Supplement to SatHrt,~\ 

 June i6, 1898 J 



Index 



XXVIl 



\autical Almanac Corrigenda, 1898, 207 



Nautical Almanac, 1901,442 



Nebulae : Variations in the Spectrum of Nebula in Orion, 180; 



Nebulae near Castor, Prof. Barnard, 326 ; New Photographs 



of Nebulae, M. A. Rabourdin, 374 ; the Photography of 



Nebula?, Prof. R. A. Gregory, 443 

 Necker (Dr. Karl), Obituary Notice of, 326 

 Neesen (F.), Influence of Magnetism on Strength of Electric 



Vacuum Discharges, 402 

 Nelson (E.W.), Klondyke Winter Weather Record, 103 

 Nencki (M.), the Rinderpest Germ, 13 

 Nepveu (G.), Bacilli of Beriberi, 310 

 Nest, an Extraordinary Heron's, G. W. Murdoch, 537 

 Neumayer (Prof. Dr.), Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic 



Expedition, 424 

 Neville (F. H'.), Rontgen Photographs of MetaHic Alloys, 503 

 New South Wales: Linnean Society, 95, 216, 311; Royal 



Society, 192, 288, 431 ; the Wealth and Progress of New 



South Wales, T. A. Coglan, 245 ; Basalts of Bathurst, W. J. 



C. Ross, 288 ; the Mines of New South Wales, C. W. Car- 

 penter, 484 

 New Variable Stars, 179, 472; Dr. Anderson, 179; Two New 



Variable Stars of Short Period, Herren G. Mliller and P. 



Kemp, 519 

 New York, Weather Clocks in, 59 



Xew York Academy of Sciences, Annual Reception, 611 

 Xew Zealand, the Flower-hunter in Queensland and, Mrs. 



Rowan, 436 

 Newfoundland, Currents of Great Banks of. Dr. G. Schott, 34 

 Xewstead (R. ), the San Jose Scale, 440 

 Xewth (Dr. Samuel), Death and Obituary Notice of, 322 

 Newton (E. T., F. R.S. ), Palaeolithic Man, 354 

 Newton (Mr.), the Lava-sheets of Franz Josef Land, 324 

 Newton's Rings, Method of Viewing, Prof. T. C. Porter, 622 

 Nicaragua, the Ferns of, B. Shimek, 373 

 Nicholson (John T. ), the Law of Condensation of Steam, 139 

 Nichols (Prof. E. L.), the Outlines of Physics, 218 

 Nickel and Cobalt, the Atomic Weights of, 374 

 Nicloux (M.), Decomposition of Chloroform in Organism, 168; 



Chemical Estimation of Carbon Monoxide in Air, 479 ; Partial 



Decomposition of Chloroform in Organism, 480 

 Niger, the Navigability of the, Lieut, de Chevigne, 442 

 Niger Territories, Giraffe from the, W. Hume McCorquodale, 



389 

 Nights with an Old Gunner, and other Studies of Wild Life, C. 



J. Cornish, 29 

 Nipher (Prof. Francis E.), a Method of Measuring Wind 



Pressure, 449 

 Nishikawa (Mr.), Mode of Travel from Lower to Upper Side 



of Flatfish's Eye, 15 

 Nitrous Oxide, on the Density of, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 208 

 North America, Volcanoes of, Israel C. Russell, 73 

 North Britain, Earthquake in, Tames M'Cubbin, 391 

 Northam Pebble Ridge, the, W. H. Wheeler, 209 

 Notes on Micro-organisms Pathogenic to Man, Surgeon-Captain 



B. H. S. Leumann, 52 

 Notions generales sur I'Ecorce terrestre, Prof. A. de Lapparent, 



196 

 November Meteors (Leonids), 7, 61, 88 ; W. F. Denning, 7, 30, 



36, 82 

 Noyes (Prof W. A.), Organic Chemistry for the Laboratory, 29 

 Nyasa-Land, Sir Harry H. Johnston, 174 

 " Nymph " Electric Attachment for Pleasure Craft, 86 



Oat-Smut as an Artist's Pigment, David Paterson, 364 ; Prof. 

 H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 389 ; Kumagusu Minakata, 437 



Oberbeck (A.), Theory of Galvanic Polarisation, 401 



Object, a Remarkable, Rev. T. E. Espin, 400 



Observatories : Resignation of the Director of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory (Prof. Holden), 16; Mont Blanc Observatory, 

 M. J. Janssen, 230 ; the Arequipa Observatory, 249 ; Harvard 

 College Report, Prof. Pickering, 256 ; Harvard College 

 Observatory, Prof Pickering, 617 ; Appointment of Prof. 

