Natural Selection and Dysteleology. 164 



Newbiggin (J.), Chronology of Gas Lighting, 253 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, College of Physical Science, 151, 351, 382 



Newfoundland Seal Fishery, 264 



New Guinea, Herpetology of, 191 ; Expedition of H.M.S. 



Bnsilist, 294 

 Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Migration of Birds, 415 

 New York : Destruction of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins's Models, 



112; Museum of Natural History, 150 ; Fisheries, 214 

 New Zealand : Cleology and Ornithology, 172 ; Salmon Culture, 



215; Austrian Knighthood conferred on Dr. vou Haast, 



Director of the Museum at Canterbury, 343 ; Observatory, 



294 ; Flax, 448 

 Nicholson (Prof. H. A.), Polyzoa from Silurian Rocks (Br. A ), 



412 

 Nicol's Prisms, Constniction of (Br. A.), 451 

 Nitric Acid, Dissociation of (Br. A.), 452 

 Nomenclature, English, in Biology (Rr. A.), 453 

 Nomenclature of Diseases, 436 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 174 

 Norgate (Fred.), The Telegraph in Storm Warnings, 125 

 Northampton : Sewage and Sewage Farming, 38 1 

 Nottingham : Educatiou,^n, 94 

 "Nutrition of Animal Tissues," by Dr. W. Marcet, F.R.S., 



307 



Observatories : Cape of Good Hope, 295 ; Cordoba, 72 ; Min- 

 nesota, 134; Radchffe (Oxford), 231 ; Paris, 15. 150, 213, 294, 

 3"6> 307, 344, 358, 470, 515, 52S ; New Zealand, 294 

 Washington, 306, 307 ; Potsdam, 406 ; Puy-de-Dome, 343 • 

 St. Petersburg, 54; San Francisco, 171 ; Vienna, Strasburg, 

 73, 470; United States, 1S6, 206 



Octan Currents, 52, 62, 83, 170, 484 



Ogilvie (Mr.), Phosphoric Acid (Br. A.), 389 



defines. Chlor- Bromides and Brom-Iodiles of (Br. A.\ 452 



Oliver (Prof. F.K.S.), "Natural Orders of the Vegetable King- 

 dom," 222 



Opium Derivatives (Br. A.), 432 



Optical Delusion, 147 



Optics of the Spectroscope, 467 



" Organic Chemistry," by H. E. Armstrong, Ph.D., F.C.S., 



333 

 Organ-pipes ; Physicil Action at the Mouth of, 161 ; Process of 



Tone-making, 481 

 Orient? lists. International Congress of, 375, 419 

 " Ornithology, Field," by Dr. Elliot Coues, 146 

 Ornithology (5tv British Association, Sec. D) 

 Or*ell, River, Discovery of a Buried Forest, 52S 

 0^iers, Cidtivation of, 448 

 Osteological Monograph-writing, 159 

 Ostrich-breeding, 253 

 "Out of Doors, or Practical Natural History," by the Rev. J. 



G. Wcod, M.A., 519 

 Owen (Prof., F.R.S.), Ethnology of Egypt, 138 ; Oriental 



Ethnology, 420 

 Owens College, Manchester, 53, 306, 351, 407, 42S : "Essays 



and Addresses," 182 ; Prof. Huxley's Address on opcniug 



the Medical School, 455 ; Conversazione, 489 

 Oxford, Science at, 73, 93, 113, 171, 172, 214, 230, 252, 511 

 Oyster-Trade, American, 290 

 Oysters, Scarcity of, 172 

 Ozone, Effects of (Br. A.), 413 



" Painting, The Science of," by Prof, von Bezold, 221 



fahrothcriiim niagunm, 124 



Palestine Exploration Fund: Survey of Palestine, 151, 361 ; 

 Meeting at the Duke of Westminster's, 253 



Palgrave ( W. G.), Atmospheric Currents in the West Indies, 65 



Paper, New Material for, 427 



Paris: Academy of Sciences, 20, 38, 58, 73, 78, 98, 118, 134, 

 138, 150, 158, 171, 178, 198, 218, 238, 258, 27S, 298, 307, 

 330. 374. 394. 414. 427, 434. 454. 472. 494, 514 ; Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society, 76, 135, 196, 473, 514; Anthropological Society, 

 235, 297, 5:3, 533 ; Exhibition of Useful anl Noxious Insects, 

 295, 407, 530 ; Geological Society, 16, 213 ; French Geolo- 

 gical Works, 100; International Geographical Congress, 267; 

 International Metric Commission, 130 ; Observatory, 15, 150, 

 213, 294, 306, 307, 344, 358, 470, 515, 528; ReptUe-House 

 in the jardin des Plantes, 472, 510 



Parker (Prof.), Hunterian Lectures on the Vertebrate Skull, 9, 

 107, 11.7, 249, 444. 



