June 



Nature, "I 

 13, 1901J 



Index 



XXXI 



Electric Wiring Tables, W. P. Maycock, 5 



Raggylug, the Cotton-tail Rabbit, and other Animal Stories, 



Ernest Seton-Thompson, 5 

 Genese de la Matiere et de I'Energie-Formation et Fin d'un 



Monde, A. Despaux, 25 

 A Text-book of Physics. Sound, J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., and 



J. T. Thomson, F.R.S., 26 

 Steinbruchindustrie und Steinbruchgeologie, Technische Geo- 



logie nebst Praktischen Winken fur die Verwertung von 



Gesteinen, unter Eingehender Beriicksichtigung der Stein- 



industrie des Konigreiches Sachsen, Dr. O. Herrmann, 



Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 27 

 Die Mathematik an den Deutschen Technischen Hochschulen, 



Dr. Erwin Papperitz, 28 

 Ueber den Plan eines Physikalisch-technischen Instituts an 



der Universitat Gottingen, Felix Klein, 28 

 Die Anforderungen der Ingenieure und die Ausbildung der 



Mathematischen Lehramtskandidaten, Felix Klein, 28 

 A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and 



Accent, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, 28 

 Antropometria, Dr. R. Livi, 28 

 Elementary Questions in Electricity and Magnetism, Magnus 



Maclean and E. W. Marchant, 28 

 Studies in Fossil Botany, D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 53 

 The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 54 

 Sounding the Ocean of Air, A. Laurence Rotch, 55 

 The Locust Plague and its Suppression, ^Eneas Munro, 55 

 Le9ons d'Anthropologie Philosophique, ses Applications a la 



Morale Positive, D. Folkmar, 56 

 The Principles, Construction and Application of Pumping 



Machinery, Henry Davey, 56 

 Elements of Hydrostatics, S. L. Loney, 57 

 Mineralogie Agricole, F. Houdaille, 57 

 Engine-room Practice, John G. Liversedge, 57 

 The Letters of Jons Jacob Berzelius and Christian Friedrich 



Schonbein, 1836-1847, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 77 

 Beitrage zur Physiologie des Centralnervensystems, Max 



Verwom, 78 

 Memoranda of the Origin, Plan and Results of the Experi- 

 ments conducted at Rothamsted, Fifty- Seventh Year of the 



Experiments, 1900, 79 

 The Scenery and Geology of the Peak of Derbyshire, Elizabeth 



Dale, 80 

 Malaria, Angelo Celli, 80 

 A Year with Nature, W. P. Westell, -80 

 The Geology of Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Rev. J. 



Milne Curran, 81 

 Light Railways at Home and Abroad, W. H. Cole, 81 

 Les Plaques Sensibles au Champ Electrostatique, V. Schaf- 



fers, 82 

 The Elements of Plane Trigonometry, Prof, W. P. Durfee, 



82 

 The Birds of Ireland, an Account of the Distribution, Migra- 

 tion and Habits of Birds as Observed in Ireland, with all 



Additions to the Irish List, R. J. Ussher and R. Warren, 



lOI 

 The Story of the Birds, C. Dixon, loi 

 Among the Birds, Florence Anna Fulcher, loi 

 A Brief History of Mathematics, Dr. Karl Fink, 103 

 New Lands : their Resources and Prospective Advantages, 



H. R. Mill, 104 

 The Child, a Study in the Evolution of Man, A. F. Chamber- 

 lain, 105 

 Sieroterapia e Vaccinazioni preventive contro La Peste 



Bubonica, Dott, Alessandro Lustig, 105 

 A Monograph of the Erysiphacese, Ernest S. Salmon, 106 

 An Old Man's Holidays, 106 



Sport and Travel, East and West, F. C. Selous, 125 

 Lehrbuch der vergleichenden mikroskopischen Anatomic der 



Wirbeltiere, Dr. Med. Albert Oppel, 126 

 Flies Injurious to Stock, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 127 

 Organographie der Pflanzen, insbesondere der Archegoniaten 

 und Samenpflanzen, Dr. K. Goebel, Prof. J. B. Farmer, 

 149 

 The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, Dr. Paul 



Carus, 151 

 Memories of the Months, the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Max- 

 well, Bart., 152 

 Cinematique et Mecanismes, Potentiel et M^canique des 

 Fluides, H. Poincar^, 153 



A Contents-Subject Index to General and Periodical Litera- 

 ture, A. Cotgreave, 153 



Workshop Mathematics, Frank Castle, 153 



Exercises in Natural Philosophy, with Indications how to 

 Answer them. Prof. Magnus Maclean, 154 



Memoirs of the Countess Potocka, 155 



Jena Glass and its Applications to Science and Art, Dr. H. 

