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Index 



Nature, 

 . June 14, ig^ 



Bahamas, the Feather-stars of the, Prof. Verrill, 16 

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

 Baillie-Grohman (W. A.), Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the 

 Hunting-grounds of Western America and British Columbia, 

 566 

 Baker (H. B.), Vapour Densities of Dried Mercury and Mer- 



curous Chloride, 530 

 Baker (J. L.), Mannogalactan and Laevulomannan, 530 

 Baker (R. T.), the Essential Oil ol Darwiniafascicularis, 483 

 Baker (T. J. ), Frequency of Transverse Vibrations of Stretched 



India-rubber Cord, 334 

 Baker (W. M.), Elementary Dynamics, 221 

 Bakker (Dr. G.), the Molecular Potential Function, 156 

 Baldwin (D.), Action of Acetylene on Metallic Oxides, 93 

 Baldwin (Prof. J. Mark), Anlage and Rudiment, 29 ; the Royal 



Society Catalogue and Psychology, 226 

 Balfour (Mr.) on Scientific Research, 395 

 Ball (Sir Robert S., F.R.S.), Star-land, 294 

 Ballistics : Vibrations of Gun Barrels, C. Cranz, K. R. Koch, 

 58 ; Resistance to Projectiles in Air, 93 ; Law of Aerial 

 Resistance to Projectiles, Paul Vieille, 359 

 Balloon Ascents, Recent International, Dr. IL Hergesell, 572 

 Balloon, Danilewsky's Dirigible, 372 

 Ballooning : Aeronaut poisoned by Hydrogen Gas, 618 

 Balloons in War, 83 



Baly (E, C. C), The Distillation of Liquid Air, 457 

 Bamberger (Prof.), Mechanism of Passage of Hydroxylamines 



into Amidophenoles, 63 ; Pyrrol Aldehyde, 453 

 Bancroft (Dr. W. D.), New Formula for Ostwald's Dilution 



Law, 303 

 Baratta (Dr. M.), Effect of Avigliana Dynamite Explosions, 451 

 Barber (Samuel), a Brilliant Meteor, 326 

 Barbour (E. H.), Decline of Geyser Activity in Yellowstone 



Park, 398 

 Bardier (E.), Concerning Physiological Alternation of Kidneys, 



483 

 Barents Sea, Natural History of the Shores of, H. J. Pearson, 348 

 Barisal Guns, Henry S. Schurr, 127 

 Barisal Guns and Earthquakes, Prof. A. Issel, 60 

 Barnard (Prof. E. E.), Orbit of Fifth Satellite of Jupiter, 157 

 Barrett (Prof.), Magnetic Properties of Aluminium, Nickel and 



Tungsten Steels, 23 

 Barrett Hamilton (Mr.), Colour-phases of Weasel, 451 

 Bartholomew (J. G.), Atlas of Meteorology, 171 

 Bartlett's (A. D.), Life among Wild Beasts in the " Zoo," 267 

 Barton (Dr. E.), Reflection and Transmission of Electric- waves 



along Wires, 334 

 Barus (C), Hot Water and Soft Glass, 528 

 Bary (Paul), Fluorescence of Metallic Compounds under Rontgen 



and Becquerel Rays, 531 

 Bather (F. A.), Deceptive Bibliographic Indications, 367 

 Battelli (F.), Death by Electric Discharge, 24; Effects of 



Electric Discharges on Heart of Mammals, 239 

 Baumhauer (Prof. H.), Darstellung der 32 Moglichen Krystall- 



klassen, 245 

 Baxandall (G. A.), Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, loi 

 Beasts : Thumbnail Studies in Pets, Wardlaw Kennedy, 28 

 Beaumont (Prof. R.), Szczepanik's Photographic Process of 



preparing Textile Designs, 14 

 Beauregard (Dr. Henri), Obituary Notice of, 593 

 Bebber (Dr. van), Scientific Weather Prediction for Agricul- 

 tural Purposes, 185 

 Becke (Louis), The Naval Pioneers of Australia, 53 

 Becker (G. F.), Geology of South Alaskan Goldfields, 600 

 Becquerel (H.), Phosphorescence Phenomena of Radium Radia- 

 tion, 166 ; Influence of Magnetic Field on Radiation of Radio- 

 active Bodies, 192 ; the Radiation of Radio-active Bodies, 

 239 ; Radium and Polonium Rays in Magnetic Field, 355 ; 

 Radium and Polonium Rays, 371 ; The Radium Radiations, 

 359 ; Dispersion of Radium Rays in Magnetic Field, 407 ; 

 Negative Charge communicated by Radium Rays, 498 ; De- 

 viations of Radium Rays in Electric Field, 555 ; Origin of 

 Energy of Becquerel Rays, 547 

 Becquerel Rays : Suggested Source of the Energy of the. Dr. Fred 

 T. Trouton, F.R.S., 443; The Absorption of the Becquerel 

 Rays by Solid and Gaseous Bodies, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 539 ; 

