June 23, 1870.]

Meteorological Society, Proceedings of, 204, 553

Meteorology, how to make more Useful in Horticulture, 169

Weekly Report of in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 108

Metric System, the, in Turkey, 241
Microscope Object-glasses, recent Im-
provements in, by the Rev. J. B. Reade,
M.A., F.R.S., 243

Microscopic Accessories, J. Baker Ed-
wards, Ph.D., on, 161
Microscopical Objects, on the different
Methods of Measuring, by Count
A. F. Castracane d'Antelminelli, 7, 37

Society, American, Officers elected, 240; Bristol, see Bristol; Old Change,

183

Midden, a Kitchen, Discovery of in Cork,

520

Military Science, Sir John Lubbock on,
337

Milk, Microscopic Organisms in, C. S.
Wake on, 521, 540

Mill, John Stuart, Translation of his Work on the "Subjection of Women," 2

Miller, Professor W. A., the Reade Lecture by, 459

Mills, E. J., on Coal Tar and its Products, 163

Millstones, Dressing by the Use of the
Diamond (illustrated), 91
Milward, Colonel, R.A., appointed Su-
perintendent of the Laboratory, Wool-
wich, 160

Minasi, F. J., Testimonial to, 2
Mineral Resources of Ireland, Mistakes
concerning the, 57
Minerals, Collection of, presented by the
Columbia
Russian Government to
College, U.S., 518
Mines, Inspection and Ventilation of, a
Meeting as to, 110

Inspection Bill, the new, 185

the School of, and the new Bill, 211 Minister, a, of Public Instruction, 537 Mint, Master of the, 186

Removal of the, 258
Miocene Flora, the, Professor J. Morris
on, 65

Moabite Stone, Discovery of a, 278; Par-
ticulars of the, 500

Moffatt, Dr. R. C., Candidate for the
Chair of Chemistry in Anderson's Uni-
versity, 418

Molecular Movements of Microscopic
Particles, Professor Jevons on, 155
Moleschott, Professor, Opening Address
by, at the Turin University, 83
Momentum of a huge Iron Ship, 110
Monarch, the, and the Captain, Turret-
ships, 160; Sea-going Powers of, 398;
Messrs. Laird's Opinion of, 518
Montreal Natural History Society, Pro-
ceedings of, 52, 232, 294
Monument, the most ancient in Paris,
Discovery of, 436
Monsters, from a Scientific and Legal
Aspect, by T. E. Clark, M.D., 218
Moon's Shadow-path, the, for the Eclipse
of the Sun, 185
Morgan, Alfred, on the Formation of
Metalliferous Veins, 21

-, Miss, Graduation in Medicine by,
280; Passed the University of Zurich
for the Degree of M.D., 339
Morgagni, the Anatomist, Statue to, 440
Morphia and Papaverine, Reactions of,
27

Morris, Professor J., on the Miocene
Flora, 65; Testimonial to, 131
Mortars, 36-in., designed by R. Mallet,
359

Morton, E. H., and T. E. Thorpe, Ph.D.,
on the Composition of the Water of
the Irish Sea, 343
Moseley, Rev. H., on the Descent of
Glaciers, 548, 559

Moving a huge Building to a new Foun
dation, 32, 113

Müller, Max, Lectures by, 214, 260
Mummy, speculating in a, 2
Munck, Dr., the Swedish Naturalist, a
Victim of Lopez, 380
Murray, Andrew, on the Origin of Gold
Nuggets and Gold Dust, 320
Muscles of the Countenance, their Ac-
tion, 58
Museum and Picture Gallery for Stirling,
sum bequeathed for, 261

of History, Antiquities, and Art, proposed New York, 430, 478

Prague, Increase of Geological Collection at, 319

what a local should be, by Professor W. Thompson, 9 Musical Composition at the Society of Arts, 238

SCIENTIFIC OPINION.

Natural History Societies, Proceedings of,-see Armagh, Belfast, Birmingham, Boston (U.S.), Brighton, Canada, Derry, Dublin, East Kent, Eastbourne, Glasgow, Londonderry, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Torquay, York

shire

Buildings for, 479; Class for in the Natural Philosophy, at Oxford, new City of London College, 399

Science, Fellowship for at Cambridge, 215; Scholarship, Examination for, 499; Nova Scotian Institute of, 555

- see

North; Staffordshire, shire, Naturalists' Field Club, North StaffordRichmond and North Riding,-see Richmond Nicotiana Macrophylla (illustrated), 467 Nebula of Argo and the Spectrum of Jupiter, A. Le Sueur on the, 250 Needles and Pins, Manufacture of the Points of by Electricity, 170

two curious, 194 Negro, the, is he exempt from delirium

tremens? 239

New Zealand Tombs (illustrated), 561 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Chemical Society, Proceedings of, 230, 353

