VI 



Index 



VSuipleiiient to Nature, 

 L ' May 31, 1894 



Ancient Egyptian Pigments, Dr. William J. Russell, F.R. S., 



374 

 Ancients, on the Bugonia Superstition of the. Baron C. R. 



Osten-Sacken, 198 

 Anderson (E. W.), the Grafton High Speed Steam Engine, 610 

 Anderson (Rev. Thomas D. ), New Variable Star in Andro- 

 meda, lOI 

 Anderson's Variable in Andromeda, Prof. E. Pickering, 419 

 Andes, Eruption of El Calbuco Volcano, A. E. Nogues, 179 

 Andre (Ch.), Electric Variation of High Regions of Atmo- 

 sphere in Fine Weather, 131 

 Andre (G.), Formation of Carbon Dioxide and Absorption of 



Oxygen by Detached Leaves of Plants, 284 

 Andrev's (E. A.), Asyrnmetron lucayanum, a new Acraniate 



foun<l at Bahamas, 14 

 Andrews (Rev. W. R.), Purbeck Beds of Vale of Wardour, 



191 

 Andromeda, New Variable Star in, Rev. Thomas D. Ander- 

 son, loi 

 Andromeda, Anderson's Variable in. Prof. E. Pickering, 419 

 Andrusoff (N. ), the Black Sea during the Pliocene Age, 23 

 Angot (Alfred), Vallot's Mont Blanc Meteorological Observa- 

 tions, 1887, 167 ; Diurnal Range of Amount of Cloud at 

 Paris, 206 ; Diurnal Variation of Tension of Aqueous 

 Vapour, 240 

 Animals, Chrono-Photographic Study of the Locomotion of, 



41 



Animals, the Industries of, Frederic Houssay, 171 



Annales de Geographie, 184 



Annuaire, the, of the Bureau des Longitudes, 397 



Annuario do Observatorio do Rio de Janeiro, 299 



Annular Eclipse of the Sun, an, 542 



Antarctic Exploration: Dr. John Murray, 112; Scheme for, 

 Dr. F. A. Cook, 184 



Antarctic Research : the Scottish Geographical Society and 

 Antarctic Research, 257 ; the Latitude reached by Neivport 

 Whaler, Prof. George Davidson, 369 ; Norwegian Sealers in 

 Antarctic Waters, 461 ; High Southern Latitude reached by 

 Jason Whaler, 559 



Antarctica, a Vanished Austral Land, H. O. Forbes, 352 



Anthropology: L'Anthropologie, 22, 263, 472, 520, 593; 

 Proportion of Trunk among the French, Dr. R. Collignon, 

 22 ; Dr. H. Ten Kate's Malaysian and Polynesian Re- 

 searches, 23; Hindoo Dwarfs, Colonel A. T. Eraser, 35, 

 396 ; Dr. A. E. Grant, 396 ; the Man of Mentone, Arthur 

 J. Evans, 42 ; Sense of Taste among Indians, E. H. S. Bailey, 

 82; Anthropological Institute, 211;; the Agni, a Tribe of 

 Fair Negroes, Maurice Delafosse, 263 ; Birth-rate in Canton 

 of Beaumont- Hague, A. Dumont, 283 ; Memoires de la 

 Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 283 ; Bulletins de la 

 Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 306 ; Stone Cross found 

 at Carnac, Ch. Letourneau, 330 ; Flattening of Chest and 

 Skull in Celebes, Baron von Hoevell, 377 ; Merovingian and 

 Carolinian Crania of Boulogne District, Dr. E. T. Harney, 

 472 ; Le Mirage Oriental, Salomon Reinach, 472 ; Distribu- 

 tion of Red Hair in France, Dr. P. Topinard, 472 ; Certain 

 Inferences and Applications of Anthropology, Dr. Topinard, 

 520 ; Relation of Length of Trunk to Height, Ch. Fere, 

 520 ; the Perfect Man, Dr. Topinard, 520 ; Prehistoric His- 

 tory of the Pyrenees, 593 ; Ethnical Migrations in Central 

 Asia from a Geographical Point of View, G. Cepas, 594 



Anthropometrical Registry, Proposed, 487 



Anti-Vivisectionists and the Indian Vivisection Bill and Pasteur 

 Institute, 130 



Antipodes, Biology at the, 597 



Antropologia Generale, 472 



Ants, White, Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., 522 



Apache Indians, the Medicine Men of the, Captain J. G. 

 Bourke, 439 



Apogamy in Pteris serrulata (L. fil.) var. cristata, A. H. Trow, 

 434 



Apteryx, the Genus, Hon. Walter Rothschild, 14 



Aquarium, the Melbourne Exhibition, 583 



Arachnida, the Stigmata of the, as a Clue to their Ancestry, 

 H. M. Bernard, 68 



Aran Islands, the Ethnography of the. County Galway, Prof. 

 A. C. Haddon and Dr. C. R. Browne, 468 



Arboriculture : British Forest Trees, J. Nisbet, i 



Arbuthnot Museum, Peterhead, the, Alexander Meek, 20 



Archeology ; the Orkhon River Expedition, W. Radloff, 23 ; 



the Forgery of Prehistoric Stone Implements, Sir John 

 Evans, 156; "Beni Hasan," P. E. Newberry and G. W. 

