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Smirnov (J.), Prehistoric Ethnography of Central and North-
east Russia, 524

Smith (B. Woodd), Ice Crystals, 79
Smith (E. J.), Science Teaching, 359

Smith (Vety. Capt. F.), A Manual of Veterinary Physiology,
76

Smith (Frederick J.), the Photography of an Image by Reflec-
tion, 10; a Magnetic Screen, 439

Smith (Dr. J. Lorrain), the Thyroid Gland (Experiments on
Cats), 167

Smith (W. B.), Introductory Modern Geometry of Point, Ray,
and Circle, 532

Smith (Wythe), Experiments in Electric and Magnetic Fields,
Constant and Varying, 165

Smith (Xanthus), American Opinion of Photography in Eng-
land, 86

Snake Laboratory, the proposed Calcutta, 253
Snakes in India, Mortality from, 157

Snakes in Thatch (Burmah), 113

Snow-Rollers, W. S. Ford, 422

Snow (B. W.), Infra-red Spectrum of Alkali Metals, 39

Soap Bubbles, Permanent, formed with a Resinous Soap, M.
Izarn, 119

Society of Arts, Opening Meeting of, 63
Sohncke (Prof. Dr. Leonhard), Gemeinverständliche Vorträge
aus dem Gebeite der Physic, Dr. James L. Howard, 361
Solid Body, Motion of a, in a Viscous Liquid, A. B. Basset,
F.R.S., 512

Solids and Fluids, Elementary Mechanics of, A. L. Selby, 315
Solar Corona, a New Method of Photographing the, M. H.
Deslandres, 327

Solar Eclipse of April, 15-16, 1893, 304, 376, 584, 611; M. de
la Baume Pluvinel, 304; A. Taylor, 317

Solar Observations at Rome, Prof. Tacchini, 304, 399, 565
Solar Photographs, Prof. Hale's, 498

Solar and Terrestrial Phenomena, Coincidence of, Prof. G. E.
Hale, 425

Solar System, Motion of the, Prof. J. G. Porter, 41
Sollas (Prof., F.R.S.), Growth of Crystals, 213; on the Vario
lite and associated Igneous Rocks of Roundwood, co. Wick-
low, 287; Pitchstone and Andesite from Tertiary Dykes in
Donegal, 287

Somerville (Lieut Boyle T.), on some Islands of the New He-
brides, 455

Somerville (Dr. William), Report on Manurial Trials, 556
Soot-figures on Ceilings, E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 608; Prof.
Oliver Lodge, F. R.S., 608

Soudan and Sahara Journey, Completion of Capt. Monteil's, 89
Soudanese, Use of Chl. ride of Potassium instead of Salt by, M.
Dybowski, 499

Sound and Music, Rev. J. A. Zahm, 222

South Kensington Laboratories and Railway, the, 494
Southwell (T.), Sowerby's Whale on the Norfolk Coast, 349
Sowerby (G. B.), Marine Shells of South Africa, 27
Spain, Practical Meteorology in, 543

Spain, Wild, Abel Chapman and Walter J. Buck, 583
Spectrum Analysis: Coloured Photographs of the Spectrum,
G. Lippmann, 23; Spectroscopy, Infra Red Emission
Spectrum of Alkali Metals, B. W. Snow, 39; Existence of
Distinct Nervous Centres for Perception of Fundamental
Colours of Spectrum, A. Chauveau, 143; the Height and
Spectrum of Auroras, T. W. Backhouse, 151; Ultra-Violet
Spectrum in Prominences, Prof. G. E. Hale, 186: Spectra of
Various Orders of Colours in Newton's Scale, W. B. Croft,
190; Method of Observing and Separating Spectra of easily
Volatile Metals and their Salts, W. N. Hartley, 239; Method
of Producing Intense Monochromatic Light, Dr. Dubois,
255; on the Photographic Spectra of some of the Brighter
Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 261: Hydrogen Line H
B in the Spectrum of Nova Auriga, Herr Victor
Schumann, 425; Spectra of Planetary Nebula and Nova
Auriga, M. Eugen Gothard, 352; Spectrum of B Lyrae,
Prof. Keeler, 616

Spencer (Prof. W. Baldwin), on the Anatomy of Pentastomum
teretiusculum 260

Spengler (Dr.), Reco:d of Medical Experience at Davos Platz,
517

Sphenophyllum, the Genus, Prof. William Crawford William-

son, II

Spider, Notes on a, H. H. J. Bell, 557

June 1, 1893

Spider, the Trap-door, D. Cleveland, 375

Spirit Spring Mound, the Great, Kansas, E. H. S. Bailey, 87
Sponge and Annelid, a Strange Commensalism, James Hornell,
78

Sponge? Foraminifer or, R. Hanitsch, 365, 439; F. G.
Pearcey, 390

Sportsmen and Naturalists, Horn Measurements and Weights of
the Great Game of the World, being a Record for the use of,
Rowland Ward, 6

Sprague (T. B.), a New Algebra, 527

Spray Clouds, the Niagara, Charles A. Carus-Wilson, 414
Springer (Herr Julius), Astronomical Instruments up to Date,

