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Index 



r Nature, 



L December 13, 1900 



Harveian Oration of 1900, the. Historical Aspects of the Dis- 

 covery of the Circulation of the Blood, Prof. T. Clifford 

 Allbutt, F.R.S., 630 

 Harze, Die, und die HarzebehJilter, A. Tschirch, 316 

 Haselgrove (F. W.), Robin's Nest in Water-can, 17 

 Haswell (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), Didymorchis, 640 

 Haupt (L. M.), the Navigation of the Lower Mississippi, 604 

 Hawthorn (J.), on the Relation of Ulva lattssima to the 



Pollution of Sea-water by Sewage, 61 1 

 Hazewinkel (J.), Indican, 47 



Heat : a New Thermo-calorimeter, G. Massol, 23 ; Method of 

 confirming Thermo-dynamical Relations between Freezing 

 Point and Vapour Pressures of very Dilute Solution, Dr. R. 

 Gahl, 37 ; Researches on Accurate Determination of Temper- 

 ature of Explosion of Modern Explosives in Closed Vessel, 

 W. Macnab and E. Ristori, 46 ; the Depression of the 

 Freezing-point in Salts containing a Common Ion, J. Barnes, 

 64 ; Heat of Alloy Formation, J, B. Taylor, 70 ; Want of 

 Uniformity of Action of Copper-zinc Alloys on Nitric Acid, 

 Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 70 ; Temperature and Potential 

 Gradient in Rarefied Gases, G. C. Schmidt, 92 ; Boiling- 

 point Curves, C. L. Speyers, 92 ; Geothermal Gradient in 

 Michigan, A. C. Lane, 210; Thermal Deformation of 

 Balances, T. Middel, 211; Additive Character of Atomic 

 Heats, S. Meyer, 211 ; Gas Thermometry, Dr. P. Chappuis, 

 214; the Gas Thermometer at High Temperatures, L. 

 Holborn and A. L. Day, 568 ; a Comparison of Impure 

 Platinum Thermometers, H. M. Tory, 214 ; the Law of 

 Cailletet and Mathias and the Critical Density, Prof. S. 

 Young, 214 ; the Expansion of Fused Silica, H. Le Chatelier, 

 216 ; the Thermal Properties of Fused Silica, P. Villard and 

 M. Dufour, 255 ; Rise of Temperature in Fabrics when Moist- 

 ened, Dr. L. Cobbett, 239 ; Viscosity of Gases as affected by 

 Temperature, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 287 ; Temperature 

 of Maximum Density of Aqueous Solution of Ammonium 

 Chloride and Lithium Bromide and Iodide, L. C. de Coppet, 

 312 ; Temperature Coefficients of Physico-chemical Reaction, 

 Prof. T. W. Richards, 351 ; the Air-thermometer at High 

 Temperatures, L. Holborn and A. Day, 381 ; Boiling Points 

 of Zinc and Cadmium, Daniel Berthelot, 384 ; the Rate of 

 Increase of Underground Heat, James Stirling, 555 ; Ratio 

 of Thermal and Electric Conductivities, E. Griineisen, 639 ; 

 Thermal Conductivity of Gases, P. A. Eckerlein, 639 

 Heath (Thomas), the Solar Eclipse of May 28, 263 

 Heaviside (OHver, F. R.S.), the Teaching of Mathematics, 548 

 Hedges (K.), Lightning Conductors of St. Paul's, 68 

 Hedley (W. S.), Therapeutic Electricity and Practical Muscle 



Testing, 30 

 Heilprin (Prof. A.), the Permanence of Lake Nicaragua, 395 

 Heinrich (W.), Die Moderne Physiologische Psychologic in 

 Deutschland, 245 ; Zur Prinzipienfragen der Psychologie, 

 245 

 Hele-Shaw (Prof., F.R.S.), Road Locomotion, 139; on the 



Question of the Resistance of Vehicles to Traction, 609 

 Hemptinne (A. de), Phosphorescence unaffected by Magnetic 



Field, 323 

 Hemsalech (G. A.), Band Spectrum of Aluminium, 335 

 Hemsley (W. Botting, F.R.S.), the High Level Flora of Tibet, 

 46 ; Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook's Voyage 

 Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71, Right 

 Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, with 

 Determinations by James Britten, 547 

 Henderson (G. G.), an Introduction to Analytical Chemistry, 



292 

 Henkel (F. W.), Huxley and his Work, 437 

 Henry (Prof. A. J.), Elevation and Depression of Lake Level 



by Wind Action, 579 ; Tide Oscillation on Lake Erie, 579 

 Henry (T. A. ), the Poison of Lotus Arabicus, 238 

 Hepworth (Captain Campbell), on the Weather of the North 



Atlantic Ocean during the Winter 1898-9, 563 

 Herb Paris, Variations in Plants of the. Miss L. Eleanor Jex- 



Blake, 174 

 Herculis, New Variable in, Madame Ceraski, 305 

 Heredity : Collateral Heredity, Measurements in Schools, Prof. 

 Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 173, 599; Human Babies, what they 

 Teach, S. S. Buckman, 221 ; Facts of Inheritance, Prof. J. 

 Arthur Thompson, F.R.S., 331 ; Lamarkiens et Darwiniens, 

 Felix Le Dantec, 388 ; Homochronous Heredity and Changes 

 of Pronunciation, Charles G. Stuart-Menteath, 524 ; Homo- 

 chronous Heredity and the Acquisition of Language, Prof. 



R. Meldola, F.R.S., 572; the Foundations of Zoology, 

 William Keith Brooks, 593 



Hergesell (Dr.); Temperature of Free Air, 253 



H^rissey (E.), Preparation of Gento Picrine and Glucoside 

 from Fresh Gentian Root, 288 



H^rissey (H.), Reserve Carbohydrates in Seed of Trifolium 

 Repens, 216 



Herouard (Edgard), Traite de Zoologie Concrete, T. ii. I'e 

 partie, Mesozoaires — Spongiaires, 122 



Herschel (Prof. A. S., F.R.S.), some Notes on the Late Prof. 

 Piazzi Smyth's Work in Spectroscopy, 161 



Herschel (John), on a Method of Observing and Recording the 

 Paths of Meteors, 565 



Hertz (Heinrich), the Principles of Mechanics presented in a 

 New Form, 50 



Hertzian Waves, Wireless Telegraphy and, S. R. Bottone, 

 522 



Hervey (D. ), Plotosus canius and the " Snake-stone," 79 



Hibiscus vitifolius, on the Intumescences of, Miss Elizabeth 

 Dale, 611 



Hickson (Prof. S. J.), on Dendrocometes, 589 



Highest Andes, the, E. A. Fitzgerald, Edward Whymper, 38 



Hill (J. H.), New Rock-type from Kentallen, 167 



Hillebrand (W. F. ), Carnotite, 432 



Hime (Dr. T. W.), on the Effects of Copper on the Human 

 Body, 566 



Hinde (Captain), Change of Feeding Habits of Rhinoceros- 

 birds in British East Africa, 366 



Hinks(A. R.), on some Points connected with the Photography 

 of a Moving Object, 565 ; on the New Form of Refracting 

 Telescope recently erected at Cambridge, 565 ; on Prepara- 

 tions for Determining the Solar Parallax by Observations of 

 Eros, 565 



Hinrichs (G.), True Atomic Weight of Boron, 216 ; Composi- 

 tion of Air at Different Levels, 432 



Histologische Beitrage, Heft IV., E. Strasburger, Prof. J. B. 

 Farmer, 28 



Histology of the Blood : Normal and Pathological, P. Ehrlich 

 and A. Lazarus, Dr. T. H. Milroy, 410 



History of the Development of Chemistry since the Time of 

 Lavoisier, Lectures on the, Dr. A. Ladenburg, 618 



History of Language, the, Henry Sweet, 195 



Hoffmann (B. A.), Generation of Electricity in Liquid Air, 568 



Hogarth (D. G.), on the Cave of Psychro in Crete, 637 



Holborn (L.), the Air Thermometer at High Temperatures, 

 381 ; the Gas Thermometer at High Temperatures, 568 



Holdich (Colonel Sir Thomas H.), on the Question of a Rail- 

 way Connection betweeen Europe and India, 590 



Holleman (Dr. A. F.), Lehrbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, 

 598 



Holmes (W. M.), Radiolaria from Coalsdon Upper Chalk, 

 W. M. Holmes, 262 



Homochronous Heredity and Changes of Pronunciation, 

 Charles G. Stuart-Menteath, 524 



Homochronous Heredity and the Acquisition of Language, Prof. 

 R. Meldola, F.R.S., 572 



Honda (K.), a String Alternator, 286 



HoogewerfF(Prof.), Indican, 47 



Hooper (David), Bamboo Manna, 127 



Hopkinson (J.), on the Rainfall of the Northern Counties of 

 England, 563 



Horovitch (Jacob), Untersuchungen iiber Philons und Platons 

 Lehre von der Weltschopfung, 494 



Horrocks (Jeremiah) and the Transit of Venus, 257 



Horse-sickness, African, a Possible Preventive of. Dr. G. C. 

 Purvis, 83 



Horticulture : the Amateur's Practical Garden Book, C. E. 

 Hunn, L. H. Bailey, loi ; Plant Hybrids, Wilfred Mark 

 Webb, 174 ; the Fruit-pest Ceratitis capitata, Alfred Giard, 

 432 ; Carnations and Picotees for Garden and Exhibition, 

 H. W. Weguelin, 598 



Hose (Dr. C), on Relics of the Stone Age in Borneo, 637 ; on 

 the Animal Cults of the Natives of Sarawak and their Bearing 

 on the Problems of Totemism, 634 



Houston (Dr. A. C), the Principles of Bacteriology, Dr. 

 Ferdinand Hueppe, 73 ; the Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 

 128 ; the Structure and Functions of Bacteria, Alfred 

 Fischer, 465 



Howard (Dr. L. O.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 500 



Howe (Prof.), Photographic Observation of Eros, 137, 184 