 Hovestadt, 173 



Studies, Scientific and Social, Alfred Russel Wallace, 174 



Handbook of British Rubi, William Moyle Rogers, 176 



Report of the Working and Results of the Woburn Experi- 

 mental Fruit Farm, Duke of Bedford and Spencer W. 

 Pickering, F.R.S., Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 177 



Design in Nature's Story, Walter Kidd, 178 



Penrose's Pictorial Annual, the Process Year-book for 1900, 



Knowledge Diary and Scientific Handbook for 1901, 178 

 Short Course of Elementary Plane Trigonometry, Charles 



Pendlebury, 178 

 Lehrbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Prof. Dr. H. Erdmann, 



'78 . . . 



Sexual Dimorphism in the Animal Kingdom : a Theory of 



the Evolution of Secondary Sexual Characters, J. T. Cun- 

 ningham, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 197 

 A Treatise on Geometrical Optics, R. A. Herman, 203 

 By Land and Sky, Rev. John M. Bacon, 203 

 Der Aufbau der Menschlichen Seele : Eine Psychologische 



Skizze, Dr. H. Kroelle, A. E. Taylor, 204 

 Shakespeare's Greenwood, George Morley, 204 

 Chemie der Eiweisskbrper, Dr. Otto Cohnheim, Dr. J. A. 



Milroy, 224 

 Contributions to Photographic Optics, Dr. Otto Lummer, 



227 

 A Handy Book of Horticulture, F. C. Hayes, 229 

 The Construction of Large Induction Coils : a Workshop 



Handbook, A. T. Hare, 229 

 The Structure and Life-history of the Harlequin Fly (Chiro- 



nomus), L. C. Miall, F.R.S., and A. R. Hammond, 230 

 Lehre von den Erzlagerstatten, Dr. R. Beck, Prof. H. Louis, 



245 

 A Treatise on the Theory of Screws, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, 



F.R.S., Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 246 

 Le Tabac, Culture et Industrie, E. Bouant, 248 

 Briefwechsel Zwischen Franz Unger und Stephan Endlicher, 



G. Haberlandt, 248 

 The British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1901, 249 

 The Lead Storage Battery, Desmond G. Fitzgerald, 249 

 The Elements of Inorganic Chemistry, W. A. Shenstone, 



F.R.S., 249 

 The Thompson-Yates Laboratories Report, 249 

 EinfUhrung in die Stochiometrie, Joachim Biehunger, 250 

 Travail des Metaux Derives du Fer, L. Gages, 250 

 In the Ice World of Himalaya, among the Peaks and Passes 



of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru and Baltistan, Fanny Bullock 



Workman and William Hunter Workman, Prof. T. G. 



Bonney, 254 

 An Outline of the Theory of Thermodynamics, Edgar 



Buckingham, 269 

 Text- book of Physiology, 270 

 The Royal Observatory, Greenwich : its History and Work, 



E. W. Maunder, 271 

 Road-making and Maintenance : a Practical Treatise for 



Engineers, Surveyors and Others, Thomas Aitken, 272 

 Knowledge, Belief and Certitude, F. Storrs Turner, 273 

 Notions de Mineralogie, A. F. Renard et F. Stober, 273 

 The Essentials of Practical Bacteriology : an Elementary 



Laboratory Book for Students and Practitioners, H. J. 



Curtis, 274 

 What is Heat ? and What is Electricity ? F. Hovenden, 274 

 Untersuchung iiber die Vibration des Gewehrlaufes, C. Cranz 



und K. R. Koch, 279 

 Das Geotektonische Problem der Glarner Alpen, A. Roth- 



pletz. Dr. Maria M. Ogilvie-Gordon, 294 

 Geologische Alpenforschungen, A. Rothpletz, Dr. Maria M. 



Ogilvie-Gordon, 294 

 The Zoological Record, 296 



Practical Lessons in Metal Turning, Percival Marshall, 297 

 Principles of Plant Culture, Prof. E. S. Goff, 298 

 Photography in Colours, R. Child Bayley, 298 

 Tb" ^iimance of the Earth, A. W. Bickerton, 298 



