Supplement to Nat | 
June 17, 1897 
INDEX 
A-BIRDING on a Bronco, Florence A. Merriam, 387 
Abbadie (A. T. d’), Death of, 494; Obituary Notice of, 510 
Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), St. Medard’s Day and Rain, 258 
Abbott (Charles C.), Notes of the Night, and other Outdoor 
Sketches, 77 
Abbott (W. J. L.), the Cromer Forest Bed worked Flints, 300 
Abegg (R.), Dielectric Constants at Low Temperatures, 309 
Abney (Capt. W. de W., F.RS.), Apparatus for giving 
Diagrams of Efficiency of Photographic Shutter, 119 ; Photo- 
graphy in Colours, 318 
Absorption of Light, the Atmospheric, W. E. Plummer, 235 
Acceleration, Rev. Edward Geoghegan, O.J.L., 271 
Acetylene, the Explosive Properties of, Prof. A. Smithells, 42; 
Laboratory use of, A. E. Munby, 486; Thos. Fletcher, 535 
Achrometer, the, A. M. Bloch, 96 
Acoustics: Musical Tubes, R. T. Rudd, 165 ; Kinematic Model 
of Hertz-wave Transmission, Dr. S. P. Thompson, 525 
Perception of Sound Direction and Distance, Dr. A. A 
Gray, 599 
Acquired Characters, Prichard and, Wilfred Mark Webb, 342 ; 
Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 342 
Actinometric Observations on Mount Blanc, MM. Crova and 
Houdaille, 143 
Aerodrome, Prof. Langley’s, gor 
Aerodynamics: Sailing Flight, S. E. Peal, 271 
Aeronautics: Ascent by Kites, Lieut. H. D. Wise, 327; the 
International Aerostatic Ascents, 398; Prof. Langley’s 
Aerodrome, 401 
Affinities of Hesperornzs, the, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 534 
Africa: the Tsetse Fly, Surgeon-Major Bruce, 47; African 
Rinderpest, Sir John Kirk, K.C.B., F.R.S., 53; Dr. Koch’s 
Reports on Rinderpest, 450; Return of Lieut. Hourst’s 
Niger Expedition, 133; Big Game Preserve established in 
British Central Africa, 182; the Geodetic Survey of South 
Africa, Sir C. W. Wilson, F.R.S., 226; the Fish of Lake 
Tanganyika, J. E. S. Moore, 258; Geography of Africa, 
Edward Heawood, 364; Natural History of North Nyasa, 
Alexander Whyte, 398; Travels in West Africa, Mary H. 
Kingsley, 416; Manikaland, J. E Farnum, 515; Deposits 
of Nile Basin, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 548; Szg¢//aria and 
Glossopter?s in South Africa, A. C. Seward, 550; David 
Draper, 550 
Agafonoff (S.), Absorption of Ultra-violet Light by Crystals, 
350; Comparison between absorption by Crystalline Media 
of Luminous Rays and Roéntgen Rays, 623 
Agamennone (Dr. G.), Earthquake of April 16 in N.W. Asia 
Minor, 182 
Agriculture: Note on Plasmodiophora brassice, Prof. M. C 
Potter, 33; Sparrows and Wheat, F. G. Brook-Fox, 33; 
Sugar-Cane Growth in Queensland, 60; the Book of the Dairy, 
W. Fleischmann, 122; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. 
Emil von Wolff, 134; the Parasitic Diseases of Poultry, 
Fred. V. Theobald, 196; Reduction of Nitrates in Arable 
Earth, 383; Papilionaceous Plants and Nitragen, Prof. W. 
Somerville, 399; the Value of Irrigation Canals in India, 
404; Algee, Bacteria and Free Nitrogen, P. S. Kossovich, | 
428; Agricultural Teaching at Oxford, Robert Warington, 
F.R.S., 449; Prof. W. Somerville’s Manurial Trials, 471; 
the Cultivation of Oats, 496; Effect of Electricity on Plants, 
A. S. Kinney, 514; Use of Fungus for destroying Locusts, 
Dr. W. A. Soga and H. P. Browne, 514; Report of Observ- 
ations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests during 
the Year 1896, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy, 
Eleanor A. Ormerod, 557; Agricultural Experiments in 
Plots and Pots, 595; Farm and Garden Insects, Prof. Wm. 
