Nali(re,J:inc 9, iS ;] 



Obernetter (Heir J. B.), Death of, 612 



Observatories: the Algiers, 16; Ben Nevis, 517; Amount of 

 the Rainfall at, 257 ; A. Rankin, 58S ; Blue Hill Meteoro- 

 logical, U.S., 472 ; Baron D'Engelhardt's, 546 ; Harvard 

 College, 497 ; Prof. Pickering, 424 : Kalocsa, Dr. C. Braun, 

 59 ; Report of the Leander McCormick, 35 ; Madras, Mr. 

 Pogson, 2S2 ; Note on Earthquake of February 23, at Mar- 

 seilles, 455 ; Report of the Natal, S5 ; Observatory of Rio 

 de Janeiro, transferred to Santa Cruz, 593 ; Report of the 

 Rousdon, 353 ; Sonnbliek, 519 ; Temple, Mr. Seabroke, 401 ; 

 U.S. Naval, 595; Washington, 308, 614; Captain R. L. 

 Phythian, 569 ; for Women in America, 229 



Ocean, the, Otto Kriiinmel, 6 



Ocean Air, Purity of, 595 



Oceans, Similarities in the Physical Geography of the Great, 

 J. Y. Buchanan, 33, 76 



Ochsenius (Dr.), on the Age of certain Parts of the South 

 American Andes, 547 



October, High Temperature in, Charles Harding, iS 



Odell (W.), Industrial and High Art Education in the United 

 States, J. Edwax-ds Clarke, 97 



Ogorodnikoft'(M.), Tin-Mines near Meshed, 376 



Ogove, Maps of the River, in West Africa, 353 



Ohio, Great Serpent Mound in, W. H. Holmes, 281 



Oil, the Use of, in lessening the Effect of Dangerous Seas, 63, 

 376 



Oktibehite or Awaruite, Dr. Jas. Hector, F.R.S., 513 



Oldham (R. D.), Supposed Suicide of the Cobra, 560 



Oldhamia, on, 515 ; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S-, 581 



Olive Oils, Characteristic Pro^jcrties of, 3S3 



Oliver (Capt. Samuel Pasfield), Madagascar, 149 



Olszewski (M.) : Critical Temperatures of Nitrogen and O.xygen, 

 331 ; his Experiments, 592 



Omond (R. T.) : Green Light at Sunset, 39:; Solar Halos, 

 582 



Onisin, Rev. Thos. Brydges on the Curious Subdivision of 

 Labour among the People of, 2S3 



Oppenheiai (Dr. H.): Comet Barnard (18S6/), 85; Comet 

 1S87 c (Barnard, January 23), 424 



Oppermann (M ), Earthquakes, 600 



Oppolzer (Theodor von): on Astronomical Refractions, 17; 

 Obituary Notice of, 224 



Orbit of the Binary Star 14 (;') Orionis, J. E. Gore, 569 



Orchids, Fungus on, 230 



Ordnance Survey of the L^nited Kingdom, Lieut. -Colonel T. 

 Pilkington White, 170 



O'Reilly \Vxo{. J. P.) : the Recent Earthquakes, 197 ; on Two 

 Jade-handled Brushes, 318 



Organic -Analysis, Commercial, Alfred H. Allen, Dr. C. R. 

 Alder Wright, 293 



Org.anic Evolution, Factors of, Herbert Spencer, Dr. Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F. R.S., 362 



Organism, Demonstration of Active Oxygen in the Living, 

 383 



Origin of Mountain Ranges, T. Mellard Reade, Prof. A. H. 

 Green, F.R.S., 361, 463 



Origin of Species, Joseph J. Murpliy, 76 ; Edmund Catchpool, 

 76; Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 124 



Orinoco, E.\ploration of the, M. Chaffaujon, 446 



Orionis, Orbit of the Binary Star 14 (z), J. E. Gore, 569 



Orionis, x\ Gore's Variable near. Dr. G. Midler, 329 



Ormerod (Eleanor A.), on the Hessian Fly and Barley, 256 



Ornithology : H. Seebohm's Specimens of Siberian Birds, 15 ; 

 the Birds of Central Asia, 204 ; the Auk, 204 ; the Birds of 

 Tasmania, 204 ; Types of Birds in the Vienna Natural 

 History Museum, 204 ; Arctic Species of Birds, Henry 

 Seebohm on, 256 ; Ornithological Ob;,ervations in Belgium, 

 423 ; Additions to the Natural History Museum, 593 



Osier (A. F., F.R.S.), on the Forms of Clouds, 164 



Otago University Museum, Notes from the. Prof. T. Jefifery 

 Parker, 20S 



Otaria /looieri at the Zoological Gardens, 327 



Otocysts in Inverteb.-ates, a New Function of the, Yves Delage, 

 48 



Owen (Sir Richard, F.R.S.), on the Skull and Dentition of 

 GaUsaunis plaulceps^f)d^\ ThytacoJco carnifcx^ HI jThylacoleo, 

 Fossil, Lower Jaw of, 142 



Owen (T. C), Tea Planter's Manual, 268 



Owens College, the, Joseph Thompson, 385 



Ox- Warble, Enorjuous Loss from, John Walker, 7 > L)r, John 

 Wrightson, 29 



Oxford : Natural Science at, 229 ; General Pitt-Rivers' Anthro- 

 pological Collection at Oxford University Museum, 349 ; 

 Readership in Geography at, 475 



Oxidation, Atmospheric, Note on the Development of Voltaic 

 Electricity by, C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 598 



Oxide of Lead, Action of the, on some Dissolved Chlorides, 382 



Oxygen, Active, in the Animal Organism, Dr. Gad, Dr. 

