Index 



Prof. \V. Spring, 350; Influence of Light in Causing a 

 Migration of Pigment in the Retina of Cephalopods, 

 Prof. Hess, 354 ; Colours in Metal Glasses, in Metallic 

 Films, and in .Metallic Solutions, J. C. Maxwell Garnett, 

 35Q ; General Principles of Absorption Spectrophotometry, 

 and a New Instrument, James R. Milne, 391 ; the 

 Synthetic Factor in Tactual Space Perception, T. H. 

 Haines, 464 ; Method for Study of a Luminous Pheno- 

 menon Varying in Intensity with the Time, A. Turpain, 

 480; Refractive Index of Gaseous Fluorine, C. Cuthbert- 

 son and E. B. R. Prideaux, 480 ; an Introduction to the 

 Study of Colour Phenomena, Joseph W. Lovibond, 603 



Orbit of Comet H10511, Miss Lamson, 66; Elliptical 

 Elements for the. Prof. Banachiewicz, 207 ; A. Wede- 

 mayer, 207 



Orbit of 7 Corona; Borealis, the, Mr. Doberck, 424 



Orbit of CTauri, the. Profs. Frost and Adams, 592 



Organic Chemistry, a Systematic Course of Practical, 

 Lionel Guy Radcliffe and Frank Sturdy Sinnatt, 579 



Organisms, Contributions to the Study of the Behaviour 

 of Lower, Prof. Herbert S. Jennings, 3 



Origin of Eoliths, on the, Marcellin Boule, 438, 635 ; Dr. 

 Hugo Obermaier, 636 



Orion Nebula, Monochromatic Photographs of the, Prof. 

 Hartmann, 230 



Orion Type, Stars with Spectra of the, Prof. Pickering, 

 13s 



Ornithology: Rival Parents, Kennedy J. P. Orton, 8; 

 Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the British Museum. 

 28 ; the Naumann Festival at Cothen, Prof. Alfred 

 Newton, F.R.S., 36; Young Diamond-birds and a 

 Nestling Bronze-cuckoo, 40 ; Biologia Centrali-.^mericana, 

 .'\ves, Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., and Frederick Ducane 

 Godman, F.R.S., 49; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Lieut. -Colonel L. H. L. Irby, 62; Can Birds Smell? 

 Prof. \V. B. Benham, 64; the Habits of Rooks, 64; 

 Osteology of the EuryUemida;, \V. P. Pycraft, 95 ; Early 

 History of a Young Cuckoo, J. H. Gurney, 132 ; the 

 Fourth International Ornithological Congress, 177 ; 

 British Bird Life, \V. Percival Westell, 196; the Geese 

 of Europe and Asia, Sergius .Mpheraky, 266 ; Migration 

 of Birds, Otto Herman, 326 ; Bird Life Glimpses, E. 

 Selous, 367 ; Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Vogelwelt Islands, 

 B. Hantzsch, 454; Protective Coloration of the Inside 

 of the Mouth in Nestling Birds, W. Ruskin Butterfield, 

 ';^4 ; the Habit of Depositing Eggs in the Nests of Other 

 Birds, 389 : Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, 

 F. Schuyler Mathews, 602 : a Rare Game Bird, John S. 

 Sawbridge, 605: Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., 

 630 ; Greenland and Iceland Falcons in Ireland, E. 

 Williams, 608; Birds in the Field and Garden, 638 



Ortbestimmung, Handbuch der geographischen, fur Geo- 

 graphen und Forschungsreisende, Dr. Adolf Marcuse, 

 481 



Orton (Kennedy J. P.). Rival Parents, S 



Osborn (Prof. Henry Fairfield), History of a White 

 Rhinoceros Skull, 127 



Osmond (F.), Mechanical Properties of Iron in Isolated 

 Crystals, 392 



Osterhout (Dr. W. J. V.), Experiments with Plants, 364 



Ostwald (W.), Conversations on Chemistry, 364 



Otsuki (Prof.), View that Hydrogen Peroxide gives Rise 

 to a Special Radiation Capable of Affecting a Photo- 

 graphic Plate, 109 



Otto (Dr.), die physikalischen Eigenschaften der Seen, 316 



Otto (Rudolf), Naturalistische und Religiose Weltansicht, 

 77 



Ovulation, Researches on, \. Sedgwick, F.R.S., 176 



Owen (D.), the Comparison of Electric Fields by Means 

 of an Oscillating Electric Needle, 286 



Oxford : Oxford University Observatory, Prof. Turner, 

 J 10: Nature and Man, Romanes Lecture at Oxford, 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 184 ; the Needs of our 

 Oldest University, 231 ; the Oxford .'\tlas of the British 

 Colonies, 293 : the Cerebellum, its Relation to Spatial 

 Orientation and Locomotion, Bovle Lecture at O.xford, 

 Sir Victor Horsley F.R.S., 389 



Pace (S.), the Millport Marine Station. 456 

 Pacific, Bathvmctrv, Deposits and Temperature of the 

 South-western, Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., 391 



Palaeobotany : the Investigation of Fossil Seeds, 108 ; Plant 

 Remains, A. C. Seward, 539 



PaljEontology : Death and Obituary Notice of E. T. 

