Vi Index 
André (Ch.), a Remarkable Meteor, 408 ; Luminous Trains of 
Shooting Stars, 432 
Andrews (C. W.), Geology of Christmas Island, 191 
Animalium Index, C. Davies Sherborne, 174 
Animals in Motion, E. Muybridge, 220 
L’ Année Biologique, 195 
Anomalurus, Myology of, F. C. Parsons, 118 
Antarctica: the Work of the Belgian Expedition, Lieut. 
Gerlache, 13; the Soundings of the Aelevca, Henryk 
Arctowsky, 352; the Plans for Antarctic Exploration, 202 ; 
Government Grant in Aid of Antarctic Exploration, 256 
Antelope, Larvae from the Head of an, Richard Crawshay, 150 ; 
Walter F. H. Blandford, 150 
Anthrax Bacillus, Enzyme Negativing Action of, R. Emmerich 
and O. Low, 185 
Anthropology: the Story of the British Race, John Munro, 
52; the Origin of Religion, C. L. Henning, 135; Zur 
Anthropologie der Badener, Otto Ammon, 145 ; the Struggle 
between Peoples, Felix Regnault, 185; ‘‘Amerind” a 
Suggested Designation for American Aborigines, 188 ; 
Physical Measurements of Public Schoolboys, 198 ; the 
Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo, Dr. J. W. Fewkes, 
258; the History of Mankind, Prof. Friedrich Ratzel, 269 ; 
Die Spiele der Menschen, Karl Groos, 363; Death and 
Obituary Notice of Dr. D, G. Brinton, 374; Three Crania 
rom Swiss Lake Sites, E. Pitard, 4o1; the Vai Language, 
M. Delafosse, 401 ; the Cambridge Anthropological Expedi- 
tion to Torres Straits and Sarawak, Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, 
F.R.S., 413; the Negritos; the Distribution of the Negritos 
in the Phillipine Islands and Elsewhere, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 
Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 4333; a Problem in American 
Anthropology, Prof. Frederic Ward Putman, 451; Cave 
Shelters and the Aborigines of Tasmania, H. Ling Roth, 545 
Anticyclones, Prevalence of, 366 
Anti-Kathode, the Heating of the, in X-Ray Work, Dr. J. 
Macintyre, 1o1 
Antiquities from the City of Benin, &c., in the British Museum, 
C. H. Read, O. M. Dalton, H. Ling Roth, 219 
Ants, Harvesting, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 174 
Apercus de Taxinomie Générale, J.-P. Durand (de Gros), 
489 
Appell (M.), on Rolling Motion, 384 
Applied Geology, J. V. Elsden, 148 
Apse Line of a Geminorum, Motion of, A. Belopolsky, 377 
Arachnid: Maternal Devotion of Spiders, Francis J. Row- 
botham, 413 
Archeology : Antiquities from the City of Benin in the British 
Museum, C. H. Read, O. M. Dalton, H. Ling Roth, 219; 
Cyclopean Ruins in Portuguese Africa, Dr. Karl Peters, 280 ; 
a Problem in American Anthropology. Prof. Frederic Ward 
Putnam, 451; Rock-Carving in Vancouver Island, 485 
Arctica : the Glacial Phenomena of Spitzbergen, E. J. Garwood, 
239; Death and Obituary Notice of Sir Alexander Armstrong, 
257; Return of the Wellman Expedition, 399, 426; Bird 
Life in an Arctic Spring, the Diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen 
and R. P. Hornby, 542; Results of Lieutenant Peary’s Ex- 
plorations, 595 
Arctowsky (Henryk), the Soundings of the Felezca, 352 
Arithmetic: the New Science and Art of Arithmetic for the 
use of Schools, A. Sonnenschein and H. A. Nesbit, 7; a 
School Arithmetic, R. F. Macdonald, 7; the Arithmetic of 
Chemistry, John Waddell, 100 
Arloing (S.), Influence of Manner of Introduction on Thera- 
peutic Effects of Anti-Diphtheritic Serum, 215 ; Preventive 
Qualities of Blood Serum of Immunised Heifer against Con- 
tagious Peripneumonia in Cattle, 636 
Armstrong (Sir Alexander), Death and Obituary Notice of, 
257 
Armstrong (H. E.), Laws governing Substitution in Benzenoid 
Compounds, 214; on Laws of Substitution especially in 
Benzenoid Compounds, 609 ; Symbiotic Fermentation, 609 
Arrhenius (Prof.), Causes of Secular Variations of Temperature 
at Earth’s Surface, 184 
Arsonval (M. d’), Action of Gases on Caoutchouc, 239 
Art Students, Anatomical Diagrams for the use of, James M. 
Dunlop, 410 
Art of Topography, the, 101 
Artificial Rearing of Young Sea-fish, W. Garstang, 631 
Aschkinass (E.), Electric Oscillations and Moist Contacts, 
117 
Nature, 
December 14, 1899 
Ashton (A. W.), Magnetic Hysteresis of Cobalt, 213 
Asia: the Land of Rice, Taylor White, 8 
Astertonella Formosa, G. C. Whipple and D. D. Jackson, 
624 
Astronomy : Scientific Worthies, Simon Newcomb, M. Loewy, 1 ; 
Our Astronomical Column, 18, 38, 63, 88, 114, 136, 161, 186, 
207, 231, 260, 281, 301, 330, 354, 377, 402, 420, 442, 487, 
513, 538, 551, 577; 597, 625; Second Washington Star 
Catalogue, 18 ; Spectra of Stars of Class III.4, Prof. W. C. 