 Wurster, 383 



O.xyhydrogen Light, the Zirconia, Lewis Wright, 5S3 



Oyster-Culture in France, 400, 495 



Oyster-Culture in Germany, 400 



Oyster-Fisheries of Isle of Wight, 57 



Oyster- Fisheries of Tasmania, 233 



Ozone, Dr. A. Tucker Wise, 584 



Ozone, Production of, 24S 



Ozone Papers in Towns, Dr. W. J. Black, 76 



Paleobotany in Goebels " Outlines of Classification and Special 

 Morphology of Plants," on some O'oiervations oa. Prof. W. C. 

 Williamson, F,R..S., 535 



Palxolithic Man in North- We-t Middlesex, J. Allen Brown, 554 



Palaeolithic Workshop Floor of Drift Period near Ealing, Dis- 

 covery of, J. Allen Brown, 1S9 



Palaeontology : on the Skull and Dentition of a Triassic Saurian, 

 Galcsatinis planiceps. Sir R. Owen, F. R. S., 94; the Cetacea 

 of the Suflblk Crag, R. Lydekker, 94 ; on a Jaw of Hyo- 

 therium from the Pliocene of India, R. Lydekker, 94; Dis- 

 covery of Rare Fossils at Sydney, 159 ; Discovery of Skull 

 of Ceratodus in Austria, iSi ; Fossil Chilostomatous Bryozoa 

 from New Zealand, A. W. Waters, 190 ; Purchase of the 

 Hill ick of Sansan by the French Government, 32S ; 

 Palaeontological Researches near Rheims, 407 



Palisa (Herr), New Minor Planet, 59, 425 



Palissy, the, of Calico Printing, the Life and Labours of John 

 Mercer, F.R.S., Edward A. Parnell, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, 

 F.R.S., 145 



Papers, Ozone, in Towns, Dr. W.J. Black, 76 



Parallel, to prove that only One, can be drawn from a given 

 Point to a given Straight Line, Dr. E. Budden, 92 



Parallax, Stellar, Prof. Asaph Hall, 258 



Parallax of the Sun, New Method of determining the, 455 



Parallax of 2 1516, the, M. O. Struve, 546 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 96, 119, 144, 167, 

 191, 263, 2S7, 312, 335, 359, 382, 407, 431, 454, 479, 503, 

 527. S5I1 575, 599, 624; Astronomical Prizes of the, 258; 

 Paris Geographical Society, 60, 180, 182, 354 ; Bulletin of 

 the, 353 ; Proposed Telephonic Lin? between Paris and 

 Brussels, 133; Number of Female Medical Students in, 306; 

 New Medical Paper to be published in, 376 ; Alpine Flora 

 .Surviving in the Paris District, 431 ; Meeting of the French 

 Congres de Chirurgie in, 444 ; New Building for the Labora- 

 tories of the Paris Medical School, 473 ; Bad Results of 

 Mental Straining in Young Persons at Paris Academy of 

 Medicine, 495 ; Alteration in the Mode of Competition for 

 Fellowships of Paris Medical Faculty, 517 ; Proposed Tele- 

 phone Line from Paris to London, 544; Statistics in Paris, 

 568 ; Astronomical Congress, 584 



Parker (Prof T. Jeffery), Notes from the Otago University 

 Museum, 208 



Parker (Prof. W. K., F.R S.), Morphology of Bird , 331 



Parker (W. Newton), Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, 

 Robert Wiedersheim, 121 



Parnell (Edward A), the Life and Labours of John Mercer, 

 F.R.S., Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S , 145 



Parry (E. ), Meteors, 29 



Pasterz Glacier, Rate of Movement of the, Herr Ferdinand 

 Seeland, 520 



Pasteur, Institute, the, S3 ; Statistics of Persons treated at the, 

 335 ; Treatment of Rabies, 30 



Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis, a Te.xt-bDok of, E. 

 Ziegler, 246 



Pathology, an Introduction to General, J. B. Sutton, 26 



Paulus (A.) and A. Bouinais, La France en Indo-Chine, 221 



Paws, Cats', Abnormality in, J. Herbert Hodd, 53 ; E. W. 

 Claypole, 345 ; Dr. H. A. Hagen, 345 



Peach (C. W.), Memorial Fund, 83 



