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Index 



t Supplement to Nature^ 

 ^cr-emher 29, 1894 



Neolithic Period, Discovery of an Interment of the, at Saint 

 Mammcs, Eugene Toulouze, 490 



Nervous System of Crustacea, Siudies on the, Edgar J. Allen, 

 611 



Nests, Iron Crows', Walter G. McMillan, S ; J. MacNaught 

 Campbell, 125 



Netheiland" Entomological Society, 312 



Neumann (Dr. CarU, Death of, 454 



Newcomb {Prof. Simon), the Mass of Jupiter, 45S 



Newfoundland as it is in 1S94, Rev. M. Harvey, 523 



New Guinea, Recent Exploration in British, 609 



New Revie*. Science in the, 66 



New South Wale-', Linnean Society of, 95, 239, 2SS, 444, 492, 

 636 ; Royal Society ol New South Wales, 2S7, Mr. Teb- 

 butt's Observatory, 231 ; Proposed Government Metallurgical 

 Works,4iS; Determination o( the Temperature of a Bore, made 

 at Cremoine Point, Prof. J. W. E. David, 415 



Newtonian Constant of Gravitation, on the, Prof. C. V. Boys, 

 F.R.S., 330, 366, 417. 571 



Newtonian Law of Aliraction for Crystalline and Isotropic 

 Masses at Small Distances, Experiments in Tests of Validity 

 of, A. S. Mackenzie, 262 



New York Mathematical Society, Bulletin of, 91, 235, 309, 441 



New Zealand and Australia, Auroral Display in, 620 



New Zealand, Earthquakes in, S4 



Niagara : the Recent Work of the Cataract Construction Com- 

 pany at the Falls of, 11 ; the Niagara River as a Geologic 

 Chronometer, Prof. G. K. Gilbert, 53 ; Niagara River since the 

 Ice Age,Prof Warren Upham, 19S ; Niagara Falls as a Chro- 

 nometer of Geological Time, Prof. J. \V. Spencer, 237 ; 

 Time-Gauge of Niagara, Thos. W. Kingsmill, 33S ; the Age 

 of Niagara Falls, Prof. Spencer, 486 



Niblett (J. T.), Portative Electricity, 423 



Nice Observatory, Photographic Exploration at, M. Perrotin, 

 287 



Nicholson (Prof. H. Alleyne), Science in the Medical Schools, 



524 

 NicoUieffCM. de), on Two Methods for the Study of Currents 



in Open Circuits, and of Displacement Currents in Dielectrics 



and Electrolytes 491 

 Niobrara Chalk, Samuel Calvin, 4S6 

 Nisbet (Dr. John), Studies in Forestry, Prof. W. K. Fisher, 



.«93 

 Nitikin (M,), on the Supposed Inter-glacial Deposits in East 



Europe, 621 

 Nitramide. a Remarkable Nitrogen Compound, Drs. Thiele 



and Lachman, 327 

 Nitrate-bearing Clays of Egypt, Prof. W. C. Mackenzie on 



the, 61, 360 

 Nitro^cn-Fuation, Algos and, Ilerr Kossowitch, 276 

 Nitrogen Gas, the Density of, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R.S., 157 

 Nitrogen Trioxide, Prof. Lunge and Herr Porsehiiew, 623 

 Noble (Capt. Sir A., F.R.S.), Researches on Explosives, 309 ; 



on Methods that have been adopted for Measuring Pres- 

 sures in the Bores of Guns, 438 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naluialists Society, Presidential Address, 



Thos. Southwell, 432 

 Normand (J. A.), on the Importance of Economy of Fuel in 



very Fast Vessels, and on the advantages to be derived from 



Healing the Feed-water, 32S 

 North Pole, How I discovered the, J. Munro, 140 

 North Sea Ice Sheet, the. Sir Henry H. Howorth, F.R.S., 

 .79 

 Northern Alps, Prof. Suess on the Southern and, 510 

 Northrup(r.. F.). New Methods of obtaining Sfiecific Inductive 



Capacity of Solids under either Slowly or Rapidly Changing 



Fields, 22'i 

 Norway, liiological Station established at Drobalt, 275 

 Norwell (Dr. I. V.), Hereditary Malformation of Hands and 



Feel, 253 

 Notochord. on the Origin and Morphological Signification of 



the. Prof. E. Van Hcncden, 434 

 Nova Aurigic, (he Nebulous Character of. Prof. E. E. Barnard, 



254 ; F. Kcnz, 254 

 Noyes (Mis« Mary), on llic Influence of Heat and Electricity 



upon ^'oung'9 Modiilas for a I'lano Wire, 485 

 Nubia, Lower, the Geography of, Somers Clarke, F.S.A., 



437 

 Nocleoli and Centrosomes, on, J, E. Humphrey, 503 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanic} Ilaliano, 309 