Dunér, 18 ; Comet 1899a@ (Swift), 18, 38, 88, 114, 136, 161, 
186, 260, 354; Prof. E. E. Barnard, 231; Prof. C. D. Perrine, 
231; Comet 1898a (Swift), Herr H. Kreutz, 63; Tempel’s 
Comet 1899¢ (1873 II.), 18, 38, 114, 161, 186, 207, 232, 260, 
281, 301, 330; M. L. Schulhof, 63; Saturn’s New Satellite, 
Prof. E. C. Pickering, 21; Primitive Constellations, R. 
Brown, jun., 31 ; on the Chemical Classification of the Stars, 
Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 52; on the Distribu- 
tion of the Various Chemical Groups of Stars, Sir Norman 
Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 617; Death of P. T. Main, 60; 
Holmes’ Comet 1899¢ (1892 III ), 161, 232, 281, 354, 377, 
402, 429, 442, 487, 513, 577, 597, 625; Return of Holmes’ 
Comet (1892 III.), H. J. Zwiers, 63 ; Partial Eclipse of the 
Sun, June 7, 63; the Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 1900, C. 
H. Davis, 133; the Sun’s Heat, Prof. T. J. J. See, 4o2; the 
Rotation of the Sun, C. A. Schultz Steinheil, 577; the Main- 
tenance of Solar Energy, 615; Rotation Period of Mars, W. 
F. Denning, 64; Mars during Opposition 1898-1899, 330; 
New Star in Sagittarius, 88 ; Nova Sagittarii, 625 ; the New 
Algol Variable, 354; New Variable of Algol Type, M. 
Ceraski, 114 ; the New Algol Variable in Cygnus, 232, 442, 
538; Lwo New Variable Stars, M. Luizet, 161; Dr. T. D. 
Anderson, 551; Southern Variable Stars, R. T. A. Innes, 
513; Astronomical Occurrences in June, 114; in July, 
207; in August, 301; in September, 429; in October, 
5513 
Motion of Apse Line of a Geminorum, A.  Bélopol- 
sky, 377; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 136; 
White Spot on Jupiter, Ph. Fauth, 161; Fifth Satellite of 
Jupiter, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 207 ; the Red Spot on Jupiter, 
W. F. Denning, 210; Opposition of Jupiter, 1899, 597; 
Spectra of Red Stars (Class III. 6), Mr. Ellerman and Prof. 
G. E. Hale, 186; Spectra of Red Stars (Secchi’s Type IV.) 
Messrs. G, E. Hale and F. Ellerman, 429; Oxygen in 
Atmosphere of Fixed Stars, David Gill, F.R.S., 190; a Short 
History of Astronomy, Arthur Berry, 196 ; Oxford University 
Observatory, 207 ; Cambridge Observatory, 208 ; Gravitation 
in Gaseous Nebule, F. E. Nipher, 212; Maxima of Mira, 
A, A. Nyland, 232 ; the Life ofa Star, Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 
247; Dr. T. J. J. See, 519 ; the New Allegheny Observatory, 
260 ; Leeds Astronomical Society, 260 ; Theory of the Motion 
of the Moon, E. W. Brown, F.R.S., 260; the New Lunar 
Photographic Atlas, 491 ; Longitude from Moon Culmina- 
tions, D. A. Pio, 538; Annals of the Astronomical Observa- 
tory of Harvard, 266; Dynamical Theory ot Nebule, Dr. 
E. J. Wilczynski, 281 ; the Natal Observatory, E. Nevil, 28r ; 
Temperature changesin Yerkes Object-Glass, Prof. Barnard, 
281; Stellar and Nebular Spectra with Concave Grating, 
302 ; Photography of Nebule and Star Clusters, 330 ; Double 
Star Catalogue, R. G. Aitken, 354; Elements of Cometary 
Orbits, G. Fayet, 354; Mr. Tebbutt’s Observatory, 377; 
‘Temperature in Gaseous Nebule, F. E. Nipher, 377; the 
Recent Perseid Meteoric Shower, W. F. Denning, 377 ; the 
Paris Observatory, 402; the Bulletin Astronomique, 402; 
Photometry of the Pleiades, Herrn G. Miiller and P, Kempf, 
429; the System of Sirius, Herr H. J. Zwiers, 429; Cata- 
logue of Astronomical Instruments, Sir Howard Grubb, 430; 
Harvard College Observatory, Prof. Pickering, 442 ; Vana- 
dium in Meteorites, M. B. Hasselberg, 487 ; Cordoba Photo, 
graphs of Star-Clusters, 488 ; the Indian Eclipse, 1898, E.W; 
Maunder, 489; the Story of Eclipses, G. F. Chambers, 489 - 
The Bulletin de la Societe Astr. de France, 513 ; New Spec- 
troscopic Multiple Star, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 513 ; Stellar 
Parallax, Osten Bergstrand, 538 ; Precession Tables, Dr. 
Downing, 538; Histoire Abregée de l’Astronomie, Ernest 
Lebon, 543: the Melbourne Observatory Annual Report, 
P. Barrachi, 551; Comet Giacobini (1899 E) 551,577, 597; 
P. Chofardet, 612 ; the Polaris Multiple Star, Prof. W. W. 
Campbell, 577 ; Astronomical Camera Doublets, 578; Ob- 
servation of Leonids, 578; the Coming Shower of Leonids, 
W. F. Denning, 592 ; Law Connecting Motions in Planetary 
Variable Radial Velocity of ¢ Geminorum, 114; _ 
