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Photometric Observations, Dr. Müller, 90
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Physiography: Elementary Stage, J. Spencer, 27; the Realm of Nature, Hugh Robert Mill, 390
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logy, W. D. Halliburton and Dr. E. H. Starling, 51; Prof. Stokvis on Mutual Antagonism, 72; on the Implanting of Large Pieces of Decalcified Bones to fill up Losses of Substance of Skeleton, Le Dentu, 95; the Renal Organs of certain Decapod Crustacea, W. F. R. Weldon, 140; the Neph- ridium of Lumbricus and its Blood Supply, Dr. W. B. Benham, 140; the Formation and Fate of the Primitive Streak in the Frog, Robinson and Assheton, 140; some Points in the Development of Scorpio fulvipes, M. Laurie, 140; a New Mode of Respiration in the Myriapoda, F. G. Sinclair, 164; the Foot as a Prehensile Organ in Hindoos, F. Regnault, 192; Outlines of Practical Physiological Chemistry, F. Charles Larkin and Randle Leigh, 292; Development of Lung-books of Scorpio, Malcolm Laurie, 311; Action of the Auriculo-Ventricular Valves, Dr. Noel Paton, 311; Influence of Blood Supply to Skin in Sweat- secretion as seen in Paw of Cat, Dr. Max Levy, 312; Extra- ordinarily Rapid Evaporation on Glacier, Prof. Boernstein, 312; Teeth Development in the Marsupialia, M. F. Wood- ward, 335; an Introduction to Human Physiology, Augustus D. Waller and Dr. E. H. Starling, 340; the Mechanism of the Closure of the Larynx, Prof. T. P. A. Stuart, 357; Note on the Behaviour of Sugar in Blood, Dr. Vaughan Harley, 407; Composition of Fibrin Ferment, Prof. Pekelharing, 408; the Development of the Oviduct in the Frog, E. W. MacBride, 450; Contributions to the Physiology and Patho- logy of the Mammalian Heart, Roy and Adami, 451; Action of Lymph in producing Intravascular Clotting, Dr. Shore, 455; the Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, J. S. R. Russell, 573; Dr. Werigo's Experiments respecting Influence of Oxygen on Elimination of Carbon Dioxide by the Lungs, Prof. Zuntz, 576; Physiological Action of Diminished Atmospheric Pressure, F. R. Mallet, 606; Physiology of Respiratory Centres, Dr. Alfred Bienfait, 624
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Pictet's (Prof.) Laboratory at Berlin, Prof. R. du Bois- Reymond, 31
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Podkamennaya Tunguska, Rocks collected by M. Lopatin on the, 597
Poincaré (Prof. H.): Poincaré's Thermodynamics, 245, 414, 439, 485, 532; Electrodynamic Theories and the Electro- magnetic Theory of Light, Prof. A. Gray, 367; Non-Euclidian Geometry, 404; Poincaré and Maxwell, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 532
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Poison, Arrow, of Sarro Savages, Laborde and Rondeau, 278 Foison of the Malay Peninsula, the Ipoh, Leonard Wray, Jun., 278
Polaris, on the Observation of North Polar Stars in the Vertical of, Truman Saffard, 159
Polarization of Atmosphere by Light of Moon, N. Piltschikoff, 456
Political Economy and Taxation, David Ricardo, 4
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Porter (T. C.), Alum Solution, 29; First Visible Colour of Incandescent Iron, 558
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Post (Dr. A. H.), Strange Symbolical Marriage Custom in India, 135
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Poulton (Edward B., F. R.S.), a Difficulty in Weismannism, 52; Warning Colours, 174
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Precessional Globe, a New, Dr. K. Haas, 250
Precious Stones and Gems, their History, Sources, and Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531
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Prehistoric Animals in Endsleigh Street, Discovery of Remains of, Dr. H. Hicks, F. R.S., 566
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Prehistoric Tomb in Ohio, Discovery of Remarkable, 157 Prehistoric Weapons: the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau, Silesia, Dr. O. Schoetersack, 379
