INDEX 



[Nature, May lo, i8; 



rhoto-Chemical Processes in the Retina, Prof. Gamgee, F.R.S., 



477 

 rhotographic Image, Capt. Abney on the, 543 

 Photographs, Aniline in, 207 

 Photography of Tones, 1 70 

 Photography, Abney's Instruction in, 253 

 Phylloxera : in Madeira, 190 ; and Insecticides, 200 

 Physical Geology, Notes on,R ev. Prof. Haughton, F.R.S., 542 

 Physical Society, 91, 131, 171, 210, 307, 347, 421, 483, 543, 564 

 Physics of the Atlantic Ocean, 263 

 Physiology, Dr. M. Foster's Elementary, 53 

 Piaggia (Signor), Exploration of Africa, 89 

 Pic du Midi, Meteorological Observations on, 147 

 Pidgeon (D.), Former Climates, 275 

 Planets: Minor, 166, 303 ; a New, 342 ; Intra-Mercurial Planet (?), 



171, 282, 437, 442, 457, 509; the Opposition of Mars in 



1892. 519 

 Plant (Jam"s). Rocks of Charnwood Forest, 548 

 Plantamour (Prof ), Climate of Geneva, 152 

 Plants : the Absorption of Organic Matter by, 108 ; Self-Fcr- 



tilisa'ion of, 168 ; Sexuality in, Prof. W. R. McNab, 511 

 Plans, Remarkable. I. The C^mpasj Plant, 298 ; II. Some 



Curious Orchids, 357 

 Pleiades : the Nebula in the, 244, 397 

 Plesiosaurus, a Fine Specimen of, 52 

 Pliocene Equ dae, lialian, 559 



Plammer (J. I. ), Greenwich as a Meteorological Observatory, 528 

 Pock Lympb, M. Hiller on, 15 

 PoggendorfT (Prof. J. C), 304, 314 

 Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chetnie, 130, 170, 171, 



191, 210, 344, 382, 385, 419, 540, 541 

 Polar Bears, Fight between Two, 70 

 Polar Cyclones, 312 



Polariscope Objects, W. Spottiswoo3e, F.R. S., 275 

 Polarisation of Light, the Rotation of the Plane of, 306 

 Pole (Dr. W., F.R.S.), " Life of Sir Wm. Fairbairn, F.R.S.," 



370 

 Polygalas, European, 5 

 Polynesia, Explorr^tion of, 246 

 Population of the Earth, 127 

 Post-Glacial Period in Esthonia, 88 

 Postulates and Axioms, C. J. Monro, 353 

 Potassium Tri-iodide, 362 

 Potato Disease, 263 

 Pouchet, Statue to, 246 



Prairie Mounds, or Hog- Wallows, Prof. Joseph le Cont?, 530 

 Precessional Motion of a Liquid, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R. S., 



297 

 Pre-Glacial Man in Amenca, Traces of, 274, 295 

 Pressure on Combustion, Influence of, 167 

 Price (Major Sir R. Lambert), the Two Americas, 396 

 " Primaeval World of Switzerland," Prof. Heer's, 140 

 Primitive Agriculture, Miss Buckland on, 387 

 Primitive Marriage, McLennan's, 133 

 Professors in the Universities of France and Germany, 16 

 Projectiles, the Resistance of the Air to the Motion o*^, 60 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 34^ 



Rabbits : Tape- Worms of, G. J. Romanes, 275, 375 ; R, D. 

 Turner, 335 



Radiant Points of Shooting Stars, 158, 217 



Radiometers : 169, 420, 521, 522 ; Prof. Wartipann on, 51 ; Re- 

 searches on. Prof. Paul Volpicelli, lOi ; Experiments with 

 the, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 224, 299; and Thermo-Multi- 

 plier, 384 ; Sir William Grove on the, 435 



Raindrops and Hailstones, Formation of. Prof. Osborne Rey- 

 nolds, 163 



Rammelsberg Mountain, 208 



Rauschenburg, Discovery of Ancient Burial- Ground near, 51 



Reale Istituto Lombard!, 385, 419, 542 



Red Star in Cetus, 281 



Regulus, the Occultation of, 342 



Reichert und Du Bois Reymond's Archiv, 1 1 1 



Renshaw (A. G.), Yellow Crocuses, 530 



Retina, KUhne's Researches on Photo- Chemical Processes in 

 the. Prof. Arthur Gamgee, 296, 477 



Retouching, Instructions in the Art of, Burrows and Colton, 156 



Revue des Sciences Naturelles, 419 



llevue Geographique, 52 



Reyer (Dr. Ed.), on the Euganeen Mountains, 447 



Reynolds (Pcof. Osborne), on the Arctic Expedition, 87 ; Riir 



drops and Hailstones, 163 ; Vortex Motion in Fluids, 347 

 Rhsetlc Strata in the Southern Tyrol, T. Nelson Dale, 4 

 Rheinfelden, Deep Boring a*-, 128 

 Rheostat, a New Mercury, 325 



Rhinoceroses, Examination of the Fodder Remains of, 109 

 Rhizopods, New Freh- water, 108 

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

 Ridout (R. H.), Sensitive Flame Apparatus for Ordinary Ga 



Pressure, 119 

 Rivers, Stone, Phin. S. Abraham, 431 

 Roberts (W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Graham's Chemical and Physi 



