SuppUmtni to Natitn 

 December lo, 1896 



Index 



Hosius (Dr. August), Death of, 81 



Hough (Prof.), Spots and Marks on Jupiter, 137 



Housman (Robert H.), the Electrical Resistance of Alloys, 



171 

 Howard (Mr.), and Mr. Small on the Rocks of Skomer Island, 



58s 

 Howes (Prof. G. B.), Zoological Publications, 196 

 Iloxne, on the Pala.'olithic Deposits of, Clement Reid, 586 

 Hubrecht (Prof.), the Embryonic Vesicle of Tarsiiis spectrum, 



240 

 Hudson (VV. H.), British Birds, 58 



Hudson Bay Rising? Is the Land round, J. B. Tyrrell, 488 

 Hull (l'ri)f.), on the Great Uplift of the West Indian Islands, 



586 

 HuUite, on. Prof. G. A. G. Cole, 391 

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

 Hume (Dr. W. F.), Baku and its Oil Industry, 232 

 Hummel (J. J.), Quercitin in Onion Skin, 40S ; Myricetin 



Colouring Matter of Myrica iiagi Bark, 408 

 Humphrey (Sir G. M., F.R.S.), Death of, 525 

 Hurion (M.), Determination of Deviation of Riintgen Rays by 



Prism, 119 

 Hurmuzescu (D. ), Action of X-Rays on Electrified Bodies, 23 

 Hurst (Dr. C. H.), on the Utility of Specific Characters, 605 

 Hurler (Dr. F. ), on the Manufacture of Chlorine by means of 



Nitric Acid, 584 

 Hutlon (Capt. V. \V., F.R.S.), Theoretical Explanations of 



Distribution of Southern Faunas, 16S 

 Huxley and .Science, the Bishop of Kipon on, 31 

 Huxley Lecture : Recent .Advances in Science and their bearing 



on Medicine and Surgery, Prof. M. Foster, 580, 600 

 Hybernation, Butterflies and, W. Ty.son, 125 

 Hydrodiclyon reliiutaliitii, Alfred W. Bennett, 172 

 Hydrogen Lamp, the, Prof. F. Clowes and B. Redwood, 620 

 Hydrography : Features of General Surface Circulation of 



North Atlantic, 372 ; the Pola's Red Sea Voyage, 485 

 Hydrology of the Mississippi, J. L. Greenleaf, 285 

 Hygiene : Water Supply, W. P. JMason, 412 ; American Public 



Health .Association Aleeting, 525 

 Hymenoptera, .\quatic, Fred Enock, 28 

 llyperdiabatic Radiations, proposed New Name for X-Rays, F. 



P. Le Roux, 23 

 Hyper-phos]ihorescence, Prof. S. P. Thompson on, 566 



Ice- voyage of the Fram, the, Capt. Sverdrup, 430 



Iceland, the Recent Earthquakes in, 446, 517,518; Dr. J. 



Stefansson, 574 

 Ichythyology : on the Occurrence of the Pelagic Ova of the 



Anchovy oflT Lytham, 296 ; Melanotaiiidce, a New Australian 



Family, J. D. Ogilby, 384 ; Peculiarity in Perch, R. J. 



Flintoff, 492 

 Identification, Criminal, the Bertillon System in Ceylon, 518 

 Identification, the Bertillon System of, 569 ; Francis Gallon, 



F.R.S., 569 

 Idiosyncrasy, a Curious, Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 76 

 Illusion, an Optical, F. H. Loring, 248 

 Inihof (Dr.), Freshwater Eels in Alpine Lakes, 134 

 Imperial Institute, the Scientific Department of, 627 

 Index Kewcnsis Plantarum Phanerogamarum. Sumptibus 



beati Caroli Roberti Darwin ductu et consilio Joseph! D. 



Hooker, confecit B. Daydon Jackson. F.asciculus IV., 74 

 India : Cholera in Indian Cantonments, E. H. Hankin, 26 ; 



Meteorological Observations in Mysore, 1893-4, 107 ; the 



Indian Calendar, Robert Sewell and Saukara Balkrishna 



Dikshit, W. T. Lynn, 219; the -Anthropology of British 



India, Edgar Thurston, 404 

 Individuality in the Mineral Kingdom, Henry A. Miers, 



F.R.S., 208 

 Industrial Photometry, a Treatise on, with special application 



10 Electric Lighting, A. Palaz, 289 

 Inflammable (;.as in Air, Detection and Measurement of, Prof. 



