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Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Eclipse Notes, 51, 100

Lodge (Prof. O. J.), Chemistry of Planté and Faure Cells, 268;
Relation between Waste and Useful Work in, Shunt-Dynamo,
311; Sulphate of Lead in Secondary Battery, 596
Loewy (M.). Equatorial Coudé, 414

London, Palæolithic Gravel of N. E., W. G. Smith, 579
Lubbock (Sir J., F.R.S.), Ants, Bees and Wasps, Dr. G. J.
Romanes, F.R.S., 121; Roumanian Translation of Fifty
Years' of Science," 159

Lucas (Joseph), Studies in Nidderdale, 291

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Ludwig (Arnold) and Oppel (Drs.), Geographische Bildertafeln,
309

Ludwig (Carl), The Discoveries of, Prof. Arthur Gamgee,

411

Luleä, Earthquake in, 209, 231

Lunar Disturbance of Gravity, G. H. Darwin, 458

Lunge, (Prof.), Coal Tar Distillation, 281

Lutke (Count), Death of, 414; Obituary Notice of, 446
Luys (J.), "Brain and its Functions," 103
Lyons Anthropological Society, 611

McAlpine (D.), "Botanical Atlas; a Guide to the Practical
Study of Plants," 175; Prof. T. J. Parker, 292; D. McAlpine,
386

Macgowan (D. J.), The Recent Weather, 245
McKendrick (Prof. J. G.), "Treatise on Human Physiology,
designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medi-
cine," J. C. Dalton, 451

McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), "Insects injurious to Forest and Shade
Trees," A. S. Packard, 78

Maclay (Miklukho), his Australian Expedition, 112

"Madeira: its Scenery, and How to See It," J. S. Gardner,
363

Madras Government Central Museum, Report of, 557
Maggi (Prof.), Protistological Analysis of Water of Lake
Maggiore, 379

Magnet und dynamo-elektrischen Maschinen, die Dr. H. Schellen,
318

Magnetic Dip, Markree; Dr. W Doberck, 418

Magnetic Metals by act of Magnetisation, Alterations in Di-
mensions of, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 585; Andrew Gray,
625

Magnetic Storms, Sun-Spots and, W. H. M. Christie, F.R.S.,
55; Magnetic Storms of April, 1882, 207; William Ellis,
175; Magnetic Storm and Aurora, Recent, W. H. M.
Christie, F.R.S.; G. M. Seabrooke; A. P. Smith; J.
A. Watts; Anne Gifford; W. Larden; H. Mellish, 571
Magnetism, Electricity and, E. Mascart and E. Joubert,
147

Magneto-Electric Action, Matter and, Henry Bedford, 8
Malaiasia, Darwin's Collections in, 305

Malayana Rhopalocera: a Description of the Butterflies of the
Malay Peninsula, W. L. Distant, 6

Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics, A. H. Keane, 225
Mallery (Col. G.), Gesture Speech of Man, 333

Malta during Alexandria Bombardment, Telephonic Experiment
at, 257

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 143
Mangin's Military Signals with Captive Balloon, 634
Manilla, Hurricane at, 634

Mankind, Social History of the Races of, A. Featherman,
28

Maori and Fijian Comparative Vocabulary, Thurston and Wild,
309

Maoris, Colour-sense of the Ancient, 578

Marianne North Gallery of Paintings of "Plants and their
Homes," Royal Gardens, Kew, W. Botting Hemsley, 155
Mariette Bey, Unveiling of Statue of, 306

Markham (C. K.), Eira Expedition, 418

Markree Rainfall, Sunspots and, Dr. W. Doberck, 366

Markree Magnetic Dip, Dr. W. Doberck, 418

Mars, Recent Discoveries in the Planet, Rev. T. W. Webb,

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Mediterranean, New and very Rare Fish from, James Yate
Johnson, 453,

Megaceros Hibernicus in Peat, G. H. Kinahan, 246

Mellish (H.), Recent Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 571
Mellogen, Bartoli and Papasogli, 568

"Memoire della Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani," 46

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Memoires de la Societé des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles
de Bordeaux," 54

Mendeleef (Prof.), Heat of Combustion of Hydrocarbons,
258

Mendelejeff, Thermo-chemistry, 568

Mendenhall (Prof. T. C.), Influence of Time on Change of
Resistance of Edison's Tasimeter, 309

