Meyer (Dr. Hans), the Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 164, 572 Meyrick (E.): Osteolepidæ, 342; Dr. J. A. H. Murray, 343 Mica in Mourne Mountain Granite Geodes, Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., 469
Michael (Major-General), Forestry, 348
Michelson (A. A.), Measurement by Light-Waves, 405 Micro-organism conferring Phosphorence on Crustaceans, Dis- covery by Prof. Giard of, 137
Micro-organisms of Fermentation practically considered, Alfred Jorgensen, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339 Microscopy: the Microscope as applied to Physiological Che- mistry, Prof. Kossel, 23; Royal Microscopical Society, 93; Ahrens's Polarizing Binocular Microscope, 93; Formation of Scottish and Italian Microscopical Societies, 180: the Micro- scope in the Brewery and Malt-house, Chas. Geo. Mathews and Francis Edw. Lott, 246; Tercentenary of the Invention of the Compound Microscope, 256; Zeiss's New Apochromatic Objective Microscope, 494; Microseismic Vibration of the Earth's Crust, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F. R. S., 248 Middlesex Natural History and Scientific Society, 138 Miers (H. A.), Crystals of Lime, 515, 560
Mighel, the Meteorite of, Stanilas Meunier, 232; J. Rutherford Hill, 298
Milan, Discovery of Lake-Dwelling near, 67
Millipede, a Marine, 104; Edward Parfitt, 153; R. I. Pocock, 176
Mills (Dr. Edmund J., F.R.S.), Traité pratique de la Thermo- métrie de précision, Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 100; Exact Thermo- metry, 227, 538
Mills (John) and Barker North, Introductory Lessons in Quanti- tative Analysis, 197
Miner, Fall of a, without being killed, down a 100-metre Shaft, M. Reumeaux, 471
Mineralogy: Mineralogical Magazine, 67; Statistics of Minera- logy in Canada, 87; Great Find of Rare Minerals of Yttrium and Thorium Groups in Texas, 162; Provincial Index of the Minerals of India, Dr. W. King, 546; Mines at Bendigo, Victoria, Report of School of, 209: Mining and Metallurgy, Proposed International Exhibition of, 447; Mining and Metallurgy, International Exhibition of, at the Crystal Palace, 592
Minimum Sun-spot Period, M. Bruguière, 68
Minor Planet (12), Victoria, Dr. Gill, 139
Minor Planets, Clorinde, 88
Mint, Royal, the New Assistant Secretary at, T. Rose Kirke, 493 Mirage in the South American Pampas, W. Larden, 69 Mirages, Arthur E. Brown, 225
Missouri Botanical Garden, 209
Mist, Frequency of, Dr. Kremser, 215
Mitchell (Sir Arthur), Influenza and the Weather, 596
Mite of the Genus Tetranychus found infesting Lime Trees in the Leicester Museum Grounds, on the, F. R. Rowley, 31 Mivart (Dr. St. George, F.R.S.), Prof. Weismann's Essays, 38; Galls, 174
Modern Views of Electricity, 102
Modigliani's Exploration of Nias Island, Prof. Giglioli, 587 Moebius (Prof.), Drumming Fish (Balistes aculeatus), 263 Moissan (Henri): a New Method of Preparing Fluorine, 117; the Anhydrous Platinous Fluorine, 119; Perfected Mode of Preparing Fluorine, 138; Colour and Spectrum of Fluorine, 214; Phosphorus Trifluoride, 349; Two Gaseous Fluorides of Carbon, 373
Mole, the Eye of the, Carl Hess, 373
Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of Iron and Steel, Carl Barus, 369
Molecular Structure, the Relation between Atomic Volumes of Elements present in Iron, and their Influence on its, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., 420
Molucca Islands, Count Salvadori on the Birds of, 85 Monck (Dr. W. H. S.): Satellite of Algol, 198; the Distances of the Stars, 392
Monkey, the Barbados, Colonel H. W. Feilden, 349 Monkey, Bonnet, Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of Internal Capsule of, Beevor and Horsley, 166
Monkeys, African, in the West Indies, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 368
Montigny (Prof. C. M. V.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 497 Montpellier University, Proposed Commemoration of Founding of, 447
Montsouris Observatory, the Effect of Railways on Instruments in, 592
