^ Valure, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



ckering (Prof. VV. H.), Photographs of (he Surface of Mars, 

 '236 



icAcid, Dr. H. Sprengel, F.R.S., 519 

 clon (H.), and S. E. Linder, Note on ihe H) drosulphides, 



.45 

 pigeon, Spinal Nerves in the Caudal Region of the, J. I. Peck, 



32 

 ike's Peak, Meteorological Observations at, 254 ; Electrical 



Storms on, R. A. Gregory, 595 

 ilcomayo Expedition, Prof. Isaac Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., 



J. Graham Kerr, 543 

 'inkerton (R. H.), an Elementary Text-book of Dynamics and 



Hydrostatics, 543 

 Hsciculture : Caiilornian Salmon caught in Mediterranean, 280 

 Planck (Prof.), on the Difference of the Potential of Two Binary 

 \ Electrolytes, 47 



met Uranus, 67; M. Perrotin on, 162 



mets, Minor, Discovery of, Herr Palisa, 38 



»nt-Biology, Laboratory for, at Fontainebleau, 485 



mt-Life, Effect of Fog and Town-Atmosphere on, 553 



int-Organization, R. Halsted Ward, 518 



int-Transpiration, Experimental Study of, Herr Eberdt, 329 

 lanta (Dr. von), Stachyose, a New Crystalline Carbohydrate 



extracted from Stachys ttiberifera by, 255 

 latinum, on a Sulphocarbide of, P. Schuizenberger, 512 

 Platinum Wire rendered Incandescent by Electric Current, 



Vibrations of, T. Argyropoulos, 632 

 PJayfair (Sir R. Lambert, K.C.M.G. ), Opening Address in 



Section E (Geography) at the British Association, 480 

 Mummer (William E.), Eclipse of Thales, 390 



leumatic Analogue of the Wheatsone Bridge, W. N. Shaw, 



44 



leumatic Distribution of Power, Prof. A. Lupton, 534 

 Poacher, Confessions of a, 567 

 focock (R. I.), Sexual Selection in Spiders, 405 

 'oincare (Lucien), the Polarization of Electrodes, 72 

 Polar Expedition, the Proposed Norwegian, under Dr. Frithjof 



Nansen, 17, 233, 253, 352 

 Polar and Pike's Peak Observatories, Meteorological Observa- 

 tions at, 254 

 Police Photography, P'rench, Alphonse Bertillon, Edmund R. 



Spearman, 642 

 Polyglot Medical Vocabulary, Theodore Maxwell, Prof. Alex. 



Macalister, F.R.S., 267 

 Polyzoa, Synonymy of the, E. C. Jelly, 589 

 Pompeii, Discoveries at, 524 

 Pond Life, Algae and Allied Forms, T. Spencer Smithson, 



171 

 Popocatapetl, the Height of, Edmund J. de Valois, loi 

 Porcelain, Mineralogical Conmposition of, W. Vernadsky, 264 

 Post : Penny, the Jubilee of the, 86 ; the Uniform Penny, 



106 

 Poulton (Edward Bagnall, F.R.S.) : the Colours of Animals, 



Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 289 ; Protective Colours, 544 ; 



Mimicry, 557 

 Powell (J. W.), Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports of the Bureau 



of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 



197 

 Power, on Pneumatic Distribution of. Prof. A. Lupton, 534 

 Prairie Dogs and their Sense of Distance, Dr. Wilder, 487 

 Preece (W. H., F.R.S.) : on the Heating Effects of Electric 



Currents, 94 ; on Steel used for Permanent Magnets, 578 

 Prehistoric Stations in Seine-et-Oise and Roumania, 213 

 Price (Prof. Bartholomew, F.R.S.), a Treatise on Analytical 



Mechanics, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, P\R.S., 585 

 Principles of Economics, Prof. Alfred Marshall, 362 

 Problems in the Physics of an Electric Lamp, Prof. J. A. 



