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F. R.S., 564; B. A. Sectional Procedure, 566; British As-
sociation Report on Thermodynamics, G. H. Bryan, 616
British Butterflies, Charles G. Barrett, W. F. Kirby, 585
British Empire, 1892, Climatological Table for, 607
British Medical Association, 322

British Museum, Catalogue of the Snakes in the, George Albert
Boulenger, W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 313

British Village of Marsh Dwellings, on a, Arthur Bulleid, 558

Brodmann's (Herr) Method of Determining Co-efficients and

Friction of very Viscous Liquids, 132

Brogger (Prof. W. C.), on the Genetic Relations of the Basic

Eruptive Rocks of Gran (Christiana Region), 531

Bromine, the Expansion of Chlorine and, under the Influence

of Light, Dr. Richardson, 530

Brook (George), Death of, 376; Obituary Notice of, 420

Brown (H. T.), Chemistry and Physiology of Foliage Laws, 94

Brown (Horace T., F. R.S.), Starch of the Chlorophyll Granule

and the Chemical Processes involved in its Dissolution and

Translocation, 576

Brown-Séquard (M.), Physiological and Therapeutic Effects of

Injection of Orchitic Liquid, 23

Browning (P. E.), Separation of Copper from Cadmium by
Iodide Method, 631

Bruce (W. S.), Antarctic Exploration, Cruise of the Dundee
Whalers, 555

Bruhl (Prof.), Atomic Refraction of Nitrogen, 60

Brunck (Dr.), Ozone Production at High Temperatures, 354

Bryan (G. H.), the Bulkhead Question, 279; the Moon's

Atmosphere and the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 526; British

Association Report on Thermodynamics, 616

Bryden (H. Anderson), Gun and Camera in Southern Africa,
125

Buchan (Dr. A.), London Mean Temperatures 1763-1892, 155

Buchanan (J. Y., F.R.S.), Density and Alkalinity of Waters

of Atlantic and Mediterranean, 168; the Publication of

Scientific Papers, 340

Büchner (Prof. L.), the Brain of Women, 350

Buckley (T. E.), a Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner
Hebrides, 123

Buckman (S. S.), the Bajocian of Sherborne District, 191
Builders, on the Early Temple and Pyramid, J. Norman
Lockyer, F.R.S., 55

Bajwid (Herr), Choleroid Bacilli, 207

Balleid (Arthur), on a British Village of Marsh Dwellings, 558

Builetin de l'Académie Royale de Belgigue, 188, 332, 406, 583

Bulletin Astronomique for April, 62

Bulletin of New York Mathematical Society, 70, 187, 259, 359

Bulletino della Sociéta Botanica Italiana, 92, 333

Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou, 91, 188, 583

Burch (Geo. J.), a Manual of Electrical Science, 588

Burdon Sanderson (J. S., F.R.S.), Inaugural Address at the

Nottingham Meeting of the British Association, 464; Origin

and Meaning of the Term "Biology," 464; Origin and
Scope of Modern Physiology, 465; the Specific Energies of
the Organism, 467; Experimental Psychology, 469; Photo.
taxis and Chemiotaxis, 470

Burial Mounds of Japan, the Ancient, Romyn Hitchcock, 398
Burkill (J. H.), Flora of Pollard Willows near Cambridge, 143;
Plants distributed by Cambridge Dust Carts, 143

Burma, the Amber and Jade Mines of Upper, Dr. Noetling,
13

Burmite, a New Variety of Amber, Dr. Noetling, 13

Burls (F. B.), Note on a Meta-azo-compound, 118; Azo-com-
pounds of Ortho-Series, 262

Burnside (Prof. W., F.R.S.), a Problem of Conformal Repre-

sentation, 23; Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable,

169

Burton (Dr. C. V.), Dr. Lodge's Foundation of Dynamics,

166

Butschli's (Prof. O.) Artificial Amoeba, Dr. John Berry Hay.