Somerville, 605 
Aguiar (A. d’), Examination of White Wines for Coal-tar Dyes, 
431 
Ainsworth (W. F.), Death of, 108 
Air: Electrification of, by Rontgen Rays, Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 
Dr. J. C. Beattie, Dr. Smoluchowski de Smolan, 199; On 
the Conductive Effect produced in Air by Rontgen Rays and 
by Ultra-violet Light, Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., Dr. J. C. 
Beattie, Dr. Smoluchowski de Smolan, 343 ; Compressed Air 
Illness or so-called Caisson Disease, E. Hugh Snell, 411 ; 
Frictional Effect of Trains on Air, Prof. F. E. Nipher, 454; 
Liquefaction of, by Self-intensive Refrigeration, Dr. W. 
Hampson, 485 
Airy (Sir George Biddell, Astronomer Royal), Autobiography 
of, 145 
Aitken (R. G.), Double Star Measures, 280 
Alaska, Reindeer in, Sheldon Jackson, 39; Severe Winter 
Weather in, Sheldon Jackson, 39; Gold in, Prof. C. D. 
Walcott, 298 
Alcohol as Disinfectant for Surgical Instruments, Dr. Robert 
Randolph, 60 ; the Extraction of Alcohol-producing Ferment 
from Yeast, Dr. E. Buchner, 442; Toxicity of Alcohol, M. 
Picaud, 600 
Alden (Dr. C. 
Method, 59 
Alexander (Thos. ), Equilibrium of a Cylindrical Shell, 366 
Algze, Histology of the Blue-green, Prof. Zacharias, 21 
Algze, Polymorphism of the Green, and the Principles of their 
Evolution, Prof. Chodat, 20 
Algebra: Lehrbuch der Algebra, Heinrich Weber, 25, 481 ; 
the Symbols of applied Algebra, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 
F.R.S., 246, 293, 317; C. S. Jackson, 293, 366 
Algol Variable + 17° 4367 W Delphini, the, Prof. E. C. 
Pickering, 260 
Allen (John A.), Tables for Iron Analysis, 77 
Alloys of Copper and Zinc, G. Charpy, Dr. T. K. Rose, 130 
Alloys: Fourth Report to Research Committee, Prof. Roberts- 
Austen, 377 z 
Alps: Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present, W. A. 
Baillie-Grohman, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S ; Aus den Alpen, 
R. von Lendenfeld, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S. ; Chamounix 
and the Range of Mont Blanc, Edward Whymper, Prof. T-. 
G. Bonney, F.R.S., 102 al 
Alps: The Japanese, Mountaineering and Exploration in the. 
Rev. Walter Weston, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 102 
Alps : The New Zealand, Climbs in the, E. A. Fitzgerald, Prof. 
T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 102 
Alterations of Personality, Alfred Binet, 389 
Alternations of Generations in Plant Life, on the, Right Hon. 
Sir Edw. Fry, F.R.S., 422 
America: The Princeton Sesquicentennial, Dr. Wm. H. Hale, 
43; Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 46, 188, 
309, 380, 524, 574; American Journal of Science, 91, 188, 
308, 406, 476; Leonid Meteors in America, 137; Artesian 
Basins in North, Gibb Maitland, 182 ; American Journal of 
Mathematics, 308; Researches on the Antiquity of Man in 
the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States, Henry 
C. Mercer, 459; the Dinosaurs of North America, Othniel 
Charles Marsh, 463; Glaciers of North America, Israel C. 
Russell, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S , 556; Grasses of North 
America, W. J. Beal, 557; Survey of the Tides and Currents 
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 595 
Amherst (Hon. Alicia), a History of Gardening in England, 75 
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H.), the United States Army Identification 
