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Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Woad as a Blue Dye, 

 Dr. C. B. Plowright, 413 



North (A. J.), Bird-destruction in New South Wales, 165 



North American Folk Lore, 425 



North Atlantic and Mediterranean Pilot Charts for June, 112 ; 

 for July, 238 ; for August, 332 ; for September, 434 ; for 

 October, 529 



North Atlantic Ocean, Circulation of the Surface Waters of the, 

 H. N. Dickson, 65$ 



Norton (J. T., jun.). Action of Sodium Thiosulphate on Solu- 

 tions of Metallic Salts at High Temperatures and Pressures, 

 415 



Northway (M. J.), Experiments on Period of Rod Vibrating in 

 Liquid, 657 



Norway : the Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 1S93-96, Dr. 

 C. Chree, F.R.S., 151 ; on the Physical History of the 

 Norwegian Fjords, Prof. E. Hull, 566 



Notes from a Diary, 1S89-91, Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, 

 Lord Avebury, F.R.S., 228 



Nova Persei, 42, 191, 437, 491 ; Spectrum of, 240, 456, 556, 

 639 ; Further Observations on Nova Persei, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.RS., 341 ; Appearance of the Photo- 

 graphic Image of Nova Persei, 639 



Novaho hogam, the, Cosmos Mindeleff, 425 



Numbers, Essays on the Theory of, Richard Dedekind, 374 



Gates (E. W.). Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the 

 British Museum (Natural History), 600 



Observations of Mars, 384 



Observatories: Report of Mauritius Observatory, 135; Mag- 

 netical and Meteorological Observations made at Royal 

 Alfred Observatory, Mauritius, 582; Oxford University 

 Observatory, 136 ; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 136 ; 

 Report on Observations in Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmo- 

 spheric Electricity made at the Central Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory of Japan, 1897, Dr. C. Chree, F.RS., 151; a 

 Photometric Durchmusterung, including all Stars of the 

 Magnitude 7-S and Brighter North of Declination -40°, 

 obtained with Meridian Photometer during Years 1895-9S at 

 Harvard College Observatory, E. C. Pickering, 257 ; United 

 States Naval Observatory, 265 ; the Paris Observatory in 

 igoo, 335; Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory at the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Measurements of Solar Radiation, 

 S. P. Langley, 352 ; the Cape Observatory, Sir David Gill, 

 410 ; the McClean Telescope at the Cape Observatory, 632 ; 

 Reunion du Comitc International Permanent pour 1' Execu- 

 tion de la Carte I'hotographique du Ciel tenue a I'Observa- 

 toire de Paris en 1900, 449 : Results of Meteorological Ob- 

 servations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the 

 Eight Years 1S92-99, Arthur A. Rambaut, F.R.S., 599 



Oceanography : the Belgian Soundings, H. Arctowski and 

 R. F. Renard, 238 ; Oceanographical Results of Valdivia 

 Expedition, Dr. G. Schott, 263 ; the Admiralty Surveys, 

 1900, Sir W. J. L. Wharton, 309 ; the Circulation of the 

 Surface Waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, H. N. Dickson, 

 665 ^ ^ 



October Orionids, the, W. F. Denning, F.R.S., 651 



Oddo (G.), Oxychloride of Phosphorus and Cryoscopic Solvent, 

 288 



Oecology : Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. F. W. 

 Schimper, Percy Groom, 551 



Officer (Graham), Aboriginal Grave in Darling River District, 416 



Ogham Writing in Ireland, on the Age of, R. A. S. Macalister, 

 615 



Ogilvy (A. J.), the Elements of Darwinism, 28 



Okapi, the, 309 ; Prof. E. R. Lankester, F.R.S., 18S, 247 



Oldham (H. Yule), on the Experimental Demonstration of the 

 Curvature of the Earth's Surface, 591 



Oliver (George, M.D ), a Contribution to the Study of the 

 Blood and Blood Pressure, I 



Oliver (Prof. F. W.), on Certain Points in the Structure of the 

 Seeds WsMiV!/«j/a, Brongn., and Slepliaiiosfermum,'BxoT\gn., 

 618 ^ , 



Omori (Dr. F.), the International Seismological Conference at 

 Strasburg, 340 



Oochromy, Hybrid, with a Note on Xenia, G. P. Bulman, 207 



Ophioglossales and Lycopodiales, Contributions to our Know- 

 ledge of the Gametophyte in the, William H. Lang, 616 



Ophhiglosswn Simplex, on a Specimen uf, Collected by Mr. 

 Ridley in Sumatra, Prof. Bower, F. R.S., 617 



Opposition of Eros, 1903, 491 



Optics : Method of Identifying Minerals in Rock Sections by 

 their Bi-refringence, Prof J. July, F.R.S., 95 ; I'Optigue des 

 Kayons de Rontgen et des-Rayons Secondaires que en derivent, 

 G. Sagnac, loi ; the Colour .and Polarisation of Blue Sky- 

 Light^ Dr. N. E. Dorsey, 138 ; the Mechanism of Radiation, 

 ]. H. Jeans, 199 ; Jena Glass, Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., 

 199; a Vertical Light-beam through the Setting Sun, Prof. 

