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Index 



Nature, 

 , Dectmber 13, 1900 



564 ; W. J. Pope, 564 ; Electric Railway Traction in 

 <}ermany, 532 ; Negative Effect of Solar Eclipse on Atmo- 

 spheric, Dr. E. Oddone, 532 ; Report of the British Associa- 

 tion Electrical Standards Committee on the Removal of the 

 Standards to Kew, 563 ; Improved Standard Resistance 

 Coils, R. S. Whipple, 563 ; Prof. F. G. Baily on a Lecture- 

 room form of Volt and Ammeter, 563 ; Prof. W. B. Morton's 

 Results Obtained by Applying J. J. Thomson's and Sommer- 

 feld's Solution of the Propagation of an Electric Wave along 

 a Single Wire, 563 ; On the Vector Potential of Electric 

 Currents in a Field where Disturbances are Propagated with 

 Finite Velocity, S. H. Burbury, 563 ; Wireless Telephony, 

 Sir William H. Preece, 564 ; Prof. J. Chunder Bose on the 

 Effect of Electrical Stimulus on Inorganic and Organic 

 Substances, 564 ; Report of the British Association 

 Committee on Electrolysis and Electrical Chemistry, 

 564 ; Generation of Electricity in Liquid Air, H. 

 Ebert and B. A. Hoffmann, 568; Fall of Potential 

 in Flame Gases, E. Marx, 568 ; Hall Effect in 

 Flame Gases, E. Marx, 568 ; Influence of Spark-gap on 

 Generation of Rontgen Rays, A. Winkelmann, 568 ; on the 

 Proposed Mono-rail High-speed Electric Railway between 

 Manchester and Liverpool, Sir William Preece, F.R.S., and 

 F. J. Behr, 610 ; Inverse Effect of Magnetic Field not Pro- 

 ductive of Movement in Electrified Bodies, V. Cremieu, 616 ; 

 Experiments on High Resistance, O. N. Rood, 638 ; 

 Accessory Reactions of Electrolysis, A. Brochet, 639 ; Elec- 

 tric Conductivity of Pressed Powders, F. Streintz, 639 ; Ratio 

 of Thermal and Electric Conductivities, E. Griineisen, 639 

 Elements de la Theorie des Nombres, E. Cahen, 52 

 Elephant Seals of Kerguelen Island, the, R. Hall, 628 

 Elephantiasis and Mosquitoes, 374 

 Elkin (Dr. W. L.), the Velocities of Meteors, 398 

 Elliott (D. G.), Orearttnus kennedeyi, a New American Moun- 

 tain Antelope, 321 

 Elliot (Captain R. H.), Snake Venom, 180 

 Ellis (Prof. G. v.), Death of, 16 

 Elster (J.), Electrical Dispersion in Air, 381 

 Elwes (H- J-. F.R.S.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 554 

 Embryonic Tissues, Prof. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 611 

 Emett (Delta), Models of Blood-Corpuscles Infected with 



Malaria Parasite, 208 

 Emotion, Experimentation on, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., 



•^28 . . 



Emu, a Third Specimen of the Extinct Dromaius ater, Vieillot ; 

 found in the Royal Zoological Museum, Florence, Prof. 

 Henry H. Giglioli, 102 



Emu, Specimens of Dromaius ater. Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 F.R.S., 151 



Engineering : Valve Motions of Engines, F. J. Vaes, 31 ; Prof. 

 John Perry, F.R.S., 31 ; the Proposed Mont Blanc Railway, 

 J. and H. Vallot, 62 ; the Open Hearth Continuous Steel 

 Process, B. Talbot, 67 ; Apparatus for Equalising Hot Blast 

 Temperatures, L. G. Gjers and J. H. Harrison, 67 ; the 

 Metropolitan District Short Electric Railway Line, 107 ; the 

 Elevated Moving Pavement at the Pai'is Exposition, 107 ; 

 Railways and Moving Platforms, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 

 412; Road Locomotion, Prof. Hele Shaw, F.R.S., 139; 

 Automobile Trials at Paris Exhibition, 158; the Musker 

 Steam Motor Waggon, 554 ; the Halford Gradient Railway, 

 180 ; the Conditions of High Speed on Railways, 181 ; 

 Specially built Train for Experiment on Atmospheric Resist- 

 ance, 200 ; Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects, 

 Osborne Reynolds, 243 ; the Transbaikalian Railway, 253 ; 

 the Reclamation of Land from Tidal Waters, Alexander 

 Beazeley, 266 ; the Great Alpine Tunnels, Francis Fox, 281 ; 

 Electrical Power Distribution, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 

 296 ; Marine Engineering, H.M.S. Viper, 322 ; Subjects for 

 Consideration by Electrical Engineers, 379 ; American 

 Institute and English Institution of Electrical Engineers at 

 Paris, 415; Iron and Steel Institute, 535 ; Development of 

 Iron Industry in France, H. Pinget, 535 ; Iron and Phos- 

 phorus, J. E. Stead, 535 ; New Aluminium Method of 

 Producing High Temperatures, E. F. Lange, 536 ; Present 

 Position of Solution Theory of Carburised Iron, Dr. A. 

 Stansfeld, 536 ; On the Construction of Shop Buildings and 

 large Engineering Works, E. K. Clark, 610 



England in the Far East, Sir Stamford Raffles, H. E. Egerton, 

 548 



Engknd's Neglect of Science, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 221 



Enoch (Fred), the Tiger Beetle, 208 ; Ranatra Linearis, 261 



Entomology : Spider-silk manufactures in Madagascar, M. 

