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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June i6, 1898 



Bayley Willis, 573 ; Prof. H. L. Fairchild, 573 ; F. B. 

 Taylor, 573 ; John Cabot's Landing-place in America, Dr. S. 

 E. Dawson, 616 



Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 95, 191, 263, 311, 455, 

 527 



Anatomy : Death of Doctor Harrison Allen, 102 ; Death of 

 Dr. Hugh Calderwood, 253 ; Journal of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology, 318 ; Anatomy of Macropns rufus. Prof. B. Windle 

 and F. G. Parsons, 319 ; Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden 

 Mikroskopischen Anatomie der Wirbelthiere, Dr. Med. Alb, 

 Oppel, 581 



Anceaux (Emile), Planetary Relations, 352 



Ancient Geography, a History of, H. F. Tozer, 482 



Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great 

 Britain, the, Sir John Evans, K.C.B., 290 



Ancient World, Natural History of the, 146 



Andeer (J. J.), Leucocyte-generating Apparatus in Peritoneum, 

 191 



Anderson (Dr.), New Variable Stars, 179 



Andre (G. ), Combinations of Pyridine and Trimethylamine with 

 Formic and Acetic Acids, 600 



Andree Expedition, the, Jonas Stadling, 14 



Andree and his Balloon, Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, 

 Dr. H. Robert Mill, 609 



Andrews (Gwendolen Foulke), the Living Substance as such, 

 and as Organism, 362 



Andrews (Thomas), Microscopic Observations on Fatigue- 

 deterioration in Steel Rails, 58 



Anemometry, 103 ; a Method of Measuring Wind Pressure, 

 Prof. Francis E. Nipher, 449 



Animal Electricity, Lectures on Physiology, First Series, on, A. 

 D. Waller, F.R.S., 50 



Animals, All About, for Old and Young, 172 



Animals, Tame, Wild Traits in. Dr. Louis Robinson. 150 



Animals, Instinct and Intelligence in, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 

 326 



Animals and Plants, Marine, the Preparation of, as Transparent 

 Lantern Slides, Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 520 



Annable (H.), Benzoylphenylsemicarbazide, 93 



Annelids, Origin of Setigerous Bulbs and Nephridia in, Aug. 

 Michel, 263 



Annuaire pour I'An 1898, public par le Bureau des Longitudes, 



^^ . 

 Annuaire de I'Oberservatoire Municipal de Montsouris pour 



I'Annee 1898, 244 



Antarctic Expedition, Scientific Advantages of an. Dr. John 

 Murray, F.R.S., 420; the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 423 ; Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., 423 ; Dr. Nansen, 424 ; Prof. Dr. 

 Neumayer, 424; Sir Clements Mark ham, F.R.S.,424; Dr. 

 Alexander Buchan, 425 ; Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R.S., 426 ; 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 427 ; Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, 

 427 



Antarctic Research, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 413 

 . Antares, Occultation of, 442 



Anthropology : Relation between Individual and Racial Varia- 

 bility, Edwin Tenney Brewster, 16 ; Early Man in Scotland, 

 Sir Wm. Turner, F.R.S., 234, 256; Arii e Italici, Prof. 

 G. Sergi, 268 ; the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits 

 and Borneo, Prof. Alfred C. If addon, 276 ; Characteristics of 

 European Races, J. Deniker, 351 ; Manners and Habits of 

 Natives of East Africa Protectorate, Sir A. Hardinge, 372 ; 

 Man in Relation to the Glacial Period, Dr. II. Hicks, F.R.S., 

 402 ; Anthropological Institute, 430, 526 ; Native Life in 

 Central Australia, Prof. W. B. Spencer, 496 ; Aborigines of 

 Formosa, Albrecht Wirth, 518 ; the Guayaki of Paraguay, 

 Dr. Ehrenreich, 551 ; the Moplahs of Malabar, Dr. Emil 

 Schmidt, 551 ; Globus, 551 ; Recherches sur les Origines de 

 I'Egypte, J. de Morgan, 578 



Anticyclonic Systems, Major H. E. Rawson, 623 



Antiquity, the Metals used by the Great Nations of, Dr. J. H. 

 Gladstone, F.R.S., 594 



Antoniadi (M.), the Doubling of the Canals on Mars, 568 



Ants and Aphides, J. G. Goudie, 517 



Appleyard (Rollo), Failure of German Silver and Platinoid 

 Wires, 116 ; the Material of Resistance Coil Wire in Tropical 

 Climates, 418 



Applied Mechanics, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., Prof. J. A. 

 Ewing, F.R.S., 313 



Applied Mechanics, a Text-book on, Andrew Jamieson, 483 



April Lyrids, the, 568 



7j Aquilae, Spectrum Researches of. Prof. A. Belopolsky, 353 

 Arachnidae : Stridulation in some African Spiders, R. I. 



Pocock, 356 

 Archaeology : Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities 

 of Mexico, W. H. Holmes, 6 ; the Reliquary and Illustrated 

 Archaeologist, 29; Congress of Societies, 156; Babylonian 

 Land Surveying, Prof. Hammer, 281 ; Palaeolithic Man, F. 

