Nature, May 22, 1890] 



INDEX 



Vll 



Mathematical Study of Solar Corona, Prof. F. H. Bigelow, 

 595 ; Solar Observations at Rome, Prof. Tacchini, 595 ; 

 D' Arrest's Comet, G, Lcveau, 596 ; Astronomical Society 

 of France, 596 ; Observations of Sun-spots made at Lyons 

 Observatory in 1889, by Em. Marchand, 599 



Atacama, on the Supposed Enormous Showers of Meteorites in 

 the Desert of, 108 



Atlantic, Waterspout in, 470 



Atlantic, North, Pilot Chart of, February 1890, 401 



Atlantic Ocean, Pilot Chart of the North, 85 



Atlas, Facsimile, to the Early History of Cartography, by A. E. 

 Nordenskiold, 558 



Atlas of Algae, a New, Dr. J. Reinke, 127 



Atlas of the World, Library Reference, John Bartholomew, 413 



Atmosphere, General Circulation of. Dr. Pernter, 325 



Atmospheric Circulation, A. Buchan, 363 



Atmospheric Dust, Dr. William Marcet, F.R.S., 358, 473 



Atomic Volumes of Elements Present in Iron and their Influence 

 on its Molecular Structure, the Relation between, Prof. W. C. 

 Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 420 



Attention, Psychology of, Th. Ribot, 460 



Auger (V.), a New Class of Diacetones, 215 

 Vustralia : Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 400 ; Prof. Orme Masson, 441 ; Decrease of 

 Kangaroos, 43 ; Exploration of the Musgrave Ranges, 86 ; 

 Sheep Farming in. Prof. Wallace, 113 ; the Useful Plants of, 

 J. H. Maiden, 194 ; Among Canibals, Carl Lumholtz, 200 ; 

 Tietkens's Explorations in Central, 286 ; Australia Twice 

 Traversed, Ernest Giles, 341 ; Report on the Meteorology of 

 Australia, C. L. Wragge, 348 ; A. J. Campbell's Collections 

 of Bird Skins and Eggs from Western Australia, 593 



Austria (H.I. H. the late Prince Rudolph of). Notes on Sport 

 and Ornithology, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 169 



Aveling (Rev. F. W.), Light and Heat, 558 



Avian Anatomy, Dr. R. \V. Shufeldt on, 594 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Galvanometers, 310, 381 



/3-Inosite, Maquenne, 215 



Babylonian Metrical System, the. Dr. Lehmann, 167 



Bacillus heminecrobiophilus, Diastases Secreted by, Arloing, 



143 

 Backhouse (T. W.), Luminous Clouds, 297 

 Bacteria: of Asiatic Cholera, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 509; 



Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria, Dr. Weyl, 359 ; Luminous 



and Plastic Food of Phosphorescent Bacteria, Dr. Beyerinck, 



552 ; Bacteriological Laboratory, Poona, 469 

 Bailey (G. H.), Behaviour of more Stable Oxides at High 



Temperatures, 502 

 Baker (T. W.), a Meteor, 418 

 Bala Volcanic Series of Caernarvonshire and Associated Rocks ; 



being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for i888, Alfred Harker, 414 

 Ball (John, F.R.S.), Botanical Bequest, 17 

 Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.) : " Time and Tide, a Romance of 