Moon in London, the, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 586 Moore (John Murray), New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid, and Tourist, 342
Moore (Spencer): True Nature of Callus, 478; Nessler's Ammonia Test as a Micro-chemical Reagent for Tannin, 583
Morea, Rock-sepulchre at Vaphio, S. Reinach, 500
Morgan (Prof. C. LI.), the Pebidian Volcanic Series of St. David's, 311
Morley Memorial College and the Royal Victoria Hall, 343 Morocco, Travels in, Walter B. Harris, 270
Morris (D.): Seeding of Sugar-cane, 478; the Native Ebony of St. Helena, 519
Morris (Dr. G. H.), Identity of Cerebrose and Galactose,
Mortillet (M. de), the Dog, 332 Morton (Rev. T. W.), Meteor, 249 Moscow Archæological Congress, 283
Moser (James), Electrical Oscillations in Rarefied Air, 431 Moss (F. J.), Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea, 151
Moss, Hygrometric Club, from Mexico, 401
Mount Hamilton, Longitude of, 211
Mount Vesuvius, J. Logan Lobley, 195
Mouse-Hunt, a Kind of Weasel, E. B. Titchener, 394 Mozambique, Arrival of Captain Trivier at, 165 Muirhead (B. A.), Ten and Tenth Notation, 344
Muirhead (Geo.), the Birds of Berwickshire, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Müller (Prof. Max): Necessity of a School for Modern Oriental Studies, 255; Thought and Breathing, 317
Multiple Resonance obtained in Hertz's Vibrators, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, 295; Fred T. Trouton, 295
Munk (Dr.): Absorption of Fats and Fatty Acids in Absence o Bile in Intestine, 119; the Cortical Visual Areas, 407; Fat the only Food leaving Intestines by Lacteals, 504 Munro's Wind-measuring Instruments, 492
Murchison, Sedgwick and, Cambrian and Silurian, Prof. James D. Dana, 421
Murphy (Joseph John): the Permanence of Continents and Oceans, 175; Luminous Clouds, 298
Murray (Dr. John), Coral Reefs in Recent Seas, 167 Murray-Aynsley (Mrs. J. C.), Thought and Breathing, 441 Museums Opening of the Berlin National Science, 112; Suggestions for the Formation and Arrangement of a Museum of Natural History in Connection with a Public School, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 177; Cambridge Archæological, 324; Annual Meeting of Museums Association, 591 Music on Animals, Effect of, R. E. C. Stearns, 470 Music, Dogs and, 372
Music, Visualized Images produced by, Geo. E. Newton, 417 Musical Sounds, the Effect of, on Animals, R. E. C. Stearns, 593
Muthmann (Dr.), Crystalline Allotropic Forms of Sulphur, 449 Muzzling Regulations, the New, 241
Nansen's (Dr.) Plan for North Pole Expedition, 374
Naphthalene, Constitution of Tri-derivatives of, Armstrong and Wynne, 454
Natality of Paimpol, M. Dumont, 332 National Union of Teachers, 545 Native Colonists, French, in Paris, 427 Natural Evidence of High Thermal Conductivity in Flints, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 175
Natural History: Suggestions for the Formation and Arrange- ment of a Museum of Natural History in connection with a Public School, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R. S., 177; Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum, Richard Lydekker, 534; on some Needless Difficulties in the Study of Natural History, Dr. C. T. Hudson, F.R.S., 375; Glimpses of Animal Life, W. Jones, 409; Toilers in the Sea, M. C. Cooke, 409; Les Industries des Animaux, F. Houssay, 409; Natural Selection, Lamarck versus Weismann, Prof. E. D. Cope, 79; Prof. G. J. Romanes, F. R. S., on the Forma- tion of Galls, 80; Naturalist in North Celebes, Sydney J. Hickson, Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard, 457; the Physician as Naturalist, W. T. Gairdner, 436; Naturalistic Photography, P. H. Emerson, 366
NATURE, Progress of, during Twenty Years, I
Navigation, der Kompass an Bord, Dr. Neumayer, 412
Nebula N.G.C. 2237, the Cluster G.C. 1420 and, Dr. Lewis Swift, 285
Nebula, General Catalogue No. 4795, W. E. Jackson, 450 Nebular Hypothesis, Herbert Spencer, 450
Neo-Darwinians, Duke of Argyll and the, W. T. Thiselton- Dyer, F.R.S., 247
Nessler's Ammonia Test as a Micro-chemical Reagent for Tannin, Spencer Moore, 585.
