Supplement to Natiire,~\ 

 June i6, 1898 J 



INDEX 



Abegg (R.). Dielectric Constants at Low Temperatures, 70 ; 

 Nature of Coloration of Salts by Kathode Rays, 92 



Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), Obituary Notice of, R. H. Scott, 

 F.R.S., 55 



Aberration, Constant of. Prof. C. L. Doolittle, 472 



Abney (Captain), Physical Aspects of Reversal of Photographic 

 Image, 158 



Abnormal Colours of Flowers, Hector Col well, 129 



Abridged Long Division, Rev. C. L. Dodgson, 269 ; Robert 

 W. D. Christie, 390 



Absorption, Dew and, T. Wilson, 436 



Accidents, Mine, in 1897, 277 



Acetylene : L'Eclairage a I'Acetylene, G. Pellissier, 219 ; 

 Calcium Carbide and, Henry Fowler, 523 



Ackermann (Mr.), New Physical Experiments, 23 



Acoustics : Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics, vol. iii., 

 part I. Practical Acoustics, C. L. Barnes, 218 ; Colour- 

 Hearing, Dr, W. S. Colman, 229 ; the Microphonograph, 

 Dr. Louis Ollivier, 255 ; Means of Producing Elliptic Sound- 

 Vibrations in Air, M. Cremieu, 440 ; Sound- Propagation 

 through Non- Homogeneous Medium. N. Kasterin, 528 



Actinograph, a New, Dr. Hurter and V. C. Driffield, 471 



Actinometry in Balloons, J- Violle, 47 



Adie (R. H.), Agricultural Chemistry, 196 



Adulteration ; Detection of Sawdust in Flour, G. A. Le Roy, 

 576 



Aerial Navigation, Navigazione Aerea, Guglielmo N. Da Pra, 

 560 



Aeronautics : Herr Andree's Expedition, Jonas Stadling, 14 ; 

 Andree and his Balloon, Henri Lachambre and Alexis 

 Machuron, Dr. H. Robert Mill, 609; Apparatus for Verifying 

 Barometric Measurement of Balloon Altitudes, L. Cailletet, 

 23 ; Photographic Method of Measuring Height of Balloon, 

 L. Cailletet, 282 ; Actinometry in Balloons, J. Violle, 47 ; 

 Artificial Wings in Imitation of Flying-Fox, Major R. F. 

 Moore, 59 ; Les Ballons-Sondes, W. de Fonvielle, 76 ; the 

 International Balloon Conference, W. de Fonvielle, 565 ; 

 Electric Balloon Signalling applied to Arctic Exploration, E. 

 S. Bruce, 85 ; Artificial Flight, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 

 135 ; a Railroad Flying Machine, Profs. Langley and 

 Watkins, 156; Experiments in Gliding Flight, Octave 

 Chanute, 255 



Aflalo (F. G.), a Sketch of the Natural History (Vertebrates) of 

 the British Isles, 533 



Africa : Ten Years' Rainfall of Cape Colony, Dr. Buchan, 34 ; 

 the Dry Crushing and Direct Cyaniding of Rand Ore, 135 ; 

 Daily Range of Meteorological Elements at Cairo, Dr. J. 

 Hann, 165 ; Death of Dr. Eugen ZintgraflT, 228 ; Obituary 

 Notice of, 254 ; Manners and Habits of Natives of East 

 Africa Protectorate, Sir A. Hardinge, 372; Rinderpest and 

 Serotherapy in South Africa, 398 ; the Rainfall of South 

 Africa, 114; British Central Africa, Sir Harry H. Johnston, 

 174 ; Stridulation in some African Spiders, R. I. Pocock, 

 356 ; Giraffe from the Niger Territories, W. Hume McCor- 

 quodale, 389 ; the Navigability of the Niger, Lieut, de 

 Chevigne, 442 ; Zoological Evidence of Connection of Lake 

 Tanganyika with the Sea, J. E. S. Moore, 476 ; Iceland Spar 

 from Kilwa Island, W. R. Dunstan, 491 ; Discovery of Tomb 

 of Amenophis II., G. M. Loret, 566 



Agamennone (Dr. G.), New Electric Seismoscope, 59 



Agassiz (A.), Coral Reefs of Fiji Group, 405 



Agriculture : the Fertility of the Land, Isaac P. Roberts, 75 ; 

