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Index ' 



r Nature, 



L December 13, 



Alnus Glutinosa, on the Structure of the Root-nodules of, T. W. 



Woodhead, 613 

 Alpine Tunnels, the Great, Francis Fox, 281 

 Althaus (Dr. Julius), Death of, 157 

 Amateur's Practical Garden Book, the, C. E. Hunn, L. H. 



Bailey, 101 

 Amdrup Arctic Expedition, Return of, 577 

 America : La spedizione di sua Altezza Reale il Principe Luigi 

 Amadeo di Savoia. Duca degli Abruzzi al Monte Sant' Elia 

 (Alaska), 1897, Dottore Filippo de Filippi, i., 529; the 

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

 Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 69, 189, 260, 381 ; 

 Transactions of American Mathematical Society, 260, 519 ; 

 American Journal of Mathematics, 92, 381 ; American Journal 

 of Science, 92, 210, 286, 432, 568, 638 ; Our Native (American) 

 Birds, D. Lange, loo; the Geography of the Region about 

 Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin, Prof. R. D. 

 Salisbury, W. W. Atwood, 172 ; Sette Anni di Caccia Grossa 

 e Note di Viaggio in America. Asia, Africa, Europa, Count 

 Felice Scheibler, 244 ; the New York Meeting of the American 

 Association, 269 ; Maryland Weather Service, 292 ; American 

 Institute and English Institution of Electrical Engineers at 

 Paris, 415; Missouri Botanical Garden, Eleventh Annual 

 Report, 495 



Amsterdam Royal Academy, 47 



Amsterdam Royal Society, 96 



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

 M. A. Parker, 292 



Analytical Portraiture, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 320; Photo- 

 graphic side of Mr. F. Galton's Suggestions, 374 



Anatomy : Death of Prof. G. V. Ellis, 16 ; Erinnerungen aus 

 meinem Leben, A. KoUiker, 169 ; Death of Dr. Karl Lange, 

 198 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Corrado Tommasi- 

 Crudeli, 228 ; Handbuch der Anatomic und Vergleichenden 

 Anatomic des Centralnervensystems der Saugetiere, Dr. 

 Edward Flatau, Dr. L. Jacobsohn, 267 ; Morphological 

 Anatomy of Vertebrates ; the Air-chambers in Mammalian 

 Skull, Dr. S. Paulli, 323 ; the Brain of the Pond-Tortoise, 

 Dr. B. Haller, 324 ; an Introduction to the Study of the 

 Comparative Anatomy of Animals, G. C. Bourne, 364 ; 

 Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological 

 Series of Comparative Anatomy contained in the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 385 ; Genesis of 

 the Vertebrate Column, Herbert Spencer, 620 



Ancient Records of Meteor Showers, M. D. Eginitis, 203 



Anderson (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Death .of, 394 ; Obituary Notice 

 of, 529 



Anderson (Prof. R. J.), Crooked-Keeled Breast-bone in Fowls, 

 159 



Anderson (Dr. T. D.), New Variable in Auriga, 161 



Andes, the Flora of the, H. H. W. Pearson, 46 



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



Andre (Ch.), Apparent Semi-diameter of Sun, 464 



Andre (G.), Action of Sulphur Dioxide and Hydrogen 

 Sulphide on Pyridine, 216 



Andrews (C. W.), a Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian 

 Ocean), Physical Features and Geology, 193 



Andrews (William), the Migration of Swifts, 436 



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



Angiopteris Evecta^ on the Structure of the Stem of, Miss 

 R. F. Shove, 612 



Animal Cults of the Natives of Sarawak, on the, and their 

 Bearing on the Problems of Totemism, Dr. C. Hose, W. 

 McDougall, 634 ; Mr. Hartland, 635 



Animals, an Introduction to the Study of the Comparative 

 Anatomy of, G. C. Bourne, 364 



Annalen der Physik, 92, 211, 338, 381, 568, 639 



Annandale (N.), on the Appearance and Habits of Some Malay 

 Insects, 590 



Ant, Red, Web- spinning habits of, E. G. Green, 253 



Antarctica : Magnetic Observations during Belgica Expedition, 

 108 ; Racovitza Glacialis, new Antarctic fish, Louis Dollo, 

 350 ; the Antarctic Regions, Dr. Karl Fricker, Dr. Hugh 

 Robert Mill, 624 ; Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898- 

 99, Frederick A. Cook, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 624 



Antelopes and their Recognition Marks, R. I. Pocock, 584 



Anthills, Artificial, at Paris Exhibition, C. Janet, 490 ' 

 Anthropology : the Races of Europe, a Sociological Study, 

 William Z. Ripley, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 27 ; Death 

 of Lieut. -Gen. Piit-Rivers, F\R.S., 33; Obituary Notice of. 



59 ; Dugong Vertebra as bracelet in Pelew Islands, Dr. O. 

 Finsch, 36 ; Decorative Art of Sea Dayaks of Sarawak, Prof. 

