XVI 



Index 



[SuppU>nent to Nature, 

 December \ 



1892 



Dawson (Sir J. W., F. R. S.), Fossil Entomology of Nova 



Scotia, 236 

 Day, Numbering the Hours of the, T. W. Backhouse, 392 

 Daytime Seeini^ at the Liclc Observatory, Henry Crew, 465 

 De la Rive (M.), Production of Hertz Oicillator Spirk in 



Liquid Dielectric instead of Air, 532 

 Deacon (G. F.), Shield Tunneling in Loose Ground, 429 

 Deadman (H. E.), Electricity in Navy, 337 

 Death from Paraffia and Members of Parliament, 223 

 Debatable Land, a ; Plants or Animals? George Massee, 365 

 Declination, the Discovery of Line of No, W. de Fonvielle, 532 

 Declinations of Star.i for Reduction of Variations in Latitude, 



65 

 Deduction, Induction and, E. E. Constance Jones, 293, 586 ; 



Fiancis C. Russell, 586 

 DefForges (G), Measurement of Absolute Intensity of Gravity 



at Breteuil, 288 

 Deformation of the Earth's Crust, on the Causes of the, Prof. 



E. Reyer, 224 ; T. Mellard Reade, 315 

 Deherain (P. P.), Utilization of Stripped Autumn Plants as Green 



Manure, 364 

 Deiiipeia pulchella caught near Southampton, the rare crim son 



speckled, 160 

 Delauney (M.), the Acceleration of Mortality in France, 168 

 Delboeuf (Prof. ), Power of Somnambulist of judging Time, 363 

 Demontzey (P.), the Lava of July 12, 1892, St. Gervais 



Catastrophe, 387 

 Denay (Dr.), the Oviparity of the large Victorian Peripatus, 239 

 Denning (W. F.), Comet II. 1892 (Denning, March 18), 65, 



541, 551 ; the Perseids, 371 ; Discovery of a Fifth Satellite 



to Jupiter, 492 ; the Red Spot on Jupiter, 391 ; Comets of 



Brorsen (1846 VII.) and Brooks (1892 "^"), 514 

 Density of Nitrogen, Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S., 512 

 Denza (Prof.), Photographs of the Lyra Ring Nebula, 41 

 Depth of Water in a River, an Acoustic Method whereby the, 



may be measured at a Distance, Fred. J. Smith, 246 

 Deslaadres (M.), New Results as to Hydrogen, obtained by 



Spectroscopic Study of the Sun, 340 ; Hydrogen Spectrum in 



the Solar Atmosphere, 401 

 Despeignes (M.), Eirth>vorms and Tuberculosis, 263 

 Dessoir (Dr.), the Sense of Temperature, 340 

 Determination of the Constant of Aberration, Prof. G. C. 



Comstock, 41 

 Deutsche Seewarte Meteorological Observations at Distant 



Stations, 255 

 Devaux (H.), Ants and Saccharine, 573 

 Diabetes, Pancreatic, Lancereaux and Thiroloix, 412 

 Diamonds, Hardness of, not Perceptibly reduced by Cutting 



and Polishing, W. A. Rogers, 257 

 Dickson (H. V.), Physical Condition of the Waters of the 



English Channel, 384 

 Dictionary (Watts') of Chemistry, Forster Morley and M. M. 



Pattison Muir, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F. K. S., 242 

 Dielectric of Condensers, on the, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 385 

 Diet, a Farinaceous, the Effect on Animals of. Prof. Voit, 618 

 Dietetic Value of Bread, John Goodfellow, 54 

 Dioptric Lens, Notes on the Progress of the, as used in Light- 

 house Illumination, Chas. A. Stevenson, 431, 514 

 Disinfection, Contributions to the Study of, Prof. J. Maschek, 



Mrs. Percy Frankland, 613 

 Disks on Axis Rotating at High Speeds, Prof. Neesen's Re- 

 searches on Notion of Loose, 168 

 Dispersion in Double Refraction due to Electric Stress, Dr. 



