"iUjipUment to Xatit}e,'\ 

 December lo, 1896 J 



Index 



Museum (Natural History), George Albert Boulenger, F.R.S., 



266 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott's Natural History Collection, 423 ; 



Mr. George Abbott on a I'lan for the Organisation of Local 



Natural History Societies, 636 

 Natural Selection : Are .Specific Characters the Result of 



Natural Selection? Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 246 ; Are 



Specific Characters Useful? Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F. R.S., 



245 ; Utility of Specific Characters, Trof. E. R. Lankester, 



F.R.S., 491 : VV. r. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 293,435 ; Prof. 



VV. F. R. VVeldon, F.R.S., 294, 413; J. T. Cunningham, 



295; Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S.,460; Among Mutillida;, 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 461 

 Naturwissenschaften, Grundriss einer Cleschichte der. Dr. 



Friedrich Dannemann, 316 

 Nautical Almanacs, Constants for, 84 

 Navigation : Azimuth Tables for the Higher Declinations, 



H. B. Goodwin, Rev. F. C. Stebbing, 337; Practical 



.Mechanics for Sailors, Thomas Mackenzie, Rev. F. C. 



.Stebbing, 364 ; the Direction of Acoustic Signals at Sea. E. 



Hardy, 373 ; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Rev. F. C. 



Stebbing, 389 

 Nebulosity in the Pleiades, New, W. Stratonoff, 327 

 Neo-Lamarckism, Prof. C. L. Morgan on, 605 

 Nernst (W.), Contact Electricity, 455 

 Nerve-Cells, Atlas of, Dr. M. A. Starr, Prof. E. A. Schafer, 



F.R.S.,340 

 Nerve-Cells, Dr. Mann on, 634 

 Nerves, Observations on Isolated, 18 

 Nest, a Curious Bird's, P. B. Brodie, 172 

 Nesting Time, Rooks at, F. E. Baines, 9 

 Nest-building Amphipod in the Broads, Henry Scherren, 367 

 Neurology : Death of Dr. Callender, 597 

 Neville (F. H.), Complete Freezing-point Curves of Alloys of 



Silver or Copper with another Metal, 263 

 New South Wales Linnean Society, 96, 16S, 240, 3S4, 544, 



592 

 New South Wales, Royal Society of, 488 

 New York, the Water Supply of the City of, Edward Wegmann, 



New Zealand : the Displacement of Native Plants, T. Kirk, 



Newcomb (Prof.), Possible Changes in the Earths Rotation, 



158 

 Newfoundland, Gold discovered in, 422, 51S 

 Newson (Prof. H. B. ), Remarkable Covariant of a System of 



Quantics, 213 

 Ncwth (G. S.). Elementary Practical Chemistry, 51 

 Newton (Prof. H. A.), Comparison between Mortalities of Yale 



(jraduates in 1701-1744 and 1745-1762, 254 ; Death of, 371 ; 



Obituary Notice of, 394 

 Newton (W.), on Nitrates : their Occurrence and Manufacture, 



584 

 Niagara Falls, Earth-Tremors and Sounds produced by, \\ . H. 



Brewer, 155 

 Niagara as a Timepiece, J. W. Spencer, 48 1 

 Nicaragua Canal, the, A. R. Colquhoun, 127 

 Nicloux (^L), Measurement of Odours in Air, 23 

 Nicole (^L), the Bacillococcus of Anatolian Goat-Pneumonia, 



372 ; Diphtheria Toxine Preparation, 372 

 Nipher (Prof. F E. ), Rotation of Kathode Disc, in 

 Nitragin, Dr. Nobbe's, 326 

 Nitrates : their Occurrence and Manufacture. Mr. W. Newton, 



on, 584 

 Nitro-Explosives, P. G. Sanford, 410 

 Nitrogen, a New Oxyacid of, 377 

 Nobbe (Dr.), Nitragin, 326 



North Carolina, Slavery in. Prof. J. S. Bassclt, 157 

 North Pole to Equator, from, Alfred Edmund Brehm, 194 

 Norway : Depths of Lakes in Jotunheim and Thelemark, A. 



Helland, 34 

 N'lrwich Castle Museum, the Official Guide to the, Thos. 



Southwell, 292 

 N .s.ilogy ; j-c'f Morbology 

 X..vember .Meteors, G. Johnstone Stoney, 301 ; W. F. Denning, 



023 

 Numl«r Concept, the : its Origin and Development, Prof. Levi 



Leonard Conant, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 145 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 213, 334 

 Nursey (R. F. ), the Production of Metallic Bars of any Section 



by Extrusion, 39 



01)jective Gratings, Messrs. Hall and Wadsworth, 256 

 Observatories : the Observatory at Mount Mounier, 13 ; Mr. 

