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INDEX 



[Nat we, Nov. 22, 1S88 



Oxygen Furnace, Fletcher's Compressed, 606 

 Oxygen, Spectrum of, Dr. Janssen on, 605 

 Oyster Banks of Denmark, the, 114,' 553 



Ozone, on the Production of, by Electric Streaks, MM. Iiichat 

 and Guntz, 384 



Fagus-Cap-Sizun, Cap du Raz, on the Population of the 

 Ancient, MM. Le Carguet and P. Topinard, 212 



Palaeolithic Type, Implement of, in America, 184 



Palaeontology : Les Ancetres de Nos Animaux dans les Temps 

 Geologiques, Albert Gaudry, 4 ; Stratigraphic Palaeontology 

 in Relation to Man, Marcellin Boule, 211, 431 ; Palaeonto- 

 logical Society, 239 : a Quaternary Equidean, M. Poliakoff, 

 309 ; Palaeontology in Austria- Hungary, M. M. Homes, 

 357; Testudo perplniana, P. Fi-cher, 464 



Palaeozoic Formations, some Questions connected with the 

 Problems presented by the Crystalline Schists, together with 

 Contributions to their Solution from the, Prof. K. A. Lossen, 

 522 



Palestine, the White Race of, Prof. A. H. Sayce, 321 



Palgrave (W. Gifl'ord), Death of, 552 



Palisa (Herr) and M. Charlois, New Minor Planets, 43 



Palisa (279), Observations of New Planet, MM. Rambaud and 



Sy, 143 



Pallas's Sand Grouse {Syrrhapies paradoxus), on the Reappear- 

 ance of, in Europe, 103, 112, 158, 295 ; Dr. A. B. Meyer, 53, 

 77, 342 ; F. M. Campbell, 77 ; in Denmark, W. B. Teget- 

 meier, 230 ; presented to the Zoological Gardens, 132 



Paper, Botanical Drying, 183 



Parasites of the Hessian Fly, 221 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71,95, 118, 143, 168, 191, 

 215, 239, 263, 288, 311, 359, 383. 408, 43i> 463. 488, 512, 

 529, 560, 583, 608, 631 ; Paris Geographical Society, 66 ; 

 Report of Paris Observatory, 179 ; Terrestrial Globe at the 

 Exhibition of 1889, 183 ; Projected Scientific Congresses in 

 Paris, 255 ; Professorship of the Darwinian Theory at the 

 Sorbonne, 276 ; Introduction of Electricity into the Paris 

 Omnibus Service, 527 ; Astronomical Society, 336 ; Revue 

 d'Anthropologie, 357; Anthropological Exhibition, 371 



Parish Patches, A. Nicol Simpson, 341 



Parkes Museum, 485 



Parkhurst (Henry M.), Photometric Observations of Asteroids, 



554 

 Parnell (J.), Transparency of the Atmosphere, 270 

 Pasteur (M.), Cure of Cholera by Inoculation. 395 

 Patents, Designs, and Trade- Marks, Report of the Comptroller- 

 General, 349 

 Pavie (M.), Indo-China Explorations, 424 

 Peabody Institute, the Library of the, 229 

 Pearls, Chemical Composition of, George Harley, F.R. S., and 



H. S. Harley, 21 

 Pekelhering (M.), on the Proliferation of EndotheUum-Cells in 



Arteries, 216 

 Pekin, Projected Astronomical Observatory at„302 

 Pendulum : on a Point in the History of the, M. Defforges and 



M. C. Wolf, 191 ; Experiments with a Non-Oscillating, M. 



A. Boillot, 192 

 Pendulum Seismograph, Duplex, Prof. J. A. Rwing, 30 

 Perchloride of Gallium, on the Vapour-Density of the, M. C. 



Friedel and J. M. Crafts, 384 

 Perlewitz (Dr.), Aperiodic Variations of Temperature, 119 

 Perrotin (M.) : Observations of the Channels in Mars, 95, 216, 



258, 311 ; the Rings of Saturn, 216 

 Perry (Prof. J., F.R.S.): Apparatus for the Measurement of 



the Coefficient of Expansion by Heat, 141 ; and Prof. W. E. 



