INDEX 
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Observers, Astronomical, Personal Equation of, 85; Letter on, 
3; Dr. Van Stadt, 337 
Odling (Prof. W.) on the Basis of Chemical Notation, 600 
Okely (W.S.) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384, 651 ; 
on Concomitant Sounds and Colours, 557 
Oliver (Prof.) on Baillon’s History of Plants, 52 
Oliver’s Indian Botany, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 234 
Ooster’s Protozoe Helvetica, 330 
Origin of Species Controversy, by A. R. Wallace, 105, 132 
Orme’s Introduction to the Science of Heat, 134 
Owen (Prof.) on the Fossil Mammals of Australia, 390; on 
Fossil Mammals of China, 662 
Oxford, Notes from, 26, 194 
Oysters, Price of, 244 
Paleontology, Progress of, by Professor Huxley, F.R.S., 437 
Paley (Mr.) on Agricultural Terms (Report), 468 
Paris, Academy of Sciences, 29, 63, 94, 120, 147, 177, 201, 228, 
249, 273, 297, 321, 347, 394, 416, 445, 469, 493, 521, 545, 
570, 593, 617, 640, 664 ; Acclimatation Society, 236 ; Obser- 
vatory, 363, 387 
Parsons on the Rose, 236 
Pasteur’s (M.) Patent for Preserving Wines, 29, 94 
Patagonia, Paraderos of, 318 
Pual (Dr.) on Our National Drink, 576; on Town Sewage, 207 
Pellew Islands, Natives of, 318 
Pengelly (W.) on a Meteor, 58, 267 ; on Prismatic Ice, 627 
Penny, (Dr.), the late, 138 
Penny Science Classes, 57 
Periodicity of the Solar Spots, 284 
Perry (Rev. S. J.) on the Cyclone, 290 
Perth’s Nature Contemplated, 134 
Petroleum and its Allies, 376 
Petroleum Discovered in the Caucasus, 245 
Pfaundler on the Regelation of Ice, 116 
Phallic Worship, 639 
Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, 121, 417, 546, 
594; Philosophical Society, 30, 347, 370, 665 
Philological Society, 199 
Philology and Darwinism, by Rev. F. W. Farrar, 527 
Phipson’s (Dr.) the Sun, 380 
Phosphate of Lime and Sulphurous Acid, 200 
Phosphorus, Turpentine not an Antidote for, 149 
Photography, Artificial Light for, 271 ; Photographic Repro- 
ductions, 513 
Physical Meteorology, by Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., ror, 128, 
Dr. Hudson’s letter on, 218, Dr. Stewart’s letter on, 337 
Physiology and the German Universities, 244; Popular Lectures 
on, by George H. Lewes, 353 ; 28, 62, 90, 117, 144, 516 
Platinum, Electromotive Forces Developed by, 249, 521 
Plants, Impregnation of, 293 ; Distribution of, 465 ; of Middle- 
sex, by W. Carruthers, 107 ; Spontaneous Movements in, 142; 
Winter Flowering, their Fertilisation, by A. W. Bennett, 
F.L.S., 11, 58 (see also 85, 142) ; Diffusion of, 246 
Playfair (Dr. Lyon) and City Scientific Education, 113 
Pollen, Considered as an Aid in the Differentiation of Species, 
207 
Pollen’s Fauna of Madagascar, 260 
Prague, National Museum of Bohemia, 250; Royal Society of 
Bohemia, 64 
Prehistoric Archzeology, by J, Evans, F.R.S., 77; Times, by 
E. B. Tylor, 103 
Preservation of Objects in Glycerine Jelly, 172 
Prestwich (J.) on the Thames Subway, 280 
Pringsheim’s (Prof.) Paper on Swann-spores (Berlin Academy 
of Sciences), 177 
Prismatic Structure in Ice, 481 
Proctor (R.A.) on Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, 54 ; on the 
November Shooting Stars, 56; on the German and Swedish 
Expeditions to the Arctic Regions, 312; on Star Drift, 466 ; 
on Are any of the Nebulze Star Systems? 331 ; Letter on the 
Nebulz, 384; on the Transits of Venus in 1874 and 1882, 
146, 627 
Proctor’s (R. A.) New Star Atlas, 84 
Protoplasm, by Dr. H. C. Bastian, 424; at the Antipodes, 13 
Public Schools, Scientific Men on the Governing Bodies of, 
58 