114

Sprung (Prof.), Observations made at Potsdam Meteorological
Institute on the Recent Coldest Day in January, 480
Squarey (E. P.), Yew Poisoning, 285

Stael (J. M.), Wood-ashes as a Medicine for Farm Animals,

397

Stainton (H. T.), Death of, 155

Standard Pound, the Imperial, Decrease in Weight of, 86
Standard Barometry, Dr. Frank Waldo, 511
Standards, Electrical, 128

Stanford's Map of County of London, 40

Stanley (W. F.), the Perception of Colour, 381
Starches used as Food, the Principal, W. Griffiths, 76
Starling (E. H.), Elements of Human Physiology, 146
Stars: Rutherfurd Measures of Stars about 8 Cygni, Prof.
Harold Jacoby, 77; the Stars and the Nile, Captain H. G.
Lyons, 101; the New Star in the Constellation of Auriga,
W. J. Lockyer, 137; the Star of Bethlehem, J. H. Stockwell,
177; Measurement of Distances of Binary Stars, C. E.
Stromeyer, 199; Prof. A. Rambaut, 226; on the Photo-
graphic Spectra of some of the Brighter Stars, J. Norman
Lo kyer, F. R. S., 261; Burnham's Double-Star Observations
281; the Milky Way, Dr. Otto Boeddicker, 337; Relative
Position of Stars in Cluster x Persei, Sir Robert Ball and
Arthur Rambaut, 376; the Star Catalogue of the
Astronomische Gesellschaft, 399; Distribution of Stars in
Space, Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, 432; Die Entwickelung der
Doppelstern Systeme, T. J. J. See, Prof. G. H. Darwin,
F.K.S., 459; the Rising and Setting of Stars, 519; Cata-
logue of Southern Star Magnitudes, Edwin Sawyer, 589;
Distance of the Stars by Doppler's Principle, G. W. Colles,
jun., 596

Stas (Jean Servais), Proposed Memorial to, 182
Statements, Two, Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, F. R. S., 316
Statistics of Average Life in France, M. Turquan, 255

Statistics of Survivors of the Napoleonic Wars, M. Turquan,
233

Steam Engine Trials, 594

Steam Jacket, Experiments on the value of the, J. G. Mair-
Rumley, 19; Col. English, Prof. Unwin, Bryan Donkin,
Bryan Donkin, jun., and Messrs. Day, Morrison, and
Schonheyder, 20

Steamers, Ice-breaking, 350

Steel, the Use of Tungsten in Improving Hardness of, 351
Steel, the Value of Annealing, E. G. Carey, 397

Steel, Volumetric Method for Determining Amounts of Chro-
mium in, G. Giorgis, 397

Steel (Thomas), Zoological Gardens in Great Britain and
Australia, 496; Zoological Gardens in Europe and Australia,
587

Stejreger (L.), a New Blind Cave Salamander from North
America, 62

Stellar Magnitudes in Relation to the Milky Way, Prof.
Kapteyn, 64

Stereochemistry, J. H. Van't Hoff, 436; Prof. Percy F.
Frankland, F. R. S., Prof. F. R. Japp, F. R.S., 510
Stevens (W. de C.), Comparison of Formulæ for Total Radia
tion (of Heat), 188

Stewart (R. W.), Magnetism and Electricity, 315; the Abso
lute Thermal Conductivities of Copper and Iron, 599
Stockwell (J. H.), the Star of Bethlehem, 177

Stokes (H N.), Isolation of Amidophosphoric Acid, 615, 616
Stone Implements in the District of Iaransk, P. Krotov, on
Layers of, 524

Stoney (Dr.), Science Teaching, 359
Stonyhurst College Observatory, 450

Storms, Hail, H. C. Russell, F. R. S., 573

Stracey (Lieut. -General, F. R. S.), Harmonic Analysis of Hourly

Supplement to Nature,
June 1, 1893

Observations of Air Temperature and Pressure at British
Observatories, 621

Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man, S.
Baring-Gould, 53

Strasburger (Prof. Edward), Ueber das Verhalten des Pollens
und die Befruchtungsvorgänge bei den Gymnospermen, 484
Strenitz (Herr), Power of Hydrogen-absorption of various
Metals, 63

Stromboli, L. W. Fulcher, 89; A. Ricco and G. Mercalli, Dr.
H. J. Johnston Lavis, 453

Stromeyer, (C. E.), Measurement of Distances of Binary Stars,
199

Strugnell (W. Bishop), the Fauna and Flora of Gloucester-
shire, 197

Struthers (Dr. John), the Rudimentary Hind-limb of Great
Fin-Whale, Humpback and Greenland Right-Whale com-
pared, 588

Struve (Wilhelmus), Centenary of Birth of, 585

Studies in Corsica, John Warren Barry, 462
Study of Animal Life, the, J. Arthur Thomson, 2
Stuhlmann (Dr.), Two Akka Girls brought to Germany by, 470
Stur (Dr. D.), Death of, 206

Substitutions, the Theory of, and its Applications to Algebra,
Dr. Eugen Netto, 338

Suchsland on the Micro-organisms of Tobacco Fermentation, 208
Sudborough (J. J.), the Action of Nitrosyl Chloride and of
Nitric Peroxide on some Members of the Olefine Series, 430
Sulphuric Acid, the Amide and Imide of, Dr. Traube, A. E.
Tutton, 566

