Suf^lemeni to Na*:: 

 May ja, 1895 



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Index 



XXV 



Nerves, the Developiiienl of, Adam Sedgwick, F.K.S., 119, 



Nervous System, Formatiun Structures of. Prof. Waldcyer, 312 

 Nests and Kygs of Non-Indigenous British Birds, the, Charles 



Dixon, 30 

 Neuhaus (Dr.), Colour Photography, 503 

 Ncvill (Mr.), the Natal Observatory, 327 

 Newall (H. K. ), the .Spectrum of Argon, 454 

 Newcoml) (Prof.), a Possible New Zone of .-\steroids, 114; 



Secular \'ariations of the Interior Planets, 183 

 New Hebrides, I'^anhiiuake in, 61 



New Jersey, the Birds of Kastern Pennsylvania and, 458 

 New South Wales l.lnnean .Society, 192, 264 

 New South Wales Royal .Society, 47 

 New York .Signal .Service Office, the, 539 

 Newth ((i. S.j, a Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry, 106: .M. 



M. Pattison IVIuir, 52, 107 

 Newton (Prof. Alfred, K.R.S.), Parrots in the Philippine Islands, 



367 

 Jvewton (Sir Charles, K.C.B.), Death of, 129; Obituary Notice 



of, 250 

 Newton and Co., the .Xrtiticial Spectrum Top, 463 

 Ney(0.), New Phototheodolite, 515 

 Niagara, Progress of the Cataract Construction Company's Works 



at, 109 

 Niagara ?'alls, the Utilisation of. Prof. George Forbes, F.K.S., 



205 

 Niagara and the (ireat Lakes, F. B. Taylor, 619 

 Nicaragua, the Earthquake of November 1894, in, J. Crawford, 



280 

 Niceville(L. de). New Indo-Malayan Butterflies, 500 

 Nicolaiew, Strassburg, and Birmingham, on a Remarkable 



F-^arthquake Disturliaiice observed at, on June 3, 1893, C. 



Davison, Dr. F. von Reuber-Paschwitz, 208 

 Nile, the. Sir Colin Scott-.Moncriefi', -1 ^1 

 Nile Reservoir at .'\ssuan, the, 1 10 

 Nitrogen and Chlorine, New Compounds of Phosphorus, II. N. 



.Stokes, 592 

 Nitrogen Compounds, a new .Series of. Prof. \'. Pechman, and 



llerr Runge, 1 14 

 Nitrogen Fixation in .'\lgie, Rudolf Beer, 302 

 Nitrogen Croup, a New Element in the, .\. E. Tutton, 258 

 Nitromethane, the Kx|)losive Nature of the Sodium and Potas- 

 sium Derivatives of, .\. F. Tutton, 328 

 Noetling(Dr.), Similarity of Baluchistan and Pyrenean Echinoids, 



2S0 

 Nogues (.\. .S.), the Child-. Argentine Earthquake of October, 



1894. 393 

 Noll (Dr. F. ), l.ehrbuch der Botanik, Drs. E. Strasburger, H. 



.Schenck and A. F. W. .Schimper, 339 

 North, on Chinese Beliefs aboul ihe, Kumagusu Min.akata, 32 

 Norway, Earthquake in, 344 ; Dr. Hans Reu.sch, 390 

 Nova .Vuriga', 516 



Numismatics: De.ath of Dr. Hermann Crote, 4S8 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanico llaliano, 23 



Nyasaland, the New Cyiiress of, 85; W. T. Thisclton-Dyer, 

 • F.R.S., 175 



< i.ik Trees in Essex, Remarkable. J. C. Shenstone, 280 



<^at-growing l^xperimeiUs, Prof Kinsch, 206 



Object-Glass, the New .\chromatic. 160 



■Observatories: Ihe Lowe Observatory, 21 : the Lick f)bserva- 

 tory, .V, Fowler, 201 ; the \'atican (Observatory, 282 ; the 

 Natal (jbservatory, Mr. Nevill, 327 ; the New Dudley Olwer- 

 vatory, 327 ; Recent Work at Harvard College Observatory, 

 Prof. E. C. Pickering, 329 ; the Royal Observatory, Edin- 

 burgh, 493: Ihe Seismological Observatory Destroyed a' 

 Tokio. 5,S5 ; Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R,S., 533 



Ocean, Critical Revision of" Estimate of .\verage Depth of. Dr. 

 Karstens, 1 1 1 



Ocean Currents, the Travels of Three Bottle- Papers, H. C. 

 Russell, 35 ; Ocean Navigation, James Watt, ami Dr. Francis 

 Elgar, 475 



Oceanic Deposits, Chemical Changes lietween Sea-Water and. 

 Dr. John .Murray and Robert Irvine, 304 



Oceanic Tenqieralure, al DilVerent Depths, Captain W. J. I.. 

 Wharton, F.R.S., 342 



<^)hm, a New Delerminalion of the, F. Himstedt, 571 



♦ libers (Wilhelm), Sein Lebcn und Seine Werke, 74 



Oldham (\ule), a Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, 8.! 



