yaltire, Dec. 29, 1S81] 



■.111 



Pinto (Major Serpa), How I Crossed Africa, 215 



Pirani (Frederick Joy), Death of, 518 



Pisciculture in France, Jules Pizzetta, 541 



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



Pitt-Rivers Collection : Bell Clappers — the Tooth Ornament, 



Henry O. Forbes, 102 

 Planets : Intra-Mercnrial Planet Question, 18 ; Prof. Balfour 



Stewart, F.R.S., 463 

 Plant- Life : Popular Papers on the Phenomena of Botany, 210 

 Plants, Effects of Pressure on the Germination and Growth of, 



W. Carter, 79 

 Plante's Electrical Accumulator, 147 

 Platinum, the Aromic Weight of, in 

 Poison, Rattlesnake, 592 

 Polar Conference, International, 478 

 Polaris Expedition, Dr. Emil Bessel's Account of, H. N. 



Moseley, F.R.S., 194 

 Polydonia Frondosa, Prof. Alex. Agassiz, 509 

 Polytechnic, Closing of, 386 

 Polyzoa, Fossil, B.A. Report on, 463 

 Pony, Sagacity of, 64 



Poole (N. H.), Infusorial Parasites on Stickleback, 485 

 Popelin (Capt. ), Death of, 386, 567 

 Port Vendres, Zoological Laboratory at, 63 

 Postock (Edwin), Aquatic Hymenopterons Insect, 556 

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

 Pottery, Manufacture of, in Paris, 39 



Powell (J. T.). Constancy of Insects in Visiting Flowers, 509 

 Preece (W, ri,) on the Application of Electricity to the Local- 

 isation of a Bullet in a Wound, 465 

 Preliinniaiy Sciences, Economics and Statistics, viewed from the 



Standpoint of, P. Geddes, 523 

 Pressure, Effects of, on the Germination and Growth of Plants, 



William Carter, 79 

 Prestwich (Prof., F.R.S.), The Causes of Volcanic Action, 



471 

 Primitive Diving-Bell, N. S. Heineken, 4S5 

 Pringle (E. H.), New Museum of Natural History, 460 

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

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel - 



phia, 479 

 Procter (H. R.), Magnetic and Auroral observations in Hi^h 



Latitudes, 241 

 Progress of Meteor-Spectroscopy, Prof. A. S. Herschel, 507 

 Proueomenia Sluiteri, Hubrecht, P. Herbert Carpenter, 509 

 Protoplasm Stained Whilst Living, 3S9 



Protoplasm, Chemical Difference between Living and Dead, 592 

 Plilopus Viridis (Ramsay) and Piczorhynchus Melatiocephalus 



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

 Pumps, Barometer, James Johnstone, 79 

 Pycnogonida, New, 388 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 45 

 Quarterly Review on Earthquakes, 584 



Rabenhorst (Dr. Ludwig), Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland 



und der Schweiz, 236 ; Death of, 108 

 Radiant Energy, Production of Sound by. Prof. Alexander 



Graham Bell, 42 

 Radiation, Leaves Injured at Night by Free, Chas. Darwin, 



F.R.S., 459 

 Radiophone, the, 294 

 Radiophonic Researches, upon a Modification of Wheatsone's 



Microphone and its Applicability to. Prof. Alex. Graham 



Bell, 302 

 Rae (Dr. Jonn, F.R.S.), Buoyancy of Bodies in Water, 191 

 Railway Gradients in Brazil, 226 

 Rainbows : Pink, 431 ; at Kingussie, 5°3 ; Red, Prof. Silvanus 



P. Thompson, 459 ; Dr. Henry Muirhead, 485 ; a Trevor 



Crispin, 510 

 Rainfall of India, 64 ; of Bombay, and Nile Floods, Morgan 



Brierley, 532 ; of Wiltshire, iSSo, 98 

 Rain-water, Temperature of, 169 

 Ramsay (A.), Meteorological Bibliography, 53 

 Ramsay (Dr. A. C, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section C at 



the British Association at York, 4:9 

 Ramsay (Ed. P.), Note on Piczorhymhus Mdanocephalus (Ram- 

 say), and Ptilopm Viridis (Ramsay), from the Solomon 



Islands, 239 

 Rannoch, Berries and Heaths of, 355 

 Ratisbon, Meeting of German Anthropologists at, 426 



Rattlesnake Poison, 592 



Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), on the Velocity of Light, 382 



