index 



Lav. 



Movements of Athletes, Photographic Analysis of, 377 



Movements of the Earth, the Twelve, M. Flammarion, 312 



Movements of Men by Land and Sea, Mr. Mackinder, 591 



Muff (H. B.). on Overflow Channels and Other Phenomena in- 

 dicating Glacier-dammed Lakes in the Cheviots, 565 



Muirhead (R. F. ), Stress— its Definition, 207 



Muldrow (R.), Mount McKinley, 65S 



Mull, on the Re-discovery of a Tree Trunk Embedded in Vol- 

 canic Ash in. Sir A. Geikie, 565 



Midler (Prof. F. Max), Last Essays, 251 



Mummies, the Difference Between Memphis and Thebes, 

 Mr. Harting, 70 



Mummifitd Fishes of Ancient Egypt, Chemical Analysis of, 

 MM. Lortet and Tlugounenq, 66S 



Munby (A. E. ), A Convenient Primary Cell, 30 



Munro (Dr.), on a "Kitchen Midden" near Elie, in Fife, 

 61S 



Murani (Prof. O.), I'ocus-tube as an Electric Valve, 263 



Murche (Vincent T.), Rural Readers, Book i., 394: the 

 Teacher's Manual of Object Le.ssons for Rural School.^, 394 



Murray (Sir John), on the Scientific Studies of the Lakes ol the 

 British Islands, 590 



Museums : the Geological .Society and its Museum, 57 ; Novi- 

 tates ZoologiciE, a Journal of Zoology in Connection with the 

 Tring Museum, 249; a Guide to the Shell and Star-fish 

 Galleries in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 423 ; Catalogue 

 of the Collection of Bird.s' Eggs in the British Museum 

 (Nat. Hist.), E. W. Gates, 600 



Music : the Subjective Lowering of Pitch, E. Hurren Harding, 

 103, 1S2 ; Prof. F. J. Allen, 1S2, 301; G. W. Hemming, 

 182, 30S ; E. C. Sherwood, 233 ; .Suggested Experiment, 308 



Musk-ox and Bison at Woburn Abbey, 63 ; the Age of the 

 Woburn Abbey Musk-ox, R. Lydekker. P'.R.S., 103 



Mycenajan Question, the, PL R. Hall, 280 



Myers (C. S.), on the Bones of Hen Nekht, an Egyptian King 

 of the Third Dynasty, 615 



Mythology : Polyphem ein Gorilla, Dr. Th. Zell, 467 



Myths of Greece Explained and Dated, George St. Clair, iSo 



Nadir of Temperature and Allied Problems, the, Bakerian 

 Lecture at Royal Society, Prof. James Dewar, J". R.S., 243 



Nagel (Herr), Effect on Eye of Rontgen &c. Rays, 529 



Nairn, on the Trias of Elgin and, Dr. W. Mackie, 565 



National Antarctic Expedition, the, 131, 182, 233; Prof. 

 Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 83, 156, 206; Prof. J. W. 

 Gregory, F.R S., 58, 132, i8i 



National Anti-Vivisection Society, the, and Lord Lister, 55 ; 

 Hon. Stephen Coleridge, loi ; Editor, loi 



National Physical Laboratory, the Aims of the. Discourse 

 delivered at the Royal Institution by Dr. R. T. (llazebrook, 

 F-R.S., 290 ; Report on Observatory Department of National 

 Physical Laboratory, 407 



Native South Indian Life, Occasional Essays on, Stanley P. 

 Rice, 574 , 



Natives of South Africa : their Economic and Social Con- 

 ditions, E. Sidney Hartland, 73 



Nature, the Mechanical Forces of, and their Exploitation, F. 

 Reuleaux, 137 



Nature Teaching, Francis Watts, 550 



Natural History : Von den Antillen zum Fernen Westen, 

 Reiseskizzen eines Naturforschers, F. Doflein, 2 ; the Birds 

 of Siberia, a Recoiil of a Naturalist's Visit to the Valleys of 

 the Petchora and Yenesei, Henry Seebohm, 32 ; Notes on 

 Natural History of Tiinidad, J. H. Hart, 40 ; Musk-ox and 

 Bison at Woburn Abbey, 63 ; the Age of the Woburn Abbey 

 Musk-Ox, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 103 ; Toad in Flint Nodule, 

 Charles Dawson, 70 ; Linnean Society, 70, 142, 223 ; Fact 

 and Fable, Effie Johnson, 76; the Stalk-eyed Crustacea of 

 British Guiana, West Indies and Bermuda, Dr. Charles G. 

 Young, 98 ; Foreign Oysters acquiring Characters of Natives, 

 J. M. Tabor, 126; F. W. Headley, 15S; New South Wales 

 Linnean Society, 143, 272, 416, 548 ; the Significance of Spiral 

 Swimming, Dr. H. S. Jennings, 165 ; Charles St. John's 

 Note-Book, 1846-1853, T. Digby Pigott, 177 ; an Instance 

 of Adaptation among the Deer, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 257; 

 a Handbook of Hritish Birds, J. E. Harting, 297 ; the Life 

 and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne, Rashleigh Holt- 

 White, 276 : Natural History of Selborne, Gilbert White, 

 276 ; Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Gilbert 

 White, L. C. Miall, F.R.S., and W. Warde Fowler, 



369 ; Natural History Notes, Nelson Annandale and H. 

