XXVIII 



Index 



Nature. 

 December 13, 1900 



Osborn (Prof. H. F.), Correlation between Tertiary Mamma- 

 lian Horizons of Europe and America, 424 



Osmotic Properties, on the, and their Causes in the Living 

 Plant and Animal Cell, Prof. Overton, 612 



Osteology, the Origin of Mammals, J. S. Kingsley, 254 



Ousounify, a New Edible Tuber from the Soudan, Maxime 

 Cornu, 72 



Outlines of Plant Life, with Special Reference to Form and 

 Function, Prof. Charles Reid Barnes, 30 



Overton (Prof.), on the Osmotic Properties and their Causes in 

 the Living Plant and Animal Cell, 612 



Owens College, the New Physical Laboratory at, 250 



Oxford University Museum, Catalogue of Eastern and Austra- 

 lian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the, 548 



Oxford University Observatory, Prof. H. H. Turner, ilo 



Oxfordshire, on the Occurrence of Flint Implements of Palseo- 

 lithic Type on an Old Land Surface in, A. M. Bell, 636 



Oxy-gas Blowpipe Flame, Working Silica in the, W. A. Shen- 

 stone, F.R.S., and H. G. Lacell, 20 



Oxygen, Compressed, Physiological Action of, A. Mosso, 492 



Pacific, Explorations oi \}Rt. Albalross\xi\\\&, 307 



Paganism of the Iroquois of Ontario, on the, David Boyle, 635 



Paix-Seailles (C), Product of Decomposition of a Diiodhydrin 

 of Glycerol, 191 



Palaeobotany : Sigillaria, M. Grand'Eury, 23 ; the Arizona 

 "Chalcedony Park," L. F. Ward, 62 ; the Norwegian North 

 Polar Expedition, 1893-96, to Franz Josef Land, Scientific 

 Results, Fridtjof Nansen, J. F. Pompeckj, A. G. Nathorst, 

 R. CoUett, 146 ; the Structure of Paleozoic Plants, Mr. Car- 

 ruthers, F.R.S,, 287 ; Elements de Paleobotanique, R. 

 Zeiller, 315 



Paleeolithic Implements from Stellenbosch, L. Peringuey and 

 G. S. Corstophine, 464 



Palaeolithic Man in Africa, Sir John Evans, F.R.S., 190 



Palaeontology : Cambrian Fossils of Eastern Salt-range (India), 

 Dr. K. Redlich, 36 ; Cordaites, M. Grand'Eury, 47 ; an 

 Anomodont Reptile from Bunter Sandstone of Reichen, Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 94; Theriodont Reptile from Ba- 

 viaans River, Cape Colony, Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 

 262 ; Undescribed Trilobites in Oxford University Museum, 

 H. H. Thomas, 262 ; Radiolaria frnm Coulsdon Upper Chalk, 

 W. M. Holmes, 262 ; Correlation between Tertiary Mam- 

 malian Horizons of Europe and America, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 

 424 ; Restoration of Stylonurus Lacoanus, C. E. Beecher, 

 432; Rhamphorhynchus in Bavaria, 577 



Pangan Tribe of Aborigines in the Malay Peninsula, on some 

 Anthropological Observations of the, W. L. H. Duckworth, 

 633 



Paris : Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 46, 71,95, 119, 143, 167, 

 191, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336, 383, 408, 432, 464, 492, 

 520, 544, 568, 592, 616, 639 ; the Elevated Moving Pave- 

 ment at the Paris Exhibition, 107 ; Automobile Trials at, 

 158; Artificial Ant-hills, C. Janet, 490; Prize Subjects of 

 the Paris Societe d'Encouragement, 380 ; American Institute 

 and English Institution of Electrical Engineers at Paris, 415 ; 

 Paris International Congress of Mathematicians, 418 ; Paris 

 International Physical Congress,'Dr. Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 425 ; 

 a Night with the Great Paris Telescope, C. P. Butter, 574 ; 

 Paris Observatory Annual Report, M. Loewy, 606 



Park (James), the Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, 148 



Parker (M. A.), an Introduction to Analytical Chemistry, 292 



Parkin (J.), on Fungi found in Ceylon Growing on Scale-insects, 

 613 



Parmentier (F.), Composition of Mont Dore Gas, 47 



Parry (E. J.), Santalol, 322 



Parry (John), Solution Theory Applied to Molten Iron and Steel, 

 128 



Parsons' Steam Turbine System, H. M.S. Viper, 322 



Patagonia, on Recent Explorations in, Prof. W. B. Scott, 587 ; 

 on the Miocene Fauna of Patagonia, Prof. W. B. Scott, 589 



Patent Law, the Law and Practice relating to Letters Patent for 

 Inventions, R. W. Wallace, J. B. Williamson, 618 



Pathology, Research in, H. T. Butlin, 254 



Paulli(Dr. S.), the Air Chambers in Mammalian Skull, 323 



Paulsen (Herr), the Telephonograph, 61 



Paulson (Robert), Disease of Birch Trees in Epping Forest and 

 Elsewhere, 599 



Peachey (S. J.), Dextromethylethylpropyl Tin Dextrobromo- 

 camphorsulphonate, 143 



Pearson (H. H. W.), the Flora of the Andes, 46 



Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S. ), the Grammar of Science, 49; 

