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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1879 



Munich Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Members of, 



352 



Miinster : Zoological Exhibition at, 434 ; Whirlwind near, 482 



Murcia, Inundation of, 641 



Murphy (|. J.), Cyclones, 56; Chemical Notation, 290 



A/us ratlus. Distribution of. Dr. A. B. Meyer, 95 



Muscles of Cray-Fish, lo5 



Museum Pests in Entomological Collections, 106 



Music, the Philosophy of. Dr. W. Pole, F.R.S., 622 



Napoleon III. and the Nicaraguan Canal, 363 



National Water Supply, lot 



National Water Supply Exhibition, 132 



Natural History Museum, the, 209, 309, 373 



"Natural History Rambles" (S.P.C.K.), 27 



Naturalist, the, :6i 



Natural Science Degrees at Oxford, 132, 155 



Natural Science in Board Schools, 492 



" Nature Cared for and Nature Uncared for, the Result upon 

 the Hearts of Men," Dr. H. B. Hewetson, 66 



Naturforscher, the German, at Baden-Baden, 352 



Naturforschende Gesellschaft of Halle, Centenary of, 373 



"Navisphere," M. de Magnac's New Nautical Instrument, 41 



Nebula, a New, 37 



Nebulae, the Elongated, 402 



Neen or Niin, New Shellac-Producing Insect, 18 



Negretti (Henry), Death of, 542 



N^roes, Colour-Blindness in, 89 



Neolithic Age, New Estimate of Date of, 490 



Netherlands India, Population of, 536 



Neubauer(Prof. CarlTh.), Death of, 182; Obituary Nolice'of, 206 



Neuchatel, Lake, Discovery of a Canoe at, 160 



Nevada, Central Forests of, 233 



Newall (U.S., F.R.S.), Lightning Conductors, 14S ; Snails v. 

 Glow-Worms, 197, 243 



Newnham Hall, Cambridge, 234 



Newton (Sir Isaac), Supposed Observatory of Chas. Coppock, 7 



Newton (Prof. A.), on Migration of Birds, 6 



New Guinea : Goldie's Exploration of, 87 ; Dr. Maclay's Expe- 

 dition to, 131 



New South Wales, the Rainfall of, 271 



New Zealand : Discovery of Lead and Silver in, 89 ; Science in, 

 590 



Niagara, the Electric Light at, 134 



Nicaragua!! Canal and Napoleon HI., 363 



Nicholson (E. B.), " The Rights of an Animal," 287, 338, 362, 

 427 



Nicholson (Prof. J. Alleyne, F.R.S.), "Silurian Fossils," 26 



Nickelous and Cobaltous Sulphates, Mill and Smith, 234 



Nicols (Arthur), Prof. Mivart on "Tails," 528 



Niesten on the Colours of Double Stars, 330 



"Nightly Resurrection," Dr. Bonavia, 505 



Nipher (Francis E.), Observations on a Whirlwind, 456 



Nitrogen, on the Gradual Conversion of the Band Spectrum of, 

 into a Line Spectrum, 564 



Noad's "Electricity," Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 1 18 



Noel (Major R. R.), Bernhard von Cotta, 505 



Nordenskjold (Prof.), Russian Relief Expedition to, 45 ; his 

 Arctic Expedition, 86, 96, 364, 365 ; on Two Meteors Ob- 

 served in Sweden in 1877, 306 ; Arrival at Yokohama, 459 ; 

 "Arctic Voyages," 606, 631 



Norfolk and Norwich Society, 542 



North Polar Expeditions, History of, 97 



Norwegium, a 5few Metal, 304 



" Notes on Crystallography and Crystallophysics," John Milne, 

 F.G.S., 73 , . o 



Nova Scotia, Discovery of Gold in, 184 



Novaya Zemlya, Colonisation of, 508 



Oak Forest, Discovery of a Buried, 327 



Oberbreisig, Roman Remains near, 17 



Observatories: Mannheim, 83; Meudon, 1 10; Paris, no, 275; 



the Site for the Lick, 134 ; the Visitation of Greenwich, 153 ; 



Rome, 161 ; Oxford, 205 ; Dunsink, 269; Williams College, 



U.S., 314; Madrid, 629; Dr. Jedrzejewicz's, 629 

 Observatory of Newton's ? Charles Coppock, 7 

 Occultation of Venus, 83 

 Ochorowicz (Prof. J.), Theory and Laws of the Microphone, 



361 



Odiing (Dr.), on Natural Science Degrees at Oxford, 132, 155 



Oil- Plant, a New, 484 



Oken (Lorenz), Centenary of his Birth, 353 



Olbers, Comet of, 1815, 226 



Oldham's Geological Glossary, 601 



Oliver (Major S. P.), Papau or Papaye, 241 ; Carica papaya, 



337; Spider's Web, 554; Temple of Nodens in Lydney 



Park, 579 

 Oliver (J. A. B.), Theory of Hailstorms, 603 

 Optical Telegraphy in France, 562 

 Orchids, Antiquity of, D. Wetterhan, 53 



Ordnance, New Methods of Moving, George Fawcus, 337, 373 

 O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), Karl Friedrich Mohr, 628 