 Newton, F.R.S., 15; the New Diplodocus Skeleton, 82; 

 the Internal Structure of Sigillaria elcgans, R. Kidston, 

 143 : Relation of the Miocene of Maryland to that of 

 Other Regions, and to the Recent Fauna, W. H. Dall, 

 162 ; on the Dimorphism of the English Species of 

 Nummulites, and the Size of the Megalosphere in Re- 

 lation to that of the Microspheric and Megalospheric 

 Tests in this Genus, J. J. Lister, F.R.S., 188; the Age 

 and Affinities of Tritylodon, Dr. R. Broom, 285 ; Re- 

 storation of Huge Miocene American Perissodactyle of 

 Genus Megacerops, Prof. R. S. Lull, 348 ; Catalogus 

 Mammalium, tarn Viventium fossilium, E. L. Trouessart. 

 427 ; on the Origin of Eoliths, Marcellin Boule, 438, 635 : 

 Dr. Hugo Obermaier, 636 ; Neue Fische und Reptilien 

 aus der bbhmischen Kreideformation, Prof. Dr. .\nton 

 Fritsch and Dr. Fr. Bayer, 454 ; Dinochoerits hoUandi 

 from the Loup-Fork Beds of Nebraska, O. A. Peterson, 

 492 ; Value of Fossil MoUusca in Coal-measure Strati- 

 graphy, John T. Stobbs, 519; the Topography and 

 Geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt, H. J. L. 

 Beadnell, 535 ; Vertebrate Remains, Dr. A. S. Wood- 

 ward, 539 



Paljeozoische Arachniden, Prof. Dr. Anton Fricscii, R. I. 

 Pocock, 577 



Palisa (Dr.), Variation of a Newly Discovered Asteroid, 

 494; the Variable Asteroid 1905 Q.Y., 518 



Palmer (A. de Forest), a New Thermojunction, 610 



Palmer (Dr.), Twelve Stars with Variable Radial Veloci- 

 ties, 89 



Panama Canal, Problems of the. Brig. -General Henry L. 

 Abbot, 394 



Panek (M.), Bacteriological Study of " Barszcz," 182 



Papillons, Influence de I'Alimentation et de I'Humidite 

 sur la Variation des, Arnold Pictet, F. Merrifield, 632 



Para, Memorias do Museu Goeldi (Museu Paraense) de 

 Histoire Natural e Ethnographia, iv., Os Mosquitos no, 

 Prof. Dr. Emilio Augusto Goeldi, 607 



Parasite of the House-fly, a, M. D. Hill, 397; Prof. 

 Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., 429; R. I. Pocock, 604 



Parents, Rival, Kennedy J. P. Orton, 8 



Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 167, 

 191, 216, 239, 263, 288, 311, 336, 359, 392, 424, 452, 

 4S0, 504, 528, 552, 576, 600, 624, 648 I on the Origin of 

 Eoliths, Marcellin Boule at the, 438 



Paris, the Observatory of, M. Loewy, 493 



Parker (E. W.), the Coal and Lignites of the L'nited 

 States, Preliminary Report, 493-4 



Parravano (N.), Metallic Stannates and Plumbates derived 

 from Similar Acids, 109 



Pass {.\. C), Death of, 607 



Pastureau (M.), Mode of Formation of .\cetol by the Direct 

 Oxidation of Acetone, 192 



Patent Law and the New Practice, the Inventor's Guide 

 to, James Roberts, 53 



Pathology : Clinical and Pathological Observations on Acute 

 .■\bdominal Diseases, E. M. Corner, 122 



Pavement, the Modern Asphalt, Clifford Richardson, 316 



Peake (A. H.), Determination of the Specific Heat of 

 Superheated Steam by Throttling, &c., 116 



Pearce (Dr. Francis), Eruptive Rocks of the Chain of 

 Tilai-Kanjakowsky-C^r^briansky, Perm, 18 



Pearce (F.), Gladkaite, 192 



Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), the Problem of the Random 

 Walk, 294, 342 



Peary's (Commander) Expedition to North Pole, 274 



Peck'ham (Elizabeth G.), Wasps, Social and Solitary, 3q5 



Peckham (George W.), Wasps, Social and Solitary, 305 



Peddie (Dr. W.), Magnetic Quality of a Boschovichian 

 Assemblage of Molecular Magnets, 167 



Pel^e, the Tower of, New Studies of the Great Volcano 

 of Martinique, Prof. Angelo Heilprin, loi 



Penard (Eugene), les Sarcodines des Grands Lacs, 218 



Pendred (V.), Efficiency of the Steam Jacket, 213 



Pennsvlvania, University of. Transactions of the Depart- 

 ment of Archseologv, Free Museum of Science and Art, 

 H. R. Hall, 98 



Periodicitv of Aerolite Falls, W. H. S. Monck, 230 



Perkin {.\. G.), Formula of Cyanomaclurin, 71 



