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INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. 27, 1883 



Mott (F. T.), Mock Moons, 30 



Moule (William) and H. Newell Martin, Handbook of Verte- 

 brate Dissection, 242 



Mudirie Rohl Expedition, Dr. Emin Bey, 547 



Muir (Wm), Metamorphic Origin of Granite, 6 



Muller (Hermann) : Effect of the Change of Colour in the 

 Flowers of Pulmonaria officinalis upon its Fertilisers, Dr. 

 Hermann Muller, 81 ; "Fertilisation of Flowers," Translated 

 by D'A. W. Thompson, 513; Obituary Notice of, 462 



Munk (Prof. H.), Functional Restoration of Cerebrum, 431 



Munro (J.), " Electricity and its Uses," 538 



Murphy (J. J.), Flight of Crows, 7 ; Graft-Hybridisation, 225 



Murray (John), Elevation and Subsidence, 365 



Muscular Movements and Complex Motions, Dr. R. J. Ander- 

 son, 582 



Museum, the Parkes, New Premises of, 16 



Museum, Orange Free State, 179 



Museums, the Opening of, on Sundays, 63 



Naphtha, Lamps for Burning, 134 



Naphtha Springs in Caucasus, M. Potylitzin, 545 



Naples, Zoological Station, the American Table at, 88 



" Nara ; eine alte Kaiserstadt," llerr van Langegg, 182 



Nasmyth (James), Engineer, Samuel Smiles, 337 



Nat Basket, the, Mrs. Eleanor Mason, 171 



Nathorst (Dr. A, G.) : Fossil Alga:, 52; the Greenland Nor- 

 denskjold Expedition, 541 



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



Natural Science, How to Teach, 425 



Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa Gray, 7S ; 

 Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., icxk 



Nautilus, Pearly, Difference between the Males and Females of 

 the, A. G. Bourne, 580 



Navigation, Stellar, W. H. Rosser, 316 



Nebula, the Great, in Orion, 616 



Negretti and Zambra's Deep-Sea Thermometer, 306 



Neocomian Fossils, Walter Keeping, 433 



Nephrite and Jade in Further India, 571 



Nerves, Influence of Temperature on the Conductibility of, 218 



Nest-Building, Curious — "Scarecrows," 126 



Nest-Gearing, Prof. Fleeming Jenkins, 583 



Neva, the Velocity of the, 16 



Nevada, Supposed Human Footprints recently found in, Prof. 

 O. C. Marsh, 370 



Newall (R. S., F.R.S.), the Pillar of Light, 54 



New Guinea, Melbourne Age Expedition to, 188 



Newnham College, Miss Clough and, 156 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Extraordinary Flight of Dragon 

 Flies, 271 



New Zealand Institute, Honorary Members, 41 



Nicaragua, Volcanic Outbreak in, 401 



"Nice and its Climate," Dr. A. Barety, 434 



Nice, Bischoffsheim Observatory at, 377 



Niger Expedition, Proposed, Dr. E. Riebeck, 404 



Nipher (Prof. Francis E.), Intelligence in a Dog, 82 



Nitrogen, Liquefaction of, Wroblewski and Olszewski, 533 



Nomenclature, Anatomical, Dr. Burt G. Wilder, 77 



Nordenskjold ( Baron) : on the Zeni Narrative, 14 ; Expedition 

 to Greenland, 37, 116, 182, 2S0, 469, 530; Dr. A. G. 

 Nathorst, 541 ; on the Supposed Old Icelandic Map of North 

 Europe, 427 ; and the Dutch Government, 280 



Normal School of Science, South KensingtoD, New Scholarships, 



305 

 North Atlantic Ocean, on the Geological Age of, Prof. E. Hull, 



F.R.S., 57S 

 North-East Passage, Baron Nordenskjold and the Dutch 



Government, 280 

 North Sea Expedition, Norwegian, 348, 371 

 Norway : Increase of Small Birds in, 281 ; Potato Disease in, 



281 ; the Fossils of, 307 ; Meteor in, 425 ; the Beaver in, 



Prof. R. Collett, 470 ; Norwegian North Sea Expedition, 348, 



371 ; Acclimatisation of Norwegian Ptarmigan, 544 ; Nor. 