Nervous Affection observed in an Insect, Note on a Probable, E. W. Carlier, 197
Netanson (Ladislas), the Characteristic Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes of Bodies, 167
Neumayer (Dr.), der Kompass an Bord, 412 Neumayr (Prof.), Death of, 324
New Light from Solar Eclipses, William M. Page, William E. Plummer, 529
New Guinea, Kaiser Wilhelmsland, the North Coast of, Admiral von Schleinitz, 21
New Guinea and the Molucca Islands, Count Salvadori on the Birds of, 85
New Guinea, Sir Wm. McGregor's Explorations in, 374 New South Wales: Technical Education in, 66; Royal Society of, 96; Meteorology of, H. C. Russell, 113
New Zealand, Discovery of Cave Dwelling in, H. O. Forbes, 209 New Zealand for the Emigrant, Invalid, and Tourist, John Murray Moore, 342
Newall Telescope for the University of Cambridge, 166; the Maintaining and Working of the, 357
Newcastle Learned Societies' Annual Gathering, 519 Newton (Geo. E.), Visualized Images produced by Music, 417 Newton in Perspective, Robert H. Graham, 439
Nias Island, Modigliani's Exploration of, Prof. Giglioli, 587 Nickel and Iron, the Villari Critical Points in, Herbert Tomlin- son, F. R. S., 574
Night-Clouds, Luminous: Evan McLennan, 131; Photographs of, O. Jesse, 592
Nitrogen in Soils, Sources of, Prof. John Wrightson, 286 Niven (W. D., F.R.S.), on certain Approximate Formula for Calculating the Trajectories of Shot, Prof. J. C. Adams, 258 Noe's (Dr. Franz) Geologische Uebersichtskarte der Alpen, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S, 483
Nordenskiöld (A. E.), Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, 558
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 519
North America, Cave Fauna of, with Remarks on the Anatomy of the Brain and Origin of the Blind Species, A, S. Packard, 507 North (Barker) and John Mills, Introductory Lessons in Quan- titative Analysis, 197
North Celebes, a Naturalist in, Sydney J. Hickson, Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard, 457
Northwich, Subsidence at, 230
Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 405
Oates (E. W.), Ornithology of India, Vol. I., 388
Oates (Frank), Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Objects for the Spectroscope, A. Fowler, 20, 44, 68, 87, 114, 138, 163, 183, 210, 232, 257, 285, 304, 326, 350, 374, 402, 428, 449, 472, 521, 548, 571, 595 Observatories: Karlsruhe Observatory, A. Fowler, 20; Palermo, 88; Paramatta, 88; Greenwich, 305; Dun Echt, 351; Mel- bourne, 351; Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 446; Vatican, 472; Madagascar, 497; the Effect of Railways on Instruments in, 592
Observatory: Proposed Meteorological, in Loochoo Islands, 401; Fort William Meteorological, 518
Ocean Currents, Distribution of Animals and Plants by, Rev. Paul Camboué, 103
Ocean, German, Botanical Condition of, Major Reinhold, 569 Ocean Water, is the Bulk of, a Fixed Quantity, A. J. Jukes- Browne, 130; T. Mellard Reade, 175; Rev. O. Fisher, 197 Oceans, Area of the Land and Depths of the, in Former Periods, T. Mellard Reade, 103
Oceans, the Permanence of Continents and, Joseph John Murphy, 175
Odontology: Who Discovered the Teeth in Ornithorhynchus ? Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 11, 151; Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 30, 151; Prof. Oswald H. Latter, 30, 174
Oil on Disturbed Water, Effect of, Richard Beynon, 205; A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 297
Old Age, Dr. Geo. M. Humphry, F.R.S., 484 Olfactometer, Dr. Zwardemaaker, 349 Olive Cultivation in India, 303
Oliver (Dr. Francis), the Weather Plant (Abrus precatoris:), 283
Olliff (A. S.), Extraordinary Abundance of Noctuid Moth (Agrotis spina) in New South Wales in October, 161
Oology: the Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, by Allan O. Hume, Vol. I., 388; A. J. Campbell's Collection of Eggs in Western Australia, 593. See also Eggs
Opera Glass, Astronomy with an, Garrett P. Serviss, 462 Ophiuchus, New Short Period Variable in, 403 Opossum in Tasmania, Destruction of, 304
