\\Nature, Dec. 29, 1881 



New Guinea, Mammals of, 16 



New South Wales, the Technological, c&c, Museum of, 109 ; 

 Rainfall of, 202, 266 ; Royal Society of, 246 



New Zealand, the Telephone in, 88 ; Wm. Lant Carpenter, 141 ; 

 Petroleum in, 88 ; Studies in Biology for New Zealand Stu- 

 dents, F. W. Hutton, 1 88 ; Desmids of, 389 ; Hot Springs of, 

 467 ; Earthquake in North Island 477 



Newton (Sir Isaac), Unpublished Letter of, 38 



Newton's Rings, Recent Researches on, 179 



Nicholson (H. Alleyne), on the Structure and Affinities of the 

 Genus MonticiJipora and its Sub-genera, 27 



Nicobar Islands, Inhabitants of, 88 



Nile Floods, Bombay Rainfall and, Morgan Brierley, 532 



Nipher (Prof. F. E.), Magnetic Survey of Missouri, 80 



Niveu (Mr. James Craig), Death of, 611 



Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society, 3S6 



North Atlantic Expedition, Swedish, 506 



Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, loS, 506 



Norwich Geological Society, 133 



Notornis Manlelli, Capture of a, 266 



Nottingham University College, 225, 241 



Noury (Admiral la Ronciere le) Death of, 68 



Nummulitic Echinids of Egypt, 66 



Nuovo Giornale-Botanico Italiano, 376 



Nyt Magazin for Naturviden,kaberne, 159 



Observatories : Shock of Earthquake felt at the Observatory on 



Mount Vesuvius, 109 ; Trevandrum Observatory, Prof. P. 



Soondrem Pillay, 124 ; Visitation of the Royal, 127 ; Ben 



Nevis, 131, 201 ; Annual Report of Paris Observatory, 341 ; 



Dearborn, Chicago, 477 ; Washburn, Wisconsin, 478 ; Pic du 



Midi, Completion of, 502 

 Ocean Post Office, the Oldest, Arch. Roxburgh, 5 

 Ogle (Dr. John W.), Sound of the Aurora, 5 

 Ogowe River, Mission Station on, 295 

 Oil, Oolachan, 39 

 Oil Regions, Pennsylvania, 170 

 Old Testament, Prof. Robertson Smith on, 75 

 Oldest-known Insects, Principal J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 483 

 Oliver (J. A. B. ), Observations of Hailstorms, 1 89 

 Oolachan Oil, 39 

 Optical Illusion : William Wilson, 53 ; J. J. Murphy, 80 ; C. 



J. Woodward, 80, 127; Samuel Drew, loi ; Dr. C. M, 



Ingleby, 165 ; Clarence M. Bontelle, 191 

 Optical Phenomenon, James Ward, loi ; W. J. Stillman, 260 ; 



J. Rand Capron, 284 ; Photographing Diffraction Rings, 



Prof. John Le Conte, 485 

 Optometer, Prismatic, Tempest Anderson, M.D., 618 

 O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), on the Equivalents of the Elementary 



Bodies considered as representing an Arithmetical Progression 



Deducible from Meneleeff's Tables, 274 

 Organischen qualitativen Analyse, Lehrbuch der. Dr. Barfoed, 4 

 Organism, Struggle of Parts in the, Duke of Argyll, 581 ; G. J. 



Romanes, F. R.S., 604 

 Ormerod (Eleanor A.), "Manual of Injurious Insects, 506 

 "Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche," Prof. "Tommaso 



Salvador!, 603 

 "Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale, F.R.S., &c.," 603 

 Owens College, Manchester, Fellowships at, 254, 605 

 Oxides, Action of Heat on, 542 



Paddles, W-Pattern of Gen. A. Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., 238 



Page's Introductory Text-book of Physical Geogi'aphy, 567 



Painted Windows, Effects of Green in, W. J. Herschel, 583 



Paleolithic Man, Worlhington G. Smith, 29 



Pala:olithic Man in Russia, Discovery of, 177 



Palaeolithic Implements in the Thames Valley at and near 



London, their comparative numbers, Worthington G. Smith, 



308 

 Palaeolithic Implements, Replacing Flakes on, Worthington G. 