Parrots, Classification of, 466 



Pasteur (M.), Pension granted to, 252 



Patent Museum, iis proposed removal, 232 



Pavy (F. W., M.D.), " Food and Dietetics," 60 



Payer (Lieut.), Austrian Arctic Expedition, 439, 523 



Peabody Museum, Harvard (U.S.), 344 



Peat Manufacture in Germany, 294 



Penikese Zoological School, 94. 



Pennsvlvania, Geological Survey of, 231 



Periodicity of Rainfall, 263 



Peroxide, Reaction of (Br. A.), 432 



Peruvian Skull, 46, 123, 355 



Pes:hel (Dr. Oscar), Degeneracy of Man, 204 



Piiiiger on the Salivary Glands of the C jckroach, 3S1 



Pharmaceutical Conference, 4S9 



Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences, 16, 77, 217, 276, 



297, 474, 514 ; Franklin Institute, 274, 276, 373 

 Phipson (Dr. T. L. ), Cyanogen in Commercial Bromine, Sesqri- 



sulphide of Iron (Br. A.), 432 

 Phosphoric Acid (Br. A.), 389 

 Photographic Iiradiation, 63, 85, 185, 205, 222, 245, 381, 439, 



(Br. A.), 449, 522 

 Photographic Society, 407, 467 

 Photography: "Amateur's Guide Bjok," by W. J. Stillman, 



2S4 ; Recent Researches, 281 

 Photography (Spectrum), by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 109, 254 

 Photography (Spectrum), and Photo-chemistry, 243 

 Photography in Transit of Venus (Br. A.), 449 

 Phylloxera vastatrix and the Vine Disease, 172, 252, 471, 472, 



503. 530 

 Physical Axioms, 3, 25, 43, 84, 103, 123, 305, 335 

 " Physical Forces, Correlation of," by the Hon. Sir W. R. 



Grove, F.R.S., 302 

 " Physical Manipulation," by Prof. Edw. C. Pickering, 160 

 Physical Science [See British Association, Sec. A) 

 Physics, Teaching in Schools (Br. A.), 410 ; at the London 



University, 525 ; Bibliography of, 508 

 "Physiology," by M. Foster, M.D., F.R.S., 261 

 "Physiology for Practical Use," by J as. Hinton, 121 

 Physiology (See British Association, Sec. D) 

 Pickering (Prof. Edw. C), "Physical Manipulation," 160 

 Pigeons used for Press purposes, 360 

 Pitcher-Plants, 253, 463, 512 (iV^ Carnivorous Plants) 

 Plants, Carnivorous, by Dr. Hooker, C.B , Pres. R.S. (Br. A.), 



366 

 Plants, De Candolle's proposed "Physical Groups" of, 121 

 Plateau (Prof. J.), Soap-bubbles, 119 

 Poggendorfi's Aiinalen der PItysik tiiui Chemie, l8, 36, 75, 154, 



453 

 Poisonous Snakes of Australia, 273 

 Polar Exploration (See Arctic Exploration) 

 Polarisation of the Aurora, 398 

 Polarisation of Light, by W. Spottiswoode, Treas. F. R. S., 



125 

 Pollen-grains in the Air, 355, 398 

 Pollen-grains, Form of (Br. A.), 433 

 Polyzoa from Silurian Rocks (Br. A.), 412 

 Ponti (Girolamo), his bequest to "Academies of Science," 427, 



470 

 Potato Disease (Br. A.), 390 

 Potsdam Observatory, 406 

 Power (H.), Chrysomela Banksii, 419 

 Prestwich (Prof. Joseph, F. R. S.), Deep-Sea Temperatures; 



Lenz's Doctrine, 170 ; Geology of Portland and Weymouth, 



176 ; Geology of Proposed Channel Tunnel, iSl 

 Priestley (Dr. Joseph), his Statue at Birmingham, 213 ; Proposed 



Centenary Commemoration, 230, 252 ; Memoir of, 239 

 Primroses destroyed by Birds, 6, 24 

 Piocter (Henry R.). Aurora B.ireal s, 355 

 " Protoplasmic Theory of Life," by J. Drysdale, M.D., 519 

 Pryer (R. \.), Antipathy of Spiders to Chestnut Wood, 26 

 Public Schools Commission ; Proposed Regulations, 219 

 Purser (J., M.R.I.A.), Kinetic Energy (Br. A.), 450 

 " Pyrogen," a new Gas, 512 



Rabbits : their Care for their Dead, 264 ; Is the Rabbit Indi- 

 genous? 461 

 Rain, Influence of Forests on. Report on (Br. A.), 373 

 Rainbows, 274, 39S, 457, 460. 4^3, S°3. 522; Mist Bows, 438 

 Rainfall of 1873-74, Report on (Br. A.), 342 



