Index 



T Supplement to Natu> 

 L December lo, i8q6 



Bucherer, 311; Damping Action of Magnetic Field on 

 Rotating Insulators, W. Duane, 311 ; the Notation of Ter- 

 restrial Magnetic Quantities, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 391 ; Record 

 of Earth's Magnetism afforded by Ancient Terra-cotta Objects, 



Dr. Folgheraiter, 485 ; Dilute Ferro-magnetic Amalgams, H. 



Nagaoka, 544 ; Influence of Pulling and Pushing p'orces on 



Magnetic Properties, G. S. Meyer, 544 ; Magnetic Rotation 



Measurements, Dr. H. L. Siertsema, 640 

 Magnitude of Southern Stars, S. J. Bailey, 231 

 Major (Dr. Forsyth), Return from Madagascar of, 446 

 Majorana (Dr. Q.), on the Action of Rontgen Rays and Ultra- 

 violet Light on Electric Sparks, 53 

 Malapteruriis elentricus. Electromotive Properties of Electrical 



Organ of, Eras. Gotch, F.R.S., and G. J. Burch, 92 

 MaUezos(C.), some Properties of X-Rays penetrating Ponderable 



Media, 95 

 Mammals, Geographical History of, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 457 

 Man, the Ankle-joint in, and the Inheritance of Acquired 



Characters, Prof. Retzius, 162 

 Man, the Structure of, an Index to his Past History, Prof. R. 



Wiedersheim, 291 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 591 

 Mandrake, the, Kumagusu Minakata, 343 

 Maneuvrier (G.), Ratio of Specific Heats of Air, Carbon 



Dioxide, and Hydrogen, 336 

 Mann (Dr.), on Nerve Cells, 634 

 Manouvrier (L. ), Pithecanthropus crcctus, 135 

 Manurial Experiments on Turnips, Prof. Somerville, 62 

 Manx Anthropology, Mr. A. W. Moore and Dr. J. Beddoe on, 



609 

 Manx-land, Mr. A. Bell on the Tertiary Deposits of North, 



586 

 Maps, Pauling's New Method of Drawing Relief, Herr F. 



Benesch, 352 

 Marcel-Delepine (M.), New Method of separating Methylamines, 



71 



Marcet (Dr.), on Types of Human Respiration, 633 



Margo (Dr. Theodor), Death of, 597 



Marine Biology: Sea-fish Hatching at Port Erin, 15; Respira- 

 tory Processes in Sand-burrowing Annelids and Crustacea, 

 Walter Garstang, 38; Dr. C. S. Dolley's " Planktonokrit," 

 120; Tidal Migrations of Limpets, Dr. A. Willey, 125; 

 MoUuscan Archetype considered as / (■/?'^<'?--like form, A. E. 

 Verrill, 383 ; by the Deep Sea, Edward Step, 522 



Marmier (L. A.), Inaction of High Frequency Currents on 

 Microbian Poisons, 298 



Marr (J. E., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section C of the 

 British Association, 494 



Mars : New Feature on Mars, 427, 487 ; the Canals on Mars, 

 600 ; Mars at Opposition in 1894, Percival Lowell, Dr. W. J. 

 S. Lockyer, 625 



Marsden (Mr.), on Detection of Lead in Organic Fluids, 636 



Marsh (O. C), Pithecanthropus erectus, 189 



Marsh-Fever, Hematozoa in, A. Laveran, 47 



Marshall (D.), Heat of Vaporisation of Formic Acid, 167 



Marshall (Mr.), Pharmacological Action of Hemp Resin, 94 



Martel (E. A.), the Mitchelstown Cavern, 34 



Martin (H. Newell), Physiological Papers, 147 



Martin (Dr. R. ), Pithecanthropus erectus, 135 



Maschke (H.), Representation of Finite Groups by Cayley's 

 Colour Diagrams, 22 



Mashonaland : Ruined Temples in Mashonaland, R. M. W. 

 Swan, 424 



Mason (Dr. Otis T.), Eskimo Throwing-Sticks, 271 



Mason (W. P.), Water Supply, 412 



Masonry, Modern Stone-cutting and, John S. Siebert and F. C. 

 Biggin, 27 



Mass of the Asteroids, G. Ravene, 206 



Mass.age, the Practice of, A. S. Eccles, 41 1 



Massee (G.), Die Protrophie, eine neue Lebensgemeinschaft, in 

 ihren Auffalligsten Erscheinungen, Arthur Minks, 170 



Masterman (A. T. ), Actinotrocha and Phoronis, 191 ; on some 

 Effects of Pelagic Spawning on the Life-history of Marine 

 Fishes, 606 ; on Phoronis, 607 



Masters (Dr. Maxwell T., F.R.S.), Plant-Breeding, 138 



Mathematics : Inclinational Terms in Moon's Co-ordinates, P. 