craft, 594

Butterfly Production, Sex Proportions of, T. E. Bean, 231

Butterflies: Brief Guide to the Common Butterflies of the

United States and Canada, the Life of a Butterfly, Samuel

Hubbard Scudder, W. F. Kirby, 338

Butterflies, British, Charles G. Barrett, W. F. Kirby, 585

Cable, Submarine, laid between Queensland and New Cale.

donia, 623

Cables, Submarine, and Submarine Borers, W. H. Preece,

Cadell (H. M.), the Site of Edinburgh in Prehistoric Times,
136

Cailletet (L.), Experiments on Resistance of Air, &c., to the
Motion of Falling Bodies, 311

Calbuco, Chili, Volcanic Eruption near, 618

Calculus, Differential, for Beginners, Joseph Edwards, 539
Callaway (Dr. Charles), Origin of the Crystalline Schists of the

Malvern Hills, 46

Calorimetry, Animal Heat and Physiological, Prof. Rosenthal,

Calorimetry: Corrected Formula of Heat necessary to raise a

gramme of water to t° C., Profs. Bartoli and Stacciati, 299

Cambridge: Mr. H. Y. Oldham appointed to Cambridge Geo-

graphical Lectureship, 136; Flora of Pollard Willows near

Cambridge, J. C. Willis and J. H. Burkill, 143; Plants dis-

tributed by Dust Carts, J. H. Burkill, 143; Cambridge

Philosophical Society, 143; the Rede Lecture, Prof. Michael

Foster, Sec. R. S., 178; Tercentenary of the Admission of

William Harvey to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,

199; Proposed New Telescope for Cambridge Observatory,

358

Cambridgeshire, Shower of Ants and Flies in, 351
Camera, Gun and, in Southern Africa, H. Anderson Bryden,
125

Campbell (Prof.), the Spectrum of the Rordame-Guénisset

Comet, 379; Nova (T) Aurige Spectrum, 524

Candolle (Alphonse de), Obituary Notice of, W. T. Thiselton-

Dyer, F.R.S., 269

Cap of Mars, South Polar, Prof. George Comstock, 15

Capstick (J. W.), Ratio of Specific Heats of Paraffins and Mono-
halogen Derivatives, 260

Caraccas, Capture of Electric Eels by means of Wild Horses in,

Humboldt's Story contravened, 324

Carbon, the Specific Heat of, H. Le Chatelier, 72

Carhart (H. S.), a One-Volt Standard Cell, 309

Carr (F. H.), the Aconite Alkaloids, vi. ; Conversion of Aconi-

tine into Isaconitine, 535

Carrier Pigeons, F. W. Headley, 223

Carus-Wilson (C.), Scotographoscope, 64; Vivisection, 317
Cassini, proposed Statue to, 273

Cast-iron, New Enamel for Protecting, Fletcher, Russell and
Co., 571

"Castle in the Air" for forthcoming Antwerp Exhibition, 569

Catalogue, Official, of the Exhibition of the German Empire at

the Columbian Universal Exhibition in Chicago, 176

Cataract Construction Company at Niagara Falls, Works of,

Cats, Manx, A. de Mortillet, 108

Catskill, on the use of the term, Prof. J. J. Stevenson, 462

Cattle (Dr. C. H.), on certain Gregarinidæ, and the possible

connection of Allied Forms with Tissue Changes in Man, 576

Cattle Food, Vine-leaves as, A. Murtz, 168

Cattle Losses in Madras, Statistics for 1891-2 of, 424
Canfieldite, Prof. Penfield, 378

Cecil (Henry), Singular Swarms of Flies, 127
Ceilings, Soot-figures on, Dr. A. Irving, 29; Dr. Hugh Robert
Mill, 29; Lieut. Col. Allan Cunningham, 29; E. B. Poulton,
F R.S., 29; J. Edmund Clark, 77

