Nature, Nov. 27, 1890] 



INDEX 



XVll 



(irowing Old, Dr. Charles S. Minot, 528 



Growth of Boys and Girls, Comparative, Geisler and Ulitzsch, 

 376 ; Charles Roberts, 390 



rrowth. Reduplication of Seasonal, Rev. A. Irving, 296 

 jynes as a Protection against the Encroachment of the Sea, 

 R. F. Grantham, 87 

 iber (Dr. W. L.), Death of, 597 

 leit (M.), Ethnic Composition of Population of Japan ac- 

 cording to Distribution of " Kakke " Disease, 207 



lulick (Rev. John T.) : Unstable Adjustments as Affected by 

 Isolation, 28 ; Indiscriminate Separation, under the same 

 Environment, a Cause of Divergence, 369 



runn (John), Death and Obituary Notice of, 133 



runnery, Naval, Past and Present, Captain Noble, C. B., 

 F.R.S., 499 



runs. Scientific Principles Involved in Making Big, Prof. A. 

 G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 304, 331, 378 



luntz (M.), Subfluoride of Silver, 240 



ruye (P. A.), Determination of Molecular Weight at Critical 

 Point, 168 



rynarchy in Eastern Asia, Dr. Macgowan, 88 



" ?nsecocracy in Eastern Asia, Dr. Macgowan, 88 



Syroscopes, Electrical, G. Trouve, 460 



laberlandt (Dr. G.), Das reizleitende Gewebesystem der 



Sinnpflanze, 561 

 Haddon (Prof. Alfred B.) : Affinities of Heliopora carulea, 463 ; 



Manners and Customs of the Torres Straits Islanders, 637 

 Hagemann (Dr.), Proteid Metabolism during Pregnancy and 



Lactation, 216 

 Hale (Horatio) : an International Idiom, a Manual of the Oregon 



Trade Language, or " Chinook Jargon," 99 ; on the Ethno- 

 graphy of British Columbia, 580 

 Hale (Dr. Wm. H.), American Association for the Advancement 



of Science, 528 

 Halogens, Report of the British Association Committee on the 



Action of Light on the Hydracids of the, in the Presence of 



Oxygen, 531 

 Haltermann (Captain), St. Elmo's Fire, 254 

 Haly (A.), a New Method of Preserving Specimens of Fishes, 



&c., 211 

 Hambleton (Dr. G. W,), on Physical Development, 581 

 Hamilton (Dr. W. R.), the Croaking Noise made by Perch, 



328 

 Hampshire, Celtic Survivals in, T. W. Shore, 402 

 Hanbury (Thomas), and the Proposed New Botanical Institute 



at the University of Genoa, 16 

 Hancock (John) : Death of, 597 ; Obituary Notice of, 616 

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

 Hann (Dr.) : Influence of Town of Vienna upon its Climate, 



207 ; Temperature of Grinnell Land and Sonnblick Summit 



Compared, 281 ; and Herr Paulsen, on the Fohn Phenomena 



of Greenland, 160 

 Hanover, Forests in, 525 



Harker (Dr. John), the Corolla in Flower Fertilization, lOO 

 Harker (J. A.) and Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., on the Rates of 



Explosion of Hydrogen and Chlorine in the Dry and Wet 



States, 531 

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

 Harrier (H.), on Weather Study, 524 

 Harries and Lawrence on Alternate z'. Continuous Currents in 



Relation to the Human Body, 534 

 Harrison (W. Jerome) and Chas. A. White, Magnetism and 



Electricity, 147 

 Hartig (Dr. R.), Timbers and how to know them, 315 

 ilarting (J. E.), Singing Mice, 22 

 Ilartnell (Wilson) on Electric Lighting and Fire Insurance 



Rules, 534 

 Haslam (Dr. George), Translation of Dr. Alexander Ecker's 



Anatomy of the Frog, 27, 54 

 Hawaiian Islands: Characteristics of Volcanoes, with Contri- 

 butions of Facts and Principles from the, James D. Dana, 



266 ; "Barking Sands" of the, H. Carrington Bolton, 389 

 Hayden (Everett), the Law of Storms, 648 

 IIazen(Prof. H. A.) : on Storm Generation, 583 ; the Tornado, 



612 

 I lead (John), on a New Form of Siemens Furnace, 69 

 1 lealth and Disease, Food in. Dr. J. Burney Yeo, 196 

 Health, Human, Royal Commission to inquire into Effect of 



Tuberculous Animal Food upon, 299 



Health, National, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 244 



Heat and Light, an Elementary Text-book of, R. Wallace 

 Stewart, 567 



Heat, Reflections on the Motive Power of, Sadi Carnot, 365 



Heat, and Sound, Light, Chas. H. Diaper, 197 



Hechingen, Earthquake at, 648 



Hedley(C.), Intended Investigation of Invertebrate Fauna of 

 East Coast of New Guinea by, 252 



Hegyfoky (M.), Thunderstorms on the Hungarian Plain, 458 



Heligoland : Spanish Ideas of, 255 ; Collection of Birds formed 

 at, 401 



Heliopora acrulea, Bl., the Zoological Affinities of, W. Saville- 

 Kent, 340 ; Dr. Sydney J. Hickson, 370 ; Prof. Alfred B. 

