XXVllI 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 May 31, 1894 



Natural History : Natural History of East Equatorial Africa, 

 Dr. J. W. Gregory, 12 ; With the Woodlanders and by the 

 Tide, 51 ; Recognition Marks, G. J. Macgillivray, Dr. Alfred 

 R. Wallace, F.R.S., 53 ; Death of Dr. George Bennett, 63 ; 

 th£ Postal Transmission of Natural History Specimens, Isaac J. 

 Wistar, Edward J. Nolan, 100; R. McLachlan, F. R. S., 

 172; Philip P. Calvert, 314; Bulletin de la Societe des 

 Naturalistes de Moscou, 189 ; the Royal Natural His'ory, 

 Richard Lj'dekker, 220 : Death of Dr. George Gordon, 251 ; 

 Shakespeare's Natural History, Phil P>.obinson, 444 ; Rugby 

 School Natural History Society, 541 



Natural Science: Death of William Dinning, 81 



Nature Lovers, a Correspondence, Geo. D. Leslie, 1 o 



Nature Pictures for Little People, W. Mawer, 529 



Naval Architects, the Institution of, 490 



Naval Architecture : the Manoeuvring Powers of Steamships 

 and their Practical Applications, Vice- Admiral P. H. Colomb, 

 R.N., 174; Marine I5oiler Management and Construction, 

 C. E. Stromeyer, 410 



Naval Observatory, U.S., Captain F. McNair, 324 



Navigation : Effect of Reversing Screw of Steamship on Steer- 

 ing, Captain Bain, 208 



Navigation by Semi-Azimuths, Ernest Wentworth BuUer, 223 



Navigator, Prince Henry the, 443 



Nawaschin (S.), the Embryonal Development of the Birch, 23 



Nebulae, New, 464 



Nebular Lines, the Wave-Lengths of the, Prof. Keeler, 18 



Nebulosities in the Milky Way, Photographic, Prof. E. E. 

 Barnard, 511 



Neesen (Prof.), Method of Coating Aluminium with other 

 Metals, 216 



Neolithic Age in Nicaragua, Evidence of Existence of Man in, 

 J. Crawford, 107 



Neolithic Discoveries in Belgium, 227 



Neptune, the Satellite of. Prof. Struve, 324 ; IVL Tisserand, 



543 

 Nerve Centres, the Minute Structure of the, Prof. Ramon y 



Cajal, 464 

 Netherlands Entomological Society, 332 

 Netherlands Zoological Society, 24, 264 

 Neville (F. H.), Freezing points of Alloys in v\hich the Solvent 



is Thallium, 239 ; Freezing-points of Triple Alloys, 306 

 New South Wales : Government Report of Meteorological 



Observations for 1892, H. C. Russell, 252 

 New South Wales Linnean Society, 119, 168, 264 

 New York Mathematical Society, Bulletin of, 71, 188, 330, 402, 



497.^570 

 New York State, the Finger Lakes in, R. S. Tarr, 606 

 New Zealand, Beetles of, W. F. Kirby, 459 

 Newall (H. F.), Combination of Prisms lor a Stellar Spectro- 

 scope, 379 

 Newberry (P. E.), Beni Hasan, 169, 432 

 Newcomb (Prof. Simon, F.R.S.), Suggested Nomenclature of 



Radiant Energy, 100 ; Modern Mathematical Thought, 325 

 Newhall (Charles S.), the Shrubs of North-Eastern America, 



28 

 Newman (Mr.), Micro Organisms in Ice, 322 

 Newth (G. S.), Flame, 171 ; a Lecture Experiment, 293 

 Newton (Prof. Alfred, F. R.S.), Great Auk's Egg, 412, 456 

 Newton(E. T., F.R.S.), Two New Reptile Genera from Elgin 



Sandstone, 189 ; the Vertebrate Fauna collected by Mr. 



W. J. L. Abbott from Fissure near Ightham, 355 

 Niagara, the Falls of, and its Water-Power, 482 

 Niagara District, Inferred Rate of Terrestrial Deformation in 



the, 520 

 Nicaragua, Evidences of Existence of Man in Neolithic Age in, 



J. Crawford, 107 

 Nichols (Prof. E. L.), Phenomena of the Time-Infinitesimal, 



"3 

 Nineteenth Century, a Popular History of Astronomy during 



the, Agnes M. Gierke, 2 

 Nisbet (J.), British Forest Trees, i ; the Climatic and National 



Economic Influence of Forests, 302 

 Nitrogen, Recent Investigations and Ideas on the Fixation of, 



by Plants, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., 51 1 

 Nogucs (A. C.), Fractions of Coal-Measures oif Southern Chili, 



47; Glacial and Erratic ^Phenomena in Cachapoal Valley, 



Chili, 72 : Eruption of El Callmco Volcano (Andes), 179 

 Nolan (Edw. J.), the Postal Transmission of Natural History 



Specimens, ico . _ ,„ t 



Nomenclature of Radiant Energy, on the. Prof. Simon New" 



comb, F.R.S., 100; Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 149; 



Prof. A. N. Pearson, 389 

 Nomenclature, Systematic, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 



148 ; Fred. T. Trouton, 148 

 Noorden (Dr. von), the Action of Quinine on Metabolism of 



Man, 427 

 Norma, the New Star in, 85 

 Normte, the Spectrum of Nova, 162, 397 

 North x^merica, the Rise of the Mammalia in. Prof. H. F. 



