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INDEX. 



Paleoethnologie, 379. 



Paleozoic rocks, 295. 



Palestine explorations, 3S3. 



Palisa, Dr., 89. 



Palmer, Dr. Edward, 3S4, 401, 503, 509. 



Palmieri, Prof., 105. 



Palmieri'a instrument, 9S. 



Pandermite, 2S4. 



Paper-nautilus shells, 435. 



Papuan algse, 517. 



Paraguay, chart of, 337. 



Parallax of nebula II iv. 37, 4. 



solar, 26. 

 Parasites on a diatom, S70. 

 Paris Geographical Society, 342. 



sewage of, 570. 



underground railway for, 582. 

 Park, Yellowstone, map of the, 331. 

 Parker, Dr. A. J., 391, 409. 

 T J 438 



W. Kitchen, 45S, 472, 477. 

 Parkhurst, Henry M., 49. 

 Parkmau, Francis, 509. 

 Parlatore, 524. 

 Parry, Dr. C. C, 509. 

 Pasteur, 259, 427, 518. 

 Patrick, Dr. J. H., 390. 

 Patterson, Captain C. P., 112, 117. 

 Paul, H. M., 22, 25. 

 Pavesi, Prof., 441. 

 Peabody Museum, 382. 



report of, 394. 

 Peale,Dr.A.C.,331. 

 Pearce, Colonel, 130. 

 Pearson, C. N., 176. 

 Peck, C. H., 506. 

 Peckham, 270. 

 Pedesis, 375. 



in soap-water, 216. 

 Pedetic and cleansing power, 377. 

 Pedicino, 524. 

 Peers 22. 



PeeC'Rev. S. D., 383. 

 Peirce, 226. 

 Pemberton, 595. 

 Pemphigime, 453. 



Pendulum for registering cumulative tem- 

 peratures, 214. 

 Pendulums, vibration of, 212. 

 Penwithite, 2S4. 

 Penzeln, A. von, 478. 

 Percival, 293. 

 Perez J. 444. 



Perkins's paper of 1826, 231. 

 Permeability of the soil to water, 536. 

 Peroxide of hydrogen, 158. 

 Perpignan, observatory of, 141. 

 Perrotin, 25. 



Perry, Prof. N. W., 99, 332. 

 Peter, Dr., S6. 



Petermann, A., 200, 343, 351. 

 Peters, Dr. C. II. F., 3, 36, 55. 



W. 472. 

 Petit, Paul' 369! 

 Petitot, Abbe, 389. 

 Petrie, J. Flinders, 402. 

 Petroleum, origin of, 265. 

 Pettenkofer, Mil. 

 Pfaundler, 226. 

 Pfeffer, 524. 

 Pfeiffer, Louis, 625. 

 Phanerogams, 501, 510. 

 Philadelphia, zoological garden of, 414. 

 Philip, Commander, 314. 



Philippine Islands, earthquakes in, 101. 



Philippium, 276. 



Philips, 507. 



Phillips, J. Arthur, 30S. 



John, 289. 

 Philology, 399. 

 Phonantograph, 220. 

 Phoneidoscope, 222. 

 Phonograph, 5S6. 



of Edison, 224, 225. 

 Phosphorescent animals, 419. 

 Photographic magnetic record, 107. 

 Photographs of the solar spectrum, 15S. 



of the sun in India, 12. 

 Photography, recording vibrations by, 



226. 

 Photometer, a new, 230. 

 Phyllic acid from cherry laurel, 265. 

 Phylloxera, 453, 519. 

 Physical geography, 200. 



mineralogy, 273. 



observatory of L. Trouvelot, 51. 

 Physics, 211. 



agricultural, 530. 



of the globe, 91. 

 Physiological chemistry, 266. 

 Physiology, vegetable, 507, 522, 549. 

 Pickering, Dr. Charles, 625. 



Prof. E. C, 25, 31, 49, 66, 121. 

 Picroalnmogene, 284. 

 Pictet, Raoul, 159, 228, 230, 231. 

 Pierce, C. S., 111. 

 Pifre, 167. 

 Pig-iron, production of, 600. 



in 1877, 003, 604. 

 Pilling, 400. 



Pilze, die niedrigen, 520. 

 Pinto, Serpa, 341, 342. 

 Pirani, 246. 

 Pirotta, 51S, 519. 

 Pissis, Dr., 185. 

 Plancy, V. Collin de, 472. 

 Planets and satellites, 30, 34. 

 Plantamour, Ph., 101, 111. 

 PI ante, 248, 254. 

 Plante'8 arrangements, 247. 

 Plants introduced, 504. 



nutrition of, 52S, 530. 

 Plateau, 446. 



films, permanent, 217. 

 Plating metals by galvanic means, 599. 

 PlatinO cyanate, 262. 

 Platinum, catalytic action of, 264. 

 Piatt, Robert, 117. 

 Plesiosauroid, 492. 

 Pleyer, Charles W., 59. 

 PI o wright, 507. 



Plutonism and neptunism, 2S7v 

 Pneumatic transmission of telegrams, 

 207. 

 tubes, air in, 160. 

 Pneumatics and aeronautics, 206. 

 Pogson, 17, 193. 

 Poisonous arrows, 402. 

 Poisson, 94. 



Polar meteorological stations, 132. 

 Polariscope, a new form of, 242. 



to examine hardened glass, 

 215. 

 Polarization of the coronal light, IS. 

 Pombal, Marquis of, 81. 

 Pomel, 312. 



Poplars of North America, 503. 

 Popular Scieuce Monthly, 383. 



