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Index 



r Supplement to Nature, 

 L June II, 1896 



Minchin (Prof. Geo. M., F.R.S.), Personal Injury from a Fire- 

 ball, 5 ; Discharge of Electrified Bodies by X-rays, 524 

 Mind and Motion and Monism, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 52 

 Mineral Waters of United States, Natural, Dr. A. C. Peale, 439 

 Mineralogy : Death of Dr. Albert E. Foote, 12 ; Revival of 

 Gold-mining in Victoria, 13; Gold found in Bengal, 160; 

 Timbarra (N.S.W.) Granite Gold Fields, G. W. Card, 178 ; 

 the Cripple Creek (Colorado) Gold Mines, 349 ; Southern 

 Appalachian Gold-Fields, G. F. Becker, 227 ; Gold-Silver 

 Veins of Ophir, California, W. Lindgren, 466 ; an Introduction 

 to the Study of Rocks, L. Fletcher, 28 ; Structure of Earthy 

 Silicates, A. Lacroix, 96 ; Bingara(N. S.W.) Diamond Fields, 

 G. A. Stonier, 178; Mineralogical Society, 191, 358; the 

 Symmetrical Partitioning of Homogeneous Structures, 

 W^illiam Barlow, 191 ; Mr. Tutton, 192 ; Prof N. S. 

 Maskelyne, F.R.S., 192; Apparatus for determining the 

 Specific Gravity of Minute Fragments of Minerals, J. D. 

 La Touche, 199; Northupite, W. M. Foote, 262; the Hunting- 

 don (Mass.) Epidote, 286; Helium and associated Gases 

 m Minerals, Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 382 ; Minerals, and 

 How to Study Them. Edward Salisbury Dana, 387 : Hand- 

 buch der Mineralchemie, C. F. Rammelsberg, 459 ; Penokee 

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

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

 Examination of Madrid Meteorites of Feb. 10, 1896, S. 

 Meunier, 480; Composition of Fisher (Minnesota) Meteorite 

 of April 9, 1894, N. H. Winchell, 503 ; fluorescence 

 Experiments with Rontgen Rays, A Hutchinson, 524 ; 

 Opacity of Minerals to Rontgen Rays, Prof E. Doelter, 616 

 Mining : Classifying Crushed Ore by Trommels, Henry Resales, 



487 ; Dr. T. K. Rose, 488 

 Minor Planet Photography, M. Charlois, 306 

 Mira, the Spectrum of. Prof Wilsing, 612 

 Mirrors, New Method of Silvering, Hans Boas, 107 

 Mitchell (Dr. S. W.), Organic Matter in Expired Air, 429 

 Moggridge (Mr.), Effect of Formic Acid on Germination, 544 

 Mohn (Prof. H.), Data as to Cloudiness in Northern Norway, 



544 

 Moissan (Henri), Action of Silicon on Iron, Chromium and 

 Silver, 47 ; Presence of Sodium in Electrolytic Aluminium, 

 144 ; Uranium Carbide, 402 ; Cerium and Lithium Carbides, 

 407; Carbide of Manganese, 431; Opium-smoking, 445; 

 Carbides of Yttrium and Thorium, 480 ; New Carbide of 

 Zirconium, 503 ; Specific Heat of Boron, 611 

 Moller (Alfred), Protobasidiomyceten, 314 

 Mollusca, Testacella haliotidea, J. Lloyd Bozward, 510 

 Monkeys' Hands and Feet, the Papillary Ridges on. Dr. D. 



Pepburn, 36 

 Moon, the People of the, Tremlett Carter, 77 

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



131 

 Moore (B.), Rhythmic Contractility of Spleen, 453; Spinal- 

 Root and Ganglion-Cell Connections of Spleen-contracting 

 Nerve Fibres, 550 

 Moore (J. E. S.), Expedition to Lake Tanganyika, 470 

 Moore (J. S. ), Structural Changes in Reproductive Cells during 



Spermatogenesis of Elasmobranchs, 212 

 Moore (Prof. W. S.), Relations of the Weather Bureau to the 



Science and Industry of the United States, 94, 187 

 Moorland Idylls, Grant Allen, 486 

 Morals, Science and. Prof William Ramsay, F.R.S., 366; 



Henry Wilde, F.R.S., 414 

 Morbology : Typhoid Fever Epidemics in America, Mrs. Percy 

 Frankland, 38 ; Oysters and Typhoid Bacilli, 226 ; Cholera 

 in Germany in 1894, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 63 ; Effect on 

 Cholera Bacillus of cultivation with other Microbes, M. 

