Snppleinent to Nature,~\ 

 December!), 1897 J 



Index 



Vll 



Besson (A.), Action of Water on Phosphoryl Trichloride, 95 ; 

 History of Iodides of Phosphorus, 191 



l>etche (E.), Three New Australian Plants, 263 



Heyer (E. N.), the Pseudoscorpions, 470 



Bhattacharya (Jogendra Nath), Hindu Castes and Sects, 561 



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



Bibliography of Science, a, William Swan Sonnenschein, 468 



Biblioteca di Science Moderne, No. I. Africa : Antropologia 

 della Stirpe Camitica, Prof. Giuseppe Sergi, 443 



Bicycles : Bicycles and Tricycles, Archibald Sharp, C. V. Boys, 

 F.R.S.,217; R. H. Housman, C. V. Boys, F.R.S.,293; 

 Experiments on Bicycle Friction, Prof. R. C. Carpenter, 522 



Hid well (Shelford, F.R.S.), Subjective Transformations of 

 Colour, 128 



Bigham (Clive), a Ride Through Western Asia, 222 



Bile an Antidote against Serpent Venom, Prof. T. R. Phaser, 

 F.R.S., 322 



Biology : Respiratory Proteids, Researches in Biological 

 Chemistry, A. B. Griffiths, 9 ; Les Theories sur I'Heredite et 

 les Grands Problemes de la Biologic Generale, Yves Delages, 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 75 ; Zeit-und Streitfragen 

 der Biologic, Prof. Dr. Oscar Ilertwig, 98 ; Death of Dr. 

 Fritz IM tiller, 107 ; Development of Port Jackson Shark, Dr. 

 W. A. Haswell, 192 ; the Vertebrate Skeleton, Sidney H. 

 Reynolds, 245 ; Streaming Movements of the Protoplasm in 

 Pollen of Flowers, H. B. Potter, 248 ; L'evolution regressive 

 en biologic et en sociologie, Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Prof. 

 Emile Vandervelde, 292 ; the Action of Light on Diastase, 

 259 ; Marine Biology ; Metamorphoses of the Murenoids, Dr. 

 Calandruccio and Signor Grassi, 422 ; Coccoliths in our 

 Coastal Waters, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., Dr. H. H. Dixon, 

 46S ; 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 



Binary Star, a Remarkable, 525 



Bingham (Lieut. -Colonel C. T.), Hymenoptera, vol. i., Wasps 

 and Bees, 363 



Bipedal Locomotion among existing Reptiles, W. Saville-Kent, 

 271 



Birds: the Effect of Sunlight on the Tints of Birds' Eggs, 

 David Paterson, 1 1 ; Life Histories of North American Birds 

 from the Parrots to the Crackles, with Special Reference to their 

 Breeding Habits and Eggs, Charles Bendire, 25 ; Feathered 

 Friends, Old and New, Dr. W. T. Greene, 25 ; Coloured 

 Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptive Notes, 

 Henry Seebohm, 25 ; a Handbook to the Game-Birds, W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant : among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts, 

 illustrated by the Camera, Oswin A. J. Lee, 25, 196 ; Birds 

 of our Islands, F. A. Fulcher, 29 ; the Feathering of 

 Birds, F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., 36 : Wild Bird Protection and 

 Nesting Boxes, &c., J. R. B. Masefield, 78 ; the Birds of our 

 Country, H. E. Stewart, loi ; Blackbird's Nest appropriated 

 by a Wagtail, F. C. Constable, 248 ; G. W. de P. Nicholson, 

 343 ; Birds and Agriculture, F. E. L. Beal, 253 ; Citizen 

 Bird : Scenes from Bird Life, Mabel Osgood Wright and 

 Elliot Coues, W. Warde Fowler, 516 ; Appearance of a 

 Noddy in Cheshire, F. Congreve, 544 ; Birds of the Galapagos 

 Archipelago, Robert Ridgway, 590 



Birmingham, Frog Shower at, 416 



Bixbyite, S. L. Penfield and H. W. Foote, 387 



Black Light (Lumiere Noire), M. Le Bon's Experiments on the 

 so-called, M. Henri Becquerel, 619 



I'jlackbird's Nest appropriated by a Wagtail, F. C. Constable, 

 248 ; G. W. de P. Nicholson. 343 



Blake (Rev. J. F.), the Laccolites of Cutch, 166 



Blakesley (T. H.), a New Definition of Focal Length, 166 



Blandford (Walter F. H.), on Mimicry, 197; Sample-Post for 

 Natural History Specimens, 271 ; the Constitution and De- 

 velopment of the Society of Termites, Prof. B. Grassi and Dr. 

