Index 



r Nature, 



L December 13, 1900 



Malay Magic, being an Introduction to the Folklore and 

 Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula, W. W. Skeat, 145 



Malay Peninsula, on some Anthropological Observations of the 

 Pangan Tribe of Aborigines in the, W. L. H. Duckworth, 

 633 ; Report of the Committee ot the British Association on 

 the Natural History and Ethnography of the, W. W. Skeat, 

 636 



Mallet (J. W.), the Distance to which the Firing of Heavy 

 Guns is Heard, 523 



Mallock (A.), on the Measurement of the Tractive Force, 

 Resistance and Acceleration of Trains, 610 



Mammals : the Origin of Mammals, J. S. Kingsley, 254 ; the 

 Mammalian Brain, 267 ; a Text-book of Mammals, 386 ; 

 Mammals of South Africa, 521 ; Vibrissae on the Forepaws 

 of Mammals, Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 523 



Man and His Ancestor : a Study in Evolution, Charles Morris, 



lOI 



Man, from Matter to : a New Theory of the Universe, 

 A. Redcote Dewar, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 493 



Manchester, Earthshake near, 17 



Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 46, 616 



Manna, Bamboo, David Hooper, 127 



Marbles, the Flow of, Prof. F. D. Adams and J. T. Nicolson, 

 335 



March (F.), Action of Monochloracetic Esters on Sodium 

 Derivative of Acetylacetone, 47 



Marchant (E. W.), Permeability of Iron under the Influence of 

 the Oscillatory Discharge from a Condenser, 413 



Marckwald (Dr.), Peculiarities of Picric Acid and its Solutions 

 in Light of Ionic Hypothesis, 37 



Margerison (Samuel), British Sylviculture, 611 



Marine Biology : Fixation of Clay in Suspension in Water by 

 Porous Bodies, J. Thoulet, 191 ; Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion : Annual General Meeting, 230 ; Use of Diver for Col- 

 lection of Specimens, 253 ; the Plankton of the Bay of Biscay, 

 G. Herbert Fowler, 317 ; the Cruise and Deep-sea Explora- 

 tion of the Siboga in the Indian Archipelago, 327 ; Deep-sea 

 Deposits from Valdivia Expedition, Sir John Murray and 

 Dr. Philippi, 360 ; Lectures from the Marine Laboratory at 

 Woods' Holl, U.S.A., for 1899, 411 ; Place of Copepoda in 

 Nature, Isaac C. Thompson, 498 



Marine Engineering : H.M.S. Viper, -r^zz 



Marine Meteorology, a Manual of, William Allingham, 268 



Markwick (Colonel E. E.), the Total Eclipse Observed at Sea, 

 183 



Marloth (Dr.), Barnacle-growth on Southern Bight Whale, 19 



Marr (J. E.), Geology of Lake District, 534 ; on the Formation 

 of Reef Knolls, 587 ; on the Geological Evidence of the 

 Conditions under which Coal was Formed, 588 



Marriott (W.), Rainfall in West and East England in Relation 

 to Altitude, 215 



Marshall (Arthur), Atmospheric Electricity and Dew-ponds, 495 



Marshall (G. A. K.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 375 



Martell (B.), the Use of Steel in Ship-building, 90 



Martin (Geoffrey), Physical Structure of Asbestos, 369 



Marvin (Prof. C. F.), Anemometer Tests, 280 



Marx (E.), Fall of Potential in Flame Gases, 568 ; Hall Effect 

 in Flame Gases, 568 



Maryland Weather Service, 292 



Mascart (Jean), Meteor of September 24, 1900, 592 



Massol (G.), a New Thermo-calorimeter, 23 



Mathematics : Dynamics of Pseudo-spherical Space, Prof. D. de 

 Francesco, 18 ; Elements de la Theorie des Nombres, E. 

 Cohen, 52 ; Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 69, 

 189, 260, 381 ; Transactions of American Mathematical 

 Society, 260, 519; American Journal of Mathematics, 92, 

 381 ; Families of Transformations of Straight Lines into 

 Spheres, Dr. E. O. Lovett, 92 ; Memoirs of Mathematical 

 Section of Novorossian (Odessa) Society, 93 ; Mathematical 

 Society, 94, 262 ; the London Mathematical Society, R. 

 Tucker, 294; Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 95, 191 ; 

 Quaternion Methods Applied to Dynamics, W. G. Barnett, 

 174 ; Theory of Differential Equations, A. R. Forsyth, 

 F.R.S., 170 ; Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and 

 Integral Calculus, Augustus De Morgan, 196 ; an Introduc- 

 tion to the Differential and Integral Calculus and Differential 

 Equations, F. G. Taylor, 221 ; Locus of Centre of Hyper- 

 spherical Curvature for Normal Curve of. n Dimensional 

 Space, Prof. P. H. Schoute, 232 ; Two Remarkable Groups 

 of Geometrical Loci, E. Mathias, 240 ; Machine for Solving 



Algebraic Equation, George Meslin, 253 ; the Teaching of 

 Mathematics, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S. 317 ; Oliver Heaviside, 

 F.R.S., 548 ; the Reform of Mathematical Teaching, David 

 Mair, 389 ; Henry Woollen, 436 ; W. F. Beard, 466 ; C. E 

 Stromeyer, 523 ; Continuous Binary A Linearoid Groups, E. J. 

