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Index 



[Supflevteni to Nature, 

 June i6, 1898 



Enchanted Mesa, an, F. W. Hodge, 450 



Energy, the Principle of Conservation of, Hans Januschke, 



Prof. G. n. Bryan, F.R.S., 74 

 Engelmann's (Prof. T. W.), Spectroscopic Tables, 85 

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

 Engineering : Heilmann's Electric Locomotive, 58 ; Micro- 

 scopic Observations on Fatigue Deteriorations in Steel Rails, 

 Thomas Andrews, 58 ; Projected Electrical Exploitation of 

 Trollhattan Waterfalls, 135 ; the Law of Condensation of 

 Steam, Prof. Hugh L. Callendar, F.R.S., and John T. 

 Nicholson, 139 ; Premium Award of Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, 177 ; Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical 

 Machinery, E. Tremlett Carter, Prof. A. Gray, F.R.S., 193 ; 

 the Local Distribution of Electric Power in Workshops, 

 Ernest Kilburn Scott, 197 ; on a Method of Determining the 

 Reactions at the Points of Support of Continuous Beams, Geo. 

 Wilson, 238 ; Death of Sir C. H. Gregory, 253 ; Institution 

 of Mechanical Engineers, 379 ; Electric Traction in America 

 and Europe, Philip Dawson, 379 ; Report of Gas Engine 

 Research Committee of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 

 Prof F. W. Burstall, 379 ; Whittaker's Mechanical Engineer's 

 Pocket Book, Philip R. Bjorling, 434 ; Student's Guide to 

 Submarine Cable-Testing, H. K. C. Fisher and J. C. H. 

 Darby, 459 ; Death of Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.,468; 

 Obituary Notice of, 487 ; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 James I'Anson, 566 ; Tractive Resistance of Express Trains, 

 611 



Entomology : Researches on Mimicry on the Basis of a Natural 

 Classification of the Papilionidae, Dr. Erich Haase, i, 25 ; 

 Mimicry in Insects, Roland Trimen, F.R.S., 304 ; Protective 

 and Pseudo-Mimicry, Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., 364 ; Pro- 

 tective Mimicry and Common Warning Colours, Prof. Edward 

 B. Poulton, F. R.S. , 389 ; a Bee's Movements in a Room, J. 

 Parkin, 8 ; Insects on the Summit of Mauna 'Loa, Dr. H. B. 

 Guppy, 20 ; Insects and Colour, Rev. Alfred Thornley, 30 ; 

 Entomological Society, 71, 118, 167, 309, 383, 454, 501, 

 526, 623 ; Remarkable Termite Mounds of Australia, W. 

 Saville-Kent, 81 ; Effect of Temperature on Hibernation of 

 Injurious Insects, Dr. L. O. Howard, 85 ; Attraction of 

 Flowers for Insects, Sir John Lubbock, 94 ; Flowers and 

 Insects, Prof. F. Plateau, 179, 255 ; Life Histories of 

 American Insects, C. M. Weed, 99 ; Useful Insect Products, 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, 114 ; Fire-fly Light, Dr. Carlo del Lungo, 

 130 ; Cricket-Chirp and Temperature, Prof. A. Dolbear, 133; 

 the Germinative Plates of Coleoptera, A. Lecaillon, 143 ; the 

 Rouget Parasite, M. Brucker, 143; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Dr. G. H. Horn, 156, 323 ; Destructive Propensities of 

 Dermestes vulptnis, Mr. Blandford, 167 ; the Small Tortoise- 

 shell Butterfly in December, W. F. Kirby, 173 ; Mr. Merri- 

 field's Experiments on the Relation of Temperature to Varia- 

 tion, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 184 ; Entomology of Hawaiian Islands, 

 R. C. L. Perkins, 190; Scale Insects and Ladybirds, Mr. 

 Froggatt, 216 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. E. L. 

 Taschenberg, 300 ; Insusceptibility of Insects to Poisons, 

 Will. A. Dixon, 365 ; the Reviewer, 365 ; Miss H. B. Potter, 

 412 ; the San Jose Scale, R. Newstead, 440 ; the Lepidoptera 

 of the British Islands, Charles G. Barrett, W. F. Kirby, 460 ; 

