XXIV 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Die Schopfung des Menschen unci Seiner Ideale, Dr.Wilhelm 

 Haacke, 508 ; the Present Evolution of Man, C. Archdall 

 Reid, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, P\R.S., 553 

 Management and Protection of Forests, the, 510, 535 

 Manchester Museum, opening of, 59 



Mandel (Prof. J. A.), Handbook for the Bio-Chemical Labora- 

 tory, 579 

 Mango Trick, the Indian, explained by M. Ragonneau, 544 

 Manufacture of Explosives, the, Oscar Guttmann, 505 

 Maquenne(L. ), Fixation of Nitrogen by Alkaline Earth Metals, 



239 

 Marcacci (A.), Action of Alkaloids on Plants in Darkness and 



in Light, 46 

 Marchand (E.), the Zodiacal Light, 376 

 Marchi (Luigi de), the Temperature of Air and the Problem of 



an Ice Age, 376 

 Marcou (Jules), Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz, 529 

 Marey (E. J. ), Movement, 370 

 Marie (C), New Method of preparing Roussin's Salt, 311 ; New 



Mode of Formation of Nitroprussides, 432 

 Marine Biology : a Neritic Group of Irish Sea Deposits, Prof. 



Herdman, 305 ; Work during 1895 at Port Erin, 305 ; De- 

 velopment of Aiterina gibbosa, E. W. MacBride, 334 ; the 



Plymouth Marine Biological Laboratory, 610 

 Marine Boilers : Chemical Measurement of Feed and Water, C. 



O. Stromeyer, 521 ; Circulation in Water-tube Boilers, Prof. 



W. H. Watkinson, 521 

 Marqfoy (M.), Chemical Equivalents, 23 

 Marquis (R.), New Method of preparing Roussin's Salt, 311 ; 



New Mode of formation of Nitroprussides, 432 

 Mars, the Surface of. Prof. Barnard, 424 

 Marsh (J. E.), Camphoic Acid, 214 

 Marsh (Prof, O. C ), Globular Lightning, 152; the Age of the 



Wealden, 436 

 Marsh-Gas under Ice, accumulation of. Prof. Ira Remsen, 325 

 Marshall (Dorothy), Latent Evaporation-Heat of Benzene, 47 ; 



Method of comparing Evaporation- Heats of Liquids at 



Boiling Points, 47 

 Marsupial with an Allantoic Placenta, Prof. G. B. Howes, 270 

 Martin (Miss), Expansion produced by the Electric Discharge, 



143 



Martin (Prof.), Tertiary Fossils from the Philippines, 216 



Martin's Experiments on Action of Internal Intercostal Muscles, 

 Dr. Rene du Bois Reymond, 119 



Marvin's (Prof.) Seismoscope, 303 



Mascari (A.), Saturn's Rings, 109 



Mascart (M.), the Rainfall of Athens, 108 



Maschevsky (M.), Effect on Cholera Bacillus of Cultivation with 

 other Microbes, 374 



Maskelyne (Prof. N. S., F.R.S.), the Symmetrical Partitioning 

 of Homogeneous Structures, 192 



Massee (G. ), the Spot-Disease of Orchids, 14 ; Introduction to 

 the Study of Fungi, Dr. M. C. Cooke, 218 ; Protobasidio- 

 myceten, Alfred Moller, 314 



Masters (Dr. Maxwell T., F.R.S.), Evolution of Cultivated 

 Plants, L. H. Bailey, 363 



Mathematics : L'Arithmetique Amusante, Edouard Lucas, i ; 

 Traite d'Arithmetique, C. A. Laisaint et E. Lemoine, i ; to 

 Friends and Fellow-Workers in Quaternions, G. H. J. Hurst, 

 6; Hydrodynamics, Horace Lamb, F.R.S., Prof. A. G. 

 Greenhill, F.R.S., 49; Bulletin of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society, 69, 238, 357, 498, 549 ; Mathematical 

 Gazette, 70; Mathematical Society, 95, 214, 287, 382, 407 ; 

 Determination of Volumes of certain Tetrahedra without em- 

 ploying Method of Limits, Prof. M. J. M, Hill, F.R.S., 95 ; 

 Dr. Karl Weierstrass's Researches, Lord Kelvin, 113; 

 Geschichte der Mathematik im Alterthum und Mittelalter, 

 H. G. Zeuthen, 121 ; a Primer of the History of Mathe- 

 matics, W. W. Rouse Ball, 121 ; a Class of Complete Func- 

 tions, Jan de Vries, 216 ; Elementary Algebra, J. W. Wels- 

 ford and C. H. P. Mayo, 267 ; Practical Plane and Solid 

 Geornetry, Joseph Harrison and G. A. Baxandall, 267 ; Ele- 

 mentary Mensuration, F. H. Stevens, 339; Mensuration, 

 Rev. A. Dawson Clarke, 339 ; Elements of Geometry, Prof. 

 George C. Edwards, 339 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 

 381 ; Sur la reduction a sa forme canonique de la Structure 

 d'un Groupe de Transformations fini et continu, E. Cartan, 

 381 ; Algebraic Symbols, A. L. Baker, 382 ; Death of Prof. 

