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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 December 



1893 



Austen (Prof. Roberts), Effect of Small Quantities of Foreign 

 Matter on the Properties of Metal«, 402 



Australia : Discovery of Australian-like Mammals in South 

 America, R. Lydekker, 11 ; the Spread of Foxes in 

 Australia, 15 ; F. W. Ward's Report on the relations of 

 Fruit Production in New South Wales to the English Market, 

 39 ; Photographs of Coral Reefs and Marine Fauna of Great 

 Barrier District of, W. Saville-Kent, 45 ; Excursion of 

 Victoria Field Naturalists' Club to the Grampians, 6^^ ; 

 the Sanderling in Australasia, Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R. S., 

 177; Australian Crustacea : a Tube-dwelling Amphipod 

 [Cerapus flindersi) from Port Jackson, Charles Chilton, 178 ; 

 Australian Mud Springs, Prof. Edgeworth David, 256 ; Fruit 

 Culture in Australia, 494 ; the Great Barrier Reef of Aus- 

 tralia, W. Saville-Kent, 523 ; the Improvement of the 

 Potato in Australia, 617 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Workshop Ballistic and other 

 shielded Galvanometers, 214 



Azoimide, N3H, Inorganic Synthesis of, A. E. Tutton, 286 



Babes (V.), Carceag, an Enzootic Disease of the Sheep in 



Roumania, 436 

 Backhouse (T. W.), Numbering the Hours of the Day, 392; 



the Present Comets, 561 

 Bacteriology : Structure of Bacterial Cells, W. K. Wahrlich, 

 39 ; a New Bacterium {Nevskia ramosa), A. Famintzin, 68 ; 

 Micro-organisms in their Relation to Chemical Change, Prof. 

 Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 135 ; the Nitric Organisms, R. 

 Warington, F.R.S., 151 ; Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 

 200 ; Bacteriologisches Practicum zur Einfiihrung in die 

 practischwichtigen bacteriologischen Untersuchungsmethoden 

 fiir Aerzte, Apotheker, Studirende, Dr. W. Migula, Mrs. 

 Grace C. Frankland, 198 ; the Phylacogenic Substance in 

 Ordinary Liquid Cultivations of Bacillus anthracis, M. 

 Arloing, 240 ; Action of Heat on Tuberculous Matter, Prof. 

 T. Forster, 263 ; Development of Bacteria in a temperature 

 of Melting Ice, Prof. T. Forster, 264 ; Culture of Nitrification 

 Organisms, M. Beyerinck, 264 ; Fermentation of Arabinose 

 by Bacillus ethaceticus, P. F. Frankland and J. Macgregor, 

 311 ; Bacterian Origin and Bilious Fever of Hot Countries, 

 Domingos Freire, 460 ; Ptomaine obtained from Cultivation 

 of Micrococcus tetragenus, A. B. Griffiths, 508 ; a New 

 Chemical Function of the Comma-Bacillus of Asiatic 

 Cholera, 436 

 Baddeleyite and Geikielite, two New Mineral Species, L. 



Fletcher, F.R.S., 620 

 Bailey (Dr. G. H.), Impurities of Town Air, 402 

 Bailey (Alderman W. H.), Paris Free Libraries, 617 

 Baily (Walter), the Construction of a Colour Map, 23 

 Baker (H. B.), Action of Light on Silver Chloride, 189; In- 

 vestigation of the Phenomena which accompany the burning 

 of Carbon and Phosphorus in Oxygen, 431 

 Baker (J. G.), Asters and Perennial Sunflowers, 14 

 Baker (J. L.), Studies on Isomeric Change, iv. : Halogen 



Derivatives of Quinone, ii., 142 

 Baldwin (James Mark), Hand-book of Psychology : Feeling 



and Will, i 

 Ball (E. J.), the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 115 

 Ball (Sir Robt. S., F.R.S.), In Starry Realms, 315 

 Ball (W. W. Rouse), a Newtonian Fragment on Centripetal 

 Forces, 71 ; Mathematical Recreations and Problems of Past 

 and Present Times, 123 

 Ballou (S. M.), the Eye of the Storm, 435 

 Baltic, the Storms of the, B. von Nasackin, 521 

 Baltic, Hydrography of the Kattegat and. Prof. Pettersson, 



408 

 Baltimore, Report of Peabody Institute, 398 

 Bangor, University College of. North Wales, Agricultural Edu- 

 cation at, 474 

 Baousse Rousse Caves, the Marquis de Nadaillay, 574 

 Bar of Iron, Propagation of Magnetic Impulses along a, V. A. 



Julius, 392 

 Barbados, the Geology of, A. J. Jukes Brown and J. B. 



