Nature, ~\ 

 1899J 



June 3, 



Index 



613 ; Triboluminescence, William Jackson Pope, 618 ; Silver 



Sub-oxide, M. Guntz, 623 ; Solubility of Normal Oxalic 



Acids in Water, F. Lamouroux, 623 ; Action of Amyl and 



Ethyl Alcohols and their Sodium Derivatives, M. Guerbet, 



623 ; Physiological Action of Methylnitramine, Dr. G. B. 



Spruyt, 623 ; Neutral Glycerine (Triacytines) from Saturated 



Monobasic Acids with even number of C-Atoms, Prof. 



Franchimont, 624 

 Chessin (Dr. A. S.), the Sun's Heat, 566; the Sun's Mean 



Temperature, 596 

 Chicken-Rearing Appliances, Incubators and, 316 

 Childhood, Medical Diseases of Infancy and, Dr. Dawson 



Williams, 28 

 China : Schanlung und seine Eingangspforte Kiautschou, Fer- 

 dinand Freihen von Richthoften, 291 ; Schantung und 



Deutsch-China, Ernst von Hesse Wartegg, 291 ; Among the 



Celestials, Captain Francis Vounghusband, 367 ; Plague in 



China, Kumagusu Minakata, 370 

 Chloroform, Robert Bell, 149 

 Chlorophyll, Influence of Anresthetics on Formation of, E. C. 



Teodoresco and H. Coupin, 143 

 Chree (Dr. C. ) Longitudinal Vibrations in Solid and Hollow 



Cylinders, 166; Semi-Inverse Method of Solution of 



Equations of Elasticity, 479 

 Chronology ; Chinese and Persian Time, Prof. J. Milne, F.R. S., 



349 ; A New Almanac, A. Hall, 613 

 Church (Prof. A. H., F.R.S.), Zeolites, 454 

 Churchill (J. D.), Constancy of "Melting Point" of Crystal- 

 lised Salts sufficient for standardising Thermometers, 565 

 Chudzinski (Theophile), Observations sur les Variations Mus- 



culaires dans les Races Humaines, 244 

 Cicada, the Periodical, C. L. Marlatt, 316 

 Clapham (Dr. C), Position of "Soul" in Body, 348 

 Clark (Latimer, F.R.S. ), Death of, 14; Obituary Notice of, 38 

 Class-Book of Physical Geography, Wm. Hughes, 484 

 Classification of Vertebrata, Recent and Extinct, Dr. H. 



Gadow, 27 

 Classification of the Spectra of Long Period Variables, Mrs. 



Fleming, 330 

 Claude (G. ), Solubility of Acetylene in Acetone at very .low 



Temperature, 359 

 Clements (J. M.), Contact Metamorphosis, 453 

 Clouds, Iridescent, E. Armitage, 127 

 Clough (C. T.), Spinel and Forsterite from Glenelg Limestone, 



622 

 Clowes (Frank), Deposition of Barium Sulphate as a Cementing 



Material of Sandstone, 476 

 Coal Mining : Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade, 



R. L. Galloway, Prof. H. Louis, 337 ; Steam as Explosive in 



Coal Mining, Major-Gen. H. Schaw, 614 

 Coal-Tar, L'industrie du Goudron de Houille, George F. 



Jaubert, 460 

 Coast Erosion, Messrs. Whitaker, W. H. Wheeler, A. T. 



Walmisley, V. Cornish, and Prof. Meldola on, 18S 

 Coast Telegraphs and Space-Telegraphy, Rollo Appleyard, 24S 

 Coats (Dr. Joseph), Death and Obituary Notice of, 300 

 Cochineal Insect, Impracticability of destroying Prickly Pear 



with, Dr. Bourne, 82 

 Cockerell (Prof. T. D. A.), Arctic and Sub-Arctic Bees, 76 

 Cody (Colonel W. F. ), the Great Salt Lake Trail, 605 

 Coffee and India Rubber in Mexico, Matias Romero, 99 

 Coherers, E. Aschkinass, 94 

 Cohn (Dr. Fritz), Results of a New Reduction of Bessel's most 



Ancient Meridian Observations, 159 

 Coke, the Chemistry of, O. Simmersbach, 484 

 Cole (Prof. G. A. J.), Method of Intensifying Coloration of 



Bunsen Flame, 143 

 Colenso (Rev. William, F.R.S. ), Death of, 375; Obituary 



Notice of, 420 

 Collie (Prof. Norman, F.R.S.), Two Journeys in the Canadian 



Rockies, 376 

 Collins (F. Howard), Heredity and Fertility, 5 

 Collins (H. F. ), Chemical Reactions in Pan Amalgamation of 



Silver Ores, 613 

 Colour, Origin of Organic, T. F. Mott, 328 

 Colour of Sea Water, on the. Prof. Richard Threlfall, 461 ; 



John Aitken, F.R.S., 509 

 Colouring of Plants, Experiments on the Autumn, E. Overton, 



296 

 Colouring of Plants, May Rathbone, 342 



Colours of Lakes and Seas, Prof. R. Abegg, 80 

 Colson (Albert), Displacement of Metals by Hydrogen, 16S 

 Combe (A.), Action of Oxidising Agents on Fatty and Aromatic 

 Amines, 240 ; Action of Oxidising Agents on Picramic Acid, 



335 

 Comets : Comet Brooks, 17, 43 ; Ephemerides of Comets and 



Planets, 63; Comet Chase, 107, 135, 157, 185, 208, 233,. 



