Supplenunt to Nature,~\ 

 December Z, 1898 J 



Index 



xxvii 



Mount Kosciusko, Botanical Exploration of, J. H. Maiden, 551 



"Mountain Sickness, Prof. Mosso, 481 



Mountaineering: Ascent of Vllimani, Sir W. M. Conway, 513; 



Attempts to Climb Mount Sorata, Sir Martin Conway, 626 

 Mourelo (J. R.), Composition of Phosphorescent Sulphide of 



Strontium, 336, 432 

 Moureu (Ch.), Hydrolysis of Ethane-d'ipyrocatechin, 359; 



Monopyrocatechin Glyoxal, 384 

 Mourlot (A.), Anhydrous Crystallised Magnesium Sulphide, 



312 ; Crystallisation of Anhydrous Sulphides of Calcium 



and Strontium, 516 

 Movement imparted by Tactile Impression, the Effect of, 588 

 Mud Volcanoes, Petroliferous Sands and, in Burma, Dr. Fritz 



Noetling, 20 

 Mushketoff (Prof.), Glaciers of Russia in 1896, 256 

 Miiller (Dr.), Death of, 625 

 Muller (Herr), a New Long Period Variable, 60 

 Muller (Prof. F.), Death of, 108 

 Muller (J. A.), Synthetic Preparation of Potassium Carbonyl- 



Ferrocyanide, 96 

 Munroe (John), a Trip to Venus, 366 



Munthe (H. ), the Interglacial Submergence of Great Britain, 374 

 Murani (Prof. O.), Stationary Hertzian Waves as studied with 



Use of Coherer, 552 

 Murche (Vincent T. ), Domestic Science Readers, 8 

 Murray (George), the Phyto- Plankton of the Atlantic, 70 

 Murray (Sir John), Plea for a British Antarctic Expedition, 604 

 ATiiseums Committee Report, 16 

 ' iseums, Essays on, and other Subjects connected with 



-Natural History, Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., Prof. 



R. Meldola, F.R.S., 217 

 Museums, the Natural History, 247 



Mutilation of Animals, the Wanton, Dr. George Fleming, 605 

 Mycology : Technical Mycology, Dr. Franz Lafar, 265 ; 



-Mykologische Untersuchungen aus den Tropen (Mycological 



Researches in the Tropics), Dr. Carl Holtermann, G. Massee, 



590 

 Myers (Mr.), Psychological Side of Hypnotism, 350 

 ^Mythology, the Crab in. Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, 143 



Naegamvala (Prof.), Photograph of the Chromosphere, 526 



Naples, the Disposal of the Town Refuse of. Prof. P. Boubee, 524 



Nasimi (Prof. R.), Solfatara Gases, 269 



National Museum of Natural History, the, 227 



National Physical Laboratory, the, 548, 565 



Natterer, (Dr. K. ), on the Oceanographical Results of the 

 Austro - Hungarian Deep-Sea Expeditions in the Eastern 

 Mediterranean, Sea of Marmora, and Red Sea, 586 



Natural History : Hints on the Management of Hawks, J. E. 

 Harting, 122; Wild Pigs and Python, Ernest Hose, 133; 

 Essays on Museums and other Subjects connected with Nat- 

 ural History, Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., Prof. R. 

 Meldola, F. R.S., 217; the National Museum of Natural 

 History, 227 : the Natural History Museum, 247 ; the Mam- 

 mals, Reptiles, and Fishes of Essex, H. Laver, 242 ; Me- 

 moirs of Novorossian Society, 285 : Death of Mr. Van Voorst, 

 289 ; a Living Toad in a Snake, Colonel W. F. Major, 

 344 ; Live Frog taken out of a Snake, Rose Haig Thomas, 

 367 ; H. Ling Roth, 368 ; Death of J. M. Moniz, 372 ; 

 Storia Naturale per la Gioventu Italiana, Dr. Achille Griffini, 

 389 ; American Museum of Natural History, Glyptic and 

 Graphic Art applied to Palaeontology, 392 ; the Blue-Tongued 

 Tasmanian Lizard as a Snake Destroyer, Stuart Dove, 422 ; 

 the Memory of Fishes, Prof. W. C. Mcintosh, 422 ; Memoirs 

 of St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 491 ; Report on the 

 Results of the Pamir Boundary Commission, A. W. Alcock, 

 493 ; Deef)-Sea Dredging, and the Phosphorescence of Living 

 Creatu.es at great Sea Depths, E. L. J. Ridsdale, 497 ; a 

 Hairless Rat, T. V. Hodgson, 546 ; a Fourth Specimen of 

 Notorytis viantelli, Owen, Prof. W. Blaxland Benham, 547 ; 

 a Living Representative of the Old Ground-Sloths, 547 ; the 

 Centipede- Whale, Kumagusu Minakata, 570 ; the Develop- 

 ment of the Tuatara Lizard, Prof. A. Dendy, 609 ; G. A. 

 Boulenger, 619 



Natural Hygiene, H. Lahmann, 614 



Natural Phenomena, Sun-spot Periods and, M. Camille Flam- 

 marion. 134 



Natural Selection, Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 499; 

 Organic Variations and their Interpretation, J. T. Cunning- 

 ham, 593; Rev. George Henslow, 594; Prof. W. F. R. 