the Moon," 30 ; " Star Land," 315 

 Ball (V., LL.D., F.R.S.), Tavernier's Travels in India, 313 

 Ballarat School of Mines, Melbourne, 593 

 Balloon, Asbestos Hot-air, in India, Successful Use of, Percival 



Spencer, 325 

 Ballot (Christoforus Henricus Diederlcus Buys), Obituary Notice 



of, 371 

 Banana Disease in Fiji, Sea-water Cure for, 19 

 Bar, New Method of Measuring small Elongations of a, Signor 



Cardani, 427 

 Barbados Monkey, the. Colonel H. W. Feilden, 349 

 Barber (Thos. Walter), the Engineer's Sketch Book, 52 

 Barclay (H. G.), Bird-preservation in the Fame Islands, 112 

 Barillot (Ernest), Manuel de 1' Analyse des Vins, 510 

 Barnard (E. E.) : Measurements of Double Stars, 19; Comet 



1888-89, 20 ; Comet II. 1889, March 31, 45 ; Comet b 



18S9, Comet c 1889, discovered by, 428 

 Barnard (James), the Last Living Aboriginal of Tasmania, 43 

 Barometer, Diurnal Range of, A. Angot, 449 

 Barrows (W. IL), the Food of Crows, 137 

 Bartholomew (John), Library Reference Atlas of the World, 413 

 Barus (Carl), the Molecular Stability of Metals, particularly of 



Iron and Steel, 369 

 Bashore (H. B.), [.\merican] Indian Pipe, 303 

 Basset (A. B., F.R.S.) : Extension and Flexure of Cylindrical 



and Spherical Thin Elastic Shells, 238 ; on the Effect of Oil 



on Disturbed Water, 297 



Bassot (M. ), Difference of Longitude between Paris and Leyden 

 215 



Basutoland, Sir Marshall Clarke on Education in, 86 



Bataillon (E.), the Metamorphosis of Anoura, 23 



Batoum, Curious Marine Phenomenon at, 426 



Bears and Wolves in Bosnia, 325 



Bebber (Dr. Van) : Loomis on Rainfall of the Earth, 43; De- 

 pendence of the Force of Winds upon Surface over which 

 they blow, 372 



Beck (C. R.), Crystalline Substances obtained from Fruits of 

 various Species of Citrus, 527 



Becker (G. F.), Geology of the Quicksilver Dep3sits of the 

 Pacific Slope, 532 



Beddard (Frank E.), the Pigment of the Touraco and the Tree 

 Porcupine, 152 



Bedford College, London, Physical and Chemical Laboratorie? 

 at, 160, 279 



Bee, Wax Organs of, G. Carlet, 407 



Beetle Settlement in Disused Gasom<;ter, T. H. Hall, 520 



Beevor (C. E., M.D.), Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of 

 Internal Capsules of Bonnet Monkey, l66 



Before and After Darwin, Prof. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 524 



Behal (A.), a New Class of Diacetones, 215 



Bellati(Prof. M. ), the Absorption of Hydrogen by Iron, 380 



Belt, Fighting for the, F. C. Constable, 199 



Ben Nevis (Observatory Report for January 1890, 348 



Benda (Dr.), the Coiled Glands in the Skin, 24 



Beneden (P. J. Van), Histoire Naturelle des Cetaces des Mers 

 d' Europe, 223 



Benedikt (Dr. K.) and Dr. E. Knecht, Chemistry of the Coal 

 Tar Colours, 8 



Bengal, Technical Education in, 65 



Benham (W. B. ), Earthworms from Pennsylvania, 560 



Bennett (Alfred W.) : Fossil Rhizocarps, 154 ; the Revised Ter- 

 minology in Cryptogamic Botany, 225 



Benzoic Acid, New Form of, 594 



Berget (Alphonse), Relation between Electric and Thermal 

 Conductivities of Metals, 287 



Beringer (C.) and J. J. Beringer, Text-book of Assaying, 

 Thomas Gibb, 245 



Berlin: Physiological Society, 23, 95, 119, 288, 359, 407,479, 

 504, 528, 599 ; Berlin Academy of Sciences, Money Grants, 

 42; Research Grants, 426; Physical Society, 95, 167, 215, 

 239, 263, 383, 407, 480, 504, 551 ; the Proposed Berlin In- 

 ternational Horticultural Exhibition, 283 ; Berlin Nachtigall 

 Gesellschaft, 426 ; Meteorological Society of, 9^, 215, 383, 

 479, 504; Berlin Natural Science Museum, Opening of, 112 



" Bermuda Islands," the, Angelo Heilprin, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 



193 

 Bermuda Islands, Proposed Meteorological Station at the, 85 

 Bernoulli on the St. Petersburg Problem, 165 

 Bernthsen (A.), a Text-book of Organic Chemistry, 172 

 Berry (David), Bequest of ;^IOO,000 to the University of St. 



Andrews by, 41 

 Berthelot (M.) : Animal Heat, 119; the Carbon Graphites, 



311 ; Formation of Nitrates in Plants, 311 ; Berthelot and P. 



Petit on Animal Heat and the Combustion of Urea, 94 

 Bertillon (Jacques) : Application of Photography to Study of 



Physical Peculiarities engendered by different Occupations, 



230 ; on the Identification of Criminals by Measurement, 592 

 Bertrand (J.), Calcul des Probabilites, 6 

 Bertrand's Refractometer, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 526 

 Berlrand's Idiocyclophanous Prism, Prof S. P. Thompson, 574 

 Berwickshire, the Birds of, Geo. Muirhead, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



169 

 Besson (M.) : Combination of Ammonia and Phosphoretted 



Hydrogen with Dichloride and Dibromide of Silicon, 359 ; 



Combination of Gaseous Phosphoretted Hydrogen with 



Boron and Silicium Fluorides, 287 

 Bethnal Green Free Library, Proposed Enlargement of, 349 

 Betts (Benjamin), a New Logical Machine, 79 

 Bevan (E. J.): Acetylation of Cellulose, 142; the Constituents 



of Flax, 143 

 Beyerinck (Dr.), Luminous and Plastic Food of Phosphorescent 



Bacteria, 552 

 Beyern, Prehistoric Burial Ground in Caucasus discovered by, 



43 

 Beynon (Richard), Effect of Oil on Disturbed Water, 205 

 Bezold (Prof, von), on the Production of Clouds, 95 

 Bible, the Religion of the Semites, Prof. W. Robertson Smith, 



337 



