836 index. [December, 
Ovaries in female mammals after 
birth, development of, 388 
Oxidation, rapid, 588 
Oxygen in the sun, 515 
Ozone, adtion of on the colouring- 
matters of plants, 706 
pAIN and the weather, 527 
Palmella cruenta, the, 706 
Palmer, J. A., poisoning by mush- 
rooms, 269 
Paradoxical phenomena in ice caves, 
535 
Parasites, special nutritive apparatus 
of phanerogamic, 388 
Paraffin and what is got from it, 322 
Parker, J. D., tornadoes of Kansas 
and Missouri, 613 
Parthenogenesis among bees, 262 
“Particle, Dynamics of a” (review), 
114 
Pascoe, F. P,, new species of Sidero- 
dadtylus, 203 
Pasteur, M., adtions of life without air, 
822 
Paterson, E., new catalogue of ele&ric 
apparatus, 776 
“ Pathology of the Urine, including 
a Complete Guide to its Analysis” 
(review), 124 
Patry, M. M., “ Puteaux blue,” 767 
Peck, L. W., explosions from com- 
bustible dust, 666 
Pellatin, Dr., microscopic objedts, 823 
Perkin, W. H., adtion of isobutyric 
anhydride on the aromatic alde- 
hyds, 200 
Peronospora infesting the lettuce, 
remedy for the, 388 
Peroxide of hydrogen in plants, 262 
Perry and Ayrton, Profs., a new 
theory of terrestrial magnetism, 
287 
Peruvian antiquities, 89 
Petroleum as a steam maker, 612 
— oils, improved device for testing, 
7°9 
“ Petrology, Elementary Text-book 
of” (review), 252 
Pharmaceutical antiquities, 768 
Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 207 
“ Philosophical Society of Queens- 
land, Report of the”- (review), 
118 
Phin, J., “ Seledtion and Use of the 
Microscope ” (review), 373 
Phosphates, two new, 589 
Photographic records of absorption 
spedtra, 447 
Phylloxera, commission of the French 
Academy, 203 
— vastatrix, the true, 454 
Physical conditions of consciousness, 
5i4 
— law, thoughts on our conception 
of, 276 
— Society, 202, 260, 322, 447, 508, 
579, 814 
Physics, notes on, 205, 264, 332, 392, 
455. 5i5» 772 
— molecular, in high vacua, 411 
“ Physics, Pradtical ” (review), 250 
Pine and the eucalyptus, 766 
Pineapple, smoke of burning straw 
beneficial to, 702 
Pirate’s sheet anchor, 622 
Pisani, F., wagnerite identical with 
kjerulfine, 269 
Plants, adtion of light on, 784 
— change of climate on, 763 
— new malady attacking, 451 
— ozone on the colouring-matters of, 
706 
“ Plastering” wines, 204 
Plasma of the blood, composition of 
the, 453 
“ Pneumatics and Hydrostatics ” (re- 
view), 113 
Poincare, M., effedts of inhaling oil of 
turpentine, 515 
— guinea pigs affedted by vapour of 
nitrobenzol, 702 
Poison of serpents, 262 
Poisonous colours, concerning the 
use of alleged, 3gi 
Polariscope, new measuring, 582 
Pollacci, E., “ plastering” wines, 204 
Polyscope, Trouve, 450 
Ponton, M., “ The Freedom of the 
Truth ” (review), 130 
Potable waters, organic purity of, 
321 
Pouchet, G., touch of eledtrical fishes, 
512 
Powder pressures in cannon, measure- 
ment of, 359 
Powell and Lealand, Messrs., oil im- 
mersion objective, 456 
“ Pradlical Physics ” (review), 250 
Preece, W. H., and A. Stroh, studies 
in acoustics, 318 
— gas versus eledtricity, 206 
Prestwich, J., origin of the parallel 
roads of Lochaber, 497 
Prisms, complex arrangement of, 265 
Printing inks, varnishes in, 768 
Prodtor, R. A., “ The Moon, her Mo- 
tions, Aspedl, Scenery, &c.” (re- 
view), hi 
Protistic kingdom in biology, 585 