Optics: Geometrical, Notes on (II.), Prof. S. P. Thompson, 213; Traité d'Optique, M. E. Mascart, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 224; Vision-Testing for Practical Purposes, Brudenell Carter, 302; Measurement by Light-Waves, A. A. Michelson, 405: Abbe's Apparatus for Testing Transparent Films with Plane Parallel Surfaces, Dr. Lummer, 552 Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon, the Cultivated, Dr. E. Bonavia, C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., 579 Orbit of Swift's Comet (V. 1880), 257
Orbits of the Companions of Brooks's Comet (1889 V., July 6), 305
and W. H. Hudson, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 7; Count Salvadori Ornithology: Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S.. on the Birds of New Guinea and the Molucca Islands, 85: Pheasant-Culture on the Pacific Coast, Dr. Meriam, 137; the Food of Crows, W. B. Barrows, 137; Notes on Sport and Ornithology, H.I.H. the late Prince Rudolph of Austria, 169; Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Oates, 169; Index Generum Avium, F. H. Waterhouse, 169; Birds of Oxfordshire, O. V. Aplin, 169; the Birds of Berwickshire, Geo. Muirhead, 169; the Birds in my Garden, W. T. Greene, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169; Birds that have struck the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour, Jonathan Dwight, Junior, Oates's 181; Chiff Chaff Singing in September, 298; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 317; Pallas's Cormorant, 373; Ornithology of India, Vol. I., R. Bowdler Sharpe, 388; the Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, by Allan O. Hume, Vol. I., edited by E. W. Oates, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 388; the Chaffinch, E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 394; A. J. Campbell's Col- lections of Western Australian Bird-Skins and Eggs, 593= Effects of Music on a Canary, 593; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on Avian Anatomy, 594
Ornithorhynchus, Who discovered the Teeth in the, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 11, 151; Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 30, 151; Prof. Oswald H. Latter, 30, 174
Orycteropus, a Milk Dentition in, O. Thomas, 309 Osborn (H. Leslie), a Preservative for Animal Tissues, 199 Osborn (Henry Fairfield), Paleontological Evidence for the Transmission of Acquired Characters, 227
Osteolepidæ, 271, 342; E. Meyrick, 342 O'Sullivan (C., F. R.S.), Arabinon, 262
Oudemans (Prof. J. A. C.) on Star Distances, 81 Oxford "Pass" Geometry, 467
Oxfordshire, the Birds of, O. V. Aplin, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169
Ozone, Production by Flames of, J. T. Cundall, 502
Pacific Coast, Pheasant Culture on, Dr. Meriam, 137 Pacific, Notes on a Recent Volcanic Island in the, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F. R.S., 276
Pacific Slope, Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the, G. F. Becker, 532
Packard (A. S.), Cave Fauna of North America, with Remarks on the Anatomy of the Brain and Origin of the Blind Species, 507
Page (William M.), New Light from Solar Eclipses, William E. Plummer, 529
Paimpol, Natality of, M. Dumont, 332 Painter (Rev. W. H.), the Flora of Derbyshire, 77 Paleontology: Fossil Rhizocarps, 10, 154; Gigantic Fossil Elephant's Tusk discovered in Italy, 66; Dr. H. Burmeister on the Fossil Horses and other Mammals of Argentina, 82; Palæontological Evidence for the Transmission of Acquired Characters, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227; Primitive Types of Mammalian Molars, 465; Antediluvian Remains discovered at Ludwigshafen, 520 Palermo Observatory, 58
Palestine Exploration Fund, 284 ; Excavation of Khŭrbet 'Ajlân, Phenanthraquinone with Metallic Salts, Compounds of, Japp and 592 Palisa (Dr.), Discovery of Asteroids, 522
Palladium, Redetermination of Atomic Weight of, Dr. E. H.