Mercuric Chloride, Carnelley's Experiments on Melting Point
of, 567

Mercury, Transit of, 1881, November 8, 137

Mercury, Polarisation of, 139

Merrifield (Mary P.), Monostroma, 284

Metals, The Reversals of the Spectral Lines of, Profs. Liveing
and Dewar, 466

Metals, Alteration in Dimension of Magnetic, by Act of Mag-
netisation, Prof. W. T. Barrett, 585
Me'amorphic Rocks of Bergen, 567
Meteoric Dust, B. A. Report on, 488

Meteors, G. T. Tupman, 81; E. J. Stone, F. R.S., 151; Rev.
S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 124; Rev. John Hoskyns-Abrahall, 125;
in Wyoming, 208: August, Donald Cameron, 378, 523
Meteorology: Some Primitive Ideas on, 15; Modern, Louise
D'A. Jackson, 55; Meteorological Station established by
C. L. Wragge at Stafford, 88; Meteorological Society, 95,
215; Ben Nevis and Fort William Observations, 112; Pro-
posed Meteorological Observatory at Hongkong, 113; Regis-
tration of the duration of rain, 113; in China, 136;
Meteorological Service, China Coast, 414; Austrian Polar
Meteorological Expedition, 231; Meteorology of Iceland in
Winter and Spring of 1881-2, 322; Meteorology of the
Antarctic Region, J. I. Murphy, 366; Permanent Committee
of Meteorological International Congress, 352, 370; Prof.
Balfour Stewart on a Similarity between Magnetical and
Meteorological Weather, 488; Meteorological Spectroscope,
Col. J. F. D. Donelly, F.R.S., 501; African Rivers and
Meteorology, Prof. O'Reilly, 597

Meyer (Prof. L.), on Steudell's Transpiration of Vapours,
309

Microscope, the, Mr. Grimshaw on, 531
Microscopical Science, Studies in, A. C. Cole, 89
Miklukho Maclay (Dr.) Return of, 558

Military Engineering Visit of Society of Telegraph Engineers to
School of, 257

Military Signals with Captive Balloon, Mangin, 634

Milk Ferment, Caucasian, 43

Milne (Prof. John), Earth Tremors in Japan, 125; Seismology
in Japan, 627

Mimicry, on some Difficult Cases of, Dr. Franz Müller, A. R.
Wallace, 87; W. L. Distant, 105; S. E. Peal, 368
Mimicry in the "Plume Moths." J. E. Taylor, 477

Mindanas, Ascent of Mount Apo, by Schadenburg and Koch,
257

Mineralogie, Tschermak Lehrbuch der, 364

Mines for Victoria, Report of Chief Inspector of, 416
Miort, Osaka (Japan), Report of, 231

Mirage in Sweden, 209

Mixter, Production of Urea, 568

Mocenigo (A. V. G.), Il Telefono, &c., 220

Modern Physics, the Concepts and Theories of J. B. Stallo,
521

Molecular Physics, Contribution of Astronomy to questions of,
Raoul Pictet, 310

Mollusca, Land and Freshwater, of India, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys,
F.R.S., 53

Molluscous Fauna of Moscow, 43

Momentary Attitudes, Rapid-view Instrument for, Francis
Galton, F.R.S., 249

Monckhoven (Dr. van), Death of 583; Obituary Notice of,
601

Monostroma, Mary P. Merrifield, 284

Montgolfier Anniversary, 556

Montreal, American Association at, 480

Moore Collection of Fossils, 280

Morgan (C. Lloyd), Animal Intelligence, 523

"Morocco," New Edition of De Amico's, 614

'Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 71

Mortillet (G. de), "Le Præhistorique," 583
Moscow, Molluscous Fauna of, 43

Moscow, Index to Bulletins of Imperial Society of Naturalists

of, E. Ballion, 557

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Mosley (Paget), Getting" Coal by Means of Caustic Lime,
365

Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.), Bobbers, 501; Pelagic Life,
559

