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INDEX 
(Nature, Fune 29, 1882 
Palzozoic Vegetation, Evolution of the, J. S. Gardner, 8 
Palliser (Major Sir William, C.B.), Death of, 346 
Palms, Growth of, 328 
Papin, Dr. E. Gerland, 125 
Parallax, Galle’s Method for Solar, 472 
Parasitic Habits of Molothrus, Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 51 
Parhelia, Francis Porro, 437 
Parhelia in the Mediterranean, Chas. H. Allen, 339; Albert 
Riggenbach, 364 
Paris: Electric Light at the Opera, 18, 42 ; Academy of Sciences, 
23, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 212, 235, 260, 284, 308, 332, 
356, 404, 428, 452, 476, 500, 524, 548, 595, 620; Prizes of, 
350, 375, 377; Paris Observatory, the Astronomical Museum 
at the, 113 ; Admiral Mouchez’s soirée at, 250, 493 ; Observa- 
tory of Popular Astronomy, 518 ; Success of Lectures at Ex- 
hibition of Electricity, 183 ; the Electric Light at the Comptoir 
d’Escompte, 347 ; Annual Meeting of the Geographical Society, 
186 ; Comptes Rendus of, 473; Balloon Ascent from La Villette 
Gasworks, 373 
Parker (Prof. T. Jeffery), Notes from the Otago University 
Museum, 352, 568 
Parker (W. K., F.R.S.), on the Development of the Skull in 
Lepidosteus osseous, 330 
Parts, Struggle of, in the Organism, Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 
Dr, William B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 6 
Pascoe (Francis P.), Song of the Lizard, 32 
Pasteur’s Inoculations, 483 
Patent Bill, Society of Arts, 30 
Pathological Research, Society for aiding, 517 
Peach (Chas. W.), Silurian Fossils in the North-West High- 
lands, 603 
Peal (S. E.), Function of the Ears, or the Perception of Direc- 
tion, 124, the Kunnungs, 529 
Pearson (Karl), Colour and Sound, 339 
Pearson (Rey. J.), an Elementary Treatise on the Tides, based 
upon that of the late Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., 360 
Peckham (Geo. W.), Biology in Schools, 151 
Pei-ho, Yellow River, the, H. B. Guppy, 584 
Peking, Scientific Lectures in Chinese at the Schools in, 449 
Pendulum Observations in London, Major J. Herschel, 197 
Perception of Direction, Function of the Ears on Atomic, 
D’Abbadie, 172 
Perception, Colour, J. B. Hannay, F.R.S., 604 
Perini (N.), Dante and the Southern Cross, 197 
Peroxidised Wire, a pretty Experiment with, 112 
Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Meteor, 78 ; Earth Currents, 316; 
Sun-Spots, 337 
Perry (John), Horse-Power given to any Part of a Circuit by 
Intermittent Light, 198 
Perry (Rev. Jevons J. Muschamp), on the Climate of North 
Northumberland as regards its Fitness for Astronomical Ob- 
servations, 317, 364 
Persia, Dr. Polak’s Exploring Tour to, 137 
Perthshire Natural History Society, 208 
Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 44, 302, 538 
Peters (Dr. Karl), Death of, 87 
Petrel, Jamaica, D. Morris, 151 
Petroleum, Solidifying, 325 
Pflanze, Die. WVortrage aus dem Gebiete der Botanik, Dr. 
Ferdinand Cohn, W. Botting Hemsley, 359 
Pflanzen, Elemente der Anatomie und Physiologie der, Dr. Julius 
Wiesner, 503 
Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan, 
Catalogue of the, Indigenous, Naturalised, and Adventive, 
Chas. F. Wheeler and Edwin F. Smith, 196 
Phznology—an Appeal, Dr. Hoffmann, Dr, Egon Ihne, 506 
Phenological Observations on Early Flowers and Winter Tem- 
peratures, J. Edmund Clark, 552 
Phenomenon, a Strange, 410, 484, 437 
‘*Philosophische Studien herausgegeben,” Wilhelm Wundt, 336 
Photograph of Comet B, 1881, 132 
Photographic Experiment with Swan’s Incandescent Light, H. 
