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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June,i6, 1898 



Geology of Western Australia, Dr. O. Hoist, 86 ; My Fourth 

 Tour in Western Australia, Albert F. Calvert, 1 26 ; the West 

 Australian Settler's Guide and Farmer's Hand-book, 560 



Babcock (S. M.), Cheese-ripening, 373 



Babington (Charles Cai-dale), Memorials, Journal and Botanical 



Correspondence of, 314 

 Babylonian Land Surveying, Prof. Hammer, 281 

 Bach (A.), Correlation between Reduction of Carbonic Acid by 



Nascent Hydrogen, Electrolysis, and Photolysis, 384 

 Bacteriology : the Yellow Fever Bacillus, Dr. D. Freire, 24 ; 

 Untersuchungen iiber den Bau der Cyanophyceen und 

 Bakterien, A. Fischer, 29 ; Oysters and Typhoid Fever, 72 ; 

 Notes on Micro-organisms Pathogenic to Man, Surgeon- 

 Captain B. H. S. Leumann, 52 ; Report of German Com- 

 mission on Plague at Bombay, 86 ; Bacteriology of Canned 

 Foods, Messrs. Prescott and Underwood, 103 ; Scientific 

 Investigations of the Local Government Board, 131 ; Cultiva- 

 tion-media of Tubercle Bacillus, Dr. A. Ransome, F. R. S., 

 165 ; Growth of the Tubercle Bacillus at a Low Temperature, 

 F. J. Reid, 221 ; Tuberculosis and Pseudo-Tuberculosis, 

 MM. Bataillon and Terre, 407 ; Artificial Communication of 

 Typhoid by Alimentary Tract, Dr. P. Remlinger, 179; 

 Hiss's Method of Differentiating Typhoid Bacillus from B. 

 coli communis. Dr. A. Ravold, 527 ; Cheese-ripening, H. 

 L. Russeil and L. M. Babcock, 373 ; Bacilli of Beri-beri, G. 

 Nepveu, 310 ; Parasites of Cancer and Sarcoma, F. J. Bosc, 

 407; Caron's New Grain Manure, " AHnit," 418 ; Mucinoid 

 Substance produced by Bacteria, A. Charrin and A. Desgrez, 

 431 ; Production of Oxidation of Glycerine by Sorbose 

 Bacterium, Gabriel Bertrand, 504 ; Sterilisation of Liquids by 

 Filtration, J. Hausser, 504 ; Bacillus of " Turned " Wines, 

 MM. Bordas, Joulin, and de Raczkowski, 576 ; Mediter- 

 ranean, Malta, or Undulant Fever, Louis Hughes, 581 ; 

 Micro-organisms in Presence of Compressed Gas, G. Malfitano, 

 614 ; the Purification of Sewage and Water, W. J. Dibdin, 

 601 

 Bailey (G. H.), the Tutorial Chemistry, part ii., Metals, 559 

 Bailey (L. H.), Lessons with Plants, 561 

 Baker (R. T.), a Camphor-yielding Cinnamon, 311 

 Bakerian Lecture, the, Dr. W. J. Russell, V.P.R.S., 607 

 Ball (Sir Robert, F.R.S.), Address to the Royal Astronomical 

 Society, and Presentation of Gold Medal to W. F. Denning, 



376 

 Balland (M.), Oat, Wheat, and Rye Straw, 239 

 Ballistics ; the Barr and Stroud " Range-finder," 23 

 Ballons-Sondes, Les, W. D. Fonvielle, 76 

 Ballooning, Proposed attempt of MM. Godard and Surcouf to 



reach the North Pole by means of, 381 

 Balloon, Andree and his, Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, 



Dr. H. Robert Mill, 609 

 Balmer (W. T. ), Remarkable Lunar Corona, 253 

 Balnibarbian Glumtrap Rhyme, Prof. G. M. Minchin, F.R.S., 



564 

 Banana, Mechanism of Self-fertilisation in the, Gopal R. Tambe, 



510 

 Baracchi (P.): Measurement of Cloud Heights and Velocity, 



493 ; Astronomy and Terrestrial Physics, 493 

 Barlow (W.), a Mechanical Cause of Homogeneity of Structure 



and Symmetry geometrically investigated, with special 



Application to Crystals and to Chemical Combination, 428 

 Barnard (Prof.) : Photography of Faint Moving Celestial 



Objects, 16 ; Jupiter's Third and Fourth Satellites, 61 ; 



Photography of Unseen Moving Celestial Bodies, 230 ; 



Companion to Vega, 256 ; Nebulae near Castor, 326 

 Barnard (J. Edwin), Photo-Micrography with High Powers, 



448 

 Barnes (C. L.), Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics, vol. 



lii., part I, Practical Acoustics, 218 

 Barometer, Theory ot Daily Oscillations of. Dr. J. Hann, 350 

 Barometrical Determination of Heights, the, F. J. B. Cordeiro, 



60s 

 Barr and Stroud " Range-finder," the, 23 

 Barraclough (S. H.), Effect of Temperature on Tensile and 



Compressive Properties of Copper, 288 

 Barral (E. ), Chlorine Derivatives of Phenyl Carbonate, 527 

 Barrett (Charles G.), the Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 460 