Moths, Plume, Mimicry in the, J. E. Taylor, 477
Mott (F. T.), Comet a 1882, 124

Mount Pisgah, U.S., Stone Objects Discovered at, 160, 267
Mount Whitney Expedition, Prof. Langley, 314
Mountain Ranges, Earthquakes and, Rev. O. Fisher, 7

Mountain Sickness in the Andes, Note on, J. Ball, F.R.S.,
477

Movable Coils, Dr. W. H. Stone, 268

Muir (M. M. Pattison), Atomic Weights, 271

Müller (Dr. Fritz), On Some Difficult Cases of Mimicry, A. R.
Wallace, 87

Müller (Dr. H.), Variability of Sepals, &c. in Myosurus
Minimus, 81; Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, 307
Müller (Johannes), The Researches of, Prof. Arthur Gamgee,
408

Munich Electro-Technical Exhibition, 330, 510, 556

Nebula in Orion, Photographs of the Spectra of the, Dr. Henry
Draper, 33

Netherlands, Fireballs in, Dr. Groneman, 245

Neuchatel, New discoveries bearing on history of lake-dwellers,
258

Nevill (Lady Dorothy), Domesticated Choughs, 556

New South Wales, Transit of Venus in, 223; Geography in
School Books of, 279

New Zealand Institute, "Transactions" of the, 482, 591
New Zealand, Science in, 510; Blind Subterranean Crustacea
in, 542; University of, 635

New Forest, Geological explorations in, 556

Newberry (Prof. J. S.), Hypothetical High Tides, 56
Newcomb (Dr. Simon), Astronomical Observations, 326

Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), The Late, Prof. Balfour,
342

Nidderdale, Studies in, Joseph Lucas, 291
Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie, 616

Noctuidae of North America, Illustrated Essay on, with "A
Colony of Butterflies," A. Radcliffe Grote, 281 500
Non-Electric Incandescent Lamp, 108; F. M. Sexton, 176
"Nordenskjöld's Arctic Voyage round Asia and Europe," Lieut.
A. Hovgaard, 29

Norfolk, T., British Association, 337

Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, "Transactions,"
471

Normal School of Science, Distribution of Awards, 232

North American Birds, Coue's Check List of, 362

Norwegian Fjords, Dredging in the, Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
F.R.S., 478

Norwich Geological Society, Proceedings of, 557

Notacanthus Rissoanus, Theo. Gill, 574

"Notes from the Leyden Museum," 213

Nova of 1848, the so-called, 18

Nova, Anthelm's, of 1670, 42

Nova Ophiuchi, 1848, 344

Oats (Eugene), Birds of Burmah, 305

Oats and Rye, Northernmost Place of Maturing of, 331
Obach (Dr E.), Aluminium for Movable Coils, 245
Observatories: Observatory established at Besançon, 88; Lay-
ing first Stone of Ventoux, 88; on Ben Nevis, 279; Inter-
national Polar, 294; Continental Astronomical, 331; Bulletin
of Rio de Janeiro, 352; Subterranean Chamber of Paris
Observatory, 378; Designs for Dome of Paris, 378; Bossekot,
378

Ogowe, M. Brazza's Discoveries in, 209

Oil on Rough Water, Influence of, 635

Oliver (J. A. W.), Is the Axis of a Cyclone Vertical? 222
Oliver (S. P.) "On and Off Duty: being Leaves from an
Officer's Note Book," 54

Ophiuchi, 70; the Binary Star, 541

Oppel (Dr.), Luding (Arnold), Geographische Bildertafeln,
309

Murphy (F. J.), Meteorology of the Antartic Region, 366; Con- Optical Purposes, Preliminary Notice of the Results accom-
servation of Solar Energy, 31

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plished in the Manufacture and Theory of Gratings for, Prof.
H. A. Rowland, 211

Optical Glass, Note on History of, 350, Major Herschel,

573

Orange Culture in Florida, Major Herschel, 420

Ordnance, on the Treatment of Steel for the Construction of,
Sir Wm. Armstrong, 494

O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.) Aurora Borealis, 344, 56

O'Reilly (Prof.) A Curious Halo, 268; The Recent Aurora, 548;
African Rivers and Meteorology, 597
Organ-pipe Sonometer, L. C. Stevens, 308

