XIV 



Index 



^Supplement to Nature, 

 L Jjiiie i6, 1898 



Dawkins (Prof. Boyd, F. R.S.), Spruce Fungus, 71 



Dawn of Civilization, the : Egypt and Chaldaea, G. Maspero, 



196 

 Dawson (Charles), Discovery of a Large Supply of "Natural 



Gas" at Waldron, Sussex, 150 

 Dawson (Dr. G. M.), Glaciation of Western Canada, 572 

 Dawson (Philip), Electric Traction in America and Europe, 



379 

 Dawson (S. E. ), Stanford's Compendium of Geography and 



Travel, North America : Vol. I. Canada and Newfoundland, 



223 

 Dawson (Dr. S. E.), John Cabot's Landing-place in America, 



616 

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

 Deane (Henry), New Eucalyptus, 95 

 Decombe (L.), Direct Measurement of Period of Hertzian 



Oscillations, 407 

 Deer, the Woburn Abbey, 201 

 Defacqz (Ed.), Iodide of Tungsten, 552 

 Delachanal (M.), Biological Preparation of Levulose from 



Mannite, 72 

 Delearde (Dr.), Alcohol in Relation to Microbial Diseases, 



355 



Delepine (M. ), Hydrocinnamide, 455 



Delpino (Prof. T. ), the Lesser Celandine, 517 



Demoussy (E.), Oxidation of Ammonia Compounds by Soil 

 Ferments, 310 



Dendy (Prof. A.), Pontobolbos manaarensis, 119 



Deniges (G. ), General Reaction of Ethylenic Hydrocarbons, 

 624 



Deniker (J.), Anthropological Characteristics of European 

 Races, 351 



Denning (W. F.), the Great Meteoric Shower of November, 7 ; 

 the Leonid Display, 1897, 30, 82 ; the November Meteors, 

 36 ; the Height of Meteors, 540 ; Presentation of Royal 

 Astronomical Society's Gold Medal to W. F. Denning, 376 ; 

 the Present Appearance of Jupiter, 586 



Densities of Carbonic Oxide, Carbonic Anhydride, and Nitrous 

 Oxide, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 208 



Desgrez (A.), Decomposition of Chloroform and Bromoform 

 by Liquid Potash, 95 ; Decomposition of Chloroform in 

 Organism, 168; Mucinoid Substance produced by Bacteria, 

 431 ; Partial Decomposition of Chloroform in Organism, 480 



Developmental Mechanics, Dr. Wilhelm Roux, 531 



Devonshire (Duke of). Speech at the Anniversary Dinner of 

 the Royal Society, 113 ; on Technical Education, 330 



Devonshire Geologist, a, 4 



Dew and Absorption, T. Wilson, 436 



Dewar (Prof.), Detection of Impurities in Liquid Air, 93; 

 Absorption of Hydrogen by Palladium, 93 



Diamond, Papers and Notes on the Genesis and Matrix of the, 

 Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, F.R.S., 315 



Diamonds, William Crookes, F. R.S., 315 



Dianthcecia, British Moths and the Genus, Charles G. Barrett, 

 W. F. Kirby, 460 



Dibdin ( W. J. ), the Purification of Sewage and Water, 601 



Dickson (J. D. H.), Electric Resistance of Wire and Temper- 

 ature, 157 _ 



Differential Equations, Introductory Course in, D. A. Murray, 



.340 ... . 



Differential Equations, Ordinary, with an Introduction to Lie's 

 Theory of the Group of one Parameter, James Morris Page, 



.340 

 Diphtheria in Russia, Serum Treatment of, Dr. Rauchfuss, 



351 

 Disease, the Winter Meteorology of Egypt, and its Influence 



on, H. E. Leigh Canney, 52 

 Disease, Air, Food, and Exercises ; an Essay on the Predis- 

 posing Causes of. Dr. A. Rabagliati, 99 

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

 Divining Rod, a Mechanical Theory of the. Prof. M. E. 



Wadsworth, 221 

 Divisibility, a Test for, Henry T. Burgess, 8, 30 

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



136 ; Henry T. Burgess, 55 

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



W. D. Christie, 390 

 Dixey (Dr. F. A.), Mr. Merrifield's Experiments on the Relation 



of Temperature to Variation, 184 

 Dixon (H. A. K.), Philip's Artistic Animal Studies, 606 



Dixon (Dr. Henry H.), Coccoliths in our Coastal Waters, 80 j. 

