INDE)i. 



Moving the Brighton Beach Hotel, 41 1.* 



Mud, A Shower of, 391. 



Muir Glacier, 146. 



Mulberry Trees, 486. 



Munificent Gifts to Manchester, 550. 



Murray, J. : Deep Sea Fishes, 307 ; 

 Height and Volume of Dry Land, and 

 Depth and Volume of the Ocean, 43 ; 

 Observations of the Temperature and 

 Currents in the Lochs of the West of 

 Scotland, 211 ; Structure, Origin and 

 Distribution of Coral Islands, 306. 



Muscle of MoUusca, 156, 181. 

 „ Structure of, 56. 



Muscular Sense, 228. 



Music Portfolio, 47. 

 „ Recorder, 310. 



Musical Instrument, 549. 



„ Instruments, Stringed, 143. 



Mussels, Freshwater, 251 ; Poisoning of, 

 277. 



My Hundred Swiss Flowers. Mary A. 

 Pratten, 64. 



Myrmekophilous Insects, Capture of, 

 468. 



Mysore, Auriferous Tracts of, 592. 



Mystery Gold, 7. 



My Telescope. A Quekett Club Man, 

 304. 



Naphtha Gas, 79. 



Naphthol as an Antiseptic, 6. 



Narrow Escape, 583. 



National Association for the Promotion 



of Technical Education, 214, 238. 

 Natural Gas, 195.* 

 Natural History, New, Museum, 364 ; 



of the Isle of Man, 372 ; of Instinct. 



G. J. Romanes, 16 ; Researches in, 



167 ; Society at Glasgow, 548. 

 Natural Science Postmastership at 



Oxford, 191. 

 Nature Printing, New Method of, 585. 

 Naturalists' Diary. C. Roberts, in. 

 „ Explorations in the 



Solomon's Islands. C. M. Woodford, 



356. 

 Navigation, Canals and Inland, 215 ; 



Electric Light in, 199. 

 Nebular Theory, the, 549. 

 Neglect, Sanitary, 55. 

 Negroes, Insanity Amongst, 247. 

 Nematodes of Beetroot, 469. 

 Neosote, 31. 

 Nerves, Motor Functions of certain 



Cranial, 569. 

 Nests, Edible Birds', 61, 84. 

 Netley Army Medical School, 167. 

 Nettleship, H. : Relations between 



Natural Science and Literature, i6. 

 Neuchatel, Landslip at, 151. 

 New Guinea, Exploration of, 175, 487 ; 



Introduction of Goats into, 84 ; 



Mountains, 247. 

 New South Wales, Alumstone and 



Sulphur in, 319. 

 New Weather Prophet, a, 540. 

 New York, Underground Wires in, 248. 

 New Zealand, Ores fiom. W. T. 



Macadam, 425. 

 New Safety Lamp, 197*. 

 New Shell Collector's Handbook, 452. 

 New Units of Length, etc., 8. 

 New Zealand Sulphur Island, a, 535. 

 Newcastle Foremen Engineers, and 



Draughtsmen's Association, 332. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, Science Lectures 



at, 16. 

 Newlands, Mr., and the Royal Society, 



7- 

 Newry Tramway. E. Hopkinson, 19. 

 Newton's Principia, Bicentenary of, 385. 

 Newton, E. T. On the Skull, Brain, and 



Auditory Organs of Scaphognathus 



Purdoni, 329. 

 Niagara Suspension Bridge, 69. 

 Nicaragua, Fossilised Human Foot- 

 prints in, 317.* 

 Nickel, Non-poisonous Character of, 



122 ; Plating, 31. 

 Nicolite, 416. 

 Nile Delta, Borings in, 7. 

 Nitric Acid, Fires from, 28. 

 Nitrogen, Fixation of Atmospheric, 367 ; 



Part Played by Atmospheric, in 



Vegetation, 617. 

 Nitrous Oxide, Anaesthesia Produced 



by, and Oxygen, 247. 

 Nils Ekholm. Some Methods of Cloud 



Measurement, 210. 

 Nixon, R. C. J. Geometry in Space, 



423- 

 North America, Exploration in, 487. 

 North Atlantic Ocean, 439. 

 North of England Institute of Mining 



and Mechanical Engineers, 67. 

 North London, Technical School and 



Institute for, 143. 

 Norway, Parallel Roads or " Seters " of 



Central, 235. 

 Norwegian Fisheries, 133, 242. 

 Nottingham Mechanics' Institute, 20 ; 



NaturaUsts' Society, Transactions of 



the, 233. 

 Novel Mechanisms, 213. 