 Haddon, 463 



Heliostat, a Simple, applied to Photomicrography, Thos. 

 Comber, 167 



Helix nemoralis and hortensis, J. W. Williams, 457 



Hellmann (Dr. G.), the Beginnings of Meteorological Observa- 

 tions and Instruments, 207 



Hemsley (W. Botting, F.R.S.): C. J. Maximowicz on the 

 Flora of Eastern Central Asia, 51 ; Recent Additions to the 

 Literature of Insular Floras, 322 ; Annals of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 587 



Henrici (Prof. O., F.R.S.), Theory of Screws, Sir Robert Ball, 

 F.R.S., 127 



Henry (Paul and Prosper) : Photographs of the Moon, 90 ; 

 Lunar Photography, 571 



Henslow (Rev. G.), the American Meteor, 271 



Herdman (Prof. W. A.), the Sixth Scientific Cruise of the 

 Steamer Hytena with the Liverpool Marine Biology Com- 

 mittee, 132; some Experiments on Feeding Fishes with 

 Nudibranchs, 201 ; Die Pflanzen und Thiere in den dunkeln 

 Raumen der Rotterdamer Wasserleitung, 314 



Hessian Fly in Lincolnshire, &c., 327 



Heymans (Dr.) : on Medullaled and Unmedullated Nerves, 48 ; 

 Nerve- Fibres in Ureter?, 144 



Hibbert (Mr.), Notes on Secondary Batteries, 262 



Hicks (Dr. Henry, F.R.S.) : on Earth-Movements in Wales 

 and Shropshire, 532 ; on the Contents of Cambrian Con- 

 glomerate, 532 



Hickson (Dr. Sydney J.) : Affinities of Heliopora ccerulea, 370 ; 

 on the Hydrocoralliia, 579 



Highland Plants from New Guinea, Baron von Mueller, F.R. S., 

 382 



Hill (Prof. S. A.), Obituary Notice of, 616 



Himmel und Erde, 512 



Hindoo Folk- Lore, Rai Bahadur Mai Manucha's Book on, 375 



Hippodrome, Paris, Ingenious Scenic Contrivance at, 353 



Hirst (Dr. T. A.). Present of Books to the Library of the 

 Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching, 

 108 



History of Botany, Prof. Julius von Sachs, 337 



Hjelt (Prof. E.), Principles of General Organic Chemistry, 

 translated by J. Bishop Tingle, 461 



Hoff (J. H. Van't) : on the Influence of Heat on Copper Potas- 

 sium Chloride and ils S.iturated Solution, 522 ; on the Be- 

 haviour of Copper Potassium Chloride and its Aqueous 

 Solutions at Different Temperatures, 531 



Holden (Prof.), Photographing Stars in the Daytime, 576 



Holgate (B.), the Coals and Clays of Leeds, 532 



Hollander (Bernard), Brain-Functions, Modern Experimental 

 Researches and Phrenology, 263 



Hollis (W. Ainslie), the Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 6 



Hong Kong, Education in, Dr. Eitel on, 525 



Hong Kong Observatory, Report for 1889, 510 



Honolulu, Threatened Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, 6i8 



Hooker (Sir J. D., F.R.S.) : Portrait of, 22; on the Sunday 

 Society, 212 



Hopkinson (J.), on the Inland and Maritime Climate of 

 England and Wales, 578 



Hornaday (W. T.), the Extermination of the American Bison, 

 II 



Horned Dinosaurs of the United States, 349 



Horology : the Cinquemani Chronologe, 645 ; Watch and 

 Clock Making in 1889, J. Trippling, 294 



Horse, Marie Pavloff on the Palaeontology of the Ungulata, 



575 

 Horse-bones, Mounds of, at Solutre, 535 

 Horsehair Cloth, the Laycock Loom for Weaving, 357 

 Horsley (Victor, F.R.S.): Results of Electrical Excitation of 



Motor Cortex of Orang Outang, 189 ; Changes produced in 



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