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Index 



^Supplement to Nature 

 L December 9, 1897 



lungen zur Physiologic der Gesichtsempfindungen, 315 ; 

 Death of Dr. A. F. Holmgren, 451 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 500 ; Determination of Source of Rays from " Focus " Tube, 

 Dean Molloy, 471 : Optical Device for Intensifying Photo- 

 graphic Pictures, Lord Rayleigh, 500 ; Phase-Change of Light 

 on Reflection at a Silver Surface, E. Edser, H. Stansfield, 

 504 ; the Worsted Test for Colour Vision, Jessie A. Sime, 

 516 ; Method of making Lines in Glass visible as Light on 

 Dark Ground, F. F. Martens, 583 ; Grey and Red Incan- 

 descence, O. Lummer, 583 

 Orang, Strange Instinct of Fear in the, R. I. Pocock, 613 

 Orbit of Comet 1822 IV., the. Dr. A. Stichtenoth, 573 

 Orbits, Planetary, illustrated by a Rolling Ball, Geo. Romanes, 



174 



Orchard, and Spinney, In Garden, Phil Robinson, 222 



Ore Deposits, a Treatise on, J. Arthur Phillips, F.R.S., 313 



O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), a Bright Meteor, 469; Olive Oil as 

 Remedy for Plague, 522 



Organic Acids, a New Class of, F. Stanley Kipping, 589 



Organised or Sectional Work in Astronomy, W. F. Denning, 9 



Origin of the European Fauna, the. Dr. R. F. Scharf, 625 



Orion, the Nebula of, 90 



Ornithology : Life Histories of North American Birds from the 

 Parrots to the Crackles, with Special Reference to their 

 Breeding Habits and Eggs, Charles Bendire, 25 ; Feathered 

 Friends, Old and New, Dr. W. T. Greene, 25 ; Coloured 

 Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptive Notes, 

 Henry Seebohm, 25 ; a Handbook to the Game-Birds, W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, 25 ; Among British Birds in their Nesting 

 Haunts, illustrated by the Camera, Oswin A. J. Lee, 25, 196 ; 

 the Feathering of Birds, F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., 36 ; on the 

 Feathers of Hesperornis, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 30 ; Wild Bird 

 Protection and Nesting Boxes, &c. , J. R. B. Masefield, 78 ; 

 the Birds of our Country, H. E. Stewart, loi ; the Instinctive 

 Building Habit in Birds, Dr. A. G. Butler, 183 ; the Gait of 

 Cotton-Teal, F.j Finn, 205 ; Nestor productus and Nestor 

 norfolcensis, J. E. Harting, 239 ; Great Auk Bones in 

 Ireland, R. J. Ussher, 347 ; Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird 

 Life, Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues, W. Warde 

 Fowler, 516; Appearance of a Noddy in Cheshire, F. Con- 

 greves, 544 ; Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, Robert 

 Ridgway, 590 



Ortmann (A. E. ), on a New Species of Palinurid genus Linuparus 

 found in the Upper Cretaceous of Dakota, 631 



Ortt (F. L.), Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the 

 Tide, 80 ; Rontgen Ray Theory, 316 ; Distant Sounds, 391 



Osborn (Prof. H. F.), on the Origin of Mammalia, 555 ; on the 

 Restoration of Phenacodus privuvvus, and of the Skeletons 

 and Restorations of Tertiary Mammalia in the American 

 Museum of Natural History at New York, 555 



Osmond (E.), Alloys of Silver-Copper Group, 95 



Osmund (F. J.), Cycle Construction, 331 



Osteology : the Vertebrate Skeleton, Sidney H. Reynolds, 

 245 



Ostwald (Prof.), Crystallisation of Super-saturated Solutions of 

 Super-cooled Liquids, 61 



Ostwald's Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften, Nos. 86, 87, 

 247 



Ottica delle Oscillazioni Elettriche, L', Prof. A. Righi, 125 



Oudemans (Prof.), New Leaf Fungi, 312 



Outlines of Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, 9 



Outlying Clusters of the Perseids, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 

 540 



Overton (Dr. E.), Firefly Light, 154 



Oxus, the Pamirs and the Source of the, Rt. Hon. George N. 

 Curzon, loi 



Oxygen, on the Spectrum of, Profs. Runge and Paschen, 461 



Oysters, on, Prof. Herdman, 555 



Pacific Coast, North, Decorative Art of the Indians of. Dr. 



Franz Boas, 571 

 Palseobotany : Vertebraria the Rhizome of Glossopteris, 61 

 Palaeontology : Guide to the Fossil Invertebrates and Plants in 

 the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), 29 ; the Wellington Caves, New 

 South Wales, 184 ; New Form of Fossil Skate, C. R. East- 

 man, 387 ; the Cretaceous Rocks of Pondicherry, Dr. F. 

