XXX 
Index 
Supplement to Nature, 
June 17, 1897 
Brain-work on Blood-pressure, MM. A. Binet and N. 
Vaschide, 399 ; Conditions of Fat-Absorption from Intestine, 
¢ B. Moore and D. P. Rockwood, 429; the Regeneration of 
Nerves, Dr. Robert Kennedy, 429; Absorption of Nitrogen 
by Blood, Christian Bohr, 431 ; Influence of Respiration on 
Size and Shape of Blood Corpuscles, Mr. Hamburger, 431 ; 
Synaptic Fibres, L. Ranvier, 454; Physiologische Pflanzen- 
anatomie, Dr. G. Haberlandt, 457 ; Urates in the Hair, J. 
B. Smith, 470; Death of Charles Contejean, 495; Origin 
and Destination of Afferent and Efferent Tracts in the 
Medulla Oblongata, Dr. J. S. Russell, 502 ; Energy Changes 
in Living Muscle, A. Chauveau, 503; Action of Bile on 
Nervous System, Adolph Bickel, 551 ; Influence of Carbonic 
Acid on Blood Corpuscles, Mr. Hamburger, 551; Death of 
Dr. Siuku Sakaki, 562; Comparative Physiology of Supra- 
renal Capsules, Swale Vincent, 574; Action of X-Rays on 
Heart, Gaston Seguy and F. Queénisset, 576; the Alleged 
Injurious Effects of X-Rays, J. L. Thomas, 590; Results of 
Application of X-Rays to Stomach, M. Sorel, 600; Influence 
of Music on Respiration, &c., A. Binet and J. Courtier, 590; 
Reducing Power of Living Animal Tissues, Dr. D. F. Harris, 
599; the Formation of Urobilin, Dr. D. F. Harris, 599; the 
fs Spinning ” Activities of Protoplasm, in Echinoderm Eggs, 
G. F. Andrews, 615 
Picaud (M.), Toxicity of Alcohol, 600 
Pickering (Prof. E, C.), Relative Motion of Stars in the Line 
of Sight, 137; the Algol Variable + 17° 4367 W Delphini, 
260; the Trifid Nebula, 329 ; Harvard College Observatory 
Report, 566 
Pickering (Dr. J. W.), Chemical and Physiological Reactions 
of Sy nthesised Proteid-like Substances, 188 
Pickering (Spencer, F.R.S.), the Theory of Dissociation into 
Ions, 223 ; Pierce (Prof. John), Death of, 495 
Piette (M. Ed.), the Reading, Writing and Arithmetic of the 
Neolithic Troglodytes, 229 
Pinerva (E.), Separation of Nickel, 
Cobalt and Aluminium, 624 
Pioneer Work in the New Zealand Alps, Arthur E. Harper, 
Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 458 
Pipes Damaged by Electrolysis, 468 
Pirsson (L. S.), Missourite, 91 
Plague in Bombay, the, 159, 258, 496; 
Serum, 540; Rats and the Plague, Dr. 
Plague Microbe, Dr. Roux, 370; Dr. 
Virus, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 378 
Planets : Planetary Notes, 111 ; Mars, 41; Prof. Schiaparelli, 
516; Observations of Mars at Meudon, M. Perrotin, 4o1 ; the 
Ellipticity of the Disc of Mars, Prof. W. Schur, 421; the 
Period of Rotation of Jupiter’s Spots, A. A. Nyland, 352; 
the Orbit of Jupiter’s Fifth Satellite, Dr. Fritz Cohn, 421 ; 
Observations of Jupiter’s Fifth Satellite, Prof. J. M. 
Schaeberle, 566; the Rotation of Venus, Percival Lowell, 
421 ; Drawings of Mercury, Percival Lowell, 447 ; the Planet 
Mercury, Percival Lowell, 617; Relationship between the 
Masses and Distances of the Four Outer Planets, G. E. 
