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Index 



VSHpJ>lement to Nature, 

 L December q, 1897 



Auerbach, 594 ; the Specific Heat of Human Blood, W. G, 

 Lloyd, 595 ; Biological History of Phosphates, L. Jolly, 

 608 ; Reversal of Respiratory Current in Decapods, Georges 

 Bohn, 608 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. Rudolf Heid- 

 enhain, 617 



Picea, on the Species of, occurring in the North-eastern United 

 States and Canada, Prof. D. P. Penhallow, 602 



Pickering (Prof. E. C), Acoustic Method of determining Position 

 of Vessel in Fog, 130 



Pickering (Spencer, F.R.S.), the Theory of Dissociation into 

 Ions, 29 ; Thermal Phenomena attending Change of Rotary 

 Power of freshly prepared Solutions of Carbohydrates, 214 



Pickering (Prof. W. H.), Southern Double Stars, 454 



Picture Lessons in Natural History, 28 



Pike (Arnold), Exploration of Spitsbergen Archipelago, 595 



Pike (J.), Bromide Enlargements and how to make them, 612 



Pike's Peak, Colorado, Electrical Storms on, I07 



Pilcher (Percy S.), Cyclone Sail, 342 



Pionchon (M.), Molecular Volumes of Crystallised Carbohydrates 

 at 0°, 240 



Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley, Edward Clodd, 



Pithecanthropus erectus, L. Manouvrier, 583 



Plague : the Plague Bacillus, Dr. Rudolf Abel, 232 ; the Plague 



in India, Prof. Koch, 275 ; Olive Oil as Remedy for Plague, 



Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 522 

 Planets : a Remarkable Relation between the Distances, Masses, 



and Surface Gravities of the, M. P. Berthot, 17 ; Relation- 

 ship between the Masses and Distances of the Planets, G. E. 



Sutcliffe. 424 ; Rotation Period of Jupiter's Third Satellite, 



Mr. Douglass, 109 ; Jupiter's Satellites, Mr. Douglass, 255 ; 



the Diameters of Jupiter and his Satellites, Herr Leo Brenner, 



504 ; Action of Jupiter and Saturn upon Encke's Comet, M. 



A. Lebeuf, 504 ; Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, 573 ; 



New Observations of Venus, Dr. Eduardo Fontsere, 300 ; 



Observations of Mars, 163 ; Martian Markings, M. Antoniadi, 



233 ; Planetary Orbits illustrated by a Rolling Ball, Geo. 



Romanes, 174 ; Planetary Notes, 386 ; the Magnitudes of the 



Asteroids, Herr G. Huber, 454 ; New Divisions in the Rings 



of Saturn, Prof. J. M. Schaeberle, 552 

 Plankton of the Atlantic, on the Surface, Prof. Herdman, W. 



Garstang, 555 

 Plant, a Troublesome Aquatic, 332 

 Plants, some Preliminary Experiments with Rontgen Rays in, 



Prof. G. F. Atkinson, 600 

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



Freiherr von Tubeuf, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, P\R.S., 121 

 Plea for a Bureau of Ethnology for the British Empire, a, Prof. 



A. C. Haddon, 574 

 Pleistocene Ice-sheets of the Northern United States, on the 



Distribution of the. Prof. F. C. Chamberlin, 485 

 Pleurococcus, Note on. Miss Dorothea F, M. Pertz, 601 

 Plugge (Dr. P. C), Death of, 276 

 Plummer (W. E. ), Comparison between Results from Three 



Anemometers, 88 

 Pocket Lens, Through a, Henry Scherren, 125 

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

 Poetry and Science, Alfred Austin, 594 

 Poison : Further Studies on Snake Poison >and Immunity, Prof, 



Calmette, 39 

 Pollak (Ch.), New Electrolytic Condenser of Large Capacity, 



216 

 Pollen of Flowers, Streaming Movements of the Protoplasm in, 



H. B. Potter, 248 

 Pope (W. J.), Optical Inversion of Camphor, 214; Racemism 



and Pseudoracemism, 214 

 Population of Russia, the, 117 



Port Jackson Shark, Development of, Dr. W. A. Haswell, 192 

 Porter (T. C), some Further Experiments on the X-Rays, 316 

 Post, Sample, for Natural History Specimens, Walter F. H. 



