Index 



Z Supplement to Nature^ 

 [_ December lo, 1896 



Barnard (Prof. F. A. B.), Fulton's Memoirs of, Sir J. G. Fitch, 



409 

 Barnes (Howard), Winter Temperature Measurements of St. 



Lawrence, 141 

 Barr (J. M.), the Rbntgen Rays, 82 

 Barriere (P.), Lucium, a New Element, 59S 

 Barrington (K. M.), Wasps as Fly-catchers, 549 

 Bartlett (A. D. ), the Breeding of the Surinam Toad, 71 

 Basset (Mr., K.K.S.), Stability of a Frictionless Liquid and the 



Theory of Critical I'lanes, 70 

 Bassctt (Prof J. S.), Slavery in North Carolina, 157 

 Bather (F. A.), on the Ancestry of the Vertebrates, 606; on 



the Value of the Morphological Method in Zoology, 606 

 Batiachian, Remarliable Blind, Dr. Stejneger, 156 

 Battelli (Prof. A.), Experiments on Rontgen Rays, 62 ; 



Researches on Rontgen Rays, 355 

 Battelli (F.), Action of various Substances on Movements of 



Stomach, 239 

 Bauer (Dr. L. A.), the Notation of Terrestrial Magnetic 



Quantities, 391 

 Bauschinger (Dr.), Search Ephemeris for Comet, 1S89, V. , 



Brooks, 84 

 Bazin (M.), Distribution of Velocities in Tubes, 144 

 Beasley (Mr. H. C), on Foot-prints from the Trias in the 



Neighbourhood of Liverpool, 586 

 Beaulard (F. ), Non-Refractibility of X-rays by Potassium, 



359 

 Beaumont (Mr.), on the Cause of Failure of Railway Rails, 



607 

 Becquerel and Lippmann's Colour Photographs, Prof. R. 



Meldola, F.R.S., 28 ; C. H. Bothamly, 77 

 Becquerel's Colour Photographs, Captain W. de W. Abney, 



F.R.S., 125 

 Becquerel (H.), Emission of New Radiation by Metallic 



Uranium, 94 

 Beddoe (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Complexion and Disease, 260; 



Manx Anthropology, 609 

 Bedell (Dr. F. ), the Principles of the Transformer, 545 

 Bedford (Rev. W. K. R.), on some Old Tapestry Maps of Parts 



of England, 588 

 Beecher (C. E.), the Morphology of Triarthus, 45 

 Bell (Prof Alexander Graham), Experiments in Mechanical 



Flight, 80 

 Bell (A.), on the Tertiary Deposits of North Manxland, 586 

 Belopolsky (Dr.), the System of Castor, 63 

 Benesch (Herr F.), Pauling's New Method of Drawing Relief 



Maps, 352 

 Benham (Dr. W. B.), the Blood of Magelona, 142; Fission in 



Nemertines, 142 

 Bennett (Alfred W. ), Hydrodictyon retiaihitum, 172 

 Benoit (L.), Action of X-rays on Electrified Bodies, 23 

 Berlin ISIeteorological Society, 95, 120 

 Berlin Physical Society, 95, 120 

 Berlin Physiological Society, 120 



Bernard (H. M.), British Museum Catalogue of Corals, 593 

 Berthelot (M. ), Cyanic Acid, 384; the Volatility of L;-evulic 



Acid, 384 ; the Abandoned Copper Mines of Sinai, 432, 447 ; 



Explosive Properties of Acetylene, 591 ; the Acid Decom- 

 position of Sugars, 639 

 Bertillon Criminal Identification System in Ceylon, the, 518 

 Bertillon System of Identification, the, Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 



569 

 Bertillon (Alphonse), Signaletic Instructions, Francis Galton, 



F.R.S.,569 

 Berton (F.), Action of Rontgen Rays on Diphtheritic Bacillus, 



287 

 Bertrand (G. ), Oxidation of Aromatic Polyphenols, 95 ; New 



Soluble Oxidising Vegetable Ferment, 119; Simultaneous 



Presence of Laccase and Tyrosinase in Mushroom Sugar, 520 

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

 Besson (A.), Action of Gaseous Hydrogen Iodide and 



Phosphonium Iodide on Thiophosphoryl Chloride, 119 

 Besson (M.), Thiophosphoryl Chlorobromide, 63 

 Bevan (E. J.), Constitution of Cereal Celluloses, 46 

 Beyrich (Dr. H. E.), Death of, 371 

 Bibliography : Die Bauein Praktick, 329 ; Frank Campbell's 



Theory of Scientific Bibliography, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 



I'.R.S., 617 ; the Organisation of Technical Literature, M. 



