hidex 



r Nalurl 



Ly»« 8, . 



899 



I'ltscli (iM), New Method of Preparing Le Verrier's Phosphorus 

 Suboxide, 493 



rittmann (E. K.), Pateozoie Radiolarian Rocks of New South 

 Wales, 118 



Pizzetti (P.). Gravity on Mont Blanc, 421 



Plague in Hombay, the, 593 



Plague in China, Kumagusu Minakala, 370 



Plague in Uganda, the. Bishop Hanlon, 502 



Plague Virus transmitted by Fleas, P. L. Simond, 133 



Plan of the liarth and its Causes, the, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 330 



Planets : the New Planet Witt DtJ or Eros, II, 108, 135, 186, 

 233, 303 ; Prof. E. C. Pickering, 350 ; Bode's Law and 

 Witt's Planet, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, II; the Orbit of 

 Eros, Thomas W. Kingsmill, 416 ; Relation of Eros to Mars, 

 Herr J. Bauschinger, 494 ; Ephemerides of Comets and 

 Planets, 63 ; the Planet Jupiter, 83 ; Early History of the 

 Great Red Spot on Jupiter: W. E. Denning, lOl ; Jupiter 

 and his Markings, W. K. Denning, 209 ; Artificial Moon 

 Markings, S. M. R. Salmon, 257 : Saturn's Ninth Satellite, 

 489, 519; C. P. Butter, 489; Spectrum of Saturn's Rings, 

 595 ; Planetary Perturbations, Prof. S. Newcomb, 546 



Planisphere, Pyramid and, 507 



Plant Life, Barnes', Prof. C. R. Barnes, 487 ; the Reviewer, 

 487 



Plant Lore and Medicine, Old English, 4S3 



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

 296 



Plants, Colouring of. May Rathbone, 342 



Plants, Dante and the Action of Light upon. Prof. Italo 

 Giglioli, 417 



Plateau (Prof. E.), Insects and Flowers, 613 



Pleiades, Nebulosities of the, H. C. Wilson, 424 



Plimmer (IL G. ), Pathogenic Organisms of Cancer, 550 



Plummer (John), the Birds of Australia, 615 



Poisonous Fruit, Why Birds are not Killed by Eating, Dr. 

 John Lowe, 77 



Poisonous Fruit, Birds and, E. M. Langley, 149 ; Howard 

 Fox, 149 



Poisonous Plants as Food, Animals Feeding on, Charles A. 

 Silberrad, 177 



Poisons, the New Regulations, 376 



Poland (John), Skiagraphic Atlas, 100 



Pollard (Dr. W. ), Spinel and Forstcrite from Glenelg Lime- 

 stone, 622 



Pollok (J. H.), Kieselguhr Deposits in Antrim, 430 



Polypterus in Nile Valley, N. R. Harrington and Dr. R. Hunt, 



15 



Pope (William J.), Stereochemistry and Vitalism, 53; Com- 

 posite Sodium Chlorate Crystals not following Twin I^w, 

 71 ; Crystalline form ot Iodoform, 117; Characterisation of 

 Racemic Compounds, 117; Chemists and Chemical Indus- 

 tries, 390 ; Triboluminescence, 618 



Porcelain, Glazed, Soakage into, 175 



Porro (Prol. F.), Astronomical Congress at Budapest, 15S; on 

 I'rancesco Bianchini's Sketches of the Constellalions, 159 



Position, Lectures on the Geometry of, Theodor Reye, Prof. O. 

 Henrici, F.R.S., 242 



Potatoes, Bacterial Diseases of, Emile Laurent, 472 



Pouret (Ch.), Chlorination of Benzene in presence of Aluminium 

 Chloride, 192 



Practical Jlechanics, Sidney H. Wells, 100 



Practical Work in Physics, Part IV. Magnetism and Electricity, 

 W. G. Woollcombe, 460 



Pratt (J. II.), Chromite, 621 



Precht (J.), New Method of Demonstrating Hertz's Experi- 

 ments, 357 



Precipitation of Gold by Charcoal, James C. Richardson, 558 ; 

 the Writer of the Note, 558 



Precursors, Earthquake, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 414 



Precce (W. H. B., F. R.S. ), Applications of Electricity, 19 



Present. Standpoint of Spectrum Analysis, the. Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.H., F.R..S., 585 



