XVI 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 December I), 1897 



Essex, the Storm in, on June 24, 196, 204 ; Sheffield Neave, 



196 

 fetard (A.), Breaking-up of Fundamental Band of Chlorophyll, 



191 

 Ethics, Cosmic, or the Mathematical Theory of Evolution, W. 



Cave Thomas, 195 

 Ethnography : Studies in Ancient History, J. F. M'Lennan, 



51 ; the North-western Provinces of India, W. Crooke, 361 

 Ethnology : Boomerangs without Twist, W. F. Sinclair, 79 ; 



Gigantic Fish Hook from New Guinea, C. Hedley, 464 ; 



Hindu Castes and Sects, Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Dr. 



M. Winternitz, 561 ; a Plea for a Bureau of Ethnology for 



the British Empire, Prof, A. C. Haddon, 574 

 Etiology of Yellow Fever, the, Dr. E. Klein, 249 

 Etna Observatory, the, 544 



Euclid, the Lost Books of, A. K. Ghose, H. M. Taylor, 224 

 Euclid, Books I. -IV., Rupert Deakin, 341 

 Europe : the Origin of the European Fauna, Dr. R. F. Scharf, 



625 

 Evans (Sir John, T.R.S.), Inaugural Address at the Meeting of 



the British Association at Toronto, 369 ; on the Antiquity of 



Man in America, 487 

 Evans (N. N.), the Behaviour of Argon in X-Ray Tubes, 624 

 Evans (T. J. ), a Treatise on Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, 



151- 



Everdingen (Evan, jun.), Increase of Resistance of Bismuth in 

 Connection with Dissymmetry of Hall's Effect, 263; on the 

 Relation between Crystal Direction and Resistance, Increase of 

 Magnetic Resistance and Hall's Effect, 264 



Everitt (Nicholas), Ferrets, their Management in Health and 

 Disease, 52 



Evershed (J.), the Corona Spectrum, 444 



Evolution : Physiological Specific Characters, Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, 11 ; Utility of Specific Characters, Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, 33 ; Dr. Samuel Wilks, F.R.S., 79 ; Versuch einer 

 philosophischen Selektionstheorie, Dr. Johannes Unbehaun, 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 49 ; Pioneers of Evolution from 

 Thales to Huxley, Edward Clodd, 52 ; the Cultural Evolution 

 of Cyclamen latifoliui/i, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 

 65 ; the Trotting Horse, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 126 ; on 

 Mimicry, Dr. Karl Jordan, 153,- 419 ; Walter F. H. Bland- 

 ford, 197 ; Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of 

 Evolution, Relative Variation and Correlation in Civilised 

 and Uncivilised Races, Alice Lee and Karl Pearson, 190 ; 

 Cosmic Ethics ; or, the Mathematical Theory of Evolution, 

 W. Cave Thomas, 195 ; Evolution of Agriculture, E. Hahn, 

 253 ; L'evolution regressive en }^iologie et en sociologie, Jean 

 Demoor, Jean Massart, Prof. Emile Vandevelde, 292 ; the 

 Survival of the Unlike, L. H. Bailey, 493 ; Protective 

 Colouring, Alfred O. Walker, 566 ; Hereditary Colour in 

 Horses, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 598; F. Howard Collins, 

 613 



Evolution of Stellar Systems, the, T. J. J. See, Dr. William J. 

 S. Lockyer, 295 



Ewart (Dr. A. J.), Evolution of Oxygen from Coloured Bacteria, 



23 

 Ewing (Prof.), on the Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, 



461 

 Excavations in Southern Babylonia, the American, 198 

 Experimental- Untersuchungen iiber Elektricitiit von Michael 



Faraday, 247 

 Explosions of Gases, Prof. H. B. Dixon on, 463 

 Explosives : the Visibility of a Sound Shadow, C. V. Boys, 



F.R.S., 173 ; the Danger Limit of Acetylene Gas, 550 

 Eye as an Aid in General Diagnosis, the, E. H. Linnell, 493 



Fairbanks (H. W.), Interesting Case of Contact Metamorphism, 



286 ; Tin Deposits of Temescal, 286 

 Fairchild (Prof. H. Le Roy), on the Glacial Geology of Western 



New York, 485 

 Fans, Propeller Ventilating, Experiments with, W. G. Walker, 



19 

 Faraday (Michael), Experimental- Untersuchungen Liber Elektri- 



citat von, 247 

 Farmer (Prof. J. B.), on the Structure of a Hybrid Fern, 600 

 Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burmah, 363 

 Faye (M), Nouvelle etude sur les Tempetes, Cyclones, Trombes, 



ou Tornados, 289 

 Feathered Friends, Old and New, Dr. W. T. Greene, 25 



Feathers of Besperonu's, on the, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 30 

