Nature, 

 June 14, 1900 . 



Index 



XXJtVU 



A Rudimentary Treatise on Coal and Coal Mining, the late 



Sir Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S., Bennett H. Brough, 



411 

 Untersuchungen ilber die Chemischen Affinitaten, C. M. 



Guldljerg und P. Waage, 412 

 How to Know the Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons, 412 

 Laboratory Note-book for Chemical Students, Prof. Vivian 



B. Lewes and J. S. S. Brame, 412 

 The Elements of Co-ordinate Geometry, J. H. Grace and F. 



Rosenberg, 412 

 Books on Egypt and Chaldsea, Egyptian Ideas of the Future 



Life, Egyptian Magic, E. A. Wallis Budge, Frank Rede 



Fowke, 437 

 Babylonian Religion and Mythology, L. W. King, F.S.A., 



Frank Rede Fowke, 437 

 The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, 440 

 The Scientific Study of Scenery, John E. Marr, F.R.S., 441 

 Plant Relations : a First Book of Botany, John Coulter, Prof. 



J. B. Farmer, 442 

 Elementary Chemistry for High Schools and Academies, 



Albert L. Arey, 442 

 A Manual of Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, Dr. Arthur 



P. Luff and Frederic J. M. Page, 412 

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



I waring, 442 

 ;s Sucres et leurs Principaux Derives, L. Maquenne, Prof. 

 R. Meldola, F.R.S., 461 

 le Races of Man ; an Outline of Anthropology and Ethno- 

 graphy, J. Deniker, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 462 

 rstem der Bakterien, Dr. W. Migula, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 

 464 

 ivres Scientifiques de L. Lorenz, Revues et Annotees, H. 

 Valentiner, 465 

 Theory and Practice of Art Enamelling upon Metals, Henry 



Cunynghame, 466 

 The Witness of Creation, Nature Sketches from the Book of 



Job, M. Cordelia Leigh, 466 

 La Ceramique Ancienne et Moderne, E. Gnignet and E. 



Gamier, 466 

 A Treatise on Crystallography, W. J. Lewis, Prof. H. A. 



Miers, F.R.S., 485 

 Wilhelm Olbers, sein Leben und seine Werke, Dr. C. 



Schilling, Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer, 486 

 Catalogue of a Collection of Objects illustrating the Folk 



lore of Mexico, Prof. Frederick Starr, 488 

 A First Book in Organic Evolution, D. Kerfoot Shute, 488 

 Mining Engineers' Report Book, and Directors' and Share- 

 holders' Guide to Mining Reports, Edwin R. Field, 489 

 Flora of Kent, F. J. Hanbury and E, S. Marshall, 489 

 Leitfaden fiir den Unterricht in der Anorganischen Chemie, 



Dr. Joachim Sperber, 489 

 Aufgaben aus der Chemie und der physikalischen Chemie, 



Dr. P. Brauer, 489 

 Die Photometric der Gestirne, Prof. Dr. G. Miiller, 509 

 Histoire des Mathematiques, J. Boyer, 510 

 Theorie und Geschichte des photographischen Objectivs, 



Moritz von Rohr, 511 

 Experiments on Animals, Stephen Paget, 512 

 Cyclopedia of Classified Dates, Charles E. Little, 513 

 Justus von Liebig und Christian Freidrich Schonbein 

 ^^ Briefwechsel, 1853-1868, Georg W. A. Kahlbaum und 

 ^^^^Eduard Thon, 513 



^^^Bna e Giappone, E. von Hesse Wartegg, 513 

 ^^^nactical Chemistry, William French, 514 

 ^^^^B Introduction to Qualitative Analysis, H. P. Highton, 514 

 I^^Ksai de Chronologie des Temps Prehistoriques, M. Roisel, 

 I^»^5i4 



Photographs of Stars, Star Clusters and Nebulae, together 



with Records of Results obtained in the Pursuit of Celestial 



Photography, Isaac Roberts, F.R.S., Dr. William J. S. 