Natural History Society, Proceed. ings of, 439, 452 News of the Week,-see THE WEEK in each Weekly Number Noematachograph, the, 27 Nonsense, a choice Piece of, 32 North Pole, the German Expedition to, no News of, 108 Norway (the Terraces of), Professor Kjerulf on, 188, 215, 241 Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science,

555 Numismatic Society, Proceedings of, 129, 492

OBJECTIVE, a new, by Tolles, 399
Observatories, British, what was done in
1869 in, 280, 306, 324, 342
Observatory, Cambridge, Report of the,
558; Hartwell House, Sale of the
Astronomical Instruments of, 379;
a new at Churt, 278; Paris, Dismissal
of M. Leverrier from the Directorship
of, 134, 159; proposed National at Cor-
dova, 378; Redhill, the Dome of for
sale, 278; Sir Isaac Newton's, proposed
Subscription for the Purchase of, 420
Society,"
Observing Astronomical
the, 185

Odontoglossum Wurscewiczii, Re-disco-
very of the, 82

Odontological Society of Great Britain,
Proceedings of, 51; Gold Medal offered
by, 521

Oils, Essential, how extracted, 363
Oliver, Professor, Lectures on Botany,
240, 258, 277

Omnibus, Steam, Thomson's Patent, at
Edinburgh, 518

Opah, or King Fish, a Specimen washed
ashore, 240

Opium, M. Garnier on, 519
Opium-eating with Impunity, 27
Optics, Application of to Chemistry, 187
Orchid, a Brazilian (Oncidium Rogersii),
(illustrated), 119

Organ, the Largest, Absurdity of, 259
Organic Matter in the Air, Dr. Angus
Smith on, 137

Ormerod, Miss E. A. awarded a Silver
Medal by the Royal Horticultural
Society, 240

Ornithopsis Hulkei, Vertebræ of, 359
Osmogene, the, 365

Ostriches, the, at Longeranong, 187
Our Past aud Our Future, 1
Owen's College, the Design for, 338;
Library bequeathed to, 57
Oxford, Scientific Lectures at, 381

University Gazette, First Appearance of the, 110

of the University, Installation Chancellor of, 479; the Degree of D.C.L. conferred on Sir J. Alderson and others, 559

Oxide Gas, Nitrous, increasing Use of as an Anæsthetic, 105

Oxygen manufactured on a Large Scale,

235

Oyster's Stomach, what's in an, 60 461 Ozone and Antozone, Dr. Allnatt on, 442,

PAGET, JAMES, on How to detect Aneur. ism, 282 Palæontographical Society, Proceedings of the, 396 Palmer, Mr., Arrival of in Arabia, 30 Pantatype, a new Invention for Printing, Paper Houses in Reality, 53

559

359

Paraffin Oils, Danger of, 259
Parturition, the Muscular Forces em-
ployed in, 272

Past (Our) and Our Future, 1
Patent Laws, Paper on, by Mr. Aston,

31

Paul, Dr. Benjamin, Cantor Lectures by,

108

Pavy, Dr., and Professor Huxley, 557,

558

Pearls, the Revenue Returns of, 438 Pechey, Miss Mary Edith, apparent Injustice to by the University of Edinburgh, 319, 359

Pedantry in the Medical Profession, 280 Pendred, Vaughan, C.E., on the Mechanical Construction of Ships' Logs (illustrated), 264

Penny, the late Professor, Memoir of, 298

Petroleum, in Locomotives, 549; Lamps
and their Dangers, 29; Report of the
Chemist to the Mineral Oil Association
as to, 3
Pharmaceutical Society, Conversazione
of the, 447, 458

Pharmacy Act, 1858, Regulations of, 160
Philadelphia, American, Philosophical
Society, Proceedings of, 534
New Zealand, Proceedings of, 102; the
President's Address, 103
Philosophical Institute of Canterbury,

Society, Yorkshire, see Yorkshire and Literary Society, Leeds, see Leeds

Association, National, U.S., Exhibition of, 278 Photographic Art Journal, the, 135

Enlargements, Talbot's Aplanatic Apparatus for, by R. J. Fowler (illustrated), 447

able, 209

221

318

Guards and Drivers, Protection of,
Rainfall, the Greatest, 161
Rain Gauges, experimental, Rotherham,
a Description of (illustrated), 386, 387
Rat, how to dissect a, 483
Reade, Rev. J. B., on recent Improve-

ments in Microscope Object-glasses,
243; on What's in an Oyster's Sto-
mach, 60

Record Office, to be Open at Night, 30
Redhill Observatory, Dome of the for
Sale, 278

Redtenbacher, Prof., Death of, 259, 278
Reed, E. J., Chief Constructor of the
Navy, on Ironclad Ships, 443, 465
Relique Aquitanica, a new Part, 240
Removal, bodily, of an Hotel, 32, 113
Reptile Vertebræ in Limestone of Cork
Harbour, supposed, 56
Respiration, Experiments on, by Drs.
Waller and Prevost, 457
REVIEWS OF BOOKS:-

