Index 



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r 3, 1899 



551 ; " Aquintocubilalism " in Birds' Wings, \V. P. Pycraft, 



551 ; the Wild I'owl of the United States and British 



Possessions, D. (',. Klliot, 580; Flight of Birds, Prof. 



Maurice F. Fitzgerald, 609 ; the Birds of Australia, John 



Pluninier, 615 

 Orr (W. McF.), Concerning the Thermodynamic Correction for 



an Air Thermometer, 126 

 Orthogenic \ariations in the Carapace of Chelonia, II. Gadow, 



119 

 Orton (K. J. P.), the Chemistry of Nitrogen Iodide, 3S2, 383 

 Osborn (Prof. H. F.), Kecent and Fossil Rhinoceroses, 87 : 



Fossil \"ertebratcs in the American Museum of Natural 



History, 272 ; Hessian Fly in United States, 378 ; Origin of 



Mammals, 453 

 Osmond (F. ), Alloys of Iron and Nickel, 359 

 Osteology : Way in which Bones break. Dr. Joseph Griftiths, 527 

 Ostwald (Prof.), Table of Atomic Weights, 182 

 Ostwald's Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften, Nos. 97-102, 



460 

 Outerbridge (A. E., jun.), Statistics of Gold Mining, 230 

 Overton (E.), Experiments on the Autumn Colouring of Plants, 



296 

 Oxygen, the Tetravalency of, Rev. J. F. Heyes, 534 

 Oyster Beds, Starfish in, 422 

 Oysters and Disease, Profs. W. A. Ilerdman, F.K.S., and 



Hubert Boyce, 305 



Pacific, further Notes on Recent Volcanic Islands in the, Sir 



W. J. L. Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., 5S2 

 Packard (Prof Alpheus S.), the Present State of Evolution, 546 

 Page (Prof. J. M.), Invariant Total Differential Equation in 



Three Variables, 501 

 Pagel (M.), New Method of estimating Carbon Monoxide, 359 

 Palseobotany : Medullcsa Anglica, Dr". H. Scott, F.R.S., 381 ; 



American Fossil Cycads, G. R. Williams, 549 

 PaU-eolithic Implements from the Valley of the Ver, Worthing- 



ton G. Smith, 510 

 Paleontology : Recent and Fossil Rhinoceroses, H. F. Osborn, 

 87 ; on Lepidodendron from the Calciferous Sandstone of 

 Scotland, A. C. Seward, A. W. Hill, 119; Fossil Plants for 

 Students of Botany and Geology, A. C. Seward, F. R.S., 

 146; Discovery of Huge Fossil Dinosaur, Prof. W. II. Reed, 

 253 ; Megalosauroid Jaiv from Rh.ttic Beds near Bridgend, 

 Glamorganshire, E. T. Newton, F.R.S., 262 : Fossil Verte- 

 brates in the American Museum of Natural History, Prof. 

 Henry F. Osborn, 272; Obituary Notice of Prof. Alleyne 

 Nicholson, 298 ; Fauna of \olga Eocene Deposits, A. 

 Netshaw, 308 ; Fauna of Transcaspian Jurassic Deposits, 

 B. SemenotT, 308 ; Fish Remains from Hallstatter Kalk, 

 A. Bittner, 397 ; \'ertebrate Remains from Port Kennedy 

 Bone Deposit, I'rof. E. D. Cope, 448 ; another Stockton 

 Dragon, 461 ; Death of Prof. O. C. Marsh, 490; Obituary 

 Notice of, 513; .Analysis of Genus MicrasUr, Dr. A. W. 

 Kowe, 526 ; the Permocarboniferous Fauna of Chitichun, 

 Prof. C. Diener, 565; Two Species of Saurocephalus, O. P. 

 Hay, 621 

 Palmer (A. de F.), Apparatus for Mea.suring very high 



Pressures, 214 

 Parallax of tj I'egasi, 107 



Paris Academy of .Medicine, Prize Awards of, 276 



Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 167, 192, 



215, 239, 263, 287. 311, 335. 359, 3S3, 407, 431, 455, 479, 



S°3. S^^, 55'. 575. 599. 623 ; Prize Awards for 1S9S, 215 ; 



Proposed Prizes for 1899, 253 



Parker (.Mrs. K. Eangloh), .\ustralian Legendary Talcs, 292 ; 



more Australian Legendary Tales, 292 

 Passy (Jacques), Death of, 155 



Pathology : A Text-book of Special I'athological Anatomy, 

 Prof. Ernst Ziegler, 51 ; Death of Prof. A. A. Kanthack, 

 205 ; Obituary Notice of, 252 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Dr. Joseph Coats, 300 ; Vaccination ; its Natural History 

 and Pathology, Dr. S. M. Copeman, 435 ; Death of Major 

 J. Evans, 470 

 I'atien (G.), Nature of Diabetic Sugar, 383 

 Paton (Dr. Noel), Effect of Diphtheria Toxin on Metabolism, 



527 

 Patterson (Prof. C. W.), a Redetermination of the Ampere, 44 

 Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), Asymmetry and \"italism, 30,125 ; 

 Mathematical Contributions to Theory of Evolution, 239 ; 



