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INDEX 



XXlll 



Palestine Exploration Fund, 284 ; Excavation of Khiirbet 'Ajlan, 



592 

 Palisa (Dr.), Discovery of Asteroids, 522 

 Palladium, Kedetermination of Atomic Weight of, Dr. E, H. 



Keiser, 44 

 Palm in Labuan, the African Oil, 42 

 Palmieri (Prof.), Vesuvius in 1889, i8 

 Pampas, Mirage in the South American, W. Larden, 69 

 Pampas Formation, the South American, Herr Roth, 231 

 Panmixia : Palaeontological Evidence for the Transmission of 



Acquired Characters, Plenry Fairfield Osborn, 227 ; Acquired 



Characters and Congenital Variations, the Duke of Argyll, 



F.R.S., 173, 294, 366; Acquired Characters and Congenital 



Variations, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 315; F. V. 



Dickins, 316; Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 415, 4S6, 



558 ; Acquired Characters and Congenital Variations, Right 



Rev. Bishop R. Courtenay, 367 ; Dr. J. Cowper, 368 ; 



Herbert Spencer, 414 ; Prof. Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 437, 



511, 584 ; Herbert Spencer, 511 ; R. Haig Thomas, 585 

 Parallelogram of Forces, Proof of the, W. E. Johnson, 153 : 



Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 298 

 Paramatta Observatory, 88 

 Parfitt (Edward), a Marine Millipede, 153 

 Parhelia and Solar Halos, 330 ; J. Lovell, 560 

 Parinaud (H.), Strabismus, 72 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 48, 71, 94, 119, 143, 167, 214, 



263, 287, 311, 335, 358, 382, 406, 431, 455, 479, 503, 528, 



551. 575. 599; Prizes 239 

 Paris, the Effect of Railways on Instruments in the Observatory 



at Montsouris, 592 

 Paris Exhibition, English Men of Science decorated at, 17 

 Paris, Foreign Students in, 520 

 Paris from the Hygienic Point of View, French Native Colonists 



in, 427 

 Parkes (Louis C), Hygiene or Public Health, 290 

 Particles and Solids, Elementary Dynamics of, W. M. Hicks, 



F.R.S., 534 

 Pascoe (Francis P.), Foreign Substances attached to Crabs, 176 

 Pasteur Institute, 66 

 Pasture Plants, Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses 



and other, William Wilson, 196 

 Peal (S. E.), Is Greenland our Arctic Ice Cap?, 58 

 Peculiar Ice Forms, Prof. J. G. MacGregor, 463 

 Peddie (Dr.), New Estimates of Molecular Distance, 382 

 Pegasi (tj), the Companion of, 69 

 Pelew Islands, 433 

 Peltier, Effect and Contact E.M.F., Prof. Oliver T- Lodge, 



F.R.S., 224 J S > 



Pembrey (M. S.), the Evolution of Sex, 199 

 Penck (Dr.), Area of Austro-Hungarian Empire, 325 

 Pendlebury (W. H.), a Case of Chemical Equilibrium, 104 

 Pendulum (Kater), Shuckburgh Scale and, O. H. Tittman, 



538 

 Pennyslvania, Earthworms from, W. B. Benham, 560 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon, Botanical Laboratory in the Royal Gardens, 



445 

 Periodic Comets, 139 

 Periodic Law, a First Foreshadowing of the, P. G. Hartog, 



186 

 Periscope for Navigating Submarine Boat, 349 

 Perkin (Dr. W. H., F.R.S.), Magnetic Rotation of Nitric Acid, 



&c., 142 

 Permanence of Continents and Oceans, Joseph John Murphy, 



175 



Permanent Grass, a Field laid down to. Sir J. B. Lawes, 

 F.R.S., 229 



Pemter (Dr.), General Circulation of Atmosphere, 325 



Perry (Prof., F.R.S.), the Behaviour of Twisted Strips, 47 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.): Sun-spots in High Southern Lati- 

 tudes, 88 ; Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 88 ; Obituary Notice 

 of, 279 ; Last Days of. Father Strickland, S.J., 301 



Perspective, Newton in, Robert H. Graham, 439 



Perthshire, Earthquake in, 256 



Peruvian Arc, the Measurement of, E. D. Preston, 309 



Peters (Dr.), Reported Massacre of, 21 



Peters (Dr.), Star Catalogue, 210 



Petit (P.), the Carbon Graphites, 31 1 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Early Egyptian Civilization, 109 



Pevtsoff (Colonel), Discovery of New Pass from Nia to Tibet by, 



327 

 Pheasant-Culture on Pacific Coast, Dr. Meriam, 137 



Phenanthraquinone with Metallic Salts, Compounds of, Japp and 

 Turner, 191 



Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 136 



Philippine Islands, Ethnology of the, Dr. F. Blumentritt, 327 



Phillips (Reuben), Globular and other Forms of Lightning, 58 



Philology, a Uniform System of Russian Transliteration, 396 ; 

