Nature, 

 December 13, igoo. 



Index 



Xill 



Cole (Mr.), the Nest-building Brook- Lamprey, 500 



Coleman ( Prof. A. P. ), on the Recent Discovery of a Ferriferous 



Horizon in the Huronian North of Lake Superior, 588 

 Collateral Heredity Measurements in Schools, Prof. Karl Pearson, 



.F.R.S., 173, 599 

 Colledge (W. R ), Mosquitoes, 201 

 Collet t (R.), the Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893- 1896 



to Franz Josef Land, Scientific Results, 146 

 Collie (F. N.), Diacetylacetone Derivatives, 260 ; Dehydracetic 



Acid, 260 

 Collier (N. C. ), the Causes and Prevention of Consumption, 181 

 Collins (Henry F.), Metallurgy of Lead and Silver, 194 

 Colour-changes in Prawns, Dr. Gamble and Mr. Keeble, 555 

 Colour Photography : Photography in Colours, R. C. Bayley, 

 195 ; a Handbook of Photography in Colours, Thomas Bolas, 

 Alexander A. K. Tallent, Edgar Senior, 434 

 Colour Photometry (iii.). Sir William Abney, 273 

 Colour Screens for Refracting Telescopes, T. J. J. See and 



G. H. Peters, 37 

 *'Coma," Prof. S. P. Thompson, 1 18 



Comets: Comet Giacobini (1900 a), 37, 256; Comets and 

 Corpuscular Matter, F. H. Loring, 80 ; Comet Borrelly- 

 Brooks (1900 (5), 324, 352, 377, 535; Comet Swift (1894 IV.), 

 352, 459; Swift's Comet (1892 L), Prof. W. Picker- 

 ing, 501 

 Common (Dr. A. A., F.R.S.), Opening Address in the Depart- 

 ment of Astronomy in Section A of the British Association, 

 471 

 Comparative Anatomy of Animals, an Introduction to the Study 



of the, G. C. Bourne, 364 

 Conductivity produced in Gases by the Motion of Negatively- 

 charged Ions, the, J. S. Townsend, 340 

 Conference, Third International, on a Catalogue of Scientific 



Literature, London, June, 1900, 206 

 Congress of German Anthropological Society, Annual, 6j2 

 Congress, International, of Applied Chemistry, 519 

 Congress, International Geological, L. Gentil, 557 

 Congress of Mathematicians, Paris International, 418 

 Congress, Paris International Physical, Dr. Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 



425 

 Coninck (Oi. de). Mechanical Decomposition of some Metallic 



Chlorides, 168 ; Organic Solutions of Ferric Chloride, 336 

 Consultative Committee, the Board of Education and its, 248 

 Consultative Committee and Technical Education, the, Prof. J. 



Wertheimer, 294 

 Consumption, its Causes and Prevention, N. C. Collier, 181 

 Cook's (Captain) Voyage Round the World, Illustrations of the 

 Botany of, in H M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71, Right Hon. Sir 

 Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, with Determinations 

 by James Britten, W. Botting Hemsley, 547 

 Cook (Frederick A.), Through the First Antarctic Night, 



1898-99, 624 

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

 Cooking in New Mexico, from the Meteorological Point of View, 



421 

 Copeland (Prof.), the Solar Eclipse of May 28, 263 

 Copepoda, Place in Nature of, Isaac C. Thompson, 498 

 Coppet (L. C. de). Temperature of Maximum Density of Aqueous 

 Solutions of Ammonium Chloride and Lithium Bromide and 

 Iodide, 312 

 Corda (Mr.), Relative Advantages of Alternate and Continuous 

 Current for General Electrical Supply, with regard to Inter- 

 ference with other Interests, 416 

 Cormack (W.), Estimation of Furfural, 261 

 Cornish (Vaughan), the Severn Bore, 126 

 Cornu (A.), Zenitho-nadiral Apparatus for Measuring Zenithal 



Distances of Stars near Zenith, 95 

 Cornu (Maxime), O'usounify a New Edible Tuber from the 



Soudan, 72 



Corona, the Nature of the Solar, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, 



F.R.S., 7 -« ' 



