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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1879 



Newcomb (Prof. S.), " Researches on the Motion of the Moon," 



166 

 Newton (Prof. A., F.R.S.), the Migration of Birds, 433 ; Weis- 



mann's Migration of Birds, 5S0 

 Newton (Prof. H. A.), Relation of Meteorites to Comets, 315, 



340 

 " Newton -Fourier Imaginary Problem," 451 

 Newton's "Principia," Interesting Copy of, 422 

 Newts, British, 75 

 Nickel Mines in New California, 16 

 Nicol (lames). Obituary Notice of, 590 

 Nicoll (H. J.), Electric Lighting, 340 

 Nicols (Arthur), Feeding a Python, 291 ; Intellect in Brutes, 



365, 409, 433 ; Transportation of Seeds, 555 

 Niepce (Nicephore), Proposed Statue of, 445, 559 

 Nile, Sun-Spots and the, 299 

 Nitric Acid Batteries, John Henry Knight, 581 

 Nitro-Glycerine, Experiments with, 61 

 Nordenskjold (Prof.), his North- West Passage Expedition, 77, 



102, 222, 247, 270, 298, 349, 373 ; Rus:>ian Gold Medal to, 



373 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, 17 



North, the Derivation of Life from the, J. W. Barry, 173 

 North-West Passage Expedition, the Swedish, 77, 102, 222, 



247, 270, 298, 349, 373 

 Norway, the "Terrace Lines" of, 578 

 Nova Zemlya, Expedition to, 298, 372 

 Nyassa, Lake, 438 

 Nymphalidas, the Pupation of the, J. A. Osborne, 507 



Oak, Irish Bog, W. F. Sinclair, 74 



Oak Forest, Subterranean, in Prussia, 302 



Obach (Eugen), Galvanometers for Strong Currents, 98 



Ober (F. A.) Exploration of the West Indies, 100 



Obi and Yenissei, Water Communication between, 298 



Observatories, the New Instrument for the Geneva, 59 ; Paper 



Dome for the Troy, U.S., 375 

 Ocean Currents, Prof. Zoppritz on, 202 

 Ochovowicz (Dr. Julian), the Microtelephone, 482 

 Odessa, University for Ladies at, 330 

 Qidogoniacese, American, 390 

 Ogowe Exploring Mis^ion, 222, 246 

 Olber's Comet of 181 5, 268 

 Olfactory Nerve and Organ of Vertebrates, A. Milnes Marshall, 



401 

 Omerod (Miss E. A.), Observations of Injurious Insects, 492 

 Opium, tlie Cultivation of, in China, 327 

 Opium Smoking, Dr. Miclucho Maclay on, 492 

 Oppolzer (Dr.), on the Intra- Mercurial Planet Question, 347 

 Ord (Dr. W. M.), the Effect of Strong Induction-Currents upon 



the Structure of the Spinal Cord, 306 

 Orenburg to Tashkent, Proposed Railway, 349 

 Organic Infusions, Note on the Influence exercised by Light on. 



Prof. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 210 

 Organisation and Intelligence, Alfred R. Wallace, 477 

 Organs, the Ancient Pitch of, Alex. J. Ellis, F.K.S., 171 

 Ornithological Society at Berlin, 18 

 Osborne (J. A.), the Pupation of the Nymphalidae, 507 

 Oxford, Medical Endowments at, 20 

 Oxus, the, or Amu Darya, 205 

 Oxygen in the Sun, J. C. Draper, 352 

 Oxygen, Spectrum of, M. Paalzow's Researches on, 397 



Paalzow (M.), Researches on the Spectrum of Oxygen, 397 



Pacific Islands, Max Buchner on the, 430 



Packard (Prof. A. S., Jun.), the Reproduction of the Eel, 174 



Page (Dr. David), Obituary Notice of, 444 



Palaeontological Collection of the late Prof. Eichwald, 231 



Palmen (Dr.), on the Migration of Birds, 433 



Pamir, Exploration of, 15, 77 



Panizzi (Sir Anthony), Death of, 544 



Papau-Tree, the, 447 



Paper, Colonial Grasses for Making, 132 



Paper Dome for Astronomical Observatory at Troy, U.S., 375 



Papuan Herpetology, 176 



Para, the Longitude of, 395 



"Paradoxical Philosophy," Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., 141 ; 



Hermann Stoftkraft, 193, 242; W. A. T. Hallowes, 219 

 Parhelia, E. W. Pringle, 410 



Paris: Pottery at the Exhibition, 5; Science Exhibition in, 18, 

 560 ; the Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 91, 116, 140, 164, 212, ' 

 236, 256, 260, 284, 308, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 452, 500, 

