Nature, Jan. 4, 1883] 



INDEX 



Protistological Analysis of Lake Maggiore, Prof. Maggi, 



379 

 Pseudo-Glacial Phenomena, Rev. T. E. Tenison-Woods, 81 

 Psychological Development in Children, W. Preyer, Dr. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F. R.S., 497 

 Public Instruction, New French Minister of, 378 

 Pullinger (W.), Aurora Borealis, 81 

 Pump for Compressing Gases, Cailletet, 308 

 Pupse, ^possible Sound Organs in Sphingid, C. V. Riley, 



366 

 Pyroscopes of Noble Metal, 330 



Quain (R., F.R.S.), Dictionary of Medicine, 481 

 Qualitative Analysis (Elementary), Joseph Barnes on, 62 1 

 "Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science," 70 

 Queenwood College Mutual Improvement Society, Report of, 



Raca, on the Presence of a Tympanum in, 494 



Races of Mankind, Social History of the, A. Featherman, 



2S 

 Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford Observations of the Solar Eclipse 



of 1882, May 16, made at the, E. J. Stone, 109 

 Radiant Heat, Absorption by Gases of (Prof. Tait), 639 

 Railway Trains and the Transmission of Vibrations, 138 

 Railway, Electric, 156 ; Dr. Fleming, 495 

 Rainfall, Apparatus for Registering the Duration of, 113 

 Rainfall of the Globe, 206 ; W. J. Black, 222 

 Ramsay (W.), On Smell, 187 

 Kance (C. E. De), The Iron and Lead Measures of Tynehead, 



468 

 Rau (Chas.), Cups and Circles, 126; Mount Pisgah Stone 



Carvings, 243 

 Ravenstein's Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, 558 

 Raylei^h (Lord, F.R. S.), Opening Address in Section A at the 



British Association at Southampton, 400 ; Electrical Papers at 



the British Association, 465 

 "Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere," 22, 94, 262, 



287, 519 

 Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Atti della, 312 

 Red Cross Society's Prizes for Three Essays on Best Means of 



Affording Help to the Wounded and Sick, 330 

 Red Variable Stars, " Variab. Cygni (Birmingham), l88l."J. 



Birmingham, 8 

 Redman (J. B.), Sea-Shore Alluvion — Langley Point, 30 ; Gal- 

 shot & Hurst Beaches 104; the "Chesil," 150 

 Reed (Sir E. J.), Illness of, 611 

 Refractometer, New Form of, 138 

 Kegel (Dr.), Descriptiones Plantarum Novarum et minus Cogni- 



tarum, 319 

 Regnard Incandescent Lamp, 177 

 Regulators, Temperature, J. T. brown, 114 

 Reichenbach (O.), Mean Temperature of the Atmosphere at the 



Surface of the Earth as Determined by Observations and by 



Theory, 150 

 Remeis (Dr.), Bequest by, for Observatory, 230 

 Reptile House at Zoological Gardens, New, 367 

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



tinger, 557 

 Resistance of the Air in Guns, Prof. D. Colladon, 353 

 Respiratory Movements of Insects, 454 

 Revista da Sociedade de Instruccao do Porte, 556 

 " Revue d'Anthropologie," 190 



Revue internationale des Sciences biologiques, 615, 640 

 Reynolds (Prof. O. ), Proposed Bridge over the Forth, 623 

 Rheolyser, the, 139 

 " Khopalocera Malayana : A Description of the Butterflies of 



the Malay Peninsula," W. L. Distant, 6 

 Ricco, (A.), the Comet of 1S82, 609 



Rickets (Dr. Charles), On Subsidence as the Effect of Accumu- 

 lation, 469 

 Ridley (Marian S.), Pocket Guide to British Ferns, 501 

 Riebeck Expedition, 614 

 Riley (Prof. C. V.), Utilisation of Ants in Horticulture, 126 ; 



