Nature, "I 

 June lit 1902 J 



Index 



Bemm.elen (Dr. W. van), Magnetic Observations during Total 



Solar Eclipse of May iS, 1901, 305 

 Beniont (G.), the Study of Fermentation Amyl Alcohol, 215 

 Benham (Prof, W. Blaxland), a Treatise on Zoology: the Platy- 



helniia, Mesozoa and Nemertini, 361 

 Bennett (Dr. A. H.), Death of, 11 

 Bennett (Alfred William), Death of. 301 ; Obituary Notice of, 



321 . , . 



Benoist (L.), Experimental De6nition of the different kinds of 



X-rays by Radiochromometry, 335 

 Benthall (Dr. W. ), Automatic Actions, 152 

 Bergen (Joseph Y.), Foundations of Botany, 4 

 Berkshire, Pine Grosbeak in, C. M. Rogers, 129 

 Bernacchi (Louis), to the South Polar Regions, Expedition of 



1S98-1900, 153 

 Bernard (H. M.), Unit of Classification in Systematic Biology, 



95; Protoplasmic Networks, 534 ; Species Problem in Corals, 



560 

 Bernouillan Function, Definitions of the. Prof. II. Renfer, 255 

 Berihelot (Daniel), the Boiling Point of Selenium, 528 

 Berlhelot (M.): Chemical Reactions determined by Radium, 23 ; 



Celebration of the Jubilee of, 80 ; Studies on Radium, 167 ; 



Composition of an Antique Vase, 455 ; Electromotive Forces, 



603 

 Berthelot, and the Metals of Antiquity, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 



F.R.S., 82 

 Bertolio (S.), Coltivazione delle Miniere, 151 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), on the Bluing of Certain Fungi, 216 

 Berwerlh (Dr.), the Structure of Chondritic Meteorites, 160 

 Berwerth (Dr. F. ), Soundings from Eastern Mediterranean, 38 

 Beryllium, en a New Volatile Salt of, G. Urbain and H. 



I-acombe, 119 ; Notes on Quantitative Spectra of Beryllium, 



Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 190 

 Bettesworih Book, the, Talks with a Surrey Peasant, George 



Bourne, 173 

 Bevan (P. V.), Phenomena of Combination of Hydrogen and 



Chlorine under Influence of Light, 72 

 Bevan, Cross and. Researches on Cellulose from 1895-1900, 52 

 Bicentennial of Vale University, Dr. D. C. Oilman, 44 

 Binot (Jean), Bacteriological Study of Mont Blanc, 504 ; 



Bacteriological Investigations on the Summit of Mont Blanc, 



573 

 Biology : Unit of Classification in Systematic, II. M. Bernard, 

 95 ; Development of Sagitta, L. Doncaster, 95 ; Botanik 

 und Zoologie in Oesterreich in den Jahren 1850 bis 1900. 

 Festschrift v.d. K.K. Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in 

 Wien, 122 ; the New Biological Test for Blood in Relation 

 to Zoological Classification, George II F. Nuttall, 166; the 

 " Chestnuts " of ihe Horse, Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 222 ; 

 ihe Protozoa, Gary N. Calkins, 433; Functional Inertia, a 

 Property of Protoplasm, Dr. D. Y. Harris, 479 ; Functional 

 Inertia of Plant Protoplasm, R. A. Robertson, 479 ; Proto- 

 plasmic Networks, Henry %\. Bernard, 534 ; (Quantitative 

 Investigations of Biological Problems, 521 ; Variation and 

 Inheritance in the Paithenogenetic Generations of Ihe Aphis 

 Hyalcpleius Irir/iodiis, Dr. Warren, 521 ; Colour Matching 

 in Cuckoo's Eggs, Oswald Latter, 521 ; Modern Increase in 

 ihe Expectation of Life, Prof. Flinders Petrie, Prof. Karl Pear- 

 son, 521 ; Ciliated Grooves in the Brain of the Ammoccete, 

 Arthur Dendy, 547 ; Development of the Layers of the 

 Retina in the Chick after the Formation of the Optic Cup, 

 John Cameron, 548 ; Early Development of Cribrella ocuia'a, 

 Dr, Masterman, 551 ; Ferments and their Actions, Carl 

 Oppenheinier, Dr. A. C. Houston, 582 ; Marine Biology : 

 Marine Organism from South Africa, 287 ; Sqiiilla desmaresti. 

 Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, 366 ; Pleuronectes, Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee's Memoirs on Typical British Marine 

 Plants and Animals, F. J. Cole and Jas. Johnslone, 459; 

 the Morphokgy of Pleuronectidne, J. T. Cunningham, 511 ; 

 Ihe Writer of the Review, 511 ; the Species Problem in 

 Corals, Henry M. Bernard, 560; Swarm of Vele'la, Isaac C. 

 Thompson, 560 ; Prof. Ch. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., 586; 

 Rose Haig Thomas, 586 ; Peculiar Phenomena on the Cali- 

 fornian Coast, Dr, H. P. Torrey, 573 ; Mechanismus und 

 \'italismus, O, Biitschli, Supp, April 24, 1902, x. 



