INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1890 



Museum of Buenos Ayres, Annals of the, Dr. H. Burmeister, 



293 



Museum, Catalogue of Birds in the Lucknow, 135 



Museum, Commercial, at Warsaw, Establishment of, 207 



Museum, Madras Central, Natural History Index Collection, 

 647 



Museum, Transactions of the Dresden Zoological and Anthropo- 

 logical, 136 



Museums Association, 260 



Museums in India, Influence on Natives of. Colonel J. Water- 

 house, i6l 



Music, Dr. Kcenig's Researches on the Physical Basis of, Dr. S. 

 P. Thompson, 190 



Musical Sands, Cecil Carus-Wilson, 568 



Musical Science, Dr. Primo Crotti, 259 



Musk, Artificial, 300 



Mutari (Volo Leges), a Suggestion respecting the Syllabus of 

 the Science and Department, 592 



Muzzling Order, the New, 159 



Myers (Dr. A. T.) : the Index Catalogue of the Library of the 

 Surgeon- General's Office, U.S.A., 196; Hypnotism, Albert 

 Moll, ?6s 



Naden (Cbnstance C. W.), Induction and Deduction, and other 

 Essays, 245 



Nansen (Dr. Frithjof), the Proposed Polar Expedition under the 

 Command of, 17, 233, 253, 352 



Naphthalene Derivatives, Isomeric, Fifth Report of the Com- 

 mittee of the British Association on, 530 



Narraburra Meteor, the, H. C. Russel, F.R.S., 526 



Nasmyth (James), Death of, 64 



Natal Forests, the, H. G. Fourcade, 135 



Natal, Metallic Deposits in, 524 



Natal Observatory, 526 



National Health, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 244 



Natural History Index Collection, Madras Central Museum, 

 647 



Natural History Museum, South Kensington : Guide to the 

 Department of Geology and Palaeontology, 35 ; Electric 

 Lighting at, 180 ; British Museum Natural History Publica- 

 tions, Richard Lydekker, 371 



Natural History Notes from South America, W. Larden, 115 



Natural History, Scientific Expedition to Eastern Islands under 

 Auspices of Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 597 



Natural Selection, Unstable Adjustments as Affected by Isola- 

 tion, Rev. John T. Gulick, 28 



Naturalist, Rambles and Reveries of a. Rev. William Spiers, 

 172 



Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum, Wien, 157 



Nebulae, Photographs of. Admiral Mouchez, 619 



Negroes of Maryland since Civil War, Progress of, Dr. Brackett, 



234 

 Negroes of West Africa, Deniker and Laloy, 534 

 Nemi, the Priesthood of, 513 

 Nepenthes, the Reputed Digestive Power of Liquid in covered 



Capsules of, Raphael Dubois, 408 

 Nephrite Mines, the Raskem-daria, Grombchevsky's Visit to 



the, 375 

 Nerve-Cells, the Progressive Paralysis of the Different Classes 



of, in the Superior Cervical Ganglion, by J. N. Langley, 



F.R.S., and W. L. Dickinson, 22 

 Nerves, MeduUated and Unmedullaled, Dr. Heymans, 48 

 Nesting- Habits of Birds, Variations in, Thos. Swan, 54 

 Neumayr (Dr. M.), Climates of Past Ages, 148, 175 

 New Guinea : Intended Investigation by Mr. C. Hedley of 



Invertebrate Fauna of East Coast of, 252 ; Masks from, and 



the Bismarck Archipelago, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 268 ; Highland 



Plants from, Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., 382 

 New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, Fossil Fishes and 



Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of, J. S. Newberry, 366 

 New South Wales : Technical Education in, 376 ; Royal Society 



of, 535 



New York : Central Park Menagerie, Cause of Death of the 

 Animals in, 66 ; Reorganization of Columbia College, 87 



New Zealand : Spring Plants in, Geo. M. Thomson, 222 ; 

