XXit 
Norske Nordhavs-Expedition, den 1876-78, G. Armauer 
Hansen, 51; Zoologie Pennatulida, Prof. H. N. Moseley, 
Pe 5 74: 
North American Museums, 381 
North American Water-Birds, Prof. S. F. Baird, Dr. T. M. 
Brewer, and R. Ridgway, 521 
North Cape, Dispute as to Proprietorship of, 302 
North-Norway Fjords, how the, were made, Karl Pettersen, 
177 
North-West England, Rainfall of, Alf. O. Walker, 271 
Northern Latitude, High, a Word or Two on the Best and 
Safest Route by which to Attain a, John Rae, F.R.S, 565 
Norway : Rainfall in, 37 ; Government Endowment of Research 
in, 207 ; Marked Salmon taken in, 309 ; Weather of Southern, 
354; Inclement Summer in, 427 ; July Weather in Southern, 
542; Pennatulida of the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedi- 
tion, Prof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 74; Norwegian Expedi- 
tion to Finmarken, 114; Biological Station at Christiania, 
280: Norwegian Testimony to the Aurora Sound, Dr. Sophus 
Tromholt, 499 ; Publication of the Norwegian Commission on 
the Measurement of Degrees in Europe, 547 
Nova of 1572, Tycho’s, 162 
Nova of 1670, Anthelm’s, 355 
Nucleine, Dr. Kossel, 520 
“‘Nutzbaren Pflanzen und Tiere Amerikas und den alten Welt 
vergleichen in Bezug auf ihren Kultureinfluss, Die,” Dr. 
L. Hock, 413 
Numidian Marbles, Lieut.-Cal. Playfair on the Rediscovery of, 
in Algeria and Tunis, 556 
Nuova Scienza, La, 516 
Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 21 
Nyassa (Lake), Dr. Robert Lawes on the Manners and Customs 
of the Bantu Tribes of, 589 
Observation of Earth-Tips and Earth-Tremors, on the, Prof 
John Milne, 259 
Observatories: Harvard College, U.S., 37; the Ben Nevis 
Meteorological, 61, 252; the Hong Kong, 84; Opening of 
the Leander McCormick, 84; Observatory of Paris, 112 ; 
Visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 138 ; Cam- 
bridge Observatory, 253 ; Stonyhurst College, 300; the Lick, 
320 ; Cincinnati, 356 
Occultation, Daylight, of Aldebaran, 86, 183, 610 
Occultations of Vesta, 355 
Ocean Basins, Great, John Murray, 581, 611 
Oceans of Water, Air, and Etber, Wave of Translation in the, 
J. Scott Russell, F.R.S., 546 Fi 
Ocular After-Images, on Certain Stages of, H. Frank Newall, 
7 
Ga After-Images and Lightning, Shelford Bidwell, 1o1 ; 
A. S. Davis, 126 ; 
Ocular Images and After-Images, W. M. Laurin, 197 
Odell (W.), the Three First Years of Childhood, Bernard 
Perez, 412 i 
Odorous Matters on Invertebrate Animals, Effects of, Herr 
Graber, 609 
Ohm, Determination of the, Self Induction in Relation to 
Certain Experiments of Mr. Willoughby Smith and to the, 
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 7 ; 
«< Ohm’s (or Langberg’s) Ellipses,” on Cases of the Production 
of, by Biaxial Crystals, H. G. Madan, 414 ‘ 
Old Red Conglomerate, Lower: Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 
on the Occurrence of, in the Promontory of the Fanad, 
North Donegal, 556 
Olsen’s (Dr.) Studies of Wild Edible Mushrooms, 162 mae 
Olsen (Herr A.), Effort at Teaching the Public of Christiania 
Practical Astronomy, 133 : ; 
Ommanney (Admiral Sir Erasmus, F.R.S,), Antarctic Dis- 
covery, 565 
Odlogy : Collection of Birds’ Eggs at Upsala, 280 
Ophiuchi, Binary-Star 70, 402 ‘ 
Optics : Intraocular Pressure, Dr. Holtzke, 191 ; Observations 
on Interference-Phenomena Produced by Glasses Parallel 
to the same Plane, Dr. Lummer, 311; Werricke’s Experi- 
ments on the Reflection of Light, Prof. von Helmholtz, 
312; the Influence of Blood-Pressure on 
