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INDEX 



[Nature, Jtine 7, \X 



Paget, Sir James, Scientific Study, 442 



Palaeontology : Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der 



Permformation Bohmens, Dr. Ant. Fritsch, 244 

 Palagi (Prof. F.), Constitution of Fogs and Clouds, 404 

 Palawan, Return of John Whitehead from, iii 

 Panama Canal, M. de Lesseps, 310 

 Panorama, a Toy, M. Benoist, 89 

 Paquelin, (M.), a New Eolipyle, 504 

 Parallax of Mars, C. E. Stromeyer, 302 

 Parallax, Solar, on the Value of, M. Cruls, 215 

 Parameters, on the Number of, which determine the Displace- 

 ment of a Kinematic Chain, P. Somoff, 525 

 •Paraxanthin, Physiological Action of. Dr. Salomon, 215 

 Paris: Paris Academy of Sciences, 22, 47, 71, 96, 120, 143, 

 166, 191, 214, 239, 263, 288, 310, 335, 360, 384, 407, 432, 

 45S> 479> 504. 527, 551, 575, 600, 624; List of Successful 

 Competitors for the Annual Prizes, 239 ; Astronomical Prizes 

 of the, 259 ; Paris Observatory, Observations of the Minor 

 Planets made with the Great Meridian of, 47 ; Medals 

 awarded by the Paris Geographical Society, 211 ; Proposed 

 New Professorship at the Paris Faculty of Sciences, 230 ; 

 Proposed Museum of Religions in Paris, 233 ; Paris Astro- 

 nomical Society, 240 ; Distribution of Prizes, 240 ; Paris 

 Catalogue of Astronomy, 569 ; the Chair of Darwinism in 

 Paris, 256 ; Defective Distribution of Waterpipes in the 

 Paris Medical School, 258 ; Rainfall of Paris, M. Renon, 

 542 

 Parker (E. H.), the Japanese Language, 157 

 Parker (W. K., F. R.S.), on Secondary Carpals of Carinate 



Birds, 333 

 Parker (Prof. W. N.), Models illustrating the Modification of 



the Arterial Arches in Vertebrates, 499 

 Pasteur (M. ) : Bressa Prize awarded to, 327 ; and Australian 



Rabbit Plague, 421 

 Pattison (S. R.), Gospel Ethnology, 293 

 Patton (Dr. F. L.) appointed President of Princeton College, 



421 

 Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 



Important Additional Collections to the, 15 

 Peaks of the Pyrenees, M. Leotard, 493 

 Peary (R. E.), Account of his Journey into the Interior of 



Greenland, 37 

 Peddie (W.): Transition-Resistance and Polarization at Platinum 

 Surfaces, 383 ; on Transition-Resistance at the Surface of 

 Platinum Electrodes, and the Action of Condensed Gaseous 

 Films, 578 ; on New Determinations of the Electric Resist- 

 ance of Liquids, 527 

 Pedler (Prof. A.), Disastrous Storm at Orissa, 68 

 Pembry (M. S. ), Weasels killing Frogs, 321 

 -Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor, William Cockran, 126 

 Pendulum, Note on the Oscillations of a, produced by the Dis- 

 placement of the Axis of Suspension, E. Ronkar, 23 

 Pendulum Seismometers, Prof. John Milne, 570 

 Penfield (S, L.) and E. B. Dana, on the CrystaUine Form of 



Polianite, 500 

 Pengelly (Prof. Wm., F.R.S.), Star of Bethlehem, 221 

 People's Lectures, Success of, 139 

 People's Palace, Exhibition of the Work of London Apprentices 



at the, 156 

 Perception of Colour, C. E. Stromeyer, 79 

 Perichaeta, the Nephridia of, F. E. Beddard, 309 

 Period of Algol, S. C. Chandler, 544 

 'Periodic Law, Donald Murray, 247 

 Peronospora of the Grape Vine, Prof G. Cuboni, 525 

 Perpetual Motion, Prof Hele Shaw, 254 

 Perpignan Meteorological Observatory, 328 

 ^Perrier (Edmond), Star-fish, 504 

 Penier (General), Death of, 397 



Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Storage of Electrical Energy, 

 Gustav Plante, 50 ; and Prof. W. E. Ayrton, on the Magnetic 

 Circuit in Dynamo Machines, 502 

 Perspective, Hand-book of, Henry A. James, 509 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 380 

 Petermann's Mitteiiungen, 286 



-Petrography, Prof. Von H. Rosenbusch, F, H. Hatch, 458 

 Petroleum as Fuel for Marine Engines, 89 

 Petrology, Prof Rosenbusch's Work on. Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., 509, 556 

