Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June I, 1893 



Orders, Arthur Dendy and A. H. S. Lucas, 125; Australian 

 Travels, R. Von Lendenfeld, 274 ;.j Tobacco- Culture in Aus- 

 tralia, 324 ; Great Meteorite from" Western Australia, 469 ; 

 the Triangulation of North-west South Australia, 519 ; Ethno- 

 logical Observationsiu Australia, R. Etheridge, 594 ; PaIa:on- 

 tological Discovery in Australia, Prof. Alfred JNewton.F.R.S., 

 606 



Automatic Mercurial Air-Pumps, Dr. August Raps, 369 



Autres Mondes, Amedee Guillemin, 485 



Ayrton (Prof.) Science Teaching, 359 



Azoimide, 136 



Aztecs, the Calendar System of the Ancients, Zelia Nuttall, 156 



Babes (Messrs. V. and A.), the Purification of Water by Bac- 

 teriological Methods, 588 

 Backhouse (T. W.), the Present Comets, 127 ; the Height and 

 Spectrum of Auroras, 151 ; the Afterglows and Bishop's 

 Ring, 582 



Bacteriology : the Bacteriology of Tetanus, Kikasoto, 158; Bac- 

 teriology of Tobacco, and Vinous Fermentation, Suchsland, 

 Nathan, and Kosutany, 208 ; Investigations on the Behaviour 

 of Micro-organisms at Various Temperatures, 234 ; Methods 

 of Examining Milk for Tubercle Bacillus, Ilkewitsch and 

 Thorner, 254; Bacilli in Butter, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 

 283 ; on the Bacterial Investigation of the Sea and its 

 Floor, H. L. Russell, 285 ; on the Germination of Seedlings 

 in the Absence of Bacteria, H. H. Dickson, 287 ; the Action 

 of Light upon certain Micro-organisms, Herr Buchner, 303; 

 Experiments on the Action of Light on Bacillus anthracis. 

 Prof. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 331 ; Bacteria and Beer, 379 ; 

 Micro-organisms and their Investigation, Mrs. Percy Frank- 

 land, 446 ; Dunbar on the Question of the Separate Identifi- 

 cation of Typhoid and B. Colt Communis Bacilli, 472 ; Blood- 

 Serum Inoculation for Diphtheria, Dr. Wernicke 480 ; 

 Contribution a I'Etude de la Morphologic et du Developpe- 

 ment des Bacteriacees, Dr. A. Billet, Dr. Rubert Boyce, 532 ; 

 the Potato as a Diagnostic Agent, Herr Krannhals, 545 ; 

 the Purification of Water, Messrs. V. and A. Babes and 

 Percy Frankland, 588 ; Further Experiments on the action of 

 Light on Bacillus anthracis, H. Marshall Ward, 597 



Baddeleyite ; the Occurrence of Native Zirconia, L. Fletcher, 

 282 



Baden-Powell (B. F. S.), In Savage Isles and Settled Lands, 

 122 



Bagard (Henri), On Thermo-electric Phenomena between Two 

 Electrolytes, 263 



Bailey (Prof.) Observations of the Zodiacal Light, 473 



Bailey (E. H. S.), the Great Spirit Spring Mound, Kansas, 87 



Bailey (G. P.), Meteor of March 18, 1893, 5 16 



Bailey (Jas. B.), Bell's Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, 11 



Bailey (Prof. L. H.), Value of Electric Light for Lettuce and 

 other Winter Crops, 130 



Bailey (W. Whitman), Artificially Incubated Eggs, 200 



Bailey (W.), Williams on the Dimensions of Physical Quantities, 

 116 



Baker (J. G., F.R.S.), the Ferns of South Africa, Thos. R. 

 Sim, 291 



Baldwin (Prof. J. Mark), Tracery Imitation, 149 



Balfour (Henry), Women and Musical Instruments, 55 ; the 

 Evolution of Decorative Art, 606 



Ball (Sir Robert Stawell, F.R.S.), an Atlas of Astronomy, 225 ; 