 Effect of Temperatures on Hibernation of Injurious Insects, 



Dr. L. O. Howard, 85 ; Light and Beetroot Sugar Produc- 

 tion, F. Strohmer, 159 ; Potato Disease, G. W. Bulman, 

 198 ; Oat, Wheat, and Rye Straw, M. Balland, 239 ; the 

 Foundations of Scientific Agriculture, Samuel Cooke, 243 ; 

 West Indian Resources, D. Morris, 464 ; Damage to Soil by 

 Salt-water Flood, T. S. Dymond, 490 ; the Gipsy Moth in 

 Massachusetts, L. O. Howard, 491 ; Report of Observations 

 of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests, Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod, 558 ; the West Australian Settler's Guide and 

 Farmer's Handbook, 560 ; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Prof. Aime Girard, 587 ; Tobacco Soils of United States, 

 M. Whitney, 615 ; Absorption of Organic Materials by Roots, 

 Jules Laurent, 143 ; Agricultural Chemistry, R. H. Adie, 

 196; Influence of Bismuth Subnitrate on "Hardening" of 

 Cider, MM. Leon Dufour and Daniel, 239 ; Agriculture in 

 some of its Relations with Chemistry, F. H. Storer, 292 ; 

 Oxidation of Ammonia Compound by Soil-Ferments, E. 

 Demoussy, 310 ; Caron's New Bacteriological Grain 

 Manure, "Alinit,"4i8 



Air and Water, Electric Movements on, with Theoretical 

 Inferences, Lord Armstrong, F.R.S., 31 



Air, the Exploration of the, by Means of Kites, A. Lawrence 

 Rotch, 53 ^. 



Air, Food, and Exercises : an Essay on the Predisposing Causes 

 of Disease, Dr. A. Rabagliate, 99 



Alaska, J. G. Brady, 103 



Albino Lark, an, 228 



Alcock (Sir Rutherford), Death of, 12 



Alcohol in Relation to Slicrobial Diseases, Dr. Delearde, 355 



Alcoholic Fermentation, Yeast and, Prof. J. Reynolds Green, 

 F.R.S., 591 



Alembic Club Reprints, No. 13 ; the Early History of Chlorine, 

 No. 14 ; Researches on Molecular Asymmetry, 534 



Algebra : Chambers's Algebra for Schools, William Thompson, 

 388 



"Alinit,"a New Bacteriological Grain Manure, Herr Caron, 

 418 



Allen (A. U.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 612 



Allen (Francis H.), Nature's Diary, 364 



Allen (Dr. Harrison), Death of, 102 



Alloys : Microscopic Study of Alloys, 11 



America : American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 Meeting at Detroit, Experimental Morphology, Prof. G. F. 

 Atkinson, 41 ; Geologists in Canada, -62 ; American Journal 

 of Science, 70, 189, 333, 404, 500 ; Volcanoes of North 

 America, Israel C. Russell, 73 ; Life Histories of American 

 Insects, C. M. Weed, 99 ; Bulletin of American Mathematical 

 Society, 164, 308, 357, 476, 598 ; Modification of the Great 

 Lakes by Earth Movement, Prof. G. K. Gilbert, 211 ; the 

 Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, D. G. Elliot, 

 219 ; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, 

 North America, S. E. Dawson, vol. i., Canada and New- 

 foundland, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 223 ; American Journal of 

 Mathematics, 261 ; American Society of Naturalists, Sixteenth 

 Annual Meeting, 281 ; Crater Lake, Oregon, 375 ; Further 

 Explorations in American Mounds, 400 ; Does a Phosphor- 

 escent South American Liana exist? Prof. Italo Giglioli, 412 ; 

 the Lake Superior Iron Ore Region, Bennett H. Brough, 473 ; 

 Twenty- first Annual Report of the Department of Geology 

 and Natural Resources, Indiana, W. S. Blatchley, 484 ; 

 Glaciation of North America, Dr. J. W. Spencer, 571 ; R. 

 Chalmers, 571 ; J. B. Tyrrell, 572 ; Dr. G. W. Dawson, 572 ; 

 Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, 572 ; Prof, A. P. Coleman, 572 ; 



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