Biometrika, a Jouinal for the Statistical Study of Biological 

 Problems, 106, 521 



Birds : the Mummified Birds of Ancient Egypt, M. M. Lortet 

 and G.iillard, 119 ; Strange Adventures in Dicky-bird Land, 

 R. Kearton, 126; The Birds of South Africa, A. C. Stark, 



completed by W. L. Sclater, 244 ; Birds" Capturing Butte 

 flies and Moths in Flight, A. E. McKay, 247, 486 ; Oswald 

 H. Latter, 273 ; Lilian J. Veley, 299, 392 ; Prof. Edward B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S., 343, 465; W. Irving Fortescue, 344; 

 A. H. Hamm, 366 : C. G. Seligman, 366 ; Howard Fox, 

 366 ; John Hartley Durrant, 392 ; F. Finn, 415, 5S7 ; Dr. Ad 

 Nicolas, 415 ; Birds and Man, W. H. Hudson, 293 ; Beauti- 

 ful Birds, Edmund Selous, 316, 392 ; The Home-Life of 

 Wild Birds, F. H. Herrick, 437 ; Report of the Society for 

 the Protection of Birds, 444 ; Birds' Nests, an Introduction 

 to the Science of Caliology, Charles Di.xon, 50S ; Colour 

 Matching in Cuckoo's Eggs, Oswald Latter, 521 

 Bison, the American, 516. 



Blaauwbok of South Africa, t"he Extinct, G. Renshaw, 207 

 Blaise (E. E.) Synthesis of Ketones, 215; New Reactions of 



Organonielallic Derivatives, 455 

 Blast Furnace Gases, Motive Power from, Bryan Donkin, 179 

 Blondlot (R.), on the Absence of Action of a Magnetic Field 

 upon a Mass of Air which is the seat of a Current of Dis- 

 placement, 119 ; the Laws of Electromagnetism for bodies in 

 Motion, 421 

 Blood, the New Biological Test for, in Relation to Zoological 



Classification, George H. F. Nuttall, 166 

 Blythswood (Lord), the Red (C) Line of Hydrogen and the 

 Zeeman Effect, 79 iik" - 



Boat and Warrior Crew found at Roos in Holderness, Ancient 



Model of a, Thomas Sheppard, 256 

 Bocher (Maxime), Some Applications of the Method of 



Abridged Notation, 357 

 Bocher (Prof.), on Wronskians of Functions of a real Variable, 



140 

 Bbhm (Dr. August), Geschichte der Moranenkunde, 362 

 Boilers : Guide Pratique pour les Calculs de Resistance des 

 Chaudieres a Vapeur et I'essai des Materiaux Employes, G. 

 Plain and E. Maire, 150 

 Boley (Pierre), Capillary Electrometer, 431 

 Bolza (Oskar), on Certain Pairs of Transcendental Functions 



whose roots separate each other, 117 

 Bone (Dr.), the Slow O.xidation of Methane at Low Tempera- 

 tures, 477 ,_ 

 Bone Instruments, Human, R. Quick, 350 

 Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), the Relation of Certain Breccias 



to the Physical Geography of their Age, 405 

 Book of the Dead, the, E. A. Wallis Budge, 387 

 Boon (F. C. ), a Commercial Geography of Foreign Nations, 



245 . fe--.-. 



Bordier (II.), the Action of High-frequency Currents upon 



Animals, 239 

 Bore, the Severn, Kinematograph Pictures of the. Dr. Vaughan 

 Cornish, 280 ; Chas. T. Whitmell, 344, E. W. Prevost, 366, 

 392 

 Borel (Emile), Le9ons sur les Series Divergentes, 2 

 Bornean Insects and Spiders, Mimicry Amongst, R. .Shelford, 



3" 

 Boruttan (Prof.), Rhythm of Action Current of Frog's Nerve 



under Strychnine Tetanus, 64 

 Bose (Prof. J. C. ), Electric Response in Ordinary Plants under 



Mechanical Stimulus, 548 

 Botany : Foundations of Botany, Joseph V. Bergen, 4 ; Disease 

 in Plants, H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S,, 28; Flowers of the 

 Field, the late Rev. C. A. Johns, G, S. Boulger, 29 ; Bulbi- 

 form Seeds of Amaryllideje, Dr. A. B. Rendle, 38 ; the 

 Formation of Vanillin, Henri Lecomte, 47 ; Iboga and 

 Ibogaine, J.Dybowski and Ed. Landrin, 48; Influence of 

 ^rethylal on Growth of Alga: in Soft Water, Rioul Bouilhac, 

 48 ; Irish Topographical JBjtany, R. L. Piaeger, 53 ; Prac- 

 tical Text-book of Plant Physiology, D. T. Macdougal, 53 ; 

 Botany, an Elementary Text-book for Schools, C. H. Bailey, 

 53; Linnean Society, 71, 477; (i) the "Vuke" Plant, 

 Sichira Deflexa, (2) Germinating Seeds of Aratuaria Bid- 

 welli, (3) Archideiidron Solomoneusis, W. Botting Hemsley, 

 F. R.S., 71 ; a Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology, W. F. 

 Ganong, 75 ; Methods in Plant Histology, Charles J. 

 Chamberlain, 75 ; First Studies of Plant Life, Geo. Francis 

 Atkinson, 75 ; the Ash Constituents of some Lakeland 

 Leaves, Dr. P. Q. Keegan, So ; Insect and other Diseases of 

 the Cacao and Sugar-cane Plants in the West Indies, no; 

 the Gum-fermentation of Sugar-cane Juice, R. Greig Smith, 

 16S ; on two Dwarf Japanese Trees, Finns parvifolia 

 and Thuja obfiisa. Prof. F. E. Weiss, 119; Botanik und 