 Relative Position of the Stars in Cluster x Persei, 376 



Ball (Dr. V., F.R.S.), Lion-Tiger and Tiger- Lion Hybrids, 390, 

 607 



Ballooning : Meteorological Balloon Ascent at Berlin, October 

 24, 1891, A. L. Rotch, 46 ; Dirigible Balloon in Construction 

 at Chalais-Meudon, 112; Exploration of Higher Atmosphere 

 by Means of Free Balloons with Automatic Recorders, Gus- 

 tave Hermite, 119; the First Aerial Voyage Across English 

 Channel, R. de C. Ward, 143 ; the Longest Ascent on Record, 

 Maurice Malet, 182 ; Exploration of the Higher Atmosphere, 

 Gustave Hermite, 600 



Baltic Ship Canal, C. Beseke, 579 



Bangweolo, Mr. Joseph Thompson's Journey to Lake, 115 



Barbary States, Bibliography of the, Lieut. -Col. Sir R. Lambert 

 Playfair and Dr. Robert Brown, 298 



Barber (Samuel), Beneath Helvellyn's Shade, 364 



Baring-Gould (S.), Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the 

 History of Man, 53 



Barnaby (Mr.), the Screw Propeller, 21 



Barnard, Comet (October 12), 18, 40 



Barnard (Prof), Occultation of Mars and Jupiter by the Moon, 

 41 ; Nova Aurigse, 282 ; Swift's Comet, 186 ; Jupiter's Fifth 

 Satellite, 377; Comet Holmes (1892, HI.), 399 

 Barometer, a Highly Sensitive Mercury, Dr. Carlo di Lungo, 



586 

 Barometry, Standard, Dr. Frank Waldo, 511 

 Barrow (Geo.), on an Intrusion of Muscovite- biotite-gneiss in the 

 South-Eastern Highlands, and its Accompanying Thermo- 

 Metamorphism, 575 



Barry (John Warren), Studies in Corsica, 462 



Bartholomew (John), Death of, 547 



Barus (C), Preliminary Note on the Colours of Cloudy Con- 

 densation, 380 ; Isothermals, Isopiestics and Isometrics 

 relative to Viscosity, 380 



Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), Stability and Instability of Viscous 

 Liquids, 94 ; Theorie Mathematique de la Lumiere, H. 

 Poincare, 386 ; Motion of a Solid Body in a Viscous 

 Liquid, 512 



Basset (L.), the New Triangulation of France, 71 



Bastelaer's (D. A. van), Observations on Ozone, 373 



Bates (Henry Walter, F.R.S.), the Naturalist on the River 

 Amazons, 269 



Bateson (William), the Alleged "Aggressive Mimicry" of 

 VolucehcB, 77 



Bateson (W.), on Numerical Variation, in Digits in Illustration 

 of a Principle of Symmetry, 503 



Baudin (L. C.), Depression of Zero in Boiled Thermometers, 

 M3 



Bauerman (H.), Prof. Wadsworth on the Geology of the Iron, 

 Geld, and Copper Districts of Michigan, 118 



Baumann's (Dr.), Journeys in Nile Sources Region, 377 



Bayard (F. C), the Direction of the Wind over the British Isles, 

 1876-80, 623 



Beal (Dr. W. J.), the Destruction of Trees in America, 563 



Bean-Tree of Central Australia, 40 



Beard (J.), on a Supposed Law of Metazoan Development, 79 



Beauties of Nature, the, and the Wonders of the World we 

 Live in, Hon. Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S. 28 



Beaver, Castorologia, or the History and Traditions of the 

 Canadian, Horace Martin, 224 



Bebber (Prof W. J. van). Heat in August, 1892, 88 



Beck (C. R.) : the Preparation of Phosphoric Oxide free from 

 the Lower Oxide, 430; Note on the Preparation of Plati- 

 nous Chloride and on the Interaction of Chlorine and Mer- 

 cury, 479 



Beer, Bacteria and, 379 



Bees, The Death's Head Moth, J. R. S. Clifford, 234 



Bees in New South Wales, Plants most visited by, 614 



Beetle Tamed, a, 280 



Beetles, Butterflies, Moths, and other Insects, A. W. Kapple 

 and W. Egmont Kirby, 148 



Behring (Dr.): the Blood-serum Therapeutists, 336; Ex- 

 periments with Preventive Serum, 600 



Bell (F. Jeffrey), Catalogue of the British Echinoderms in the 

 British Museum, 508 



Bell (H. H. J.), Notes on a Spider, 557 



Bell (Sir Lowthian, F. R.S.), on the American Iron Trade, and 

 its Progress during Sixteen Years, John Parry, 195 



Bell's Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, Jas. B. Bailey, 11 



Beneath Helvellyn's Shade, Samuel Barber, 364 



Beneden (F. J. van). Fossil Fauna of the Black Sea, 544 



Bengal Census, Facts Significant of Progress, 617 



Benham (William Blaxland), British Earthworms, 102; on a 

 New Genus and Species of Aquatic Oligochzeta belonging to 

 the Family Rhinodrilidse found in England by, 261 



Bennett (Mr.), Fungus Internally Parasitic in Diatoms, 118 



Bent (Mr. and Mrs. Theodore) : Proposed Expedition to Abys- 

 sinia, 115 ; Arrival at Adowa and Aksam of, 519, 547 



Berget (M.), Dilatation of Iron on Magnetization, 71 



Berlin : Berlin Method of Cleaning Mercury, 16 ; Berlin Me- 

 teorological Society, 24, 168, 287, 480. 552; Berlin Physical 

 Society, 24, 168, 216, 312, 336, 480, 503, 624 ; Berlin 

 Physiological Society, 72, 144, 216, 287, 480, 504, 552, 600 ; 

 Meteorological Balloon Ascent at Berlin, October 29, 1891, 

 A. L. Rotch. 46 ; Large Male Gorilla acquired by Berlin 

 Aquarium, 86 ; Berlin Physikalisch-Technische Reichsan- 

 stalt, Construction of Copies of Permanent Mercury Resis- 

 tance, 233 ; Berlin Academy Grants in aid of Research, 586 ; 

 Berlin Imperial Physico-Technical Institute, Researches on 



