XIV 



Index 



L Supplement to Nature, 

 December Z, 1898 



Physical Properties of Crystals, Dr. Woldemar Voigt, W. 



H. and G. Chisholm Young, 99 

 Cuba, the Climate of, Dr. Phillips, 256 

 Cuckoo, a Late, Mrs. E. Hubbard, 487 

 Cumming (Constance F. Gordon), Iridescent Surf at Cromer, 



174 

 Cummins (Surg. -Captain), Food of the Uropoda, 189 ; Botany 



of Ashanti, 208 

 Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, the, L. W. King, 341 

 Cunningham (Colonel Allen), Report on the Work of the 



Committee for Calculating Tables of certain Mathematical 



Functions, 534 

 Cunningham (J. T. ), Organic Variations and their Interpretation, 



593 

 Curie (P.), a New Radio- Active Substance in Pitchblende, 312 

 Curie (S.), a New Radio- Active Substance in Pitchblende, 312 

 Curious Phenomenon, N. W. Thomas, 294 

 Cyclists and Dust Bacteria, 254 

 Cycloidal Curves and Envelopes, Instruments for Describing, 



Prof. Hele-Shaw, 61 

 Cyclones, Navigation and, A. Fieron, 197 

 Cyclones, Variation of Air Temperature in, Rev. M. Dechevrens, 



301 

 Cytology : the Present Position of some Cell Problems, Prof. J. 



B. Farmer, 63 

 Czernik (M.), Mineral Hail in Russian Poland, 352 



Daisy, the Making of a, Eleanor Hughes-Gibb, 198 



Dale (Jonathan), Angling Days and an Angler's Books, 292 



Dalton's Law, Mr. W. N. Shaw on, 532 



Dammann (Dr. C. ), the Wupper, 109 



Dances, Ceremonial, of the American Indians, 125 



Daniel (J. ), Explosifs Nitres, 4 



Dante's Ten Heavens, Edmond G. Gardner, N. Perini, 362 



Darwin (Francis, F.R.S.), Observations on Stomata, 212; 



Text-Book of Floral Biology, Dr. Paul Knuth, 434; the 



Knight-Darwin Law, 630 

 Dassonville (M.), a ^Tew Trichophyton Production of Herpes 



in Horse, 359 

 Davy (J. B. ), Ingredients of Chinese Herbal Prescription, 255 

 Dawkins (Prof. Boyd), on the Relation and Extension of the 



Franco- Belgian Coalfield to that of Kent and Somerset, 558 

 Dawson (C. ), Natural Gas in East Sussex, 189 

 Dawson (W. Bell), Character and Progress of the Tides in the 



Gulf and River St. Lawrence as ascertained by Simultaneous 



Observations with Self- Registering Tide-Gauges, 260 

 Deafness : Dr. H. W. Meyer and Adenoid Growths, 625 

 Deas (Lizzie), Flower Favourites, their Legends, Symbolism, 



and Significance, 8 

 Death, Rontgen Rays as a Means of Certifying Death, 59 

 Death, the Time of Day of. Signer Raseri, 523 

 Death among Lower Organisms, Signer A. Andres, 628 

 Dechevrens (Rev. M.), Variations of Air Temperature in 



Cyclones, 301 

 Decombe (L.), Constitution of Explosive Spark in Dielectric 



Liquid, 23 

 Deep-Sea Expedition in the Steamship Valdivia, German, 346 

 Deer Park in the Catskills, the, 487 

 Defacqz (Ed.), New Iodide of Tungsten, 612 

 Deherain (P. P.), Method of Reducing Losses of Ammonia in 



Manufacture of Farm Manure, 71 

 Delages (Prof. Yves), Traite de Zoologie Concrete, 25 ; Position 



of Sponges in Animal Kingdom, 425 

 Delezenne (Prof.), Is the Congestion of the Limbs and Skin 



Produced in Asphyxia due to the Active Dilatation of the 



Blood Vessels of those parts, or Mechanical Dilatation by the 



Blood driven out of the Visceral Blood Vessels ?, 486 

 Demontzey (M. ), Death of, 16 

 Demoor (Dr. J.), on the Changes in the Form of the Neurons 



of the Cortex Cerebri under Various Conditions of Rest and 



Excitation, 481 

 Dendritic Patterns caused by Evaporation, Prof. G. H. Bryan, 



F.R.S., 174 ; Catherine A. Raisin, 224 

 Dendy (Prof. A.), the Development of the Tuatara Lizard, 609 

 Deniges (G.), New Reaction of Tertiary Alcohols and their 



Isomers, 47 ; Combination of Fatty Ketones with Mercurial 



Sulphate, 240 

 Denning (W. F.), the Red Spot on Jupiter and its suspected 



Identity with Previous Markings, 331 : the Recent Perseid 



Meteoric Shower, 371 ; Minor Meteoric Radiants, 424 ; Large 



Meteors in 1897-1898, 583 



Density, New Determination of the Earth's, Dr. C. Braun, 160 

 Denver Basin in Colorado, Geology of the, S. F. Emmons, 



Whitman Cross, and G. H. Eldridge, 82 

 Denys (Prof.), Experiments towards Distinguishing Distinct 



Species among the Leucocytes of Mammals, 486 

 Deruyts (F.), Properties of Gauche Curves, 604 

 Deslandres (H.), the Eclipsed and Un- Eclipsed Sun, 258 ; New 



Observations in Zeeman Phenomenon, 264 ; Motion of Star> 



in the Line of Sight, 490 ; an Aurora Borealis, 516 

 Destruction of the French Observatory in Madagascar, E. Colin. 