Prehistory of Egypt, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 580 Prestwich (Joseph, F.R.S.), the Raised Beaches and Rubble- drifts of the South of England, 453
Pringsheim (Dr.), Experiments on Cause of Emission of Light by Gases, 312
Prior (Dr. R. C. A.), Ripe Seeds of the Monkey-Puzzle Tree (Araucaria imbricata) of Chili, grown in England, 421 Prism, the Objective, Prof. Pickering, 521
Pritchard (Prof.), the Diffraction Effects produced by placing Screens in Front of Object Glasses, 237
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Propagation of Induced Magnetism in Iron, some Experiments made with the view of ascertaining the Rate of, Fred. T. Trouton, 42
Pseudopodes of Diatoms, Alleged, Alf. W. Bennett, 177 Psychology: a Short Account of the Human Mind, F. S. Granger, 76 Psychology, Experimental, 234
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Putnam's (Prof.) Anthropological Exhibit at Chicago Exhibition, 259
Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Frank Clowes and J. Bernard Coleman, 578
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 140, 450 Quaternions as a Practical Instrument of Physical Research, A. McAuley, 423
Quatrefages (Prof. de), Death and Obituary Notice of, 278; Proposed Monument to, 612
Queensland Oyster Culture in, Saville-Kent, 66; on the Habits of Ceratodus, the Lung Fish of, Prof. Spencer, 425 ; Depredations of the Great Bower Bird in, 588
Radiant Points, Displacement of, Dr. J. Kleiber, 570 Rail, New Extinct, Prof. Henry O. Forbes, 416
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Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of Marianne North, edited by Mrs. John Addington Symonds, 602
Our Trees, John Robinson, 603
Synopsis of Non-Metallic Chemistry, William Briggs, 604 Chemical Calculations, R. Lloyd Whiteley, with Preface by Prof. E. Clowes, 604
The Year-book of Science, edited by Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 604
Handy Atlas of Modern Geography, 605
Rew (R. Henry), on the Statistics of the Production and Con- sumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614
Reynolds (J. E.), Silver Compounds of Thiourea, 383 Ribbentrop (Dr.), Government Forestry in India, 41 Ricardo (David), Principles of Political Economy and Taxa- tion, 4
Ricco (A.), Earthquakes at Pantelleria, 120; Account of the Submarine Eruption North-west of Pantelleria, October 1891, Abstract of ditto, G. W. Butler, 584
Richardson (A. T.), Mathematical Exercises, 125
Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), New Year's Address to Sanitary Inspectors' Association, 234
Richet (Prof.), Death of, 258
Richet (Ch.), the Tubercular Vaccination of the Dog, 576 Rigg (Gilbert), Ice Crystals, 319
Riley (Dr. C. V.), a New Herbarium Pest, 235
Ring and Disk Blinds in Micrometic Measurements, on the Influence of, Herr Dr. Walter Wislicenus, 137 Rings, Atmospheric, Dr. Sprung, 599
Rivers of Central Europe, the Temperature of, 114 Roberts (Thomas), Death and Obituary Notice of, 303 Roberts-Austen (Prof., F.R.S.): the Report to the Alloys Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 22; Value of Metallurgical Science, 257; Bronze in the London Atmosphere, 443; Metals at High Tempera- ture, 534
Robertson (W. T.), Tea-culture in New South Wales, 260 Robinson (Dr. A.) the Formation and Fate of the Primitive Streak in the Frog, 140
Robinson (John), Our Trees, 603
Robinson (Margaret), the Nauplius Eye persisting in some Decapods, 450
Rochester Academy of Sciences, U.S., 588
Rockhill (William Woodville), the Land of the Lamas, 98
Rocks collected by M. Lopatin on the Podkamennaya Tunguska, 597
Rodger (J. W.), Theory of Solutions, 342, 487
Roemer (the late Ferdinand), Proposed Memorial of, 322
Rogers (Fred. J.), Magnesium as a Source of Light, 622 Rolling of Ships, 559
Romanes (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S.), Migration of the Lemming, 249
Rome (Province), Earthquakes in, 304
