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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,

262

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

xxii

INDEX

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.

Keiser, 44

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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 Comets, 139

Periodic Law, a First Foreshadowing of the, P. G. Hartog,

186

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

Turner, 191

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

Ursa

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

Prism, Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous, Prof. S. P. Thompson,
574

Pritchard (Prof., F.R.S.), Stellar Parallax by Means of Photo-
graphy, 19

Probabilities, Calculus of, J. Bertrand, 6

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 114
Prominences, Solar Spots and, Prof. Tacchini, 233

Propagation of Gravitation, Velocity of the, J. Van Hepperger,
472

Protective Coloration of Eggs: Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 53:
Rev. Fred. F. Grensted, 53; E. B. Titchener, 129
Prussia, Wapiti Acclimatized in, 546

Przewalsky's (N. M.) Zoological Discoveries, 468
Psychology of Attention, Th. Ribot, 460

Psychology: the S ciety for Psychical Research, 17

Public School, Suggestions for the Formation and Arrangement
of a Museum of Natural History in connection with a, Prof.
W. H. Flower, F. R.S., 177

Puffin Island Marine Biological Station, 304
Pulsion Mechanical Telephone, 65

Punjab Forest Administration Report. 520
Purtscheller (Prof.), the Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 164

Quantitative Analysis, Introductory Lessons in, John Mills and
Barker North, 197

Quarter Squares, the Method of, J. W. L. Glaisher, F. R. S., 9
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 549

Quenstedt (Prof. von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 400
Quesneville (Dr.), Death of, 84

Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, Geology of the, G. F.
Becker, 532

Radiation by Gas-Flame, Luminous and Non-Luminous, Sir
John Conroy, 357

Raffy (L.), Determination of Regulated Harmonic Surfaces, 359
Railway, North-Eastern: the Latest Express Compound Loco-
motive, 448

Railway, Proposed Jungfrau, Herr Trautweiler, 303
Railways, the Effect of, on Instruments in Observatories, 592
Railways of England and Scotland, W. M. Acworth, 434
Rainbow due to Sunlight Reflected from the Sea, Sir W.
Thomson, F. R.S., 271; W. Scouller, 271

Rainbows, Eight, seen at the same time, Sir William Thomson,
F.R.S., 316; Dr. Percival Frost, F. R.S., 316
Rainfall in America, 92

Rainfall of the Earth, by late Prof. Loomis, Dr. van Bebber, 43
Rainfall of Germany 1876 85, Dr. H. Meyer, 85

Ramsay (Prof. William, F.R.S.): Compounds of Selenium, 343;
Nitrous Anhydride and Nitric Peroxide, 454
Raoult (F. M.), Vapour-pressure of Acetic Acid Solutions, 431
Rat, the Old English Black, in Cornwall, Thos. Cornish, 161
Rat Plague in Laccadive Islands, 303

Raven, the Anatomy of the, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 594
Rayleigh (Lord, F. R.S.), Tension of Recently Formed Liquid
Surfaces, 566

Reade (T. Mellard): Does the Bulk of Ocean Water Increase?
175; Area of the Land and Depths of the Oceans in Former
Periods, 103

Porcupine, Tree, the Pigment of the, Frank E. Beddard, Reading Room, British Museum, Ventilation of, 199
152

Portugal, Earthquake in, 401

Potsdam Magnetic Observatory, Dr. Eschenhagen, 479
Powell (J. W.), Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethno-
logy to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85,
99

Prehistoric Textiles, Herr Buschan, 182

Preservative, a, for Animal Tissues, H. Leslie Osborn, 199
Pressure-Gauge, Bourdon's: Prof. A. M. Worthington, 296;
Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 517.