259 

 Detmer (Dr. W.), Practical Plant Physiology, 592 

 Devaux (H.), Lenticels, 96 

 Devine (Mile.), on the Results of Further Investigation of the 



Respiration of the Heart of the Tortoise, 481 

 Devonshire (the Duke of), on University Extension, 260 ; Bill 



relating to Secondary Education, 324 

 Dewar (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Liquid Hydrogen, 125, 199, 270, 



319 ; Boiling Point and Density of Liquid Hydrogen, 189 ; 



Liquefaction of Hydrogen and Helium, 142 ; Metargon, 



319 

 Dex (M.), Proposed Balloon-Exploration of Africa, 399 

 Diary, Notes from a, 1 873-1 881, Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart 



E. Grant Duff, 198 

 Dibos (M.), Proposed Balloon Exploration of Africa, 399 

 Dickson (G. ), Oxidation of Charcoal by Nitric Acid, 238 

 Dickson (H. N.), on the Connection between the Appearance 



of Mackerel and the Changes of Sea Temperature in Spring 



and Autumn, 584 ; on the Salinity and Temperature of the 



North Atlantic, 586 

 Dickson (Dr. L. E.), Structure of Hypoabelian Groups, 431 

 Dictionary of Bird Notes, a, C. L. Hett, 366 

 Dierer (Dr. Karl), Palaeontology of Himalayas, 257 

 Dieppe, International Sea Fisheries Congress at, 511 

 Diesselhorst (IL), Conductivities of Electrolytes, 93 

 Differential Equations, Partial, E. Goursat, 266 

 Digestion, Effect of Mixed Diet on Salivary, Dr. W. A. 



Robertson, 311 

 Digraphs, the Use of, F. A. Bather, 412 

 Dilatometer, a Compensated Interference, A. E. Tutton, 118 

 Dilatometer, a New, Mr. Tutton, 311 

 Dina (Signor A.), Simple Method of Converting Alternating 



into Direct Current, 132 

 Diseases of the Lungs, the, James Kingston Fowler and 



Rickman J. Godlee, 291 

 Disinfecting Ship, a; the U.S. Steamship Protector, 488 

 Distant (W. L.), Assimilative Coloration, 525 

 Distillery Pollution, C. A. Stevenson, 319 

 Distribution of Prepotency, the, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 246 

 Dobbie's Horticultural Handbooks, 318 

 Doberck (Prof. ), Constant of Aberration and Stellar Magnitudes, 



258 

 Dock Capacity, Novel Plan of increasing, 582 

 Dogmatism on the Moon and the Weather, 368 

 Domestic Science, Lessons in, Ethel R Lush, 173 

 Domestic Science Readers, Vincent T. Murche, 8 

 Donaldson (Mr.), Results of some Comparisons of the Output 



and Efficiency of a Secondary Cell (Tudor Type) when charged 



at constant current and constant electro-motive force respect- 

 ively, 533 

 Donegal, Flora of County, H. C. Hart, 615 

 Donkin (Bryan), the Heat Efficiency of Steam Boilers, Land, 



Marine, and Locomotive, 543 

 Donnan (Dr.), the Theory of the Hall Effect in a Binary 



Electrolyte, 215 

 Donnelly (Sir J. F. D.), Wasp and Bee Stings, 435 

 Donnelly (W. A), Discovery of a Crannog on the Clyde, 488 

 Douglas (James), Dr. T. S. Hunt, F.R.S., as a Chemist, 551 

 Douglass (A. E.), the First Satellite of Jupiter, 210 

 Douglas (Sir J. N., F.R.S.), Death of, 177 

 Double and Multiple Southern Stars, Dr. T. J. J. See, 134 

 Dove (Stuart), the Blue-Tongued Tasmanian Lizard as a Snake- 

 Destroyer, 422 

 Dragon of the Prime, a, 418 



Drawing, Machine, Thomas Jones and T. Gilbert Jones, 543 

 Drawing, Mechanical, a Course in, John S. Reid, 8 

 Dream, a Holiday, Potential Matter, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 



F.R.S., 367, 618 

 Dreyer (Dr. J. L. E. ), CEuvres completes de Christiaan Huy- 



gens, 361 

 Drieberg (C. ), Heavy Rainfalls, 78 



