IX 



New Planets, 355, 421, 542 



New Marine Animal, Washington Territory (U.S.), 432, 4j6, 516 



Newspaper Science, 60 



Newton's MSS. and Birthplace, loS, 149 



New Ze,aland : Preservation of Birds, 5 ; Acclimatisation Society, 



70; Bats, 162; Ornithology, 21S ; "Catalogue of Fishes," 



"Notes on Edible Fishes," 371 

 Nicholson (Prof. H. A., M.D.) " Introductioa to Biology," 258 ; 



Geological Continuity, 291 ; Geology of Lake Superior (Br. 



A.); Tentaculites (Br. A.), 383; Dredgings in Lalie Ontario 



(Br. A.) 425 

 Nicols (A.), Phosphorescence in Fish, 473 

 Nile, Fouling of the, 200 



Noctiluca, Prof. AUman, F.R.S., on (Br. A.), 426 

 Noe's Thermo-Electric Battery, 85 

 Norfolk Naturalists' Society, 129 



Norton (Henry), Volcanoes of Central France, 200, 243 

 Nottingham Museum, 34 



Observatories : Edinburgh, 441, 482, Marseilles, 168 ; Mel- 

 bourne, 228, 305, 462 ; Vesuvius, 145 ; New Zealand, 7 ; 

 Paris, 304 ; Puy-de-Dome, 4S1 



Ocean Circulation : J. CroU, F.G.S., on, 324, 32S, 453 ; A. R. 

 Wallace, F.Z.S., 32S ; Pro£ J. D. Everett, 329; Dr. W. 

 B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 473 



Ocean Currents, 120, 241, 332, 515, 532 



Ohio, Geological Survey of, 139 



Oil Region of the Punjaub, 115 



Oldham Literary and Philosophical Society, 482 



Oliver (Capt. S. P., R.A.), Dolmens and Lines of Stones, 9 



Ontario Entomological Society, 197 



Oppenheim (Prof. A.), German Universities, 60 



Optical Phenomena, W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S. , on, 91 



Organic Physics, Prof. H. Hartshorne on, 467 



Origin of Insects, 373, 393 



Orion, Spectrum of Great Nebula, 231 



Ormathwaite (Lord), ** Astronomy and Geology Compared," 4 



Orme (T. A.), "Concrete Arithmetic," 178 



Ornithology of New Zealand, 218 



Osborn (Capt. Sherard, R.N.), Arctic Exploration, 18 



Oudemans (Prof.), The Total Eclipse in Java, l6o 



Owen (Prof., F.R.S ) on the Dinornis, 55; on Kew Gardens 

 and Museum ; Dr. Hooker's Reply, 516 



Oxford: Science at, 13, 32, 70, 83, 128, 149, 169, 48 1, 494; 

 Scheme of Natural Science, 46, 57 ; Botany in the Scientific 

 School, 77 



Oyster, Fossil, 516 



Ozone, Instrument for Producing, 474 



Packard (A. S.,jun., M.D.), Insects of Massachusetts, 197 



" PaU^ontological Botany," by Prof. J. H. Balfour, F.R.S., 429 



Palestine Exploration Society f.\merican), 170 



Palgrave (W. G., F.R.G.S.), Mineral Spring near Trebizond, 

 163 ; Glacial Action in Anatolia, 536 



Palmieri (Prof.), his Exertions in Eruption of Vesuvius, 69 ; his 

 Observatory on Vesuvius, 145 



Parasite of the Beaver, 162 



Paris : Academy of Sciences, 19, 52, 75, 96, 115, 136, 156, 196, 

 22S, 236, 256, 268, 276, 291, 296, 329, 36S, 40S, 420, 421, 

 427,468,488, 508, 528, 548; Acclimatisation Society, 13; 

 Acoustic Experiments on the Seine, 447 ; Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, 13, 290, 355, 374, 444, 475 ; Jardin 

 des Plantes, 521, 542; Mathematical Socie.y, 269; Mortality 

 during the Siege, 291 ; iiiege Balloons, 88 



" Parthenogenesis," by C. T. E. von Siebold, 483, 523 



Pasteur (M.), his Process for the Manufacture of Beer, 418 



Pathological Leijends, 82 



Pave (Ociave), his Arctic Expedition, 34, 90 



Pavia, Laboratory of Cryptogamic Botany, 304 



Peicock Fish, 462 



Peirce (Prof. B. ), United States Coast Survey, 442 



Pelagic P"ish-Nest, 142 



Pennatulida;, Axes of, II. N. Moseley on, 432, 436, 516 



Pengelly (W., F.R.S.), Kent's Cavern, Torquay (Br. A.), 361 



Perry (R.ev. S. J., F.R A.S ), Magnetic Storm, 534 



Petermann (Dr.), The Gulf Stream, 422 



Pharmaceutical Society, 501 ; Address of the President, 304 



Philippine Islands, their Population, 162 ; Typhoon and Earth- 

 quakes, 180 



Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, 136, 195, 388,488, 

 507, 527, 548; Philosophical Society, 115, 466; Franklin 

 Institute, 18, 33, 93, 134, 274, 356, 4S1 



Pholas canJida, its Perforating Instrument (Br. A.), 406 



Phosphore.scence in Fish, 456, 473 



Photographic Irradiation in Over-exposed Plates, 253 ; Printing, 



190 ; Society, 94 

 Photographs from Collections of the British Museam, 430 ; of 



Diffraction Gratings (Br. A.), 422 

 Photograpliy as an Aid to Science, 62 

 Phyllotaxis, 4 



" Physical Geography," by S. B. J. Skertchley, F.G.S., 431 

 Physical Science {See British Association, Section A) ; College, 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 356 

