Supplement to Nature.l 

 Nevember 26, 1891 J 



Index 



XV 



Ister (Herr), the Observation of Atmospheric Electricity, 281 

 ster and Geitel (Herren), Electric Observations on Sonn- 

 blick, 452 

 bryology : Pycnogonids or Sea-Spiders, 49 

 in (Pabha), Ornithology of Lake Victoria Nyanza, 87 

 merich (Prof.), Immunity, Natural and Acquired, 421 

 moDS (S. F.), a Geological Excursion in America, 182 

 tage (W. T. A.), an Introduction to the Mathematical 

 Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 443 

 cke's Comet, c 189 1, 355 ; Dr. Backlund, 438 

 owment of Research in France, MM. Cahours and Janssen, 



17 



lergy, on some Test Cases for the. Maxwell-Holtzmann 



Doctrine regarding Distribution of, Sir William Thomson, 



P.R.S., 355 



Engineer Attaches to Austrian Embassies, Proposed, 575 

 Engineering: Marine Engine Trials, 20; Achievements in, L. 



F. Vernon-Harcourt, 147 ; Engineering Importance of Don- 



gola, the, Mr. Willcocks, 301 ; Government Timber Tests, 

 \ B. E. Fermor, 471 ; Electrical Engineeiiog, 494, 521, 542; 



li^^Bthe Projected Egyptian Storage Reservoir, 548; Electric 

 l^^^vLight Fitting, a Hand-book for Working Electrical Engineers, 

 I^^^Kjohn W. Urquhart, 586; Conversazione of the Institution of 

 I^^^KElectrical Engineers, 231 ; Institution of Mechanical En- 

 ^^^■Sineers, 332 



^^^■pgrais Chimiques, Les, Georges Ville, 517 

 ^^^^Kitomology : the Fossil Insects of North America, with Notes 

 ^^^^Eon some European Species, Samuel II. Scudder, R. Lydek- 

 1™^* ker, I ; the Locust in India, 18 ; Entomological Society, 95, 



143, 262, 488 ; a New Sponge Worm Parasite, Prof. W. B. 



Spencer, 120; the Blow-fly, B. Thompson Lowne, 123; 



I Redevelopment of Lost Limbs in Insects, John Watson, 163 : 

 the Insect House in the Zoological Gardens, 163, 198 ; 

 Supernumerary Legs and Antennae in Beetles, W. Bateson, 

 188 ; Rearrangement of the South African Museum Collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera by R. Trimen, 207 ; the United States 

 Entomological Commission, Dr. Alpheus S. Packard, 217 ; 

 Luminous Insects in Australian Bush, Henry Deane, 233 ; 

 Ant-imitating Bug, Mr. Wroughton, 262 ; Insect-flight 

 Studied by Photochronography, M. Marey, 264 ; Coleoptera 

 of Yarkand, 318; New Species of Russian Trap Spider, 

 W. A. Wagner, 359 ; the Song of the Cicada, 437 ; Agri- 

 cultural Entomology, Resignation of Miss Ormerod, 451, 

 528 ; Mimicry in Spiders, E. Heckel, 451 ; Some Difficulties 

 in the Life of Aquatic Insects, Prof. L. C. Miall, 457 ; In- 

 sects and Flowers, G. F. Scott-Elliott, 488 ; Hemisaga 

 hastata and Dqnais chrysippus (Butterfly), W. L. Distant, 

 488 ; Scoria deulbata, H. Goss, 488 ; Dragon-flies v. Mos- 

 quitoes, 491 ; Orange Disease in Cyprus, A. E. Shipley, 

 528 ; Remarkable Instance of Frugality in Bees, W. H. 

 Harris, 550 ; W. M. Maskell on the Coccidse; 550 ; a New 

 South Wales Beetle {.fam. Curculionida£) as an Example of 

 Protective Coloration, Mr. Froggatt, 576 

 Eozoon, the Origin of, 308 



Epidemics : Measures adopted for the Prevention of Infectious 

 Diseases, and their Relation to our Knowledge of, Dr. Lewis 

 Sambon, 486 

 Epilobium, the Species of, occurring North of Mexico, Dr. 



Trelease, 196 

 Erratics, the Distribution of, in England and Wales, Rev. Dr. 



Crosskey, 480 { 



Espin (Rev. Dr. T. E.) : Photo-Stellar Spectra, 133 ; Two New 



Variable Stars, 578 

 Essex County Council and Technical Education, 324, 548 

 Ether, Clock for pointing out the Direction of the Earth's 



Orbital Motions in, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 238 

 Ether of Space, on the Functions and Nature of the, Prof. F. 



