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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Age of the Wealden, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 436 ; A. C. Seward, 

 462 ; Recent Work of the Geological Survey of the United 

 States, 437, 462 ; Height of United States, Henry Gannett, 

 438 ; Soils, Prof. Shaler, 438 ; Geological Conditions of 

 Harbours, Prof. Shaler, 439 ; Natural Mineral Waters of 

 United States, Dr. A. C. Peak, 439 ; Stream Measurements, 

 Mr. Merrill, 440 ; the Malaspina Glacier, I. C. Russell, 440 ; 

 Origin and Movement of Drift and Alluvial Matter around 

 our Coasts, W. H. Wheeler, 444 ; Geology, C. L. Barnes, 

 460 ; Laccolites of United States, Whitman Cross, 462 ; 

 Mechanics of Appalachian Structure, B. Willis, 463 ; Pelro- 

 logical Affinities of Intrusion and Eruptive Rocks of Electric 

 Peak and Sepulchre Mountain, Prof. Iddings, 463 ; Penokee 

 Iron-bearing Series, Messrs. Irving and Van Hise, 464 ; 

 Igneous Rocks of Unkar Terrane, Mr. Walcott, 464 ; Lavas 

 of Unkar Terrane, Prof. Iddings, 464 ; Physical History of 

 North America during Cambrian Time, Mr. Walcott, 464 ; 

 Green Mountains, Massachusetts, Messrs. Pampelly, Wolff, 

 and Dale, 465 ; New York Rensselaer Grit Plateau, T. N. 

 Dale, 465 ; Vermont Taconic-Green Mountain Ridge, T N. 

 Dale, 465 ; the Catochin Belt, A. Keith, 465 ; the Big Horn 

 Mountains (Wyoming) Anticline, G. H. Eldridge, 465 ; 

 Appalachian and Potomac Coal-fields, J. D. Weeks, 465 ; 

 Rocks of Sierra Nevada, H. W. Turner, 466 ; Gold-silver 

 Veins of Ophir, California, W. Lindgren, 466 ; Eureka 

 (Nevada) District, A. Hague, 466 ; Igneous Rocks of Eureka 

 (Nevada) District, Prof. Iddings, 466 ; Tertiary Revolution 

 in Pacific Coast Topography, J. S. Diller, 466; the Lafayette 

 Formation of United States, W. J. McGee, 467 ; Upper 

 PaliEozoic Formations of Central Kansas, C. S. Prosser, 473 ; 

 a View of Kilauea, 490 ; Granophyres of Strath, Skye, Alfred 

 Harker, 499; Geology of Nile Valley, Prof. E. Hull, F.R.S., 

 499 ; the Cjlaciation of South Australia, Prof Hughes, 502 ; 

 the Question of Ante-Palteolithic Man, Prof. Hughes, 502 ; 

 Alpine Nickel-bearing Serpentine with Fulgurites, E. Aston 

 and Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 527; Pliocene Glaciation, 

 Pre-Glacial Valleys and Lake-basins of Sub-Alpine Switzer- 

 land, Dr. C. S. Du R. Preller, 527 ; certain Linear Marks in 

 Sedimentary Rocks, Prof. J. E. Talmage, 527 ; Catalogue of 

 the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British 

 Museum, A. C. Seward, 531 ; Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes 

 in the British Museum, A. Smith Woodward, 531 : Submerged 

 Land Surfaces at Barry, Glamorganshire, A. Strahan, 551 ; 

 Phosphatic Chalk with Holaster Planus at Lewes, A. Strahan, 

 551 ; Manual of Lithology, Edward H. Williams, jun., 556; 

 Distribution of Iron Oxide Colouring in Anthracite Coal 

 Rocks, General Wistar, 576; Prof. A. P. Brown, 576; the 

 Glacial Drift in Ireland, Henry J. Seymour, 605 



Geometry : Vorlesungen aus der Analytischen Geometric der 

 Kegelschnitte, Sigmund Gundelfinger, 4 ; Euclid's Elements 

 of Geometry, 241 ; Practical, Plane, and Solid Geometry, 

 Joseph Harrison and G. A. Baxandall, 267 : Elements of Geo- 

 metry, Prof. George C. Edwards, 339 



Gerard (Eric), Mesures Electriques, 411 



Gerchun (A. L.), Electric Properties of Rontgen Rays, 399 



Germany : a German Imperial Institute, Sir Philip Magnus, 32 ; 

 Cholera in Germany in 1894, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 63 ; 

 Scientific Description of German African Colonies, 89 ; 

 Pendulum Observations in Germany, 475 



Gernez (D.), Rotatory Power of Superfused Rhamnose, 239 



Giazzi (Dr. Ferdinando), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 614 



Gibbs (Prof. J. Willard), Velocity of Propagation of Electro- 

 static Force, 509 



Gifford (J. William), the Rontgen Rays, 413, 460 ; Radiographs 

 by Fluorescent Screens, 557 



Giglioli (Prof. Henry H.), Boggiani's Recent Explorations 

 amongst the Native Tribes of the Upper Paraguay River, 545 



Gilbert (W.), Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, 191 



Giles (Arthur E.), Moral Pathology, 313 



Gill (Theo.), the Former Northward Extension of the Antarctic 

 Continent, 366 



Gillespie (Dr. A. L.), the Weather and Disease, 383 



Gilson (Prof. G.), Studies in Insect Morphology, 500 



Girard (C), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 480 



Girardet (F.), the Acid Fluorides, 359 



Glacial Action in Australia in Permo-Carboniferous Time, 

 Evidences of. Prof. T. W. E. David, 383 



Glacial Drift in Ireland, the, Henry J. Seymour, 605 



Glacial Epoch, Influence on British Flora of, H. D. Geldart, 

 543 



Glacial Handbook, a, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F. R.S., Prof. 