Roscoe (Sir H. E., F. R.S.): Action of Water-Gas on Iron, 92; a Treatise on Chemistry, 509
Rosenberg (Dr.), Assimilation of Diet investigated in a Dog Working on a Treadmill, 599
Ross (Alexander), Journey to Head Waters of Ecayali, Central Peru, 519
Ross (W. J. C.), on the Discovery of Two Specimens of Fossil Lepidodendrons in the Neighbourhood of Bathurst, New South Wales, and the Inferences to be drawn from their Occurrence, 424 Rossiter (E. C.), Sulphochloride of Isomeric Dibromonaph- thalene, 263; Action of Alcohols on Sulphonic Chlorides as Means of producing Ethereal Salts of Sulphonic Acids, 263; Action of Bromine on Mixture of Ortho- and Paranitro-a- Acenaphthalide, 263
Rotation of Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 473
Rotation of Venus, Herr Loschardt, 210
Rotch (A. L.), Meteorology of French Association at Mar- seilles, 189; the Mountain Meteorological Stations of the United States, 403
Rothamsted, Results of Experiments at, on the Question of the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 32 Rothney (E. A. J.), Two Species of Indian Ants, 454 Roumania, the Meteorological Service of, 444
Rousseau (G.), Manganates of Potash, 288
Roy (Prof., F. R.S.), Contributions to the Physiology and Pathology of the Mammalian Heart, 451
Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Sir Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S., elected Corresponding Member of, 585
Royal College of Physicians, Sir Andrew Clark elected (fifth time) President, 566
Royal Geographical Society, 183; Appointment of Mr. J. S. Keltie to the Assistant-Secretaryship in room of late Mr. H. W. Bates, 402; Dr. H. R. Mill appointed Librarian to, 566 Royal Institution, Lectures at the, 155, 586
Royal Meteorological Society, 95, 215, 335, 431, 551, 623 Royal Microscopical Society, 46, 143, 165, 239, 311, 479, 574 Royal Military Academy, Science at the, 563
Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Branch established in London, 544
Royal Society, 37, 141, 162, 190, 212, 311, 357, 381, 407, 429, 451, 549, 573; Anniversary Meeting, 110; Sir William Thomson's Anniversary Address, 110; Medallists, 111; Officers and Council, 112; Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 338
Royal Society of New South Wales, 95; Prizes Offered by, 443; Award of Clarke Memorial Medal to Mr. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 495
Royal Statistical Society, R. Henry Rew on the Statistics of the Production and Consumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614 Rubens (Dr.): New Method of Determining Dispersion and Refraction in Ultra-Violet Rays, 48; the Dispersion of the Ultra-Red Rays, 576
Rubi, Alpine, T. D. A. Cockerell, 320
Rücker (Prof., F.R.S.): Royal Society Medallist, III; Speech at the Royal Society Dinner, 112
Ruffer (Dr. M. Armand), a Treatise on the Ligation of the Great Arteries in Continuity, with Observations on the Nature, Progress, and Treatment of Aneurism, Charles A. Ballance and Walter Edmunds, 530
Rugby School Natural History Society, 520
Runge (Prof. C.), on the Line Spectra of the Elements, 607 Russell (F.) Results of Meteorological Observations at Akassa, 95
Russell (H. C., F. R.S.), the Grouping of Stars in the Southern Part of the Milky Way, 423
Russell (H. L.), the Effect of Mechanical Movement on the Growth of Certain Plants, 478
Russell (Prof. Israel C.): Cirques, 317; Geographical Position of Mount St. Elias, 472
Russell (J. S. R.), the Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, 573
Russell (Lucy J.), Bedford College and the Gresham University, 391
Russell (Hon. Rollo), Untenability of Atmospheric Hypothesis of Epidemics, 431
Russell (Dr. W. J., F. R.S.): Town Fogs and their Effects, 10 ; Bedford College and the Gresham University, 391 Russia the Grain Production of, Borkovsky, 67; Russian Geographical Society, 92; Awards, 444; European, Fre- quency and Geographical Distribution of Heavy Daily Rainfall in Russia, E. Berg, 258; Mercury Mining in, 305; Causes of the Famine in, Dr. A. Woeikof, 378; Russian Pre- historic Antiquities, the Slavonians of the First Centuries of our Era, Prof. Samokvasoff, 547; Sunflower Cultivation in Southern Russia, 568