 Studies in Bioloejy for New Zealand Students, T, J. Parker, 

 F.R.S., 309; Extraordinary Meteor at Wimbledon, Hawkes 

 Bay, Taylor White, 403 ; the Bush Act of, Joseph Rutland, 

 428 



Newall Telescope, the, 21 



Newberry (J. S.), Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic 

 Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, 366 



Nevvbery (Cosmo), Necessity for a Central School of Mines in 

 Victoria, 353 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.) : Bison not Aurochs, 28, 53, 81 ; 

 on the Ornithology of the Sandwich Islands, 579 



Newton (Prof. H. A.), the late Prof. E. Loomis, 383 



Newton's Influence on Modern Geometry, Robt. H. Graham, 



139 

 Niagara Falls, Utilization of, 287 

 Nice Observatory, 303 

 Nichols (E. L.), Electrical Resistance of Alloys of Ferro-Man 



ganese and Copper, 260 

 Nicholson (E. C), Death of, 647 

 Nicholson (Francis), Sundevall's Tentamen, translated into 



English by, 3 

 Nickel and Carbon Monoxide, a Liquid Compound of, A. E. 



Tutton, 370 

 Nicotin Poisoning, J. N. Langley, F.R.S., and W. L. Dickin- 

 son, 22 

 Nicotra's (L. ) Flora of Sicily, 655 

 Night-Shining Clouds, T. W. Backhouse, 246; Dr. Cecil 



Shaw, 246 : D. J. Rowan, 246 

 Nilson (Prof.), I'roperties of Hydrazoic Acid, a Combination of 



Nitrogen and Hydrogen, 656 

 Nitrates, Reduction of, by Sunlight, 536 

 Nitrification, the Organisms of, 96 

 Nitrification, the Process of, and its Special Ferment, Prof. 



Frankland and Grace C. Frankland, 21 

 Nitrogen, on the Characteristic Equation of, M. Sarrau, 47 ; 



Ch. Antoine, 168 

 Nitrogen Compounds contained in Living Bodies, Heats of 



Combustion of, 72 

 Nitrogen, the Fixation of Free, by Sir J. B. Lawes, F.R. S., 



and Prof. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 41 

 Noble (Capt. C. B., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section G 



(Mechanical Science) at the British Association, 499 

 Nordenskiold (Prof. Baron von). Proposed Expedition to Spitz- 



bergen, 64 

 Norman (Rev. Dr. Alfred Merle), proposed Fellowof the Royal 



Society, 15 ; Dredging Expedition in the Varanger Fiord, 



486 

 North (A. J.), on the Colours of the Genus Malurus, 574 

 North (Miss), Death of, 458 

 North America, Prof. Marsh on the Cretaceous Mammals of, 



579 



North Atlantic : Cyclones of the, H. Habenicht, 109 ; Sea 

 Anemones of the. Dr. D, C. Danielssen, 367 



North Pole Expedition, Dr. Nansen's, 17, 233, 253, 352 



Norway, Earthquakes in, 648 



Norwegian Geological Survey, Map of the Scandinavian Penin- 

 sula, Finland, and Denmark, 35 



Nudibranchs, some Experiments on Feeding Fishes with. Prof. 

 W. A. Herdman, 201 



Numismatics, Astronomy and. Dr. A. Vercoutre, 556 



Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 94, 311, 655 



Oakman (R. N., Jun.), Loomis Process for making Gas Fuel, 

 356 



Objects having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 429 



Observatories: Report of the Paris Observatory for 1889, 112; 

 Spectroscopy at the Paris Observatory, M. Deslandres, 650 ; 

 Turin Observatory, 113; Pulkova Observatory, 138; Teb- 

 butt's Observatory, 162 ; Annual Visitation of Greenwich 

 Observatory, 187 ; Observatory of San Jose de Costa Rica, 

 the New, 301 ; Nice Observatory, 303 ; Leander McCormick 

 Observatory, 404 ; Moscow Observatory, Prof. Th. Bredichin, 

 404 ; Santiago Observatory, Chile, 427 ; Report of the 

 Hong Kong, for 1889, 510; the Urania at Berlin, 511; 

 Washburn, 512; Natal Observatory, 526 



Ocean Currents, General Circulation of, 66 



Oceanic Depression, on the Origin of the Deep Troughs of the, 

 Are any of Volcanic Origin ? Prof. James D. Dana, 357 



Octon, Roman Camp at, 581 



Odessa Society of Naturalists, 535 



Ohm : on Electrical Units, and the Determination of the, R. 1. 

 Glazebrook, F.R.S., 577; Principal J. V. Jones, on the 

 Determination of the, 577 



Oil, Measurements of the Amount of, necepsary in order to 



