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Observers, Astronomical, Personal Equation of, 85; Letter on, 3; Dr. Van Stadt, 337

Odling (Prof. W.) on the Basis of Chemical Notation, 600

Okely (W. S.) on the Analogy of Colour and Music, 384, 651; on Concomitant Sounds and Colours, 557

Oliver (Prof.) on Baillon's History of Plants, 52

Oliver's Indian Botany, by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 234

Ooster's Protozoe Helvetica, 330

Origin of Species Controversy, by A. R. Wallace, 105, 132

Orme's Introduction to the science of Heat, 134

Owen (Prof.) on the Fossil Mammals of Australia, 390; on Fossil Mammals of China, 662

Oxford, Notes from, 26, 194

Oysters, Price off 244

Palæontology, Progress of, by Professor Huxley, F.R.S., 437

Paley (Mr.) on Agricultural Terms (Report), 468

Paris, Academy of Sciences, 29, 63, 94, 120, 147, 177, 201, 225, 249, 273, 297, 321, 347, 394, 416, 445, 469, 493, 521, 545, 570, 593, 617, 640, 664; Acclimatation Society, 236; Observatory, 363, 387

Parsons on the Rose, 236

Pasteur's (M.) Patent for Preserving Wines, 29, 94

Patagonia, Paraderos of, 318

Pual (Dr.) on Our National Drink, 576; on Town Sewage, 207

Pellew Islands, Natives of, 318

Pengelly (W.) on a Meteor, 58, 267; on Prismatic Ice, 627

Penny. (Dr.), the late, 138

Penny Science Classes, 57

Periodicity of the Solar Spots, 284

Perry (Rev. S. J.) on the Cyclone, 290

Perth's Nature Contemplated, 134

Petroleum and its Allies, 376

Petroleum Discovered in the Caucasus, 245

Pfaundler on the Regelation of Ice, 116

Phallic Worship, 639

Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences, 121, 417, 546, 594; Philosophical Society, 30, 347, 370, 665

Philological Society, 199

Philology and Darwinism, by Rev. F. W. Farrar, 527

Phipson's (Dr.) the Sun, 380

Phosphate of Lime and Sulphurous Acid, 200

Phosphorus, Turpentine not an Antidote for, 149

Photography, Artificial Light for, 271; Photographic Reproductions, 513

Physical Meteorology, by Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 101, 128, Dr. Hudson’s letter on, 218, Dr. Stewart's letter on, 337

Physiology and the German Universities, 244; Popular Lectures on, by George H. Lewes, 353: 28, 62, 90, 117, 144, 516

Platinum, Electromotive Forces Developed by, 249, 521

Plants, Impregnation of, 293; Distribution of, 465; of Middlesex, by W, Carruthers, 107; Spontaneous Movements in, 142; Winter Flowering, their Fertilisation, by A. W. Bennett, F.L.S., 11, 58 (see also 85, 142); Diffusion of, 246

Playfair (Dr. Lyon) and City Scientific Education, 113

Pollen, Considered as an Aid in the Differentiation of Species, 207

Pollen’s Fauna of Madagascar, 260

Prague, National Museum of Bohemia, 250; Royal Society of Bohemia, 64

Prehistoric Archæology, by J. Evans, F.R.S., 77; Times, by E. B. Tylor, 103

Preservation of Objects in Glycerine Jelly, 172

Prestwich (J.) on the Thames Subway, 280

Pring-heim's (Prof.) Paper on Swann-spores (Berlin Academy of Sciences), 177

Prismatic Structure in Ice, 481

Proctor (R. A.) on Earthquake Waves in the Pacific, 54; on the November Shooting Stars, 56; on the German and Swedish Expeditions to the Arctic Regions, 312; on Star Drift, 466; on Are any of the Nebulæ Star Systems? 331; Letter on the Nebuluæ, 384; 0n the Transits of Venus in 1874 and 1882, 146, 627