Lockyer, 533 



A Complete Mosasaur's Skeleton and a Skeleton of Diplo- 



docus, H. F. Osborn, 534 

 Temperate Chile, a Progressive Spain, W. Anderson Smith, 



Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 536 

 List of Published Names of Plants introduced to Cultivation, 

 1 876- 1 896, Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 

 Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 537 

 Hand-list of Tender Dicotyledons Cultivated in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 537 



Les Arbtes ^ Gutta-percha, leur culture. Mission relativ a 



I'acclimatation de ces Arl)res aux Antilles et la Guyane, 



Henri Lecomte, 538 

 Determination of Radicles in Carbon Compounds, Dr. H. 



Meyer, 538 

 Unites electriques absolues. Prof. G. Lippmann, 539 

 Elementary Practical Physiography, j. Thornton, 539 

 Atlas de Photomicrographie des Plantes M^dicinales, Drs. 



Braemer et Suis, 539 

 A Text-book of Physics, W. Watson, Prof. Hugh L. 



Callendar, F.R.S., 557 

 Heat for Advanced Students, Edwin Edser, Prof. Hugh L. 



Callendar, F.R.S., 557 

 Text-book of Experimental Physics, Eugene Lommel, Prof. 



Hugh L. Callendar, F.R.S., 557 

 A Manual of Zoology, Prof. T. J. Parker and Prof. W. A. 



Haswell, 559 

 An Elementary Course of Practical Zoology, Prof. T. J. 



Parker and Prof. W. N. Parker, 559 

 Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology, Robert 



De Courcy Ward, 560 

 Lectures on some of the Physical Properties of Soil, Robert 



Warington, F.R.S., 561 

 Electric Wiring, Fittings, Switches and Lamps, W. Perren 



Maycock, 562 

 Electric Bells and Alarms, F. E. Powell, 562 

 Report of the Marine Biologist for the Year 1898, Cape of 



Good Hope Department of Agriculture, E. J. Allen, 562 

 Science Course for Secondary Schools, G. Robb and J. 



Mirguet, 562 

 L'^tchappement dans les Machines 4 Vapeur, G. Leloutrc, 



563 

 Produits Aromatiques ; Artificiels et Naturels, Dr. G. F. 



Jaubert, 563 

 Grundzuge der geographisch-morphologischen Methode der 



Pflanzensystematik, Dr. R. von Wettstein, 563 

 Dreams of a Spirit-seer, illustrated by Dreams of Meta- 

 physics, Immanuel Kant, 563 

 The Distribution of Income, William Smart, Sir R. Giffen, 



K.C.B., F.R.S., 581 

 Practical Mathematics, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., Prof. A. G. 



Greenhill, F.R.S., 582 

 A System of Medicine by Many Writers, Dr. F. W. Tunni- 



cliffe, 584 

 A Book on Whales, F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., 585 

 Microscopic Researches on Glycogen, Charles Creighton, 586 

 The Elements of Alternating Currents, W. S. Franklin and 



R. B. Williamson, 587 

 Oysters and Disease : an Account of Certain Observations 



upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteri-^ 



ology of the Oyster and other Shellfish, Profs. W. A. 



Herdman, F.R.S., and R. Boyce, 587 

 Scientific Papers, John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, 



F.R.S., 588 

 Ueber das System der Nagethiere ; eine phylogenetische 



Studie, Tycho Tullberg, 588 

 A Surgical Operating Table for the Horse, J. A. W. Dollar, 



588 

 The Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands, A. B. 



Meyer and L. W. Wiglesworth, 605 

 Mine Drainage : being a Complete Practical Treatise otv 



Direct Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery, 



Stephen Michell, Prof. W. Galloway, 606 

 Text-book of Palaeontology, Karl A. von Zittel, 608 

 Les Etres Vivants. Organisation — Evolution, Paul Busquet, 



609 

 Notions de Mineralogie, A. F. Renard and F. Stober, 610 

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

 English Dictionary, 610 

 Die Elemente der Entwickelungslehre des Menschen und der 



Wirbelthiere, O. Hertwig, 610 

 Reynolds (Joan Berenice), the Teaching of Geography in 



Switzerland and North Italy, 126 

 Rhabdospheres, Coccospheres and, George Murray, F.R.S., 54 

 Rhode Island, the Birds of, R. H. Howe, jun., and E. Sturte- 



vant, 323 

 Ribot (Prof. Th.), Evolution of General Ideas, 149 

 Rice Culture in United States of America, Dr. S. A. Knapp, 401 

 Richardson (Dr. S. W.), Magnetic Properties of Iron and 

 Aluminium Alloys, 23 



