Nature, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



XXV 



ck the Motion of Camphor upon Water, Lord Rayleigh, 

 rF.R.S., 43 



at Sea, Experiments oi the Use of, 87 

 on Growing, Dr. Charles S. Minot, 528 

 lam (Commander C. F.), Eua Island, Tonga Group, 85 

 liver (Prof. F. W. ), on the Teaching of Botany in Schools, 



J79 



Sver (Captain P.), Madagascar, or Robert Drury's Journal, 



^637 



"ilogy : Protective Coloration of Eggs, E. B. Titchener, 568 



phthalmia in United States, Prevalence of, 301 



ptical Instruments, the Use of Fluor .Spar in. Prof. S. P. 



Thompson, 578 



tical Isomerides of Inositol, Maquenne and Tanret, 21 



Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous Spar-Prism, H. G. Madan, 



J2, 99 



tics of the Lightning Flash, Eric Stuart Bruce, 197 



mg Outang, Results of Electrical Excitation of Motor Cortex 



>f, Dr. Beevor and Victor Horsley, 189 



mge Pests, Californian Vine and, 300 



Inance Survey, the Present Slate of, Henry T. Crook, 580 



Inance Survey, Publications of the, 510 

 jon Trade Language, or Chinook Jargon, by Horatio 



lale, 99 



janic Chemistry, Principles of, Prof. E. Hjelt, translated 

 !by J. Bishop Tingle, 461 



janic Colour, F. T. Mott, 456 



janic Evolution, by Dr. G. H. Theodor Eimer, 28 



janisms Infesting Water- Works, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 314 



janisms of Nitrilaction, 96 

 Uranisms, on Putrefactive, Rev. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 



381 

 Oriental Cicadidae, a Monograph of, W. L. Distant, 169 

 ienial Congress, the, 617 



inoco, Upper, Sculpture of Primitive Inhabitants of, Count 

 ii Mombello, 280 

 )n, Photographs of the Nebula in Orion, Prof. J. Norman 

 -ockyer, F.R.S., 92 

 ionis, j8, the Parallax of. Dr. Gill, 487 

 lerod (Eleanor E.), British Farm, Forest, Orchard, and 

 iGarden Pests, 609 



)mithology : Sundevall's Tentamen, translated into English 

 by Francis Nicholson, 3 ; Variations in the Nesting-Habits of 

 Birds, T. D. A. Cockerell, 6 ; Increasing Scarcity of Bustards 

 in France, 18 ; Dr. Shufeldt on the Position of Chamaa in 

 the System, 33 ; Variation in the Nesting-Habits of Birds, 

 Thos. Swan, 54 ; Classification of Birds, an Attempt to 

 Diagnose the Sub-Classes, Orders, Sub-Orders, and some of 

 the Families of Existing Birds, by Henry Seebohm, 74 ; a 

 Hand-book of European Birds, for the Use of Field Natural- 

 ists and Collectors by James Backhouse, Jun., R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 74; Eggs of the Great Auk, 91 ; Swallows at Sea, 

 Lieut. II. E. Purey-Cust, 100 ; Crossbills in Waterford, R. 

 J. Ussher, 135 ; Catalogue of Birds in Lucknow Museum, 

 135 ; the English Sparrow in North America, 161 ; Birds of 

 Bornean Group, Alfred Everett, 207 ; a True Hermaphroditic 

 Finch, Max Weber, 216 ; Ornithology in Italy, 375 ; the 

 Soaring of Birds, Prof. Magnus Blix, 397, 593 ; Rev. O. 

 Fisher, 457 ; C. O. Bartrum, 457, 637 ; Right Rev. Bishop 

 Reginald Courtenay, 463 ; New Works on Ornithology, 401 ; 

 Collection of Birds formed at Heligoland, 401 ; Australian 

 Diurnal Accipitres, Dr. E. P. Ramsay, 485 ; the Italian 

 Beccafico at the Worthing Fig Gardens, Henry Cecil, 520 ; 

 Hand-book of Field and General Ornithology, a Manual of 

 the Siructure and Classification of Birds, Prof. Elliott Coues. 

 541 ; the Birds of Essex, a Contribution to the Natural 

 History of the County, M. Christy, 564 ; Protective Colora- 

 tion of Eggs, E. B. Titchener, 568 ; the Colours of the Genus 

 Malurus, 474 ; Ornithology of the Sandwich Islands, Prof. 