Sutcliffe, 559 
Plants: Tournefort and the Latitudinal and Altitudinal Dis- 
tribution of, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 52; the Discovery 
of another Connecting Link between Flowering and Flower- 
less Plants, 396 
Plasmodiophora brassice, Prof. M. C. Potter, 33 
Plateau (Prof. F.), Insects and Colour in Flowers, 300 ; Insects 
and Flower-Scent, 444 
Plots and Pots, Agricultural Experiments in, 596 
Plummer (John), the Australian Snow Country, 301 
Plummer (W. E.), the Atmospheric Absorption of Light, 
Poems of George John Romanes, 124 
Polar Cap of Mars, the, 303 
Pollock (Mr.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 70 
Polycandros, Mineralogy of, A. Lacroix, 527 
Polygonum, Prof. Trail, F.R.S., on the Floral Deviations in 
some Species of, 21 
Polymorphism of the Green Algz, and the Principles of their 
Evolution, Prof. Chodat, 20 
Polytechnic, the Newest German, Sir Philip Magnus, 34 
Ponds and Streams, Life in, W. Furneaux, 265 
Ponsot (A.), Vapour Pressure of Solutions, 24 
Pope (W. J.), Refraction Constants of Crystalline Salts, 93 ; 
Compounds of Camphoric Acid and Acetone, 142; Enantio- 
morphism, 310 
Cobalt and Iron, and of 
Failure of Yersin 
Cantlie, 258; the 
Yersin and Plague 
Porter (T. C.), the X-Rays produced by a Wimshurst Machine, 
30; a Correction, 79 
Portrait Lens in Celestial Photography, Reflector and, Dr, Max 
Wolf, 582 
Pots, Plots and, Agricultural Experiments in, 596 
Potter (Prof. M. C.), Plasmodiophora brassicae, 33 
Poulton (Prof. Edward B., F.R.S.), Responsibility in Science, 
100 ; Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection, 
289 
Poultry, the Parasitic Diseases of, Fred. V. Theobald, 196 
Poultry Guide, the New, for British Farmers and others, Kinard 
B. Baghot-De La Bere, 485 
Pound, the Force of One, Prof. O. J. Lodge, F.R.S., 124, 223 ; 
Dr. M. J. Jackson, 126; L. Cumming, 126; Prof. John 
Perry, F. REG 176; Prof. one M. Worthington, FE 1S 2217/5 
Dr. T. W. Wright, 270 
Poynting (Prof. J. H., F.R.S.),Osmotic Pressure, 33 
Pozdnéeff (A.), Mongolia and the Mongols, 603 
Practical Photographer, the, 414 
Practical Physics, an Intermediate Course of, Prof. Arthur 
Schuster, F.R.S., 531 
Practical Work in Physics, W. G. Woollcombe, 28 
Praying Wheel, the Buddhist, William Simpson, 171 
Prehistoric Man and Beast, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, Prof. W. 
J. Sollas, F.R.S., 314 
Pressure, Osmotic, Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 33; Lord 
Kelvin, F.R.S., 273; Dr. J. Larmor, F:R-S., 5455 and 
Ionic Dissociation, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 78; the 
Theory of Dissociation into Ions, Prof. O. J. Lodge, F.R.S., 
150; W. C. D. Whetham, 151, 606; E. F. Herroun, 152 ; 
Spencer Pickering, F.R.S,, 223 ; Semi-permeable Films and, 
Prof. J. W. Gibbs, 461 
Pressures, the Measurement of, in the Bore of Guns, 
Bashforth, 460 
Price (W. A.), Alternating Currents in Concentric Conductors, 
575; a Galvanometer Support, 575 
Priceless Gem, the, Balmokand, 233 
Prichard and Acquired Characters, Wilfred Mark Webb, 342; 
Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 342 
Pridham (Caroline), Peasblossom, 28 
Primate Brain, the, Dr. W. B. Benham, 619 
Prime Numbers, on the Goldbach Euler Theorem regarding, 
Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 196, 269 
Primeval Life, Relics of, Sir J. William Dawson, F.R.S., 484 
Prince (C. Leeson), the Departure of Swallows, 6 ; Chelidonium 
muajus as a Cure for Cancer, 155 
Princeton Sesquicentennial, the, Dr. Wm. H. Hale, 43 
Printing, Photo-Trichromatic, C. G. Zander, 315 
Pritchard (Ada), Charles Pritchard, F.R.S., late Savilian Pro- 
fessor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, Memoirs of 
his Life, 601 
Pritchard (Charles, F.R.S.), late Savilian Professor of 
Astronomy in the University of Oxford, Memoirs of his Life, 
Ada Pritchard, 601 
Prize Subjects of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 261 
Prizes in Astronomy, 373 
Problem of the Sense Qualities, the, Prof. E. B. Titchener, 294 ; 
W. E. Johnson, 295 
Procyon, the Companion to, Prof. Schaerberle, 62, 498; Isaac 
W. Ward, 153 
Projectiles de Campagne de Siége et de Place: 
Vallier, 388 
Prolegomena Experience, a Chapter of, Rev. Wilfred Rich- 
mond, 4 
Prominence Photography, 447 
Proteid-like Substances, the Direct Synthesis of Optically 
Active, Dr. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 341 
Psychology: Analytic Psychology, G. F. Stout, W. E. John- 
son, 121; an Outline of Psychology, Edward Bradford 
Titchener, W. E. Johnson, 121; the Problem of the Sense 
Qualities, Prof. E. B. Titchener, 294; W. E. Johnson, 295 ; 
Alterations of Personality, Alfred Binet, 389. 
Publication of Original Work, on the, Swale Vincent, 79 
Pumping Machinery, the Mechanics of, Dr. Julius Ww eisbach, 
Prof. Gustav Herrmann, 364 
¢ Puppis, a New Spectroscopic Binary, 137; the Spectrum of, 
Rev. F. 
Fusées, E. 
352 
Purdie (T.), Action of Alkyl Iodides on Silver Malates, 142 
Purification, Water and its, Samuel Rideal, Joseph Lunt, 
602 
Purple Patches, 59, 155; A. Pedder, 33 
