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Index 



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282 : the Horizontal Gyroscope, yoo ; a Cyclone Sail, Percy 

 S. Pilcher, 342 ; the Bazm Roller-Boat, 500 

 Neave (Sheffield), the Storm in Essex on June 24, 196 

 Nebula of Orioti, the, 90 



Nebula Photograph, a New, Dr. Isaac Roberts, F.R.S., 454 

 Nebulce unrecorded in Catalogues, Dr. Roberts, 134 

 Nef (Prof. J. V. ) on the Chemistry of Methylene and Compounds 



containing Dyad-Carbon, 463 

 Neisser (Dr. Max), the Correct Diagnosis of Diphtheria Bacilli, 



298 

 Neminar (Edmund), Death of, 14 

 Nesting Haunts, among British Birds in their, illustrated by the 



Camera, Oswin A. J. Lee, 25, 196 

 Nevada, the Story of the Mine, as illustrated by the Great 



Comstock Lode of, Charles Howard Shinn, 172 

 Nevill (Hugh), Death of, 14 

 Nevill (Mr.) Natal Observatory Report, 324 

 Nevill (F. H.), X-Ray Photographs of Solid Alloys, 94 

 New England, on the Laurentian Ice-Sheet in. Prof. C. H. 



Hitchcock, 485 

 New Guinea, Gigantic Fish Hook from, C. Hedley, 464 

 New South Wales Linnean Society, 143, 263, 464, 584 ; New 



South Wales Royal Society, 288 ; Journal and Proceedings 



for 1896 of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 291 ; the 



Cinnamomums of New South Wales, R. T. Baker, 464 

 New York Botanical Garden, 16 

 New York, on the Glacial Geology of Western, Prof. H. 



LeRoy Fairchild, 485 

 New York, on the Restoration ol Phenacodus pri7ncnjus and of 



the Skeletons and Restorations of Tertiary Mammalia in the 



American Museum of Natural History at. Prof. Osborn, 



555 

 Newall (H. F.), Luminosity attending Compression of Rarefied 



Gases, 119 

 Newcomb (Prof. Simon), on the Distances of the Stars, 139; 



New Determination of Precessional Motion, 324 

 Newfoundland Banks, on the Fogs of the. Dr. G. Schott, 



619 

 Newnham (A. ), Scorpion Carrying Flower, 79 

 Newton (E. T.), F.R.S., Geology of Franz Josef Land, 262 

 Newton (Prof. Hubert A.), the Worship of Meteorites, 355 

 Niagara Falls, Manufacture of Carborundum at, Francis A. 



Fitzgerald, 42 

 Niagara Falls, on the Champlain Submergence and Uplift and 



their Relations to the Great Lakes and, F. B. Taylor, 485 

 Nichols (Edward L.), the Elements of Physics, 265 

 Nicholson (G. W. de P.), Blackbird's Nest appropriated by a 



White Wagtail, 343 

 Nicholson (J. T.), Experiments on the Flow of Rocks, 484 

 Nicholson (Prof.), Apparatus for Studying the Rate of Con- 

 densation of Steam, when in Contact with Metal Surfaces at 



Various Temperatures and Pressures, 507 

 Nickel, Prof. Richards on the Atomic Weight of, 462 

 Nickel-Steels, Magnetic Properties of, C. E. Guillaume, 240 

 Nicol (Dr. W. W. J.), Supersaturation, 71 

 Night in Mid-May, a, 34 

 Nipher (Prof. F. E.), Method of Measuring Tube-re.sistance to 



Air-flow, 95 

 Nitrates in Mangolds, Disappearance of, T. B. Wood, 293 

 Niviere (G.), Influence of Colouring Matters on Fermentation of 



Highly-coloured Red Wines, 536 

 Nobile (Prof. Arminio), Death of, 276 

 Noddy, Appearance of a, in Cheshire, F. Congreve, 544 

 Non-flammable Wood, C. Ellis, 282 

 North America, on the First Traces of Man in. Profs. Putnam, 



McCiee and Claypole, and Drs. Dawson and Spencer, 486 

 North Atlantic : Floating Bottle Drifts, 252 ; Algre of the North 



Atlantic, H. H. Gran, 454 

 North-western Provinces of India, the, W. Crooke, 361 

 Norway, the Beavers of. Prof. Collett, 549 

 Nouvelle Etude sur les Tempetes, Cyclones, Trombes, ou Tor- 

 nados, M. Faye, 289 

 Nova Scotia, on the pre-Palseozoic and Palaeozoic Rocks of. Dr. 



L. W. Bjiiley, 484 ; on the Star- Lore of the Micmacs of 



Nova Scotia, Stansbury Hagar. 486 

 November Meteor Shower, Forecast of the, W. F. Denning, 



,473 

 Noyes (A. A.), the Molecular Volume and Cross-Section of 



Ciases, 253 ; a Detailed Course of Qualitative Chemical 



Analysis, 612 



Nubian Desert South-east of Korosko, the, Capt. H. E. Lyons*, 

 46 



Numerical Value of the "Mechanical Equivalent," Recent In- 

 vestigations into the, E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 258 



Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 93 



Nyland (Dr.), the 1897 Maximum of Mira Ceti, 163 



Objective Combination Tones, Photographic Records of. Prof. 