 A. Sandias, 517 



Blondel (A.), the Phenomenon of the Electric Arc, 311 



Blood, a Guide to the Clinical Examination of the, for 

 Diagnostic Purposes, Dr. Richard C. Cabot, 100 



Blood, Human, the Specific Heat of, W. F. Lloyd, 595 



Blowpipe Work, Prof. Andrews on the Plaster of Paris Method 

 in, 463 



Jiludau (Dr. Alois), Areas of South American River Basins, 36 ; 

 Measurement of African Drainage Basins, 550 



Boas (Dr.Franz), Decorative Art of North Pacific Coast Indians, 



571 

 Boat Sailing : a Cyclone Sail, Percy S. Pilcher, 342 

 Bogdanovskaya-Popoflf (Dr. Vera), Obituary Notice of, 132 

 Bogomoloflf (Dr. T.), Death of, 451 

 Bohn (George), Reversal of Respiratory Current in Decapods, 



608 

 Boirivant (Auguste), Assimilating Tissue of Stems deprived of 



Leaves, 388 

 Bollettino della Societa Botanica Italiana, 93 

 Bollettino della Societa Sismologica Italiana, 345, 388 

 Bond's (William Cranch and George Philips) Collected Works, 



Books of Science, Forthcoming, 525 



Boomerangs : G. T. Walker, 45 ; Boomerangs without Twist, 

 W. F. Sinclair, 79 



Bootis, the Double Star, 44 ; Mr. Burnham, 17 



Borchers (Dr. W.), Electric Smelting and Refining: the Ex- 

 traction and Treatment of Metals by means of the Electric 

 Current, 492 



Borlase (William Copeland), the Dolmens of Ireland, 268 



Born (Dr. G.), Ueber Verwachsungsversuche mit Amphi- 

 bienlarven, 489 



Boscovitch (Father), Contact Electricity and Electrolysis ac- 

 cording to, Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 84 



Bosi (Dr. Italo), Electric Resistance of Solutions of Salts in 

 Motion, 254 



Botany : the New York Garden, 16 ; Linnean Society, 23, 

 142 ; Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F. 

 Welwitsch in 1853-61, W. P. Hiern, 52; Death of Dr. E. 

 Russow, 60 ; the Cultural Evolution of Cyclamen lati- 

 pliiim, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 65; Jacob George 

 Agardh, the Linnean Society's Gold Medallist, 86 ; the 



. Jourral of Botany, 93, 260, 488, 607 ; Nuovo Giornale 

 Botanico Italiano, 93 ; Bollettino della Societa Botanica 

 Italiana, 93 ; the Respiration of Root-submerged Plants, H. 

 von Schrenk, 95 ; a Bat- Pollinated Flower, loS ; Diseases ot 

 Plants induced by Cryptogamic Parasites, Dr. Karl Freiherr 

 vonTubeuf, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 121 ; Death 

 of Dr. Julius von Sachs, 130; Obituary Notice of, Francis 

 Darwin, F.R.S., 20t ; New South Wales Linnean Society, 

 143, 263, 464, 584 ; Flowering Plants, Mrs. Arthur Bell, 152 ; 

 a New Truffle, Ad. Chatin, 167 ; Stomata observed by a New 

 Method, Francis Darwin, 167 ; some Considerations upon 

 the Functions of Stomata, Prof. C. E. Bessey, 600 ; on the 

 Chimney-shaped Stomata of Holacantha einoryi. Prof. C. E. 

 Bessey, 601 ; Mr. Bateson on Hybrid Cinerarias, 167 ; the 

 Fertilisation of Eupoinatia laiiriua, A. G. Hamilton, 192 ; 

 the Flora of the Alps, Alfred W. Bennett, 195 ; Woody 

 Tissue only of Living Plants penetrable by Rontgen Rays, 

 Dr. J. Istvanffy, 205 ; Primula elatior in Britain, Miller 

 Christy, 239 ; Spermatozoids in Gymnospermous Phanero- 

 gams, Prof. Ikeno and Dr. Hirase, 239 ; Streaming Move- 

 ments of the Protoplasm in Pollen of Flowers, H. B. Potter, 

 248 ; the Action of Light on Diastase, 259 ; Three New 

 Australian Plants, J. H. Maiden and E. Bletche, 263 ; the 

 Lahoulbeniacecr, R. Thaxter, 278 ; Untersuchungen ueber 

 Bau, Kerntheilung und Bewegung der Diatomeen, R. Lauter- 

 born, 291 ; on the Ascent of Water in Trees, Francis Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 307; New Leaf Fungi, Prof. Oudemans, 312; 

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

 315 ; Cleistogamy in Crypltcnia canadensis, Thos. Meehan, 

 323 ; a Troublesome Aquatic Plant, 332 ; Manganese in 

 Ligneous Tissues, G. Guerin, 360; Assimilating Tissue of 

 Stems deprived of Leaves, Auguste Boirivant, 388 ; Irritant 

 Action of Cypripedium on Human Skin, D. T. McDougal, 

 422 ; Algas of the North Atlantic, H. H. Gran, 454 ; the 

 Cinnamomums of New South Wales, R. T. Baker, 464 ; the 

 Systematic Position of the Dictyotaceii;, J. L. Williams, 47 1 ; 

 the Survival of the Unlike, L. H. Bailey, 493 ; the Camphor 

 Tree, 501 ; an Important Function of Leaves, U. Suzuki, 

 502 ; Formalin a Preventive of Potato Scab, 502 ; Kew 

 Bulletins of Miscellaneous Information, 1896, 503, 565 ; Ten 

 Years' Work of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 577 ; the Curvature 

 of Roots, D. T. McDougal, 525 ; Retardation of Growth of 

 Lower Fungi by Gravity, Julien Ray, 584 ; Missouri Botanical 

 Garden Annual Report, 587 ; Influence of Spring Frost of 

 1897 on Oak and Beech, Ed. Griffon, 608 



Bottle, Floating, Drifts in North Atlantic, 252 