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



Preston (E. D.), Conference of the International Geodetic 

 Association, 258 



I'reston (Prof. Thomas, F.R.S. ), Radiation Effect in the 

 .Magnetic Field, 224 ; General Law of the Phenomena of 

 Magnetic Perturbations of Spectral Lines, 24S ; Illusory 

 Resolution of the Lines of a Spectrum, 295 ; .Magnetic Per- 

 turbations of the Spectral Lines, Further Resolution of the 



(Juartet, 367 ; Radiation in a Magnetic Field, 485 ; the 



Interferometer, 605 

 Prey of the Lion, the Natural, Richard Crawshay, 557 ; 



Kumagusu Minakata, 585 

 Price (Rev. Bartholomew, F.R.S. ), Obituary Notice of, 229 

 Prickly Pear, Impracticability of Destroying with Cochineal 



Insect, Dr. Bourne, 82 , 



Primer of Cieometry, James Sutherland, 149 ■ 



Principles of Agriculture, the, 509 I 



Principles of Stratigraphical Geology, the, J. E. Marr, F. R.S.^ 



313 

 Pringle (Brigade Surgeon Lieut. -Colonel Robert), Death of, 



276 

 Printing Paper, a New Photographic, 498 

 Prior (G. T.), Identity of Binnite with Tennantite, 454 

 Prismatic into Normal Spectra, Conversion of, E. S. King, 330 

 Prizes for 1899 of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Proposed, 



^33 

 Probable Weather Conditions in Spain during the Total Sol; 



Eclipse of May 28, 1900, Prof. Augusto .\rcimis, 439 

 Progressive Education, 235 

 Prominences, Solar, Father Fenyi, 159 

 Properties of Liquid Mixtures, the, Prof. Sidney Young, F.R. 



127 

 Pseudo Spiders, Indian Solpug;e or, H. R. P. Carter, 342 

 Psychology : the Unconscious Mind, A. T. Schofield, A. El. 



Taylor, 75 ; Psychology in the School-room, T. F. G. Dexter 



and A. II. Garlick, 413 

 Publications of the British Fire Prevention Committee, Edwin 



O. Sachs, 76 

 Puiseux (M.), Studies of the Lunar Photographs taken with the 



Large Equatorial Coude, 304 

 Purbeck and Weymouth, the Geology of the Isle of, A. Strahan, 



457 

 Purdie (T. ), Production of Optically .Active Mono- and Di- 



alkyloxysuccinic Acids, 334 ; Rotatory Power of Optically 



Active Methoxy- and Ethoxy-Propionic Acids Prepared from 



Active Lactic Acid, 526 I 



Purnell (Charles W.), the Aurora of September 9, 1898, 320 

 Pycraft (W. P.), External Nares of Cormorant, 500; AquinI 



cubitalism in Birds' Wings, 55 1 

 Pyramid and Planisphere, 507 



Quantitative Analysis, an Introduction to Practical, H, 



Highton, 172 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 214 

 Queries on the Reduction of Andrews' Measurements on 



Carbonic Acid, Prof. K. Tsurala, Prof. P. G. Tait, 318 



Racial Anatomy : Observations sur les Variations Musculair^ 

 dans les Races Humaines, Theophile Chudzinski, 244 



Radiation, H. H. Francis Ilyndman, 123 



Radiation Phenomena in the Magnetic Field, Prof. Thoni.i 

 Preston, 224, 4S5 ; Prof. .\. A. Michelson, 440 



Radiation; the Interferometer, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 533 

 Prof. Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 605 



Rafl'ard (J. N.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 79 



Rails, Steel, \V. G. Kirkcaldy, 300; Prof. Roberts-Austeb 



Railway Block Signalling, James Pigg, 14S > 



Railway Working, Applications of Electricity to, W. E, 



Langdon, 409 

 Rainbow, the "Theory of the, 616 

 Rainfall of Australia, I., A. J. lierbertson and P. C. Waite 



431 

 Rainfall, Sunspots and, Alex. B. MacDowall, 5S3 

 Ramsay (Prof. William, F.R.S.), Kinetic Theory of Gases, 15 



the Spectrum of Krypton, 53; the Density of Atmosphcn 



Nitrogen, 262 ; Preparations and Properties of -Argon, 30S 

 Range of thcGarefowl, the. Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 12 

 Ransome(F. Leslie), Massive Lava Flows on the Sierra Nevai 



355 

 Ranvier (L.), Histology of Skin, 287; Ilisto-Chemical Reactii 



of Eleidinc, 335 

 Rathbone (May), Colouring of Plants, 342 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), the Interferometer, 533 

 Ray, Uranium, Properties of Radiation of, llcnri Becqueril 



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