XXVIU 



Index 



V Supplement to Nature 

 L /««^ 11,1896 



Bowdler Sharpe, 369 ; the Metallic Colours of Humming- 

 birds and Sun-birds, Marion Newbigin, 407 ; Natural History 

 Museum, Bird Gallery, 461 ; the Moulting of Birds, Witmer 

 Stone, 611 



Osborn (G.), a Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a Bell, 

 223 



Osmond (F.), the Hardening of Extra Hard Steel, 71 



Ostracoda, Schizogenes parasiticus no Organism, Dr. G. W. 

 Miiller, 134 



Ostwald (Wilhelm), the Scientific Foundations of Analytical 

 Chemistry, 267 



Ostwald's Energetics, 487 ; Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S.,' 

 441, 487 



Ostwald's Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften, 533 



Ouvrard (L. ), the Origin of Argon and Helium in certain 

 Waters, 144 



Owens College, Studies from the Biological Laboratories of the, 

 149 



Oysters and Typhoid, 280 



Oysters and Typhoid Bacilli, Chas. Foote, 226 



Paalzon (A.), Passage of Electricity through Gases, 262 



Pacher (Dr. G.), the Rontgen Rays, 449 



Pagan Ireland, Col. W. G. Wood-Martin, 82 



Page (A.), Early Swarm of Bees, 510 



Painter, the, Herbert Spencer, 428 



Palaeolithic Age in Somaliland, Evidences of, H. W. Seton-Karr, 



544 



Palseontology : Dr. Dubois' " Missing Link," Dr. Eugene Du- 

 bois, 115; Dr. D.J.Cunningham, 115; Prof. Haddon, 116; Dr. 

 Pearsall, 116 ; Prof. Sollas, 116; Pithecanthropus erectzts and 

 the Evolution of the Human Race, Prof W. J. Sollas, F.R.S., 

 150 ; Large Human Femora in the Church of S. Eustachius, 

 Tavistock, Worthington G. Smith, 152 ; Frozen Mammoth 

 Fat found in Alaska by Prof W. H. Dall, 160 ; Bury St. 

 Edmunds Human Skull Fragment, Worthington G. Smith, 

 173 ; Tertiary Fossils from the Philippines, Prof. Martin, 

 216; Aristodesimis Riltimeyeri, H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 239; 

 Geographical Results of Researches on Marine Triassic Fauna, 

 Prof. Suess, 253 ; British Silurian Acidaspis, Philip Lake, 

 287 ; Speeton Series in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, G. W. 

 Lamplugh, 358 ; Death of Charles Wachsmuth, 399 ; Extinct 

 Species of Bison found in Kansas, 444 ; Fossil Reptilia from 

 Permian and Trias, Prof. E. D. Cope, 455 ; Distribution of 

 Norway Lemming, Dr. H. Gadow, F.R.S., 499; Catalogue 

 of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British 

 Museum, A. C. Seward, 531 ; Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes 

 in the British Museum, A. Smith Woodward, 531 ; asserted 

 Oldest Human Teeth yet found in Europe, Dr. Nehring, 564 



Palazzo (Dr. Luigi), Magnetic Survey of Italy, 404 



Palmer (A. de F.,jun.), Wave-lengths of D3 Helium Line, 

 190 



Palmer (A. H.), the Life of Joseph Wolf, 559 



Palmer (Dr. T. S.), the "Jack-Rabbit " Pest in California, 586 



Palmyra and Zenobia, an Account of. Dr. William Wright, 132 



Panama Canal, the, R. T. Hill, 420 



Papuan Ethnology, C. Hedley, 504 



Paraguay River, Boggiani's Recent Explorations amongst the 

 Native Tribes of the Upper, Prof Henry H. Giglioli, 545 



Parallax of a Centauri, the, A. W. Roberts, 206 



Parallaxes of Stellar Systems, 15 



Parasite, a Destructive Plant, 18 



Paris : Prize-List of Paris Academic de Medicine, 204 ; Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 96, 119, 144, 168, 192, 

 215, 239, 263, 288, 311, 335, 358, 383, 407, 431, 455, 480, 

 503, 527, 551. 575. 599> 624; the Royal Society, 175 ; the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences 1895 Prize Awards, 215 ; Prize 

 Subjectii of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 230 



Parmentier (P.), Solubility of Sodium Thiosulphate in Alcohol, 

 3" 



Paschen (Dr.), the Temperature of the Sun, 38 



Paschen (Dr. F.), on Crookes' Spectrum of Helium, 245 



Pasquier (Dr. Leon Du), the Fall of the Altels Glacier, Sept. 

 11,1895,317 



Passion-flowers, the Coronal Rays of, John H. Wilson, 173 



Pasteur, Profs. P. Geddes and J. A. Thomson, 18 



Pasteur Anti-rabic Treatment, Report on Inoculations for 1894 

 in St. Petersburg and Odessa, 135 



Pasteur Institute, the, 13 



Paterson (D.), Efflorescence of Double Ferrous Aluminium 

 Sulphate on Bricks exposed to Sulphur Dioxide, 142 



Pathology : a New Theory of Gout, Mortimer Granville, 117 ; 

 the Treatment of Small-pox by Non-Actinic Light, Dr. N. R. 

