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Front matter and index

No. 1: November 4, 1869

No. 2: November 11, 1869

No. 3: November 18, 1869

No. 4: November 25, 1869

No. 5: December 2, 1869

No. 6: December 9, 1869

No. 7: December 16, 1869

No. 8: December 23, 1869

No. 9: December 30, 1869

No. 10: January 6, 1870

No. 11: January 13, 1870

No. 12: January 20, 1870

No. 13: January 27, 1870

No. 14: February 3, 1870

No. 15: February 10, 1870

No. 16: February 17, 1870

No. 17: February 24, 1870

No. 18: March 3, 1870

No. 19: March 10, 1870

No. 20: March 17, 1870

No. 21: March 24, 1870

No. 22: March 31, 1870

No. 23: April 7, 1870

No. 24: April 14, 1870

No. 25: April 21, 1870

No. 26: April 28, 1870

Back matter

INDEX TO VOLUME I.

Acclimatation Society of Paris, 236

Actuaries, Institute of, 247

Aerolites, Falls of, 120. (See Meteors.)

Agassiz (Prof. Alexander) on Corals in the Atlantic, 147

Agricultural Chemistry, 424; in France, 353

Agricultural Map of France, 86

Air, Organic Matters contained in, 327, 339, 351, 361, 392, 405

Airy (G. B.), Report of his Paper on Magnetic Disturbances and Effects, &c., 390; Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion, 87

Airy (Hubert) on a Distinct Form of Transient Hemiopsia, 445

Albite in Granite, Report of Prof. Haughton's Paper on, 175

Alcohol, New Test for, 61; its Effect on Animal Heat, 62; Dr. Dupre on Elimination of, 85; Reactions of, 392

Alizarine, Artificial, 369

Allen's Mammalia of Massachusetts, 625

Amagat on the Law of Mariotte, 567

American Association, Meeting of, 83

American Government and Science, 86, 113

American Recent Total Eclipse, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 14; see also 170, 532

Analogy of Colour and Music, 384; see Colour

Anatomical Lectures to Female Students, 337

Andral (M.) on the Temperature of the Human Body, 201

Anemometer, New, 640

Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England, by Dr. Rolleston. F.R.S., 661

Antarctic Explorations, Report of Papers, &c., 568

Anthracite Deposits in Carinthia, 178

Anthropological Society, 62, 198, 368, 445, 491, 568, 639, 642, 664

Apjohn's (Professor) Report of his Paper on the Analysis of Sugar, 175

Archaeology, Pre-historic, by John Evans, F.R.S., 77

Archer's Freshwater Radiolaria, 189

Arctic Regions, German and Swedish Expeditions to, by R. A. Proctor, 313

Armstrong (Sir W.) on the Meteor of November, 1869, 112

Aromatic Acids, Synthesis of, 297

Ascidians and Vertebrates, kinship of, 90

Asiatic Society of London, 117

Assured Lives, Mortality of, 521

Astronomical Congress at Vienna, 26

Astronomical Society, 145, 221, 390, 543, 663

Astronomy, Chinese, 221. (For Astronomy, consult the several headings Eclipse, Meteors, and the like.)

Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion, Correction of, 87

Atmospheric Germ Theory, 351

Atomic Controversy, The, 44

Atoms, size of, 551

Aurora Borealis, 347

Australian Mesozoic Geology and Palaeontology, 90

Australia, Telegraphic Communication with, 267

Australia, Western, 615

Babington (Prof.) on the Flora of Iceland, 345

Bail on Androgynous Inflorescence, 293; on Parasitic Fungi, 293

Baillon's History of Plants, by Professor Oliver, F.R.S., 52

Baily's Our Own Birds, 356

Baker's (Sir Samuel) Expedition, 512

Balfour's (Prof.) Letter on the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 534

Barrett's (W. F.) Notes on the Correlation of Colour and Music, 286; Letter on, 406

Barrows, Ancient British, 460, 583

Bartholomew's Advanced Atlas, 380

Bastian (Dr.) on Sensation and Perception, 213, 309; on Protoplasm, 424

Bate (C. Spence) on Prismatic Ice, 536

Bates's Address to the Entomological Society, 357

Becquerel (M.) on the Action of Light upon Bodies, 120; his Memoir on Electro-capillary Phenomena, 147

Beke (Dr.) on Dr. Livingstone's Explorations, 240; on the Solution of the Nile Problem, 405

Bell's New Tracks in North America, 163

Bell (Melville), Report of his Paper on Pronouncing all Languages (Philological), 199

Bennett (Alfred W., F.L.S.) on the Fertilisation of Winter Flowering Plants, 11, 58; on Vegetable Monstrosities, 328

Benzol, Novel Application of, 244

Berkeley (Rev. M. J.) on Oliver's Indian Botany, 234

Berlin Academy of Sciences, 177, 416

Berlin: German Chemical Society, 63, 121, 226, 297, 322, 369, 446, 493, 546

Bessemer Process under Pressure, 292

Bettinger's Sandwich Islands, 108

Bheel Tribes (Royal Asiatic Society), 117

Bibliothèque des Merveilles, by G. F. Rodwell, F.C.S., 187

Bidgood (W.) on the Turdus Whitei, 363

Binnie (Francis G.) on Cuckows' Eggs, 508

Binz (Prof.), New Body obtained from Quinine, 322

Birchall (Edwin) on Irish Lepidoptera, 267

Birds, Flight of, 363, 431

Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, 63, 639

Blood, Coagulation of, 117

Blood Corpuscles, 587

Blood-letting, Origin of, by E. Ray Lankester, 76

Boillot (M.) on Euclid's Postulate, 321

Bonn Natural History Society, 177, 332

Bonney (Rev. T. G.) on Veined Structure in Ice, 337; on Natural Science in the University of Cambridge, 451, 628

Book Shelf, Our, 17, 53, 80, 108, 134, 165, 188, 212, 236, 260, 283, 306, 329, 355, 380, 403, 428, 456, 480, 503. (Consult also the names of the several Authors.)