E. Nipher, 471 

 Ethers, the Rate of Formation of Compound, N. Menschutkin, 



312 

 Ethnology : of Sumatra, 68 ; Races and Peoples, Lectures on 

 the Science of Ethnography, Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, 124 ; 

 American Ethnological Expedition to Labrador, 185 ; Manners 

 and Customs of Shan States, W. R. Hillier, 137 ; the 

 Amerrique Indians of Nicaragua, J. Crawford, 502 ; the 

 Aborigines of the Malay Peninsula, 6cx3 



:hyl Oxide, an Attempt to determine the Adiabatic Relations 

 of. Prof. W. Ramsay, F.R.S., and E. P. Perman, 22 

 Eucalypts, the Classification of, 41 



Eucalyptus Branches, Green, as a Disinfectant, Baron von 

 Mueller, 353 ; J. Brendon Curgenven, 445 



Euclid, Books I.-II, Rider Papers on, Rupert Deakin, 76 

 European Botany, Vol. I., K. Richter, J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 



100 

 European Weather Charts, Captain C. H. Seemann on, 41 

 Evaporating Power of a Climate, Determination of, Dr. Ule, 



137 

 Evaporation, Electrical, William Crookes, F.R.S., 212 

 Evaporation, Water, in Sun and in Shade, Signor Batelli's 



Experiments on, 136 

 Everett (Prof., F.R.S.), Illustralims of C.G.S. System of 



Units, with Tables of Physical Constants, Prof. John Perry, 



F.R.S.,489 

 Evolution of Algebra, on the. Prof. E. W. Hyde, 470 

 Evolution, the Classification of the Tunicata in Relation to, 



Prof. W. A. Herdman, 130 

 Evolution, Cosmical, a New Theory of the Mechanism of 



Nature, Evan McLennan, 342 

 Evolutionary Castigation, Rev. John Gerard, S.J., Prof. R. 



Meldola, F.R.S.,441 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S.), the Molecular Process in Magnetic 



Induction, 566 

 Exhibition, the Coming Chicago, 258 ; and the McKinley Bill, 



351 ; Mines and Mining Department at Chicago, 476 ; British 



Electrical Display at the, 575 

 Exhibition, Contemplated Victorian, 352 

 Exhibition, Crystal Palace Electrical, 450, 597 

 Exhibition of 185 1 Science Scholarships, 351 

 Exhibition of Photographic Society of Great Britain, 231 

 Expedition Afoot to the North Pole, Lieutenant Peary's Pro- 

 jected Botanical, 231 

 Expedition, Baron Nordenskiold's Proposed Antarctic, 231 

 Expedition, the Heilprin Greenland, the Accident to and Posi- 

 tion of Lieutenant Peary, 475 

 Expedition to Labrador, American Ethnological, 185 

 Expedition to Liberia by O. F. Cook, Projected Natural 



History, 548 

 Expedition to Pahang, Straits Government Scientific, H2 

 Expedition, Pilcjmayo, J. Graham- Kerr's, 135 

 Expedition, Scientific, for Investigation of South Maryland, 208 

 Expeditions to the Chin Hills and Bhamo Country, Projected, 



550 

 Experimental Physics : Liquids and Gases, Prof. W. Ramsay, 



F.R.S., 274 

 Experimental Researches on Mechanical Flight, Prof. S. P. 



Langley, 277 



Face, the Growth of the. Prof. G. M. West, 325 



Fairyland Tales of Science, Prof. J. G. McPherson, 5 



Faraday Centenary, Lord Rayleigh, F. R.S., 178 



Faraday (Michael), a Souvenir of, 230 



Farrer (Sir T. H., Bart.), County Councils and Technical 

 Education, 6 



Fatio (Victor), Faune des Vertebres de la Suisse, Dr. Albert 

 Giinther, 269 



Faye's (M.) Theory of Cyclones, Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 348 



Fayrer (Sir Joseph, F.S.A.): Elected Member of the Royal 

 Italian Society of Hygiene, 323 ; Elected Associate of Paris 

 Academy of Medicine, 351 ; Address in the Section of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine at the Congress of Hygiene, 363 



Fecundation, Morphological Nature of Principle of, Leon 

 Guignard, 168 



Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, 500 



Felkin (Dr. Robert), on Acclimatization, 508 



Fermor (B. E.), on Government Timber Tests, 471 



Ferns, Hand-book of the, of Kaflfraria, T. R. Sim, J. G. 

 Baker, F.R.S., 75 



Ferrel (Prof. Wm.) : Death of, 500 ; Obituary Notice of, 527 



Ferrier (Dr. David, F.R.S.): the Croonian Lectures on 

 Cerebral Localization, 292 ; Presentation of Cameron Prize 

 to, 351 



Festing (General, F.R.S.), Greater Sensitiveness of Eye to 

 Different Colours, Apparatus to show the, 187 



F'icheur (M.), the Eocene Formation of Algeria, 264 



Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, Excursion to Kent Islands, 

 476 



Finger Marks, Method of Indexing, Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 

 141 



Finger Prints as a Means of Identification, Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., 187 