Organic Analysis, Commercial, A. H. Allen, 28

Orion, Photographs of the Spectra of the Nebula in, Dr. Henry
Draper, 33

Ormerod (Miss) Report on Injurious Insects for 1881, 112
Orthonitrosphenye Propiolic Acid, change of, into. Indigo,
614

Osaka Mint (Japan), Report of, 231

Oscillations of Sea Level, T. F. Jamieson, 319
Osterbotten, Rise of Sea-coast at, 231

Oswald's, By Fell and Fjord, G. F. Rodwell, 363

Otter, R. H., Winters Abroad, 219

Oxford University Museum, Index Guide to Geological Collec-
tions in, Prof. Prestwich, 378

Liveing and Dewar (Profs.), The Reversals of the Spectral
Lines of Metals, 466

Lizards, Existence of a Voice in, Prof. Th. Eimer, 29; C.
Michie Smith, 81; S. E. Peal, 320, 343

Lock (Rev. J. B.), Treatise on Elementary Trigonometry,

124

Lockyer (J. Norman, F.R.S.), Eclipse Notes, 51, 100

Lodge (Prof. O. J.), Chemistry of Planté and Faure Cells, 268;
Relation between Waste and Useful Work in, Shunt-Dynamo,
311; Sulphate of Lead in Secondary Battery, 596
Loewy (M.). Equatorial Coudé, 414

London, Palæolithic Gravel of N. E., W. G. Smith, 579
Lubbock (Sir J., F.R.S.), Ants, Bees and Wasps, Dr. G. J.
Romanes, F.R.S., 121; Roumanian Translation of "Fify
Years' of Science," 159

Lucas (Joseph), Studies in Nidderdale, 291

Ludwig (Arnold) and Oppel (Drs.), Geographische Bildertafeln,
309

Ludwig (Carl), The Discoveries of, Prof. Arthur Gamgee,

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McAlpine (D.), "Botanical Atlas; a Guide to the Practical
Study of Plants," 175 ; Prof. T. J. Parker, 292; D. McAlpine,
386

Macgowan (D. J.), The Recent Weather, 245

McKendrick (Prof. J. G.), "Treatise on Human Physiology,
designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medi-
cine," J. C. Dalton, 451

McLachlan (R., F.R.S.), “Insects injurious to Forest and Shade
Trees," A. S. Packard, 78

Maclay (Miklukho), his Australian Expedition, 112

"Madeira: its Scenery, and How to See It," J. S. Gardner,
363

Madras Government Central Museum, Report of, 557
Maggi (Prof.), Protistological Analysis of Water of Lake
Maggiore, 379

Magnet und dynamo-elektrischen Maschinen, die Dr. H. Schellen,
318

Magnetic Dip, Markree; Dr. W Doberck, 418

Magnetic Metals by act of Magnetisation, Alterations in Di-
mensions of, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 585; Andrew Gray,
625
Magnetic Storms, Sun-Spots and, W. H. M. Christie, F.R.S.,
55; Magnetic Storms of April, 1882, 207; William Ellis,
175; Magnetic Storm and Aurora, Recent, W. H. M.
Christie, F.R.S.; G. M. Seabrooke; A. P. Smith; J.
A. Watts; Anne Gifford; W. Larden; H. Mellish, 571
Magnetism, Electricity and, E. Mascart and E. Joubert,

147

Magneto-Electric Action, Matter and, Henry Bedford, 8
Malaiasia, Darwin's Collections in, 305

Malayana Rhopalocera: a Description of the Butterflies of the
Malay Peninsula, W. L. Distant, 6
Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics, A. H. Keane, 225
Mallery (Col. G.), Gesture Speech of Man, 333

Malta during Alexandria Bombardment, Telephonic Experiment
at, 257

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 143
Mangin's Military Signals with Captive Balloon, 634
Manilla, Hurricane at, 634

Mankind, Social History of the Races of, A. Featherman,

28

Maori and Fijian Comparative Vocabulary, Thurston and Wild,
309

Maoris, Colour-sense of the Ancient, 578

Marianne North Gallery of Paintings of "Plants and their
Homes," Royal Gardens, Kew, W. Botting Hemsley, 155
Mariette Bey, Unveiling of Statue of, 306

Markham (C. K.), Eira Expedition, 418

Markree Rainfall, Sunspots and, Dr. W. Doberck, 366
Markree Magnetic Dip, Dr. W. Doberck, 418

