INDEX 



\^Nalure, Nov. 27, 1S96 



Reviews and Our Book Shelf : — 



Molekularphysik, mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung mikro- 

 skopischer Untersuchungen und Anleitung zu Solchen, 

 sowie einen Anhang iiber mikrochemische Analyse, von 

 Prof. Dr. O. Lehmann, i 



Le9ons sur la Theorie Mathematique de L'Electricite professees 

 au College de France, par J. Bertrand, 2 



Sundevall's Tentamen (Methodi naturalis avium dispo- 

 nendarum tentamen), translated into English, with 

 Notes, by Francis Nicholson, 3 



The Flowering Plant, ns Illustrating the First Principles of 

 Botany, by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, 4 



Cycles of Drought and Good Seasons in South Africa, by 

 D. E. Hutchins, 4 



Science in Plain Language, by William Durham, 4 



Chemical Technology, or Chemistry in its Application to 

 Arts and Manufactures, Edited by C. E. Groves, F.R.S., 

 and \V. Thorp, B. Sc, Vol. I. Fuel and its Applications, 

 by E. J. Mills, B.Sc, P.R.S., and F. J. Rowan, C.E., 25 



Among the Selkirk Glaciers, being the Account of a Rough 

 Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Columbia, 

 by William Spotswood Green, M.A., F.R.G.S., 26 



The Anatomy of the Frog, by Dr. Alexander Ecker, Pro- 

 fessor of Human and Comparative Anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Freiburg, translated, with numerous Annotations 

 and Additions, by George Haslam, M. D., 27 



Syllabus of Elementary Dynamics, Part I, Linear Dynamics, 

 with an Appendix on the Meanings of Symbols in Physical 

 Equations, 28 



Organic Evolution as the Result of the Inheritance of Ac- 

 quired Characters according to the Laws of Organic 

 Growth, by Dr. G. H. Theodor Eimer, translated by J. T. 

 Cunningham, 28 



The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice, 

 by J. A. Fleming, M.A., D.Sc, Vol. I. The Introduction 

 of Electric Currents, 49 



Special Physiology, including Nutrition, Innervation, and 

 Reproduction, Vol. II., by J. G. McKendrick, M.D., 

 LL.p., F.R.S., 50 



Historia Naturalis Itinerum N. M. Przewalskii per Asiam 

 Centralem, 51 



PlantEE Chinensis Potaninianse nee non Piasezkianae Acta 

 Horti Petropolitani, Vol. IX., 51 



Le Glacier de I'Aletsch et le Lac de Marjelen, by Prince 

 Roland Bonaparte, 51 



Classification of Birds, an Attempt to Diagnose the Sub- 

 Classes, Orders, Sub-Orders, and some of the Families of 

 Existing Birds, by Henry Seebohm, 74 



A Hand book of European Birds, for the Use of Field 

 Naturalists and Collectors, by James Backhouse, Jun., 74 



The Criminal, by Havelock Ellis, 75 



Lessons on Elementary Physiographic Astronomy, by John 

 Mill, 76 



Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Strength of Beams 

 and Columns, by Robert H. Cousins, 76 



Chambers's Encyclopaedia, New Edition, Vol. V., 77 | 



Essays of an Americanist, by Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., 77 



Esquisse Historique sur la Marche du Developpement de la 

 Geometric du Triangle, by E. Vigarie, 77 



Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, Edinburgh, Vol. II., 97 



Le9ons Synthetiqaes de Mecanique generale, servant d' Intro- 

 duction au Cours de Mecanique Physique de la Faculte des 

 Sciences de Paris, par M. J. Boussinesq, 98 



A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students, by Edmund 

 Owen, 98 j 



Advanced Physiography, by John Thornton, M.A., 99 



An International Idiom, a Manual of the Oregon Trade 

 Language, or Chinook Jargon, by Horatio Hale, 99 



A Class-book of Geography, Physical, Political, and Com- 

 mercial, for Intermediate and Senior Pupils, by W. B. 

