Nature, May 10, 1877] 



INDEX. 



IX 



Muller (Dr. Hermann), On the Relation between Flowers and 

 Insects, 178 ; Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, XV., 317 ; 

 XVI., 473 



Munich, Anthropological Society, 89 



Murphv (J. J.), " Are we Drying Up?" 6 ; South Polar De- 

 pression of the Barometer, 198 ; Polar Cyclones — Etna 

 Observatory, 312 ; Atmospheric Currents, 374, 510 



Murray (Capt. Digby), Ocean and Atmospheric Currents, 76, 

 294, 333 



Murray (John), Deep-Sea Muds, 319, 340 



Museum, a Local, 61, 344 



Museum Specimens for Teaching Purposes, Prof. Flower, 

 F.R.S., 144, 184, 204 



Museums, 276 ; Prof. Boyd Dawkins on, 129 



Mushrooms and Toadstools, Worthington G. Smith, 134 



Musical Association, 59 



Musical Intonation, Recently Proposed Improvements in, Alex- 

 ander J. Ellis, 475 



Muslin and Tungstate of Soda, 460 



Mycenae, Dr. Schliemann's Discoveiies at, 173, 471 



Myopia, 366 



N-Tchtigal (Dr. Gustav), Exploration of Africa, 417 . 

 Nansouty (Gen.), Meteorological Observatory on the Pic du Midi, 



147 

 Nares (Sir George), Report of the Arctic Expedition, 24 ; at the 



Geographical Society, 147 ; on the Arctic Expedition, 480 

 Natural History Museum, Kensington, 382 

 Natural Selection, Unusual Case of, 168 

 "Natiireen," 326 



Naturforscher, Der, 130, 191, 385, 441, 542 

 Nautical Almanac for 1880, 107 

 Naval College, Greenwich, 512 

 Navigation, Sir Wm. Thomson on, 403 

 Nebulae of Orion, Rev. T. R. Robinson, 292 

 Nebulae — What are They? 550 

 Nebulous Star in the Pleiades, Lord Rosse, 397 

 Negretti's Reversible Thermometers, 116 

 Nepal, History of, 488 

 Nephelin and Apatite, 384 

 Neptune, the Mass of, 107 

 Neptunium, the Metal, 520 



Nepveu (M.), on Diseases Germinated in Hospitals, 15 

 Nerve and Muscle Current, Influence of Temperature on, 415 

 Nest-building Fish, 265 

 Netheilands Zoological Association, 169 

 Netherlands : Evolution in the, 410 ; Arctic Expeditioi, 522 

 Neucbatel, Lake, Lake-dwellings on, 188 

 Neuchatel, the Canton of. Earthquake in, 189 

 New Guinea: Exploration of, 90. 109; Dr. Maclay's E>p1ora- 

 tion of, 149 ; D'Albertis's Expedition up the Fly River, 165, 

 452 ; New Monotreme from, 257 ; Flora of, 438 



''New Lands within the Arctic Circle," L'eut Payer, 62, 81 



New South Wales, Science in, 150 



New Yoik Aquarium, Journal of, 150 



Newcomb's Corrections of Hansen's Lunar Tables, 166 



Newton on Force, P. T. Main, 8 



Newton (Prof. A., F.R.S.), Sea Fisheries, 55, 156 



Nichols (Arthur), the Boomerang, 510 



Nile, Exploration of the, 68 



Nineveh Solar Eclipse of B.C. 763, 65 



Nitrite of Amyl, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 24 



Nitro-Glycerine, Experiments with, 71 



Nordensicjold's Expedition to the Jenissei, 123, 461 



North Pole, Capt. Howgate's Method of attaining the, 284 



North Sea, Zoological Station in the, 117 



North Sea Expedition, the Norwegian, 412, 435 



Northampton Naturalists' Society, 481 



Northumberland, Carboniferous System of, 189 



Norway, Snowstorm in, 284 



Norwegian Atlantic Expedition, 49 



Norwegian North Sea Expedition of 1876, 41-2, 435 



Nossi Be, Volcanic Lakes of, 417 



Nova Scotia : Carboniferous Amphibia in, 264 ; the Coal-fields 

 of, 462, 488 

 vara. Report on the Austrian, Expedition, 261 



br (Fredk. A.), Exploration of the West India Islands, 267 



31, Wild Dogs on the, 415 



3I and Irtjsb, E plora'ion 0'', 207 



Observatories : Paris, 69 ; Cambridge, U.S., 201 ; Melbourne, 



244 ; the Vilna, 245 ; Proposed Observatory on Etna, 262 ; 



Brussels, 304 ; Dun Echt, 381 ; Kiel, 438 ; Edinburgh, 521 ; 



