[Nature, Da. iS, 1SS4 



Stockholm, 592 ; at Ben Nevis, 613, 640 ; at Pulkowa, 615 ; 



at Dorpat, 615 

 Ocean Swells, Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 487 

 Ocean Water, on the Composition of, Prof. Dittmar, F.R.S., 



292 

 Oceanography, Handbook of, 1S0 

 Odell (W. ), Library Catalogues, 636 

 CEstridse, Observations on, by Miss E. A. Orrnerod, 641 

 Ohio, Glacial Boundary in, 155 

 Olbers' Comet of 1815, 64, 519 

 Oldham (B. D ), Double- Storied Houses and Concave Roofs in 



the Himalayas, 30 

 " Opah Fish," Fine Specimen of, 129 

 Oporto, Commercial Geographical Society of, 644 

 Orchids, Australian, 437 

 Ordnance, Wire in the Construction of, Mr. J. A. Longridge on, 



285 

 O'Reilly (Prof. P.) " Red Glow " after Sunset, 170 

 " Oies of Leadville," Ernest Jacob, 437 

 Organisms under High Pressures, 494 

 Oribatidre, the British, A. D. Michael, Sir J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 



I4 i 

 Orient Line Guide, the, 102 

 Origin and Life-Histories of the Least and Lowest Living 



Things, Researches on, Rev. W. Dallinger, F.R.S., 619, 645 

 Orrnerod (E. A.), Injurious Insects, 142 

 Ornament, on the Evolution of, Prof. jacobsthal, 248, 272 

 Ornithological Notes, 294 

 Ornithologists' Union, American, 616 

 Osten Sacken (Baron), Cannibal Snakes, 312 

 Ova, Hatching of Cod and Soles', in Norway, 1S1 

 Owen (Sir Richard, F.K.S.), Work on "A History of British 



Fossil Reptiles," 517 

 Oxford, Statute allowing Women to enter for Honour Exami- 

 nations, 19 

 Oxford University Observatory, 200 

 Oysters, Attempts to Form Beds of, in Baltic, 458 



Page (A. Shaw), Earthquake of April 22, 1884, 102 



Pala-olithic Implements from Cambridge, M. C. Hughes, 632 



Pallas, Exploring Expeditions of, 153' 



"Pampas and among the Andes, Across the," Robt. Crawford, 

 36 



Paper Money, upon the Occurrence of Bacteria and Minute 

 Algae on the Surface of, Jules Schaarschmidt, 360 



Paris: [Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 67, 120, 163, 188, 211, 

 235, 259, 284, 307, 332, 355, 370, 404, 432, 460, 484, 508, 

 531. 55 6 » 5 8 °. 6°4. 628, 651 ; Annual Meeting of, 40 ; Paris 

 Electrical Congress, 1884, 26 ; the Observatory of Paris, 154 ; 

 Reply to Grubb on Equatorial Condi- of, M. Lcev. y, 4, 5 5 ; [lie 

 Equatorial Coudi oi the, Howard Grubb, F.R.S., IOO, 123 



Parker (Dr. G. W.), Geology and Mineralogy of Madagascar, 

 3°7 



Parsley Crop, Failure of the, 539 



Pasco (Commander Crawford, R.N.), on Tidal Observations, 

 641 



Pasteur (M.), ICxperiments on Rabies, Si ; on the Attenuation of 

 the Virus of Rabies, 97 ; Awarded a Gold Medal for his 

 Work on Rabies, 179 



Pathological Anatomy, Ziegler's Text-Book of, 263 



Paulsen (Dr. Adam), Appointed Director of Danish Meteoro- 

 logical Institute, 179 



Peal (S. E.), Pile-Dwellings on Hill-tops, 168 



Pearson (Karl), Animal Intelligence, 2S9 



Pen Pits, Somerset, 545 



Pendlebury (Chas.), Lenses, 310 



1'entacrinoid Stage of Antedon rosaems, Prof. W A Herdmari 

 634 



Periodic Law: the Discovery of the, L A. R. Newlands, 51; 

 Application of to Mineralogy, Prof. ]'. Carnelley, 181 



Peripatetic Method of Instruction in Science and its Develop- 

 ment, Henry W. Crosskey, LI .1)., 622 



Perkin (Dr. W. H.), Chemical Research in Eng'and, 246 • 

 Proposed Statue of M. Dumas, 263 



Permanency of Continents, Rev. Ceo. Henslow, 407 



Feronospora. infatans, J. LI. Bozward, 216 



Ferrotin (M.), the Aspect of Uranus, 21 



Perry (Prof. John), New Form of Spring for Electric and other 



Measuring Instruments, 205 

 Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Extraordinary Darkness at Midday, 