Mars, Recent Discoveries in the Planet, Rev. T. W. Webb,

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258

Mendelejeff, Thermo-chemistry, 568

Mendenhall (Prof. T. C.), Influence of Time on Change of
Resistance of Edison's Tasimeter, 309

Mercuric Chloride, Carnelley's Experiments on Melting Point
of, 567

Mercury, Transit of, 1881, November 8, 137

Mercury, Polarisation of, 139

Merrifield (Mary P.), Monostroma, 284

Metals, The Reversals of the Spectral Lines of, Profs. Liveing
and Dewar, 466

Metals, Alteration in Dimension of Magnetic, by Act of Mag-
netisation, Prof. W. T. Barrett, 585
Metamorphic Rocks of Bergen, 567
Meteoric Dust, B. A. Report on, 488

Meteors, G. T. Tupman, 81; E. J. Stone, F. R.S., 151; Rev.
S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 124; Rev. John Hoskyns-Abrahall, 125;
in Wyoming, 208: August, Donald Cameron, 378, 523
Meteorology: Some Primitive Ideas on, 15; Modern, Louise
D'A. Jackson, 55; Meteorological Station established by
C. L. Wragge at Stafford, 88; Meteorological Society, 95,
215; Ben Nevis and Fort William Observations, 112; Pro-
posed Meteorological Observatory at Hongkong, 113; Regis-
tration of the duration of rain, 113; in China, 136;
Meteorological Service, China Coast, 414; Austrian Polar
Meteorological Expedition, 231; Meteorology of Iceland in
Winter and Spring of 1881-2, 322; Meteorology of the
Antarctic Region, J. I. Murphy, 366; Permanent Committee
of Meteorological International Congress, 352, 370; Prof.
Balfour Stewart on a Similarity between Magnetical and
Meteorological Weather, 488; Meteorological Spectroscope,
Col. J. F. D. Donelly, F.R.S., 501; African Rivers and
Meteorology, Prof. O'Reilly, 597

Meyer (Prof. L.), on Steudell's Transpiration of Vapours,
309

Microscope, the, Mr. Grimshaw on, 531

Microscopical Science, Studies in, A. C. Cole, 89
Miklukho-Maclay (Dr.) Return of, 558

Military Engineering Visit of Society of Telegraph Engineers to
School of, 257

Military Signals with Captive Balloon, Mangin, 634
Milk Ferment, Caucasian, 43

Milne (Prof. John), Earth Tremors in Japan, 125; Seismology
in Japan, 627

Mimicry, on some Difficult Cases of, Dr. Franz Müller, A. R.
Wallace, 87; W. L. Distant, 105; S. E. Peal, 368
Mimicry in the "Plume Moths." J. E. Taylor, 477

Mindanas, Ascent of Mount Apo, by Schadenburg and Koch,
257

Mineralogie, Tschermak Lehrbuch der, 364

Mines for Victoria, Report of Chief Inspector of, 416
Miort, Osaka (Japan), Report of, 231

Mirage in Sweden, 209

Mixter, Production of Urea, 568

Mocenigo (A. V. G.), Il Telefono, &c., 220

Modern Physics, the Concepts and Theories of J. B. Stallo,
521

Molecular Physics, Contribution of Astronomy to questions of,

Raoul Pictet, 310

Mollusca, Land and Freshwater, of India, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys,
F.R.S., 53

Molluscous Fauna of Moscow, 43

Momentary Attitudes, Rapid-view Instrument for, Francis
Galton, F.R.S., 249

Monckhoven (Dr. van), Death of 583; Obituary Notice of,
601

Monostroma, Mary P. Merrifield, 284

Montgolfier Anniversary, 556

Montreal, American Association at, 480
Moore Collection of Fossils, 280

Morgan (C. Lloyd), Animal Intelligence, 523

Morocco," New Edition of De Amico's, 614

"Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 71

Mortillet (G. de), "Le Præhistorique," 583
Moscow, Molluscous Fauna of, 43

Moscow, Index to Bulletins of Imperial Society of Naturalists

of, E. Ballion, 557

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Mosley (Paget), Getting" Coal by Means of Caustic Lime,
365

Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.), Bobbers, 501; Pelagic Life,
559