Osborn, 235, 257 

 North America, the Currents in the Great Lakes of. Prof. 



Mark W. Harrington, 592 

 North-East W^ind, the, S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., 481 

 North-East Wind, the. — Devonian Schists, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., 577 

 Noith Sea, Geographical Evolution of the, A. J. Jukes- 

 Browne, 32 

 Norway, Bird Life in Arctic, Robert Collet, 599 

 Norwegian Sealers in Antarctic Waters, 461 

 Notation, New, for Lines in Spectrum of Hydrogen, 162 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, 161 

 Nottingham Museum, Botanical Collection presented by Mr. 



H. Fisher to, 271 

 Nourrisson (C), Minimum Electromotive Force necessary for 



Electrolysis of Dissolved Alkaline Salts, 331 

 Nova AurigK, 373 ; Prof. E. S. Holden, 32 

 Nova Normre, the Spectrum of, 162, 397 ; Prof. W. W. 



Campbell, 586 

 Novitates Zoi^logica;, 396 

 Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 424, 594 



Object-Glass, a New Achromatic, 464 



Obrecht (Dr.), Diurnal Ground-Movements at Santiago, 130 



Obrucheff's (W. A.) Journey in Ordos Region, 233 



Obrucheff (Mr.), the Plateau of Shan-si, 230 



Observatories : the Observatory for November, 67 ; the Natfil 

 Observatory, 85, 562 ; Solar Observations at Rome, 163 ; 

 the Vatican Observatory, R. A. Gregory, 341 ; the Com- 

 panion to the Observatory, 163 ; Harvard College Observatory 

 Report, 256 ; Report of the Wolsingham Observatory, 300 ; 

 U.S. Naval Observaiiories, Captain F. McNair, 324 ; Madras 

 Observatory, 511 ; Harvard College Meteorological Observa- 

 tories in Peru, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 180; the Sonnblick 

 Mountain Observatory, 204 ; M. Faye on Mountain Observa- 

 tories in Connection with Cyclones, 620 



Occultation of Spica, 464 



Ocean at Great Depths, the Floor of the, Dr. John Murray, 426 



Oceanic Currents, Experiments with Floats on, 301 



Oettel's (Dr.) Researches on Phenomena of Electrolytic 

 Deposition of Metals, 16 



Ohio Basin, Upper, Further Studies of the Drainage Features 

 of the, T. C. Chamberlin and Frank Leverett, 617 



Oil in Calming Troubled Waters, Best Method of Using, Dr. 

 M. M. Richter. 488 



Old (Colonel Walter R.), the Nativity of Rama, 4 



Oldenburg (Henry), First Secretary of Royal Society, Herbert 

 Rix, 9 



Oldham (R. D.), Rock Basins in the Himalayas, 77 ; Evolution 

 of Geography of India, 163 ; the Origin of Lake Basins, 197 ; 

 the Origin of Rock Basins, 292 



Ophthalmology : Radius of Curvature of Cornea, Drs. Chapman 

 and Brubaker, 229 



Optics : Optical Properties of Quartz Plate compressed Perpen- 

 dicularly to Axis, F. Beaulard, 37 ; Vision of Opaque Ob- 

 jects by means of Diffracted Lights, M. Gouy, 72 ; some 

 Phenomena of Diffraction, W. B. Croft, 354 ; Numerical 

 Verifications relating to Focal Properties of Plane Diffraction 

 Gra'ings, A. Cornu, 239; the Use of Collodion Films 

 coloured with Fuchsine in Measurement of Light- Absorp- 

 tion, Salvador Bloch, 108 ; Differential Method of determin- 

 ing Refractive Index of Solutions, W. Hallwachs, 206; 

 Change of Intensity of Light Polarised Parallel to Plane of 

 Incidence by Reflection on Glass. Paul Glan, 239 ; a New 

 Mode of making Magic Mirrors, J. W. Kearton, 354 ; New 

 Photometric Method, J. B. Spurge, 355 ; the Unit of Light, 

 Dr. Lummer, 356 ; Magnetic Rotary Dispersion of Carbon 

 Bisulphide in Infra-Red Part of Spectrum, G. Moreau, 370 ; 

 Instrument of Precision for producing Monochromatic Light 