 Fern, on the Structure of a Hybrid-. Prof. J. B. Farmer, 600 

 Ferran (J. ), the Tubercle Bacillus, 608 

 Ferrets, their Management in Health and Disease, Nicholas 



Everitt, 52 

 Ferrier (Mr.), on the Relation and Structures of certain Granites 



and Associated Arkoses in Lake Temiscaming, Canada, 485 

 Fertilisation, Cross-, some Experiments on, Dr. Saunders, 600 

 Festschrift zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstage, Carl Gegenbaur, 26 

 Filipsen and Olifsen (Messrs.), Dwarf Tribe in the Pamirs, 61 

 Finland, on the Asar of, Prince Kropotkin, 485 

 Finn (F.), the Gait of Cotton-Teal, 205 

 Fire-balls, Zodiacal Radiants of, W. F. Denning, 185 

 Fire Ceremony of certain Central Australian Tribes, the 



Engwurra or. Prof. Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, 136 

 Fire-fly Light, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., 126; Dr. 



E. Overton, 154 ; Dr. Carlo del Lungo, 294 



Firing, Distant Sound of, 204 ; W. F. Sinclair, 223 ; C. Mostyn, 



248 ; F. L. Ortt, 391 

 First Principles of Natural Philosophy, A. E. Dolbear, 78 

 First Sound of the Heart, the Mechanism of the, 567 

 First Stage Mechanics of Fluids, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 



F. Rosenberg, 196 



First Stage Sound, Light and Heat, John Don, 172 



Fischer (Prof. Dr. Alfred), Untersuchungen ueber den Bau der 



Cyanophycien und Bacterien, 364 

 Fishes : New Observations on the Larva of the Common Eel, 



G. B. Grassi, Dr. S. Calandruccio, 85 ; Scientific Investiga- 

 tions of the Scottish Fishery Board, 303 ; Swedish Method 

 of Preserving Fish, C. T. Morner, 385 ; Gigantic Fish Hook 

 from New Guinea, C. Hedley, 464 ; a Successful Experiment 

 in Lobster-rearing, 455 



Fissore (Dr. Giuseppe), Death of, 252 



Fitzgerald (Francis A. ), Manufacture of Carborundum at Niagara 



Falls, 42 

 Fitzgerald (Prof. Geo. Eras., F.R.S.), Zeeman's Phenomena, 



468 

 Flames, Uninsulated, Leakage from Electrified Metal Plates 



and Points placed above and below. Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 



and Dr. Magnus Maclean, 233 

 Flames, Singing, the Theory of, H. V. Gill, 583 

 Flammarion (Camille), Paris Rainfall since 1688, 38 

 Flanery (Major David), Immunity from Mosquito Bites, 53 

 Fleming (Dr. J. A.), the Determination of Hysteresis Loss in 



Straight Iron Strips, 166 

 Fletcher (Miss A. C), on the Scalp-lock and the Totem among 



the Omaha, 486 

 Fleurent (E. ), Determination of Composition of Gluten in Wheat 



Flour, 47 ; Action of Nitric Acid on Potassium Cobalticy- 



anide, 608 

 Flight, Soaring, Dr. William J. S. -Lockyer, 344 

 Flint Instruments, Egyptian Prehistoric, H. W. Seton-Karr, 



131 

 Flora of the Alps, the, Alfred W. Bennett, 195 

 Flower (Sir William), Natural History as a Vocation, 37 ; 



Waterspout off Cromer, 451 

 Flower, Scorpion carrying, A. Newnham, 79 

 Flowers, Pollen of. Streaming Movements of the Protoplasm in, 



H. B. Potter, 248 

 Flowering Plants, Mrs. Arthur Bell, 152 

 Fluids, First Stage Mechanics of, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 



F. Rosenberg, 196 

 Fluorescence, Change of Absorption produced by, J. Burke, 



261 

 Fluorine, Prof. E. Meslans on, 463 ; on the Liquefaction of, H. 



Moissan and J. Dewar, 126 

 Focal Length, a New Definition of, T. H. Blakesley, 166 

 " Focus" Tube, Determination of Source of Rays from, Dean 



Molloy, 471 

 Fog at Sea, Acoustic Method of Determining Position of Vessel 



in. Prof. E. C. Pickering, 130 

 Fog- signalling on Railways, New Appliance for, Mr. Pratt, 



230 

 Fog, Sound-signals in. Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 154 

 Fogs of the Newfoundland Banks, on the. Dr. G. Schott, 619 

 Folklore : on Augury from Combat of Shell-fish, Kumagusu 



Minakata, 30 ; Contributions to the Science of Mythology, F. 



Max Mliller, 77 ; the Worship of Meteorites, Prof. Hubert A. 



Newton, 355 ; Sqaktktquacht or the Benign-faced, C. Hill- 

 Tout, 486 ; on the Scalp-lock and the Totem among the 



