Index 



TSiipfilement to Nature, 

 L December 8, i8g8 



Ancient Bronze Implement, Bacteria on an, Wm. Edward 



Nicholson, 32; Dr. G. L.Johnson, 52 

 Andeer (J. J.), Bone-softening by Phoroglucinol, 47 

 Anderlini (F.), Solfatara Gases, 269 

 Andre (G.), Action of Lime and Chalk on Humic Materials, 



564 

 Andres (Signor A.), Death among Lower Organisms, 628 

 Andrews (C. W.), a Preliminary Account of Christmas Island 



in the Indian Ocean, 587 

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

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

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



wright Scheiner, 314 

 Animal Intelligence, an Experimental Study of the Associative 



Processes in Animals, Edward L. Thorndike, Prof. C. Lloyd 



Morgan, 249, 390 

 Animals, the Play of, a Study of Animal Life and Instinct, 



Karl Groos, 410 

 Animals and Poisonous Plants, Alfred W. Bennett, 571 ; 



Edward M. Langley, 597 

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

 " Anlage"? What is. Dr. Arthur Willey, 390 

 Antagonism between Toxins and Antitoxins, the Nature of the, 



323 

 Antarctica ; Plea for a British Expedition, Sir John ^Murray, 



604 

 Antelope Horns, Larvas in, Dr. Henry Strachan, 468 ; W. H. 



McCorquodale, 468 

 Anthropology : in Madras, Edgar Thurston, 82; Anthropological 



Society, 189; Totemism, Prof. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 189; 



Reconstruction of Stature of Prehistoric Races, Karl Pearson, 



F.R.S., 286; Aspects of Sun Worship among the Moki 



Indians, 295 ; Human Effigy Vase from Arizona, J. W. 



Fewkes, 301 ; Australian Divisional Systems, R. H. Mathews, 



312 ; the Study of Man, Alfred C. Haddon, 410 ; Death of 



Gabriel de Mortillet, 522 ; Obituary Notice of, 550 

 Anti-Tidal Protective Coast Plantation iu Japan, Dr. Seiroku 



Honda, 627 

 Anti-Toxins, Bile of Venomous Serpents most powerful, Prof. 



F. R. Eraser, 461 

 Apodidre, Hermaphroditism in the, Henry Bernard, 78 

 Applied Geology, J. V. Elsden, Part I., 615 

 Aquatic Hymenopteron, Fred Enock, 175 

 Y Aquilse, the Supposed Variable, 182 

 Arabs, Immunity against Typhoid Fever of, M. Vincent, 86 

 Arachnids : Spider and Pitcher-Plant, R. I. Pocock, 274 ; 



AranecE hungaria^ Cornelio Chyzer, Ladislao Kulczynski, 



R. I. Pocock, 365 

 Archaeology : Chinese Antiquities at Shashih, 133; Metal-backed 



Glass Mirrors of Antiquity, D. Berthelot, 359 ; the Reli- 

 quary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 615 ; the Phylakopi 



(Melos) Excavations, Mr. Hogarth, 627 

 Architects, Underwriters, and the Owners of Buildings, Electric 



Wiring for the use of, Russell Rob, 313 

 Arctica : the Coasts of the Arctic Ocean, Dr. K. Hiksh, 278 ; 



suggested " Ice-breaker" Expedition to North Pole, Admiral 



Makaroff, 353 ; the German Polar Expedition, 397 ; Return 



of the Swedish Expedition, 523 ; Northward over the " Great 



Ice," Robert E. Peary, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 589 

 Argon, Companions of. Prof. William Ramsay, F.R.S., and 



Morris W. Travers, 182 

 Argon, Helium and Krypton, Position of, in Scheme of 



Elements, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., 383 

 Arizona, Human Effigy Vase from, J. W. Fewkes, 301 

 Arloing (S.), Influence of Place and Mode of Introduction on 



Development of Immunising Effects of Anti-Diphtheritic 



Serum, 23 ; Formation in Blood Serum, under Chemical 



Action, of Material coagulating Bacilli of Tuberculosis, 143 ; 



Clinical Value of Agglutination of Koch's Bacillus by Human 



Serum, 540 

 Armitage (E. ), Iridescent Clouds, 390 

 Arnaud (M.), Products of Hydrolysis of Ouabaine, 23 ; Ouabaic 



Acid, 47 

 Arons (L. ), Microscopic Observations of Coherers, 491 

 D'Arsonval (M.), Thermogenesis in Tetanus, 336 

 Art, the, and Science Buildings at South Kensington, 155 

 Artificial Food, Dr. Sidney Williamson, 368 

 Arundel (Major W^alter B. ), Ackworth Birds, being a List of 



Birds in the District of Ackworth, Yorkshire, 292 

 Arzruni (Prof. Andreas), Death of, 603 

 Asagena phaleraia, H. W. Freston, 635 



Aschkinass (E.), Absorption and Emission of Steam ar.i, 

 Carbonic Acid in Infra-Red Spectrum, 93 ; Transparency ot 

 some Liquids for Rays of Great Wave-length, 93 | 



Ashanti, Botany of, Surg.-Capt. Cummins, 208 



Asher (Dr. L.), on the Theory of Lymph Production, 481 



Ashworth (J. H.), the Xeniida, 335 



Ashworth (J. Reginald), an Introductory Course of Practicali 

 Magnetism and Electricity, 466 



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



Assyrian, First Steps in, L. W. King, 341 



Astronomy : a Proposed Revolution in Nautical Astronomy, 10 ; 

 Our Astronomical Column, 19, 41, 60, 88, iii, 134, 160, 

 181, 210, 232, 258, 280, 304, 330, 356, 375, 400, 424. 463, 

 490, 515, 526, 553, 583, 605, 630; Comet Perrine (March 19),. 