Moths, Plume, Mimicry in the, J. E. Taylor, 477

Mott (F. T.), Comet a 1882, 124

Mount Pisgah, U.S., Stone Objects Discovered at, 160, 267
Mount Whitney Expedition, Prof. Langley, 314
Mountain Ranges, Earthquakes and, Rev. O. Fisher, 7

Mountain Sickness in the Andes, Note on, J. Ball, F.R.S.,

477

Movable Coils, Dr. W. H. Stone, 268

Muir (M. M. Pattison), Atomic Weights, 271

Müller (Dr. Fritz), On Some Difficult Cases of Mimicry, A. R.
Wallace, 87

Müller (Dr. H.), Variability of Sepals, &c. in Myosurus
Minimus, 81; Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, 307
Müller (Johannes), The Researches of, Prof. Arthur Gamgee,
408

Munich Electro-Technical Exhibition, 330, 510, 556
Murphy (F. J.), Meteorology of the Antartic Region, 366; Con-
servation of Solar Energy, 31

Museums: Parkes, 231; Report of Trustees of Australian, 379;
School Museums, Rev. A. S. Page, 386; Provincial Arrange-
ment of, F. T. Mott, 492

Muybridge (Edward), A Dead Heat, 81

Myosurus Minimus, Variability of Sepals, &c., Dr. Hermann
Müller, 81

"Myth and Science," Tito Vignoli, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 3

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Nebula in Orion, Photographs of the Spectra of the, Dr. Henry
Draper, 33

Netherlands, Fireballs in, Dr. Groneman, 245

Neuchatel, New discoveries bearing on history of lake-dwellers,
258

Nevill (Lady Dorothy), Domesticated Choughs, 556

New South Wales, Transit of Venus in, 223; Geography in
School Books of, 279

New Zealand Institute, "Transactions" of the, 482, 591
New Zealand, Science in, 510; Blind Subterranean Crustacea
in, 542; University of, 635

New Forest, Geological explorations in, 556

Newberry (Prof. J. S.), Hypothetical High Tides, 56
Newcomb (Dr. Simon), Astronomical Observations, 326

Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), The Late, Prof. Balfour,
342

Nidderdale, Studies in, Joseph Lucas, 291

Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie, 616

Noctuidae of North America, Illustrated Essay on, with "A
Colony of Butterflies," A. Radcliffe Grote, 281 500
Non-Electric Incandescent Lamp, 108; F. M. Sexton, 176
"Nordenskjöld's Arctic Voyage round Asia and Europe," Lieut.
A. Hovgaard, 29

Norfolk, T., British Association, 337

Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, "Transactions,"

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Oats (Eugene), Birds of Burmah, 305

Oats and Rye, Northernmost Place of Maturing of, 331
Obach (Dr E.), Aluminium for Movable Coils, 245
Observatories: Observatory established at Besançon, 88; Lay-
ing first Stone of Ventoux, 88; on Ben Nevis, 279; Inter-
national Polar, 294; Continental Astronomical, 331; Bulletin
of Rio de Janeiro, 352; Subterranean Chamber of Paris
Observatory, 378; Designs for Dome of Paris, 378; Bossekot,
378

Ogowe, M. Brazza's Discoveries in, 209

Oil on Rough Water, Influence of, 635

Oliver (J. A. W.), Is the Axis of a Cyclone Vertical? 222
Oliver (S. P.) "On and Off Duty: being Leaves from an
Officer's Note Book," 54

Ophiuchi, 70; the Binary Star, 541

Oppel (Dr.), Luding (Arnold), Geographische Bildertafeln,
309

Optical Purposes, Preliminary Notice of the Results accom-
plished in the Manufacture and Theory of Gratings for, Prof.
H. A. Rowland, 211

Optical Glass, Note on History of, 350, Major Herschel,

573

Orange Culture in Florida, Major Herschel, 420

Ordnance, on the Treatment of Steel for the Construction of,
Sir Wm. Armstrong, 494

O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.) Aurora Borealis, 344, 56

O'Reilly (Prof.) A Curious Halo, 268; The Recent Aurora, 548;
African Rivers and Meteorology, 597

