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Navigation, J. Stanley Gardiner, 585 : Resistance of Ships 



due to Companion Waves, M. de Biissy, 603 

 Nayars of Malabar. Ethnography o'^, F. Faivcett, 37 

 Nebula Around Nova I'ersei, 475 

 Nebulx and their \'elocilies in the Line of Sight, Dr. J, 



Ilartmann, 595 

 Nebulosity Surrounding Nova Persei, 38 

 Negative, Finishing the, 437 

 N^gro (Dr.), Willed Muscular Contractions of Patient Suffering 



under Parkinson's Disease, 66 

 Nelson (Mr.), Four Remarkable Microscopes, 142; Holtzapf- 



fcl's Microscope, 239 ; Polarising with the Microscope, 455 ; 



the Chevalier-Euler Achromatic Objectives of 1823-24 and 



1824-25, 239 

 Neon, Classification of the .Atomic Weights of Argon, Krypton, 



Xenon, and, H. Wilde, 579. 5S0 

 Nepenthes, the Proteolytic Knzyme of, I'rof. S. 11. Mnes, 



F.R.S., 141 

 Nepenthin, Prof S. H. Vines, 231 



Nesbit (John), Burma under British Rule and Before, 24.3 

 Nesting "and Other Habits of One of the American Cat-Fishes 



of the Genus Amiuius, the, A. C. Ejcleshymer, III 

 Nests, Birds', an Inlroduction to the Science of Caliology, 



Charles Dixon, 508 

 Networks, S. Roberis, F.R.S., 310 

 New South Wales Linnean Society, 48, 168, 239 

 New South Wales Royal Society, 143, 216, 335 

 New South Wales, Results of Rain, River and Evaporation 



Observations made in, H C. Ru.ssell, 540 

 New Zealand : Zoology of New Zealand, 11 1 ; Ihe Acclimatisa- 

 tion and \'ariation of Salmonida; in, A. J. Rutherfurd, 112 ; 



on the Crystalline Structure of Gold Nuggels from Klondyke, 



Victoria and New Zealand, Prof. Liver.sidge, F. R.S., 192 

 Newcomb (Simon), the Stars : a Study of the Universe, Supp., 



March 13, 1902, viii 

 Newstead (Robert), Monograph of the Coccidte of the British 



Isles, 295 

 Niagara Falls, Electrodes Manufactured by the Acheson 



Graphite Company, 420 

 Niagara Falls, the " Acker" Fusion Process for the Electrolytic 



Production of Caustic Alkali and Chlorine at, 32 

 Niceville (L de). Death of, 178 

 Nicloux (Dr.), Conditions of Passage of Carbon O.^ide from 



Blood of Mother to that of Fretus, 63 

 Nicolardot (Paul), the Separation of Iron, 23 

 Nicolas (Dr. Ad.), Birds Attacking Butterflies and Moths, 415 

 Nipher (F. E, ), Production of Ether Disturbances by Explosions 



and by the Motion of Masses of Matter. 264 

 Nitric Acid on Metals, the Influence of Temperature on the 



Action of. Dr. Alfred J. Ewart, 128 ; a Correction, 304 

 Nitrogen : the Specific A'olumes of Oxygen and Nitrogen 



Vapour at the Boiling-point of Oxygen, Prof. James Dewar, 



F.R.S., 382; Band Spectra of Nitrogen, II. Deslandres, 



SSi-2 



Noetling (Dr. Fritz), Miocene Fauna of Burma, 37 



Nomenclature, Note on a Point of Chemical, Prof. Alfred 

 Senier, 80 



Nordgaard (O. ), Food of the Coal-fish, 474 



Nordmann (Charles), Hertzian Waves Emanating from the Sun, 

 359 ; Transparency of Liquid Conductors for Hertzian 

 Oscillations, 407 : I^xplanation of some Celestial Phenomena 

 by Means of the Hertzian Waves, 455 ; Electromagnetic 

 Theory of the Auroia Boreilis, 479 



Nor'o'k, Sir Thomas Browne's Notes and Letters on the 

 Natural History o'', 412 



North America, the Mammals of, 232 

 . North American Indians, Funeral Rites of the, J. E. King, 527 



North Atlantic and Mediterranean Pilot Charts, 12, 87, 179, 

 3°2. 39S 



North ijueensland Ethnography, Dr. Walter E. Roth, 9 



Northumberland F^ood-fishes in 1901, 324 



Norway, Arctic, Ruck Covered with Frozen Moraine at 

 Lyngen, Dr. Ilans Reusch, 206 



Nova Persei : Nebulosity Surrounding Nova Persei, 38, 475 ; 

 Structure of the Region Around Nova Persei, 62 ; Proper 

 Motion of Nova l'er«ei, 62; Nova Persei, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 112; the Photographs of Nova 

 Persei, Sir Norman Lockyer, K C.B., F. R.S, 133; the 

 Distance of Nova Persei, W. E. Wilson, F. R.S, 19S, 29S ; 

 Stars near Nova Persei, 210 



Novorossian, Odessa, Society of Naturalists, Memoirs of the, 

 547 



Nudibranchiate Mollusca, Pigments of. Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, 79 



Nummulilic Layer at St. Louis, Senegal, Discovery of a, G. 

