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Index 



[Siipplement to Nature., 

 May 31, 1894 



Ramsay (W,), Molecular Formulae of some Liquids as Deter- 

 mined by their Molecular Surface Energy, 377 



Raps (A.), Air Vibrations, 46; Pliotography of Aerial Vibra- 

 tions, 48 



Rasori (Dr.), the Etiology of Delirium Acutum, 208 



Ravenstein (E. G.), Philip's Systematic Atlas, Physical and 

 Political, 574 



Kawitz (Dr.), Spermatogenesis in HydromedustC, 240 



Ray, a Hermaphrocitical, M. Hoek, 264 



Rayet (G.), Forest Fires and Drought, 191 



Reaction- Time and Attention, Investigations on, Dr. C. B. 

 Bliss, 439 



Reckeu/aun (A.), Death of, 6^ 



Reclus' (Elisee) Nouvelle Geographie Universelle, Completion 

 of, 256 



Recognition Marks, G. J. Macgillivray, Dr. Alfred R. Wal- 

 lace, F.R.S., 53 



Records of Geological Survey of India, 109 



Red Spot, Jupiter and his, W. F. Denning, 104 



Redpath (Peter), Death and Obituary Notice of, 345 



Refraction Tables, 134 



Refractometer applied to Study of Chemical Reactions, J. 

 Verschaffelt, 546 



Reid (Clement), the Dispersal of Shells, Henry Wallis Kew, 

 361 ; Cause of Extinction of Pine in South of England, 522 



Reinach (Saloman), Le Mirage Oriental, 472 



Rejected Address, a, 555 



Remsen (Prof. Ira), on Chemical Laboratories, 531 



Renault (B. ), General Character of Bogheads produced by 

 Algae, 47 . 



Renk (Herr), Vitality of Micro-organisms on Artificial Ice, 395 



Research, Scientific, the Elizabeth Thompson Fund for Ad- 

 vancement of, 539 



Respiration, Effect of Faradic Excitation of Cerebrum in Ani- 

 mals upon, W. G. Spencer, 353 



Retrospect, an Ornithological, Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, 6 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



British Forest Trees, J. Nisbet, i 



A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury, Agnes M. Clerke, 2 



Inorganic Chemistry for Beginners, Sir Henry Roscoe, 

 F. R.S. , and Joseph Lunt, 3 



The Chemistry of Fire, M. M. Pattison Muir, 3 



Solutions of the Exercises in Taylor's Euclid I. to IV., \V. 

 W. Taylor, 3 



Personal Recollections of Werner von Siemens, 25 



The Iron Ores of Great Britain and Ireland, J. D. Kendall, 

 Bennett H. Brough, 27 



The Shrubs of North-Eastern America, Charles S. Newhall, 

 28 



Mensuration of the Simpler Figures, William Briggs and T. 

 W. Edmondson, 28 



The Discovery of Australia, Albert F. Calvert, 28 



Graphic Arithmetic and Statics, J. J. Prince, 28 



The Orchid Seekers, Ashmore Russan and Frederick Boy'e, 

 28 



An Examination of Weismannism, G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 49 



Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum Extra-tropicarum ; 

 or, Figures, with Descriptions, of Extra-Tropical South 

 African Orchids, Harry Bolus, R. A. Rolfe, 50 



An Astronomical Glossary, J. E. Gore, 51 



With the Woodlanders and bv the Tide, a Son of the Marshes, 



SI 



Pitt Press Euclid V., VI., H. M. Taylor, 52 



The Outdoor World, W. Furneaux, 52 



Worked Examples in Co-ordinate Geometry, William Briggs 



and G. H. Bryan, 52 

 A Treatise on the Kinetic Theory of Gases, Henry William 



Watson, F.R.S., Prof. P. G. Tait, 73 

 A History of Crustacea ; Recent Malacostraca, Rev. Thomas 



R. R. Stebbing, 74 

 An Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of.Conics, A. Muk- 



hopadhyay, 75 

 The Geometrical Properties of the Sphere, William Briggs and 



T. W. Edmondson, 75 

 A Key to Carroll's Geometry, J. Carroll, 75 

 The Mummy, E. A. Wallis-Budge, F.S.A., 97 

 Eskimo Life, Fridtjof Nansen, 98 



La Voie Lactee dans I'Hemisphere Boreal, C. Easton, 99 

 An Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry, W. J. 



