothkamp Obser- vations, 402 ; Rotation of, and Moon's Revolution and the Earth's Magnetism, 466 Sun-spots, 497 ; and the price of com, 15 ; Father Secchi on, 137 Surrey Commercial Docks, Excavations at, 77 Sussex, Flora of, 155 Sutton (Dr. G.), Report on Trichinosis, 105 Sweden : Rainfall of, 436 ; Tornado in, 216 Swedish Arctic Expedition, 16, 116 Switzerland, Traces of Man in the Glacial Coal-beds of, 130 " Syllabus of Plane Geometry," 102 ' Symonds (Rev. W. S.), Ancient Glacier Action in Centra France, 67 ; the Fossil Skeletons of Le Puy en Velay, 207 ; Ancient Glaciers in France, 425 j Tacchini (Prof.), Sun-spots, 497 Tait (Prof.), on the Earth's A