 Vasseur, 264 



Nullall (George H. F.), the New Biological Test for Blood in 

 Relation to Zoological Clas.sification, 166 



Nuttall (Zelia), Fundamental Principles of the Old and New 

 World Civilisations, vol. ii. of the Arch.-eological and Ethno- 

 logical Papers of the I'eabody Museum, 268 



Oasis of Kharga, the, ils Topography and Geology, I. Ball, 



13" 



Object Lessons for Rural Schools, the Teacher's Manual of, 

 V. T. Murche. 583 



Observatories : the Melbourne Observatory, 15 ; Royal Alfred 

 Observatory, Mauritius, 15 ; Annales de I'Observatoire 

 Meteorologique Physique et Glaciaire du Mont Blanc, J. 

 Vallot, 31 ; Tycho Brahe's Observatory, Dr. J. L. E. Dreyor, 

 104; Companion to the Observatory, 1902, 137; .Meridian 

 Observations at Harvard College Observatory, 113 ; Harvard 

 College Observatory Report, 1901, 282 ; Natal Observatory 

 Report for 1900, 210 ; the Principal Meteorological Results 

 of the Vear 1901 at Greenwich Observatory, 256 : United 

 States Naval Observatory Report, 326 ; the Regina Margherita 

 Observatory, Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B. F.R.S., 568; a 

 Correction, 595 ; Report of the Fetnley Observatory at 

 Southport for 1901, J. Baxendell, 572 



Ocean, the Exploration of the Atmosphere over the. Dr. A. 

 Lawrence Rotch, 4, 118, 545 



Oceanic Salt Deposits, Conditions of Formation of the, J. H. 

 van't Hoff, 304 



Oceanography ot the Straits connecting the BUtic and the 

 North Sea, Dr. Martin Knudsen, 325 



O'Donahue (T. -A.), Mining Calculations, 245 



Ogawa (Mr.), Preparation of Sulphamide from Ammonium 

 Amido Sulphite, 527 



Oil F'uel for Steamers, a .Successful Application of, 179 



Okafiajclitisloiii, the. Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 119 



Olszewski (K.), The Temperature of Inversion of the Joule- 

 Kelvin Effect for Hydrogen, 576 



Ophir, the Gold of, Whence Brought and by Whom, A. H, 

 Keane, 460 



Ophthalmology, Elementary Ophthalmic Optics including 

 Ophthalmoscopy and Retinoscopy, J. H. Parsons, 295 



Ophthalmoscopic Examination, Contributions to the Compara- 

 tive Anatomy of the Mammalian Eje, chiefly based on, Dr. 

 George Lindsay Johnson, 137 



Oppenheimer (Carl), Ferments and their Actions, 582 



Optics : Optics and Electricity, Trattato Elementarc di Fisica, 

 Oresle ^Iurani, 151 ; on a New Application of Optical Ob- 

 servations to the Study of Diffusion, J. Thovert, 215 : Optical 

 Lanterns and Accessories, 222 ; Experiment Relating to the 

 Change ol Phase which occurs when a Pencil ol Light 

 Waves passes through a Focus or Focal Line, Prof. P. 

 Zeeman, 255 ; on Focal Lines and .Vnchor-ring Wave 

 Fronts, Prof J. D. Everett, 429 ; Sturm's Theorem on the 

 Properties of Focal Lines, H. B.iuasse, 593 : Elementary 

 Ophthalmic Optics, including Oplhahno.scopy and Retino- 

 scopy, J. 11 Parsims, 295 ; Contributions to the Theory of the 

 Resolving Power of Objectives, Prof. J." D. Everett, 429 ; on 

 the Absorption, Dispersion, and Surface Colour of Selenium, 

 Prof. R. W^ Wood, 430; DilVraction Effect, Prof. W. S. 

 Franklin, 444 ; New Type of Light Absorption, Prof. R. W. 

 Wood, 477 ; Optical Effect Produced by Refraciion of Air, 

 J. B.irclay, 497 ; E. Edser, 497 ; the Differential Equations 

 of Fresnel's Polarisation-vector, James Walker, 502 ; De- 

 velopment of the Layers of the Retina in the Chick after 

 the Formation of the Optic Cup, John Cameron, 548 ; 

 Michelson's Interferometer, II. C. Pocklington, 550 



Orbital Elements, Determination of, F. C. Moulton, 03 



Orchids, the Digestion of the Mannane of the Tubercles of,. 

 H. Hcrissey, 528 



Orcutt (H. F. L.), Modern Machine Methods, 279 



Ordnance, Gun-sighls for Large and Small, 226 



O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), on the Waste of the Coast of Ireland, 

 192 



Organometallic iDerivatives, New Reactions o', E. E. Blaise, 

 455 



