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Nature, 

 ■ne 14, 1900 



Muret- Sander's Encyclopaedic English-German and German- 

 English Dictionary, 610 



Murray (George, F.R.S.). Antarctic Exploration, 19; Cocco- 

 spheres and Rhabdospheres, 54 ; the Stockholm Conference 

 on the Exploration of the Sea, 102 



Murray (Sir John), Atlantic Deep-sea Soundings, 286 



Museums, Ethnographical, 154 



Myers (C. S.), on Savage Music in Murray Island and Sarawak, 

 42 



Myograph, a New, Dr. Mahalanobis, 238 



Myres (John), a Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, with a 

 Chronicle of Excavations undertaken since the British Occu- 

 pation, and Introductory Notes on Cypriote Archaeology, 

 19s 



Mythology, Babylonian Religion and, L. W. King, Frank 

 Rede Fowke, 437 



Naked Eye Object, Mercury as a, W. F. Denning, 431 



Nansen (Dr. F. ), the Scientific Results of the Polar Expedition, 

 62 



Napthalin, Crystallised, and its Refractive Properties, Prof. 

 S. P. Thompson, 165 



Nasini (R. ), New Lines in Infra-red Spectrum of Argon, 235 



Natural and Artificial Methods of Ventilation, 6 



Natural History : Death and Obituary Notice of Grant Allen, 

 13 ; Natural Objects in Old Spanish Sculpture, Dr. E. S. 

 Fatigati, 15 ; Beasts : Thumbnail Studies in Pets, Wardlaw 

 Kennedy, 28; Peripatus in the Malay Peninsula, Dr. R. 

 Horst, 31 ; Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 46, 

 372 ; the Cambridge Natural History, David Sharp,W. F. H. 

 Blandford, 49 ; Birds Capturing Butterflies, F. Finn, 55 ; 

 Oswald H. Latter, 56; Howard Fox, 152 ; Geo. A. Soper, 

 491 ; Types of British Animals, F. G. Aflalo, 77 ; Field and 

 Folk Lore, Harry Lowerison, 102 ; Animals and Poisonous 

 Plants, J. E Harting, 142; Can Ants Hear? Mr.Weld, 157 ; 

 Recent Changes in Fauna of Jamaica, Mr. Duerden, 157 ; the 

 Essex Naturalist, the Journal of the Essex Field Club, 245 ; 

 the Boyhood of a Naturalist, Fred. Smith, 246 ; Memoirs of 

 Novorossian Society, 262 ; Memoirs of St. Petersburg 

 University Society of Naturalists, 285 ; Death of M. 

 Marion, 302 ; Obituary Notice of, 352 ; Beyond Petsora 

 Eastward : Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and 

 the Islands of Barents Sea, H. J. Pearson, 348 ; an Egg- 

 hatching Rabbit, 423 ; Colour-phases of Weasel, Mr. 

 Barrett-Hamilton, 451 ; the Rostrum of Mesoplodon, Dr. 

 Henry O. Forbes, 490 ; the Natural History Museum— a 

 Correction, G. S. Brady, 540 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Canon J. C. Atkinson, 544 ; a Book on Whales, F. E. 

 Beddard, F.R.S., 585; Death of Prof. A. Milne-Edwards, 

 617 



Natural Philosophy, Elements of, Alfred Earl, 125 



Natural Selection, Physiology verstis, an Unnatural Antithesis, 

 217 



Naturalist in Chile, a, W. Anderson Smith, Dr. Plugh Robert 

 Mill, 536 



Nature, Colour in, a Study in Biology, Marion I. Newbigin, 

 217 



Nature Study in Rural Schools, 553 



Nautical Almanac, Day Numbers of, 208 



Naval Architecture : Armour Plates, R. A. Hadfield, 301 



Naval Observatory, United States, 330 



Naval Pioneers of Australia, the, Louis Becke, Walter Jeflfery, 

 53 



Navigation : Under-currents, Rear- Admiral W. J. L. Wharton, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., 29; the Soulanges Canal, 40; the Holland 

 Submarine Boat, 135 ; Blaikie's " Cosmosphere," 359 ; the 

 Rolling of Ships, W. J. Luke, 371 ; Motive Power, Steam 

 Turbines, High Speed Navigation, Hon. C. A. Parsons, 

 F.R.S., 424 



Nebula, Ring, in Lyra, Central Star of, W. Stratonoflf, 260 



Nebulae, Spiral Predominance of. Prof. J. E. Keeler, 87 



Nebulae : Variations in the Spectrum of Orioii Nebula, Prof. 

 Scheiner, 114 



Nehrihg(Dr.), the Pomeranian Aurochs Horn, 460 



Nenci (Prof. Tito), I. Bachi da Seta, 77 



Neptune, Occultation of, 62, 158, 453 



Nerves, the Development of Ganglion Cells and, N. 

