296 
GENERAL INDEX 
*Needles Light, the importance of giving 
a distinctive character to the, Sir W. 
Thomson on, 3 877, 218 
Negretti and Zambra’s test-gauge solar- 
radiation thermometer, G. J. Symons 
on, 1873, 47 
Negretti (H.) on Negretti and Zambra’s 
patent recording and deep-sea thermo¬ 
meter, 1874, 43 
Negro, Dr. James Hunt on the physical 
and mental characters of the, 1863, 140 
-J. Crawfurd on the Oriental, 1865, 
117 ; and on the physical and mental 
characteristics of the African or Occi¬ 
dental, il). 
^ --European dialects of Surinam and 
Curayoa, E. B. Tylor on the, 1865, 130 
--tribes of Central Africa, Sir S. W. 
Baker on the character of the, 1866, 
104 
--Dr. John Davy on the character of 
the, chiefly in relation to industrial 
habits, 1867, 115 
--R. Garner on the brain of a, 1869, 
132 
Nehemiah’s wall and the Royal 
Sepulchres, G. St. Clair on, 1888, 744 
Neild (Alderman) on the price of print¬ 
ing-cloth and upland cotton from 1812 
to 1860, 1861, 229 
Neill (A.) on the Bradford building 
trades, 1873, 196 ; on stone-dressing in 
Bradford, 214 
* - (Mrs. B.) on the acclimatisation 
of the silkworm, 1875, 218 
Neilson (Robert) on agricultural ma- 
, chinery, 1869, 404 
Neison (Francis G. P.) on the influence 
of occupation upon health, 1868, 174 
Neolithic implement, a hitherto unde¬ 
scribed, Dr. J. S. Holden on, 1873, 146 
--age, a new estimate of the date of 
the, S. B. J. Skertclily on, 1879, 380 
—-period, the survival of the, at Bran¬ 
don, Suffolk, S. B. J. Skertchly on, 
1879, 400 
* -times, surgery and superstition in. 
Miss A. W. Buckland on, 1880, 630 
■-floor, the early, of East Lancashire, 
Dr. H. C. March on, 1887, 912 
* -details, some, Dr. H. C. March on, 
1890, 977 
* Nepenthes, the morphology of the 
pitcher of, Prof. Bower on, 1888, 702 
Neroli, Dr. J. E. De Vrij on the 
possibility of manufacturing, in the 
British Colonies, 1865, 39 
Nerve-supply, the value of, in the deter¬ 
mination of muscular anomalies, Prof. 
D. J. Cunningham on, 1884, 768 
*Nerves, the termination of motor, and 
their connection with muscular con¬ 
tractions, Prof. W. Kuhne on, 1862, 195 
* -the termination of, in the vestibule 
and semicircular canals of mammals, 
Dr. U. Pritchard on, 1876, 156 
Nerves, on the development of the roots 
of the, and on their propagation to the 
central organs and to the periphery, 
Prof. His on, 1887, 773 
^Nervous system, Dr. B. W. Richardson on 
effects produced by applying extreme 
cold to certain parts of the, 1867, 103 
* -system of the Medusas, G. J. 
Romanes on the, 1878, 601 
* -system of Myxine and Pctromyzon , 
Prof. D’A. Thompson on the, 1886, 691 
-—- tissue, W. E. C. Nourse on the 
action of the, concerned in perception, 
1864, 125 
*Ness (W.) on the Coal-Measures in Mold 
Valley, and their products, 1865, 68 
Nest qearing. Prof. H. C. Fleeminq Jenkin 
on, 1883, 387 
*Nets in space, geometrical, Sir W. R. 
Hamilton on, 1861, 4 
Netting made by slitting and expanded 
sheet metal, J. F. Golding on, 1890, 949 
Nettle-cells, the function of, Dr. R. Yon 
Lendenfeld on, 1886, 710 
Neubauer (Dr. A.), notes on the races 
of the Jews, 1884, 917 
Neumayer (Dr. A.), list of radiant-points 
of meteoric showers in the southern 
hemisphere, 1868, 405 
- on the recent fall of an aerolite 
at Krahenburg in the Palatinate, 1869, 
20 ; ^scheme for a scientific explora¬ 
tion of Australia, 165 
Neutralisation, the thermal phenomena 
of, and their bearing on the nature of 
solution, Dr. W. W. J. Nicol on, 1887, 
656 
Neville (F. H.) and C. T. Heycocic on 
the molecular weights of the metals : 
an application of Raoult’s method to 
alloys, 1889, 534 
* -(J.) on the axis of least moments in 
a rectangular beam, 1873, 32 
-- on the means adopted for the im¬ 
provement of the outer navigable 
channel of Dundalk Harbour, 1874, 
228 ; on a new construction for finding 
the vertical shearing-stress and the 
point of greatest bending-moment in 
a beam loaded in any way, 229 
--on movable and fixed weirs, with 
reference to the improvement of the 
navigation, mill power, and drainage 
of flood waters of rivers, with especial 
notice of the River Shannon, 1878, 691 
* -(P.) on the Dublin Waterworks, 
1878, 712 
*Nevins (Dr. J. B.) on a new theory 
respecting the heating of liquids, 1870, 
61 
-on the changes which occur in 
plants during the ripening of the seeds, 