cal Researches, 153 ; Alloy of Platinum and Iridium for 



New Metric System of Length, 336 

 Robinson (Rev. T. R.), Nebulae of Oiion, 292 

 Rock Crystals for Normal Scientific Apparatus, 305 

 Rocks of Charnwood Forest, the Age of the, 78, 97, 470, 548 

 Rocky Mountains, Atmosphere of the. Dr. H. Draper, 354 

 Rodier (E.), Algoid Swarm-spores 178 

 Romanes (G. f. ), "Towering" of Grouse, Partridges, &c., 1 16 



Sense of Hearing in Birds and Insects, 177, 292 ; Tap' 



worms of Rabbits, 275, 375 

 Rome, R. Accademia dei Lincei, 308, 348, 444 

 Rooks Building at Christmas, C. M. Ingieby, 217 

 Roots, Respiration of, 559 



Roscoe and Schorlemmer's New Treatise on Chemistry, 168 

 Rosenberg (E., M D. ), Use of the S^^ectroscope in Us Applies 



tion to Medicine, 547 

 Rosse (Earl of). Nebulous Star in the Pleiades, 397 

 Routledge (R.), " Science in Sport made Phi'.osoptiy in Earnest, 



134 

 Rowan (J. J.), " The Em-grant and Sportsman in Canada," 21 

 Royal Astronomical Soc^e^y, 90, 286, 366, 442, 563 

 Royal Geographical Society, 68, no, 147, 440 

 Royal Irish Acat^emy, Pioceedings o', 345 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 72, 151, 247, 348, 443, 543 

 Royal School of Mines Magazine, 311 

 Royal Society, 171, 306, 327, 385, 420, 482, 503, 542, 562 



Award of Medals, 50 ; New Fellows, 560 

 Rubidium and Caesium, Atomic Weight of, 282 

 Rundell (W. W.), Diurnal Barometric Range at 'High an( 



Low Levels, 275 

 Russia : Barometers of Southern, 49 ; Meeting at Warsaw c 



Russian Naturalists, 69, 70; Statistics of Russian Universi 



ties, 129 ; Floods in, 266 ; Mean Atmospheric Pressure, 457 



Cryptogamic Flora of, 459 ; Botanical Geography of, 459 

 Russian Lapland, 382 

 "Rust" in Sugar Canes, 189 

 Rutherford (W., M.D., F.R.S.), "Outlines of Practical Histo 



logy," 4 



St. David's, Pre Cambrian Rocks of, 151 



St. Petersburg : Chemical Society, 190 ; Academy of Science 



284 ; Anthropological Society at, 363 ; Aquarium at, 363 



Geographical Society, 461 

 Salmon, a Problem in the Natural History of the, 375 ; Salm 



ardurus, 438 

 Salpae, Coloration of Water by, 188 

 Samoan Language, Dictionary o*", 207 

 Sanderson (Dr. J. Burdon, F.R.S ), on Dionoea muscijmla, 379 



Government Grants to Science, 398 

 Sands and Clays, Microscopical Investigation of, H. C. Sorby. 



F.R.S., 356 

 Sars (Prof. G. D.), Norwegian North Sea Expedition of 1876 



412, 435 

 Saturn, the Rotation of, on his Axis, 243 

 Sayce (Rev. A. H.), Bauer's " Philol og'cal Introduction t< 



Greek and Latin for Students," 74; Grimm's Law, 309 ; th( 



Basques, 394 

 Schimper's "Mosses of Europe," 3 

 Schliemann's (Dr.), Discoveries at Mycenae, 173, 471 

 Schmid (von Rudolf), die Darwua'sche Ttieorien uad ihre Stel- 



lung zur Philosophic, Religion und Moral, 1 76 

 Schmidt (Prof. Fr. ), Tertiary Formations on the Northern Shore: 



of the Pacific, 88 ; Post-Gla:ial Period in Esthonia, 88 

 School of Mines Magazine, 311 



Schriftender physikalisch-oekonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konig;- 

 ^ berg, 90 

 Schuster ('Dr. Arthur), Researches on the Spectra of Metalloids, 



401, 447; "Cumming's Introduction to the Theory of E'ec- 



tricity," 526 