 T. Newton, F.R.S., 354 ; Further Explorations in American 

 Mounds, 400 ; the Temple-Pyramid of Tepotzlan, Dr. E. 

 Seler, 551 ; Discovery of Tomb of Amenophis II. by M. 

 Loret, 566 ; Prehistoric Ruins of Honduras and Yucatan, 

 Alfred P. Maudslay, 568 ; Recherches sur les origines de 

 I'Egypte, J. de Morgan, gZS 

 Archibald (JE. H.), Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions of 



Potassium and Sodium Sulphates, 398 

 Archimedes, the Works of, Dr. T. L. Heath, 409 

 Architecture : Modern Architecture, H. H. Statham, 602 

 Arcimus (Prof. Augusto), Dust Fog in the Canaries, 582 

 Arctica : the Andree Expedition, Jonas Stadling, 14 ; the Tack- 

 son-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition, 40 ; the Land Fauna of 

 Spitsbergen, D. J. Scourfield, 60 ; David Bryce, 60 ; Electric 

 Balloon Signalling applied to Arctic Exploration, E. S. 

 Bruce, 85 ; the Arctic Work of Mr. R. E. Peary, 132 ; a 

 Proposed Swedish Expedition to the Arctic Regions, Dr. A. 

 G. Nathorst, 163 ; the Lava Sheets of Franz Josef Land, 

 Messrs. Newton and Teall, 324 ; Mammals of Franz |osef 

 Land, W. S. Bruce, 575 ; Birds of Franz Josef Land, W, E. 

 Clark, 575 

 Arequipa Observatory, the, 249 

 Argon, the Spectra of. Dr. Rydberg, 157 

 Argyll (the Duke of, F.R.S.), Scientific Advantages of an 



Antarctic Expedition, 423 

 Arii e Italici, Prof. G. Sergi, 268 



Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respira- 

 tion, Dr. W. Ogle, 146 

 Arithmetic : Abridged Long Division, Rev. C. L. Dodgson, 

 269 ; Robert W. D. Christie, 390 ; the Miner's Arithmetic 

 and Mensuration, Henry Davies, 462 ; an Arithmetic for 

 Schools, S. L. Loney, 560 

 Armenia, Notes on some Volcanic Phenomena in, T, McKenny 



Hughes, 392 

 Armitage (Miss E.), Early Spring Flowers, 365 

 Armitage (F. P.), Atomic Weight of Boron, 383 

 Armstrong (Lord, F.R.S.), Electric Movement on Air and 



Water with Theoretical Inferences, 3 1 

 Arnold-Bemrose (II. H.), Quartz-rock in Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone of Derbyshire, 406 

 Arnott (R. F.), Gold in Silver, 205 

 Arons (L. ), Temperature of Mercury Arc Lamp Electrodes, 



238 

 Arrhenius's Views on Causes of Climate Variations Criticised, 



L. de Marchi, 614 

 Artillery Chronograph, a New, 368 



Artist's Pigment, Oat Smut as an, David Paterson, 364 ; Prof. 

 H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 389; Kumagusu Minakata, 437 

 Aryo-Semitic School of Mythology, R. Brown, jun., 530 

 Asbarg, Colouring Matters of Indian Dye-stuff, A. G. Perkin 



and J. A. Pilgrim, 478 

 Aschkinass (E.), Deflection of Kathode Rays, 238 

 Ashford (C. E.), the Use of Compressed Coal Gas, 485 

 Ashworth (J. R.), Method of Making Magnets Independent of 



Changes of Temperature, 261 

 Assyria : the Metals used by the Great Nations of Antiquity, 



Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 596 

 Aston (E. ), Influence of Temperature on Rotatory Power of 



Liquids, 120 

 Astronomy: the November Meteors (Leonids), 7, 61, 88 ; W. F. 

 Denning, 7, 30, 36, 82 ; Spectrum of a Meteor, Prof. E. C. 

 Pickering, loi ; Some Systems of Meteors, Prof. Th. Bredi- 

 kine, 105 ; Geminids, 136 ; a Remarkable Meteor, Henry 

 Cecil, 204 ; Remarkable Meteoric Display, 228 ; a Bright 

 Meteor, Susanna Lehmann, 271 ; the Height of Meteors, W. 

 F. Denning, 540 ; the April Lyrids, 568 ; the Meudon Ob- 

 servatory, 568 ; Our Astronomical Column, 16, 35, 61, 88, 

 105, 136, 159, 179, 207, 230, 256, 284, 303, 325, 352, 374, 

 399, 419, 442, 472, 491, 519, 546, 568, 591, 617 ; the Photo- 

 graphy of Faint Moving Celestial Objects, Prof. Barnard, 16 ; 

 Photography of Unseen Moving Celestial Objects, Prof. 

 Barnard, 230 ; Sunspots and the Weather, A. Macdowall, 16 ; 

 Theory of Sunspots, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 239; Level of 



