Supplement to NatureC\ 

 December q, 1897 J 



Index 



XIX 



Grimshaw (Percy H.), on some Type Specimens of Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 



143 

 (Irisometer, Improvement of, N. Grehant, 119 

 Guadeloupe, Earthquake at, 87 

 Guerin ((i.). Manfjanese in Ligneous Tissues, 360 

 Guichard (M.)» Reduction of Molybdic Acid by Hydrogen, 



263, 288 

 Guide to the Fossil Invertebrates and Plants in the Department 



of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural 



History), 29 

 Guide to the Genera and Classification of the North American 



Orthoptera found North of Mexico, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, 



152 

 Guillaume (C. E.), Magnetic Properties of Nickel-Steels, 240, 



60S 

 Gulf of California, on the Seri Indians of the. Dr. W. J. 



McGee, 486 

 (iumlich (E.). Arc Lamps with Amalgam Terminals, 335 

 Guy's Hospital, the New Laboratories at, 105 

 Guyot (M. ), Symmetrical Tetramethyldiamidodiphhenyldian- 



thranoltetramethyldiamide from corresponding Oxanthranol, 



360 

 ( lyroscope, the Horizontal, 300 



Haddon (Prof. A. C.,). a Plea for a Bureau of Ethnology for 



the British Empire, 574 

 Haffkine's Plague Inoculation System, Prof. Koch, 275 

 Haga (Prof.), Method of Determining Wave-length of X- 



Rays, 95 

 Hagar (Stansbury), on the Star-lore of the Micmacs of Nova 



Scotia, 486 

 Hahn (E.), the Evolution of Agriculture, 253 

 Hailstones, the Structure of. Dr. Alex. Ilodgkinson, 384 

 Hailstorms, Explosions as a Means of Preventing, Albert 



Stiger, 453 

 Hake (II. W.), Absorption of Water of Deliquescent Sub- 

 stances, 359 

 Hale (Prof.), the Yerkes Observatory, 300; the late Alvan G. 



Clark, 574 

 Haller (A.), Phthalic Green, 336; Symmetrical Tetramethyl- 



diamidodiphenyldianthranol-tetramethyldiamide from corre- 

 sponding Oxanthranol, 360 

 Hamburger (Mr.), New Quantitative Method of Determining 



Anti- bacterial Action of Blood and Tissue Fluid, 96 

 Hamilton (A. G. ), the Fertilisation o{ Etipomatia laurina, 192 

 Hammar (August. ), the New Africa, 340 

 Hammond (G. B.), the Manufacture of Tinplates, 353 

 Hankin (Prof.), Vitality of Plague-bacillus in Infected Grain, 36 

 Hansen (C. T. J.), Reform of Chemical and Physical Calcula- 

 tions, 515 

 Harden (Dr. A.), Composition of Ancient Egyptian Bronze and 



Iron Implements, 46 

 Harding (C.), London Hailstorms of April 27, 215 

 Hardy (Norman), Feathered Arrows from New Hebrides, 584 

 Harkness (Prof. W.), Latitude Observations at the U.S. Naval 



Observatory, Washington, 256 

 Harley (Prof. Vaughan), Breaking up of Fat in Alimentary 



Canal under Normal Circumstances and in Absence of 



Pancreas, 22 

 Harmonic Analyses, on some New, Prof. Michelson and Mr. 



S. W. Stratton, 462 

 Harris (Geo. F.), Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca, 172 

 Harrison (Guy Oliver), Sensitiveness of the Retina to X- 



Rays, 248 

 Harting(J. E.), Nestor productus and Nestor norfokenssi, 239 

 Hartland (E. Sidney) on Hut-burial among the American 



Aborigines, 487 

 Ilartog (P. J.), Histoire de la Philosophie Atomistique, Leopold 



Mabilleau, 513 

 Hart wig (Dr. Ernst), the Algol Variable Z Herculis, 350 

 Harvard College Observatory Zone Observations, 134 

 Haswell (Dr. W. A.), Development of Port Jackson Shark, 192 

 Ilatschek (Dr. B.), Elementacurs der Zootomie in fiinfzehn 



vorlesungen, 341 

 Ilavelburg (Dr.), the Bacillus of, and Inoculation against 



Yellow Fever, 322 

 Havens (F. S.), Separation of Aluminium and Beryllium by 



Action of Hydrochloric Acid, 387 



Haworth (Erasmus], the University Geological Survey ot 

 Kansas, 539 



Head (Jeremiah), on Charging Open-Hearth Furnaces by 

 Machinery, 64 



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



Heat : Standards of Thermal Efficiency for Steam Engines, 36 ; 

 on the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Prof. Osborne 

 Reynolds, F.R.S., and W. H. Moorby, 102; Isothermals of 

 Isopentane, J. Rose-Innes, 118; Formation- Heat of Sodium 

 Derivatives of Acetylene, M. de Forcrand, 119 ; Passage of 

 Heat between Metal Surfaces and Liquids in Contact, T. E. 