 Chas. E. Groves, F.R.S., 534; W. F. Kirhy, 535 



Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, N.Z., 209 



Philosophy, Synthetic, F. Howard Collins, 340 



Phonograph, the Edison, Use in Preserving American [Indian 

 Languages, J. W. Fewkes, 560 



Phosphorus, Glow of. Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 523 



Phosphorus Trifluoride, M. Moissan, 349 



Photography : on a New Application of Photography to the 

 Demonstration of Certain Physiological Processes in Plants, 

 Walter Gardiner, 16 ; Stellar Parallax by Means of Photo- 

 graphy, Prof. Pritchard, F.R.S., 19; Photography of the 

 Red End of Spectrum, Colonel J. Waterhouse, 67 ; Photo- 

 graphic Star Spectra, 115 ; Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit 

 der Meteoriten erlautert durch photographische Abbildungen, 

 G. Tschermak, 127 ; Die Structur und Zusammensetzung der 

 Meteoreisen erlautert durch photographische Abbildungen 

 geatzter Schnittflachen, A. Brezina and E. Cohen, 127 ; the 

 Photographic Society, 208 ; Bihliotheque Photographique, P. 

 Moessard, 224 ; Application of Photography to the Study of 

 Physical Peculiarities engendered by Different Occupations, M. 

 Bertillon, 230; the Chemistry of Photography, R. Meldola, 

 P\R.S., 293 ; Proposed Exhibition Illustrating the Applica- 

 tion to Meteorology of Photography, 301 ; French Wtrks on 

 Photography, 326; Year-book of Photography, 1890, 326 ; 

 Naturalistic Photography, P. H. Emerson, 366 ; the Camera. 

 Club, 494 ; Photographs of North Celebes, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 471 ; Photographing in Natural Colours, Verescz's Discovery 

 as to, 469 ; Photography in Relation to Meteorological Work, 

 G. M. Whipple, 503 ; British Journal Photographic Almanac, 

 1890, 510; Suppression of Halos in Photographic Plates, 

 Paul and Prosper Henry, 576 ; La Photographic a la Lumiere 

 du Magnesium, Dr. J. M. Eder, translated by H. Gauthier- 

 Villars, 584 ; Photographic Quarterly, 594 



Photo-lithographs of some of the Principal Grasses found at 

 Hissar, being Illustrations of some of the Grasses of the Southern 

 Punjab, William Coldstream, 533 



Photometer, New Contrast, Dr. Brodhun, 552 



Photometer, a New Wedge, E. J. Spitta, 287 



Photometric Intensity of Coronal Light, Prof. Thorpe, F.R.S., 



139 

 Phthisis, Pulmonary, Dr. Weigert's Treatment of, Prof. Visconti, 



380 

 Physician admitted to Medical Practice in Austria, First Lady, 



569 



Physician as Naturalist, W. T. Gairdner, 436 



Physics : Specific Inductive Capacity, W. A. Rudge, 10 ; 

 Physical Society, 47, 166, 213, 309, 381, 477, 526, 574 ; 

 Physics of the Sub oceanic Crust, Rev. Osmond Fisher, A. J. 

 Jukes-Browne, 53 ; ]. Starkie Gardner, 103 ; Elementary 

 Physics, by M. R. Wright, 78 ; Physical Society of Beriin, 95 ; 

 the Characteristic Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes of 

 Bodies, Ladislas Netanson, 167; the Relation of Physiological 

 Action to Atomic Weights, Miss Johnston and Prof. Carnelley, 

 189; Behaviour of Steel under Mechanical Stress, C. H. 

 Carus- Wilson, 213 ; Resonance Method of Measuring Constant 

 of Gravitation, J. Joly, 256 ; Physical and Chemical Charac- 

 teristics of Meteorites as throwing Light upon their Past 

 History, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 305; Physics and 

 Chemistry of the Challenger Expedition, 361 ; Physical Pro- 

 perties of Water, Prof. P, G. Tait, 416 ; Prof. Arthur W. 

 Riicker, F.R.S., 416; Tension of Recently Formed Liquid 

 Surfaces, Lord Rayleigh, 566 



Physiology : on a New Application of Photography to the Demon- 

 stration of Physiological Processes in Plants, Walter Gardiner, 

 16 ; the Coiled Glands in the Skin, Dr. Benda, 24 ; Iron in the 

 Animal Organism, Dr. Schneider, 24 ; Physiological Notes^ 

 on Primary Education and the Study of Language, Mary 

 Putnam Jacobi, 28 ; Physiology at the University of Cam- 

 bridge, 41 ; Mechanism of Local Lesion in Infectious Diseases, 

 Ch. Bouchard, 48 ; Local Paralysis of Peripheral Ganglia 

 and Connection of Nerve-fibres with them, Langley and 

 Dickinson, 118 ; on the Absorption of Fats and Fatty Acids- 

 in the Absence of Bile in the Intestine, Dr. J. Munk, I19 ; 

 on Diastases secreted by Bacillus heminccrobiophilus, M. 

 Arloing, 143 ; the Influence of Blood-Circulation and Breath- 



