Nature, ~\ 



■V.eaember lo, 1903 J 



Index 



XXXI 



ines, la Prospection des Mines et leur Mise en Valeur, 

 Maurice Lecomte-Denis, 267 



nguin (J.), Influence of the Solvent on the Rotatory 

 Power of Certain Molecules, 215 



Mining: Use of Electricity in Mines, Selby Bigge, 14; 

 N'itro-Glycerine Eixplosives ; their Influence on Industrial 

 Development, William CuUen, 165 ; the Cyanide Process, 

 W. A. Caldecott, 165; Mise en Valeur des Gites 

 Mineraux, V. Colomer, 198; la Prospection des Mines 

 et leur Mise en \'aleur, Maurice Lecomte-Denis, 2(17 ; 

 (ieneral Increase in Production in Mines and Qiianio 

 for iqo2, 352; Underground Temperatures, 1-'. ti. 

 Meachem, 517; Rand Mines (Native Mortality), Return 

 of the Statistics of Mortality, Sickness and Desertion 

 among the Natives Employed in the Rand Mines during 

 the Period October, i902-March, 1903, 527 ; Report of 

 the Miners' Phthisis Commission, i<)02-i903, with 

 Minutes of Proceedings and Minutes of Evidence, 527 ; 

 the Ravenswood (lold Field, Queensland, Walter \\. 

 Cameron, 579; Mining Accidents in 1902, Prof. C. Le 

 Neve Foster, F.R.S., 629 



Mira, Observations of the Minima of. Prof. A. A. 

 Nijland, 354 



Mirage at Putney, a, H. E. Wimperis, 36S 



Miron (Francois), Etude des Ph^'nom^ncs volcaniques : 

 Tremblements de Terre — Eruptions volcaniques— Le 

 Cataclysme de la Martinique, 1902, 6 ; Cisements 

 mineraux, Stratigraphie et Composition, 597 



Mirror of the Crossley Reflector, the. Dr. (i. Johnstone 

 St •, 1S3 



Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snalce and .Antelope 

 Fraternities, the, George X. Dorsey and IL R. V'oth, 

 III 



Mitchell (Dr. P. Chalmers) elected Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society, 12 



.Mite Whose Eggs Survive the Boiling Point, a, J. 

 .\dams, 437 



Modern State, the University and the, 25, 241, 337 



.Moissan (Prof. Henri), Hofmann (iold ^Iedal .Awarded 

 to, 64 ; Preparation and Properties of Ca-siu'n 

 .Ammonium and Rubidium .Ammonium, 95 ; .Action of 

 •Acetylene upon Ca;sium-.Ammonium and Rubidium- 

 Ammonium, 119; Properties of the Alkali Hydrides, 157; 

 Preparation of Carbides and .Acetylene Acetylides by the 

 . -Action of .Acetylene Gas upon the Hydrides of the 

 .Alkalis and the ..Alkaline Earths, 215; Silicide of 

 Ruthenium, 336 ; a Double Carbide of Chromium and 

 Tungsten, 360 ; Apparatus for the Preparation of Pure 

 Ciases, 384 ; Action of a Trace of Water on the Decom- 

 position of the .Alkaline Hydrides of .Acetylene, 520 ; 

 on the Temperature of Inflammation and on the -Slow 

 Combustion of Sulphur in Oxygen, 616; Estimation 

 of .Argon in Atmospheric Air, 639 



Molisch (Prof.), Phosphorescent Bacteria, 41 



.Mond Process for the Extraction of Nickel, Cases of 

 Fatal Illness in Connection with the, 206 



Monks (Miss S. P.), Regeneration in Starfishes, 328 



Mono-Rail High Speed Electric Railway between 

 Liverpool and Manchester, 158 



Monstres Humains, Essai sur la Psycho-physiologie des, 

 N. Vaschide and CI. Vurpas, Dr. C. S. Myers, 570 



.Mont Pel^e and the Tragedy of Martinique, Angelo Heil- 

 prin, Dr. John S. Flett, 73 ; an Ancient Lava Plug like 

 that of Mont Pel6e, Sir Richard Strachey, F.R.S., 573 ; 

 see also X'olcanoes 



Montangerand (M.), the Partial Eclipse of the Moon on 

 .April II. 16 



.Monti (Mr.), Concentration of Solutions, &:c., by Freezing, 

 211 . . . - 



.Monzoni and Fassa, the Geological Structure of. Dr. 

 Maria M. Ogilvie-Gordon, 413 



Moody (Dr.), the Rusting of Iron, 167 



.Moon: the Eclipse of the Moon, .April ii-u, ;,(i() ; M. 

 Montangerand, 16; A. Kannapell, 23 ; 1'. i'uiseux, 2^; 

 at .Marseilles, M. Stephan; 23; at Bordeiiu.x, G. Kav( t, 

 23; Cause of Moon's Obscurity on April 11, Rev. S. J. 