Y. Clowes and B. Redwood, 620 

 Inheritance of Acquired Characters, the .Ankle-joint in Man 



and the, Prof. Retzius, 162 

 Insane under Detenlion, ihe Increase of, Thomas Drapes, 5S9 

 Inslitution of Mechanical Engineers, 19, 327 

 International Catalogue Conference, the, 248, 272 ; International 



Catalogue of Science, 64, 181 

 Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, 237 



Irby (Colonel), Prevention of Extinction of British Butterflies, 



Iron .Age in Europe, on the Starting-point of the, Prof. 



Ridgeway, 610 

 Iron Tools discovered in Egypt, Prof. Pelrie on, 5il 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 38, 514 



Isle of Man, Prof Boyd Dawkins on the Geology of the, 5S6 

 Isolated Nerves, Observations on, 18 

 Italian Scientific Expedition to Monte Rosa, Prof. P. Giaccsa, 



358 

 Italy, North-west, Earthquakes in, 597 

 Italy and Greece, on Pre-Classical Chronology in, Dr. O. 



Montelius, 6i I 

 Ives (F. E.), Stereoscopic Photo-Chroraoscope, 37 

 Izarn (M.), Determination of Deviation of Rontgen Rays by 



Prism, 119 

 Izvestia of Russian Geographical Society, 311 



Jackson (Herbert), Use of Phosphorescent Materials in render- 

 ing Rtinlgen Rays visible, 36 

 Jackson's (Mr.) Arctic Expedition, Return of, 445 

 Jacques's (Dr. W. W.) Carbon Consumption Electrical Cell, 



G. H. Stockbridge, 298 

 Jacques' Cell Thernio-electric, the, C. J. Reed, 353 

 Jago (William), a Text-book of the Science and Art of Bread- 

 Making, 51 

 Jamaica, Geographical Evolution of. Dr. J. W. Spencer, 94 

 Jamieson (.Alexander), a Text-book of Applied Mechanics, 7 

 Janssen ( Dr. ), Solar Photography at Meudon, 64 

 Japan : Earthquakes in, 182, 446; the Great Tidal Wave in, 



252 ; the Great Seismic Wave of, 449 

 Japp (F. R.), Synthesis of Pentacarbon Rings, llS ; Reduction 

 of Desyleneacetic Acid, 118; Condensation of Benzil with 

 LiTjvuIic Acid, 408 

 Jaubert (J.), the Paris Tornado of September 10, 1896, 

 "jauniann, (Prof. G.), Electrostatic Deviation of Kathode Rays, 



47 ; Deviation of Kathodic Rays by Electrostatic Force, 1 1 1 

 Javelle (M.), Brooks's Comet, 354 

 jean (F. ), Digestibility of Cocoa-Butter and ordinary Butter, 



639 

 Jenkins (Rhys), Power Locomotion on Highway, 365 

 Jewell (Lewis), the Solar Rotation, 526 

 Johnson (Sir George, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



133 

 Johnson (Mr.), on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rails, 60S 

 Johnston (Charles), the World's Baby-Talk, 589 

 Johnston-Lavis (Dr. ), on the Interpretation placed by Messrs. 



Weed and Pirsson in an Igneous Mass in the Highwood 



Mountains, Montana, 587 

 Joly (C. J.), Quaternion Invariants of Linear Vector Functions 



and Quaternion Determinants, 167 

 Jones (Prof. Viriamu), Value for the True Ohm, 93 

 Jorissen (W. P.), the Production of "Active" Oxygen during 



Slow Oxidation, 631 

 Journal of Botany, 213, 591 

 Jowett (H. A. D.), Asitine, 40S 

 Jubilee, Lord Kelvin's, 80, 199; Prof. A.Gray, F.R.S., 151, 



173 

 Jungle and Desert, through. Travels in Eastern Africa, W. A. 



Chanler, Dr. J. W. Gregory, 313 

 Jupiter, Spots and Marks' on. Prof. Hough, 137 ; Occultation 



of, 137 ; Rotation Period of Jupiter, Prof. A. A. Rambaut, 



280 

 Jiiptner von Jonstorff (Baron Hans), the Introduction of 



Standard Methods of [.Metallurgical] .Analysis, 40 



Kamboja, the Khmer of, S. E. Peal, 461 



Kamtchatka, Gold discovered in, 517 



Kanitz (Dr.), Death of, 351 



Kanlhack (Dr. A. .A.), on Bacteria in Food, 635 



Kathode Rays : M. Birkeland's Recent Observations of Dis- 

 continuous Line Spectrum of Kathode Rays produced by 

 Magnetic Deflection, 566 ; Profs. Elster and Geitel, Inves- 

 tigations as to the Cause of the Surface Colorisation of 

 Colourless Salts (KCl, NaCl) by the Kathode Rays dis- 

 covered by Goldstein, 567 



Kayser (Dr. E. ), Measurements of Cloud Heights and 

 Velocities, 274 