Possible Sound Organs in Sphingid Pupse, 366 

 Rio de Janeiro Observatory, Bulletin of, 352 ; Timeball at, 



352 



Rittcr (Karl), Bust of, 5S4 



River Pollution, Prize offered by Belgian Academy for Essay on 



Destruction of Fish, by, 281 

 "Rivers and Canals, A Treatise on," S. F. Vernon-Harcourt 



Major Allan Cunningham, 5 

 " Rivista Scientifico-Industriale e Giornale del Naturalista," 22, 



262, 472 

 Rix (H.), An Insect attacking a Worm, 574 

 Roberts (Ralph A.), Collection of Examples and Problems on 



Tonics aud some of the Higher Plane Curves, 197 

 Robins (E. G), On Working Sanitary Institute, 280 

 Rocks, Pointing of, and the Channel Tunnel, Prof. W. King, 



45 



Rodwell (G. F.), Coles' Summer Travelling in Iceland, 363; 

 Oswald's, By Fell and Fjord, 363 ; Hungarian Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, 456 



Rogers (Prof. W. B.), Obituary Notice of, 182 



Roileston (Prof.), Memorial to the late, 88, 135 



Romanes, (Dr. Geo. J., F.R.S.), Myth and Science, Tito 

 Vignoli, 3 ; Ants, Bees, and Wasps, Sir J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 

 121 ; Permanence and Evolution, 265 ; Animal Intelligence, 

 T. Whittaker, 449; "Die Seele des Kindes, Beobachtungen 

 iiber die Geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in dem ersten 

 Lebensjahren, W. Preyer, 497 



Root-Florets, On the Occurrence of, in Catananche Lutea, 43 



Rot in Sheep, A. P. Thomas, 606 



"Rotations," Prof. Little, 447 



Rowbotham (F. J.), Habits of Spiders, 386 



Rowland (Prof. H. A.), Preliminary Notice of the Results 

 accomplished in the Manufacture and Theory of Gratings for 

 Optical Purposes, 211 



Royal Institution, Classified Catalogue of Library of, 306 J 



Royal Society, 94, 117, 142, 190, 213; Proceedings of, 23S ; 

 New Fellows, 16, 15S 



Royal Horticultural Society, 23, 47, 71, 191, 287, 360 



Royal Military Academy, Prof. Bloxam, &c, 40 



Royal Observatory, 140 



Royal Society of Canada, 186 



Rubidium. The Atomic Weight of, 467 j 



Russell (John Scott), Death of, 159 



Russia, Geography, in, 211 ; Very Hot Weather in, 415 ; Silk- 

 worm Culture in Southern, 471 



Russian Physicians and Colour-Blindness, 510 



Rye and Oats, Northernmost place of maturing of, 331 



St. Andrew's University, Presentation of Dr. Mackintosh to 



Natural History Chair in, 378 

 St. Gothard Tunnel, Opening of, 88 ; Electrical Locomotives 



in, 280 

 St. Petersburg, Medical Training of Women Discontinued at, 



470 

 Sake-Brewing, Chemistry of, 612 

 Salicylic Acid in Violets, 331 

 Sanderson (Prof. Bunion, F.R.S.), Excitability of Plants, 353, 



483 



Sanford (W.A.), Halo, 320 



Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 95, 446, 52S, 576 ; Anni- 

 versary Meeting of, 230 ; Institute, E. C. Robins on work 

 of, 280 



Santis Meteorological Station, 583 



Satow (E. M.) and A. G. S. Hawes' Handbook of Japan, 

 290 



Sanier (Claudius), Watchmakers' Handbook, H. D. Gardner, 



3'9 



Sayce (Rev. A, H.), Asia by A. H. Keane, 317 

 Schadenburg and Koch, Ascent of Mount Apo by, 257 

 Schellen (Dr. H.), Die Magnet und Dynamo-Elektrischen 



Maschinen, 31S 

 Schliemann (Dr.), New Excavations at Hissarlik, 258 

 Schmidt (Prof.), Handbuch der Vergleichendem Anatomie, 



385 

 Schools in Japan, 184 



Schools in France, First Superior Female, 585 

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

 Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig, 592 

 Schrceter's Observations of Mars, 344 

 Schuster (Prof.), On Some Matters Relating to the Sun, 



465 

 Schuster (Prof.), and Capt. Abney on Results Obtained During 



the Late Total Eclipse, 465 