Pampas, Mirage in the South American, W. Larden, 69 Pampas Formation, the South American, Herr Roth, 231 Panmixia: Palæontological Evidence for the Transmission of Acquired Characters, Henry Fairfield Osborn, 227; Acquired Characters and Congenital Variations, the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 173, 294, 366; Acquired Characters and Congenital Variations, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 315; F. V. Dickins, 316; Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 415, 486, 558; Acquired Characters and Congenital Variations, Right Rev. Bishop R. Courtenay, 367; Dr. J. Cowper, 368; Herbert Spencer, 414; Prof. Geo. J. Romanes, F. R. S., 437, 311, 584; Herbert Spencer, 511; R. Haig Thomas, 585 Farallelogram of Forces, Proof of the, W. E. Johnson, 153; Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 298
Paramatta Observatory, 88
Parfitt (Edward), a Marine Millipede, 153 Parhelia and Solar Halos, 330; J. Lovell, 560 Parinaud (H.), Strabismus, 72
Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 48, 71, 94, 119, 143, 167, 214, 263, 287, 311, 335, 358, 382, 406, 431, 455, 479, 503, 528, 551, 575. 599; Prizes, 239
Paris, the Effect of Railways on Instruments in the Observatory at Montsouris, 592
Paris Exhibition, English Men of Science decorated at, 17 Paris, Foreign Students in, 520
Paris from the Hygienic Point of View, French Native Colonists in, 427
Parkes (Louis C.), Hygiene or Public Health, 290
Particles and Solids, Elementary Dynamics of, W. M. Hicks, F.R.S., 534
Pascoe (Francis P.), Foreign Substances attached to Crabs, 176 Pasteur Institute, 66
Pasture Plants, Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses and other, William Wilson, 196
Peal (S. E.), Is Greenland our Arctic Ice Cap?, 58 Peculiar Ice Forms, Prof. J. G. MacGregor, 463
Peddie (Dr.), New Estimates of Molecular Distance, 382
Pegasi (7), the Companion of, 69
Pelew Islands, 433
Peitier, Effect and Contact E. M. F., Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 224
Pembrey (M. S.), the Evolution of Sex, 199
Penck (Dr.), Area of Austro-Hungarian Empire, 325 Pendlebury (W. H.), a Case of Chemical Equilibrium, 104 Pendulum (Kater), Shuckburgh Scale and, O. H. Tittman, 538
Pennyslvania, Earthworms from, W. B. Benham, 560 Peradeniya, Ceylon, Botanical Laboratory in the Royal Gardens, 445
Periodic Law, a First Foreshadowing of the, P. G. Hartog,
Periscope for Navigating Submarine Boat, 349
Perkin (Dr. W. H., F.K.S.), Magnetic Rotation of Nitric Acid, &c., 142
Permanence of Continents and Oceans, Joseph John Murphy, 175
Permanent Grass, a Field laid down to, Sir J. B. Lawes, F.R.S., 229
Perter (Dr.), General Circulation of Atmosphere, 325 Perry (Prof., F. R.S.), the Behaviour of Twisted Strips, 47 Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.): Sun-spots in High Southern Lati- tudes, 88; Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 88; Obituary Notice of, 279; Last Days of, Father Strickland, S. J., 301 Perspective, Newton in, Robert H. Graham, 439 Perthshire, Earthquake in, 256
Peruvian Arc, the Measurement of, E. D. Preston, 309 Peters Dr.), Reported Massacre of, 21
Peters (Dr.), Star Catalogue, 210
Petit (P.), the Carbon Graphites, 311
Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Early Egyptian Civilization, 109
Pevtsoff (Colonel), Discovery of New Pass from Nia to Tibet by, 327
Pheasant-Culture on Pacific Coast, Dr. Meriam, 137
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 136 Philippine Islands, Ethnology of the, Dr. F. Blumentritt, 327 Phillips (Reuben), Globular and other Forms of Lightning, 58 Philology, a Uniform System of Russian Transliteration, 396; Chas. E. Groves, F. R. S., 534; W. F. Kirby, 535 Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, N.Z., 209 Philosophy, Synthetic, F. Howard Collins, 340 Phonograph, the Edison, Use in Preserving American [Indian Languages, J. W. Fewkes, 560
