Supplement to Nature^ 

 /line I, 1893 



Index 



Chapter on Some Australian Natural Orders, Arthur Dendy 

 and A. H. S. Lucas, 125 

 V German Science Reader, Francis Jones, 125 

 More About Wild Nature, Mrs. Brightwen, 125 

 I'^iements of Human Physiology, E. H. Starling, 146 

 Elementary Manual on Applied Mechanics, Prof. Jamieson. 



147 

 Man and the Glacial Period, G. F. Wright, 148 

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



and W. E. Kirby, 148 

 Osiwald's Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften, Nos. 31-37, 



149 

 The Migration of Birds : an Attempt to Reduce Avian 



Season-Flight to Law, Charles Dixon, 169 

 Domestic Electric Lighting treated from the Consumer's 



Point of View, E. C. De Segundo, 172 

 Grasses of the Pacific Slope, including Alaska and the Adja- 

 cent Islands, Dr. George Vasey, 173 

 Aids to Experimental Science, Andrew Gray, 173 

 Science in Arcady, Grant Allen, 173 

 The Visible Universe, J. Ellard Gore, A. Taylor, 193 

 On the American Iron Trade and its Progress during Sixteen 



Years, Sir Lowthian Bell, F.R.S., John Parry, 195 

 The Fauna and Flora of Gloucestershire, Charles A. 



Witchell and W. Bishop Strugnell, 197 

 The Cheuiistry of Life and Health, C. W. Kimmins, 198 

 Naked- Eye Botany, with Illustrations and Floral Problem', 



F, E. Kitchener, 198 

 The Great World's Farm : Some Account of Nature's Crops 



and How they are Grown, Selina Gaye, 198 

 Sound and Music, Rev. J. A. Zahn, 222 

 Atlas der Volkerkunde, Dr. George Gerland, Dr. Edward B. 



Tyler, F.R.S., 223 

 Castorologia, or The History and Traditions of the Canadian 



Beaver, Horace Martin, 224 

 An Atlas of Astronomy, Sir K. S. Ball, F.R.S., 225 

 Modern Mechanism, 241 



A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings, Rt. Hon. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 

 F.R.S., 243 

 Epidemic Influenza : A Study in Comparative Statistics, 



F. A. Dixey, 244 

 An Elementary Text-Book of Hygiene, H. Rowland 



Wakefield, 245 

 Ostwald's Klassiker der Exakten Wissenschaften, Nos. 38 — 



40, 245 

 Das Keimplasma. Eine Theorie der Vererbung, August 



Weismann, 265 

 The Algebra of Co-planar Vectors and Trigonometry, R. 



Baldwin Hayward, F.R.S., 266 

 Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate, being the Sedgwick Prize 

