Index 



V Supplement to Nature, 

 L December z, 1892 



son, 429 ; Mechanical System for the Distribution of Parcels, 

 D. Cunningham, 429 ; Electric Locomotives, Alex. Siemens, 

 429 ; a Tide-Motor, F. Purdon and H. E. Walters, 429 ; 

 Marine Machinery at Glasgow, 430 ; Necessity for Connec- 

 tion between Stack Pipes and Earth, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 

 430 ; Power Transmission by Alternating Current, Gisbert 

 Kapp, 430; New Design of Electric Locomotive, E. H. 

 Woods, 430 : Ingenious Coin-Counting Machine in the Royal 

 Mint, Lieut. W. B. Basset, 430 ; Anti-Friction Material for 

 Bearings used without Lubrication, Killingworth Hedges, 



430 ; Petroleum Engines for Fog Signalling, D. A. Steven- 

 son, 430 ; Influence of Acoustic Clouds, David Cunningham, 

 430; Sound- Carrying Power of Water, A. R. Sennett, 430; 

 on the Progress of the Dioptric Lens as used in Lighthouse 

 Illumination, C. A. Stevenson, 431, 514; Smoke Preven- 

 tion, A. R. Sennett, 431 ; Col. E. Dulier, 431 ; Investi- 

 gation of the Phenomena which Accompany the Burning of 

 Carbon and Phosphorus in Oxygen, H. Brereton Baker, 



431 ; Fire Extinction on Board Ship, H. C. Carver, 432 ; 

 Magnetic Induction, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S. , 552 



Medical Association, British, Sixteenth Annual Meeting, 298 



Medicine, Atlas of Clinical, Byrom Bramwell, 389 



Mediterranean, Varying Colours of the Waters of the, 84 



Melander (G. ), Expansion of Gases at Low Pressures, 602 



Melanesian Submarine Plateau, the, an Alleged Submerged 

 Continent, C. Hedley, 574 



Melbourne, Royal Society of, Victoria, 239 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Ethylene Derivatives of Diazo- 

 amido Compounds, 189 ; New Method of Determining 

 Number of NH, Groups in certain Organic Bases, 311 ; Coal 

 Tar Colouring Matter, Gustav Schultz and Paul Julius, 313 ; 

 a Modern Revival of Prout's Hypothesis, Henry Wilde, 

 F.R.S., 568 



Meldrum (Dr. C, F.R.S.), the Hurricane in Mauritius, 128 



Mendip Valley, a, its Inhabitants and Surroundings, Theodore 

 Compton, 268 



Menke (Dr. Theodor), Death of, 302 



Mental Arithmetic, G. Daehne, 247 



Mercator Chart, to Draw a, on One Sheet Representing the 

 Whole of any Complexly Continuous Closed Surface, Lord 

 Kelvin, P.R.S., 541 



Mercator's Projection, Generalization of. Performed by Aid of 

 Electrical Instruments, Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 490 



Mercurial Pump, Bumping in the Lane Fox, 394 



Mercury Mining in Russia, 86 



Mercury, Thermal Variation of Electrical Resistance of, C. E. 

 Guillaume, 508 



Merriman (Prof. Mansfield), a Text-book on Retaining Walls 

 and Masonry Dams, 415 



Meslans (M. Maurice), Acet}'! Fluoride prepared by, 40; the 

 Nature and Chemical Behaviour of Acetyl Fluoride, 63 



Metallurgy ; the Development of American Armour-plate, F. 

 L. Garrison, 86 ; Sir F. Abel's Presidential Address to the 

 Iron and Steel Institute, iii ; Experiments with Basic Steel, 

 W. H, White, F.R.S., 114; the Production of Pure Iron in 

 the Basic Furnace, Colonel H. S. Dyer, J 14 ; the Elimination 

 of Sulphur from Iron, Ball and Wingham, 115, E. Saniter, 

 J. A. Stead, 527 ; Platinum Pyrometers, H. L. Callendar, 

 115; Prof. W. Spring's Brass made by Compression, Mr. 

