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INDEX 



XI 



Nitro-benzoic Acid, the Fourth, 151 



Niven (W. S.). Trajectories of Shot, 466 



Nocturnal Increase of Temperature with Elevation, Dr. E. 



Bonavia, 10 1 

 Noeggerath (Prof. Jacob), Proposed Monument to, 170 

 Nordenskjold (Prof.), Expedition to the Arctic Regions, 90 

 Northumberland, Marine Fossils in the Gannister Beds of. Prof. 



G. A. Lebour, 320, 352 

 Norway, Glacial and Post-GIacial Fishes of, 509 

 Norwegian Deep-Sea Expeditions, H. Mohn, 30 

 Norwegian North Sea Expedition, 253 

 Nova Cygni, 46 



Novaya Zemlya, Colonisation of, 109 

 Noye (Thos.), a Double Rainbow, 262 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, Bulletin of, 498 

 Nyassa, the Lake of, 435 



O'Brien (C. G.), Fetichism in Animals, 402 ; Discrimination of 



Insects, 402 

 Observatories : Paris, 69, 109, 131, 152, 193, 232, 473 ; 



Madrid, 70; the Cordoba, 83, 209; Montsouris, 131; 



Lyons, 149 ; Cape of Good Hope, 269 ; Brussels, 288 ; the 



Temple, 324 ; the Radcliffe, 363 ; Harvard College, 363 ; 



Meudon, 392 ; Dun Echt, 432 

 Octopus, Drowned by an, 27, 282 



Oil Paintings, the Deterioration of. Dr. R. Liebreich, 493, 515 

 Old Red Sandstone of Western Europe, Prof. A. Geikie, 



F.R.S., 471 

 Oliver (Prof. D., F.R.S.), " Flora of Tropical Africa," Prof. 



W. R. McNab, 319 

 Olympia, the Excavations at, 330 

 Ontario, Report of the Registrar-General, 455 

 Optical Spectroscopy of the Red End of the Solar Spectrum, 



J. B. N. Hennessey, F.R.S., 28 

 Oregon, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 302 

 Organ-Piano, an, E. J. Reed, M.P., F.R.S., 453 

 Organic Liquids, Distillation of, by Means of Steam, 270 

 Oriental Affinities in the Ethiopian Insect-Fauna, W. L. 



Distant, 282 

 Orkney and Shetland, Glacial Geology of, S. Laing, M.P., 123 ; 



Prof. M. Forster Heddle, 182 

 Ornithuric Acid, 270 

 Orograph, a new Form of, 1 56 

 Orton (Prof. James), Death of, 90 

 " Our Native Land," 491 

 Owen (Prof., F.R.S.) on the Modification of a Lower Form of 



Life by a Higher, 375 

 Oweas College, Chemical Society at, 1 14 

 Owls, M. A. Milne-Edwards on, 345 

 Oxford : University Commission, 19 ; proposed High School 



for, 19, 39; University Intelligence, 114, 194, 334, 393, 415 ; 



University Statistics, 354 

 Oxidation, Acceleration of, caused by the least Refrangible End 



of the Spectrum, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 518 

 Oxygen, the Presence of, in the Sun, Dr. Arthur Schuster, 



F.R.S. , 148; R. Meldola, 161; Dr. Henry Draper, 339; 



in Sea-Water, T. Y. Buchanan, 162 ; Liquefaction of, 169, 



I77> 265; the Density of Liquid, 217; the Influence of, on 



Respiration, 252 



Page (F. J. M.), Demonstration of Currents Originated by the 

 Voice in Bell's Telephone, 283 ; the Action of the Telephone 

 on a Capillary Electrometer, 395 



Palmen on the Morphology of the Tracheal System, 284, 340 



Pamir, the Exploration of the, 249, 324 



Paper Trade, International Exhibition of the, 371 



Papuan Plants, 289 



Parker and Bettany's " Morphology of the Skull," 3 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 20, 40, 56, 70, 76, 96, 1 16, 136, 

 156, 195, 216, 236, 251, 256, 276, 316, 356, 376, 396, 409, 

 416, 440, 460, 480, ,500, 520; Vacancy in, 70; Prizes of 

 the 294, 373 ; the Eloge on Buffon, 474. Geographical 

 Society of Paris, 17, 346, 384, 468. Paris International 

 Exhibition, 37 ; the Russian Division in, 350 ; Representation 

 of Science at, 357 ; " £tudes sur I'Exposition de 1878," 371 ; 

 Arabs at, 454. Congresses at Paris, 474 ; Paris Observatory, 

 69, 109, 131, 152, 193, 232, 473; the New Transit Circle at, 

 165. Statistics of the National Library, 92. Telegraphic 

 Warnings of Fires in, 91. Ethnological Museum in the 

 Palais de I'lndustrie, 272, Lectures on Ethnography in, 330. 



