INDEX 



[Nalure, May 30, li 



Cranial Nerves of Elasmobranch Fishes, Prof. J. C. Ewart, 



Prof. Burden Sanderson, F.R.S., 525 

 Credner (Dr. Hermann), a New Ptrmian Rhyncliocephalian 



Reptile, G. A. Boulenger, 562 

 Cremation, the, of the Dead, Dr. Hugo Erichsen, 219 ; A. B. 



Basset, 249 

 Crew (Henry), on the Connection between Earth- Currents and 



Changes in Solar Activity, 557 

 Crislallographie, Manuel Pratique de, G. Wyrouboff, 411 

 Crompton (H.), Compressibility of Hydrogen, 583 

 Croneberg (A.), Pseudo- Scorpion?, or Chernetidoe, 477 

 Crookes (W., F.R.S.), Recent Researches on the Rare Earths 



as Interpreted by the Spectroscope, 537 

 Croonian Lecture, Preventive Inoculation, M. Roux, 446, 516 

 Crops, the Best Forage, Drs. Stebler and Schroter, Prof. John 



Wrightson, 578 

 Crova (A.) and M, Houdaille, on the Calorific Intensity of 



Solar Radiation, 311 

 Crova (M. A.), on the Distribution of the Aqueous Vapour in 



the Atmosphere, 335 

 Crystal-structure, Some Recent Advances in the Theory of, 



H. A. Miers, 277 

 Crystallization, the, of Lake Ice, Thomas H. Holland, 295 ; 



J. C. McConnel, 367 

 Cunningham (Lieut. -Colonel Allan), Factors of Numbers, 559 

 Cunningham (Prof. D. J.), Eight Tiue Ribs in Man, 248 

 Cunningham (Prof. J. T. ), Weismann's Theory of Variation, 388 

 Currents and Coral Reefs, Captain David Wilson- Barker, 389 

 Currents, Cyclones and, S. R. Elson, 69 

 Currents, Earth, on the Connection between, and Changes in 



Solar Activity, Heniy Crew, 557 

 Cur sarins isabelliniis in Denmark, 185 

 Curtis (Prof. J. E. ), Suction Anemometers, 23 

 Curtis (Prof.), Forestry, 261 



Curtius (Dr.), Remarkable Salts of Amidogen, 419 

 Curzon (Hon. G., M.P.), Trans-Caspian Railway, 470 

 Cuticular Tissue, Conversion of Mucous Membrane into, Dr. 



