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INDEX 



'XXI II 



Neesen (Prof.), an Ether Calorimeter, 312 



Negreano (M.,), Measurement of the Velocity of Etherification, 



192 

 Nehring (Prof.), on the Origin of the Dog, 87 

 Neolithic Skull, Dr. P. Topinard on, 212 

 Neolithic and Palreolithic Finds in Southern India, Bruce Foote, 



87 

 Nephridia, the, of Earthworms, Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer, 



197 ; Frank E. Beddard, 221 

 Nerve, Transplantation of, from Rabbit to Man, 88 

 Nerve-Centres and their Modes of Action in expressing Thought, 



Dr. Francis Warner, 238 

 Nerves : on the Comparison of theCranial with the Spinal, Dr. 



W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 19; Note on some of the Motor 



Functions of certain Cranial Nerves, and of the Three First 



CervicalNerves in the Monkey (Macacus sinicus), Dr. Charles 



E. Beevor and Victor Horsley, F.R.S., 357 

 Nervous System, Anatomy of the Central, of Vertebrate 



Animals, Alfred Sanders, 92 

 Nervous System and the Mind, the, Dr. Chas. Mercier, 7 

 Nesting Habit of the House Sparrow, G. L. Grant, 590 

 Netchayeff (M.), on Fossils of Caspian Sea, 160 

 Neutral Chloride of Platinum, M. Engel, 396 

 New Cross Institute, the Goldsmiths' Company, Proposed, 574 

 New England Medusae, on, J. Walter Fewkes, 137 

 New Guinea, British, 555 

 New Guinea, Explorations and Adventures in, Captain John 



Strachan, 315 

 New South Wales : the Minerals of, A. Liversidge, 75 ; Journal 



of the Royal Society of, 206 

 New York Blizzard, 204 

 New Zealand : Reports on the Geological Survey of, 53 ; the 



Plague of Rabbits in, 87 ; Fossil Fish Remains from, 137 ; 



Sir Walter Buller's History of the Birds .of, 159; Deer in, 



328 ; Earthquakes in, 452 

 Newman (Edward), Birdsnesting and Bird-skinning, a Com- 

 plete Description of the Nests and Eggs of Birds which breed 



in Britain, 587 

 Newton (Prof. Alfred, F. R. S.) : the Renewed Irruption of 



Syrrhaptes, 103, 295 ; the Boys' Yarrell, 145 

 Newton (Prof. H. A.), the Orbits of Aerolites, 63, 250 

 Newton (Sir Isaac), Bibliography of the Works of, 184 

 Nicholls (H. A. Alford), Fauna and Flora of the Lesser Antilles, 



566 

 Nichols (Prof.), on Carbon and Copper Combined to form a 



Compensated Resistance Standard, 232 

 Nicholson (Prof. H. A.) and J. E. Marr, the Stockdale Shales, 



118 

 Nickel, Magnetic Qualities of, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 117, 336 

 Nicobar Islands, Colonel Strahin, 115 ; E. H. Man, 287 ; Dr. 



Svoboda, 501 

 Nicol (Dr.), Report of the British Association Committee on 



the Properties of Solutions, 596 

 Niesten (L.), Physical Aspects of Mars during the Opposition of 



1888, 511 

 Night, Sky-coloured Clouds at, R. T. Omond, 220 

 Nile Delta, the Borings in the, Colonel Turner, 63 

 Nde Waters, Analysis of the, M. A. Muntz, 360 

 Nilson (Prof.) and Prof. Pettersson, Vapour-Densities of Chromic 



Chlorides, 624 

 Nitrogen, Remarks on the Quantitative Analysis of, in Vegetable 



Soils, MM. Berthelot and G. Andre, 359, 408 

 Nitrophenol, Metallic Derivates of Ortho- and Para-nitrophenol, 



Prof. Carnelly and Mr. J. Alexander, 141 

 Nomenclature of Determinants, Dr. Thos. Muir, 589 

 Non-Chinese Races of China, Mr. Bourne's Report on the, 345 

 North America : Synoptical Flora of, Prof. Asa Gray, J. G. 



Baker, F. R. S., 242; the Stratigraphical Succession of the 



Cambrian Faunas in, Prof. Chas. B. Walcott, 551 

 North Atlantic Ocean, Pilot Charts of, 86, 143, 204, 303, 574 

 Norway : Earthquakes in, 16, 42 : Dr. Hans Reusch's Report 



on, 326 ; Ancient Canoe found in, 134 ; Cod and Whale 



Fisheries in the North of, 160 ; Implements found in Mound 



at Ogue, 205 ; Intense Heat in, 304 ; Ring-Throstle Nesting 



in, 304 : Norwegian Geology, Dr. Hans Reusch, 194 ; Nor- 

 wegian Greenland Expedition, 302, 372, 492, 527 

 Nose-Blackening as Preventive of Snow-Blindness, Prof. E. 



