Nipher (Frank E.), The Glacial Period, 467 Noble (Capt. A.), Brazilian Order conferred on, 292 North London, Glacial Drifts of, 287 Obermeier (Dr. Otto), Obituary Notice of, 371 "Ocean Highways," 39, 76, 541 Octopus, Young, bred in Brighton Aquarium, 171, 192, 313 Oliver (Capt. S. P., R.A.), Cromlechs and Dolmen Mounds, Orchids, Fertilisation of, 121 Order of Intellectual Merit, proposed by Earl Stanhope, 177; Oriental Caligraphy, Bequest to British Museum, 232 Ornithology (See Birds) Otter and Seal, Anatomy of the, by Dr. C. G. Lucæ, 222 Owens College, Manchester, Opening of the New Building, 75, Oxford: Biological Fellowship at Magdalen College, 464, 513; Ozone Generator, Improved, 146 Packard (A. S.), Ancestry of Insects, 249 Page (D., J.L.D.), "Text Book of Physical Geography," 458 Pansy, Wild, Fertilisation of, 49, 121, 143, 202 Paraguay, Commission on the Resources of, 130 Paris Academy of Sciences, 20, 40, 60, 80, 96, 116, 136, 156, Penikese Island (See Agassiz, Alex.) Perception in the Lower Animals, 6, 65, 67, 77, 282, 284, 302, Periodicity of Rainfall, 194, 245, 547 Perry (John), Oxford Science Fellowships, 506, 528, 549 Peterman (Dr.), on the Polaris Expedition, 271, 313 Phanerogamic Vegetation, Northern Limit of, 487 Pheasants, Suppression of Scent in, 48 Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences, 19, 59, 115, 156, Phillips (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Opening Address, Sec. C, Br. A., Physics, History o'," by F. Hoefer, 320 Physics, Mathematical Principles of," by Prof. Rev. J. Challis, "Physikalis he Technik," by Dr. J. Frick, 62 Physiology (See Briti-h Ass ciation, Sec. D) "Physiology of Man." by A. Flint. jun., M.D., 98 66 'Physiology of the Eye," by S. H. 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H.), The Hegelian Calculus, 26; "Philosophy of Stone (Livingstone), Fish Acclimatisation in California, 171 Morality and Religion in Early Civilisation, 498; Spencer's Tyndall (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Principal Forbes and Glacial The- Typhoid Epidemic in London, 343, 466, 514 Ule (Dr. Otto and A. Hummel), "Physikalische und Chemische Universities, English, their Future; a Voice from Cambridge, Universities and Science, Prof. C. A. Joy cn, 13 Universities, English and Foreign, Science 2, 21 Universities and Science, 41, 157, 197, 237, 243. 257, 261, 262 Uranus, Prof. Newcomb's Tables of its Motions, 54 Weighing and Standards of Weight, 268, 307, 327, 367, 386, 489, Wellington College Natural History Society, 260 Valentin (W G., F.C.S.), “Qualitative Chemical Analysis," 199 Wharton (C. Bygrave), Motion in a Circle, 77 Variations of O gas, 505 Velocity and Vibration, 25 Velocity of Light, A. 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