XXIV 
Index 
Nature, 
December x4, 1899 
Morris (Dr. G. H.), Combined Action of Diastase and Yeast on 
Starch Granules, 608 ; Action of Acids on Starch, 608 
Morton (Prof. W. B.), Criterion for Oscillatory Discharge of 
Condenser, 70 
Mosquitoes: the Destruction of, 279; Mosquitoes and Malaria, 
Prof. Grassi, 157; Major R. Ross, 229, 398, 535, 5743 Prof. 
Koch, 595; Investigations on Mosquitoes and Malaria, Dr. 
Daniels, 333 ; the Cause and Prevention of Malaria, Major 
Ronald Ross, 357 
Moth, the Gipsy, and its Introduction into America, W. F. 
Kirby, 80 
Motion, Animals in, E. Muybridge, 220 
Motion in Animals and Plants, the Relation of, to the Electrical 
Phenomena associated with it, Sir J. Burdon-Sanderson, Bart., 
E.R.S.,, 343 
Motion of the Moon, Theory of the, Ernest W. Brown, 260 
Motion of a Perfect Liquid, the, Prof. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 
F.R.S., 446 
Motion in Planetary Sysjem, Law Connecting, Ch. V. Zenger, 
97, 
Motion, Muscular, the Nature or Laws of, Sir J. Burdon- 
Sanderson, F.R.S., 343 
Motion, on Rolling, M. Appell, 384 
Mott (Dr. F. W., F.R.S.), Physiological Action of Choline and 
Neurine, 46 
Moullin (Dr. C. M.), Medicine and the Rontgen Rays, 426 ; 
Surgery and the Rontgen Rays, 426 
Mouneyrat (A.), Action of Bromine on Isobutyl Bromine in 
Presence of Anhydrous Aluminium Bromide and Aluminium 
Chloride, 336 ; Action of Bromine in Presence of Aluminium 
Chloride on Chlorobenzenes, 636 
Mount Sorrel Granite, ona Smoothed and Grooved Surface of, 
underlying undisturbed Keuper Marl, Prof. W. W. Watts, 
610 
Mountaineers, the Early, Francis Gribble, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 
F.R.S,, 274 
Mourelo (J. R.), Activity of Manganese relatively to Phosphor- 
escence of Strontium Sulphide, 95 
Mouth, the Hygiene of the, R. Denison Pedley, 172 
Moxly (Rev. J. H. S.), the Tides Simply Explained, with Prac- 
tical Hints to Mariners, 340 
Mrazec (Ludovic), Recherches Geologiques et Petrographiques 
sur la Massif du Mont Blanc, 152 
Mudge (E. H.), the Mouth of Grand River, 383 
Mueller-Erzbach (W.), Radius of Molecular Action, 117 
Muirhead (R. F.), Euler’s Proof of the Binomial Theorem, 486 
Miiller (G.), Photometry of the Pleiades, 429 
Miiller (Johannes), Prof. Virchow, 595 
Miller (P. T.), Molecular Refraction, Dispersion and Specific 
Rotatory Power of Combinations of Camphor with Aromatic 
Aldehydes, 167 
Munby (A. E.), School Laboratory Plans, 222, 292 
Munro (John), the Story of the British Race, 52 
Miintz (A.), Late Watering of Vines, 215 
Murray (Sir John, K.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D.), Opening Address 
in Section E of the British Association, 521 ; Oceanography, 
22; Dr. Petersen’s Experiments in the Cattegat, with the 
Marking and Measuring of Plaice in Order to Determine 
Distribution and Growth, 631 
Muscular Motion, the Nature or Laws of, Sir J. Burdon- 
Sanderson, Bart., F.R.S., 343 
Museums: the Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions at the Natural 
History Museum, Wilfred Mark Webb, 12; the Darmstadt 
Museum, 164; the United States National Museum, 225 
Music: the Boyle Lecture on the Perception of Musical Tone, 
Prof. McKendrick, 163 
Musical Pitch, the New Philharmonic, A. J. Hipkins, 421 
Musick (J. R.), Tornadoes, 328 
Musk-Shrew, the Indian, W. F. Sinclair, 30 
Muybridge (E.), Animals in Motion, 220 
Myology of Anomalurus, F. C. Parsons, 118 
Narasu (Prof. P. L.), Explosion of Aluminium Iodide, 520 
Natal Observatory, E. Nevil, 281 
National Museum, the United States, 225 
National Physical Laboratory, the, 25, 3737 
National Poultry Conference, Official Report of the, held at 
Reading in July 1899, 615 
Natural History: Haunts and Hobbies of an Indian Official, 
Mark Thornhill, 5 ; Gecko Cannibalism, F. P. Bedford, 8 ; 
the Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History 
Museum, Wilfred Mark Webb, 12; the Indian Musk- 
Shrew, W. F. Sinclair, 30; Phosphorescent Earthworms, 
Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 52; Prof. W. Blaxland Benham, — 
591; Death of Sir F. McCoy, F.R.S., 60; Larvze from the 
Head of an Antelope, Richard Crawshay, 150; Walter F. H. 