Boston Society of Natural History, 348, 369, 418, 569

Brachiopoda obtained near Budleigh Salterton, Notes on; Report on Mr. Davidson's Paper at the Geological Society, 222

Brady on Foraminifera, 477

Brain, development of grey matter of, 62

Breath, Human, in Health and Disease, 520

Bremiker's Geodesy, 54

Bridge's Physiology, 480

Brighton and Sussex, Natural History Society, 92, 201, 394, 469, 593

British Museum Herbarium, 343

Brome, Capt. F. (the late), 509

Browning on Changes in Jupiter, 138

Brussels, Royal Academy of Sciences, 92, 226, 641

Bryce (Dr.) on the Geological Structure of Skye and the West Highlands, 368

Busk (Prof) on Capt. Fred. Brome, 509

Butler's Exotic Lepidoptera, 17

Calamites, Organisation of, 393

Caldwell's Agricultural Analysis, 428

Calvaria, Ancient (Ethnological Soc.). 247

Cambridge, Notes from, 26, 140, 586; Science at, by James Stuart, 58; Scholarships and Exhibitions for Natural Science, 59, 168

Cambridge Philosophical Society, 468, 493, 639

Camera, Improved Eclipse, 313

Campbell of Islay (Mr.) on British Mythology (Report), 592

Cañons, by Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 434

Carbonic Acid decomposed by Leaves, 142

Carpenter (Dr. W. B.) on the Temperature and Animal Life of the Deep Sea, 489, 540, 563

Carpmael (Ernest) on the Solar Prominences, 607

Carruthers (W.) on the Plants of Middlesex, 107

Cassell's Technical Manuals, 81

Caves, Exploration of, at Leith, by W. B. Dawkins, 628

Cayley, Professor, Report of his Paper on determining the Place of a Body revolving round the Sun, 222

Cayley (Prof.) on Abstract Geometry (Royal Society), 294

Cedar, Resinous Vapours from, 200

Census, a Scientific, by Prof. Leone Levi, 99

Channel Islands, Prehistoric Archaeology of, 198

Channel Railways, The Projected, 160, 303, 631

Charcoal, Absorption of Mixed Vapours by, 345

Chemical Nomenclature, 173; Notation, Basis of, by Prof. Odling, 600; Society of London, 173, 345, 391, 444, 491, 518, 592, 16, 639, 662

Child (Gilbert W.), Evidence concerning Heterogeny, 626

China, Mr. Gardner's Paper on, at the Ethnological Society, 90; Mr. Elias at the Geographical, 117; Prof. Owen on Fossils of, 662

Chinese Astronomy, 221

Chloral, Manufacture of, 446

Chlorinated transformed into Iodinated Compounds, 269

Chlorine (Dry), its Action upon Dry Nitrate of Silver, 321

Chlorophyll, Movements of, 465

Chlorophyll, Prof. Lawson on (Ashmolean Society), 172

Cholera, Pettenkofer on, 28; in India, Report concerning, 338

Chromium Oxychloride, a New, 119

Cinchona: its Culture in St Helena, 268; Hybridisation among Cinchonas, 491

Civil Engineers. (See Institution.)

Cloaca Maxima, Letters on, 193, 243

Clock, Turret, at Melbourne, 338

Cockle (Sir J.), Report of Paper on Convertent Functions, 468

Coffee Fungus, New, 142.

Coffee Plant in India, 540

Colour and Music, 286, 430, 557, 558, 651. (See Correlation.)

Comet discovered at Marseilles, 226; Kirkwood on the Origin of, 115; Prizes for the Discovery of, 269

Commensalism in the Animal Kingdom, 641

Copenhagen, Scientific Society of, 347

Corema Conradii, 121

Corfield (Prof.) on Science and the Public Health, 155

Cornell University, 658

Corona, Letter on the, by J. M. Wilson, 139

Correlation of Colour and Music, by W. F. Barrett, 286; Letters on, by Mr. W. R. Grove, 314, 335; by De Chaumont, 315; by Mr. Monro, 362

Crania, Comparative Measurements of, 318

Crombie's British Lichens, 380

Crookes' (W.) Letter on the American Eclipse, 170

Crossness Well-boring, The, 333

Croullebois (M.) on Refraction of Water, 664

Cuckows' Eggs, by Prof. Alfred Newton, F.L.S., 74; Letters on, 139, 218, 266, 336, 508; Colouring of, 242

Cupric Salts reduced by Tannin, 143

Cyclone, A, in England, 219, 289

Dallas (W. S.) on Newman's British Moths, 15

Dana's Mineralogy, by Prof. Maskelyne, 161, 186

Darien Canal, 562

Darwin (Chas.) on the Fertilisation of Winter Flowering Plants, 85; his Hypothesis of Pangenesis, 664

Darwinism, 316; and National Life, 183

Darwin's Theory, A Deduction from, by Prof. Jevons, 231

Davidson's Our Bodies, 54

Davies, Rev. W. G., Letter on Sensation and Perception, 407

Davison (W.) on the Dinornis, 604

Davy (M.) on the Calorific effects of the Moon's Rays, 29

Dawkins (W. B.) on the Geological Calculus, 505

Dawson (Principal) on Gaspé Fossils, 93; on Sigillaria, 271; on Animal Remains from Canada, 271

Day (Dr. Francis) on Indian River Fisheries, 220

Deas (Francis) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384

De Chaumont (Dr.) on Correlation of Colour and Music, 314

Deep-sea Corals, 267; Madreporaria, by Dr. Duncan, 612

Deep-sea Dredging Expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine, I.—Natural History, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 135, 166

Deep-sea Dredgings from China and Japan, by Prof. Rymer Jones, 198

Deep-sea Soundings and Geology, by Prof. Huxley, 657

Delaunay (M.) on the Falls of Aerolites, 120; award of the Royal Society's Gold Medal to, 219

Derry, Natural History Society of, 639

Desains (M.) and E. Branly, their Paper on Solar Radiation (Paris Academy), 177

Deville (Prof.) on Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63; his Paper at the Paris Academy on the Gases of Central Italy, 63; on a Siderostat, 225; on Meteorology in France, 273

