Supplement to Nature,'\ 

 June 16, 1898 J 



Index 



IX 



Malacological Polybathic Fauna, A. Locard, 310 ; Instinct 

 and Intelligence in Animals, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 326 ; 

 the Living Substance as such and as Organism, Gwendolen 

 Foulke Andrews, 362 ; Obituary Notice of Woldemar von 

 Schroder, 395 ; Results of Dr. A. Willey's Expedition to 

 Melanesia, 430 ; Origin and Growth of Tri- and Quadri- 

 Radiate Spicules in Clathrinidce, E. A. Minchin, 475 ; In- 

 fluence of Wave-movement on Development of Frog Larvis, 

 E. Yung, 600 ; La Vie : Mode de Mouvement, Essai d' 

 une Theorie Physique des Phenomenes Vitaux, G. Preaubert, 

 605 ; Laboratory Directions in General Biology, Harriet 

 Randolph, 606 ; Marine Biologj'at the Bermudas, Prof. C. L. 

 Bristol, 90; Distribution of Coccoliths, Prof. Joly, F.R.S., 

 and Dr. H. H. Dixon, 575 



Bipedal Lizards, W. Saville-Kent, 341, 365 



Bird wood (H. M.), the Plague in Bombay, 470 



Birds and Men, Random Shots at, 77 



Birds : the Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, D. G. 

 Elliot, 219 ; some Rare Birds' Eggs, 438 



Birkeland (M.), Analogy between Action of Luminous Rays 

 and of Lines of Magnetic Force, 431 



Bishop (Mrs.), Korea and her Neighbours, 512 



Bjorling (Philip R.), Whittaker's Mechanical Engineer's Pocket- 

 Book, 434 



Blaisdell (Dr. Albert F.), a Practical Physiology: a Text-book 

 for Higher Schools, 462 



Blandford (Mr. ), Destructive Propensities oi Dermesiesvulpinus, 

 167 



Blatchley (W. S.), Twenty-first Annual Report of the Depart- 

 ment of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana, 484 



Bley (Franz), Botanisches Bilderbuch flir Jung und Alt, 100 



Blind, Visibility of X- Rays to, F. de Courmelles, 527 



Blood-Vessels with Mercury, Skiagraphy after Injection of the, 

 Drs. H. J. Stiles and H. Rainy, 485 



Blooming out of Season, the Colours of Flowers, E. Hughes- 

 Gibb, 100 



Boirivant (A.), Replacement of Principal Stem by one of its 

 Ramifications, 552 



Bois (H. du), the Magnetic Circuit, 385 



Bolam (Dr. R. A.), Cause of Death by Electric Shock, 302 



Bollettino della Societa Sismologica Italiana, 46, 116, 261 



Bolometer, the, Prof. S. P. Langley, 620 



Boltzmann (Prof. Ludwig), some Errata in Maxwell's Paper on 

 Faraday's Lines of Force, 77 



Bombay Plague, Report of German Commission on, 86 



Bombay, the Plague in, H. M. Bird wood, 470 



Bombay, Arrival of Eclipse Parties at, 230 



Bonacini (Dr. C. ), on the Diffusion of Rontgen Rays, 545 



Bond (William Cranch) and George Phillips Bond, Memorials 

 of, Edwards. Holden, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 171 



Bonnerra (J. H. ), Sedimentary Erratics of Kloosterholt, 455 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), Coral Boring at Funafuti, Prof. 

 Edge worth David, 137 



Book of the Dead, the, E. A. Wallis Budge, F.S.A., 337 



Bordas (F. ), Bacillus of " Turned " Wines, 576 



Bordas (J.), Bitterness in Wines, 431 



Borgen (Dr. C), the Law of Divisibility, 54 ; a Correction, 136 



Boring, Coral, at Funafuti, Prof. Edgeworth David, Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F.R.S., 137 



Borneo, the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits and, Prof. 

 Alfred C. Haddon, 276 



Bornstein (R.), Electric Observations by Balloon, 238 



Bosc (F. J,), Parasites of Cancer and Sarcoma, 407 



Bose (Prof. Jagadis Chunder), the Refraction of Electric Waves, 



353 

 Botany : Method of Preserving Green Colour of Plants for Ex- 

 hibition, A. F. Woods, 14 ; Chemical Substances in Tree- 

 Trunks, 15; Experimental Morphology, Prof. G. F. Atkin- 

 son, 41 ; the Discovery of Antherozoids in Zamia, H. J. 

 Webber, 59 ; Death and Obituary Notice of J. E. Humphrey, 

 60 ; Method of Demonstrating Assimilation in Green 

 Plants, F. Darwin, 71 ; Spruce Fungus, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 

 F.R.S., 71 ; Linnean Society, 94, 118, 262, 359, 430, 501, 

 623 ; Attraction of Flowers for Insects, Sir John Lubbock, 94 ; 

 Flowers and Insects, Prof. F. Plateau, 179, 255; New Euca- 

 lyptus, Henry Deane and J. H. Maiden, 95 ; the Melocacti, 

 Prof. Suringar, 95 ; Action of Mineral Salts on Lupin, M. 

 Dassonville, 95; New South Wales Linnean Society, 95, 216, 

 311 ; Botanisches Bilderbuch fiir Jung und Alt, Franz Bley, 

 100; Pontobolhos Manaarensis, Prof. A. Dendy, 119; In- 



fluence of Oxygen, cScc. , upon Chlorophyll Production, W. 