 G. M. Searle to the Vatican Observatory, 256 ; Longitude of 

 Madras, 284 ; Annals of the Cape Observatory, 513 ; the 

 Meudon Observatory, 568 ; the Manora Observatory, 617 



Observers' Atlas of the Heavens, the, William Peck, 388 



Occultation of Antares, 442 



Occultation of Ceres, 400 



Occultation of the Pleiades, 207 



Occultations Photographically Observed, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 



492 

 Occultations, Systematic Observations of, Herr H. Batterman, 



105 

 Ogilby (J. D.), the genus Aphrilis, 95 

 Ogle (Dr. W.), Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death 



and Respiration, 146 

 Oliver (Prof, T. ), Cause of Death by Electric Shock, 302 

 Olivier (Dr. Louis), the Microphonograph, 255 

 Omelianski (V.), Fermentation of Cellulose, 239 

 Omori (Prof. F. ), the Calcutta Earthquake of June 12, 59 

 Opaque Objects, the Alleged Vision through, 324 

 Ophthalmia in East Prussia, 59 

 Opposition of two Minor Planets, 159 

 Oppel (Dr., Med. Alb.), Lehrbuch der Vergleichcr.den Mikros- 



kopischen Anatomic der Wirbelthiere, 581 

 Optics : a Folometer and Spherometer, Prof. Stroud, 23 ; 

 Partial Polarisation of Light from Source in Magnetic Field, 

 Prof. Lorentz, 95 ; Deflection and Reflection with two 

 Kathodes, Dr. Tollenaar, 96 ; Grey-glow, O. Lummer, 104 ; 

 Simple Proof of Change of Period of Sodium Light in 

 Magnetic Field, A. Cotton, 143 : Optical Constants of 

 Sodium, P. Drude, 500 ; the Refractivities of Various Gases, 

 Prof. W. Ramsay and M. W. Travers, 189 ; Optical Illusions 

 produced by Observation of Rotating Spirals, O. F. F. 

 Griinbaum, 271 ; Hallucinations connected with Hemianopia, 

 Dr. W. Harris, 255 ; Experiment in Inverted Vision, Prof. 

 G. M. Stratton, 372 ; Transparency of Bismuth in Magnetic 

 Field, H. Buisson, 383 ; Simple Demonstration of Zeeman 

 Effect, W. Konig, 402 ; Cloud-production by Action of Ultra- 

 violet Light on Moist Air, C. T. R. Wilson, 407 ; Analogy 

 between Action of lAiminous Rays and of Lines of Magnetic 

 Force, M. Birkeland, 431 ; Artificial Colour Blindness, G. J. 

 Burch, 454 ; Method for Viewing Lantern-projections in 

 Stereoscopic Relief, Prof. T. C. Porter, 454 ; Dynamical 

 Illustrations of certain Phenomena, Prof. J. D. Everett, 477 ; 

 Glow-worm Light, H. Muraoka and M. Kasu)-a, 500 ; Dis- 

 charge of Electricity by Ultra-violet Light, 503 ; Light 

 Visible and Invisible, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., 

 506 ; Applications of Photographic Irradiation, Ch. Fery, 

 527 ; a Simple Extension of Gauss-Poggendorf Method of 

 Reflector Reading, Prof. W. H. Julius, 528 ; Relative 

 Retardation between Components of Light Streams Produced 

 by Passage through Crystalline Plate, James Walker, 551 ; 

 Extension of Maxwell's Electro-magnetic Theory of Light, 

 Edwin Edser, 599 ; Method of Viewing Newton's Rings, 

 Prof T. C. Porter, 622 

 Orbits, Periodic, Prof G. H. Darwin, 394 

 Oregon, Crater Lake, 375 

 O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), Anastase and Brookite in Shankill 



Quarries, 575 

 Organic Chemical Manipulation, J. T. Hewitt, 28 

 Organic Chemistry for the Laboratory, Prof. W. A. Noyes, 29 

 Organism, the Living Substance as such and as, Gwendolen 



Foulke Andrews, 362 

 Orientation of Greek Temples, the, F. C. Penrose, F.R.S., 151 

 Orion, Variations in the Spectrum of Nebula in, 180 

 Orleans (Prince Henri d'), from Tonkin to India by the Sources 



of the Irawadi, 557 

 Ormerod (Eleanor A.), Report of Observations of Injurious 



Insects and Common Farm Pests during the Year 1897, 558 



Ornithology : the Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, 



D. G. Elliot, 219; an Albino Lark, 228; some Rare Birds' 



Eggs, 438 ; Birds of Franz Josef Land, W. E. Clarke, 575 



Osmotic Pressure, Lord Rayleigh's Proof of Van 't HofPs 



Osmotic Theorem, F. G. Donnan, 53 

 Oxford, the Hope Reports, 289 



Oxygen, Sulphur and Selenium, Profs. C. Runge and F. 

 Paschen's Researches on the Spectra of, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 

 F.R.S., 320 

 Oysters, Green, Profs. Boyce and Herdman, 20 

 Oysters and Typhoid Fever, MM. Sabatier, Ducamp, and 

 Petit, 72 



Paalzow (A.), Influence of Magnetism on Strength of Electric 



Vacuum Discharges, 402 

 Pacific, Among the Islands of the, Louis Becke, 580 

 Pacific, North, Pilot Chart of, 544 



