[Nature, June II, 1S85 



Physical Geography of the Malayan Peninsula, Rev. J. E. 



Teni son -Woods, 152 ; L. Wiay, 459 

 Physical Notes, 203 



Physical Society, 47, 144, 186, 329, 450, 523, 570, 596 

 Physics, Aims and Methods of the Teaching of, W. Odell, 



578 

 Physics, Ganot's, an Error in, E. Douglas Archibald, 505 

 Physics, Practical, R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., and W. N. Shaw, 



477 

 Physiography of Caucasus, 18 



Physiological Laboratory and Oxford Medical Teaching, 414 

 Piazzi XIV., 212, Double-Star, 396 

 Pidgeon (Daniel), Prehistoric Man, 102 

 Pierce (F. N), Fly-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars, 82 

 Pinkerton (R. H. ), Elementary Text-Book of Trigonometry, 



148 

 Pisciculture, 395 ; Fish Culture Establishment at Delaford Park, 



394 

 Pisonias, Birdkilling Powers of, R. H. Govett, 23 

 Planets, Minor, 228 

 Plant Tissue, Continuity of the Protoplasm of the, Walter 



Gardiner, 390 ; Titos. Hick, 459 

 Plants, on the Distribution of Honey-Glands in Pitchered Insecti- 

 vorous, J. M. Macfarlane, 171 

 Pliocene Deposit at St. Erth, New, S. V. Wood, 71 

 Pneumatic Postal Service, Paris, 90, 107 

 Polar Collection, Jacobsen's, 90 

 Polar Expedition, Relics of the Jeannette, 66 

 Polar Regions, Exhibition of Fur Clothing worn by the German 



Expeditions, 42 

 Polarising Prisms, Foucault's and Ahrens's, on a Modification 



of, H. G. Madan, 371 

 Poljakow (J. S.), " Reise nach der Insel Sachalin in den 



Jahren 1881-1882," 337 

 Pollock (F.), C. C. Collier, Frost-Formation on Dartmoor, 216 

 Polynesian Antiquities, 18 

 Polynomials in Zoology, S. Garman, 413 

 Polyzoa, Report on the, "Zoology of the Voyage of H. M.S. 



Challenger ," Geo. Busk, F.R.S., 146 

 Pomerania, Face-Urns Discovered in, 203 

 Porcelain, Discovery of a New, 227 

 Porograph, the, C. H. Hinton, 329 

 Port Hamilton, Geography of, 540 

 Postal Service, Paris Pneumatic, 90, 107 



Potatoes, Invigoration of, by Cross-Breeding, 246 ; Cross- 

 Breeding of, James Melvin, 290 ; Worthington G. Smith, 316 

 Poydessau (M.), Death of, 394 

 " Practical Physics," R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., and W. N. 



Shaw, 477 

 Prehistoric Man, Daniel Pidgeon, 102 

 Prehistoric Smithy discovered in Brittany, 136 

 Prehistoric Tombs at Santa Lucia, 17 ; Opening of, near 



Bernburg, 64 

 Precision, Geodesy and Measures of, T. W. Wright, 167 

 Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), on the Peculiar Behaviour of Glow- 



Lamps when Raised to High Incandescence, 545 

 Prestwich (Prof., F.R.S.), Underground Temperatures, 399 

 Price (Rev. Newton), Sir Henry Cole, 309 

 Prime Meridian Conference, 82 ; W. Ellis, 7 ; R. Strachey, 



F.R.S., 125 ; Latimer Clark, 125 

 Frjevalsky (Col.), Explorations in Thibet, 19; Supposed Dis- 

 covery of the Sources of the Yang-tsze-kiang, 351 

 " Prophetic Almanack a Hundred Years Ago," 492 

 "Protective Resemblance," An Instance of, 316 

 Protoplasm, Dr. Jules Schaarschmidt, 290 

 Protoplasm in Plant Tissue, Continuity of the, Walter Gardiner, 



390 ; Thos. Hick, 459 ; Gardiner's Researches on, W. T. 



Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 337 

 Pronunciation of Chinese Names, F. Porter Smith, 173 

 Prussia, the First Meteorological System in, Prof. Muttrich, 



331 

 Pryer (Mr.), Bird's Nest Soup, 562 



Psychology, a System of, Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, 190 

 Psychogenesi-, the Fust Genesis of, Prof. Caporali, 64 

 Pupil of the Eyes during Emotion, John Aitken, 553 ; Dr. 