Ray Lankester, F.R.S., Edmund J. Power, 7; Dr. Robert 



L. Bowles, 101 ; A. J. Duffield, 172 



Nossilof's Exploration of Novaya Zemlya, 555 



Novaya Zemlya, Nossilof's Exploration of, 555 



Numbers, the Cardinal, Manley Hopkins, 27 



Numbers, Prime, on certain Inequalities Relating to, Prof. J. 



J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 259 

 Numerical Examples in Practical Mechanics and Machine 



Design, Robert G. Blaine, 563 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, July, 431 



Observatories: American Observatories, 231, 626; Heligoland 

 Observatory, 205 ; Jubilee of Kazan, 186 ; the Lick, 257 ; 

 Publications of, 43 ; Forthcoming Hand-book of the, 113; 

 Prof. Edward S. Holden on the, 355 ; Central Meteorological, 

 of Mexico, 454 ; Oxford University Observatory, 227 ; Pro- 

 posed Connection between Paris and Greenwich, 527 ; Pro- 

 jected Astronomical, at Pekin, 302 ; Yale College Observatory, 

 397 



Ocean Currents, Distribution of Animals and Plants by, A. W. 

 Buckland, 245 ; Isaac C. Thompson, 270 



Odstreil (Dr. Johann), Death of, 277 



Ohm, Determination of the, M. H. Wuilleumier, 168 



Oil, Use of, in Smoothing Waves in Stormy Weather, 16 



Omond (R. T.), Sky-Coloured Clouds at Night, 220 



Oolitic and Carboniferous Rocks, Horace Woodward, 597 



Ophiuchi, U, Light-Curve of, S. C. Chandler, 576 



Opossum, Monkey and, 257 



Oppert (Prof.), on the Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsa, 373 



Optical Model, on an, Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., 287 



Optics, Experiments on Fechner's Psycho-physical Law in 

 Relation to Sense of Sight, Dr. A. Konig, 464 



Orbits of Aerolites, on the, 11. A. Newton, 250 



Organic Substances, the Slow Combustion of, Th. Schlcesing, 

 48 



Organs, Functionless, the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 341, 411 ; 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 364 ; J. T. Hurst, 364; 

 Prof. J. Burdon- Sanderson, F.R.S., Samuel F. Wilson, 387; 

 J. J. Murphy, 41 1 ; William White, 412 



Origin and Causation of Vital Movement, on the, Dr. W. 

 Kiihne, 627 



Origin, the, and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic 

 Heathendom, Prof. J Rhys, 361 



Origin of Species, Dr. Eimer on the, 123 



Orndorff and Jessel, the Chemistry of Modern MetliDd of 

 Manufacturing Chloroform, 598 



Ornithology : on the Reappearance of Pallas's Sand Grouse 

 (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) in Europe, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 53, 77, 

 342 ; F. M. Campbell, 77 ; Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S , 103, 

 112, 295; a Specimen presented to the Zoological Gardens, 

 132; W. B. Tegetmeier on, 230; the Geographical Dis- 

 tribution of the Family Charadriida;, Henry Seebohm, R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 73 ; the Birds of Dorsetshire a Contribution 

 to the Natural History of the County, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, 125 ; Notes on the Birds of Hereford- 

 shire, Henry Graves Bull, Prof. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 125 ; the 

 Illustrated Manual of British Birds, Howard Saunders, Prof. 

 Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 145 ; Ring-Throstle Nesting in 

 Norway, 304; Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 

 and W. H. Hudson, 587 ; British Birds, Key List, Lieut. - 

 Colonel L. Howard Irby, 587 ; Birdsnesting and Bird- 

 skinning, a Complete Description of the Nests and Eggs of 

 Birds which Breed in Britain, Edward Newman, Prof. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 587 ; Bird Pests of the Farm, 599 



Osborn (H. F.), Structure and Classification of Mesozoic 

 Mammalia, 611 



Osmium, Atonic Weight of, Prof. Seubert, 183 



Osteology of Porzaua Carolina, 279 



Oudemans (J. A. C), on Airy's Double-Image Micrometer, 120 



Ouvrard (M. L.) : on the Action of the Alkaline Phosphates on 

 the Alkaline-Earthy Oxides, 168 ; on some New Double 

 Phosphates in the Magnesium Series, 216 



Owen Stanley Peak, Forbes on his Attempts to reach the, 424 



Owens College, 41 



Oxalic, Malonic, Succinic, and Methyl-Succinic Acids, on the 

 Relative Toxicity of, and of their Sodium Salts, Dr. Heymans, 

 360 



Oxford : Geography at, Mr. Mackinder, 423 ; University 

 Observatory, 227 



