VI 



Index 



[Nature, 

 Dece tuber 13, 1900 



Baker (R. L), New Meteorite from New South Wales, 384 

 Baker (T. J.), a Surface-Tension Experiment, 196 

 Balachowsicy (Dmitri), Electrolytic Estimation of Bismuth, 312 ; 



Electrolytic Estimation of Cadmium, 384 

 Balances, Thermal Deformation of, T. Middel, 211 

 Balfour (Right Hon. A. J.) on Scientific Progress, 358 

 Ballistics, some Modern Explosives, Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B., 



F.R.S., 86, III 

 Bamber (E. F.), Electricity Direct from Coal, 437 

 Bamberger (Prof.), Products of Nitroso-Benzene, 304 

 Bamboo Manna, David Hooper, 127 



Banks (Right Hon. Sir Joseph), Illustrations of the Botany of 

 Captain Cook's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. .£«- 

 ij'tfaz'OMr in 1768-71, 547 

 Barker's (J. H.) Combined Integrating Wattmeter and Maximum 



Demand Indicator, 610 

 Barnard (R. J. A.), the Annual March of Temperature, 579 

 Barnes (Prof. Charles Reid), Outlines of Plant-Life, with Special 



Reference to Form and Function, 30 

 Barnes (J.), the Depression of the Freezing-point in Salts Con- 

 taining a Common Ion, 64 

 Barnett (W. G.), Quaternion Methods applied to Dynamics, 174. 

 Barometer, on a Novel Form of Mercurial, A. S. Davis, 562 

 Barrett (Mr.), the Cape Colony Fruit- Moth, 119 

 Barrett (Charles G.), Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 317 

 Barus (C. ), Method of Studying Diffusion of Air thr ough Water, 



210 

 Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), on the Result that a Quintic Curve can- 

 not have more than Fifteen Real Points of Inflexion, 561 ; 

 Autotomic Curves, 572 

 Bataillon (E.), Experimental Parthogenetic Segmentation in 



Amphibia and Fish, 288 

 Bather (P\ A.), a Manual of the Echinoderms, 545 

 Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of Scotland, 

 Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Fred. P. Pullar, 65, 

 263 

 Batrachia, Unusual Modes of Development in. Miss Sampson, 



605 

 Baud (E.), Action of Anhydrous Aluminium Chloride on Acety- 

 lene, 96 

 Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Magnetic Observations during Solar Eclipses, 



302 

 Bawden (H. H.), Mental Lapses, 108 

 Baxter (G. P.), the Atomic Weight of Iron, 160 

 Bay of Biscay, the Plankton of the, G. Herbert Fowler, 317 

 Bayley (R. C), Photography in Colours, 195 

 Beal (F. E. L.), the Bobolink as a Rice-Pest, 605 

 Beard (W. F.), the Reform of Mathematical Teaching, 466 

 Beattie (Prof. J. C), Electrical Leakage from Charged Bodies, 



360 

 Beaulard (F.), the Viscosity of Dielectrics, 47 

 Beazeley (Alexander), the Reclamation of Land from Tidal 



Waters, 266 

 Becquerel (Henri), the Radiation of Uranium, 191 ; the 



Uranium Radiation, 312 

 Becquerel Rays, Sources and Properties of. Prof. G. H. Bryan, 



F.R.S., 151 

 Beddard (Frank E., F.R.S ), Vibrissse on the Forepaws of 



Mammals, 523 

 Beddoe (Dr. John), on the Vagaries of the Cephalic Index, 633 ; 



on the Anthropology of West Yorkshire, 635 

 Beddow (F.), Condensation of Phenols with Ethyl Phenyl- 



propiolate, 215 

 Beecher (C. E.), Restoration oi Stylonttriis Lacoanns, 432 

 Beetle, the Tiger, Fred. Enock, 208 

 Beeton (M.), Correlation between Life Duration and Number of | 



Offspring, 381 

 Behr (F. J.) on the Proposed Mono-rail High Speed Electric 



Railway between Manchester and Liverpool, 610 

 Behrendsen (O.), Behaviour of Radium at Low Temperatures, 



335 

 Bell (A. M,), on the Occurrence of Flint Implements of Pa- 

 liEothic Type on an old Land Surface in Oxfordshire, 636 

 Bellamy (V), the Salt Lake of Larnaca, 94 

 Belopolsky Prof. A. ), the Spectrum of yS Lyrte and tj Aquilas, 



70 ; Rotation Period of Venus, 160 

 Bennett (S. R.), Actinometric Observations of So Jar Eclipse of 



May 28, 263 

 Benzene, Report of the Committee of the British Association on 

 Isomeric derivatives of, 567 



Berg (Dr. Otto), Significance of Kathode Rays in Connection 



with Mechanism of Discharge, 628 

 Berget (Alphonse), Demonstration of Earth's Rotation with one 

 metre long Pendulum, 288 ; Apparatus for Measuring Geodetic 

 Bases, 408 

 Bermudas, Geology of, A. E. Verrill, 92 



Berthelot (Daniel), Nitric Acid Formation during Combustion, 

 1 19, 143 ; Nitric Acid Formation in Combustion of Hydrogen, 

 216 ; Boiling Points of Zinc and Cadmium, 384 ; Egyptian 

 Gold, 464 ; Products and Decomposition of Nitric Esters and 

 Nitroglycerine by Alkalis, 544 ; Absorption of Free Oxygen 

 by Normal Urine, 592 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), Erythrulose, a new Sugar, 85 ; ^— Erythrite, 



