XXVI 



Index 



[Sii^pletnent to Nature, 

 June i6, i8q8 



Mississippi Floods, the, Park Morrill, 470 



Mitchell (A. H.), Quantitative Practical Chemistry, 435 



Moissan (Henri), the Calcium, Strontium and Barium Borides, 



47 ; New Method of Preparing Carbides, 143 ; Conditions of 



Formation of Alkaline Carbides, 335 

 Molecular Asymmetry, Researches on. Alembic Club Reprints, 



534 



Molisch (Dr. Hans), Untersuchungen uber das Erfrieren der 

 Pflanzen, 77 



MoUer (Herr J.), Comet Perrine, 16, 61, 105 



Mollusca, Untwisting of Body in Gastropod, Prof. Hickson, 491 



Moluccas, Geology of, Prof. Martin, 95 



Monckton (H. W. ), the Bagshot Gravels, 359 



Mond (Ludwig, F.R.S. ), the Occlusion of Hydrogen and i 

 Oxygen by Palladium, 262 



Monotremes and Marsupials, the Temperatures of Reptiles, A. 

 Sutherland, 67 



Mont Blanc Observatory, M. J. Janssen, 230 



Monthly Weather Review, 46 



Montserrat, Earthquakes in, PI. Hamilton, 543 



Montsouris, Annuaire de I'Observatoire municipal de, pour 

 I'Annee 1898, 244 



Moplahs of Malabar, the. Dr. Emil Schmidt, 551 



Moon : Theory of the Motion of the, Ernest W. Brown, 88 ; 

 Corrected Position of the Moon, M. Lagrula, 159; Partial 

 Eclipse of the Moon, 207 



Moore (B. ), Comparative Chemistry of Suprarenal Capsules, 

 238 



Moore (John Carrick), Death and Obituary Notice of, 370 



Moore (J. E. S.), Zoological Evidence by Connection of Lake 

 Tanganyika with Sea, 476 



Moore (R.), Non-existence of Suprarenal Medulla in Teleostean 

 Fishes, 429 



Moore (Major R. F. ), Artificial Wings in Imitation of Flying- 

 Fox, 59 



Morphology : the Rinderpest Germ, MM. Nencki, Sieber, and 

 Wyznikiewicz, 13 ; the Prevention and Cure of Rinderpest, 

 198 ; the Yellow Fever Bacillus, Dr. D. Freire, 24 ; Oysters 

 and Typhoid Fever, MM. Sabatier, Ducamp and Petit, 72 ; 

 Artificial Communication of Typhoid by Alimentary Tract, 

 Dr. P. Remlinger, 179 ; the Diffusion of Typhoid Fever, 

 Arthur Shadwell, 254 ; Report of German Commission on 

 Bombay Plague, 86 ; the Plague in Bombay, H. M. 

 Bird wood, 470 ; Air, Food and Exercises : an Essay on the 

 Predisposing Causes of Disease, Dr. A. Rabagliati, 99 ; 

 Cultivation-Media of Tubercle-Bacillus, Dr. A. Ransome, 

 F.R.S., 165 ; Growth of the Tubercle Bacillus at a Low 

 Temperature, F. J. Reid, 221 ; the Story of Gloucester's 

 Smallpox Epidemic, 221, 537, 606; Bacilli of Beriberi, G. 

 Nepveu, 310 ; Tuberculosis and Pseudo-Tuberculosis, MM. 

 Bataillon and Terre, 407 ; Researches on Tuberculosis, 

 Arthur Ransome, F.R.S., 435 ; Influenza in London, 350; 

 Parasites of Cancer and Sarcoma, F. J. Bosc, 407 ; Alcohol 

 in Relation to Microbial Diseases, Dr. Delearde, 355 ; the 

 Parasite of Malaria, A. E. Griffin, 490 ; Sunstroke an In- 

 fectious Disease, Dr. L. Sambon, 516 

 Morphology : Experimental Morphology, Prof G. F. Atkinson, 



Moreau (G. ), Magnetic Torsion of Iron and Steel, 524 



Morfit (Dr. Campbell), Death of, 156 



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



326 ; Habit and Instinct, 553 

 Morgan (J. de) Recherches sur les origines del'Egypte, 578 

 Morin (P.), Influence of Length of Magnets on Mean Intensity 



of Magnetisation, 613 

 Morrell (R. S.), Action of Ferric Chloride on Ethereal Salts of 



Ketone Acids, 525 

 Morrill (Park), the Mississippi Floods, 470 

 Morris (Dr. David K. ), the Magnetic Properties and Electrical 



Resistance of Iron at High Temperatures, 232 

 Morris (D.), West Indian Resources, 464 

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

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



W. F. Kirby, 460 

 Motions, Proper, Large and Small, Prof. Kapteyn, 325 

 Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical Machinery, E. Trem- 



lett Carter, Prof. A. Gray, F.R.S. , 193 

 Motivity, Thermodynamics deduced from, Lord Kelvin, 575 

 Mott ( Dr. ), on the Effect on the Arterial Blood Pressure of the 



Intravenous Injection of Choline, Neurine and Allied Sub- 

 stances, 20 



Moulden (J. C. ), Cordierite-bearing Rock from Broken Hill, 

 Australia, 192 



Mounds, Further Explorations in American, 400 



Moureau (M.), the Indian Earthquake of June 12 at Paris, 12 ; 