 Nutrition, Fundamental Experiments on 



the, of Plants, 421. 

 Nurture, Hereditary and, 2. 



Oak, Largest, in Germany, 252 ; Ker- 



mese, 19, 181. 

 Oar ? What Kind of Lever is an, 261. 

 Observatory, Lick, 24 ; New, on the 



Santis, 152. 

 Observations of Injurious Insects and 



Common Farm Pests during the year 



1887. E. A. Ormerod, 542. 

 Observations on the Temperature and 



Currents in the Lochs of the West of 



Scotland. J. Murray, 211. 

 Ocean, Animal Life on the. Surface. 



H. H. Mosely, 16. 

 Ocean Currents, Testing, 608; Height 



and Volume of Dry Land and Depth 



and Volume of the. J. Murray, 43. 

 Odours, Origin of, 247 ; New Theory 



of, 31. 

 Ohio, Lake Age in, 416. 

 Oil, Compressed Gas, and its Applica- 

 tions. A. Ayres, 380 ; Action of, on 



Metals, 58 ; Lamps, 118 ; on the 



Troubled 'Water, 54 ; effect of, on 



Waves, 618. 

 Oils, Filter for Lubricating, 297. 

 Oldham, R. D.: Law that Governs the 



Action of Flowing Streams, 115. 

 Oliver, Westwood : Astronomy for 



Amateurs, 327. 

 One-coloured Rainbow, 185. 

 Opiate, a New, 488. 

 Opsiometer, 47. 

 Optical Illusions, 417.* 



Orange Free States, Two New Lepi- 

 dotoid Ganoids from, 186. 



Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated under 

 Glass in Great Britain, A Manual of. 

 J. Veitch and Sons, 208. 



Ores, Apparatus for Chlorinating, 166. 

 „ from New Zealand. W. J. Mac- 

 adam, 425. 



Organ Blower, 23. 



Organic Matter, Decomposition of, 198; 

 Detection of the Presence of, in 

 Drinking Water, 344. 



Organisms, Enumeration of, in the Air, 

 304 ; Micro, and their CapabiUties, 22. 



Origin of Floral Structures. G. Hens- 

 low, 614. 



Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, True Teeth 

 of the, 186, 469. 



Ormerod, E. A. Report of Observa- 

 tions of Injurious Insects and Com- 

 mon Farm Pests during the year 1887, 

 542. 



Ormerod, Miss : Hessian Fly and its 

 Parasites, 5i. 



Orosnes, What is ? 391. 



Other Suns than Ours. R. A. Proctor, 

 15- 



Otter, Thames, 108. 



Otters, Habits of, 253 ; Preservation 

 of, 421. 



Our Earth and its Story. R. Brown, 1 59. 



Ova, Salmon, for Tasmania, 541. 



Owens College, 10, 479. 



Owls, 12. 



Oxford, Local Examinations, 311 ; 

 Natural Science Postmastership at, 

 191 ; Natural Science Scholarship at, 

 263 ; Professorship of Botany, 311. 



Oxygen, Absorption Bands of, 416 ; 

 Anaesthesia produced by Nitrous 

 Oxide and, 247. 



Oyster Culture, 37 ; Intelligence and 

 Development of the, 84. 



Oysters, Monkeys and, -^l- 



Parasite of the African Python, 181. 



Paint, Removing, 430. 



Pal'awan, A Month in, 444. 



Palm, A Bifurcated, Tree, 277. 



Panama Canal Locks, 357.'* 



Paper, Effects of Gas on, 393 ; File, 

 118. 



Paper, Use of the Magnet in Manu- 

 facture, 55. 



Paradise, Birds of, 35.'* 



Parallax of the Sun, 82. 



Parasite of the Vaccine Matter, 395. 



Paris, Chair of Darwinism in, 73, 175 ; 

 International Exhibition, 311 ; School 

 of Brewing, 69 ; School of Mines, 

 60S ; Sulphur Springs in, 617 ; Un- 

 derground Electric Tramway, 488 ; 

 Universal Exhibition, 24, 95, 167 ; 

 Water Supply of, 223. 



Parkes Museum of Hygiene, 21, 311. 



Parkes, S. H. : Unfinished Worlds, 64. 



Parkyn, E. A. : Movements of Plants, 

 16. 



Parliament, Electric Lighting in, 7. 



Parlour Football, 430. 



Pascal's Vase, 273.* 



Paste, Improved, 438. 



Pasteur, M., and the Rabbit Plague, 

 365.* 



Patent Office Statistics, 98. 



Patents in India, 191. 



