XXVI 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 December 8, i8q8 



Meunier (J.), Mixture of Marsh Gas and Air not Exploded by 

 Glowing Filament of Incandescent Lamp, 635 



Meyer (G.), New Method of Measuring Dip and Horizontal 

 Intensity, 117 



Meyer (Dr. H. W.) and Adenoid Growths, 625 



Meyer's (Max) Theory of Audition, 166 



Miall (Prof. L. C, F.R.S.), a Yorkshire Moor, 377, 401 



Mice, Epidemics among, W. F. Kirby, 223 



Michelson (Prof.), a New Form of Grating Spectroscope, 280 



Michelson (Prof. Albert A.), Fourier's Series, 544 



Micro-Biology as Applied to Hygiene, 15 



Micrometers, Interference Fringes applied to Study of, Maurice 

 Hamy, 216 



Micro-Organisms, the Utilisation of, in the Arts and Manu- 

 factures, Dr. Franz Lafar, 265 



Micro-Structure of Alloys, the Electrical Resistance and, 

 Saville Shaw, 356 



Microscopy : Organic Substances available for Mounting Speci- 

 mens, H. ' G. Madan, 94 ; Microscopical Society, 94, 188, 

 311 ; Two Old Microscopes, 311 ; a Modified Camera 

 Lucida, Frederick Ives, 311 ; a Monochromatic Green 

 Screen, Frederick Ives, 311 ; New Method of Preserving 

 Rotifers, C. F. Rousselet, 425 ; Microscopic Observations of 

 Coherers, L. Arons, 491 



Migula (Prof. W.), System der Bakterien, 97 



Mile, Roman, Precise Length of, Antonio Blasquez, 109 



Milk and Butter, the Adulteration of, R. H. Wallace, 133 



Milk, a Bacillus in, Dr. C. McClure, 254 



Milky Sea, a White or, Dan Pidgeon, 520 



Milky Way, Drawings of the, 490 



Mill (Dr. Hugh Robert), Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 

 1,896, H. Warington Smyth, 322 ; the Geography of the 

 United States, Henry Gannett, 497 ; on the Prospects of 

 Antarctic Research, 587 : Northward over the " Great Ice," 

 Robert E. Peary, 589 



Miller (Dr. G. A.), the Hamilton Groups, 431 



Millet, Alimentary Value of, M. Ballard, 336 



Milne (Prof.), Seismology, 534; Earthquake recorded in Isle 

 of Wight, June 29, 1898, 228 



Milner (S. R.), On the Thermal Conductivity of Water, 532 ' 



Milroy (Dr. T. H.), Modern Physiology from the Chemical 

 Standpoint, 73 



Milroy (Dr.), Metabolism of Nucleins, 239 



Mimicry and Warning Colours, F, Finn, 58, 279 



Mimicry, Protective, J. Castets, S.J., Prof. E. B, Poulton, 

 F.R.S., 223 



Minakata (Kumagusu), Notes on the Bugonia- Superstitions — 

 the Occurrence ol Erisialis tenax in India, loi ; the Centipede- 

 Whale, 570 



Minchin (E. A.), Position of Sponges in Animal Kingdom, 426 



Mineralogy : Prospecting for Minerals, S. Herbert Cox, 7 ; 

 Rhodolite, W. E. Hidden, 92 ; a New Dilatometer, A. E. 

 Tutton, 118, 311 ; a Description of Minerals of Commercial 

 Value, D. M. Barringer, 124; Introduzione alio Studio dei 

 Silicati, Dr. E. Ricci, 268 ; Analysis of Cornish Chalco- 

 phyllite, E. G. J. Hartley, 311 ; a Possible Dimorphous 

 Form of Laurionite, G. F. H. Smith, 311 ; Mineralogical 

 Society, 311 ; Origin of Corundum associated with Perido- 

 tites in North Carolina, J. H. Pratt, 335 ; Death of N. A. 

 Pomel, 396 ; Vanadium and Molybdenum in United States, 

 W. F. Hillebrand, 539 ; Death of Prof. Andrea Arzruni, 603 



Mining : Prospecting for Minerals, S. Herbert Cox, 7 ; the 

 Causes of the Snaefell Lead Mine Accident, Dr. Le Neve 

 Foster, F.R.S., 178; Mining Accidents in .1897, Dr. Le 

 N. Foster, 461 



Minor Planets, John K. Rees, 304 



Mirage on City Pavements, R. W. Wood, 596 



Mirages, Wall, C. T. Whitmell, 619 



Mirrors, Metal-backed Glass, of Antiquity, D. Berthelot, 359 



Mirrors, a Simple Method of Making Light, Prof. Charles B. 