 Goronowitsch, 158 



Nettle Fibre for Yarns and Tissues, the LTse of, 257 



Neuburgher (M.), Petroleum in Algeria, 618 



Neville (F. H., F.R.S.), Gold Aluminium Alloys, 357 



Neville (Capt. G.l, Meteorite off Greek Coast, iii 



New Brunswick, Mineralogy of. Dr. L. W. Bailey, 16 



New South Wales, Mercury in, 15 



New South Wales Royal Society, 47, 167, 483 



New York Zoological Park, the, iii, 303 



New Zealand : the Student's Flora of New Zealand and the \ 

 Outlying Islands, Thomas Kirk, W. Botting Hemsley, 

 F.R.S., 146; the New Zealand Zoological Region, H. 

 Farquhar, 246 ; Is New Zealand a Zoological Region ? Dr. 

 Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 273; Prof. Alfred Newton, 

 F.R.S., 295; Charles Hedley, 589; the Coccidae of New- 

 Zealand, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 367 ; a New Peripatus 

 from. Prof. Arthur Dendy, 444 ; Fertilisation of Flowers in 

 New Zealand, Geo. M. Thomson, 564 : the Takahe {Notornis 

 hochstelleri), Prof. W. B. Benham, 576 ; List of the Genera 

 and Species of New Zealand Plants, A. Hamilton, W. 

 Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 146 



Newbigin (Marion I.), Colour in Nature : a Study in Biology, 

 217 



Newstead (Robert), General Index, by Curator of the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, to Annual Reports of Observations of 

 Injurious Insects, 1877-1898, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 126 



Newth (G. S.), Liquefaction of a Gas by "Self-Cooling," 627 



Newton (Prof. Alfred, F.R.S.), Is New Zealand a Zoological 

 Region ? 295 



Newton's Laws of Motion, Prof. P. G. Tait, 265 



Niagara Electrical Power Station, the, 85 



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



Nicati (W.), Mechanism of Blood Pressure in Ocular Capil- 

 laries, 192 



Nicati (Dr. W.), La Philosophic Naturelle, 199 



Niclausse Water-tube Boiler, Mark Robinson on the, 21 



Nicloux (Maurice), Alcohol in Blood of Mother and Foetus, 556 



Nicol Prisms, Large, C. D. Ahrens, 31 



Nile Delta, on Desert Sand-dunes Bordering the, Vaughan 

 Cornish, 20, 403 



Nile Valle)', Flint Implements from. 597 



Nordenskiold (Baron A. E.), Minerals containing Rare Earths^ 

 603 



Nordenskiold (Dr. Erland), Floating Stones, 278 



Normal Variants, a Geometric Determination of the Median 

 Value of a System of, from Two of its Centiles, Dr. Francis 

 Galton, F.R.S., 102 



Norris (Mr. ), the Homogeneity of Tellurium, 402 



North American Geology, 600 



North American Slime Moulds, the. Prof. T. H. MacBride, 175 



Northumberland Sea Fisheries, Report of Committee for 1899, 



354 

 North wich, Pontoon-based Swing Bridges at, 135, 327 

 Norway, Salmon Hatching in, 39 

 Nova Scotia, Inaugural Address delivered at the Opening of 



the Fortieth Session of Dalhousie College, Halifax, Prof. 



J. G. Macgregor, 159 

 November Meteors : the Coming Meteor Shower, 41 

 November Meteors, the. Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 132 

 Novorossian Society, Memoirs of, 262 

 Nuttall(Dr. G. H. F.), Insects as Carriers of Disease, 153 



Observatories : Position of Perth Observatory, W. E. Cooke, 

 1 14 ; United States Naval Observatory, 330 ; Harvard 

 College Observatory, 402 ; the New Odessa Observatory, 454 ; 

 Companion to the Observatory, 187 



Oceanography : Dr. Gerhard Scholt on the Chief Results of the 

 Voyage of the Valdivia, 19 ; Observations of Temperature 

 of Water and Air round the British Islands, H. R. Dickson, 

 19 ; Temperature and Salinity of the Surface Water of the 

 North Atlantic during 1896 and 1897, H. N. Dickson, 19; 

 Suggested System of Terminology for the Forms of Sub- 

 oceanic Relief, Dr. H. R. Mill, 19 ; Under-currents, Rear- 

 Admiral W. J. L. Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., 29 ; Results of 

 Recent Soundings in the Pacific, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, 

 211 



Occultation, the Computation of, 355 



Occultation of Neptune, 62, 158, 453 



Odessa Observatory, the New, 454 



Ogawa (Masataka), Ammonium Amidosulphites, 434 ; Products 

 obtained by Heating Ammonium Sulphite, Thiosulphate and 

 Trithionate, 434 



Ohnefalsch-Richter (Max), a Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, 



