Su/>J>lement to N'atu^c,'^ 

 December g, 1897 J 



Index 



xvii 



Omaha, Miss A. C. Fletcher, 486 ; on the Algonquian 

 Blackfoot Legend concerning Scar-face, R. N. Wilson, 486 ; 

 on the Star Lore of the Micniacs of Nova Scotia, Stansbury 

 Hagar, 486 ; on Hut-burial among the American Aborigines, 



E. Sidney Hartland, 487 



Fontsere (Dr. Eduardo), New Observations of Venus, 300 

 I'onvielle (W. de). Aeronautical Ascents for Measuring the 



Electrical Field of the Air, 599 

 Food-fishes, the Life-Histories of the British Marine, W. C. 



Mcintosh and A. T. Masterman, Prof E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., 337 

 loord (Dr. Arthur H.), Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda, 



172 

 Foote (H. W.), Wellsite, 188; Bixbyite, 387 

 1-oraminifera in the Upper Cambrian of the Malverns, Frederick 



Chapman, 588 

 !■ Drcing-Book, the, a Manual of the Cultivation of Vegetables 



in Glass-houses, L. H. Bailey, loi 

 Forecast of the November Meteor Shower, W. F. Denning, 



473 

 Torcrand (M. de), Formation-heat of Sodium Derivatives of 



Acetylene, 119 

 Forel (F. A.), Remarkable Hailstorm at Morges, 240 ; Lake- 

 Disturbances and Hurricanes, 95 

 Forestry : New Reserves in United States, 60 

 Formalin as a Preventive of Potato Scab, 502 

 Formation de la Nation Francaise, Gabriel de Mortillet, 538 

 Forsyth (Prof. A. R., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section A 



of the British Association, 374 

 Fortpflanzung, Die Bedingungen der, bei einigen Algen u. 



Pilzen, Dr. Georg Klebs, 4 

 Fossils : Guide to the Fossil Invertebrates and Plants in the 



Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British 



Museum (Natural History), 29 ; MoUusciv of Chalk Rock, 



Henry Woods, 94 ; Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda, Dr. 



Arthur H. Foord and Geo. Charles Crick, 172 ; Catalogus 



Mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium. Dr. E. L. 



Trouessart, 270 ; Notes on Fossil Equisetacese, A. C. Seward, 



602 ; on a New Species of Palinurid Genus Linuparus found 



in the Upper Cretaceous of Dakota, A. E. Ortmann, 631 

 Foster's (Dr. C. Le Neve), Experiences of Coal Damp, 58 

 Foundations of Geometry, an Essay on the, Bertrand A. W\ 



Russell, 417 

 Fowl Immunity against Human Tuberculosis, MM. Lanne- 



longue and Achard, 23 

 Fowler (A.), a New Classification of Stellar Spectra, 206 

 Fowler (W. Warde), Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird Life, Mabel 



Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues, 516 

 Foxes, Sporadic Rabies in, 184 

 France, Report of Central Meteorological Office of, 523 ; 



Formation de la Nation Francaise, Gabriel de Mortillet, 538 

 Franchimont (Prof.), Action between Methylnitramine and 



Potassium Nitrate in Aqueous Solution, 312 

 Frankland (Mrs. Percy), the Story of Germ-Life : Bacteria, H. 



W. Conn, 565 

 Franklin (William S. ), the Elements of Physics, 265 

 Franks (Sir A. W., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 86 

 Eraser (Prof. T. R,,F.R.S.), Bile an Antidote against Serpent 



Venom, 322 

 Freeman (Rev. Alexander), Death of, 159 

 Fresenius (Prof. Dr. C. R.), Death of, 159 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 202 

 Fresh Water Fauna of Lake Tanganiyika, the, J. E. S. Moore, 



198 

 Freundler (P.), the Preparation of Furfurane, 119 

 Freycinet (C. de), Essais sur la Philosophic des Sciences 



Analyse-Mecanique, 270 

 Friswell (R. J.), Action of Light on Solution of Nitrobenzene 



in Concentrated Sulphuric Acid, 359 

 Frog Shower at Birmingham, 416 

 Frog's Egg, the Development of the, T. H. Morgan, Prof. W. 