Algebraical Exercises and Problems,
by H. McColl, 562

Alpine Flowers for English Gardens,
by W. Robinson, 348

Alps, Western, a Guide to the, by J.
Ball, F. R.S., 550

Analysis, Qualitative, a Manual of,
by R. Galloway, F.C.S., 120
Anatomy and Physiology of the Blow-
Fly, by B. T. Lowne, 44
Annales de l'Observatoire Physique
Central de Russie, 199
Anthropological Society of London.
Memoirs of, 198

Biology v. Theology, by Julian, 508
Birds, Cassell's Book of, translated by
T. R. Jones, F.R.S., 488
Body, the, and its Health, by E. D.
Mapother, M.D., 94

Book, the, of Nature and the Book of
Man, by C. O. Groom Napier, F.G.S.
(illustrated), 408

Botanical Analysis, a System of, ap-
plied to the Diagnosis of British
Natural Orders, by W. H. Griffiths,
Ph.D., 550

Illustrations, by J. H. Balfour,
M.D., 448
British Journal Photographic Almanac
for 1870, edited by J. T. Taylor, 71
Cassell's Book of Birds, translated
from the German by Prof. T. R.
Jones, F.R.S. (illustrated), 286
Cell-Doctrine: its Theory and Present
State, by James Tyson, M.D., 247
Chemical Analysis, Qualitative, by Dr
C. R. Fresenius, 148
and
Christianum Organum; or, the Induc-
tive Method in Scripture
Science, by Josiah Miller; with In-
troduction by J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D.,

308

Colorado, Preliminary Report of the
United States Geological Survey of,
by F. V. Hayden, 198
Connection between Chemical Consti-
tution and Physiological Action, by
Dr. A. C. Brown and Dr. T. R.
Fraser, 44

Cups and their Customs, 14
Diamagnetism and Magne-Crystallic
Action, Researches on, by Professor
John Tyndall, LL.D., 562
Darwinianism tested by the Science of
Language, translated from the Ger-
man by Dr. A. V. W. Bikkers, 120
Earth and Sea. From the French of
Louis Figuier. Translated, edited,
and enlarged, by W. H. Davenport
Adams (illustrated), 13

Earth's, the, History; or, First Lessons

in Geology, by D. T. Ansted, M.A.,
F.R.S., 70

Etudes sur l'Origine des Basques, par
M. Jean François Bladé, 388
Faraday, as a Díscoverer, by Professor
Tyndall, 44

Fireplaces, our Domestic, by F. Ed.
wards, jun., 120

Five Weeks in a Balloon: a Voyage of
Exploration and Discovery in Central
Africa, by Jules Verne, 508
Floating Dock " Bermuda," Narrative
of the Voyage of, 198
Geography of India, containing an
Account of British India, &c., 121
Geological Report of the Exploration
of the Yellowstone and Missouri
Rivers, by Dr. F. V. Hayden, 15
Geology and Revelation, by the Rev.
Gerald Molloy, D.D., Professor of
Geology, 70

Highland and Agricultural Society of
Scotland, Transactions of, 198
Ice: a Lecture, by J. C. Ward, 508
Insects, a Guide to the Study of, and
a Treatise on those Injurious and
Beneficial to Crops, by A. S. Packard,
jun., M.D., 389

Irish Names of Places, the Origin and
History of, by P. W. Joyce, M.A.,

Medical Electricity, a Treatise on, by
Julius Althus, M.D., 269
Memoirs of the Anthropological So.
ciety of London, 198
Microscopic Manipulation, Lectures
on, by W. T. Suffolk, F.R.M.S., 562
Objects figured and described,
by J. H. Martin, 13
Money, how to make by Patents, by
C. Barlow, 121
Moss Flora of Sussex, the, by C. P.
Smith, 508

Natural Selection, Contributions to
the Theory of, by A. R. Wallace, 561
Neuroptera, British, a Catalogue of,
compiled by R. McLachlan and the
Rev. A. E. Eaton, 508
Notes for Students in Chemistry, com-
piled by A. J. Bernays, Ph.D., 148
Ornithosauria, the, by Harry Govier
Seeley, 347

Observations on fundamental Princi-
ples, and some existing Defects in
National Education, by N. Arnott,
M.D., 527

Philosophy of the Bath, by Durham
Dunlop, 308

Photographs of the Total Eclipse of
the Sun, August 7, 1869, 443
Phrenology, a Handbook of, by C. Do.
novan, 527
Physical Theory of Animal Life, 328
Preliminary Field Report of the United
States' Geological Survey of Colo-
rado and New Mexico, by F.V. Hay-
den, U.S. Geologist, 447
Public Health: a Popular Introduction
to Sanitary Science, by W. A. Guy,
M.B., Professor of Forensic Medi-
cine, 448

Pyramid, Notes on the Great, of Egypt,
and the Cubits used in its Design, by
Col. Sir H. James, R.E., 448
Rain, on the Distribution of over the