144 

 Bessey (Prof. C. E.), Age of Big Trees of California, 627 

 Beyerinck (Prof.), Indigo Fermentation, 47 

 Biffen (R. H.), on the Life History of Acrospeira mirabilisy 



613 

 Big Game in Africa, the Preservation of, E. N. Buxton, 550 

 Binet (Alfred), the Psychology of Reasoning, 388 

 Binnie (W. T. E), on a New Form of Self Registering Rairi 



Gauge, 610 

 Biology : Histologische Beitrage, Heft IV. E. Strasburger, Prof. 

 J. B. Farmer, 28; Biology as an "Exact" Science. The 

 Grammar of Science, Prof Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 49; All- 

 gemeine Biologie, Prof. Dr. Max Kassowitz, Prof. H. 

 Marshall Ward, F.R.S, 217 ; Facts of Inheritance, Prof. J. 

 Arthur Thompson, F.R.S., 331 ; Textbook of Zoology, 

 treated from a Biological Standpoint, O. Schmeil, 386 ; 

 Probleme Kritische Sttidien uber den Monismus, Dr. H. v 

 Schoeler, 435 ; Tobacco, 576 ; Genesis of the Vertebrate 

 Column, Herbert Spencer, 620 ; on the Biology and Cytology 

 of Pythium, Prof. Trow, 613; M. Poirault, 613; E. J. 

 Butler, 6I3 ; Marine Biology, Fixation of Clay in Suspension 

 in Water by Porous Bodies, J. Thoulet, 191 ; Annual 

 General Meeting of Marine Biological Association, 230 ; Use 

 of Diver for Collection of Specimens, 253 ; the Plankton of 

 the Bay of Biscay, G. Herbert Fowler, 317 ; the Cruise and 

 Deep-Sea Exploration of the Siboga in the Indian 

 Archipelago, 327 ; Deep Sea Deposits from Valdivia Ex- 

 pedition, Sir John Murray and Dr. Philippi, 360 ; Biological 

 Lectures from the Marine Laboratory at Wood's Holl, U.S.A., 

 for 1899, 411 ; Place of Copepoda in Nature, Isaac C. 

 Thompson, 498 

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



Paulson, 599 

 Bird Life, the Study of, W. P. Pycraft, 221 

 Birds, a Key to the Birds of Australia and Tasmania, with their 

 Geographical Distribution in Australia, R. Hall, 6 ; Racket 

 Feathers, L. W. Wiglesworth, 54 ; the Reviewer, 54 ; 

 British Birds, C. W. Wyatt, 100 ; Our Native (American) 

 Birds, D. Lange, 100 ; among the Birds in Northern Shires, 

 Charles Dixon, 177 ; Change of Feeding Habits of Rhino- 

 ceros-birds in British East Africa, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 F.R.S., Capt. Hinde, 366; the Birds of Surrey, J. A. 

 Bucknill, 339 ; the Migration of Swifts, William Andrews, 

 436 ; on the Migration of British Birds, Eagle Clarke, 588 ; 

 Tenacity of Life of the Albatross, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 

 621 ; Captain Wm. J. Reid, 621 

 Birmingham, the University of, 141 

 Bison, the Wood, J. A. Allen, 35 



Bjerknes (Prof. V.), Vorlesungen iiber hydrodynamische 

 Fernkrafte nach C. A. Bjerknes' Theorie, 3 ; Dynamical 

 Theory of Atmospherical Circulation, 200 

 Black Sea, Physical, Chemical and Biological Conditions of, 



Sir John Murray, 191 

 Blackman (W. L.), Estimation of Nitrogen Chloride and 



Bromide Derivatives of Ortho- and Para-acet-toluide, 71 

 Blake (Rev. J. F.), on the Registration of Type Specimens, 



587 



Blake (R. F.), the Carbonic Anhydride of the Atmosphere, 



387 ; on some Problems connected with Atmospheric Carbonic 



Anhydride and on a New and Accurate Method of determining 



its Amount, 566 



Blanc (G.), /8-phenyland jS-benzyl-o-alkoxy-o-cyanoacrylic Acids, 



191 ; Synthesis of ao-dimethyl-7-cyanotricarballylic Ester, 264 



Blondel (A. ), Maximum Sensitiveness in Coherers for Wireless 



Telegraphy, 23 

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

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



