;; June 9, 18S7 



Peal (S. E), Lunar Glaciation, 100 



Pearls and Pearling Life, Edwin W. Streeter, 339 



Pedigree Moth-breeding, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 453 



Peek (Mr.), Report on Rousdon Observatory, 353 



Penfield (Sam. L.), Phenacite from Colorado, 451 



Pennsylvania, North- Eastern, Thickness of the Ice in, during 

 the Glacial Epoch, 141 



Peppe (T. F.), on the Cultivation of the so-called Wild Silks of 

 India, 256 



Peripatu*;, Species of, obtained in British Guiana, 3S1 



Peristaltic Movement, Prof. Falk, 264 



Fernet (Dr.), on the Determination of the Air in the Vacuum 

 of the Barometer, 72 ; Comparison of Barometers, 600 



Peronospora of the Vine, 382 



Peroxide of Hydrogen, Formation of, by Electrolysis, Dr. 

 Richarz, 384 



Perrin (M. R.), on the Tlieory of Algebraic Forms with p 

 Variables, 335 



Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), the Earthquake, 438 



Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 206 



Petermann's Mitteilungen, 182, 232, 353, 403, 475 



Peters (Prof), New Minor Planets, 59, 2S2 



Petrie (Prof.), Siberia as a Colony, 158 



Petrography, H. Rosenbusch, Dr. Fred. B. Hatch, 482 



Petroleum, Russian, the Coming Deluge of, C. Marvin, 120, 

 295 



Pctromyzon fluviatilis, some Points in the Development of, 404 



Petunias and Insects, J. W. Slater, 70 



Phantasms of the Living, Edmund Gurney, Fred. W. H. 

 Myers, and Frank Podmore, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 290 ; 

 Edmund Gurney, 345 



Phenacite from Colorado, Sam. L. Penfield, 451 



Philadelphia, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, 230 ; 

 Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 424 



Philiatra, Earthquake Shocks in, 444 



Philippine Archipelago, Exhibition of the Products of, 567 



Philippine Islands, Tinguians of the, 446 



Philippines, Folk-Lore Society established in the, 134 



Phillips (Alfred), the Application of Gems to the Art of the 

 Goldsmith, 495 



Phillips (John Arthur, F.R.S.) : Obituary Notice of, 248 ; Death 

 of, 382 



Phillips (Samuel), Old or New Chemistry, Which is fittest for 

 Survival ? 270 



Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 399 



Phosphorescence of Marine Fish, Dr. Otto Hermes, 377 



Phosphorescent Alumina, Crimson Line of, William Crookes, 

 F.R.S. , 310 



Photography : Celestial, 35 ; Stellar Photography at Harvard 

 College, Prof. Pickering, 37 ; Marion's Practical Guide to 

 Photography, 52 ; Wild Animals Photographed and Described, 

 J. Fortune Nott, 220 ; Photography the Servant of Astronomy, 

 Edward S. Holden, 317; Progress of Astronomical, 321; 

 Instantaneous Shutters, 324, 366 ; Mechanism of the Flight 

 of Birds studied by Chrono-Photography, M. Marey, 335 ; 

 Photo-Micrographs, Dr. van Heurck, 359 ; Application of, to 

 the Determination of Stellar Parallax, Prof. Pritchard, 377 ; 

 Convention of Photographers in the Hall of the Society of 

 Arts, 377 ; Photograph of the Nebula No. 1180, M. Mouchez, 

 407 ; Photographic Chart of the Heavens, proposed, 567 ; Use 

 of Eosin Silver in Photography, 432 ; Measurement of the 

 Photographic Plates of the Transit of Venus 1882, 455 



Phylloxera, Incubation of, during the Winter Season, 431, 600 



Phylogeny of the Camelids, 56S 



Physical Geography of the Great Oceans, Similarities of the, 

 J. Y. Buchanan, 33, 76 



Physical Geography of Japan, Dr. Nauraann, 330 

 Physical Geography of Australia, Manual of, H. Beresford de 

 la Poer Wall, 389 



Physical History of the Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, 



Rev. A. Ii-ving, 382 

 Physical Notes, 331 



Physical Society, 94, 143, 334, 383, 478, 526, 575 

 Physical Quantities, the Engineer on Dimensions of, 462 



Physics, Chemical, Prof. Josiah Parsons Cookes, 100 

 Physiology : on the Connexion between Physiological Action 

 and Chemical Constitution, Dr. James Blake, 6 ; Experimen- 

 tal Researches on the Cerebral Functions, Brown-Sequard, 47; 

 a New Function of the Otocysts in the Invertebrates, Yves 



Delage, 48 ; Mr. Wallace on Physiological Selection, Dr. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 247, 366, 390 ; Propo.^al to devote 

 the Legacy bequeathed by Sir Erasmus Wilson to Physiolo- 

 gical and Pathological Research, 280 ; Preyer's French 

 Translation of "Physiology of the Embryo," 376 ; Mineral 

 Physiology and Physiography, Thos. Sterry Hunt, 578 ; Con- 

 tributions to our Knowledge of the Connexion between 

 Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action, Preliminary 

 Communication on the Action of certain Aromatic Bodies, 

 T. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., and J. Theodore Cash, 599 



