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INDEX 
[Nature, Fure 21, 1883 
November Meteors, 43 
Numbers, Theory of, Prof. H. J. S. Smith on, 564 
Numerical Estimate of the Rigidity of the Earth, G. H. Darwin, 
FE.R.S., 22 
Observatories : Meteorological Observatory on Ben Nevis, 18, 39, 
175, 399, 411, 487; Brussels, 445 ; Melbourne, 497 
O’Donovan (Edmond), ‘‘ Travels and Adventures East of the 
Caspian,” Prof. A. H. Keane, 359 
Olsta, Remarkable Mirage seen at, 616 
Ommanney (Admiral), Aurora of Nov. 17, 139 
Optical Mlusions of Motion, Dr. Bowditch, 183 
Optics, Physical, R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 361 
Opuntia Ficus-Indica, Abnormal Fruit of, Dr. A. Ernst, 77 ; 
Dr. M. T. Masters, 126 
Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Completion of, 92 
O’Reilly (Prof.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87 
Orientalists, ( ongress of, 565 
Ormerod (Miss E. A.), ‘‘ Diagrams of Insects injurious to Field 
Crops,” 146 
Ornithologist in Siberia, 560 
‘‘Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche,” 
Salvadori, 577 
Ostrich, Incubation of the: J. E. Harting, 480; George J. 
Romanes, 480 ; Prof. Moseley, F.R.S., 507 
Oswald (Felix L.), ‘‘ Zoological Sketches,” Dr. Geo. J. 
Romanes, F.R.S., 333 
“Out in the Open,” T. H. Potts, 172 
Owen (Prof. R., F.R.S.), on Primitive Man, Grant Allen, 31 ; 
Megalania Prisca, 118 ; on the Affinities of Thylacoleo, 354 
Owl, Scream of Young Burrowing, S. Garman, 174 
Oxygen, Discovery of, Lavoisier, Priestley, and the, G. F. Rod- 
well, 8, 100 
Oyster Culture, 180 
Oyster Fisheries of Denmark, Decline of, 346 
Oyster Industry of the United States, 39 
Tommaso 
Paleolithic Implements of North-East London, Worthington 
G. Smith, 270 
Palzolithic River Gravels: C. Evans, 8; William White, 53 ; 
T. K. Callard, 54 ; Worthington G. Smith, 102 
Palzontology, Carboniferous Vertebrate, Notice of some Dis- 
coveries recently made in, T. Stock, 22 
Palzozoic Strata, Invertebrate Casts versus Algee in, 46 
Palestine, Physical History of, Prof. Hull, F.K.S.,520 
Palmieri (Prof. Marino), Death of, 41 
Panama, Earthquake at, 248 
Papuan Ornithology, Tommaso Salvadori, 577 
Parallax, Stellar, 210 
Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 95, 119, 144,r168, 102, 
229, 235, 260, 283, 308, 332, 356, 386, 404, 428, 475, 548, 
572, 596, 620; Annual Meeting of, 538; Disposal of the 
Sewage of Paris, 133; Second Inundation at, 247; Compte 
Rendus of the Geographical Society, 401; Bulletin of, 424 ; 
Electric Lighting in, 516 
Parker (Rev. Dr. G. W.), Umdhlebi Tree of Zululand, 7 
Parker (W. K., F.R.S.), The Skeleton of Marsipobranch 
Fishes, 330 
Parkes Museum, First General Meeting, 19 
Parrakeet, The Uvzan, 417 
“Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis, a Text-Book of,” 
Ernst Ziegler, 477 
Patent Bill, the New, 587 
Pavy (Dr. F. W., F.R.S.), Physiology of the Carbo-hydrates in 
the Animal System, 618 
Pedara in Sicily, Earthquake at, 567 
Pelagic Fauna of Freshwater Lakes, 92 
Perigatus Cagensis, Prof. F. M. Balfour on, 215 
Peronostore, New Vine Parasite, 13 
Perry (John), Practical Mechanics, Dr. J. F. Main, 456 
Persia, Colonel Lovett’s Itinerary Map from Teheran to 
Astrabad, 323 
Perugia, Earthquake in, 90 
Petermann’s ‘‘ Mittheilungen,” 92, gor, 541 
Petrie (W. M. F.), Aurora of Noy. 17th, 1882, 139, 315 
Petromyzon Planeri, Genesis of Hypophysis in, 91 
Pfaundler (Prof.), The Inventor of Continuous-Induction 
Dynamo-Electric Machine, 517 
Philippine Islands, Typhoon in, 181 
Phillips (H. A.), Pollution of the Atmosphere, 127, 2669 
Phosphorus, the Glowing of, 301 
Photographing with the Electric Light, Priority in, 276 
Photography, Astronomical, Edward C, Pickering, 556 
