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Index 



V Supplement to Nature, 

 |_ December g, 1897 



an den Samoanischen Kiisien nebst vergleichenden Bemer- 



kungen, Dr. Augustin Kramer, 1 50 

 A Treatise on Practical, Plane, and Solid Geometry, T. J. 



Evans and W. W. F. Pullen, 151 

 Les Transformateurs de tension a courants alternatifs, F. 



Loppe, 151 

 Electromoteurs et leurs Applications, G. Dumont, 151 

 Electro-metallurgie, A. Minet, 151 

 Cheese and Cheese-Making, James Long and John Benson, 



152 

 The Naturalist's Directory, 152 



Flowering Plants, Mrs. Arthur Bell (N. D'Anvers), 152 

 Twelve Charts of the Tidal Streams near the Channel Islands 



and Neighbouring French Coast, F. Howard Collins, 



152 

 Guide to the Genera and Classification of the North American 



Orthoptera found North of Mexico, Samuel Hubbard 



Scudder, 152 

 Aids to the Study of Bacteriology, T. H. Pearmain, C. G. 



Moor, 152 

 A Great Agricultural Estate, being the Story of the Origin 



and Administration of Woburn and Thorney, by the Duke 



of Bedford, George Murray, F.R.S., 170 

 First Report on the Working and Results of the Woburn 



Experimental Fruit Farm, by the Duke of Bedford, Spencer 



Pickering, F.R.S., George Murray, F.R.S., 170 

 With the Dutch in the East, Captain W. Cool, 171 

 Die electrodynamischen Grundgesetze und das eigentliche 



Elementargesetz, Franz Kerntler, 171 

 Catalogue of Tertiary MoUusca, George F. Harris, 172 

 Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda, Dr. Arthur H. Foord, 



George Charles Crick, 172 

 The Story of the Mine as illustrated by the Great Comstock 



Lode of Nevada, Charles Howard Shinn, 172 

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

 Through Unknown African Countries, A Donaldson Smith, 



193 

 Problems and Questions in Physics, C. P. Matthews, J. 



Shearer, 194 

 Cosmic Ethics : or, the Mathematical Theory of Evolution, 



W. Cave Thomas, 195 

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

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



F. Rosenberg, 196 

 Illustrative Cloud Forms, C. D. Sigsbee, 196 

 Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, illustrated by 



the Camera, Oswin A. J. Lee, 196 

 The Indigenous Drugs of India, Kanny Lall Dey, 196 

 Bicycles and Tricycles, Archibald Sharp, C. V. Boys, F.R.S , 



217 

 Geological Map of the British Isles, Sir Archibald Geikie, 



220 

 Mineralogical Geology, Alexander Johnstone, 220 

 A Ride through Western Asia, Clive Bigham, 222 

 Elements of Theoretical Physics, Dr. C. Christiansen, 222 

 In Garden, Orchard, and Spinny, Phil Robinson, 222 

 The Woodland Life, Edward Thomas, 222 

 Social Transformation of the Victorian Age, T. H. S. Escott, 



222 

 The Ancient Volcanoes of Britain, Sir Archibald Geikie, 



F. R.S., Dr. Charles Barrois, 241 , 



Higher Mathematics, A. G. Greenhill, 244 

 The Vertebrate Skeleton, Sidney H. Reynolds, 245 

 Studien liber Dampfspannkraftmessungen, Georg W. A. 



Kahlbaum, 246 

 The Induction Coil in Practical Work, including Rontgen 



Rays, Lewis Wright, 246 

 The Calculus for Engineers and Physicists, Prof. R. H. 



Smith, 247 

 Zur Zoogeographie der landbewohnenden Wirbellosen, Dr. 



Otto Stoll, 247 

 Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 247 

 Experimental-Untersuchungen iiber Elektricitat von Michael 



Faraday, 247 

 The Elements of Physics, Edward L. Nichols, Wiliam S. 