Blandford, 271 

 Postulates of Geometry, the Necessary, 417 

 Potato Scab, Formalin as a Preventive of, 502 

 Potter (H. B.), Streaming Movements of the Protoplasm in 



Pollen of Flowers, 248 

 Pottevin (M.), Anti-Rabic Inoculation for 1896 at Paris Pasteur 



Institute, 161 

 Poulton (Prof E. B.), on Mimicry as Evidence of the Truth of 



Natural Selection, 555 ; on -Theories of Mimicry as illus- 

 trated by African Butterflies, 555 



Pound (C. I.), Inoculation with Chicken Cholera as a Means of 



suppressing Australian Rabbit Pest, 16 ' 



Powder Magazine, Electric Conductors and, 143 

 Practice, Theory and. Prof. T, Clifford Allbutt, 332 

 Pratt (J. II.), Wellsite, 188 

 Pratt (Mr.), New Appliance for Fog-signalling on Railways, 



230 . . 



Precessional Motion, New Determination of. Prof. "Simon 



Newcomb, 324 

 Precht (J.), Kathode and Rontgen Rays, 335 ; Measurements 



of Interference of Direct X-Rays, 335 

 Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), Signalling through Space without 



Wires, 163 

 Prehistoric Egyptian Flint Instruments, H. W. Seton-Karr, 



131 

 Prehistoric Problems, Dr. R. Munro, 390 

 Pressure, Effect of, on Series in Spectra, Prof J. S. Ames, 



W. J. Humphreys, 415 

 Pressure Variables in Physics, Long Range Temperature and, 



Prof. Carl Barus, 528 

 Prevention of Smoke from Manufacturing Chimneys, Report on 



the Causes and, Dr. Harvey Littlejohn, 29 

 Preyer (Thierry William), Death of, 276 ; Obituary Notice of, 



296 

 Primes, Sieve for, Robt. W. D. Christie, 10 

 Primitive Methods of Drilling, J. D. McGuire, 140 ; Franz 



Calice, 317 

 Problems and Questions in Physics, C. P. Matthews, J. Shearer, 



194 

 Problems of Arctic Geology, some, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 301, 



351 

 Progress of the Steam Turbine, the, 520 

 Projectiles : Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph 



to find the Resistance of the Air to the Motiort of, Francis 



Bashforth, 314; Cuirasses et Projectiles de Marine, E. 



Vallier, 315 

 Proper Motions of Stars, the Cause of the, 504 

 Protective Colouring, Alfred O. Walker, 566 

 Proteids, Respiratory, Researches in Biological Chemistry, 



A. B. Grifiiths, 9 

 Protoplasm, Streaming Movements of the, in Pollen of Flowers, 



H. B. Potter, 248 

 Prunier (L.), Ordinary Ether Preparation, 143 

 Pseudo-scorpions, the, E. M. Berger, 470 

 Psoriasis and Syphilis, F. Boufte, 240 

 Psychology : Outlines of Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, 9 ; 



Death of Dr. C. A. L. Robertson,' 87 ; Death and Obituary 



Notice of Sir John Bucknill, F.R.S., 276 

 Psychophysics : Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, 



Dr. E. Mach, 340 

 Puget Sound, on the Drift Phenomena of, Bailey Willis, 485 

 Puggenheimer (S.), Actino- Electric E fleets of Rontgen Rays, 



263 

 Puiseux (M.), the Photographs of the Moon taken at the Paris 



Observatory, 280 

 Pullen (W. W. F.), a Treatise on Practical Plane and Solid 



Geometry, 151 

 Putnam (Prof. F. W.), on the First Traces of Man in North 



America, 486 ; on the Antiquity of Man in America, 487, 



on the Evidences of American-Asiatic Contact, 487 

 Pyevtsoff (M. V.), Works of the Tibet Expedition of the Years 



1889-90, under, 27 

 Pyrometry: Long Range Temperature and Pressure Variables 



in Physics, Prof. Carl Barus, 528 



Quain (Sir Richard), on the Mechanism of the First Sound of 



the Heart, 567 

 Qualitative Chemical Analysis, a Detailed Course of, Arthur A. 



Noyes, 612 

 Quebec, on the Geology of. Dr. R. W. Ells, 484 

 Queen's Reign, Progress of Science during the, 169 

 Quincke (G.), Electric Viscosity of Insulators, 583 



Rabbit Pest, Australian, Inoculation with Chicken Cholera as a 



means of Suppressing, C. J. Pound, 16 

 Rabies, Sporadic, in Foxes, 184 



Rabot (Ch.), Variation in Length of Arctic Glaciers, 524 

 Radiants, Zodiacal, of Fire-balls, W. F. Denning, 185, 