Fleming, 198, 229 

 Procedure, Brili-h Association, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 



414 

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

 Projectiles, Velocities of, 250 



Promotion of Science, the Income-tax and the, 361 

 Protective Colouration of Eggs, E. B. Titchener, 568 

 Protective Colours, Dr. Walter K. Sibley, 544 ; E. B. Poulton, 



F.R.S., 544 

 Proudfit (S. v.), Collection of Stone Implements from Colum- 

 bia, 575 

 Prouho (M.), Sense of Smell in Star-fishes, 240 

 Ptitsyn (M.), Collection of Tibetan Medical Wor\s, no 



Public-house Licence Extinction Fund, Government Proposal 



to apply it to Technical Education, 299 

 Pulkova Observatory, 138 

 Pulkova Refractor, 204 



Pure Logic and other Minor Works, W. S. Jevons, 195 

 Purey-Cust (Lieutenant H. E.), Swallows at Sea, 100 

 Putnam (F. W.), Elemenls to be Considered in Endeavour to 



Trace North American Tribes to Origin, 327 

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



381 

 Pyramids, the Alleged Destruction of the, 647 

 Pyrazol, the Synthesis of, Prof. Balbiano, in 

 Pyrogallol-benzein, a New Colouring-matter, 19 

 Pyrometer, Le Chatelier's, 210 



Quantitative Analysis, on a Method of, by W^eighing Precipitates 

 suspended in Water, Dr. G. H. Bailey and J. C. Cain, 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 117, 334 

 Quartz Fibres, Prof. C. Vernon Boys, F.R.S., 604 

 Quatrefages (M. de), the Peopling of America, 6i8 

 Queensland, the Bellenden Ker Range Expedition, 329 



Rabies in Middlesex for the June Quarter, 327 



Rahot (M.), Dietary of the Lapps, 408 



Radau (R.), Sea-Movements, Avalanches, &c., a Cause of Varia- 

 tion of Latitudes, 655 



Radiation, Electro-magnetic, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 

 172 



Radiation, Solar, Theory of, W. Goff, 600 



Radio-Micrometer, Prof. C. Vernon Boys, F.R.S., on a, 604 



Rai Bahadur Mai Manucha's Book on Hindoo Folk-Lore, 375 



Rails, Steel, Mr. Sandberg, 356 



Railway Accident at Carlisle, the Cause of the, 88 



Railway Axles in India, 554 



Railway Engines, 61 



Railways, J. Tomlinson on, 38 



Rain, Black, a Fall of, J. L. Bozward, 254 



Rainbow, a Remarkable, D. MacGillivray, 457 



Rainfall of the Globe, W. B. Tripp, 119 



Ralfs (John), Death and Obituary Notice of, 300 



Rambant (Arthur A.), on the Parallax of Double Stars, 112 



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

 172 



Ramsay (Dr. E. P.) : Records of the Australian Museum, 65 ; 

 Australian Diurnal Accipitres, 485 ; Catalogue of the Striges 

 in the Australian Museum, 486 



Ramsay (Prof.), on the Adiabatic Curves for Ether, 578 



Randolph (Charles), a Ball of Fire, 615 



Rat of New Zealand, the Bush, Joseph Rutland, 428 



Ravenstein (E. G.), on Lands available for European Settle- 

 ment, 579 



Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.) : Measurements of the Amount of Oil 

 necessary in order to Check the Motions of Camphor upon 

 Water, 43 ; Arrangement of Huyghens's Gearing in Illustra- 

 tion of Electric Induction, 190 ; Bourdon Gauge, 197 ; 

 Superficial Viscosity of Water, 282 ; on Defective Colour- 

 Vision, 577 ; on the Tension of Water- Surfaces, 578 



Red Stars, Catalogue of. Rev. T. E. Espin, 354 



" Red-short" and "Cold-short," the Etymology of the Words,. 



19 

 Redmond (D. D.), Testing for Colour-Blindness, 126 

 Reduplication of Seasonal Growth, Rev. A. Irving, 296 

 Reefs, Coral, Recent and Fossil, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 29 ; 



Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 172 

 Regel (Dr. A. E. von), his Gift of Dried Plants to the Kew 



Herbarium, 485 

 Regensburg Botanical Society, Hundredth Anniversary of, 124 

 Reid (Dr. W. ), Meteorological Observations made at Sanchez,. 



St. Domingo, 458 

 Religion of the Australian Aborigines, J. W. Fawcett, 580 

 Remarkable Appearance in the Sky, D. J. Rowan, 222 

 Repulsion, Electro-magnetic, W, B. Croft, 198 

 Res Ligusticse, 375 

 Respiratory Movements, Male and Female, Dr. Wilberforce 



Smith 581 

 Reusch (Dr. Hans), Map of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Fin- 

 land and Denmark, 35 



