Sufplemeni to Nature,~\ 

 December 9 1897 J 



Index 



XXI 



International Congress on Technical Education, 129, 158, 186 

 International Congress for the Unification of Methods of 



Testing, held at Stockholm, 419 

 International Congress of Mathematicians, 395 

 International Geological Congress in Russia, 104 

 International Photographic Catalogue and Chart, the, 13 

 Introduction to Geology, an, William B. Scott, 585 

 Iodide Him Test for Metals, Prof. Andrews on the, 463 

 Ions, the Theory of Dissociation into, Spencer Pickering, 



F.R.S., 29 ; W. C. Dampier Whetham, 29 

 Ireland, the Dolmens of, William Copeland Borlase, R. A. 



Stewart Macalister, 268 

 Ireland, Great Auk Bones in, R. J. Ussher, 347 

 Iron, on the Magnetisation Limit of, Henry Wilde, F.R.S., 142 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 63, 352 

 Irrigation, Drainage and, Works in Mexico, 589 

 Island of the Eastern Archipelago, an, 171 

 Isothermals of Isopentane, J. Rose-Innes, 118 

 Istvanffy (Dr. J. ), Woody Tissue only of Living Plants penetrable 



by Rontgen Rays, 205 

 Italy, Earthquake in, 500 



Jamaica, the Cattle Disease in, Prof. Williams, 132 

 Jameson (Major), Remarkable Death from Lightning of, 452 

 Japan : the Study of Natural History in Japan, 354 

 Jarry (R.), a Combination of Silver Chloride with Methylamine, 



47 

 Jeffrey (E. C), the Gametophyte of Botrychium virginianum, 



601 

 Jenkin (Arthur P.), Luminous Phenomena observed on Moun- 

 tains, 102 

 Jenkins (H. C), Reactions between Lead and Sulphur Oxides, 



94 

 Jervis-Smith (Rev. Frederick J., F.R.S.), Telegraphy without 



Wires and Thunderstorms, 223 

 Johnson (Prof. A.), on a Canadian and Imperial Hydrographic 



Survey, 462 

 Johnstone (Alexander), Mineralogical Geology : a Synopsis for 



the use of Students, 220 

 Joly (L.), Biological Ilistory of Phosphates, 608 

 Joly (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Coccolilths in our Coastal Waters, Dr. 



H. H. Dixon, 468 

 Jordan (Dr. Karl), on Mimicry, 153, 419 

 Journal of Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 45 

 Journal of Botany 93, 260, 488, 607 

 Journal and Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales 



for 1896, 291 

 Jowett (H. A. D.), New Gold Salts of Solanaceous Alkaloids, 



214 

 Jupiter : Rotation Period of Jupiter's Third Satellite, Mr. 



Douglass, 109 ; Jupiter's Satellites, Mr. Douglass, 255 ; the 



Diameters of Jupiter and his Satellites, Herr Leo Brenner, 



504 ; Action of Jupiter and Saturn upon Encke's Comet, M. 



A. Lebeuf, 504 ; Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, 573 



Kahlbaum (George W. A.), Studien liber Dampfspannkraft- 

 messungen, 246 



Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Steamer, the, 549 



Kansas, the University Geological Survey of, Erasmus Haworth, 

 539 



Kapteyn (Prof. J. C), the Distribution of Stellar Velocities, 

 264 



Kathode Rays : Kathode and Lenard Rays, J. McClelland, 93 ; 

 the Simple Kathodic Rays, H. Deslandres, 167 ; the Alleged 

 Reflexion of Kathodic Rays, Prof. A. Battelli, 254 ', P. 

 Villard, 254 ; Kathode and Analogous Rays, S. P. Thompson, 

 F.R.S., 238; Reproduction of Cometary Phenomena by 

 Kathode Rays, Prof. Goldstein, 350 ; on Varieties of Kathode 

 Rays, Prof S. P. Thompson, 461 ; Experiments as to Whether 

 X-Rays exist in the Kathodic Pencil, Prof. A. Roiti, 618 



Kaufmann (W.), Magnetic Deflection of Kathode Rays, 335 



Kelvin (Right Hon. Lord, F.R.S.), Continuation of Experiments 

 on Electric Properties of Uranium, 20 ; {Electrification of 

 Air by Uranium and its Compounds, 191 ; Contact 

 Electricity and Electrolysis according to Father Boscovitch, 

 84 ; Leakage from Electrified Metal Plates and Points placed 

 above and below Uninsulated Flames, 233, 287 ; on the Fuel- 

 supply and Air-supply of the World, 461 



Kentucky, Earthquake in, 229 



Kentucky, the Mammoth Cave of, Horace C. Hovey and R. 



