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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 December Z, i8q8 



Gases, Solfatara, Prof. R. Nasimi, F. Anderlini, and R. 

 Sah'adori, 269 



Gases in Vacuum Tubes, Luminosity of, 463 



Gautier (A.), Causes of Uncertainty in Estimating Carbonic 

 Acid and Water Vapour, 95 ; Method of Detecting and 

 Estimating small amounts of Carbon Monoxide in Air in 

 presence of Traces of Hydrocarbons, 71 



Gautier (M.), Tempel's Comet, 19 



Geddes (Prof. Patrick), on an Experiment in the Practical 

 Teaching of Geography about to be tried in Edinburgh, 586 



Geikie (Sir Archibald), Scenery and Literature, 179 



Geikie (Prof. James, F.R.S.), the Berlin Geographical Society's 

 Greenland Expedition, Erich von Drygalski, 413 



Geipel (W.), on the Application of the Electric Motor to the 

 Engineering Workshop, 608 



Geitel (IL), Modifications in Quadrant Electrometer, 117 



Genvresse (P. ), Phenyl-Phosphoric and Phenylene Phosphoric 

 Acids, 612 



Geodetic Astronomy, a Text-book of, John F. Hayford, 543 



Geography : Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa 

 and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, W. W. A. Fitz- 

 gerald, 6 ; Geographical Society Medals and Awards, 38 ; 

 the Lob-Nor Controversy, P. K. Kozloff, 41 ; Sea Beaches 

 and Sandbanks, Vaughan Cornish, 42 ; Vasco Da Gama, Sir 

 Clements R. Markham, F.R.S., 67 ; a Northern Highway 

 of the Tzar, Aubyn Trevor-Battye, 75; the Wupper River, 

 Dr. C. Dammann, 109 ; Geographical Notes on Central and 

 South China, 133 ; the Coasts of the Arctic Ocean, Dr. K. 

 Hikish, 278 ; Five Years in Siam, from 1891 to 1896, H. 

 Warington Smyth, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 322 ; Through 

 Unknown Tibet, Captain M. S. Wellby, 347 ; Progressive 

 Increase of Po Delta, Prof. Marinelli, 353 ; Volume of 

 Amazon River at Obydos, Dr. Friedrich Katzer, 399 ; a 

 School Geography, George Bird, 411 ; Gronland-Expediiion 

 der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin 1891-93, Erich von 

 Drygalski, Prof. James Geikie, F.R.S., 413 ; the Old Beds of 

 the Amu-Daria, 430 ; the Geography of the United States, 

 Henry Gannett, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 497 ; Papagueria, 

 W. J. McGee, 525 ; the Adochidarja Gulf, 525 ; Memoirs 

 of Caucasian Branch of Russian Society, 539 ; Northward 

 over the " Great Ice," Robert E. Peary, Dr. Hugh Robert 

 Mill, 589 ; Death of Don F. C. de Portugal, 626 



Geology : Death of Dr. K. L. F. von Sandberger, 16 ; Petro- 

 liferous Sands and Mud Volcanoes in Burma, Dr. Fritz 

 Noetling, 20 ; Maryland Geological Survey, 29 ; Iowa Geo- 

 logical Survey, 29 ; Geological Society, 45, 71, 141, 189, 

 239 ; Ebbing and Flowing Well at Newton Nottage, H. G. 

 Madan, 45 ; Ebbing and Flowing Wells, W. F. Sinclair, 

 52 ; F. R. Mallet, 104 ; the Auriferous Conglomerates of 

 Gold Coast Colony, T. B. F. Sam, 46 ; Death of W. C. 

 Lucy, 57 ; the Earth's Age, J. G. Goodchild, 59 ; Discovery 

 of Crater of Mesozoic Age in Pennsylvania by E. Gold- 

 smith, 59 ; the Petrification of Fossil Bones, E. Goldsmith, 

 59 ; Carboniferous Limestone of Country round Llandudno, 

 G. H. Morton, 71 ; Monographs of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, 81 ; the Glacial Lake Agassiz, Warren 

 Upham, 81 ; the Flora of the Amboy Clays, John Strong 

 Newberr), 81 ; Geology of the Denver Basin in Colorado, 

 S. F. Emmons, Whitman Cross and G. H. Eldridge, 82 ; the 

 Marquette Iron-bearing District of Michigan, C. R. van 

 Hise and W. S. Bayley, 82 ; Death of Edward Wilson, 85 ; 

 Obsidian Buttonssin Australia, 109 ; Lava Flows of California, 

 F. L. Ransome, 1 17 ; New Jurassic Vertebrates from Wyoming, 

 W. C. Knight, 117; Huge Gypsum Boulder, T. M. Reade, 132 ; 

 Garnet Actinolite Schists on South Side of St. Gothard, 

 Prof. Bonney, F.R.S., 141 ; Volcanic Series in Malvern Hills, 

 H. D. Acland, 142 ; Orthoclase as Gangue Mineral in 

 Fissure Vein, W. Lindgren, 187; Natural Gas in East 

 Sussex, C. Dawson, 189; Dr. G. T. Hewitt, 190; High 

 Level Gravels in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, O. A. Shrubsole, 

 190 ; Globigerma-Msixls ot Barbados, G. F. Franks and 

 Prof. J. B. Harrison, 190; Post-Glacial Beds exposed in 

 cutting of New Bruges Canal, T. M. Reade, 239 ; High Level 

 Marine Drift at Colwyn Bay, T. M. Reade, 239 ; Geology of 

 Franz Josef Land, Dr. R. Koettlitz, 239 ; Corallian Rocks of 

 Upware, C. B. Wedd, 239 ; Glaciers of Russia in 1896, Prof. 