Posner, 479 

 Cyanogen, Spectrum of. Prof. H. W. Vogel, 480 

 Cyclones and Currents, S. R. Elson, 69 



Cyclones : West Indian, Maxwell Hall on, 40 ; in Jamaica, 40 

 Cyclonic Areas, Movements of, 154 



Cyclopaedia of Universal Information, Blackie's Modern, 581 

 CygnJ, Y, Chandler, 158 



Dale (Rev. T. P.), the Upper Limit of Refraction in Selenium 



and Bromine, 1 18 

 Dalton (Dr. John Call), Death of, 466 

 Dana (Edward S.), Beryllonite, 310 

 Dana (James D. ), on the Origin of the Deep Troughs of the 



Oceanic Depression, 525 

 Danion (M. L. ), Mode of Diffusion of the Voltaic Currents in 



the Human Oiganism, 312 

 Darwin and Humboldt, 304 



Darwin vemts Lamarck, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 428 

 Darwin (Prof. G. H., F. K.S.): on the Mechanical Conditions of 



a Swarm of Meteorites, 81, 105 ; the Me eoric Theory of 



Nebulae, &c., 460 

 Darwin's Pangenesis, Hugo de Vries, 192 

 Daviesite, 3£6 



Davis Straits and the Ginnunga Gap, 40 

 Dawson's (Dr.) Collection of Graptolites, 137 

 Day (Francis), Zoological Collection given to British Museum, 



282 

 Daylight, Penetration of, into the Waters of the Genevan Lake 



and into the Mediteiranean, 343 

 De la Rue (Warren, F.R.S.), Death of, 612 

 Dean (H. Percy), the Innervation of the Pulmonary Vessels, 



478 

 Dechen (Dr. H. E. K. von), Death of, 417 

 Decomposition of Nickel and Cobalt, 325 

 Deeley (R. M.), Ice Pi, ned, 391 

 Deerskin Mantle, Dr. E. B. Tylor, 232 

 Degradation of Energy, H. G. Madan, 249 

 Deherain and Porion, the Square- Eared Variety of Wheat, 96 

 Delage (Auguste), Porphyriiic Rocks, Cavenac, near Saint- 



Pons, 456 

 Delcommune (M. W.), Exploration of the Lomami, 593 



Der.dy (Arthur) : Notes on Comparative Anatomy of Sponges, 

 357 ; Pcrifatus in Victoria, 366 



Deniges (M.), Chloride and Bromide of Copper, 528 



Deniker (M.), the Hottentots in the Paris Garden of Acclimatiza- 

 tion, 499 



Denmark : Isabel-coloured Runner shot in, 185 ; Hazel-mouse 

 {Myoxus avellanarivs), 306 ; Discovery of Remarkable Stone 

 Age Graves in. Dr. Zinck, 591 



Denning (W. F.) : the Leonid Meteor-shower, 1888, 84 ; Shoot- 

 ing-stars of April, 588 ; Large Fireball, 606 



Denny (W.), Lile of, A. B. Bruce, Francis Elgar, 241 



Denza (Pere F.), Shooting-stars in Italy, 263 



Derby (O. A.). Monazite, 429 



Desiccated Human Remains, 36 



Determinants, Diagram Illustrating the History of. Dr. Thomas 

 Muir, 527 



Detonating Meteor, Maxwell Hall, 368 ; W. H. G. Monck, 

 390 



Deutsche Ueberseeische Meteoroiogisehe Beobachtungen, 613 



Dibromide of Crotonylene, Prof. Wislicenus and Herr Holz, 467 



Dichloronaphthalenes, the Constitution of the, Armstrong and 

 Wynne, 166 



Dichloronaphihalenes, Armstrong and Wynne, 359 



Dickins (F. Victor), the Protest in the Nineteenth Century, 53 



Dickson (H. N.) : Temperature of Sea round Eait Coast of 

 Scotland, 570 ; Weather Lore of Scottish Fishermen, 570 



Dictionary, EncyclofKdic, 410 



Differential Calculus, B. Williamson, 26 ; J. Edwards, 26 



Digne, Earthquake at, 86 



Dipnoan Fishes, seme Palaeozoic, Anton Fritsch, 156 



Discharge, the, of a Leyden Jar, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 



471 

 Diurnal Nutation, M. Folie, 311 

 Diurnal Nutation, the Influence of, in the Discussion of the 



Observations of a Lyr?e, L. Niesten, 262 

 Divergent Evolution, John T. Gulick, 54 

 Doberck (Dr. W.), the Law of Storms in China, 301 

 Dodgsen (Chas. L.): Curiosa Mathematica, 124; en Parallels, 



R. Tucker, 175 

 Dog, the Pointer, C. A. Pietrement, 405 

 Dolcmedts fanbriatus, Clerck, at Killarney, A. G. More, 511 

 Dominica, the Original Carib Population of, 87 

 Lenders (Prof.), beath of, 517 



Denistherpe (W.), Zodiacal Light Observations, 537 

 Derdogne, Discovery of a New Quaternary Station in, Emile 



Riviere, 407 

 Double Stars suspected to Vary in Light, an Historical and 



Descriptive List of some, A. M. Clerke, 55 

 Douglas (J.), First Principles of Physiography, 223 

 Dove (Dr. Karl), Das Kiima des Aussertrepischen Sudafrika, 



mit Beriicksichtigung der geographischen und wirthchaftlichen 



Beziehungen nach klimatischen Previnzen dargestellt, 556 

 Dragoumis (E. J.), Note on the Use of Geissler's Tubes for 



Detecting Electrical Oscillations, 548 

 Drant Valley, Earthquake in, 184 



Dreams, Transposition of Objects seen in, W. A. Hollis, 614 

 Dreyer (Dr. J. E. L), Astronomical Observatory of Pekin, 55 

 Drift-fruit, a Jamaica, D. Morris, 322 

 Drummend (A. T.) : Lake Superior, 468 ; Temperatures in 



Lake Hu\\>n, 582 

 Dudley (William R.), Botanical Institute, Strassburg, 284 

 Dujardin-Beaumecz, on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action 



of Orthomethylacetanilide, 528 

 Duncan (Prof. P. Martin, F.R.S.), the Poraipine Echinoidea, 



175 



Dundee Technical Laboratory for Dyeing and Bleaching, 350; 

 Technical Education in, 545 

 i Di.nsink Observatory, Presentr.tion of Photographing Reflecting 

 { Telescope by Isaac Roberts, 280 



I Dum-tan (Prof. W. R.), Decomposition of Nitroethane by 

 Alkalies, 190 



Durham College of Science, Opening of New Buildings, 39 



Dust Particles in the Atmosphere, Apparatus for Counting, John 

 Auken, 527 



Dutch Cong- ess of Science and Medicine, Proposed Meeting at 

 Leyden, 589 



Duthie (J. F.), Botany of Black Mountain, iii 



Dyeing and Bleaching, Opening of Dundee Technical Labora- 

 tory, 350 



