INDEX. 



951 



Petrie in the cemetery of Hawara, 

 Lower Egypt, 712. 



Newton (Prof. A.) on the migration of 

 birds, 146 ; on the present state of our 

 knowledge of the zoology and botany 

 of the West India islands, and on the 

 steps taken to investigate ascertained 

 deficiencies in the fauna and flora, 437 ; 

 on the irruption of Syrrhaptes jjara- 

 doxvg, 703. 



Nicholson (Prof. J. S.) on the best 

 methods of ascertaining and mea- 

 suring variations in the value of the 

 monetary standard, 181 ; on the statis- 

 tical data available for determining 

 the amount of the precious metals in 

 use as money, &c., 219. 



Nicobar islanders, the funeral rites and 

 ceremonies of the, E. H. Man on, 

 844. 



Nicol (Dr. W. W. J.) on the bibliography 

 of solution, 54 ; on the nature of 

 solution, 93 ; a new gas analysis 

 apparatus, 632. 



Nile, the region from the, to the Euphra- 

 tes, notes on the geography of, as 

 known to the ancient Egyptians, by 

 Rev. H. G. Tomkins, 741 ; remarks 

 thereon by Major Conder, 743. 



Nile flood, the Raiyan project for the 

 storage of, by Cope Whitehouse, 799. 



Niven (Prof. C.) on the work of the 

 DifiEerential Gravity Meter Committee, 

 72. 



Norfolk (F.), *the vital and commercial 

 statistics of Bath, 780 ; *o]d age and 

 sickness assurance for the mercantile 

 and professional classes, i&. 



North-western tribes of the dominion of 

 Canada, fourth report on the physical 

 characters, languages, and industrial 

 and social condition of the, 233 ; re- 

 port on the Sarcee Indians, by Rev. E. 

 F. Wilson, 242 ; notes thereon by H. 

 Hale, 253. 



♦Nutrition of embryos, certain adapta- 

 tions for the, F. W. Oliver on, 710. 



Observations made in the anthropometric 

 laboratory at Manchester, by G. W. 

 Blosam and Dr. J. G. Garson, 854. 



Occupations and employments, different, 

 the effects of, on the physical develop- 

 ment of the human body, report on, 

 100. 



Ohm's law in electrolytes. Prof. Fitz- 

 gerald and F. Trouton on the accu- 

 racy of, 341. 



Older rocks of Anglesey, report on the 

 microscopic structure of the, 367. 



Oligoclase, three specimens of, from 

 North Carolina, exhibiting curious op- 

 tical properties, Dr. P. Frazer on, 655. 



Oliver (Prof.) on our present knowledge 

 of the flora of China, 420. 



♦Oliver (F. W.) on certain adaptations 

 for the nutrition of embryos, 710. 



Ommanney (Adm. Sir E.), on the desira- 

 bility of further research in the Ant- 

 arctic regions, 316; on the erosion of 

 the sea-coasts of England and Wales, 

 898. 



Oolitic texture in limestone rocks. Prof. 

 H. G. Seeley on the origin of, 674. 



*Ophir, the Land of, and Bechuanaland, 

 by Rev. J. Mackenzie, 745. 



Orbits, catenaries, and curved rays, Prof. 

 J. D. Everett on the relations between, 

 581. 



♦Ordnance Survey, photographic and 

 photozincographic processes employed 

 in the, by Col. J. H. BoUand, 740. 



Orkney click mill, the old, by Prof. A. 

 Jamieson, 807. 



Osborn (H. F.), the evolution of the mam- 

 malian molar teeth to and from the 

 tritubercular type, 660. 



Oviduct, the, and connected structures in 

 certain fresh-water teleostei, report on 

 the development of, 338. 



Oxygen, evidence of the tetravalency of, 

 derived from the constitution of the 

 azonaphthol-compounds, by Prof. R. 

 Meldola, 635. 



, the absorption spectrum of. Profs. 



Liveing and Dewar on, 576. 

 -, the atomic weight of. Dr. A. Scott 



on, 631. 



Oxyg^ne, les spectres de 1', Dr. J, Janssen 

 sur, 547. 



Pachytheca, a Silurian alga of doubtful 

 affinities, C. A. Barber on, 711. 



*Pahang, an independent state in the 

 Malayan peninsula, W. B. d'Almeida 

 on, 747. 



Palgrave (R. H. Inglis) on the best 

 method of ascertaining and measur- 

 ing variations in the value of the 

 monetary standard, 181 ; on the statis- 

 tical data available for determining 

 the amount of the precious metals in 

 use as money, &c., 219 ; on the distri- 

 bution of the licences proposed to be 

 transferred in aid of local expenditure, 

 764. 



♦Panama, le canal de, by F. de Lesseps, 

 738. 



Parsons (Capt. J.) on the erosion of the 

 sea-coasts of England and Wales, 898. 



Paterson (Dr. A. M.) on the effects of 

 diiferent occupations and employments 

 on the physical development of the 

 human body, 100. 



Pearse (J. W.), transmission of motion 

 and power, 823. 