Diatoms, Spectroscopic Examination of, 115

Dichlorinated Aldehyde, 27

Dieudonné (M.) on Mineral Oils for Heating Engines, 63

Diffraction Spectrum, Mr. Stuart's Letter, 506

Diffusion of Plants, 246

Dingle Bay, Inhabitants of Rockpools, &c., 296

Dinornis, Mr. Davison's letter on, 604

Dinosauria, Report of Prof. Cope's Paper on, 121

Drainage, the Metropolitan Main, 558

Dresser's (Dr. H. E.) Letter on Cuckows' Eggs, 218

Drink, Our National, by Dr. B. H. Paul, 594

Dublin: Geological Society, 175, 200, 346, 415; Natural History Society, 176, 296, 393, 521; Royal Society, 119, 346, 521; Royal Irish Academy, 119, 175, 225, 321, 415, 493, 568; Statistical Society, 147; Zoological Society, 346

Dufour Map, the, 291

Duncan (P. Martin) on Deep-sea Corals, 267; on the Food o Oceanic Animals, 315; on the Madreporaria dredged up in the Porcupine Expedition, 612

Dunkelberg on Agricultural Engineering, 189

Dupré (Dr.) on the Elimination of Alcohol, 86

Dust and Disease, 327, 361

Dutch or Deutsch, Mr. Freeman's Letter on, 532

Earthquake at Manilla, 604; at Marseilles, 364

Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, by R. A. Proctor, 54

Ecker's Convolutions of the Brain, 18

Eclipse, the Recent Total in America, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 14; see also, 170, 203, 336, 532; Indian, 536; Total, of December 1870, 599; Improved Camera, 313

Edinburgh: Botanical Society, 545; Geological Society, 63, 174; Naturalists' Field Club, 200; Royal Society, 247, 521, 640, 664

Egypt, Stone Age in, by J. Evans, F.R.S., 631

Encke, the Astronomer, by R. A. Proctor, 479

Energy, by Dr. Balfour Stewart, 666

Engrais Complet, 482

Entomological Society, 119, 295, 414, 467, 519, 593

Entomology in America, 379

Eophyton, Structure of, 173

Ether, Action of, on Plants, 343

Etheridge (R.) on the Geological Position, &c., of the Reptilian Conglomerate of the Bristol Area, 344

Ethnological Society, 90, 118, 198, 247, 320, 367, 414, 467, 519, 592, 639

Ethnology, 318

Eton, New Telescope at, 263; Chemical Laboratory at, 487

Evans (John) on Prehistoric Archaeology, 77; on the Stone Age in Egypt, 631

Explosives, Science of, 656

Falb (Rudolf) on the Earthquake at Manilla, 604

Faraday, by Dr. Gladstone, 401; an Oversight by, 384

Farrar (Rev. F. W.) on Philology and Darwinism, 527

Favre (M.) on the Electric Explorer, 225

Faye (M.), Photographic Observation of the Transits of Venus, 545

Female Education at the University of Dublin, 114

Female Physician Question at Edinburgh, 25, 587, 658

Fenzl (Prof.) on the Genus Lupinus, 293

Ferns, M. Trecul on, 493, 522

Fick on the Transformation of Force, by Dr. M. Foster, 53

Fireplaces, our Domestic, 624

Fisher (O.), A Word in Defence of Physicists, 654

Floating Matter and Beams of Light, by Professor Tyndall, F.R.S., 490. (See Air.)

Florence, Observatory at, 59

Fluoride of Silver, 319

Food, The, of Oceanic Animals, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 92; Mr. Wallich's Letter on, 241; Mr. Jeffreys on, 315; Dr. Wyville Thomson on, 316; Dr. Duncan on, 315

Forbes (David), Depths of the Sea, 100; Sermons in Stones, 130

Forefathers of the English People, by Prof. Huxley, 514

Form, A New, for Schools, 56

Fossils of Natal, 642

Foster (G. C.) on Heat Units, 654

Foster (Dr. M.) on Fick on the Transformation of Force, 53

France, Agricultural Map of, 86

Frankland and Duppa on the Action of Sodium on Acetic Ether, by J. A. Wanklyn, 482.

Frankland (Dr.) on the Action of Sodium, &c., 467

Freckelton (W.) on Hydro-Carbon Colours, 243

Freeman (Edward A.) on "Dutch" or "Deutsch," 532

Frere (Sir Bartle) on the Runn of Cutch, 491

Fresenius' Analysis, 553

Freshwater Crustacea of Norway, 455

Fritzsche (Prof.) on the Action of Cold on Tin, 63

Fungi, Alternation of Generation in, 516

Gadolinite, Des Cloiseaux on, 246

Galileo, Private Life of, by G. F. Rodwell, 529

Gamgee's (Prof.) Process with Meat, 464

Gardner (Mr.) on China, 91

Gases, Outburst of, 636; Phosphorescence of, 637; Diffusion of, 641; of the Secretions, 62

Gaspé Fossils, Principal Dawson on, 93

Geikie (Archd.) on. the Meeting of the German Naturalists at Innsbruck, 22; on the Gold Fields of Victoria, 210, 233; on Canons, 434; on the Geology of the Holy Land, 509; Report of his Paper on the Geology of Central Scotland, 174; on the Geological Structure of some Alpine Lake Basins, 247

Gems, Artificial, 274

Geographical Society 117, 197, 392 491, 568, 615, 663

Geological Calculus, Letter by Mr. Dawkins on, 505

Geological Society of the West Indies, 220

Geological Society of London, 90, 222, 270, 344, 367, 490, 616, 662

Geological Time, Measurement of, by A. R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., 399, 452

Geology of the Holy Land, 509; of Ross-shire, 174; and Agriculture, by H. Woodward, F.G.S., 46

Geometry, Modern, and the University of London, 607

Germany, Science Education in, by Prof. Roscoe, 157

Giebel's Agricultural Zoology, 355

Gill's Chemistry for Schools, 329

Glaciers, Veined Structure of, 266

Gladstone (Dr. J. H.) on Faraday, 401

Glaisher (Mr.) on the Temperature and Humidity of the Air, 467

Glasgow Geological Society, 415; Natural History Society, 469, 569, 640; Philosophical Society, 368, 545

