Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 June 2, 1892 J 



Index 



XXIX 



Reviews — continued. 

 The Story of the Hills, a Popular Account of Mountains, and 



how they were made, Rev. H. !s'. Hutchinson, 364 

 The Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses, J. 



Traill Taylor, 364 

 The Evolution of Life, or Causes of Change in Animal Forms, 



Hubbard Winslow Mitchell, M.D., 364 

 Manual of Chemical Technology, Rudolf von Wagner, trans- 

 lated by William Crookes, F.R.S., 386 

 Elements of Agriculture, W. Fream, 388 

 Further Reliques of Constance Naden, George M. McCrie, 



389 

 The Realm of Nature, Hugh Robert Mill. 390 

 Grasses of the South-West, Dr. George Vasey, 390 

 Sporting Sketches in South America, Admiral Kennedy, 



390 

 Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. 



Challenger in 1873-76, prepared by the late Sir Wyville 



Thomson, F.R.S., and John Murray, Prof. J. W. Judd, 



F.R.S., 409 

 British Fungi, Phycomycetes and Ustilaginese, G. Massee, 



411 

 A Treatise on the Geometry of the Circle and some Exten- 

 sions to Conic Sections by the Method of Reciprocation, 



W.J. M'Clelland, M.A., 412 

 Kalm's Account of his Visit to England on his Way to 



America in 1748, translated by Joseph Lucas, 412 

 CEuvres Completes de Christiaan Huygens, A. M. Gierke, 



434 

 The Horse, a Study in Natural History, William Henry 



Flower, C.B., F.R.S., 436 

 A System of Sight-Singing from the Established Musical 



Notation, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation, Sedley 



Taylor, 437 

 The Statesman's Year-book for the Year 1892, J. Scott 



Keltic, 437 

 The Optical Lantern as an Aid in Teaching, C. H. Botham- 



,ley, 437 

 L'Homme dans la Nature, par Paul Topinard, 457 

 The Art and Craft of Cabinet Making, D. Denning, 459 

 L'Electricite dans la Nature, Georges Dary, 460 

 The First Book of Euclid's Elements, Rev. J. B. Lock, 460 

 The Ilford Manual of Photography, C. H. Bothamley, 460 

 The Advanced Class-book of Modern Geography, William 



Hughes and J. Francon Williams, 460 

 The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of its 



Development, Thomas Muir, 481 

 Anthropogenic, oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, 



Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 482 

 Philosophical Notes on Botanical Subjects, E. Bonavia, 483 

 The Zoological Record for 1890, Frank E. Beddard, 483 

 Le9ons sur la Pathologic comparee de I'Inflammation faites a 



I'lnstitut Pasteur en Avril et Mai, 1891, :^lie Metschnikoff, 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester F.R.S., 505 

 Travels in Africa during the Years 1879-83, Dr. Wilhelm 



Junker, translated by A. H. Keane, 507 

 My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa, Hermann von 



Wissmann, translated from the German by Minna J. A. 



Bergmann, 507 

 New Fragments. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 508 

 A Treatise on Chemistry, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., and C. 



Schorlemmer, F.R.S., 509 

 The Oak, a Popular Introduction to Forest Botany, H. 



Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 509 

 The Elements of Plane Trigonometry, R. Levett and C. 



Davison, 509 

 Les Fleurs a Paris, Culture et Commerce, Philippe L. de 



Vilmorin, 510 

 Health Springs of Germany and Austria, F, O. Buckland, 



510 

 The Principles of Chemistry, D. Mendeleeff, translated from 



the Russian by George Kamensky, and edited by A, J. 



Greenaway, 529 

 A Treatise on the Ligation of the Great Arteries in Con- 

 tinuity with Observations on the Nature, Progress, and 

 Treatment of Aneurism, C. A. Ballance and Walter 



Edmunds, Dr.* M. Armand-Ruffer, 530 

 Precious Stones and Gems, their History, Sources, and 



Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531 

 Air and Water, Vivian B. Lewes, Professor of Chemistry at 

 Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 531 



Reviews — continued. 



The Naturalist in La Plata, W. H. Hudson, Dr. Alfred R. 