Quartz, the Velocity of Light in, 121 
Quekett Microscopical Club, 368 
Quin (Chas. W.), Science for Children, 209 
Quincke on Specific Cohesion, 516 
Quinine, New Body obtained from (Prof. Binz), 322 ; Sulphate 
of, 347 
Rae on the Suez Canal, 169 
Rainbow Colours, Letter by Mr. Newall, 335 ; Supernumerary, 
Mr. Stuart’s Letter on, 406 
Rainfall, British, 265 
Rainfall of the Year, 540 ; Mr. Symon’s Book on, 611 
Rambosson’s History of Meteors, 356 
Rames’ History of Creation, 381 
Rankine (Prof.), Remarks on Mr, Heppel’s Theory of Continuous 
Beams (Royal Society), 365 ; on the Mathematical Theory of 
Stream Lines, 413 
Ransome (Dr.) on Human Breath (Manchester Lit. Soc.), 520 
Reis (Dr. Paul), Manual of Physic, 283 
Respiration, 322, Products of, 516 
Riche’s Chemical Lessons, 109 ; his Medical Chemistry, 308 
Robertson (G, Croom) on Kant’s View of Space, 333 
Roberts (W. Chandler) on Stalactites, 109 
Robinson (Rev. Charles. J.) on English Sport in the Fifteenth 
Century, 352 
Rochleder’s (Prof.) Paper on Colouring Matter from Madder, 494 
Rodwell (G. F.), Bibliotheque des Merveilles, 187 ; on the Pri- 
vate Life of Galileo, 529 
Rolleston (Dr,), Character and Influence of the Anglo-Saxon 
Conquest, 661 
Romer’s, (Prof.) Examination of the Species of Venus, 504 
Roscoe (Prof.) on Harcourt and Madan’s Practical Chemistry, 
50; on Lectures to Working Men, 138; on Scientific Educa- 
tion in Germany, 157, 475; on Spectrum Analysis, 503 ; 
on Vanadium, 662 
Roscoff, Harbour of, and Marine Zoology, 225, 
Rotundity of the Earth, 581 
| Royal Commission on Science, 375 
Royal Institution, 140, 492 
Royal Society, Candidates for, 561 ; Catalogue, 86; Copley 
Medal, 113 ; Meetings, 144, 195, 294, 319, 343, 305, 399, 
413, 443, 467, 490, 517, 542, 614, 638 f i 
Rugby, New Natural Science Schools at, 485 ; Science-teaching 
at, 25; Surface Deposits in the Neighbourhood of, 344 
Rupert’s Drops, Dynamics of, 89 
Ruskin, Professor, on River Conservation, 508 
Saccolina, Development of, 246 
Sanchi Tope, The, 339 Pp 
Sars, the late Professor, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 265 ; Sars Fund, 
The, 363, 511, 634 
Scenery, The, of England and Wales, 306, 361 
Schébe (Dr.), his Paper at the Royal Society of Bohemia on 
Nerves of the Cheiroptera, 64 ; 
Science Classes, Penny, 57; Dulness of, by F.R.S., 43; Teaching 
in Schools, by Rev. W. Tucker, 18; and the Public Health, 
by Prof. Corfield, 155 ; for Children, by C. W. Quin, F.C.S., 
209; Education at Cambridge, 57, 628: Education in Ger- 
many, by Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S., 157, 475 
Scientific Serials, 165, 221, 246, 270, 294, 342, 365, 389, 412, 
436, 513, 542, 591, 637 
Scolithus genus, and allied Fossils, 248 
Sea, Work of the, by C. W. Whitaker, 381 ; Depths of the, by 
David Forbes, 100; Fisheries, Decrease in the Yield of, 243 
Secretions, Gases of the, 62 
Seeley (Mr.) on Triassic Dinosauria, 146 
Seligmann, on Exostoses in the Meatus Auditorius of Peruvian 
Crania, 319 
Semper (Prof.) on the Natives of the Pellew Islands, 318 
Sensation and Perception, by Dr. H. C. Bastian, F.R.S., 213, 
309. (See also 407.) 
Sermons in Stones, by D. Forbes, F.R.S., 130 
Sewage of Great Towns, Notes on, 244, 364; Town, 207 
Sharpey Scholarship, 109 
Sicily, Sulphur in, 389 
Sigillaria, Notes on the Structure of, 271 
Silkworm, its Cultivation in England, 317, 347 
Silver Nitrate, Preparation of, 61 
Sinai, Turquoise Mines of, 273 
Slavonians in Turkey, 287 
Smee (Mr. Alfred), his Book on the Progress of Thought, 487 
Smith (Cecil), Cuckows’ Eggs, 242 