British Isles in 1869, compiled by
G. J. Symons, F.M.S., 326
Reports on Observations of the Total
Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869,

448

Reptiles and Birds, by Louis Figuier
(illustrated), 172, 173

Science for the People, by T. Twining,

508

Sketches of Life and Sport in South-
eastern Africa, by F. G. Price,
F.R.G.S., 269

Suez, the Maritime Canal of, and Com-
parison of its probable Results with
those of a Ship Canal across Darien,
by J. E. Nourse, 406
Symons's Monthly Meteorological
Magazine, Vol. IV., 448
Teeth, Irregularities and Diseases of,
by H. Sewill, M.R.C.S., L.D.S.,
468

Ti Ika a Maui; or, New Zealand and
its Inhabitants, by the Rev. R. Tay-
lor, F.G.S. (illustrated), 307, 328
Universe, the; or, the Infinitely Great
and the Infinitely Little, by F. A.
Pouchet, M.D. (illustrated), 93
Vargasia, Boletin de la Sociedad Cien-
cias Fisicas y Naturales de Caracas,

14

Water Analysis: a practical Treatise
on the Examination of Potable
Water, by J. A. Wanklyn and E. T.
Chapman, 508

World, the, we live in; or, First Les-
sons in Physical Geography, by D.
T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., 94
Worlds, other than Ours, by R. A.
Proctor, B.A., 488
Year-Book of Photography and Photo-

graphic News Almanac for 1870,
edited by G. W. Simpson, M.A., 71
Zoology for the Use of Students, a
Manual of, by Henry Alleyne Ni-
cholson, M.D., 68

Revue Celtique, a new Journal, 55
Reward, Munificent, for a Scientific Solu-
tion! 2

Reyer, Professor D. A., Translation by
of Mr. J. S. Mill's "Subjection of Wo-
men," 2

Rhea Grass Fibre, Competitive Machines
for, 500

Rhododrendron Show, at the Royal
Botanic Gardens, 498
Richmond and North Riding Naturalists'
Field Club, Proceedings of, 23, 180, 274,
453, 554

Roads, Sir R. Murchison on the Method
of Repairing, 214
Robinson, Rev. (?) W., dangerous Ad-
mission by, 3

Rock Collections and Corals, Exchange
of by the Cambridge Museum, 318
Rogers, Dr. G. Goddard, appointed In-
spector of Public Vaccination, 4
Roman Circus, Paris, Purchase of, 459
Remains at Bath, 440
Rome, the Church of, and
"Natural
Selection," 110
Ronald, Francis, knighted, 319, 339
Rooks in New Zealand, Arrival of, 378
Rose Shows, Birmingham and Brighton,
439

Rotherham experimental Rain-gauges
(illustrated), 386, 387

Royal Dublin Society, Conversazione at,
238; Scientific Lectures at, 299

Institution, Christmas Lectures at
the, 50; Friday Evening Discourses in
1870, 27; Lectures at, 235, 451, 473,
553; Proceedings of, 50, 98, 154, 253,
433, 452, 513

Institution of Lombardy, Proceed-
ings of, 27, 183, 209, 235, 295, 315, 335,

455

Irish Academy, Proceedings of, 254
Society, Candidates for Fellowship
of, 260, 297; Selected, 417; First Con-
versazione of, 213, 241, 496; Proceed-
ings of, 47, 73, 96, 124, 151, 175, 201,
226, 250, 272, 290, 311, 330, 349, 370,
390, 410, 430, 471, 489, 519

Society of Medicine, 397
Russell, J. Scott, Lecture by on Techni-
cal Education, 3
Rye, William Blanchley,

appointed
Keeper of the Printed Book Depart-
ment, British Museum, 3

SABINE, SIR EDWARD, President of the
Royal Society, Receptions by, 160, 241,

380

Saint-Victor, Niépce de, Death of, 359,

380

Sale of Poisons, 32
Salmon Fisheries, Messrs. Buckland and
Young's Inspection of, 52)

in Tasmania, 85; Propagation, 325
Salt the Cause of Ill-health, 458
Sanborn, F. G., on How to Collect and
Study Insects, 523

School room, a Swedish, 344
Schweinfurth's, Dr., Travels, 90
Science, a new Dictionary of, 279

a new Series of Text-books in, 400
and a Reduced Postage-rate, 257
and the Military Education Com-
mission, 338

Classes, State Aid to, 160
Commission, the Royal, 237

Electric, recent Advances in, C.
Widemann on, 546

Government Aid to, 133

in England, Data for the Advance-
ment of, 160

in France, Government Aid to, 318
Natural, Fellowship for at Cam-
bridge, 215; a Foundation Scholarship
for, 186, 499; Nova Scotian Institute
of, 555

of Immortality, the, 318
Physical Professorship of at Cam-
bridge, 320

457

State Aid to the Commissioners on,

Diary, 27, 54, 79, 105, 132, 158, 184,
210, 236, 256, 276, 296, 316, 336, 356,
376, 396, 416, 436, 456, 476, 496, 516,
536, 556, 564