John Kerr on, 385 

 Distant (W. L), Protective Resemblance, 254 ; the White 



Rhinoceros, 29 ; are the Solpugidas Poisonous ? 247 

 Distribution of Energy, Maxwell's Law of, Rev. H. W. Watson, 



F.R.S., and S. H. Burbury, F. R.S., loo 

 Dixon (A. E.), Chemistry of Compounds of Thiourea and 



Thiocarbamides with Aldehyde-ammonia, 23 ; Action of 



Bromine on Allylthiocarbimide, 190 

 Dixon (Edward T.), the Grammar of Science, 269 ; the Limits 



of Animal Intelligence, 392 

 Dixon (H. H.) Mode of Walking of the Arthropoda, 167 

 Dobbie (J. J.), Corydaline, ii., 190 

 Doberck (Mis-), Appointed Assistant Meteorologist at Hong 



Kong, 108 

 D )ckyard, Portsmouth, Shipbuilding in, W. H. White, F.R.S., 



337 ; Lifting and Hiuling Appliances in, J. T. Corner, 338 

 Dogs, Tuberculous Vaccination of, Hericourt and Richet, 168 



Dohrn's (the late Dr. C. A.), Entomological Collections, 6i6- 

 Donaldson (Dr.), Investigation of Laura Bridgman's Brain, 



364 

 Donnenberg (E. G.), the Dra Dwarfs, 616 

 Double Star Measures, S. W. Burnham, 496 

 Double Star Observations, Prof. Asaph Hall, 524 

 Douglas (Prof. R. K.), the Social and Religious Ideas of the 

 Chinese, as Illustrated in the Ideographic Characters of the 

 Language, 23 

 Douliot (Henri), Death of, 548 

 Dove (H. S.), Aurora Australis, 368 

 Drygalski (Dr. von), German Scientific Expedition to West 



Greenland under, 38 

 Dublin Royal Society, 167 



Dublin, University of ; Tercentenary Celebration, 203 

 Dugong, Australian, on the Skeleton and Teeth of the, Prof. 



G. B. Howes and J. Harrison, 406 

 Dulcitol Group, Prof. Emil Fischer on the Constitution of the, 



16 

 Duller (Col. E.), Smoke Prevention, 431 

 Dundee Antarctic Whaling Expedition, Sailing of the, 477 

 Duner (Prof.), Light Variations of 7-Cygni, 87, 134 

 Dunn (Matthias), Pilchards and Blue Sharks, 368 

 Dunstan (W. R.), the Existence of two Acetaldoximes, 94, 312 ; 



Action of Paraffin Nitrites on Mu-;cular Tissue, 339 

 Duparc (Prof.) Theory of Cause of St. Gervais Disaster, 299 

 Duquesnay (M.), Resistance des Materiaux, 221 

 Dust Storm at Sea, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 128 

 Dwarfs, the Dra, E. G. Donnenberg, 616 

 Dwelshauvers-Dery (V.) Etude experimentale calorimetrique de 



la Machine a Vapeur, 221 

 Dybowski (M.), Return of, 301 



Dyeing, Silk, Printing, and Finishing, Geo. H. Hurst, 75 

 Dyer (Col. H. S.), the Production of Fine Iron in the Basic 



Furnace, 114 

 Dymond (T. S.), the Existence of Two Acetaldoximes, 94, 312 

 Dynamics : Dynamics of Rotation : an Elementary Introduc- 

 tion to Rigid Dynamics, A. M. Worthington, 4 ; Spinning 

 Tops, John Perry, 4 ; Maxwell's Law of Distribution of En- 

 ergy, Rev. H. W. Watson, F.R.S., and S. H. Burbury, 

 F.R.S., 100 ; the Elementary Part of a Treatise on the Dyna- 

 mics of a System of Rigid Bodies, E. J. Routh, F. R.S., Prof. 

 A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 145 ; Key to J. B. Lock's Elementary 

 Dynamics, G. H. Lock, 173 ; Weight, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 

 F. R.S., 247 ; Key to Elementary Dynamics, S. L. Loney, 268 ; 

 Dynamo- Electric Machinery, Prof. A. Gray, F. R. S., 296 ; on 

 Graphic Solutions of Dynamical Problems, Lord Kelvin, 

 F. R.S., 385 ; Reduction of Every Problem of Two Freedoms 

 in Conservative Dynamics to the Drawing of Geodetic Lines 

 on a Surface of Given Scientific Curvature, 386 ; Direct 

 Determination of the Gravitative Constant by means of a 

 Tuning-fork ; a Lecture Experiment, A. M. Worthington, 

 490 ; Determination of G by means of a Tuning-fork, A. M. 

 Worthington, 561 ; Modern Dynamical Methods, A. B. Bas- 

 set, 516 ; to Draw a Mercator Chart on One Sheet Represent- 

 ing the whole of any Complexly Continuous Closed Surface, 

 Lord Kelvin, P. R.S., 541 

 Dyson (F. W.), the Polential of an Anchor-ring, 92 



Ear, on a Use of the External, Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S., 



404 



Earth, the Motion of the Ether near the. Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, 

 F.R.S., 497 



Earth Current Storms in 1892, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 385 



Earth- Fractures and Mars "Canals," Prof. G. A. Lebour, 

 611 



Earth's Crust, on the Causes of the Deformation of the. Prof. 

 E. Reyer, 224 : T. Mellard Reade, 315 



Eaith's Physical History, the Microscope's Contributions to the, 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 180 



Earthquakes : the Great Earthquake in Japan, 1891, 34 ; Earth- 

 quake in West Cornwall, 61 ; at Madras, 109 : in Italy, 132 ; 

 in Guadalajara, 209 ; the Recent Earthquakes, Chas. Davison, 

 401 ; an Earthquake Investigation Committee, D. Kikuchi, 

 418 ; Earthquake at Huelva, 548 ; Earthquakes in Roumania 

 and Servia, 594 ; the New Zealand System of Earthquake 

 Observation, G. Hogben, 594 



Earthworms, New British, Rev. Hilderic Friend, 621 



Earthworms and Tuberculosis, Lortet and Despeignes, 263 



