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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 Junei.xig^ 



the form of Isothermals of Liquids and Gases, 143 ; Dilatation 

 and Compressibility of Water, 288 ; Expansion of Water at 

 Constant Pressure and at Constant Volume, 623 



Amazons, River, the Naturalist on the, Henry Walter Bates, 

 F.R.S., 269 



Ambronn (Dr. L.), Astronomical Instruments up to Date, 114 



America : American Microscopical Society — Prizes offered for 

 Encouragement of Research, 15 ; American Vine-disease ; ap- 

 pearance of the Black Rot in Europe, 16 ; American Meteoro- 

 logical Journal, 46, 143, 261, 454, 574 ; a New Blind Cave 

 Salamander from North America, L. Stejneger, 62 ; Ameri- 

 can Opinion of Photography in England, Xanthus Smith, 

 86 ; American Journal of Science, 188, 285, 380, 499, 596 ; 

 On the American Iron Trade and its Progress during Six- 

 teen Years, Sir Lowthian Bell, F. R.S. ; John Parry, 

 195 ; American Society of Naturalists, 205 ; American 

 Forestry, C. S. Sergent, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 275 ; American 

 Mechanism, 241 ; a Correction, 281 ; the Destruction of 

 Ancient Monuments in Central America, M. H. Saville, 302 ; 

 American Psychological Association, 348; the U.S. Geo- 

 logical Survey and American Mining Industries, 350 ; Ame- 

 rican Journal of Mathematics, 380, 620 ; Observations of 

 Atmospheric Electricity in America, J. C. Mendenhall, Prof. 

 Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 392; Archaeological Work in 

 America, Prof. Putnam, 474; the Destruction of Trees in 

 America, Dr. W. J. Beal, 563 



Amide and Imide of Sulphuric Acid, the, Dr. Traube, A. E. 

 Tutton, 566 



Amino!, a True Disinfectant, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 149, 247; 

 Hugo Wollheim, 246 



Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 216, 288, 432, 504, 

 624 



Amu-Daria, Discovery of Subterranean Town on the, 64 



Analysis, Modern Advanced, G. B. Mathews, 289 



Anatomy ; Bell's Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, Jas. B. 

 Bailey, 11 ; the Brain in Mudfishes, Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, 

 339 : the Relation of Anatomy to Art, Paul Richer, 470 ; 

 Die Epiglottis, Carl Gegenbaur, 542 ; the Rudimentary Hind 

 Limbs of Great Fin-whale, Humpback, and Greenland Right- 

 whale compared, Dr. John Struthers, 588 



Ancient Ice Ages, T. Mellard Reade, 174 



Anchisaurus colurus, Restoration of, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 349 



Ancient Dyes, Notes on some, Edward Schunck, F. R. S., 22 



Ancient Ice Ages, J. Lomas, 227 



Anderson (A.), Blind Animals in Caves, 439 



Anderson (Dr. W.), Technical Education, 155 



Andre (M.), on the Organic Substances constituting Vegetable 

 Soil, 551 



Andromeda, Comet in, 40 



Andromedes, the, Maclair Boraston, 326 



Anemometer, New Maximum, W. H. Dines, 118 



Anemometry, H. W. Dines, 143 



Angot (Alfred), Eiffel Tower, Experiments on Decrease of Air- 

 Temperature with Elevation, 240 



Animal Body, the Chemical Basis of the, A. Sheridan Lea, 

 F. R. S. , 340 



Animal Life, the Study of, J. Arthur Thomson, 2 



Animals, Blind, in Caves, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 

 389, 486 ; J. T. Cunningham, 339, 537 ; A. Anderson, 

 439 ; G. A. Boulenger, 608 



Animals' Rights, H. S. Salt, 73, 127 ; the Reviewer, 151 



Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 525 



Annelid, Sponge and, a Strange Commensalism, James Hornell, 

 78 



Anschutz (Prof.), Compounds of Salicylic and Cresotinic Acid 

 Lactides with Chloroform, 255 



Antarctic Continent, the Chatham Islands arid an, H. O. 

 Forbes, 474 



Antarctic Whaling Fleet, the, 282 ; Letters from the, 590 



Anthropology : Prof. Virchow on the Immediate Task for 

 Anthropologists, 38; Anthropological Institute, 46, 239,335, 

 455) 527. 623 ; Development of Buddhist Architecture and 

 Symbolism in Burma, Major Temple, 46 ; Prehistoric Inter- 

 ments of Bahi Rossi Caves, near Mentone, A. J. Evans, 

 239 ; Mythographic Origin of Polynesian Ornament-forms, 

 Dr. H. C. March, 239; Relics of Primitive Fashions in India, 

 Kedarnath Basu, 301 ; Dr. Ten Kate on the Type-character- 

 istics of the North American Indians, 374; the Tokelaus, 

 423 ; on Nicobar Pottery, E. H. Man, 455 ; on some Islands 

 of the New Hebrides, Lieut. Boyle, T, Somerville, 455 ; 



Physical Anthropology in America, 475 ; Use of Chloride of 

 Potassium instead of Salt by Soudanese, M. Dybowski, 499 ;. 

