Nature, T 



December 13, 1900 J 



Index 



Brain-configuration in Selachians, 589 ; Prof. Marcus 

 Hartog on a Peptic Zymase in Young Embryos, 589 ; Dr. 

 R. Irvine on the Mechanical and Chemical Changes which 

 take place during the Incubation of Eggs, 589 ; Prof. 

 Gotch on the Physiological Effect of Local Injury in 

 Nerve, 5S9 ; Mr. R. T. Glinther on Mnestra parasites, 

 589 ; Prof L. C. Miall on the Respiratory Organs of 

 Aquatic Insects, 589 ; Report of the Committee on the 

 Structure, Formation and Growth of the Coral Reefs of 

 the Indian Ocean, Mr. Stanley Gardiner, 589-90 ; Prof. 

 R. Burckhardt on the Anatomy and Systematic Position 

 of the Laemaroidae, 590 ; Mr. N. Annandale on the 

 Appearance and Habits of Some Malay Insects, 590 ; Prof. 

 E. B. Pouiton's Photographs illustrating the General 

 Principles of Miillerian Mimicry, 590 ; Prof. Lloyd Mor- 

 gan's Experiments on the Avoidance of Distasteful Forms 

 by Birds, 590 ; Messrs. F. W. Gamble and F. W. Keeble 

 on the Colour Changes of Various Prawns, 590 



Section E {Geography). — Presidential Address by Sir George 

 Robertson, 590 ; Mr. E. G. Ravenstein on Foreign and 

 Colonial Surveys, 590 ; Colonel Johnson, 590 ; Colonel 

 Sir Thomas H. Holdich on the Question of a Railway 

 Connection between Europe and India, 590 ; Mr. G. C. 

 Chisholm on the Probable Economic Changes following 

 the Development of the Resources of China, 590 ; Report 

 of the Committee on the Climate of Tropical Africa, 590 ; 

 Mr. E. G. Ravenstein on the Geographical Distributions 

 of Relative Humidity, 590 ; Mr. R. T. Giinther on the 

 Coast of the Phlegrtean Fields near Naples, 591 ; Dr. 

 H. R. Mill on Profs. Pettersson and Nansen's New In- 

 sulating Water-bottle, 591 ; Dr. H. R. Mill on the Treat- 

 ment of Regional Geography, 591 ; Mr. T. G. Rooper on 

 the Teaching of Geography in the Elementary Schools of 

 the West Riding, 591 ; Mr. E. R. Wethey's Method of 

 Teaching Geography, 591 



Section F {Economic Science and Statistics). — Opening Ad- 

 dress by Major P. G. Craigie, 509 



Section G {Mechanical Science). — President, Sir Alexander 

 Binnie ; Prof. Hele Shaw on the Question of the Resist- 

 ance of Road Vehicles to Traction, 609 ; Mr. J. Watson 

 on the Nidd Valley Waterworks of Bradford, 609 ; Mr. J. 