Glass, Coloration of, by the Solar Light, 147

Glatter (Dr.) on the Influence of Race Differences on the Vital Processes, 319

Glennie (J. S.) on the Principle of the Conservation of Force and Mr. Mill's Logic, 583

Glycerine Jelly, a Medium for Preserving Objects, 172

Goadby (E.) on Legislation and Nature, 648

Goethe's Aphorisms on Nature, by Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., 9

Gold Diggers in Thibet, 192

Gold Fields (The) of Victoria, by A. Geikie, F.R.S., 210, 233

Gonoplax Angulata, 296

Gore (George) on Original Experimental Research in Relation to Employment for Workmen, 623; on Fluoride of Silver, 319

Gosse's Romance of Natural History, 236

Gould (Dr.) on the Solar Protuberances, 203

Government Aid to Science, 279, 335, 385, 431; Mr. Wallace on, 288, 315

Government Science Teachers, 268

Graber (Prof.), Sexual Organs of the Locustidae, &c., 665

Graham (Prof.), Prof. Hofmann, of Berlin, on, 59, 316; Memoir of, by Prof. Williamson, F.R.S., 20

Granites of Scotland, 638

Grant (Prof.) and the Newton Controversy, 87

Grasses, Fertilisation of, 295

Grebe, Red-necked, Mr. Tuckwell on, 430

Gresham Lectures, the, 358

Grindon's Echoes in Plant and Flower Life, 380

Grove (W. R., Q.C.) on the Correlation of Colours and Music,314, 335; on the Apparent Size of Celestial Objects, 582

Gulf Stream, 640

Gull (Little), Letter on, by Mr. Cordeaux, 483

Guthrie (Prof.) on Approach caused by Vibration, 294

Hager's Microscope and its Use, 189

Hallier and Zürn (Drs.) on Parasitology, 165

Harcourt and Madan's Practical Chemistry, by Prof. Roscoe, 50

Hartog (Marcus M.) on Catkins of the Hazel, 583

Haughton's Country Walks of a Naturalist, 260

Haughton (Rev. Prof.) on the Labouring Force of the Human Heart, 255, 404; on the Geometrical Characters of Muscles, 297; on the Granites of Scotland, 638

Haviland's Geography of Disease, 504

Haze and Dust, by Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 339; Letter on, 405

Heart, Human, Labouring Force of the, by Rev. Prof. Haughton, F.R.S., 255, 404

Heat, Mechanical Theory of, 366

Heat Spectra, Prof. Magnus on, 28; Units, 606, 654

Hemiopsia, Transient, 445

Hereditary Genius, by Alfred R. Wallace, 501

Hereford Naturalists' Field Club, 544

Hering (Prof.), his Remarks on Respiration, 322

Herschel (Lieut.), Objects Crossing the Sun's Disc, 543

Highlands, West, and Skye, Geological Structure of, 368

Hildebrand (Prof.) on the Impregnation of Plants, 293; on Marsilea, 293

Hind (J. H.) on Temple's Comet, 58

Hofmann (Prof.), Paper on Chloral, 446; on Prof. Graham, 59, 316

Holborn Valley Viaduct, 171, 220

Hooker (Dr. J. D.,) on Vegetable Palaeontology, 48

Hope (W.) on the Cloaca Maxima, 243; on the Liquid Town Sewage, 506

Horse, Antiquity of the, 225, 274

Horticultural Society, 118, 295

Hudson (Dr.) on Physical Meteorology, 218

Humboldt's Memoir, 236

Husemann's Vegetable Essences, 403

Huxley (Prof.) on Goethe's Aphorisms on Nature, 9; on Triassic Dinosausia, 23; on Kant's View of Space, 314; on the Progress of Palaeontology, 437; on the Forefathers of the English People, 514; on Deep-sea Soundings and Geology, 657. Reports of Papers by: on Hypsilophodon, a new Genus of Dinosauria, 91; on Further Evidence of the Affinity between the Dinosaurian Reptiles and Birds, 91; on Triassic Dinosauria, 146

Hydrophobia, 618

Ice, Formation of Ground, 555; Pfaundler on the Regelation of, 116

Ice, Prismatic, Letter on, by Mr. Bate, 556; by Mr. Pengelly, 627

India, Isthmian Way to, 111

Indian Total Eclipse, 536

Ingleby (Dr.) on Transcendent Space, 289, 314, 360, 407; on Sir W. Thomson and Geological Time, 507; on the Apparent Size of the Moon, 556

Innsbruck, Meeting of German Naturalists and Physicians at, by A. Geikie, F.R.S., 22; Abstract of Papers, 293, 318

Insects, Colour of, 636

Institution of Civil Engineers, 91, 199, 296, 346, 445

Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, 346

Iowa, Mammals of, 418

Ireland, Climate of, 630

Irish Academy. (See Dublin.)

Irish Lepidoptera, 237

Iron-ores of the North-East of Ireland, 270

Isthmian Way to India, 111

Italian Institute of Science and Letters, 297

Italian Mineral Waters, Analyses of, 88

Jackson's (Rev. S.) Our Dumb Neighbours, 236

Japanese Sea Shells, Mr. Jeffreys' letter on, 383

Japanese Shells, 329

Japanese, The, by C. Chessar, 190

Jeffreys (J. Gwyn), Deep-sea Dredging Expedition, 135, 166; on the Food of Oceanic Animals, 192; on the late Professor Sars, 265; on the Food of Oceanic Animals, 315; on Japanese Sea Shells, 383

Jelineck (Dr.) on Meteorological Observations, 649

Jevons (Prof.), Deductions from Darwin's Theory, 231; Mechanical Performances of Logical Inference (Royal Society), 343

Johnson Memorial Prize, 387

Johnston (Dr. Keith) on the Gulf Stream, 640; on Dr. Livingstone's Discoveries, 336; on the Sources of the Nile, 607