 Origin of Energy of Becquerel Rays, H. Becquerel, 547 

 Beddard (F. E.), a Book on Whales, 585 



Bedford (F. P.), Notes on the Occurrence of Amphioxus at 

 Singapore, 444 



Beecher (C. E.), Uintacrinus from Kansas, 626 



Beer, Heather, Dr. W. C. Maclagan, 286 



Beer, the Bacillus of " Double-face " Disease in, M. Van Laer 



287 

 Beetles, Stridulating, Mr. Gahan, 406 

 Beginselen der Scheikunde, Dr. M. C. Schuyten, 220 

 Behal (H. A.), Mixed Oxyhydrides of Fatty and Aromatic 



Acids, 48 

 Behn (U.), Specific Heats of Metals at Low Temperatures, 

 554 ; Heat of Sublimation of Carbonic Acid and of Evapora- 

 tion of Air, 554 

 Belgian Antarctic Expedition, Geographical Results of, Dr. F. A. 



Cook, 258 

 Bell (Sir I. L., F.R.S.), Development of Manufacture and Use 



of Rails in Great Britain, 595 

 Belopolsky (Herr A.), Spectrum of P Cygni, 137 

 Beltrami (Prof. E.), Death of, 449 ; Obituary Notice of. Prof. 



G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 568 

 Bemmelen (D. W. van). Spasms in Earth's Magnetic Force, 72 

 Benard (Henri), Movements produced in Liquids by Heat Con- 

 nection, 604 

 Benech (Elophe), Action of Phenyl Isocyanate and Isothio- 



cyanate on Dibasic Acids, 580 

 Benham (Prof. W. B.), the Takahe {Notornis hochstetteri), 576 

 Bentley (Dr. I. M.), Relative Fidelity of Memory Image, 60 

 Berget (A.), Microphonic Registration of Beat of Chronometer, 



71 

 Bergholz (Dr. Paul), Die Orkane des Fernen Ostens, 317 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences, the Bi-Centenary of the, 469, 494 

 Berlin Geographical Congress, Meteorology at the, A. Lawrence 



Rotch, 177 ; the Writer of the Report, 177 

 Bernard (H. M.), the Structure of Porites, 213 

 Bernthsen (Herr), the Formula of Hyposulphurous Acid, 354 

 Berthelot (Daniel), Simultaneous Oxidation and Hydration under 

 Free Oxygen and Light, 24 ; the Explosion of Potassium 

 Chlorate, 166 ; General Method for Estimating some Elements 

 in Organic Compounds, 192 ; Value of Internal Pressure in 

 Equations of Van Waals and Clausius, 287 ; the Co-volume 

 in Characteristic Equation of Fluids, 311 ; Association of 

 Molecules in Liquids, 459 ; Heat of Combustion of some very 

 Volatile Liquids, 627 

 Bertrand (Joseph), Death of, 544 ; Obituary Notice of. Prof. 



G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 614 

 Bertrand (Marcel), Mechanical Theory of Mountain Formation, 



383 



Bertrand (Prof.), on the Structure of a Stem of a Ribbed 

 Sigillaria, 68 



Beudantite (E. G. J. Hartley), 382 



Bevier (Prof. Louis), the Acoustic Analysis of the Vowels from 

 the Phonographic Record, 467 



Beyerinck (Prof.), the Production of Indigo from Woad, 71 



Biblica, Encyclopaedia, Rev. T. K. Cheyne, 148 



Bibliographic Indications, Deceptive, F. A. Bather, 367 



Bi-Centenary of the Berlin Academy, 469, 494 



Biela's Comet, the Meteors of, E. C. Willis, 78 ; W. F. 

 Denning, 78 



Bielid Meteor-periods, Contemporary Meteor-showers of the 

 Leonid and. Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 222, 271 



Biffen (R. H.), Account ol Bulgaria polyriiorpha (Wettstein) as 

 a Wood- destroying Fungus, 66 ; on India-Rubber, 68 



Bigelow (F. H.), Results of International Cloud Work for 

 U.S.A., 190 



Bigourdan (G.), Observations of Diameter and Flattening of 

 Jupiter, 287 



Billiards Mathematically Treated, G. W. Hemming, 410, 468 j 

 S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., 410 



Biographical Dictionary, Who's Who, 1900, an Annual, 270 



Biology: Anlage and Rudiment, Prof. J. Mark Baldwin, 295^ 

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

 54 ; Statistical Methods : with Special Reference to Biological 

 Variation, C. B. Davenport, 149 ; Experiments on Growth of-| 

 Tadpoles' Tails, R. G. Harrison, 206 ; Molecular Structure of 

 Organised Bodies, F. W. Jones, 273 ; L'Annee Biologique, 

 313 ; Fixirung, Fiirbung, und Bau des Protoplasmas : Kritische 

 untersuchungen ueber Technik und Theorie in der Neueren 

 Zellforschung, Dr. Alfred Fischer, Prof. J. B. Farmer, 385 ; J 

 Life under other Conditions, Geoffrey Martin, 452 a 

 Death of Prof. St. George Mivart, 544 ; Obituary Notice of^ 

 569 ; Certain Laws of Variation, Dr. H. M. Vernon, 577 

 Experimental Study of Fertilisation, Prof. Yves Delage, 551 