 Behrens, 216; Metallic Carbonyl<, Ludwig Mond, P'. R.S., 

 230 ; on the Carburization of Iron, John Parry, 283 ; Experi- 

 ments on the Electric Resistance of Metallic Powders, Dr. 

 Dawson Turner, 384 ; Effect of Small Quantities of Foreign 

 Matter on the Properties of Metals, Prof. Roberts Austen, 

 402 ; the Manufacture of Iron in its Relations with Agri- 

 culture, Sir Lowthian Bell, 525 ; an Apparatus for Auto- 

 graphically Recording the Temperature of Furnaces, Prof. W. 

 C. Roberts- Austen, 526 ; the Alloys of Iron and Chromium, 

 R. A. Hadfield, 526 ; Failures in the Necks of Chilled 

 Rolls, C. A. Winder, 527 ; a New Chain-making (the 

 "Triumph") Machine, 527 



Meteorology : the General Circulation of the Atmosphere, J. 

 Carrick Moore, F.R.S., 7 ; the Week's Weather, 13, 38, 61, 

 85, 108, 132, 159, 177, 209, 227, 254, 277, 299, 332, 361, 

 369. 399» 420, 449, 473. 493. 521, 54», 573. 594. 616 ; a New 

 England Weather Service, 14 ; New Meteorological Obser- 

 vatories at Chaman and Murree (India), 14 ; Magnetic Storm 

 of February in the Mauritius, 20; Terrible Hurricane (April 

 29, 1892), in Mauritius, 84, 108; Dr. C. Meldrum, F.R.S., 

 Mr. Jerningham, 277 ; Means of Producing Rain 



Artificially, M. Faye, 24 ; Anticyclone over British Islands 

 and Atlantic, 38 ; Pilot Chart of North Atlantic for April, 

 38, 493 ; Two New Russian Monthly Meteorological Bulletins, 

 38 ; Remarkable Auroras Boreales over Moscow, 39 ; Aurora 

 Borealis, Warington Stock, 79 ; Henry Harries, 391 ; Aurora, 

 James Porter, 151 ; a Fireball, C. C Bayley, 62 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Society's Hints to Meteorological Observers, 62 ; 

 Meteorological Service of Canada, Report from Oct. i, 1890, to 

 Oct. 31, 1 89 1, 62 ; Tidal Phenomenon at Kiungchow, Hainan, 

 China, E. H. Parker, 63 ; Magnetic Variations, William 

 Ellis, 67 ; Transmission of Sunlight through Earth's 

 Atmosphere, ii ; Scattering at Different Altitudes, 69 ; a 

 New Mercury-Glycerine Barometer, Dr. J. Joly, 71 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Work for Agricultural Institutions, Pamphlet issued 

 by Washington (U.S.) Weather Bureau, 85; Rainfall 

 Observations (1890) in East .Indian Archipelago, 85; 

 Observations (1890) at Batavia Observatory, 85; on some 

 Phenomena Connected with Cloudy Condensation, 

 John Aitken, F.R.S., 90; Raindrops. E.J. Lowe, F.R.S., 

 95 ; Comparison of Richard's Anemo-cinemographe with 

 Standard Beckley Anemograph at Kew Observatory, G. M. 

 Whipple, 95 ; Levels of River Vail at Kimberley, South 

 Africa, compared with Rainfall of Watershed, W. B. Tripp, 

 95 ; Miss Doberck appointed Assistant Meteorologist at 

 Hong Kong, 108 ; Destructive Cyclone in Kansas, 108 ; Fall 

 of Hail and Dust in Sweden and Norway, 108 ; Brilliant 

 Meteor over Tiflis, 108 ; Observations on Anomalies of Tem- 

 perature in Germany, based on Synoptic Weather-Charts, 

 Dr. Schwalbe, 120 ; the Height of the Nacreous Cloud of 

 January 30, J. Edmund Clark, 127 ; Notes on the Climate 

 of the British Isles, R. H. Scott, 132 ; Devastation by 

 Storm of the Petroleum District, Pennsylvania, 133 ; Con- 

 tributions to Knowledge of Saharian Climate, G. Rolland, 

 144 ; another Blow to the Ascent Theory of Cyclones, M. 