Celestial Photography at the Paris Observatory, 617

Cells, Living, Oligodynamic Phenomena of, Prof. Carl V. Nageli,
331

Centenary of Gilbert White, 212

Century Magazine, Science in the, 250, 350
Cerfontaine (Dr. Pane), Trichinosis, 332

Cesaro (G. ), Simple Method of Measuring Retardation in Minerals

cut in Thin Plates, 583

Ceylon, the Big and Little Monsoons of, E. Douglas Archibald,

175

Chamberland (M.), Greater Efficiency of Disinfectants at High

Temperatures and with Moisture, 377

Chandler (Prof.), the Constant of Aberration, 112

Chantre (E.), Microbian Origin of Purulent Surgical Infection,

407

Chapeaux (Marcelon), Nutrition of Echinoderms, 583

Chappe (Claude), Statue to, 297

Chappuis (M.), the Spirit Thermometer, 12; Investigation of
Thermal Expansion of Water by Weight-Thermometer

Method, 423

Character, Prenatal Influences on, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace,

Characters, Acquired, Non-Inheritance of, Dr. Alfred R. Wal-
lace, F.R.S., 267

Charchani, Peru, Meteorological Station at, the Highest in the
World, A. L. Rotch, 631

Charpentier's Experiments Demonstrative of an Oscillatory
Process in the Organ of Vision and of its Dimensions, 380
Chassagny (M.), Influence of Longitudinal Magnetisation on
Electromotive Force, 38

Chatin (A.), Multiplicity of Homologous Parts in Relation to

Gradation of Vegetable Species, 167; Tubulane, a Caucasian

Truffle, 407

Chatham Islands: Mr. H. O. Forbes's Discoveries in the, 174;
Henry O. Forbes, 74, 126; a Correction, 370; Dr. Alfred
R. Wallace, 27; Prof. Alfred Newton, F. R.S., 101, 150

Chemistry the Thionylamines, Prof. Michaelis, 14; Chemical

Society, 22, 94, 117, 190, 262, 525; Limits of Accuracy of

Gold Bullion Assaying, T. K. Rose, 22; the Volatilisation of

Gold, T. K. Rose, 22; Boiling and Melting Points of

Nitrous Oxide, W. Ramsay, F.R.S., and J. Shields, 22;

Isomerism of Paraffinic Aldoximes, W. R. Dunstan and T. S.

Dymond, 22; the Composition of Mineral Waters, C. H.

Bothamley, 22; a Magnesium Compound of Diphenyl, W.

R. Hodgkinson, 22; Dissolution of Gold in Potassium

Cyanide Solution, R. C. Maclaurin, 22; Research Labora-

tories attached to Elberfeld Farbenfabriken, 29; a

Method of Preparing Nitriles in a State of Purity, Prof.

Michaelis and Dr. Siebert, 39; Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen

Chemie, Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, J. W. Roger, 49; Deport-

ment of Charcoal with the Halogens, Nitrogen, Sulphur and

Oxygen, W. G. Mixter, 70; Influence of Free Nitric Acid and

Aqua Regia on Precipitation of Barium as Sulphate, P. E.

Browning, 70; Series of well-crystallising Double Halogen

Salts of Tellurium with Potassium, Rubidium and Cæsium

prepared by H. L. Wheeler; Corresponding Selenium Com-

pounds, Dr. Muthmann and Schäfer, 80; Analogy between So-

lutions of a Gas and of a Salt in indifferent Solutions of Salts,

I. M. Syctabenoff, 91; Chemistry of Foliage Laws, H. T.

Brown and G. H. Morris, 94; Cellulose Thiocarbonates, C. F.

