SuJ>J>Ument to Nature,~\ 

 November 2'ii, 1891 J 



Index 



xxvii 



Power in Transformers, 142 ; Quadrant Electrometers, 166 ; 

 Illustrations of C.G.S. System of Units, with Tables of 

 Physical Constants, Prof. Everett, F.R.S., 489 

 Persulphates, M. Berthelot, 240; Dr. Marshall, 577 

 Pelermann's Mitieilungen, 630 

 Petrie (Flinders), Exploration in Egypt, 630 

 Pelrie and Suite's (Messrs.) New Electrical Light, 327 

 Petroff (Ivan), the Nunivak Islanders, 477 

 Petroleum, on the Origin of, W. Topley, F.R.S., 479 

 Petroleum Engines, Prof. W. Robinson on, 509 

 Petrology, an Introduction to the Study of, Dr. Frederick H. 



Hatch, 25 

 Pharmacology, Supplement to Dr. Lauder Brunton's Text-book 



of, 41 

 Phenomenon, a Rare, Arthur Marshall, 519 ; W. Tuckwcll,. 

 S19 ; F, C. Levander, 519; Herbert Rix, 541 ; Dr. J. L. E. 

 Dreyer, 541 

 Phenomenon, Unusual Frost, A. H. White, 519 

 Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of, 353 

 Philip and Son's, New Orrery, 501 

 Philipson (Dr.), Mountain-climbing in Greece, 599 

 Philology : the Position of the French Accent, Dr. Pringsheim, 

 67 ; Vocabularies from the Musquito Coast, Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton, 600 

 Philpots (John R.), Oysters and all about them, 490 

 Phonometer, a New Form of Chronograph, W. F. Stanley, 239 

 Phosphorus : Chlorofluoride of, A. E. Tutton, 333 ; the Ex- 



pansi )n of, A. Leduc, 360 

 Photo-Slellar Spec'ra, Rev. Dr. T. E. Espin, 133 ; Prof. 



Edward C. Pickering, 223 

 Photochronography, Insect Flight studied by, M. Marey, 264 

 Photography : Evening Work for Amateur Photographers, T. 

 C. Hepworth, 52 ; Photography as an Auxiliary to Printing, 

 Leon Vidal, 136; Photographic Journal, 136; Photography 

 in Colours, Alphonse Berget, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 

 194; Photographic Society of Great Britain, Annual Ex- 

 hibition of, 231 ; some Applications of i'hotography, Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., 249; Propo.ed Union of United Kingdom 

 Photographic Societies, 258 ; Proposed British Museum of 

 Photographic Portraits, 324 ; Photographs of Rapid Move- 

 ments, Anschiitz's, 352 ; Photography of Solar Prominences, 

 M. Deslandres, 438 ; Photographic Magnitudes of Stars, Dr. 

 Scheiner, 526; Photographic Definition, A. Mallock, 552 

 Photometer, the Meridian, 115 

 Photophone, the Origin of the New Electric, 325 

 Phthisis : Dr. Arthur Ransome on the Prevention of Consump- 

 tion, 369; Prof. Finkelnburg on the Influence of Soil on, 

 370 

 Phymosotna weldoni, 21 



Physics : Special Meeting of the Physical Society at Cambridge, 

 17, 93; Physical Society of London, Proceedings of, 89; 

 Physical Society, 142, 237, 261 ; the Flying to Pieces of a 

 Whirling Ring, Chas. A. Carus- Wilson, 31 ; C. Chree, 82; 

 Gottingen Society of Sciences, Prize in Physics, 66 ; Prof. J. 

 J. Thomson, F.R.S., on Vacuum Tubes, 93, 94; W. C. D. 

 Whetham on the Velocity of the Ions, 94 ; R. T. Glazebrook, 

 F. R. S., on the Resistance of some Mercury Standards, 94 ; 

 S. Skinner on an Apparatus for Measuring the Compressibility 

 of Liquids, 94 ; W. N. Shaw on some Measurements with 

 the Pneumatic Bridge, 94; Experimental, Vapour-tension of 

 Saturated Water Vapour at Critical Point, MM. Cailletet 

 and Colardeau, 119; Signor Batelli's Experiments on 

 Water-evaporation in Sun and in Shade, 136; Instru- 

 ment for Examining Strains in Bent Glass Beams, Prof. 

 Carus- Wilson, 187 ; Combustion of Gas Jets under Pressure, 

 R. W. Wood, 189; Characteristic Property of Common 

 Surface of Two Liquids under Mutual Affinity, III., G. Van 

 der Mensbrugghe, 240 ; Influence of Surface-loading on 

 Flexure of Beams, Prcf. C. A. Carus-Wilson, 261 ; Optical 

 Proof of Existence of Suspended Mailer in Flame, Prof. 

 Stokes, 263 ; the Measurement of Hardness in Transparent 

 Bodies, Prof. Auerbach, 282 ; the Expansion and Compressi- 

 bility of Atmospheric Air, A. W. Witkowski, 312; the 

 Swelling of Plates of Gelatine in varjous Solutions, Herr 

 Hofmeister, 326 ; Incandescence of Platinum Wires under 

 Water, M. Paquelin, 512 ; Pressure which can be produced 

 by Electrolytic Generation of Gas, M. Chabry, 577 ; Physical 

 and Technical Institution at Berlin, 154 ; Phy>ical Observa- 

 tory Established at Smithsonian Institution, 161 ; Physical 

 Science for Artits, Prof. \. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 175, 