 Distribution of Coccoliths, 575 ; Transpiration into a Space 

 saturated with Water, 173 



Dixon (Will. A.), Insusceptibility of Insects to Poisons, 365 



Dobbie (Prof. J. J.), Orthochlorobrortio-benzene, 430; Con- 

 nection between .Electrical Properties and Chemical Com- 

 position of Various Glass, 500 



Dodgson (Rev. C. L ), Abridged Long Division, 269 



Dodgson (Rev. C. L.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 279 



Dolbear (Prof. A.), Cricket-chirp and Temperature, 133 



Domestic Economy, the Teacher's Manual of Object-Lessons 

 in, Vincent T. Murche, 463 



Donnan (F. G.), Lord Rayleigh's Proof of Van 't Hoffs 

 Osmotic Theorem, 53 



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



Dorn (E.), Heating Effect of Rontgen Rays, 401 



Double Stars: New Double Stars, R. T. A. Innes, 179 



Double and Multiple Southern Stars, Dr. T. J. J. See, 617 



Dowsing Faculty, the Supposed, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 79 ; the 

 Writer of the Article, 80 



Dragendorff (Dr. J. G. N.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 612 



Drawing, Elementary, a Series of Practical Papers for 

 Beginners, Elizabeth Moore Hallowell, 100 



Driffield (V. C. ), a New Actinograph, 471 



Drouin (M.), Palladium Chloride as Detective of Minimal 

 Quantities of Carbon Monoxide, 552 



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



Drude (E.), Torsion and Magnetism, 401 



Drude (P.), Optical Constants of Sodium, 500 



Dublin Royal Society, 215, 239, 431, 526, 575 



Dubois (E. ), Variation of Brain-weights as Surface of Animal, 

 281 



Ducamp (A.), Oysters and Typhoid Fever, 72 



Dufour (Leon), Influence of Bismuth Subnitrates in Harden- 

 ing of Cider. 239 



Dugong, the, W, F. Sinclair, 198 



Dumont (Eugene), Magnetic Properties of Nickel Steel, 479 



Dunstan (W. R., F. R.S.), Indian and American Podophyllum, 

 430 ; Pharmacology of Aconitine, Diacetylaconitine, Benza- 

 conine, and Aconine, 453 ; Iceland Spar from Kilwa Island, 

 491 



Dust Fog in the Canaries, Prof. Augusto Arcimis, 582 



Dust Shower, a, C. St. A. Coles, 463 



Dymond (T. S.), Damage to Agricultural Soil by Salt-water 

 Flood, 490 



Dynamics : the Treatment of Parallelograms of Velocities, R. 



F. Muirhead, 86; Waves in Medium having Periodic Dis- 

 continuity of Structure, Prof. H. Lamb, 143 ; Dynamical 

 Illustrations of Certain Optical Phenomena, Prof. J. D. 

 Everett, 477 



Early Man in Scotland, Sir Wm. Turner, F.R.S., 234, 256 



Early Spring Flowers, Miss E. Armitage, 365 



Earth Movements, Modification of the Great Lakes by, Prof. 



G. K. Gilbert, 211 



Earthquakes : the Calcutta Earthquake of June 12, Prof. F. 

 Omori, 59; Recent Seismology, Prof. J. Milne, F. R.S., 246, 

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

 Earthquakes in Montserrat, H, Hamilton, 543 ; Earthquake in 

 California, 565 



Easterfield (T. H.), Cannabinol, 525 



Ebert (W. ), New Method for Determining the Vertical, 191 



Eclipses: the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 35, 105, 294, 325, 365 ; 

 Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 342; Arrival of 

 Eclipse Parties at Bombay, 230 ; Partial Eclipse of the Moon, 

 207 ; Eclipse Negatives, 419 ; Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, 



159 

 Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 142, 191, 310, 431, 526 

 Edinburgh, Meteorology of, R. C. Mossman, 86 

 Edinburgh Royal Society, 191, 287, 309, 503, 575 

 Edridge-Green (F. W.), Memory and its Cultivation, 197 

 Edser (Edwin), Extension of Maxwell's Electro-magnetic 



Theory of Light, 599 

 Education : International Congress on Technical Education, 

 9 ; Progress of Technical Education, 259 ; the Duke of 

 Devonshire on Technical Education, 330 ; the Teacher's- 

 Manual of Object-Lessons in Domestic Economy, Vincent 

 T. Murche, 463 ; the Science Buildings at South Kensington, . 

 485 ; the London University Bill, 587 

 Eggs, some Rare Birds', 438 