 Nogue, 17 ; Note on some Blue and Red Pigments, Prof. T. 

 D. A. Cockerell, 31 ; Catalogue of the LepiJoptera Phalaenae 

 in the British Museum, Vol. II., Catalogue of the Arctiadas 

 (Nolinae, Lithosianse), Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 77 ; 

 "Cuckoo-spit," Prof. E. S. Morse, 109; "Cuckoo Spittle," 

 the Common Frog Hopper, Dr. A. Porter, 532 ; Garden 

 Pests, F. H. Chittenden, 109 ; Entomological Society, 

 118,261,639; the Cape Colony Fruit Moth, Mr. Barrett, 

 119 ; Influence of Temperature on Development of Lepidop- 

 tera. Prof. Max Standfuss, 136 ; the Lepidoptera of the 

 British Islands, Charles G. Barrett, 317; Elm and Pine 

 Pests, Dr. R. S. McDougall, 191 ; Mosquitoes, W. R. 

 CoUedge, 201 ; Mosquitoes and Malaria, H. J. Elwes, F.R S., 

 554 ; Prof. Grassi's Experiment on Mosquitoes and Malaria, 

 578 ; Insect Visitors to Iris, Prof. J. G. Needham, 201 ; Web- 

 Spinning Habits of Red Ant, E. G. Green, 253 ; the Pupae 

 of Aporia Crataegi, Mr. Merrifield, Oligostigma Araealis, Sir 

 G. F. Hampson, 261 ; Ranatra Linearis, F, Enock, 261 ; 

 Phylogeny of Pieridge, A. R. Grote, 274 ; Fig Insects, W. 

 W. Froggatt, 303 ; Eggs of Wood-Leopard Moth, C. 

 Repington, 321 ; Functions of an Organ of the Larva of the 

 Puss Moth, Arthur S. Thorn, 389 ; Function of the Whips 

 of the Larva of the Puss Moth, W. F. Kirby, 413 ; Brief 

 Guide to the Commoner Butterflies of the Northern United 

 States and Canada, Sumuel Hubbard Scudder, 411; the 

 Fruit-pest Ceratitis Capitata, Alfred Giard, 432 ; Artificial 

 Ant-hills at Paris Exhibition, C. Janet, 490 ; the Ocelli in the 

 head of the Cockroach, C. Kochi, 500 ; Catalogue of Eastern 

 and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the 

 Oxford University Museum, 548; Church Stretton, vol. i.. 

 Macro- Lepidoptera, F. B. Newnham, 571 ; Dragon-fly 

 Migrations, A. Lancaster, 579 ; Rare British Insects Captured 

 During Past Summer and Autumn, 606 ; Morphology of Res- 

 piratory Apparatus of Brochus Ornatus, L. G. Seurat, 639 



Entomophthora gloeospora, on the Azygospores of, Prof Vuillemin, 

 613 



Epping Forest and Elsewhere, Disease of Birch Trees in, Robt. 

 Paulson, 599 



Equations, Differential, Theory of, A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., 1 70 



Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben, A. KoUiker, 169 



Eros : Ephemerisfor Eros, 20, no, 184, 233, 377, 459, 491, 501, 

 535.556, 581, 606, 630; Determination of Solar Parallax 

 from Opposition of Eros, Prof. S. Newcomb, 20 ; Photo- 

 graphic Observation of Eros, Prof. Howe, 137 ; Howe's 

 Photographic Observation of Eros, A. C. D. Crommelin, 184 ; 

 Measures of Eros, 233 ; Opposition of Eros, 425 ; M. Loewy, 

 630 ; On Preparations for Determining the Solar Parallax by 

 Observations of Eros, A. R. Hink&, 565 ; Prof. Turner, 

 565 



Escape of Gases from Planetary Atmospheres, S. R. Cook, 54 



Escape of Gases from Atmospheres, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 F.R.S., 78 



Escombe (F. ), Static Diffusion in Gases and Liquids in Relation 

 to Carbon-assimilation and Translocation in Plants, 212 



Etard(A. ), the Hydrolysis of Fibrous Tissue, 72 



Ethnography : Malay Magic, W. W. Skeat, 145 ; see also 

 Section H of the British Association. 



Ethnology : Death and Obituary Notice of Frank H. Cushingj 

 16 ; the Races of Europe, a Sociological Study, William Z. 

 Ripley, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 27 ; Der Ursprung der 

 Kultur, L. Frobenius, loi ; the Recent Cretan Discoveries and 

 their Bearing on the Early Culture and Ethnography of the . 

 East Mediterranean Basin, Arthur J. Evans, 526 ; the Peopling 

 of Australia, John Mathew, 549 



Euglena, the Eye-spot in, H. Wager, 605 



Englena Viridis, on a Demonstration of the Structure and 

 Attachment of the Flagellumin, Harold Wager, 612 



Europe : the Races of Europe, a Sociological Study, William 

 Z. Ripley, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 27; Sette Anni di 

 Caccia Grossa e Note di Viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, 

 Europa, Count Felice Scheibler, 244 



Evans (A. H.), a Vertebrate Fauna of the Shetland Isles, 75 



Evans (Arthur J.), the Recent Cretan Discoveries and their 

 Bearing on the Early Culture and Ethnography of the East 

 Mediterranean Basin, 526 ; on the New Scripts discovered 

 by him in Crete, 526, 634 ; on the Cave of Psychro in Crete, 

 637 



Evans (Sir John, F.R.S.), Palaeolithic Man in Africa, 190 