 Irvine, 99 



Researches on the Manufacture of Various Kinds of Tea, 

 Bulletin of the Imperial College of Agriculture and Den- 

 drology, Y. Kozai, 121 



Catalogue of British Fossil Verlebrata, Arthur Smith Wood- 

 ward and Chas. Davies Sherborn, 122 



Gonnaissance des Temps, Extrait a I'Usage des Ecoles d'Hy- 

 drographie et des Marins du Commerce, pour I'An 1891, 

 124 



Wimshurst Electrical Influence Machine, W. P. Mendham, 



124 

 Pawnee Hero-stories and Folk-tales, George Bird Grinnell, 



124 

 Theoretische Mechanik starrer Systeme auf Grund der 



Methoden und Arbeiten, und mit einem Vorworte von Sir 



Robert Ball, Henry Gravelius, Prof. O. Henrici, F.R.S., 



127 

 L'Eclairage Electrique actuel dans Differents Pays, Jules 



Couture, 145 

 The School Manual of Geology, J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S., 146 

 Magnetism and Electricity, W. Jerome Harrison and Chas. 



A. White, 147 

 Science Applied to Work, John A. Bower, 147 

 Monograph of the British Cicadse or Tettigida;, S. B. Buck- 

 ton, F.R.S., 169 

 Monograph of Oriental Cicadidse, W. L. Distant, 169 

 Elements of Machine Design, Prof. W. Cawlhorne Unwin, 



F.R.S., 171 

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



171 

 Pond Life, Algge and Allied Forms, T. Spencer Smithson, 



171 

 Rambles and Reveries of a Naturalist, Rev, William Spiers, 



172 

 Sketches of British Sporting Fishes, John Watson, 172 

 La Geographic Zoologique, Dr, E. L. Trouessart, Dr. H. 



Gadow, 193 

 Pure Logic and other Minor Works, W. S. Jevons, 195 

 Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's 



Office, U.S.A., Dr. A. T. Myers, 196 

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

 Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology 



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



Powell, 197 

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

 Life and Letters of the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F. R. S., John 



W. Clark, F.S.A., and Thos. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 217, 241 

 Le9ons sur I'Electricite, Eric Gerard, 219 

 The Art of Paper-making, Alex. Watt, 220 

 Contribution to the Natural History of Scarlatina derived 



from Observations on the London Epidemic of 1887-88, 



D. Astley Gresswell, 220 

 Le Soleil, les Etoiles, Gabriel Dallet, 221 

 Father Perry, F.R.S., Aloysius L. Cortie, 221 

 Prodomus Faunae Mediterraneae, Julius Victor Carus, 221 

 In Darkest Africa, H. M. Stanley, 223 

 The Prevention of Measles, C. Candler, 243 

 American Spiders and their Spinning Work, Henry C. 



McCook, 244 

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

 Induction and Deduction, and other Essays, Constance C. W. 



Naden, 245 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire, John W. 



Ellis, 245 

 Characteristics of Volcanoes, with Contributions of Facts 



and Principles from the Hawaiian Islands, &c., James D. 



Dana, 266 

 Terminologia Medica Polyglotta, Theodore Maxwell, Prof. 



Alex. Macalister, F.R.S., 267 

 Masken von New Guinea und dem Bismarck Archipel, Dr. 



A. B. Meyer, 268 

 Larva Collecting and Breeding, Rev. J. Seymour St. John, 



269 

 Practical Chemistry for Medical Students, Samuel Rideal, 



269 

 Manual of Pharmaceutical Testing, Barnard S. Proctor, 270 

 Encyclopaedia of Photography, Walter E. Woodward, 270 

 Dynamics for Beginners, Rev. J. B. Lock, 270 

 The Colours of Animals, &c., Edward Bagnall Poulton, 



F.R.S., Dr. Alf. R. Wallace, 289 

 Hand-book of Astronomy, Geo. F. Chambers, 291 

 Annales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires para dar a 



conocer los objectos de historia natural nuivos 6 poco cono- 



cidos conservados en este establecimento, Dr. H. Burmeister, 



293 

 Triumph of Philosophy, James Gillespie, 294 

 Watch and Clock Making in 1889, J. Trippling, 294 

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