Franklin, Prof. A. Gray, F.R.S., 265 

 The Dolmens of Ireland, W. Copeland Borlase, R. A. Stewart 



Macalister, 268 

 Human Embryology, Cli. S. Minot, Prof. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 



269 



Catalogus Mammalium tarn viventium quam fossilium, Dr. E. 



L. Trouessart, 270 

 Essais sur la philosophic des Sciences Analyse-mecanique, C. 



de Freycinet, 270 

 Wild Flowers of Scotland, J. H. Crawford, 270 

 The Science of Speech, Prof. Alexander Melville Bell, 270 

 Nouvelle etude sur les Tempetes, Cyclones, Trombes ou 



Tornados, M. Faye, 289 

 The Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, John Lowe, 290 

 Untersuchungen ueber Bau Kerntheilung und Bewegung der 



Diatom een, R. Lauterborn, 291 

 Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 



Wales for 1896, 291 

 L'evolution regressive en biologic et en sociologie, Jean 



Demoor, Jean Massart, and Prof. E. Vandervelde, 292 

 The Geographical Journal, 292 

 A Treatise on Ore Deposits, J. Arthur Phillips, F.R.S., 



Henry Louis, 313 

 Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph to find the 



Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles, Francis 



Bashforth, 314 

 Thirty Years of Teaching, L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 315 

 Abhandlungen zur Physiologic der Gesichtsempfindungen, 315 

 Cuirasses et Projectiles de Marine, E. Vallier, 315 

 Les Huiles minerales, Petrole, Schiste, Lignite, F. Miron, 



315 

 Botanische Wanderungen in Brasilien, Prof. Dr. W. Detmer, 



315 

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



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



F.R.S. 337 

 The Calculus for Engineers, John Perry, F.R S., Prof O. 



Henrici, F.R.S.,338 

 The New Africa, a Journey up the Chobe and down the Oko- 



vanga Rivers, A. Schulz, A. Hammar, 340 

 Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, Dr. E. 



Mach, 340 

 Euclid, Book I.-IV.,R. Deakin, 341 

 The Voyages made by the Sieur D. B. to the Islands 



Dauphine, or Madagascar and Bourbon, or Mascarenne, in 



the Years 1669, 1670, 1671, and 1672, 341 

 Elementarcurs der Zootomie in iiinfzehn Vorlesungen, Dr. B. 



Hatschek, Dr. C. J. Cori, 341 

 The North-western Provinces of India, W. Crooke, 361 

 The Phase Rule, W. D. Bancroft, 362 

 The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 



363 

 Hymenoptera, Lieut. -Colonel C. T. Bingham, 363 

 A Contribution to the History of the Respiration of Man, 



William Marcet, F.R.S., 364 

 Untersuchungen ueber den Bau der Cyanophycien und Bac- 



terien. Prof. Dr. Alfred Fischer, 364 

 Our Coal Resources at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, 



Edward Hull, F.R.S., Bennett H. Brough, 389 

 Prehistoric Problems, Dr. R. Munro, 390 

 The Tutorial Trigonometry, W. Briggs, G. H. Bryan, 



F.R.S., 391 

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



Russell, 417 

 A Bibliography of Gilbert White, the Natural Historian and 



Antiquarian of Selborne, by Edward A. Martin, 418 

 British Rainfall, 1896, S. J. Symon.s, F.R.S., H. S. Wallis, 



419 

 Abel's Theorem and the Allied Theory, including the Theory 



of the Theta Functions, H. F. Baker, 441 

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

 Masonry Dams from Inception to Completion, including 



numerous Formulae, Form of Specification and Tender, 



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

 Biblioteca di Scienze Moderne, Giuseppe Sergi, 443 

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

 A System of Medicine, 465 

 Modern Mythology, Andrew Lang, 466 

 The Vivarium, Rev. G. C. Bateman, 467 

 Geological Survey of Canada, 467 



A Bibliography of Science, W. Swan Sonnenschein, 468 

 The Development of the Frog's Egg, T. H. Morgan, Proi. 



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

 Ueber Verwachsungsversuche mit Amphibienlarven, Dr. G. 



Born, Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 489 



