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at Windsor, N.S.W., 258; Annales de _ l'Observatoire 
National d’Athénes, Deémétrius Eginitis, 331; Report of the 
Cape Observatory for 1901, Sir David Gill, 331; M. Faye 
and the Paris Observatory, Wilfred de Fonvielle, 343 ; Ben 
Nevis Observatories, Sir Arthur Mitchell, 349; Report on 
the Melbourne Observatory for 1901, 541 
Oceanography: Cape of Good Hope Department of Agri- 
culture Marine Investigation in South Africa, Observations 
on the Temperature and Salinity of the Sea around the Cape 
Peninsula, J. D. F. Gilchrist, 260 
Oceans, a New Theory of the Tides of Terrestrial, Rollin 
Harris, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 444 
Occultation of W Leonis, 208 
Occultations of Stars and Solar Eclipses, Francis Cranmer 
Penrose, 149 
Oddone (Dr. Emilio), Seismology, Observations on Explosion 
of Ten Tons of Gunpowder in the Granite Quarries near 
Baveno, 350 
Odone (Prof. E.), Proposed Non-pendulum Forms of Apparatus, 
234 
Ogawa (Mr.), Preparation of Sulphamide from Ammonium 
Amido-sulphite, 541 
O’Gorman (Mervyn), Schule des Automobil Fahrers, Wolfgang 
Vogel, 313 
Oil, the Use of, as Fuel for Engines, 207 
Oil Chemist’s Handbook, the, Erastus Hopkins, 52 
Okapi Specimens, the Brussels, Dr. Forsyth Major, 185 
Oliver (Dr.), Dangerous Trades, the Historical, Social and 
Legal Aspects of Industrial Occupations as Affecting Health, 
433 
Olmsted (F, E.), Working Plans for Forests in Arkansas, 661 
Omond (R. T.), a Solar Halo, 103 
Omori (Dr. T.), on the Deflection and Vibration of Railway 
Bridges, 332 
Ophir, Rhodesia and, R. N. Hall and W. G. Neal, Prof. A. H. 
Keane, 34 
Ophthalmia among New York School Children, 539 
Optics: Obituary Notice of Prof. Alfred Cornu, Prof. Silvanus 
P. Thompson, F.R.S., 12; Stopping down the Lens of the 
Human Eye, Wm. Andrews, 31, H. Bliss, 56, Gerald Molloy, 
56; the Lens: a Practical Guide to the Choice, Use and 
Testing of Photographic Objectives, T. Bolas and George E. 
Brown, 75; a Method of Showing the Invisibility of Trans- 
parent Objects under Uniform Illumination, Prof. R. W. 
Wood, 102; Action of Light on Precious Stones, M. 
Chaumet, 119; Curious Optical Effect, E. Moor, 127; 
German Progress in Optical Work, Herbert F. Angus at the 
Optical Society, 138; Contribution to the Study of the 
Magnesium Light, Albert Londe, 168; Accidental Double 
Refraction of Liquids Mechanically Deformed, G. de Metz, 
192; Einfiihrung in die Theorie der Doppelbrechung, 
Heinrich Greinacher, 653 ; de la Double Refraction Elliptique 
et de la Tétraréfringence du Quartz dans le Voisinage de 
YAxe, G. Quesneville, 386 ; Experiment Illustrating a Para- 
doxical Consequence of the Wave Theory of Light, Edwin 
Edser and Edgar Senior, 204; Study of Bright Points and 
Curves, 208; Contributions to the Study of Flicker, T. C. 
Porter, 213 ; Actino-electric Phenomena, Albert Nodon, 240; 
some New Forms of Geodetical Instruments, 276; the Re- 
fractive Indices of Fluorite, Quartz and Calcite, J. William 
Gifford, 287 ; Correction, 308; the Structure of the Retina 
of the Eye, H. M. Bernard, 308 ; Photography of Diffraction 
and Polarisation Effects, W. B. Crofts, 354; Simple Means 
of Producing Diffraction Effects, Wilfred Hall, 416 ; Reflec- 
tion of Light from an Iron Mirror Magnetised Perpen- 
dicularly to the Plane of Incidence, P. Camman, 384; Novel 
Magneto-optic Phenomena, Dr. Quirino Majorana, 398 ; 
Magneto-optical Rotation in the Interior of Absorption 
Bands, Prof. Zeeman, 622; Application of the Stereoscope 
to Lantern Projections, J. Macé de Lépinay, 581 
Orchids, the Culture of Greenhouse, Frederick Boyle, 59 
Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, 341 
Organogeny, Avian, on the Intestinal Tract of Birds, P. 
Chalmers Mitchell, 235 
Organography: Organographie der Pflanzen insbesondere der 
Archegoniaten und Samenpflanzen, Dr. K. Goebel, Prof. 
J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., 51 
Orion Nebula and Movement in the Line of Sight, Prof. 
