INDEX 



{Nature, May 30, \\ 



Nebulre, S. Tolver Preston, 436, 535 ; Prof. G. H. Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 460 



Neesen (Prof.) : Photographic Method of Registering the Oscilla- 

 tions of Projectiles, 264 ; Mechanical Apparatus for Lecture 

 Purposes, 528 



Negritos in Celebes ? Are there, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 30 



Nephrite Question, the. Dr. A. B. Meyer, 60 



Neptune, the Satellite of, A. Marth, 114 



Nerves, the Difference between the Conducting Power and Irrit- 

 ability of. Prof. Gad, 576 



Neumayr (M.), Die Stamme des Thierreiches, 364 



Neville (E. H.), Application of Raoult's Depression of Melting- 

 Point Method to Alloys, 597 



New England Meteorological Society, 590 



New Guinea : Explorations in, 283 ; Volcanic Sea- Wave, 

 Captain VV. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 303 ; Dr. H. Zoller's Ex- 

 plorations in, 399 ; Superstition and Sorcery in, H, H . Romilly, 



594 



New South Wales, Meteorology of, II. C. Russell, 396 



New Traveller's Guide to Scientific Inquiry, 505 



New York Academy of Sciences, Building-stones, Alexis A. 

 Julien, 258 



New Zealand : Fifty Years Ago in, William Colenso, F.R. S., ''■ 

 39 ; G. Y. Hudson on Moths in, 39 ; S. W. Silver's Collec- 

 tion of the Birds of, 257 ; Round about New Zealand, E. W. 

 Payton, 340 ; New Zealand of To-day, John Bradshaw, 340 



Newall (Captain J. P.,), Scottish Moors and Indian Jungles, 



485 

 Newall (R. S., F.R.S.), Presentation of his Telescope to the i 



University of Cambridge, 477 \ 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F. R. S.), Mr. Howorth on the Variation 



of Colour in Birds, 318, 389 

 Newton (E. T.), a Contribution to the History of Eocene 



Siluroid Fishes, 575 

 Newton's Investigation of the Velocity of S mnd in any Sub- 

 stance, Rankine's Modification of. Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, ' 



F.R.S., 79 

 Niagara, Falls of Rock at, E. W. Ciaypole, 367 

 Nicholl (Miss Mary Anne), Gift to Royal Hibernian Academy, 



Dublin, 517 

 Nickel and Cobalt, Decomposition of. Dr. Kriiss, 325 

 Nickel and Cobalt Peroxides and Volumetric Analysis, Ado!phe 



Carnot, 552 

 Nickel, on the Influence of the Shock on the Permanent 



Magnetism of, M. G. Person, 312 

 Niesten (L. ), the Influence of Diurnal Nutation in the Discussion 



of the Observations of a Lyrae, 262 

 Niger Delta, the, H. H. Johnston, 62 

 Night-Clouds, Luminous, O. Jesse, 537 



Nlineteenth Century, the Protest in the, F. Victor Dickins, 53 

 Nitration, the, of Naphthalene-;8-Sulphonic Acid, Prof. H. E. 



Armstrong, F.R.S., and W. P. Wynne, 454 

 Nilroethane, Decomposition by Alkalies of, Dunstan and 



Dymond, 190 

 Nitrogen Iodide, on the Influence of Light upon the Explosion 



of, Prof. J. W. Mallet, 22 

 Nordenskiold (Baron A. E ), Land-rising in Sweden, 488 

 Norfolk, Wild Flowers in, 210 

 Normal School of Science, Buildings of the, 565 

 Normal School of Science Laboratory, 326 

 North Atlantic Pilot Chart, October, 112 

 North London, Proposed Technical Institutes, for, 85 

 North Pole, Expedition to, 255 

 Norway : South, Earthquake, 305, 418 ; Runic Stone at 



the University of Christiania, 306 ; Discovery of Tusk of 



Mammoth in Norway, 377 ; Finds of Iron Age Antiquities 



in, 544 ; Archeeological Researches in, 591 ; Wolves in 



Norway and Sweden, 352 

 Nose-Blackening as Preventive of Snow-Blindness, J. D. La 



Touche, 105 

 Nossikow (K.), Geological Investigati ms in Nova Zembla, 137 

 Nostocacese, Envelopes in, Maurice Gomont, 569 

 Nova Zembla, Nossikow's Geological Investigations in, 137 

 Number, to Find the Factors of any Proposed, Charles J. Busk, 



413 ; Lieat. -Colonel Allan Cunningham, 559 

 NuDVo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 142, 500 

 Nutriment of Castaways at Sea, Prince Albert, 239 

 Nuttall (Mrs. Zelia), Essay on a Relic of Ancient Mexico, 262 

 Nymphcea cczrulea, 334 



Obi and Yenisei, Connection of the Rivers, by a Canal, 39 

 Observatories : Astronomical Observatory of Pekin, 46 ; Dr. 