Organ-pipe Sonometer, L. C. Stevens, 308

Organic Analysis, Commercial, A. H. Allen, 28

Orion, Photographs of the Spectra of the Nebula in, Dr. Henry
Draper, 33

Ormerod (Miss) Report on Injurious Insects for 1881, 112
Orthonitrosphenye Propiolic Acid, change of, into. Indigo,
614

Osaka Mint (Japan), Report of, 231

Oscillations of Sea Level, T. F. Jamieson, 319
Osterbotten, Rise of Sea-coast at, 231

Oswald's, By Fell and Fjord, G. F. Rodwell, 363

Otter, R. H., Winters Abroad, 219

Oxford University Museum, Index Guide to Geological Collec-
tions in, Prof. Prestwich, 378

Oxygen, Hélouis' Patent for Manufacture of Hydrogen, 585
Oxygenated Water on the System, Experiments on, 511
Ozone and the Spectroscope, 138

Ozone, Production of Pure Liquid, 614

Pacific Islands, Dr. O. Finsch's Exploration of, 41

Pacific States of North America, Bancroft's History of the,
558

Packard (A. S.), "Insects injurious to Forest and Shade Trees,"
R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 78

Page (Rev. A. S.), School Museums, 386

Palaeolithic Gravels of North East London, W. G. Smith,
579

Paleolithic Implements in Thames Valley, W. G. Smith,
293

Palestine, Campaign in Eastern, Capt. Conder and Lieut.
Mantell, R.E., 231

Palmer (Col. H. S.), Japanese Progress, 310

Panama, Earthquake at, 482, 583

Panoramic Photography, Ariel, 482

Paper Sized with Resin, Free Sulphuric Acid in, Prof. Feich-
tinger, 557

Parallax, Maskelyne's Value of the Solar, 210

Paralytic and Tetanic Patients, Poisonous Alkaloids in Urine
of, Selmi, 568

Parasites, the Injurious, of Egypt, Dr. Cobbold, F.R.S.,

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Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 96, 119, 144, 168,
192, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336, 360, 384, 416, 496, 520,
544, 568, 592, 616, 640; Paris Observatory, Magnetic
Observations at, 207; Subterranean Chambers in, 378;
Designs for Dome of, 378; Vote of Subsidy for Photograph-
ing Paris by Captive Balloons, 231; Accidents from Electricity
in, 378, 415; Central School for "Ingénieurs des Arts et
Manufactures," 446; Scientific Balloon Ascents at, 585
Parish (Sir Woodbine), Death of, 414

Parker (Prof. T. J.), McAlpine's Atlases, 292

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Capt. Abney, 471; Aëria! Panoramic Photography, 482;
Photographic Exhibition, 584

Photometer Wedge, Prof. Pickering, 259, 307

Phylloxera, J. S. Gardner, 38; Coloured Plates of, 112; In
Cantons of Neuchâtel and Geneva, Appearance of, 280;
Algerian Scientific Mis-ion to France, 305; at Bonn, 584
Physical Society, 23, 71, 119, 166, 239, 263

Physical Notes, 44, 138, 210

Physical Science, Ideality in, Benj. Peirce, 104

Physical Science, Endowment of Lectureship in, Balliol College,
279

Physico-Chemical Lecture Experiments, Leigh Clifford, 126
Physics, Modern, The Concepts and Theories of, J. B. Stello,
521

Pic-du-midi, Project for Permanent Observatory, 611
Pickering, Prof., Wedge Photometer, 259, 307

Pictet (Raoul), Contribution of Astronomy to Question of
Molecular Physics, 310

Pictet's Corpuscular Theory of Gravitation, Prof. Herschel,
343

Pike's Peak, Electricity on, 260

66

Pioneering in the Far East, and Journeyings to California in
1849 and the White Sea in 1878," Ludwig Verner Helms,
476

Pisgah, Mount, Stone Carvings, Charles Rau, 160 ; M. S. Valen-
tine, 267

Pitt-Rivers (Gen.), Scientific Exploration in Egypt, 364
Plagioscope, Joyeux's, 635

Plane Geometrical Drawing, Worked Examination Questions in,
F. E. Hulme, F.S.A., 103

