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Index 



CSuJ>plement to Nature, 

 November 2.^, 1891 



the Proposed Channel Tubular Railway, 509 ; Prof. W 

 Robinson on Petroleum Engines, 509 ; W, H. Preece, 

 F.R.S., on the London and Paris Telephone, 510; Prof. 

 G. Forbes on Electric Motors, 510; A. R. Bennett on 

 Underground Parcels Delivery, 510 ; Major R. de Villamil 

 on^crew Propellers, 510; Mr. Beaumont ou Screw Pro- 

 pellers, 510 

 Section H {Anthropology)— O'^Qxiva.g Address by Prof. F. 

 Max Midler, President of the Section, 428 ; Prof. R. K. 

 Douglas on the Social and Religious Ideas of the Chinese, 

 510 ; Major J. W. Powell on Indian Languages, 511 ; the 

 Marquis of Bute on the Language of Teneriffe, 511; Dr. 

 E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., on Savage Religion, 511 ; S. E. 

 Peal on the Morong of the Natives of Asam, 511; Dr. 

 Garson on Human Remains found in Yorkshire, 511 ; Miss 

 Buckland on the "Mountain Chant," 511 ; Dr. S. A. K. 

 Strahan on Instinctive Criminality, 511 ; E. H. Man on 

 Nicobar Pottery, 512 

 British Earthworms, Identification of Templeton's, Rev. Hil- 



deric Friend, 273 

 British Institute of Preventive Medicine, 86, 97, 124, 301, 323 

 British Medical Association at Bournemouth, Meeting of, 161, 



353 

 British Museum : Specimens of Asiatic Wild Sheep at, 40 ; 