 Robinson, 331 ; Death of Dr. H. W. Harkness, 356; the 

 Cambridge Natural History, vol. viii. , Amphibia and Reptiles, 

 Hans Gadow, G. A. Boulenger, F. R..S , 401 ; a Guide to the 

 Shell and Star-fish Galleries (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, 

 Tunicata, Echinoderma and Worms) in the British Museum, 

 423 ; Life by the Seashore : an Introduction to Natural 

 History, Marion Newbigin, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F. R.S. ,621 



Natural Philosophy : Deschanel's Natural Philosophy, iii., Elec- 

 tricity, J. D. Everett, 50 ; Death of Prof. P. G. Tait, 261 



Natural Selection : Ueljer Bedeutung und Tragweite des 

 Darwin'schen Selectionsprincips, L. Plate, 49 ; Foreign 

 Oysters acquiring Characters of Natives, J. M. Tabor, 126 ; 

 F. W. Headley, 158 



Naval Architecture : the Rolling Angle of a Ship found by 

 Photography, Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 576 



Naval Observatory, United States, 265 



Navigation : a Treatise on Electromagnetic Phenomena and on 

 the Compass and its Deviations Aboard Ship, Mathematical, 

 Theoretical and Practical, Commander T. A. Lyons, 125 : 

 New Turbine-driven Vessel, 133 ; the Turbine-propelled 

 ^'essel King Edward, 334 ; the Aire and Calder Canal Navi-' 

 gated by a Seagoing Steamer, 434 ; on a Long Continuous- 

 burning Petroleum Lamp for Beacons and Buoys, J. R. 

 Wigham ; the Rolling Angle of a Ship found by Photography, 

 Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 576; Recent Progress in 

 Waterway? and Maritime Works, Papers read at International 

 Engineering Congress at Glasgow, 639 ' 



Nebulre : New Nebula;, 93, 216, 336; G. Bigourdan, 312 



Negative After-images and Colour-Vision, Shelford Bidwell, 

 F.R.S.,2i6 



Neglect of Science, England's, Prof. Perry, F. R.S., Prof. 

 George M. Minchin, F.R.S., 226 



Negreano (D.), Vibrations Produced in a W'ire with an 

 Influence Machine, 200 



Nelson (E. W.), the Eskimos, 426 



Nemec (Dr. B. ), Die Reizleitung und die reizleitenden .Struk- 

 turen bei den Pflanzen, 371 



Nencki (Herr), Chemical Relationship between Ifemoglobin 

 and Chlorophyll, 265 



Neolithic Sites in the Ishof Arran, Drs. Duncan and Bryce, 6:5 



Neptune and its Satellite, Micrometric Observations of, 639 



Nernst Lamp in America, A. J. Wurts' Paper read at .\merican 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, 632 



Nernst's Phonograph, 164 



Neville (F. H.), Results of Chilling Copper-Tin Alloys, 221 



New Garden Plants : a Study in Evolution, 446 



New Guinea, German, Wooden Human Effigies from, D. R, 

 Poch, 358 



New South Wales : Agriculture in, 106 ; New South Wales 

 Linnean Society, 143, 272, 416, 548 ; Bird-Destruction in 

 New South Wales, A. J. North, 165 ; New South Wales 

 Royal Society, 296, 416 ; Botany of Interior of New South 

 Wales, R. H. Cambage, 548 



New York, the Heat in, 237 ; Dr, Mill, 308 



New York City, July 2-3, 1900, Proceedings of the Eighth 

 Annual Meeting of the .Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 

 ing Education held in. Prof F. W^ Burstall, 204 



Newbigin (Miss Marion), on a Scheme of the Scottish Natural 

 History Society, 589 ; Life by the Seashore : an Introduction 

 to Natural History, 62 1 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, Electricity Supply in Bulk at, 262 



Newell (Lyman C), Experimental Chemistry, 27 



Nichols (E. W.), Differential and Integral Calculus with Appli- 

 cations for Colleges, Universities and Technical Schools, 396 



Nicloux (M.), Carbon Monoxide in Blood of Newly-born, 224 



Nijland (Prof. A. A.}, Period of Mira Ceti, 410 



Ninth Jubilee of Glasgow University, the, i86 



Nitro-cellulose and Theory of the Cellulose Molecule, Sinoke- 

 less Powder, John B. Bernadou, 600 



Niven (W. N.), on the Distribution of Certain Forest Trees in 

 Scotland, 618 



Nixon's "Euclid Revised" with Solutions, Geometrical Exer- 

 cises from, Alexander Larmor, 497 



Noe (G.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 88 



Nomenclature, Note on a Point of Chemical, 64S 



Nordenskjold (Baron Adolf Erik von). Death of, 3S1 ; Obituary 

 Notice of, W. S. Bruce, 450 



Nordman (Charles), Transmission of Hertzian Waves through 

 Conducting Liquid, 392 



