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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. i8, 1875 



Polariscope, Revolving, W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., and Prof. 

 Adamson, 99 



Poljakow (M.), Journey to the Upper Volga, 134 



Pollution of Rivers, E. C. Potter, 220 



Polynesia, Bibliography of the Zoology of, 412 



Polynesians, Supposed Degeneracy of, by S. J. Whitmee, 471 



Poncelet, Prizes at the French Academy, 35 



Poplars, Disease in, by W. Wilson Saunders, 59 



Population of the Earth, 96 



Portsmouth and Bristol, Sanitary Condition of, 396, 435 



Portugal, Latouche's Travels in, 135, 185 " 



Potash and Phosphoric Acid, Report on, 439 



Potassium Dichromate in Batteries, B. J. Fairley on, "464 



Potato Disease, 196, 214, 234, 263 



Prehistoric Remains, Discovery of, 262 



Prehistoric Times, M. G. de Mortil let's Lectures on, 96 



Pressure of Atmosphere on Human Life, Influence of, 472 



Prestoe (H.) on Boiling Lake in Dominica, 173; on Coffee- 

 growing in Dominica, 1 73 



Price's Retort Furnace, 433 



Primine and Secundine, W. T. T. Dyer on, 107 



Primroses and Cowslips, 7, 34, 87, 108 



Protection of Indigenous Animals, 404 



Prouy (M.), Tables of Logarithms, 117 



Pryor (R. A.), Destruction of Flowers by Birds, 26 



Pugnacity of Rabbits and Hares, by G. J. Romanes, 476 



Pyridine and Chinoline Bases, 417 



Pyrometer, Electrical Resistance (See Siemens) 



" Pythagorean Triangles," W. Allen Whitworth on, 320 



Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society, No. 15, 427 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 16, 242, 546 



Quekett Microscopical Society, 284 



Queensland, Cultivation of Coffee in, 426 



Queensland, Route between, and New South Wales, 135 



Rabbits and Hares, G. J. Romanes on Pugnacity of, 476 



Radcliffe Observatory, Meteor observed at, 426 ; Report, 219 



Radiation of Heat, Prof. O. Reynolds on, 405 



Radiometer, Mr. Crookes', 58 



Radstock, the Lias about, 119 



Railway Accidents, Statistics of, 345 



Railway Jubilee at Darlington, 483 



Rain, Spectroscopic /r^'Wj-/^;; of, Piazzi Smith, 231, 252 



Rainbow, Lunar, 329, 397 



Rainfall of Great Britain, 76, lo6 ; of France, 279; of Athens, 



159; Observation of Iowa, U.S., 483 

 Rats and Mice, Tails of, G. J. Romanes, 515 

 Raulin (Prof. V.), Inundations in France, 426; on the Rainfall 



at Athens, 159 ; on Rainfall of France, 279 

 Rawlinson (Prof), The Ethnogi-aphy of the Cimbrij 466 

 Ray Society, Annual Meeting at Bristol, 387 

 Rayleigh (Lord), Vibration of a Liquid in a Cylindrical Vessel, 



251 

 " Reale Istituto Lombardo," 198, 221, 448, 567 

 Reason and Humour in Animals, G. J. Romanes, 66 

 " Reason" and " Instinct," James Hutchings, 330 

 "Reboisement en France," Dr. Croumbie Brown's, 15 

 Recent French Mathematical Publications, 32 

 Reed (Sir Chas.) on the Gresham Lectures, 34 

 Reflector, Large, at the Paris Observatory, 538 

 Refraction of Sound, Prof. O. Reynolds, on the, 373 

 Refractor, A Monster, 517 

 Reichert und Du Bois-Reymond's Archiv fiir Anatomic, Physio- 



logie, &c., 303 

 Remusat, the Death of, 135 

 " Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell' accademia delle scienze dell' 



Istituto di Bologna," 467 

 Repertorium Naturwissenschaften, 290 

 Reptile House in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 54 

 Reye (Prof) on Rain and the Barometic Minimum, 78 

 Reynolds (Osborne), the Attraction and Repulsion caused by 



the Radiation of Heat, 6, 125 ; on the Force caused by the 



communication of Heat between a Surface and a Gas, 405 ; 



on the Refraction of Sound by the Atmosphere, 373 

 Rhabdomancy and Belomancy, 443 

 Rhadames, M. Largeau's Expedition to, 562 

 Rhtetic Beds of Aust Cliff, Fossil Bones from, 407 

 Rhinoceros, two Horned, at Zoological Gardens, 220 

 Rhinoceroses, African, 183 



Rhone, the. Canal between Marseilles and, 96 



Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), A City of Health, 523, 542 