 British Museum in 1890, Decrease in Number of Visitors to, 

 280, 352; Additions to the Bird Department, 451 ; Syste- 

 matic List of the Frederick E. Edwards Collection of British 

 Oligocene and Eocene Mollusca in the, Richard Bullen 

 Newton, 610 

 British Rule, South Africa from Arab Domination to, 564 

 Brocken Spectres in a London Fog, A. W. Clayden, 95 

 Brodle (Fredk. J.), the Recent Epidemic of Influenza, 283 

 Brooks (Prof. W. K.), the Oyster, a Popular Summary of a 



Scientific Study, 490 

 Brown (J. Allen), Technical Education in Middlesex, 65 

 Brown (J. S.), Bernardinite, is it a Mineral or a Fungus?, 310 

 Brunner (T. T., M.P.), Elected President of the Sunday Society, 



135 



Briinnow (Francis), Obituary Notice of, 449 

 Brunton (Dr. T. Lauder, F.R.S.) : Supplement to the Text- 

 book of Pharmacology, 41 ; on the Progress of Medicine, 



327 

 Brussels Academy of Sciences, 24, 240, 312, 440, 560 

 Buchan (Dr.), Barometer at Ben Nevis Observatory in Relation 



to Wind, 167 

 Buckland (Miss), on the " Mountain Chant," 511 

 Buckmaster (Dr.), Leprosy Bacillus cultivated in Serum by, 



161 

 Buckmaster (J. C), County Councils and Technical Education, 



588 

 Buchner (Dr.), Immunity, Natural and Acquired, 420 

 Buda-Peslh Academy of Sciences, Sir J. D. Hooker elected 



Foreign Member of, 257 

 Buller (Sir Walter, F.R.S.) : a Remarkable Characteristic of 



the Wandering Albatross, 502 ; a New Species of Albatross, 



502 

 Bulletin de la Sociele des Naturali&tes de Moscou, 359 

 Buried Cities and Bible Countries, Geo. St. Clair, 540 

 Burmah and Assam, Botanical Survey in, Dr. King, 549 

 Burnham (S. W.), Double-star Observations, 283 

 Burrell (Edward J.), B.Sc. Exam. Lend. Univ. 1892, 565 

 Burton (F. M.), Bees and Honey dew, 343 

 Burton (Sir R. F.), Funeral of, 161 

 Busch (Herr), Variations in Sunset Phenomena, 599 

 Bush Friends in Tasmania, Mrs. L. A. Meredith, 517 

 Bute (Marquis of), on the Language of Teneriffe, 511 

 Butter Export from New South Wales to England, 303 



Cacao in Cultivation in Ceylon, Kinds of, Dr. Trimen, 185 

 Cahours (M.), on the Endowment of Research in France, 17 

 Cailletet (M.), Vapour-tension of Saturated Water-vapour at 



Critical Point, 119 

 Calculus, Differential and Integral, Prof. A. G. Greenhill 



F.R.S., 170 

 Calcutta Indian Museum: Report of, 18; Completion of the 



Catalogue of the Mammals in the, 324 

 Calderwood on Sea Fisheries, 481 

 California : Severe Earthquake in, 206 ; Californian Trees and 



Flowers, 477 ; Hot Winds of, Lieutenant J. P. Finley, 512 

 Calleja (Dr. Camilo), General Physiology, 28 



Cambridge: Philosophical Society, 96, 143, 191 ; Honorary De- 

 grees on Scientific Men, 189 ; University Extension Students 



at, 205 ; the Study of the Classical Languages at, 628 

 Cameron (Donald), a Magnificent Meteor, 343 

 Campbell (Mr.), Record of a Journey in Northern Corea, 233 

 Canada, Geological Survey of, 114 



Canadian Meteorological Service, Report for 1887 of, 136 

 Cape Colony, Meteorology of, 452 



Carbon Dioxide, Production of Solid, Dr. Haussknecht, 42 

 Carbon Monoxide, Physiological Researches on, 392 

 Carbonic Acid Gas produced in Sugar-fermentation in Breweries, 



proposed Utilization of, 303 

 Carbonic Acid, New Rheau of Isotherms of, E. H. Amagat, 



608 

 Cardiff, the Visit of the British Association to, 65, 204, 280, 



371 

 Cardiogram, Displacements of Heart and. Dr. J. B. Haycraft, 



167 

 Carpenter (Dr. Philip Herbert, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 



628 

 Cartography, Map-colouring and. Major J. W. Powell, 506 

 Carulla (Mr.), Curious Phenomena in Melting Besseaier Scraps, 



579 

 Carus (Dr. Paul), the^Soul of Man, 293 

 Carus-Wilson (Cecil), the Production of Musical Notes from 



Non- musical Sands, 322 

 Carus-Wilson (Prof. Charles A.) : the Flying to Pieces of a 



Whirling Ring, 31 ; Instrument for fc.xamining Strains in 



Bent Glass Beams, 187 ; Influence of Surface-loading on 



Flexure of Beams, 261 

 Cat, a Two-legged, Prof. Leon, 600 

 Catbird, Australian, Nest and Eggs of, A. J. North, 207 

 Caucasus, New Glaciers discovered in, 452 

 Cavern in Oregon, Discovery of Enormous Stalactite, 258 

 Caves, Stalactite, in Tasmania, Discovery of, Mr. Morton, 576 

 Cayeux (L.), Diffusion of Three Distinct Forms of Titanium- 

 oxide in Cretaceous Strata of Northern France, 144 

 Cecil (Henry), Earthquake at Bournemouth, 614 

 Census, Results of the Recent, N. A. Humphreys, 161 

 Census, 1891, of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, 



Alleged Worthlessness of, 303 

 Census of India, 18 



Cephalonia, the Climate of, Dr. Partsch, 326 

 Cerebral Localization, the Croonian Lectures on, Dr. David 



Ferrier, F.R S., 292 

 Cetaceans in African Lakes, 124, 198 

 Ceylon, Kinds of Cacao in Cultivation in. Dr. Trimen, F. R.S., 



185 

 Chabry (M.), Pressure which can be produced by Electrolytic 



Generation of Gas, M. Chabry, 577 

 Chamberlin (Prof. T, C), Classification ofthe Glacial Pleistocene 



Deposits, 504 

 Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Vol. VII., 173 

 Channel Tubular Railway, Sir Edward Reed on the Proposed, 



509 

 Channel Tunnel Boring and the Discovery of Coal, Prof. Boyd 



Dawkins, F.R.S., 479 

 Chanute (O.), Chemical Methods of Protecting Railroad-ties 



against Decay, 476 

 Chapman (A. C.), Compounds of Dextrose with the Oxides of 



Nickel, 71 

 Charles (Dr. R. H.), Craniometry of Outcaste Tribes of Panjab, 



576 

 Charpentier (A.), Oscillations ofthe Retina, 311 

 Charpy (Georges), Action of Nitric Acid upon lion, 216 

 Chalin (A.), "Kamme," a New Species of Truffle, 512 

 Chatterton (G.), on Sewerage, 509 

 Chauveau (A.) : on Blending of Separate Chromatic Sensations 



perceived by each of Two Eyes, 488 ; Colour- Sensation 



excited in One Eye by Coloured Light Illuminating Retina 



of other, 536 

 Cheese, Digestibility of Different Kinds of, Herr Klenze, 325 

 Cheeseman (T. F.), the Basking Shark in Nen Zealand Waters, 



576 

 Chemistry : Crystallization of Ammonium Sulphovanadate, Drs. 



Kriiss and Ohnmais, 19 ; Silicon Chlorotribromide, 19 ; 



Compounds formed by Mercuric Chloride, 48 ; a System 



of Inorganic Chemistry, William Ramsay, F.R.S., 50; Che- 



nrical Society, 71, 118, 215, 287; Citraconfluorescein, J. T. 



Hewitt, 71 ; Ethylic Thiacelacetate, Dr. C. T. Sprague, 71 ; 



the Function of Chlorine in Acid Chlorides, Prof. H. E. 



