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INDEX 



[Na litre, May 30, 1 5 



Physico-Geometrical Models, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 

 406 



Physics, Atmospheric, Proposed Exhibition of Instruments con- 

 nected witl), 349 



Physics, Examples in, D. E. Jones, 29 



Physics, Lessons in Elementary, Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 317 



Physics, Molecular, an Attempt at a Comprehensive Dynamical 

 Treatment of Physical and Chemical Forces, Prof. F. Linde- 

 mann, G. W. de Tunzelmann, 63 



Physics, Questions and Examples on Elementary Experimental, 

 B. Lcewy, 247 | 



Physiography : First Principles of, John Douglas, 223 ; Alpine 

 Physiography, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 361; Text- 

 book of, Edward Hull, F.R.S,, 365 I 



Physiology : Prof. Wolff on the Activity of Bone-tissue, 72 ; j 

 Physiological Selection, Dyer on. Prof George J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 103 ; Animal Physiology, William S. Furneaux, 148 ; 

 Physiological Society of Berlin, 168 ; Physiology of Thyroid i 

 Gland, Prof. Munk, 168 ; Broca's Cerebral Convolution, G. 

 Herve, 404; Forthcoming Physiological Congress, 565; the 

 Difference between the Conducting Power and Irritability of ; 

 Nerves, Prof Gad, 576 ; the Proteid Needs of the Animal 

 Economy, Dr. Klemperer, 624 i 



Picard (E.) : Sur les Formes Quadratiques Binaires a Indeter- 

 rainees Conjuguees et les Fonctions Fuchsiennes, 310; Four- 

 fold Periodical Expressions Depending on Two Variables, i 

 528 I 



Pickard-Cambridge (Rev. O. P., F.R.S.), Viaggio di L. Fea in 

 Birmania e regioni Vicini, Prof. T. Thorell, 100 



Pickering (S. U.) : Heat of Dissolution of Various Substances in 

 Different Liquids, 119; the Principles of Thermo-chemistry, 

 166 



Pickering (Prof. W. H.) : Total Solar Eclipse of August 29, 1886, 

 61 ; Detection of New Nebulae by Photography, 232 ; Method 

 for Enumerating Nebulas Photographed, 282 



Pictures of Native Life in Distant Lands, H. Leutemann, 148 



Pidgeon (W. R.), Mussel living in the Branchiae of a Crab, 

 127 i 



Pietrement (C. A.), the Pointer Dog, 405 



Pilcomayo Expedition : the Proposed, 599 ; Mr. Graham Kerr to 

 be Naturalist to the, 395 



Pilot Chart of North Atlantic, January, 418 



Piltschikoff, the Initial Phase of Electrolysis, 552 [ 



Placenta in the Rabbit, Genesis of the, Jean Masius, 262 1 



Planed Ice, R. M. Deeley, 391 I 



Planetary Motion, the Theory of. Dr. Otto Dziobek, 134 



Planets, New Minor, Herr Palisa, 41, 307 ; M. Charlois, 352, 

 378 



Plant Life, 507 



Plants, Flowering, of Wilts, Rev. T. A. Preston, J. G. Baker, 

 F.R.S.,123 



Plants, Influence of Mineral Substances on the Structure of, M. 

 Henri Jumelle, 479 



Plarr (G.), Hare Swimming, 307 



Plasticity of Glacier and other Ice, on the, James C. McConnel, 

 203 



Platinum Bases, New, Prof. Blomstrand, 112 



Platypsyllus, Systematic Relations of, as determined by the 

 Larva, Prof C. V. Riley, 94 



Playtime Naturalist, a. Dr. J. E. Taylor, 365 



Pleuronectes platessa, Spawning of the. Prof Ewart, 326 ' 



Plowright (Mr.), Trees and Frost, 494 ' 



Plowright (Chas. B.), a Monograph of the British Uredinese 

 and Ustilagineas, 553 



Poincare (H.) : the Satellites of Mars, 167 ; Analytical Theory 

 of Heat, 239 ; on the Lindstedt Series, 311 ; on the Essays 

 that have been made to explain the Fundamental Principles 

 of Thermodynamics by Mechanical Laws, 528 



Poincare (Lucien), on the Electric Conductibility of Salts in 

 Solution, 336 



Pointer Dog, the, C. A. Pietrement, 405 



Poire (M. Paul), Employment of Sulphite of Sodium for deve- 

 loping the Picture in Photography, 504 



Polar Expedition, Lieut. Greely's Report on, 435 



Polar Expedition, French, Meteorological Observations, 591 



Polar Investigation, International, Report of the Norwegian 

 Party, 155 



Polarimeter, New, Prof S. P. Thompson, 502 



Polarized Light, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 358 



Pole (Dr. W., F.R.S.) : the Nature of Harmony and Metre, 



Moritz Hauptmann, 97 ; the Life of Sir William Siemens, 

 F.R.S., 194 



Pollock (A.), Uses of the Clark Cell, 573 



Polytechnic Institute, 517 



Pompilidse, Generative Organs of the. General Radoszkowski, 



477 

 Pont de Beauvoisin, Earthquake at, 396 

 Poore (Dr. G. V.), London, Ancient and Modern, from a 



Sanitary Point of View, 356 

 Porcupine Echinoidea, Prof P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., 175 

