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INDEX 



XXVH 



Organic Evolution, Factors of, Dr. George J. Romanes, F.R.S., 

 401 



Organic Vanadates, J. A. Hall, 570 



Origin of the Fittest : Essays on Evolution, E. D. Cope, Dr. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 505 



Orinoco Explorations, Chauffajon's, 17 



Ormerod (Miss Eleanor A.), the Hessian Fly, 439 



Ornithology : Ornithological Nomenclature, 64 ; a Use of 

 Flowers by Birds, loi ; Elliott's Ornithological Collections, 

 279 ; Whitehead's Borneo Expedition, 279 ; Occurrence of 

 Sterna anglica in Belfast Lough, Prof. Robert O. Cunning- 

 ham, 582. {Sec also Mvc^i,.) 



Orobanche?, on the Development of, 552 



Outis, the New Degrees at Cambridge, 175 



Outlines, Tertiary, on the North Downs, Rev. A. Irving, 531 



Ouvrard (L.), Silicates of Thorine, 360 



Overwork and Premature Mental Decay, H. F. Routh, 507 



Owen (Sir K., F.R.S.), on Skeleton oi Meiolania platyceps, 



46 . „ 



Owens College Course of Practical Organic Chemistry, Julius B. 



Cohen, 363 



Owens College Natural History Buildings, 414 



Oxford, Electricity at, 154 



Oxford and Cambridge, the Observatories at, 181, 183 



Oxygen, Action of Light on the Hydracids of the Halogens 

 in Presence of. Dr. A. Richardson, 569 



Oxygen and Ozone, the Volumetric Relations of, W. A. Shen- 

 stone and J. T. Cundall, n8 



Oyster-Culture in Sweden, 11 1 



Oysters, Monkeys opening, Alfred Carpenter, 53 



Ozone, Dr. K. Olszew.-ki on the Determination of the Bailing- 

 point of, 42 



Ozone and Oxygen, the Volumetric Relations of, W. A. Shen- 

 stone and J. T. Cundall, 118 



Pagan's (M.), Cable- Anchor, 541 



Page (David), Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography, 



195 

 Pages, Comparative Locomotion, 312 

 Palaeontology : on Skeleton of ^/«^/fl«m platyceps, Sir R. Owen, 



F.R.S., 46; Prof. Huxley on Hyperodapedon gordoni, 94; 



R. Oldenbourg's Work on, 563 

 Palgrave (Mary E.), Pictorial Geography of the British Isles, 



580 

 Palisa (Herr), New Minor Planet, 527 



Palmer (Prof. G. A.), Annual Expenditure of Harvard Under- 

 graduates, 325 

 Palmieri (Prof. Luigi), on Variations of Intensity in the Dry 



Pile, 45 

 Panton (Prof. J. Hoyes), Places of Geological Interest on the 



Banks of the Saskatchewan, 571 

 Papuan Art, Certain Degenerations of Design in, S. J. Hickson, 



599 



Papuo and Malayo Melanesians, by A. Featherman, 147 



Parallax of a Tauri, Prof. Asaph Hall, 138 



Parallax, on the Nature of the Photographic Star-Disks and the 

 Removal of a Difficulty in Measurements for. Prof. Pritchard, 

 F.R.S., 523 



Parallax of 2 2398, Dr. E. Lamp, 616 



Parasitic, Hydroid, on a Fish, J. Walter Fewkes, 604 



Parietal Eye in Fishes, J. Beard, 246, 340 



Paris : Astronomical C ongress, 7, 54 ; Academy of Sciences, 23, 

 72, 95, 118, 143, 167, 192, 215, 240, 263, 287, 312, 336, 360, 

 382, 408, 432, 456, 480, 504, 528, 552, 576, 600, 614, 623 ; 

 Society of Civil Engineers, 63 ; M. Mouchez, Report on the 

 Paris Observatory, 112; Rainfall in Paris, Herve-Mangon, 

 159 ; Discovery of Ancient Gaulish Cemetery in, 184 ; Meeting 

 of the International Meteorological Committee at, 566 



Parkes Museum, 15 



Paroxysmal Sneezing, Hay Fever and, Sir Morell Mackenzie, 



363 

 Pasco (Capt. C, R. N. ), Antarctic Exploration, 399 

 Pasteur (M.) : and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 254 ; his 



Treatment of Hydrophobia, 207 ; Report of the Committee 



of Inquiry into, 232 ; an Account of, by Renaud Suzor, 482 

 Patagones, Remarkable Display of Shooting-Stars at, 15 

 Patagonia : Ramon Lista's Exploration of, 66 ; Flora of North, 



John Ball, F.R.S., 539 

 Pavesi (Prof.), the Migrations of the Tunny, 116 



Pavie (M. ), Return from Tonquin of, 452 



Payne (Dr. J. F.), Alphita, a Medico- Botanical Glossary 



from the Bodleian Manuscript Selden B. 35, 529 

 Peak, Shadow of Adam's, R. Abbay, 152 ; Hon. Ralph Aber- 



cromby, 197 

 Pear-shaped Hailstones, B. Woodd Smith, 102 

 Pearls, Cocoa-nut, Dr. Sydney J. Hickson and W. T. Thiselton 



Dyer, F.R.S., 157; Dr. J. G. F. Riedel, 461 

 Pearls oiyasminum sambac, Dr. E. Huth, 581 

 Pebbles, on the Roundings, by Alpine Rivers, with a Note on 



their Bearing upon the Origin of Bunter Conglomerate, Prof. 