Johnston, 99 

 Zur Kenntniss der Postembryonalen Schadelmetamorphosen 



bei Wiederkauern, H. G. Stehlin, 99 

 Elementary Course of Practical Science, Hugh Gordon, Sir 



Philip Magnus, 121 

 Les Pyrenees, Eugene Trutat, 122 

 Les Courants Polyphases, J. Rodet et Busquet, 122 

 Solutions of the Examples in the Elements of Statics and 



Dynamics, S. L. Loney, 122 

 Problemes et Calculs Pratiques d'Electricite, M. Aimc 



Witz, Prof. A. Gray, 145 

 A Treatise on Dynamics, W. H. Besant, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 



146 

 Our Household Insects : an Account of the Insect Pests found 



in Dwelling-houses, E. A. Butler, 147 

 Text- Book of Biology, H. G. Wells, 148 

 The New Technical Educator, 148 

 Heat and the Principles of Thermodynamics, Dr. C. H. 



Draper, 148 

 Beni Hasan, P. E. Newberry and G. W. Frazer, 169 

 Letters to Marco, George D. Leslie, 170 

 A Text-Book of Heat, R. Wallace Stewart, 171 

 The Industries of Animals, Frederic Houssay, 171 

 Utility of Quaternions in Physics, A. McAulay, Prof. P. G. 



Tait, 193 

 Painter's Colours, Oils, and Varnishes : a Practical Manual, 



George H. Hurst, 194 

 British Fungus Flora, a Classified Text-Book of Mycology, 



George Massee, Dr. M. C. Cooke, 195 

 Some Salient Points in the Science of the Earth, Sir J. 



William Dawson, F. R.S. , 196 

 Das Karstphanomen, Dr. Jovan Cvijic, 197 

 Report on the Present State of our Knowledge respecting 



the General Circulation of the Atmosphere, L. Teisserenc 



de Bort, 217 

 On Hail, Hon. Rollo Russell, 217 

 Weather Lore : a Collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules 



concerning the Weather, R. Inwards, 217 

 Hand- und Hilfsbuch ziir AusfUhrung physiko-chemischer 



Messungen, W. Ostwald, J. W. Rodger, 219 

 Hand-Book cf British Hepaticae, M. C. Cooke, 220 

 The Royal Natural History, R. Lydekker, 220 

 Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum nomina et 



synomyna omnium generum et specierum a Linnaeo usque 



ad annum mdccclxxxv complectens nomine recepto auctore 



patria unicuique plantae subjectis, Sumptibus Caroli 



Roberti Darwin, ductu et consilio Josephi D. Hooker, con- 

 fecit B. D. Jackson, 241 

 In the High Heavens, Sir R. S. Ball. F.R.S., R. A. 



Gregory, 243 

 Practical Agricultural Chemistry for Elementary Students, J, 



Bernard Coleman and Frank T. Addyman, 244 

 Bionomie des Meeres, Johannes Walther 244 

 The Story of Oar Planet, T. G. Bonney. F.R.S., Supp. iii. 

 The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cay ley, F. R. S. , 



Supp. iv. 

 The Pamirs, Earl of Dunmore, Supp. vi. 

 Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British 



Museum, George Brook, Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, Supp. 



ix. 

 Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Arthur Gamgee, 



F.R.S., Dr. J. S. Edkins, Supp. x. 

 An Essay on Newton's " Principia," W. W. Rouse Ball, 



Supp. xii. 

 Engineering, Drawing, and Design, Sydney H, Wells, N. J. 



Lockyer, Supp. xiii. 

 Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam 



Museum, E, A. Wallis-Budge, F. S.A., Supp. xiii. 

 Horns and Hoofs, R. Lydekker, Supp. xiv. 

 A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health, T. Stephenson 



and Shirley F. Murphy, 285 

 Public Health and Demography, Edward H. Willoughby, 



285 

 Methods of Practical Hygiene, Prof. K. B. Lehmann, 285 

 Text-Book of Geology, Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., Prof. 



A. H. Green, F.R.S., 2S7 

 On the Chemistry of the Blood, and other Scientific Papers, 



L. C. Wooldridge, 289 