 A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 68; Genealogical Researches in 

 Torres Straits, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 71 ; Anthropological 

 Institute, 71, 119, 167, 190 ; Stone Implements from Pitcairn 

 Islands, J. Allen Brown, 119; Malay Magic, W. W. Skeat, 

 145 ; Earliest Communications between Italy and Scan- 

 dinavia, Prof. O. Montelius, 167 ; Original Character of the 

 British People, Nottidge Charles Macnamara, 172 ; the 

 English Metric System of Criminal Identification, Dr. J. G. 

 Garson, 190 ; Human Babies : what they Teach, S. S. Buck- 

 man, 221; the White Huns, C. de Ujfalvy, 323; Bushman 

 Drawings, E. H. L. Schwarz, 336 ; Craniology of Irano- 

 Indians, M. Ujfalvy, 351 ; Memorial Notices of F. H. Gush- 

 ing, 397 ; Artificial Deformation of Heads and some Customs 

 connected with Polyandry, Kumagusu Miuakata, 437 ; Pa- 

 laiolithic Implements from Stellenbosch, L. Peringuey and 

 G. S. Corstophine, 464 ; the Ginn in Morocco, Dr. E. 

 Westermarck, 499 ; Slavic Skull at Niedersedlitz, Prof. J. 

 Deichmilller, 533 ; Mexican Symbolism, Carl Lumholtz, Prof. 

 Alfred C. Haddon, 600 ; the Peopling of Australia, Sidney H. 

 Ray, 621 ; Annual Congress of the German Anthropological 

 Society, 632 ; see also Section H of the British Association 

 Antoniadi (E.), Anomaly of Dichotomous Phase of Venus, 464 

 Applications of Electrical Science, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, 43 

 Aquila, New Star in, 305 

 Araucarioxylon, on the Primary Structure of Certain Palaeozoic 



Stems Referred to. Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 612 

 Arber (E. A. Newell), on the Effect of Salts on the COg Assimila- 

 tion of Ulva latissima, 611 

 Archteology : Pompeii and its Remains, 7 ; the Alleged Buddha 

 Relics, 200 ; Indian Burial Caves on Rio Cunany, Brazil, Dr. 

 Goeldi, 500 ; the Recent Cretan Discoveries and their 

 bearing on the Early Culture and Ethnography of the East 

 Mediterranean Basin, Arthur J. Evans, 526 ; see also Section 

 H of the British Association 

 Archibald (E. D.), Indian Famine-causing Droughts, 335 

 Arctica : the Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893- 1896 to 

 Franz Josef Land, Scientific Results, Fridtjof Nansen, J. F. 

 Pompeckj, A. G. Nathorst, R. CoUett, 146; the Russian 

 Expedition at Spitsbergen, 373 ; Return of Amdrup Expedi- 

 tion, 577 ; Musk Ox to be Acclimatised in Sweden, 577 

 Ardnamurchan, on a Granophyre Dyke Intrusive in Gabbro at, 



Prof. K. Busz, 588 

 Argyll (the Duke of). Death and Obituary Notice of, 13 

 Arithmetic : Elements de la Theorie des Nombres, E. Cohen, 52 

 Arizona, " Chalcedony Park," the, L. F. Ward, 62 

 Armitage (Mrs.), on some Yorkshire Earthworks, 637 

 Armstrong (Prof.), Dr. Lodge's Paper on Volta's Contact 

 Force, 70; Inhibiting Effect of Etherification on Substitution 

 in Phenols, 261 ; Ions, 564 

 Arnold (Mr.), Relative Advantages of Alternate and Con- 

 tinuous Current for General Electrical Supply, with regard to 

 interference with other interests, 415 

 Arons (L.), Electric Arc between Metallic Electrodes in 



Nitrogen and Hydrogen, 93 

 Art and Industry, Science in Relation to, 32 

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



Smith, F.R.S., 356 

 Asbestos, Physical Structure of, Geolirrey Martin, 369 ^ 

 Ascent of Sap, Dr. Henry H. Dixon, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 572 

 Aschan (Prof. Ossian), on the Constitution of Camphor, 567 

 Asia: Sette Anni di Caccia Grossa e' Note di Viaggio in 

 America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Count Felice Scheibler, 244 ; 

 Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs, Rev. A. H. 

 Sayce, 289 

 Aspen Leaf, the Trembling of the, Henry J. Colbourn, 436 

 Association of German Naturalists and Physicians, 553 

 Assyria : the Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of 

 Nineveh and Babylon, R. C. Thompson, 5 ; Babylonians and 

 Assyrians, Life and Customs, Rev. A. H. Sayce, 289 

 Aston (W. G.), on the Japanese Gohei and the Ainu inao, 635 

 Astrographic Chart Conference, the, 377 

 Astrology, the Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of 



Nineveh and Babylon, R. C. Thompson, 51 

 Astronomy : the Nature of the Solar Corona, Prof. Geo. Fras. 

 Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 7 ; Photometry of Corona, April 16, 1893, 

 Prof. H. H. Turner, 86 ; Proportion of Polarised Light in 

 Solar Corona, J. J. Landerer, 167 ; Polarisation of Solar 

 Corona observed at Elche, P. Joubin, 191 ; Automatic 



