570 



INDEX. 



[Oaober, 



Ormerod, Dr., grinding microscopic 



sections, 272 

 Osm-iridium, fusion of, 115 

 Oxygen, combustion of, 406 



in hydrogen, 555 



Oxyhydrogen blow-pipe for attacking 



safes, 424 



PAGE of scientific history, 145 

 Palliser, J. W., " A Complete 

 Course of Problems in Practical 

 Plane Geometry " (review), 533 



"Papers on the , Great Pyramid" 

 (review), 372 



Parfitt, E., sponge spicules, 113 



Paris defences, 139 



Patagonia, climate of, 282 



Patent laws, our, 94 



Pengelly, W., where are the bones 

 of the men who made the un- 

 polished flint implements ? 327 



Percussion fuse for shells, 291 



Percy, Dr., "The Manufacture of 

 Russian Sheet-Iron " (review), 

 530 



Pharaoh's serpents non-poisonous, 

 407 



Phillips, J. A., British rocks and 

 minerals, 286 



Photographic balloon post, no 



Photographs, celestial, 415 



Physical geography, 124 



Pig-iron, materials used in the manu- 

 facture of, 540 



Plastic material, new, 130 



" Plates and Notes Relating to some 

 Special Features in Structures 

 called Pyramids " (review), 372 



Pneumatic transmission, 305 



Podura scale, on the, 274 



markings on the, 553 



Polariscope, new, 554 



Ponton, M., molecules, ultimates, 

 atoms, and waves, 170, 349, 461 



— " The Beginning; Its When and 



How " (review), 527 

 " Power in Motion " (review), 530 

 Price, J., on testing rails, 396 

 Prisms, compound, 271 

 Pritchard, H. B., war science, 43 

 Proctor, R. A., " Light Science for 



Leisure Hours" (review), 378 



— on the eclipse of last December, 



227 



— " The Sun ; Ruler, Fire, Light, and 



Life of the Planetary System" 

 (review), 263 

 Proctor, R.H., spectrum of aurora, 112 

 Psychic force, experimental investi- 

 gation of, 339 

 researches on, 471 



Puddling and heating furnaces, How- 



atson's, 541 

 Pumping hot liquids, 427 

 Pyramid of Egypt, the Great, 16, 177 

 Pyrometer, ele&rical, ng, 431 



— Siemens's, 561 



QUARTZ, crystalline form of, 408 

 Quinine, new base accompany- 

 ing, 405 



RAILS, testing, 396 

 Railway gauges, 141 

 Railways, narrow gauge, 545 



— permanent way for, 293 

 Rainfall committee, report of, 123 



— of Bengal, 281 

 Rammelsberg, Professor, analysis of 



Wootz steel, 290 



— relation between chemistry and 



mineralogy, 286 



If. 



Reade, Rev. J. B., death of, 114 



Recorder, syphon, 120 



Reflecting telescope, 107 



Regelation, parallels to, 421 



Registering spectroscope, 272 



" Report to the Board of Visitors of 

 the Royal Observatory, Edin- 

 burgh" (review), 372 



Rifles, breech-loading, 392 



— French and German, 290 



Roberts, F. C, on the English Mint, 

 138 



Robinson, W., " The Sub-Tropical 

 Garden " (review), 383 



Rodwell, G. F., " Dictionary of 

 Science" (review), 257 



Rollwyn, J. A. S., " Astronomy 

 Simplified for General Reading " 

 (review), 535 



Rost, M., plastic material, 130 



Rutherford, Mr., on celestial photo- 

 graphy, 415 



SABINE, R., and Latimer Clark, 

 " Electrical Tables and For- 

 mula? " (review), 376 



Safety lamp, 137, 288 



■ miners, 539 



Salet, G., blue flame of sulphur, 114 



Saltpetre, production of, 550 



Sand, jet of, a mechanical agent, 359 



Sansom, A. E., theory of atmospheric 

 germs, 153 



Scacchi, Professor, on dimorphine, 



131 

 Schonn, Dr., sodium for analysing 



minerals, 127 

 School of Mines, removal of, 390 

 Science of money, 315 



