Nature, ~\ 

 June 13, 1901J 



Index 



IX 



"Blood-rains," the Recent, Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S., 



514 



Blount (B. ), the Rotatory Cement Manufacturing Process, 449 



Blount (G. Bertram), Practical Electro-chemistry, 582 



Blutgerinnung, Untersuchungen zur, Dr. Ernst Schwalbe, 512 



Board of Trade and Electric Lighting, the, 587 



Boats, Submarine, 601 



Bodroux (F.), Propylbenzene, 340 



Boilers, Naval, 564 



Bollettino della Societa Sismologica Italiana, 22, 169, 339 



Bone (W. A.), Dissociation Constants of Alkyl-substituted 

 Succinic Acids, 75 



Bongert (A.), Action of Butyryl Chloride on Sodium Compound 

 of Methyl Acetoacetate, 532 



Bonnet (A.), "Gelivure" due to Lightning, 556 



Bonney (Prof. T. G. , F.R.S. ), Rocks from Newlands Diamond 

 Mines, Griqualand West, 242 ; in the Ice World of Himalaya, 

 Fanny Bullock Workman, William Hunter Workman, 254 ; 

 the Story of Nineteenth Century Science, Henry Smith 

 Williams, 342 ; Frost Fronds, 347 



Bonnier (Gaston), Order of Formation of Elements of Central 

 Cylinder in Root and Stem, 99 



Bookkeeping for Business Men, J. and S. W. Thornton, 417 



Books, the Publication of, without Dates, Prof. O. Henrici, 

 F.R.S., 372 



Books of Science, Forthcoming, 503 



Boppe (L. ), les Forets, i 



Borchgrevink (C. E. ), First in the Antarctic Continent; being 

 an Account of the British Antarctic Exjiedition, 1 898- 1900, 

 468 



Borelly- Brooks, Comet (1900 3), Elements of, 92 



Botany : Domenico Cirillo and the Chemical Action of Light on 

 Plants, Prof. Italo Giglioli, 15 ; a Glossary of Botanic Terms 

 with their Derivation and Accent, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, 

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

 Action of Chemical Solutions on Algse, N. Oiio, 66 ; Action 

 of Chemical Solutions on Infusoria, Prof. A. Yasuda, 66 ; the 

 "Park-lands" in Tanganyika District of Central Africa, J. E. S. 

 Moore, 98 ; Insect-capture by Araujia albens, G. S. Saunders, 

 98 ; Order of Formation of Elements of Central Cylinder in 

 Root and Stem, Gaston Bonnier, 99 ; Evolution of Terpene 

 Derivatives in Geranium, Eugene Charabot, 100 ; Phosphor- 

 escent Fungi in Australia, D. McAlpine, 100 ; the Venation 

 of Leaves, H. Deane, 100 ; Blue Chlorophylline, M. Tevett, 

 134 ; Exosmosis of Diastasis by Plantules. Jules Laurent, 124 ; 

 the Fertilisation of Flowering Plants, W. J. G. Land, 140 ; 

 Journal of Botany, 146, 314 ; Seminase in Seeds containing 

 Horny Albumen, Em. Bourquelot and H. Herissey, 147 ; 

 Organographie der Pflanzen, insbesondere der Archegoniaten 

 und Samenpflanzen, Dr. K. Goebel, Prof. J. B. Farmer, 149; 

 a Weeping Chrysanthemum, 161 ; Ants' Mushroom Gardens, 

 Prof. W. M. Wheeler, 162 ; Insects affecting Tobacco-plant, 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, 162 ; New Fitchia from Raratonga 

 Island, W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S., 169; Abnormal Cluster of 

 Edible Chestnut Fruit, W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S., 169; Treat- 

 ment of Carnation Pest, Fusarium Dianthi, G. Delacroix, 

 171 ; Constituent of Peppermint Odour in Eucalyptus Oil, 

 H. G. Smith, 172 ; Geraniol in Eucalyptus Oil, H. G. 

 Smith, 267 ; Handbook of British Rubi, William Moyle 

 Rogers, 176 ; Bacterial Disease of Turnip, Prof. M. C. Potter, 

 218 ; Le Tabac, Culture et Industrie, E. Bouant, 248 ; Brief- 

 Avechsel zwischen Franz Unger und Stephan Endlicher, 248 ; 

 Methyl Alcohol in Fermented Fruit Juice, Jules Wolff, 267 ; 

 Death of Adolphe Chatin, 280; Obituary Notice of, 351 ; 

 Erigeiiia bulbosa, a Tuberous Root, Theo Holm, 290 ; 

 Australian Fairy- Ring Puff- Ball, D. McAlpine, 268 ; Obser- 

 vations on Melandrium {Lychnis dioica). Prof. Strasburger, 

 307 ; the Vegetable Resources of Australia, R. T. Baker, 

 331 ; the Mycetozoa and some Questions which they Suggest, 

 Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Fry, F.R.S., 323 ; R6le of Chlorophyll 

 Function in Terpenic Evolution, 340 ; an Introduction to 

 Vegetable Physiology, J. Reynolds Green, F.R.S., 345 ; 

 Death of Dr. J. G. Agardh, 352 ; Obituary Notice of, 377 ; 

 Red Colouring Matter of Roots of Ere?)tocarya micrantha, 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, 353 ; Manna of Olive, M. Trabut, 364 ; 

 Influence of Osmotic Pressure of Medium on Vegetable Form 

 and Structure, J. Beauverie, 364 ; Intumescences in Hibiscus 

 vitifoliiis, Elizabeth Dale, 386 ; the Ash Constituents of 

 Some Lakeland Leaves, Dr. P. Q. Keegan, 396 ; Action of 

 Total Pressure on Chlorophyll Assimilation, Jean Friedol, 



412 ; Tuberculisation of Potato, Noel Bernard, 412 ; the 

 Nature and Work of Plants, D. T. MacDougal, 417 ; Geo- 

 tropism, F. Darwin, 434 ; Artificial Cultures of Xylaria, C. 