Cordoba, 531 ; Washington U.S. Naval, 549 

 "Observatory," The, 550 



Obsidian Cutlers of Melos, Rev, Gerald S. Davies, 332 

 Ocean Currents: Capt Digby Murray, 76; Rev. W. Clement 



Ley, 157, 198 ; and Temperatures in the South Pacific, 237 ; 



and Atmospheric Currents, 333 

 Octave, the Hindoo Division ot the, 423 

 Ohio, Geological Survey of, 485 

 Omotepe, Island of. Antiquities from, 502 

 Ophite of Pando, 190 

 Oratorical Utterance, the Rate of, 266 

 Orchids, some Curious, 357 

 Orion, Nebula of Rev. T. R. Robinson, 292 

 Orton (Dr. James), Exploration of the River Beni, 17; 'the 



Andes and the Amazon, 154 

 Osborne (J. A.), Caterpillars, 7 

 Oscillations of Tides, 343 



Osprey in Captivity, 481 * 



" Ostriches and Ostrich Farming," 176 

 Our Insect Foes, 84 

 Owens College, Manchester, 509 

 Oxford, Science at, 430, 437 

 Ozone, Influence of Forests on, 1 88 



Packard (Dr. A. S.), Geometrid Moths of the Unitel States, 



75; Life Historips of Animals, 271 

 Page (F. J. M.), on Dwtiosa rmiscipula, 379 

 Palgrave(W. G.), Dutch Guiana, 311 

 Palladium and Carbon, 522 

 Palmen on the Migration of Birds, 465 

 Pandora, Return of the, 18, 50 

 Papadakis (Prof. J.), Death of, 325 

 Papuan and Moluccan Islands, Bir's of, 69 ; Papuan Plants, 



264 ; Papuan Skull, Remarkable, 549 

 Paradise Bird, the Windpipe in, 127 

 Parhelia and Paraselenae seen on March 20, 1877, E. J. Lowe, 



F.R.S., 508 

 Paris: Academy of Sciences, 20, 52, 72,92, 112, 132, 152, 172, 

 211, 248, 268, 287, 308, 328, 348, 368, 388, 424, 444, 464, 

 484, 504, 524, 544, 564; Ventilation i.f the Hall, 169 ; Anni- 

 versary of, 560. Anthropological Soce'y, 128 ; Geographical 

 Society, 68 , International Exhibition, 87 ; the Janson C)llege, 

 265; Medical Conference, 169; Observatory, 69 ; School of 

 Anthropology, 149 

 Parker (Prof.), On the Primary Elements of the Skull, 127 

 Parkinson and Frod.sham, Ship's Chronometers, 470 

 Parthenogenesis in a Phanerogam, 559 

 Pascal Hexagram, a Ne-v View of ttie, 463 

 PaFserine Birds, Mr. Wallace on the D stribudon of, 58 

 Pasteur (M. L. ), " il^tudes sur la B:ere," 213, 249 ; andjoubert 



(M.), the Spon*^aneous Generation Qaesuon, 313 

 Pa'enas of Ceylon, Rev. R. Abbay, 398 ; E. Heeh-^, 548 

 Patent Laws : Administration of the, 22 ; Petition against, 266 

 Pau, Sirocco a*-, 49 



Payer (Lieut.), "New Lands within the Arctic Circl"," 62, 81 

 Pendulum, Electric Motor, Dr. Paget Hif7gs, 98 

 Peninsulas, the Southern Tendencies of, Sir John Lublock, 



F.R.S., 273 

 Pennington (Rooke), Museum at Castleton, 150 

 Pennsylvania, Petroleum Works in, 209 

 Fdri/atus, 66, 96 



Perceval (Cecil H. Sp.), Meteor, 79 

 Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Lo we, t Temperature, 399, 471 

 Persian Deer, 66 



Ptschei's " Races of Man," A. R. Wallace, 174 

 Petermann's M)tthedun;^en, 17, 326, 365, 383, 417, 502, 540 

 Petermann (Dr.), the English Arctic Expediaon, 109, 148 

 Petersburg, Society of Naturalists, 442 



Petrie (W. M. F.), Measurement of the Height of Clouds, 431 

 Petroleum Works in Pennsylvania, 209 

 Phaloenidse of the United States, Dr. A. S. Packard, 75 

 Phanerogam, Parthenogenesis in a, 559 

 Philadelphia Exhibition, Geology at, 87 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 172 

 Philol gy, Greek and Latin, Rev. A. II. Sayce, 74 

 Phuno-TeUgraphv, 305 

 Phospho.us rentafiu-ride, 521 



