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L\DEX 



XV 



Pengelly (William, F.R.S.), Address in the Department of 

 Anthropology at the Meeting of the British Association at 

 Sonthport, 524 



Penny Science Lectures at Victoria Coffee Hall, 532 



Perak Tin-Mines, J. Errington de la Croix, 202 



Pergamos, Sparrows in, 116 



Permian System in Russia, 165 



Permian v. Dyas, Rev. A. Irving, 578 



Perouse (La), Letters and Journals of, 209 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), a Large Meteor, 150 



Persia, Modern, the Land of the Lion and Sun, C.5J. Wills, 

 Prof. A. H. Keane, 266 



Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, 117, 404, 547 



Peters (Dr. Wilhelm), Death of, 15 



Petrie (\V. M. Flinders), Earliest Known Plotting Scale, 341 



Petroleum Oils (Baku), Modified Method of Fracti nal Distilla- 

 tion of, Mendeleeff, 182 



Pettersen (Dr. Karl), International Polar Researches, 423 



Philadelphia: Electrical Exhibition (18S4), 544; Zoological 

 Gardens, 329 



Philippart's Electrical Omnibus, 544 



Philosophical Criticism, Essays in, Geo. J. Romane=, F.R.S., 

 386 



Philosophy, Modern, Mr. Romanes and, Alfred Stapley, 461 



Philosophy, Natural, the New Principles of, W. L. Jordan, 169 



Phlebotomy : Animals cannot be Bled by Cutting one Carotid, 

 Dr. Kireef, 384 



Photography and Still Life, A. R. Hunt, 540 



Photography, Stellar, at Harvard, 255 



Photometer, a New, 47 



Phylloxera in Sardinia, 306 



Physical Notes, 308, 625 



Thysical Society, 23, 47, 94, 143, 215, 239 



Physics, Historical Notes in, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 130 



Physics, Text-Book of, J. D. Everett, 364 



Physiological Cruelty, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 537 



Physiological Society, 288 



Pidgeon (D.), Waterspout, 173 



Pigeons, Carrier, Replacing of, by Ravens, 403 



Pigment Bodies in Plants, Chlorophyll Corpuscles and, Prof. 

 H. Marshall Ward, 267 



Pillar of Light, R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 54 



Pine Trees, Ravages on, by Moths, 64 



Plane, Dark, Lord Rayleigh's, Prof, Oliver J. Lodge, 297 



Planets, Minor: Andromache, 116; No. 234, 403 



Plant (Thomas), Obituary Notice of, 445 



Plants, Chlorophyll Corpuscles and Pigment Bodies in, Prof. 

 H. Marshall Ward, 267 



Plateau (Prof. J. A. F.), Death of, 509; Obituary Notice of, 

 529 



Plexus, Brachial, on the Motor Roots of the, Prof. Ferrier, 

 F.R.S., 214 



Plotting Scale, Earliest Known, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 341 



" Pocky " or " Festooned " Cloud (Mammato-Cumulus), Hon. 

 Ralph Abercromby, 79 ; Fred. Pratt, 104 



Pogge (Dr.), Journeys Across Africa, 64, 209 



Point Barrow Exploring Party, 573, 623 



Poirier Bequest, 404 



Poisonous Eizard, 83 



Poisons in Animal Substances, 48 



Poisons, Violent, formed by Animal Decomposition, Prof. 

 Brieger, 192 



Pola Expedition, 426 



Polar Expeditions, Dutch and Danish, Safety of, 447 



Polar Meteorological Station, Northernmost, 404 



Polar Researches, International, Dr. Karl Pettersen, 423 



Polar Station, Sagaslyr, 182 



Polytechnic, Exhibition at, by Members of Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Institute, 135 



Polyzoa : Fossil, B.A. Report on, 550 ; Budding in, Prof. Had- 

 don, 580 



Pons' Comet, 606, 624 



Pooley (C), Lunar Phenomenon at Weston-super-Mare, 54 



Pooley (W. M.), Meteor of August 19, 414 



Portrush, Siemens' Electric Railway, 43, 544 



Potatoes, Disease of, 284 ; Worthington G. Smith, 299 ; A. 