Phythian (Capt. R. L.), Washington Observatory, 569 



Phytobiological Observations, Sir J. Lubbock, 430 



Pi.ano, on the Time of Contact between the Hammer and String 

 in a, 141 



Pickering (Prof. S. U.) : Stellar Photography at Harvard Col- 

 l^gs, 37 ; Harvard College Observatory, 424 ; Influence of 

 Temperature on the Heat of Dissolution of Salts, 453 



Pierie (Dr. Victor), Death of, 16 



Pierre (M.), Pension to, 545 



Pigeons, Sparrows chasing Two, 536 ; J. Jenner Weir, 584 



Pigeons, Fancy, Books on, 544 



Pisciculture : Spawning of Brook Trout, 16 ; the Acclimatisa- 

 tion of German Carp, 58 ; the Lochbuie Observatory, 58 ; 

 Exportation of Salmon Ova to Antipodes, 181 ; Fish- 

 hatching at the National Fish-Culture Association, 159 



Pilt-Rivers' (General) Anthropological Collection at Oxford 

 Museum, 349 



Plane Geometry, the Elements of, 27 



Plane Soap-Films, the Production of Newton's Rings by, H. G. 

 Madan, 5S3 



Pl.anets, Minor: No. 262, 497; No. 264, 353; No. 265, M. 

 Bigourdan, 474 ; Names of, 207, 569 ; New Minor, Herr 

 Palisa, 59, 425 ; Prof. C. H. F. Peters, 59, 282 : Observa- 

 tions of, 312 



Plant which destroys the Taste of Sweetness, W. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, F.R.S., 557 



Plants, how to make Colourless Specimens of, to be preserved 

 in Alcohol, Prof. Hugo de Vries, 149 ; Selmer Schonland, 173 



Plants by Birds, Dispersion of, D. Morris, 151 



Plants, Outlines of Classification and Special Morphology of, 

 Dr. K. Goebel, 577 



Plummer (John I. ), Barnard's Second Comet, 583 



Plunkett (Major E. T.), Walks in Cairo, 256 



Podmore (Frank), Phantasms of the Living, Prof. C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, 290 



Pog-on (Mr.), Madras Observatory, 282 



Polacanthusfoxii, Note on, J. W. Hulke, F.R.S., 357 



Polar Expeditions, British International, 147 



Polar Stars, Reduction of the Positions of Close, from one 

 Epoch to another. Prof. W. A. Rogers and Miss .\nna Win- 

 lock, 231 



Polarisation, Magnetic Rotatory, on the Cause of, 141 



Polarising Prisms, on the Cutting of. Prof. Silvanus P. Thomp- 

 son, 184 



Poles in Magnets, Determination of the, 479 



Porter (T. J.), Permanent Matrix Excluder of Draught and Dust, 

 569 



Portugal, Consignment of German Carp forwarded to, 350 



Potanin (M.), M. Skassy, and M. Beresofsky, Return of, from 

 their Expedition to China and Mongolia, 309 



Potassa, Glycerinate of, M. de Forcrand, 288 



Potato Tercentenary, 16, 175 



Ya\.\Q\vi\.,Gym}iodinium polyphemus, 48 



Poulton (Edward B.) : Observations on Heredity in Cats with 

 an Abnormal Number of Toes, 38 ; Gilded Chrysalides, 470 ; 

 the Gecko moves its Upper Jaw, 511 



Power, Transmission of, by Compressed Air, 272 



Pre-.Scientific Theories of the Causes of Earthquakes, 428 



Preece (W. II., F.R.S.), on the Limiting Distance of Speech 

 by Telephone, 501 



Prehistoric Man, A. de Quatrefages, 23 



Prehistoric Races, European, Prof. A. H. Keane, 564 



Prehistoric Remains in America, 476 



Prehistoric Station in the Wood of Chaville, Discovery of, 613 



Pressure, Vertical Decrement of Temperature and, S. A. Hill, 

 606 



Preyer's ' ' Physiology of the Embryo, " French Translation of, 

 376 



Price (F. G. Hilton), Vitality of Seeds, 463 