Preston (E. D.), Measurement of the Peruvian Arc, 309
Prestwich (Prof. Joseph, F.R.S.): Relation of Westleton Beds

Recoura (A.), Vapour-pressure of Acetic Acid Solutions, 431
Red Sea, Locusts in the, G. T. Carruthers, 153
Redway (J. W.), Teacher's Manual of Geography, 78
Refractometer, Bertrand's, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 526
Reinach (S.), Rock-Sepulchre at Vaphio, Morea, 500
Reinhold (Major), Botanical Condition of German Ocean, 569
Reinke (Dr. J.): a New Atlas of Alge, 127; the Botanical
Institute and Marine Station at Kiel, 397

Religion of the Semites, Lectures on the, Prof. W. Robertson
Smith, 337

Renard (Prof. A.): Phenyl-Thiophene, 48; Rock-Specimens
collected on Oceanic Islands, 363

Rendiconti del Reale Istituto Lombardo, 212, 380
Resonance, Electric, Easy Lecture Experiment in, Prof. Oliver
J. Lodge, F.R.S., 368

Respighi (Prof. Lorenzo): Death of, 160; Obituary Notice of,
W. T. Lynn, 254

Reumeaux (M.), Fall of Miner down 100-metre Shaft without
being killed, 471

Review, New Russian Natural Science, 409

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Modern Views of Electricity, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge,
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Calcul des Probabilités, J. Bertrand, 6

Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F. R S., and W. H.
Hudson, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 7

Chemistry of the Coal-Tar Colours, Dr. R. Benedikt, 8
Bibliography of Geodesy, J. Howard Gore, 9

Lund Museum in the University of Copenhagen, 26
Hydraulic Motors, Turbines and Pressure Engines, G. R.
Bodmer, 27

Physiological Notes on Primary Education and the Study of
Language, Mary Putnam Jacobi, 28

Steam-Engine Design, Jay M. Whitham, 29
Coloured Analytical Tables, H. W. Hake, 29
Story of a Tinder-Box, Chas. M. Tidy, 30
Magnetism and Electricity, Andrew Jamieson, 30

Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon, Sir Kobert S. Ball,
F.R.S., 30

Chemical and Physical Studies in the Metamorphism of
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Hand-book of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, G. F.
Chambers, 49

Proceedings of the National Electric Light Association at its
Ninth Convention, 1889, 50

Enumeratio Specierum Varietatumque Generis Dianthus, F.
N. Williams, 51

Magnetism and Electricity, Arthur W. Poyser, 52
Engineer's Sketch-Book, Thos. Walter Barber, 52
Life of John Davis, Clements R. Markham, 53
Brook and its Banks, Rev. J. G. Wood, 53
The Zoo, Rev. J. G. Wood, 53

The Habits of the Salmon, by Major John P. Traherne, 74
An Elementary Text-book of Geology, by W. Jerome Harri-
son, 75

A Contribution to the Flora of Derbyshire, by the Rev. W.
H. Painter, 77

Science of Every-day Life, by J. A. Bower, 78
Elementary Physics, by M. R. Wright, 78

Teacher's Manual of Geography, by J. W. Redway, 78
Notes on Pinks of Western Europe, by F. N. Williams, 78
American Resorts, with Notes upon their Climate, B. W.
James, 79

Idylls of the Field, by Francis A. Knight, 79

Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, 99
Traite pratique de la Thermométrie de Précision, Ch. Ed.
Guillaume, Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F. R.S., 100
Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 101
La France Préhistorique, Emile Cartailhac, 102
Experimental Science, Geo. M. Hopkins, 102

A Manual of Forestry, William Schlich, Sir D. Brandis,
F.R.S., 121

A Popular Treatise on the Winds, William Ferrel, 124
Atlas deutscher Meeresalgen, Dr. J. Reinke, 127
Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteoriten erläutert
durch photographische Abbildungen, G. Tschermak, 127
Die Structur und Zusammensetzung der Meteoreisen erläutert
durch photographische Abbildungen geätzter Schnitt-
flachen, A. Brezina and E. Cohen, 127