W. Brown, 622 

 Bicycle, Measurement of Work in Driving, M. Bouny, 192 



Bicycle, Control of Results obtained by Dynamometric Pedal 

 of, M. Bouny, 239 



Bidston Hill, Mr. Morton on a Boring on the West of, 586 



Bidwell (Shelford), the Fluorescence of Photographic Plates, 

 I II 



Biggin (F. C. ), Modern Stone-Cutting and Masonry, 27 



Binary Star Orbits, Distribution of, Miss Everett, 374 



Bmary, a New Spectroscopic, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 527 



Biology : a Biological Application of Rontgen Photography, 

 Alexander Meek, 8 ; Death and Preliminary Notice of Dr. H. 

 B. Pollard, 1S3 ; Lemons sur la Cellule Morphologic el 

 Reproduction faites au College de France pendant le semestre 

 d'hiver, 1893-94, Felix Henneguy, 193 ; the Biological 

 Problem of To-day, Preformation or Epigenesis ? the Basis of 

 a Theory of Organic Development, Dr. Oscar Hertwig, 316 ; 

 Prof. Allen on the Physical Basis of Life, 635 ; Marine 

 Biology: Sea-Fish Hatching at Port Erin, 15; Respiratory 

 Processes in Sand-burrowing Annelids and Cru.stacea, Walter 

 Garstang, 38 ; Dr. C. S. Dolley's Planktonokrit, 120 ; 

 Molluscan Archetype considered as Veliger-like form, A. E. 

 Verrell, 3S3 ; By the Deep Sea, Edward Step, 522 ; Biology, 

 see a/so Natural Selection 



Birch (R. W. R.), Death of, 446 



Birds : Books on Birds, 58 ; a Handbook to the Birds of Great 

 Britain, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 58 ; British Birds, W. H. Hud- 

 son, 58; The Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl of Great Britain, by 

 a " Son of the Marshes," 58 ; Birds from Moidart and else- 

 where ; drawn from Nature, Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, 58; the 

 Birds of Berwickshire, George Muirhead, 58 : North American 

 Shore Birds, D. G. Elliot, 58 ; the Birds of Ontario, Thos. 

 Mcllwraith, 58 ; Birdcraft, Mabel Osgood Wright, 58 ; Pho- 

 tographs of the Life-History Groups of Birds in the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, 58 ; the Royal Natural History, 58 ; the 

 Fauna of British India, 58 ; a Curious Bird's Nest, P. B. 

 Brodie, 172 ; British Birds' Ne.sts, How, Where, and When 

 to Find and Identify Them, R. Kearton, 433 ; a Concise 

 Handbook of British Birds, H. Kirk Swann, 245 ; the Evolu- 

 tion of Bird-Song, Charles A. Witchell, W. Warde Fowler, 

 290 ; Sailing Flight, S. E. Peal, 317 ; British Sea Birds, 

 Charles Dixon, 433 ; a Handbook to the Birds of Great 

 Britain, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 433 ; a Vertebrate F'auna of the 

 Moray Basin, J. A. Harvie Brown, T. E. Buckley, 433 ; 

 Birds Profiting by Experience, Dr. R. Williams, 597 



Birkeland (Kr. ), Suggested Origin of Aurora Borealis, 16 



Birkeland (M.), Recent Observations of Discontinuous Line 

 Spectrum of Kathode Rays produced by Magnetic Deflection, 

 566 



Bishops and Science, our, Rev. J. F. Heyes, 77 



Bison, the European, Eugen Blichner, 484 



Black (Capt. W. M.), the United States Public Works Guide 

 and Register, 267 



Blackburn (Mrs. Hugh), Birds from Moidart and elsewhere; 

 drawn from Nature, 58 



Blake (H. Wollaston, F.R.S.), Thermometer Readings during 

 the Eclipse, 436 



Blakiston (A. A.), Habits of Chameleons, 621 



Blandford (W. Y. H.), Variations in Heliconius Butterfly, i6l ; 

 the Tsetse Fly, 247 



Blanford (Dr. W. T., F.R.S.), the Ancient Geography of 

 Gondwana Land, 373 ; the Great Rift Valley, Dr. J. W. 

 Gregory, 347 



Blood-Brotherhood, G. Archdall Reid, 77 



Blount (Bertram), Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, 



51 

 Blown-out Shots and Coal Mine Explosions, 576 

 Bloxam (A. G.), Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, 



51 

 Blue Sun, Prof. H. Mohn, 483 

 Boas's (Dr. J. E. V.) Text-book of Zoology, 491 

 Bodo, the Total .Solar Eclipse at. Dr. A. Brester, jun. , 390 

 Body, Application of Rontgen Rays to the Soft Tissues of the. 



Dr. J. Macintyre, 451 

 Boedtker (E. ), .Action of Aluminium Chloride on Benzene con- 

 taining Thiophene, 360 

 Bois (Dr. du), Magnetising and Hysteresis of various kinds of 



Steel and Iron, 95 : Rontgen Rays and Polarisation, 166 

 Bois-Reymond (Prof A. du), the Death of Otto Lilienthal, 413 

 Bollettino della Societa Botanica Italiana, 213, 334 

 Bollettino della Societa Seismologica Italiana, 68, 311, 325, 456, 

 544 