Obach (Dr. E.), Electrical Theory of Vision, 172, 199 



Object-Glass Mounting, a New Form of, W. J. S, Lockyer, 

 201 



Object-Glasses, the Cleaning of, 531 



Obrucheff(V, M.), Oroijraphy o( the Nang Shan, 432 



Observatories: The Report of the Astronomer- Royal on 

 Greenwich Oiiservatory, 139 ; the Lowell Observatory, 

 Arizona, John Ritchie, jun., 149; Mr. Tebbult's Observatory, 

 New South Wales, 231 ; Annual Report of the Paris Observa- 

 tory, 255 ; Report of the Atmosphere of Paris from the Saint- 

 Jacques Observatory, 454 ; Observations at Hong-Kong 

 Observatory in 1893, Dr. W. Doberck, 325 ; Liverpool 

 Observatory, 531 ; Photographic and Visual Kefr.icting Tele- 

 scopes and Spectroscope presented to the Cape Oliervatory by 

 Mr. Frank McClean, 552; the Rio de Janeiro Observatory, 

 606 : Projected Geophysical Observatory on Jungfrau, 130 



Ocean, Bacteriology of the, Dr. B. Fischer, 431 



Ocean Meadow.s, 65 



Oceanic Birds, the Flight of, Capt. D. Wilson Barker, 617 



Oceanographical Observations, H. N. Dickson, 436 



Odontology: the Teeth and Civilisation, Arthur Ebbels, 53; 

 J. Howard Mummery, 123; Dr. Ed. Jas. Wenyon, 148; 

 Surgeon-M.ijor W. G. Black, 148 ; Charles S. Tomes, 

 F.R.S., 199 



Odorographia : a Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs 

 used in the Perfume Industry, J. C. A. Sawer, 76 



Ogilby (J. D. ), New Au-iralian Snake, 2S8 



Ogilvie (Dr. Maria M.), Ein Geologischer Querschnitt durch 

 die Ost Alpen, \. Roihpleiz, 27 



Ofjilvie-Grant (W. K.), the Changes of Plumage in the Red 

 Grouse, 275 



Ohm, Value of Theoretical, A. Leduc, 167 



Oil upon Water, on the Spreading of, Miss Agnes Pockels, 

 223 



Oldham (R. D.), a Manual of the Geology of India, 52 ; Origin 

 of Permian Breccias of MidKinds, 190 



Oliver (Prof. F. W.), the Natural History of Plants, from the 

 German of Prof. Anton Iverner von Marilaun, 28 



Oliver (Joseph W.), the Students' Introductory Handbook of 

 Systematic Botany, Harold W.iger, 613 



Oliver (Dr.), on the Functions of the Suprarenal Bodies, 461 



Ommanney (Admiral Sir Erasmus, F.R.S.), Extr.aordinary 

 Phenomenon, 524 



Onnes (Prof. Kamerlingh), C. H. Wind's Measurements on 

 Kerr Phenomena in Polar Reflexion of Nickel, 24 ; M. de 

 Haas's Measurements of Coefficient of Viscosity of Methyl 

 Chloride, 24 ; Dr. T. II. Meerbury's Experiments on Electro- 

 lytic Polarisation, 24 ; on the Coefficients of Viscosity of 

 Fluids in Corresponding States, calculated by Mr. de Haas, 



312 



Open- Hearth Steel, J. A, Lencauchez on the Manufacture of, 

 460 



Oplticglossetr, Notes upon the Germination of the Spores'of 

 the, Prof. Douglas H, Campbell, 435 



Ophiophagus, Sir J. Fayrer, F. R.S., 172 



Optics : "Theorie der Optischen Insirumente (nach Abbe), Dr. 

 Siegfried Czapski, 74 ; a New Form of Colour Blindness, 

 Prof. Koenig, 95 ; the Elliptic Polarisation cf Reflected 

 Light, K. E. F. Schmidt, iiS; Similarity between After- 

 glow of Geissler Tube and First-Glow of Solid Bodies, Carl 

 Kirn, 131 ; Dr. Zecman's Measurements of Reflection of 

 Polarised Light, 144 ; Electrical Theory of Vision, Prof. 

 OliverJ. Lodge, F.K.S., 172: Dr. E. Obach, 172,199; 

 Experiments with a Recla'igularGlass Prism, W. C. Ronlgan, 

 179; ihe Pupils of the Felidx, Lindsay Johnson, 189; the 

 Change of Phase of Light by Reflexion at Thin Films, W. 

 Wernicke, 236 ; Electro Optical Experiments, J. Elster and 

 H. Gcitel, 236 ; Experiments on Retina with Monochromatic 

 Light, Prof. Konig, 287; Optical Characters of Crystals,, 

 356 ; Prof. Ladd on the Direct Control of the Retinal Field, 

 416; Best Position of a G.iuss's Plate, B. Walter, 431 ; on' 

 the Periodicity of the Absorption Rays of Isotropic Sub- 

 stances, G. Moreau, 444 ; on the Recurrent Images following 

 Visual Impressions, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 466; Dr. 

 Grcel on the Neuroglia Cells of the Retina and Chiasmaof the 

 Optic Nerve, 492 ; Prof. Koenig on the Ab-oiption of Light 

 by Visual Purple from a freshly extirpated Human Eye, 

 492 ; Handbuch der Photographie, Prof. Dr. W. H. Vogel 

 and Prof. R. Mcndola, F.R.S,, 589 



Ornn, ICarthquake at, 202 