H. C. Vogel and Dr. Eberhard, 18 
L[ndex 
Nature, 
Dec. 18, 1902 
Orion Nebula, Radial Velocity of the, Prof. H. C. Vogel and 
Dr. Eberhard, 309 
Ornithology: More Tales of the Birds, W. W. Fowler, 4; 
Bird Hunting on the White Nile, H. F. Witherby, 52; the 
Birds of North and Middle America, the Fringillide, R. 
Ridgway, 75; Chickens Hatched in a Tree, W. H. Hall, 
127 ; Cuckoo’s Egg thrown out of Bunting’s Nest, 151; 
Cuckoo heard on August 18, Mrs. R. W. Longfield, 421 ; 
the Early Life of the Young Cuckoo, W. P. Westell, 574; 
Colour Variation in Pigeons, F. Finn, 157; Recent Egg- 
sale prices, 160; Bird-Migration observed from the Eddy- 
stone, W. E. Clarke, 185; on the Intestinal Tract of Birds, 
P. Chalmers Mitchell, 235; Osteology of the Owls, W. P. 
Pycraft, 263 ; Natural History of the British Surface-feeding 
Ducks, J. G. Millais, T. Digby Pigott, C.B., 266; 
Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs in the British 
Museum (Natural History), E. W. Oates, 322; Notes on 
Young Gulls, Prof. R. vy. Lendenfeld, 415; Birds in the 
Garden, G. Sharp, 444; Effect of Wind on the Migration 
of Hawks, C. C. Trowbridge, 612 
Orton (Dr.), Preparation of Highly Substituted Nitroamino 
Benzenes, 70 
Osborn (Prof. H. F.), Law of Adaptive Radiation among 
Mammals, 184; the Eocene Primates and Rodents of North 
America, 379; the Titanotheres of the Oligocene, 399; the 
Morphological Importance of Length or Shortness in the 
Skulls of Mammals, 399 
Osborne (Dr.), Researches on Glycogen, 666 
Oscillographs, the Study of Resonance by Means of, M. 
Armagnat, 307 
Ostenfeld (C. H.), Flora Arctica, 490 
Osteology of the Owls, W. P. Pycraft, 263 
Ostfriesischen Inseln, Flora der, Dr. Fr. Buchanau, 149 
Outer Isles, A. Goodrich-Freer, 548 
Ovenden (Rev. C. T.), the Face of Nature, 439 
Owls, Osteology of the, W. P. Pycraft, 263 
Oxford, the Rise of the Experimental Sciences at, Boyle 
Lecture at Oxford, Prof. T. Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S., 90; 
Fog Bow at Oxford, J. Rose, 416 
Oxy-acetylene Blowpipe, M. Fouché, 159 
Oysters from Syria, Remarkable Fossil, Alfred Ely Day, 606 ; 
B. Tf. N:, (607 : 
Pace (S.), Sunset Effects, 390 
Pachundaki (D. E.), Geological Constitution of the Neighbour- 
hood of Alexandria, Egypt, 648 / 
Packard (Alpheus S.), Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, 
his Life and Work, 169 
Pailheret (F.), Action of Alcoholic Fermentation on the 
Bacillus typhosus and the Bactllus colt, 384 
Palzobotany: on Fossil Pollens, &c., in the Coal-measures, 
B. Renault, 432; /atophyllum rotundifiorum, a Synonym of 
Neuropteris rarinervis, E. H. Sellards, 571, 572 
Palzolithics : Paleolithic Implements in Ipswich, Nina Frances 
Layard, 77; Reproduction des Figures paléolithiques peintes 
sur les parois de la Grotte de Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne, 
Mm. Capitan and Breuil, 452; sur les Maticres colorantes 
des Figures de la Grotte de Font-de-Gaume, Henri Moissan, 
452; les Figurations préhistoriques de la Grotte de la Mouthe, 
Dordogne, Emile Riviere, 452 , } 
Paleontology: Death of Henri Filhol, 14; Obituary Notice 
of, 133; a New Type of Human Fossil, R. Verneau, 24 ; 
New Fossil Mammals and Reptiles from Egypt, 83; 
Specimens Discovered in 1901 in Crete by Mr. Hogarth, 95 ; 
Palzontologie und Descendenzlehre,  E. Koken, 126; 
Structure and Classification of the Tremataspide, Prof. 
William Patten, 184; the Iguanodons of Bernissart, L. F. 
de Pauw and Prof. van den Broeck, 231 ; History of Geology 
and Paleontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century, 
Karl Alfred von Zittel, 242; the Eocene Primates and 
Rodents of North America, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 379; the 
Titanotheres of the Oligocene, Prof. Osborn, 399; New 
Pleistocene Rhinoceros, Prof. F. Toula, 379; Corr., 399; 
Belly River Dinosaurs, Mr. Lambe, 400 
Palestine: Legends of Palestine and Arabia, 517; on a Pre- 
historic Cemetery-cave in, R. A. S. Macalister, 663 
Papuan Gulf, on the Religious Ideas of the Elema Tribe of the, 
Rev. J. H. Holmes, 664 
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