Yl. 



KNOWLEDGE. 



Mistletoe and Mistle Thrush— 



By Graham W. Murdoch 

 Mitchell, C. A., B.A. Oxon.— 



Scorpion's Sting 



Colour-producing Bacteria 

 Monck, W. H. S.— 



Letter ou Gl Cygni 



Letter on the Construction of the Visible 

 Universe 

 Moon, Yisibility of Change in the — 



ByH. G.Wells 



Moore, John William, B A., M.D.— 



Meteoroloi/tj, Pnictical and Applied, Keview of 

 bis 

 Moy, Thomas — 



Automatic Stability in Aerial Vessels 



Letter on Mechanical Flight ... 



Aerial "Warfare, .. 

 Murdoch, Graham W. — 



Note on Lightning Effects on Beech Trees ... 



Mistletoe and Mistle Thrush 

 Nebula, What is a — 



By E. Walter Maunder 

 New Animals from Madagascar- 



By E. Lydekker 

 New Siberian Islands— 



By Carl Siewers 

 New Solar Records — 



By E. Walter Maunder 

 New Stars— 



By A. Brester, Jr. 

 Newly-found Race in Egypt— 



By J. E. Quibell 

 Nicholson, Rev. H. D., M.A.— 



House Spiders in Captivity ... 



Nitrogen of the Air as a Plant Food — 



By George McGowAN ... 

 Noble, William — 



Letter on the Dark Hemisphere of Venus 

 Nubecula, The Great — 



By E. Walter Maunder 

 Nursing Habits, Some Strange — 



By E. Lydekker 

 Observatories of One Hundred Years Ago — 



By W. T. Lynx 



Optical Phenomenon — 



Letter on ; by E. Yi. Antoni.\di 



Organic Matter and Water Filters 



Osborn, Prof. Henry Fairfield, ScD. — 



From the Greel:s to Darwin, Eeview of his 



Ouseley, I. G. — 



Letter on the Puzzle of " 26 " 



Note on the Puzzle of " 26 " 



Parker, George W., M.A.— 



Elements of Astronomy, Eeview of his 

 Parry, Arthur, B.A.— 



Letter on Prismatic Colouring of the Clouds 

 Patents, Some Recent — 



92, 117, 142, 166, 190, 213, 262, 

 Peary Greenland Expedition — 



By EiviND AsTRUP 

 Peek, C. E.— 



Letter on the Fluctuations of Mira Ceti 

 Pentland-Smith, J., M.A., B.Sc— 



Functions of the Hairs of Plants 



Digestion in Plants 



Periodical Comets due in 189S — 



By W. T. LvN.s 



284 



20 

 124 



14 



38 



230 



89 



29 



60 



276 



204 



284 



258 



68 



105 



10 



278 



196 



92 



260 



278 



156 



97 



86 



205 

 165 



255 



278 



186 



285 



75 



136 



138 

 171 



18 



Pinches, Theo. G., M.R.A.S.— 



Myth of Old Babylon 52 



True Story of Old Babylon 169 



Planetary Configurations — 



By E. E. M.AEKwicK 152 



Plants, Functions of the Hairs of— 



By J. Pentland-Smith ... ... .. 138 



Plants, Digestion in — 



By .J. Pentland-Smith ... ... ... 171 



Plassman, J. — 



Letter on the Fluctuations of Mira Ceti ... 136 



Pleiades, Exterior Nebulosities of the — 



By Agnes M. Clerke 280 



By Prof. E. E. B.aenaed 282 



Preston, Thomas, M.A. — 



Theory of Light, Eeview of his ... ... 159 



Primrose, On the Two Forms of — 



By the Eev. Alex. S. Wilson... ... ... 102 



Prismatic Colours of the Clouds- 

 Letter on ; by Arthur Parry .. . ... ... 136 



Note on ; by Eev. S. Barber ... ... ... 136 



Letter on ; by H. Corder ... ... ... 158 



Pritchard, The late Prof. 



Letter on ; bv Thomas Henchman ... ... 59 



Note on ; by W. T. Lynn 59 



Puzzle of "26"— 



Letter on ; by I. G. Ouseley .. . ... ... 255 



Note on ; by I. G. Ouseley ..._ 278 



Letters on ; by " Un Vieil Etudiant," J. 



Willis, Ph.D., and'" T" 278 



Quibell, J. E.— 



Newly-found Eace in Egypt ... ... ... 196 



Ranyard, Arthur Cowper, and his Work- 

 Memoir by W. H. Wesley 25 



Ravenstein, E. G., F.R.G.S.— 



Handy-Volume Atlas of the World, Notice of his 258 



Rideal, Samuel, D.Sc.Lond., F.I.C.— 



Filtration of Water 80,270 



Roberts, Dr. Isaac — 



Pliotograph of Cluster Messier 46, and Nebula 



HerschellV. 182 



Photographs of Elliptical and Spiral Nebulse 207 

 Photograph of the Cluster Messier, 13 Herculis 232 

 Photograph of the Nebula Messier, 78, and 



Herschel IV., 36 Orionis 253 



Photographs of Stars, Star Clusters and 

 NebulfB ; by E. Walter Maunder... ... 155 



Letter on ; by Ed^\in Holmes .. ... 254 



Letter on ; by Isaac Eoberts .. . ... ... 278 



Rockhill, W. W.— 



Diary of a Journei/ through Mongolia and Tibet, 



Eeview of his " '. 202 



Roscoe, Sir Henry, F.R.S., and C. Schorlemmer, 

 F.R.S.— 



Treatise on Chemistry, Eeview of their ... 64 



Roscoe, Sir Henry, F.R.S. — 



J oil II Dal ton and the Rise of iLodern Chentistry, 

 Eeview of his ... ... ... ... 229 



Russell, H. C— 



Letter on the Progress of Astronomical Pho- 

 tography ... ... . . ... ... 89 



Rye, Bertram Geo. — 



Handbook of the British Macro-Depidnj'tira. 

 Eeview of his ... ... ... ... ... 61 



Satellite Evolution — 



15y A<iNEs M. Clerke ... ... ... ... 205 



Scherren, Henry — 



I'onds and Hock Pools, IReviev/ o[ his... ... 89 