 Dale, 434 ; Raciborski's Researches on Leptomin, Prof. S. H. 

 Vines, F.R.S. ,434; Reserve Hydrocarbon in Tubercles of 

 Arrhenathererum bulbosum, V. Harlay, 435 ; First Stage 

 Botany, as illustrated by Flowering Plants, Alfred J. Ewart, 

 439 ; Ranunculus bachii, C. Bailey, 459 ; a Practical Guide 

 to Garden Plants, John Weathers, 463 ; Germination in 

 Distilled Water, P. P. Deherain and M. Demoussy, 483 ; 

 Prussic Acid in Cassava, Prof. Carmody, 500 ; Fertilisation 

 in Aspidium and Adiantum Ferns, C. Thom, 501 ; Sensibility 

 of Higher Plants to very small doses of Toxic Substances, 

 H. Coupin, 508 ; Absorption of Highly-diluted Poisons by 

 Plant Cells, H. Devaux, 532 ; Death of W. Hodgson, 545 ; 

 Influence of External Conditions on Spore-formation of 

 Acrospeira viirabilis, R. H. Bifi'en, 555 ; Mannose-producing 

 reserve Carbohydrate from Lilium Bulb, J. Parkin, 555 ; Die 

 Flora der Deutschen Schutz-gebiete in der Siidsee, Prof. Dr. 

 Karl Schumann und Dr. Karl Lauterbach, 586 ; Blood-rain 

 Plant in Camden Square Tank, V. H. Blackman, 617 ; 



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



Boulud (M.), Maltosuria in certain Diabetics, 507 



Bourquelot (Em.), Seminase in Seeds containing Horny 

 Albumen, 147 



Bouveault (M.). Direct Nitration of Unsaturated Fatty Com- 

 pounds, 13; Nitro -derivatives of Ethyl dimethylacrylate, 75-6; 

 Transformation of Dimethylacrylic Acid into Dimethylpyruvic 

 Acid, 435 ; Action of Butyryl Chloride on Sodium Compound 

 of Methyl Acetoacetate, 532 



Bouvier (E. L.), Distinctive Characteristics of Peripatopsis 

 Sedgwicki, 23 



Boys (Prof. C. V., F.R.S.), Instruments of Precision at the 

 Paris Exhibition, 156 



Bradford Municipal Technical College, the, Prof. Riicker, 69 



133 

 Brain, the Size of the, in the Insectivore Centetes, Frank E. 



Beddard, F.R.S., 394 

 Brandis (Sir Dietrich, F.R.S ), Forestry in British India, Ber- 



thold Ribbentrop, 597 

 Braun's (Prof.) System of Wireless Telegraphy, 402 

 Brauner (B.), Atomic Weight of Lanthanum, 626; Atomic 



Weight of Praseodymium, 626 ; Praseodymium Tetroxide 



and Peroxide, 626 ; Neodymium, 626 ; Thorium, 626 

 Bredig (G.), Diastatic Actions of Colloidal Platinum, 460 

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

 Brambles, British, 176 



Britain, Great, Forestry in. Dr. W. Schlich, 565 

 British Association : Conference of Delegates of Corresponding 



Societies, 20 ; Dew-ponds, Prof. Miall, 20 ; Clement Reed, 



20 ; Mr. Hopkinson, 20 

 British Brambles : Handbook of British Rubi, William Moyle 



Rogers, 176 

 British Columbia : the Ethnography of, Memoirs of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, vol. ii.. Anthropology, i., 



the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, iv. , the Thompson 



Indians, James Teit, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 3 

 British India, Forestry in, Berthold Ribbentrop, Sir Dietrich 



Brandis, F.R.S., 597 . 



British and German Antarctic Ships, the, 591 

 British Journal Photographic Almanac, the, 249 

 British Minerals, Output and Value of. Prof. Le Neve Foster, 



F.R.S., 72 

 British Museum : Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the 



Konyunjik Collection of the British Museum, Dr. C. Bezold, 



562 

 British Strata, the Table of. Dr. H. Woodward and H. B. 



Woodward, 560 

 Broca (A.), Disruptive Discharge in Electrolytes, 62S 

 Brooks (W. R.), New Minor Planets, 240 

 Brooks' Minor Planets, 333 



Broom (Dr. R.), Echidna with Eight Cervical Vertebrae, 268; 

 ■ Ossification of Vertebras in Marsupials, 268 

 Brorsen's Comet, 333 

 Brough (Bennett H.), the Nature and Yield of MetalUferous 



Deposits, 18 ; the Mining Statistics of the World, 551 

 Bruhl (Jul. Wilh.), Die Pflanzen-Alkaloide, 486 

 Brunton's Metallic Wires, Electrical Resistance of, 260 

 Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), History and Progress of Aerial 

 : Locomotion, 526 