F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 489 



Frohlich (L), Coefficient and Thermal Expansion of White 



Carrara Marble, 3 1 1 

 Fromme (Carl), Effects of Concussion and Heat on Magnetism, 



3" 

 Fruit Farm, First Report on the Working and Results of the 



Woburn Experimental, Duke of Bedford, George Murray, 



F.R.S., 170 

 Fruit-Growing, the Principles of, L. H. Bailey, 442 



Fuel-supply and Air-supply of the World, on the, Lord Kelvin, 



461 

 Fulcher (F. A ), Birds of our Islands, 29 

 FuUerian Professorship of Physiology at the Royal Institution, 



the. Dr. Augustus D. Waller, F.R.S., 248 

 Fungi, the LaboulbiniaieiC, R. Thaxter, 278 

 Fungus, Stereum hirsntem a Wood- Destroying, Prof Marshall 



Ward, 600 



Gadow (Hans, F.R.S.). in Northern Spain, 540 

 Galapagos Archipelago, Birds of the, Robert Ridgway, 590 

 Galton (Francis, F.R.S.), a new Law of Heredity, 235; 



Hereditary Colour in Horses, 598 

 Game-Birds, a Handbook to the, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 25 

 Gametophyte of Botrychium virginianunt, the, E. C. JefTrey, 



601 

 Garbasso (Dr. A.), Effects of Products of Combustion on 



Length of Electric Spark, 37 ; 15 Lezione Sperimentali su 



la Luce, 587 

 Garden, Orchard and Spinney, in, Phil Robinson, 222 

 Gardner (F. D.), Electrical Determination of Moisture Contents 



of Arable Soils. 277 

 Gardner (J. A.), Production of Camphenol from Camphor, 214 ; 



the Oxidation of Fenchene, 214 

 Garrett-Anderson (Mrs.), the Progress of Medicine in the 



Victorian Era, 108 

 Garstang (Mr. W.), on the Surface Plankton of the Atlantic, 



Gases : an Undiscovered Gas, Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S., 378; 

 Prof. Ramsay on the Refractivity of Mixtures of Gases, 462 ; 

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

 some easily Liquefiable Gases, A. Leduc, 632 



Gaster (F.), Mean Monthly Temperatures of British Isles, 94 



Gautier (Armand), Action of Light on Gas Mixtures, 119 ; Light 

 Action on Chlorine and Hydrogen, 167 



Gautier (Prof, Raoul), Chronometers, 324 



Gegenbaur (Carl), Festschrift zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstage, 

 26 



Gegenschein, the, or Zodiacal Afterglow, Prof. Barnard, 109 



Geikie (Sir Archibald, F.R,S.),the Old Red Sandstone of Lome, 

 157 ; Geological Map of the British Isles, 220 ; the Ancient 

 Volcanoes of Britain, 241 



Geitel (Prof.), Becquerel's Uranic Rays, 15 



Genvresse (P.), Double Chlorides formed by Cinchonamine, 560 



Geodesy : Death of Dr. Ch. Scholz, 60 ; Death of Prof. Arminio 

 Nobile, 276 



Geography : the Twelfth German Geographical Congress, 18 ; 

 Works of the Tibet Expedition of the Years 1889-90, under 

 M. V. Pyevtsoff', 27 : H. S. Landor's Tibet Expedition, 549 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of J. Theodore Bent, 35 ; Nansen's 

 Discovery of Deep Arctic Basin, M. de Lapparent, 36 ; Areas 

 of South American River- Basins, Dr. Alois Bludau, 36 ; 

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

 the Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus, Right Hon. Geo. N. 

 Curzon, loi ; the Royal Geographical Society, 63 ; the 

 Population of Russia, 117 ; Death of M. Manen, 130 ; Death 

 of Baron Oscar Dickson, 130; Death of Ney Elias, 159; 

 Obituary Notice of, 228 ; Through Unknown African 

 Countries : the first Expedition from Somaliland to 

 Lake Lamu, A. Donaldson Smith, 193 ; the Geographical 

 Journal, 292 ; Death of Dr. W. Petzold, 346, 413 ; the New- 

 Africa, Aurel Schulz, August Hammar, 340; the Voyages 

 made by the Sieur D. B. to the Islands Dauphine or Mada- 

 gascar, and Bourbon or Mascarenne in the Years 1669, 1670, 

 1671 and 1672, 341 ; some Problems of Arctic Geology, Dr. 

 J. W. Gregory, 301, 351 ; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Samuel Edward Peal, 421 ; in Northern Spain, Hans Gadow, 

 F. R.S., 540 ; Measurements of African Drainage Basins, Dr. 

 Al. Bludau, 550 ; the Second Bott^go Expedition in Somali- 

 land, Lieuts. Vannutelli and Citerni, 550; Natural Elementary 

 Geography, Jacques W. Redway, 565 



Geology : Shelly Glacial Deposits, G. W. Lamplugh, 10 ; Death 

 of Prof. Leon du Pasquier, 14 ; a Guide to the Fossil Inverte- 

 brates and Plants in the Department of Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology in the British Museum (Natural History), 29; Geo- 

 logical Society, 46, 94, 166, 215, 262 ; the Nubian Desert 

 sputh-ea.st of Korosko, Capt. H. E. Lyons, 46; Geology of 

 Bangka and Biliton, Mr. Verbeek, 47 ; Bearing of Research 

 on Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Dr. C. Diener, 88 ; 



