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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1890 



ing on Mind-Life, Prof. Leumann, 209 ; Electrical Negative 

 Variation of Heart accompanying Pulse, Dr. Aug. Waller, 

 288 ; Outlying Nerve-Cells in Mammalian Spinal Cord, C. S. 

 Sherrington, 388 ; the Cortical Visual Areas, Dr. J. Munk, 

 407 ; Influence of Bodily Labour on Metabolism of Man, Dr. 

 Katzenstein's Experiments, 479 ; Physiology of Bodily Exer- 

 cise, Dr. Fernand Lagrange, 485 ; Voluntary Muscular 

 Contraction, Dr. Haycraft, 495 ; Development of Ciliary 

 Ganglion, Dr. J. C. Ewart, 501 ; Fat the only Food leaving 

 Intestines by Lacteals, Dr. J. Munk, 504 ; Myelin, Dr. 

 Heymans, 528 ; Sensitiveness of Articular Surfaces of Joints, 

 Dr. Goldscheider, 528 ; Physiology of Sponges, Dr. Lenden- 

 feld, 570 



Pickering (Prof. E. C), Variable Star in Cluster G.C. 3636, 

 183 ; on the Spectrum of C Ursse Majoris, 285 ; on C Ursse 

 Majoris and /3 Aurigse, 403 ; Pole-Star Recorder, 491 ; 

 New Variable in Caelum, 571 



Pickering (Prof. S. U.), Isolation of Tetrahydrate of Sulphuric 

 Acid existing in Solution, 142 ; Theory of Osmotic Pressure, 

 526 



Picton (Harold, F.R.S.), the Story of Chemistry, 292 



Pietra Papale, La, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 31 



Pigment, Carotine, in Alpine Lake Crustacean, Discovery by 

 Prof. Raphael Blanchard of, 325 



Pigment of the Touraco and the Tree Porcupine, Frank E, 

 Beddard, 152 



Pilot Chart of North Atlantic, 284 



Pinks of Western Europe, F. N. Williams, 78 



Pinnow (Dr.), Analysis of Carcote (Chili) Meteorite, 428 



Pinol, Nitrosochloride of, a New Isomer of Camphor, 44 



Pipe, Interesting American Indian, H. B. Bashore, 303 



Pisciculture : Change in Character of Salmon Acclimatized in 

 Tasmania, 43 ; the Habits of the Salmon, Major John P. 

 Traherne, 74 



Planck (Prof.), Development of Electricity and Heat in Dilute 

 Electrolytic Solutions, 215 



Planet, Minor (12), Victoria, Dr. Gill, 139 



Planets, the Movement of, F. Tisserand, 406 



Plantamour (M. ), Periodic Ground-movements, 373 



Plants, Diseases of. Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 436 



Plants, Fossil, of Coal- Measures, Organization of, Prof. W. C. 

 Williamson, F.R.S., 573 



Plants, on a New Application of Photography to the Demonstra- 

 tion of certain Physiological Processes in, Walter Gardiner, 

 16 



Plants, Prof. Walter Gardiner on how they maintain themselves 

 in the Struggle for Existence, 90 



Piatt (Margaret) and the Chemical Laboratory at Stalybridge 

 Mechanics' Institute, 85 



Playfair (Sir Lyon, F. R. S. ), the Need for Vital Improvements in 

 English Education, 180 



Plummer (William E.), New Light from Solar Eclipses, William 

 M. Page, 529 



Pluvinel (M. A. De La Baume), Total Solar Eclipse of December 

 22, 1889, 428 



Pocock (R. I.), ,a Marine Millipede, 176 



Poincare (M.), Equations aux Derivees Partielles de la Physique 

 Mathematique, 525 



Politics, Elements of Historical and Practical, Woodrow Wilson, 

 196 



Polynesia, Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea, 

 F. T. Moss, 151 



Polytechnic, a South London, 481 



Polytechnics for London, 242 



Pontevedra, Remarkable Meteor at, Dr. E. Caballero, 303 



Poona Bacteriological Laboratory, 469 



Pope (R. Barrett), Thought and Breathing, 297 



Popocatepetl, the Eruption of the Volcano, 592 



Porcupine, Tree, the Pigment of the, Frank E. Beddard, 

 152 



Portugal, Earthquake in, 401 



Potsdam Magnetic Observatory, Dr. Eschenhagen, 479 



Powell (J. W.), Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethno- 

 logy to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, 



99 

 Prehistoric Textiles, Herr Buschan, 182 

 Preservative, a, for Animal Tissues, H. Leslie Osborn, 199 

 Pressure-Gauge, Bourdon's : Prof. A. M. Worthington, 296 ; 



Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 517 

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

 Prestwich (Prof. Joseph, F.R.S.) : Relation of Westleton Beds 



of Suffolk and Norfolk, 238 ; Relation of " Pebbly Sands " of 



Suffolk to those of Norfolk, Part iii., 502 

 Primitive Types of Mammalian Molars, 465 

 Primrose, a Blue, 569 

 Prince (C. L.), Preponderance of North- East Winds during 



Past Five Years, 470 

 Pringsheim (Dr. E.), Kirchoffs Law and Gaseous Radiation, 



480 

 Prism, Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 



574 

 Pritchard (Prof., F.R.S.), Stellar Parallax by Means of Photo- 

 graphy, 19 

 Probabilities, Calculus of, J. Bertrand, 6 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 114 

 Prominences, Solar Spots and, Prof. Tacchini, 233 

 Propagation of Gravitation, Velocity of the, J. Van Hepperger, 



472 

 Protective Coloration of Eggs : Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 53 ; 



Rev. Fred. F. Grensted, 53 ; E. B. Titchener, 129 

 Prussia, Wapiti Acclimatized in, 546 

 Przewalsky's (N. M. ) Zoological Discoveries, 468 

 Psychology of Attention, Th. Ribot, 460 

 Psychology: the Society for Psychical Research, 17 

 Public School, Suggestions for the Formation and Arrangement 



of a Museum of Natural History in connection with a. Prof. 



W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 177 

 Puffin Island Marine Biological Station, 304 

 Pulsion Mechanical Telephone, 65 

 Punjab Forest Administration Report, 520 

 Purtscheller (Prof.), the Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 164 



Quantitative Analysis, Introductory Lessons in, John Mills and 



Barker North, 197 

 Quarter Squares, the Method of, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., 9 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 549 

 Quenstedt (Prof, von). Death and Obituary Notice of, 400 

 Quesneville (Dr.), Death of, 84 

 Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, Geology of the, G. F. 



Becker, 532 



Radiation by Gas-Flame, Luminous and Non-Luminous, Sir 



John Conroy, 357 

 Rafify (L.), Determination of Regulated Harmonic Surfaces, 359 

 Railway, North-Eastern : the Latest Express Compound Loco- 

 motive, 448 

 Railway, Proposed Jungfrau, Herr Trautweiler, 303 

 Railways, the Effect of, on Instruments in Observatories, 592 

 Railways of England and Scotland, W^. M. Acworth, 434 

 Rainbow due to Sunlight Reflected from the Sea, Sir W. 



Thomson, F.R.S., 271 ; W. Scouller, 271 

 Rainbows, Eight, seen at the same time. Sir William Thomson, 



F.R.S., 316 ; Dr. Percival Frost, F.R.S., 316 

 Rainfall in America, 92 



Rainfall of the Earth, by late Prof. Loomis, Dr. van Bebber, 43 

 Rainfall of Germany 1876 -85, Dr. H. Meyer, 85 

 Ramsay (Prof. William, F.R.S.): Compounds of Selenium, 343; 



Nitrous Anhydride and Nitric Peroxide, 454 

 Raoult (F. M.), Vapour-pressure of Acetic Acid Solutions, 431 

 Rat, the Old English Black, in Cornwall, Thos. Cornish, 161 

 Rat Plague in Laccadive Islands, 303 

 Raven, the Anatomy of the. Dr. R, W. Shufeldt, 594 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F. R. S. ), Tension of Recently Formed Liquid 



Surfaces, 566 

 Reade (T. Mellard) : Does the Bulk of Ocean Water Increase ? 



175 ; Area of the Land and Depths of the Oceans in Former 



Periods, 103 

 Reading Room, British Museum, Ventilation of, 199 

 Recoura (A.), Vapour- pressure of Acetic Acid Solutions, 431 

 Red Sea, Locusts in the, G. T. Carruthers, 153 

 Redway (J. W.), Teacher's Manual of Geography, 78 

 Refractometer, Bertrand's, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 526 

 Reinach (S.), Rock-Sepulchre at Vaphio, Morea, 500 

 Reinhold (Major), Botanical Condition of German Ocean, 569 

 Reinke (Dr. J.) : a New Atlas of Algas, 127 ; the Botanical 



Institute and Marine Station at Kiel, 397 

 Religion of the Semites, Lectures on the, Prof. W. Robertson 



Si^ith, 337 

 Renard (Prof. A.): Phenyl-Thiophene, 48; Rock- Specimens 



collected on Oceanic Islands, 363 