Blandford, 150; Walrus, Kumagusu Minakata, 150; In the 
Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea: being 
the Experiences and Observations of a Naturalist in Australia, 
New Guinea and the Moluccas, Richard Semon, 169 ; Chapters 
on the Natural History of the United States, R. Shufeldt, 
170; Cries and Calls of Wild Birds, C. A. Witchell, 171 ; 
Index Animalium, C. Davies Sherborne, 174; Habits of the 
Cuckoo, Wm. H. Wilson, 175; Reminiscences of Darwin, 
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, F.R.S., 187 ; Pair of Brazilian Mar- 
mosets Breeding in England, Dora Whitmore, 199; Death of 
John Whitehead, 204: Death of Sir W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 
K.C.B., 228; Obituary Notice of, Prof. KE. Ray Lankester, 
F.R.S., 252; a Plague of Frogs, F. H. Fortey, 246; Great 
and Small Game of Africa ; an Account of the Distribution, 
Habits and Natural History of the Sporting Mammals, with 
Personal Hunting Experiences, 270; the Penycuik Experi- 
ments, Prof. J. C. Ewart, F.R.S., 272; Fur-Seal Herds of 
the North Pacific, 354; the Fauna of Shropshire: being an 
Account of all the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes 
found in the County of Salop, H. E. Forrest, 388 : Sea Gulls 
and Weather, Prince Kropotkin, 439; Movement of Sea 
Gulls with a Coming Change of Weather, Lieut.-Col. H. H. 
Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., 491; W. F. Sinclair, 545 ; Sedge- 
Warblers Seizing Butterflies, Oswald H. Latter, 520; Vole, 
James Ballas, 546; Peripatus in the Malay Peninsula, Prof. 
Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 591 ; Bats and their Insect 
Prey, 624 
Natural Selection, the Cause of Mimetic Resemblance and 
Common Warning Colours, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 
Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 55; Illustration of Mimicry and 
Common Warning Colours in Butterflies, Mark L. Sykes, 
222 
Natural Selection in the Lepidoptera, Mark L. Sykes, 222 
Nature, Views on some of the Phenomena of, James Walker, 
197 
Naudin (Charles), Obituary Notice of, 58 
Nautical Almanac, American, the Chief of the, Prof. Wm. 
Harkness, 8 
Navigation : the Chief of the American Nautical Almanac, Prof. 
Wm. Harkness, 8; Automatic Steering Register, J. E. 
Liardet, 134; the Bore at Moncton, Bay of Fundy, W. Bell 
Dawson, 161; Tides of the Gulf and River St. Lawrence and 
Bay of Fundy, Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 291 ; Tides in the 
Bay of Fundy, W. H. Wheeler, 461; the Magnetic Compass 
and Nickel Cases, Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 173; 
Investigations of Double Currents in the Bosphorus and 
elsewhere, Vice-Admiral S. Makaroff, 261 ; New Experi- 
mental Basin in Washington Navy Yard, 374 ; Steam Navi- 
gation, Sir William White, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., 527 
Nebuleze, Dynamical Theory of, Dr. E. J. Wilczynski, 281 
Nebulz and Star Clusters, Photography of, 330 
Nebula, Temperatures in Gaseous, F. E. Nipher, 377 
Nebular Spectra, Stellar and, with Concave Grating, 302 
Negritos, the, Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine 
Islands and elsewhere, Dr. A. B. Meyer, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 
F.R.S., 433 
Neomylodon, the, A. Gaudry, 564 
Neptuneopses Gtlchristt, a New Marine Gastropod, G. R. 
Sowerby, 549 
Nernst’s Theory of Electrolytic Solution Pressure, ona Flaw 
in, Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt, 585 
Nerve-Wave, the, Prof. Charles Richet, 625 
Nesbit (H. A.), the New Science and Art of Arithmetic for the 
Use of Schools, 7 
Neugschwender (A.), New Method of Detecting Electric 
Waves, 212 
Neuronology, Die Bedeutung der Reize fiir Pathologie und 
Therapie im Lichte der Neuronlehre, Dr. A. Goldschneider, 
73 
Nevil (E.), Natal Observatory, 281 
New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries, Through, H. Caley 
Webster, 49 
New Guinea and the Moluccas, in the Australian Bush and on 