 H. Cowell, 22 ; Representation of Finite Groups by Cayley's 

 Colour Diagrams, II. Maschke, 22 ; American Journal of 

 Mathematics, 22, 431, 639 ; Mathematical Society, 6g, 118, 

 190; Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 92, 213, 3S3 ; 



Isomorphism of a Group with itself. Prof. W. Burnside, 

 F.R.S., 69 ; Stability of a Frictionless Liquid, and Theory of 

 Critical Planes, Mr. Basset, F. U.S., 70; Computation Rules 

 and Logarithms, Prof. Silas W. Holman, 76 ; the Ruffini- 

 Abelian Theorem, Prof. J. Pierpont, 92 ; Elements of the 

 Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, J. J. 

 Thomson, F. R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 97; the 2 (Sigma) of 

 Diophantus, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson, 118; Principii della 

 Teoria Matematica del Movimento dei Corpi, Gian Antonio 

 Maggi, 124; a Multiplication Frame, J. M. Gray, 159: 

 Algebraic Spherical Catenary, Prof. A. G. Greenhill and T. I. 

 Dewar, 159 ; the Linear and Vector Function, Prof. Tail, 

 166 : (Quaternion Invariants of Linear Vector Functions and 

 (^Kiaternion Determinants, C. J. Joly, 167 : Mathematical 

 Papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held 

 in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, 

 Chicago, 1893, 17°; P Discriminant of Differential Equation 

 of First Order, Prof. Chrystal, 191 ; Remarkable Covariant of 

 a System of Quantics, Prof. H. B. Newson, 213 ; Apollonius 

 of Perga : Treatise on Conic Sections, 314: Death of Prof. 

 H. A. Newton, 371 ; Graphical Calculus, Arthur H. Barker, 

 435 ; History of Modern Mathematips, David E. Smith, 435 ; 

 Death of Dr. David Garber, 597 ; Etude de Geometrie Cine- 

 matique Reglee, R. de Saussure, 639. See also Section A, 

 British Association 



Mather (T.), Small Dynamo for Measuring PermcabiUty and 

 Hysteresis of Iron, 159 



Mathews (Dr. G. F.), on the Larval Characters of Entro- 

 mostraca, Brachiopods, and Trilobites in those Faunas which 

 preceded that of Paradoxides, 585 



Matthey (Edward), on the Liquation of certain Alloys of Gold, 

 256 



Maudsley (Alfred P.), Archaeological Studies in Mexico, 274 



Maxwell and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, J. Bertrand, 106 



Mayer (Prof. A. M.), Experiments on Rontgen Rays, 65, 66, 

 189 



Measurements of Crabs, J. T. Cunningham, 621 



Mechanics : a Text-book of Applied Mechanics, Alexander 

 Jamieson, 7 ; Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 19, 327 ; 

 Traite de Mecanique generale, H. Resal, 27 ; Experiments in 

 Mechanical Flight, Prof. S. P. Langley, Prof. Alexander 

 Graham Bell, 80 ; Mechanics for Beginners, W. Gallatly, 

 148 ; Measurement of Work in Driving Bicycle, M. Bouny, 

 192 ; Control of Results obtained by Dynamometric Pedal 

 of Bicycle, M. Bouny, 239 ; Practical Mechanics for 

 Sailors, Thomas Mackenzie, Rev. F. C. Stebbing, 364 : 

 Power Locomotion on Highway, Rhys Jenkins, 365 ; 

 Mechanics for Beginners, Linnoeus Gumming, 546 ; a 

 Mechanical Problem, " Cromerite,"622. See also Section G, 

 British Association 



Mediaeval Mental Epidemics, Boris Sidis, 589 



Medicine : Physics for Students of Medicine, Alfred Daniell, 

 100; Death of Sir J. R. Reynolds, F.R.S., 105 ; Presidential 

 Address to the British Medical Association, 133 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Sir George Johnson. F. R.,S., 133 ; a System 

 of, voh i., edited by Dr. T. C. AUbutt, F.R.S., 361 ; Recent 

 Advances in Science and their Bearing on Medicine, Prof. 

 .M. Foster, 580, 600 ; Death of Dr. Rochard, 597 ; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Dr. George Harley, 630 ; see also 

 Therapeutics 



Mediterranean Earthquakes for 1895, Record of. Dr. Agamen- 

 none, 373 



Meeham (Thomas), Erigeron strzgosus, 240 



Meek (Alexander), a Biological Application of Rontgen Photo- 

 graphy, 8 



Melanesian's Intellectual Life on the Duk-duk and other Customs 

 as Forms of Expression of the, (Jraf von Pfeil, 611 



Melanoticniiiiie, a New Australian Family of Fishes, J. D. 

 Ogilby, 384 



Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Becquerel and Li ppmann's Colour 

 Photographs, 28 ; the Work of Local Societies, 1 14 ; Mono- 

 nitro Guaiacol, 190; Wasps and Flies, 576, Utility of 

 Specific Characters, 594 



Memoirs of Caucasian Branch of Russian Geographical Society, 

 46 



Mendel (Dr.), Influence of Alcohol on Digestion, 598 



Mental Epidemics, Media;val, Boris Sidis, 589 



Menschutkin (N.), .Analytical Chemistry, 6 



Men.suration, .\lfred Lodge, 620 



Mercer (II. C. ), Exploration of Tennessee Caves, 288 