 MacTaggart on the Disposal of House Refuse in Bradford, 

 609 ; Mr. E. K. Clark on the Construction of Shop 

 Buildings in Large Engineering Works, 610 ; Mr. Glass 

 on the Coal and Iron Ore Fields of Shansi and Honan, 

 610 ; Sir Wm. Preece and Mr. F. J. Behr on the Proposed 

 Mono-Rail High-speed Electric Railway between Man- 

 chester and Liverpool, 610 ; Mr. A. Mallock on the 

 Measurement of the Tractive Force, Resistance and Ac- 

 celeration of Trains, 610 ; Mr. W. T. E. Binnie on a New 

 Form of Self-registering Rain Gauge, 610 ; Mr. W. Daw- 

 son on the Demerbe System of Tramway Construction, 

 610 ; Mr. J. H. Barker and Prof. Ewing's Combined In- 

 tegrating Wattmeter and Maximum Demand Indicator, 

 610 ; Prof. Goodman's New Form of Calorimeter for 

 Measuring the Wetness of Steam, 610 ; Mr. A. T. Walm- 

 isley on the Use of Expanded Metal in Concrete, 610 



Section H {Anthropology). — Opening Address by Prof. John 

 Rhys, President of the Section, 513 ; Dr. John Beddoe on 

 the Vagaries of the Cephalic Index, 633 ; Prof Macalister, 

 633 ; Prof. A. Francis Dixon on Certain Markings on the 

 Frontal Part of the Human Cranium and their Significance, 

 633 ; Mr. W. L. H. Duckworth on Nine Crania collected 

 by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in his Expedition to Rotuma, 

 633 ; Mr. W. L. H. Duckworth on some Anthropological 

 Observations of the Pangan Tribe of Aborigines in the 

 Malay Peninsula, 633 ; Dr. David Waterson on the De- 

 velopmental Changes in the Human Skeleton from the 

 Point of View of Anthropology, 633 ; Prof. A. Macalister 

 on Perforate Humeri from Ancient Egyptian Skeletons, 

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

 Prof. J. D. Cunningham on the Microcephalic Brain, 633 ; 

 Dr. A. C. Haddon on the Textile Patterns of the Sea- 

 Dyaks, 634; Mr. W. Rosenhain on the Making of a Malay 

 " Kris " and on the Malay Method of producing Chains 

 by Casting, 634 ; Prof Macalister, 634 ; Prof H. Louis 

 on the " Kingfisher" Type of a Malay '* Kris," 634 ; Mr. 

 H. Ling Roth on Permanent Artificial Skin Marks, 634 ; 

 Mr. F. LI Griffith on the Sys'em of Writing in Ancient 

 Egypt, 634 ; Mr. Arthur J. Evans on the New Scripts 



Discovered by Him in Crete, 526 and 634 ; Dr. C. Hose 

 and Mr. W. McDougall on the Animal Cults of the Natives 

 of Sarawak and their Bearing on the Problems of Totemism, 

 634 ; Mr. Hartland, 635 ; Mr. W. G. Aston on the Japanese 

 Gohei and the Ainu incu), 635 ; Mr. David Boyle on the 

 Paganism of the Civilised Iroquois of Ontario, 635 ; Dr. 

 John Beddoe on the Anthropology of West Yorkshire, 635 ; 

 Mr. J. Gray on the Physical Characteristics of the Popula- 

 tion of West Aberdeenshire, 635-6 ; Mr. D. Randall- Mac- 

 Iver on the Present State of Our Knowledge of the Modern 

 Population of Egypt, 636 ; P.eport of the Committee for the 

 Ethnographical Survey of Canada, 636 ; Report of the Com- 

 mittee on the Natural History and Ethnography of the 

 Malay Peninsula, Mr. W. W. Skeat, 636; Mr. A. M. 

 Bell on the Occurrence of Flint Implements of Palaeolithic 

 Type on an Old Land Surface in Oxfordshire, 636 ; Mr. J. 

 Paxton Moir on the Stone Implements of the Natives of 

 Tasmania, 636 ; Prof. E. B. Tylor, 636; Mr. H. Ling 

 Roth, 637 ; Dr. A. C. Haddon on Relics of the Stone Age 

 of Borneo, 637 ; Dr. C. Hose, 637 ; Mr. Butler Wood on 

 the Prehistoric AntiquitiesofRumbolt's Moor near Bradford, 

 637 ; Mr. Butler Wood on the Preservation of Local 

 Antiquities, 637 ; Dr. A. C. Haddon, 637 ; Mrs. Armitage 

 on some Yorkshire Earthworks, 637 ; Mr. D. G. Hogarth 

 on the Cave of Psychro in Crete, 637 ; Mr. Arthur J. 

