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INDEX. 



New Guinea, Dutch, British exploration 

 in, by Capt. C. G. Rawling, 447. 



* the tribes of the Mimika 



district of, the tribes of the sea coast, 

 and the Tapiro pygmies, by Capt. 

 C. G. Rawling, 508. 



Newstead (R.) on the feeding habits of 

 British birds, 128. 



Nicholson (Dr. J. W.) on the further 

 tabulation of Bessel and other functions, 

 67. 



on the atomic structure of the 



elements, with theoretical determina- 

 tions of their atomic weights, 320. 



Nitrogen, the fixation of, by free-living 

 soil bacteria, by Prof. W. B. Bottomley, 

 607. 



♦Nitrogen compounds, the manufacture 

 of, by electric power, by E. Kilburn 

 Scott, 488. 



North Atlantic, the surface temperature 

 of the, the effect of, upon air tempera- 

 ture and barometric pressure over the 

 British Islands, by Commr. M. W. C. 

 Hepworth, 344. 



' Notes and Queries in Anthropology,' 

 report on the preparation of a new edition 

 of. 140. 



Nuclear osmosis as a factor in mitosis, 

 by Dr. A. A. Lawson, 570. 



Nunn (Dr. T. P.) on the mental and 

 physical factors involved in education, 

 177. 



* the place of examinations in educa- 

 tion, 624. 



*Oidium Euonymi-J 'aponicas, the occur- 

 rence-of, in Southern England, by Sir 

 Daniel Morris, 586. 



Oldham (Prof. C. H.) on the public 

 finances of Ireland, 463. 



Oldham (R. D.) on seismological investi- 

 gations, 30 



Oliver (Prof. F. W.) on the structure of 

 fossil plants, 176. 



on the registration of botanical photo- 

 graphs, 177. 



the life-history of a shingle bank, 562. 



Ontario, Northern, the pre-Cambrian 

 beds of, by Prof. E. S. Moore, 390. 



Optically active substances which con- 

 tain no asymmetric atom in the mole- 

 cule, by Profs. W. H. Perkin and W. J. 

 Pope, 361. 



Orthogonal substitution, the canonical 

 form of an, by Harold Hilton, 326. 



Orton (Prof. K. J. P.) on the trans- 

 formation of aromatic nitroamines and 

 allied substances, and its relation to 

 substitution in benzene derivatives, 94. 



on the crystalline rocks of Anglesey, 



, the life-cycle and 

 Plasmodiophoracece, 



Osborn (T. G. B.) 



affinities of the 



572. 

 Overlapping between secondary education 



and that of universities and other places 



of higher education, report on, 216. 

 Owens (Dr. J. S.), smoke abatement : 



the possibility of fixing a new standard 



of smoke emission from factory 



chimneys, 489. 

 Oxy-hcemoglobin, the dissociation of, at 



high altitudes, report on, 153. 



*Pain (W. H. T.), schools for boy 



artificers, 631. 

 Paine (H. H), the rate of coagulation of 



colloidal copper, 369. 

 Palaeozoic fern, a, and its relationships 



(Zygopteris Qrayi, Williamson), by Dr. 



D. H. Scott, 568. 

 Palmozoic rocks of Wales and the West of 



England, the excavation of critical sec- 

 tions in the, report on, 111. 

 Paramnesia, Prof. G. J. Stokes on, 549. 

 Parietal bone, division of the, in certain 



primates, Prof. C. J. Patten on, 509. 

 ♦Passenger transportation, continuous 



versus intermittent service in, by W. Y. 



Lewis, 489. 

 Patten (Prof. C. J.), the vernal-plumage 



changes in the adolescent blackbird 



(Turdus merula) and their correlation 



with sexual maturity, 404. 

 a case of a remarkable egg of Falco 



tinnunculus laid under remarkable 



circumstances, 405. 



on division of the parietal bone in 



the crania of certain primates, 509. 



Peake (H.), suggestions for an anthropo- 

 logical survey of the British Isles, 510. 



Periodogram of earthquake frequency 

 from seven years to twenty years, Prof. 

 H. H. Turner on the, 332. 



Perkin (Dr. F. M.) on electroanalysis, 98. 



Perkin (Prof. W. H.) on the study of 

 hydro -aromatic substances, 99. 



and Prof. W. J. Pope, optically 



active substances which contain no 

 asymmetric atom in the molecule, 361. 



Perry (Prof. J.) on seismological investi- 

 gations, 30. 



on practical electrical standards, 80. 



on the work of the Corresponding 



Societies Committee, 741. 



Peru, archaeology in, by Miss A. C. 

 Breton, 503. 



Petavel (Prof. J. E.) on the investiga- 

 tion of the upper atmosphere, 27. 



— — - on gaseous explosions, 130. 



Pethybridgb (Dr. G. W.), bacterial 

 diseases of the potato-plant in Ireland, 

 602. 