Grenville A. J. Cole, 433 

 Glacial Period, the Astronomical Theory of the. Prof. G. H. 

 Darwin, F.R.S., 196; Edward P. Culverwell, 269; Dr. 

 Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 317 ; Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 F.R.S., 340 

 Glacier, the Fall of the Altels, September 11, 1895, I^"^- Leon du 



Pasquier, 317 

 Glacier, the Malaspina, I. C. Russell, 440 

 Glasgow University, Geology in, Prof John Young, 307 

 Glass Composition, rdle of Aluminium in, L. Appert, 503 

 Glazebrook (R. T., P\R.S.), Mechanics, Hydrostatics, 294 

 Globular Lightning, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 152 

 Gloucester, the Smallpox Outbreak at, 517 

 Glycogen : Etude chimique du Glycogene chez les Champignons 



et les levures. Dr. G. Clautrian, 315 

 Godlonton (Robert), a Remarkable Discharge of Lightning, 272 

 Godwin- Austen (Col. H. H., F.R.S.), the Barisal Guns and 



Similar Sounds, 247 

 Gold : Concentration of Gold Ores, Henry Rosales, Dr. T. K. 

 Rose, 16 ; Gold found in Bengal, 160 ; Gold in Granite, G. 

 W. Card, 178 ; Southern Appalachian Gold-fields. G. F. 

 Becker, 227 ; Revival of Gold-mining in Victoria, 13 ; Im- 

 provement in Chlorination Process in Gold-mining, 254 ; the 

 Cripple Creek (Colorado) Gold Mines, 349 

 Goldstein (Prof. ), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 503 ; Means 



of Increasing Intensity of Rontgen Rays, 600 

 Gooch (F. A.), Reduction of Selenic Acid by Hydrochloric Acid, 

 190; Reduction of Selenic Acid by Potassium Bromide in 

 Acid Solution, 190; lodometric Determination of Selenious 

 and Selenic Acids, 286 

 Goode (Mr.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 504 

 Goode (Dr. G. Brown), the Smithsonian Institution, 257, 281 

 Goodman (Dr. H. E.), Death of, 443 

 Goodwin (W, L.), Relative Opacities of Substances to Rontgen 



Rays, 615 

 Gordon (W. J.), our Country's Butterflies and Moths, 579 

 Gossart (M.), Mechanical Action from Crookes' Tube analogous 



to Photogenic Action discovered by Rontgen, 384 

 Gotch (Prof. F., F.R.S.), the Physiology of the Excitable 



Tissues, Prof. W. Biedermann, 457 

 Gotschlich (Herr), Virulence of Cholera Cultures dependent on 



Number of Bacilli present, 494 

 Gottingen Royal Society, 359, 466 

 Gould (Dr. C. M.), Concerted Harmony and Time-keeping on 



Part of Katydids, 108 

 Gout, a New Theory of, Mortimer Granville, 117 

 Gouy (M.), Penetration of Gases into Glass Walls of Crookes' 



Tubes, 551 

 Graham (E.), Explosion of Cyanogen, 499 

 Graindorge (Prof. J.), Death of, 399 



Granger (A.), a Crystallised Sulpho-phosphide of Tin, 384 

 Grant (D. G. F.), Barisal Guns, 197 

 Granville (Mortimer), a New Theory of Gout, 117 

 Graphic Arithmetic, H. D. Ellis, 411 



Gravity : Pendulum Observations in the Northern and Southern 

 Hemispheres, Major-General H. S. Schaw, 222 ; Pendulum 

 Observations in Germany, 475 

 Gray (Prof. Andrew), the Rontgen Rays, 413 

 Greece : on the Structure of Greek Tribal Society, H. E. 

 Seebohm, G. F. Hill, 51 ; Earthquake in Greece, 86; the 

 Paramythia Earthquake of May 13-14. _ 1895, Dr. G. 

 Agamennone, 205 ; a Glossary of Greek Birds, D'Arcy W. 

 Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, 292 

 Greely (A. W.), Borchgrevink's Voyage in the Antarctic, 232 

 Green (Mr.), Habits of Indian Ant, O^cophylla smaragdina, 453 

 Cireen (E. E.), Dyscritina longisetosa, 406; Eggs of Cinchona 



Tree Locustidoe from Ceylon, 550 



Green (Prof. J. Reynolds, F.R.S.), a Manual of Botany, 219 



Greenhill (Prof. A. G., F.R.S.), Hydrodynamics, Horace 



Lamb, F.R.S., 49 ; Associated Dynamics of Top and Body 



under no Forces, 500 ; Catenary on Paraboloid and Cone, 500 



Gregory (Dr. J. W.), the " Schistes Lustres" of Mont Jovet, 



Savoy, 71 

 Grehant (N.), Products of Combustion of Acetylene Burner, 



and Explosive Mixtures of Acetylene with Air, 599 

 Griesbach (H.), Physikalische-chemische Propaedeutik, 196 

 Griffiths (E. H., F.R.S.), Latent Heat of Evaporation of 

 Benzene, 47 ; an Account of the Construction and Standard- 

 isation of Apparatus recently acquired by Kew Observatory 