 Essay for the Year 1892, A. C, Seward, J. Starkie 

 Gardner, 267 

 Pioneers of Science, Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 268 

 Electric Lighting and Power Distribution, W. Perren 



Maycock, 269 

 The Naturalist on the River Amazons, Henry Walter Bates, 



F.R.S., 269 

 Theory of Numbers, G. B. Mathews, 289 

 Darwin and after Darwin : an Examination of the Dar- 

 winian Theory, and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian 

 Que.-tions, George John Romanes, F.R.S., 290 

 The Ferns of South Africa, containing Descriptions and 

 Figures of the Ferns and Fern-allies of South Africa, 

 Thomas R. Sim, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 291 

 Newcomb-Engelmann's Populare Astronomic, Zweite ver- 



"mehrte Auflage, Dr. H. C. Vogel, 291 

 The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands, Edward 



Saunders, 292 

 Physical Education, Frederick Treves, 292 

 A Text-book of Tropical Agriculture, H. A. Alford Nicholls, 



313 

 Die Zelle and Die Gewebe, Grundzuge der allgemeinen Ana- 

 tomic und Physiologic, Prof Dr. Oscar Hertwig, 314 

 Elementary Mechanics of Solids and Fluids, A. L. Selby, 315 

 Magnetism and Electricity, R. W. Stewart, 315 

 Manners and Morals of Prehistoric Peoples, Marquis de Nar- 



daillac, 316 

 The Milky Way from the North Pole to 10' of South De- 



clination, drawn at the Earl cf Rosse's Obiervalory at 

 Birr Castle, Otto Boeddicker, 337 

 The Theory of Substitutions and its Applications to Algebra, 



Dr. Eugen Netto, 338 

 Das Centralneivensysitm von Protopleius anneciens ; eine 

 vergleichend Anatomische Sludie, Dr. Rudolf Burckhar 

 339 

 The Chemical Basis of the Animal Body, A. Sheridan Lee, 



F.R.S.,340 

 Chambers's Encyclopaedia, vol. x., 340 

 Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland, 1776-79, 341 

 Qualitative Analysis Tables and the Reactions of certain Or- 

 ganic Substances, E. A. Letts; Chapman Jones, 361 

 Gemeinverstandliche Vortiiige aus dem Gebeite der Physic, 

 Prof. Dr. Leonhard Sohncke ; Dr. James L. Howani, 362 

 A Catalogue of British Gasteropoda, W. H Hudleston, 



F.R.S., and Edward Wilson, H. Woods, 363 

 The Year Book of the Imperial Institute of the United King- 

 dom, the Colonies and India, 363 

 Beneath Helvellyn's Shade, Samuel Barber, 364 

 Evolution and Man's Place in Nature, Henry Caldervvood, 385 

 Theorie Mathematique de la Lumiere, H. Poincare ; A. B. 



Basset, F.R.S., 386 

 The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, 387 

 The Year-book of Science (1892), ;,88 

 Treatise on Thermodynamics, Peter Alexander, 388 

 Mediaeval Lore : an Epitome of the Science, Geography, 

 Animal and Plant Folklore and Myth of the Middle Ages, 

 Robert Steele, 388 

 Astronomy for Every-day Reader?, B. J. Hopkins, 389 

 The Microscope : its Construction and Management, Dr. 



Henri van Heurck, 409 

 The Earth's History : an Introduction to Modern Geology, 



R. D. Roberts, 412 

 The Health Officer's Pocket-book, E. F. Willoughby, 412 

 Engler's Botanische Jahrbiicher fur Systematik, Pllanzen- 



geschichte und Pflanzengeographie, 413 

 Descriptive Geometry Models for the Use of Students in 



Schools and Colleges, I. Jones, 413 

 Theorie du Soleil, A. Brester, 433 

 A Course of Practical Elementary Biology, John Bidgood, 



434 

 Stereochimie, J. II. van't HoiT, 436 

 Die Fossile Flora der Hottinger Breccie, R. Von Wettstein, 



436 

 Observational Astronomy, Arthur Mee, 437 

 Mechanics and Hydrcstitics for Beginners, S. L. Loney, 437 

 A Vertebrate Fauna ol Lakeland, including Cumberland and 

 Westmorland, with Lancashire North of the Sands, Rev. 



H. A, Macpherson, 457 

 Die Entwickelung der Doppelstern-Systeme, T. J. J. See, 



Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 459 

 Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals, J. A. Ewing, 



F.R.S., E. Wilson, 460 

 Forschungsberichte aus der Biologischen Station zu Plon, Dr. 



Otto Zacharia«, 461 

 The Britis'n Journal Photographic Almanac for 1893, J. Traill 



Taylor, 462 

 Studies in Corsica, John Warren Barry, 462 

 Coal Pits and Pitmen : a Short History of the Coal Trade 



and the Legislation affecting it, R. Nelson Boyd, 481 

 Idle Days in Patagonia, W. H. Hudson, Dr. Alfred Russel 



Wallace, 483 

 Ueber das Verhalten des Pollens und die Befruchtungsvor- 



giinge bei den Gymnospermen, Eduard Strasburger, 484 

 Autres Mondes, Amedte Guillemin, 485 

 Some Lectures by the late Sir George E. Paget, K.C.B., 



F.R.S.,485 

 Electrical Papers, Oliver Heaviside, 505 

 The Great Sea-Serpent, A. C. Oudemans, 506 

 A Treatise on Public Health and its Applications in Different 

 European Conntries, Albert Palmberg, M.D., Dr. H. 

 Brock, 507 

 The English Flower Garden, W. Robin«on, 508 

 Logarithmic Tables, Prof. George William Jones, 508 

 Catalogue of the British Echinoderms in the British Museum, 



F. Jeffrey Bell, 508 

 Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, A. E. H. 

 Lowe, Prof. A. G. Gieenhill, F.R.S., 529 