Rust Fungus in Wheat, 615
Rusting of Iron, A. Liversidge, F. R.S., on the, 424 Rutherfurd's Photographs, Catalogue of, 21
Sabatier (Paul), Sulphides and Selenides of Boron and Silicon Selenide, 41
Sacken (C. R. Osten), Meretrix, Lamarck 1799, versus Cytherea, Lamarck 1806, 30
Sadtler (Samuel P.), a Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, 125
Saffard (Truman), on the Observation of North Polar Stars in the Vertical of Polaris, 159
St. Malo Bay, the Tides of, M. Heurtault, 143
St. Petersburg Electrical Exhibition, 303
St. Thomas's Hospital, Lectures on Systematic Botany at, 586 Saline Solutions, Heat Engines and, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 438, 510
Salmon Industry in British Columbia, 279
Salt Lake of Aalia Paakai, A. B. Lyons, 29
Salts in Natural Waters, 78; F. H. Perry Coste, 176; Robert B. Hayward, F.R.S., 176
Samoan Cyclone of March 16, 1889, 161
Samoan Hurricane, Everett Hayden, 461
Samokvasoff (Prof.) the Slavonians of the First Centuries of our Era, 547
Sanderson (Prof. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Sir William Bowman, 564
Sandwich Islands, Mr. R. C. L. Perkins Selected to Investigate the Zoology of the, 322
Sandwich Isles, Ornithology of the, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 465, 532; Albert F. Calvert, 485, 558; J. E. Harting, 532
Sanitary Conference, International, 233
Sanitary Engineering, C. Napier Bell on, 426
Sanitary Inspectors' Association, New Year's Address, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R. S., 234
Sanitation in Schools, 185
Sapper (Dr.), the Climate of Alta Verapaz, 41
Sardine, Growth of the Pilchard or, Prof. J. T. Cunningham, 255
Sardinia, the Nurhagi of, Dr. Ermling, 114
Sarro Savages, Arrow-Poison of, Laborde and Rondeau, 278 Saussaye (P. D. Chantpie de la), Manual of the Science of Religion, 148
Saville-Kent (W.), Oyster-Culture in Queensland, 66 Scandinavia, Chronology of the Neolithic Age in, Prof. Montelius, 39
Scheele (Carl Wilhelm), Letters and Memoirs of, 207 Scheurer-Kestner (M.), Decomposition of Sulphurous Acid by Water at very High Temperatures, 384
Schimper (A. F. W.), Die indo-malayische Strandflora, W. Botting Hemsley, F. R.S., 3
Schloesing (Th., Jun.), the Fixation of Free Nitrogen by Plants, 143
Schnauss (Hermann), Photographic Pastimes, a Hand-book for Amateurs, 5
Schoetensack (Dr. O.), the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau, Silesia, 379
Schorlemmer (C., F. R.S.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 509 Schorr (Dr. R.), Denning's Comet (b 1892), 569
Schoute (Prof.): Lemoine's Two Problems of Stamps, 72; the Stamp-folding Problem, 335
Schweizer (Dr.), the Behaviour of Spermatozoa towards Electric Currents, 599
Science Electricity in Relation to, Prof. W. Crookes, F. R. S., 63; Examinations in, 85; Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, 91; a Text-book of the Science of Brewing, E. R. Moritz and G. H. Morris, 100; Scientific Nomenclature, H. St. A. Alder, 104; Manual of the Science of Religion, P. D. Chantpie de la Saussaye, 148; Implications of Science, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 60, 82, 222, 343; Edward T. Dixon, 125, 272, 391; Miss E. E. C. Jones, 223, 366; on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Prof. E. du Bois- Reymond, F.R. S., 200, 224; Science in Japan, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 256; Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 338; Science Museum and Gallery of British Art at South Kensington, 348; Science Museum and the Tate Gallery, 385, 433; Forthcoming Scientific Books, 476; Science at the Royal Military Academy, 563; the New York "Scientific Alliance," 544; the Year-book of Science, 1891, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 604
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