Index 



V Supplement to Natur 

 \_ December q, 1897 



Waters, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., Dr. H. TI. Dixon, 468; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Humphrey, 470 ; on a 

 Proposed Lacustrine Biological Station, Prof Ramsay Wright, 

 555 : Edible Copepoda, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 565 

 Marine Engineering, Fifty Years' Advance in, Ridgely Hunt, 



523 

 Marine Engineers, the International Congress of Naval Architects 



and, 281 

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

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

 F.R.S., 337 

 Marlatt (C. L.), Lady-birds and Insect Pests in Californian 



Orchads, 299 

 Marme (Prof. W.), Death of, 252 

 Mars : Observations of Mars, 163 ; Martian Markings, M. 



Antoniadi, 233 

 Marsden (F.), Corydaline, 94 



Marsh (J. E.), Production of Camphenol from Camphor, 214 

 Marsh (O. C), the Protoceratidoe, 583 

 Martel (E. R.), Efifect of Heavy Rains on Subterranean Lake, 



452 

 Martens (F. F.), Method of making Lines on Glass visible as 



Light on Dark Ground, 583 

 Marth (Albert), Death and Obituary Notice of, 383 

 Marti (Dr. A.), Efifect of Cutaneous Excitations on Red Blood- 

 Corpuscle Formation, 161 

 Martin (Edward A.), a Bibliography of Gilbert White, 418 

 Martin (E. P.), the Dowlais Iron and Steel Industry, 63 

 Martin (Florence), Study of Oxygen at Low Pressure, 288 

 Martin (Dr. L.), Death of, 14 

 Martini (Dr. Romei), Correspondence of Well-water Level 



Fluctuations and Wind Pressure, 298 

 Marvin (Prof.), on Tailless Kites, 462 

 Masefield (J. R, B.), Wild Bird Protection and Nesting-Boxes, 



&c., 78 

 Mason (Prof W. P.), Sanitary Problems connected with the 



Municipal Water Supply, 619 

 Masonry Dams from Inception to Completion, including 

 numerous Formulae, Form of Specification and Tender, 

 Pocket Diagram of Forces, &c., C. F. Courtney, 443 

 Massart (Jean), I'Evolution Regressive en Biologic et en 



Sociologie, 292 

 Massone (Dr.), Tubercle Bacilli in Milk, 132 

 Masterman (A. T.), the Life- Histories of the British Marine 



Food-Fishes, 337 

 Mathematics : Sieve for Primes, Robert W. D. Christie, 10 ; 

 Death of Dr. L. Martin, 14 ; Algebra for Beginners, T. 

 Todhunter, 28 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 44, 260, 

 631 ; Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 44, 189, 

 387, 488, 631 ; Mathematical Society, 94, 190 ; a Treatise 

 on Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, T. J. Evans and 

 W. W. F. Pullen, 151 ; Mathematical Contributions to the 

 Theory of Evolution : Relative Variation and Correlation in 

 Civilised and Uncivilised Races, Alice Lee and Prof. Karl 

 Pearson, 190; Cosmic Ethics ; or, the Mathematical Theory 

 of Evolution, W. Cave Thomas, 195 ; Steady Motion of 

 Electrified Ellipsoid, G. F. C. Searle, 214 ; the Lost Books 

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

 I. -IV., Rupert Deakin, 341 ; Higher Mathematics, Prof. A. 

 G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 244; the Calculus for Engineers and 

 Physicists, Prof. Robert H. Smith, 247 ; the Calculus for 

 Engineers, John Perry, F.R.S., Prof O. Henrici, F.R.S., 

 338 ; the Tutorial Trigonometry, William Briggs and G. H. 

 Bryan, 391 ; International Congress of Mathematicians, 395 ; 

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

 Russell, 417; Abel's Theorem and the AlHed Theory, in- 

 cluding the Theory of the Theta Functions, H. F. Baker, 

 441 ; Brief Method of Dividing a Given Number by 9 or 11, 

 Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, 565 ; on the Meaning of Symbols 