Baden Pritchard, 54 
Photographic Spectrum of the Great Nebula in Orion, William 
Huggins, F.R.S., 489 
Photography, Year-Book of, for 1882, 249 
Photometer, Audible, J. W. Giltay, 125 | 
Photometric Studies, Keport on, 17 
Photometry, on the Application of, in the Study of the Pheno- 
mena of Diffusion of Liquids, Dr. S. Wroblewski, 45 
Phyllomic Nectar Glands in Poplars, 327 
Phylloxera at Elba, Sardinia, &e., 250 
Physical Society, 95, 167, 355, 403, 426, 475, 571 
Physical Notes, 231, 290, 376 
Physical Cause of the Ocean Basins, Rey. O. Fisher, F.R.S., 243 
Physicians and Chinese Authorities, 301 
Physics, Solar, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 162, 187, 252 
Physics, Influence of Mathematics on the Progress of, Dr, Arthur 
Schuster, F.R.S., 397 
“Physics of the Earth’s Crust,” Rey. Osmond Fisher, Rey. E, 
Hill, 433; Prof. A. H. Green on, 481 
Physiognomy of Consumption, Francis Galton, F.R.S., and Dr. 
F. A. Mahomed, 389 
Physiology, University College Course of Practical Exercises in, 
Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., 408 
Piaggia (Signor Carlo), Death of, 299 
Pickering (Prof. W. H.), Gas-Flame, Electric and Solar Spectra 
and their Effects on the Eye, 340 
Pidgeon (D.), Dispersal of Bivalves, 584 
Pimento Tree and Umbrella Sticks, 299 
Piper (Thomas W.), Acoustics, Light, and Heat, 51 
Pisciculture in the Edinburgh Fishery Exhibition, 606 
Planets, Minor, in 1882, 218 
Plant Labels, Prize for the best, 42 
Plants, the Power of Movement in,? Prof. Wiesner, Francis 
Darwin, 578, 597 
Planté Accumulators, 376 
Planté and Faure Accumulators, Chemistry of the, Dr. J. H. 
Gladstone, F.R.S., and Alfred Tribe, 221, 461 
Plateau (M.), on the Bursting of Bubbles, 160 
Platinum, Dr. Nichols’ Experiments on, 291 
Pleiades, Primitive Traditions as to the, R. G. Haliburton, 100, 
317; Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S., 150 
Pterodactyles, Wings of, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 531 
Podocarpezx, the, A Chapter in the History of Conifers, J. 
Starkie Gardner, 228 
Polymorphism of the Flower-heads Centaurea jacea, Dr. Hermann 
Miiller, 241 
‘* Polynesier, Die heilige Sage der, Kosmogonie und Theogonie,” 
Adolf Bastian, Edward B. Tylor, ¥.R.S., 28 
Poplars, Phyllomic Nectar Glands in, 327 
Porro (Francis), Parhelia, 437 
Port (Dr. A. Dodel), Anatomisch-physiologischer Atlas der 
Botanik, 300 
Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), Earth-Currents, 289 
Primitive Industry, or Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, 
Bone, and Clay, of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic 
Seaboard of America, Chas. C. Abbott, M.D., 2 
Primitive Traditions as to the Pleiades, R. G. Haliburton, Ico, 
317; E.B. Tylor, F.R.S., 150 
Pritchard (H. Baden), Photographic Experiment with Swan’s 
Incandescent Light, 54 
Probing by Electricity, Prof. Graham Bell, 40 
Proctor (Richard A.), ‘‘ Easy Star Lessons, 358 
Pronunciation of Deaf Mutes who have been taught to Articu- 
late, W. S. A. Axon, 101, 409; Dr. Alex. Graham Bell, 
124, 458; F. J. Faraday, 458 
Prosser (Richard B.), Wind Measurements,i505 
Prothallium and Embryo of Azolla, 327 
Purification of Sewage, 410 
Putnam (J. D.), Death of, 277 
Putrefaction and Infection Essays on the Floating Matter of the 
Air in Relation to, John Tyndall, F.R.S., 6 
Qualitative Analysis, Table of, H. G. Madan, 264 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 6, 375 
Question for Naturalists, Dr. J. Rae, F.R.S., 126 
Quillaia Tree, Commercial Value of the, 373 
Rae (Dr. J., F.R.S.), Arctic Research, 53, 102; Question for 
Naturalists, 126 
Radiant Heat, Action of Free Molecules on, and its Conversion 
thereby into Sound, J. Tyndall, F.R.S., 232 
Railway, Success of Siemens’ Electrical, 42 
Rammelsberg’s (Prof.) Handbuch der 
Physikalischen: Chemie, 287 
Rayenstein’s Map of East Central Africa, 250 
Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Velocity of Light, 52; Experiments 
on Colour, 64 
Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 48, 258, 353, 
522 ; New Subjects for Prize Competition announced by, 348 
Red Flintsin the Chalk, W. Fream, 437; J. Badcock, jun., 529 
Krystallographisch- 