 Rucker, 461 



Observation of Meteors, the, with Special Reference to the 

 Leonids, W. F. Denning, 613 



Observations of Mars, 163 



Observatories: Report of Mr. Tebbutt's Observatory, 17; the 

 Latitude of the Royal Catania Observatory, 133 ; the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich, 134 ; Harvard College Observatory 

 Zone Observations, 134 ; Royal Observatory, Cape of Good 

 Hope, 185 ; Paris Observatory Report, M. Lcewy, 206 ; the 

 Photographs of the Moon taken at the Paris Observatory, 280 ; 

 Latitude Observations at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Wash- 

 ington, Prof. W. Harkness, 256 ; Cambridge Observatory 

 Report, Sir Robert Ball, 279 ; the Yerkes Observatory, Prof. 

 Hale, 3CXD ; Dedication of the Yerkes Observatory, 454 ; 

 Natal Observatory Report, Mr. Nevill, 324 ; the Madras 

 Observatory, C. Michie Smith, 424 ; Eclipse Expedition of 

 the Lick Observatory, 525 ; the Etna Observatory, 544 ; Dr. 



B. Engelhardt's Observatory, 620 ; the Meudon Astrophysical 

 Observatory, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 494 



Oceanic Circulation, 131 



Oertel (Prof.), Death of, 276 



Ogilby (Mr.), Monocentris japonictis, 584 



Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.), a Handbook to the Game-Birds, 25 



Oils : Les Huiles Minerales : Petrole, Schiste, Lignite, Franfois 



Miron, 315 

 Okovanga River, the New Africa : a Journey down the, Aurel 



Schulz, August Hammar, 340 

 Old Age Statistics, Canadian, A. T. Drummond, 277 

 Old Red Sandstone of Lome, the, Sir Archibald Geikie, 



F.R.S., 157 

 Olifsen and Filipsen (Messrs.), Dwarf Tribe in the Pamirs, 61 

 Oilier (Mr.), Demonstration of Osseous Regeneration in Man 



by Rontgen Rays, 95 

 Omaha, on the Scalp-lock and the Totem among the, Miss A. 



C. Fletcher, 486 



Omori (Prof. F.), the Tokio Earthquake of June 24, 1894, 36 

 Ontario Lake, Mr. F. N. Denison on "Seiche" Movements 



on, 462 

 Optics : Death and Obituary Notice of Adam Hilger, 34 ; 

 Partial Polarisation of Luminous Radiations under Magnetic 

 Influence, N. Egeroff and N. Georgiewsky, 47, 263 ; Emis- 

 sion and Absorption of Glass and Quartz at Different Tem- 

 peratures, Z. P. Bouman, 47 ; Influence of Pressure upon 

 Natural Rotation of Plane of Polarisation in Cane Sugar 

 Solutions, L. H. Siertsema, 264 ; a Curious Luminous 

 Phenomenon, W. Larden, 54 ; Explanations of some Experi- 

 ments of G. le Bon, Henri Becquerel, 71 ; the Transparency 

 of Ebonite, 95 ; Action of Light on Gas Mixtures, Armand 

 GautierandH. Helier, 119; Luminosity attending Compres- 

 sion of Rarefied Gases, H. F. Newall, 119; Subjective 

 Transformations of Colour, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 128; 

 the Sensitiveness of the Retina to Light and Colour, Captain 

 W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 165 ; a New Definition of Focal 

 Length, T, H. Blakesley, 166 ; L'Ottica delle Oscillazioni 

 Elettriche, Prof. A. Righi, 125 ; Light Action on Chlorine 

 and Hydrogen, Armand Gautier and H. Helier, 167 ; Sub- 

 jective Transformations of Colour, Prof. F. J. Allen, 174; 

 Action of X-Rays on Retina, G. Bardet, 192 : Refractive 

 Index of Diamond for X-Rays, A. Voller and B. Walter, 311 ; 

 Influence of X-Rays on Luminosity of Gases, A. de Hemp- 

 tinne, 488 ; Influence of Dimensions of Light-Source in 

 Fresnel's Difi"raction Phenomena and Diffraction of X-Rays, 

 Dr. C. H. Wind, 312; Photography applied to Measure- 

 ment of Indices of Refraction, A. and L Lumiere, 216 ; 

 Change of Absorption produced by Fluorescence, J. Burke, 

 261 ; Theory of Magneto-Optic Phenomena of Iron, Nickel 

 and Cobalt,:-J. G. Leathem, 261 ; New Experiment concern- 

 ing Anomalous Wave-propagation, P. Zeeman, 264 ; on the 

 Inversion Constant of Sugar in an Aqueous Solution, Dr. E. 

 Cohen, 264 ; New Optical Method of Studying Alternating 

 Currents, H. A. Abraham and H. Buisson, 287 ; Abhand- 