Reale Istituto Lombardo di 'Scienze e Lettere, 24, 70, 206, 400, 



480 

 Red Rainbows, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 459 ; David 



Murray, 459; Dr. Henry Muirhead, 485; A. Trevor Crispin, 



Sio 

 Red Stars, J, Birmingham, 532 



Remscheid (RhenishBPrussia) Terrible Catastrophe at, 427 

 Research, ilechanical, 21 

 Resonance of the Mouth Cavity, Sedley Taylor, 100; John 



Naylor, 100, 126,191 ; Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 166, 214 

 Resonance of the Vibration of Telegraph Wires, Impression, 



Produced upon Animals by, 611 

 Revue Internationale des Sciences, 159 

 Revue Internationale des Sciences biologiques, 46, 376 

 Reyer (E.) Zinn : eine geologisch-montanistisch-historische 



Monographic, 507 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.) Storage of Electric Energy, 



156 ; Stephenson Centenary, 121 

 Rha'tics of Notts, 474 



Rhythmic Contraction of Voluntary Muscles, 202 

 Richardson (Dr. B. W.), Domestic Sanitation, 565 

 Rivers, Preserved, Salmon in, 461 



Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 46, 94, 134, 206, 400, 4S0, 600 

 Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), the Hardening of Steel 



183 

 Robertson (Prof. G. Croom) Physiology of Mind Reading, 23 6 

 Rod well (G. F.) French Association for the Advancement of 



Science at Algiers, 31 ; Volcanoes what they are and wha t 



they teach, by J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 257 

 Roebuck (W. Denison) and W. Eagle Clarke, Vertebrate 



Fauna of Yorkshire, 379 

 Rohlfs (Dr. Gerard), his journey in Abyssinia, 249 

 RoUeston (Prof. George, M.D., F.R.S. ), Death of, 176; 



Obituary Notice of, 192 ; Subscriptions to the Memorial Fmid, 



564 

 Romanes (G. J., F.R.S.), Prof. Cleland's "Evolution, Expres- 

 sion, and Sensation," I ; Resonance of the Mouth Cavity, 



166, 214; Thought Reading, 171 ; James Sully's "Illusions," 



185; Dr. W. B. Carpenter and Mr. W. I. Bishop, 211 ; 



"Bible and Science," T. Lauder Brunton, F.R..S., 332; 



" The ' Students' Darwin," Edward B. Aveling, 429 ; "The 



Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, 



with Obseri'ations on their Habits," Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 



553 ; Struggle of Parts in their Organism, 604 

 Roscoe (Prof. II. E., F.R.S.), the So-called " Bunsen Pump," 



53 ; Indigo and its Artificial Production, 227 

 Rowland's (Prof.), New Theory of Magnetic Action, J. J. 



Thomson, 204 

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

 Royal Academy, Geologist's Notes on, Prof. T. G, Bonney, 



F.R.S., 85 

 Royal Archceological Institute, Annual Congress at Bedford, 



246 ; 



Royal College of Surgeons Museum, Additions, 225 

 Royal Geographical Society, 150 Annual Meeting, 88; Medals 



of, 41 ; Proceedings, 133, 227, 364, 479, 567 ; Journal, 204 

 Royal Horticultural Society, 226 

 Royal Institution, Session, 589 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 47, 119, 207 

 Royal Society : 70, 95, 118, iSo, 206, 231, 254; Panizzi and 



the, C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 355; New Foreign Fellows, 63 

 Royston-Pigott (Prof. G. W., F.R.S.), Phenomena Developed 



by Heliostatic Star-Disks, 514 

 Rucker (Prof.), the Calibration of Mercurial Thermometers, 467 

 Rum and Milk, a Result of MLxing, 519 

 Russia : Female Education in, 87 ; Russian Mineralogical 



Society, 8S ; Russian Chemical and Physical Society Journal, 



94 ; Russian Geographical Society, Isvestia, 148 ; Discovery 



of Palseolithic Man in, 177 

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



Sagacity of a Pony, 64 

 Sahara, the Sand Dunes of, 67 

 St. Gothard Tunnel, 3S6 

 Salivai-y Globules, 203 

 Salmon in Preserved Rivers, 461 

 Salt, History of, Evan Marlett Boddy, 123 



Salvadori (Prof. Tommaso), Omitologia della Papuasia e della 

 Molucche, 603 



