Supplement to Nature,"! 

 June 2, 189a J 



Inaex 



xxvii 



Poison, Arrow, of Sarro Savages, Laborde and Rondeau, 278 

 Poison of the Malay Peninsula, the Ipoh, Leonard VVray, 



Jun., 278 

 Polaris, on the Observation of North Polar Stars in the Vertical 



of, Truman Saffard, 159 

 Polarization of Atmosphere by Light of Moon, N. Piltschikoff, 



456 

 Political Economy and Taxation, David Ricardo, 4 

 Pollination, Evolution in Methods of, Miss Alice Carter, 596 

 Polynesians, Lieut. Vedel on the, 615 

 Polytechnic Institute, Regent Street, Appeal on behalf of the, 



250 

 Polytechnics and Recreation, Miss E. Cons, 28 

 Ponds, Isolated, Natural History of, Clement Reid, 325 

 Population in Austria- Hungary, the Increase of, 158 

 Population of the Five Continents, E. Levasseur, 552 

 Population and Surface of European States, Emile Levasseur, 



528 

 Porter (T. C), Alum Solution, 29; First Visible Colour of 



Incandescent Iron, 558 

 Portland, Oregon, Earthquake at, 586 

 Post (Dr. A. H.), Strange Symbolical Marriage Custom in 



India, 135 

 Poulenc (C), Action of Potassium Fluoride on Anhydrous 



Chlorides, 552 

 Poulton (Edward B., F.R.S.), a Difficulty in Weismannism, 52; 



Warning Colours, 174 

 Pratt and Son, Spotted Eagle, 259 

 Precessional Globe, a New, Dr. K. Haas, 250 

 Precious Stones and Gems, their History, Sources, and 



Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531 

 Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), the Specification of Insulated Con- 

 ductors for Electric Lighting, &c., 155 

 Prehistoric Animals in Endsleigh Street, Discovery of Remains 



of, Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S., 566 

 Prehistoric Antiquities, Russian ; the Slavonians of the First 



Centuries of our Era, Prof. Samokvasoff, 577 

 Prehistoric Mounds in Ohio, Excavation of the, 20 

 Prehistoric Remains, Opening of a Burial Mound in Florida. 



C.B. Moore, 567 

 Prehistoric Tomb in Ohio, Discovery of Remarkable, 157 

 Prehistoric Weapons: the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau, 



Silesia, Dr. O. Schoetersack, 379 

 Prehistory of Egypt, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 580 

 Prestwich (Joseph, F.R.S.), the Raised Beaches and Rubble- 

 drifts of the South of England, 453 

 Pringsheim (Dr. ), Experiments on Cause of Emission of Light 



by Gases, 312 

 Prior (Dr. R. C. A.), Ripe Seeds of the Monkey-Puzzle Tree 



{Araucaria imbricata) of Chili, grown in England, 421 

 Prism, the Objective, Prof. Pickering, 521 

 Pritchard (Prof.), the Diffraction Effects produced by placing 



Screens in Front of Object Glasses, 237 

 Professorial Duties, Exchange of. Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, 557 

 Projectiles, Calculation of Trajectories of Elongated, Rev. F. 



Bashforth, 473 

 Propagation of Induced Magnetism in Iron, some Experiments 

 made with the view of ascertaining the Rate of, Fred. T. 

 Trouton, 42 

 Pseudopodes of Diatoms, Alleged, Alf. W. Bennett, 177 

 Psychology : a Short Account of the Human Mind, F. S. 



Granger, 76 

 Psychology, Experimental, 234 

 Psychology as a Science in the United States, the Study of, C. 



W. Scripture, 568 

 Ptomaines Extracted from Urine in some Infectious Maladies, 



A. B. Griffiths, 72 

 Pullinger (W. ), Platinum Tetrachloride, 551 

 Puma, the, F. W. Tree, 445 

 Pupin (Dr. M. I.), on the Action of Vacuum Discharge 



Streamers upon each other, 622 

 Putnam's (Prof.) Anthropological Exhibit at Chicago Exhibition, 

 259 



Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Frank Clowes and J. Bernard 



Coleman, 578 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 140, 450 

 Quaternions as a Practical Instrument of Physical Research, 



A. McAuley, 423 



Quatrefages (Prof, cle). Death and Obituary Notice of, 278; 



Proposed Monument to, 612 

 Queensland : Oyster Culture in, Saville-Kent, 66 ; on the 



Habits of Ceratudus, the Lung Fi.sh of, Prof. Spencer, 425 ; 



Depredations of the Great Bower Bird in, 588 



Race, the Manchu, 523 



Radiant Points, Displacement of. Dr. J. Kleiber, 570 



Rail, New Extinct, Prof. Henry O. Forbes, 416 



Railway, New, from Upminster to Romford, Essex, T. V. 



