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INDEX 



Xlll 



Perseids, August, W. F. Denning, 457 



Persia, Earthquakes in, 18 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 87, 206, 295, 459, 561 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Electric Clocks, 403 



Petroleum Spirit or Benzoline, Notes on, 486 



Phenomenon at Seii, an Unusual : Commander J. Eliot Pringle, 



291 ; E. H. Pringle, 402 ; E. L. Moss, 428 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 476 

 Philippi (Federico), a Plague of Rats, 530 

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

 Phonograph, der, 305 

 Phosphorescence : Walter B. Woodbury, 56 ; G. S. Thomson, 



77 

 Phosphoric Acid, Use of, in Tanning, 256 

 Photographic Society, 139 

 Photography of Spectra, Vogel on the, 483 

 Phylloxera : in Savoy, 327 ; a New Kemedy for, 373 ; in Italy, 



482 

 Physical Society, 47, 138, 187, 21 1, 259, 282 

 Physiological Chemistry in Germany, Dr. William Ramsay, 323 

 Pictet (Edouard), Death of, 88 

 Pigeon';, and Weather Warnings, 363 

 Pigeons, Carrier, in France, 112 

 Pine- Pollen and Sulphur, Dr. Andrew Wilson, 266 

 Pine- Pollen Mistaken for Flowers of Sulphur, P. H. Carpenter, 



195 

 Pinto (Major Serpa), his African Expedition, 157, 221 ; his 



Arrival in London, 249 ; Map of his Journey Across Africa, 



271 ; Reception of, by the French Geographical Society, 295 

 Plane Geometrical Drawing, Mondy's Proljlems in, 336 

 Planets, Minor, 83, 363, 513; Pandora, 604 

 Planets of the Season, Rev. T. W. Webb, 60S 

 Plants, Pollen, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 225 

 Plants, the Genesis and Migrations of. Prof. Dawson, 257 

 Plateau on Perpetual Motion, 135 

 Platinum, 342 

 Pleiades, Venus in the, 351 

 Ploughing by Electricity, 1 1 1 

 Pneumatic Tube Post in Paris, 17 

 Toisons, Blyth's Work on the Detection of, 4 ; Certain Animal, 



Dr. H. F. Hutchinson, 553 

 Polar Ice, Karl Weyprecht, 573 

 Polari-ation of Zinc Electrodes, 208 

 Polari^cope, Prof. Adam's New Measuring, 282 

 Polar Sea, Notes on the, 561 

 Pole (Dr. William, F.R.S.), the Influence of the Transverse 



Dimensions of Organ Pipes on the Pitch, 343 ; Jeffries' 



" Colour-Blindness," 477 ; Philosophy of Music, 622 ; 



Ilering's Theory of the Vi^ion of Light and Colours, 



61 1, 637 

 Pollen Plants, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 225 

 Pompeii : Centenary of Destruction of, 542, 641 ; Shells 



of, 624 

 Preece (W. II.), Lightning Protection for Telegraphic 



Apparatus, 445 

 Prehistoric Implements, Discovery of, 434, 562 

 Prehistoric Investigations in Austria, 135 

 Prehistoric Remains, Discovery of, in Russia, 353 

 Preston (S. Tolver), on General Temperature Equilibrium, 



Wm. Muir, 6; Temperature E<juilibrium in the Universe in 



Relation to the Kinetic Theory, 28 ; a Point Affecting the 



Diffusion of the Gases of the Atmosphere in Relation to 



Health, 366 

 Prestwich (Prof. J., F.R.S.), on the Parallel Roads of Lochaber, 



112 

 Price (F. G. II.), Lectures on the Gault, 217 

 Pringle (Commander J. Eliot), on an Unusual Phenomenon 



Observed at Sea, 291 

 Pringle (E. H.), Migration of Birds, 6; Unusual Phenomenon 



Observed at Sea, 402 ; Prof. Mivart on "Tails," 528 

 Pritchard (H. Baden), the Newest Explosive, 32 

 Prjvalsky (Col. N.), "From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan, to Lob- 



Nor," 4 ; Royal Geographical Society's Medal to,-IS ; Letters 



from, 97 ; Journey in Asia, 157 ; his African Journey, 266 

 Pycroft (Edith), Insect Swarms, 431 

 Pye-Smith (Dr.), Address in the Department of Anatomy and 



Physiology at the British Association, 408 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 307, 619 



Quatrefages (Prof. A. de), "The Human Species," W. L. 

