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INDEX 



IX 



Miiller (Dr. Hermann), Bees and Flowers, 10 ; Fertilisation of 

 Flowers by Insects, XII., 210; XIII., 289; Ocelli of Hy- 

 menopferous Insects, 167 



Miiller (Fritz), Brazil Kitchen Middens, Habits of Ant?, 304 



Miiller (J. J.), the Luminiferous Ether, 494 



Miiller (Prof. Max) at Oxford, 1 12, 335 



Miiller ( F. N. ), Flame of Common Sal', 448 



Munro (J,), the Formation of Coral Sand, 510 



Murphy (J. J.), Law of Storms, 187 ; Physical Constitution of 

 Steam, 466 



Musical Instruments at South Kensington, 443 



Musical Intervals, Dr. Wm. Pole's Method of representing, Xl6 



Musical Pip:s, Hermann Smith on, 511 



Music, Beats in, Dr. Wm. Pole, F. R.S., 212, 232 



Nachtigal (Dr.), Medal awarded to, 456 



Naples, Cambridge Students at the Zoological Station, 113 



Xardi (Sig. G.), the Discoveries of Fusinieri, in 



Natural Science, Mi<s Buckley's Historj- of, 343 



Naturforscher, Der, 97, 198, 317 



Nebraska, E. A. Curley on, 7 



Neesen (Herr) on Mr. Crookes' Radiometer, 10 



Nesbit (H. A.), University of London and School Examinations, 



2S6 

 New Guinea, Baxter R'ver, 76, 134 ; Beccari's Exploration of, 



356 ; Botany of, 316 ; Capt. Moresby work on, 235, 363 ; 



D'Albertis' Discoveries in, 154, 435 ; Discovery of a N"ew 



Rapacious Bird in, 134 ; Interior o", 397 ; Rev. S. Macfar- 



lane's Travels in, 415 ; Macleay's Expedition to, 94; Voyage 



of the Chivert to, 153 

 "New Guinea and Pol^mesia," Capt. J. Moresby, 363 

 New Mexico, Lieut. Wheeler's Expedition to, 76 

 New South Wales, Minerals of, 3S2 ; Royal Society of, 78 

 New York Lyceum, change of name of, 531 

 New Zealand, Discovery of Moa Bones, 273 ; Dr. Hector, 



F.R.S., on the Geology of, 25S ; Inquest on a Skeleton, 196 ; 



Prof. Flower, F.R.S., on a New Cetacean from, 149 ; Salmon 



in, 256, 257 J Volcanoes in, 135 ; Wellington Philosophical 



Society, 179 

 Newton (Prof. A., F. R.S.), Article "Birds" in " Encyclopjedia 



Britannica," 186 ; Birds as Astronomical Objects, 447 

 Nile, the, Mr. A. Southworth's Journey up the, 43 

 Nitrc^en, Spectrum of, and that of Alkaline Metals in Geissler 



Tubes, 314 

 Non-Metallic Elements, Chemistry of the. Dr. Procter, 446 

 Nordenskjold (Prof.), on the Jenisei, 95, 275, 312 

 Norfolk, the Fisheries of, 114 

 Norfolk Naturalists' Society, 156 

 North America, Fossil Flora of, 95 

 North and Baltic Sea, Report on, 53 

 North Carolina Earthquakes, 94 

 North Sea Commission, the German, 125 

 Norway, Meteorology of, 154 

 "' -inerals, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., on the Origin of, 47 



Vumismata Orientalii," Marsden's, 302 



i Expedition, 315, 368 



■ >ervatories : Brussels, 254 ; Cincinnati, 357 ; Melbourne, 



! 73 ; Paris, 229, 493 ; Pawlowsk, 97 ; Vienna, 192 ; at Iowa, 



316 ; Montsouris, 255 ; Puy de Dome, 273 ; on Pic du Midi, 



251 



'• Observer of Nature," 531 



Oceanic Circulation, James Croll, 66 



Ocelli of Hymenopterous Insects, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 167, 406 