Summer, the Weather of, 245, 270

Sumpner (Dr.), Williams on the Relation of the Dimensions
of Physical Quantities to Directions in Space, 69; Diffusion
of Light, 190; on the Differential Equation of Electric
Flow, 574

Sun, Theory of the, Dr. A. Brester, 433

Sunshine, Amy Johnson, 9

Sunshine, Comparative, Bishop Reginald Courtenay, 150
Sunspots, H. Faye, 167

Sunspots and Magnetic Perturbations in 1892, M. Ricco, 352
Sunspots: La Grandissima Macchia Solare del Febbrajo, 1892,
A. Ricco, 429

Superabundant Rain, Sir H. Collett, 247

Superstitions of the Shuswaps of British Columbia, Colonel C.
Bushe, 199

Surface, the Lunar, 352

Surgery, John Hunter (the Hunterian Lecture), Thomas
Bryant, 372

Survivals, Strange, some Chapters in the History of Man, S.
Baring-Gould, 53

Suter (H.), Catalogue of the New Zealand Mollusca, 397
Sutherland's Paper on the Laws of Molecular Force, Dr. Young,
70; Prof. Fitzgerald, Dr. Gladstone, S. H. Burbury, Prof.
Ramsay, Macfarlane Gray, Prof. Herschel, 117

Swarts (Frédéric), on a New Fluorine-derivative of Carbon,
309

Swinburne (Mr.), Williams on the Dimensions of Physical
Quantities, 116; on Messrs. Rimington and Smith's Experi-
ments in Electric and Magnetic Fields, Constant and Varying,
166; on the Differential Equation of Electric Flow, 574
Swinhoe (Col. C.), Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepi-
doptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University
Museum, 53; on the Mimetic Forms of Certain Butterflies
of the genus Hypolimnas, 429

Swift's Comet, Prof. Barnard, 186

Swift, Comet (A. 1892), A. E. Douglas, 546

Swift's (Messrs.), Aluminium Microscope, G. C. Karop, 47
Swiss Torrents, the Regulation of, M. de Salis, 377
Sydney, Australian Museum, Edgar B. Waite appointed As-
sistant Curator in, III

Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 311, 335
Symbolism in Burmah, Developments in Buddhist Architecture
and, Major Temple, 46

Symons (C. J., F.R.S.), Colonial Meteorology, 390; Arbores-
cent Frost Patterns, 162

Synchronisation, Problem of Integral, M. A. Blondel, 599

Tabular History of Astronomy to the Year 1500 A.D., Dr. Felix
Müller, 18

Tacchini (Prof.), Solar Observations at Rome, 304, 399, 565

Tahiti, a New Luminous Fungus, 157

Tait (Prof. P. G.), Vector Analysis, 225

Tanganyika (Lake), a New Medusa from, R. T. Günther, 563
Tanner (Prof. Lloyd), on Complex Primes formed with the
Fifth Roots of Unity, 526

Tarantula, the Bite of the, C. W. Meaden, 184
Tashkend, Tobacco Cultivation at, 86

Tasmania the Paradise of Horticulturists, Sir Edward Braddon,
587
Tasmanians, on the Rude Stone Implements of the, showing
them to belong to the Paleolithic or Unground Stage of the
Implement-makers' Art, Dr. Tylor, 527

Taylor (A.), the Visible Universe, J. Ellard Gore, 193; the
Approaching Total Solar Eclipse, April 15-16, 1893, 317
Tcherning (M.), Seven Images of the Human Eye, 354
Tea Industry, the Development of the Ceylon, D. Trimen, 317
Teaching of Botany, 151; Dr. D. H. Scott, 228

Teall (J. J. H., F.R.S.), Notes on some Coast-sections at the
Lizard, 407; on a Radiolarian Chert from Mullion Island,
407
Technical Education, Dr. W. Anderson on, 155; Sir M. W.
Ridley on, 130; Industrial School opened at Lucknow, III
Report of the Scottish Technical Education Committee, 543;
the Universities and the County Council, 586; the Cam-
bridge University Extension Movement, 586; Improvements
in City and Guild of London Institute Technological Exami-
nations, 612

Technical School, the Manchester Municipal, Sir Henry E.
Roscoe, F.R.S., 201

Technological Examinations, 35

Telephone, Demonstration of Existence of interference of
Electric Waves in Closed Circuit by means of, R. Colson,
96

Telephones in Warfare, Use of, 182

Telephotographic Lens, the New, T. R. Dallmeyer, 161
Telescope, a Large, 18

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Temple (Major), Developments in Buddhist Architecture and
Symbolism in Burma, 46

Ten Kate (Dr.), on the Type-characteristics of the North
American Indians, 374

Tennant (the late Prof.) on Magic Mirrors, Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, F. R.S., 79

Teredo and Electric Cables, the, Sir Henry Mance, 450

Terra, Quæstio de Aqua et, Edmund G. Gardner, 295
Terrestrial Phenomena, Coincidence of Solar and, Prof. G. E.
Hale, 425

