Nature. 

 June 14, 1900 . 



Index 



King (F. H.), the Movements of Ground-water, 601 



Kiig (L. W., F.S.A. ), Babylonian Religion and Mythology, 



437 

 Kingsmill (Thos. W.), Leonid Meteor Showers, 491 

 Kintner (S. M.), Mercury Jet Interrupters, 590 

 Kipping (F. S.)> Isomeric partially Racemic Salts containing 

 Quinquivalent Nitrogen, 505 ; New Syntheses of Indene, 505, 

 547 ; lodonium Compounds, 506 ; Decomposition of Semi- 

 carbazones, 506 

 Kirk (Thomas), the Students' Flora of New Zealand and the 



Outlying Islands, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 146 

 Klein (Dr. E., F.R.S.), System der Bakterien, Dr. W. Migula, 



464 

 Klemperes (Prof.), Justus von Liebig and Medical Science, 63 

 Kling (Andre), Biochemical Oxidation of Propylglycol, 239 

 Klondike, Alaska and the, Angelo Heilprin, 122 

 Knapp (Dr. S. A.), Rice Culture in U.S.A. , 401 

 Knibbs (G. H. ), the Prismoidal Formula, 167 

 Knopf (Herr Otto), New Minor Planet (1899 EY), 283 

 Knott (Dr. C. G.), Magnetic Screening, 482 

 Knowledge- making, the Utility of, as a means of Liberal 



Training, Prof. J. G. Macgregor, 159; G. H. Wyatt, 274 

 Knuth (Prof. Paul), Death of, no; Obituary Notice of, 205 

 Kobelt (Dr. W.), Studien zur Geographie, 99; Dr. W. 

 kobelt and the Mediterannean Fauna, Prof. Henry H. 

 yiglioli, 227 ; the Reviewer, 227 

 ch (K. R.), Vibrations of Gun Barrels, 58 

 (Hiker's (A.), Handbuch der Gewebelehre des Menschen, 

 U6 

 tllitz(Dr.), Antarctic Exploration, 19 



llrausch (Dr. F.), Kleiner Leitfaden der Practischen Physik, 

 Stationary Temperature of Electrically Heated Con- 

 ictor, 432 



Tohn (L. ), True Molecular Weight of Gaseous Sulphur, 373 

 Konig (R.), Highest Audible and Inaudible Notes, 190 

 Koppen (W. ), Grundlinien der Maritimen Meteorologie, lOl 

 Kranz (C. ), Vibrations of Gun Barrels, 58 

 Kuenen (Prof.), a Simple Proof of Gibbs' Phase Rule, 359; 

