[Nalitre, A'<n\ 15, 1877 



Oxygen and Hydrogen, Heat of Combustion of, in Closed Ves- 

 sels, 442 



Oxy-zirconium Lights for Lecture Demonstrations,'5i5 



Oysters : Greening of. Prof Thiselton Dyer, 397 ; and Oyster- 

 Culture, 499 



Ozone, Thermic Formation of, 71 



Palicozoic Corals, Charles Wachsmuth on, 515 

 Palajozoic Deposits of South Devon, 379 



Palestine : German Society for Exjjloring, 2S0 ; Levels of, 409 

 Pandora, the, and Arctic Exploration, 513 

 Panceri (Prof. Paolo), Campanulariic, 30 



Paris : Academy of Sciences, 36, 56, 76, 96, uC, 136, 156, 17C, 

 200, 220, 240, 260, 2S0, 300, 336, 356, 392, 412, 432, 452, 

 472, 516, 536, 568 ; the ;Observatory, 15 ; International Ex- 

 hibition, 17, 32, 430; Gigantic Balloon at, 279; Paris Accli- 

 matisation Society, 53 ; the Public Clocks of, 91 ; Charle- 

 magne College, 173 ; Hotel Dieu, 335 ; Pneumatic Apparatus 

 at the National Library, 529 

 Parlatore (Filippo), Death of, 445 

 Parnell (J.), Japanese Mirrors, 227 

 Pascoe, {F. C), "Zoological Classification," 82 

 Pasteur-Bastian Experiments, the Commission ^of the French 



Academy and the, 276 

 Patagonia and Buenos Ayres, European Plants in, 264 

 Pateiias in Ceylon, Rev. R. Abbay, 42 

 Patent Museum, the, 112 



Pattison (S. R.), the Carboniferous Coast-line of North Corn- 

 wall, 379 

 Peabody Museum, U.S. : Tenth Report of the, 335 ; New 



Building for the, 352 

 Pegu, the Forests of, Sulpice Kurz, 58 

 Pekin, Climate of, 50 

 Pele's Hair, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 23 



Pengelly (W., F. R.S ), Opening Address in Section C at the 

 Meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, 31S ; Geology 

 of the Coast from Rame Head to the Bolt Tail, 378 

 Pennington (Rooke), "Barrows of Derbyshire," 416 

 Pens, Mawson and Swan's Magic, 297 

 Periscopism and the Crystalline Lens, 151 

 Ferry (John) and W. E. Ayrton, Lightning Conductors, 502 

 Perseids, the Radiant Centre of the, \V. F. Denning, 362 

 "Personal Equation," Francis Galton, F.R, S., on, 345 

 "Peru, Squier's," Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S., 191 

 Peschel (O.), " Geschichtedes Zeitalters der Entdeckuiigen," 2S4 

 Petermann's Mittheilungen, 17, 2i6, 296, 351, 447 

 Petrography, Microscopical, Zirkel's, 473 

 Pfaff (Dr. F.), "Die Naturkiafte in der Alpen, oder physika- 



lische Geographic des Alpengebirges," 542 

 Philadelphia Academy, 240, 536 

 Photo-Eleclricity of Fluor Spar, M. Hankel on, 55S 

 Photography : Photographic Socitty, 200 ; Photography in 

 Germany, 257 ; New Processes in, 352 ; the Discoverer of, 

 J. Smith, 501 ; Photographic Exhibition, 525 ; Photography 

 of Luminous Objects, 55S 

 Phyllotaxis : G. E. Massee, 208 ; W. E. Hart, 24S 

 Phylloxera, 488 



Physiological Balance, M. Redier's, 390 

 " Physical Basis ol Mind," by George Henry Lewes, 261 

 " Physical Geography," Geikie's, 15S 

 Physical Society, 35, 75, 115, 135, 219 

 Physics : Dr. C. Bonn's " Ergebmsse physikalischtr Forschung," 



430; Everett's Text- Book of, 518 

 " Physiography and Physical Geography," Rev. A. Mackay, 437 

 " Physiological /Esthetics," Grant Allan, 98 

 Physiology : Foster's Text-book of, 79 ; Prof Huxley on 



Elementary Instruction in, 233 

 Pic du Midi Observatory, 513 

 Pigeons, Speed of, 237 



Pirie (Rev. G.), the Principal Geometiical Methods for Ap- 

 proximating to the Value of tt, 226 

 Pitch, Viscosity of Hard Black, 236 

 Pitury, a new Stimulant, 68 



Planarian Worms, Urticating Organs of, H. N. Moseley, 475 

 Planets, New Minor, 287, 330 



Plants: Respiration of, 31 ; Pas-age of, Across the Atlantic, 

 Henry H. Iliggiiis, 41 ; the Source of the Carbon of, 210; 