Instruction, Relations of the State
to, 133, 260; Second Meeting of the
Royal Commission on, 501

OPINION, Retirement of the Editor
of, 557

Societies, Building for, 437; Prizes
at, 457: Proceedings of, see each
Weekly Number

Works in the Press, 239
Scofield, D. C., on Propagating the
Larch from Seed, 286
Scrope, G. Poulett, on the Volcano Fish,

200

Sea, Deep, Life and Taxation, 356

Fisheries Act, the first Order under
the, 160

Sickness, Compensating Cabins for
Prevention of, 422

-, the Deep, on the Temperature and
Animal Life of, by William B. Car.
penter, M.D., 284, 301, 322, 341
Serpent, a large, conflict of with a
Horse, 161

Serpents, large Importation of, 161
Serpentine, the, an artificial Sea, 479;
cleaning of, 214; Suggestion as to, 500
Settle Cave Exploration, by W. Boyd
Dawkins, F.R.S., 366
Sewage Committee of the British Asso-
ciation, the, 517; Sum voted to, 280,
399; provisional Committee for the
Fund, 559

the A, B, C Process of Utilizing, 498
Town, Filtration of, 541
Sewer-water, Dr. Frankland's Investiga-
tions of, 520
Sewing-machine, the, a Preventive of
Sterility, 31; driven by an Electric
Engine, 538

the Singer Company, New York,
539
Shark, the recent Capture, 479
Shells, Fresh-water, wanted, 458
Shepard, Chas. U., sen., on Ambrosine,
a new Organic Mineral Substance, 244
Ships, Iron, three new, to be built at
Chatham, 518

Shooting Star, bursting of a, 41
Shot, flat-headed, versus chilled, 109

Palliser's chilled, testing of, 186
Shuttleworth (Kay-), U. J., the new M.P.
for Hastings, 187
Sibson, Dr., Lectures by, on Aneurism
of the Aorta, 280

Silk Cultivation and Supply, Silver Medal
awarded to Mr. P. L. Simmonds for his
Paper on, 212

[June 29, 1870.

Silkworm Eggs for France, 239

Growth, Experiments on, 238
Silliman's Journal, Completion of its
Fiftieth Volume, 537
Silver Mine, ancient Roman, near
Heidelberg, 32

Simpson, Sir J. Y., Death of, 420; Monu-
ment to, 500, 558; Reply of to the
Opponents of Chloroform, 439; the
Brain of, 437
"Sinai" and "Palestine" Exploration
Funds, Amalgamation of the, 3
Sinclair, Dr. A., Testimonial to, 399
Skiddaw, a Geological Dream on, by J.
C. Ward, 345, 364, 383
Skulls, Dr. Nicolucci's Collection of, 186
of Criminals presented to the Ana-
tomical Museum, Naples, 259
Sleep-Disease, 255

Sleeping Compartments in Railway Car-
riages, 298

Small-pox, Increase of in Paris, 480
Smith, Dr. Angus, on Organic Matter in
the Air, 137

Edwin, M.A., Experiments by, on
the Electricity of Plants, 35; on the
Galvanoscopic Lantern, 221
Smithsonian Publications, the, 165
Snake, Escape of a, from the Zoological
Gardens, 539

Snake-bites, Value of the Ammonia
Treatment, 213

Snake-poison, on the Influence of, when

applied to unwounded Surfaces, by
Dr. Fayrer, 10

Social Science, National Association for
the Promotion of, 501; Programme of,

83

Société Philomatique of Paris, Proceed-
ings of, 27, 131, 208, 234, 376, 495
Societies, learned, of France, Meeting of
Delegates, 440
Society of Antiquaries, Proceedings of,

21

of Arts, Activity of the, 82; the
Albert Medal of awarded to M.
Lesseps, 519; annual Conference of
with Local Boards, 519; Conversazione
of, 279, 319, 418; Preservation of Meat
at the, 280
Sodium and Iodide of Ethyl, on the
Action of upon Acetic Ether, 227
Solar Prominences, the American Jour-
nals on the, 56

Solar-spot Phenomena, 214
Solly, Mr., F.R.S., appointed Hunterian
Orator, 160

Sorby, H. C., on remarkable Spectra of
Compounds of Zirconia and the Oxides
of Uranium, 175

Sound in the Lake Tunnel at Chicago,
Observations on, 335

Sovereign, the, a new Coin substituted
for, 459

Sowerby, James Decarle, F.L.S., Resig-
nation of as Secretary to the Royal
Botanic Society, 3

J. E., Author of "Sowerby's English
Botany," Death of, 133; Widow and
Children of, 380

William, appointed Secretary to
the Royal Botanic Society, 4
Spectra of Compounds of Zirconia and
the Oxides of Uranium, H. C. Sorby
on, 175

