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Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Plant Structures by Self-adaptation to the Environment, 145 ; 



Origin of Plant Structures, 271 

 Hepburn (Dr. D.^, the Papillary Ridges on Monkeys' Hands 



and Feet, 36 ; Dorsal Muscles of Hand, 501 

 Herdman (Prof.), a Neritic Group of Irish Sea Deposits, Prof. 



Herdman, 305 

 Hereditary Polydactylism, Dr. Gregg Wilson, 611 

 Heredity : Family Data, Prof. ICarl Pearson, 557 

 Herissey (H.), Properties of Emulsion from Mushrooms, 71 

 Hermite (G.), Minimum Temperature at Height of 8i Miles, 



600 

 Herons and Watercress, ISIiss E. A. Ormerod, 610 

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



Capt. Alexander Turbyne, 129 

 Herroun (E. F.), an Examination Question in Physics, 152 

 Herschell (Lord), the Work of the Imperial Institute, 159 

 Hertzian Vibrations, Prof. Rubens on, 504 

 Heurck (Dr. H. van), Fluorescent Screens for Rontgen Rays, 



613 

 Hicks (Prof. W. M., F.R.S.), the Rontgen Rays, 413 

 Hieroglyphics, Elementary, 26 

 Hiijh Regions of the Atmosphere, Physical Phenomena of the, 



Prof. A. Cornu, F.R.S., 588 

 High Temperatures, the Measurement of, E. H. Griffiths, 



F.R.S., 389 

 Highlands of Peru, the. Dr. E. W. Middendorf, 442 

 Highton(H. P.), Light, 4 



Hill (Rev. Edwin), Transported Boulder Clay, 358 

 Hill (E. A.), Argon probably a Mixture, 190 

 Hill (G. F.), on the Structure of Greek Tribal Society, H. E. 



Seebohm, 51 

 Hill (.\L D.), Eggs of SphcErechinus granularis and Phallusia 



maminillata, 213 

 Hill (Prof. M. J. M., F.R.S.), Determination of Volumes of 



certain Tetrahedra without employing Method of Limits, 95 

 Hill (R. T.), the Panama Canal, 420 

 Hill (William), Delimitation of Cenomanian, 334 

 Himmel und Erde, 550 

 Hind (Dr. John Russell, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, W. E. 



Plummer, 201 

 Hind's Variable Nebula, Prof. Barnard, 255 

 History ; the Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, E. A. 



Wallis Budge, 483 

 Hodges (Dr. R. M.), Death of, 443 



Hoevell (Baron van), God-worship in Malay Archipelago, 46 

 Hoffman (Walter James), the Beginnings of Writing, 338 

 Holetschek (Dr.), Comet Magnitudes, 93 

 Holland, North, Beeldsnyder's Map (1575) of, M. van Diesen, 



48 

 Holland (Mr.), the Formation of the Giridih (Bengal) Coalfield 



Rock Structure, 401 

 Holmes' Comet, Prof. Barnard, 329 

 Holt (George), Death of, 542 

 Horizontal Pendulums, the Movements of, John Milne, F.R.S., 



180 

 Horticulture : Vegetable Culture, Alexander Dean, 388 ; 



Grafting Experiments with Potato and Tomato, A. W. Sutton, 



565 

 Horton-Smith (R. J.), the Ethnology of the British Upper 



Classes, 256 

 Ilospitalier (E.), Recettes de I'^lectricien, 315 

 Hot-Water Supply, Domestic, a System of. Prof. James Lyon, 



335 

 Hovelacque (Abel), Death of, 399 

 Howes (Prof. G. B.), Marsupial with an Allantoic Placenta, 



270 ; the Huxley Memorial, 461 

 Howorth(Sir Henry H., F.R.S.), Sir Robert Ball, and the 



Cause of an Ice Age, 29 : the Astronomical Theory of the 



Glacial Period, 340 ; Dr. Ball's Two Letters on the Ice Age, 



460 

 Hrabowski (K.), Apparatus illustrating Laws of FaUing Bodies, 



227 

 Hudson Bay, Proof of rising of Land round, Robert Bell, 573 

 Hughes (Prof. T. McKenny, F.R.S.), Curious Aerial or Sub- 

 terranean Sounds, 30 

 Hughes (Prof.), the Ghciation of South Australia, 502; the 



Question of Anti- Palaeolithic Man, 502 

 Huyghens' Apparatus for the Optical Lantern, Simple, F. W. 



McNair, 535 

 Hull (Prof. E., F.R.S.), Geology of Nile Valley, 499 



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

 Large, Worthington G. Smith, 152 



Human Race, Pithecanthropus erectus and the Evolution of the, 

 Prof. W.J. SoUas, F.R.S., 150 



Human Skull Fragment, Bury St. Edmunds, Worthington G. 

