Supplement to Nature,'] 

 June II, 1896 J 



Index 



xxxvn 



Streeter (G. T. P.), the Metric System of Weights and Measures, 



533 ' 



less in Magnetised Iron, the, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 316 ; 



Dr. E. Taylor Jones, 317; Dr. C. Chree, 365, 533; L. R. 



Wilberforce, 462 

 Stromei (Dr. Emilio), Phosphorescence and Rontgen Rays in 



Crookes' and Geissler's Tubes, 616 



i()meyer(C. O.), Chemical Measurement of Feed, Water, &c., 



in Marine Boilers, 521 



roud (Prof), Rontgen Ray Photography, 492 



uart (Charles M.), Science Teaching in Secondary Schools, 



iidies in Economics, Dr. William Smart, 149 

 bmarine Peaks, Form of Isolated, G. W. Littlehales, 286 

 ibmarine Telegraphy and other Papers, James Bell and S. 

 Wilson, 196 

 ~ .l)terranean Sounds, Curious Aerial or, Prof R. Meldola, 

 K.R.S.,4; C. Davison, 4; Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 

 30 ; Ernest Van den Broeck, 30 ; Prof T. McKenny Hughes, 

 F.R.S.,30 

 Suess (M.), History of Seas, 239; Geographical Results of 



Researches on Marine Triassic Fauna, 253 

 Sugar Manufacture: Death of J. B. Dureau, 609 

 Sukatchoff (B.), New Sponges from Lake Baikal, 573 

 Sulc (O.), Opacify for X-Rays of Various Substances, 613 

 Sullivan (T. R. ), the Boston Public Library, 232 

 Sully (Prof), the Study of Embryology, 18; the Humorous 



Aspects of Childhood, 549 

 Sulphuretted Hydrogen, a Substitute for, 32 

 Sun, the Temperature of the. Dr. Paschen. 38 ; the Sun's Path 

 in Space, G. C. Bompas, 280 ; Effect of Spots on the Sun's 

 Diameter, J. Sykora, 352 ; the Varangerfjord Region and the 

 Forthcoming Solar Eclipse, Dr. Hans Reusch, 417 ; Sun 

 Columns at Night, Prof Bohuslav Brauner, 486 ; Two 

 Remarkable Solar Prominences, Father Fenyi, 495 ; the 

 Sun's Rotation, W. Stratonoff, 566 

 Sunheat at different Zones, Intensity and Quantity of, E. P. 



Culverwell, 150 

 Sunshine over Europe, Duration of. Prof. Kremser, 359 

 Sunspots : Effect of Sjwts on the Sun's Diameter, J. Sykora, 



352 

 Surface-Colouns, Dr. B. Walter, 148 



Surface- Dimensions of an Earthquake- Pulsation, Dr, Charles 

 Davison, 548 



nface Drift of Jupiter, Stanley Williams, 376 

 -^11 face Tension, a Lecture Experiment in, Douglas Carnegie, 



152 

 Surgery : Death and Obituary Notice of Surgeon -Major G. E. 

 Dobson, 86 ; Death of Dr. G. H. Kidd, 203 ; New Instru- 

 ment for Use in Diagnosis by Rontgen Rays, Prof W. F. 

 Magie, 398 ; Bones of Hand directly visible by Rontgen 

 Rays, Prof Salvioni, 399 ; Surgical Experiments with 

 Rontgen Rays, Sydney Rowland, 524 ; Lancet, 524 ; Prof. O. 

 Lodge, 524 ; Surgical Diagnosis with X-Rays, M. Lanne- 

 longue, 527 ; Triangulation by means of Kathode Photo- 

 graphy, John Trowbridge, 573 ; New Results with Rontgen 

 Rays, Dr. J. Macintyre, 599 ; Experiments with Rontgen 

 Rays, Dr. John Macintyre, 614 ; D. C. Miller, 615 ; M. 

 L. Pupin, 613, 614, 615 ; Surgical Use of Ants in Levant, 

 Militiades Issigonis, 406 ; Death of Dr. H. E. Goodman, 

 443 ; Death of Dr. R. M. Hodges, 443 ; Peroxide of Hydrogen 

 as an Antiseptic, C. A. Fawsitt, 501 ; Death of Dr. William 

 Sharp, F.R.S., 562 

 Suringar (Prof), Melocacti ixom. St. Martin's Island, 552 

 Surveying : Problems in the Use and Adjustment of Engineer- 

 ing Instruments, Walter Loring Webb, 411; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of General J. T. Walker, F.R.S., 469 