 Johnson, 46 ;■ Visibility of the Eclipsed Lunar Disi 

 during the Second Half of the Eclipse of April 11-12, 

 M. Amann, 96; Structure and History of the Lunar 

 Crust, MM. Loewy and P. Puiseux. 215; Moon's Phases 



and Thunderstorms, the, I^rof. W. H. Pickering, 232 ; 



Ottavio Zanotti Biaiim, 2i)(i 



Moore (Dr. Benjamin), lMi\ >iivalische Chemie der Zelle 



I und der Gewebe, Dr. Rudolf Hober, 4 ; on the Synthesis 



of Fats .Accompanying .Absorption from the Intestine, 311 



: Moore (J. E. S.), the Tanganyika Problem, an Account 



j of the Researches undertaken Concerning the Existence 



of -Marine Animals in Central Africa, 5b ; Cytology of 



Apogamy and Apospory, 71 ; the Reduction Phenomena 



of Animals and Plants, 335 



Moore (Prof.), Chemical Theory of the Transmission of 



Certain Infective Diseases, 351 ^ 



-Morbology : Patholo^-^y of Beri-Beri, Dr. Hamilton 

 Wright, 41 ; Our Present Knowledge * of Leprosy, 

 tieorge Pernet, ^i ; Leprosy Connected with the Con- 

 sumption of Fish, Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., 135; 

 the Cause of LeiJrosy, Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, 211; 

 Formation of Mclanir Piij^^ment in the Tumours of the 

 Horse, C. Gessard, j,s ; the Prevention of Disease, 49; 

 the Propagation of PhtliiM>, Rev. Edmund McClure, 56; 

 the Non-transmissibility of Bovine Tuberculosis to Man, 

 Prof. Kossel, 303 ; Prof. Orth, 303 ; New Conceptions 

 Regarding Tuberculosis, Prof, von Behring, 528 ; 

 Occurrence of Cancer in \'arious Countries, 86 ; Radium 

 Rays in the Treatment of Cancer, Prof. Gussenbauer, 

 - 254 ; Radium and Cancer, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, 

 320; Dr. '/.. T. Sowers. 320; Cape Horse-sickness, Dr. 

 Wail-;iiis Pit, hfortl, 110; on the Discovery of a Species 

 of Trypanosojiia in the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid of Cases 

 of Sleeping-sickness, Dr. .Aldo Castellani, 116; Sleeping- 

 sickness, Dr. -Aldo Castellani, Lieut. -Colonel Bruce, 

 F.R..S., and Dr. Natiarro, 517.; Experiments on the 

 Eff^ect of Freezing ami other. Low Temperatures upon 

 the Viability of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, with 

 Considerations Regarding Ice as a Vehicle of Infectious 

 Disease, Prof. William T. ..Sedgwick and Charles Edward 

 A. Winslow, Dr. Allen Macfayden, 127 ; Death of 

 .Alfred Haviland, 135 ; the Geography of Disease, Frank 

 (i. Clemow, 171 ; Trypanosomatous i:|)idemic among 

 Domesticated Animals in Mauritius, Dr. l-^dington, 181 ; 

 Trypanosoma Disease in Upper (.amhia, I^rs. Dutton 

 and Todd, 254; Trypanosomiasis of Horses ("Surra") 

 in the Philippine Islands, -Mes>r>. .\Iusgrave and 

 Williamson, 396; Differences between Nagana, Surra, 

 and Caderas, -A. Laveran and F. Mesnil, 216; .Action of 

 Human Serum upon 'Trypanosomes of Nagana, Caderas, 

 and Surra, .A. Laveran, 263 ; Cases of F'atal Illness 

 in C^onnection with the Mond Process for the 

 Extraction of Nickel, 206 ; Power of the Typhus 

 Bacillus of Spreading .Along the Surfaces of Solids 

 in Contact wiiii the Nutrient Liquid, Dr. Constantino 

 (jorini, 231 ; the I-^xtirpation of ("ulex at Ismailia, 

 Major Ronald Rcss, l-'.R.S,, 24O ; Mosquitoes and 

 Malaria, Dr. Schuo, ^21; Rejx rt rf the Malaria 

 Expedition to the (iaiuh'a, i()o2, of the Liverpool School 

 nf •j-ropiral Me<!i,i,ie and .Medical Parasitology, J. E. 

 Diittiin, 42S ; Our I're-ent Knowledge ()t .Malaria, Prof. 

 tjrassi, 517; the Liglit Treatment of Lupus, Prof. 

 Finsen, 254; Infection of the -Mouth and Subcutaneous 

 Tissues by a Parasitic Nematode Worm, Mr. Whittles, 

 278 ; Researches on Tetanus,, Prof. Hans. Meyer and 

 Dr. F. Ransom, 287 ; Alleged Oyster-borne Illness 

 following the Mayoral Banquets at Winchester and at 

 Southampton, Dr. Timbrell Bulstrode, 303 ; the Spread 

 of and ImiTiunity from Asiatic Cholera, Prof. Hunter 

 Stewart, 309 ; on the Organic Respiratory Gases in 

 Diabetes, J. Le Goff, 312; Infective and Infectious 

 Diseases, Dr. F. T. Roberts, 34(1; Chemical Theory of 

 the Transmission of Certain Infective Diseases, Prof. 

 .Moore, 351 ; Mosquitoes the Cause of Yellow Fever, 

 394; Yellow Fever and Mosquitoes, L. O. Howard, 

 578 ; the Mode of Transmission of Yellow Fever, Dr. 

 Carroll, 395 ; Diseases in the Bahamas, 489 ; Rand 

 -Mines (Native Mortality), Return of the Statistics of 

 Mortality, Sickness and Desertion among the Natives 

 I'.mployed in the Rand Mines during the Period, 

 October, i<)02-.\l:irch, i<)03, 527; Report of the Miners' 

 Phthisis Commission, 1902-1903, with Minutes of Pro- 

 ceeding and Minutes of Evidence, 527 ; the igoi-2 

 Epidemic of Small-pax and the Protective Power of 