 Evans, 637 ; Mr. J. L. Myres, 637 

 Section K {Botany). — Opening Address by Prof. S. H. Vines, 

 F.R.S., President of the Section, 536 ; Mr. Kidston on 

 the Flora of the Coal Measures, 610; Mr. Seward on the 

 Climatic and other Physical Conditions under which Coal 

 was Formed, 610 ; Dr. Horace Brown on the Possible 

 Richness in COo of the Atmosphere of che Coal Period, 



610 ; Prof. Bower on the Sand- binding Plant of the Dunes 

 on the Scotch Coast near Berwick, 611 ; Mr. Samuel 

 Margerison on British Sylviculture, 611 ; Mr. Albert 

 Wilson on the Great Smoke Cloud of the North of 

 England and its Influence on Plants, 611 ; Prof. Marshall 

 Ward, F.R.S., on Embryonic Tissues, 611 ; Mr. Henry 

 Jackson on the Formation of Starch from Glycollic Alde- 

 hyde by Green Plants, 611 ; Mr. E. A. Newell Arber on 

 the Effect of Salts on the CO2 Assimilation of Ulva latissima, 



611 ; Prof. Letts and Mr. J. Hawthorn on the Relation of 

 Ulva latissima to the Pollution of Sea-water by Sewage, 

 611 ; Miss Elizabeth Dale on the Intumescences of /!^i(5wM5^ 

 vitifolius, 611 ; Miss Ethel Sargant on a Fourth Type of 

 Transition from Stem to Root-structure, 611 ; Dr. D. H. 

 Scott, F. R.S., on the Presence of Seed-like Organs in cer- 

 tain Palaeozoic Lycopods, 611 ; Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., on 

 the Primary Structure of certain Palseozoic Stems referred to 

 Araiuario.xylon, 612 ; Prof A. C. Seward, F.R.S., and 

 Miss Elizabeth Dale on the Structure and Affinities of 

 Dipteris conjugata, 612 ; Miss R. F. Shove on the Structure 

 of the Stem of Angiopteris ei>ecta, 612 ; Mr. A. G. Tansley 

 on the Conducting Tissues of Bryophytes, 612 ; Mr. W. C. 

 Worsdellon the Origin of ModernCycads,6i2; Prof. Overton 

 on the Osmotic Properties and their Causes in the Living 

 Plant and Animal Cell, 612 ; Mr. Harold Wager on a 

 Demonstration of the Structure and Attachment of the 

 Flagellum in EuglenaViridis, 612 ; Mr. Harold Wager on 

 the Behaviour of the Nucleolus during Karyokinesis in the 

 Root-apex of Phaseolus, 612 ; Miss Ethel N. Thomas on 

 Double Fertilisation in a Dicotyledon Caltha palustris, 

 612; Mr. J. Lloyd Williams on the Germination of the 

 Zoospore m Laminariacete, 613; Mr. J. Lloyd Williams 

 on Dictyota, 613; Prof. Vuillemin on the Azygospores 

 of Entomophthora gloeospora, 613 ; Mr. J. Parkin on Fungi 

 found in Ceylon Growing upon Scale-insects, 613 ; Mr. R. 

 H. Biffen on the Life-history of Acrospeira mirabilis,6i^ ; 

 Mr. T. W. Woodhead on the Structure of the Root-nodules 

 of Alnus glutinosa, 613 ; Prof. F. E. Weiss on a Gymno- 

 sporangium from China, 613 ; Prof. Trow on the Biology 

 and Cytology of Pythlum, 613 ; M. Poirault and Mr. E. J. 

 Butler's Observations on Pythium, 613 ; M. Poirault and 

 Mr. E. J. Butler's Observations on Chytridines, 614 



British Birds, C. W. Wyatt, 100 



British Coal-fields, the Duration of the, E. Loze, Bennett H. 



Brough, 124 

 British Flora, the Origin of the, Clement Reid, F.R.S., 268 

 British Islands, the Lepidoptera of the, Charles G. Barrett, 



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