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INDEX 



\Nature, May 22, 1890 



Darwinian Theory and Evolution, Rev. John T. Guhck, 309 

 Darwinians, Neo-, the Duke of Argyll and the, W. T. Thisel- 



ton Dyer, F.R.S., 247 

 Darwinism : Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R. S., 9; Prof. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R. S., 59 ; some Notes on Dr, A. R, Wallace's, 



by T. D. A. Cockerell, 393 ; and Panmixia, Prof. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 437 

 Daubree (M. ), Analogy of South African Diamantiferous Matrix 



to Meteorites, 263 

 Dauvergne's Journey in North- West Cashmere, 165 

 Davidson's Comet {e 1889), 429 



Davis (John), a Life of, Clements R. Markham, F.R.S., 52 

 Davison (Chas.), Supposed Earthquake at Chelmsford on 



January 7, 369 

 Dawkins (Prof. W. Boyd, F. R. S.), Discovery of Coal near 



Dover, 418 

 Dawson (Sir J. W., F.R.S.): Fossil Rhizocarps, 10; Certain 



Devonian Plants from Scotland, 537 

 Day (Francis), Fishes, lOl 

 Deformation of an Elastic Shell, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 



549 

 Deherain (P. P.), the Exhaustion of Soils cultivated without 



Manure, and Value of Organic Matter in Soil, 119 

 Delachanal, Vincent and. Sorbite, 23 

 Demography and Hygiene, Congress on, 401 

 Denniker (M.), Classification of Races, based on Physical 



Characters only, 332 

 Denning (W. F.), Recent Observations of Jupiter, 206 

 Dentine and Bone, the Longevity of Textural Elements, parti- 

 cularly in, John Cleland, 392 

 Dentition, a Milk, in Orycteropus, O. Thomas, 309 

 Derbyshire, the Flora of, by the Rev. W. H. Painter, 77 

 Descartes and his School, Prof. Kuno Fisher, 171 

 Desert of Atacama, on the Supposed Enormous Showers of 



Meteorites in the, 108 

 Deslandres (H.) : Fundamental Common Property of Two Kinds 



of Spectra, Lines and Bands ; Distinct Characteristics of each 



of the Classes ; Perfodic Variations to Three Parameters, 576 

 Deslongchamps (M. Eugene), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



207 

 Deutschen Seewarte]: Annual Report of, 85 ; Meteorological 



Observations, 231 

 Dewar's (D.) Weather and Tidal Forecasts for 1890, 546 

 Diamine (Diethyline), Dr. J. Sieber, 428 

 Diamonds, the Formation of, M. Daubree, 263 

 Dianthus, Enumeratio Specierum Varietatumque Generis, F. N. 



Williams, 51 

 Dianthus, Notes on the Pinks of Western Europe, by F. N. 



Williams, 78 

 Dibasic Organic Acids, a New Synthesis of. Prof. Crum Brown, 



431 

 Dickins (F. V.), Acquired Characters and Congenital Variation, 



316 

 Dickinson (W. L.), Local Paralysis of Peripheral Ganglia and 



Connection of Nerve-fibres with them, 118 

 Dierckx (G.), Sun-spot in High Latitudes, 472 

 Differential Equations, a Treatise on Linear, Thomas Craig, 



508 

 Differential Equations, a Treatise on Ordinary and Partial, Prof. 



W. W. Johnson, 270 

 Digestions, a Comparative Study of Natural and Artificial, A. 



S. Lea, 430 

 Dines (W. H.), Anemometers, 212 



Diseases of Plants, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 436 

 Diseases, Tropical, the Relation of the Soil to, A. Ernest 



Roberts, 31 

 Distant (W. L.), Monograph on Oriental Cicadidce, 161 

 Disturbed Water, on the Effect of Oil on, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 



297 

 Ditte (A.), Action of Sulphuric Acid on Aluminium, 503 

 Divers (Dr. E., F.R. S. ), Oxyamido-sulphonates and their Con- 

 version into Hyponitrites, 143 

 Dobbins (J. R.), Spread of the Australian Ladybird in California, 



161 

 Dog, the, M. de Mortillet, 332 

 Dogs and Music, 372 

 Double-star Observations : S. W. Burnham, 19, 472 ; E. E. 