Johnston's Physical Geography, 380

Jones (Dr. Bence), his Life of Faraday, 142

Jones (Prof. Rymer) on Deep-sea Dredgings from China and Japan, 198

Jupiter, Changes in, Mr. Browning's Letter on, 138

Kant's View of Space, 289, 314, 334, 360, 389

Kingdoms of Nature, The Three, 456

Kingsley (Rev. Canon), World of the Sea, 78

Kirkwood on the Origin of Comets, 115

Koch (Prof.) on Transformations of Parts of Flowers, 293; on the Formaton of the Germen, 293

Ladies, Lectures to, 45, 113, 170, 193, 212

Lallemand's (M.) Experiments on Transparent Solids, 29

Langley's Via Medica, 504

Language, The Science of, by Professor Max Müller, 256

Lankester (E. Ray) on the Origin of Bloodletting, 76; on the Mammalia of Switzerland, 281

Lawson (Prof.) on Chlorophyll, 172

Leaves, Viridescence of, 343

Lectures to Working Men, 71, 138

Legislation and Nature, by E. Goadby, 648

Lenormant (M.) on the Antiquity of the Ass and the Horse, 225

Lesser's Tables of Pomona, 18

Le Sueur (Albert), Report of his Paper on the Melbourne Telescope, 443, 517

Leuckart (Dr), Literature of Natural History, 236

Levi (Prof.) on a Scientific Census, 99

Lewes (G. H.) on Kant's View of Space, 289, 334, 386; Article on Popular Lectures on Physiology, 353

Lichens, Notes on, 467

Liebermann (Prof. C.) on Chrysene, 493

Liebig on the Decomposition of Sugar, 411

Lighting in a Clear Sky, Letters on, 139, 193

Linnean Society, 345, 491, 567

Lischke's Japanese Shells, 329

Listing's Amplifies, Letter on, by Dr. Pigott, 430

Littrow (Carl Von), his Address as Rector at the University of Vienna, 195

Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club, 393; New Observatory, 464

Livingstone (Dr.), 194, 363; his Exlorations, 72; Letter from Dr. Beke, 240; from Keith Johnston, jun., 336

Lockyer (J. Norman) on the Recent Total Eclipse in America, 14; on Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun, 195; the Recent Eclipse of the Sun in the United States, 366

Login (T.) on the Suez Canal, 24, 290; on the Abrading and Transporting Power of Water, 629, 654

Lombard Scientific Institute, 297

Loschmidt's (Prof.) Paper on the Diffusion of Gases, 641

Lowne, The Blow Fly, 330

Lubbock (Sir J.) on Madsen’s Danish Antiquities, 15

Lupinus, Genus, Prof. Fenzl on, 293

Macadam (Dr. Stevenson}, Report of his Address at the Edinburgh Physical Society, 147

Macalister (Prof.) and the Spontaneous Generation Theory, 114; on the Mode of Growth of Univalve Shells, 296; on the Curves in the Spine considered æsthetically, 346

Mackintosh (D) on the Scenery of England and Wales, 361

Maclure (Robert) on Solar Spots visible to the Naked Bye, 431

Madan (H. G.) on the New Telescope at Eton, 263

Madder, Colouring Matter from, 494; History of, 545

Madreporaria dredged up in the Porcupine, by Professor Duncan, 612; of the Deep Sea, 660

Magnetic and Sun Spot Phenomena for 1870. 412, 579

Magnetism Terrestrial, by Dr. B. Stewart, 264

Magnus (Prof.) on Heat Spectra, 28; on Radiation of Heat, 177; Death of, by Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., 607

Malaria, a Probable Cause of, 481

Mammalia of Switzerland, by E. Ray Lankester, 281

Mammals of Iowa, 418

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 29, 93, 119, 200, 273, 297, 347, 393, 468, 520, 544, 640

Mango, Fruit of the, 60

Marine Animals, Distribution of, 348

Mars, Stereograms of, 114; the Poles of, 170

Marsilea, Floating Leaves of, 516

Marsilea, Prof. Hildebrand, on, 293

Martins (Prof.) on the Flora of Southern France, 293

Maskelyne (Prof.) on Dana's Mineralogy, 161, 186

Masters (Dr.) on the Plants at Chiswick, 118; on Vegetable Teratology, 328

Mathematician, a Plea for, by Prof. Sylvester, 237, 261

Mathews (Wm. jun.) on the Mechanical Properties of Ice and their Relation to Glacier Motion, 534

Mechanical Properties of Ice and Glacier Motion, 534

Medico-Botanical Map, 269

Melbourne Telescope, the, 144, 443

Meldrum (Mr.), Note on Meteors at the Mauritius, 220

Mental Progress of Animals, 169

Metals, Hardness of, ascertainable, 563

Meteor at Torquay, Mr. Pengelly’s Letters on, 58, 267; at Wellington, New Zealand, 470; of Nov. 6th, Sir W. Armstrong's Letter on, 112; at Mauritius, 220; Cause of the Incandescence of, 88; of Nov. 1869, M. Chapelas on, 120; (Philadelphian Society) 666

Meteorites, Microscopic Investigation of, 383; Fall of, 538; Whence do they come? 239

Meteorological Society, 467

Meteorology, Physical, by Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 101

Meunier (Dr.) on a Meteoric Stone, 641

Micé's Organic Chemistry, 380

Microcephalous Subject, 319, 516

Microscopical Society, 92, 198, 321, 445

Microscopic Fauna of the English Fen District, by G. S. Brady, 483; Objects, Illumination of, 321

Midnight Sky, the, 215

Milan, Royal Lombardian Institute, 248, 347

Milde’s Bryologia Silesiaca, 108

Milk, Changes in, 62

Millingen (Major) on Circassian Slaves and Sultan's Harem, 491

Mills (Dr.) on Barff's Handbook of Chemistry, 80

Milne-Edwards (M.) on the Antiquity of the Horse, 225

Mineralogy, 246

Mineral Oils tor Heating Engines, 63

Miners’ Association for Cornwall, 245

Minister of Public Instruction, 423

Mistletoe, 214

Mollusca, Preservation of, 482

Monck (W. Stanley) on Kant’s View of Space, 334, 386; on the Moon's Diameter, 606