 Palladine, 120 ; Bau und Leben unserer Waldbaume, Dr. 

 M. Biisgen, William Somerville, 126; Note on the Influence 

 of very Low Temperature on the Germinative Power of Seeds, 

 Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F. Escombe, 138; a Red 

 Pigment Producing Yeast, Dr. Casagrandi, 158; Journal of 

 Botany, 165, 381 ; Transpiration into a Space saturated with 

 Water, Dr. Henry H. Dixon, 173 ; Polymorphism of Branches 

 in Inflorescences, H. Ricome, 191 ; Volatile Products in 

 Tropical Plants, P. van Romburgh, 192 ; Laboratory 

 Practice for Beginners in Botany, William A. Setchell, 268 ; 

 Biology of Sleremn hirsutum, Prof. H. M. Ward, F.R.S., 

 286 ; Glimpses into Plant-Life, Mrs. Brightwen, 292 ; the 

 "Copper Plant," Polycarpaa spirostyles, L. B. J. Skertchly, 

 303; a Camphor-yielding Cinnamon, R. T. Baker, 311; 

 Memorials, Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles 

 Cardale Babington, 314 ; Action of Rontgen Rays on Vege- 

 table Life, Signor E. Tolomei, 323 ; Rontgen Rays hasten 

 Germination, MM. Maldiney and Thouvenin, 408 ; Die 

 Farnkrauter der Erde, Dr. H. Christ, 338 ; Botanical Micro- 

 technique : a Handbook of Methods of Preparation, Staining, 

 and of Microscopical Investigation of Vegetable Structures, 

 Dr. A. Zimmermann, 340 ; Tyrosin, a Chemical Vaccine 

 against Snake Poison, C. Phisalix, 360 ; Early Spring Flowers, 

 Miss E. Armitage, 365 ; the Physiology of Pitcher Plants, S. 

 H. Vines, 367 ; the Ferns of Nicaragua, B. Shimek, 373 ; 

 the Origin of Wheat, J. C. Melvill, 383 ; Comparative 

 Anatomy of certain Cycadaceae, W. C. Worsdell, 430 ; Func- 

 tion of Aroma in Truffle, A. de G. de Lesparre, 431 ; Myrti- 

 colorin, H. G. Smith, 431 ; Microscopic Plants imparting III 

 Odour to Water, Messrs. Jackson and Ellms, 441 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Prof. Kirk, 469 ; Apogamy and Sporangia 

 Development on Fern Prothalli, W. H. Lang, 501 ; Action 

 of Different Salts in Plant-structure, Charles Dassonville, 504 ; 

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

 Tanibe, 510; a Remarkable Case of Correlation, 511; the 

 Lesser Celandine, Prof. F. Delpino, 517 ; Elementary Botany, 

 Percy Groom, 534 ; Botany of Jeur, Prof. G. M. Woodrow, 

 543 ; Replacement of Principal Stem by one of its Ramifica- 

 tions, A. Boirivant, 552 ; Die Gattung Cyclamen L., eine 

 Systematische und Biologische Monographie, Dr. F. 

 Hildebrand, 560 ; Lessons with Plants, L. H. Bailey, 

 561 ; Contributions towards a Monograph of the Laboul- 

 beniaceie, Roland Thaxter, 620 

 Boudouard (O. ), Cerium, 94; Neodymium, 527 

 Bouffard (A. ), Use of Oxydase in Wine-making, 360 

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



577 

 Bouty (E.), New Method of Measuring Intensity of Magnetic 



Field, 310 

 Bowditch (Prof.), on the Physiology of Unstriped Muscular 



Tissue, 17 

 Bower (J. ), the Collision of Two Explosion-waves, 383 

 Boxer (Major-General Sir E. M., F.R.S.), Death of, 227 

 Boyce (Prof.), Green Oysters, 20 

 Boyer (Jacques), La Photographie et I'Etude des Nuages, 



509 

 Brady (J. G.), Alaska, 103 



Branner (J. C), Former Extension of Appalachians, 70 

 Brauner (B. ), Chemistry of Thorium, 526 ; Compound Nature 



of Cerium, 526 ; Proesodidymium and Neodidymium, 526 

 Breeding Habits of the Grey Seal, on the, J. E. Harting, 465 

 Brenner (Herr Leo), the Manora Observatory, 617 

 Brewster (Edwin Tenney), Relation between Individual and 



Racial Variability, 16 

 Briggs (H. Mead), By Roadside and River, 198 

 Bright Hydrogen Line, a Variable, Miss A. J. Cannon, 284 

 Brighton Municipal School of Science and Technology', 285 

 Brightwen (Mrs.), Glimpses into Plant-life, 292 

 Brioschi (Prof. F.), Death of, 177 ; Obituary Notice of, 279 

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

 Bristol Meeting of the British Association, the Forthcoming, 



296 

 Britain, North, Earthquake in, James M'Cubbin, 391 

 British Association : Meeting at Toronto. Section I. — Presi- 

 dential Address by Prof Michael Foster, 20 ; Prof. Bowditch 

 on the Physiology of Unstriped Muscular "Tissue, 17 ; Prof. 

 Sherrington, 17; Prof. Carl Huber on the Cells of the 

 Sympathetic System of Vertebrates, 17 ; Prof. G. N. Stewart 

 on his Electrical Method of Determining Speed of Blood- 



