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INDEX 



{Nature, Nov. 21, 1878 



Olber's Star near 7 Pegasi, 426 



Oldham (Dr. Thomas), Obituary Notice of, 343 



Ophrys muscifera. Dr. Hermann Miiller, 221 



Opium Poppy, the Cultivation of, 133 



Opossum, Fossil Remains of a New, 158 



Optical Bench, New Form of, 294 



Optical Characters of Minerals, on a New Method of Studying, 



H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 684 

 Orders, Foreign, 691 

 O'Reilly (Prof.), on the Cori-elation of Lines of Direction on 



the Globe, 507 

 Oreston Quarries, Fossils from, 393 

 Organic Colour, the Origin and Distribution of, W. Saville 



Kent, 523 

 Organisms in Water, Examination of, 141, 196 

 Orientalists, the Congress of, 553 



Orifices, the Flow from, at Different Temperaturer, 323 

 Orion Nebula, 313 



Ornithologists, Annual Meeting at Berlin, 575 

 Osterath, Earthquake at, 600 



Ostiacs and Samojedes, Collection of- Articles used by, 48 

 Owens College, Manchester, Legacy to, 399; Viscount 



Cardwell's Address at, 598 

 Oxford : the Study of Biology at, 12; University Commission, 



23 ; University Intelligence, 53 ; University Observatory, 



103; Natural Science at, 651 ; the Endowment of Research 



at St. John's College, 659 

 Oxygen Spectrum : Dr. Arthur Schuster, 269 ; the Presence of 



the Lines of the, in the Solar Spectrum, Dr. J. C. Drajxir, 



654 

 Oyster Beds of the Chesapeake Bay, 653 



Pacific Islands, Ethnology of the, 374 



Pacific, South, Survey of the, 434 



Pacific, Winds and Currents in the, S. J. Whitmee, 617 



Packard (Dr. A. S.), on the Escape of Lepidoptera from their 

 Cocoons, 226 



Padang, Carl Bock's Expedition to, 132 



Page (F. J. M.), on the Microphone, 130 



Page (Herbert W.), a White Swallow — Albinism in Birds, 540 



" Palaeontologist," the, 601 



Palaospiza billa, 22 



Palestine : Lieut. Kitchener's Survey of, 483, 521 ; Tent Work 

 in, Lieut. C. R. Conder, 538 



Panihays in British Burmah, 95 



Paper, Bamboo as a Material for, 50 



Paper Exhibition in Berlin, 424 



Paper of Common English Grass, 682 



Papuans of the Maclay Coast, 387 



Papyrus, Egyptian, at the Paris Academy, 652 



Paraffin Wax, the Estimation of, when Mixed with Oils or Fat, 

 Wm. Thomson, 473 



Paris, the. Exhibition: 20, 49; Aquariums at, 21 ; Geo- 

 graphy at, 68; Meteorology at, 76; "Salle des Missions 

 .^cientifiques, 105 ; Ethnographical Exhibition at, 159 ; Giffard's 

 Captive Balloon, 132, 262, 318, 345, 371, 393, 435, 534, 577, 705 ; 

 the Water and Woods Department as a Permanent Museum, 

 132; Visits of Students to, 132; the Lightning Conductors 

 at, 132 ; Science at, 205 ; the Catalogues of, 237 ; M. Lessep's 

 Lectures on Africa, 237 ; Congress of Demography, 237 ; 

 Education Exhibition, 238, 436 ; Scientific Conferences, 262, 

 423 ; Dr. Woeikof's Isobaric Charts, 288 ; the Ethnographic 

 Congiess, 318; the Great Trocadero Lift, 393; the Congress 

 of Meteorology, 423 ; the Phonograph at, 424 ; the Congress 

 of Anthropology, 436 ; Public leachers at, 456 ; Dr. Bird- 

 wood's " Handbook of the British Indian Section," 504; the 

 Congress of Weights, Measures, and Coins, 532 ; the Botanical 

 and Horticultural Congress, 553 ; the Lottery, 577 ; Receipts 

 ^t» 575 ; Awards to British Exhibitors, 681 ; Weather-Warn- 

 ing at, 682 ; Soiree of Engineers, 706 

 Paris : the Academy of Sciences, 28, 56, 84, 112, 136, 164, 

 188, 216, 244, 272, 296, 324, 352, 376, 400, 428, 456, 484, 

 512, 536, 560, 608, 636, 660, 688, 712 ; Appointment of 

 Prof. C. Friedel, 290 ; Comte du Moncel and the Phono- 

 graph, 553, 630 ; the Observatory, 25, 284, 372, 393, 532 ; the 

 Appointment of M. Leverrier's Successor, 236, 261 ; the 

 Great Reflector, 532 ; Geographical Society, 131, 180, 2CO, 

 262, 359, 424, 496, 697 ; East Indian lapir at the 

 Jardin d'Acclimatation, 49 ; Protection of the Bibliotheque 



Nationale from Fire, 133 ; New Students' Club in, 205 ; 

 Electric Lighting in, 262 ; Proposed Industrial Exhibition, 

 290 ; Balloon Ascents in, 291 ; Nubian Animals in the Jardin 

 d'Acclimatation, 291 ; Technical Education in, 317; the 

 Jablochkoff Electric Lights in, 317 ; the Botanical and Horti- 

 cultural Congress, 465 ; Statistics of the Mint, 534 ; Robin- 

 son's Parks and Gardens of, 562 ; Proposed Ethnographical 

 and Pedagogical Museum, 683 ; see also France, &c. 