 Change with Temperature of Coefficients of Absorption of 

 Gas in Liquid, 359 

 Kyle (H. M.), Proposals of the Stockholm Fisheries Conference, 

 151 ; Nasal Sacs in Flat Fish, 358 



Laar (J. A. van). Application of Thermodynamics to Ramsay 

 and Shields' Results upon Association of Liquids, 283 



Labbe (Henri), Essais des Huiles Essentielles, 5 



Laboratories : Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry, Alex- 

 ander Smith, 27 ; Laboratory Manual, Experiments to Illustrate 

 the Principles of Chemistry, H. W. Hillyer, 52 ; Substitute 

 for Gas in Laboratories, William Gannon, 128 ; Biological 

 Lectures from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Holl 

 Massachusetts, 1898, 244 ; Laboratory Note-book for Che- 

 mical Students, Prof. Vivian B. Lewes and J. S. S. Brame, 

 412; Hartley Botanical Laboratories of University College, 

 Liverpxx)!, 454 



Lachlan (R.), the Elements of Euclid, 176 



Lacroix (A.), the Crystalline and Volcanic Rocks of Southern 

 China, 359 ; Pseudo-Chalcedonite, 407 



Laer (M. van), the Bacillus of " Double-face" Disease in Beer, 

 287 



Laird (L. R.), Magnetic Viscosity, 432 



Lake, a Canadian, of Subterranean Inflow, Andrew T. Drum- 

 mond, 128 



Lake Callabonna, Fossil Remains of, 275 



Lake Nicaragua, the Level of. Prof. A. Heilprin, 451 



Lamb (Prof. Horace, F.R.S.), Geometrical Representation of 

 Relation between Wave-velocity and Group-velocity, 286 



Lamplugh (G. W.), Effect of Earth-movement on Carboniferous 

 Volcanic Rocks of Isle of Man, 285 ; Rock-structures in Isle 

 of Man and South Tyrol, 612 



Lander (G, D. ), Mixture of Dry Silver Oxide and Alkyl 

 Halides as an Alkylating Agent, 335 ; Alkylation by means 

 of Dry Silver Oxide and Alkyl Iodides, 627 



Landolt Dr. H. ), Optical Activity and Chemical Composition, 

 269 



Landslips, the Cause of the Darjeeling, T. H. Holland, 127 



Langley (Prof. S. P., For.M.R.S.), the Structure of the Inner 

 Corona, 443 ; Rock-salt as a Refraction-standard, 545 ; the 

 Protection of Wild Animals in America, 617 



Lankester (Mrs.), Death of, 593 



Lankester (Prof. E. R., F.R.S.), Significance of Increased 



Size of Cerebrum in Recent as compared with Extinct 



Mammalia, 624 

 Lapworth (A. ), Action of fuming Nitric Acid on a-dibromo- 



camphor, 335 ; Acids obtained from o-dibromocamphor, 505 

 Lapworth (Herbert), the Silurian Sequence of Rhayader, 143 

 Larroque (Firmin), Mechanism of Hearing, 311 

 Larsen (A. ), Electric Conductivity of Dilute Amalgams, 432 

 Lassarbohn (Prof. Dr.), Einfiihrung in die Chemie in leicht- 



fasslicher Form, 51 

 Latham (B.), Climatic Conditions of Plague, 214 

 Latitude-variations, Study of, Jean Boccardi, 383 

 Latitude, Variation of, Prof. Th. Albrecht, 574 

 Latter (Oswald H.), Birds Capturing Butterflies, 56 

 Lattermann (Dr.), the Colloid Metals, 64 

 Lattes (E. C), the Etruscan Numerals, 371 

 Laurent (E. ), Mistletoe-distribution in Belgium, 520 

 Lawrence (H. E.), Magnetic QuaUties of Building Brick, 421 

 Le Bon (Gustave), Loss of Phosphorescence by Heat, 579 

 Le Chatelier (H.), Changes in Volume accompanying hardening 



of Hydraulic Currents, 239 

 Le Sueur (H. R.), Constitution of Fatty Acids, ii., 190 

 Lead and Silver, the Metallurgy of, Henry F. Collins, 198 

 Lebeau (Henri), Density and Analysis of Sulphur Perfluoride, 



603 

 Lebeau (P.), Preparation of Arsenides, 43$; Sulphur Per- 

 fluoride, 579 

 Lecarme (Leon and Louis), Wireless Telegraphy between 



Chamounix and Mt. Blanc, 280 

 Lecher (E.), a Fallacy in Electrical Doctrine, 262 

 Leclere (M.), the Crystalline and Volcanic Rocks of Southern 



China, 359 

 Lecomte (Henri), Les Arbres a Gutta-percha, leur Culture. 



Mission Relativ i I'acclimatation de ces Arbres aux Antilles 



et la Guyane, 538 

 Lees (Dr. C. H.), the Thermal Conductivities of Mixtures, 118 ; 



the Production of Electrolytic Copper, 392 

 Lefebvre(P.), Action of Amyl Chloride on Calcium Carbide, 604 

 Lefevre (Prof. Julian), La Liquefaction des Gaz et ses Applica- 

 tions, 98 

 Lehfeldt (Prof.), the Osmotic Pressure Analogy, 453 

 Leidie (E.), Anhydrous Sesquichlorides of Rhodium and Iridium, 



239 ; the Rhodio-cyanides, 288 

 Leigh (M. Cordelia), The Witness of Creation : Nature 



Sketches from the Book of Job, 466 

 Leiss (C), Die Optischen Instrumente der Firma R. Fuess, 



deren Beschreibung, Justierung und Anwendung, 241 

 Leloutre (G.), L'^chappement dans les Machines a Vapeur, 



Lemoine (J.), Researches on Kerr's Phenomenon, 112; Time 

 of Establishing Electric Spark, 360 ; Instantaneous Disappear- 

 ance of Rotatory Polarisation, 435 



Lenard (O. ), Absorption of Light in Electrically Glowing Gases, 

 627 



Lendenfeld (Robert von), Die hochgebirge der Erde, 219 



Lengfeld (Felix), Inorganic Chemical Preparations, loi 



Lenses, Obliquely crossed Cylindrical, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 

 164 ; Exact Formula} for, T. H. Blakesley, 165 



Leonid Meteors, 374; Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 28, 

 82 ; Dr. A. M. W. Downing, F.R.S., 28 ; W. F. Denning, 

 81; M. Loewy, 119; M. J. Janssen, 119; J. Guillaume, 

 143 ; C. H. Trepied, 143 ; Harold Tarry, 143 ; Thos. W. 

 Kingsmill, 491 ; Supposed Daylight Leonids, W. F. Denning, 

 1 52 ; Contemporary Meteor-showers of the Leonid and 

 Bielid Meteor-periods, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 222, 

 271 



Lepcha Language, Dictionary of the, General G. B. Main- 

 waring, 442 



Lepidoptera : Oeber einige Aberrationen von Papilio Machaon, 

 Dr. J. W. Spengel, 316; Illustrations of Lepidoptera, H. J. 

 Elwes, F.R.S., 468; Bulgarian Lepidoptera, H. J. Elwes, 

 627 



Lepinay (J, M. de). Mass of Cubic Decimetre of Water, 71 



Leteur (F.), Detection of Silver in presence of Mercury Amido- 

 chloride, 360 



Levy (Michel), the Crystalline and Volcanic Rocks of Southern 

 China, 359 



Lewes (Prof. Vivian B.), Laboratory Note-book for Chemical 

 Students, 412 



Lewis (A. L.), Stone Circles in Scotland, 530 