 Tebbutt's Observatory, 35 ; University Observatories in 

 America, 64; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 139; the 

 Natal Observatory, 158 ; Rugby Observatory, 231 ; Harvard 

 College Observatory, Prof. Pickering, 231 ; the Hamburg 

 Observatory, 301 ; the Dunsink Observatory, 301 ; Observatory 

 of Moscow, 301 ; the Cape Observatory, 426 ; the Leander 

 McCormick Observatory, 579 

 Occultation of Jupiter, 137 



Occultations, Graphical Prediction of. Major Grant, 206 

 Odours in Air, Measurement of, A. Gerardin and M. Nicloux, 



23 

 Ogilby (J. D.), Ii/c/anotiCinii/,€, a New Australian Family, 384 

 Ogilvie (Dr. Maria AL), the Scenery of Switzerland, and the 

 Causes to which it is due, Right Hon. Sir J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 



439. 547 

 Ogle (John T.), the New Education Bill and Libraries, Museums, 



and Art Galleries, 8 

 Oil : Baku and its Oil Industry, Dr. \V. F. Hume, 232 

 Old World Meteorology, 329 

 Olszewski (Prof. K.), Research on Liquefaction of Helium, 377, 



544 



Onnes' (Dr. Kamerlingh) Physical Laboratory at Leiden, 345 



Oppel (A.), Ancient Mexican Mosaics, 280 



Optics : Optical Superposition of Six Asymmetric Carbon 

 Atoms in One Active Molecule, P. A. Guye and C. Goudet, 

 23 ; New Stereo-Telescopes, Carl Zeiss, 37 ; Stereoscopic 

 Photo-Chromoscope, F. E. Ives, 37 ; the Positions of Retinal 

 Images, Edward T. Dixon, 54 ; the Condensation of Dark 

 Light, G. Le Bon, 71 ; Number of Visual Units existing in 

 Human Retina, Prof. Konig, 95 ; Effect of Light on Spark 

 Discharges, E. Warburg, 120, 544; Modern Optical Instru- 

 ments and their Construction, Henry Orford, 170; Theoretical 

 Investigations concerning Light, P. Glan, 189 ; an Optical 

 Illusion, F. H. Loring, 24S ; Refraction and Diffraction of 

 X-R.ays, M. Gouy, 254 ; Measurements of Chemical Intensity 

 of Light, Prof. Wiesner, 299 ; Polarised Fluorescence, L. 

 Sohncke, 311 ; Der Lichtsinn Augenloser Tiere, Dr. W. A. 

 Nagel, 341 ; Observations on Transparency of Waters of 

 Venetian Lagoon and Gulf of Gaeta, 352 ; the Fata Morgana, 

 Andre Delebecque, 432 ; Death and Obituary Notice of A. 

 H. L. Fizeau, Prof. A. Gray, F.R.S., 523 



Orbits, Double Star, Dr. See, 280 



Orchard (Thomas N.), the Astronomy of Milton's "Paradise 

 Lost," 26 



Orford (Henry), Modern Optical Instruments and their Con- 

 struction, 170 



Organic Evolution, the Primary Factors of. Prof. J. McKeen 

 Cattell, 101 



Organic Matter, the Circulation of. Dr. C. V. Poore, 141 



Organisation of Technical Literature, the, M. W. Brown, 622 



Origin of Atolls, a Query concerning the. Prof. Ralph S. Tarr, 



lOI 



Origin of the Vertebrates, the, W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 551 

 Ormerod (Miss G. E.), Death of, 401 



Ornithology : Rooks at Nesting Time, F. E, Baines, 9 ; Books 

 on Birds, 58 : Slowness of Coagulation of Blood in Birds, C. 

 Delezenne, 144 ; the Destruction of Egrets, Sir William 

 Flower, 204 ; a Concise Handbook of British Birds, H. Kirke 

 Swann, 245 ; the Evolution of Bird-Song, Charles A. 

 Witchell, W. Warde Fowler, 290 ; a Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Moray Basin, J. A. Harvie Brown, T. E. Buckley, 433 : 

 British Birds' Nests : How, where, and when to find and 

 identify them, R. Kearton, 433 ; British Sea Birds, Charles 

 Dixon, 433 ; a Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain, R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 433 ; the Note of the Cuckoo, A. H. 

 Macpherson, 526; the Departure of the Swallows, 595; 

 Lord Hobhouse, 546 ; Birds Profiting by Experience, Dr. 

 R. Williams, 597 ; Meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, 

 629 

 Orsi (Dr. P.), the Novilara Necropolis, 237 

 Ortman (A. E.), Climatic Zones in Jurassic Times, 45 

 Osmosis : the Laws of Osmosis, Dr. L. Barlow, 185 ; Osmotic 

 Pressure, W. C. D. Whethani, 571 ; Dr. Lazarus Barlow on, 



6j5 

 Osteologie, Atlas d', Prof. Ch. Debierre, 148 

 Osteology of Pygmy Peoples, Dr. R. \^erneau, 325 

 0.stfriesischen Inseln, Flora der. Prof. Dr. Buchenau, W. B. 



Hemsley, F.R.S., 341 



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