 Pettersen (Dr. Karl), on the State of Drift-ice in the Arctic 

 Seas, 16 



Phenological Observations for 1887, 214 



Phenyl-thio-carbimide, Optical Properties of, H. G. Madan, 

 165 



Philips' Handy Volume Atlas of the British Empire, 126 



Phillips (William), Manual of British Discomycetes, 340 



Phosphites of Ammonia, 48 



Phosphorescent, on an Ancient Process for rendering Gems and 

 Vitrifications, M. Berthelot, 407 



Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables, C. F. Holder, 411 



Phosphorus and Phosphoric Acid in Vegetation, MM. Berthelot 

 and G. Andre, 504 



Photography : Experiments on Penetration of Light into Water, 

 Pro^ F. A. Forel, 88, 575 ; Photography in Colours, Carey Lea, 

 88; Proposed Photographic Exhibition, 187 ; Proposed Lec- 

 tures on Photographic Chemistry, Prof R. Meldola, F.R.S., 

 231 ; the British Journal, Photographic Almanac, and Photo- 

 grapher's Daily Companion for i88b, 293 ; Photograph of 

 the Solar Eclipse of August 19, 311 ; Photography Simpli- 

 fied, 363 ; a Photographic Objective, Sir Howard Grubb, 

 F.R.S., 439; a Treatise on Photography, Captain Abney, 

 F.R. S., 461 ; Photographing the Flight of Birds, AL Marey, 

 474 ; Photographic and Photo-mechanical Printing Processes, 

 W. K. Burton, 485 ; New Nebulce discovered in the Pleiades 

 by means of Photography, 551 ; the New Photographic Ob- 

 jective, Prof. Edward C. Pickering, 558 ; Photography in the 

 Determination of the Motions of Stars in the Line of Sight, 

 Dr. Higgins, 616 



Phylloxera, New Remedy for, 353 



Physical Chemistry, Dr. Wilh. Ostwald, M. M, Pattison Muir, 

 241 



Physical Geography : Height and Volume of the Dry Land 

 and the Depth and Volume of the Ocean, John Murray, 239 ; 

 the Insular Flora of California in Relation to Physical Geo- 

 graphy, J. Le Conte, 358 ; Recent Journeys along the Coast 

 of Greenland, 546 



Physical Science and the Woolwich Examinations, 296, 319, 385, 



409. 433 



Physical Society, 119, 165, 216, 407, 453, 502 



Physical Society of Berlin, 455 



Physiography, Elementary, by J. Thornton, 485 



Physiography, Elementary Text-book, W. Mawer, 341 



Physiology : Adenin, Prof. Kossel, 168 ; Mucous Cells in In- 

 vertebrates, Dr. Rawitz, 168 ; Prof. Martin's Method of 

 isolating the Mammalian Heart, 215 ; Mr. Seebohm on 

 Physiological Selection, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 246; 

 Physiological Society of Berlin, 336, 480 ; on Electrical 

 Excitation of the Monkey's Brain, Prof. Schafer, F.R. S., 574 ; 

 Comparison of Latency Periods of Ocular Muscles on Excita- 

 tion of Brain, Prof. Schafer, F. R. S., 574 



Pickering (I'rof. Edward C), the New Photographic Objective, 

 558 



Pickering (S. U.), Calcium Chloride, 551 



Pictet's (Prof), Experiments with his Ice Machines, 167 



Pidgeon (D. ), a Green Fern, 440 



Pieris rapcB, on Colour-relation between the Pupse of, and their 

 Immediate Surroundings, by W. White, 503 



Pile-Dwellings, Lacustrine and Lake Villages and, M. Pompeo 

 Castelfranco, 163 



Pinkerton (R. IL), Dynamics and Hydrostatics, 412 



Finns insignis. Dispersal of the Seed in, 550 



Pioneer of Allahabad and Cyclonic Storms, 422 



Pisciculture in Bengal, by Nidhiram Mookerjee, 494 



Pisciculture : the Black Boss, 569 



Place-Names, Dictionary of, C. Blackie, 151 



Planets, Occultations of Stars by, 284 ; A. Berberich, 234 ; the 

 Planet Mercury, 151 ; W. F. Denning, 178 ; Observations 

 of the New, Peter's (270), 47; Names of Minor, 114; New 

 Minor, 140, 353, 616 



Plantamour's Observations of Periodic Ground Movements, 257 



Plante (Gaston), Storage of Electrical Energy, Prof. John 

 Perry, F.R.S., 50 



Planting Waste Saline Tracts, M. Maries, 493 



Plants : and Animals, Importance of the Nutritive Function in 

 determining the Distinction between, 144 ; on the Growth 

 and Origin of Multicellular, Geo. Massee, 163 ; Alexipharmic 

 Plants, D. Morris, 257 ; on the Anajsthesis and Poisoning of 

 Plants, Dr. Flaminio Tassi, 308 ; Atlas of the Distribution of 

 Plants, 362 ; on the Absorption of Saline Substances by, 

 Berthelot and Andre, 527, 551 ; Dispersion of Seeds and. Dr. 

 Antonio J. Amadeo, 535 