Ayrton, on Electromotor?, 190 

 Perseite, Maquenne, 608 

 Personal Identification and Description, Francis Galton, F.R. S., 



173, 201 

 Persulphide of Hydrogen, the Composition of, Dr. Rebs, 



278 

 Petermann's Mittheilungen, 601 

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



Chromic Chlorides, 624 

 Petrography, British, T- J. Harris Teall, Prof. John W. Tudd, 



F.R.S., 385 

 Petrology, Prof. Rosenbusch's Work on, 30 

 Pflanzen-Teratologie, Maxwell T. Masters, 341 



Pharmacolite : Artificial Production of, M. Dufet, 17 ; Optical 

 Properties of, 23 



Phenacite and the Emerald, Reproduction of, 240 



Philippine Archipelago : Storms in the, 16 ; the Tamaron of 

 the, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S , 363 ; Vulcanic Eruption in, 

 528 



Phillips (W. S.), E. M. Langley and, the Harpur Euclid, 218 



Philo-ophical Society of Cambridge, 215 



Philosophy from an Anthropological Point of View, Dr. Fau- 

 velle, 462 



Philothion, J. de Rey-Pailhade, 264 



Phipson (H. M.), the Poisonous Snakes of the Bombay 

 Presidency, 284 



Phosphates, on some New Double, in the Magnesian Series, M. 

 L. Ouvrad, 216 



Photography : Photograph of the Eye by Flash of Magnesium, 

 Prof Claude du Bois-Reymond, 15 ; Photographic Chart of 

 the Heavens, 38, 180 ; Photographic Survey of the Heavens, 

 International, Astronomical Instruments for, Sir H. Roscoe, 

 M.P., F.R.S , 325 ; Anschutz's Instantaneous Photographs, 

 119: Proposed International Exhibition of Amateur Photo- 

 graphs and Photographic Apparatus in Vienna, 132 ; Lightning 

 Photographs, 203 ; Lightning Photographs, Ch. Moussette, 

 432 ; Photography of Lightning, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 

 244 ; Landscape Photography, by H. P. Robinson, 230 ; 

 Meeting of the Photographic Convention, Birmingham, 276 ; 

 Adaption of a Telescope for Photography, 257 ; the Photo- 

 grapher's Note-book, Sir David Salomons, 269 ; an Intro- 

 duction to the Science and Practice of Photography, Chapman 

 Jones, 563 ; the Beginner's Guide to Photography, 588 ; the 

 Solar Parallax from Photographs of the Last Transit of 

 Venus, 600 



Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar 

 Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886, on the Determination of the, 

 Captain W. de W. Abney, F. R. S. , and T. E. Thorpe, 407 



Photometric Observations of Asteroids, Henry M. Parkhurst, 



554 



Photometry of Colour, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S. 



Photometry of Colour, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S. 

 Major-General Festing, F.R.S., 212 



Physical Balance, Theory and Use of, J. Walker, 146 



Physical Geography, Eclectic, Russell Hinman, 615 



Physical Society, 22, 94, 141, 190, 213, 286 



Physician, the. as Naturali>t, Prof. Gairdner, 347 



Physics and Chemistry, Amplications of Dynamics to, J. 

 Thomson, F.R.S., 585 



Physics, Molecular, an Attempt at a Comprehensive Dynamical 

 Treatment of Physical and Chemical Forces, Prof. F. Linde- 

 mann, G. W. de Tunzelmann, 404, 458, 578 



Physics in Schools, Teaching of, 500 



Physiology : Physiological Society of Berlin, 96, 240 ; an 

 Elementary Text-book of Phy.-iology, J. McGregor Robertson, 

 99; a Text-book of Physiology, J. C. McKendrick, F.R.S., 

 Dr. L. C. Wooldridge, 489 ; a Text-book of Physiology, M. 

 Foster, F.R.S., 564; Prof. Gad on Prof. Fick's Scheme of 

 Blood-pressuie in the Capillaries, 120 ; the Blood-vessels of the 

 Eye in Carnivora, Dr. H. Virchow, 264 ; the Nerve-endings 

 in Unstriated Muscle-fibres of Medicinal Leech, Dr. Heymans, 

 264 ; Further Researches on the Physiology of the Invertebrata, 

 A. B. Griffiths, F.R.S. Edir.., 285 ; the Minute Structure of 

 Striated Vessels in Vertebrata and Arthropoda, 264 ; Pulsa- 

 tion in the Lower Animal Organisms, Dr. de Bruyne, 310 



Pickering (Prof. Edward C), the Progress of the Henry Draper 

 Memorial, 306 



Pidgeon (D. ) : Sonorous Sands, 590 ; a Shell-Collector's Diffi- 

 culty, 590 



Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, 16, 86, 20.1, 303, 422, 



574 

 Pink Pearl, the Land of the, L. D. Powles, 101 

 Pisciculture : Export of Salmon Ova to the Argentine Republic, 



114 ; Acclimatization of Salmonidae in Tasmania, P. S. Seager, 



528 

 Pitt-Rivers (Lieut. -General, F.R.S.), Opening Address in 



Section H (Anthropology) at the British Association, 516, 



542 

 Placentation of the Lemurs, an Additional Contribution to the, 



Prof. Sir William Turner, F.R.S., 190 

 Plagyodus (Atepisaurus) ferox, 349 

 Planchon (M. Victor), on the Quantitative Analysis of Glycerine 



by Oxidation, 360 



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