Tests of Climate, Fossil Plants as, Charles E. De Rance, 294,
342; J. Starkie Gardner, 364

Tetanus, the Bacteriology of, Kitasato, 158
Texas, Remarkable Meteor in, C. F. Maxwell, 279
Texas, Hot Winds in, May 29 and 30, 1892, I. Cline, 454
Thatch in Burmah, Snakes in, 113

Thaxter (R.) Proposed Establishment of New Order (Myxo-
bacteriacea) of Schizomycetes, 373

Theory of Numbers, G. B. Mathews, 289
Therapeutics: a New Method of Treatment for Cholera, 83;
Epidemic Influenza, F. A. Dixey, 244; the Blood-serum
Therapeutists, Dr. Behring, 336; Record of Medical Expe-
rience at Davos Platz, Dr. Spengler, 519

Thermal Conductivities of Copper and Iron, the Absolute, R.
Wallace Stewart, 599

Thermal Conductivities of Liquids, the, R. Wachsmuth, 350
Thermodynamics: Determination of Low Temperatures of
Platinum Thermometer, Griffiths and Clerk, 95; Carnot's
Principle Applied to Animal and Vegetable Life, J. Parker,
95; Treatise on Thermodynamics, Peter Alexander, 388
Thermometer, the Centigrade, adopted by Prussian Govern
ment, 60

Thermometer, Mercury, an Improved, Prof. L. Weber, 497
Thermometer, Platinum, Determination of Low Temperature
by, Griffiths and Clerk, 95

Thermometer, Depression of Zero in Boiled, L. C. Baudin,
143
Thermometers, Dr. Joule's, Prof. Sydney Young, 316, 389
Thermometers, Dr. Joule's, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S.,
364

Thessaly, the Plague of Field-Mice in, 396; J. E. Harting,
545
Thiselton-Dyer (W. T., F.R.S.), Dust Photographs, 341;
Travelling of Roots, 414; Severe Frost at Hong Kong,
535

Thompson (Prof. D'Arcy W.), a Proposed Handbook of the
British Marine Fauna, 269

Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P., F. R.S.), the late Prof. Tennant
on Magic Mirrors, 79; Japanese Magic Mirrors, 381; on
Messrs. Rimington and Smith's Experiments in Electric and
Magnetic Fields, Constant and Varying, 166

Thomson (Prof. Elihu), Apparent Attraction of Closed Circuits
by Alternating Magnetic Poles, 517

Thomson (Joseph), Journey to Lake Bangweolo, 115
Thomson (J. Arthur), the Study of Animal Life, 2
Thomson (J. P.), British New Guinea, 345

Thörner (M.), Methods of Examining Milk for Tubercle Bacil-
lus, 254

Thorp (Walter), Primer of Horticulture, J. Wright, 533;
Ornithology in Relation to Agriculture and Horticulture,
J. Watson, 533; Manual of Dairy Work, Prof. James Muir,
555
Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Isolation of Fluorsulphonic Acid,

87; Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 152; Interaction of Iodine and
Potassium Chlorate, 165; Experiment on Triethylamine
Hydrate, 165; the Determination of the Thermal Expansion
of Liquids, 405; the Determination of the Thermal Expan-
sion and Specific Volume of Certain Paraffins and Paraffin
Derivatives, 405

Thoulet (J.), on a Modification to be Applied to the Construc-
tion of Bottles Designed to Collect Specimens of Deep
Waters, 408

Thümen (Dr. F. von), Death of, 130

Thunderstorms and Auroral Phenomena, J. Ewen Davidson,
582

Thurn (E. F. im), Anthropological Uses of the Camera, 548
Thys (Major), Progress of the Congo Railway, 159
Tibet, Captain Bower's Journey in, 400

Tibet, Central, Mongolia and C. Woodville Rockhill, 426
Tidal Observations, Reduction of, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R. S.,
402

Tiger-Lion Hybrids, Lion-Tiger and, Dr. V. Ball, F.R.S.,
390, 607

Tiger, Lion-, Hybrids, S. F. Harmer, 413

Tilden (Prof.), Abuse of Scientific Titles (Letters Indicating
Membership of Societies), 15

Tilden (W. A.), Formation and Nitration of Phenyldiazoimide,
311; the Hydrocarbons Derived from Dipenten edihydro-
chloride, 405; the Action of Nitrosyl Chloride and of
Nitric Peroxide on some Members of the Olefine Series,
430

Tillo (Alexis de), High Atmospheric Pressures observed at
Irkutsk from January 12 to 16, 1893, 432

Time, Universal, 451

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Travers (M. W.), a Method for the Preparation of Acetylene
406

Trechmann (Dr.), Establishment of the Hemisymmetry of
Binnite, 70

Tremayne (L. J.), Vanessa Polychloros in London, 563
Treves (Frederick), Physical Education, 292
Trieste, the Marine Zoological Station at, 450

Trigonometry, the Algebra of Co-planar Vectors and, R.
Baldwin Hayward, F.R.S., 266

