INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1890 



Enzyme Action in the Lower Organisms, Dr. Cartwright Wood, 



97 

 Ephemeris, an, for Nautical Men, 124 

 Epping Forest, E. N. Buxton, 389 



Ericsson's (Captain John) Body, Departure for Sweden of, 426 

 Essays of an Americanist, by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, 77 

 Essex, Bagshot Beds of, Horace W. Monckton, 198 ; Dr. A. 



Irving, 222 

 Essex, the Birds of, a Contribution to the Natural History of 



the County, M. Christy, 564 

 Essex Field Club, Fungus Foray of the, 5.53 

 Essex Field Clubs, Joint Meeting of Gilbert and, 279 

 Espin (Rev. T. E.), Catalogue of Red Stars, 354 

 Ether, the Adiabalic Curves for, Prof Ramsay, 578 

 Ether, Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide from, 71 

 Etheridge (R.), Has Man a Geological History in Australia? 



150 

 Ethnography : C. W. Rosset's Collections, 34 ; Ethnography 

 of British Columbia, Horatio Hale, 580 ; the Peopling of 

 America, M. de Quatrefages, 618 

 Ethnology : Prof Bastian's Collections made in Russian 

 Central Asia, 64 ; the Political Domination of Women in 

 Eastern Asia, Dr. Macgowan, 88 ; Dr. Max Buchner's 

 Collection, 88 ; Collection of Japanese Objects at Salem, 

 U.S.A., no; Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, in ; 

 the Ethnological Basis of Language, Dr. G. W. Leitner, 143 ; 

 Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology 

 to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, J. W. Powell, 

 197 ; Ethnic Composition of Population of Japan according to 

 Distribution of Kakke Disease, M. Gueit, 207 ; the Lucayan 

 Indians, 253 ; Ethnology of the Gambia Region, 256 ; 

 Masken von New Guinea und dem Bismarck Archipel, 

 Dr. A, B. Meyer, 268 ; Elements to be Considered in En- 

 deavouring to trace North American Tribes to their Origin, 

 F. W. Putnam, 327 ; Organization of Australian Tribes, 

 A. W. Howitt, 328 ; the Study of Ethnology in India, H. H. 

 Risley, 335 ; Manners and Customs of the Torres Straits 

 Islanders, Prof Alfred C. Haddon, 637 

 Eua Island, Tonga Group, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 

 85 ; Commander Oldham, 85 ; Prof J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 86 

 Euclid, Elements of, Horace Deighton, 389 

 Euclid, the Harpur, E. M. Langley and W. Seys-Phillips, 295 

 European Settlement, Lands Available for, E. G. Ravenstein, 



579 

 Evans (Dr. John, F.R.S., Pres.S.A.), Opening Address in 



Section H (Anthropology), at tha British Association, 507 

 Evening Classes in London, Guide to, 510 

 Everett (Alfred), Birds of Bornean Group, 207 

 Everett (Prof J. D., F.R.S.), Doppler's Principle, 81 

 Eves (C. W.), the Jamaica Exhibition, 134 

 Evolution, Organic, by Dr. G. H. Theodor Eimer, 28 

 Evolution of Photography, John Werge, 543 

 Ewald (Prof), Sudden Death of Patient upon Introduction of a 



Flexible Gastric Sound, 264 

 Ewing (Prof ), Contributions to Molecular Theory of Induced 



Magnetism, 235, 335, 578 

 Exhibition, Buenos Ayres Rural, 402 

 Exhibition, the Edinburgh, 134 

 Exhibition, the Jamaica, C. W. Eves, 134 

 Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, International, 326 

 Expedition, Dr. Nansen's North Pole, 233 



Explosions in Coal Bunkers, Spontaneous Ignition and, Prof 

 Vivian B. Lewes, 271 



Talk (Prof), on a Supposed Death from Pancreatic Lesion, 144 



Fat, the Absorption or. Dr. I. Munk, 264 



Fauna, Lepidopterous, of Lancashire and Cheshire, John W. 



Ellis, 245 

 Faunae Mediterranete, Prodomus, Prof J. Victor Carus, 221 

 Favre (Prof Alphonse) : Death of, 278 ; Obituary Notice of, 299 

 Fawcett (J. W.), on the Religion of the Australian Aborigines, 



580 

 Faye (H.) : on the Theory of Storms, 43 ; Accessory Phenomena 



of Cyclones, 655 

 Fearnley (Carl Frederik), Death of, 487 

 Felsted School Natural History Society, 328 

 Fenton (Major), Expedition to Upper Course of Irawadi, 32 9 

 Fenyi (Jules), Two Solar Prominences, 656 

 Ferments, Termino'ogy of Hydrolysis, Especially as Effected by. 



