Supplement to Nature.^] 

 Ndz'cwher %^. 1894 



INDEX 



Anni', (Prof. C), Meteorology and Geodesy, 141 ; Remarkable 

 Haihtones at Vicksburg, 430 ; Schools of Meteorology, 576 



Abbott (Charles Conrad), Travels in a Tree-top, 295 



Abbott (Miss E C), on the Evolation of the Vertebral Column 

 of Fishes, 516 



Ahney's (Capt.) Photographs of Flames, 285 



Aborigines of Western Australia, the, Albert F. Calvert, 474 



Abraham (H. ), Method for Measuring Self and Mutual Induc- 

 tion, 15 



Academy, American; Election of OfiScers, 153 



Accadeinia dei Lincei, the. Annual Meeting at Rome, 304 



Acoustics: New Method for Determining Pitches of High 

 Tuning-forks, F. Melde, 155 ; Transmission of Sounds, H. 

 Gilbault, 167 ; Hawksley's Sonometer, 182 ; on the Veloci- 

 ties of Sound in Air, Gases, and Vapours for Simple Tones 

 of Different Pitches, James Webster Low, 334; Prof. Miins- 

 terberg and Mr. A. II. Pierce on the Localisation of Sound, 

 621 



.\cquired Characters, the Inheritance of, Leonard Hill, 617 



Adam (Paul), the Emetics, 167 



Adler (Dr. Hermann), Alternating Generations: a Biological 

 Study of Oak Galls and Gall Flies, 545 



Adulteration of Compressed Oxygen, 620 



Aero-Therapeutics, or the Treatment of Lung Diseases by 

 Climate, Charles Theodore Williams, 99 



Aeronautics: Ilerr Otto Lillenthal's Serious Accident, 393 ; 

 towards the Efficiency of Sails, Screw-Propellers in Water 

 and Air, and Aeroplanes, Lord Kelvin, P. R.S., 425 ; Aero- 

 planes, Hiram S. Maxim, 489 ; Steam and Aerial Navigation 

 foreshadowed by Roger Bacon, 481 ; Progress in Flying 

 Machines, O. Chanute, 569; Manual Pratique del'Aeronaute, 

 V. de Fonvielle, 569 



Aerotonomeler, a New, Prof. Fredericq, 461 



-Esthetics, Pain, Pleasure, and, Henry Rutgers Marshall, 3 



Affiliated Societies of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, the, 608 



.'\frica: Scheme for the Protection of African Mammals, 130; 

 Timbuktu, 154; Stratigraphy and Physiography of Libyan 

 Desert of Egypt, Capt. H. G. Lyons, 166 ; Geology of South 

 .Africa, D. Draper, 167 ; Occurrence of Dolomite in South 

 Africa, D. Draper, 167; Geology of British East Africa, Dr. 

 J. W. Gregory, 167; the Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave 

 Coast of West .\frica, Col. .\. B.. l';ilis,"22i ; the Cultivable 

 Land on Kilimanjaro, Dr. Brehme, 305 ; Mr. Scott Elliot's 

 Ruwenzori Expedition, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S.,549; 



.\gamennone (Dr. G.) on the New Continnous- Record Seismo- 

 metrograph of Collegio Romano, 362 



Agassiz (Alexander), the Coral Reefs of the Bermudas, 235 



Agriculture : the Potato Disease Pliylophthora infestan-, 

 Thomas Carrol, 63 ; the Origin of Cultivation, Grant Allen, 

 66 ; Manures and the Principles of Manuring, C. M. Aikman, 

 75 ; Carbon Bisulphide as a Fertiliser, .Vimc Girard, 94 ; the 

 Employment of Disease causing Microbes for Destroying 

 Field Vermin, Gerald McCarthy, 131 ; .-Vgricultural Ento- 

 mology, Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, 

 C. French, 243 ; Grass-destroying Caterpillar Plague in .Scot- 

 land, Miss Ormerod, 251 ; Insect Ravages in India, Hon. J. 