Vibrations in F'ield round Theoretical Hertzian Oscillator, 

 35S 

 Pechmann (Prof. H. von), New Synthesis of Pyrazol by mcan- 



of Diazomelhane, 232 

 Peck (Dr. J. I. ), Death of, 79 ; Obituary Notice of, 154 

 Peckham (George W. and Elizabeth G.), on the Instincts and 



Habits of the Solitary Wasps, 466 

 Peckham (W.C.), Experiments with Liquid Air, 543 

 T) I'egasi, Parallax of, 107 ; Velocity, in the Line of Sight of, 



279 

 Peirce (Prof. B. O. ), Thermal Conductivities of Poor Co 



ductors, 15 



Pellat (II.), Loss of Electricity by Evaporation of Electrifi 

 Water, 311 ; Increase of Mean Intensity of Current by Intl 

 duction of Coil-Primary, 528 

 Peneroplis, eine Studie zur Biologischen Morphologic und 

 Species-frage, Dr. F. Dreyer, Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F. R.S 

 364 

 Penfield (S.L. ), Chemical Composition of Tourmaline, 453 

 Pepper (Dr.), Proposed Statue to late, at Philadelphia, 613 

 " Perchoid," a .Substitute for Rubber, Dr. Napier Ford, 81 

 Perchot (J. ), Application to Measurement of Latitudes ■■ " 

 Absolute Determination of Directions making Angle of 45 

 with Horizon, 479 

 Periodic Tides : Captain Anthony S. Thompson, 125 ; W. H. 

 Wheeler, 150: Prof. A. Wilmer Duff, 247, 585; W. Beli 

 Dawson, 584 

 Periodical Cicada, the, C. L. Marlatt, 316 

 Periodical Scientific Literature, the Cataloguing of, Frank 



Campbell, 370 

 Perkin (A. G.), Vellow Colouring Matters of A'Awi cotinus am: 

 /^kns rhodaiillua, vi. , 71 ; (Colouring Matters of Puriri. 

 71 ; Derivatives of Hesperitin, 71 

 Perkin (W. H.,jun.), Synthesis of oflS-Trimethylglutaric .\cid 

 262 ; Pseudocampholactone and Pseudolauronolic Acid, 383 

 Brasilin and Haematoxylin, ii., 526 

 Perraud (Joseph), Colophane and Soap as Means of Increasing 

 Adhesion of Copper Vine-Spray Solutions. 143 ; New Cupi; 

 Anti-BlackRot Broth, 168 ; the Use of .Mercury in Treatir, 

 Vine-Diseases, 552 

 Perrine (Dr ), Comets in 1898 and 1881, iv., 185 

 Perry (Prof John, F.R.S.), Seismology, Prof. John Mi!-.- 



F.R.S., 97 ; to Calculate a Table of Logarithms', 393,439 

 Perseids of 1S98, the, S3 

 Perturbations, Magnetic, of the Spectral Lines : Further Res ■ 



lution of the <^)uartet. Prof. Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 367 

 Perturbations, Planetary, Prof. S. Newcomb, 546 

 Peruvian Arc. the Remeasurement of the, 25S 

 Petrie (Prof. Flinders), on the Principal Discoveries during tli 

 last five years that have Revealed the Rise of Egyptian Civili> 

 ation, 164 : on Traces of Primitive Terra w/ufc Settlements ii 

 the Modern Towns of North Italy, 165 

 Petroleum, Gas and. Engines, Henry de Grafligny, 76 

 Phenomena of Skating, and Prof I. Thomsons Thermodynami 



Relation, the. Prof J. Jolly, F.R.S., 485 

 Philippines, the Peopies of the. Dr. Brunton, 155 ; Miner.i 



Resources of. Dr. (!. F. Becker, 276 

 Phillips (C. E. S. ), Action of Magnetised Electrodes on Elec 



trical Discharge Phenomena in Rarefied Gases, 287 

 Phillips (F. C. ), Natural Fluctuations in Composition ofNatur.i 



Gas, 349 

 Phillips (Dr. W. B. ), Iron-making in Alabama, 565 

 Phu'nicians, and Babylonians, Researches into the Origin of the 

 Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Robert Brown, jun. . 



553 

 Photography : Instantaneous Submarine Photography, Louis 

 Boutan, 72 ; Photographic Plates and the Spectrum, 83 ; on 

 the Photographic Registration of Latitudes, Dr. .Marcuse, 15S ; 

 Wild Life at Home ; How to Study and Photograph it,R.Kear- 

 ton, 174 ; Death of Prof. H. W. Vogel, 181 : Obituary Notice 

 of, 204 : .Astronomical Photography with Small Instruments, 

 233; Photography with Enclosed -Arc Lamp, N. H. Brown. 

 255 ; New Instrument for Measuring -Astrographic Plates, 279 ; 

 Studies of the Lunar Photographs taken with the Large Equa- 

 torial Coude, MM. Luewy and Puiseux, 304 ; the Application 

 of Photography to the Manometric Flame, Prof. Edward L. 

 Nichols, 320 ; Rev. J- Stewart-Smith's Photographs of Ribbon 

 Lightning, Prof C. .\bbe, 347 ; the Photo- Autocopyist, 

 349 ; Effect of Gases and Metals on Photographic Plates, B. 

 von Lengyel, 357 ; Use of Telephoto Lens in .'istrononiy, Dr. 