Monro (C. J.) on the Correlation of Colour and Music, 362

Montigny (M.), his Notes on the Coloration of the Edges of the Sun's Disc, 226

Montreal Natural History Society, 93, 248

Moon, How Large, by R. A. Proctor, 462; Letters on, 507, 556; Diameter of, 606

Moore (Chas.) on Australian Mesozoic Geology and Palæontology, 90

Morphia, Test for, 388

Motion of a Free Rotatory Body, by Professor Sylvester, 482

Muhry's Terrestrial Physics, 330

Muir (Thomas) on Heat Units, 606

Muller (Prof. Max) on the Science of Language, 256; Report of his Paper on the Writing of the Malayan People, 642

Murchison (Sir R. I.), Report on the Geology of Ross-shire, 174

Murphy (Joseph J.) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 651; on Habit and Intelligence, 105

Muscarin, Action of, 144

Muscle, Metamorphosis of, 62

Muscles, Geometrical Characters of, 297

Muscular Physics, a Point in, 159

Mythology, Current British, 592

Natal, Fossils of, 642

Natural Philosophy, Properties of, by Prof. Tait, 184

Natural Science at Cambridge, by Rev. T. G. Boney, 451

Nebulæ, if any, and Star Systems, by R. A. Proctor, F.R.A.S., 331; Letters on, 359, 384

Nerve Substance, Reaction of, 144

Newall (Mr.), his Refractor, 316, 408; on Rainbow Colours, 335

New Batrachians, 108

Newcastle-on-Tyne Chemical Society, 176, 469

Newman's British Moths, by W. S. Dallas, 16

Newmarch (W.), Inaugural Address of, at the Statistical Society, 119

Newton (Prof. A.) on Cuckows' Eggs, 74, 265

Newton (Prof. of Yale College) on the November Star Shower, 170, 562

New Zealand, Public Works of, 199; Wellington Philosophical Society, 470

Nile Problem, Mr. Stuart's Letters on, 406; Sources of the Nile, by K. Johnston, jun., 607

Norfolk, Crag of, and Associated Beds, by Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., 367

Norwich Geological Society, 176; Naturalists’ Society, 249, 416

Observers, Astronomical, Personal Equation of, 85; Letter on, 3; Dr. Van Stadt, 337

Odling (Prof. W.) on the Basis of Chemical Notation, 600

Okely (W. S.) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384, 651; on Concomitant Sounds and Colours, 557

Oliver (Prof.) on Baillon's History of Plants, 52

Oliver's Indian Botany, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 234

Ooster's Protozoe Helvetica, 330

Origin of Species Controversy, by A. R. Wallace, 105, 132

Orme's Introduction to the science of Heat, 134

Owen (Prof.) on the Fossil Mammals of Australia, 390; on Fossil Mammals of China, 662

Oxford, Notes from, 26, 194

Oysters, Price off 244

Palæontology, Progress of, by Professor Huxley, F.R.S., 437

Paley (Mr.) on Agricultural Terms (Report), 468

Paris, Academy of Sciences, 29, 63, 94, 120, 147, 177, 201, 225, 249, 273, 297, 321, 347, 394, 416, 445, 469, 493, 521, 545, 570, 593, 617, 640, 664; Acclimatation Society, 236; Observatory, 363, 387

Parsons on the Rose, 236

Pasteur's (M.) Patent for Preserving Wines, 29, 94

Patagonia, Paraderos of, 318

Pual (Dr.) on Our National Drink, 576; on Town Sewage, 207

Pellew Islands, Natives of, 318

Pengelly (W.) on a Meteor, 58, 267; on Prismatic Ice, 627

Penny. (Dr.), the late, 138

Penny Science Classes, 57

Periodicity of the Solar Spots, 284

Perry (Rev. S. J.) on the Cyclone, 290

Perth's Nature Contemplated, 134

Petroleum and its Allies, 376

Petroleum Discovered in the Caucasus, 245

Pfaundler on the Regelation of Ice, 116

Phallic Worship, 639

Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, 121, 417, 546, 594; Philosophical Society, 30, 347, 370, 665

Philological Society, 199

Philology and Darwinism, by Rev. F. W. Farrar, 527

Phipson's (Dr.) the Sun, 380

Phosphate of Lime and Sulphurous Acid, 200

Phosphorus, Turpentine not an Antidote for, 149

Photography, Artificial Light for, 271; Photographic Reproductions, 513

Physical Meteorology, by Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 101, 128, Dr. Hudson’s letter on, 218, Dr. Stewart's letter on, 337

Physiology and the German Universities, 244; Popular Lectures on, by George H. Lewes, 353: 28, 62, 90, 117, 144, 516

Platinum, Electromotive Forces Developed by, 249, 521

Plants, Impregnation of, 293; Distribution of, 465; of Middlesex, by W, Carruthers, 107; Spontaneous Movements in, 142; Winter Flowering, their Fertilisation, by A. W. Bennett, F.L.S., 11, 58 (see also 85, 142); Diffusion of, 246

Playfair (Dr. Lyon) and City Scientific Education, 113

Pollen, Considered as an Aid in the Differentiation of Species, 207

Pollen’s Fauna of Madagascar, 260

Prague, National Museum of Bohemia, 250; Royal Society of Bohemia, 64

Prehistoric Archæology, by J. Evans, F.R.S., 77; Times, by E. B. Tylor, 103

Preservation of Objects in Glycerine Jelly, 172

Prestwich (J.) on the Thames Subway, 280

Pring-heim's (Prof.) Paper on Swann-spores (Berlin Academy of Sciences), 177

Prismatic Structure in Ice, 481

Proctor (R. A.) on Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, 54; on the November Shooting Stars, 56; on the German and Swedish Expeditions to the Arctic Regions, 312; on Star Drift, 466; on Are any of the Nebulæ Star Systems? 331; Letter on the Nebuluæ, 384; 0n the Transits of Venus in 1874 and 1882, 146, 627