Riga Society of Naturalists, 157 



Riley (C), Curious habits of Insects, 527 ; Locusts as Food, 482 ; 



Report on Insects of Missouri, U.S., 195, 244 

 Rink (Dr.), Tiie Geography of Greenland, 103 ; on the Interior 



of Greenland, 241 

 Rivers, the Regulations of, 258 

 Roberts (W. C), Report on Gold Assays, 437 

 Rocks at Ufracombe, by Wm. S. Tuke, 312 ; Report on Ther- 

 mal Conductivities of, 438 

 Rodwell (G. F.), Hinrich's Principles of Chemistry, 288 

 Rohlfs (Dr. ), Map of Travels in Africa, 96 

 Rolleston (Dr., F.R.S. ), Address on Craniology at Brit. Ass., 



382 ; Excavations in Cissbury Camp, Worthing, 418 

 Romanes (G. J.), Instinct and Acquisition, 553; Pugnacity of 



Rabbits and Hares, 476 ; Sense of Humour and Reason in 



Animals, 66; Tails of Rats and Mice, 515 

 Roper's " Flora of Eastbourne," 290 

 Rothesay, Aquarium at, 116 

 Rotifera, Dr. C. T. Hudson on, 413 

 " Rotomahana, and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand," D. 



L. Mundy, 532 

 Rough Hound Fish at Stockport Aquarium, 174 

 Roumania, Geographical Society in, 54 

 Rowland (H. A.), appointment at Hopkins University, U.S., 



457 ; on the Magnetising Function of Iron, &c., 406 

 Rowley (G. D.), "Ornithological Miscellany," 106 

 Royal College of Science in Dublin, Exhibitions at, 483 

 Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction, &c., 219 (6"?^ Science 



Commission) 

 Royal Institution, Annual Meeting, 15 

 Royal Society, 17, 37, 157; Reception, 53, 95; New Fellows 



of, 115 

 Royer (M. Ch.) on the Cause of the Sleep of Flowers, 484 

 Rugby Natural History Society Report, 138 

 Russian Expedition to Hissar, 388 

 Rutherford (W., M.D.), " Practical Histology," 433 

 Rutley (Frank) on Structure of Felspar, 1 19 



Sachs (Prof.), his History of Botany, 54, 107 ; Text-Book of 



Botany, 62 

 Safes, New Lock for, 461 

 Sahara, Expedition to, 135 

 Salzwedel, Rock-Salt discovered near, 76 

 St. Andrews, Professorship of Medicine, 280 

 St. Louis (U. S.), Transactions of the Academy of, 359 

 Saint Robert (M. de), "Mathematical Memoirs," Reprint of, 32 

 St. Thomas Charterhouse School of Science, 219 

 St. Thomas, Earthquake at, 167 

 Salmon Ova at New Zealand, 195 

 Salona, the Long Wall of, 140 

 Salt Lake, Great, Former Level of, 299 

 Salt Rock, discovered near Salzwedel, 76 

 Sandal Vert, 49 

 Sanders (Mr.), Fossil Bones from the Rhaelic Beds of Aust 



Cliff, 407 

 Sanderson (Dr.), Report on the Pathology of Contagion, 471 

 Sandwich Islands, Bibliography of the Zoology of, 412 

 Sanitary State of Bristol and Portsmouth, by W. J. Black, 396 

 Satellites of Uranus and Neptune, 496 

 Saturn, M. Leverrier's Theory and Tables of, 331, 397 

 Saunder (S. Q.), on a new form of Leclanche's Cell, 564 ' 

 Saunders (J.), List of Dr. J. E. Gray's Works, 195 

 Saunders ( W. Wilson), Disease in Poplars, 59 

 Savaii, Changes of Level in, by Richard Webb, 475 

 Saville-Kent (W.), Congo Snake at the Manchester Aquarium, 



69, 87 

 Sawyer (Amos), Climate of Illinois, 563 

 Saxifraga TridactyliUs and Carnivorous Plants, 54 

 Sayce (Rev. A. IL), The Astronomy of the Babylonians, 489; 



on Language and Race, 59 

 Scalping, 368, 496 



Scammon (Capt. C. N.), Marine Mammals of North America, 55 

 Scarlet Fever and Weather, by Dr. A. Mitchell, 520 

 Scheele (Dr.) on the Transposition of the Viscera, 484 

 Schiaparelli (Prof), Eclipse of 1239, 167 

 .Schjellerup's Translation of Sufi's Fixed Stars, 1 88 

 Schleswig Holstein, Sturgeon Fisheries of, 196 

 Schmidt (Dr. J.), the Zodiacal Light, 436 