 Kosmatt, 453 ; the Protoceratidae, O. C. Marsh, 583 ; 

 Pithecanthropus erectus, L. Manouvrier, 583 ; on a New 



Species of Palinurid Genus Linuparus found in the Upper 

 Cretaceous of Dakota, A. E. Ortmann, 631 



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

 L. W. Bailey, 484 



Palaeozoic Formations in North America, Dr. H. M. Ami, 485 



Palmer ( A. de F., jun.). Pressure Coefficient of Mercury 

 Resistance, 286 



Pamirs, the, and the Source of the Oxus, Rt. Hon. Geo. N. 

 Curzon, loi 



Papavasiliou (Dr.), Seismology of Greece, 15 



Papuan Gulf, on Dental Irregularities in Skulls from the, Dr. 

 G. A. Dorsey, 619 



Parallax of 61^ Cygni, the, Herman S. Davis, 90 



Parasites, Cryptogamic, Diseases of Plants induced by, Dr. 

 Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 

 121 



Paris: Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 

 167, 191, 216, 240, 263, 287, 311, 336, 360, 388, 416, 440, 

 464, 488, 512, 536, 560, 583, 608, 632 ; Paris Rainfall since 

 1688, Camille Flammarion, 38 ; Anti-Rabic Inoculation at 

 Paris Pasteur Institute for 1896, M. Pottevin, 161 ; Observa- 

 tory Report, M. Loewy, 206 ; the Photographs of the Moon 

 taken at the Paris Observatory, MM. Loewy and Puiseux, 

 280 



Parsons (Hon. C. A.), the Turbinia, 116 ; Steam Turbine, 520 



Paschen (Prof. F.), on the Spectrum of Oxygen, Sulphur and 

 Selenium, 388, 461 



Pasquier (Prof. Leon du). Death of, 14 



Pasteur, the Work of, and the Modern Conception of Medicine, 

 Prof. Charles Richet, 508 



Pasteur Institute, Anti-Rabic Inoculation for 1896 at Paris, M. 

 Pottevin, 161 



Pastukhoff^ (M.), Second Ascent of the Elbruz, 183 



Paterson (David), the Effect of Sunlight on the Tints of Birds' 

 Eggs, II 



Paterson (J. A.), on the Unification of Time, 461 



Pathology : a Guide to the Clinical Examination of the Blood 

 for Diagnostic Purposes, Dr. Richard C. Cabot, 100 ; Death 

 of Dr. Giuseppe Fissore, 252 ; the Relationship of Physiology, 

 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Practical Medicine, Dr. T. 

 Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., 473; Death of Dr. C. S. Roy, 

 F.R.S., 548; Obituary Notice of, 591; Plant Pathology: 

 Diseases of Plants induced by Cryptogamic Parasites, Dr. 

 Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S. , 

 121 



Peal (S. E.), Identical Customs of Dyaks and Races around 

 Assam, 53 



Peal (S. E.), Death of, 383 ; Obituary Notice of, 421 



Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), Relative Variation and Correlation 

 in Civilised and Uncivilised Races, 190 ; Barometric Fre- 

 quency Distribution at Diverse Stations, 260 



Peary's (Lieut.) Great Meteorite, 569 



Penck (Prof. A.), on the Glacial Deposits of the Alps, 485 ; 

 Geomorphology of North-west Highlands, 571 



Penfield (S. L.), Bixbyite, 387 



Penhallow (Prof. D. P.), on the Species of Picea occurring in 

 the North-eastern United States and Canada, 602 



Peringuey (L.), the Tsetse-Fly Larviparous, 298 



Periodic Comet D'Arrest, the, 256 ; Gustave Leveau, 324 



Periodical Comets, W. F. Denning, 518 



Periodic Variations of Rainfall in India, 1 10 



Peripatus oviparus in New South Wales, Thomas Steel, 192 



Perkin (A. G.), Apigenin, 214 



Permain (T. H.), Aids to the Study of Bacteriology, 152 



Pernter (Prof. J. M.), Luminous Phenomena observed on 

 Mountains, 80 



Perrigot (M.), the Transparency of Ebonite, 95 



Perrine (Jean), the Laws of Discharge for Electrified Bodies, 37 



Perrine Comet, 598, 620 



Perry (John, F.R.S.), the Calculus for Engineers, 338 



Perseid, a Brilliant, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 364 



Perseids, Outlying Clusters of the, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 

 540 



Personal Equation in Transit Observations, Prof. Truman 

 Saff"ord, 206 



Pertz (Miss Dorothea F. M. ), on Pleurococcus, 601 



Petroleum in Canada, Experimental Boring for. Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, 550 



Petzold (Dr. W.), Death of, 346, 413 



Pharmacology : Death of Prof, W. Marme, 252 ; Death of Dr. 



