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Index 



LSuJ>pleineut io Nature^ 

 June I, 1893 



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

 Development, tn a Supposed Law of Metazoan, R. Ashhetcn 



176 

 Devenish (S.), the Alligator's Nest, 587 

 Dew, Herr Wollny, 398 

 Dew and Frost, lion. R. Russell, 210 

 Diamond in Meteoric Iron, the, C. Friedel, 192 

 Diamond, the Chemical Properties of the, M. Moissan, 472 

 Diatoms, the Cultivation of, Signor Macchiati, 23 

 Diatoms, Fungus internally parasitic in, C. H. Gill, A. W. : 



Bennett, 118 j 



Dickson (H. N.), the Characteristic Form of the Coast Line ! 



as Affecting the Physical Conditions of the Waters of the 



English Channel, 235 1 



Diener's (Dr. Karl), Geological Expedition in Himalayas, 133 

 Digestion, Influence of Bodily Exertion on Process of, Herr i 



Rosenberg, 62 

 Diller (J. S.), Geology of Tayloiville Region in Sierra Nevada, ! 



California, 39 

 Dimensions of Physical Quantities to Directions in Space, 



Williams on the relation of the, Profs. Fitzgerald, Henrici i 



and Rucker and Dr. Sumpner, 69 

 Dines (H. W.), Anemometry, 143; Measurement of Maximum 



Wind Pressure, 118 

 Dinornithidae, on the Cranial Osteology, Classification, and 



Phylogeny of the. Prof. T. Jeffrey Parker, F.R.S., 431 

 Dionea, Dr. Macfarlane, Bashford Smith, 423 

 Dipnoi, Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, 339 I 



Disease Germs, Flies and, 499 



Diseases, Nervous, the Alleged Increase with Growth of Civili- 

 sation of. Dr. Brinton, 280, 374 

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



Hugo WoUheim, 246 

 Ditte (M, A.), on the Industrial Preparation of Aluminium, 



479 

 Dixey (F. A.), Epidemic Influenza, 244 

 Dixon (A. E), Desuiphurisation of the Substituted Thioureas, 



405 ; an Isomeric Form of Benzylphenylbenzylthiourea, 551 

 Dixon (Charles), The Migration of Birds : an Attempt to 



Reduce Avian Season-flight to Law, 169 

 Dixon (Edward T.), Induction and Deduction, 10, 127 

 Dixon (Prof. Harold B.), the Rate of Explosion in Gases, 299 

 Dixon (Henry H.), on the Walking of Arthropoda, 56 ; on the 



Germination of Seedlings in the Absence of Bacteria, 287 

 Dobbie (J. A.) a New base from Corjdalis Cava, 479 

 Doberck (W), Severe Frost at Hongkong, 536 

 Dodge (Frank S.), Kilauea in August 1892, 499 

 Dokoutchaiev (Prof. W. W.), Russian Steppes Past and Pre- 

 sent, 523 ... ^ 

 Domestic Electric Lighting treated from the Consumer's Point 



of View, E. C. De Segundo, 172 

 Dominica, Earthquake in, W. R. Elliott, 562 

 Donkin (Bryan, jun.). Experiments on the Value of the Steam- 

 jacket, 20 

 Durp ( W. A. van), on some Isoimides of Camphoric Acid, 288 

 Double- Star Observations, Burnham's, 281 

 Double Stars, the Evolution of, T. J. J. See, Prof. G. H. 



Darwin, F.R.S., 459 

 Douglas (James), the Copper Resources of the United States, 



132 

 Douglass (A. E. ), Indications of a Rainy Period in Southern 



Peru, 38; Comet Swift (a 1892), 546 

 Douglass (G. M.), Assumption of the Male Plumage by a 



Peahen, 71 

 Dowson (J. Emerson), Gas Power for Electric Lighting, 284 

 Dromedaries in German South-west Africa, Capt. von Fran9ois, 



38 

 Dry Pla'es, Photographic, Arthur E. Brown, 11 

 Dublin Royal Societv, 167, 287, 431 

 Dudley (\Vm. L.), Colours of the Alkali Metals, 175 

 Dunbar on the Question of the Separate Identification of 



Typhoid and Coli Communis Bacilli, 472 

 Duncan (Mr.), Fishes and Wattr-oxygenation, 280 

 Dundas (Commander F. G.), the Juba River, 186 

 Dundas (Robert), Improvements in Railway Rolling Stock, 



131 

 Dundee Whaling Fleet, Return of the, 473 

 Dunell (Mr.), the Screw Propeller, 21 

 Duner (Dr. Nils C), Lord Kelvin, no 



Dunn (E. J.), Notes on the Glacial Conglomerate, Wild Duck 



Creek, 55 

 Dunstan (W. R.), the Identity of Caffeine and Theine and the 



Interactions of Caffeine and Auric Chloride, 311 ; on Isaco- 



nitine (Napelline), 430 ; the Composition of some Commercial 



Specimens of Aconitine, 430 

 Durham College of Science : Appeal for Relief from Financial 



Difficulties, 585 

 Durham (James), the Ordnance Survey and Geological Faults, 



510 

 Durston (A. J.), Experiments on the Tiansmission of Heat 



through Tube- plates, 521 

 Dust Photographs, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F,R.S., 341 ; F. J. 