Spectroscope, Browning's Automatic,

415

the, and Aurora Borealis, Daniel
K. Winder on, 6

-, Vote of the Royal Society for the
Construction of a, 499
Sphygmograph, a, Dr. Broadbent's, 398

Trace in Health, on the Relative
Duration of the component Parts of
the Radial, by A. H. Garrod, 489
Spicer, Rev. W. W., on the Volcano-Fish,
170

Spider, Venomous, of New Zealand, 87
Spiders, European, a Work on, 421
Sponge, Elastic, Manufacture of, 192
Spontaneous Generation, the Rev. Prof.
J. Kirk on, 229
Spruce, Dr. R., on the Fertilization of
Grasses, 33
Staffordshire, North, Naturalists' Field
Club, Proceedings of, 23, 156, 393
Star-Drift and Nebulæ, R. A. Proctor on,
417
Star-grouping, Star-drift, and Star-mist,
R. A. Proctor on, 463, 484, 502
Star map, Mr. Proctor's, No. 5, 479
Stars, a New Catalogue of, 110; the
Heat of, 192
Statistical Society of Ireland, Valuable
Papers in the Journal of, 258

Society, the, Minute as to the Census
of 1871, 498; Proceedings of, 20, 101,
204
Statistics of Ireland for 1869, 212
Statue of Columbus, Arrival at Aspin-
wall, 479

Steam, how to generate quickly, 519

Stokes, Captain O. H., on Firing under
Water from Ships of War (illustrated),
406

Stolze, Dr. F., Editor of Licht, 559
Stone, a new, for Architectural Purposes,

82

Coffin of the King of Wessex, Dis-
covery of, 241

22

Implements, the Rev. J. Kenrick on,

Staircase, a, the best Fire-escape, 3
Storm Maps, the French System of, 217
-, the, of January 7, 31; Waves at
Wick, 186
Story-Maskelyne, Nevil, on the Mineral
Constituents of Meteorites, 73, 96
Street Tramway Movement, 455
Subway, the Tower, 321, 338
Suez Canal, Account of the, 47, 75; and
the Tyne, 174; Improvements of the,
214, 359; Lighthouse at Port Said, 260
Route, Heat experienced in the, 398
Sulphur Beds of California, the, 381, 475
Summer Garden Society, Inauguration
of, 559

Sun, Spectroscopic Observations of the,
by J. N. Lockyer, 510; Eclipse of,
Expeditions for observing, 518
Sunbeams, Experiments on, 241
Sunday Lecture Movement, the, 57

Lecture Society, 437, Proceedings
of, 392, 531, 558
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus), Report
on, 398

Sunken Lake, the Great, 83

Sunlight, Chemical Intensity of, 422
Sun's Heat, Effects of on a Sand-hill, 486
Surgery, Improvements in, Prize to Pro-
fessor A. Corradi for, 259

Survey of England and Wales, Trigono-
metrical, Completion of, 30

Surveyor for the Office of Works, Vacancy
for, 478

Swan, J. W., on the Chemistry of the
Carbon Process, 504
Syme, Professor, the Scottish Surgeon,
Illness of, 500, 536, 538; Death of, 558

J. T. Boswell, the Degree of LL.D.
conferred on, 318
"Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia and
Reptilia of North America," 31
Syphilography and Dermatology, Journal
of, the first Number of, 2
Szerelmey's Stone-preserving Composi-
tion, Application of to the Houses of
Parliament, 478

TABENSKY, Dr. C., on the Employment
of Hæmatoxyline in Photography, 144
Tardieu, Dr., Unpopularity of, at the
Paris School of Medicine, 319, 379
Taylor, Dr., Lectureship at Guy's Hos
pital resigned by, 521, 559
Tea, Adulteration of, 319; Medal for the
best Treatise on, 459; Poisonous, 516;
Sham, 239

Technical Education, a Meeting on, at
Rugby, 84; Lecture on by Dr. Lyon
Playfair, 85

Telegraph from Bombay to Aden, the,
187

Telegraphic Communication stopped by
the Weather, 135

--Signals, how Trains in America are
worked by, 114

Telegraphy, a Ship fitted up for, 338
Telescope, an early, made by G. Cam-

pani, of Rome, J. Williams on, 545; a
Monster, 183; a new, for Amateurs,
499

Temperature of the Strata during the
sinking of Rose Bridge Colliery, E.
Hull, F.R.S., on, 151

Underground, 174, 249, 348, 410

SCIENTIFIC OPINION.