 Sutton (A. W.), Grafting Experiments with the Potato and 



Tomato, 565 

 Swift, Comet, 587 



Swift, 1896, Comet, Dr. R. Schorr, Mr. Shackleton, 612 

 Swine Fever, Board of Agriculture Report on, 518 

 Swinton (A. A. C. ), Prof Rontgen's Discovery, 276 ; the New 

 Actinic Rays, 340 ; the Rontgen Rays, 388 ; Effect on Eyes 

 of Rontgen Rays, 421 ; Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 

 450, 613 

 Swyngedauw (R.), Electric Properties of Rontgen Rays, 399 

 Sykora (J.), Effect of Spots on the Sun's Diameter, 352 

 Symons (Mr.), the Mild Winter, 430; the High January Mean 

 Pressure, 4J0 



Symons's Monthly Meteorolc^cal Magazine, 213, 430, 526 



Synopsis Animalium, a New, Das Tierreich, 541 



Syracuse Earthquake of April 13, 1895, S. Arcidiacono, 495 



Tacchini (Prof), the Roman Earthquake of November i, 1895, 

 179 ; the Rotation Period of Venus, 306 



Tait (P. G.), Dynamics, 75 



Talmage (Prof J, E.), certain Linear Marks in Sedimentary 

 Rock, 527 



Tammann (G.), Specific Heat of Solutions, 544 



Tangled Paths. H. Mead Briggs, 486 



Tanner (Prof Lloyd), ^Enumeration of Groups of Totitives, 500 



Tansley (A. G.), a Bright Meteor, 581 



Tardy (M ), Composition of Russian Essence of Aniseed, 480 



Tarr (R. S.), Elementary Physical Geography, 293 



T Tauri, the Proper Motion of, Dr. Fritz Cohen, 495 



Tautain (Dr.), Marriage among Marquesans, 498 



Tavistock, Large Human Femora in the Church of St. Eusta- 

 chius, Worthington G. Smith, 152 



Taxation, Essays in, Prof E. R. A. Seligman, 458 



Taylor (J. Traill), Death of, 86 



Taylor (R. L.), Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a Bell, 

 272 



Tchernyscheff (M.), the Russian Novaya Zemlya Geological 

 Expedition, 325 



Teacher, the, Fierbert Spencer, 116 



Technical Educator, the New, 171 



Technical Education Committees Scholarship, Schemes of, 332 



Teeth, Human, asserted Oldest yet found in Europe, Dr. 

 Nehring, 564 



Teichmann (Dr.), Death of, 160 



Telegraphy, Submarine, and other Papers, James Bell and S. 

 Wilson, 196 



Telescopic Astronomy, Popular, A. Fowler, 315 



Temperature : the Temperature of the Sun, Dr. Paschen, 38 ; 

 an Account of the Construction and Standardisation of Ap- 

 paratus recently acquired by Kew Observatory for the 

 Measurement of, E. H, Griffiths, F.R.S., 39 ; a New Method 

 of Measuring Temperature, Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden, 

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

 F.R.S., 389 ; the Pressure of a Saturated Vapour as an Ex- 

 plicit Function of the. Dr. G. Bakker, 79 ; the Critical 

 Temperature of Hydrogen, Dr. Ladislas Natanson, 131, 249 ; 

 Dr. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 223 ; the Temperature of Air and 

 the Problem of an Ice Age, Luigi de Marchi, 376 



Terrestrial Disturbances on the Growth of Trees, Influence of, 

 Henry J. Colbourn, 579 



Terrestrial Latitudes, the Influence of Atmospheric and Oceanic 

 Currents upon. Prof Simon Newcomb, F.R.S., 618 



Terrestrial Pole, the Movements of the, during the Years 

 1890-95, Prof. Albrech, 404 



Tesla (Prof.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 615 



Testacella haliotidea, J. Lloyd Bozward, 510 



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



Therapeutics : Prof Haffkine's Anti-Choleraic Vaccination in 

 India, Dr. Simpson, 14 ; Results of Antitoxin Treatment of 

 Diphtheria, Dr. Welch, 36 ; the Preparation of Anti-Rabic 

 Serum, Messrs. Tizzoni and Centanni, 227 ; Aneurism cured 

 by Injection of Zinc Chloride Solution, M. Lannelonque, 

 263 ; Inoculation for Leprosy, Dr. Kitasato, 349 ; Aseptolin, 

 the New Remedy for Consumption, 609 



Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, B. O. Pierce and R. W. 

 Wilson, 4 



Thermometer, a "Direct-reading" Platinum, R. Appleyard, 



95 

 Thermometry : a New Method of Measuring Temperature, Prof, 



R. A. Fessenden, 244 

 Thierfelder (Prof)), Experiments on Bacteria in Free Animals, 



576 

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



221 ; the Sacred Tree at Kum-Bum, 412, 556 

 Thomas (G. L.), Normal Hexane, 119 

 Thomas (Rose Haig), a Luminous Centipede, 131 

 Thomas (Oldfield), Canolestes obscurus, a New Marsupial, 88 

 Thomas (V.), Action of Nitrogen Peroxide on Halogen Salts of 



Tin, 263 

 Thompson (D'Arcy W.), a Glossary of Greek Birds, 292 

 Thompson (E. P.), the Kinetoscotoscope, 450 

 Thompson (Prof, §ilvftn\»s P„ F-R-S.), the Rontgen Rays, 437 j 