Ellsworth Call, 493 

 Kenward (J.), Lighthouse Progress, 1887-97, 282 

 Kerntler (Franz), Die Elektrodynamischen Grundgesetze unddas 



eigentliche Elementargesetz, 171 

 Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1896, 503, 565 

 Kew Magnetic Observations for 1896, 37 

 Kew, Ten Years' Work of the Royal Gardens, 577 

 Kipping (F. S.), Optical Inversion of Camphor, 214 ; Race- 

 mism and Pseudoracemism, 214 ; a New Class of Organic 

 Acids, 589 

 Kiss in Europe and China, the, Paul d'Enjoy, 501 

 Kites : Kite-flying for Meteorological Purposes, 182 ; A. Law- 

 rence Rotch on Scientific Kite-flying, 462 ; Prof Marvin on 

 Tailless Kites, 462 ; the Highest Kite Ascent, A. Lawrence 

 Rotch, 540 ; on Obtaining Meteorological Records in the 

 Upper Air by Means of Kites and Balloons, A. Lawrence 

 Rotch, 602 

 Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften, Nos. 86, 87, Prof. 



Ostwald, 247 

 Klebs (Dr. Georg), Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei 



einigen Algen u. Pilzen, 4 

 Klein (Prof.) and Technical Education in Germany, Prof. O. 



Henrici, F.R.S., 145 

 Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.), the Etiology of Yellow Fever, 249 

 Klingenberg (Dr.), Magnetic Phenomena in Iron, Nickel and 



Cobalt, 279 

 Klondike placers, the, Dr. T. K. Rose, 615 

 Klumpke (Mile.), Comet 1886 V., 415 

 Knott (Prof. C. G.), Magnetic Strains, 190, 335 

 Knowles (F. K. ), the Permeability of Steel-making Crucibles, 



64 

 Koch's (Prof.) Rinderpest Investigations, 108; the Plague in 



India, 275 

 Kootenays and Salishans of British Columbia, on the. Dr. A. F. 



Chamberlain, 486 

 Korda (Desire), Remarkable Dissymmetry produced by Rontgen 



Rays in Vacuum Tubes, 37 

 Kosmatt (Dr. F.), the Cretaceous Rocks of Pondicherr>', 453 

 Kramer (Dr. Augustin), Ueber den Bau der Korallenriffe und die 



Planktonvertheilung an den Samoanischen Kusten nebst 



vergleichenden Bemerkungen, 150 

 Krause (C. A. ), Broadening of Sodium Lines by Intense Mag- 

 netic Fields, 188 

 Kreutz (Prof. H.), Centralstelle Telegrams, 39 

 Kronecker (Prof. H.), Effect of Cutaneous Excitations on Red 



Blood-Corpuscle Formation, 161 

 Kropotkin (Prince), on the Asar of Finland, 485 

 Kuenen (Dr.), Experiments on Critical Phenomena, 213 



La Touche (Rev. J. D.), the Late Earthquake in India, 444 



La Touche (T. D. ), the Calcutta Earthquake, 273 



Laboratories : Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College 

 of Physicians, Edinburgh, 78 ; the Journal of the Essex 

 Technical Laboratories, loi ; the New Laboratories at Guy's 

 Hospital, 105 ; the New Government Laboratories, James 

 Woodward, 553 



LaboulbeniacecE, R. Thaxter, 278 



Lady-birds and Insect Pests in Californian Orchards, C. Lr 

 Marlatt, 299 



Laibach, Earthquake at, 278 



Laing (Samuel), Death of, 383 



Lakes : Lake Disturbances and Hurricanes, F. A. Forel, 95 ; 

 Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie, 193 ; the First Expedition from 

 Somaliland to Lake Lamu, A. Donaldson Smith, 193 ; the 

 Fresh-water Fauna of Lake Tanganyika, J. E. S. Moore, 

 198 ; the Sinking of the Earth about the Great American 

 Lakes, Dr. J. W. Spencer and Prof. G. K. Gilbert, 413 ; Mr. 

 F. N. Denison on " Seiche " Movements on Lakes Ontario 

 and Huron, 462 : on the Relation and Structures of certain 

 Granites and Associated Arkoses in Lake Temiscaming, 

 Canada, Messrs. Barlow and Ferrier, 485 



Lallemand (Ch.), Comparative Accuracy of Levelling Methods, 



47 

 Lamplugh (G. W.), Shelly Glacial Deposits, 10 

 Lamu, Lake, the First Expedition from Somaliland to, A. 



Donaldson Smith, 193 

 Landor (H. S.), Tibet Expedition, 549 