Trimen (Dr.), the Development of the Ceylon Tea Industry,
613

Trinidad Field Naturalist's Club, 131

Troll's (Dr. J.), Journey through Central Asia, 160

Tropical Agriculture, a Text book of, H. A. Alford Nicholls,
313

Trotter (A. P.), Diffusion of Light, 191

True (F. W.), Dr. W. L. Abbott's Collection of African
Mammals, 39

Tubby (Dr. A. H.), Medical Microscopy, Frank J. Wethered,
51

Tubercle Bacillus, Methods of Examining Milk for, Ilkewitsch
and Thorner, 254

Turin Royal Academy of Sciences, the Bressa Prize, 233; the
Ninth Bressa Prize, 543

Turquan (M.), Statistics of Survivors of the Napoleonic War,
233; Statistics of Average Life in France, 255

Tutton (A. E.), a Remarkable Case of Geometrical Isomerism,
65; Chemistry of Osmium, 400; the Connection between the
Atomic Weight of the Contained Metals and the Magnitude
of the Angles of Crystals of Isomorphous Series, 430; Further
Studies on Hydrazine, 522; the Amide and Imide of Sul-
phuric Acid, Dr. Traube, 566

Tylor (Dr.), on the Rude Stone Implements of the Tas-
manians, showing them to belong to the Palæolithic or Un-
ground Stage of the Implement-Maker's Art, 527

Tylor (Dr. Edward B., F.R.S.), Atlas der Volkerkunde, Dr.
Georg Gerland, 223

Typhoid Fever attributed to Bathing in Polluted Water, Herr
Jaeger, 398

Typhoid and Coli Communis Bacilli, Dunbar on the Questions
of the Separate Identification of the, 472

Uganda, Captain F. D. Lugard, 45
Uganda Commission, the, 210

Ulrich (G. H. F.), on a Meteoric Stone found at Makariwa,
near Invercargill, New Zealand, 381

Ultra-Violet Spectrum in Prominences, Prof. G. E. Hale, 186
United States: Marine Laboratories in the, Prof. J. P. Camp-
bell, 66; the Copper Resources of the, James Douglas, 132;
Agriculture in the United States, Experiment Stations, R.
Warrington, F.R.S., 157; Investigations on Soils, 157;
Higher Education in the United States, Dr. Low, 325:
Government Botanical Stations in the United States, 450;
United States Naval Observatory, 452

Universal Time, 451

Universe, the Visible, J. Ellard Gore, A. Taylor, 193
Universities University Commission, I; University Intelli-
gence, 68, 94, 116, 143, 163, 285, 331, 357, 380, 404, 428,
454, 476; Universities and Research, Prof. George Francis
Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 100; Appointment of W. Flinders Petrie
to Chair of Egyptology at University College, London, III;
Prof. Flinders Petrie's First Lecture on Egyptology, 278;
the New University Question, 121; Opening of New Victoria
Buildings, University College, Liverpool, 155; University
Extension, the Cambridge Summer Meeting Programme.
183; University Extension Movement, the, Summer Meeting
Programme, 586; the Proposed University for London, 200,
577; the University of Chicago, 278; a University Exten-
sion Manual, R. D. Roberts, 412

Unwin (Prof.), Experiments on the Value of the Steam-jacket,

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Vanlair (M. C.), Survival after the Successive Section of both
the Branches of the Vagi, 621

Variation, the Volucelle as Alleged Examples of, Almost Unique
Among Animals, Edward B. Poulton, F. R.S., 126
Varigny (Henry de), Experimental Evolution, 25

Variolite of the Lleyn and Associated Volcanic Rocks, Catherine
A. Raisin, 334

Vasey (Dr. Geo.), Grasses of the Pacific Slope, including
Alaska and the Adjacent Islands, 173

Vasey (Dr. G.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 495
Vector Analysis, Prof. P. G. Tait, 225

Vector Theory, on Recent Innovations in, Prof. C. G. Knott,
287, 590

Vectors, Principles of the Algebra of, A. Macfarlane, 3

Vectors, Co-planar, the Algebra of, and Trigonometry, R.
Baldwin Hayward, F. R. S., 266

Vectors, Quaternions and the Algebra of, Prof. J. Willard
Gibbs, 463

Vectors versus Quaternions, Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S., 533
Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms, M. C. Cooke, 99
Vegetation, Influence of Moisture on, E. Gain, 119

Veins of the Rabbit, on an Abnormality in the, Prof. W. M.
Parker, 270

Veitch (H. G.), Coniferæ of Japan, 619

Veley (V. H.), Necessity of Water in Chemical Reactions, 167
Venukoff (M.), the Pinsk Marshes and non-Russian Atlases,

282; the Form of the Geoid, 566; Measurement of the
Parallel of 47° 30' in Russia, 576

Verschaffelt (J.), Two Experimental Verifications Relative to
Refraction in Crystals, 428

Vertebrate Biology, H. G. Wells, 605

Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, a, Rev. A. Macpherson, 457
Verworn (Herr), the Rising and Sinking Process in the Radi-
olaria, 397

Veterinary Physiology, a Manual of, Vety. Capt. F. Smith, 76
Vezes (M.), Metallic Osmium, 497
Victoria Field Naturalists' Club, 62

Vine-disease, American, Appearance of the Black-rot in
Europe, 16

Vine-disease, the Mal Nero, Dr. B. Pasquale, 130
Vineyards of Cyprus, the, M. Mouillefort, 517