 " Physics," by Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R S., 3 

 Physics : French Association at Bordeaux, 445 

 Physiology {See British Association, Section D) 

 Placenta of the Tamandua Ant-eater, 273 

 Planets, New, 355, 421, 542 

 Plymouth, Science at, 129 



Pogson (N. R. ), Report of the Madras Cyclone Committee, 37S 

 Polarised Light, 26 



Polistes Wasp, Parthenogenesis in, 4S4, 523 

 Porphyries of Antrim and Down (Br. A.), 384 

 Potato Disease, 3S9, 409, 431, 440; and Sun-spots, 542 

 Potts (Thos. H. ), Preservation of New Zealand Birds, 5 ; Rain 



after Fire, 12 1 ; Bats in New Zealand, 162 ; Retention and 



Colouring of Eggs, 457 

 Pourtales (Count), his Deep-Sea Soundings, 210 

 Pratt (Archdeacon, F.R.S.), "The Figure of the Earth," 79; 



Memorial Fund, t68 

 Preece (W. H.), Lecture on Telegraphy, 249; Earth Currents, 



5'5 

 Prestwich (J., F.R.S.), Denudation of the Mendips, 60 

 Pringle (G. H. ), Spectrum of Aurora, 260 

 Pritchard (H. Baden), Photography as an Aid to Science, 62 

 Pritchard (Urban, M.D.), on the Rods of the Cochlea, 113 

 Procter (H. R., F.R. A.S. ), Spectrum of Lightning, 161,220; 



Measuring Apparatus for Spectroscopes, 473 ; Measurement of 



Faint Spectra, 534 

 Professorships, Endowment of, 102, 109 

 Protoplasm, Prof. H. A. Nicholson, M.D., on, 259 

 Psaronius, in Devonian Rocks, New York (Br. A.), 423 

 Public Health : Rev. Canon Kingsley on, 489 ; in America, 158 

 Pulse Frequency, by A. H. Garrod, 373 ; (Br. A.) 446 

 Putnam (F. W.), Blind Fish of the Mammoth Cave, 246, 415 



"Qualitative Analysis," by Dr. C. R. Fresenius, 452 

 Quarterly Journal of Science, 507 

 Quekett Club, 291 

 Queensland, Geology of, 39 



Radiation at DifTerent Temperatures, io5 



Rae (Dr. John, F.R.G.S.), Recent Climatic Changes, 81 ; 

 Wanderings of the Esquimaux, 201 



Railways and Science, 510 



Rain after Fire, 121 



Rain : " .\ir and Rain," by A. R. Smith, Ph. D., F.R.S., 325 



Rainbow, Circular, 534; Fringes of the, 435 



Rainfall in 1871, 52 ; in Bombay, 534 



Rain Gauge, Glaisher's, Improved by Hall, 103 



Ramsay (Prof, F.R.S.), British Coal Fields, 2S3 



Ranger (W. G.), Cats' Teeth, 456 



Ranyard (A. Cowper, F. R.A.S.), Numeration of Millions, 142, 

 393 ; Photographic Irradiation in Over-exposed Plates, 253 



Rath (G. v.), Lava from Vesuvius (Br. A.), 423 



Rawlinson (Sir H., F.R.S.) on Mr. Stanley and African Ex- 

 ploration (Br. A.), 347 



Rawson (Hon. Rawson), Aurora of Feb. 4, 1872, 454 



Reade (T. M., C.E.), Supply of Coal, 421 



Reade (Winwood), " The Martyrdom of Man," 198 



Rede Memorial, Cambridge, 69 



Red Sandstones, Why are they Red ? 142, 242 



Reed (C. J., C.B.), " Naval Science," 369 



Reynolds (Rev. Prof. O.), "Sewer Gas," 350 



Rhinoceros, New, at the Zoological Gardens, 518 



" Righthandedness," by D. Wilson, LL.D., iiy 



Riley (C. V.), Insects of Missouri, 197; Insects shaped by the 

 Needs of Flowers, 44.^ 



Riley (E.), Lecture on Iron and .Steel, 56 



Robertson (J. ), Perforating Instrument of /"/iti/aj Candida (Br. A.), 

 406 



Robinson (Rev. T. R., F.R.S.), Nebula round 7; Argus, 7 



Rods of the Cochlea, 113 