 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), the Supposed Dowsing Faculty, 79 

 Barrow (George), Chloritoid in Kincardineshire, 359 



Barthelemy (Comte P. de), the Navigability of the Mekong, 419 

 Basle, Seven Years' Rainfall at, Prof. Riggenbach, 157 

 Bataillon (M.), Tuberculosis and Pseudo-tuberculosis, 407 

 Batrachians, the Tailless, of Europe, G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., 



577 

 Battelli (Prof.), Researches on Rontgen Rays, 544 

 Batten (F. E.), Early Degenerative Changes in Sensory End 



Organs of Muscles, 501 

 Batterman (Herr H.), Systematic Observations of Occultations, 



105 

 Bau und Leben unserer Waldbaume, Dr. M. BUsgen, William 



Somerville, 126 

 Baubigny (H.), Use of Fluorescence in Detecting Bromine in 



Saline Mixtures, 47 

 Bauge (G. ), a Double Carbonate of Sodium and Protoxide of 



Chromium, 240 

 Bay of Biscay, Sub-Oceanic Terraces and River Valleys of the. 



Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 582 

 Bazin (M.), Death of, 300 

 Beaver Park, an English, C. J. Cornish, 130 

 Beavers at Washington, 589 

 Becke (Louis), Wild Life in Southern Seas, 580 

 Becker (G. F. ), Kant as a Natural Philosopher, 404 ; Auriferous 



Conglomerate of Transvaal, 500 

 Becquerel (Henri), Explanation applicable to Phenomena of 



Faraday and Zeeman, 72 

 Bee's Movements in a Room, a, J. Parkin, 8 

 Behal (A.), New Cyclic Ketones, 191 

 Behrens (Prof. ), Micro-reactions of Free Sulphuric Acid, Free 



Ammonia, and Free AlkaUs, 95 

 Beijerinck (Dr. M. W. ), on Phosphorescent Sap in Superior 



Plants, 511 

 Belopolsky (Prof. A.), New Investigations of j3 Lyrse, 207 ; 



Spectrum Researches of r; Aquilae, 353 

 Beneke Prizes, the, 610 



Bentley (W. H. ), Synthesis of Camphoric Acid, 166 

 Berens (Lewis H.), some Unrecognised Laws of Nature, 121, 



293 

 Beri-beri, Bacilli of, G. Nepveu, 310 

 Berkshire, the Flora of, Geo. Claridge Druce, 579 

 Bermudas, Marine Biology at the. Prof. C. L. Bristol, 90 

 Bernard (H. M.), Affinities of Alveopora, 262; Catalogue of the 

 Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), 363 

 Bernstein (J.), Mutual Influence of Kathode Ra3'S, 92 

 Bert (Paul), First Year of Scientific Knowledge, 510 

 Berthelot (M. ), Influence of Hydroscopic Substances on Com- 

 bination of Hydrogen and Oxygen, 71 ; Reaction of Hydrogen 

 on Sulphuric Acid, 94 ; Direct Action of Sulphuric Acid on 

 Mercury, 94 ; Influence of Oxygen on Decomposition of 

 Hydracids by Mercury, 94 ; Chemical Actions of the Silent 

 Discharge, 431, 455, 479, 503; Chemical Action of the Silent 

 Discharge : Oxides of Carbon and Nitrogen, 455 ; Chemical 

 Action of the Silent Discharge : Alcohols and Etherial 

 Derivatives in presence of Nitrogen, 4155, 479 

 Berthelot (Daniel), High Temperature Measurement by Inter- 

 ference Method, 359 ; Melting-points of Gold and Silver, 

 383 ; Chemical Influence of Light on Carbon Disulphide, 

 599 ; Absorption of Oxygen by Pyrogallate of Potassium, 599 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), Oxidation of Sorbite to Sorbose, 455 ; 

 Action of Sorbose Bacterium on Polyhydric Alcohols, 480 ; 

 Production of Oxidation of Glycerine by Sorbose Bacterium, 

 504 ; Bio-Chemical Preparation of Crystallised Dioxyacetone, 



552 

 Berzolari (Luigi), Extension to Space of n Dimensions of Euler's 



and Meunier's Theorems on Surface Curvatures, 157 

 Bessemer (Sir Henry, F.R.S.), Death of, 468; Obituary Notice 



of, 487 

 Besson (A.), Action of Water on Phosphorus Trichloride, 94 ; 



Phosphorus Oxide, 191 

 Bibliography of X-Ray Literature and Research, 53 

 Bicentenary Volume, A. Malpighi, Prof. M. Foster, Sec.R.S., 



529 

 Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.), Presidential Address to the Physical 



Society, 378 

 Binary j3 395 = 82 Ceti, the, Dr. T. J. J. See, 36 

 Binary, a New Spectroscopic, 284 ( 



Biology: Death of Prof. T.J. Parker, F.R.S., 177; Obituary 

 Notice of. Prof G. B. Howes, F.R.S., 225 ; Naturliche 

 Schopfungs-geschichte, Ernst Haeckel, 291 ; a Deep-Sea 