Smith, 5S2 

 Palaeontology, the Rise and Progress of. Prof. T. H. Huxley, 



452 

 Paleozoic Vegetation, Evolution of the. Prof. W. C. William- 

 son, F.R.S., 606 

 Palestine, Exploration Fund's Expedidon to Eastern Palestine, 



18 

 Pattostoma torrattium. Explanation of the Female Dimorphism 



of. Prof. Hermann Muller, 214 

 Panizzi and the Royal Society, C. Tomlinsoc, F.R.S., 355 



Papin, Dr. Ernst Gerland's Life and Letters of, 377 



Paraffin, Discovery of Native, 341 



Parallax, Solar, 177 



Parasites, Infusorial, on Stickleback, W. SaviUe Kent, 557 



Parfitt (Edward), Bisected Humble Bees, 357 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 136, 160, 184, 

 208, 232, 280, 304, 32S, 352, 400. 428, 456, 480, 528, 551, 

 576,624; Electric Exhibition, 39, 88, 20i, 225, 291, 314, 

 340, 362, 426, 455, SI I, 533, 563, 585, 607; Time of 

 Closing, 589 ; Municipal Laboratory, 39 ; Telephone at the 

 Grand Opera House, 132, 566 ; Electric Tramway in 147, 

 426, 476; Dr. W. Spottiswoode, P.R.S., 164; Electric 

 Lighting at the Opera House, 589, Annual Report of the 

 Observatory, 341 



Parker (W. K., F.R.S.), the Skull in Sturgeons, 71 



Parker (Prof. T. Jeffery), Biology as an Academical Study, 543, 

 573 



Parkes Museum, 476 ; Exhibition at, 386 



Pathological Experiments, on the Value of, Prof. Rudolf Vir- 

 chow, 346 



Patterson (Carlile P.), Death of, 565 



Pavia, Meteorological Station at, 426 



Peal (S. E.), New Seismometer, 461 ; Sound-producing Ants, 

 484 



Peirce (Prof. C. S.), Width of Mr. Rutherford's Rulings, 262 



Pelagic Fauna of Gulf Stream, 592 



Pendulum Measures, Early English, Major J. Herschel, F. R.S., 

 237 



Pennsylvania Oil Regions, 170 



Perceval (Spencer G.), Occurrence of Neolithic Implements at 

 Acton, loi, 260 



Perry (Prof. John), the Future Development of Electrical Ap 

 pliances, 19 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), the Comet, 197, 221 ; Solar Out- 

 burst of July 25, 1S81, 556 



Perth Natural History Museum, 226 ; Literary and Antiquarian 

 Society of, 226 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 42, 149, 296, 364, 567 



Petrie (W. M. Flinders), Slow Lightning, 284 



Pettersson'(Otto), Hot Ice, 167 



PfefTer (Dr. W.), Pflanzenphysiologie : ein Handbuch des Stoff- 

 wechsels und Kraftwechsels in der Pflanze, 506 



Pflanzengeographie Gesammelte Abhandlungen und kleinere 

 Schriften zur, A. Grisebach, 556. 



Pflanzenphysiologie : ein Handbuch des Stoffwechselsund Kraft- 

 wechsels in der Pflanze, Dr. W. Pfeffer, 506 



Pheasants, their Natural History and Practical Management, W. 

 B. Tegetmeier, 99 



Phenomena of Clouds, Henry Muirhead, M.D. , 237 



Phenomena Developed by Heliostatic Star-Disks, Prof. G. W. 

 Royston Pigott, F, R.S., 514 



Phonetik, Zur vergleichenden Physiologic der Stimme und 

 Sprache, Dr. F. Techner, 307 



Phosphoric Acid, Quantitative Estimation of, M. H. Joulie, 283 



Photo-chemistry of Silver Bromide, Eder on, 542 



Photographic Society, 24, 136 ; Exhibition of, 566 



Photographing Diffraction Rings, Optical Phenomenon, Prof. J. 

 LeConte, 485 



Photographs, Self-luminous, 593 



Phylloxera in France, 340 ; in Germany, 3S6 ; in Hungary, 

 427 ; Congress at Bordeaux, 565 ; Major General Maitland, 

 590 



Physical Notes, 66, 112, 179, 248, 294, 387, 504, 521, 592 



Physical Society, 95, 135, 183, 207 



Physics, Elementary Coiu-se of Practical, A. M.JWorthington, 28 



Physics, Solar-Sun-Spots, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 114 



Physics, Solar Connection between Solar and "Terrestrial Phe- 

 nomena, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 150 



Physics, Practical, for Boys, H. B. Jupp, 557 



Physiology of Mind Reading, Prof. G. Croom Robertson, 236 



Pic du Midi Observatory, Completion of, 502 



Pickard-Cambridge (Rev. Octavius), The Spiders of Dorset, 

 with an Appeudix containing Descriptions of those British 

 Species not yet found in Dorsetshire, 482 



Pickering (Prof. Edward C), Large Telescope, 389 



Pictet (Prof. Raoul), New Invention in Shipbuilding, 362, 385 



Piczorhynchus Melanocephalus (Ramsay), and Ptilopus Viridis 

 (Ramsay), from the Solomon Islands, Ed. P. Ramsay, 239 



Pillay (Prof. P. Soondrem), Trevandrum Observatory, 124 



Pink Rainbow, 431, 459, 485,510; seen at Kingussie, Inverness- 

 shire, 503 