 Stephen Wilson, 343 ; Prof. A. Blytt, 367 



Potts (Thos. H.), Meteor, 462 



Potylitzin (M.), Naphtha Springs in Caucasus, 545 



Power and Electricity, Meters for, C. Vernon Boys, 162 



Pozzuoli, the Fumaroles of the Solfatara of, 83 



Pratt (Fred.) : Sheet Lightning, 104; " Pocky" Clouds, 104 



Pre-Cambrian Rocks of St. David, on the Supposed, Archibald 



Geikie, F.R.S., 18 

 Preece (W. H., F.R.S.): Effect of Temperature on Electro- 

 motive Force and Resistance of Batteries, 191 ; New Mode of 



Measuring Light, 206 

 Prejevalsky (Col.), Fourth Journey to Central Asia, 159, 182, 



546 

 Pressure, Influence of Great, on Chemical Reactions, M. Spring, 



181 

 Primaeval Man and Working Men Students, Worthington G. 



Smith, 320 

 Primary Rainbow, Treble, 344 



Prime Meridian, International Congress to Establish a, 570 

 Pritchard (H. Baden), Table of Different Velocities, 612 

 Privat-docenten System to be Tried in France, 330 

 Professorial Salaries in United States, 376 

 Protective Resemblance, Antiquities Saved by, Worthington G. 



Smith, 462 

 Protoplasm and Cell- Wall in the Vegetable Cell, F. O. Bower, 



Protoplasm, the Continuity of, through the Walls of Vegetable 

 Cells, Walter Gardiner, 582 



Protoplasmic Continuity in the Florideaa, 581 



Protoplasts, on the Intercellular Connection of, Prof. W. Hill- 

 house, 582 



Ptarmigan, Norwegian, Acclimatisation of, 544 



Public Instruction, Minister of, 221 



Pulmonaria officinalis, the Effect of the Change of Colour in the 

 Flowers of, upon its Fertilisers, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 81 



Pumice, Floating, H. O. Forbes, 539 



Pyro-Electric Phenomena of Boracite, &c, Friedel, 426 



Quadrennial Discovery Prize, Grocers' Company's, 133 

 Qualitative Analysis, Concise and Explanatory, Notes on, 



H. G. H. Fenton, 148 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 166, 534 



Races of Mankind, Proposed Classification of, by Prof. A. II. 



Keane, 42 

 Radicke (Dr. Gustav), Death of, 15 

 Radivanovsky's Work on "Gunpowder and other Explosives," 



16 

 Rae (John, F.R.S.): Wild Duck and Railways, 226, 270; 



Instinct and Intelligence, 270 ; Causes of Glacier Motion, 



244 

 Ragg (Rev. F. W.), Organic Evolution and the Fundamental 



Assumptions of Natural Philosophy, 5S9 

 Railway, Electric, Portrush, 544 

 Railways and Docks, James Brunlees on, 558 

 Railways, Wild Duck and, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 226, 270 

 Rainbow: Triple, R. P. Greg, 300; Treble Primary, 344; 



a Complete Solar, D. Morris, 436, 515 ; T. W. Backhouse, 



515 ; a Remarkable, 541, 564 

 Ramsay (A.) : Thunderstorms and Aurora;, 414 ; a Remark- 

 able Rainbow, 564 

 Ranee (C. E. de), Post-Glacial Geology of Country round 



Sonthport, 490 

 Ravens, Replacing of Carrier-Pigeons by, 403 

 Raygill Fissure Exploration, B.A. Report on, 550 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), on the Dark Plane which is formed 



over a Heated Wire in Dusty Air, 139 ; Prof. Oliver J. 



Lodge on, 297 

 Reactions, Chemical, Influence of Great Pressure on, M. Spri -g, 



181 

 Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 214 



Reale Istituto Lombardo, 71, 214, 238, 262, 335, 431, 535 

 Recent Influence-Machines, 12 

 Rede Lecture, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., 1S7 

 Redman (J. B.), Sea-Shore Alluvion, Dungeness, 125 

 Redpath Museum at Montreal, Opening of, 65 

 Red Spot upon Jupiter's Disk, Great, 403, 487, 622 

 Red Star, Trouvelot, 546 

 Reed (Sir E. J., M.P., F.R.S.), Stability of Merchant Stea . - 



ships, 419 

 Regnard's Incandescent lamp, Arlhur E. Shipley, 366 