 Smith, 173 



Human Skull of a Low Type from Brazil, a New, Prof. A. 

 Nehring, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 548 



Humming-Birds and Sun-Birds, the Metallic Colours of, Marion 

 Newbigin, 407 



Humorous Aspects of Childhood, the, Prof. James Sully, 549 



Hurmuzescu (D.), Determination of Ratio v of Electrostatic and 

 Electromagnetic Units, 178; New Determination of Ratio 

 between Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Units, 144 ; the 

 Rontgen Rays, 349 ; New Properties of the Rontgen Rays, 

 359 ; Electric Properties of Rontgen Rays, 399 ; Action of 

 X-Rays on Electrified Bodies, 551 



Hurst (G. H. J.), to Friends and Fellow- Workers in Quater- 

 nions, 6 



Huston (H. A.), Bogus Land in Indiana, 545 



Hutchinson (A.), Fluorescence Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 

 524 ; Lead Tetracetate, 406 



Huxley Memorial, the, 183 ; Prof. G. B. Howes, 461 



Huzulen, Customs of the, Dr. R. F. Kaindl, 373 



Hybernation, Butterflies and, Dan Pidgeon, 510 



Hydractinia ? an Early Reference to, Henry Scherren, 32 



Hydraulics : a Treatise on Hydraulics, Prof. Henry T. Bovey, 

 267 



Hydrodynamics, Horace Lamb, F.R.S., Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 

 F.R.S., 49 



Hydrogen : the Critical Temperature of. Dr. Ladislas Natanson, 

 131, 249 ; Dr. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S. , 223 ; Means of Finding 

 Dimensions of Hydrogen- Liquefying Apparatus, Prof. 

 Kamerlingh Onnes, 552 ; Stars with Bright and Dark Hydro- 

 gen Lines, Prof. Campbell, 15 



Hydrography : Form of Isolated Submarine Peaks, G. W. 

 Littlehales, 286 



Hydrophobia : the New Muzzling Order, 371 



Hydrostatics, R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 294 



Hydrozoa : the Jelly-Fish of Lake Urumiah, F. F. Irving, 108 



Hygiene : Carbonic Acid in Edinburgh Air and Soil, and 

 Relation of Scotch Soil to Summer Diarrhoia, Dr. C. H. 

 Stewart, 287 ; Public Health in European Capitals, Thomas 

 Morison Legge, 294; the Hygienic Aspects of Burial, Dr. 

 Losener, 327 



Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands, the, Edward 

 Saunders, 532 



Hyslop (Theo. B.), Mental Physiology, 313 



Ice, Accumulation of Marsh-gas under, Prof. Ira Remsen, 325 



Ice Age, the Cause of an, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 220, 

 388; Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 220; Rev. O. Fisher, 

 295 ; Theodore Ryland, 389 ; Sir Robert Ball on the Cause 

 of an Ice Age, Sir Henry H. Howorth, F.R.S., 29; Dr. 

 Ball's Two Letters on the Ice Age, Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 F.R.S., 460 ; the Astronomical Theory of the Ice Age, Edw. 

 P. Culverwell, 269 ; the Temperature of Air and the Problem 

 of an Ice Age, Luigi de Marchi, 376 



Ice, Drift, and Temperature, Captain Macmillan, 254 



Ice Work Present and Past, Prof, T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., Prof. 

 Grenville A. J. Cole, 433 



Icebergs, the Cause of Increase in, H. C. Russell, F.R.S., 

 304 



Ichthyology : Development of the Turbot, Prof. Mcintosh, 

 118 ; the Supra- Renal Bodies in Fishes, Swale. Vincent, 142 ; 

 Gills of Tetraclila porosa, A. Gruvel, 264 ; Use and 

 Meaning of Asymmetrical Types of Tail-fin, Dr. F. Ahlborn, 

 327 ; Physiological Researches on Respiration of Atnmodytes 

 tobianiis, J. B. Pieri, 359 ; Early Development of Amia, 

 Bashford Dean, 477 ; Fishes Living and Fossil, Bashford 

 Dean, 485 ; the Visual Purple of Fishes, Dr. Abelsdorff, 503 ; 

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

 Smith Woodward, 531 



Iddings (Prof.), Petrological Affinities of Intrusive and Eruptive 

 Rocks of Electric Peak and Sepulchre Mountain, 463 ; Lavas 

 of Unkar Terrane, 464 ; Igneous Rocks of Eureka (Nevada) 

 District, 466 



Identification, the Antiquity of the Finger-Print Method of, 

 Kumagusu Minakata, 317 