 the International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology and 

 Anthropology, 523 ; Prehistoric Anthropology, the Quater- 

 nary Deposits in Russia and their Relations to the Finds 

 Resulting from the Activity of Prehistoric Man, S. Nikitine, 

 523 ; Race in Anthropology, M. Topinard, 524 ; Which is the 

 most Ancient Race in Russia, Prof. A. Bogdanov, 524 ; 

 on the Rude Stone Implements of the Tasmanians, showing 

 them to belong to the Palzeolithic or Unground Stage of the 

 Implement-makers Art, Dr. Tylor, 527; Anthropological 

 Uses of the Camera, E. F. im Thurn, 548 ; Neolithic Village 

 of the Roche auDiable, near Tesnieres, Canton of Lorez-le- 

 Bocage (Seineet-Marne), Armaud Vire, 576 ; on Egyptian 

 Mummies, Prof. Macalister, 623 



.\nts, the Use of, to Aphides and Coccidae, J. D. A. Cockerell, 

 608 



Aphides and Coccidae, the Use of Ants to, 608 



Appleyard (J. R.), Salts of Active and Inactive Glyceric Acid: 

 the Influence of Metals on the Specific Rotatory Power of 

 Active Acids, 405 



Applied Mechanics, Elementary Manual on. Prof. Jamieson, 



147 



Applied Natural History, W. L. Calderwood, 492 



Aqua et Terra, Qusestio de, Edmund G. Gardner, 295 



Aquarium, the Boxing Kangaroo at Westminster, 1 1 1 



Arabia Petrsea, Geology of. Prof. Edw. Hull, F.R.S., 166 



Arborescent Frost Patterns, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 125 j 

 G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 162; Rev. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 

 162; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 162; Dr. Wetterhan, 

 162 ; J. T. Richards, 162 ; J. J. Armitage, 162 ; Prof. G. A. 

 Lebour, Prof. Sollas, F".R.S., 213 



Arcady, Science in. Grant Allen, 173 



Archaeology, the Tell-el-Hesy Excavations, F. J. Bliss, 302 ; 

 the Destruction of Ancient Monuments in Central America, 

 M. H. Saville, 302 ; Ancient Copper Relics discovered in the 

 Course of M. de Sarzec's Excavations in Chaldea, M. 

 Berthelot, 360; Depredations amonj the recently-discovered 

 Phoenician Tombs in Malta, 396 ; Archaeological Work in 

 America, Prof. Putnam, 474 ; the International Congress of 

 Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology, 523 



Architecture and Symbolism in Burma, Development in Budd- 

 hist, Major Temple, 47 



Architecture, Naval: Institution of Naval Architects, 519; 

 Annual General Meeting, 494 ; the Strength of Bulkheads, 

 Dr. Elgar, 520: Experiments on the Transmission of Heat 

 through Tube-plates, A. J. Durston, 521 ; Notes on Boiler- 

 testing, J. T. Melton, 521 ; the Apparatus for Measuring and 

 Registering Vibrations of Steamer-;, E. Otto Schlick, 521 ; 

 Experiments with Engines of S. S. Iveagh, John Inglis, 521 



Arctic Expedition, Dr. Nansen"s, 65 ; Proposed Arctic Expedi- 

 tion of Lieut. Peary, 133 ; Proposed Arctic Expedition by 

 way of Franz Josef Land, F. G. Jackson, 377 



Arctic Travel : the Voyage of La Manche to Iceland, Jan 

 Mayen, and Spitzbergen in 1892, M. Bi naime, 48 



Argyll (the Dake of, F.R.S.), Glacier Action, 389; Origin of 

 Lake Ba-^ins, 485 



Arizona, Central, Cliff and Cave-dwellings in, J. W. Tourney, 

 112 



Armi'age (J. J.), Arborescent Frost Patterns, 162 



Armstrong (H. E.), the Origin of Colour and Fluorescence, 

 238 ; Products of Interaction of Zinc Chloride on Sulphuric 

 Acid and Camphor, 239 ; Griess-Sandmeyer Interactions and 

 Gattemann's Modification thereof, 239 ; Origin of Colour 

 VII. and VHL, 551 



Army, Science in the Public Schools and the Scientific Branches 

 of the, 513 



Arno (Sis^nor), Rotation of Cylinder by Inductive Action, 374 



Arons (Dr.), an Arc Light between Mercurial Electrodes in 

 Vacuo, 24 



Arsonval (M. d'), the Physiological Effects of Electric Currents 

 of High Frequency, 517 



Art, the Relation of Anatomy to, Paul Richer, 470 



Art, the Evolution of Decorative, Henry Balfour, 606 



Arts, S 'ciety of, Opening Meeting of, 63 



Arteries in the Rabbit, Unusual Origin of, Philip J. White, 365 



Artefiin Boring and Irrigation in New South Wales, J. W. 

 Boulibee, 183 



Arthropoda, on the Walking of, Henry H Dixon, 56 



Arthur (J. G.), Gases in Living Plants, 427 