 524, 548, 559, 572, 596 ; Prizes of the, 468, 475 ; the Great 



' Reflector at the Paris Observatory, 108 ; Soiree at the, 395 ; 

 Geographical Society, 180, 271, 324, 583 ; Bulletin, 349, 542; 

 Celebration of Capt. Cook's Centenary, 373 ; New Aero- 

 nautical Society in, 395 ; Appointment of Professor of Meteo- 

 rology at the School of Agriculture, 231 ; the Electric Light 

 in, 280 ; Comparison of the Longitude of Washington and, 

 438 ; the Whale at the Jardin des Plantes, 561 



Parker (Prof. W, K., F.R.S,), on the Skull of the Green Turtle, 



593 

 Parkes' Museum of Hygiene, 107 

 Parsloe's Railways, 313 

 Partridges, Intellect in, 291 



Passeres, Johannes Miiller on the Classification of the, 525 

 Patagonia, Wanderings in, Julius Beerbohm, 217 

 Patentee's Manual, Johnson's, 362 



Patterson (C. P.), Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, 288 

 Pavesi (Prof. Pietro), on Selachi, 384 

 Peabody Museum, Annual Report of the, 131 

 Peat Fuel in Germany, 160 



Pechar (M.), "Coal and Iron in all Countries," 336 

 Perak, Suitability of , for Planting, 324 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S,), Magnetic Storm of May 14-15, 220 

 Perseus, Bessel's Nebula in, 555 

 Persia, Earthquake in, 493 

 Pervouchine's " First Result," 17 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 77, 156, 180, 247, 349, 542 

 Petersen (Dr. Jul.), "Theorie der algebraischen Gleichungen," 3 

 Petroleum, Discovery of, 473 ; in Japan, 473 

 Petzold's Method of Preserving Insects, 301 

 Philadelphia Academy, 403 

 Philippine Islands, Weaving in, 493 

 Phonograph and Vowel Sounds, Dr. F. Auerbach, 122 

 Phonograph, W. H. Preece and Stroh's Experiments with, 374 

 Phosphuretted Hydrogen, the Inhalation of, 155 

 Photography : Manual of the Carbon Proce s of. Dr. Paul E. 



Liesegang, 362 ; of Animals in Motion, 517 

 Photographic Society, 140, 236, 331, 499 

 Phylloxera in Italy, 375, 408 



Physical Society, 68, 116, 188, 330, 379, 427,475, 523 

 Physi&s J Guthrie's, 31 1 

 Physiology, Ashby's Notes on, 51 ; Studies from the Laboratory 



at Cambridge, Part III., 145 

 Pic du Midi Observatory, 207, 255, 390 

 Pickering (Prof. E. C), the Cosine Galvanometer, 217 

 Pigeons, Carrier, Thomas Stevenson, 5 

 Pinto (Major), Journey across Africa, 471, 556 

 Piscicultural Exhibition at Berlin, 232 

 Pitch of Organs, the Ancient, Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 171 

 Plague, Statistics of the, in China, 61 ; in Astrakan, 325 ; Sun- 



Spots and the, Prof. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 338; Prof. Vir- 



chow on the, 545 

 Plane of Polarisation Electromagnetically rotated in a Vapour, 519 

 Planets, Minor, 14, 420, 437, 532, 556 ; Ismene, 42 ; Hilda, 



510, 583; Relative Brightness of Venus and Mercury, 23; 



Vulcan and Bode's Law, 74 ; the Intra-Mercurial Planet 



Question, 347 

 Plants, Absorption of Water by the Leaves of, 75, 183 ; Alfred 



S. Jones, 244 ; Leaf Sheaths and the Growth of, John Munro, 



147; Heliotropi.'m in, Herr Wiesner on, 161 ; "New Com- 

 mercial Plants," Thomas Christy, 265 

 "Pleasant Ways in Science," R. A. Procter, 71 ; Explanatory, 



121 

 Podmore (Frank), Was Homer Colour-Blind? 73 

 Poggendorf (Prof.), Posthumous Work on Physics by, 206 

 Pola, Meteorological Observations at, 420 

 Pole (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), Colour-Blindnes=, 120, 148; the 



Musical Association, 223 

 Pompeii, the Destruction of, 446 

 Popofr(Prof.), Death of, 374 

 Portuguese African Expedition, see Africa 

 Postal Microscopical Society, 301 

 Pottery at the Paris Exhibition, 5 

 Potts (T. H.), Notes from New Zealand, 21, 234 

 Poynting (J. H.), on a Method of using the Balance with great 



Delicacy and its Employment to determine the Mean Density 



of the Earth, 115 