Parker (Prof. W. K., F.R.S.), the Structure and Development 

 of the Snake, 202 ; What is Morphology? 255 



Parkes Memorial Fund, 344 



" Parks and Gardens of Paris," W. Robinson, 562 



Patagonia, Southern, Exploration of, 360 



Pavlovsk, New Magnetic Observatory at, 316 



Payen's Industrial Chemistry, Paul's Translation of, 218 



Peaucellier Cell, Horace Darwin, 383 



Pedetic Action of Soap, Prof. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 440 



Peking, Timber used at, 317 



Pelvis, Oblique, Aberrant Sacrum connected with the, 483 



I'endulnm, Blackburn's Double, 594, 617 



Pengelly (W., F.R.S.), on the Cervus megaceios, 478 



Penn (John, F.K.S.), Death of, 575 



Permanganate, Potassium, the Light Reflected from, 294 



Permian Fauna, Prof. E. D. Cope on the Remains of, in North 

 America, 482 



Pernesch (Dr. J.), Guide to the Upper Engadine, 601 



Peroxide of Hydrogen, E. Schone's Researches on, 318 



Perpetual Calendar, the Seth Thomas Clock Company's New 

 Timepiece with, 575 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Magnetic Storm, May 14, 1878,617 



Peru : New Work on the Minerals of, 393 ; Corpuna Volcano, 



423 



Petermann (Augustus Heinrjch), Obituary Notice of, 589 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 359, 552, 647 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), on Inductive Metrolog)-, no; Alternate 

 and Stereoscopic Vision, 115 



Petroleum a Protection against Insects, 373 



Phelps' Telephone, 392 



Phene (Dr.), on Cyprus, 483 



Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 28, 400, 5S4 



Philippines, Earthquakes on the, 265 



Philippium, a New Metal, 688 



Phobos, Satellite of Mars, 6x8 



Phoneidoscope, a Simpler Form of, J. E. H. Gordon, 383 



Phonograph: Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 38; Prof. Silvanus P. 

 Thompson, 39 ; and Helmholtz's Vowel Theory, Chas. R. 

 Cross, 93; Examinatiin of the Phonograph Record under the 

 Microscope, 101; the Phono,^aph and its Future, 116; and 

 Vowel Theories, Professors Fleeming Jenkin and J. A. Ewing, 

 167; as a Transmitter, 240; the Working of the, 240; Dr. 

 Clarence J. Blake on, 249 ; Geo. P. Bidder, 302 ; and Vowel 

 Sounds, Professors Fleeming Jenkin and Ewing, 340, 394, 454 ; 

 at the Paris Exhibition, 424 ; in the Paris Academy, 553, 630 ; 

 and Ventriloquism (I), 630; Mr. Edison's Experiments with 

 the, 599 ; G. B. Prescott's Work on the, 698 



Phonometer, Edison's, 675 



Phonoscope, Edmunds' Electrical, W. Ladd, 506 



Photographic Society, 216 



Photography, Physics in, Capt. W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 489, 



528. 543 

 Phylloxera in Greece, 106 

 Phylloxera at Sachsenhausen, 505 

 Phylloxera near Bonn, 632 



Physical Geology, Prof. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 266 

 Physical Science for Artists, J.Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 29, 



58, 87, 122, 154, 223 ; Robert J. Lecky, 116; F. Pollock, 



249 ; G. Hubbard, 278 ; Rev. R. Abbay, 329 ; E. II. Pringle, 



356 ; Julius Kruttschnitt, 540 ; H. S. Carhart, 540 

 Physical Science, Studies in, W. J. Millar, 693 

 Physical Society, in, 163, 215, 271, 294, 322 

 Physics in Photography, Capt. W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 489, 



528, 543 

 Physiography, Prof. Ansted's Elements of, 563 

 Physiology, Dunman's "Glossary of Biological, Anatomical, 



and Physiological Forms," 614 

 Physiology, Journal of, 377 

 Pierce (C. S.), Floating Magnets, 381 

 Pigeons, Carrier, Utilisation of, 682 

 Pikermi and Siwalik Faunas, Pliocene, not Miocene, W. T. 



Blanford, 501 