Cross, E. J. Bevan, and C. Beadle, 94; Sulphocamphylic Acid,

W. H. Perkin, jun. 94; Formation of Pyridine Derivatives from

Unsaturated Acid, S. Ruhemann, 94; Chlorinated Phenylhy-

drazines, Part II., J. T. Hewitt, 94; Oxidation of Tartaric

Acid in the presence of Iron, H. J. H. Fenton, 94; Products

of Interactions of Tin and Nitric Acid, C. H. H. Walker, 94;

Interactions of Thiourea and Haloid Derivatives of Fatty

Acids, A. E. Dixon, 94; the Quantitative Determination of

Boron, Henri Moissan, 96; Hydrocyanic Acid in Plants,

Mr. van Romburgh, 96; the Action of Heat and Light on

Hydriodic Acid Gas, Prof. Victor Meyer and Herr Bodens-

tein, III; Hydrates of Sodium, Potassium and Lithium

Hydroxides, S. U. Pickering, 117; Detection of Arsenic in

Alkaline Solution, J. Clark, 117; Improvements in Reinsch's

Process, J. Clark, 117; Action of Light on Prevention of Pu-

trefraction and Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide, A.

Richardson, 117; Capillary Separation of Substances in So-

lution, L. Reed, 118; Notes on a Meta-azo-compound, R.

Meldola and F. B. Burls, 118; Influence of Moisture on

Chemical Action, H. B. Baker, 118; New Haloid

Derivatives of Camphor, F. S. Kipping and W. J.

Pope, 118; Chloroborate of Iron, G. Rousseau and

H. Allaire, 119; Heat Developed in Combination of

Bromine with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, W. Louguinine

and Irv. Kablukov, 119; Preparation of Metallic Tung-

sten, Molybdenum and Vanadium, M. Moissan, 144;

Preparation of Thorium and Zirconium, L. Troost, 144;

Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R. S.,

Sir H E. Roscoe, F. R.S., 145; Chemical Change, V. H.

Veley, 149; the Conditions Determinative of Chemical

Change, Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 237; Some

Comments on Prof. Armstrong's Remarks on, Prof. W. Ram-

say, F.R.S., James Walker, 267; Decomposition of Steam

by Heated Magnesium, Herr Rosenfeld, 157; Aluminium

Chloride Compounds with Benzoyl Chloride and others of the

Aromatic Series, MM. Perrier, Louise, Friedel, and Crafts,

157; Absorption of Seleniuretted Hydrogen by Liquid

Selenium at High Temperatures, H. Pélabon, 168; Das

Genetische System der Chemischen Elemente, W. Preyer,

173; Azoimide, Prof. Curtis, 183; the Treatment of Barium

Sulphate in Analysis, J. G. Phinney, 187; Nature of Certain

Solutions, M. C. Lea, 187; Properties of some Strong Solu-

tions, S. U. Pickering, 535; the Formation of Ozone (i.),

30

Nature

W. A. Shenstone and M. Priest, 190; Ozone-Production at
High Temperatures, Dr. Brunck, 354; Boiling-Points of
Homologous Compounds, I. Ethers, J. Walker, 191; Criti
cal Constants of Fatty and Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Herr
Altschul, 206; Die Thermodynamik in der Chemie, J. J. van
Laar, 220; Traité Pratique d'Analyse Chemique et de
Recherches Toxicologiques, G. Guérin, 221; Tetrachloride
of Lead, Prof. Classen and Herr Zaborsky, 232; Prof. Fried-

rich, 232; Chromopyrosulphuric Acid, A. Recoura, 253,

264; Azo-Compounds of Ortho-Series, R. Meldola, E. M.

Hawkins and F. B. Burls, 262; Researches on the Terpenes,

III., Action of Phosphorous Pentachloride on Camphene, J.
E. Marsh and J. A. Gardner, 262; Note on Combination of
Dry Gases, W. Ramsay, 262; Ortho-, Para- and Peri-disul-

phonic Derivatives of Naphthalene, H. E. Armstrong and W.