Temple, Dr., on the Relation of Science
and Theology, 31
Thames, the, and the Public Health, 563
Therapeutics, Chinese, 539
Thermo-electric Pile, new, 255
Thermometer, Siemens's electric, 478
matical Master in King's College, 82
Thomas, W. Angel, appointed Mathe-
Thompson, Professor Symes, Lectures
by at the Gresham College, 31
- Professor W., on What a local Mu-
seum should be, 9

Thorpe, T. E., Ph.D., and E. H. Morton,
on the Composition of the Water of
the Irish Sea, 343
Timber-preserving Process, by Dr. Ott,

398

the Heart and the Pulse at the Wrist,
Time, Difference of between the Beat of

12

Tin in California, 441
Tinning Process, Cold, Patent for a, 556
Tissues, Animal, Dr. Beale's Views on
confirmed, 240

Tobacco, the Consumption of, 316
Tolles's new Method of illuminating
opaque Objects under high Powers,

105

Torpedo, Captain Ericsson's new, 458

Harvey's "Otter," Experiments
with, 186
Torquay Natural History Society, Pro-
ceedings of, 532
Tower Subway, the, 321, 338
Trains, how worked by Telegraphic
Signals in America, 114
Tramway Models on View, 258
"Transfusion," successful Performance
of, 239

Trinity College, Dublin, new Exhibitions
founded at, 418; unfriendly Feeling
between some of the Professors, 214
Trout, feeding in Fish-ponds, 263
Turin, Royal Academy of Sciences, 518
Tyndall, Dr., and Dr. Bastian, Contro-
versy between, 378

and the Germ Theory, 481
Wool Respirators,
his Cotton

Letter as to, 84

--, on Air expelled from the Lungs,
337

-, on Diamagnetism and Magne-crys-
tallic Action, 562

of Pennsylvania, a new Medical
Professorship at, 380

380

Professors in Austria, Salaries of,

412

420

, on Haze and Dust, 81, 98, 110, 122
on the Alps, 438
Type-setting and Distributing Machine,"
a new, 53

UNDERGROUND DWELLING IN IRELAND,
Discovery of, 415

Temperature, 174, 249, 348, 410
Unger, Professor, the Botanist, Death
of, 238

Universities Club, the Allied, 3, 82, 122
free, in Spain, 57

-

Privileged Students in, 238
University College, London, first soirée

at, 84

Education, undenominational, 239
Notes, 519; from America, 458
of Aberdeen, a curious Instance of
Voting in, 259; the Lord Rectorship
of, 57, 84, 161

of Cambridge, Books presented to
by Mr. Bradshaw, 421; Examiners for,
539; Lectureship vacant at, 539; Mu-
seums Syndicate Report, 517

of Dublin, proposed Changes in the
Constitution of, 399

of Edinburgh, Admission of Ladies
to, 379; Candidates for the Chair of
Midwifery, 459; Injustice to a Lady
Pupil, 319, 359

of France, Marks of Distinction
conferred by the, 83

of Glasgow, Closing of the Old
Buildings, 420

of Ireland, Queen's, Resolution as
to its Doctorate of Medicine, 538

of London, a new Office in, 3;
Arrangements for the Inauguration,
419; Examiners appointed, 415; Ex-
aminerships in, 240, 379; Memorial to
the Queen by the, as to Schools, 280;
Opening of the New Building for the,
238, 319, 455; Proposed Change of
Plan of, 399; the Press refused Admis-

410

40

―, Metropolitan, Quality of, 419

, Report of the Royal Commission on
approved by the Board of Works, 135
Watson, R. J., elected to a Studentship
in Natural Science, 135
―, Sir Thomas, Recovery of, 420
Weather Signs, 220

WEEK, THE, News of, see each Weekly
Number

Weight in Man, Diminution of during
the Cold Months, 356
Welsh Fasting Girl, Prosecution of the
Surgeons, 215; Value of the Micro-
scope in the Examination of the, 260
White Blood-corpuscles, on the Origin
of, 344

Dr. F. B., on the Brocken, 174
Plymouth Meeting of the British
Whipple, John, elected President for the
Medical Association, 479
visible to the Naked Eye, 329
Whitley, H. Michell, on the Sun Spots
trated), 145
Whitworth's System of Gunnery (illus-

Wideumann, C., on the Manufacture of
the Points of Needles and Pins by
Electricity, 170; on recent Advances
in Electric Science, 546
Williams, John, on an early Telescope
made by G. Campani, of Rome, 545
Wilson, Erasmus, F.R.S., Lectures by,
on Dermatology, at the Royal College
of Surgeons, 110
Winchester and Hampshire Scientific
Society, Proceedings of, 354
Winder, Daniel K., on the Spectroscope
Wind, the Laws of, Prize for an Essay
and Aurora Borealis, 4
Wire Tramways, Hodgson's, 362
Wise, W. Lloyd, on the Society of Arts'
Wire-rope Tramways, 255
Library, 225
Women as Medical Professors, 259

on, 134

Lectures on Botany to, 240, 258, 277
Medical Education of, Professor
Laycock's Remarks as to, 419

Petition for admitting, on equal
Terms with Men, to Medical Diplomas,
418

"