 Duckingham, 274: .\Igasand Nitrogen-Fixation, Herr Ko=so 

 witch, 276 ; Pasteur Institute, Paris, Experimental Study of 

 .Means of Defence against Destructive Insects, 482 ; Assimi- 

 lability of Potash by the Action of Nitrates in poor Siliceous 

 Soils, P. Pichard, 491 ; on Diptera harmful to Cereals, 

 Paul Marchal, 516 ; Agricultural Zoology, Dr. J. Ritzema 

 Uos, 567 



-Aikmau (C. M.), Manures and the Principles of Manuring, 75 



Air, the Electrification of, Lord Kelvin, P.R S., and Magnus 

 Maclean, 280; Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 296 



.\kas, the Poisoned .\rrows of the. Prof. L. \. Waddell, 395 



.\lbany Museum, Grahamstown, Report of, 275 



.\lbatross. Flight of the, .X. Kingsmill, 572 



Albion Colliery Explosion, the. Pro''. H. B. Dixon, 429 



Albrecht (Prof. K. M.), Death of, 553 



Alchemy : The Alchemical Essence and the Chemical Element. 

 M. M. Pattison Muir, Prof Herbert McLeod, F.R.S., 50 



.Wgx and Nitrogen-fixation, Herr Kossowilch, 276 



Algas which deposit Calcareous Matter in their Tissues, Prof. 

 Johnstone on, 434 



Algedonics : Pain, Pleasure, and /Esthetics, Henry Rutgers 

 Slarshall, 3 



Allen (Edgar J.), Studies on the Nervous System of Crustacea, 

 611 



Allen (Grant), the Origin of Cultivation, 66 



.\lloy, Separation and Estimation of Tin and Antimony in .Mr, 

 M. Mengin, 311 



Alloys, Electrical Resistance of some New, M. van Anbel, 84 



Alloys, Experiments with Tin-lead, ranging from PbSnioPbijSn, 

 Bernhard Wiesengrund, 394 



Alloys, Thermoelectric Heights of Antimony and Bismuth, 

 C. C. Hutchins, 515 



Alpenverein, German and Austrian, 414 



Alpine Geology : Ein Geologischer (^)uerschnitt durch die Ost 

 .\lpen, A. Rothpletz, Dr. Maria M. Ogilvie, 27 



.■VIps, M. Bertrand on the Structure of the French, 510 



Alps, Prof. Suesson the Southern and Northern, 510 



Alps, Eastern, with Prof. Heim in the, 526 



Alps, the Glacial System of the, B. Ilobson, 602 



Alps of Dauphiny, Observations of the Pendulum in the, 635 



Alsace and Lorraine Meteorological Observations, 1892, 430 



Aluminium upon the Carbon in Ferro-carbon Alloys, Mr. T. W. 

 Hogg on the Influence of, 460 



Aluminium Violins, Mr. Springer, 485 



America: American Meteorological Journal, 21, 141, 188,334, 

 612 ; American Journal of Mathematics, 69, 283 ; American 

 Journal of Science, 91, 235, 334, 440, 515, 634 ; Mour.t 

 Logan the loftiest Peak in North America, 131 ; .American 

 Academy, Election of Officers, 153; Biological Station es- 

 tablished at Havana, Illinois River, 275 ; Migration and the 

 Food Quest, a Study in the Peopling of America, O. T. 

 Mason, 361 ; International Congress of Americanists, 393 : 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. 

 W. H. Hale, 45S ; Meeting at Brooklyn, 458 ; Prof. Hatk- 

 ness on the Magnitude of the Solar System, 458, 532 ; George 

 C. Comstock on Binary Stars, 45S ; Or. Daniel G. Bcinton 

 on the Aims of the Association, 4S5 ; Miss Mary Noyes on 

 the Influence of Heat and Electricity upon Young's Modulus 

 for a Piano Wire, 4S5 ; Aluminium Violins, Mr. .Springer, 



485 ; some Peculiar Lightning Flashes, A. Mc.\die, 485 ; 

 on a Phonographic "Method of Recording the Change in Al- 

 ternating Electric Current, C. J. Rollesson, 485 ; on the 

 Resistance of Materials under Impact, Dr. Mansfield Merri- 

 man, 486 ; Methods of Testing Automatic Fire Sprinkler 

 Heads, Prof. Jacobus, 486 ; Niobrara Chalk, Samuel Calvin, 



486 ; on the Water Resources of the United Slates, Major 

 J. W Powell, 4S6 ; the Age of Niagara Falls, Prof. Spencer, 



456 ; the Relation of the Age of Type to Variability, Prof. 

 L. H. Bailey, 487 ; on the Struggle for Existence under Cul- 

 tivation, Prof. L. H. Bailey, 487 ; Human Faculty as deter- 

 mined by Race, Dr. Frank Boaz, 487 ; Variations in the 

 Human Skeleton and their Causes, Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, 



457 ; Conclusions on the Hieroglyph "pax," M. H. SaviUe 