Violle (J.), the Temperature of the Electric Arc, 240; the use
of the Electric Current in Producing High Temperatures,

497

Virchow (Prof.), on the Immediate Task for Anthropologists,
38; Lord Kelvin, 110; the Croonian Lecture, 487
Viré (Armand), Neolithic Village of the Roche-au-Diable, near
Tesnières, canton of Lorez-le-Bocage (Seine-et-Marne), 576
Viscous Liquid, Motion of a Solid Body in a, A. B. Basset,
F.R.S., 512

Visible Universe, the, J. Ellard Gore, A. Taylor, 193
Vision, Defective, in Sailors, Association of Shipping Disasters
with, Dr. T. H. Bickerton, 16

Vision, Energy and, Prof. S. P. Langley, 252

Vision, a New Hypothesis concerning, John Berry Haycraft, 478
Viticulture; the Mal Nero Vine Disease, Dr. B. Pasquale, 130
Vladimiroff (M.), Rule for Estimating Quality of Vulcanised
Caoutchouc, 563

Vochting (Dr. Hermann), Ueber Transplantation am Pflanzen-
körper, 128

Vogelius (Dr.), the Construction of Carbohydrates in the Fasting
Body, 552

Volcanoes: Formation of Lunar, J. B. Hannay, 7; Stromboli
in 1891, L. W. Fulcher, 89; A. Ricco and G. Mercalli, Dr.
H. J. Johnstone Lavis, 453; Volcanoes of Japan, John Milne,
F.R.S., 178; on the Age of the most Ancient Eruptions of
Etna, M. Wallerant, 264; Fumo di Vulcano Veduto dall'Os-
servatorio di Palmero durante l'éruzione del 1889, A. Ricco,
428: Kilauea in August 1892, Frank S. Dodge, 499
Vole Plague in Thessaly, the Field, J. E. Harting, 545
Voles in Scotland, the Plague of Field, 155

Voles in Southern Scotland, the Colour Variations of the,
Robert Service, 587

Volucella, Parasitism of, W. E. Hart, 78

Volucellæ as Examples of Aggressive Mimicry, Edward B.
Poulton, F. R.S., 28

Volucelle, the alleged Aggressive Mimicry of, William Bate-

son, 77

Volucelle as Alleged Examples of Variation, almost Unique
among Animals, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 126

Wachsmuth (R.), the Thermal Conductivities of Liquids, 350
Wadsworth (Prof. M. E.), Geology of the Iron, Gold, and
Copper Districts of Michigan, Sir Archibald Geikie, Dr.
Hicks, H. Bauerman, 117

Waite (Edgar B.), appointed Assistant Curator in Australian
Museum, Sydney, III

Wakefield (H. Rowland), an Elementary Text-book of Hygiene,
245

Waldo (Dr. Frank), Standard Barometry, 511

Wales, December 8, 1892, Corncrake caught in, 157

Wales, the Origin and Progress of the Educational Movement in,
O. M. Edwards, 421

Walker (Mr.), the Screw Propeller, 21

Walker (Alfred O.), a Remarkable Rainfall, 31

Walker (Sir Andrew Barclay), Death of, 421

Walker (J.), Electrolysis of Sodic Ethylic Camphorate, 479
Walker (J. W.), Optically Active Ethoxysuccinic Acid, 311
Walking of Arthropoda, on the, Henry II. Dixon, 56

Wallace (Dr. Alfred R): an Ancient Glacial Epoch in
Australia, 55; the Earth's Age, 175, 226; the Glacier
Theory of Alpine Lakes, 437; Idle Days in Patagonia, W.
H. Hudson, 483

Wallerant (M.), on the Age of the most Ancient Eruptions of
Etna, 264

Ward (Prof. Marshall): Experiments on the Action of Light
on Bacillus anthracis, 331; Further Experiments on the
action of Light on Bacillus anthracis, 597

Ward (Rowland), Horn Measurements and Weights of the
Great Game of the World, being a Record for the use of
Sportsmen and Naturalists, 6

Ward (R. de C.), the First Aerial Voyage across English
Channel, 143

Warrington (R., F.R.S.), Experiment Stations in United
States, 157

Washington, Geological Society of, Founded, 613
Washington Magnetic Observation, 209

Wasps, Vegetable, and Plant Worms, M. C. Cooke, 99
Watch Factory, the Prescot, Address by Lord Kelvin, 279
Water and Water Supply, Major L. Flower, 183

Water, Dilatation and Compressibility of, E. H. Amagat, 288
Water, Expansion of, at Constant Pressure and at Constant
Volume, E. H. Amagat, 623

Water-boring in Cape Colony, 349

Water-Gas, Experiments to determine Temperatures of Flame
of, E. Blass, 113

Water-Pollution, Improved Ball Hydrant for Preventing, J. R.
Wigham, 167

Water-Purification by Bacteriological Methods, Messrs. V. and
A. Babes and Percy Frankland, 588

