XIV 



[Nati.re, Jan. 4, iS 



Oxygen, Helouis' Patent for Manufacture of Hydrogen, 585 

 Oxygenated Water on the System, Experiments on, 511 

 Ozone and the Spectroscope, 138 

 Ozone, Production of Pure Liquid, 614 



Pacific Islands, Dr. O. Finsch's Exploration of, 41 



Pacific States of North America, Bancroft's History of' the. 



558 

 Packard (A. S.), "Insects injurious to Forest and Shade Trees," 



K. McLachlan, F.R.S., 78 

 Page (Rev. A. S.), School Museums, 386 

 Palaeolithic Gravels of North East London, W. G. Smith, 



579 

 Palaeolithic Implements in Thames Valley, W. G. Smith, 



293 

 Palestine, Campaign in Eastern, Capt. Conder and Lieut. 



Mantell, R.E., 231 

 Palmer (Col. H. S.), Japanese Progress, 310 

 Panama, Earthquake at, 482, 583 

 Panoramic Photography, Ariel, 482 

 Paper Sized with Resin, Free Sulphuric Acid in, Prof. Feich- 



tinger, 557 

 Parallax, Maskelyne's Value of the Solar, 210 

 Paralytic and Tetanic Patients, Poisonous Alkaloids in Urine 



of, Selmi, 568 

 Parasites, the Injurious, of Egypt, Dr. Cobbold, F.R.S., 



492 

 Pare, St. Maur Observatory, Mascart's Magnetic Instruments, 



611 

 Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 96, 119, 141, 168, 

 192, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336, 360, 3S4, 416, 496, 520, 

 544, 568, 592, 616, 640 ; Paris Observatory, Magnetic 

 Observations at, 207 ; Subterranean Chambers in, 378 ; 

 Designs for Dome of, 378 ; Vote of Subsidy for Photograph- 

 ing Paris by Captive Balloons, 231 ; Accidents from Electricity 

 in, 378, 415 ; Central School for " Ingenieurs des Arts et 

 Manufactures," 446 ; Scientific Balloon Ascents at, 585 

 Parish (Sir Woodbine), Death of, 414 

 Parker (Prof. T. J.), McAlpine's Atlases, 292 

 Parker (Prof. W. K.), Development of Crocodilian Skull, 



252 

 Parkes Museum, 231 ; New Premises, 479 

 Pasteur, Honour to M, 278 

 Patagonia, Venus's Transit in, 329 

 Paulsen (Dr.), Course of Air in Nasal Cavity in Breathing, 



232 

 Peal (S. E.), Voice in Lizards, 320 ; White Ants' Nests, 343 ; 



Difficult Cases of Mimicry, 368 

 Peat, Megaceros Hibernicus in, G. H. Kinahan, 246 

 Peirce (Benj.), "Ideality in the Physical Science," 104 

 Pelagic Life, Prof. H. N. Moseley, 559 

 Pengelly (W., F.R.S.), Post-Miocene Deposits of Bovey 



Tracey, 469 

 Perception of Colour, Napier Smith, 30 ; J. W. Swan, 246 

 Perception of Direction, Function of the Ears in the, Consul 



E. L. Layard, 176 

 Peristaltic Intestinal Movements, 43 

 Permanence and Evolution, Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 



265 

 Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Meteors, 124 

 Persia, Six Months in, Edward Stack, A. H. Keane, 500 

 Perspective Binocular, W. Le Conte Stevens, 68 

 Petermanri s Mittheilungai, 635 

 Petit (Ch.), Similigravmes, 635 

 Petrel, Jamaica, Consul E. L. Layard, 177 

 Petroff (Joan), Limit of Innuit Tribes on Alaska Coast, 



257 

 Petroleum, The Legal Flashing Test for, F. A. Abel, F.R.S., 



466 

 Pettersson, Springs' Researches on Expansion of Isomorphous 



Compounds, 568 

 Phonodynamograph, W. B. Cooper, 331 



Photography : Photographs of the Spectra of the Nebula in 

 Orion, Dr. Henry Draper, 33 ; Instantaneous of Bird in 

 Flight, 84, 85, 86 ; Photographic Spectrum of Comet (Wells) 

 I, 1882, W. Huggins, F.R.S., 179; Vote of Subsidy for 

 Photographing Paris by Captive Balloons, 231 ; Photographic 

 Studios of Europe, H. B. Pritchard, 331 ; Convention of 

 Photographers' Association of America, 378 ; Instruction in, 



Capt. Abney, 471 ; Aerial Panoramic Photography, 4S2 ; 