257,279,379; J. MoUer, 303 ; Comets ;', 1898 and 188 1, IV., 



Dr. Perrine, 185 ; Comet, 1898, VII. (Coddington-Pauly), C.J. 



Merfield, 350 ; Wolfs Comet, 189S, IV., 378 ; Lynn's Re- 

 markable Comets, 379 ; Comet, 1899, a (Swift), 449, 473, 



494, 566 ; Tuttle's Comet (1899 h), 449, 473, 494, 545. 566, 



595, 616 ; Orbit of Comet 1896, III. (Swift), Prof. R. G. 



Aitken, 519 ; Temple's Comet (1873, II.), 595, 616 ; Return 



of Holmes' Comet (1S92, III.), 616 

 Commercial Education, Higher, and the University of Londony 



Sir Philip Magnus, 588 

 Comparative Study of Visual Accommodation, a, Th. Beer, 541 

 Comparative Myology, Recent Work in, 229 

 Conant (Franklin Story), the Cubomedusa, 4 

 Conchology ; the Corrosion of Sea Shells in Collections, 



L St. G. Byne, 564 

 Conference of the International Geodetic Association, E. D. 



Preston, 258 

 Conference, International, on Terrestrial Magnetism, 18 

 Confirmation of Bright Lines in Spectra of 152 Schjellerup, 



Profs. Keeler and Campbell, 330 

 Congress, Astronomical, at Budapest, Dr. Francesco Porro, 158 

 Coninck (O. de), Action of Oxidising Agents on Fatty and 



Aromatic Amines ; Action of Oxidising Agents on Picramic 



Acid, 335 

 Connection between Manasarowar and Rakas-tal, Lieut. -General 



Sir Richard Strachey, F R.S., 76 

 Constellations, on Francesco Bianchini's Sketches of the, Dr. 



Francesco Porro, 159 

 Constitution of the Electric Spark, the. Prof Arthur Schuster, 



F.R.S., G. Hemsalech, 350 

 Contact-breaker for Induction Coils, Wehnelt's, Dr. John 



Macintyre, 43S ; R. J. Strutt, 510; William Webster, 510 

 Continuity of Wave Theories, Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., 56 

 Converse of the Zeeman Effect, Prof. George Eras. Fitzgerald, 



F.R.S., 222 

 Conway (Sir Martin), A Stream of Alluvium, 390 

 Cooled Metals, Transference of Heat in, Carl Kinsley, 174 

 Coolidge (W. A. B. ), Ball's Alpine Guide, the Western Alps, 



412 

 Coolidge (W. D. ), New Method of Exhibiting Electric Wire 



Wave, 621 

 Copaux (H.), Properties of Triethyl Borate, 71 ; Volumetric 



Estimation of Boric Acid, 95 

 Cope (Prof. E. D. ), Syllabus of Lectures on the Vertebrata, 27 \ 



Vertebrate Remains from Port Kennedy Bone Deposit, 448 

 Copeman (Dr. S. M. ), Vaccination : its Natural History and 



Pathology, 435 

 Coral : Recent Poritidre, H. M. Bernard, 406 ; Deep Sea Madre- 



poraria. Major A. Alcock, 422 

 Coral Boring Operations at Funafuti, Recent, 22 

 Coral Island, Funafuti, or Three Months on a, Mrs. Edgeworth 



David, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 554 

 Coral Reef, the Boring of a, at Funafuti, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 



F.R.S., 29 

 Cordier (J. A. ), the Transport of Wine Yeasts, 24 

 Cordierite and its Associates, the Natural History of, J. J. H, 



Teall, F.R.S., 380 

 Cormorant, External Nares of, W. P. Pycraft, 500 

 Cornish (C. J.),Animals of To-day, 198 

 Cornish (Vaughan), Coast Erosion, 188 ; the Study of Waves, 



523 

 Cornwall, Lobster and Crab Fishing in, J. T. Cunningham, 62 

 Corona, Photography of, 473 



Corona, the Spectrum of the, Sir Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 473 



Cortie (Father A. L.), a Short History of Scientific Education, 6 



Corundum : a manual of the Geology of India, Part I. 



Corundum. Prof. V. Ball, F.R.S., T. H. Holland, 558; 



Mineral Resources of the United States : Seventeenth 



Annual Report of the U.S. Geological Survey, Corundum 



Deposits of the Southern Appalachian Regions, J. .-\. 



Holmes, 558 ; Economic Geology of Eastern Ontario, 



Corundum and other Minerals, Willet G. Miller, 55S 



Cotswold Village, a, J. Arthur Gibbs, 367 



