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Index 



[SiippUinent to Nature, 

 June i6, 1898 



Pitcher-Plants, the Physiology of, S. H. Vines, 367 



Pittman (E. L.), Geology of West Australia, 495 



Plague and Serotherapy, the, Dr. A. Lustig, 84 



Plague in Bombay, the, H. M. Birdwood, 470 ; Report of 

 German Commission on, 86 



Planets : Jupiter's Third and Fourth Satellites, Prof. Barnard, 

 61 ; the Present Appearance of Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 586 ; 

 Opposition of Two Minor Planets, 159; Minor Planets in 

 1897, 256 ; the Atmospheres of Planets, Dr. Johnston 

 Stoney, 207 ; Another Lunar Hoax, 399 ; Occultation of 

 Ceres, 400 



Planetary Orbits, Mr. Wood's Method of Illustrating, Prof. 

 Louis W. Austin, 536 



Planetary Relations, Emile Anceaux, 352 



Plant-Life, Glimpses into, Mrs. Brightwen, 292 



Plant Physiology : Untersuchungen iiber das Erfrieren der 

 Pflanzen, Dr. Hans Molisch, 77 ; Does a Phosphorescent 

 South American Liana exist? Prof. Italo Giglioli, 412; on 

 Phosphorescent Sap in Superior Plants, Dr. M. W. 

 Beijerinck, 511 



Plants, Lessons with, L. H. Bailey, 561 



Plateau (Prof. F.), Flowers and Insects, 179, 255 



Pleiades, Occultation of the, 207 



Pliny's Solpuga, the Nature and Habits of, R. I. Pocock, 618 



Pockels (F.), Current Intensity of Lightning-Flash, 301 



Pocklington (H. C), Electrical Oscillations in Wires, 47 



Pocock (R. I.), Stridulation in some African Spiders, 356 ; Five- 

 fingered Crab, 436; the Nature and Habits of Pliny's 

 Solpuga, 618 



Poehl (Alex.), Spermine, 168 



Poisoning, Lead, averted by Addition of Metastannic Acid to 

 Glass- Polishing Putty, M. L. Gueroult, 168 



Poisoning by Canned Foods, Dr. F. Brown, 614 



Poisonous Koda Millet, Surgeon-Captain A. E. Grant, 271 



Poisons, Food, Bacteriological Aspect of. Dr. Cautley, 132 



Poisons : Insusceptibility of Insects to Poisons, Will. A. Dixon, 

 the Reviewer, 365 ; Miss H. B. Potter, 412 



Polarisation : Cause of Doubling in the Zeeman Efifect, Prof. 

 Fitzgerald, 334 



Pollen (Rev. G. C. H.), Exploration of Ty Newydd Cave, 

 238 



Polybathic Fauna, a Deep-Sea Malacological, A. Locard, 310 



Ponsot (M.), Osmotic Researches on Dilute Solutions of Cane 

 Sugar, 143 



Porro (Dr. Fr.), Astronomical Constants and the Paris Con- 

 ference, 127 



Porter (D. A.), Nickeliferous Opal in " Never-Never " Ranges, 

 N.S.W., 192 



Porter (Prof. Townsend), Observations on a Strip of the Muscle 

 of the Apex of the Dog's Ventricle, 18 ; on Mac William's 

 Statement that the Ventricle of the Dog's Heart can be 

 recovered from Fibrillary Contractions, 18 



Porter (Prof. T. C), Observations on the Peak of Tenerife, 454 ; 

 a New Theory of Geyser Action, 454 ; a Method for Viewing 

 Lantern-projections in Stereoscopic Relief, 454; Volatility of 

 Sulphur, 525 ; Method of Viewing Newton's Rings, 622 



Potain (M.), Palladium Chloride as Detective of Minimal 

 Quantities of Carbon Monoxide, 552 



Potato Disease, G. W. Bulman, 198 



Potter (Miss H. B. ), Insusceptibility of Insects to Poison, 



Pouget (M.), Alkaline Sulphantimonites, 624 



Poulton (Prof. E. B., F.R.S.), the Hope Reports, 289; Pro- 

 tective Mimicry and Common Warning Colours, 389 



Power (D'Arcy, F.S.A. ), Masters of Medicine, William Harvey, 

 481 



Preaubert (E.), La Vie: Mode de Mouvement. Essai d'une 

 Tl eorie Physique des Phenomenes Vitaux, 605 



Preece (A. H.), Present State of Electricity Supply in London, 

 566 



Prehistoric Civilisation in Egypt, J. de Morgan, 578 



Prehistoric Ruins of Honduras and Yucatan, Alfred P. Maudslay, 

 568 



Premature Burial : Fact or Fiction ? Dr. David Walsh, 292 



Prescott (Mr.), Bacteriology of Canned F'oods, 103 



Preston (H. L.), Iron Meteorites, 333 



Preston (Thomas), the Zeeman Effect Photographed, 173 



Prevention and Cure of Rinderpest, the, 198 



Prince (C. L.), Remarkable Hailstones (Illustrated), 567 



Prinz (W.), Small Scale of Geological Experiments Un- 

 important, 14 



Prize Subjects of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 331 



Progress of Technical Education, 259 



Proper Motions, Large and Small, Prof. Kapteyn, 325 



Protective Mimicry and Common Warning Colours, Prof. 

 Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 389 



Protective and Pseudo-Mimicry, Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., 



364 

 Protoplasmic Froth, 362 



Prunet (A.), the Treatment of Black Rot, 143 

 Prussia, East, Ophthalmia in, 59 

 Pseudo-Mimicry, Protective and. Sir G. F, Hampson, Bart., 



364 



Pseudoscope, a New Single Picture, Sir David Salomons, 

 Bart., 317 



Psychology : Philosophy of Knowledge, Prof. G. T. Ladd, 

 125 ; the Psychology of the Emotions, Th. Ribot, 150 ; 

 Illusions and Hallucinations, Edmund Parish, 197 ; Memory 

 and its Cultivation, F. W. Edridge-Green, 197 ; Instinct and 

 Intelligence in Animals, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 326 ; Ex- 

 periments in Comparative Psychology, E. L. Thorndike, 372 



Pugnat (C. A.), Histological Modifications of Nerve Cells in 

 States of Fatigue, 72 



Purdie (T.), Action of Alkyl Iodides on Silver Malate and 

 Lactate, 526 



Purification of Sewage and Water, the, W. J. Dibdin, 601 



Quadratic Equations, the Solution of, E. Cuthbert Atkinson, 



Prof. G. B. Mathews, F.R.S., 463 

 Quain (Sir Richard, Bart., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary 



Notice of, 467 

 Quantitative Practical Chemistry, A. H. Mitchell, 435 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 475 

 Quaternions, Lectures on, S. Kimura, 7 

 Queensland Aborigines, North-West Central, Ethnological 



Studies among the, Walter E. Roth, 561 

 Queensland and New Zealand, the Flower Hunter in, Mrs. 



Rowan, 436 

 Quincke (G.), Acoustic Thermometer, 401 



Rabagliati (Dr. A.), Air, Food, and Exercises, an Essay on 



the Predisposing Causes of Disease, 99 

 Rabies, Pasteur Institute Work at Tiflis, 103 

 Rabourdin (M. A.), New Photographs of Nebulae, 374 

 Racial Variability, Relation between Individual and, Edwin 



Tenney Brewster, 16 

 Rackowski (M.), Bitterness in Wines, 431 

 Raczkowski (M. de). Bacillus of "Tunned" Wines, 576 

 Radiant Energy, the Kinetic Theory and, Prof. G. H, Bryan, 



F.R.S., 536 

 Radiation, Visible and Invisible, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 



F.R.S., 506 

 Radiography : Method of reducing Time of Exposure in, 

 Gaston Seguy, 24 ; a New Bianodic Bulb with a Red Phos- 

 phorescence, 24 ; Action of X-Rays on Cutaneous Evapora- 

 tion, L. Lecercle, 24 ; the Rontgen Society, 32 ; the Pro- 

 gress of Radiography, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 32 ; Action of 

 Radiation from Uranium Salts in Cloud-Formation, C. T. R. 

 Wilson, 47 ; the Rontgen Rays and Gunshot Wounds, 102 ; 

 New X-Ray Machine, Prof. John Trowbridge, 102 ; Appa- 

 ratus for Precise Determination of Position of Projectiles in 

 Cranium, MM. Remy and Contremoulins, 120 ; the First 

 Application of X-Rays to Surgery, General Maurice, 135 ; 

 Archives of the Roentgen Ray, vol. ii. No. 2 ; Radiography 

 in Marine Zoology, Dr. R. Norris Wolfenden, 509 ; Rays 

 emitted by Uranium and Thorium Compounds, Slodowska 

 Curie, 600. See also Rontgen Rays 

 Railroad Flying Machine, a. Prof. Langley-Watkins, 156 

 Rails, Steel, Microscopic Observations on Fatigue-Deterioration 



in, Thomas Andrews, 58 

 Railways, Automatic Ticket-issue Controller, 59 

 Rainbow, Lunar, W. A. Knight, 157 

 Rainbow, Modern Views of the, J. M. Pernter, 298 

 Rainbow, a Rose-Coloured, M. S. Zachary, 100 

 Rainfall, Forests and. Prof. H. A. Hazen, 213 

 Rainfall of South Africa, the, 114 