Allen, 341 

 Dust Photographs and Breath Figures, W. B. Croft, 364 

 Duthie (Col.), Egg Collecting, 253 

 Dwarfs, African ; two Akka Girls brought to Germany by Dr. 



Stuhlmann, 470 

 Dwarfs, Racial, in the Pyrenees, R. G. Haliburton, 294 ; Wm. 



McPherson, 294 

 Dybowski (M.), the Bonjos, a Cannibal African Tribe, 257; 



Use of Chloride of Potassium instead of Salt by Soudanese, 



499 

 Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.), Botanical Nomenclature, 



53 

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

 Dynamics in Nubibus, " Waterdale," 601 



Earth Oscillations, Observations of, P. Plantamour, 254 

 Earth's Age, the, Bernard Hobson, 175, 226; Dr. Alfred 



Russel Wallace, 175, 226 ; Clarence King, 285 

 Eaith's History, the, R. D. Roberts, 412 

 Earth-Currents, the Recording of, 586 

 Earthenware Manufacluie in Egypt, W. de Morgan, 613 

 Earthquakes : Earthquake in Ponza, 86 ; Earthquake Shocks, 

 E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 247, 270; Earthquake in Zante, 323, 

 348, 394, 585. 620 ; Instruments for the Earthquake Labora- 

 tory at the Chicago Exhibition, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., F. 

 Omori, 356 ; Earthquake in Samolhrace and New Zealand, 

 372 ; Stromboli Earthquakes, A. Ricco and G. Mercalli, Dr. 

 H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 453 ; Earthquake at Quetta, 470 ; 

 Greater Frequency of Earthquakes in Cold Weather, 517 ; 

 Earthquake at Catania, 543 ; in Servia, Bulgaria, Hungary, 

 j and Dominica, 562 



1 Earthworms : On a Supposed New Species of Earthworms and 

 j on the Nomenclature of Earthworms, Dr. C. Herbert Hurst, 

 31 ; British Earth woims, William Blaxland Bcnham, 102 ; 

 ! Frank J. Cole, 295; "Hare-Lip" in Earthworms, Rev. 

 i Hildeiic Friend, 316; Luminous Earthworms, Rev. Hilderic 

 \ Friend, 462 



j Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera in the Collection of the 

 ! Oxford University Museum, Catalogue of, Col. C. Swinhoe, 



53 

 I Ebert (H.), An Automatic Interruptor for Accumulators, 69 

 I Echinoderms, British, Catalogue of the, in the British Museum, 

 j F. Jeffrey Bell, 508 



t Eclectus, the Cause of the Sexual Differences of Colour in, 

 i Prof. A. B. Meyer, 486 



j Eclipse Photography, M. de la Baume Pluvinel, 326 

 \ Eclipse, Total Solar, of April 15-16 1893, 304, 376, 584, 611 ; 



M. de la Baume Pluvinel, 281, 304 ; A. Taylor, 317 

 , Edinburgh Royal Society, 239, 287, 335, 431, 527 

 , Education : Meeting of Association for Improvement of Geo- 

 i metrical Teaching, 277 ; Appointment of Committee on 

 j Organisation of Secondary Education, 277 ; the University of 



Chicago, 278 ; Richard Mulcaster, Foster Watson, 279 ; 

 I Changes recommended by Association of New England 

 I College Officers in Grammar School Curriculum, 279 ; Physi- 

 I cal Education, Frederick Treves, 292 ; Scientific Education, 



Lord Playfair, 301 ; Higher Education in the Unied States, 

 ! Dr. Lovi', 325 ; Woik among the North American Indian?, 

 j 350 ; Science Teaching, F. W. Sanderson, Prof. A. M. 



Worthington, L. Gumming, Dr. Stoney, W. B. Croft, Prof. 

 j Ayrton, E. J. Smith, Dr. Gladstone, 358 ; the Origin and 



Progress of the Educational Movement in Wales, O. M. 



Edwards, 421 ; the Proposed New Building for the Royal 

 I College of Science, Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, 448 ; Medical Educa- 

 I tion at Oxford, Lord Salisbury, 449 ; Formation of School 