P. Wynne, 262; Supplementary Notes on Madder Colouring

Matters, E. Schunck and L. Marchlewski, 263; Metallic

Salts of Sulphophosphoric Acid, Dr. Glatzel, 275; Artificial

Synthesis of Iron Pyrites, Dr. Glatzel, 275; Society of

Chemical Industry, Sir John Evans, Treas. R. S., 279; Dis-

sociation of Calcium Plumbate, H. le Chatelier, 287; Isola-

tion of Crystallised Sodium Salt of Perchromic Acid, Dr.

Haussermann, 300; Considerations on Tautomeric Form of

Glucose, Mr. Franchimont, 312; Action of Liquefied Am-

monia on Anhydrous Chlorides of Chromium and Iron, Prof.

Christessen, 325, 326; Density of Sulphurous Anhydride, A.

Leduc, 336; Improved Mode of Preparing Ammonium Salt

of Persulphuric Acid, Dr. Elbs, 400; Production of Ammo-

nia in Soil by Microbes, Émile Marchal, 406; a Pro-

duct of Incomplete Oxidation of Aluminium, M. Pionchon,

407; Arrangements for Work of Chemical Section of the

British Association, Prof. J. Emerson Reynolds, F. R.S., 416;

the Organo-metallic Compounds of Magnesium, Dr. Fleck,

424; Reduction of Nitrous Acid by Ferrous Salts, Charlotte

F. Roberts, 431; Bolton's Select Bibliography, 445; Manu-

facture of Oxygen from Air by means of Calcium Plumbate,

G. Kassner, 446; Prof. Morley's Final Determination of the

Atomic Weight of Oxygen, 461; Opening Address in Section B

of the British Association, by Prof. Emerson Reynold-, F.R.S.,

477; the Compounds of Phosphorus and Sulphur, Herr Helft,

482; Hydrazine and its Compounds, Franz Schrader, 483;

Products of Sublimation of Arsenic, Dr. Retgers, 510;

Nitro-metals, a New Series of Compounds of Metals with

Nitrogen Peroxide, A. E. Tutton, 524; on our Present

Knowledge of Electrolysis and Electro-Chemistry, T. C.

Fitzpatrick, 527; Chemistry at the British Association, 529;

G. J. Fowler on the Preparation and Properties of Nitride

of Iron, 529; T. W. Hogg, on Cyano-Nitride of Titanium,

529; Report of the Committee for Investigating the Action

of Light upon Dyed Colours, 529; Method of Isolation and

the Properties of Fluorine, MM. Moissan and Meslans, 529;

the Iodine Value of Sunlight in the High Alps, Dr. S. Rideal,

529; Report of the Committee on the Action of Light on the

Hydracids of the Halogens in the presence of Oxygen, 530;

the Expansion of Chlorine and Bromine under the Influence

of Light, Dr. Richardson, 530; Prof. P. Frankland on the

Present Position of Bacteriology, more especially in its Rela-

tion to Chemical Science, 530; on Explosions in Mines, with

special reference to the Dust Theory, Prof. H. B. Dixon,

Mr. Hall, Mr. Galloway, Prof. Thorpe, Mr. Stokes, 530;

the Aconite Alkaloids, vi. ; Conversion of Aconitine into

Isaconitine, W. R. Dunstan and F. H. Carr, 535; ditto, vii. ;

Modifications of Aconitine Aurichloride, W. R. Dunstan and

H. A. D. Jowett, 535; Constituents of Kamala, I., A. G.

Perkin, 535; Quantitative Method of Separating Iodine from

Chlorine and Bromine, D. S. Macnair, 535; Use of Sodium

Peroxide as an Analytical Agent, L. Clark, 535; Preparation

of Mono-, di- and Tri-benzylamine, A. T. Mason, 535; Formula

of Terpenylic Acid, S. B. Schryver, 535; Preparation of

Active Amyl Alcohol and Active Valeric Acid from Fusel

Oil, W. A. C. Rogers, 535; Estimates of Chlorates and

Nitrates in one operation, Charlotte F. Roberts, 535; Iodide

of Nitrogen, Dr. Szuhay, 547; the Glucoside of the Iris, F.