 Wilczynski, 381 ; Invariant Scrolls in Collineations which leave 

 a group of Five Points Invariant, V. Snyder, 381 ; Paris Inter- 

 national Congress of Mathematicians, 418 ; Autotomic 

 Curves, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 572 



Mathew (John), the Peopling of Australia, 549 



Mathias (E.), Two Remarkable Groups of Geometrical Loci, 

 240 ; Distribution of Horizontal Component of Earth's 

 Magnetism in France, 592 



Matruchot (L.), Structure-Modifications in Vegetable Cells in 

 True Fermentation, 47 



Matter, i^ther and, Joseph Larmor, Prof. Geo. Eras. Fitzgerald, 

 F.R.S. , 265 



Mau (August), Pompeii, its Life and Art, 7 



Maurain (Charles), Properties of Magnetic Deposits in 

 Magnetic Field, 408 



Maximum Duration of a Total Solar Eclipse, C. T. Whitmell, 

 64, 86 



Meacham (F. G.), Condition of Mine after 15 Months' Closing, 

 627 



Measurements in Schools, Collateral Heredity, Prof. Karl 

 Pearson, F.R.S., 173 



Mechanics : the Principles of Mechanics Presented in a New 

 Form, Heinrich Hertz, 50 ; the Mechanics of Flight, Lord 

 Rayleigh, 108 ; Strength of Ductile Materials under Com- 

 bined Stresses, J. J. Guest, 118; Papers on Mechanical and 

 Physical Subjects, Osborne Reynolds, 243 ; Deformations of 

 Contact of Elastic Bodies, A. Lafay, 544 



Mechanism, Idea or Nature, 25 



Mechanism of Weaving, T. W. Fox, 21 



Medicine : Atlas of Urinary Sediments, Dr. Hermann 

 Riedel, 53 ; Death of Dr. Julius Althaus, 157 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Dr. D. J. Leach, 228 ; Medicine 

 as a Science and Medicine as an Art, Dr. P. H. Pye- 

 Smith, F.R.S., 356; Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Dr. W. H. Lowe, 456 ; Association of German Physicians, 

 553 ; the Opening of the Medical Schools, Prof. F. W. 

 Tunnicliffe, 572; Death of Sir H, W. D. Acland. F.R.S., 

 602 ; Obituary Notice of, 627 ; Historical Aspects of the 

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

 AUbutt, F.R.S., 630 



Mediterranean : The Recent Cretan Discoveries and their 

 bearing on the Early Culture and Ethnography of the 

 East Mediterranean Basin, Arthur J. Evans, 526 



Megaphotography, A. R. Hunt, 79 



Meiklejohn (A. H.), Mode of Carriage by Cuckoo of Egg, 201 



Meinhof (K.), Proof of Old Semitic Influence in South Africa, 

 606 



Melbourne University Bacteriological Laboratory, the, 578 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Christian Friedrich Schonbein, 

 1799-1868, G. W. A. Kahlbaum, Ed. Schaer, 97 ; from 

 Matter to Man, a New Theory of the Universe, 493 ; Homo- 

 chronous Heredity and the Acquisition of Language, 572 



Melting Points of Rock-forming Minerals, the, J. A. Cunning- 

 ham, 368 



Memoirs of Kazan Society of Naturalists, 93 



Memoirs of Mathematical Section of Novorossian (Odessa) 

 Society of Naturalists, 93 



Mental Lapses, H. H. Bawden, 108 



Merrifield (Mr.), the Pupae of Aporta crataegi, 261 



Merrill (G. P.), Structure and Constitution of Two New Meteo- 

 rites, 459 



Mersey, the, Sir George Nares' Annual Report, 231 



Meslin (George), Machine for Solving Algebraic Equation, 253 



Mesozaires-Spongiaires, Traite de Zoologie Concrete, Yves 

 Delage and Edgard Herouard, 122 



Metallurgy; the Open-hearth Continuous Steel Process, B. 

 Talbot, 67 ; Apparatus for Equalising Hot Blast Tempera- 

 tures, L. F. Gjers and J. H. Harrison, 67 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of G. F. Goransson, 83 ; Solution Theory Applied to 

 Molten Iron and Steel, John Parry, 128 ; Present Position of 

 Solution Theory of Carburised Iron, Dr. A. Stansfeld, 536 ; 

 the Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, James Park, 148 ; 

 Crystallisation Produced by Pressure in Solid Metal, W. 

 Campbell, 166 ; Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, Henry 

 F. Collins, 194 ; Egyptian Gold, Daniel Berthelot, 464 ; the 