6 ; Black Rain, 32 

 Persia, Natural History Collections of, 615 

 Petermann's Mittheilungen, 644 



Petherick (E. A.), Early Discoveries in Australasia, 109 

 Petrie (Capt. Frank), Sky-Glows, 26S 

 Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Fireballs, 360; Shifting of the Earth's 



Axis, 512, 561 

 Pettersen (Karl), Northern Norway under the Glacial Age, 202 

 Pettersson (Otto), a New Principle of Measuring Heat, 320 

 Phanologie, Beitrage zur, Dr. Egon Ihne and Dr. Hoffmann, 



558 

 Phenology, Contributions to, Dr. Egon Ihne and Dr. Hoffmann, 



558 

 Phenomena, the Volcanic (Dust?), T. W. Backhouse, 633 

 Phenomenon, Curious, J. T. Bottomley, 634 

 Philadelphia, Electrical Exhibition at, 543 



Philippine Islands, Systems of Writing by various Races in, 643 

 Philippines, Flora of the, R. A. Rolfe, 71 

 Phillips (S. E.), the Laws of Volume and Specific Heat, 28S 

 Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 327 

 Phosphorescence of the Jelly-fish, R. Meldola, 289 

 Photographic Society, 546 

 Photographing Blood-Corpuscles, 495 

 Photography, Astronomical, 496 

 Photography for Double Stars, Henry, 21 

 Phylloxera, 429, 519; in Pomological Institute of Proskau, 



Silesia, 567 ; in Rhenish Provinces, 593 ; International Con- 

 gress on Prevention of, 614 

 Physical Notes, 56S 

 Physical Society, 47, 119, 139, 210, 283 

 Physics, Daniell's, 49 



Physiology of the Brain, Prof. Christiani, 260 

 Physiology of Ethics, by Prof. Strieker, 1S0 

 Physiology, Work on, from Tung Wen College at Pekin, 45S 

 Picture, an Anthropological, 41 

 Pile-Dwellings on Hill-tops, S. E. Peal, 16S 

 Pinto (Major Serpa), 546 

 Pipe-Clay, A. Hale, 4S9 



Pitch-Curves of Cogged Wheels, A. II. Curtis, LL.D., 162 

 Pits, Cole's, Rev. A. Irving, 560 ; Joseph Stevens, 607 

 Pitt-Rivers (General), his Excavations in Pen Pits, Somerset, 



545 

 Plane Conies, Examples on the Analytic Geometry of, K. A. 



Roberts, 143 

 Plant, Carnivorous, Preying on Vertcbrata, Prof. IT. N. 



Moseley, F.R.S., 81 ; Commander Alfred Carpenter, 2S9 

 Plant-Life, Edward Step, 99; Wonders of, Sophie Bledsoe 



Merrick, 168 

 Plante, on Ball Lightning, 569 

 Plants: Absorption of Water by, Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 7; 



Simple Method of Measuring the Transpiration of, Rev. Geo. 



Henslow, 146 ; Protoplasmic Continuity in, Thomas Hick, 



216; Hydroxylamine and the Assimilation of Nitrogen by, 



548 ; Ascent of Water in, 561 

 Plarr (M. I.), the Earthquake of April 22, 18S4, 77 

 Pedalirius minutus, H. C. Chadwick, 385 

 Prison Congress at Rome, International, 108 

 Polar Conference, the, 93 

 Polar Expeditions : New Scheme of, 153 ; via Franzjosef Land, 



457. 495 ; Russian, 199, 430 

 Polar Meteorological Station, 430 

 Polzunoft", Maker of the First Steam-Engine in Russia, in 1763, 



344 

 Pons' Comet, A. S. Atkinson, 55, 463 

 Post (Dr. G. E.), Remarkable Raised Sea-Bed near Lattakia, 



Syria, 384 

 Potanin, sent by Russian Geographical Society, 570 

 Potetometre, the, H. Marshall Ward, 79 

 Potilitzin on Hydration of Cobalt Chloride, 84 

 Potts (T. II.), Animal Intelligence, 265 ; Iridescent Lunar 



Halos, 464 

 Prehistoric Man in Egypt and Syria, V. C. Dawson, C.M.G., 



95 . 

 Prehnite and other Zeolites in Samson's Ribs and Salisbury 



Crags, Andrew Taylor, 181 

 Primaeval Man and Working-Men Students, 194 



