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INDEX 



.illations. Electrical, Note on the Use of Geissler's Tubes for 



Detecting, E. J. Dragoumis, 548 

 Ostalpen, Die Gletscher der, Dr. von Eduard Richter, 361 

 Ostrovski (D. N.), on the Lapps, 209 

 Ostwald (M.), Drops of Mercury as Electrodes, 456 

 Oudemans (J. A. C), Value of the Retrogradation of the Plane 



of Saturn's Ring, 264 

 Owen (Sir Richard, F. R. S. ), on Thylacopardus australis, 215 

 Owens College, the, Mr. John Ryland's Legacy, 446 

 Oxalate of Potash found in Decayed Beech Tree, S. H. Wintle, 



397 

 Oxford, Examiners in Natural Science, 453 

 Oxford Universiiy Junior Scientific Club, 112 

 Oxidation and Scouring of Tin, on the, M. l.eo Vignon, 312 

 Oxygen, Combustion in Dried, PL B. Baker, 117 

 Oxygen Lines in the Solar Spectrum, M. Janssen, 41 



Pacific, Astronomical Society of the, 545 



Packard (Dr. A. S ), Entomology for Beginners, 459 



Page (Captain John) : the Gran Chaco, 328 ; Proposed Pilccmayo 

 Expedition, 399 



Pagenstecher (Dr. Heinrich Alexander), Death of, 280 



Palarolithic Flint Implements at Ightham, Joseph Prestwich, 

 F.R.S.. 406 



Paleontology : in Switzerland, Dr. Victor Cross, 164 ; the 

 Stratigraphic Palaeontology of Man, Marcellin Boule, 164 ; 

 on the Paget Group of Washington Territory, C. A. White, 

 189 ; the Precursors of the Canidae, Marcellin Boule, 359 ; 

 Die Sliimme des Thieneiches, M. Neumayr, 364 ; Discovery of 

 a New Quaternary Station in Dordogne, Emile Riviere, 407 ; 

 a New Permian Rhynchocephalian Reptile, Dr. Hermann 

 Credner, G. A. Boulenger, 562 ; the Pelvis of Ornilhopsis, 

 Prof. H. G. Seeley, 574 ; Contribution to the History of the 

 Eocene Siluroid Fishes, E. T. Newton, 575 



Paleozoic Dipncan Fishes, some, Anton Fritsch, 196 



Palagi (Prof. Ferdinand), Granular Snow and Hail, 262 



Palawan and Adjacent Islands, 300 ; Geographical Relationship 

 of, A. H. Everet,, 623 



Palisa (Herr), New Minor Planets, 41, 307 



Pallas's Sand Grouse {Syrrhaples paradoxus), Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 9; John Cordeaux, on, 40; T. Southwell, 137; in Ireland, 

 Dr. Robert ScharfF, 448 



Palm, Cocoa-Nut, 214 



Palmer on Sympathy among Birds, 113 



Palmer (J. H.), Praciical Logarithms and Trigonometry, 52 



Palmieri (Prof. Luigi), Development of Electricity from Evapor- 

 ation of Marine Water, 262 



Pangenesis, Darwin's, Hugo de Vries, 192 



Papers, Scientific, the Reprinting of. Prof. E. Wiedemann, 418 



Paradox, Mr. Romanes's, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 7 



Parallels, a New Theory of, Charles L. Dodgson, 124; R. 

 Tucker, 175 



Parana neuropterella, B. A. Bower, 527 



Parasites, on the Virulence of Cholera, M. Hueppe, 312 



Parenty (M. H.), Automatic Gauging of an Artificial Feeder, 

 504 



Paris : Academy of Sciences, 23, 48, 71, 96, 119, 144, 167, 

 191, 239, 263, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431. 455. 478, 504, 

 528, 551, 575, 623; Prizes of, 207 ; Successful Competitors in 

 1888, 240 ; the Pasteur Institute, 38, 73 ; Magnetic Elements 

 for 18 8, 159; Paris Astronomical Society, 240, 360, 456; 

 Gifts to, 240; International Geographical Congress, 307; 