 Weldon, F.R.S., 595 



Nature, Problems of Researches and Discoveries of, Gustav 

 Jaeger, 222 



Nature, a Student of, R. Menzies Fergusson, 543 



Nautical Astronomy, a Proposed Revolution in, 10 



Nautical Astronomy, Captain J. F. Ruthven, 151 



Navigation : Screw Propeller Cavitating Water, Hon, C. A. 

 Parsons, 62 ; Navigation, Captain J. F. Ruthven, 104 ; Navi- 

 gation and Cyclones, A. Ferion, 197 ; Illuminated Buoys, f. 

 Pintsch, 489 ; the Mohej^an Wreck and a suggested Possible 

 Local Deviation of Ship's Compass, Prof. A. W. RUcker, 627 



Nebulae, the Spectrum of Hydrogen in. Prof. Scheiner, 41 



Nebula of Andromeda, the, 515 ; M. Seraphimoff, 605 



Nebulce, Catalogue of, Lewis Swift, 515 



Nebular Hypothesis, the, M. le General Lafouge, 342 



Nebulosities of the Pleiades, the Exterior, 463 



Neelv (S. T.), the Physics of Timber, 130 



Neolithics : Discovery of a Crannog on the Clyde, W. A. D.)n- 

 nelly, 488 ; Crannoges in Estuaries, W. F. Sinclair, 521 ; 

 R. J. Ussher, 571 



Neuhauss (R.), Proof of Existence of Thin Zenker's Plates in 

 Colour Photographs by Lippmann's Method, 187 



Neurons of the Cortex Cerebri, on the Changes in the Form of 

 the, under Various Conditions of Rest and E.xcitation, Dr. J. 

 Demoor and Prof. Heger, 481 



New Physical Laboratory of Owens College, Manchester, 621 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 192, 240, 359, 492, 635 



New South Wales Royal Society, 312, 464 



New York Botanical Garden, 603 



New Zealand, the Echinoderm Fauna of, H. Farquhar, 636 



New Zealand Kea, the. Why it Attacks Sheep, F. R. Godfrey, 

 no 



Newberry (John Strong), the Flora of the Amboy Clays, 81 



Newcomb (Prof. Simon), Reminiscences of an Astronomer, 376, 

 583, 606 



Newlands (J. A. R.), Death of, 372 ; Obituary Notice of, 395 



Nicholson (Wm. Edward), Bacteria on an Ancient Bronze Im- 

 plement, 32 



Nicoloux (Dr. Maurice). Carbon Monoxide in Blood, 120; Pro- 

 duction of Carbon Monoxide in Organism, 143 ; Carbonic 

 Oxide Production in Organism, 483 



Nijland (Dr.), the Variable o Ceti, 330 



Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates, J. 

 P. Peters, 243 



Nitro- Explosives, J. Daniel, 4 



Noetling (Dr. Fritz), Petroliferous Sands and Mud Volcanoes in 

 Burma, 20 ; Palneontology of Baluchistan, 257 



Noll (Dr. Fritz), a Text-Book of Botany, 494 



Nomenclature and Notation in Calorimetry, J. Y. Buchanan, 

 F.R.S.,30 



Nordenstrom (G.), Swedish Iron-Ore Mining, 430 



North America, Bird Studies, an Account of the Land Birds of 

 Eastern, W. E. D. Scott, 541 



North American Birds, a Hundred and Fifty, Neltje Blanchan, 

 388 



North Pole, Suggested " Ice -breaker" Expedition to. Admiral 

 Makaroff, 353 ; Return of the Swedish Arctic Expedition, 



523 

 Northern " Durchmusterung," the, 42 

 Northern Highway of the Tsar, a, Aubyn Trevor-Battye, 75 

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



Robert Mill, 589 

 Notation in Calorimetry, Nomenclature and, J. Y. Buchanan, 



F.R.S., 30 

 Notes from a Dairy, 1873- 1 88 1, Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart 



E. Grant Duff, 198 

 Notontis mantelli, Owen, a Fourth Specimen of. Prof. W, 



Blaxland Benham, 547 

 Novorossian Society of Naturalists, Memoirs of, 285 



Obach (Dr. Eugene F. A ), Gutta-Percha, 136 



Observations, Notes on, Sydney Lupton, 7 



Observatories: Mr. Tebbutt's Observatory, 88 ; the Liverpo >! 

 Observatory, 134 ; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Annual 

 Report, 134 : Oxford University Observatory, Prof. Turner, 

 182 ; Destruction of the French Observatory in Madagascar, 

 E. Colin, 259 ; the New Observatory at Heidelberg, 376 ; 

 the Ben Nevis Observatories, 298, 350 ; the Paris Observ- 

 atory, 356 ; New Teaching Observatory of the Californian 

 University, 553 ; Annual Report of the Caml)ridge Observ- 

 atory, 553 ; Annual Publication of the Observatory of Rio de 

 [aneiro for 1898, 553 ; the Cape Observatory Report, 584 



