XXIV 
Lhdex 
Supplement to Nature, 
June 17, 1897 
Man and Beast, Prehistoric, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, Prof. 
W. J. Sollas, F.R.S., 314 
Man, on certain Vestigial Characters in, Dr. Walter Kidd, 236 
Mance (Sir Henry), the Inception of Submarine Telegraphy, 
278 
Manchester Literary and Philosopical Society, 47, 71, 143, 215, 
359, 431 
Maneuvrier (G.), Determination of Ratio of Two Specific 
Heats of Acetylene, 335 
Manikaland, J. E. Farnum, 515 
Manna: Manna on Blue Grass, R. T. Baker and H. G. Smith, 
383; the Manna of the Bible, M. J. Teesdale, 349; the 
Origin of Manna, B. Timothy, 440 
Manurial Trials, Prof. W. Somerville’s, 471 
Map of Franz Josef Land, the Austro-Hungarian, Prof. Ralph 
Copeland, 29 ; Arthur Montefiore-Brice, 52 
Maquenne (L.), Osmotic Pressure in Germinating Grains, 120 
Marangoni (Prof. C.), Relative Transparency of Alkaline 
Metals to Rontgen Rays, 279 
Marbaix (Dr. de), Death of, 562 
Marchis (L.), Zero-displacement in Thermometers, 479 
Marine Biology: the Opening Ceremony of the Gatty Marine 
Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, 43; Microscopic 
Marine Organisms in the Service of Hydrography, Prof. P. T. 
Cleve, 89 ; Recent Work on the Madreporarian Skeleton, Dr. 
Maria M. Ogilvie, 126; Biological Lectures delivered at the 
Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Holl in the Summer 
Session of 1895, 170; Influence of Living Organisms on 
Oxygen and Carbonic Acid in Sea-Water, 191; the Eggs of 
the Pearly Nautilus, Dr. A. Willey, 326; the Natural His- 
tory of the Marketable Marine Fishes of the British Islands, 
J. T. Cunningham, W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 361; Em- 
bryonic Series of Bdellostomum, Bashford Dean, 371; the 
Green Pigment of Thalassema, Prof. Sherrington and Dr. 
Noél Paton, 400; Marine Organisms and the Conditions of 
their Environment, Dr. John Murray, F.R.S., 500; the 
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Naples 
Zoological Station, H. M. Vernon, 586 
Marine Propulsion, Trial of Hon. Charles Parsons’ Steam 
Turbine Engine as applied to, 181 
Marlatt (L.), Household Insects of United States, 233 
Marriage of the Dead, Kumagusu Minakata, 224 
Marriage Observances of American Aborigines, W. J. McGee, . 
302 
Marriotti-Bianchi (Dr.), Toxins and Antitoxins, 542 
Mars, 14, 41, 111; Prof. Schiaparelli, 516; Hypothetical Dis- 
covery of System of Signalling from Mars, Francis Galton, 
F.R.S., 39; Mists on Mars, M. Flammarion, 235; the 
Canals of Mars, Herr M. Teoperberg, 280; Dr. J. Joly, 
F.R.S., 3353 the Polar Cap of Mars, 303; Observations of 
Mars at Meudon, M. Perrotin, 401; the Ellipticity of the 
Disc of Mars, Prof. W. Schur, 421 
Marsh (J. E.), Halogen Derivatives of Camphor, 93 
Marsh (Prof. Othniel Charles), Amphibian Footprints from the 
Devonian, 92; the Dinosaurs of North America, 463; the 
Affinities of Hesperornts, 534 
Marsupials, Developments and Succession of Teeth in, J. T. 
Wilson and J. P. Hill, 350 
Martin (Dr. H. N., F.R.S.), Death of, 11 ; Obituary Notice of, 
Prof. M, Foster, Sec.R.S., 56 
Martin (J. B.), Presidential Address to Statistical Society, 81 
Martin (J. B.), Death of, 495 
Martinand (V.), Oxidation of Wines, 480 
Marvin (Prof.), the First Attempt to Measure Wind Force, 259 
Mason (Dr. O. T.), the Successive Adoption of the Mechanical 
Powers, 469 ; the Antiquity of certain Curved Knives, 534 
Maspero (G.), the Struggle of the Nations, 267 
Mass, on, Dr. M. F. O'Reilly, 317 
Masson (M.), Action of Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on 
Aluminium, 335 
Mathematics: Death of Prof. Gustav Kieseritzski, 11 ; Lehrbuch 
der Algebra, Heinrich Weber, 25; Bulletin of American 
Society, 46, 188, 309, 380, 524, 574; Hypothesis of Succes- 
sive Transmission of Gravity, Prof. J. McMahon, 46; Celes- 
tial Mechanics, Prof. W. E. Brown, 46; Variation of 
Newton’s Law of Impact, R. F. Muirhead, 81 ; Mathematical 
Society, 94, 189, 333, 407, 503, 599; on the Goldbach-Euler 
Theorem regarding Prime Numbers, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, 
F.R.S., 196, 269; a History of Elementary Mathematics, 
with Hints on Methods of Teaching, Florian Cajori, 219 ; 
Death of Dr. G. D. E. Weyer, 231; the Meaning of the 
Symbols in Applied Algebra, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S. 