 Mushketoff, 256 ; Indian Palaeontology, Dr. Fritz Noetling, 

 257 ; Dr. Carl Diener, 257 ; Geological History of Recent. 

 British Flora, Clement Reid, 278 ; Death of Prof. James Hall, 

 351 ; Obituary Notice of, 372; Death of M. Pomel, 373 ; 

 the Inter-glacial Submergence of Great Britain, H. Munthe, 



374; a Yorkshire Moor, Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 377,. 

 401 ; Iowa Geological Survey, 389 ; Glaciation of North 

 Central Canada, J. B. Tyrrell, 399 ; a Dragon of the Prime, 

 418 ; the Old Birds of the Amu-Daria, 430 ; Report on the 

 Natural History Results of the Pamir Boundary Commission,^ 

 A. W. Alcock, 493 ; Death of Mr. de Windt, 513 ; Geology 

 for Beginners, W. W. Watts, 518; Purple Patches, F. 

 Southerden, 521 ; the Work of Prof. O. M. Torell, 603 ; 

 Applied Geology, J. V. Elsden, Part I., 615 ; Eolian Origirv 

 of Loess, C. R. Keys, 634 ; See also Section C, British 

 Association 



Geometry : Ludwig Otto Hesse's Gesammelte Werke heraus- 

 gegeben von der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der 

 Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 124 ;. 

 Is Continuity of Space necessary to Euclid's Geometry ? 

 W. M. Strong, 310 



George (George), Practical Organic Chemistry, 245 



Gepp (A.), Structures of Dendroceros, 46 



Germany : the Wupper River, Dr. C. Dammann, 109 ; Chemical 

 Works in Germany, 256 ; German Deep-sea Expedition in 

 the Steamship Valdivia, 346 ; the German Polar Expedition, 



397 

 Germination, on the Depletion of the Endosperm of Hordeuiit 

 vulgar e during, Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F. Escombe, 



331 

 Gestation, the Span of, and the Cause of Birth, Dr. John 



Beard and Dr. Arthur Robinson, 173 

 Geyser Eruptions, some Conditions affecting, T. A. Jaggar, 



jun., 261 

 Ghost-dance Religion, the, and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890^ 



James Mooiiey, 125 

 Gibbings (H. IL), on the Application of the Electric Motor to. 



the Engineering Workshop, 608 

 Gibeli (Dr. C. G. , Death of, 603 

 Gifford (J. W.), on Lenses, not of Glass, 532 

 Gilchrist (J. D. F.), Trout Acclimatisation in Cape Colony, 



628 

 Gill (H. v.), Explanation of Stratification of the Electric Dis- 

 charge in Geissler Tubes, 187 

 Gill (Dr.), on Sir John Herschel, 356 

 Giraffe, the Senegal, 277 ; Death of, 373 

 Glacial Lake Agassiz, the, Warren Upham, 81. 

 Glaciation of North Central Canada, J. B. Tyrrell, 399 

 Glacier, Rhone, Water Circulation, in, F. A. Forel, 635 

 Glaciers of Russia in 1896, Prof. Mushketoff, 256 

 Glanville (E. E), Death of, 421 

 Glass Blowing and Working, Thomas Bolas, loi. 

 Glass, Blue, with Chromium Base, Andre Duboin, 264 

 Glazebrook (R. T., F.R.S.), James Clerk Maxwell and Moderm 



Physics, 219 

 Glycogen, Bouchard's Theory of Transformation of Fat into, 



Daniel Bertholet, 612 

 Glyptic and Graphic Art applied to Palaeontology, 392 

 Goat, the Angora, and a Paper on the Ostrich, S. C. Cron- 



Wright Scheiner, 314 

 Godfrey (C. ), Rontgen Rays and Ordinary Light, 142 

 Godfrey (F. R.), Why the New Zealand Kea attacks Sheep, 



no 

 Godlee (Rickman J.), the Diseases of the Lungs, 291 

 Goebel (Dr.), Organographie der Pflanzen, 74 

 Goitre, the Hematozoa of, E. Grosset, 264 

 Gold in British Guiana, 352 

 Goldsmith (E.), Discovery of Crater of Mesozoic Age ir> 



Pennsylvania, by, 59 ; the Petrification of Fossil Bones, 59 

 Goodchild (J. G.), the Earth's A^e, 59 

 Gordon (Dr. Samuel), Death of, 16. 



Gostling (Mildred), Action of Hydrogjen Bromide on Carbo- 

 hydrates, 189 

 Gotch (Prof. F., F.R.S.), Electrical Response of Nerve to a 



Single Stimulus investigated'with Capillary Electrometer, 166; 



Photographs of the Electrical Response of Nerve to Excitation, 



483 

 Gottingen Royal Society of Sciences, 360, 540 

 Gottlieb (Prof.), Examination of the Muscle of Dogs which hadi 



been Bled to Death, 484 

 Gouirand (G.), the Adherence of Copper Washes Used to- 



Destroy Vine- Parasites, 336 

 Goursat (E.), Lemons sur llntegration des Equations aux, 



derivees partielles du Second, ordre a. deux Variables Inde- 



pendantes, 266 

 Goutal (M. ), Silicon and Chromium in Steels, 47 



