INDEX II. 



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nutrition of, with remarks on tlie 

 colloid condition of matter, 140. 



*Napier's original method of logarithms, 

 Prof. Purser on, 23. 



National finance and accounts, F. P. 

 Fellows on a proposed Doomsday 

 Book, giving the value of government 

 property as a basis for a sound system 

 of, 211. 



Natural-history societies, Sir W. EUiot 

 on the advantage of systematic co- 

 operation among provincial, so as to 

 make their observations available to 

 naturalists generally, 124. 



•Naval efficiency and dockyard economy, 

 C. Lamport on, 212. 



Neaves (Lord) Address to the Section of 

 Economic Science and Statistics, 191. 



*Nebula, Dr. Gill on the parallax of a 

 planetary, 34. 



Nevins (Dr. J. B.) on the changes which 

 occur in plants during the ripening of 

 the seeds, 130 ; on the nature of the 

 cruciferous fruit, with reference to the 

 replum, 130. 



Newman (Prof. F. W.) on doubly dia- 

 metral quartan curves, 20. 



Nitrate of silver, J. H. Gladstone and 

 A. Tribe on the corrosion of copper 

 plates by, 29. 



*INitrogen, organic, E. C. C. Stanford 

 on the retention of, by charcoal, 81. 



Nutation, Prof. Zenger on the nutoscope, 

 an apparatus for showing graphically 

 the cm've of precession and, 36. 



Nutoscope, Prof. Zenger on the, an ap- 

 paratus for sho'wing graphically the 

 cm-ve of precession and nutation, 36. 



Nutrition of muscular and pulmonary 

 tissue in health and in phthisis, Dr. 

 W. Marcet on the, with remarks on 

 the colloid condition of matter, 140. 



Oban, Argyllshire, Prof. Turner on hu- 

 man and animal bones and fiints found 

 in a cave at, 160. 



Oceanic circidation. Dr. W. B. Cai-penter 

 on the thermo-dynamics of the gene- 

 ral, 51. 



Old Red Sandstone, J. Miller on the so- 

 called liyoid plate of the Asterolepis 

 of the, 106 ; lower, of Hay, Brecon- 

 shire, the Rev. W. S. Symonds on a 

 new fish-spine from the, 110. 



Omphalo-mesenteric vessels in the egg 

 of the common fowl, B. T. Lovrae on 

 the ciliated condition of the inner 

 layer of the blastoderm and of the, 

 140, 242. 



Optical properties of different glasses. 

 Prof. Stokes on the researches of the 

 late Rev. W. V.i Harcourt on the 

 conditions of 'ti-ansparency in glass, 

 and the connexion between the che- 

 mical constitution and, 38. 



Orange-peel, Dr. Wright and C. II. 

 Piesse on the oxidation products of 

 essential oil of, 83. 



Organization of societies, R. B. Walker 

 on the, nationally and locally con- 

 sidered, 223. 



*Origin of life. Dr. Charlton Bastian on 

 some new experiments relating to the, 

 122. 



*Origin of species, Prof. A. Macalister on 

 the bearing of muscular anomalies on 

 the Darwinian theory of the, 140. 



Origin of the domestic . animals of 

 Europe, W. Boyd Dawkins on the, 

 149. 



* Origin of the moral sense, Rev. Dr. 

 M'^Cann on the, 155. 



Origin of volcanoes, P. W. Stuart Men- 

 teath on the, 104. 



Orkneys, G. Petrie on ancient modes of 

 sepulture in the, 156. 



Oxidation products of essential oil of 

 orange-peel. Dr. Wright and C. H. 

 Piesse on the, 83. 



Ozonometry, Dr. Moffat on, 76. 



Palaeolithic age, W. Boyd Dawkins on 

 the attempted classification of the, 

 by means of the mammalia, 149. 



*PaUadius (the Archimandrite), letters 

 from Vladivostok and Nikolsk, South 

 Ussuri district, 187. 



Palmer (E. H.) on the geography of 

 Moab, 187. 



Palmer (Capt. H. S.) on an acoustic phe- 

 nomenon at Jebel Nagiis, in the penin- 

 sula of Sinai, 188. 



*Panama, the Rev. Dr. Hume on the 

 coal-beds of, in reference mainly to 

 their economic importance, 102. 



Pamlamis utilis, Prof. Thiselton Dyer on 

 the minute anatomy of the stem of 

 the screw-pine, 128. 



Paraboloidal reflector for lighthouses, 

 Thomas Stevenson on a, 37. 



Parhelia, or mock suns, observed in Ire- 

 land, W. A. Traill on, 56. 



Partitions, J. J. Sylvester on the theoiy 

 of a point in, 23. 



Peach (C. W.), additions to the list of 

 fossils and localities of the carboni- 

 ferous formation in and around Edin- 

 burgh, 109 ; on the so-called tailless 

 trout of Islay, 133. 



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