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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1890 



Pendlebury (C.) and W. S. Beard, Elementary Arithmetic, 414 



Pendulum Electrometer, Prof. Mayer, 107 



Penhallow (Prof. D. P.), New Botanical Laboratory at McGill 



University, Montreal, 87 

 Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), Museum of Archaeology at, 16 

 Penny Post, the Uniform, 106 

 Pensacola, Observations during Last Cruise of, 352 

 Pensions, Civil List, 1889-90, 278 

 Perch, the Croaking Noise made by. Dr. W. R. Hamilton, 



328 

 Perihelia of Comets, Distribution of the. Dr. Henry Muirhead, 



330 ' 



Perkin (Prof. William Henry, Jun.): proposed Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, 15 ; Award by Society of Arts of Albert ; 

 Medal to, 205 ; on the Constitution of the Alkaloid Berberin, 

 532 



Perlewitz (Dr.), Influence of Town of Berlm upon its Climate 



207 

 Perman (E. P ) : Doppler's Principle, 54 ; Experiments on 

 Vapour-density, 118 



Pernter (Dr. J. M.), "Winter Expedition to the Sonnblick, 273 



Perrier (Edmond), Artificial Sea-water for Aquaria, 143 



Perrotin (M.), the Planet Uranus, 162 



Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.): Harold B. Dixon's, F.R.S., Mode 

 of Observing the Phenomena of Earthquakes, 545 ; Easy Rule 

 for Calculating Approximate Self-induction of Coil, 262 

 Perry (Rev. Father, F.R.S.): by Aloysius L. Cortie, 221; 

 Proposed Memorial to, 352, 428 



Perseid Meteors, W. H. S. Monck, 296, 390 ; W. F. Denning, 

 342, 390 ; Prof. Denza on, 526 



Perseus, Photo2;raph of Two Clusters in, Isaac Roberts, 92 



Persia, H. F. Lynch on, 580 



Pests, British Farm, Forest, Orchard, and Garden, Eleanor 

 Ormerod, 609 



Peters (Dr.) at Usugara, Arrival of, 252 



Peters (Prof. C. H. F.), Obituary Notice of, 400 



Petrie's (Mr. Flinders) Excavations at Tell Hesy, 301 



Petrological Research of the Occurrence of Chemical Change 

 under Great Pressure, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., loi 



PevtsofF's (Colonel) Expedition to Tibet, 253 



Pfeiffer on the Production of Pure Water, 1 10 



Pfitzner (Herr), the Small Toe in Man, 301 



Phanerogams, Paris Academy Prize for Essay on Fertilization 

 in, 64 



Pharmaceutical Testing, Manual of, Barnard S. Proctor, 270 



Phene (Dr.), on an Unidentified People in pre-Roman British 

 Times, 581 



Philip's Portable Sun-Dial, Adjustable for all Latitudes, 554 



Philippine Islands : the Minneapolis Expedition to the, 352 ; 

 New Species Discovered in. Dr. J. B. Steere, 486 



Phillips (Prof. J.), Lunar Photography, 569 



Philology : Russian Transliteration, Charles E. Groves, 6 ; 

 Geo. G, Chisholm, 7 ; a Uniform System of, A. Wilkins, 77 ; 

 Ch. R. Osten-Sacken, 78; the Correspondence on, H. A. Miers 

 and J. W. Gregory, 316; Language of the Veddahs of 

 Ceylon, 280 



Philosophy of Clothing, W. Mattieu Williams, 340 



Philosophy, Triumph of, James Gillespie, 294 



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

 Tutton on, 46, 92 



Phosphorous Oxide, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., on, 531 



Phosphorus, the Action of Light on, Prof. A. Pedler, 46 



Phosphorus, Liquid Hydride of, Drs. Gattermann and Hauss- 

 knecht, 89 



Phosphorus Trichloride, the Action of, on Organic Acids and 

 Water, C. H. Bothamley, 532 



Photo-Chronography, Aquatic Locomotion Studied by, M. 

 Marey, 360 



Photo-Electric Impulsion Cells, Prof. George M. Minchin, 80 



Photography: Exhibitions at the Camera Club, 16; C. V. 

 Boys on Photographs of Rapidly-Moving Objects, 95 ; Photo- 

 graphic Exhibition at Vienna, 108 ; Photographs of Water 

 Drops, P. Lenard, 148 ; the Progress of Photography, C. H. 

 Bothamley, 206 ; Photograph of Brooks's Comet {a 1890), 

 183 ; the Photographic Image, Prof Raphael Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 246; Photography in Natural Colours by Verres, 

 Prof. Vogel, 264 ; Encyclopsedia of Photography, Walter E. 

