Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 June 2, 1892 J 



Index 



Electric Discharge during Thunderstorms on Apparatus regis- 

 tering Terrestrial Magnetism, Em. Marchand, 264; Absolute 

 Values of Magnetic Elements on January i, 1892, M. 

 Moureaux, 264; Magnetization of Iron, Prof. C. G. Knott, 



431 

 Maiden (J. A.), Panax Gum, 567 

 Maize as Food, the Value of, 234 

 Maize, Wild, found in Mexico, 39 

 Makino (Tomitaro), Illustrations of the Flora of Japan to 



serve as an Atlas to the Nippon-Shokubutsushi, 149 

 Malacology, French, A. Locard, 219 

 Malay Peninsula, the Ipoh Poison of the, Leonard Wray, 



Junior, 278 

 Mallard (M.), the Native Iron of Canon Diablo, Arizona, 



575 



Mallet (F. R.), Physiological Action of Diminished Atmo- 

 spheric Pressure, 606 



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

 L. Sclater, 50 



Man, Beast and, in India, John Lockwood Kipling, 131 



Man, Evolution of. Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 482 



Man in Nature, Paul Topinard, 457 



Man's Place in Nature, Prof. N. S. Shaler, 220 



Manchester, Free Public Libraries in, 157 



Manchester Field Naturalists' Society, Programme of Summer 

 Excursions, 614 



Manchu Race, the, 523 



Mangrove Vegetation in the Malav Archipelago, W. B, Hems- 

 ley, 3 



Mangrove as a Source of Tannin, the. Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 546 



Manipulation of the Microscope, Edward Bausch, 342 



Manitoba, the Prairie Larks of, E. E. Thompson, 135 



Mannering (Geo. Edward), With Axe and Rope in the 

 New Zealand Alps, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F. R.S., 147 



Maquenne (M.) : Direct Combination of Nitrogen with Alkaline- 

 Earthy Metals, 264 ; Barium and . Strontium Nitrides, 360 ; 

 Interesting Compound of Carbon and Barium, 404 



Marcano (V.), the Ammonia in the Air and Rain of a Tropical 

 Region, 143 



Marchand (Em.), Influence of Electric Discharge during 

 Thunderstorms on Apparatus registering Terrestrial Magnet- 

 ism, 264 



Marchand (M.), Solar Observations, 352 



Marey (M.), Use of Chronophotography for Study of Aerial 

 Locomotive Machines, 71 



Marine Biological Association, 116 



Marriott (W.), Investigation into the Thunderstorms of 1888-89, 

 215 



Mars, Observations of. Dr. Lohse, 326 



Marshall (Arthur), Aurora, 605 



Marsupialia, Teeth- Development in the, M. F. Woodward, 

 335 



Maryland, a Geological Excursion in. Prof. G. H. Williams, 235 



Mascart (M.), Theory of Astronomical Aberration, 68 ; the Mass 

 of the Atmosphere, 311 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. Story, F.R.S.), the Kohi-Nur, 5, 126 



Mason (Prof. O. T.), Eskimo Thro wing-sticks, 66 



Mason Science College, Birmingham, Report on Educational 

 Work of, 519 



Massee (G.), British Fungi, Phycomycetes and Ustilagineae, 41 1 



Massol (G.), Thermal Data concerning active Malic Acid and 

 Potassium and Sodium Malates, 167 ; Tartronic Acid and the 

 Tartronates of Sodium and Potassium, 432 ; the Heats of 

 Formation of Potassium Carballylates, 456 ; Citric Acid, 504 



Mathematics : Prof. Kikuchi's Treatise on Geometry, 20 ; 

 Loney's Elementary Dynamics, 20 ; " W = M,f," Prof. 

 Arthur G. Webster, 29 ; an Introduction to the Differential 

 and Integral Calculus, T. Hugh Miller, 52 ; Lemoine's Two 

 Problems of Stamps, Prof. Schoute, 72 ; Mechanics for 

 Beginners, Part I., Rev. J. B. Lock, loi ; Mathematical 

 Society, 119, 214, 335, 407, 502, 623 ; Bulletin of the New 

 York Mathematical Society, 124, 341 ; Mathematical 

 Exercises, A. T. Richardson, 125 ; the Loci of Singular 

 Points and Lines occurring in Connection with Theory of 

 Locus of Ultimate Intersections of a System of Surfaces, 

 Prof. M. J. M. Hill, 141 ; Prof. D. T. Korteweg on Van der 

 Waals's Isothermal Equation, 152 ; Equations of Propagation 

 of Disturbances in Gyrostatically Loaded Media, J. Larmor, 

 214; Theory of Elastic Wires, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 215 ; 

 Harmonic Functions for the Elliptic Cone, E. W, Hobson, 

 335 ; Theorems relating to a Series of Coaxal Circles, R. 