Barnard, 19 

 Double Stars, New, Miss A. M. Gierke, 132 

 Doumer (E. ), Refracting Powers of Simple Salts in Solution, 



263 



Doumer (E.), Refracting Powers of Double Salts in Solution, 



312 

 Dover, Discovery of Coal near. Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., 



418 

 Dreams, Dr. Julius Nelson, 546 

 Du Chaillu (Paul B.), the Viking Age, 173 

 Duchayla's Proof, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 198 

 Dumont (M.), Natality of Paimpol, 332 

 Dun Echt Observatory, 351 

 Dundee Technical Education Association, 113 

 Dunman (T.), a Glossary of Anatomical, Physiological, and 



Biological Terms, 173 

 Dunn (J.), a Remarkable Meteor, 560 



Dunstan (Prof.), Apparatus for distilling mercury in vacuo, 526 

 Dust, Atmospheric, Dr. Marcet, 358, 473 

 Dust, the Motion of, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 406 

 Dust Particles, the Number of, in the Atmosphere of certain 



Places in Great Britain and the Continent, with Remarks on 



the Relation between the Amount of Dust and Meteorological 



Phenomena, John Aitken, F.R. S., 394 

 Dutch East Indies, Science in, 547 

 Dutch India, Flora of, 461 

 Dwight (Jonathan, Jun.), Birds that have struck the Statue of 



Liberty in New York Harbour, 181 

 Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.) : the Duke of Argyll and the 



Neo-Darwinians, 247 ; Acquired Characters and Congenital 



Variation, 315 

 Dynamics, Elementary, of Particles and Solids, W. M. Hicks, 



F.R.S., 534 



Earl (A. G.), Elements of Laboratory Work, 461 



Earth and its Story, edited by Dr. Robert Brown, 341 



Earth, on the Creation and Physical Structure of the, J. T. 



Harrison, 151 

 Earth's Crust, Microseismic Vibration of the. Prof. G. H. 



Darwin, F.R.S. , 248 

 Earth-currents and the Occurrence of Gold, Geo. Sutherland, 



464 

 Earth-tremors from Trains, H. H. Turner, 344 

 Earthquakes : Record of British Earthquakes, Charles Davison, 

 9 ; at St. Louis, 18 ; Earthquake of July 28, 1889, at 

 Kiushiu, J. Wada, 23 ; Relation of certain Magnetic Per- 

 turbations to Earthquakes, M. Mascart, 23 ; the Earthquake 

 of Tokio, April 18, 1889, Prof. Cargill G. Knott, 32 ; Earth- 

 quakes in Algeria and Servia, 113; in Italy, Dalmatia, Bos- 

 nia, and Herzegovina, 136, 181 ; at Granada, 161 ; British 

 Earthquakes, William White, 202 ; Earthquakes in Turkes- 

 tan, 230; the Earthquake of July 12 at Lake Issyk-kul, 

 230 ; Earthquakes at Chelmsford and in Perthshire, 256 ; 

 Chas. Davison, 369 ; in Carinthia, 284 ; at Rome and in 

 Portugal, 401 ; at Bonn and Malaga, 470 ; at Trieste, 519 ; 

 in the United States, 569 ; in the Tyrol, 569 

 Earthworms from Pennsylvania, W. B. Benham, 560 

 Easter Island, Archaeology and Ethnology of, Walter Hough, 



569 

 Eastman (Prof. J. R.), on Solar and Stellar Motions, 351, 392 

 Eclipses: Eclipse Parties, 139 ; Total Solar, of 1886, Rev. S. 



J. Perry, F.R.S., 88; H. H. Turner, 88; Dr. Schuster, 



F.R.S., 327; Total Eclipse of December 22, 1889, 229; 



M. A. De La Baume Pluvinel, 428 ; Total Eclipse of January i, 



1889, Prof. Holden, 305 

 Eder (Dr. J. M.), La Photographic a la Lumiere du Magnesium, 



584 



Edinburgh International Exhibition, 85 



Edinburgh Royal Society, 167, 214, 335, 358, 382, 431, 478, 575 



Edison Phonograph, Use of, in Preserving American Indian 

 Languages, J. W. Fewkes, 560 



Education : Physiology of Education, Mary Putnam Jacobi, 28 ; 

 Lord Salisbury on Free Education, 84 ; Education in Basuto- 

 land. Sir Marshall Clarke on, 86 ; Scientific Education in 

 China, the Question of Language, 162 ; the Need for Vital 

 Improvements in English Education, Sir Lyon Playfair, 180: 

 Association for Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, 207 ; 

 Polytechnics for London, 242 ; Necessity of a School for 

 Modern Oriental Studies, Prof. Max Midler, 255 ; the New 

 Codes, English and Scotch, 385 ; Land Grants to Educational 

 Institutions in U.S.A., 448; the Revised Instructions to 

 Inspectors of Elementary Education, 577 ; Mathematical 

 Teaching at Sorhonne, Prof. Ch. Hermite, 597 ; Technical 

 Education in New South Wales and Bengal, 66 ; Conference at 