 in Applied Algebra, Prof. Alex. McAuley, 588 ; Prof. Oliver 

 J. Lodge, F.R.S., 613; on Three Septic Surfaces, J. E. 

 Hill, 631. See also Section A, British Association 

 Matthew (Dr. G. F.), on some Characteristic Genera of the 



Cambrian, 485 

 Matthews (Rev. Andrew), Death and Obituary Notice of, 549 

 Matthews (C. P.), Problems and Questions in Physics, 194 

 Mathieu (L.), Acari in Wines, 440 

 Matteucci (Dr. R. V,), Iodine and Bromine produced by 



Fumaroles of Vesuvius, 472 

 Maudsley (Alfred P.), Archaic Maya Inscriptions, 224 



Maurer (Dr. J.), Periodicity of Cold and Warm Summers, 414 

 Maxwell's Equations of the Electromagnetic Field-Theory of 



Electricity and Magnetism, Charles Emerson Curry, 514 

 May Meteors, W. F. Denning, 39 

 Maya Inscriptions, Archaic, Alfred P. Maudsley, 224 

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

 Mayer (A. M.), the Flotation of Metal Discs, 21 

 Mayer (Dr. A. M.), Death of, 297 ; Obituary Notice of, 347 

 Mayer (Prof. Victor), Death of, 346 



Mazzotto ( Prof. D. ), the Double Refraction of Wood by Electro- 

 magnetic Waves, 423 ; Electro-magnetic Indices of Refraction 

 of Woods, 472 

 Meadowcroft (William H.), the A B C of the X-Rays, 444 

 Mean Density of the Earth, a New Determination of the 



Gravitation Constant and the. Dr. C. Braun, 127, 198 

 Mechanics : the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 18 ; the 

 Flotation of Metal Rings, A.-M. Mayer, 21 ; Boomerangs, G. 

 T. Walker, 45 ; Mechanism and Biology. Dr. Oscar Hertwig, 

 98 ; on the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Prof. Osborne 

 Reynolds, F.R.S., W. H. Moorby, 102 ; Recent Investigations 

 into the Numerical Value of the " Mechanical Equivalent," 

 E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 258 ; First Stage Mechanics of 

 Fluids, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., F. Rosenberg, 196; 

 Steady Motion of Electrified Ellipsoid, G. F. C. Searle, 214 ; 

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

 Machinery of the Universe, Prof. A. E. Dolbear, 612 

 Medicine : Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College 

 of Physicians, Edinburgh, 78 ; the New Laboratories at Guy's 

 Hospifal, 105 ; Progress of Medicine in Victorian Era, Mrs. 

 Garrett-Anderson, 108 ; Death of Dr. Matthew Chartres, 159 ; 

 the Indigenous Drugs of India, Kanny Lall Dey, 196 ; Death 

 of Dr. Marechal, 252 ; Death of Dr. Tholozan, 383 ; Death 

 of Dr. J. B. Luys, 414 ; Death of Dr. J. B. Hicks, F.R.S., 

 451 ; Obituary Notice of, 470; a System of Medicine, 465 ; 

 the Relationship of Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology 

 and Practical Medicine, Dr. T. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., 

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

 493 ; the Work of Pasteur and the Modern Conception of 

 Medicine, Prof. Charles Richet, 508 ; Physics and Chemistry 

 in Relation to Medicine, Sir James Crichton-Browne, F.R.S., 

 556 ; Death of Dr. F. W. Barry, 593 

 Meehan (Thos.), Cleistogamy in Cryptienia canadensis, 323 

 Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Versuch einer philosophischen 



Selektions theorie. Dr. Johannes Unbehaun, 49 

 Men of Science, Honours for, 181 

 Mendeleeff (Prof.), on the Heat of Combustion, 186 

 Mendenhall (Prof. T. C), Ring Pendulum for Absolute Deter- 

 mination of Gravity, 19 

 Mental and Physical Reactions, on certain Correlations of. Prof. 



Lightner Witmer, 487 

 Merrifield (Mr.), Temperature Changes in Pupae, 94 

 Merrill (George P.), a Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering, and 



Soils, 97 

 Mesa Encantada, Ascent by Prof. W. Libbey, jun., of the, 



346 

 Meslans (Prof. E. ), on Fluorine, 463 



Metallurgy : the Iron and Steel Institute, 63, 352 ; the Dowlais 

 Iron and Steel Industry, E. P. Martin, 63 ; the "Weardale" 

 Reheating Furnace, H. W. HoUis, 64 ; the Permeability of 

 Steel-making Crucibles, Prof. J. O. Arnold and F. K. 

 Knowles, 64 ; on Charging Open-Hearth Furnaces by 

 Machinery, Jeremiah Head, 64 ; the Combined Open-Hearth 

 Process of Bertrand and Thiel, E. Bertrand, 64 ; Death of 

 Prof. Peter von Tunner, 159 ; Employment of Copper Salts 

 in Estimation of Several Elements in Cast Iron or Steel, 

 MM. Ad. Carnot and Goutal, 287 ; State in which Elements 

 other than Carbon are found in Cast Iron or Steel, MM. Ad. 

 Carnot and Goutal, 311, 336; a Treatise on Ore Deposits, 

 J. Arthur PhiUips, F.R.S., 313; on Practically Available 

 Processes for Soldering Aluminium in the Laboratory, A, 

 T. Stantoh, 352, 461 ; Electric Smelting and Refining : the 

 Extraction and Treatment of Metals by means of the Electric 

 Current, Dr. W. Borchers, 492 ; the Successful Treatment of 

 Stamp Battery Slimes from Gold Ores, W. Caldecott, 501 ; 

 Micro-Structure of Alloys, 506 ; Application of Electrolytic 

 Separation of Nickel and Cobalt from Iron to Estimation of 

 Nickel in Steel, O. Ducru, 512 

 Metals : Photographs of Metallic Spectra, Dr. O. Lohse, 62 ; 

 Photographing a Metallic Spark Spectrum, Prof. Schuster, 

 461 ; on the Shifting of the Lines in the Arc Spectra of 