 227; Physical Religion, F. Max Miiller, 219; B. Woodd 



Smith, 249 ; Name for Resonance, Prof. Oliver J. Lodger 

 F.R.S., 248; Physicist on Colour- vision, Capt.Abney, F.R.S.^ 

 313 ; Sir William Thomson, P.R.S., on some Test Cases fo 

 the Maxwell-Holizmann Doctrme regarding the Distribution 

 of Energy, 355 ; Opening Address in Section A at the 

 Meeting of the British Association, by Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 

 F.R.S., 382; Physics at the Briti.-h Association, 453; 

 W. E. Wilson on the Absorption of Heat in the Solar At- 

 mosphere, 453 ; Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., on whether 

 the Ether behaves as a Viscous Fluid, 454 ; Prof. D. E. Jones 

 on Electric Waves in Wires, 454 ; Dr. Johnstone Stoney, 

 F. R. S., on Double Lines in the Spectra of Gases, 454 ; Prof. 

 Oliver J. Lodge, F.R. S., on Light in Modifying the Effect of 

 the Gravitational Attraction of the Sun, 454 ; Units and their 

 Nomenclature, 454; Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., on the 

 Measurement of Lenses and on a New Polarizer, 455 ; F. T. 

 Trouton on the Propagation of Magnetization in Iron, 455 ;. 

 on the Functions and Nature of the Ether of Space, Prof. F. 

 E. Nipher, 471 ; Illustrations of C.G.S. System of Units, 

 with Tables of Physical Constants, Prof. Everett, F. R.S., Prof. 

 John Perry, F.R.S., 489; some Points in the Physics of 

 Golf, Prof. P. G. Tait, 497 ; Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., on Van 

 der Waals's Treatment of Laplace's Pressure in the Virial 

 Equaion, 499, 597 ; Prof. P. G. Tait, 546, 627 ; the Society 

 of Friends of Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, 507 ; Das 

 Totalreflectometer und das Refractometer fiir Chemiker, Dr. 

 C. Pulfrich, 538; Physical Appearance of Periodic Comets, 

 E. E. Barnard, 551 ; Physical Chemistry, Wilhelm 0.^twald, 

 561 ; W = M^, W. Larden, 493, 614 



Pnysiography : Notes on Elementary, Horace C. Martin, 589 ; 

 Guide to Examinations in Physiography, and Answers to 

 Questions, W. Jerome Harrison, 613 



Physiology : General Physiology, by Camilo Calleja, M.D., 28 ; 

 Physiological Selection and the Different Meanings given to 

 the Term Infertility, Rev. John T. Gulick, 29 ; Five Years' 

 Pulse Curves, F. H. Perry Coste, 35 ; Note on the Physio- 

 logical Action of Carbon-Monoxide of Nickel, Dr. John G. 

 McKendrick, F.R.S., and W. Snodgrass, 70; Laboratory 

 Reports of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 

 Vol. HI., J. George Adami, 73 ; Organic Bases in Juice of 

 Flesh, G. S. Johnson, 117; Endowment by Mr. George 

 Holt of the Chair of Physiology *at University College, 135 ;. 

 Muscular Strength Diminished by Alcohol, MM. Grehant 

 and Quinquaud, 135 ; the Development of the Liver of 

 Nudibranchiates, H. Fischer, 144 ; Physiological Psychology, 

 Dr. Th. Ziehen, 145 ; Displacements of Heart and Cardio- 

 gram, Dr. J. B. Haycraft, 167 ; Morphological Nature of 

 Principle of Fecundation, Leon Guignard, 168 ; Results of 

 Hemisection of the Spinal Cord in Monkeys, F. W. Mott, 

 189 ; the Later Larval Development of Amphioxus, Arthur 

 Willey, 202 ; Mr. Francis Gotch appointed Professor of 

 Physiology at University College, Liverpool, 257 ; Vegetable 

 and Animal Cells, Dr. J. M. Macfarlane, 263 ; the Growth of 

 the Face, Prof. G. M. West, 325 ; a Case of Periodical Skin- 

 Shedding, Dr. J. Frank, 477 ; Harvey's Discovery, Dr. 

 Dickinson, 597 



Physique, 137 



Picart (L.), Brooks's Comet, 1890 II., 168 



Pickering (Prof. E. C.) : the Spectra of Double Stars, 138 ; 

 Stars having Peculiar Spectra, 305, 438 ; the Draper Cata- 

 logue, 223 ; Spectrum of 3 Lyrse, 355 



Pickering (S. U.) : Nature of Solutions as Elucidated by Study 

 of Densities, &c., of Solutions of Calcium Chloride, 215 ;; 

 Note on a Recent Criticism by Mr. Lupton of Conclusions 

 drawn from Study of Sulphuric Acid Solutions, 215 



Pidgeon (W. R. ), Rain-making, 565 



Pigeon (Leon), Two New Crystalline Compounds of Platinic 

 Chloride with Hydrochloric Acid, 120 



Pihl (O. A. L.), the Stellar Cluster x Persei, 259 



Pilchard, on the Reproduction of the, J. T. Cunningham, 481 



Pilot Chart of North Atlantic, 281, 501, 575 



Pines and Firs of Japan, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 

 339 



Pink Marine Micro- organism. Prof. W. A. Herdman, 565 



Pirsson (Louis V.), Gmelinite from Nova Scotia, 310 



Pistor (Dr.), Ueber die Desinfection, 487 



Plane Trigonomeiry for the Use of Colleges and Schools, I. 

 Todhunter, F.R.S., 342 



Plants. Francis Darwin, F. R.S., on the Artificial Productioi> 

 of Rhythm in Plants, 484 



Plants, Growth-Curvature in, Francis Darwin, F. R.S., 407 