 the Gipsy Moth in Massachusetts, L. O. Howard, 491 ; Ants 

 and Aphides, J. G. Goudie, 517 ; Report of Observations of 

 Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests during the Year 

 1897, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 558 



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

 340 



Equilibriums, Graphic Representation by means of f- Function 

 of. Prof, van der Waals, 95 



Erlanger (Dr. R. von), Death of, 253 



Erskine (J. A.), Conductivity of Electrodes for Rapid Oscillia- 

 tions, 92 



Eschenhagen (Dr.), Magnetic Observations in the Hartz 

 Mountains, 318 



Escombe (F.), Note on the Influence of very Low Temperature 

 on the Germinative Power of Seeds, 138 



Espin (Rev. T. E. ), a Probable New Star, 374 ; a Remarkable 

 Object, 400 



Etard (A.), a Crystallised Hydride of Dicamphene, 407 



Ether, the Isothermals of, J. Rose-Innes, 70 



Ethnogiaphy : Further Explorations in American Mounds, 400 



Ethnology : the Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Or- 

 naments of Great Britain, Sir John Evans, K.C.B., 290; an 

 Enchanted Mesa, F. W. Hedge, 450 ; Origin of Australasian 



Aborigines, A. W. Howitt, 496 ; Ethnological Studies among 



the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines, Walter E. 



Roth, 561 

 Etruscan Vases, the Magnetic Properties of, Dr. Folgheraiter, 



281 

 Eucalyptus, New, Henry Dean and J. H. Maiden, 95 

 Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I. and II., Charles 



Smith and Sophie Bryant, 433 

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



577 

 Evans (Sir John, K.C.B.), the Ancient Stone Implements, 



Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, 290 

 Evans (Thomas J.), Notes on Carpentry and Joinery, 602 

 Evans (W. T. ), Influence of Silent Electrical Discharge on Air, 



430 

 Everett (Prof. J. D.), Dynamical Illustrations of certain 



Optical Phenomena, 477 

 Evolution: Random Selection, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 



N. L. G. Filon, 210; the Law of Ancestral Heredity, Prof. 



Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 452 

 Ewart (Prof. J. C, F.R.S.), Zebra Horse Hybrids, 397 

 E wing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S. ), Applied Mechanics, Prof. John 



Perry, F.R.S., 313; Dr. Linde's Method of Producing Ex- 

 treme Cold and Liquefying Air, 469 

 Examinations, Report on Technological, 40 

 Explorations in American Mounds, Further, 400 

 Explosion Waves, the Collision of Two, R. H. Jones and J. 



Bower, 383 

 Explosives : Death and Obituary Notice of Col. Sir V. D. 



Majendie, 612 

 Eykman (Mr.), Influence of Seasons on Combustion of Nutritive 



Matter in Man, 263 



Fabry (Ch. ), a New Method of Interferential Spectroscopy, 263 ; 

 Study of Radiations by Interferential Spectroscopy, 359 



Fairchild (Prof H. L.), Glacial Phenomena of Western New 

 York, 573 



Faraday Memorial, 56 



Faraday's Lines of Force, some Errata in Maxwell's Paper on, 

 Prof. Ludwig Boltzman, 77 



Farnkrauter der Erde, Die, Dr. H. Christ, 338 



Fauna, Antarctic : Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Ex- 

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

 Thompson, 427 



Fauna, Subterranean, A. Vire, 301 



Faurie (G. A.), Effects of Longitudinal Stress on Metals, 359 



Fayrer (Surgeon-General Sir Joseph), Biography of Inspector- 

 General Sir James Ranald Martin, F.R.S., 462 



Feilmann (M. E.), Formation of Hydrolysis of Esters, 239 



Fenton (H. J. IL), Dihydro.xytartaric Acid, 166; Volumetric 

 Estimation of Sodium, 383 



Fergusson (S. P.), Highest Kite Ascensions in 1897, 372 



Fergussonite, Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S., and M. W. Travers, 

 381 



Fermentation, Y'east and Alcoholic, Prof J. Reynolds Green, 

 F.R.S., 591 



Ferns of Nicaragua, the, B. Shimek, 373 



Ferret and Trout, J. Robson, 300 



Fertility of the Land, the, Isaac P. Roberts, 75 



Fery (Ch.), Application of Photographic Irradiation, 527 



Fever, Mediterranean, Malta or Undulant, Louis Hughes, 581 



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



Filon (N. L. G. ), Random Selection, 210 



Filters, Water, the Efficiency of, 324 



Filtration, Sterilisation of Liquids by, J. Hausser, 504 



Finck (E. ), Action of Carbon Monoxide on Palladious Chloride, 



455 



Fire-fly Light, Dr. Carlo del Lungo, 130 



Fischer (A. ), Untersuchungen iiber den Bau der Cyanophyceen 

 und Bakterien, 29 



Fischer (Prof. T.), the Lake of Garda Moraine Ampitheatre, 



441 

 .Fisher (H. K. C), Student's Guide to Submarine Cable- 

 Testing, 459 



Fisheries Exhibition, Liverpool, 13 



Fishing : Manner of obtaining Silkworm Gut, 158 



Fitzgerald (Prof ). Cause of Doubling in Zeeman Effect, 334 



Five-fingered Crab, R. I. Pocock, 436 



Flammarion (M. Camille), Cinematograph in Astronomy, 419 