 A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 232 ; Electricite et Optique, la 

 Lumiere et ses Theories Electrodynamiques, H. Poincare, 

 273 ; Laws of Radiation as applied to Incandescent Mantles, 

 Dr. Guillaume, 309 ; Determination of Three Principal 

 Parameters of a Crystal by Refractometer, A. Cornu, 320 ; 

 Pseudoscopic Vision without a Pseudoscope, a New Optical 

 Illusion, Prof R. W. Wood, 351 ; A, S. Davis, 376 ; Con- 

 stitution of White Light, O. M. Corbino, 464 ; Effects of 

 Rontgen &c. Rays on Eye, Herren Himstedt and Nagel, 

 529 ; on Magnetic Rotation of Light and the Second Law of 

 Thermodynamics, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 577; Optical 

 Glass, Dr. Glazebrook, Mr. Hinks, 586 



Orbit of Comet 1S94 II (Gale). Definitive, 89 



Orbits of .\lgol Variable, R. R. Pupis and V. Pupis, 384 



Ordovician Rocks of North-West Ireland, on the Relation of 

 the Silurian and, to the Great Metamorphic Series, A. 

 McHenry, J. H. Kilroe, 565 ; G. H. Kinahan, 565 



Organic Peroxides, Researches on, MM. von B.reyer and 

 Villiger, 64 



Orionids, the October, W. F. Denning, F.R.S., 651 



SOrionis, Variable Radical Velocity of, 491 



Orling (A.), a New Principle in Wireless Telegraphy Discovered, 

 636 



Ormerod (Miss Eleanoi A.), Death of, 308 ; Obituary Notice of, 



330 



Ornithology : Protection of Sea-Birds of Louisiana Gulf Coast, 

 Prof. Beyer, 19 ; the Song of Birds, Henri Coupin, 20, 62 ; 

 Der Gesang der Vogel, Dr. Valentin Hacker, 52 ; Long- 

 tailed [apanese Fowls, J. T. Cunningham. 15S ; Frank Finn, 

 232, 551 ; Hoopoes on Lundy Island, W. H. Gr.aham, 164; 

 Bird-destruction in New South Wales, A. J. North, 165 ; 

 Winter Singing of Thrush, W. W. Fowler, 215 ; How to 

 Know the Indian Ducks, F. Finn, 27S ; a Handbook of 

 British Birds, J. E. Harting, 297 ; Bird Watching, Edmund 

 Selous, 325 ; Album de Aves Amazonicas, Dr. Emalio. A. 

 Goeldi, 397 ; Position of Auks and Puffins, Dr. R. W. 

 Shufeldt, 408 ; the Skeleton of the Cuckoo, Dr. R. W. 

 Shufeldt, 435 ; Alanual of the Birds of Iceland, Henry H. 

 Slater, 443 ; the Colour of Guillemots' Eggs, Captain G. E. H. 

 Barrett Hamilton, 600 ; Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' 

 Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), E W. Oates, 

 600 ; Essays and Photographs, some Birds of the Canary 

 Islands and South Africa, H. E. Harris, 603 



Oscillographs, Andre Blondel, 308, 408 



Osmosis through Membrane of Copper Ferrocyanide, G. Flusin, 7 1 



Osmotic Pressure as a Protection from Cold in Living Cell, M. 

 D'Arsonval, 295 



Ostwald (Prof. W.), Die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der 

 Analytichen Chemie elementar dargestellt, 5 ; the Labora- 

 tory of Wilhelm Ostwald, 248 



Ovis Fannini, W. T. Hornaday, 310 



Oxford Text-Book of Zoology, the. Prof E. Ray Lankester, 

 Part II. the Porifera and Coelentera, E. A. Minchin, G. II. 

 Fowler and G. C. Bourne, 26 



Oxford University Observatory, 136 



Oxide, Copper, Decomposition of, Phillip Harrison, 233 



Oysters Acquiring Characters of Natives, Foreign, J. M. Tabor, 

 126; F. W. Headley, 158 



Paillot (Rene), Permeability of Nickel-Steel in Intense Mag- 

 netic Fields, 96 ; Influence of Temperature on Electromotive 

 Force of Magnetisation, 175 



Pakes (Walter C. C), the Science of Hygiene, a Text-Book of 

 Laboratory Practice, 178 



Pala:aictic Lepidoptera, a Catalogue of, 348 



Palreobotany, Status of the .Mesozoic Floras of United States ; 

 the Older Mesozoic, Lester F. Ward, W. .M. Fontaine, A. 

 Warner and F. H. Knowlton, 633 



Paljeoliihics : Prehistoric Implements in the Transvaal and 

 Orange River Colony, Stanley B. Hutt, 103 ; Pala;olithic Im- 

 plements found on Knowle Farm, 432 ; Palreolithic Drawings 

 on Walls of Caves in Dordogne, L. Capitan and H. Breuil, 



