Nature, June 7, 1888] 



INDEX 



XXI 



Gam" gou- Lagrange's Apparatus for Registering the Ascending 

 and IJescending Air-Currents, 18 ; Storm Warnings Issued 

 by the New York Herald, M. Seeman, 18 ; Method of pre- 

 dicting Night-Frost, Dr. C. Lang, 18 ; Meteorologische 

 Divisionstafeln, Dr. Grossmann, 18 ; Italian Meteorology, 

 18 ; Meteorological Society of Mauritius, 18 ; Theory of the 

 Outflow of Air under Falling Rain, II. Allen, 18; Meteorology 

 in Russia, 19; Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 

 38 ; Annual Table of the Climate, of the British Empire, 38 ; 

 American Journal of Science, 39 ; H. Allen Hazen on the 

 Relation between Wind Velocity and Pressure, 39 ; Publi- 

 cations of the Swedish Meteorological Office, 39 ; Meteorology 

 in Canada, 39 ; United States Monthly Weather Review, 

 39 ; Unusually High Mean Temperature in Parts of the 

 United States, 39 ; Inter-diurnal Variability of Temperature at 

 Places in the Argentine Republic and South America 

 generally, 39 ; Unusual Storms in the British Islands, 67; 

 Hourly Reading's for 1885, 67 ; Ilydrographic Office of the 

 United States Reports of Storms, &c. , 67; Distribution of 

 Cloud over the Eastern Part of the North Atlantic, Dr. W, 

 Koppen, 67 ; Disastrous Storm at Orissa, 68 ; Journal of the 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 68 ; H. Allen, on Behaviour 

 of Pressure and Temperature in High and Low Pressure 

 Systems, 91 ; Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford, 91 ; Meteoro- 

 logy of Oxford, 94 ; Weather, a Popular Exposition of the 

 Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day, Hon. Ralph 

 Abercromby, loi ; Observations of St. Elmo's Fire, 112; 

 Fofest Meteorological Observations of Germany, 113; 

 Synoptic Charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, 137 ; Monthly 

 Weather Charts of the Bay of Bengal, 137 ; the Use of the 

 Spectroscope as a Hygrometer, F. W. Cory, 143 ; Rainfall on 

 and around Table Mountain, J. G. Gamble, 143 ; Meteorology 

 in the United States, 156; French Meteorological Society, 

 156; Proposed New Meteorological Observatories in India, 

 187 ; Meteorological Observations on Russian Men-of-war, 

 187 ; Storm Signals at the Ports of the Madras Presidency, 

 208; MeanTemperatureof the Airat Greenwich, 214 ; Pheno- 

 logical Observations for the Year 1887, 214 ; Earth Tremors and 

 the Wind, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 214; Pressure and Tem- 

 perature in Cyclones, and Anticyclones, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 214 ; 

 Dr. Assmann's Experiments on the Humidity of the Air, 215 ; 

 Dr. Robert von Helmholtz's Experiments on the Humidity of 

 the Air, 215 ; Atmospheric Pressure, Dr. J. Hann, 231 ; Issue 

 of Daily Meteorological Charts in the United States, 231 ; 

 Winds and Pressure of the Caspian Sea, Capt. Rykatschew, 

 257 ; Daily Synchronous Weather Charts of the North 

 Atlantic, 282 ; Influence of Altitude on Temperature, M. 

 Andre, 282 ; Observation of Fog, M. Renon, 282 ; Snow 

 Falling from a perfectly Clear Sky in Christiania, 282 ; Move- 

 ments of High Barometer Areas over North Atlantic for 1885, 

 300 ; Non-Instrumental Meteorology of England, Wales, and 

 Ireland, G. M. Whipple, 309 ; Meteorology of the Iberian 

 Peninsula, Dr. Hellminn, 312; Rainfall of America, 328; 

 Meteorology of Belgium in 1887, 328 ; Perpignan Observatory, 

 328 ; Report of the Tokio Observatory, 328 ; R. H. Scott on 

 British and Atlantic Weather, 350 ; Meteorology of the 

 Bombay Presidency, F. Chambers, 378 ; Meteorological 

 Observations for 1° Squares of the North Atlantic Ocean, 

 398 ; American Meteorological Journal, 398 ; Constitution of 

 Fcgs and Clouds, Prof, F. Palagi, 404 ; Meteorological Inter- 

 nationa] Tables, 415 ; the Austrian Meteorological Office, 

 and Jahrbuch for 1886, 422 ; Cyclonic Storms, Scinde to 

 Vienna, 422 ; M. L. Teisserenc de Bort, on High 

 Barometric Presure of Asia, 422 ; Cause of Sept- 

 ember Typhoons in Hong Kong, Dr. W. Doberck, 439; 

 Report of Hamburg Meteorological Office, 444 ; Report of 

 Indian Department, 444; Pilot Chart of North Atlantic 

 Ocean, 444 ; Instructions to Obseivers of the Signal Service, 

 Washington, 444 ; Crepuscular Rays in China, Dr. W. 

 Doberck, 464 ; an Unusual Rainbow, H. M. Andrew, 464 ; 

 the Gale of March 11, C. E. Peek, 466, 472; Rainfall of 

 India, 472 ; French Meteorological Society, 473 ; Tempera- 

 ture and Currents in Scottish Lochs, John Murray, 479 ; 

 Royal Meteorological Society's Exhibition, 521 ; Storm on 

 Atlantic Coast, 493; Scottish Meteorological Society, 517; 

 the Poet Cowper on the Climate of England, 517; Prof. 

