INDEX. 



703 



Oil, Action on Waves, 91. 



Oil Films, 89. 



Opera, &c.,, Development of, 60. 



Optical Projection, 534. 



Optically Active Substances, 529. 



Osmond's Observations on Steel, 511. 



Oxygen, Liquid, production of, 484 ; 



Apparatus employed in, 483, 484 ; 



Magnetic Properties of, 484. 



Palladium, Melting and Freezing 



Points of, 507. 

 Jt'arry, C. H. H., Evolution in Music, 



56. 

 Pasteur's Kesearches, 278, 520. 

 Peasant-Tales, 489. 

 Pechell, H., presents engraving, 199. 

 Perkin, W. H., Researcbes on Magnetic 



Rotation of Nickel Carbonyl, 674. 

 Phagocytes described, 287. 

 Phosphorus, Glow of, 72. 

 Photographic Image, 134. 

 Photographs of Stars and other Spectra, 



618, 619. 

 Photography, Applications of, 261. 



History qf, 134. 



Pin-hole,-271. 



Pickering's Photography of Stars and 



Spectra, 618, 622. 

 Piggott, F. T., Japanesque, 554. 

 Plants, Nitrogen in, 526. 



and the Surface-filmof Water, 540. 



Plfiyfair, Sir L., Speech at Faraday 



Centenary Lecture, 485. 

 Pollock, E., Donation, 342. 

 W. H., Theophile Gautier (no 



Abstract), 113. 

 Potassium Carbonyl, 669. 

 Priestley, Mrs., Donation, 420. 

 Projection, Optical, 534. 

 Pyrometers, 504. 



Queen, Address on decease of Duke of 



Clarence, 501 ; Reply, 551. 

 Quincke on Magnetic Properties of 



Nickel Carbonyl, 674. 



Ramsay, W., Liquids and Gases, 365. 

 Rate, L. M., Donations, 100, 342, 498. 

 Rayleigh, Lord, Foam, 85. 

 Some Applications of Photo- 

 graphy, 261. 



Physical Work of Faraday, 462. 



The Composition of Water (no 



Abstract), 489. 

 Richardson, B. W., The Physiology of 

 Dreams, 584. 



Roberts- Austen, W. C, Metals at High 

 Temperatures, 502. 



Donation, 342. 



Riicker, A. W., Magnetic Rocks, 417. 



Salomons, Sir D., Optical Projection, 



534. 



Donations, 551, 681. 



Scliuster, A., Total Solar Eclipse?^ 



273. 

 Science, Implications of, 428. 

 Scottish Peasantry, Tales of the, 489. 

 Semon, F., Culture of the Singing 



Voice, 317. 

 Sliakespeare Cliff, Boring at, 181. 

 Siemens on Temperature, 503, 504. 

 Silvering Glass Mirrors, 171. 

 Sirius, Spectrum of, 619. 

 Smith, B. W., Donations, 342, 551. 

 Soil, Bacteria of the, 521. 

 Solar Eclipses, 273. 

 Solidiscope, 538. 

 Special General Meeting, 501. 

 Spectra of Stars, 408, 617. 

 Stage in London in Elizabeth's Reign, 



27. 

 Star in Auriga, 6l5. 

 Stars, Spectra of, 408, 617. 

 Steel at High Temperatures, 511. 

 Stocker, J. P., Bequest, 458. 

 Surface-film of Water, 540. 

 Surface-tension of Water and Air, 87. 

 Swan, J. W., Electro-Metallurgy, 625. 



Donation, 498. 



Symons, G. J., Rain, Snow, and Hail 



(no Abstract), 518. 



I 



Tales of the Scottish Peasantry, 

 489. 



Telephone shown by J^^ational Tele- 

 phone Company, 24; Exchange- 

 Telephone fitted, 199. 



Telescopes, Astronomical, 157. 



Temperatures, Measurement of High, 

 502 ; ranging from —200° to -1-2000°, 

 509. 



Tesla, N., Currents of High Potential 

 and of High Frequency, 637. 



Theatres in Elizabeth's Reign, 27. 



Thermometers, 502. 



Thompson, S. P., Physical Foundation 

 of Music, 206. 



Thomson, E., Electromagnetic Ex- 

 periments, 301. 



presents Apparatus, 199. 



Thomson, Sir W., Electric and Mag- 

 netic Screening, 345. 



