Index 



[SnJ>pleinent to Nature, 

 December i 



1892 



Oxford, Dr. J. S. B. Sanderson appointed Waynflete Professor 



of Physiology at, 37 

 Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, 71, 95, 262 

 Oxford University Observatory, 301 

 Oxygen, the Atomic Weight of, Robert Lehfeldt, 151 

 Oxygen, Investigation of the Phenomena which accompany the 



Burning of Carbon and Phosphorus in, H. Brereton Baker, 



431 

 Oxygen and Hydrogen, on the Relative Densities of. Lord 



Rayleigh, SecR.S., loi 



Pacific, Further Notes on a Recent Volcanic Island in the, 



Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 6u 

 Pacific, Central, Gilbert Islands brought under British Pro- 

 tection 477 

 Pacific Coast Fisheries, United States, 63 

 Packard (Dr. Adoiphus S.), the Labrador Coast, 462 

 Padua, Proposed Festival in Honour of Galileo at, 572 

 iPalseography, Alleged Discovery by Cyrus Thomas of the Key 

 to the Central American Inscriptions, 160; Discovery of an 

 Ancient Sanscrit Birch Bark Manuscript by Lieutenant 

 Power, Dr. Hoernle, 370 ; Alleged Decipherment of the Easter 

 Island Inscriptions, f^r. A. Carroll, 494 

 Palaeolithic Man discovered in Hermann's Cave (Harz), Inter- 

 esting Trace of, 39 

 jPalteolithic Weapons in Scotland, on the Discovery of the 



Common Occurrence of, Rev. Frederick Smith, 432 

 ■Palaonictis in the American Lower Eocene, Henry F. Osborn, 



30 

 ^Palaeontology : the Baousse Rousse Caves, Marquis de 

 Nadaillay, 574 ; Discovery of Australian-like Mammals in 

 South America, R. Lydekker, 1 1 ; Palaeonictis in the Ame- 

 rican Lower Eocene, Henry F. Osborn, 30 ; Delphino- 

 gnathus conocephalus. Prof. H. G. Seeley, F. R.S., 166; 

 Further Evidence of Endothiodon bathystoma, Prof. H. G. 

 Seeley, F.R.S., 166; the Discovery of Mammoth Remains 

 in Endslei^h Street, Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., 166; Aphan- 

 apteryx and other Remains in the Chatham Islands, Henry 

 ■0. Forbes, 252 ; Analysis of Fossil Bones from the Natchez 

 Bluff, Mississippi, Dr. Thomas Wilson, 255 ; Remarkable 

 Specimen of Belonostomus from Queensland, R. Etheridge, 

 jun., 256 ; the Tertiary Rhynchophora of North America, 

 S. H. Scudder, 256; the Washington Collection of Fossil 

 Vertebrates, R. Lydekker, 295 ; the Pythonomorphs of 

 France, Albert Gaudry, 387 ; Application of Chemical 

 Analysis for Fixing Age of Prehistoric Human Remains, 

 Adolph Carnot, 412 ; Palaeontological Papers, E. T. Newlon, 

 M. Laurie, 428 ; the Deep Dale Bone Cave near Buxton, 

 J. J. Fitzpatrick, 521 

 Palaeozoic Rocks, Prof. Solias, Prof. Bonney, 428 

 Pantelleria, Sponge Deposits discovered near, 474 

 Paolelti (G.), Movements of Leaves of Porlieria hygrometrica, 



90 

 Palestine, Progress of the Akka-Damascus Railway, 279 

 Parabolas, an Instrument for Drawing, R. Inwards, 93 

 Paraffin, Death from, and Members of Parliament, 223 

 Paraguay, the Land and the People, Natural Wealth and Com- 

 mercial Capabilities, Dr. E. de Bourgade La Dardye, 488 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, 24, 47, 71, 96, 119, 144, 167, 192, 

 215, 240, 262, 288, 312, 339, 364, 387, 412, 436, 460, 484, 

 507, 532, 555. 580, 603, 627 

 Pans Free Libraries, the, Alderman W. H. Bailey, 617 

 Paris Observatory Report, Admiral Mouchez, 86 

 Parker (E. H.), Tidal Phenomenon at Kiungchow, Hainan, 



China, 63 ; the Non-Chinese Dialects of Hainan, 179 

 Parmentier (F.), a New Case of Abnormal Solution ; Decrease 

 of Solubility of Ethyl Bromide in Ether, with Increase of 

 Temperature, 48 

 Parrot (G.), a Property of Lamellar Bimetallic Conductors 



submitted to Electromagnetic Induction, 387 

 Parry (John), on the Carburization of Iron, 283 

 Passy (Jacques), Odoriferous Properties of F'atty Alcohols, 96 

 Pathology : the Bearing of Pathology upon the Doctrine of the 



Transmission of Acquired Characters, Henry J. Tylden, 302 

 Paul (William), Contributions to Horticultural Literature, Dr. 



Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 582 

 Pavloff (Prof. A.), the Cephalopods found in the Speeton Clays, 



257 

 Peabody Institute of Baltimore, Report of, 398 



Peach and Home (Messrs.), on the Radiolarian Chert of Arenig 



Age, 428 ; Glacial Papers, 428 

 Pearce (S. H.), Polybasite and Tennantite from Colorado, 310 

 Pearl Fishery of Gulf of California. C. H. Townsend, 333 

 Pearl-shell Diving at Tahiti, A. G. Howes, 301 

 Pearson (Prof. Karl), the Grammar of Science, 97, 199, 247 

 Peary Expedition, the Relief of the, 476 

 Peckham (G. W.), a Wave of Wasp-life, 611 

 Peddie (Dr. William), a Manual of Physics, 52 ; Experimental* 



Proof that the Coefficient of Absorption is not affected by 



Density of Illumination, 385 

 Pedicularis of the Indian Empire, the Species of, D. Prain, 122 

 Pedley (Mr.), Fine Specimen of Saw Fish, New South Wales, 



257 

 Peek (Cuthbert E.), Variable Star T Cassiopeiae, 443 

 Penck's (Prof.) Proposed New Map of the Glol)e, 407 

 Pendulum on its Plane of Suspension, Nature of Rotation of 



Knife-edge of, G. Defforges, 263 

 Pendulum, Neutral Point in the, Wm. Flinders Petrie, 293 

 Penfield (S. L. ), Polybasite and Tennantite from Colorado, 



310 

 Penhallow (Prof.), an Improved Method of Labelling Slides, 



69 

 Pennsylvania University, Endowment by General Wister of 



Museum of Anatomy at, 38 

 Pennsylvania, Devastation by Storm of Petroleum District, 133 

 Pensions, Civil List, for year ending June 20, 1892, 254 

 Peptone, Quantitative Deternination of, L. A. Hallopteau, 436 

 Perak during 1891, Meteorology of, 473 

 Perigaud (M.), Influence of Place of External Thermometer in 



Observations of Zenith Distances, 263 

 Periodic Effect which the Size of the Bubbles has on their 



Speed of Ascent in Vertical Tubes containing Liquid, A, Dr. 



F. T. Trouton, 385 

 Periodic Variations of Alpine Glaciers, F. A. Forel, 386 

 Peripatus from St. Vincent, R. I. Pocock, 100 

 Peripatus, the Oviparity of the Larger Victorian, Dr. Dendy, 



239 

 Peripatus Re-discovered in Jamaica, M. Grabham and T. D. A. 



Cockerell, 514 

 Perkin (W. H.), the Magnetic Rotation of Compounds supposed 



to contain Acetyl or of Ketonic Origin, 141 

 Perot (A.), the Measurement of the Dielectric Constant, 312 ; 



Experimental Illustration of Mirage,. 617 

 Perrotin (M.), Observations of the Planet Mars, 482 

 Perry (John), Spinning Tops, 4 

 Perseids, the, W. F. Denning, 371 

 Perseids, the, J* Edmund Clark, 442 

 Persia, M, J. Bornmiiller's Botanical Exploring Expedition in, 



523 . . 



Persian Ideas in China, Rev. Dr. Edkins, 522 

 Personality, Alterations of, Alfred Binet, 219 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Museum of, 472 

 Pests, Insect ; Appearance of the Diamond back Moth in York- 

 shire and Northumberland, 108 

 Petrie (Wm. Flinders), Neutral Point in the Pendulum, 293 v 

 Petroleum District, Pennsylvania, Devastation by Storms of, 



Petroleum Engines for Fog Signalling, D. A. Stevenson, 430 



Petroleum Trade, the Caucasus, 333 



Petrological Papers, Messrs. Ussher, Goodchild, Harker, Teall 



and Somerville, 428 

 Pettersson (Prof.), on the Hydrography of the Kattegat and 



Baltic, 408 

 Pflanze in ihren Beziehungen zum Eisen, die, Dr. Hans ; 



Molisch, 512 \ 



Pharyngeal Teeth in the Labridae, Development of the. Prof. 



E. E. Prince, 405 

 Phene (Dr. J. S. ), on the Similarity of Certain Ancient 



Necropoleis in the Pyrenees and in North Britain, 432 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Expedition to 



Greenland in 1891, Insects taken by, 40 

 Philadelphia Loan Collection of Objects used in Worship, 84 

 Philadelphia, Zoological Society of, 133 

 Philippine Islands, Geographical Distribution of the Land- 



Mollusca of the. Rev. A. H. Cooke, 142 

 Philippine Islands : Volcanic Eruption ai Great Sangir, 287, 



299, 332 

 Philippon (G.), Effect of Sudden Release on Animals placed m \ 



Compressed Air, 312 