wegian Circumpolar Station, A. S. Steen, 566 

 Notornis hochstetteri, Dr. Meyer, 375 

 Nottingham, Technical School at University College, 532 

 Nova 1572, Kiell on Tycho Brahe's, 65 

 Numeration, Indian, Frederick Drew, 245 

 Nyam Nyam Country, Dr. Junker's Excursions in, 209 

 Nyangue, Report of Dr. Pogge's Return Journey from, 209 



Obach (Dr.) : Movable Coil Galvanometer, 215 ; Tangent Gal- 

 vanometer, 257 



Observatories : Royal, 136 ; Rio Janeiro, 65 ; Moscow, 65 ; Re- 

 port of the Paris Observatory for the year 1882, 154 ; In- 

 auguration of New, at Vienna, 156; Ben Nevis, 156, 328, 

 46S, 596, 622 ; the Lick, 279 ; Bischoffsheim at Nice, 377 ; 

 Dr. Tromholt's Auroral, at Js'autokeino, 397 ; Reorganisation 

 of Montmartre, 445 ; Proposal for Bristol Channel Meteoro- 

 logical, 470 ; Tashkend, 531 ; Chinese, 532 ; Cordoba, 606 



Oceans and Continents, Permanence of, Elevation and Subsi- 

 dence, or, J. Starkie Gardner, 323 



Oil in Calming Waves, 605 



Oken (Lorenz), Monument to, 207 



Olszewski and Wroblewski, Liquefaction of Oxygen and Nitro- 

 gen, 533 



Omnibus, Electrical, Philippart's, 353, 544 



Ongoliz River, M. Lessar's Exploration of, 547 



Operculate Corals, Prof. Lindstrom on, 35 



Orange Free State National Museum, 179 



O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.) : the Earthquake of Iscbia, 461 ; Scientific 

 Aspects of the Java Catastrophe, 5>5 



Orfe, a Fish recently Acclimatised in England, 304 



"Organismes Vivants de 1' Atmosphere," Dr. M. P. Miguel, 76 



" Origines Celtics," &c, Edwin Guest Prof. A. H. Sayce, 242 



Orion, the Great Nebula in, 619 



Ornithological Works, Recent, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 126 



Ornithologists, International Congress of, 353 



Ornithologists' Union, American, 532, 623 



Ostrich, a New, 531 



Ostwald, Relative Affinities of Acids, 181 



Oudemans (Dr. J. A. C), Aurorae of October 2 and November 

 17, 1882, 196 



Ovibos moschatus, Discovery of Remains of, 310 



Owen (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Thylacoleo, 119 



Owen (T. C), Cinchona Planter's Manual, 170 



Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, 135 



Oxygen, Liquefaction of, Wroblewski and Olszewski, 533 



Oyster Bed, Discovery of, in Medway, 446 



Oyster-Culture (Ryder's), by Artificial Impregnation, 470 



Oyster Fishing and Oyster Culture at the Fisheries Exhibition, 

 415 



Pachuca, Earthquake at, 446 



Palaeolithic Implements at Stratford, G. F. Lawrence, 367 



Palaeolithic Flake, a, G. F. Lawrence, 564 



Palaeolithic Implement, a Large and Rude, Worthington G. 



Smith, 617 

 Palaeozoic Sclerotic Plates, T. P. Barkas, 225 

 " Pakeozoiska Formationernas Operkelbiirande," Prof. G. 



Lindstrom, 35 

 Palmer (Edward Henry), the Life of, Walter Besant, Prof. 



Robertson Smith, 292 

 Panlhera apardalaria, Curious Habit of, E. Dukinfield Jones, 



55 

 Parfitt (W.), Mid-Height of Sea- Waves, 82 

 Paraffins, New Method of Preparing, 18 

 Paris: Proposed Extension of, 17 ; Academy of Sciences, 24, 



48, 96, 120, 144, 168, 215, 240, 263, 287, 311, 336,360, 3S3, 



408,431,456, 480, 536, 560, 584, 608, 632; Aeronautical 



Exhibition in, 88 ; Paris General Catalogue of Stars, 181 ; 



Electric Tramcars in, 257, 469 ; Electric Light in, 307 ; 



Report of the Paris Observatory for the Year 1882, 154; 



Balloon of the Paris Observatory, 257 ; Paris International 



Society of Electricians, 469 

 Parker (C. F.), Death of, 624 

 Parkes Museum, the New Premises of, 16, 115 

 Parnell (Lieut. -Col. A.), Effects of Lightning, 197 

 Parpi River, Discovery of, 404 

 "Parrots in Captivity," W. T. Greene, 611 

 Pasteur (M.) : Increase of Pension to, 156 ; on the Generation of 



Cholera, 329 

 Pattison (S. R.), Geology of the Congo, W. Holman Bentley, 



243 



Peak of Teneriffe not very Active again, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 

 572 



Pearson (A. N.), Contribution to the Study of the Transmission 

 Eastwards Round the Globe of Barometric Abnormal Move- 

 ments, 3S4, 377, 562 ; Simultaneous Affections of the Baro- 

 meter, 612 