 Faye, 144 ; the Meteorological Council Tables of Improved 

 Means of Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine, 159 ; Dr. J. 

 Hann's Further Researches into the Daily Oscillations of the 

 Barometer, 159 ; a Second Attempt to Build an Observatory 

 on Mount Blanc, 159 ; Icebergs in the Atlantic, 160 ; Ice 

 in the South Atlantic, Robert H. Scott, F.R.S,, 173 ; Capt. 

 Edgar H. Andrew, 173 ; Solar Observations during First 

 Quarter of 1892, M. Tacchini, 167 ; Diurnal Fluctuations of 

 Atmospheric Pressure in United States, General A. W. 

 Greely, 177; Royal Meteorological Society, 191 ; English 

 Climatology, 1881-90, F. C. Bayard, 191 ; Mean Daily 

 Temperature at Greenwich on Average of Fifty Years, 1841- 

 1890, W. Ellis, 191 ; L'Atmosphere, a new Meteorological 

 Journal, 209 ; a Solar Halo, J. Edmund Clark, 222 ; Wash- 

 ington Weather Bureau Report for last Six Months of 1891, 

 228 ; Stags Smothered by Snow in Scotland last Winter, 

 228 ; American Meteorological Journal, 235, 435, 483 ; 

 Meteorology in the Schools, Prof. W. M. Davis, 235 ; 

 Thunderstorms in New England during 1886, R. de C. 

 Ward, 235 ; Storm of March 1-4, 1892. J. W. Smith, 235 ; 

 Flood-stage River Predictions, Prof. T. Russell, 235 ; Snow- 

 storms at Chicago, A. B. Crane, 235 ; Climate and Meteoro- 

 logy of Death Valley, California, 255 ; Deutsche Seewarte 

 Meteorological Observations at Distant Stations, iv., 255 ; 

 Dr. Etienne's Meteorological Observations at Banana, Africa, 

 255 ; Diurnal Variations of Summer Barometric Readings 

 in Polar Regions, Dr. Buchan, 262 ; Luminous Clouds, W. 

 Clement Ley, 294 ; Invitation to Observe the Luminous Night 

 Clouds, W. Foerster and Prof. O. Jesse, 575, 589 ; Pubbli- 

 cazioni of the Vatican Observatory, vol. ii. , 299 ; Varia- 

 tions of Temperature and Rainfall at Different Heights, Prof. 

 J. Bute, 299 ; Project of Atlantic Ocean Observatories, Prince 

 of Monaco, 312 ; the Sonnblick Observatory, 332 ; Aurora in 

 Canada, 361 ; Dr. R. Assmann's Aspiration Apparatus, 361 ; 

 Report of Director of Hong Kong Observatory, 361 ; British 

 Rainfall for 1891, 399 ; the Devonshire Blizzard of 1891, 

 399 ; Summary of Climate of British Empire for 189 1, 399 ; 

 Detailed Oceanography and Meteorology, 407 ; Advantages 

 to Meteorology and Navigation of daily telegraphing 

 Atmospheric Conditions of the North Atlantic to Europe, 

 Prince of Monaco, 407 ; Investigations of New E'gland 

 Meteorological Society, 420 ; Tornado of July 26, 1890, at 

 St. Lawrence (Mass.), Helen Clayton, 420 ; Rainfall at 

 Trinidad for Thirty Years ending 1891, F. H. Hart, 420 ; 

 Appearance and Progressive Motion of Cyclones in Indian 

 Region, W. L. Dallas, 435 ; the Eye of the Storm, 