Corona, Photometry of, April 16, 1893, Prof. H. H. Turner, 86 



Corona, Automatic Photography of the, Prof. C. Burckhalter, 



535 

 Coronas (P. J.), Earthquakes of 1897 in Philippines, 555 

 Corpuscles in Physical Phenomena, some Speculations as to the 



Part Played by, Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 31 

 Corpuscular Matter, Comets and, F. H. Loring, 80 

 Correns (Dr. Carl), Untersuchungen ueber d. Vermehrung 

 d. Laubmoose durch Brutorgane und Stecklinge, 339 



Corsica : the Extraction of Tannic Acid from Chestnut Wood, 



136 



Corstophine (G. S.), Palaeolithic Instruments from Stellen- 

 bosch, 464 



Corti (Dr. Benedetto), Diatomaceje of Lakes Brianza and 

 Segrino, 232 



Cortie (Rev. A. L.), on the Classification of Sun-spots, 565 



Coupin (Henri), Functions of Crystalline Tube of Acephala, 47 



Cousin (H.), Action of Nitric Acid on Trichlor-guaiacol, 264 



Coward (J. A.), the Birds of Cheshire, 417 



Cowham (Joseph H. ), the School Journey, a Means of Teaching 

 Geography, Physiography, and Elementary Science, 619 



Crab, a Large Tasmanian, Alex Morton, 496 



Craigie (Major P. G.), Opening Address in Section F at the 

 Bradford Meeting of the British Association, 509 



Craniology : Craniology of Indian Hill Tribes, Sir Wm. Turner, 

 F.R.S., 263; Craniology of Irano Indians, M. Ujfalvy, 351 ; 

 Slavic Skull at Niedersedlitz, Prof. J. Deichmiiller, 533 ; on 



. Certain Markings on the Frontal Part of the Human Cranium 

 and their Significance, Prof. A. Francis Dixon, 633 ; on Nine 

 Crania Collected by J. Stanley Gardiner during his Expedi- 

 tion to Rotuma, W. H. L. Duckworth, 623 



Creeping of Liquids, and on the Surface Tensions of Mixtures, 

 on the. Dr. Trouton, 562 



Cremieu (V.), Magnetic Effect not produced by Motion of 

 Electrified Body, 167 ; Moving Electric Charge not Pro- 

 ductive of Magnetic Field, 396 ; Inverse Effect of Magnetic 

 Field not Productive of Movement in Electrified Bodies, 616 



Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, Memoirs of the Geological Survey 

 of the United Kingdom^ vol. i., the Gault and Upper Green- 

 sand of England, A. J. Jukes-Browne, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



Crete : the Recent Cretan Discoveries and their Bearing on the 

 Early Culture and Ethnography of the East Mediterran ean 

 Basin, Arthur J. Evans, 526 ; on the New Scripts discovered 

 by Arthur J. Evans in Crete, 526, 634 ; on the Cave of 

 Psychro in Crete, D. G. Hogarth, 637 ; Arthur J. Evans, 

 637 ; J. L. Myres, 637 



Criminal Identification, the English System, Dr. J. G. Garson, 

 190 



Crocker (Prof.), Relative Advantages of Alternate and Con- 

 tinuous Current for General Electrical Supply, with Regard 

 to Interference with other Interests, 416 



Crommelin (A.C. D.), Howe's Photographic Observation of Eros, 

 184 



Cross (C. F. ), on the Action of Caro's Reagent on Furfural, 

 567 



Crystallography : Properties of Crystals Yielding Doubly- 

 refracting Liquids on Fusion, H. R. Hartley and H. L. 

 Bowman, 68 ; Crystallisation produced in Solid Metal by 

 Pressure, W. Campbell, 166 ; Crystalline Structures of 

 Metals, J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., and Walter Rosen- 

 heim, 211 ; Method for Determining Refractive Indices of 

 Minerals of Low Symmetry, G. F. Herbert Smith, 239 ; 

 Liquid Crystals, O. Lehmann, 568 ; Calcite Crystals, S. L. 

 Penfield and W. E. Ford, 568 



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



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



" Cuckoo-spittle,'" the Common Frog-hopper, Dr. A. Porta, 

 532 



Cunningham (J. A.), Theory of Order of Crystallisation of 

 Minerals in Igneous Rocks, 262, 368 



Cunningham (Prof. J. D.), on the Sacral Index, 633; on the 

 Microcephalic Brain, 633 



Cunningham (Lieut. -Colonel), on the Determination of Succes- 

 sive High Primes, 561 



Gushing (Frank H.), Death of, 16; Obituary Notice of, 397 



Curie (Mme.), Atomic Weight of Radiferous Barium, 384 



Current Papers, Ocean, H. C. Russell, 108 



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



Cutter (M.), Effects of Work of Active on Inactive Muscular 

 Groups, 492 



Cuttriss (S. W.), on the Pot-holes and Caves of the Mountain 

 Limestone District of North-west Yorkshire, 587 



Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction, the, James Parks, 148 



Cycads, on the Origin of, W. C. Worsdell, 612 



Cytology : Histology of the Blood, Normal and Pathological, 

 P. Ehrlich and .'\. Lazarus, Dr. T. H. Milroy, 410 ; on the 

 Biology and Cytology of Pythium, Prof. Trow, 613 ; M. 

 Poirault, 613; E. J. Butler, 613 