 Wm. Ferrel's Work in Meteorology, 517 ; Rainfall in East 

 Indian Archipelago, 517 ; in the Russian Empire, 518 ; the 

 Salinity and Temperature of the Moray Firth, and the Firths 



of Inverness, Cromarty, and Dornoch, by Dr. H. K. Mill,. 

 518; Glories, Halos, and Coronx», by R. T. Omond, 518; 

 on Glories, by Prof. Tait, 518 ; Rectilineal Motion of Viscous 

 Fluid between Two Parallel Planes, by Sir W. Thomson, 518 ; 

 the Thermal Windrose at the Ben Nevis Observatory, by A. 

 Rankine, 518 ; the Royal Meteorological Society's Exhibition, 

 by William Marriott, 521 ; Report of the Meteorological 

 Council for the Year ending March, 1887, 542 ; Proposed 

 Universal Climatological Dictionary, 542 ; Distribution of 

 Heat over the Surface of the Flarth, Dr. Zenker, 552 ; 

 Meteorological Conditions of February and March 1888, Dr. 

 Less, 552 ; Snow-fall of the Past Winter, Dr. Hellmann, 552 ; 

 L' Atmosphere — Meteorologie Populaire, Camille Flammarion, 

 580 ; Cyclone Reports of the Meteorological Department of 

 India, 595 ; American Meteorological Society, 595 ; Monthly 

 Meteorological Notes and Rainfall Statistics for South 

 Australia, C. Todd, 615 



Mexico, Earthquake in, 231 



Meyer (Dr. Hans), Ascent of Kilimanjaro, 158, 285, 354 



Meyer (Prof. Lothar), Oxygen Carriers, 138 



Meyer (Prof. Victor) : on Carbon Atoms, 327 ; Experiment ex- 

 hibiting the Explosive Nature of Chloride of Nitrogen, 349 ; 

 Molecular Weights of Substances, 443 ; and Dr. Griinewald 

 on Vapour Density of Ferric Chloride, 518 



Meyer and Riecke (Profs.), New Properties of Carbon Atoms, 

 567 



Micro-organisms in Air, a New Method of determining th 

 Number of, by Prof. Carnelley and Thos. Wilson, 478 



Micro-Radiometer, a Very Sensitive, Prof. Weber, 157 



Microbes, on Certain Processes capable of increasing the Re- 

 sistance of the Organism to the Action of, 24 



Micrococcus, Madras, Note on a, Edgar Thurston, 79 



Micromillimetre, Botanists and the. Prof. Arthur W. Riicker,. 

 F.R.S., 388 



Micromillimetre, the, Robert B. Hay ward, F.R.S., 437; H.J. 

 Chaney, 438 ; Antoine d'Abbadie, 438 



Microsauria and Dendrerpeton, Sir J. Wm. Dawson, F.R.S., 



393 



Microscopy : Student's Hand-book to the Microscope, 102 ; the 

 Microscope in Theory and Practice, Prof. Carl Naegeli and 

 Prof. S. Schwendener, Dr. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 171; 

 Recent Improvements in, E. M. Nelson, 166 ; Elementary 

 Microscopical Examinations, T. Charters White, 555 ; the 

 Photosphffiria of Nyctiphanes norvegica, Rupert Vallentin and 

 J. T. Cunningham, 572 ; the Anatomy of the Madreporia, 

 G. H. Fowler, 572 



Migration, Autumnal, of Birds in Ireland, Allan Ellison, 232 



Migration of Swallows along the Southern Coast, W. Warde 

 Fowler, 6 



Mikhailoff (W.), on the Gelatinous State of Albuminoid Bodies, 



525 

 Miklucho-Maclay (Nicolas von). Death of, 597 

 Milk, Action of Micro-organisms on. Dr. P. Vieth, 211 

 Mill (Dr. H. R.), on the Salinity and Temperature of the 



Scottish Firths, 518 

 Mill for pulverizing Minerals for Analysis, 65 

 Millepora plicata, Sexual Reproduction of. Dr. Sydney J. 



Hickson, 164 

 Milne (Prof. John), Earth Tremors and the Wind, 214; 



Earth Tremors in Central Japan, 399 ; Earthquake Sounds, 



543 ; Pendulum Seismometers, 570 

 Minchin (Geo. M.), Centre of Water Pressure, 201, 275 

 Mind, 569 



Mind, Nervous System and the, Charles Mercier, 578 

 Mine- Shaft successfully sunk by the Poetsch Method in Belgium 



208 

 Mineralizing Action of the Alkaline Sulphides, 407 

 Mineral Springs, Lipetsk, 71 

 Mineral Wax, Remarkable Variety of, 48 

 Mineralogical Society, 23, 310 

 Mineralogy, Frank Rutley, 245 

 Mineralogy, Manual of, and Petrography, &c., James D. Dana,. 



S3 

 Mineralogy, Proposed Museum of, at Redruth, 299 

 Mines, Accidents in. Sir Fred. Abel, iii 

 Minima and Maxima, Note on a Problem in, R. Charters, 320 

 Minor Planet No. 271, 140 

 Minor Planets, Names of, 114 

 Minor Planets, New, 353, 616 