Tiemann and G. de Laire, 560; Crystallised Silicide of Car-

bon obtained with M. Moissan's Electric Furnace, 572, 573:

Fixation of Iodine by Starch, E. Rouvier, 584; Relation

between the Precipitation of Chlorides by Hydrochloric Acid

and the Lowering of the Boiling-point, M. R. Engel, 608;

Carbide of Boron isolated, Dr. Mulhäusen, 622; Separa-

tion of Copper from Cadmium by Iodide Method, P. E

Browning, 631

Chevalier (Rev. S.), the Bokhara Typhoon of October, 1892,
456, 522
Chicago: Congress on Aerial Navigation, 596; Anthropological
Congress, 570; Meteorological Congress, 570; Intended
International Electrical Congress at, 131; Astronomy at the
Chicago World's Fair, 573; Astronomy and Astro-Physics
at Chicago, 623: Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of the
German Empire at the Columbian Universal Exhibition, 176
Chile and Argentinia, Flora and Fauna of, Dr. Philippi, 619
China Sea, Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North, Captain
Chas. J. Norcock, 76

China Sea, Typhoons of, 376

Coccidæ, the Use of Ants to Aphides and, Dr. Geo.J. Romanes,
F.R.S., Alfred O. Walker, 54

Coccidia of Birds, Alph. Labbé, 536
Cockerell (Prof. T. D. A.), Insects attracted by Solanum, 438
Cockroach, on the Ovipositor of the, Prof. Denny, 576
Coculesco (M. N.), Total Solar Eclipse (April, 1893), 135
Coffee Culture, Brazil, 423

Colardeau (E.), Experiments on Resistance of Air, &c., to
Motion of Falling Bodies, 311

Cold Wave at Hongkong, the, January, 1893-Its after
Effects, Sydney B. J. Skertchly, 3

Cole (Martin J.), Modern Microscopy, 246

Chinese Observations, Early, on Colour Adaptations, Kuma- Coleridge (Lord) and Vivisection, Prof. Percy F. Frankland,
gusu Minakata, 567

Chinook Wind, the, H. M. Ballou, 21

Chlorine and Bromine, the Expansion of, under the Influence

of Light, Dr. Richardson, 530

Cholera and Articles of Diet, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 375
Cholera Bacillus, the, Herren Bujwid and Finkelnburg, 207
Cholera Bacillus in Water, Methods of Detecting, Koch and
Arens, 523

Cholera Nurseries and their Suppression, Ernest Hart, 322
Cholera Outbreak at Greenwich, the Reported, 618
Cholera, Virulent and Epidemic, N. Gamaleia, 360

Chorley (J. C.), Sodium Potassium High Temperature Ther-
mometers, 63

Choughs, the Identity of Shakespeare's Russet-pated, J. E.
Harting, 445

Chree (Charles), Appointment as Superintendent of Kew
Observatory of, II

Christensen (Prof.), Action of Liquefied Ammonia on Anhy-
drous Chlorides of Chromium and Iron, 325, 326
Christie (J. C.), Advanced Physiography, 339

Chronophotography, Motion of Liquids Studied by, M. Marey,

47

Church (Prof. A. H., F.R.S.), Turacin: a Remarkable Animal
Pigment containing Copper, 209

Churchill (William), Curious Phenomenon, 616

Ciona, the Pervisceral Cavity in, A. H. L. Newsted, 332
Clapham (Dr. Crochley), the Mad Head, 558

Clark (Daniel Kinnear), the Steam Engine: a Treatise on
Steam Engines and Boilers, N. J. Lockyer, 51
Clark (J.), Detection of Arsenic in Alkaline Solution, 117;
Improvements in Reinsch's Process, 117; Use of Sodium
Peroxide as an Analytical Agent, 535; Lime Salts in Rela-
tion to some Physiological Processes in the Plant, 575
Clark (J. Edmund), Daylight Meteor, March 18, 54; Soot-
figures on Ceilings, 77