Waterdale Researches: Fresh Light on Dynamics, 601

Watson (John), Ornithology in Relation to Agriculture and
Horticulture, 533

Watson (Sereno), Botanical Nomenclature, 53

Wave-Lengths, a New Table of Standard, Prof. H. A. Row-
land, 590

Waves as a Motive Power, H. Linden, 438

Waves, Electromagnetic, Oliver Heaviside, 505

Weapons of Defence, Remarkable, G. F. Hampson, E. Ernest
Green, 199

Weather of Summer, the, 245, 270

Weber (Mr.) on the Origin of the Mammalian Hair, 504
Weber (Prof. L.), an Improved Mercury Thermometer, 497
Weber (William), Proposed Monument to, 106
Webster (A. D.), Conifers for Economic Planting, 619
Weights and Measures, Changes in the Imperial Standard, 86
Weights and Measures, International Committee of, 21
Weinek's Lunar Enlargements, 473

Weismann (Prof. August), Das Keimplasma, 265

Wells and Wheeler, Isolation of Penta- Iodide and Bromide of
Casium, 113; Preparation of Chloraurates and Bromaurates
of Cæsium and Rubidium, 158

Wells (H. G.), Text-book of Biology, 605

Wenlock (Lord), Remarkable Hornet's Nest presented to
Madras Museum by, 16

Were-Wolf in Latin Literature, the, Kirby W. Smith, 423
Wesendonck (Mr.). Pure Gases incapable of producing Electri-
fication by Friction, 280

West Indies, Observations in the, Prof. A. Agassiz, 608
Westwood (Prof.), Death of, 232

Wethered (Frank J.), Medical Microscopy, Dr. A. II. Tubby, 51

Wetterhan (Dr.), Arborescent Frost Patterns, 162

Wettstein (R. von), Die Fossile Flora der Höttinger Breccie,
436

Whale, Sowerby's, on the Norfolk Coast, T. Southwell, 349
Whale, Comparison of Rudimentary Hind-limb of Great Fin-
whale Hump-back, and Greenland Right-, Dr. John Struthers,
588

Whaling Fleet, Return of the Dundee, 473

Wheat Conference, the South Australian Rust in, 86
Wheeler and Wells, Isolation of Penta- Iodide and -Bromide of
Casium, 113; Preparation of Chloraurates and Bromaurates
of Cæsium and Rubidium, 158

Whetham (W. C. D.), Ionic Velocities, 164

Whipple (George Mathews), Death and Obituary Notice of,
372

White (Dr. F. B.), Collection of Lepidoptera presented to
Museum of Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 206

White (Philip J.), Unusual Origin of Arteries in the Rabbit,
365

Whitehead (Charles), Yew Poisoning, 285

Wiedemann's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 68, 189, 286,
357, 455, 525

Wiener (Christian), Diffusion of Light by Rough Surfaces,
286

Wigham (J. R.), Improved Ball Hydrant for Preventing
Water-Pollution, 167

Wild Nature, More about, Mrs. Brightwen, 125
Wilkinson's (E.) Journey in the Kalabari Desert, 134
Williams on the Relation of the Dimensions of Physical
Quantities to Directions in Space, Prof. Fitzgerald, Prof.
Reicker, Prof. Henrici, and Dr. Sumpner, 69
Williams on the Dimensions of Physical Quantities, Dr. Burton,
Prof. A. Lodge, Mr. Boys, W. Baily, Mr. Swinburne, Mr.
Williams, 116

Williams (Dr. C. T.), on the High Altitudes of Colorado and
their Climates, 333; Longevity of the Perigal Family, 585
Williams (W. M.), the Framework of Chemistry, 28
Williams (W. Matthieu), Death of, 130

Williamson (S.), the Hydrocarbons derived from Dipentene
Dihydrochloride, 405

Williamson (Prof. Wm. Crawford), the Genus Sphenophyl-
lum, II

Willis (J. C.), Gynodiccism in the Labiata, II., Observations
on Origanum (continued), 119

Willoughby (Dr. E. F.), the Health Officer's Pocket-book,

412

Wilson (Edward), a Catalogue of British Jurassic Gasteropoda,
H. Woods, 363

Wilson (E.), Magnetic Induction in Iron and other Metals, J.
A. Ewing, F.R.S., 460

Wine-growing in Alsace-Lorraine, Statistics of, 614

Wine-Yeast, the Improvement of Cider by, Nathan ; Investi-
gations on, Kosutany, 208

Winnebago County Meteorites, Lines of Structure in the, and
in other Meteorites, Prof. H. A. Newton, 370
Wislicenus (Dr. Wilhelm), New Mode of Preparing Hyponi-
trous Acid, 588

Witchell (Charles A.), the Fauna and Flora of Gloucester-
shire, 197

Withington (Herbert), the Flight of Birds, 414

Witkowski (Herr), Use of Total Reflection to determine Light-
Refraction of Liquid Oxygen, 614

Wolle (Rev. T.), Death of, 561
Wollheim (Hugo), Aminol, 246
Wollny (Herr), Dew, 398

Wolsingham Observatory, 518; J. E. Espin, 452 ; Circular No.
35, 590; No. 34, 616

Women and Musical Instruments, Henry Balfour, 55

Wood Ashes as a Medicine for Farm Animals, J. M. Stahl,
397

Woods (H.), a Catalogue of British Jurassic Gasteropoda, W.
H. Hudleston, F. R.S., and Edward Wilson, 363
Woodward (H. B.), Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society,
Annual Address by, 562