Samuel Wilks, 458 

 Putnam (C. E.), Origin of the Mound-Builders of ithe U.S., 



563 

 Putman (Prof. F. W. ), Ancient Monuments of Ohio, 42 

 Pyrenees, the Old Glaciers of, 157 



Quadrumana, Breeding of the, Arthur Nicols, 54 



(Juarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 448 



Huery, A, 578 



Quet (M.j, Death of, 109 



Quetta and the Helmund, Geology of the Route Between, 



Griesbach, 41 

 Quinquefoliate Strawberry, J. Lovell, 601 



Radiant Points, Meteoric, the Long Durations of, W. F. I terming, 



463 

 Radiation, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., on, 523 

 Rae (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Peculiar Ice-Forms, 81 ; Do Flying 



Fish Fly?, 101 

 Railways: Submarine, between Messina and Reggie, Proposed, 

 227 ; Universal Time and the Railways, 275 ; Railways in 

 Japan, 34S ; the First Railway in Cochin China, 349 

 Rain-(. onditions in Heligoland, Dr. Hellmann, 120 

 Rainfall of 18S4, Fredk. J. Brodie, 56 

 Rains, Maximum, Laws of, Duration of, Prof. Nipher, 41 

 Ramsay (Prof. W. ) and J. T. Cundall on the Oxides of Nitro- 

 gen, 474 

 Ranee (Chas. E. De), Chester New Museum, 363 

 Rats in the Buildings and Grounds of the Health Exhibition, 



442 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R. S.), Resignation of the Cavendish Pro- 

 fessorship, 62 ; on Civilisation and Eyesight, 340, 407 

 Reade (T. M.), " On the Denudation of the Two Americas," 17 

 Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 618 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo, 257, 304, 448, 473, 569 

 Reay (Lord), on a Faculty of Science, 320 

 Reckoning Time, Mode of, amongst Various Peoples, 217 

 Recorder, a Sunshine, Prof. Herbert McLeod, 319 

 Red Seas, Mediterranean and, on the Cause of the Dissimilarity 



between the Faunas of the, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R. S., 599 

 Red Sunsets and the Zodiacal Light, Rev. Edward Reynolds, 



5H 

 Redman (J. B.), Abnormal High Tides — River Thames, 241 

 Reed (Sir E. J.), Stability of Ships, 23S, 285 ; Relative Efficiency 



of War-Ships, 416, 432 

 Reflection, Crystalline, on a Remarkable Phenomenon of, Prof. 



G. G. Stokes, 565 

 Regel (Dr. F.), " Entwickelung der Ortschaften im Thuringer- 



wald," 241 

 Regenerative Gas Furnace, New Method of Heating in the, 7 

 Reinold ( Prof. ), Effect of Electrical Current on Rate of Thinning 



of Liquid Films, 1S6 

 " Reise nach der Insel Sachalin in den Jahren 1881-S2," T. S. 



Poljakow, 337 

 Rendiconti de Reale Istituto Lombardo, 304, 44S, 473, 569 

 Reptiles, Dinosaurian, Classification and Affinities of, Prof. O. 



C. Marsh, 68 

 Report of the Commissioner of Education in the U.S. for the 



Year 1882-83, W. Odell, 435 

 Research, Endowment of, in France, 180 

 Retina, Duration of Colour-Impressions on the, Nichol, 46 

 Retina of Insects, Sydney J. Hickson, 341 

 Revue d' Anthropologic, 256 



Reynier's Experiments on Electromotive Forces, 203 

 Reynolds (Rev. Edw.), Red Sunsets and the Zodiacal Lighl, 



5H 

 Rho (Dr. F.), Sociology of Tahiti, 613 



Rhytina Stelleri, on a Skeleton of, H. Woodward, F. R. S., 570 

 Ricco's New Electro-Magnet, 204 



Richardson (Benjamin Ward, F. R.S.), on the Healthy Manu- 

 facture of Bread, 148 

 Richarz, Dr. Kbnig and, Plan for Ascertaining Mean Density of 



the Earth, 260, 484 

 Rio Tinto, Geology of the, J. H. Collins, 402 

 River Thames— Abnormal High Tides, J. B. Redman, 241 

 Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 47, 94, 258, 399, 449, 473, 569. 



592 

 Roberts (Chas.), Civilisation and Eyesight, 552 

 Rock-Pictures in New Guinea, Dr. Emil Metzger, 527 

 Rockling, the Five-Bearded, Geo. Brock on, 70 

 Rocks, Crystalline, of the Scottish Highlands, Arch. Geikie, 



F.R.S., 29 

 Rolfe (R. A.), Forms of Leaves, 600 

 Romances, Scientific, C. H. Hinton, 431 



Romanes (Dr. G. J., F. R.S.), appointed Rede Lecturer at 

 Cambridge, 277; Manx Cats, 316; t ' Mammalian Descent," 



