Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June 2, 1892 



Brown (Arthur E.), Aurora, 605 



Brown (A. J.), the Influence of Oxygen and Concentration on 



Fermentation, 453 

 Brown (H. T.), Search for a Cellulose-dissolving Enzyme in 



Digestive Tract of certain Grain-feeding Animals, 452 

 Brown (J. A.), the Continuity of the Palaeolithic and Neolithic 



Periods, 503 

 Browne (R. G. Mackley), the Precipitation and Deposition of 



Sea-borne Sediment, 598 

 Bruce (E. S.), an Aerial Graphoscope for Showing Effects of 



Persistence of Vision, 574 

 Briicke (Dr. Ernst von), Death of, 303 

 Brugsch-Bey (H.), Egypt under the Pharaohs, 363 

 Brun (E.), Combinations of Cuprous Iodide with Ammonium 



Thiosulphate, 528 

 Brussels Academy of Sciences, 216, 624 

 Bruyn (Dr. de), a New Hydroxylamine, 48 

 Bryan (G. H.), Elementary Mathematical Astronomy, 579 

 Buchanan (Dr. George), Knighted, 544 

 Buckinghamshire, Proposed County Museum for, 114 

 Buckland (Dr. F. O. ), Health Springs of Germany and Austria, 



510 

 Buda Pesth, Natural History Society of, 471 

 Budde (Dr.), Experiments on the Inert Layer in Emulsions of 



Chloroform and Soda, 599 

 Building and Decoration, Stones for, Geo. P. Merrill, 222 

 Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 70, 597 

 Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, 141 

 Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, 597 

 Bunsen (Prof.) and the Chemical Society, 469 

 Burbury (S. H., F.R.S.), Prof. Burnside's Paper on the Partition 



of Energy, 533 

 Burial Mound in Florida, Opening of a, C. B. Moore, 567 

 Burnham (S. W.), New Double Star, 26 Aurigse, 473 

 Burnside's (Prof.) Paper on the Partition of Energy, R.S.E., 



July 1887, Prof. W. Burnside, S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., 533 

 Burton (Dr. C. V.), a New Theory concerning the Constitution 



of Matter, 142 

 Butler (G. W.) : the October Eruption North-West of Pantelleria, 



154 ; on the Matter thrown up during the Submarine 



Eruption North-West of Pantelleria, October 1891, 251 ; 



Abstract of Mr. A. Ricco's Account of the Submarine Eruption 



North-West of Pantelleria, October 1891, 584 

 Butterflies, Pigment in Yellow, F. Gowland Hopkins, 197 

 Buve (Abbe), the Quantity of Sugar produced in Various Plants 



as a Means of determining the Meteorological Elements 



concerned, 279 



C.G.S. System of Units, O. H. Tittmann, 581 ; Prof, J. D. 



Everett, F.R.S., 581 

 Cabinet-Making, the Art and Craft of, D. Denning, 459 

 Caddis-fly, Abbreviated Wings of the Male, R. McLachlan, 



F.R.S., 623 

 Calculations, Chemical, R. Lloyd Whiteley, 604 

 Calculus, an Introduction to the Differential and Integral, T. 



Hugh Miller, 52 

 Calcutta, Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, W. L. 



Sclater, 50 

 California, Earthquake in, 471 

 California Foxes, Prof. Edward S. Holden, 8 

 California, Severe Earthquake in, 614 

 Call (R. Ellsworth), the Tertiary Silicified Woods of Eastern 



Arkansas, 119 

 Callendar (H. L.), a Compensating Air- Thermometer, 212 

 Calvert (Albert F.), Ornithology of the Sandwich Islands, 485, 



558 



Camargue, Reclaiming and Cultivation of Land in the, M. 

 Chambrelent, 143 



Cambridge : Cambridge Philosophical Society, 47, 143, 166, 

 455> 526 ; Cambridge Philosophical Society and the late 

 Prof. Adams, the, 322 ; Election of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire to Chancellorship, 233 ; Preliminary Installation of the 

 Duke of Devonshire as Chancellor of Cambridge University, 

 257 ; the Vacant Chair of Astronomy at, 337 ; Election of 

 Sir R, S. Ball to succeed late Prof. Adams in Lowndes Pro- 

 fessorship, 402 



Camel, Herr Lehmann on the, 87 



Camera Lucida Measurements, Apparatus for making Accurate, 

 Sir W. J. Sendall, 46 



Campbell (A. J.), Nest and Egg of Bird of Paradise, 379 



Campbell (Charles W.), Korea, 307 



Canada, Aborigines of the Dominion, Hon. E. Dewdney, 587 

 Canal between New York and Philadelphia, Proposed Ship, 



Prof. L. M. Haupt, 497 

 Canals of Arizona, the Prehistoric Irrigation, 186 

 Cannizzaro (Prof. Stanislao) : Royal Society Medallist, III; 