O'Leary (T. S.), the B.>ronieter at Sea, 142 



Oliver (Prof. f. E.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 587 



Olszewski (Prof. Charles), on the Liquefaction of Gases, a 



Claim for Priority, 245 

 Olszewski (Dr. K.), the Liquefaction and Solidification of .\rgon, 



355 

 Omori (F.), the .\fter-Shocks of Earthquakes, 423 

 Onnes (Prof. Kamerlingh) : .Magnetic Rotary Dispersion in 



Oxygen, 470 ; the Leyden Kryogene I^boratorj-, 408 

 Optics : .Method of Obtaining Light of Different Wave-lengths in 

 use in Polarimetric Work, Herr Landolt, 37 ; SuixjrixKilion 

 of Optical Eflects of Several .Asynniielric Carbon .-\toms in same 

 Active Molecule. P. .\. (hiye and M. Gauticr, 47; Sujwr- 

 position of Optical Effects of Different .-\.symnietric CarU)n 

 .\toms in same .Active Molecule, P. A. Guye and .M. (lautier, 

 168 ; Kerr's Magneto-Optic Phenomenon,' C. H. Wind, 4S ; 

 Effects of Monochromatic Light on Series of Pigments, Prof. 

 H. W. \ogel, 191; (Jttica, Prof. Eugenio (;eleich, 244; 

 Lens-Work for .\mateurs, Henry Orford, 318 ; the Process of 

 Light F:mission, G. Jautnann, 334; Yellow-Blue Blind- 

 ness, Dr. W. Peddle, 335, 621 : Influence of Rhythm of 

 Successions of Interruptions on Sensitiveness to Light, Charles 

 Henry, 336 ; Total Reflection of Light in Dense Crystalline 

 Substances, R. Camerer, 357 ; Refraction in Polychroic 

 Aureoles, A. .M. Levy, 384 ; Experiments to see if Light-Rays 

 deviated by .Magnetic Field, M. Curie, 394: Pa.s.sage of Light 

 across Thin Plate in Case of Total Reflection, Ch. Fabry, 407 : 

 Experiments on Colour-Sensation, H. W. \ogel, 469: .Mag- 

 netic Rotary Dispersion in Oxygen, Kamerlingh Onnes. 470 : 

 Optical Resolutions of a-Oxy-butyric -Kcid, J. .\. Guye .and 

 Ch. Jordan, 504 ; Action of Light in Protlucing Electric Dis- 

 charge through Y.acuum Tulx;, Elster and tieikic, 514; 

 Absorption of Light in Uniaxial Crystals, G. Moreau, 528 ; 

 F.fl'ect of Rhythm on Xisibility of Signals, Charles Henry, 588 : 

 the Normal Defect of \ision in the Fovea, C. L. Franklin, 

 615 ; Polarisation of Oblique Radiation, Dr. W. von Uljanin, 



623 

 Orb-Weaving Spiders of the United States, Dr. Henry C. M. 



Cook, Rev. O. P. Camliridge, F. K.S., 505 

 Orbits, Elliptical, .Mr. H. Larkin, 234 

 Oregon, Tornado in, 19 

 Organic Chemistry, the Rise and Development of, Carl 



Schorlemmer, 317 

 Organic Chemistry, the Fatty Compounds, R. Lloyd Whiteley, 



557 



"Organic Remains oi a I'ornier World, fames Parkinson, the 

 Author of, Spencer George Perceval, 31 



Origin of Classes among the " Para.sol " Ants, Herbert Siwncer, 

 125 



Origins of .-Vrt, the. Dr. E. Grosse, Prof. .A. C. Haddon, 241 



Origins of Invention, the, Otis T. Mason, 557 



Orion, the Greater Nebula of. Prof. E. E. Barnard, 253 



Orion Nebula, Spectrum of the, 471 



Orloff (.A.), Catalogue of E.arthquakes in Russia, 181 



Ormerod (Eleanor A.), Injurious Insects, 471 



Orndorft'(Dr. W. R.), a Laboratory Manual, 77 



Ornithology : the Crommelian Collection of Dutch Birds, iS ; the 

 Nestsand Eggs of Non- Indigenous British Birds, Charles Dixon, 

 30; .Attitudes adopted by Birds for Concealment, J. E. Harting, 

 181 : Birds of the Wave and Woodland, Phil Robinson, 243 : 

 the Tongue and Hyoid .\pparalus of Birds, Herr Schenkling- 

 Previit, 252 : the .Starling in .Scotland, J. .A. Ilarvie-Brown, 

 280; British Birds, Claude W. Wyatl, 318 : Summer Studies 

 of Birds and Books, W. Warde I'owler. 34I : Forest Birds: 

 their Haunts and Habits, Harry F. Witherby, 34I ; Invasion 

 of North and North-East Coasts by the Little .Auk, J. 

 E. Harting, 422 ; Grouse lOxodusin Yorkshire, J. E. Harting, 

 422; the Bird; of I';asiern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 

 458: Death of G. N. Laurence, 4S8 ; Two New Birds of 

 Paradise, Dr. ,\. li. Meyer, 516; Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Prey (.Accipitres anil Striges), J. H. Gurney, 532; Sale of 

 Specimen of Gre.at -Auk, 613 



Ornithorhynchus, the X'isceral Anatomy of, F. E. B. Beddard, 

 F.R.S., 191 



Osaka (\. ), .Acidimetry of Hydrogen Fluoride, 430 



Oscill.ations, Electric, H. Poincare, I'rof. A. Gray, 361 



Osten-S.acken (Baron C. R.), the .Swallowing of one Snake by 

 another, !2 ; Snake Cannabalisni, 343 



Ostroumofl'fDr. ), a Flying Co|)e|ii«l, 20 



Ostwald (W.), Die Wissenchaltlichen Grundlasjen der .Ana 

 lytischen Chemie, J. W. Rtnlger, 482 