T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 573 

 Pecile (Cav. A.), Ethnology of the Ogoway and Lower Congo 



Bav.ns, 377 

 Peckham (Dr.), Wasps, HI 

 Pekin Oriental Society, 375 

 Peloponnese, Earthquake in the, 587 

 Pengoldt and Fischer (Drs.), Experiments on the Sensitiveness 



of the Sense of Smell, 90 

 Perception of Colour, C. E. Stromeyer, 246 ; T. W, Back- 

 house, 531 

 Periodical Fluctuation of the Carnatic Rainfall, Eleven- Year, 



Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 227 

 Pa-ipaius leuckarti, Habitat of, 324 

 Perkin (Prof.) and Dr. Cohen, on some New Cinnamic Acids, 



570 



Permian Fauna of Bohemia, on the, Prof. Anton Fritsch, 591 



Perrotin (M.), the Nice Observatory, 543 



Perry (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Magnetic Resistance, 262; Magnet 

 Ammeters and Voltmeters, 263 ; and Prof W. E. Ayrton, 

 F.R.S., the Secohmmeter, 129 



Perseids, Early, W. F. Denning, 318 



Petermann's Mitteilungen, 17, 91, 162, 257, 283, 348, 478 



Peters (Prof. C. H. F.), Flamsteed's Stars, "Observed but not 

 Existing," 542 ; Corrigenda in Various Star-Catalogues, 543 ; 

 New Minor Planet, 588 



Pettenkofer (Herr), Hygienic Instruction in Universities, 524 



Peyton (J. E. H.), the Late Earthquake on the Riviera, 

 February 23, 1887, 151 



Pharmaceutical Conference, the British, 429 



Pharmacy for 1886, Year-book of, 243 



Phengodini, on the Luminous Larviform Females of the. Prof. 

 C. V. Riley, 592 



Phenol Series, Isomeric Change in the, O. R. Ling, 569 



Phenomenon, Remarkable, seen on April 26, 1887, E. J. 

 Lowe, F.R.S., 102 



Philippine Exhibition, 231 



Philippine Islands, the Flora of the, 14 



Philips' Handy-Volume Atlas of the World, 208 



Philology : Ethnographic Map of American-Indian Dialect, A. 

 S. Gatschet, 112 



Philosophy, Dictionary of, in the Words of Philosophers, 362 



Phorodon humuli, Schrank, the Problem of the Hop Plant Louse, 

 in Europe and America, Prof. C. V. Riley, 566 



Photochronography, applied to Dynamic Problem of Flight of 

 Birds, M. Marey, 480 



Photography : Photographic Study of the Stellar Spectra, Prof. 

 Edward C. Pickering, 31 ; the ABC of Modern, 52 ; Carey 

 Lee on Photography in Natural Colours, 64 ; Solar Photo- 

 graphy, G. M. Stanoiewitch, 72 ; Photography the Servant 

 of Astronomy, M. de Gothard, 90 ; Photography of Cannon- 

 Balls in motion, no ; Photography of Interior of Living Eye, 

 Dr. Rosebrugh, 1 10 ; Astronomical Photography, Prof C. A. 

 Young, 113 ; Heliochromy and the latest Photographic Image, 

 M. C. Lee, 115 ; Photography of Lightning, 137, 160 ; E. V. 

 Shepherd, 430 ; New Discovery in Connection with Instanta- 

 neous, Goedecke and Miethe, 144 ; Photograph of a Tornado, 

 255 ; Photographic Chart of Heavens, Mouchez, 287 ; Photo- 

 graphy of Bacteria, Edgar M. Crookshank, Dr. E. Klein, 

 F.R.S., 316, 388; Image Transference, M. C. Lee, 480; 

 Instruments for Stellar Photography, Sir Howard Grubb, 

 F.R.S., 523 ; on the Nature of the Photographic Star-Disks, 

 and the Removal of a Difficulty in Measurements for Parallax, 

 Prof. Pritchard, F. K.S., 523; Photography: a Set of 

 Universal 10 per cent, developing Solutions for the Use of 

 Photographers, 526 ; New Forms of Construction of Object- 

 Glasses intended for Stellar Photography, Prof. Edward C. 

 Pickering, 562 ; the Photographer's Hand-book, W. D. Wel- 

 ford, 603 ; Admiral Mouchez on the Photographic Charts of 

 the Heavens, 614 