 Woodbury, 270, 368 ; Photographic Convention of United 

 Kingdom, Annual Meetings of, 206 ; Photographs of the 

 Surface of Mars, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 236 ; Celestial 



Photography, Presentation to Mr. Isaac Roberts, 251 : 

 Photographs and Drawings of the Sun, 282: Photographs ui 

 Stellar Spectra, 282; Ring Nebula in Lyra, 282; Enlarg. 

 ment of Photographs of Stellar Spectra, 303 ; the Inter 

 national Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, 1890-91, 

 295 ; Weights, Measures, and Formula; Used in Photography, 

 310 ; Cloud Photography, 427 ; Convention of the Photo- 

 graphers' Association of America, 524 ; Report of the Photo- 

 graphic Committee of the British Association, 532 ; Evolution 

 of Photography, John Werge, 543 ; Lunar Photography, 

 Richard A. Gregory, 568 ; Dr. J. W. Draper, 568 ; W. C. ' 

 Bond, 568 ; Niepce de St. Victor, 568 ; Rev. [. B. Reade, 569 ; 

 Warren De La Hue, 569; Prof. J. Phillips, 569; Prof. Crookes, 

 569 ; S. Fry, 569 ; Rutherford, 569 ; Dr. Henry Draper, 

 571 ; Prof. Holden, 571 ; Paul and Prosper Henry, 571 ; 

 Photographing Stars in the Daytime, Prof. iHolden, 576 ; 

 Photographic Chart of the Heavens, 619 ; Photographs of 

 Nebulas, Admiral Mouchez, 619 ; French Police Photography, 

 Alphonse Bertillon, Edmund R. Spearman, 642 

 Photogravure, W. T. Wilkinson, 389 

 Photometer, a New, F. H. Varley, 579 

 Photometry, Application of the Properties of Iodide of Nitrogen 



to, M. Lion, 511 

 Photomicrography, a Simple Heliostat Applied to, Thos. 



Comber, 167 

 Phrenology, Modern Experimental Researches on Brain- Func- 

 tions and, Bernard Hollander, 263 

 Physics : the Application of the Microscope to Physical and 

 Chemical Investigations, Dr. O. Lehmann, i ; Physical 

 Society, 23, 94, 190, 239, 261 ; Doppler's Principle, 

 G. H. Wyatt, 7 ; E. P. Perman, 54 ; Prof. J. D. Everett, 

 F.R.S., 81 ; on the Properties of Liquefied Gases, E. 

 Mathias, 116 ; Physics of an Electric Lamp, Problems in the. 

 Prof. J. A. Fleming, 198, 229 ; Alleged Slipping at Boundary 

 of a Liquid in Motion, W. C. D. Whetham, 261 ; some 

 Points in the Physics of Golf, Prof. P. G. Tait, 420 ; Terres- 

 trial Physics, Prof Cleveland Abbe on, 528 ; Graphic Lessons 

 in Physical and Astronomical Geography, Joseph H. Cowham, 

 542 ; Surface Tension and Surface Viscosity, 545 

 Physical Development, Dr. G. W. Hambleton on, 581 

 Physikalische-Oekonomische Gesellschaft of Konigsberg, Cen- 

 tenary of, 108 

 Physiography, Advanced, John Thornton, 99 

 Physiography, Lessons on Elementary Physiographic Astro- 

 nomy, John Mills, 76, 316 

 Physiology: Special, Vol. II., Dr. J. G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 

 50 ; Chemical Products of the Growth of Bacillus anthracis 

 and their Physiological Action, Sydney Martin, 118; Uses 

 of Bromethyl, 120 ; Photographic Determination of Time- 

 Relations of Changes in Muscle during Latent Stimulation, 

 J. B. Sanderson, F.R.S. , 142; Instruments for Measuring 

 Limb-Movement, Fras. Galton, 143 ; Supposed Death from 

 Pancreatic Lesion, Prof. Falk, 144; Nerve- Fibres in Ureters, 

 Dr. Heymans, 144 ; Dr. Bruhns's Researches on Adenin and 

 Hypoxanthin, 144 ; Results of Electrical Excitation of Motor 

 Cortex, &c., of Orang Outang, Dr. C. E. Beevor and Victor 

 Horsley, F. R. S., 189 ; Proteid Metabolism during Pregnancy 

 and Lactation, Dr. Hagemann, 216 ; Intestinal Fistulae, Prof. 

 Zuntz, 216 ; Position of Vocal Cords in Quiet Respiration of 

 Man and Reflex-Tonus of Abductor Muscles, Dr. F. Semon, 

 238 ; Changes produced in Circulation and Respiration by 

 increase of Intracranial Pressure, Spencer and Horsley, 261 ; 

 Sudden Death of Patient upon Introduction of a Flexible 

 Gastric Sound, 264 ; the Absorption of Fat, Dr. I. Munk, 264 ; 

 the Small Toe in Man, Herr Pfitzner, 301 ; Dr. Blumenau's 

 Researches on Development of Corpus Callosum, 336; Gill- 

 slits of Sturgeon, Prof. Virchow, 336 ; Experimental Con- 

 firmation by Dr. Zagari of Donders's Statement that inhaling 

 Carbonic Acid at End of Expiration Increases Depth of 

 Ensuing Inspiration, ji^of. Gad, 336 ; Text-book of Physio- 

 logical and Pathological Chemistry, Dr. G. Bunge, 338 ; 

 Physiological Botany, Dr. George Lincoln Goodale, Francis 

 Darwin, F.R.S. , 516; Physiology and Medicine, Changes in 

 Relationship between, Dr. Andrew, 618 ; Physiological Re- 

 searches on Floral Envelopes, Georges Curtel, 632 

 Pickering (Prof. Edward C.) : Aid to Astronomical Research, 

 299 ; Objects having Peculiar Spectra, 429 ; Stars having 

 Peculiar Spectra, 619 

 Pickering (Spencer Umfreville), proposed Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, 1 5 