 Finsen, 134; Moral Pathology, Arthur E. Giles, 313; Death 

 of Dr. P. Hedenius, 399 



Patterson (T. L.), Blood-Brotherhood, 604 



Pavements in France, Roads and, A. P. Rockwell, 508 



Peal (S. E.), Megalithic Folk-lore, 605 



Peale (Dr. A. C), Natural Mineral Waters of United Slater, 

 439 



Pearsall (Dr.), Dr. Dubois' " Missing Link," 116 



Pearson (Prof. Karl), Family Data, 557 



Peckham (S. F.), Trinidad Pitch, 573 



Peddie (Dr. W.), Torsional Oscillations of Wires, 501 



Peek(C. E.), Abnormal Rainbow, 557 



Peirce (A. W.), lodometric Determination of Selenious and 

 Selenic Acids, 286 



Peirce (B. O.), Temperature Variations of Thermal Conductivi- 

 ties of Marble and Slate, 205 



Pellat's Instrument for measuring Specific Inductive Capacity of 

 Liquids or Solids, 89 



Pendulums : Improvement for Purposes of Measurement on 

 Simple, G. Guglielmo, 161 ; the Movements of Horizontal 

 Pendulums, John Milne, F.R.S., 180; Pendulum Observa- 

 tions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Major- 

 General H. S. Schaw, 222 ; on keeping up Pendulum Motion 

 without interfering with Time of Oscillation, G. Lippmann, 

 311 ; Pendulum Observations in Germany, 475 ; the Under- 

 ground Pendulum of the Paris Observatory, F. Tisserand, 



503 

 Penfield(S. L.), New Heavy Liquid, 178; Effect of Mutual 



Replacement of Manganese and Iron on Optical Properties of 



Lithiophylite and Triphylite, 190 

 People of the Moon, the, Tremlett Carter, 77 

 Perception of Light, the. Sir G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., 66 

 Period of Rotation, Jupiter and his, 558 

 Perkin (A. G.) : Constituents oi Polygonum cuspidatum Root, 



119 ; Luteolin, 406 

 Perlites, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 175 

 Perlitic Cracks, W. F. Smeeth, 135 

 Perrin (Jean) : New Properties of Kathode Rays, 239 ; _ New 



Experiments on the Kathode Rays, 298 ; some Properties of 



the Rontgen Rays, 335 ; Origin of Rontgen Rays, 528 

 Perrine (Mr.), a New Comet discovered by, 62 ; Perrine's Comet, 



90, 162, 280 ; Dr. Lamp, 376 ; Perrine's Comet (1895), 403, 



447 

 Perrine-Lamp : the New Comet, 403, 448; Dr, Lamp, 519; 



Joseph Lunt, 519 ; Mr. Shackleton, 545 

 Perrotin (M.), Differences in Longitude between Nice, Ajaccio 



and Rousse Island, 23 

 Persia, Earthquakes in, 252 

 Personal Injury from a Fire-ball, Prof. Geo. M. Minchin. 



F.R.S., 5 

 Perth Natural History Museum, Opening of, 106 

 Pertz (D. F. M.), Effects of Currents on Assimilation of Water- 



Plants, 455 

 Peru, the Highlands of. Dr. E. W. Middendorf, 442 . 

 Petavel (Mr.), Analytical Study of Alternating Current Arc, 430 

 Petroleum Lamp Accidents, 475 

 Pettit (R. H.), Possible Use of Entomophytes for Insecticides, 



90 

 Pfeiffer (Prof.), New Method of Cholera Diagnosis, 544 

 Pfliiger (A.), Anomalous Dispersion Curves, 94 

 Pheasants, Effect of Thunder on, G. T. Rope, 421 ; J. E. 



Harting, 421 

 Philadelphia Academy of Sciendes, 455, 502, 576, 623 

 Philas Excavations, the, 420 



Philippines, Tertiary P^ossils from the. Prof. Marten, 216 

 Philosophy and Evolution, Prof H. Calderwood, 435 

 Philosophy of Man, Die Schopfung des Menschen und seiner 



Ideale, Dr. Wilhelm Haacke, 508 

 Phipson (T. L. ), Origin of Atmospheric Oxygen, 96 

 Phonographers, the Society of Medical, Dr. James Neil, 79 

 Phosphorescence, Radiations emitted by, H. Becquerel, 431 

 Phosphorescent Bodies, Invisible Radiation emitted by, H. 



Becquerel, 445, 455 

 Photography : Death of J. Traill Taylor, 86 ; on a Method 



of Photography in Natural Colours, Dr. J. Joly, F.R.S., 91 ; 



Colour Photography, Prof. G. Lippmann, 617; Photography 