 19, 42, 60, 25S ; Dr. Berberich, 400 ; Comet Perrine (June 

 14), 181, 232, 258, 280; Comet Perrine-Chofardet, 515; 

 Tempel's Comet (1867 II.), M. Gautier, 19 ; Comet Tempel 

 1866? 515 ; Plerr Pechuele, 490; Kirchhoff's Spectroscope, 

 Prof. Vogel, 19 ; Jupiter's Red Spot, Dr. Lohse, 20 ; the 

 Red Spot on Jupiter and its Suspected Identity with Previous 

 Markings, W. F. Denning, 331 ; the First Satellite of Jupiter, 

 A. E. Douglass, 210; Observations of Jupiter during the Op- 

 position, 1898, Sir J. C. Sola, 526 ; the Spectrum of Hydro- 

 gen in Nebulre, Prof. Scheiner, 41 ; the Movement of the 

 Earth's Polar Axis, 1890 •0-1897 -5, Prof. Albrecht, 42; the 

 Northern " Durchmusterung," 42 ; the Astronomical Society 

 of Wales, 42 ; Observations of Variable Stars, Dr. Francesco 

 Porro, 60 ; a New Long Period Variable, Herren Miiller and 

 Kempf, 60; Variable Stars of Short Period, Prof. E. C. Pick- 

 ering, 181 ; the Variable o Ceti, Herr W. Stratonoff, Dr. 

 A. A. Nijland, 330 ; a New Variable Star, Madame Ceraski, 

 424 ; Atlas of Variable Stars, Dr. J. G. Hagen, 606 ; Variable 

 Stars in Clusters, Prof. Bailey, 583 ; the supposed Variable 

 Y Aquilfe, 182; France and International Time, 60 ; Astro- . 

 nomical Destination of Cromlechs near Dublin, Prof. T. P. 

 O'Reilly, 61 ; Sunspot Period, W. Ellis, F.R.S., 61 ; Mag- 

 netism and Sunspots, William Ellis, F.R.S., 78; Sunspot 

 Periods and Natural Phenomena, M. C. Flammarion, 134 ^ 

 a Large Sunspot, 463, 553, 630 ; Astronomical Occurrences 

 in June, 88 ; in July, 210 ; in August, 304 ; in September, 424 ; 

 in October, 526 ; in November, 630 ; Mr. Tebbutt's Observ- 

 atory, 88 ; Photography by the Aurora Borealis, J. E. Turner, 

 88 ; the Aurora Borealis of September 9, Baron N. Kaulbars, 

 569 ; an Absolute Actinometer. A. Crova, 95 ; Sun Worship 

 by Tusayan Indians, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, 11 1; Stellar 

 Radiations, Prof. Ayrton, 112 ; the Late Prof. Souillart, 113; 

 the Companion to Procyon, Prof. Schaeberle, 134 ; the 

 Liverpool Observatory, 134; Double and Multiple Southern 

 Stars, Dr. T. J.J. See, 134; Blurring Aberration in the 

 Telescope, Prof. Schaeberle, 88 ; J. R. Collins, 88, 280 ; 

 Nautical Astronomy, Captain J. F. Ruthven, 151 ; Encke's 

 Comet, 160 ; the Movement of. Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden, 

 520 ; New Determination of the Earth's Density, Dr. C. 

 Braun, 160 ; the Large Refractors of the World, Prof. G. E. 

 Hale, 160 ; the Leeds Astronomical Society 160 ; a New 

 Astronomy, Prof. David P. Todd, 173 ; Comets now Visible, 

 181, 210 ; the 40-inch Yerkcs Refractor, Prof. Barnard, 181 ; 

 the Oxford University Observatory, Prof. Turner, 182 ; od 

 the Stability of the Solar System, M. H. Poincare, 183 ; 

 Elements of Descriptive Astronomy, Herbert Howe, 198 ; the 

 Meteor Shower of November 13, 1897, 210 ; August Meteors, 

 330, 490; Large Meteors in 1897 and 1898, W. F. Denning, 

 583 ; Minor Meteoric Radiants, W. F. Denning, 424 ; Lati- 

 tude Variation in a Rigid Earth, Prof. Henry Crew. 232 ; 

 Conference of Astronomers at Harvard, 232 ; a Fine Collec- 

 tion of Meteorites, 232 ; Fall of a Meteorite in Bosnia, 375 ; 

 Cometary News, 258 ; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. 

 Pickering, Mrs. Fleming, Miss Cannon, 258 ; the Constant of 

 Aberration and Stellar Magnitudes, Prof. Doberck, 258 ; the 

 Eclipsed and Uneclipsed Sun, M. Deslandres, 258 ; a New 

 Form of Grating Spectroscope, Prof. Michelson, 280 ; Struc- 

 ture of the H and K Lines, Mr. Jewell, 280 ; the Minor 

 Planets, John K. Rees, 304 ; Mars in 1896- 1897, Prof. 

 V. Cerulli, 304 ; Creation Records discovered in Egypt, G. 

 St. Clair, 315 ; the Moon and Auroroe, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 

 304 ; Wolf's Comet, 330, 356, 375 ; Dr. Gill on Sir John 

 Herschel, 356 ; the Paris Observatory, 356 ; the French As- 

 tronomical Society, 356 ; Dogmatism on the Moon and the 

 Weather, 368 ; the Moon's Course, Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., 

 F.R.S., 496 ; J. Hughes Hemming, 545 ; E. L, Garbett, 571 ; 

 the New Observatory at Heidelberg, 376 ; Reminiscences oi 