 " Organic Chemistry," Hugh Clements, 236 

 Organisms in the Blood and the Germ Theory, Dr. H. Charlton 



Bastian, F.R.S., 50 

 Organ Pipes, the Influence of the Transverse Dimensions of, on 



the Pitch, Dr. William Pole, F.R.S., 343 

 "Origin of the Laws of Nature," Sir E. Beckett, 264 

 Ornithology, a Proposed Bibliography of, 208 

 Ornithology of Northern Russia, 434 

 Osbonie (J. A.), Parthenogenesis in a Beetle, 430 

 " Our New Protectorate," 453 

 Ovule, the. Prof. Warming on the, 106 

 Owens College, Memorial of the Founder, 112 

 Oxford : Natural Science Degrees at, 132, 155 ; University 



Observatory, 205 ; Natural Science at, 595 

 Oxus Question, M. Woeikof on the, 86 

 Oxygen in the Sun, Dr. Henry Draper on, 212 

 Oxygenated Rain, Edward Lolly, 169, 197 



Pacific, Admiral Wilkes and Capt. Cook's Charts of the, 6 



Pacific Salmon, Dr. James Hector, 338 



Palaeography, South-Indian, A. C. Burnell's, 311 



Pala;ontological Discovery, History and Methods of. Prof. O. 

 C. Marsh, 494, 515 



Palisozoic Rocks in South-East of England, R. A. C. Godwin- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 547 



Palisa's Comet, Lord Lindsay, 455, 533, 604 



Panama Canal, M. de Lesseps on the, 249 



Panama, Inter-Oceanic Canal across the Isthmus of, 59 



Pandora, the Minor Planet, 604 



Papau or Papaye, Capt. S. P. Oliver, 24I 



Papau, the : Rev. S. J. Whitmee, 315 ; Capt. S. P. Oliver, 337 



Papuan Ornithology, Salvador's Work on, 484 



Parallel Roads of Lochaher, Prof. Prestwich on, 1 12 



Parasites, Dr. Spencer Cobbold's Work on, 312 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 71, 92, 116, 140, 164, 188, 

 212, 236, 260, 284, 308, 332, 356, 3S0, 404, 452, 476, 500, 

 524, 548, 572, 596, 620, 644 ; the Applied Science Exhibition, 

 41 ; Geographical Society Bulletin, 87, 271 ; Anthropological 

 Society, no; Observatory, no; the Astronomical Museum 

 at, 275; Scientific Exhibiiion in, in ; the Jubilee of the 

 F.cole Centr.ile, 207 ; the Zero Point for Levelling in, 208 ; 

 Thunderstorm in, 231 ; High School of Astronomy at, 232 ; 

 Rabies in, 256 ; ExhiVntion of Applied Sciences, 255 ; Inter- 

 national Exhibition of Industrial Sciences, 304 ; the National 

 Library of, 374 ; Telephones in, 435 ; Electric Light in, 641 



Parker (Prof., K.R.S.), on the Evolution of the Vertebrata, 30, 

 61, 81 



Parkes Museum of Hygiene, 231, 588 



Parrots and Language, 542 



Parthenogenesis in a Heeile, J. A. Osborne, 430 



Pasteur (M.), Special Laboratory for the Study of the Vine, 65 



Paton (J as.), on tlie Museums of Holland and Belgium, 591 



I'each (Chas. W.), Intellect in Brutes, 196 



Peal (S. E.), Routes to China vi& Asam, 583 



Pedagogy, the Paris Museum of, 90 



Peirce on Ghosts in Diffraction Spectra, 99; Comparison of 

 Wave-Lengths with the Metre, 99 



Pelomyxa, Effects of Light on, 106 



Pelvis of Mammalia, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., on, 22 



Pemba Island, 561 



Pendulums, M. Faye on, '484 



Pengelly (W., F.R.S.), Report on the Exploration of Kent's 

 Cavern, 441 



Penny (R. Greenwood), Glow-Worms v. Snail, 219 



Perch, the Climbing, G. E Dobson, 169 



Perpetual Motion, Plateau on, 135 