Prof H. E. Ara;strong, F.R.S., 406 



Ferments, on the Modifying Action of, E. H. Hankin, 579 

 Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, Scientific Expedition to 



Eastern Islands under Auspices of, "597 

 Finch, a True Plermaphroditic, Max Weber, 216 

 Finley (Lieutenant J. P.), on Tornadoes, 486 

 Finn (F.) and E. B. Titchener, Comparative Palatability of 



Insects, 571 

 Fire Insurance Rules and Electric Lighting, Wilson Hartnell, 



534 

 Fisher (Rev. Osmond), on the Soaring of Birds, 457 

 Fisheries : of Alaska, Investigation of the Fur-Seal and other, 

 171 ; Expedition for Scientific Investigation of Irish Fishing- 

 Grounds, 234 ; Scientific Investigations of the Fishery Board 

 for Scotland, 39, 653 : Flat Fishes, T. D. A. Cockerell, 53 ; 

 on the Propagation of some Freshwater Fishes, 118 ; Sketches 

 of British Sporting Fishes, John Watson, 1 72 ; some Experi- 

 ments on Feeding Fishes with Nudibranchs, Prof W. A. 

 Herdman, 201 ; a New Method of Preserving Fishes, &c., 

 A. Haly, 211 ; on the Capture of Young (Immature) 

 Fishes, and what Constitutes an Immature Fish, Prof W. C. 

 Mcintosh, F.K.S., 429 



Fitzgerald (Prof G. F., F.R.S.), Electro-magnetic Radiation, 

 172 



Flash-Light, a New, by Dr. Thomas Taylor, 35 



Flat Fishes, T. D. A. Cockerell, 53 



Fleming (Prof. Dr. J. A.) : the Alternate Current Transformer, 

 Vol. I., Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 49; Problems in 

 the Physics of an Electric Lamp, 198, 229 



Fletcher (Mr.), Notaden Bennettii, a Rare Toad, 376 



Flight of Leaves, Extraordinaiy, James Sha*v, 637 



Flints, on some Decomposed, from Southbourne-on-Sea, Cecil 

 Carus- Wilson, 7 



Flora of Eastern Central Africa, C. J. Maximowicz, W. Bottini; 

 Hemsley, F.R.S., 51 



Flora of Sicily, L. Nicotra's, 655 



Floras, Recent Additions to the Literature of Insular, W. 

 Bolting Hemsley, F.R.S., 322 



Flower-Fertilization : the Corolla in. Dr. John Harker, 100 ; 

 Sun-birds and, G. F. Scott-Elliott, 279 



Flowering Plant, as illustrating the First Principles of Botany, 

 J, R. Ainsworth Davis, 4 



Flowers, Birds and, 317 ; Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 295 



Flowers, Ornithophilous, G. F. Scott-Elliott, 279 



Fluor Spar in Optical Instruments, Prof S. P. Thompson on 

 the Use of, 578 



Fluorbenzene, on the Refraction and Dispersion of. Dr. J. H. 

 Gladstone, F.R.S., and G. Gladstone, 530 



Fluorine, M. Moissan's Redetermination of Atomic Weight of, 

 649 



Fly, Hessian, in Lincolnshire, <Jic., 327 



Fock (Dr. A.), Einleitung in die chemische Krystallographie, 

 A. E, Tutton, 387 



Foerster's (Prof) Lectures, 376 



Fog, London, Royal Society Grant for Inquiry into the Composi- 

 tion of, 180 



Fog and Town Atmosphere, Effect on Plant- Life of, 553 



Fogh (M.), Comparative Heat of Formation of Amides and 

 Anilides, 336 



Fohn Phenomena of Greenland, the, Paulsen and Hann, 160 



Folk-Lore : the Story of Balder, 81 ; Pawnee Hero-Stories and 

 Folk-Tales, by George Bird Grinnell, 124 ; Rai Bahadur Mai 

 Manucha's Book on Hindoo, 375 ; Japanese Folk-Lore Journal, 

 459 ; the Aborigines of Tasmania, H. Ling Roth, 489 ; the 

 Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer, 513 ; Manners and Customs 

 of the Torres Straits Islanders, Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, 637 



Fontainebleau, Opening of Laboratory of Vegetable Biology at, 

 180 



Food in Health and Disease, Dr. J. Burney Yeo, 196 



Forest, Sunken, in Frie>land, Discovery of a, 648 



Forestry Association, American, the Quebec Meeting, 426 



Forestry, the Natal Forests, H. G. Fourcade, 135 



Forests in Hanover, 525 



Forests, Temperature in and near. Prof M. W. Harrington, 



655 

 Forsyth (Dr.), on the Teaching of Botany in Schools, 579 

 Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New 



Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, J, S. Newberry, 366 

 Fossil Plants, Recent Researches among, J. Starkie Gardner, 



521 

 Fossil and Recent Coral Reefs, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 53, 100, 



148 ; Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R S., 172 