J. E. L. Dreyer, 55 ; Stonyhurst Co'lege Observatory, 137 ; 



the Hopkins Observatory, 137 ; United States Naval, i86 ; 



Haynald Observatory (Hungary), 352 ; Melbourne Obser- 

 vatory, 592 

 Oceanic Depression, on the Origin of the Deep Troughs of the, 



James 1). Dana, 525 

 OdonattE Collected during the Swedish Expedition to Yenisei in 



1876, Dr. F. Trybom, 456 

 Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, Dr. Richard R. von 



Wettsiein, 519 

 Ogilvie (F. Grant), Lectures on Geography, Lieut. -General 



Strachey, 388 

 O'Gyalla Observatory, the, 497 

 Ohm, Determination of the, F. Kohlrausch, 308 

 Ohm (G. S.) : Memorial to, 368; Propose I Statue of, 375, 



494 ... 



Olenellus Fauna in the Lower Cambrian Rocks of Britain, on the 



Discovery of the, Prof. C. Lapwonh, F.R. S., 212 

 Oliver (Dr. J.), Deductive Evidence of a Uterine Nerve-centre, 



and of its Location in the Medulla O ilongata, 527 

 Oliver, Wait, and Jones, Algebra by, 26 

 OUiff (A. S.), Sonorous Sand at Botany Bay, 224 

 Omodei and Vicentini on Thermic Expansion of Liquid Binary 



Alloys, 94 

 Ophiolite, on the, of Thurman, Warren County, New York, 



with Remarks on the Eozoon catadense, George P. Merrill, 



525 



Opportunity for a Naturalist, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 341 



Optical Lantern, the "Indispensable" Hand-book to the, W. 

 D. Wei ford and Henry Sturmey, 270 



Optics : the Illustrated Optical Manual, Sir T. Longmore, 385 ; 



< Experiments on Fundamental Law of Psychophysics in Con- 

 nection with Sinse of Sight, Dr. Brodhun, 119; Energy and 

 Vision, Prof. S. P. Langley, 156; the Amount of Light I^e- 

 flected and Transmitted by certain kinds of Glass, Sir John 

 Conroy, Bart., 189; Polarized Light, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 

 358; Behaviour of Metals to Light, Prof. Kundt, 360; 

 Uhthoff's Experiments upon Dependence of Visual Acuteness 

 upon Intensity of Light under Spectal Colour-Illumination, 

 408 ; the Selective Reflection of light by Metals, Dr. Rubens, 

 552 



Orchids, the, of the Cape Peninsula, R. A. Rolfe, 222 



Organic Evolution, a Restatement of the Theory of. Prof. 

 Patrick Geddes, 287 



Orgyria thya'ina, Mr. White, 527 



Orient Line Guide, W. J. Loftie, 210 



Origin and the Causation of Vital M jvement, on the, Dr. W, 

 Kiihne, 43 



Origin of Coral Islands, J. Starkie Gardner, 435 



Origin of Floral Structures, Rev. George Ilenslow, 171 



Origin of Species, Prof. Dr. Romanes, F.R.S , on the, W. T. 

 Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 126; Prof. George J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 173 



Ornithology : Pallas's Sand Grouse, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 9 ; John 

 Cordeaux on, 40 ; T. Southwell, 137; Dr. Robert Scharff, 

 448 ; Migrants in the Cauc-!sus, Rossikoff, 86 ; Sympathy 

 among Birds, 113; Morphology of Birds, Dr. H. Gadow, 

 150, 177 ; Angry Birds, L. Blomefield, 175; W. G. Smith, 

 175 ; Isabel-coloured Runner Shot in D.-nmark, 185 ; Remiges 

 ot Birds, Dr. Han^ Gadow, 239 ; S. W. Silver's Collection 

 of New Zealand Birds, 257 ; Eider in Iceland, 306 ; Mr. 

 Howorth on the Variation of Colour in Birds, Prof. Alfred 

 Newton, F.R.S., 318, 389 ; Tabular List of all the Australian 

 Birds, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 460 ; Birds from South- Western 

 Africa, ]. Biiltikofer, 500 ; Joint Nest of Thrush and Hedge- 

 sparrow, W^ E. Beale, 566 



Ornithopsis, the Pelvis of, Prof. H. G. Seeley, 574 



Orthomethylacetanilide, Physiological and Therapeutic Action 

 of, Dujardin-Beaumetz and G. Bardel, 528 



Orthopteres of Crimea, O. Retowski, 477 



Osborne (J. W.), his Collections of Projfs, &c., of Works in 

 Photo-lithography, 207 



Oscillations, Barometric, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 

 Captain Pelham Aldrich, 38 



Oscillations, Electric, the Forces of, treated according to Max- 

 well's Theory, Dr. H. Hertz, 402, 450, 547 ; Fitzgerald and 

 Trouton, 349 



