XVI 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Designs, Alfred C. Haddon, E. Sidney Hartland, 169; 

 Evolution of Cultivated Plants, L. H. Bailey, Dr. Maxwell 

 T. Masters, F.R.S., 363 ; Nature v. Natural Selection, 

 Charles Clement Coe, 386 ; Darwin and After Darwin, G. J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S., 409; Evolution and Man's Place in 

 Nature, Prof. . Henry Calderwood, 435 ; Handbuch der 

 palaarktischen Gross-Schmetterlinge fiir Forscher und 

 Sammler, Dr. M. Standfuss, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 506 ; the 

 Primary Factors of Organic Evolution, Prof. E. D. Cope, 

 Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 553 ; the Present Evolution 

 of Man, C. Archdall Reid, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 

 553 : Animal Temperature in the Problems of Evolution, M. 

 Quinton, 600 



Ewart (A. J.), Assimilatory Inhibition in Plants, 191 



Ewing's (Prof. J. A., P'.R.S.) Magnetic Researches, Lord 

 Kelvin, 114 ; the Stress in Magnetised Iron, 316 



Excitable Tissues, the Physiology of the. Prof. W. Biedermann, 

 Prof. F. Gotch, F.R.S., 457 



Expert Witness, the, 583 



Explosives : Geschichte der Explosivstoffe, S. J. von Romocki, 

 505 ; the Manufacture of Explosives, Oscar Guttmann, 505 



Eye, Inflammation of, caused by Hair of Lasiocampa rubi 

 Larvae, 406 



Falling Bodies, Apparatus illustrating Laws of, K. Hrabowski, 



227 

 Family Data, Prof. Karl Pearson, 557 

 Fariot (Eugene), Death of, 517 

 Farm Foods, or the Rational Feeding of Farm Animals, Emil 



V. Wolff, 53 

 Fava (Prof. F. R.), Death of, 562 

 Fawrel (G.), Action of Sodio-Cyanacetates of Propyl, Butyl and 



Amyl on Diazobenzene Chloride, 600 

 Fawsitt (C. A.), Peroxide of Hydrogen as an Antiseptic, 501 

 Feeding Ground of the Herring, the, W. L. Calderwood, 54 ; 



Capt. Alexander Turbyne, 129 

 Feeding, Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of, Hiram M. 



Stanley, 313 

 Feigl (Hermann), the Religion of the Chinese, 493 

 Feilden (Col. H. W.), Glacial Geology of Kolguev Island, 



143 

 Femora, Large Human, in the Church of S. Eustachius, 



Tavistock, Worthington G. Smith, 152 

 Fenyi (Father), Two Remarkable Solar Prominences, 495 

 Feree (J.), Amalgams and Properties of Metallij Molybdenum, 



528 

 Fergusson (S. P. ), Anemometer Comparisons, 611 

 Fermentation, Practical Studies in, Prof. Emil Chr. Hansen, 



530 

 Fern Growing, E. J. Lowe, F. R.S., 3 

 Ferrand (M.), a New Series of Sulphophosphides, 624 

 Fessenden (Prof. Reginald A.l, a New Method of Measuring 



Temperature, 244 

 Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, the, Prof. Barnard, 495 

 Finger Prints : the Papillary Ridges on Monkeys' Hands and 



Feet, Dr. D. Hepburn, 36 ; Prints of Scars, Dr. Francis 



Galton, F.R.S., 295; the Antiquity of the Finger- Print 



Method, Kumagusu Minakata, 317 

 Finsen (Dr. N. F.\ the Treatment of Small-pox by Non-Actinic 



Light, 134 

 Fireball, Personal Injury from a. Prof Geo. M. Minchin, 



F.R.S., 5 

 Fireball of November 22, 134 ; W. F. Denning, 102 ; R. T. 



Lewis, 102 

 Firth (O.), Remarkable Sounds, 197 

 Fischer (Dr.), Thunderstorm of Sept. 30, 1895, 288 

 Fish : the Feeding Ground of the Herring, W. L. Calderwood, 



54; Ct.pt. A. Turbyne, 129; Food Fishes, Hatching and 



Rearing, Harold Dannevig, 117 ; Developement of the 



Turbot, Prof. Mcintosh, 118; Fishes, Living and Fossil, 



Bashford Dean, 485 ; the Undersized Plaice Question, J. T. 



