GENERAL INDEX. 
295 
facts observed in, Rev. G. Blencowe on, 
1879, 349 
Nation, the definition of a, J. Park 
Harrison on, 1888, 850 
National accounts, F. P. Fellows on 
our, 1869, 190 
-accounts and finance, F. P. Fellows 
•on a proposed Doomsday Book, giving 
the value of Government property as a 
basis for a sound system of, 1871, 211 
-accounts, suggestions for improving 
and extending our, by F. P. Fellows, 
1872, 224 ; 1873, 186 ; 1874, 204 
* -bank and payment of the national 
debt, F. J. Wilson on, 1866, 137 
-debts, R. D. Baxter on, 1870, 187 
-*- debt, the impolicy, on economic 
grounds, of converting the, into ter¬ 
minable annuities, Dr. T. De Meschin 
on, 1870, 196 
- debt, the, and our disbursements 
from 1688, F. P. Fellows on, 1873, 186 
-debts, M. G. Mulhall on, 1884, 838 
-wealth, the increase of, since the 
time of the Stuarts, M. G. Mulhall on, 
1883, 624 
Nationality, anthropology, sociology, and, 
D. Mackintosh on, 1875, 176 
Natives of India, report on the habits , 
customs, 'physical characteristics, and 
religions of the, 1890, 547 
Natural co-ordination, as evinced in 
organic evolution, Dr. W. Fraser on, 
1884, 772 
_History collections of the British 
Museum, Andrew Murray on the future 
administration of the, 1867, 94 
-History, Dr. C. Collingwood on the 
collection of objects of, by the mer¬ 
cantile marine, 1861, 138 
- History, the establishment of a 
National Museum of, P. L. Sclater on 
certain principles to be observed in, 
1870, 123 
-History Societies, Sir W. Elliot on the 
advantage of systematic co-operation 
among provincial, so as to make their 
observations available to naturalists 
generally, 1871, 124 
--selection, the theory of, looked at 
from a mathematical point of view, A. 
W. Bennett on, 1870, 130 
^Nature, the three kingdoms of, a tabular 
view of the relation which subsists be¬ 
tween, with regard to organisation, II. 
Freke on, 1862, 195 
' :f NAUDET (M.) on a metallic or liolosteric 
barometer, 1863, 24 
Naukratis, the discovery of, W. M. F. 
Petrie on, 1885, 1216 
Naumann (Dr. E.), terrestrial magnetism 
as modified by the structure of the 
earth’s crust, and proposals concerning . 
a magnetic survey of the globe, 1889 ,565 
Nautilus, the pearly {Nautiluspompilius), 
the structure of the shell in, H. Wood¬ 
ward on, 1870, 128 
-the habits of the, Dr. G. Bennett on, 
1877, 101 
f-the difference between the males 
and females of the, A. G. Bourne on, 
1883, 528 
*Naval efficiency and dockyard economy, 
C. Lamport on, 1871, 212 
* - signalling, Sir W. Thomson on, 
1876, 233 
Navigation, A. Henderson on the rise and 
progress of clipper and steam, on the 
coasts and rivers of China and India, 
1861, 258 
* -- and meteorolog 3 ', A. de Marcoartu 
on the application of telegraphy to, 
1873, 43 
* -sounding machine for use at full 
speed, Sir W. Thomson on a, 1877, 218 
Navy, Dr. Grace Calvert on the chemical 
composition of seme woods employed 
in the, 1861, 77 
—— E. J. Reed on the iron-cased ships of 
the British, 1861, 232 
-Prof. Leone Levi on the economical 
administration of the, 1864, 169 
-—- finance, R. Mann on, 1869, 196 
-F. P. Fellows on the, 1870, 190 
*Necera, the anatomy of, Prof. A. C. 
Haddon on, 1886, 710 
Neanderthal skull, Prof. W. King on the, 
1863, 81 
—— the original, Prof. Schaaffhausen on, 
1880, 624 
Neaves (Lord), Address to the Section of 
Economic Science and Statistics, 1871, 
191 
Nebula, R.A. 20° 56', N.P.D. 101° 56', 
William Lassell on a brilliant elliptic 
ring in the planetary, 1862, 14 
-in Argo, Rev. Dr. Robinson on the 
appearance of the, as seen in the great 
Melbourne telescope, 1869, 20 
* - Dr. Gill on the parallax of a 
planetary, 1871, 34 
—— in Orion, the photographic spectrum 
of the great, Dr. W. Huggins on, 1882, 
443 
Nebulae, Prof. A. IT. Rucker on comet ic, 
1889, 489 
-Dr. W. Huggins on the proper 
motions of, 1873, 34 
^Nebular theory of the origin of the 
earth, confirmation of the, G. J. Stoney 
on the, 1874, 22 
Necklaces in relation to prehistoric com¬ 
merce, Miss A. W. Buckland on, 1888, 
849 
Nectar of flowers, A. S. Wilson on the, 
1878, 567 
-gland of Reseda, Prof. A. S. Wilson 
on the, 1883, 537 