-, Scientific Education to, 2, 108, 134,
212, 240, 258, 277

Scientific Examination at Cam-
bridge open to, 134, 212

―, the Degree of M.D. for, at Vienna,
319

Wonders of the Mammoth Cave (illus-
trated), 197

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Pro-
Wood-pigeon, Natural History of, 515
ceedings of, 313
Working Men's Club and Institute Union,
a Series of Visits to Museums by, 259,
299
Working Men's College, Re-opening of
the, 3; Spring Term of, 259; Winter
Converzazione, 31; South London,
Lecture at by Dr. T. S. Cobbold,
F.R.S., 32

continuance of, 82
Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin, Dis-

63, 113, 140, 166, 219, 263, 305, 322,
Zero, the Common Reference to, 109
Zoological Gardens the, Additions to, 39,
345, 361, 382, 423, 441, 482, 503, 524,
544

Society, a, at Liverpool, 58

Society of London, Proceedings of,
100, 154, 178, 252, 290, 333, 433, 472,
512, 552

Zoology of the Isle of Man, 156

[June 29, 1870.

No. 62. ]

OUR PAST AND OUR FUTURE.

T the commencement of a New Year it may not be out of place to point out to our readers what we have done in the Past and what we hope to do in the Future. This is the more necessary because since the commencement of our career

we have been reticent of our own achievements; and, though we have never failed to show ourselves independent of all cliques and parties, we have also abstained from that flourish of trumpets by which some of our contemporaries were heralded, and which they even still appear with little modesty and less good taste to indulge in. But we cannot, in simple justice to ourselves and our labours, omit to refer to what we have done to establish this journal as the leading weekly representative of Science.

Let us then indicate briefly what we have attempted, toward fulfilling the scheme which we originally laid down for ourselves; and which, with more servility than exactness, has been adopted in other quarters. In the extracted articles which occupy the first part of our journal we have, to the best of our judgment, selected from all sources those papers which, from their intrinsic excellence or their relation to current theory, appeared best to represent the labours of the time. To effect this with absolute completeness would be, indeed, a Herculean task; but we trust, if we may judge from the good opinion of both English and Foreign correspondents, that our efforts have not been unattended with success. We believe that those who will cursorily glance at our original articles in the last two volumes will find among them some communications of sterling value upon every fact and discovery which has characterized the year's progress. But we have not simply been chroniclers. In our Leading Articles have temperately, and without the influence of either persuasion or threat from interested persons, discussed all those topics of the day which relate to Science in its politico-social aspects. Parcere subjectis, debellare superbos, has been our guiding maxim, and we hope we have been true to it; if not, we have failed from ignorance of the necessity rather than from intention. At all events, we can honestly express our conviction that our labours in the cause of scientific education in schools and universities have borne good fruit in recent reforms, hopeless as they seemed and single-handed as they were when first accomplished. We have good reason to believe that our advocacy of reformation in State and national educa

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tion has had an influence of no mean weight in obtaining the support of those in authority.

If, now, we turn to the Scientific Literature of the year, and ask, What have we done in this direction? we can safely answer that we have not been remiss. Reference to our past volumes will show that no work of value has been left unnoticed in our columns; that the reviews have not been delayed for months; and, lastly, that they have been unprejudiced, and if sometimes brief, at all events critical and judicial.

But there is a special feature which characterizes this Journal, and renders it above all others useful to the student of science we refer to the Bibliography. In our lists of foreign scientific books will be found the title and publisher's name of every work on science published on the Continent and in England and America; and these lists are so early, that it often happens that the publication of a French scientific work is announced in these pages before it is even mentioned in the scientific journals of Paris. The Correspondence speaks for itself. We have had occasionally to admit letters we should rather have rejected; but believing that even in many cases, where unquestionable rubbish has been written, there were a few grains of truth and sense, we have preferred preserving the grain to destroying the tares and corn together. Much of our Correspondence, including communications from Darwin, Gosse, Wallace, Proctor, Sterry Hunt, David Forbes, Church, and others, contains matter of the utmost interest to men of science.

In our Reports of Societies we have given ample, comprehensive chronicles of the communications to the several learned bodies, from the Royal Society and Royal Institution to the very smallest provincial association, so that our pages, from this single aspect, present a compilation such as no other work in any language furnishes to the scientific worker. The Foreign Academies, too, have been as thoroughly represented as the irregular issue of their records permitted; our Notices include the leading learned bodies of France, Belgium, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Italy, and America; and in many cases the societies of the smaller German States have had their more important labours laid in abstract before our readers. Finally, our Notes and Memoranda, Diary, and Answers to Correspondents have given such general satisfaction that it is needless to say anything further concerning them.

Of our future we have, of course less to say. It is a blank page, on which Experience will inscribe its own tale. So far, however, as foresight can go, we have provided for it. Our communication with the continental Academies is now firmly established. Our correspondents in the chief cities already have promised us to exert themselves to keep us au courant of foreign scientific progress. Under the title of "The Week we have opened a special department, in which the " news " of the week alone will find a place, and in which the gossip and on dit of the world of Science will be thoroughly written down for the benefit