Nature, T 

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Index 



IX 



Beach (Hicks), Journey Through Eastern Mongolia, 516 

 Beadnell (Mr.), Giant Land Tortoise from the Eocene of 



the Fayum District, 253 

 Beaulard (F.), Silk not Isotropic, 143 



Becquerel (Henri), Radiation of Polonium and on its 

 Secondary Radiation, 23 ; Conductivity and Residual 

 lonisation of Solid Paraffin under the Influence of the 

 Radium Radiation, 95 ; a Property of the a-Rays of 

 Radium, 215 

 Becquerel Rays, Action of the, on the Nervous System and 



on the Eye, Dr. London, 180 

 Beddard (Frank E., F.R.S.), Normally Unequal Growth as 

 a Possible Cause of Death, 497 ; a Little-known Peculi- 

 arity of the Hamadryad Snake, 623 

 Behring (Prof, von). New Conceptions Regarding Tubercu- 

 losis, 528 ; the F"ight against Tuberculosis, 587 

 Beis (Constantin), a New Method for the Preparation of 



Ketones, 616 

 Bell (Dr. Alexander Graham), Radium and Cancer, 320 

 Bell (A. M.), Liquid Fuel, 635 

 Bell (Dr. Graham), Tetrahedral Cell Kites, 347 

 Bennett (William), Cheap Electric Switchboard for Use 



with Continuous Current, 580 

 Henoit (M.), Observations of Mars, 606 

 Hensley (B. Arthur), on the Evolution of the Australian 



Marsupialia, 119 

 Benson (Miss C. C), Composition of Surface Layers of 



Solution, 630 

 Bentley (W. A.), Photographs of Snow Crystals, 129 

 Beresford (Mr.), Relations Existing between Vespa 



ausiriaca and V. rufa, 460 

 Berlin Conference on Wireless Telegraphy, the, Maurice 



Solomon, 437 

 Bermuda Islands, the, A. E. Verrill, 53 

 Bert (M. Chailley), Irrigation in India, 404 

 Berthelot (M.), Studies on a Law Relating to the Electro- 

 motive Forces Developed by the Reciprocal Action of 

 Saline Solutions, 91; ; New General Relation between 

 Electro-motive Forces of Saline Solutions, 167 ; the State 

 of Vaporised Carbon, 639 

 Bertiaux (M.), the Electrolytic Separation of Manganest 

 and Iron, of Aluminium from Iron or Nickel, and of Zinc 

 from Iron, 120 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), Existence of Arsenic in the Egg of the 

 Fowl, 48 ; Use of a Calorimetric Bomb to Demonstrate 

 the Presence of Arsenic in the Organism, 336 

 Bessemer (the late Sir Henry), Proposed Memorial to, 13 

 Betz (W.), Spherical Aberration of the Eye, 8 

 Bevan (P. V.), the Combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine 



under the Influence of Light, n6 

 Bewegungsiibertragung, Theorie der, Richard Manno, 294 

 Bianco (Ottavio Zanotti), the Moon's Phases and Thunder- 

 storms. 296 

 Bible and Babel, Prof. Paul Haupt, 349 

 Biblica, Encyclopaedia, a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, 

 Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, 

 Geography, and Natural History of the Bible, Rev. T. K. 

 Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, 148 



■nenstaates, die Stammgeschichtliche Entstehung des, 

 sowie Beitrage zur Lebensweise der solitaren u. sozialen 

 Bienen (Hummeln, Meliponinen, &c.), 174 

 Big Game Fishes of the United States, Chas. F. Holder, 363 

 Bigelow (Prof.), the Question of Prominence, Facula and 

 Spot Circulation, 139 ; Theory of Cyclones and Anti- 

 cyclones, 139 ; Atmospheric Variations, 139 

 Bigge (Selby), Use of Electricity in Mines, 14 

 Biles (Prof. J. H.), on Cross Channel Steamers, 208 

 Biltz (Prof.), the Precipitation of Colloids by Salts, 587 

 Hinary, a Coronae a Spectroscopic, Prof. Hartmann, 398 

 liinary )3 Scorpii, the Spectroscopic, V. M. Slipher, 376 

 Hinary System 8 Equulei, Parallax of the, W. J. Hussey, 



(>9 ; Prof. A. A. Rambaut, 69 

 Bingham (Lieut. -Colonel), the Fauna of British India, in- 

 cluding Burma and Ceylon, Hymenoptera, vol. ii.. Ants 

 and Cuckoo-wasps, 220 

 Hio-chemistry, the Chemical Changes and Products result- 

 ing from Fermentations, R. H. Aders Plimmer, 99 

 Biology : Physikalische Chemie der Zelle und der Gewebe, 

 Dr. Rudolf Hober, Dr. Benjamin Moore, 4 ; Formic .\cid 

 in .Alcoholic Fermentation, Pierre Thomas, 24; Conju- 



gation in Amoeba utidulans, Signora Margherita Traube 

 Mengarini, 87 ; Coleridge's Theory of Life, Sir Samuel 

 Wilks, Bart., F.R.S., 102 ; the Permanence of the 

 Maternal and Paternal Chromosomes in the Germ Cells 

 of the Offspring, Dr. Hacker, 160 ; the Role of Diffusion 

 and Osmotic Pressure in Plants, B. E. Livingston, 174 ; 

 Physical Chemistry for Physicians and Biologists, Ernst 

 Cohen, 245 ; Scottish Fresh-water Plankton, W. West 

 and Prof. G. S. West, 262 ; the Reduction Phenomena of 

 Animals and Plants, Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., and 

 J. E. S. Moore, 335 ; Biological Laboratory Methods, 

 P. H. Mell, 343 ; Local Adaptation to Abnormal Con- 

 ditions, the Fresh-water Limpet {Ancylus nioricandi). 

