XXIV 
INDEX 
[Nature, Dec. 10, 1885 
Poulton (E. B.), the Essential Nature of the Colouring of Phy- 
tophagous Larve, 91 
Pozzo (Enrico dal), ‘‘ Un Capitolo de Psicofisiologia,” 413 
Practical Physics, Lessons in Elementary, Prof. Balfour Stewart, 
F.R.S., and W. W. Haldane Gee, 339 
Pre-Existence and Post-Existence of Thought, Dr. Hyde Clarke, 
102 
Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), ‘‘On Charging Secondary Batteries,” 
142; ona Remarkable Occurrence during the Thunderstorm 
of August 6, 1885, 536; on Domestic Electric Lighting, 536 
Prehistoric America, Marquis de Nadaillac, Dr. E. B, Tylor, 
F.R.S., 593 
Prehistoric Burial-Grounds, T. A. Archer, 548 
Prehistoric Cemetery, 518 
Prehistoric Remains in Switzerland, 84 
Present Needs, Our, 433 
Preservation of Niagara, 131 
Pressure-Flxion, Prof. H. Carvill Lewis on some Examples of 
Pressure-Fluxion in Pennsylvania, 559 
Prestwich (Prof., F.R.S.), on Regional Metamorphism, 214 
Preyer (W.), ‘‘ Specielle Physiologie des Embryo,” F. J. Allen, 
267 
Prime Meridian Question, the French View of the, 159 
Primitive Peoples of America, the, Alexander von Humboldt, 
464 
Primitive Races, on the Manifestation of the #sthetic Faculty 
among, Dr. D. Wilson, 259 
Prisms, on the Use of Carbon Bisulphide in, Dr. Henry Draper, 
67 
Prisms, on a Photometer made with Translucent, J. Joly, 537 
Prjevalsky (Col.), his Hoang-Ho Journey, 15, 63, 253; Thibet 
Expedition, 493, 635 
Proceedings of the Boston Natural History Society, 519 
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 591 
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 495 
Products, Mineral, of the United States, 404 
“Properties of Matter,” Prof. Tait’s, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 
314 
Proposed Change in the Astronomical Day, a, M. D. Downing, 
523 
Proteids in Plants, Digestion of, Sidney Martin, 563 
Protoplasm, Chemical Difference between Living and Dead, 
Dr. Oscar Loew, 563 
** Protozoa,” Biitschli’s, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 145 
Protractor and Goniometer, a New Form of, W. F. Stanley, 
402 
Pryer (H.), Notes on AZustela itatst and Corvus japonensis, 110 ; 
Lepidoptera of Great Britain and Japan compared, 427 
Psicofisiologia, un Capitolo di, Enrico dal Pozzo, 413 
Ptomaines, Prof. Brieger on the, 239 
Public Opinion and State Aid to Science, 497 
Pulsation in the Veins, 437; J. Hippisley, 389, 574; Dr. J. 
W. Williams, 466 
Pumpelly (Raphael), Composite Portraits of Members of the 
National Academy of Sciences, 176 
Quain (Dr.), on the Low Popular Estimate of Medicine, 608 
Qualitative Inorganic Analysis, a Practical Treatise on Practical 
Chemistry and, Frank Clowes, 2 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 116, 591 
Quatrefages (M. de), the Red Indians, 164 
Queensland, Northern, Meteorological Station in, 279 
Queenwood College Mutual Improvement Society, 553 
Question of Civil and Astronomical Time, 245 
Quinquefoliate Strawberry, E. Lewis Sturtevant, 126 
Rabbits in the Western Islands, Are there ?, Herbert Ellis, 575 
“*Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen Flora von Deutschland, Oester- 
reich, und der Schweiz,” ror 
Rabies, Pasteur on Inoculation for, 633 
Rackarock, the Hell Gate Explosion and, Dr. H. Sprengel, 
F.R.S., 625 
Radau (K.), Elements of Brooks’s Comet, 543 
Radiant Energy Recorder, on a, Prof. J. W. Clark, 233, 343 
Radiant Light and Heat, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 322, 
389, 394, 413, 422, 550 
Radiant Matter Spectroscopy, W. Crookes, F.R.S., and M. 