Phosphorus, Glow of, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 523 Phosphorus Trifluoride, M. Moissan, 349 Photography: on a New Application of Photography to the Demonstration of Certain Physiological Processes in Plants, Walter Gardiner, 16; Stellar Parallax by Means of Photo- graphy, Prof. Pritchard, F.R.S., 19; Photography of the Red End of Spectrum, Colonel J. Waterhouse, 67; Photo- graphic Star Spectra, 115; Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteoriten erläutert durch photographische Abbildungen, G. Tschermak, 127; Die Structur und Zusammensetzung der Meteoreisen erläutert durch photographische Abbildungen geätzter Schnittflächen, A. Brezina and E. Cohen, 127; the Photographic Society, 208; Bibliothèque Photographique, P. Moessard, 224; Application of Photography to the Study of Physical Peculiarities engendered by Different Occupations, M. Bertillon, 230; the Chemistry of Photography, R. Meldola, F.R.S., 293; Proposed Exhibition Illustrating the Applica- tion to Meteorology of Photography, 301; French Works on Photography, 326; Year-book of Photography, 1890, 326; Naturalistic Photography, P. H. Emerson, 366; the Camera Club, 494; Photographs of North Celebes, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 471; Photographing in Natural Colours, Verescz's Discovery as to, 469; Photography in Relation to Meteorological Work, G. M. Whipple, 503; British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1890, 510; Suppression of Halos in Photographic Plates, Paul and Prosper Henry, 576; La Photographie à la Lumière du Magnésium, Dr. J. M. Eder, translated by H. Gauthier- Villars, 584; Photographic Quarterly, 594
Photo-lithographs of some of the Principal Grasses found at Hissar, being Illustrations of some of the Grasses of the Southern Punjab, William Coldstream, 533
Photometer, New Contrast, Dr. Brodhun, 552 Photometer, a New Wedge, E. J. Spitta, 287
Photometric Intensity of Coronal Light, Prof. Thorpe, F.R. S., 139
Phthisis, Pulmonary, Dr. Weigert's Treatment of, Prof. Visconti, 380
Physician admitted to Medical Practice in Austria, First Lady, 569
Physician as Naturalist, W. T. Gairdner, 436 Physics: Specific Inductive Capacity, W. A. Rudge, 10; Physical Society, 47, 166, 213, 309, 381, 477, 526, 574; Physics of the Sub oceanic Crust, Rev. Osmond Fisher, A. J. Jukes-Browne, 53; J. Starkie Gardner, 103; Elementary Physics, by M. R. Wright, 78; Physical Society of Berlin, 95: the Characteristic Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes of Bodies, Ladislas Netanson, 167; the Relation of Physiological Action to Atomic Weights, Miss Johnston and Prof. Carnelley, 189; Behaviour of Steel under Mechanical Stress, C. H. Carus-Wilson, 213; Resonance Method of Measuring Constant of Gravitation, J. Joly, 256; Physical and Chemical Charac- teristics of Meteorites as throwing Light upon their Past History, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 305; Physics and Chemistry of the Challenger Expedition, 361; Physical Pro- perties of Water, Prof. P. G. Tait, 416; Prof. Arthur W. Rücker, F.R.S., 416; Tension of Recently Formed Liquid Surfaces, Lord Rayleigh, 566
Physiology: on a New Application of Photography to the Demon- stration of Physiological Processes in Plants, Walter Gardiner, 16; the Coiled Glands in the Skin, Dr. Benda, 24; Iron in the Animal Organism, Dr. Schneider, 24; Physiological Notes on Primary Education and the Study of Language, Mary Putnam Jacobi, 28; Physiology at the University of Cam- bridge, 41; Mechanism of Local Lesion in Infectious Diseases, Ch. Bouchard, 48; Local Paralysis of Peripheral Ganglia and Connection of Nerve-fibres with them, Langley and Dickinson, 118; on the Absorption of Fats and Fatty Acids. in the Absence of Bile in the Intestine, Dr. J. Munk, 119; on Diastases secreted by Bacillus heminecrobiophilus, M. Arloing, 143; the Influence of Blood-Circulation and Breath-