Societe d'Hygiene, 310. Statistics of the Press, 311. Elec- 

 tric Lighting in, 437. Association d'Exau"sions Scientifiques, 

 454. Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, 455. the Tuileries 

 Captive Balloon, 454, 491. Underground Railway in, 492 



Pears, Fungoid Disease of, 91 



Pembrokeshire, Dimetian and Pebidian Rocks of, 155 



Peronospora, the Fossil, as a Primordial Plant, Worthington G. 

 Smith, 144 



Persimmon, the Persian, 508 



Pesth, Artesian Well at, 109 ; Centenary of the University, 134 



Petermann's Mittheiluiigen, 17, 90, 253, 408 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), "Inductive Metrology," 357; Age of 

 the Earth, 465 



Petty (T. S.), the Meteor of November 23, 183 



"Phantom" Force, the. Prof. A. S. Herschel, 302, 321, 340 



Pharmaceutical Society, 410 



Phenological Observations during 1877, 236 



Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Science, 296 ; Philadelphia 

 Diplomas, Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 183 ; Dr. Richard C. Bran- 

 deis, 221 



Phipps (Geo. H.), the Earth-worm in Relation to the Fertility of 

 the Soil, 62 



Phoneidoscopic Representation of Vowels and Diphthongs, 447, 

 486 



Phonograph : Edison's, 90, 190, 291, 41$, 469, 485 ; and Helm- 

 holtz's Vowel Theory, Prof. Fleeming Jenkin and J. A. 

 Ewing, 384, 423 



Phosphides of Tin, 151 



Photography : Photography of Natural Colours, 92 ; Photo- 

 graphic Society, 195, 276, 376, 479 ; Photography Fore- 

 shadowed, Dr. J. A. Groshans, 202 ; J. Rand Capron's 

 "Photographic Spectra," 259; Abney's "Photography," 

 378 ; " Photographic Rays of Light," 438 



Phylloxera in Germany, 211 



"Physical Chemistry," N. N. Lubavin, 240 



Physical Society, 55, 115, 135, 175, 295, 394, 415; Annual 

 Meeting, Officers, &c., 315 



Physician's Experiment, 305 



"Physiography," Huxley's, 178 



Physiological Tables, Dr. E. B. Aveling's, 5 



Physiological Teaching and the Cruelty to Animals' Act, Frank 

 W. Young, 45 



Piano, an Organ, E. J. Reed, M.P., F.R.S., 453 



Pic-du-Midi Observatory, 409 



Pictet (M. Raoul), on the Liquefaction of the Gases, 292 ; 

 Honorary Degree to, 436 



Pidgeon (D.), the Phonograph, 415 



Pig-iron, Separation of Phosphorus from, 459 



Pigott's Observations of Variable Stars, 323 



Pile-Dwellings, and English Lake-DweUings, Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones, F.R.S., 424 



"Pioneering in South Brazil," T. P. Biggs-Wither, 423 



Pirani (Prof. F. J.), an Electrical Experiment, 180 



Piscicultural Institute, the Proposed Channel Isles, W. A. 

 Lloyd, 143 



Pitch, Absolute, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 12 



Pitury, the new Stimulant, 492 



Planets, Minor, 46, 63, 83, 210, 306, 344, 382, 488, 507 



Plant and Animal Life, Analogies of, Francis Darwin, 388, 41 1 



Plante (M, Gaston), Electrical Analogies with Natural Pheno- 

 mena, 226, 385 



Plants : Ferment in, 455 ; the Carbon of, 344 ; Self-Fertilisa- 

 tion of, 221 ; the First Stages of Development in, 433'j 



Plateau Films, Permanent, 175 



Plestiodon longirostris, 425 



Plummer (J, L), Aid of the Sun in Relation to Evolution, 303, 360 



Poaching Birds, 509 



Polar Expeditions, International, E. J. Reed, C.B., 29 



Polyzoa, French, 382 



Pongo, Death of the Gorilla, 70 ; Dissection of, 89 



Potential Energy, 9, 27, 81 



Pouchet, Monument to, 108 



Pourtales (L. P.), Effiscts of the Urticating Organs of Millepora 

 on the Tongue, 27 



Powell (Major J. W.), Ethnology of North America, 53 



Preston (S. Tolver), on a Means of Convening the Heat Motion 

 Possessed by Matter at Normal Temperatiu-e into Work, 

 202 ; on the Diffiision of Matter in Relation to the Second 

 Law of Thermodynamics, 31 ; the Age of the Sun's Heat in 

 Relation to Geological Evidence, 423 