Procton's (R. A.) New Star Atlas, 84

Protoplasm, by Dr. H. C. Bastian, 424; at the Antipades, 13

Public Schools, Scientific Men on the Governing Bodies of, 58

Quartz, the Velocity of Light in, 121

Quekett Microscopical Club, 368

Quin (Chas. W.), Science for Children, 209

Quincke on Specific Cohesion, 516

Quinine, New Body obtained from (Prof. Binz), 322; Sulphate of, 347

Rae on the Suez Canal, 169

Rainbow Colours, Letter by Mr. Newall, 335; Supernumerary, Mr. Stuart's Letter on, 406

Rainfall, British, 265

Rainfall of the Year, 540; Mr. Symon's Book on, 611

Rambosson's History of Meteors, 356

Rames' History of Creation, 381

Rankine (Prof.), Remarks on Mr. Heppel's Theory of Continuous Beams (Royal Society), 365; on the Mathematical Theory of Stream Lines, 413

Ransome (Dr.) on Human Breath (Manchester Lit. Soc.), 520

Reis (Dr. Paul), Manual of Physic, 283

Respiration, 322, Products of, 516

Riche's Chemical Lessons, 109; his Medical Chemistry, 308

Robertson (G. Croom) on Kant's View of Space, 333

Roberts (W. Chandler) on Stalactites, 109

Robinson (Rev. Charles. J.) on English Sport in the Fifteenth Century, 352

Rochleder's (Prof.) Paper on Colouring Matter from Madder, 404

Rodwell (G. F.), Bibliothèque des Merveilles, 187; on the Private Life of Galileo, 529

Rolleston (Dr.), Character and Influence of the Anglo-Saxon Conquest, 661

Romer's, (Prof.) Examination of the Species of Venus, 504

Roscoe (Prof.) on Harcourt and Madan's Practical Chemistry, 50; on Lectures to Working Men, 138; on Scientific Education in Germany, 157, 475; on Spectrum Analysis, 503; on Vanadium, 662

Roscoff, Harbour of, and Marine Zoology, 225.

Rotundity of the Earth, 581

Royal Commission on Science, 375

Royal Institution, 140, 492

Royal Society, Candidates for, 561; Catalogue, 86; Copley Medal, 113; Meetings, 144, 195, 294, 319, 343, 365, 390, 413, 443, 467, 490, 517, 542, 614, 638

Rugby, New Natural Science Schools at, 485; Science-teaching at, 25; Surface Deposits in the Neighbourhood of, 344

Rupert's Drops, Dynamics of, 89

Ruskin, Professor, on River Conservation, 508

Saccolina, Development of, 246

Sanchi Tope, The, 339

Sars, the late Professor, by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 263; Sars Fund, The, 363, 511, 634

Scenery, The, of England and Wales, 306, 361

Schöbe (Dr.), his Paper at the Royal Society of Bohemia on Nerves of the Cheiroptera, 64

Science Classes, Penny, 57; Dulness of, by F.R.S., 43; Teaching in Schools, by Rev. W. Tucker, 18; and the Public Health, by Prof, Corfield, 135; for Children, by C. W. Quin, F.C.S., 209; Education at Cambridge, 57, 628; Education in Germany, by Prof. Roscoe, F.R.S., 157, 475

Scientific Serials, 165, 221, 246, 270, 294, 342, 365, 389, 412, 436, 513, 542, 591, 637

Scolithus genus, and allied Fossils, 248

Sea, Work of the, by C. W. Whitaker, 381; Depths of the, by David Forbes, 100; Fisheries, Decrease in the Yield of, 243

Secretions, Gases of the, 62

Seeley (Mr.) on Triassic Dinosauria, 146

Seligmann, on Exostoses in the Meatus Auditorius of Peruvian Crania, 319

Semper (Prof.) on the Natives of the Pellew Istands, 318

Sensation and Perception, by Dr. H. C. Bastion, F.R.S., 213, 309. (See also 407.)

Sermons in Stones, by D. Forbes, F.R.S., 130

Sewage of Great Towns, Notes on, 244, 364; Town, 207

Sharpey Scholarship, 109

Sicily, Sulphur in, 389

Sigillaria, Notes on the Structure of, 271

Silkworm, its Cultivation in England, 317, 347

Silver Nitrate, Preparation of, 61

Sinai, Turquoise Mines of, 273

Slavonians In Turkey, 287

Smee (Mr. Alfred), his Book on the Progress of Thought, 487

Smith (Cecil), Cuckows' Eggs, 24