 Comparison of Magnetic Instruments of Pare St. Maur with 

 those of Kew, Uccle and Pavlovsk, 440 ; Magnetic Explor- 

 ation of Government of Koursk, 323 



Mourlet (A.), Anhydrous Barium Sulphide, 455 



Moxley (J. H. S.), a Suggested Improvement of the Current 

 Theories of the Tides, 461 



Muirhead (R. F,), the Treatment of Parallelograms of Veloci- 

 ties, 86 



Miiller (Herr G.), Two New Variable Stars of Short Period, 



519 



MuUer (Mr.), the Triangulation of Sumatra, 527 



Mummers, Christmas, Laurence Gomme, F.S.A., 175 



Muraoka (H. ), Glow-worm Light, 500 



Murche (Vincent T.), the Teacher's Manual of Object-Lessons in 

 Domestic Economy, 463 



Murdoch (G. W. ), an Extraordinary Heron's Nest, 537 



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

 340 



Murray (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Scientific Advantages of an An- 

 tarctic Expedition, 420 



Museum, the Australian, Sydney, Report of, 15 



Mushroom-growing in Tunnels, 254 



Mythology, Hellenic, Semitic Influence in, R. Brown, jun., 

 530 



Nansen (Dr.), Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Expedition, 



424 

 Nathorst (Dr. A. G.), a Proposed Swedish Expedition to the 



Arctic Regions, 163 

 National Review, Science in the, 254 

 Native Silver Iodide, a Cubic Modification of, L. J. Spencer, 



574 

 Natural Gas, Discovery of a Large Supply of, at Waldron, 



Sussex, Charles Dawson, 150 

 Natural History, Death of Dr. G. H. O. Volger, 12 ; the 

 Temperatures of Reptiles, Monotremes and Marsupials, A. 

 Sutherland, 67 ; Nights with an Old Gunner, and other Studies 

 of Wild Life, C. J. Cornish, 29 ; Memories of the Months, Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell, 51 ; Cricket-Chirp and Temperature, Prof. 

 A. Dolbear, 133 ; Les Choses Naturelles dans Homere, Dr. 

 A. Kums, 146 ; Gleanings from the Natural History of the 

 Ancients, Rev. M. G. Watkins, 146 ; the Works of Xeno- 

 phon, H. G. Dakyns, 146; Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, 

 Life and Death, and Respiration, Dr. W. Ogle, 146 ; Wild 

 Traits in Tame Animals, Dr. Louis Robinson, 149 ; the 

 Dugong. W. F. Sinclair, 198; the Woburn Abbey Deer, 201 ; 

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

 219; the Glacial Period and the Irish Fauna, G. W, Lamp- 

 lugh, 245 ; Sixteenth Annual Meeting of American Society of 

 Naturalists, 281 ; Ferret and Trout, J. Robson, 300 ; Spiral 

 Growths in Nature, George Wherry, 302 ; Bipedal Lizards, W. 

 Saville-Kent, 341 ; the Habits of Ice-Seals, 346; Bulletin of 

 St. Petersburg Society, 357 ; Catalogue of the Madreporarian 

 Corals in the British Museum, Henry M. Bernard, 363 ; Irish 

 Naturalist, 381 ; Audubon and his Journals, Maria R. Audu- 

 bon, 386 ; Natural History of Cocos-keeling and Christmas 

 Island, 397 ; a Flower-hunter in Queensland and New Zea- 

 land, Mrs. Rowan, 436 ; a Sketch of the Natural History 

 (Vertebrates) of the British Isles, F. G. Aflalo, 533 

 Naturalists' Directory, the, 1898, 463 

 Nature and a Camera, with, R. and C. Kearton, 154 

 Nature and Habits of Pliny's Solpuga, the, R. I. Pocock, 618 

 Nature, some Unrecognised Laws of, Ignatius Singer, 121 ; 



Lewis H. Berens, 121, 293 

 Nature Studies in Elementary Schools : a Manual for Teachers, 



Mrs. L. L. W. Wilson, 340 

 Nature's Diary, Francis H. Allen, 364 

 Natiirliche Schopfungs-Geschichte, Ernst Haeckel, 291 

 Navigation : " Nymph" Electric Attachment for Pleasure-craft, 

 86 ; Death of M. Bazin, 300 ; Ship-model Experiment Tank, 



517 



Navigazione Aerea, Guglielmo N. Da Pra, 560 