 Eraser, 169; Death of Prof. Forchhammer, 251; Stone 

 Cross found at Carnac, Ch. Letourneau, 330 ; Prehistoric 

 Man in Jersey, Edward Lovett, 487 ; Roman Villa near 

 Cardiff, John Storrie, 605 

 Architecture,Naval : Institution of Naval Architects, 490; Recent 

 First-class Battleships, W. H. White, 490 ; the Circulation of. 

 Water in Thornycroft Water-Tube Boilers, J. L. Thorny- 

 croft, 491 ; the Vibration of Steamers, Otto Schlick, 491 

 Arctic Exploration : Proposed Station in Ellesmere Land, 

 Robert Stein, 18 ; Plan for Exploration of Ellesmere Land, 

 Robert Stein, 346 ;Dr. Stein's Expedition, 256 ; Dr. Nansen 

 and the Kara Sea, 39 ; Dr. Nansen's Expedition, 112, 210 ; 

 Hans Johannenssen, 85 ; the Fate of the Bjorling Exploring 

 Expedition, Captain McKay, 85 ; Proposed Search for the 

 Bjorling Expedition, 606 ; Projected Expedition by Mr. 

 Wollman, 416 ; Results of Swedish International Polar Ex- 

 pedition, Dr. J. Hann, 498 ; Current Arctic Expeditions, 301 ; 

 Return of Mr. F. G. Jackson, 301 

 Arctic Lands, Geological History of. Sir Henry Howorth, 36 

 Arendt(Dr. ), the Transport of Heat by Aerial Currents, 216 

 Arithmetic : Graphic Arithmetic and Statics, J. J. Prince, 284 

 Arithmetic, Key to Mr. J. B. Lock's Shilling, Henry Carr, 480 

 Arithmometers, Prof. Boys, 618 

 Armatures, the Construction of Drum, and Commutators, 



F. M. Weymouth, E. Wilson, 478 

 Armstrong (Prof. Henry E., F. R.S.), Flame, 100, 171 ; the 

 Action of Bromine on Azobenzene, a Correction, 118 ; 

 Coloured Hydrocarbons, 1 18 ; Voices from Abroad, 225 

 Arons (Dr.), Polarisation Phenomena upon Thin Metal Parti- 

 tions, 347 

 Arsonval (M. d'), the Action of Sunshine on Microbes, 417 

 Artaria (August), Death of, 275 

 Arthropoda, Tracheate, on the Classification of the, a Correction, 



R. I. Pocock, 124 

 Artificial Amoeba and Protoplasm, Dr. G. Quincke, 5 ; Dr. 



John Berry Haycraft, 79 

 Artificial Formation of the Diamond, the, [. B. Hannay, Dr. 



J. Joly, F.R.S.,530 

 Artificial Preparation of the Diamond, M. Moissan, 418 

 Ashdown (Dr. H. H.), Death of, 12 



Asia : M. de Poncin's Explorations in the Pamirs, 18 ; 

 Earthquake in Western Asia, 81; "Chinese Central 

 Asia, a Ride to Little Tibet," Henry Lansdell, W. 

 F. Kirby, 309; Prince Constantine Wiazemski's Journey 

 through Asia, 324 ; Across Central Asia, St. George 

 Littledale, 567 ; Ethnical Migrations in Central Asia, from 

 a Geographical Point of View, G. Capus, 593 

 Asphalte Pavement, Petroleum in relation to, S. P. Peckham, 



306 

 Asphyxia, the Physiological Action of Oxygen in, 16 

 Asterisms, Early, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 199 

 Astigmatism of Rowland's Concave Gratings, the, 489 

 Aston (Miss E.), Molecular Formulae of some Liquids as 



Determined by their Molecular Surface Energy, 377 

 Astrjmony : a Popular History of Astronomy during the Nine- 

 teenth Century, Agnes M. Gierke, 2 ; the Nativity of 

 Rama, Col. Walter R. Old, 4 ; Brooks's Comet (October 16), 

 18, 39 ; Brooks's New Comet {\Zf^y), Prof. E. E. Barnard, 67 ; 

 the Tail of Comet Brooks (<:i893), 210, 233 : Our Astro- 

 nomical Column, 18, 38, 67, 84, III, 133, 162, 183, 209, 233, 

 256, 274, 300, 323, 349, 372, 397, 419, 441, 464, 489, 511, 

 542, 562, 585, 608 ; ihe Wave Lengths of the Nebular Lines, 

 Prof. Keeler, 18; the Planet Jupiter, 18, 67; Period of 

 Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 85 ; Motion 

 of Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, F. Tisserand, 239 ; Jupiter and 

 his Red Spot, W. F. Denning, 104 ; Anomalous Appear- 

 ance of Jupiter's First Satellite, 300; Jupiter's Satellites in 

 1664, 323 ; Nova Aurigas, 373 ; Prof. E. S. Holden, 32 ; a 

 New Southern Star discovered by Mrs. Fleming, 38 ; 

 Astronomical fournalVnzQ, 39 ; Moon Pictures, 39 ; Meteor 

 Showers during November, 39 ; Biela Meteors, 97 ; Meteor 

 Shower for December, 134 ; a Bright Meteor, 419 ; Prof. 

 Schur, III ; an Astronomical Glossary, J. E. Gore, 51 ; 

 Correlation of Solar and Magnetic Phenomena, William 

 Ellis, F.R.S., 53, 78; A. R. Ilinks, 78; Correlation of 

 Magnetic and Solar Phenomena, H. A. Lawrence, loi ; a 

 New Variable Star, Rev. T. E. Espin, 67 ; the Observatory 

 for November, 67 ; Text of the Adams Memorial, 67 ; Solar 