ing on Mind-Life, Prof. Leumann, 209; Electrical Negative Variation of Heart accompanying Pulse, Dr. Aug. Waller, 288; Outlying Nerve-Cells in Mammalian Spinal Cord, C. S. Sherrington, 388; the Cortical Visual Areas, Dr. J. Munk, 407; Influence of Bodily Labour on Metabolism of Man, Dr. Katzenstein's Experiments, 479; Physiology of Bodily Exer- cise, Dr. Fernand Lagrange, 485; Voluntary Muscular Contraction, Dr. Haycraft, 495; Development of Ciliary Ganglion, Dr. J. C. Ewart, 501; Fat the only Food leaving Intestines by Lacteals, Dr. J. Munk, 504; Myelin, Dr. Heymans, 528; Sensitiveness of Articular Surfaces of Joints, Dr. Goldscheider, 528; Physiology of Sponges, Dr. Lenden- feld, 570
Pickering (Prof. E. C.), Variable Star in Cluster G.C. 3636, 183; on the Spectrum of Ursa Majoris, 285; on Majoris and B Auriga, 403; Pole-Star Recorder, New Variable in Calum, 571
491; Pickering (Prof. S. U.), Isolation of Tetrahydrate of Sulphuric Acid existing in Solution, 142; Theory of Osmotic Pressure, 526
Picton (Harold, F.R.S.), the Story of Chemistry, 292 Pietra Papale, La, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 31 Pigment, Carotine, in Alpine Lake Crustacean, Discovery by Prof. Raphael Blanchard of, 325
Pigment of the Touraco and the Tree Porcupine, Frank E. Beddard, 152
Pilot Chart of North Atlantic, 284
Pinks of Western Europe, F. N. Williams, 78
Pinnow (Dr.), Analysis of Carcote (Chili) Meteorite, 428 Pinol, Nitrosochloride of, a New Isomer of Camphor, 44 Pipe, Interesting American Indian, H. B. Bashore, 303 Pisciculture: Change in Character of Salmon Acclimatized in Tasmania, 43; the Habits of the Salmon, Major John P. Traherne, 74
Planck (Prof.), Development of Electricity and Heat in Dilute Electrolytic Solutions, 215
Planet, Minor (12), Victoria, Dr. Gill, 139
Planets, the Movement of, F. Tisserand, 406 Plantamour (M.), Periodic Ground-movements, 373 Plants, Diseases of, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R. S., 436 Plants, Fossil, of Coal-Measures, Organization of, Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 573
Plants, on a New Application of Photography to the Demonstra- tion of certain Physiological Processes in, Walter Gardiner, 16
Plants, Prof. Walter Gardiner on how they maintain themselves in the Struggle for Existence, 90
Platt (Margaret) and the Chemical Laboratory at Stalybridge Mechanics' Institute, 85
Playfair (Sir Lyon, F. R.S.), the Need for Vital Improvements in English Education, 180
Plummer (William E.), New Light from Solar Eclipses, William M. Page, 529
Pluvinel (M. A. De La Baume), Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1889, 428
Pocock (R. I.), a Marine Millipede, 176
Poincaré (M.), Equations aux Derivées Partielles de la Physique Mathématique, 525
Politics, Elements of Historical and Practical, Woodrow Wilson, 196
Polynesia, Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea, F. T. Moss, 151
Polytechnic, a South London, 481
Polytechnics for London, 242
Pontevedra, Remarkable Meteor at, Dr. E. Caballero, 303 Poona Bacteriological Laboratory, 469
Pope (R. Barrett), Thought and Breathing, 297
Popocatepetl, the Eruption of the Volcano, 592
of Suffolk and Norfolk, 238; Relation of "Pebbly Sands Suffolk to those of Norfolk, Part iii., 502 Primitive Types of Mammalian Molars, 465 Primrose, a Blue, 569
Prince (C. L.), Preponderance of North-East Winds durin, Past Five Years, 470
Pringsheim (Dr. E.), Kirchoff's Law and Gaseous Radiation. 480
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