Lachlan, 335 ; Stamp-folding Problem, Prof. Schoute, 335 ; 

 the Logical Foundations of Applied Mathematical Sciences, 

 Mr. Dixon, 407 ; Mathematical Analogies between various 

 Branches of Physics, Prof. Bragg, 423 ; the Theory of Deter- 

 minants in the Historical Order of its Development, Thos. 

 Muir, 481 ; the Simplest Equivalent of a given Optical Path, 

 Dr. J. Larmor, 502 ; Dualistic Differential Transformations, 

 E. B. Elliott, F.R.S., 503; Rectification of the Cartesian 

 Oval, Prof. Greenhill, F.R.S., 503 ; Elementary Mathematical 

 Astronomy, C. W, C. Barlow and G. H. Bryan, 579 ; Klein's 

 Modular Functions, F. N. Cole, 597 



Mathews (F. E.), a and j8 Modifications of Chlorobenzene Hexa- 

 chloride, 263 



Matignon (M.), Heat of Formation of Hydrazine and Hydrazoic 

 Acid, 95 



Mattieu- Williams (W.), Migration of the Lemming, 294 



Maudslay (Alfred P. ), Ancient Civilization of Central America. 

 617 



Maunder (E. W.), Spectrum of Nova Aurigae, 616 



Maxwell (J. Clerk), Theory of Heat, 222 



Maxwell, M. Poincare and, Prof. Geo. Francis Fitzgerald, 

 F.R.S., 532 



Mayall (John), Proposed Fund for the Family of the late, 86 



Maycock(W. Perren), a First Book of Electricity and Magnetism, 

 248 



Mayhew's Illustrated Horse Doctor, 27 



Measure and Weight, Examination of the Standards of, im- 

 mured in the Houses of Parliament, 534 



Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 22, 585 ; Annual Meeting, 

 355. 585 



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



Mechanics for Beginners, Part I., Rev. J. B. Lock, loi 



Mechanics, American Superiority in, Coleman Sellers, 157 



Mechanics, Applied, Sheets and Tie-rods Laterally Loaded, 

 Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 192 



Mechanics : the Law of Elastic Lengthening, J. O. Thompson, 

 311 ; the Flexure of Long Pillars under their own Weight, 

 Prof. M. Fitzgerald, 479 



Medical Students, Physiological Chemistry for, F. Charles 

 Larkin Randle Leigh, 292 



Mediterranean, Austrian Government Deep-Sea Exploration in, 

 518 



Medium for Preserving the Colours of Fish and other Animals, 

 212 



Medoc District, the Wines of the, 279 



Milk Ferment identical with Kefyr in use in Canada and 

 United States, C. L. Mix, 471 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Photography as a Branch of Tech- 

 nology, 331 ; Pigments of Lepidoptera, 605 



Mendeleeff (D.), the Principles of Chemistry, 529 



Mendenhall (T. C), the Use of a Free Pendulum as a Time 

 Standard, 450 



Mental Arithmetic, Clive Cuthbertson, 78 ; Dr. K. Haas, 198 



Mercury Mining in Russia, 305 



"Meretrix," Lamarck, 1799, veisus " Cytherea," Lamarck, 

 1806, C. R. Osten Sacken, 30 



Mergui, Tin Mining in, 496 



Merope, Measures of the Nebulae near, 352 



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



Merz (Dr. ), Lithium Nitride, 307 ; Magnesium Nitride, 280 



Meslans (M.), Synthesizition of Two New Liquids containing 

 Fluorine, 547 



Metallurgy : Iron Production in United States, Berkley, 65 ; 

 Production of Pig-iron in United States, John Birkinbine, 

 208 ; Value of Metallurgical Science, Prof. Roberts-Austen, 

 257 ; Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte's Collection of Metals, 

 348 ; Art Metal Work ; Bronze in the London Atmosphere, 

 Prof. Roberts-Austen, 443 ; Metals at High Temperatures, 

 Prof. W. C. Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 534 



Meteoric Iron, E. Cohen, E. Weinschenk, 69 



Meteoric Iron, a New Locality for, with a Preliminary Notice 

 of the Discovery of Diamonds in the Iron, Prof. A. E. Foote, 

 178 



Meteorology : U.S. Pilot Chart for October, 1891, 38; the 

 Hydrology of Mitta Mitta, James Stirling, 40 ; the Climate of 

 Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), Dr. Sapper, 41 ; Phenomenal 

 Barometrical Depression (November II, 1891), G. J. Symons, 

 65 ; Catalogue of Deutsche Seewarte Library, 65 ; the Magde- 

 burg Zeitung for 1890, 65 ; Cloud-Observation at Sea, Prof. C. 

 Abbe, 70 ; the Weather Bureau of the United States, 86 ; 

 Meteorology of Finland, 87 ; International Conference of 