Photometer, Wedge and Diaphragm, 201 
Photometric Measurements of Sun, Moon, Cloudy Sky, and 
Electric and other Artificial Lights, Sir William Thon son, 277 
Phylloxera Destruction, Commission of the French Academy, 89 
Phylloxera in Chambery, 133 
Physical Notes, 324 
“* Physical Optics,” R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.5S., 361 
Physical Society, 95, 143, 215, 354; 427, 452, 500 
Physical and Chemical Properties of Simple and Compound 
Bodies, Relation between, De Heen, 422 
‘¢ Physics of the Earth’s Crust,” Rev. O. Fisher, 76 
‘* Physics in Pictures,” &c., 551 
Physics in Russia during the last Ten Years, N. Hesehus, 567 
Physiological Discovery, McKendrick Lectures on, 496 
Pickering (Edward C.), Astronomical Photography, 556 
Picou (R. W.), ‘‘ Manuel d’Electronomie Industrielle,” 146 
Pictet (Raoul), his ‘‘ Rapid Vessel,” 398 
Pidgeon (D.), Intelligence in Animals, 366 
Pile-dwellings, Bobenhausen, 160 
Piltschikoff, Arrangement for Measuring the Refractive Index 
of Liquids, 325 
Pitt-Rivers Collection, the, 346, 461, 
Planet, Inter-Mercurial, A. F. Goddard, 148 
Planets, Minor, 248; No. 228, 518 
Planté and Faure Accumulators, Chemistry of the, Dr. J. H. 
Gladstone, F.R.S., and Dr. A. Tribe, F.R.S., 583 
Plants, Influence of ‘‘ Environment” on, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 
F.R.S., 82; Howard Fox, 315 
Plants, Formic and Acetic Acid in, 91 
Plants, Cultivated, Origin of, A. de Candolle, 429; Vilmorin 
Andrieux, 429 
Pogge (Dr.), German African Expedition, 92 
Poggendorff’s ‘‘ Fall Machine,” 300 
Polakoff’s Explorations, 424 
Polar Exploration, Swedish and Dutch Expeditions, 299 
Pollock (E.), Aurora of Noy. 17, 141 
Pollution of Rivers, &c., German Society for Prevention of, 89 
Pollution of the Atmosphere, H. A. Phillips, 127 
Porritt’s Yorkshire List of Lepidoptera, 540 
Porro (Francis), Professor Schiaparelli on the Great Comet 
1882 6, 533 
Port (Dr. Arnold Dedel-), ‘‘ Atlas der Physiologischen Botanik,” 
61 
Post Testiagy, a Possible Cause of the Extinction of the Bones of 
the, S. Garman, 313 
Potato Disease, A. S. Wilson, 523 
Potts (T. H.), ‘‘ Out in the Open,” 172 
Praxinescope, Reynaud’s New Projection, 60 
Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), the Progress of Telegraphy, 390: 
“‘Fffects of Temperature on Electromotive Force and Resist- 
ance of Batteries,” 426 
Prehistoric Animals, Remains of, discovered at Andernach, 445 
Prehistoric ‘‘ Giants ’””—Metamorphic Origin of Granite, Duke of 
Argyll, 578 
Prejevalsky (Colonel), Exploration of Central Asia, 133 
Preston (S. Tolver), ‘‘ Ether and its Functions,” 579 
Priestley, Lavoisier, and the Discovery of Oxygen, G. F. Red- 
well, 8, 100; C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 53, 147 
Primitive Man, Professor Owen on, Grant Allen, 31 
Primogeniture, the Hypothesis of Accelerated Development by, 
and its Place in the Theory of Evolution, Prof. A. A, Hubrecht, 
270, 301 
Bagee ir. E.), Threatened Extinction of the Elephant, 509 
Princeton Schocl of Science, Longitude of, 248 
Princeton Scientific Expedition (No. 3), 323 
Pringsheim (Dr. N.), ‘“‘Jahrbiicher fir 
Botanik,” Prof. W. R. McNab, 502 
Prisms, Direct-vision, 182 
Projection Praxinoscope, Reynaud’s New, 60 
Prossnitz, Number of Meteors observed at, 617 
Putnam (Prof. F. W.), on American Antiquities, 277 
wissenschaftlich 
Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 196 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 47, 353 
Quiberon, Discovery of Dolmen at, 540 
Rabenhoist’s ‘‘Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oester- 
reich, und der Schweiz,” Mary P. Merrifield, 385 
Rabies, New Facts concerning, 192 