Oldham (Dr. Thomas, F.R.S.), award of Royal Society Medal 

 to. 34 



Old Red Sandstone, Prof. Geikie, F.R.S., 389 



Oppenheim (Dr. A.), Association of German Natural Philo- 

 sophers &c., 32 ; German Scientific and Medical Association, 

 56 ; Industrial Applications of Oxygen, 293, 336 



Optical Barometer, Proposed, J. Stevenson, 150 



Ordnance Survey, 197 



Orientalists, Meeting of, in St Petersburgh, 76 



Ornithological Collection, H. Seebohm's, 14 



Omithosauria, Prof. H. G. Seeley on, 98 



" Over the Sea and Far Away," Hinchliff's, 509 



• en (Prof. R., F.R.S), Dinosaurian Vertebrae, 99 ; Evidences 

 >f a Carnivorous Reptile, 339 ; on Prorastomus Sorenoides, 

 114 



Oxford Botanic Garden, 61, 94, 315 ; Johnson Memorial Prize, 

 256 ; Observatory, Visitors of, 54 ; Scholarships at Balliol 

 College, 37 ; Science Lectures, 376 ; University Commission, 

 "2, 434 



Oxygen, the Industrial Applications of, 293, 336 



Palmistry, a New, 47, 68, 87 



" Pandora" Expedition, 457 



Pangenesis, Darwin's Theory of, 333 



Papuans, Poisoned Arrows of, 235 



Paris Academy, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 175, 200, 

 220, 240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 360, 379, 400, 420, 440, 460, 

 480, 500, 530 ; Award of Prizes, 195 ; Physical Observatory, 



235 



Paris, Electric Lighting in, 256 ; Exhibition of Electrical Ap- 

 pliances, 54; Geographical Society, 155 ; National Library, 

 77 ; Observatory, 229, 493 ; Public Instruction in, 375 ; Rail- 

 way Exhibition, 135 ; Steam-engines on Tramways, 77 



Parker (Prof., F.R.S.) on Birds' Skulls, 178 ; Lectures at Royal 

 College of Surgeons, 356 ; on the Woodpeckers and Wrj-- 

 necks, 173 



Parkes (Dr.), Obituary Notice of, 435 



Paradoxes, among the Cyclometers and other, 28 



Pasteur (L.), Prof. Tyndall on Germs, 305 



Pawlowsk, Observatorv at, 97 



Pelew Islands, Birds of the, 152 



Penicilmm glaucum. Prof. M 'Nab on, 36 



Penikese School, U. S., 89 



Penning (W. H.), Physical Geography of East Anglia during 

 the Glacial Period, 198 



Perigord, Archaeology of, 401 



Periodic Movements of Leaf-organs, Dr. PfeflTer, 24 



Pesth, Water Supply of, 336 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 16, 76, 236, 297, 396, 401, 530 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Estimation of Fractions, 127 ; Meta- 

 chromism, 347, 426 



Pfeffer (Prof. W.), "Die Periodischen Bewegungen der Blatt- 

 organe," 24 



Pharmaceutical Conference, 136 



Philadelphia, Museum at, 77 ; Academy of Natural Sciences, 299 



Philippine Islands, 435 



Photographic Society, 255 



Photography in the Challenger, CoL Stuart Wortley, 25 



Photography of the Red End of the Spectrum, Capt. W. de W. 

 Abney, 432 



Photography, Year Book of, 256 : Photographic Almanac, 256 



Photometer, a New, by Prof. J. Reynolds, 478 



Physical Constitution of Steam, J. J. Murphy, 466 



Physical Geography, Miniature, 310 



Physical Observatories in France, 235; at Iowa, 316; Mont- 

 souris, 217 ; on the Pic du Midi, 251 



Physical Science in Schools, 329, 353, 371, 386, 412, 430, 454, 

 472, 491 



Physical Society, 59, 99, 139, 239, 298, 318, 379, 419, 459, 



535 

 Physical Society of France, 280 

 Physiological Research, Proposed Society for, 455 

 Physiology, Dr. Hermann's Human, 22 

 Physiology, Recent French Experimental, 144, 182 

 Pic du Midi, Physical Observatory on the, 251 

 Pictet (M. Adolphe), Death of, 235 _ ". 



Pictet (Raoul), Sulphurous Acid Ice Machine, 432 

 Pine (C. ), Researches in Mathematical Science, 6 

 Pirie's " Rigid Dynamics," 323 

 Planets, the Minor, 27, 47, 69, 87, 109, 151, 208, 227, 26S, 307, 



326, 349, 407, 513 

 Plant Fertilisation, 427 

 Plants, Darwin on Climbing, 65 ; the Flowering of Spring, 



Alex. Buchan, 249 ; Sir Thos. MiUington and the Sexuality 



of, 166, 185 ; Sexuality of, 85, 127 

 Playfair (Dr. Lyon), on Compulsory Education, 35 

 Plethysmo^raph, Dr. Mosso's, 336 

 Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 2,%, 78, 317, 



358, 497 

 Poisoned Arrows of the Papuans, 235 

 Poitiers Meteorological Congress, 77, 94 

 Pole (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), Beats in Music, 212, 232 ; Method of 



Representing Musical Intervals, 116 

 Pollution of Rivers, Wm. Hope, 81 

 Polynesia and New Guinea, Capt. Moresby on, 363 