 Distant, 429 



Rabies in Paris, 256 



Radiant Matter, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 419, 436 



Radiation of Heat and Temperature, Relation between, 89 



Radiometric Movements, Dr. Puluj on, 514 



Rag-Bushes, 456, 602 



Railway Brakes, Experiments with the Weatinghouse, Capt. 



Douglas Galton, F. R.S., 292, 316 

 Railways, the Highest, 563, 6i6 

 Rainbow, White, seen from a Balloon, 276 

 Rainfall : of New South Wales, 271 ; in Bombay, 431 ; on 



Synchronism of Mean Temperature and, 446 

 Rain Gauges, on the Angle of the Lip of, 446 

 Rain, Oxygenated, Edward Solly, 169 

 Rammelsberg (Prof.), on Meteorites, 616 

 Ramsay (Dr. Wm.), German Physiological Chemistry, 323 

 Rataphone, Prof. Dolbear's, 461 

 Rat, Black, Distribution of : 242 ; Chas. Coppock, 266 ; Consul 



E. L. Layard, 339 

 Rats, the Plague of : Orville A. Derby, 65 ; Frederick Lewis, 



267 ; Federico Philippi, 530 

 Reade (T. Mellard), the River Elbe, 169; Chemical Denuda- 

 tion and Geological Time, 526 

 Reale Academia dei Lincei, 41, 136, 185 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo, 136, 186, 234, 280, 332, 500, 596 

 Reana luxurians, a New Grass, 89 

 Reeks (Trenham), Death of, 38 

 Reiff(Dr.), Death of, 304 



Reports on the Progress of Mathematics and Physics, 442 

 Revista de Canarias, 256 

 Revue des Sciences Naturelles, 22, 35s 

 Revue Internationale des Sciences, 90, 186, 331, 452 

 Reyer(Dr.), " Banka und Billiton," 624 

 Rheostat, a Liquid, F. J. Smith, 552 

 Khinoccrus tichorhmus, Fossil Head of, 134 

 Rhizopods, the Challenger, 534 

 Khizopods of North America, Dr. Leidy on the, 40 

 Rhys (Prof. John), Roman Antiquities, 285 

 Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.K..S.), Suspended Animation, 107 ; 



"A Ministry of Health," 576; Address at the Sanitary 



Congress, 617 

 Richet (M.), on the Muscles of Cray Fish, 106 

 Ricks (Geo.), " Elementary Arithmetic," 144 

 " Rights of an Animal : " E. B. Nicholson, 287, 338, 362, 427 ; 



Geo. J. Romanes, 427 

 Riley (Prof. C. V.), on the Silkworm, 18; Philosophy of the 



Pupation of some Butterflies, 594 

 Riviata Scientiftco-Industriale, 46, 186, 210, 331, 476, 596 

 Roberts (E.), his New Tide Predictor, 159, 281 

 Roberts (W. C, F.R.S.), Experiments with the Induction 



Balance, 485 ; Diffusion of Liquids, 587 

 Robinson (J.), Opening Address in Section G at the British 



Association Meeting at Sheffield, 417 

 Rocks, the Origin of Certain Granitoid, C. Callaway, 266 

 Rocks, Thermal Conductivity of, B.A. Report on, 441 

 Rocky Mountains, Entomological Investigation of, 40 

 Rodgers (Rear-Admiral John), to Astronomers, 433 

 Rodwell (G. F.), Note on the lodobromite of A. V. Lasaulx, 



77 ; Eruption of Etna, 158 ; Vulcanology in Italy in 1878, 



179; the Recent Eruption of Etna, 198; Notes from Iceland, 



532 

 Rohlfs (Dr. G.), and the German African Expedition, 344, 



508 

 Roland (Arthur), Farming for Pleasure and Profit, 360 

 Roman Antiquities, Prof. John Rhys, 285 

 Roman Copper Coins, Discovery of, 6i6 



Roman Remains found near Oberbreisig, 17 ; near DUren, 183 

 Romanes (George J., F.R.S.), Intellect in Brutes, 122, 196; 



"The Rights of an Animal," 362, 427 

 Romanis (Prof. R.), Natural History Notes from Burma, 362 

 Rome, Meteorological Congress at, 57 ; the Observatory at, 



161 ; Accademia dei Lincei, see Reale 

 Roscoe (Prof. F.R.S.), Lunge's Treatise on the Manufacture of 



Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, 263 

 Roscoe and Schorlemmer's Chemistry, 623 

 Rosenkranz (Prof. J. K. F.), Death of, 284 

 Royal Geographical Society's Award of Gold Medal to Col. N. 