 A. Newton, F. R. S., 579 ; the Birds^f the Japanese Empire, 

 Henry Seebohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe^33 ; the Atik, 647 

 mond (F. ), on the Critical Points of Iron and Steel, 69 

 ' ten-Sacken (Ch. R.), a Uniform System of Russian Trans- 

 literation, 78 



Osteology, Avian, 74 



Ostrich, Habits of the South American, 115 



Ostwald (Prof.), on the Action of Semi-permeable Membranes 

 in Electrolysis, 578 



Otter and Beaver Traps, Prehistoric, Dr. Munro, 581 



Otto Gas-engine, a New Electtic Light, 583 



Ottoker Cave, the Exploration of, 108 



Ouvrard (L.), some Phosphates of Lithium, Beryllium, Lead, 



and Uranium, 240 

 Owen (Edmund) : Anatomy for Senior Students, 98 ; Selected 



Subjects in Connection with the Surgery of Infancy and 



Childhood, 316 

 Owen (Prof R.), Is Diurnal Variation of Magnetic Needle a 



Meteorological Phenomenon ?, 260 

 Owls, the Striges in the Australian Museum, Dr. E. P. Ramsay^ 



486 

 Oxford and Modern Medicine, Sir H. W. Acland, 233 

 Oxford University, Prof. K. Ray Lankester elected Deputy 



Linacre Professor, 233 

 Oxford University Extension Scheme, Report of the, 252 

 Oxide, Phosphorous, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., and A. E. 



Tutton, 46, 92, 531 

 Oxides, on the Behaviour of Diflferent Metallic, when exposed 



to High Temperatures, Dr. G. H. Bailey and A. A. Read, 



530 

 Oxyhiemoglobin, the Preservation of, 536 

 Oyster, the Embryology of the Australian Rock, W. Saville 



Kent, 18 

 Oyster-culture Fauna in France and Holland, 653 



Pabst, Girard, and Salet (MM.), Agenda du Chimiste, 340 



Page (John), Death of, 252 



Palaeolithic Flint Implement found in the Valley of the Tuscar- 

 awas River, 34 



Palaeontology: Palseontologia Indica, Vol. IV., Part I., Dr, 

 W. Waagen, 66 ; Prof. Seeley, on South African Palaeonto- 

 logy, 327 ; the Horned Dinosaurs of the United States, 349 ; 

 Palaeontology of the Ungulata, Marie Pavloff, 575 



Palatability, Comparative, of Insects, E. B. Titchener and F. 

 Finn, 571 



Palestine Exploration Fund, Mr. Flinders Petrie's Excavations 

 at Tell Hesy, 301 



Palisa (Dr. J.): Discovery of Minor Planets, 38; a New 

 Asteroid, 619 



Pamphlet Cases, the Marlborough, 403 



Panmixia, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 5, 52; Prof: 

 George J. Romanes, F.R.S., 79 



Paper-making, the Art of, Alex. Watt, 220 



Paper-pad and Holder, the Author's Hairless, 403 



Papuan Zoological Collections, Dr. Loria's, 375 



Paralysis of the Different Classes of Nerve-cells in the Superior 

 Cervical Ganglion, J. N. Langley, F. R. S., and W. L. 

 Dickinson, 22 



Paris : Academy of Sciences, 24, 47, 72, 96, 119, 143, 167, 192, 

 240, 263, 288, 311, 335, 360, 384, 408, 432, 460, 488, 512, 

 536, 560, 584, 632, 655 ; Prize for Essay on Fertilization in 

 Phanerogams, 64 ; Ingenious Scenic Contrivance at the Paris 

 Hippodrome, 353 ; Report of the Paris Observatory for 

 1889, 112; Spectroscopy at, M. Deslandres, 650; Proposed 

 Paris University, 180 



Parker (T. J., F.R.S.), Studies in Biology for New Zealand 

 Students, 309 



Parker (William Kitchen, F.R.S.) : Death of, 277; Obituary 

 Notice of, 297 



Parkes (Alexander), Death of, 252 



Parnell (J.), a Meteor, 520 



Parry (C. C), Death of, 65 



Past Ages, Climates of, Dr. M. Neumayr, 148, 175; J. J. 

 Murphy, 270 



Paterson (Dr. A. M.), the Development of the Sy.Tipathetic 

 Nervous System in Mammals, 70 



Paulsen and Hann on the Fohn Phenomena of Greenland, 

 160 



Pavloff (Marie), on the Palaeontology of the Ungulata, 575 



Pawnee Hero-Stories and Folk-Tales, Geo. Bird Grinnell, 124 



Payne (F. F.), on the Eskimo Method of catching Seals, 66 



Peck (J. I.), on the Spinal Nerves in the Caudal Region of the 

 Pigeon, 32 



Pedler (l^rof. A.) : the Action of Light on Phosphorus, 46 ; the 

 Action of Chlorine on Water, 46 ; on, the Explosion of 

 Hydrogen Sulphide and of Carbon Sulphide, 46 



Pedler (A.), the Bengal Cyclone of August 21-28, 1888, 328 



Peek fC. E.), the Relative Prevalence of North-East and Souths 

 West Winds, 8 



Peligot (Eugene), Death of, 16 