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 283 ; 
Radiation, Molecular, in Incandescent Lamp, Dr. J. A. 
Fleming, 263 
Radlkofer (Prof. L.), Application of the Anatomical Method to 
the Determination of the Materials of the Linnean and Old 
Herbaria, 563 
Rae (John, F.R.S.), a Word or Two on the Best and Safest 
Route by which to attain a High Northern Latitude, 565 
, Railway Congress at Brussels, 401 
Railway Locomotion on the Present Principle, William Hedley 
the Inventor of, M. Archer, 595 
Railway Sleepers, the Question of Metal, 401 
Rainbow, B. de Spinoza’s Work on the, 30 
Rainbow Phenomenon, Chas. Croft, 30; Prof. Silvanus P. 
Thompson, 54 
Rainbow, Tertiary, T. C. Lewis, 523, 626 
Rainfall in Norway, 37 
Rainfall of N.W. England, Alf. O. Walker, 271 
Rainfall for 1884, British, G. J. Symons, 463 
Rainfall in East Indian Archipelago, Statistics of, 494 
Rainfall in the Climate of London, on the Sequence of Mean 
Temperature and, Dr. Courteney Fox, 536 
Rainfall of the British Islands, A. Buchan, 536 
Rains in Eastern Asia, Extraordinary, 461 
Range, the Ruahine, New Zealand, 108 
Rarities, Five Mathematical Book, 30 
Rats at Inventions Exhibition, 112 
Raudnitz (Dr.), a Vasomotor Centre in Cortex and Cerebrum, 119 
Ravenstein (E. G.), Batho-Hypsographical Maps, with Special 
Reference to a Combination of the Ordnance and Admiralty 
Surveys, 565 
Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Self-Induction in Relation to Certain 
Experiments of Mr. Willoughby Smith and to the Deter- 
mination of the Ohm, 7; the Theory of Illumination in a 
Fog, 22; on a Monochromatic Telescope, 22; Prof. Tait’s 
‘* Properties of Matter,” 314; on the Thermodynamic 
Efficiency of Thermopiles, 536 
Rays, Red, after Sunset, Geo. F. Burder, 466 
Reactions, Chemical, Influence of Dilution and Excess on, 
Urech, 87 
Reade (Mellard), the North Atlantic as a Geological Basin, 609 
' Reading School, Opening of Chemical Laboratory at, 328 
Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 47 
Recorder, Radiant Energy, Prof. J. W. Clark, 233, 343 
Red Glows, Prof. Ricco, 120 
Red Hail, C. Evans, 54; Prof. Théodore Schwedoff, 437 
Red Indians, the, M. de Quatrefages, 164 
Red Men, E. F. im Thurn on the, about the Roraima, 587 
Red Rays after Sunset, Geo. F. Burder, 466 
Red River Route to South-West China, 554 
Red Sea and the Mediterranean, on the Cause of the Extreme 
Dissimilarity between the Faunas of the, Prof. E, Hull, 
F.R.S., 560 
Red Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 626 
“*Reeckening van Kanssen,” 30 
Refraction, Atomic, of Sulphur in Various Compounds, Nasini, 
87 
Refraction, Double, Experiments on, D. S. Stroumbo, 432 ; on 
a Point in the Theory of, R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 538 
Regional Metamorphism, by Prof. Prestwich, F.R.S., 214 
Reian Meeris, Projected Restoration of the, and the Province, 
Lake, and Canals ascribed to the Patriarch Joseph, Cope 
Whitehouse, 565 
Reichardt (Dr. H. W.), Death of, 328 
Remsen (Prof. Ira), an Introduction to the Study of the Com- 
pounds of Carbon on Organic Chemistry, M. M. Pattison 
Muir, 99 
Renard (Prof. A.), on some Rock Specimens from the Islands 
of the Fernando Noronha Group, 556 
Rendiconti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, 1884- 
85, 3 
Remliconti del R. Istituto Lombardo, 45, 68, 117, 214, 237, 
310, 359, 384, 568 ee : Re, 
Reports of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 
for 1881-82, J. T. Cunningham, 79 
Research, Zoological, 43 
Research, the New Endowment for, Dr. Chas. Sedgwick Minot, 
297 
