Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 June I, 1893 J 



Index 



the Siemens Platinum Foil Unit as a Standard for the Inten- 

 sity of a Source of Light, 615 

 •rmerside Observatory, 473 



son (Dr.), Relationship between Insolation and Tempera- 

 ture, 24 



lerthelot (M.), Researches on the Fixation of Atmospheric 

 Nitrogen by Microbes, 23 ; Ancient Copper Relics discovered 

 in the course of M. de Sarzec's Excavations in Chaldaea, 360 ; 

 High Temperature and Carbon Vaporization, 240 ; on the 

 Organic Substances Constituting Vegetable Soil, 551 



Beseke(C.), Der Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, 579 



Bethlehem, the Star of, J. H. Stockwell, 177 



Bezold (Prof, von), the Thermal Changes of the Atmosphere, 552 



Bianco (Ottavio Zanotti), Discovery ol the Potential, 510 



Bibliographia Medica Italiana, Prof. P. Giacosa, 606 



Bickerton (Dr. T. H.), the Association of Shipping Disasters 

 with Defective Vision in Sailors, 16 



Bidgood (John), A Course of Practical Elementary Biology, 434 



Bidwell (Shelford, F.R.S.), on some Meteorological Problems, 

 502 



Biela Orbit, Ephemeris for Bodies Moving in the. Dr. Chandler, . 

 186 



Bielids, the, 1892, M. Bredichin, 451 



Bielids of 1872, 1885, and 1892, the, M. Bredichin, 498 



Bienaime (M.), the Voyage oi La Manche \.o Iceland, Jan Mayer 

 and Spitzbergen in 1892, 48 



Bigourdan (M.), the New Comet (Holmes), 88 



Billett (Dr. A.), Contribution a I'Etude de la Morphologic et 

 du Developpement des Bacteriacees, Dr. Rubert Boyce, 532 



Binary Stars : Measurement of Distances of, C. E. Stromeyer, 

 199 ; Prof. Arthur A. Rambaut, 226 



Biology : Experimental Evolution, Henry de Varigny, 25 ; 

 Biological Nomenclature: the Rule "Once a Synonym, 

 always a Synonym," Elliott Coues, 39 ; on the Reproduction 

 of Orbitolites, H. B. Brady, 119; on the Occurrence of 

 Embryonic Fis'-ion in Cyclostomatous Polyzoa, Sidney F. 

 Harmer, 524 ; Text-book of Elementary Biology, H. J. 

 Campbell, 530 ; Text-book of Biology, H. G. Wells, 605 ; 

 a Course of Practical Elementary Biology, John Bidgood, 

 434 ; Forschungsherichte aus der Biologischen Station zur 

 Plon, Dr. Otto Zacharias, 461 ; Marine Laboratories in the 

 United States, Prof. J. P. Campbell, 66 ; Marine Biology, 

 the Destruction of Immature Fish, Ernest W. L. Holt, 160; 

 Dredging Work at Plymouth, 375 ; the Rising and Sinking 

 Process m the Radiolaria, Herr Verworn, 397 ; the Week's 

 W^ork of the Plymouth Station, 398, 424, 451. 472, 497, 518, 

 546, 565, 589, 616 ; Port Erin (Isle of Man) Station, 515 



Birds, the Flight of, Herbert Withington, 414 



Birds, the Migration of, an Attempt to reduce Avian Season- 

 Flight to Law, Charles Dixon, 169 



Birds of New Zealand, the Preservation of the Native, 394 



Birkeland (Kr. ), Electric Oscillations in Wires, Direct Measure- 

 ment of the Moving Wave, 286 



Birmingham, Technical Education in, Sir Henry Roscoe, 301 



Bishop (Sereno E.), the Afterglow, 102 



Bishop's Ring, the Afterglows and, T. W. Backhouse, 582 



Bismuth, Further Researches in Connection with the Metallurgy 

 of, Edward Mathey, F.R.S., 358 



Black (W. G.), Ozone, 390 



Black Sea, Fossil Fauna of the, T. J. van Beneden, 544 



Blake (Prof. J. F.), the Landslip at Sandgate, 467 



Blakesley (Mr.), Diffusion of Light, 191 



Biakesley (J. H.), on the Differential Equation of Electric Flow, 

 574 



Blandford (W. F. H.), Injects Injurious to Conifers, 620 



Blanford (Henry F., F. R.S.). a Palicozoic Ice-Age, loi, 152 ; 

 Death of, 300 ; Obituary Notice of, 322 



Blanford (Dr. W. T., F.R.S.), a Paleozoic Ice-Age, loi, 152 



Blass (E.), Experiments to Determine Temperature of Flame 

 of Water Gas, 113 



Blind Animals in Caves: Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 389, 

 486 ; J. T. Cunningham, 439, 537 ; A. Anderson, 439 ; G. 

 A. Boulenger, 608 



Bliss (F. J.), the Excavations at Tell-el-H.esy, 302 



Blomefield (Rev. Leonard), Address of Congratulation to, 85 



Blondel (M. A.), General Conditions to be fulfilled by Register- 

 ing Instruments or Indicators, Problem of Integral Synchro- 

 nisation, 599 



Blood-Vesseis of the Skin in Different Pats, Signer Minervini, 

 254 



Bodies Moving in the Biela Orbit, Ephemeris for. Dr. Chandler, 

 186 



Boeddicker (Dr. Otto), the Milky Way from the North Pole to 

 10° of South Declination, drawn at the Eatl of Rosse's 

 Observatory at Birr Castle, 337 



Bois (Dr. Du), Method of Producing Intense Monochromatic 

 Light, 255 



Bois (H. E. J. G. du), a Modified Astatic Galvanometer, 455 



Bogdanov (Prof. A.), Which is the most Ancient Race in 

 Russia? 524 



Bohm (Dr. J.), Observations on the Potato Disease, 254 



BoUetino de la Societa Botanica Italiana, 23 



Bombay, Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at 

 the Government Observatory, 1890, 379 



Bonney (Prof. T. G., F. U.S.) : "the Lake of Geneva," Prof. 