 Porion and Deherain, the Square-eared Variety of Wheat, 96 

 Porphyritic Rocks, Cavenac, near St. Pons, MM. P. de Rou- 



ville and Auguste Delage, Forez District, M. Le Verrier, 456 

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

 Posner (Dr. ), Conversion of Mucous Membrane into Cuticular 



Tissue, 479 

 Potassic Chlorate, Decomposition of, by Heat in the Presence 



of Manganic Peroxide, Prof H. McLeod, F.R.S., 502 

 Potato, the, Aime Girard, 551 



Potato, Cultivation of the, in France, M. Aime Girard, 456 

 Potatoes at Rothamsted, Results of Experiments upon the 



Growth of. Dr. Gilbert, 595 

 Potier (M. A.) : Electro-chemical Measurement of the Intensity 



of Currents, 455 ; Relation between Magnetic Rotatory Power 



and the Transmission of Luminous Waves by Ponderable 



Matter, 504 

 Pottery in the United States, 468 



Poulton (E. B.), Weismann's Theory of Variation, 412 

 Power (Henry), the Hunterian Oration, 396 

 Poynting (Prof J. H., F R.S.), Haze, 323 

 Practical Electrical Measurements, James Swinburne, 508 

 Practical Man on Electrical Units, 529 



Preston (E. D.), Variations of Gravity in Hawaiian Islands, 70 

 Preston (S. Tolver), Meteoric Theory of Nebulae, &c , 436, 535 

 Preston (Rev. T. A.) : Flowering Plants of Wilts, J. G. Baker, 



F.R.S., 123; Phenological Observations for 1888, 239 

 Prestwich (Joseph, F.R.S.), Discovery of Palaeolithic Flint 



Implements in Kent, 406 

 Prevention of Smoke, 25 

 Preyer (Prof), Combination-tones, 480 

 Primeeval Remains Discovered in Jutland, 60 

 Prjevalsky (General N. M.) : Obituary Notice of, 31 ; from 



Kiakhta to the Sources of the Yellow River, the Exploration 



of the Northern Borders of Tibet and the Journey via the 



Lob-Nor and the Basin of Tarira, 121 ; the late General, 135 ; 



Monument to, 376 ; Fiery Sunsets in Central Asia caused by 



Krakata~o Dust, 39S ; Action of Wind upon Soil in Deserts of 



Central Asia, 420 

 Probabilities, Doctrine of, M. E. Mayer, 455 

 Problematical Organism from the Devonian, at the Falls of the 



Ohio, F. H. Knowlton, 525 

 Problems, Chemical, J. B. Grabfield, 173 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 113 

 Proceedings of Tokio Physical Society, 567 

 Proctor (R. A.), Student's Atlas, 377 

 Procyon, the Satellite of, J. M. Barr, 510; H. Sadler, 537; 



Isaac W. Ward, 558 

 Professors and College Men, Engineers versus, Prof. P. G. Tait, 



loi, 223 ; Prof A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 175 

 Projectiles, Photographic Method of Registering the Oscillations 



of. Prof Neesen, 264 

 Prophetic Germs, Prof E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 7 

 Protest in the Nineteenth Centnry, the, F. Victor Dickins, 53 

 Protopterus annectens, Preliminary Note on the Anatomy and 



Physiology of. Prof. W. Newton Parker, 19 

 Proustite and Pyrargyrite, Contributions to the Study of, H. A. 



Miers, 258 

 Provincial Colleges, Government Grant, 446 

 Prussia, W'olves in, 377 



Pseudo-scorpions, or Chernetidce, A, Croneberg, 477 

 Pulmonary Vessels, the Innervation of the, J. Rose Bradford and 



H. Percy Dean, communicated by E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 478 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 164, 357 

 Quartz-keratophyre, a, from Pigeon Point, and Irving's Augite- 



syenites, W. S. Bayley, 310 

 Quaternary Station, a New, Discovered in Dordogne, Emile 



Riviere, 407 