Holmes, 151 

 Railways, English, the Working and Management of, 116 

 Rainbows, Supernumerary, observed in the Orkneys, Robt. H. 



Scott, F.R.S., 223 ; M. Spence, 223 

 Rainfall Experiments, Prof. G. Hellmann's Recent, 545 

 Ramsay (Sir Andrew Crombie), Obituary Notice of, 151 

 Ramsay (E. P.), Ethnological Purchases for the Australian 



Museum, Sydney, 324 

 Ramsay (W.), Pedelic Motion in Relation to Colloidal Solu- 

 tions, 429 

 Rankin (Angus), Dust Counting on Ben Nevis, 582 

 Raoult (M.), Determination of the Freezing Point of very 



Dilute Solutions, as Applied to Cane Sugar, 384 

 Rare Phenomenon, a, Alexander Graham Bell, 79 

 Rathay (Dr.), the Ants attracted by Cynips calycis, a Protec- 

 tion to Quetrus pedunculata, 546 

 Ratzel (Friedrich), Anthropogeographie, 557 

 Rayet (G.), the Temporary Star in Auriga, 408 

 Rayleigh (R^ght Hon. Lord, F.R.S.) : on the Virialof a System 

 of Hard Colliding Bodies, 80 ; Experiments in Aerodyna- 

 mics, 108 ; Superheated Steam, 375 ; Heat Engines and 

 Saline Solutions, 438, 510 ; Aberration, 499 

 Reade (T. M.), Drift Beds of North and Mid Wales Coast, 



525 

 Realm of Nature, the, Hugh Robert Mill, 390 

 Reboul (E.), Butylene Monobromides, 47 

 Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of 



Marianne North, 602 

 Records of the Australian Museum, 421 

 Recoura (A.), a Green Solid Chromic Sulphate, 192 

 Recreation, Polytechnics and. Miss E. Cons, 28 

 Red Light after Sunset, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 30 

 Red Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 272 

 Reflection, on Selective and Metallic, A. B. Basset, F.R S 



119 

 Refractive Power of Cometary Matter, E. E. Barnard, 237 

 Refrigerating Machinery : Prof. Pictet's Laboratory at Berlin 



Prof. R. du Bois-Reymond, 31 

 Regelation, the Theory of, H. Le Chatelier, 288 

 Regnault (F.), the Foot as a Prehensile Organ in Hindoos, 



192 

 Reid (Clement), Natural History of Isolated Ponds, 325 ; the 



Pleistocene Deposits of the Sussex Coasts, 454 

 Reinholm, the late Dr., 496 

 Relation of Natural Science to Art, on the, W. Ainslie HoUis, 



319 

 Religion, Savage, the Limits of. Dr. Tylor, 71 

 Reliques of Constance Naden, Further, 389 

 Renard (Rev. A. F.), Deep-sea Deposits, 409 

 Respiratory Centres, on the Physiology of, Dr. Alf, Bienfait, 



624 

 Reviews and Our Book Shelf : — 

 Electricity and Magnetism, translated from the French of 

 Amedee Guillemin, Revised and Edited by Silvanus P. 

 Thompson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, i 

 Die indo-malayische Strandflora, A. F. W. Schimper, 3 

 Ueber die Mangrove- Vegetation im malayischen Archipel, 

 G. Karsten (Bibliotheca Botanica, Heft 22), W. Botting 

 Hemsley, F.R.S., 3 

 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, David Ricardo,4 

 Photographic Pastimes, a Hand-book for Amateurs, Hermann 



Schnauss, 5 

 On Surrey Hills, by a Son of the Marshes, 5 

 Heroes of the Telegraph, J. Munro, 5 

 An Elementary Hand-book on Potable Water, Floyd Davis, 



M.Sc, Ph.D., Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 25 

 The Intra-cranial Circulation and its Relation to the Physio- 

 logy of the Brain, James Cappie, M.D., 26 

 Physiography, Elementary Stage, J. Spencer, 27 