 Thwing, 571 



Missouri Botanical Garden, Ninth Annual Report, 77 



Mivart (Dr. St. George, F.R.S.), Lories, 189^; Moral Sense 

 and Ethic, 294 



Mixter (W. G..), Electrosynthesis, 539 



Mohegan Wreck, the, and a Suggested Possible Local Deviation 

 of Ship's Compass, Prof. A. W. Riicker, 629 



Moissan (Henri), the Preparation of Crystallised Calcium, 209 ; 

 Behaviour of Calcium heated in Hydrogen, 257 ; Analysis of 

 Commercial Calcium Carbide, 588; Calcium Nitride, 612 



Moki Indians, Aspects of Sun Worship among the, 295 



Mollusca : the Value of a Right-handed ' ' Chank " Shell, Edgar 



Thurston, 627 

 Mojiachus tropicalis, the West Indian Seal, 179 

 Monaco (Albert, Prince of), some Results of my Researches or» 



Oceanography, 200 

 Monium, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., 438, 556 

 Moniz (J. M.), Death of, 372 



Monochromatic Rainbow, a, A. J, K. Martyn, 224 

 Montemartini (Dr. L. ), Fisiologia Vegetale, 100 

 Moody (G. T.), Preparation of Standard Acid Solution by 



Direct Absorption of Hydrogen Chloride, 238 

 Moon, the, and Aurora, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 304 

 Moon and the Weather, Dogmatism on the, 368 

 Moon's Course, the. Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., F.R.S., 496 ; 



J. Hughes Hemming, 545 ; E. L. Garbett, 571 

 Mooney (James), the Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Out- 

 break of 1890, 125 

 Moor, a Yorkshire, Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 377, 401 

 Moore (J. E.), Electrical Discharge from Kinetic Point of View,. 



335 

 Moore (J. E. S.), the Marine Fauna in Lake Tanganyika, and 

 the Advisability of Further Exploration in the Great Africar* 

 Lakes, 404 

 Moral Instinct, the Origin and Growth of the, Alexander 



Sutherland, 241 

 Moral Sense and Ethic, Dr. St. George Mivart, F. R. S. , 294 

 Morality Independent of Obligation or Sanction, M. Guyau, 567 

 Morbology : the Sero-Diagnostic Test for Typhoid Fever, Dr. 

 McWeeney, 47 ; Immunity of Arabs against Typhoid Fever, 

 M. Vincent, 86 ; Effect of Polluted Soil on Vitality of 

 Typhoid Bacillus, Dr. Sidney Martin, 577 ; the Plague ir> 

 Calcutta and Dr. Haffkine's Method, 85 ; Formation \n 

 Blood Serum, under Chemical Action, of Material coagu- 

 lating Bacilli of Tuberculosis, S. Arloing, 143 ; the Con- 

 tagious Character of Tuberculosis, 487 ; Leprosy in Russia, 

 MM. Kirchner and Klibler, 158; Distribution of Leprosy in 

 the Far East, S. B. J. Skertchly, 514; the Etiology and 

 Prevention of Malarial Fever, Dr. E. Klein, F. R.S., 175 ; a 

 Plague Centre in German East Africa, Prof. Koch, 254 ; the 

 Hematozoa of Goitre, E. Grosset, 264 ; the Diseases of the 

 Lungs, James Kingston Fowler and Rickman J. Godlee, 291 ; 

 Rabies in Prussia, 300 ; Thermogenesis in Tetanus, MM. 

 D'Arsonval and Charrin, 336 ; Clinical Varieties of Hepatic 

 Cirrhosis, Dr. Alexander James, 349 ; Influence of Micro- 

 Organisms on Diseases of Nervous System, Dr. Buzzard, 350 ; 

 the Tsetze Disease in Mammals, Prof. Kanthack and Mr. 

 Durham, 426 ; Rats and the Plague, Dr. F. G. Clemow, 

 551 ; the Mosquito the Host of Malaria Parasite, Surg. Maj. 

 Ronald Ross, 523 

 Morel (Albert), Preparation of Mixed Carbonic Ethers, 240 

 Moreland (Prof. Sidney T.), a Pligh Rainbow, 151 

 Morgan (Prof. C. Lloyd), Animal Intelligence : an Experi- 

 mental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals, Edward 

 L. Thorndike, 249, 390 ; on Animal Intelligence, 585 

 Morgan (G. T.), Action of Formaldehyde on Naphthalene 



Amines, I., 142 

 Morize (H. ), Duration of Emission of Rontgen Rays, 635 

 Morphology : System der Bakterien, Prof. W. Migula, 

 Prof. A. A. Kanthack, 97 ; the Blood, how to Examine and 

 Diagnose its Diseases, Alfred C. Coles, 269 ; Morphology of 

 Vertebrates, Dr. Robert Wiedershein, W. N. Parker, 409 

 Morrell (Dr.), on the Oxidation of Glucose, 557 

 Morris (Dr. D.), Sources of India- Rubber and Gutta-Percha, 514 

 Moss : Prothallus of Lycopodiiim clavatum Discovered, Mr. 



Lang, 633 

 Moss (R. T.), Apparatus for Drying Bodies in Vacuo, 191 

 Mosso (Prof.), Mountain Sickness, 481 

 Mossman (R. C. ), Non-instrumental Meteorological Phenomena 



in London, 1763- 1897, 190 

 Mortillet (Gabriel de). Death of, 522 ; Obituary Notice of, 550 

 Morton (G. H.), Carboniferous Limestone of Country round 



Llandudno, 71 

 Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, M. Deslandres, 490 

 Mott (Dr. F.W., F.R.S.), on the Influence of Cholin, Neurine, 

 and some Allied Substances upon the Arterial Blood-pressure, 

 483 

 Mouneyrat (A.), Action of Aluminium Chloride and Chlorine 

 on Anhydrous Chloral, 120 ; Chlorination of Acetylene, 216 ; 

 Brominating Action of Aluminium Bromide in Fatty Series, 

 287 ; Action of Bromine on Normal Propyl Bromide in 

 Presence of Anhydrous Aluminixim Bromide, 359 