Harrison, 59 

 Barnard (E. E.), Variable Nebulae, 211; a New Nebulous 

 Star, 2'9 ; Nova Aurigse, 496 ; a new Comet discovered by, 

 597; Barnard Comet (October 12), 619; Jupiter's Fifth 

 Satellite, 620 

 Barometer, a New Mercury-Glycerine, Dr. J. Joly, 71 

 Barometer, a High, Rain with, Robt. M. W. Swan, 442 



Barrows (A. E.), Estimation of Slaa; in Wrought Iron, 189 

 Barter (.S.), Manual Instruction ; Wood work ; the English 



Sloyd, 244 

 Barus (C. ), Change of Heat Conductivity on passing Isothermally 



from Solid to Liquid, 310 * 

 Basalt Cavern at Mont Dore, Curious, M. Martel, 400 

 Bashforth (Rev. F.), Calculation of Trajectories of Elongated 



Projectiles, 366 

 Bassett (A. B., F.R.S.), Reflection and Refraction of Light 



from a Magnetized Transparent Medium, 191 ; A Treatise 



on Physical Optics, Arthur Schuster, 267 ; Bassett's Physical 



Optics, 315 ; Modern Dynamical Methods, 516 

 Basset (Lieut. W. B.), Ingenious Coin-counting Machine in the 



Royal Mint, 430 

 Bassett-Smith (P. W.), the Deep Sea Deposits of the Eastern 



Archipelago, 69 

 Batalin (Dr. A. F.), Appointed Director of Botanic Garden at 



St. Petersburg, 107 

 Bateson (William), the Alleged "Aggressive Mimicry" of 



Volucella, 585 

 Bather (F. A.), an International Zoological Record, 417 ;, 



Brachiopoden der Alpinen Trias, A. Bittner, 25 

 Bayard (F. C), English Climatology, 1881-90, 191 

 Bayley (C. C), a Fireball, 62 

 Bear, an Albino, caught in Yezo, 493 

 Beard (Dr. J.), on Larvse and their Relations to Adult Forms, 



404 

 Bearings, Anti-Friction Material for, used without Lubrication, 



Killingworth Hedges, 430 

 Beck (C. R.), Platinous Chloride as a Source of Chlorine, 22 

 Beddard (F. E., F.R.S.), a New Branchiate Oligochaete {Bran- 



chitira sowerbyi), 338 ; Animal Coloration : an Account of 



the Principal Facts and Theories Relating to the Colours and 



Markings of Animals, Edward B. Poulton, F.R. S., 533 

 Bees : Amount of Honey needed to enable them to secrete a 



Pound of Wax, A. J. Cook, 255 

 Bees for Pleasure and Profit, G. Gordon Samson, W. Tuckwell, 



510 

 Behrens (Mr), the Microscopic Structure of Alloys, 72 ; Prof. 



W. Spring's Brass made by Compression, 216 

 Belgium, the Telephone System in, 399 

 Belgium, the Royal Belgian Society of Geography and the Local 



Geography of, 301 

 Bell (Sir Lowthian), the Manufacture of Iron in its Relations 



with Agriculture, 525 

 Bell (Mr.), Glacial Papers, 428 

 Bell (J. Montgomerie), Pre-Palseolithic Flints, 432 

 Bellew (H. W.), Death of, 331. 

 Belopolsky (A.), Nova Aurigae, 552, 576 

 Bemmelen (M. van), the Existence of the Crystalline Hydrate of 



FegOg, 628 

 Benedikt (Dr.), Criminal Anthropology, 433 

 Bengal, Lower, a Handbook on the Management of Animals in 



Captivity in, Ram Hramha Sanyal, 314 

 Benham (W. Blaxland), Note on the Occurrence of a Freshwater 



Nemertine in England, 611 

 Bennett (Alfred W.), Protection against Rain in the Elder, 



201 

 Bent (J. Theodore), on the Present Inhabitants of Mashonaland 



and their Origin, 432 

 Bergbohm (Dr. Julius), Neue Rechnungsmethoden der Hoheren 



Mathematik, 199 ; Neue Integrationsmethoden auf Grund 



der Potenzial-,Logarithmal -und Numeralrechnung, 199 

 Bergen, New^ Marine Biological Station at, 548 

 Berillon (Dr.), Hysterical Amaurosis, 363; Hypnotism in Educa- 

 tion, 364 

 Berlin Geographical Society, 369 

 Berlin Meteorological Society, 120 

 Berlin Physical Society, 263 

 Berlin Physiological Society, 96, 168, 263, 340 

 Bernard (Henry), Are the Solpugidse Poisonous? 223 r The 



Apodidse : a Morphological Study, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., 267 ; the Apodidas— a Reply, 366 

 Bernheim (Prof.), Hysterical Amaurosis, 363 

 Berthelot(M.), Employment of Calorimetric Shell, 339 ; Heat 



of Production by some Chlorine Compounds, 436; Persul- 



phuric Acid and the Persulphates, 575 

 Bertrand-Geslin (Baron), Tanning with Chestnut Wood, 617 

 Besant (W. H., F.R.S.), Elementary Hydrostatics, 172 

 Beyerinck (M.), Culture of Nitrification Organisms, 264 