Planets, Small, 137

Plant-names, Old English, James Britten, 243

Plants, Comparative Action of Isomeric and Metameric Com-
pounds on the Growth of, 43; "Plants and Their Homes,"
Marianne North Gallery of Paintings of, in Royal Gardens,
Kew, W. Botting Hemsley, 155; Indiarubber Plants, 237;
John Smith's Dictionary of Popular Names of Plant-,
267; Excitability of, Prof. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., 353,
483
Plantamour (Prof.), Obituary Notice of, 505

Parker (Prof. W. K.), Development of Crocodilian Skull, Plantarum Novarum et minus Cognitarum, Descriptiones, Dr.
252

Parkes Museum, 231; New Premises, 479

Pasteur, Honour to M., 278

Patagonia, Venus's Transit in, 329

Paulsen (Dr.), Course of Air in Nasal Cavity in Breathing,
232

Peal (S. E.), Voice in Lizards, 320; White Ants' Nests, 343;
Difficult Cases of Mimicry, 368

Peat, Megaceros Hibernicus in, G. H. Kinahan, 246
Peirce (Benj.), "Ideality in the Physical Science," 104
Pelagic Life, Prof. H. N. Moseley, 559

Pengelly (W., F.R.S.), Post-Miocene Deposits of Bovey
Tracey, 469

Perception of Colour, Napier Smith, 30; J. W. Swan, 246
Perception of Direction, Function of the Ears in the, Consul
E. L. Layard, 176

Peristaltic Intestinal Movements, 43

Permanence and Evolution, Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S.,
265

Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Meteors, 124

Persia, Six Months in, Edward Stack, A. H. Keane, 500
Perspective Binocular, W. Le Conte Stevens, 68
Petermann's Mittheilungen, 635

Petit (Ch.), Similigravures, 635

Petrel, Jamaica, Consul E. L. Layard, 177

Petroff (Joan), Limit of Innuit Tribes on Alaska Coast,
257

Petroleum, The Legal Flashing Test for, F. A. Abel, F.R.S.,
466

Pettersson, Springs' Researches on Expansion of Isomorphous
Compounds, 568

Phonodynamograph, W. B. Cooper, 331

Photography: Photographs of the Spectra of the Nebula in
Orion, Dr. Henry Draper, 33; Instantaneous of Bird in
Flight, 84, 85, 86; Photographic Spectrum of Comet (Wells)
I, 1882, W. Huggins, F.R.S., 179; Vote of Subsidy for
Photographing Paris by Captive Balloons, 231; Photographic
Studios of Europe, H. B. Pritchard, 331; Convention of
Photographers' Association of America, 378; Instruction in,

Regel, 319

Planté and Faure Cell, Chemistry of, Dr. J. H. Gladstone,
F.R.S. and Dr. A. Tribe, F.R.S., 251 603, : Prof. O. J.
Lodge, 268; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F. R.S., 342

Plarr (Dr. G.), The Recent Aurora, 548
Plâtrage of Wines in Berne, 380

"Plume Moths," Mimicry in the, J. E. Taylor, 477
Poitiers, Gallo-Roman Town Discovered near, 635
"Pola," The, 481

Polar Meteorological Expedition, Austrian, 231
Polar Observatories, International, 294
Polyphemus, the," 151

Polyzoa, Fossil, B. A. Report on Jurassic Species, 486
Pon's Comet of 1812, 636

Popular Names of Plants, H. J. Smith's Dictionary of,
267

Porculia Salvania (Hodgson), Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 80
Port's (Prof. D.) "Atlas de anatomischen und physiologischen
Botanik," 611

Potassium Chlorate, Decomposition of, by Heat, 467

Potts (T. H.), Aurora Australis, 126

66

Præhistorique, Le," Gabriel de Mortillet, 583
Præsepe Cluster, 448

Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), Recent Progress in Telephony, 516;
New Arc Electric Lamp, 526

Prestwich (Prof.), Index Guide to Geological Collection in
Oxford University Museum, 378

Preyer (W.), "Die Seele des Kindes, Beobachtungen über die
geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in den ersten Lebens-
jahren, Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 497

"Primer of Art," John Collier, Miss L. S. Bevington, 5
Princeton College Expedition to Dakota and Nebraska,
256

Printing in China, 612

Printing Press, Solar, 503

Pritchard (H. B.), Photographic Studios of Europe, 331
"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,"

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