 Adaptation of Phant-Structure, Henry Collett, 266 ; Lati- 

 ciferous Vessels in, 288 ; Insectivorous, 364 ; Spontaneous 

 Movements in, 364 

 Platoiod Nitrates, 442 



Plymouth : the Palaeontology of, R. N. Worth, 380 ; the Drift 



of Plymouth Hoe, J. H. Collins, 379 

 Pneumatic Railway between South Kensington Station and the 



Albert Hall, 217 

 Pocket Hammock, Seydel's, 209 



Poggendorff's Annalen der I^hysik und Chemic, iS, 114, 173 

 Polar Colony, Proposed, 296 



Polaris Expedition, Report of, 358 ; Capt. Hall's Narrative, 225 

 Polarisation of (Jiiartz, 568 

 Pollen, M. P. Edgeworth, 499 

 Pollution of Rivers, Higgins' Treatise on the, 225 

 " Pomona," Proposed, by the Woolhope Club, 514 

 Pongo, the Gorilla at the Westminster Aquarium, 249 

 Post (Dr. Jul.), " Grundriss der chemischen Technologic," 83 



" Zeitschrift fiir daschemische Grossgewerbe, 519 

 Post-Glacial Deposits in West Lancashire, 406 

 Potenthal Energy, 439, 457, 500, 520, 547 

 Prairie-Mounds and Hog- Wallows, 7, 24 

 Preece (W. H.), the Telephone, 403 

 Pressure, Etfect of, on Chemical Action, 255 

 Prestwich (Prof ), on the Waler-Bearing Strata around London, 3 

 Primroses, Morphology of, Dr. Masters, 154 

 Prince Henry, the Navigator, the Discoveries of, 2S4 

 Printing and Calico Printing, Henry Cecil, 207, 22S, 248 

 Pritchard (H. Baden), Science and War, 37, 57 ; Nicephore 



Niepce, 142 ; Soldiers' Rations, 157 ; the Slanufacture of 



Leading Articles, 24S ; Ekctricity in War, 2S1 

 Proctor (Richd. A.), the Earth and Moon, 227 

 Protective Colouring in Birds, Thomas Belt, 548 

 Prshevalsky (M. ), Exploring Expedition, 131 

 Prussia, Geological Survey of, 254 



Pulmonary Consumption, Williams's Influence of Climate on, 59 

 Purple Verbenas, A. M. Darby, 163 

 Pyrocatechin and Tannic Acid, Dr. John Watts, 378 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 259 

 Quartz, Polarisation of, 568 



Quartzite Implements at Brandon, Thomas Belt, loi 

 Queen's University, Ireland, 516 



Radcliffe Catalogue of Stars, the Third, 330 



Radiometer and its Lessons, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F. R. S., 544 ; 

 Prof. Carey Foster, F.R.S., 546 



Railway Brakes, E. Woods, C.E., on, 347 



Rainbow reflected from Water, William Crookes, F.R.S., 329 ; 

 Robert Sabine, 361 



Rainfall Observations in the East of France from 1763 to 1S70, 

 l58; Rainfall of Calcutta and Sun-spots, 267; Rainfall in 

 South India, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 333 ; Rainfall of Edin- 

 burgh, 352; Rainfall and .Sun-spot-, 251 ; Indian Rain- 

 fall and Sun-spots, E. D. Archibald, 267, 396, 43S ; the 

 Cycle of Rainfall and Sun-spots, Dr. W. W. Hunter, 455 



Rama, Labrador, Thermometric Qbservations made at, 431 



Rame Head to the Bolt Tail, Geolojy of the Coast, 378 



Rattlesnakes in Wet Weather, Hunter Nicholson, 266 



Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S. ), the Amplitude of Sound- Waves, 114 



Reale Istituto Lombardo, 18, 114, 134, 154, 199, 355, 566 



Red Sea, Climate of Kossier on the, 268 



Redier (M.), Physiological Balance, 390 



Reeves (J. Russell, F.R.S.), Death of, 53 



Refraction of Gases, 152 



Reichenbach's Odyle and Mr. Wallace, 546 



Reichert und Du Bois Reymond's Archiv, 299 



Remarkable Plants, III.— The Sensitive Plant, 34S ; IV.— The 

 Blue Gum Tree, 443 



Reproduction by Conjugation, 340, 397 



Research, the Endowment of, 117 



"Researching" and Teaching, Prof. Sylvester on, 103 



Resin of Scammony and Hederic Acid, C. T. Kingzett, 37S 



Respiration in Frogs, 30 



Respiration of Plants, 31 



Revue des Sciences Naturelles, 18, 299 



Reynolds (Prof Osborne, F.R.S.), on Waves, 343 ; the Steering 

 of Steamers, 382 ; on Compound Turbines, 3S2 



Rhinoceros, the Tichorhine, 146 



Rhinoceroses at the Alexandra Palace, 466 



Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), the Future of Sanitary Science, 

 1S4 ; the Glandular Origin of Contagious Disease, 480 



Richardson (N. M.), Zygana JlUl'endule, 361 



Richthofen (F. F. von), China, 206 