Woolls (Rev. W.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 495
Worthington (Prof. A. M.). on the Need of a New Geometrical
Term-"Conjugate Angles," 8; Science Teaching, 359
Wright (Dr. G. Frederick), Man and the Glacial Period, 148
Wright (Herbert Edwards), a Handy Book for Brewers, 75
Wright (J.), Primer of Horticulture, Walter Thorp, 533

June 1, 1893

Wurtz (Dr. R.), Technique Bactériologique, 446
Wynne (W. P.), Griess, Sandmeyer Interactions-and Gatter-
mann's Modification thereof, 239

Yale Astronomical Observatory, 452

Yale College, Establishment of Psychological Laboratory at,
253

Year, the Origin of the, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 32, 228
Year Book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom,
the Colonies, and India, the, 363

Year-Book of Science (for 1892), the, 388

Yew Poisoning, E. P. Squarey, Charles Whitehead, W. Car-
ruthers, F.R.S., and Dr. Munro, 285

Yezo and the Ainu, Prof. J. Milne, F.R. S., 330; A. H. Savage
Landor, 330

Yorkshire Caves, Relics found in, Rev. Edward Jones, 112
Young's (Arthur) Tour in Ireland, 341

Young (Prof. C. A.), Meteors, 150; Comet Holmes (1892, III.)
518

Young (Dr.), the Determination of the Critical Volume, 70:
on Sutherland's On the Laws of Molecular Force, 70
Young (Prof. Sydney), Dr. Joule's Thermometers, 389; the
Zero Point of Dr. Joule's Thermometer, 316
Yoxall (J. H.), the Decimal System, 323

Zacharias (Dr. Otto), Forschungsberichte aus der Biologischen
Station zu Plön, 461

Zahm (Rev. J. A.), Sound and Music, 222
Zambesia Journey, Mr. D. G. Rankin's, 64
Zambesia, Twenty Years in, F. C. Selons, 377
Zante, Earthquake at, 378, 394, 585, 620

Zermatt, Remarkable Optical Phenomenon near, F. Folie, 303
Zero Point of Dr. Joule's Thermometer, the, Prof. Sydney
Young, 316

Zichen (Dr. Theodor), Introduction to Physiological Psychology,
28
Zirconia, Native, the Occurrence of (Baddeleyite), L. Fletcher,
282

Zodiacal Light, Observations of the, Arthur Searle and Prof.
Bailey, 473

Zoology: Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 17, 40, 63, 87, 113,
133, 158, 186, 208, 235, 256, 281, 303, 325, 351, 375, 399,
425, 451, 472, 497, 518, 546, 565, 589, 616; Zoological
Gardens in Great Britain and Australia, Thomas Steele, 496;
Zoological Gardens in Europe and Australia, Thomas Steele,
587; Zoological Society, 70, 118, 215, 335, 431, 455, 502,
575; Dr. W. L. Abbott's Collection of African Mammals,
F. W. True, 39; the Mantle-Cells of Ascidians, Kowaleosky,
62; a New Genus and Species of Blind Cave Salamander from
North America, L. Stejneger, 62; Large Male Gorilla
Acquired by Berlin Aquarium, 86; International Zoological
Congress at Moscow, 236; the Proposed Snake Laboratory
at Calcutta, 253; a Proposed Handbook of the British Marine
Fauna, Prof. d'Arcy W. Thompson, 269; Prof. W. A. Herd-
man, F.R.S., 293; W. Garstang, 293; the Brain in Mud-
fishes, Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, 339; Suggested Introduction
of the Musk-ox into Scotland, Col. H. W. Fielden, 349;
Lion-Tiger and Tiger-Lion Hybrids, Dr. V. Ball, F.R. S.,
390, 607; Lion-Tiger Hybrids, S. F. Harmer, 413; Remark-
able Specimen of Orang-utan, 423; on the Cranial Osteology,
Classification, and Phylogeny of the Dinornithidæ, Prof. T.
Jeffrey Parker, F.R.S., 431; on the Presence of a Distinct
Coracoidal Element in Adult Sloths, R. Lydekker, 431 ;
Observations on the Development of the Rostrum in the
Cetacean Genus Mesoplodon, Henry O. Forbes, 455; the
Marine Zoological Station at Trieste, 450; Polecat not
Extinct in Cardiganshire, J. W. Salter, 450; a Vertebrate
Fauna of Lakeland, Rev. A. Macpherson, 457; Blind Animals
in Caves, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R S., 486; J. T.
Cunningham, 537; G. A. Boulenger, 608; Some Abnormal
Vertebræ of Certain Ranidæ (Rana Catesbiana, R. esculenta
and R. macrodon), Prof. Howes, 502; the Musk-ox, 559; a
New Medusa from Lake Tanganyika, R. T. Günther, 563;
the Colour Variations of the Voles of Southern Scotland,
Robert Service, 587; the Alligator's Nest, S. Devenish, 587;
an International Zoological Record, Dr. Herbert II. Field,
606

Zuntz (Prof.), Respiratory Interchange in the Fasting
Body, 552

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