Procton's (R. A.) New Star Atlas, 84

Protoplasm, by Dr. H. C. Bastian, 424; at the Antipades, 13

Public Schools, Scientific Men on the Governing Bodies of, 58

Quartz, the Velocity of Light in, 121

Quekett Microscopical Club, 368

Quin (Chas. W.), Science for Children, 209

Quincke on Specific Cohesion, 516

Quinine, New Body obtained from (Prof. Binz), 322; Sulphate of, 347

Rae on the Suez Canal, 169

Rainbow Colours, Letter by Mr. Newall, 335; Supernumerary, Mr. Stuart's Letter on, 406

Rainfall, British, 265

Rainfall of the Year, 540; Mr. Symon's Book on, 611

Rambosson's History of Meteors, 356

Rames' History of Creation, 381

Rankine (Prof.), Remarks on Mr. Heppel's Theory of Continuous Beams (Royal Society), 365; on the Mathematical Theory of Stream Lines, 413

Ransome (Dr.) on Human Breath (Manchester Lit. Soc.), 520

Reis (Dr. Paul), Manual of Physic, 283

Respiration, 322, Products of, 516

Riche's Chemical Lessons, 109; his Medical Chemistry, 308

Robertson (G. Croom) on Kant's View of Space, 333

Roberts (W. Chandler) on Stalactites, 109

Robinson (Rev. Charles. J.) on English Sport in the Fifteenth Century, 352

Rochleder's (Prof.) Paper on Colouring Matter from Madder, 404

Rodwell (G. F.), Bibliothèque des Merveilles, 187; on the Private Life of Galileo, 529

Rolleston (Dr.), Character and Influence of the Anglo-Saxon Conquest, 661

Romer's, (Prof.) Examination of the Species of Venus, 504

Roscoe (Prof.) on Harcourt and Madan's Practical Chemistry, 50; on Lectures to Working Men, 138; on Scientific Education in Germany, 157, 475; on Spectrum Analysis, 503; on Vanadium, 662

Roscoff, Harbour of, and Marine Zoology, 225.

Rotundity of the Earth, 581

Royal Commission on Science, 375

Royal Institution, 140, 492

Royal Society, Candidates for, 561; Catalogue, 86; Copley Medal, 113; Meetings, 144, 195, 294, 319, 343, 365, 390, 413, 443, 467, 490, 517, 542, 614, 638

Rugby, New Natural Science Schools at, 485; Science-teaching at, 25; Surface Deposits in the Neighbourhood of, 344

Rupert's Drops, Dynamics of, 89

Ruskin, Professor, on River Conservation, 508

Saccolina, Development of, 246

Sanchi Tope, The, 339

Sars, the late Professor, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 263; Sars Fund, The, 363, 511, 634

Scenery, The, of England and Wales, 306, 361

Schöbe (Dr.), his Paper at the Royal Society of Bohemia on Nerves of the Cheiroptera, 64

Science Classes, Penny, 57; Dulness of, by F.R.S., 43; Teaching in Schools, by Rev. W. Tucker, 18; and the Public Health, by Prof, Corfield, 135; for Children, by C. W. Quin, F.C.S., 209; Education at Cambridge, 57, 628; Education in Germany, by Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S., 157, 475

Scientific Serials, 165, 221, 246, 270, 294, 342, 365, 389, 412, 436, 513, 542, 591, 637

Scolithus genus, and allied Fossils, 248

Sea, Work of the, by C. W. Whitaker, 381; Depths of the, by David Forbes, 100; Fisheries, Decrease in the Yield of, 243

Secretions, Gases of the, 62

Seeley (Mr.) on Triassic Dinosauria, 146

Seligmann, on Exostoses in the Meatus Auditorius of Peruvian Crania, 319

Semper (Prof.) on the Natives of the Pellew Istands, 318

Sensation and Perception, by Dr. H. C. Bastion, F.R.S., 213, 309. (See also 407.)

Sermons in Stones, by D. Forbes, F.R.S., 130

Sewage of Great Towns, Notes on, 244, 364; Town, 207

Sharpey Scholarship, 109

Sicily, Sulphur in, 389

Sigillaria, Notes on the Structure of, 271

Silkworm, its Cultivation in England, 317, 347

Silver Nitrate, Preparation of, 61

Sinai, Turquoise Mines of, 273

Slavonians In Turkey, 287

Smee (Mr. Alfred), his Book on the Progress of Thought, 487

Smith (Cecil), Cuckows' Eggs, 24

Smith (Prof. H. J. S.) on the Focal Properties of Two Correlative Figures (Mathematical Society), 223

Smyth (Prof. Piazzi) at the Great Pyramid, 634; report of his Paper on Supra-annual Cycles of Temperature in the Earth's Surface Crust, 638

Snake Bites, Treatment of, 268

Societies, Learned. (See for London under the heads Asiatic, Ethnological, Royal, and the like. Otherwise the places of meeting, as Edinburgh, Paris, Philadelphia.)

Soda in Plants, 250; Old Atomic Weight of, 176

Sodium, Action of, an Acetic Ether, 467

Solar Eclipse (see Eclipses); Prominences, 607; Radiation, 177; Spots, 284, 431

Sorby (H. C.) on Remarkable Spectra of Compounds of Zirconia and Uranium, 588

Southwell (T.) on the Flight of Birds, 431

Spectra of the Metals, Thalen's Map of, 61

Spectroscopic Examination of Diatoms, 115

Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun, 172; Paper on, at the Royal Society, by Mr. Lockyer, 195

Spectrum Analysis, by Prof. Roscoe, 503

Spencer (Herbert) on Where are the Nebulæ? 359

Sphærodus Gigas, 89

Spinal Cord, Regeneration of, 62, 92

Sport, English, in the Fifteenth Century, by the Rev. C. J. Robinson, 352

Stadt (H. v.), Personal Equation of Astronomical Observers, 337

Stalactites, Notes on, by C. Roberts, 109

Stannous Chloride and Acids of Arsenic, 27

Star Atlas, New, 84

Star-Drift, Mr. Proctor on, 466

Stars, Heating Powers of, 320

Star Shower, Prof. Newton, of Yale, on, 170; Father Secchi on, 171; as seen in California, 390