 Paris Geographical Society, 497 ; Paris Greenland Exhibition, 

 350 ; Paris Jardin d'Acclimatation, Lapps at, 350 ; Laboratory 

 of Pathological Physiology. 466; Paris Exhibition and 

 Science, 516; Exhibition Congresses, Dates of, 613; Pro- 

 posed Meeting of the .'^ocicte Geologique de France in, 590 



Parker (Prof. W. Newton), Preliminary Note on the Anatomy 

 and Physiology of Pro'opterus annectens, 19 



Parkes (Lr. Louis), Foreign Associate of the Socie'te Fran<;aise 

 d'Hygiene, 326 



Parkinson (Rev. Thos.), Yorkshire L^ends and Traditions as 

 1 by her Ancient Chroniclers, her Poets, and Journalists, 

 eph Lucas, 50 



- ...;.yn (Ernest Albert), the Pasteur Institute, 128 



Parmentier (General), Planetoids, 456 



Pasteur Institute, Paris, Opening of the, 38, 73 ; Ernest Albert 

 Parkyn, 128 



Patent Regulations, Japanee, 615 



Paton (Dr. Noel), Metitolifm of Man during Starvation, 527 



Payne (F. F.), the Eskimo of Hudson's Strait, 396 



Payton (E. W.), Rourd about New Zealand, 340 



Peal ody Museum Papeis, 262 



Peail Fisheries, Deep Water Electric Light wanted for, 87 



Pearson (A. N.), the Farmer's Guide to Manurirg, Prof. John 



Wrightson, 212 

 Pearson (Prof. Karl), Early History of Lightning- Conductors, 



558 

 Pegasi (85), 158 

 Pekin, Astronomical Observatory of, 46 ; Dr. J. E. L. Dreyer, 



55 

 Pekin, the Tungwen College of, 420 

 Pelagic Fauna of Atlantic, Proposed German Expedition for 



Investigation of, 417 

 Penetration of Daylight into the Waters of the Genevan Lake 



and into the Mediterranean, 343 

 Pengelly (Wm., F.R.S.), Statistics of the British Association, 



197 . . 

 Perennial Diary, 232 

 Pereyaslavtseva (Dr. Sophie), the Embrjogeny of the Amphi- 



pods, 61 

 Peripatus in Australia, Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., 338, 412; 



Arthur Dendy, 366 

 Perkin (A. G.), the Action of Nitric Acid on Anthracene, 453 

 Perkin (Prof. \V. H.), Berberine, 190 

 Permian Rhynchocephalian Reptile, a New, Dr. Hermann 



Credner, G. A. Boulenger, 562 

 Perott (J.), Remarque au sujet du Theoreme d'Euclide sur 



I'Jnfinite du Nombre des Nombres Premiers, 310 

 Perrey and Hautefeuille, Silicated Combinations of Glucine, 96 

 Perrot (M. Louis), Experimental Variation of M. Charles Soret's 



Method for Measuring the Indices of Refraction in Crystals, 



336 

 Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.): a Bill for Technical Education, 284; 



Electrical Measurement, 502 

 Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), the Sun-spot Cycle, 223 

 Perseite, on the Heptine of a, M. Maquenne, 312 

 Perturbations, on the, of the Planet Hestia (46), M, Brendel, 



3" 



Petermann's Mitteilungen, 329, 520, 593 



Petersen (Dr. Emil), New Fluorine Compounds of Vanadium, 

 136 



Petit (P.), on the Heat of Formation of Antnnoniuretted 

 Hydrogen, 528 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), the Earliest Racial Portraits, 128 



Petroleum, Baku, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 481 



Petroleum, New Method of Solidifying, 41 



Pettingen (Von), Experiments on Oscillatory Discharges of 

 Leyden Jars, 159 



Pflanzenleben, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, 507 



Pheasant Attacking a Gamekeeper, M. H. Maw, 150 



Phenological Observations for i8J:8, T. A. Preston, 239 



Philippine Islands : Dr. J. B. Steere, 37 ; the Tamaiao of the, 

 Rev. P. M. Heude, S.J., 12S ; A. H. Everett, 150 ; Eruption 

 of the Mayon Volcano, 376 



Philosophical Transactions, the, 462, 486 



Phonograph, Edison's Perfected, 107 



Photography : Instantaneous, of Projectiles, Dr. Konig, 24 ; 

 Photography of Cin us Clouds, Dr. Riggenbach, 112 ; Exhibi- 

 tion at the Camera Club, 231 ; the Chemi^-try of Photojiraphy, 

 Prof R. Meldola, F.R.S., 257 ; Photographic Method of 

 Registering the Oscillations of Projectiles, Prof. Neesen, 264; 

 the British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1889, J. Traill 

 Taylor, 293 ; the Photographer's Diaiy and De^k-bcok for 

 1889, 294 ; Instructions in. Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 

 317; the International Annual of Anthony's Photographic 

 Bulletin, W. Jeron.e Harrison and A. H. Elliot, 317 ; Photo- 

 graphs of the Solar Eclipse, 396 



Photo-lithography, J. W. Osborne's Collections, 207 



Photometers, Dr. Lummer, 336 



Phrenology, Attempt to Fumith Basis of a Scientific, Bernard 

 Hollander, 431 



Phreoiyctcs, Anatomy and Physiology of, Frank Beddard, Prof. 

 Crum Brown, 455 



Phylloxera : in Elba, 157 ; Devastations in Hungarian Viney aids, 

 258 



Physical Geography, Das Antlitz der Erde, Eduard Suess, Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley, h.R.S., 601 



Physical Society, 118, 165, 189, 358, 405, 502, 526, 573 