Die Meteoritensammlung des k.k. mineralog. Hofkabinetes in
Wien, A. Brezina, 127

Introduction to Chemical Science, R. P. Williams and B. P.
Lascelles, 128

The Cradle of the Aryans, Gerald H. Rendall, 128

A Monograph of the Horny Sponges, by Robert von Lenden-
feld, 146

The Flora of Suffolk, by Dr. W. M. Hind, 149
Iron and Steel Manufacture, by Arthur H. Hiorns, 150

On the Creation and Physical Structure of the Earth, by J. T.
Harrison, 151

Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea, by F. J.
Moss, 151

Notes on Sport and Ornithology, H.I.H. the late Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria, 169

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Oates, 169
Index Generum Avium, F. W. Waterhouse, 169
The Birds of Oxfordshire, O. V. Aplin, 169
The Birds of Berwickshire, Geo. Muirhead, 169
The Birds in My Garden, W. T. Greene, 169
The Viking Age, Paul B. Du Chaillu, 173

A Glossary of Anatomical, Physiological, and Biological
Terms, T. Dunman, 173

A Contribution to the Physical History and Zoology of the
Somers Archipelago, with an Examination of the Structure
of Coral Reefs, Angelo Heilprin, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 193
The Useful Plants of Australia, J. H. Maiden, 194
Mount Vesuvius, J. Logan Lobley, 195

Index of British Plants, Robert Turnbull, 196
Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses and other
Pasture Plants, William Wilson, 196

The State, Elements of Historical and Practical Politics,
Woodrow Wilson, 196

Introductory Lessons in Quantitative Analysis, John Mills
and Barker North, 197

Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.
Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the Command
of Captain George S. Nares, F.R.S., and the late Captain
Frank T. Thomson, 217

Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland, Montagu
Browne, 220

Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S.,

221

Manures and their Uses, Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 222

Histoire Naturelle des Cétacés des Mers d'Europe, P. J.
Van Beneden, 223

Hand-book of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory
and Private Student, E. Strasburger, 223

Traité d'Optique, M. E. Mascart, J. D. Everett, 224
Bibliothèque Photographique, P. Möessard, 224
Hand-book of Modern Explosives, M. Eissler, 224
Text-book of Assaying, C. Beringer and J. J. Beringer,
Thomas Gibb, 245

The Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-house, Chas. Geo.
Mathews and Francis Edw. Lott, 246

Flower-Land, an Introduction to Botany, Robert Fisher, 247
Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada, Western U.S., and
Mexico, Mrs. E. H. Carbutt, 247

A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States, Holt
S. Hallett, 265

The Lesser Antilles, Owen J. Bulkeley, 268

A Text-book of Human Anatomy, Prof. Alex. Macalister,
F.R.S., 269

A Treatise on Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations,
W. W. Johnson, 270

The Land of an African Sultan, Travels in Morocco, 1887-
88-89, W. B. Harris, 270

Wayside Sketches, F. Edward Hulme, 270

Hygiene, or Public Health, Louis C. Parkes, 290

Im Hochgebirge, Wanderungen von Dr. Emil Zsigmondy,

291

The Story of Chemistry, Harold Picton, F. R. S., 292

Les Animaux et les Végétaux Lumineux, Henri Gadeau de
Kerville, W. A. Herdman, 293

Chemistry of Photography, R. Meldola, F.R.S., 293
The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 294
Travels in France, Arthur Young, 294

East Africa and its Big Game, Captain Sir John C. Willoughby,
298

Einiges über die Enstehung der Korallenriffe in der Javasee
und Branntweinsbai, und über neue Korallenbildung bei
Krakatau, Dr. C. Ph. Sluiter, 303

Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, the Fundamental
Institutions, W. Robertson Smith, 337

Algebra: an Elementary Text-book for the Higher Classes
of Secondary Schools and for Colleges, G. Chrystal, 338
The Micro-organisms of Fermentation practically considered,
Alfred Jörgensen, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339

An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy, F. Howard Collins,
340

The Earth and its Story, edited by Dr. Robert Broun, 341
Steam, William Ripper, 341

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