Photographic Exhibition, 584 

 Photometer Wedge, Prof. Pickering, 259, 307 

 Phylloxera, J. S. Gardner, 38; Coloured Plates of, 112; In 



Cantons of Neuchatel and Geneva, Appearance of, zSc ; 



Algerian Scientific Mis-ion to France, 305 ; at Bonn, 5S4 

 Physical Society, 23, 71, 119, 166, 239, 263 

 Physical Notes, 44, 138, 210 

 Physical Science, Ideality in, Benj. Peirce, 104 

 Physical Science, Endowment of Lectureship io, Balliol College, 



279 

 Physico-Chemical Lecture Experiments, Leigh Clifford, 126 

 Physics, Modern, The Concepts and Theories of, J. B. Stello, 



521 



Pic-du-midi, Project for Permanent Observatory, 611 



Pickering, Prof., Wedge Photometer, 259, 307 



Pictet (Kaoul), Contribution of Astronomy to Question of 



Molecular Physics, 310 

 Pictet's Corpuscular Theory of Gravitation, Prof. Herschel, 



343 



Pike's Peak, Electricity on, 260 



"Pioneering in the Far East, and Journeyings to California in 

 1849 and the White Sea in 1878," Ludwig Verner Helms, 

 476 



Pisgah, Mount, Stone Carvings, Charles Rau, 160 ; M. S.Valen- 

 tine, 267 



Pitt-Rivers (Gen.), Scientific Exploration in Egypt, 364 



Plagioscope, Joyeux's, 635 



Plane Geometrical Draw ing, Worked Examination Questions in, 

 F. E. Hulme, F.S.A., 103 



Planets, Small, 137 



Plant-names, Old English, James Britten, 243 



Plants, Comparative Action of Isomeric and Metameric Com- 

 pounds on the Growth of, 43; "Plants and Their Homes," 

 Marianne North Gallery of Paintings of, in Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, W. Botting Hemsley, 155 ; Indiarubber Plants, 237 ; 

 John Smith's Dictionary of Popular Names of Plant-, 

 267; Excitability of, Prof. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., 353, 



483 

 Plantamour (Prof), Obituary Notice of, 505 

 Plantarum Novarum et minus Cognitarum, Descriptiones, Dr. 



Regel, 319 

 Plante and Fame Cell, Chemistry of, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 

 F.R.S. and Dr. A. Tribe, F.R.S., 251 603, : Prof. O. J. 

 Lodge, 268; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 342 

 Plarr (Dr. G.), The Recent Aurora, 548 

 PJatrage of Wines in Berne, 380 

 "Plume Moths," Mimicry in the, J. E. Taylor, 477 

 Poitiers, Gallo-Roman Town Discovered near, 635 

 " Pola," The, 4S1 



Polar Meteorological Expedition, Austrian, 231 

 Polar Observatories, International, 294 

 Polyphemus, the," 151 



Polyzoa, Fossil, B. A. Report on Jurassic Species, 486 

 Pon's Comet of 1812, 636 

 Popular Names of Plants, H. J. Smith's Dictionary of, 



267 

 Porculia Salvania (Hodgson), Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S. , 80 

 Port's (Prof. D.) " Atlas de anatomischen und physiolo^'ischen 



Botanik," 611 

 Potassium Chlorate, Decomposition of, by Heat, 467 

 Potts (T. H.), Aurora Australia, 126 

 " Prsehistorique, Le," Gabriel de Mortillet, 583 

 Praesepe Cluster, 448 

 Treece (W. H., F.R S.), Recent Progress in Telephony, 516; 



New Arc Electric Lamp, 526 

 Prestwich (Prof.), Index Guide to Geological Collection in 



Oxford University Museum, 378 

 Prever (W.), "Die Seele des Kindes, Peobachtungen iiber die 

 geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in den eisten Lebens- 

 jahren, Dr, Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 497 

 "Primer of Art," John Collier, Miss L. S. Bevington, 5 

 Princeton College Expedition to Dakota and Nebraska, 



256 

 Printing in China, 612 

 Printing Press, Solar, 503 



Pritchard (H. B.), Photographic Studios of Europe, 331 

 "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society," 



190 

 Propellers, Water-jet, W. H. White, 246 