 Maschevsky, 374 ; the Dissemination of Infection by Public 

 Libraries, MM. Du Cazal and Catrin, 253 ; Relation of 

 Scotch Soil to Summer Diarrhoea, Dr. C. H. Stewart, 287 ; the 

 German Influenza Outbreak of 1893-1894, Dr. Rahts, 326 ; 

 the Weather and Disease, Dr. A. L. Gillespie, 383 ; Climate 

 and Disease, Dr. W. J. van Bebber, 421 ; Prof Cleveland 

 Abbe, 422 ; the Smallpox Outbreak at Gloucester, 517 ; 

 Board of Agriculture Report on Swine Fever, 518 

 Moreau (G.), the Rontgen Rays, 349 

 Morgan (Prof C. Lloyd), the Old and New Naturalists, 9 

 Morley (Prof. E. W.), Density of Oxygen and Hydrogen, 428 

 Morris (Dr. D.), a Jamaica Drift-Fruit, 64 ; Single-Seed 



Development in Cocoanut, 191 

 Mortahty, Weather and, in Edinburgh, R. C. Mossman, 501 



Morton (Dr. W. J.), Effect on Eyes of Rontgen Rays, 421 

 Moscou, Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de, 94, 405 

 Moss (R. J.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 523 

 Mosses and Ferns, the Structure and Development of the. Prof. 



D. H. Campbell, 194 

 Mossman (R. C. ), Weather and Mortality in Edinburgh, 501 

 Mother-o'-pearl, the Colours of, F. A. Bather, 6, 174; Ernest 



H. L. Schwarz, 174 

 Moths, British, J. W. Tutt, 486 



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

 Mount Wosho, Antoine d'Abbadie, 249 

 Mountain-Sickness, Prof Zuntz, 503 

 Moureu (Ch.), Methyleugenol and Eugenol, 96 

 Mourlot (A.), Crystallised Chromous Sulphide, 192 

 Moutonnees, Roches, Prof Grenville A. J. Cole, 390 

 Movement, E. J. Marey, 370 

 Movements of the Terrestrial Pole during the Years 1890-95, 



Prof Albrech, 404 

 Miiller (F.), Magnetic Survey of North-East Siberia, 403 

 Miiller (Dr. G. W.), Schizogenes parasiticus no Organism, 134 

 Munro (D. S.), Experiment for Rontgen Effects with Auroral 



Light, 518 

 Murche (Vincent J.), Science Readers, 54 

 Murray (George), an Introduction to the Study of Seaweeds, 



294 

 Murray (R. E.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 522 

 Murray (Lieut. Wolfe), Brilliant Meteor, 177 

 Museums : the Kasan Museum, 12 ; Opening of Manchester 



Museum, 59 ; Museums, Sir William Flower, 106 ; Natural 



History Museum — Bird Gallery, 461 ; the New Education Bill 



and Local Museums, 580 

 Muzzling Order, the New, 371 



Namaqualand Bushmen, the Arrow-Poison of the, 227 



Nansen (Dr.), Rumoured Attainment of North Pole by, 372, 

 420 ; Admiral Richards, 400 



Nassonow (Prof), the Opercular Neck-fold in Embryo Ratite 

 Birds, 279 



Natanson (Dr. Ladislas), the Critical Temperature of Hydrogen, 

 131. 249 



National Review, Science in, 116, 117, 549 



Native Tribes of the Upper Paraguay River, Boggiani's Recent 

 Explorations amongst the. Prof Henry H. Giglioli, 545 



Natural Colours, on a Method of Photography in. Dr. J. Joly, 

 F.R.S., 91 



Natural History : Bulletin de la Societe de Naturalistes de 

 Moscou, 94, 405 ; Obituary Notice of Henry Seebohm, 105 ; 

 Opening of the Perth Museum, 106 ; Natural History of 

 Selborne, Gilbert White, O. V. Aplin, 126 ; Obituary Notice 

 of Ludwig Riitimeyer, 158 ; the Natural History oi Eristalis 

 tenax, or the Drone Fly, G. B. Buckton, P\R.S., 172 ; the 

 Sperm Whale and its Food, J. Y. Buchanan, F.R.S., 223 ; 

 a Glossary of Greek Birds, D'Arcy W. Thompson, W. Warde 

 Fowler, 292 ; the Cambridge Natural History, W. F. H. 

 Blandford, 322 ; Effect of Thunder on Pheasants, J. T. Rope, 

 J. E. Harding, 421 ; Natural History Museum — Bird Gallery, 

 461 ; the Game Fields of the Eastern Transvaal, Frederick 

 Vaughan Kirby, 467 ; the Life of Joseph Wolf, A. H. Palmer, 

 559 ; New Sponges from Lake Baikal, B. Sukatchoff, 573 ; 

 Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 573 ; Rana 

 esculenta in Kincardineshire, Prof Philip J. White, 581 



Naturalists, the Old and New, Prof C. Lloyd Morgan, 9 



Naturalists, the Dying-out of, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 

 221 



Natural Selection : Nature z^. Natural Selection, Charles Clement 

 Coe, 386 ; Darwin and After Darwin, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 

 409 



Nature of the Physiological Element in Emotion, the. Prof 

 A. C. Wright, 206 



Nature v. Natural Selection, Charles Clement Coe, 386 



Nature, Evolution and Man's Place in, Prof. H. Calderwood, 



435 



Naval Architecture : Institute of Naval Architects, 520 ; Water 

 tight Doors, Lord Charles Beresford, 520 ; Causes of Fractures 

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

 Prof J. O. Arnold, 520 ; Chemical Measurement of Feed 

 Water, &c., C. E. Stromeyer, 521 ; Circulation in Water-Tube 

 Boilers, Prof. W. H. Watkinson, 521 



Navigation : Board of Trade Instructions as to Screening Side 