 Baron E. Nordenskjold, 351 ; the Origin of the Pineal 

 Body Deduced from the Study of its Development in 

 Amphibia, Dr. John Cameron, 383 ; Die Zymasegarung 

 Untersuchungen iiber den Inhalt der Hefezellen und die 

 biologische Seite des Garungsproblems, Eduard Buchner, 

 Hans Buchner, and Martin Hahn, Dr. Arthur Croft Hill, 

 385 ; Fermentation Organisms, a Laboratory Handbook, 

 Alb. Klocker, 387 ; Parthenogenesis by Carbonic Acid 

 Obtained with Eggs after the Emission of the Polar 

 Globules, Yves Delage, 544 ; Radio-activity and the Con- 

 stitution of Matter and its Bearing on Biological Pro- 

 cesses, Dr. W. H. Allchin, 603 ; the Application of Low 

 Temperatures to the Study of Biological Problems, 

 Dr. Allan Macfadyen, 608 ; Relationships between 

 the Classes of Arthropods, Dr. G. H. Carpenter, 628 ; 

 Marine Biology, the Tanganyika Problem, an Account 

 of the Researches undertaken Concerning the Existence 

 of Marine .Animals in Central Africa, J. E. S. Moore, 

 56 ; the Ingolfiellidas, fam. n. ; a New Type of Amphipoda, 

 Dr. H. Hansen, 118; Interesting case of " Commen- 

 salism," Dr. R. Horst, 207; Bionomics of Convoluta 

 roscoffensis, Dr. F. W. Gamble and Frederick Keeble, 

 237 ; Distribution of some .Amphipoda, Dr. Fowler, 239 ; 

 Regeneration in Starfishes, Miss S. P. Monks, 328 ; the 

 Huxley Investigations in the North Sea, 331 ; the Marine 

 Biological Association, 331 ; a New Ascidian (Oligotrema 

 psanimites), Dr. G. C. Bourne, 422 ; the Japanese 

 " Palolo " Worm {Ceratocephale osawai), A. Isuka, 518; 

 Birds: Complimentary Singing by Birds, J. R. Paul, 14; 

 Sympathetic Song in Birds, Edgar R. Waite, 322 ; 

 Open-air Studies in Bird Life, Sketches of British, in 

 their Haunts, C. Dixon, 52 ; How to Attract the Birds, 

 Neltje Blanchan, 76 ; St. Kilda and its Birds, W. Wigles- 

 worth, 268; Can Carrier-pigeons Cross the Atlantic? 

 H. B. Guppy, 497 

 Birdwood (Sir George), a Basil, Ocwnim viride, which is 



a Protection against Mosquitoes, 41 

 Birt (F. B. Bradley), Chota Nagpore, a little known 



Province of the Empire, 369 

 Bishop's Ring and the Eruptions at Martinique, F. A. 



Forel, 384, 390 

 Bishop's Ring, the New, Dr. A. Lawrence Rotch, 623 

 Bjerknes (Prof. C. A.), Death of, 84; Obituary Notice of. 



Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 133 

 Bjerknes (\'.), Vorlesungen iiber hydrodynamische Fern- 



krafte nach C. A. Bjerknes' Theorie, 172 

 Black (J. Sutherland), Encyclopaedia Biblica, a Critical 

 Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious His- 

 tory, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History 

 of the Bible, 148 

 Blackman (V. H.), Bipolar Plants, 239 

 Blake (R. F.), on the Reduction of Nitrates by Sewage, 611 

 Blakesley (T. H.), Direct Vision Spectroscope, 71 ; Diagram 

 for Single-piece Lenses, 1 17 ; Geometrical Optics, an 

 Elementary Treatise upon the Theory and its Practical 

 Application to the More Exact Measurements of Optical 

 Properties, 217 

 Blanc (G.), Preparation of Primary Alcohols by Means of 



the Corresponding Acids, 240, 263 

 Blanchan (Neltje), How to Attract the Birds, 76 

 Blomefieid (Leonard) (formerly Jenyns), a Naturalist's 

 Calendar kept at Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, 389 

 Blondlot (R.), Existence of Radiations Capable of Passing 

 through Wood and Certain Metals in the Rays from an 

 Incandescent Mantle, 95 ; on New Sources of Radiations 

 Capable of Traversing Metals, Wood, and other Sub- 

 stances, and on the New Actions Produced by these 