Statistical Society, 119, 247, 346

Stenosaurus, Discovery of, 89

Sterland (W. J.) on Cuckows' Eggs, 139, 336

Stewart (Dr. Balfour) on Physical Meteorology, 101, 128, 337; on Terrestrial Magnetism, 264, on What is Energy? 647; Results of the Monthly Observations of Dip and Horizontal Force made at Kew, 517

Stewart's (Dr. Balfour) Meteorological Blockade, by Professor Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S., 306

Stewart's Sorghum and its Products, 403

Stone Age, The, in Egypt, 148

Strobel (Prof.) on the the Paraderos of Patagonia, 318

Stuart (J.) on Scientific Education at Cambridge, 57; on Lectures to Working Men, 71; on the Diffraction Spectrum and Wave-Lengths, 506

Suez Canal, 24, 169

Sullivan (Prof) on the Beds of Thenardite of the Valley of Jarama (Irish Academy), 225

Sulphide of Carbon, Disinfection of, 273

Sulphuric Anhydride, 546

Sulphur in Sicily, 389

Sunday Lectures, 511

Sun's Altitude, Paper on, by Professor Roscoe and Dr. Thorpe, 614; Chromosphere, 654; Spectroscopic Observations, 172

Sylvester (Professor), Plea for the Mathematician, 237, 261; on Kant's View of Space, 314, 360; on the Rotation of a Rigid Body, 532; an After-Dinner Experiment, 582

Syro-Egyptian Society, 62, 224

Tait (Prof.) on the Progress of Natural Philosophy, 184

Tasmanians, Origin of, 367

Taylor, Sedley, on Analogy of Colour and Sound, 430; on Professor Tyndall's Exposition of Helmholtz's Theory of Musical Consonance, 457, 581

Technical Education, 139

Telegraphic Communication with Florence, 137

Telegraphs, State, 239

Telescope, New, at Eton, by H. G. Madan, 263; the Newall, 408; the Melbourne, 144, 443

Temperature and Animal Life of the Deep Sea, by Dr. Carpenter; 489, 540, 563

Temple, Dr., 23

Temple's Comet, 58

Tests, University, 140

Thalen's New Map of the Spectra of the Metals, 61

Thallium Salts, 116, 142

Thames Subway, The, by J. Prestwich, F.R.S.

Thompson (George C.), How large seems the Moon? 507

Thompson (W. G.) on the Formation of Ground Ice, 555

Thomson (Prof. Wyville) on the Food of Oceanic Animals, 315

Thomson (Sir W.) and Geological Time, 482, 507, 606

Thomson (Prof. Sir William) on Dr. Balfour Stewart's Meteorological Blockade, 306; on the Conducting Quality of Copper Wire, 539

Thrace, Geology of, 89

Tinné (Miss), Murder of, 539

Tithonian Stage, the, 143

Trécul (M.) on Ferns (Paris Academy), 493, 522

Triassic Dinosauria, Prof. Huxley on, 23

Tucker (R.) on Euclid as a Text Book, 534, 627

Tuckwell (Rev. W.) on Science Teaching in Schools, 18; on the Red-necked Grebe, 430

Turdus Whitei, Mr. Bidgood's letters on, 363

Tylor (E. B.) on Prehistoric Times, 103

Tyndall (Prof.) on Haze and Dust, 330; on the Death of Professor Magnus, 607; on the Action of Light on Gases, 443

Unger (Prof.) on Anthracite Deposits in Carinthia, 178

Universe, The, 259

University College, London, Science at, 337

Uranium, Preparation of, 27; Oxides of, 413

Valentiner's Practical Astronomy and Geodesy, 283

Vanadium, Prof. Roscoe's Paper on (Report), 662

Van Gorkom's (J. W.) Cinchona Plantations in Java, 212

Variety and Species (Letter), 21

Vegetable Palæontology, by Dr. J. D. Hooker, 48

Venus, Transits of, 146, 527; Mr. Proctor's Letter on, 627

Vertebrate Epiderimis, 62

Victoria Regia, 246

Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 121, 178, 226, 321, 494, 618, 641, 665; Imperial Geological Institution, 416, 469, 494

Vines of France, 243

Virchow (Prof) on Comparative Measurements of Crania, 318

Voekker's (Dr.) Address to the Chemical Society, 616

Vogt (Prof.) on a Microcephalous Subject, 319

Wallace (A. R.), Origin of Species Controversy, 105, 132; on Government Aid to Science, 288, 315; on the Measurement of Geological Time, 399, 452; on Hereditary Genius, 501

Waller (Horace) on Dust and Disease, 361

Wallich (Dr.) on the Food of Oceanic Animals, 241

Warsop, Aero-Steam Engine, 433

Water, the Abuse of, 578; Mechanical Properties of, by T. Login, 629, 654

Weeds in newly-turned Ground (Letter), 459

Wellington, Caves at, 194

Wellington, Philosophical Society of New Zealand, 470

Welsh Fasting Girl, 463

Whales, Stranded, 141, 223, 248

Whitaker (Charles W.) on the Work of the Sea, 381

Whymper (E.) on the Veined Structure of Glaciers, 266

Williamson (Prof.) on the late Prof. Graham, 20

Wilson (J. M.) on the Corona, 139; on Sir W. Thomson and Geological Time, 606; un the Surface Deposits in the Neighhourbood of Rugby, 344

Wine, colouring Matter of, 27; Pasteur’s Patent for preserving, 29, 94

Wood (Searles V.), Report of his Paper on Boulder Clay (Geological Society), 222; on Professor Huxley's Address, 533

Woodward's Chemical Exercises, 188

Woodward (H.) on Geology and Agriculture, 46

Working Men's Club, 512, 631; College, 511

Workmen, Employment of, by G. Gore, F.R.S., 623

World of the Sea, by the Rev. Canon Kingsley, 78

Wormell (Richd.), Modern Geometry and the University of London, 607

Yarkand and Kasgar, Report of Mr. Shaw's Visit to, 492

Young (Prof.) on the American Eclipse, 532

Zincke on the Synthesis of Aromatic Acids, 297

Zirconia, Spectra of, 588

Zoological Society, 29, 92, 173, 223, 345, 391, 490, 543, 562