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INDEX. 



Oil extracted by bisulphide of carbon, 

 553. 

 of seeds in germination, 360. 

 Oils, bleaching, 550. 

 explosive, 5S5. 

 from birds, 56G. 

 mineral, testing, 506. 

 Oily matter from wool, removal of, 549. 

 Olive-oil and sunlight, 612. 

 Oilier, Mr., 347. 

 Ommanney, Admiral, 226. 

 Omus, 307. 

 Oom, Lieut., 57. 

 Opium in Germany, 622. 



manures on the production of, 3S6. 

 Optical telegraphy, svstem of, 161. 

 Orbit of Jupiter, 22. ' 

 Ord, Gen., 254. 

 Organic impurities in water, 646. 



matter in the atmosphere, 381. 

 substances in the soil, 385. 

 Orientalists, International Congress of, 



G69. 

 Origin of atmospheric electricity, 114. 

 of meteors and comets, 9. 

 of the Maoris, 275. 

 Ormerod, George, 684. 

 Orohippus agilis, 280. 

 Orth, Mr., 176, 519, 528. 

 Orton, Prof. Edward, Ixxi., 206. 

 Orycteropus, 267. 

 Osborne, Capt. Sherard, 226. 

 Ostriches, rearing of, 388. 

 O'Sullivan, Mr. T. H,, 254. 

 Oulmont,Mr., 622. 

 Owen, Prof. Richard, xcviii., 349. 



Mrs., 684. 

 Owl-faced Minerva, the, 224. 

 Ozokerite candles, 473. 

 Ozone, influence of forests on, 426, 

 and vulcanized rubber, 182. 

 water as a remedy, 620, 623. 



Pacific cod-fisheries, 1873, 45S. 



Packard, Dr. A. S., lix., xcii., xciv., xcviii., 



xcix., 217, 294,330,331. 

 Page, Mr. George Shepard, 434, 457, 464. 

 Pahonim, a poison from the Gaboon, 652. 

 Paine, Hon. H. E., 75. 



Prof.jlxxii. 

 Paint, rubber-graphite, 556. 

 Palestine, British surveys in, 225. 

 Palladius, Archimandrite, Ixxi., 224. 

 Palmieri, Prof., 26. 

 Panama, Urania leilus in, 337. 

 Paper coated with graphite, 564. 



pulp from wood, 567. 

 Papillon,Mr., 634. 

 Parchment, liquid, 606. 



paper for artificial grass, 593. 

 vegetable, 593. 

 Paris, Acclimatatiou Society of, 338. 



new members of Academy of, 674. 



Physical Society of, 667. 

 Park of New York State, S3. 

 Parker, Mr. William K., 676. 

 Parnaby,Mr., 459. 

 Parry, Capt., Ixii. 



Dr. C. C.lxix., cvi.,254. 

 Paschen, Dr. F., 684. 

 Paschutin, Mr., 187. 

 Paste, permanent, 606. 

 Pasteboard, water-proof. 549. 



Pasteur and Frcmy, controversy between, 



184. 

 Pasteur's method for red wine, 482. 

 Patagonia, new fossil from, 315. 

 Patina, antique, on bronzes, 548. 

 Pattison, Mr. H. A., 448. 

 Rev. Mark, 670. 

 Paul, Mr. C, 589, 611. 

 Paulsen, Mr., 422. 



Pavouaria Blakei, a new polyp, 332. 

 Pavy, Mr., 221. 

 Pavy's explorations, 221. 

 Paxton, Mr., 435. 



Payer and Weyprecht, Messrs., Ixiv. 

 Peabody Museum, sixth report of the, 



65(5. 

 Peale, Dr.A. C, 232, 251. 



collection in Philadelphia, 265. 

 Pease, hardening of, in boiling, 486. 

 Peat-bogs, ethnology of, 341. 

 Peck, Mr. Charles H., cvi., 653. 

 Pcckham, Prof., 207. 

 Peh-lah wax of the Chinese, 572. 

 Peirce, Prof., 88, 61. 

 Pellet, Mr., xxxviii. 

 Peltier, Mr., 83, 115. 

 Peuaud, Mr. A., 172, 533. 

 Peuikese Island, 266. 



Natural-History Club at, 655. 

 Pennsylvania fishery law, 439. 

 Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 684. 

 Percoid fishes, distribution of, 291. 

 Percy, Dr., xliii., 591. 



Peripolar magneto-electric induction, 139. 

 Perkin, Mr. William H., xlii., 577. 

 Pernod, Mr., 573. 

 Peronospora infestans, 397. 

 Perrier, Capt., 233. 

 Personne, Mr., 626. 

 Peru, coal in, 199. 

 Peruvian guano, substitute for, 387. 



Indians, mummied heads of, 339. 

 Petermann, Dr., 220. 

 Peters, Dr. C. H. F., xx., 7, 25, 28, 50. 

 Petroleum and carbolic acid, 555. 

 for cleaning guns, 505. 

 in California, 207. 

 prevention of explosiveness of, 



554. 

 Pettenkofer, Dr., xlii., cviii., 167, 492. 

 Pfefi-er, Mr. W., 357. 

 Pfeifi'er, Mr., 570. 

 Pfleider, Mr., 502. 

 Phillips, Mr. John Arthur, xlvi., 1. 

 Phipson,Mr., ci. 

 Phleum pratense, 400. 

 Phonoptometer, Lissajous', 142. 

 Phosphate fertilizer, new, 417. 

 Phosphates, Russian mineral, 211. 

 Phosphorus, amorphous red, 182. 



bronze, cxxxi., 609. 



burns, curing, 630. 



in coal, 189. 



poisoning, turpentine as an 

 antidote to, 627. 

 Photographic Institute, National, 666. 



paper with gummate of iron, 

 574. 

 Photographs of the sun, daily, 60. 



Szekely's brilliant, 576. 

 Photolithography, improvement in, 611. 

 Photometry, stellar, 58. 

 Phryganophilus collaris, 307. 

 Phylloxera, 293, .393. 



