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Index 



New Zealand, Glossopteris flora in, 

 1 66 ; height of ends of glaciers 

 above sea level, 167 ; bell in- 

 scribed with characters like 

 Malayan found in North Island, 

 1 68 ; lizard, representative of 

 Hyperodapedon, 181. 



Newcomb, Professor, on American 

 observation of transit of Venus, 

 223. 



Newport, G., biography of, 23. 



Newton, A., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 77 ; com- 

 munications from, 233, 240, 

 242. 



Niagara Falls, cause of the waves 

 in the Rapids suggested by 

 Professor Tyndall, 192; the effects 

 of winter on, 216. 



Nickel, its magnetic power in- 

 creased by heating, 129. 



Nickel and liquid carbon monoxide, 



239- 



Nile, the White, steamer ascends 

 to south of Gondokoro, 161. 



Nile Valley, experiments to ascer- 

 tain thickness of its alluvium, 

 118, 129, 136. 



Niua-fu, volcanic material from, 

 exhibited, 230. 



Noble, A., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 77 ; com- 

 munications from, 220, 228, 236, 

 241, 242, 244 ; invents machine 

 to measure velocity of projectile 

 in a gun ; 182 ; experiments on 

 explosive powders with Professor 

 Abel, 220. 



Novara, voyage of the Austrian 

 exploring ship, 136, 137. 



Numbers, mental imagery of, 210. 



Observatory at Kew, electrical and 

 meteorological observations, 115. 



Observatories at high altitudes 

 suggested, 159. 



Odling, W., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 62. 



Odours translated into numbers, 

 244. 



Optical illusion from coloured chalks 

 on a black-board, 188. 



Optics, a problem in, 101. 



Ordnance Survey, its maps reduced 

 by photography, 131, 132 ; its 

 computation of the figure and 

 dimensions of the earth, 176. 



Organic compounds, synthesis of, 

 170. 



Otago, fossil ferns in coal formation 

 of, 1 66. 



Owen, R., biography of, 18 ; com- 

 munications from, 104, no, 124. 



Oxygen, effects on chemical sub- 

 stances when insolated, 115, 116; 

 present in the sun, 209. 



Ozone, Sir B. Brodie on its relation 

 to oxygen, 192. 



Pacific, Capt. Kellett's temperature 

 observations in, 196. 



Pacific Ocean, submerged volcanic 

 cones on bed of, 251. 



Paget, J., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 49 ; com- 

 munications from, 145, 156, 158, 

 167, 185, 188, 197, 200, 213 ; 

 placed on honorary supernume- 

 rary list, 91. 



Palaeolith exhibited from high- 

 level gravel of Southampton 

 Common, 185 ; in high-level 

 gravels of the Rea, 251. 



Palaeolithic gravels near Amiens, 

 evidence of their antiquity, 149 ; 

 at Herne Bay, 154. 



Pamir tableland, preparation to 

 explore the, 185. 



Paper for instrumental printing of 

 telegraph messages, 142. 



Paris Exhibition, scientific instru- 

 ments for, 41. 



Park, Mungo, some of his manu- 

 scripts recovered, 139. 



Partridge, R., biography of, 18 ; 

 death of, 66. 



Pathological specimens, photo- 

 graphy of, 158. 



Paucellier, Captain, machine for 

 converting circular into recti- 

 linear motion and its possible 

 applications, 192 ; principle ap- 

 plied to the Vandyck Fan, 

 197. 



Pearl, mother of, and an encrusted 

 fish, 226. 