Cunningham, 204 ; Statistics of United Kingdom Sea Har- 

 vest for 1895, 518 ; Scientific Investigations (1894) of Fishery 



Board for Scotland, 117 

 Fisher (Mr.), Tests applied to Standard Clark Cells, 472 

 Fisher (Rev. O.), the Cause of an Ice Age, 295 

 Fitzgerald (Prof., G. F., F.R.S.), the Chemical Society's Helm- 



holtz Memorial Lecture, 296 ; Ostwald's Energetics, 441, 



487 ; Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 615 



Flamant(M.), M. Auric's suggested Alteration of Gregorian 



Leap-year Rule, 263 

 Flames, Sensitive, E. Bouty, 407 

 Flanery (David), Remarkable Meteor, 612 

 Flather (John F.), Rope Driving, 219 

 Flax "Retting" dependent on Bacteriological Action, Prof, 



Winogradsky, 400 

 Fleming (Mrs.), a New Star in Centaurus, 256 ; New Variable 



Stars, 519 

 Fleming ( Prof. ), Analytical Study of Alternating Current Arc, 



430 ; the Edison Electrical Effect, 526 

 Fletcher (L.), an Introduction to the Study of Rocks, 28 

 Fletcher (L., F.R.S. ), Physikalische Krystallographie und 



Einleitung in die Krystallographische Kenntniss der Wichti- 



geren Substanzen, P. Groth, 289 

 Flexion, Walking and Running £«, MM. Comte and Regnault, 



407 

 Flight of Birds across the Moon's Disc, Robert H. West, 131 

 Flight and Flying Machines, Dr. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 420 

 Flora, the Age of the Present Canadian, A. T. Drummond, 



391 

 Flora of Zerafshan, M. Komarofif, 496 

 Flore de I'lle de la Reunion (Bourbon), E. Jacob de Cordemoy, 



W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 170 

 Florence, Dr. M. Baratta on the Florentine Earthquake, 278 

 Florida Expedition, Mr. Cushing's, 159 

 Flower (Sir William), Museums, 106 



Fluorescence of Sodium and Potassium Vapours, and the im- 

 portance of these facts in Astrophysics, Drs. E. Wiedeman 



and G. C. Schmidt, 250 

 Fluorescent Screens, Radiographs by. Dr. L. Bleekrode*, 557 ; 



J. William Gifford, 557 

 Fly Disease, the Tsetse, Walter F. R. Blandford, 566 

 Flying, Lilienthal's Experiments on, 300 ; Experiments with 



Soaring Machines, Percy S. Pilcher, 365 

 Fog Scale, a, Alfred O. Walker, 249 

 Fog Signals, on the Audibility of, at Sea, F. E. Fowle, 6 ; Prof. 



II. A. Hazen, 309 

 Fog Signals and Meteorology, Prof. H. Hazen, 23 

 Fogs, Differences between, R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 215 

 Folk-Lore : the Story of the " Wandering Jew," Kumagusu 



Minakata, 78 ; the Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, 



E. A. Wallis Budge, 483 ; Folk-Lore of South Slavs, Dr. 



Krauss, 472 ; Indo-Germanic Weather Superstitions, Prof. 



Hellmann, 575 ; Megalithic Folk-Lore, S. E. Peal, 605 

 Fontana (Dr. A.), Photographs of Flying Bullets, 563 : Effect 



of Rontgen Rays on Crookes' Radiometer, 613 

 Food, Experiments on Nutritive and Caloric Value of, Prof. 



Atwater. 543 

 Food and its Functions : a Text-book for Students of Cookery, 



James Knight, 217 

 Foote (Dr. Albert E.), Death of, 12 

 Foote(Chas.), Oysters and Typhoid Bacilli, 226 

 Foote (W. M.), Northupite, 262 



Forbes (Prof. George, F.R.S. ), Buried Celluloid, 579 

 Forestry : Weight and Composition of the Dead Covering Layer 



of Forests, E. Henry, 311 ; the Management and Protection 



of Forests, 510, 535; Influence of Terrestrial Disturbances 



on the Growth of Trees, Henry J. Colbourn, 579 

 Forster (M. O. ), New Derivatives from o-dibromocamphor, 214 

 Fortnightly Review, Science in, 18, 331 

 Fossil Fishes in the British Museum, Catalogue of the, A. Smith 



Woodward, 531 

 Fowle (F. E.) on the Audibility of Fog Signals at Sea, 6 

 Fowler (A.), Popular Telescopic Astronomy, 315 

 Fowler (W. Warde), a Glossary of Greek Birds, D'Arcy W. 



Thompson, 292 

 Fox-Strangways (C), Remarkable Sounds, 130 

 Frail Children of the Air, Excursions into the World- of Butter- 

 flies, S. H. Scudder, 77 

 France: the French Magnetic Survey of the World, 299 ; 



Roads and Pavements in France, A. P. Rockwell, 508 ; 



French Association for Advancement of Science, 543 

 Francis (Dr. M.), Texas Method of Destroying Cattle-Tick, 584 

 Fran9ois (Maurice), Action of Phenol on Mercurous Iodide, 119; 



Action of Alcohol on Mercurous Iodide, 168 ; Action of Heat 



on Mercurous Iodide, 335 

 Frank (M.), the Direct Absorption of Nitrogen by Calciftm, 204 

 Frankland (Dr. E., F.R.S.), the Past, Present, and Future 



Water Supply of London, 619 