Pressure, Dr. Héltzke, 336; Experiments on Double Re- 
fraction, D. S, Stroumbo, 432 
INDEX 
[Wature, Dec. 10, 188 5 
| Orbits, Cometary, 162 
! Orchid Exhibition, 79 
O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), Aurora, 54 
Organic Analysis, Commercial, Alfred H. Allen, 410 
Organic Chemistry, Prof. Ira Remsen, M. M. Pattison Muir, 
99 
“*Orientalist,” the Ceylon, 208 
Orientals, Baldness among, Herr Schweiger, 35 
Origin of the Cereals, 116 
Origin of Thunderstorm Electricity, on the, Prof. L. Sohncke, 
06 
Orinoco, Chaffanjon’s Mission on the, 184 ; Exploration of the, 
356 
Ornithology, 119; Woodpeckers Nesting in Ants’ Nests, 52; 
Notes on A/ustela itatsi and Corvus japorensis, H. Pryer, 
110; a Query as to Swallows, 197 ; the Birds of Lancashire, 
F. S. Mitchell, 241; Collection of Birds’ Eggs at Upsala, 
280; Allan Hume’s Indian Ornithological C ollection, 327 ; 
Economic Ornithology in United States, 329; Ornithology 
in United States, 461 ; Miss Beatrice Lindsay on the Develop- 
ment of the Sternum in Birds, 540 
Orthography, New System of, for Native Names of Places, 199, 
244 
Ortolan Bunting in Scotland, Capture of, 119 
Osteology, Dr. Dudgeon’s Chinese Translation of Holden’s, 
514 
Otago University Museum, Notes from the, Prof. T. Jeffery 
Parker, 586 
Outburst of Lava from Vesuvius, the New, H. J. Johnston- 
Lavis, 55 
Owen (Sir Richard, F.R.S.), on American Evidence of Eocen: 
Mammals of the ‘‘ Plastic Clay’ Period, 556 
Oxelosund, Mirage seen at, 231 
Oxus, Col. Lockhart’s Expedition, 429 
Oxygen, Combustion of Phosphorus and Carbon in, H. B. 
Baker, 87 
Oxygen, New Process of Liquefying, M. L. Cailletet, 584 
Oxygen and Nitrogen, Extraction of, from Atmospheric Air, 
354 
Oysters out of Water, Longevity of. Prof. Verrill, 474 ; Resting 
Position of, J. I’. Cunningham, 597 ; Col. H. Stuart-Wortley, 
625 
Ozone at Sea, Dr. W. J. Black, 416 
Ozonised Air, Action of, upon Micro-Organisms and Albumen 
in Solution, J. J. Coleman, 561 
Pacific, the German Annexations in, 429 
Page (A. Shaw), Long Sight, 103 
Pacoyal, the Artificial Hill of, L. Netto, 408 
Pagenstecher (Dr.), on a New Species of Frugivorous Bat 
(Wegaloglossus woermann'), 374 
Palat’s (Lieut.) Mis-ion to the Sahara, 302 
Palermo, Earthquake at, 609 
Palestine, the Survey of, 506 
Pamir, Recent Explorations of the, 59; Ivanoff, 113 ; Topo- 
graphy of the, Kosyakoff, 163 : 
Panama, I-thmus of, Piercing the, 370 
‘*Papuans and Melanesians,” Robidée van der Aa, 16 
‘*Paradise Found,” Wm. F. Warren, LL.D., 28 
Parasites, Animal, of the Sugar Cane, H. Ling Roth, 268 
Paraxanthine and Heteroxanthine, Dr. Salomon, 496 
Paris : Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 70, 94, 119, 144, 168, 190, 
Intraocular j 
216, 238, 263, 288, 311, 384, 408, 432, 495, 519, 543, 568, 591, 
616, 640 ; Academy of Sciences Biennial Prize Awarded to Dr. 
Brown-Sequard, 208 ; Geographical Society, 14, 113, 164, 302, 
357, Polytechnic School, 61 ; Labour Exhibition, 401 ; Observa- 
tory of Paris, 112; Experiments on Cremation of Body in 
Common Stove, 161; Electric Lighting in, 514; Arrival of 
Thirteen Young Canadians for Study at, 636 
Parker (Prof. T. Jeffery), Notes from the Otago University 
Museum, 586 
Pasteur (Louis), his Life and Labours, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 
146 ; on Inoculation for Rabies, 633 
Patent Law in Japan, 208 
Patents, Report of Comptroller-General of, 253 
Patriarch Joseph, Province, Lake, and Canals ascribed to the, 
Cope Whitehouse, 565 
Paulitschke and Hardegger’s Journey to Harar, 581 