 Wallace, 553 



A Study of Influenza and the Laws of England concerning 

 Infectious Diseases, Richard Sisley, 556 



Apthropogeographie, Zweiter Theil, Die Geographische Vcr- 

 breitung des Menschen, Freidrich Ratzel, 557 



Within an Hour of London Town, among Wild Birds and 

 their Haunts, by a Son of the Marshes, edited by J, A. 

 Owen, 557 



Mission Scientifique de Cap Horn, tome vii.. Anthropo- 

 logic, Ethnographic, P. Hyades et J. Deniker, 577 



Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Frank Clowes and J. Bernard 

 Coleman, 578 



Elementary Mathematical Astronomy, C. W. C. Barlow and 

 G. H. Bryan, 579 



Practical Fruit Culture, J. Cheal, 579 



Blowpipe Analysis, J. Landauer, edited by James Taylor, 

 580 



Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry, Lothar Meyer, translated 

 by P. Phillips Bedson and W. Carleton Williams, Prof. M. 

 Pattison Muir, 601 



Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of 

 Marianne North, edited by Mrs. John Addington Symonds, 

 602 



Our Trees, John Robinson, 603 



Synopsis of Non-Metallic Chemistry, William Briggs, 604 



Chemical Calculations, R. Lloyd Whiteley, with Preface by 

 Prof. E. Clowes, 604 



The Year-book of Science, edited by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., 604 



Handy Atlas of Modern Geography, 605 

 Rew (R. Henry), on the Statistics of the Production and Con- 

 sumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614 

 Reynolds (J. E.), Silver Compounds of Thiourea, 383 

 Ribbentrop (Dr.), Government Forestry in India, 41 

 Ricardo (David), Principles of Political Economy and Taxa- 

 tion, 4 

 Ricco (A.), Earthquakes at Pantelleria, 120; Account of the 



Submarine Eruption North-west of Pantelleria, October 1891, 



Abstract of ditto, G. W. Butler, 584 

 Richardson (A. T.), Mathematical Exercises, 125 

 Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), New Year's Address to 



Sanitary Inspectors' Association, 234 

 Richet (Prof.), Death of, 258 



Richet (Ch.), the Tubercular Vaccination of the Dog, 576 

 Rigg (Gilbert), Ice Crystals. 319 

 Riley (Dr. C. V.), a New Herbarium Pest, 235 

 Ring and Disk Blinds in Micrometic Measurements, on the 



Influence of, Herr Dr. Walter Wislicenus, 137 

 Rings, Atmospheric, Dr. Sprung, 599 

 Rivers of Central Europe, the Temperature of, 114 

 Roberts (Thomas), Death and Obituary Notice of, 303 

 Roberts-Austen (Prof., F.R.S.) : the Report to the Alloys 



Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical 



Engineers, 22 ; Value of Metallurgical Science, 257 ; Bronze 



in the London Atmosphere, 443 ; Metals at High Tempera- 

 ture, 534 

 Robertson (W. T.), Tea-culture in New South Wales, 260 

 Robinson (Dr. A. ) the Formation and Fate of the Primitive 



Streak in the Frog, 140 

 Robinson (John), Our Trees, 603 

 Robinson (Margaret), the Nauplius Eye persisting in some 



Decapods, 450 

 Rochester Academy of Sciences, U.S., 588 

 Rockhill (William Woodville), the Land of the Lamas, 98 

 Rocks collected by M. Lopatin on the Podkamennaya 



Tunguska, 597 ^ . 



Rodger (J. W.), Theory of Solutions, 342, 487 

 Roemer (the late Ferdinand), Proposed Memorial of, 322 

 Rogers (Fred. J.), Magnesium as a Source of Light, 622 

 Rolling of Ships, 559 

 Romanes (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S. ), Migration of the Lemmmg, 



249 

 Rome (Province). Earthquakes in, 304 

 Roscoe (Sir H. E., F.R.S.) : Action of Water-Gas on Iron, 92 j 



a Treatise on Chemistry, 509 

 Rosenberg (Dr.), Assimilation of Diet investigated in a Dog 



Working on a Treadmill, 599 

 Ross (Alexander), Journey to Head Waters of Ecayali, Central 



Peru, 519 