 Measurements in Schools. Collateral Heredity, 173,599; Cor- 

 relation between Life-duration and Number of Offspring, 381 



Peat, the Textile Uses of, Herr Zschorner, 108 



Peek (Sir C. E.), Rousdon Observatory, Devon, no ; Rousdon 

 Observatory (Devon), Variable Stars jT Cassiopeite and R 

 Cassiopeise, 398 ; Observations at Rousdon for 1899, 422 



Pelabon (H.), Action of Hydrogen on Arsenic Sulphides, 408 



Pelew Islands, Dugong Vertebra as Bracelet in, Dr. O. Finsch, 36 



Pelletier (Bertrand) and J. B. Caventou, Unveiling of a Monu- 

 ment to, 421 



Penfield (S. L.), the Empirical Formula of the Tourmaline Acid, 

 286 ; Calcite Crystals, 568 



Peopling of Australia, the, John Mathew, 549 ; Sidney H. Ray, 

 621 



Percival (John), Agricultural Botany, 570 



Percussion Caps for Shooting in Schools, Sir Lauder Brunton, 

 F.R.S., 54 



Peringuey (L.), Palaeolithic Implements from Stellenbosch, 464 



Perkin (Dr. F. MoUwo), Advancement of Electrical Chemistry, 



138 

 Perkin, (W. H. jun., F.R.S.), Brazilin (iv.), 71 ; Hsematoxylin 



(v.), 71 ; New Series of Pentamethylene Derivatives (i.), 261 ; 



Action of Sodium and Methyl Iodide on Ethyl Dimethyl- 



butanetricarboxylate, 261 ; Opening Address in Section B 



of the British Association, 476 

 Perkins (R. C. L.), on the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, 



589 



Permeability of Iron under the Influence of the Oscillatory 

 Discharge from a Condenser, E. W, Marchant, 413 



Perot (A.), the Production of Monochromatic Light, 350 



Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Valve Motions of Engines, 31 ; 

 England's Neglect of Science, 221 ; the Teaching of Mathe- 

 matics, 317 ; Railways and Moving Platforms, 412 ; Tenacity 

 of Life of the Albatross, 621 



Perseid Meteoric Shower, the, W. F. Denning, 173 



Perseids of 1900, the August, W. F. Denning, 398 



Peru, Rubber Forest in, 578 



Petaval's (G. E. ), Apparatus for Experiments on the Explosive 

 Pressures of Gases, 563 



Peters (C. A.), Separation and Determination of Mercury as 

 Mercurous Oxalate, 210 



Peters (G. H.), Colour Screens for Refracting Telescopes, 37 



Pettersson's (Prof.) New Insulating Water Bottle, Dr. H. R. 

 Mill, 591 



Petty (S. L.), a Tour through Great Britain in 1727,496 



Phaseolus, on the Behaviour during Karyokinesis of the 

 Nucleolus in the Root-apex of, Harold Wager, 612 



Philippi (Dr.), Deep-sea Deposits from Valdivia Expedition, 

 360 



Phillipines, Earthquakes of 1897 in, P. J. Coronas, 555 



Phillips (C. E. ), on the Apparent Emission of Kathode Rays 

 from an Electrode at Zero Potential, 564 



Philology : Homochronous Heredity and Changes of Pronunci- 

 ation, Charles G. Stuart-Menteath, 524 ; Proof of Old 

 Semitic Influence in South Africa, K. Meinhof, 606 



Philosophy : Death of Prof. Henry Sidgwick, 456 ; Unter- 

 suchungen uber Philons und Platons Lehre von der Welt- 

 schopfung, Jacob Horovitch, 494 



Phisalix (C), Bacillus Anthracis Brevigemmans, 408 



Phonetics, Introduction to English, French and German, with 

 Reading Lessons and Exercises, Laura Soames, 220 



Phosphorescence : Phosphorescence unaffected by Magnetic 

 Field, A. de Hemptinne, 323 ; a " Dark Lamp," Gustave Le 

 Bon, 532 ; Phosphorescent Glow in Gases, J. B. B. Burke, 

 564 ; Simple Experiments on Phosphorescence, 599 



Photography : Photo-micrography, Dr. Edmund J. Spitta, 4 ; 

 Exposure and Development in Ordinary Light, Prof. F. E. 

 Nipher, 62 ; Micro-photography, Iso-photography, Mega- 

 photography, A. R. Hunt, 79 ; Photographic Observation of 

 Eros, Prof. Howe, 137; Howe's Photographic Observation 

 of Eros, A. C. D. Crommelin, 184 ; Photographic Observ- 

 ations of Satellite of Neptune, M. S. Kostinsky, 161 ; Eclipse 

 Photography, Prof. Francis E. Nipher, 246 ; Automatic 

 Photography of the Corona, Prof. C. Burckhalter, 535 ; on 

 use of Wedge of Yellow Optical Glass in giving Correctly 

 Graduated Photographic Exposures of the Partial Phases of 

 an Eclipse and the Corona, Prof. Todd, 565 ; Photographic 

 "Reversal," Prof. Nipher, 159; the Zero Plate, Prof. 