 J. Graindorge, 399; Graphic Arithmetic, H. D. Ellis, 411 ; 

 the Theory of the Partitions of Numbers, I., Major P.. A. 



MacMahon, F.R.S., 430; Proposed New Definition of 

 Mathematics, A. B. Kempe, 473 ; Enumeration of Groups of 

 Totitives, Prof. Lloyd Tanner, 500 ; Associated Dynamics of 

 Top and Body under no Forces, Prof. Greenhill, FJR.S., 

 500 ; Catenary on Paraboloid and Cone, Prof. Greenhill, 

 F.R.S., 500; Death of Dr. Ofterdinger, 609 

 Mathews (Prof. G. B.), L'Arithmetique Amusante, 79 

 Mauriar\ (M.), Measurements of Energy dissipated in Iron 



by Hysteresis, 350 

 Mawley (Mr.), Phenological Observations for 1895, 45'4 

 Mayer (Prof. A. M.), Experiments on Polarisation of Rontgen 



Rays, 522 

 Mayo (C. H. P.), Elementary Algebra, 267 

 Maze (G. ), Introduction of first hermetically sealed Thermometer 



into France, 279 

 Measle-Microbe, the, Dr. Joseph Czajkowski, 89 

 Measurement of Double-stars by Interference, the, Karl 



Schwarzschild, 496 

 Measurement of High Temperatures, E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 



389 

 Measurements, Physical, F. C. Weedon, 340 ; Exercises in, Dr. 



L. W. Austin and Dr. C. B. Thwing, 436 

 Measurement of Temperature, an Account of the Construction 

 and Standardisation of Apparatus recently acquired by Kew 

 Observatory for the, E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 39 

 Measuring Temperature, a New Method of, Prof. Reginald A. 



Fessenden, 244 

 Mechanical Carriages : the Chicago Times-Herald Prize Com- 

 petition, 60 

 Mechanics : Improvement for Purposes of Measurement on 

 Simple Pendulum, G. Guglielmo, 161; First Stage 

 Mechanics, F. Rosenberg, 244 ; Hydrostatics, R. T. Glaze- 

 brook, F.R.S., 294; Rotation of Elastic Spheroid, S. S. 

 Hough, 310 ; on keeping up Pendulum Motion without 

 interfering with time of Oscillation, G. Lippmann, 311 ; 

 Equilibrium of Isotropic Elastic Solid Shells of nearly 

 Spherical Form, Dr. Chree, 383 ; Torsional Oscillations of 

 Wires, Dr. W. Peddie, 501 

 Medecine, Paris Academic de. Prize List, 204 

 Medical Applications of Rontgen Rays, 324 

 Medical Phonographers, the Society of, Dr. James Neil, 79 

 Medicine : Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon- 

 General's Office, United States Army, 410 

 Mediterranean Peoples, the. Prof. Sergi, 422 

 Megalithic Folklore, S. E. Peal, 605 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S. ), Curious Aerial or Subterranean 

 Sounds, 4 ; Alkaline Reduction of Metanitraniline, 214 ; the 

 Speculative Method in Entomology, 352 ; Traite des Matieres. 

 Colorantes organiques, artificielles, Leon Lefevre, 603 Q 



Meldometer, determination of High Temperatures by, Prof. I 

 Ramsay and Mr. Eumorfopoulos, 382 | 



Melocacti from St. Martin's Island, Prof. Suringar, 552 

 Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 573 

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

 Mensuration: Elementary Mensuration, H. Stevens, 339; 



Mensuration, Rev. A. Dawson Clarke, 339 

 Merjelen Lake, the, Dr. C. S. Du Riche Preller, 129 ; Percy 



F. Kendall, 175 ; Greenwood Pim, 198 

 Merope Nebula, the New, Prof. Barnard, 62 

 Merriam (Hart), the Common Crow a Farmer's Friend, 88 

 Merrill (Mr.), Steam Measurements, 440 



Meslans (Maurice), the Acid Fluorides, 359; Influence of 

 Chemical Nature of Substances on their Transparency to 

 Rontgen Rays, 384 

 Meslin (G.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 528 

 Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum, 



Catalogue of the, A. C. Seward, 531 

 Mesures lectriques, Eric Gerard, 411 

 Metabolism, Investigations on. Prof. Zuntz, 576 

 Metallic Resistance and Radiation, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 



F.R.S., 79 

 Metallurgy: the Hardening of Extra-hard Steels, F. Osmond, 

 71 ; Metallurgy, E. L. Rhead 100; Influence of Carbon on 

 Iron, J. O. Arnold, 141 ; Dilatation, Annealing, and Welding 

 of Iron and Steel, Thomas Wrightson, 141 ; the Molecular 

 Structure of Hardened Steel, M. Osmond, 205 ; Causes of 

 Fractures in Marine Steel as revealed by Microscope, A. E, 

 Seaton, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 520 

 Metaphysician, a Biologist as, 52 

 Meteorology : American Meteorological Journal, 23, 94, 238, 