246, 317; the Symbols of Applied Algebra, Prof. Alfred 
Lodge, 293; C. S. Jackson, 293, 366; American Journal of 
Mathematics, 308 ; Death of Prof. K. T. Weierstrass, 397; 
Obituary Notice of, 442; Segar's Theorem, Prof. Elliott, 
F.R.S., 407 ; Death of Prof. J. J. Sylvester, 468 ; Obituary 
Notice of, Major P. A. MacMahon, F.R.S., 492 ; Lehrbuch 
der Algebra, Heinrich Weber, 481 ; Death of Dr. Kolbe, 495 ; 
Edinburgh Society, 503, 575 
Maul (Herr), Capacity of Bactlus radicicola of Growing on 
Foreign Culture Media, 206 
Mawley (E.), Thermometer Screens, 334 
Mayall (P. H. D.), Diffraction Pattern near Telescope Focus, 
479 
Mayer (A. G.), the Pigment of Lepidoptera Scales, 469; on 
the Colours and Colour-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies, 618 
Mayer (Prof. A. M.), Equation of Forces acting in Flotation 
of Metal Discs and Rings, 190 
Mazzotto (Prof. D.), Index of Water-Refraction for Electric 
Waves, 300 
Mean Density of the Earth, the Gravitation Constant and 
the, Dr. Franz Richarz and Dr. Otto Krigar-Menzel, 296 
Measurements of Crabs, H. Thompson, 30, 224, Prof. W. F. 
R. Weldon, F.R.S., 30; J. T. Cunningham, ror; Vee eas 
Cobb, 155 } 
Measuring Vapour Pressures of Liquids, Method for, Lord 
Kelvin, F.R.S., 273; Note on, Lord Kelvin, F.R.S, 295 
Mebius (C. A.), Polarisation Phenomena in Vacuum Tube, 
214 
Mechanics: the G Section of the British Association, Prof. 
H. S. Hele-Shaw, 5; a Mechanical Problem, E. E. Green, 
6; Distribution of Strains in Metals under Pressure, L. 
Hartmann, 24; Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 44, 
377; Elements of Mechanics, Thomas Wallace Wright, 
Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 49; Mechanical Conceptions of 
Electrical Phenomena, Prof. A. E. Dolbear, 65; the Me- 
chanics: of Pumping Machinery, Dr. Julius Weisbach, 
Prof. Gustav Herrmann, 364; Equilibrium of a Cylindrical 
Shell, Thos. Alexander, 366; the Successive Adoption 
of the Mechanical Powers, Dr. O. T. Mason, 469 
Medicine : Death and Obituary Notice of Sir Benjamin Ward 
Richardson, F.R.S., 80; the New Research Laboratory of 
the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 88: Cheé#- 
donium majus as a Cure for Cancer, C. Leeson Prince, 
155; Application of Rontgen Rays to Pulmonary Tubercu- 
losis, C. H. Bouchard, 191; the Final Entombment of 
Pasteur, 204; a Short History of Aryan Medical Science, 
H.H. Sir Bhagvat Sinh Jee, 221; Death of Prof. W. H. 
Pancoast, 277 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. Edward 
Ballard, 299; Death of Dr. Nikolai Zdekauer, 370; In- 
fluence of Diet and Starvation on Effects of certain Microbial 
Toxines, J. Teissier and L. Guinard, 408 ; Compressed Air 
Illness ; or so-called Caisson Disease, E. Hugh Snell, 411 
Mee (Arthur), Amateur Astronomer’s Almanac, 260 
Meinhardus (Dr. W.), Long-Period Weather Predictions, based 
upon Hydrographical Phenomena, 542 
Melbourne Observatory, the, 23 
Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), the Inheritance of Specific 
Characters, 29 ; a Visit to an English Woad Mill, 36; the 
Work of Local Societies, 53; Bristle-eating Moth, 142; 
Prichard and Acquired Characters, 342 
Melnikoff-Rasvédenkeff (N.), New Method of preparing 
Anatomical Specimens, 359 
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Pritchard, F.R.S., late Savilian 
Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, Ada 
Pritchard, 601 
Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 428 
Memorial, National, to Jenner, 547 
Mercantile Marine, the British, Edward Blackmore, 438 
Mercer (Henry C.), Researches upon the Antiquity of Man in 
the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States, 459 
Mercury, 111; Drawings of Mercury, Percival Lowell, 447 ; 
the Planet Mercury, Percival Lowell, 617 
Mercury, Electrical Vibrations of, Ernest Braun, 581 
Mercury, Floating, on Water, C. Stromeyer, 53 
Meridian Observations, Karlsruhe, 183 
Meridian, the Universal, 261 
Mermet (A.), a Reaction of Carbon Monoxide, 527 
Merriam (Dr. C. H.), New Mexican Rabbit, 300 
Merriam (Florence A.), a-Birding on a Bronco, 387 
Metallurgy : the Alloys of Copper and Zinc, G. Charpy, Dr. 