 Stanton, 142 ; First Stage Sound Light and Heat, John Don, 

 172; on the Heat of Combustion, Prof. Mendeleeff, 186; 

 Thermal Phenomena attending Change of Rotary Power of 

 Freshly-prepared Solutions of Carbohydrates, H. T. Brown 

 and S. Pickering, 214; Crystallisation and Super-cooling, G. 

 Tammann, 279 ; Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of White 

 Carrara Marble, I. Frohlich, 311 ; Riintgen Rays and Heat, 

 A. Voller and B. Walter, 311 ; Conductivity of Carbon for 

 Heat, L. Collier, 335 ; Prof. Callendar and Mr. Barnes on a 

 New Method of Measuring the Specific Heat of Liquid, 461 ; 

 Profs. Ewing and Dunkerley on the Specific Heat of Super- 

 heated Steam, 461 ; the Specific Heat of Human Blood, 

 W. J. Lloyd, 595 ; Temperature of Maximum Density of 

 Solution of Barium Chloride, 608 ; Reversible Transform- 

 ation of Styrolene into Metastyrolene under Influence of, 

 Georges Lemoine, 608 ; on the Conditions required for attain- 

 ing Maximum Accuracy in the Determination of Specific 

 Heat by the Method of Mixtures, F. L. O. Wadsworth, 631 ; 

 Action of the X-Rays on the Heat Radiated by the Skin, 

 M. L. Lecercle, 632 



Heath (Thomas), an Edinburgh Record of the Indian E^arth- 

 quake, 174, 287 



Hedley (C. ), Gigantic Fish Hook from New Guinea, 464 



Helier (H.), Action of Light on Gas Mixtures, 119 ; Light- 

 Action on Chlorine and Hydrogen, 167 



Heliostat, on an Improved, A. G. Mayer, 631 



Helium : Attempt to pass Helium through Red-hot Metals, W, 

 Ramsay, F.R.S., and M. W. Travers, 118 ; Prof. W. Ramsay, 

 F.R.S., on Methods employed in Experiments on Helium, 

 462 



Heilmann (Dr. G.),jEarly Observations of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 452 ; Wind Velocity, 607 



Heiberg (Dr. H.), Death of, 593 



Heidenhain (Dr. Rudolf), Death and Obituary Notice of, 

 617 



Hemptinne (A. de). Influence of X-Rays on Luminosity of 

 Gases, 488 



Henning (Mr.), a Recorder of Stretching, 353 



Henrici (Prof. O., F.R.S.), Prof. Klein and Technical Edu- 

 cation in Germany, 145; the Calculus for Engineers, John 

 Perry, F.R.S., 338 ; on a New Notation to Denote Products 

 of Vectors, 462 



Z Herculis, the Algol Variable, Dr. Ernst Hartwig, 350 



Herdman (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), British Association Meeting 

 at Toronto, 425 ; on Oysters, 555 ; on the Surface Plankton 

 of the Atlantic, 555 ; Edible Cojiepoda, 565 



Heredity : Les Theories sur I'Heredite et les grands problemes 

 de la Biologic generale, Yves Delages, Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester, F.R.S., 75; the Trotting Horse, Prof. C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, 126 ; a New Law of Heredity, Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., 235; Heredity Colour in Horses, Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., 598; F. Howard Collins, 613; Strange Instinct of 

 Fear in the Orang, R. I. Pocock, 613 



Hereford, Earthquake at, 347 



Herschel (Prof. A. S., F.R.S.), Outlying Clusters of the Per- 

 seids, 540 



Hertwig (Dr. Oscar), Zeit und Streitfragen der Biologic, 98 



Hertz- Wave Model, a. Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., 

 342 



" Hesperornis," on the Feathers of, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 30 



Heycock (C. T.), X-Ray Photographs of Solid Alloys, 94 



Heywood (James, F.R.S.), Death of 593 



Hibbert (W.), Molecular Refraction of Dissolved Salts and 

 Acids, ii. 359 ; on Rontgen Rays and Lithium Salts, 463 



Hicks (Dr. J. B., F.R.S.), Death of, 451 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 470 



Hiern (W. P.), Catalogue of the African Plants collected by, 

 Dr. F. Welwitsch, in 1853-61, 52 



Higher Mathematics, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 244 