Banquet to, 183 

 Cap Horn, Mission Scientifique de, J. Deniker and P. Hyades, 



577 

 Cape Colony, Dr. Thomas Muir appointed Superintendent- 

 General of Education for, 443 

 Cape Observatory, Photography at the, D. Gill, 600 

 Cape of Good Hope, Vedalia cardinalis successfully Colo- 

 nized at the, 615 

 Cappie (James, M. D.), the Intracranial Circulation and its 



Relation to the Physiology of the Brain, 26 

 Capture of Comets by Planets, Prof. H. .A. Newton, 186 

 Carbonyl, Iron, from Water Gas, A. E. Tutton, 36 ; Mond and 



Langer on, 89 ; Berthelot on Nickel Carbonyl, 89 

 Carlill (S. B.), Notes on Zebras, 526 

 Carpenter (Dr. Alfred), Death of, 323 

 Carpenter (W. B., F.R. S.): the Microscope audits Revelations, 



313; on Eozoon, Sir J. William Dawson, F.R. S., 461 

 Carr (George S.), on the Terms Centrifugal Force and 



Force of Inertia, 463 

 Carruthers (J.), Appointed Lecturer in Botany at the College 



of Agriculture, Downton, 586 

 Carter (Miss Alice), Evolution in Methods of Pollination, 596 

 Carus- Wilson (C), Warning against the Use of Rotten Flints 



for Macadamizing Roads, 379 

 Carvallo (E.), Crystalline Absorption and the Choice between 



the Different Theories of Light, 528 

 Castello (F. de). Viticulture for Victoria, 324 

 Casuarinacese, Fertilization of the, 548 

 Cat, Origin of the, in China, Dr. Macgowan, 285 

 Cave, the Adelsberg, 207 



Celestial Mechanics, Two New Laws of, H. Struve, 70 

 Centenarian, Prof. Ignace Vonberg, 518 

 Centrifugal Force and Force of Inertia, on the Terms, 



George S. Carr, 463 

 Century Dictionary, the, W. D wight Whitney, 316 

 jLiCephei, Observations of, J. E. Gore, 137 

 Cepheus, Two New Variables in, Paul S. Yendall, 570 

 Ceratodus, the Lung Fish of Queensland, on the Habits of. 



Prof. Spencer, 425 

 Ceylon and Borneo, About, Walter J. Clutterbuck, 149 

 Chadwick (W. I.), the Leach Lantern Microscope, 47 

 Chaix (M.), Temperature Observations at Geneva, 304 

 Challenger, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage 

 of H.M.S., during the years 1873-76, Prof. John Judd, 

 F.R.S., 409 

 Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 196 

 Chambrelent (M.), Reclaiming and Cultivation of Land in the 



Camargue, 143 

 Champignons, Les, A. Acloque, 222 

 Chandler (Dr. S. C.) : on the Variation of Latitude, 117, 404, 



589 ; Algol, 446 

 Changefulness of Temperature as an Element of Climate, 610 

 Chappuis (James), Refraction of Liquefied Gases, 384 

 Charpy (Georges) : the Direct Combination of Metals with 

 Chlorine and Bromine, 47 ; Vapour Tensions of Cobalt 

 Chloride Solutions, 167 ; the Density of Aqueous Solutions, 

 480 

 Chassevant (A.), a Double Chloride of Copper and Lithium, 72 

 Chauveau (Prof.) : his Laboratory at the Paris Museum of 

 Natural History, 86 ; elected President of the Societe de 

 Biologic, 612 

 Cheal (J.), Practical Fruit Culture, 579 

 Cheddar Cheese-making, Experiments in, 614 

 Chemistry : Isolation of Free Hydroxylamine, 20 ; Alum Solu- 

 tion, T. C. Porter, 29 ; Prof. Pictet's Laboratory at Berlin, 

 Prof. R. du Bois-Reymond, 31 ; Results of Experiments at 

 Rothamsted on the Question of the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, 

 Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 32; Fixation of Nitrogen of 

 Arable Soils, Gautier and Drouin, 192; the Fixation of 

 Free Nitrogen of Plants, Schloe^ing, Jun., and Laurent, 143 ; 

 Prizes offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, 134 ; 

 the Spontaneous Oxidation of Humic Acid and Vegetable 

 Soil, Berthelot and Andre, 288 ; Iron Carbonyl from Water 

 Gas, A. E. Tutton, 36 ; Experiments on the Production of 

 Ozone by Electric Silent Discharge, Siemens and Halske, 39 ; 

 Sulphides and Selenides of Boron and Silicon Selenide, Paul 