 F. A. Forel, 5 ; Arborescent Frost Patterns, 162 ; on some 

 Schistose "Greenstones" from the Pennine Alps, 263 ; Note 

 on the Nufenen-Stock (Lepontine Alps), 263 ; on a Secondary 

 Development of Bioliie and of Hornblende in Crystalline 

 Schists from the Binnenthal, 263 ; some Lake Basins in 

 France, 341, 414 ; Action of Glaciers on the Land, 521 



Boraston (Maclair), the Andromedes, 326 



Borneo, Travels in, Charles Hose, 282 



Boss (Lewi>), Comet Holmes, 256 



Botany : Fossil, the Genus Sphenophyllum, Prof. Wm. Crawford 

 Williamson, ii ; BoUetino della Societa Botanica Italiano, 

 23 ; Journal of Botany, 23, 261, 596 ; the Cultivation of 

 Diatoms, Signor Macchiati, 23 ; Biological Relations 

 between Plants and Snails, 23 ; the Botanical Gazette, 

 23, 285, 596 ; the Dischidia RafHesiana established at 

 Kew, 38; the "Bean-tree" of Central Australia, 40: 

 Botanical Nomenclature, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 53 ; 

 Sereno Watson, 53 ; Gynodiaecism in the Labiat£)e, II ; Obser- 

 vations on Origanum (continued), J. C. Willis, 119 ; Influence 

 of Moisture on Vegetation, E. Gain, 119; Mode of 

 Production of Perfume in Flowers, E. Mesnard, 120; An 

 Introduction to the Study of Botany, with a Special Chapter 

 on Some Australian Natural Orders, Arthur Dendy and A. H. 

 S. Lucas, 125 ; Teaching of Botany, Dr. D. H. Scott, 228 ; The 

 Teaching of Botany, 151 ; a New Irish Alga, Prof. T. John- 

 son, 167 ; Grasses of the Pacific Slope, including Alaska and 

 the Adjacent Islands, Dr. Geo. Vasey, 173; Naked- Eye 

 Botany, F. E. Kitchener, 198 ; Botanical Explorations in 

 Idaho, D. T. Macdougal, 206 ; a Botanist's Vacation in the 

 Hawaiian Islands, Prof. D. H. 'Campbell, 236, 355 ; A Con- 

 tribution to our Knowledge of Seedlings, Sir John Lubbock, 

 F.R.S., Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.K.S., 243; Electric 

 Currents in Plants, Prof. Burdon Sanderson, 255 ; Botanical 

 Laboratory Established at Eustis, Florida, 278 ; H. L. 

 Russell on the Bacterial Investigation of the Sea and its 

 Floor, 285 ; What is the True Shamrock ? Nathaniel Colgan, 

 R. L. Praeger, 302 ; Sisal Hemp Grown in Botanic Society', 

 Gardens, 324 ; the Jamaica Botanical Department, W. Faw- 

 cett, 348 ; Proposed Establishment of a New Order 

 (Myxobacteriaceae) of Schizomycetes, R. Thaxter, 373; 

 Flowering of Fourcroya Selloa in Botanic Society's Con- 

 servatory, 373 ; Botanische Zeitung, 398 ; Engler's 

 Botanische Jahrbiicher fiir Systematik, Pflanzen-geschichte 

 und Pflanzengeographie, 413 ; Death of Cav. G. A. 

 Pasquale, 421 ; Dionjea, Dr. Macfarlane, Bashford 

 Dean, 423 ; on the Cause of the Bright Colours 

 of Alpine Flowers, Dr. J. Joly, F.R.S., 431 ; Govern- 

 ment Stations in United States, 450 ; Deaths and 

 Obituary Notices of Dr. G. Vasev, Rev. W. Woolls and Dr. 

 Karl PrantI, 495 ; Climbing Plants, Dr. H. Sehenck, W. 

 Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 514; the Process of Transference 

 of Material in Plants, Herr Hrasse, 544 ; Deaths of Alphonst 

 de Candolle and Rev. T. Wolle, 561 ; a Graft Hybrid be- 

 tween Red and White Geraniums, H. L. Jones, 563 ; the 

 Radiation and Absorption of Heat by Leaves, Alfred 

 Goldsborough Mayer, 596 ; Studies in the Morphology of 

 Spore-producing Members, F. O. Bower, F. U.S., 598; 

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

 Report of the Conifer Conference, Dr. M. T. Masters, 

 F.R.S., and Prof. Carl Hauser, 619 ; List <,f Conilt-rs and 

 Texads, Dr. Masters, 619; Prof. Carl Ilauscrs I'ludum 

 Danicum, 619 ; Coniferae of Japan, H. J. Veitch, 619; 

 Conifers for Economic Planting, A. D. Webster, 619 ; 

 the Timber of Exotic Conifers, D. F. Mackenzie, 619 ; 

 Insects Injurious to Conifers, W. G. II. Blandford, 620 ; 