Clark (Prof.), the Available Water-power of Maryland, 324
Clark and Griffiths' (Messrs.), Determination of Hour Tempera-
tures by Platinum Thermometers, 155; Heating Effect of
Small Currents necessary to Measure Resistances, 156
Clarkson (T.), the Sampling of Iron Ore, 551
Classen (Prof.), Tetrachloride of Lead, 232
Classification, Evolution and, Prof. C. E. Bessey, 534

Claude (M.), Instruments for Measuring Difference in Phase
between Current in Circuit and Impressed Electromotive Force,
13

Clava in Nairn, Investigation into the Sheli-bearing Clays of,
Dugald Bell, 532

140

Clayton (H. H.), Six- and Seven-Day Weather Periodicities,
Cleland (Prof.), Physico-Chemical and Vitalistic Theories of
Life, 574

Clerke (Ellen M.), the Planet Venus, 447

Cleveland Iron and Steel Industries, Recent Developments in,
Jeremiah Head, 356

Climates, Geological and Solar, their Causes and Variation,
Marsden Manson, 588

Climatological Table for British Empire, 1892, 607

Clocks, New System of Electric Control of, E. F. von Hefner-
Alteneck, 445

Clowes (Prof. Frank), British Association, Nottingham Meeting,
295, 344, 419, 443, 463, 520; Composition of the Rock of
Bramcote and Stapleford Hills, 532; Sandstone near Not-
tingham wholly Cemented with Crystalline Barium Sulphate,
621

Club, Proposed Learned Societies', 322

Coakley (Prof. G. W.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 398
"Coal-Balls," Fossils in, H. B. Stocks, 72
Cobras attracted by Remains of Dead Cobra, 79

F.R.S., 268

Colin (J.), Influence of State of Surface of Platinum Electrode
upon its Initial Capacity of Polarisation, 584

Colladon (J. D.), the Work of, M. Sarrau, 360; Obituary
Notice of, Dr. Ed. Sarasin, 396

Collinge (Walter E.), Conjoint Board's Medical Biology, 75;
the Lateral Canal System of Fishes, 576
Colombo, Suggested Zoological Garden in, 510
Colorado, Destructive Cloud-burst in, 321

Colour: Perspective and Colour, Prof. Einthoven, 186; Con-
trast Colours, the True Origin of, A. M. Meyer, 274; Colour
Photometry, Capt. Abney, F. R.S., 333; Alterations of
Colours presented by Gratings, George Meslin, 432; the
Evolution of Colour in the Genus Megascops, 559; Early
Chinese Observations on Colour Adaptations, Kumagusu
Minakata, 567; on the Origin of Organic Colour, F. T.
Mott, 575; Is Colour-blindness a Product of Civilisation?
Messrs. Blake and Franklin, 206; Hering's Theory of Colour
Vision, C. L Franklin, 517

Coloration, Sexual, of Birds, T. C. Headley, 413
Columbian Universal Exhibition in Chicago, Official Catalogue
of the Exhibition of the German Empire at the, 176
Colwyn Bay, Earthquake at, 179

Combustion, Spontaneous, Prof. Vivian B. Lewes, 626
Comets Finlay's Comet (1886 VII.), 61, 81, 112, 135, 158,
184, 208, 276, 300, 326, 355; M. Schulhof, 233, 254; Comet
Finlay and the Præsepe, 512; a Bright Comet?, 233; a
New Comet, 254, 622; Ephemeris of the New Comet, Prof.
E. Lamp, 276; the Discovery of the New Comet, 300; the
Rordame-Quénisset Comet, 326, 401; Herr E. Lamp, 355;
the Spectrum of the Rordame Quénisset Comet, Prof. Camp-
bell, 379; Photography of Comet b 1893, F. Quénisset, 360;
Comet Appearances in the Year 1892, Prof. H. Kreutz, 380
Common (Dr. A. A., F R.S.), a Sensitive Spherometer, 396;
Astronomical Photography, 459

Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, Human and, Prof. E. Ray
Lankester, F.R.S., 616

Comstock (Prof. George), South Polar Cap of Mars, 15; a
Determination of the Constant of Aberration, 460
Conclusions, New, Graham Officer, Lewis Balfour, 342
Conditions Determinative of Chemical Change, the, Prof.
Henry E. Armstrong, F. R. S., 237; Prof. W. Ramsay,
F.R.S., James Walker, 267

Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, 576
Congo Tribes, Ethnographical Notes on the, Herbert Ward,
558

Congress on Aerial Navigation, Chicago, 596
Congress of Archæological Societies, 251

Congresses, Chicago Anthropological and Meteorological, 570
Congress at Chicago, Intended Electrical, 131

Congress, International Maritime, 272; Madison Botanical, 597
Congress of Photographic Society, 569, 596

Conjoint Boards' Medical Biology, Walter E. Collinge, 75
Constable (F. C.), Soaring of Hawk, 223; Abnormal Weather
in the Himalayas, 248; the Murree Hailstorm, 251
Constant of Aberration, the, Prof. Chandler, 112; a Deter-
mination of the, Prof. Geo. C. Comstock, 460
Constant of Universal Attraction, New Determination of the,
301, 355

Constellations of the Far East, Kumagusu Minakata, 541
Constellations, Grouping of Stars into, 370
Contemporary Review, Science in the, 250, 443, 543
Conway (W. M.), Explorations in the Karakorana, 43; the
Climbing of High Mountains, 443

Cook's (Captain) Journal during his First Voyage round the
World, made in H.M. Barque Endeavour, 1768-1781, Sir
J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., 195

Cook (C. J Bowen), British Locomotives, N. J. Lockyer, 586

Cooke (M. C.), Bleeding Bread, 578

Copper, a New Method of Electrolytic Bright Depositing, J.

W. Swan, 160

Copper, Turacine, a Remarkable Animal Pigment containing,

Prof. A. H. Church, F. R.S., 209

Coral Reefs: Prof. W. J. Sollas, F. R.S., 575; Dr. Rothpletz,

Gilbert Bourne, Prof. Bonney, Sir H. Howorth, Mr. Steb-

bing, H. O. Forbes, 576; the Great Barrier Reef of Australia,

W. Saville Kent, Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, 217

Cordoba Durchmusterung, the, 401

Corinth, Isthmus of, Opening of Ship Canal across, 426
Cornish Mineral, Spangolite, a Remarkable, H. A. Miers, 426
Cornu (A.), Diffraction Gratings, Local Anomalies, 144
Corona Spectrum, the, J. Evershed, 268

Coronal Atmosphere of the Sun, the, 301

Corresponding Societies, Conference of Delegates of, 576
Corry "Protected" Aneroid, the, Edward Whymper, 160
Cosmology, Babylonian, P. Jensen, 2

Coupin (Henri), Elimination of Foreign Bodies in Acephala,
484

Cowper (E. A.), Death of, 78

Crafts (M.), Aluminium Chloride Compounds with Benzoyl
Chloride and others of the Aromatic Series, 157

Crandall Basin, Wyoming, on the Dissected Volcano of, Prof.
J. P. Iddings, 531

Criminals and their Detection, E. R. Spearman, 249

Cripps (R. A.), Galenic Pharmacy, 27

Crocodile's Egg with Solid Shell, J. Battersby, 248

Croft (W. B.), Apparatus for Observing and Photographing
Interference and Diffraction Phenomena, 526; on the Plan
of Science Teaching at Winchester School, 527

Cross (E. F.), Cellulose Thiocarbonates, 94

Cross (M. J.), Modern Microscopy, 246

Cross and Mansfield (Messrs.), Excursions of Diaphragms of
Telephones, 156

Crosskey (R.), the Soil in Relation to Health, 196

Davy (M. Marié), Death of, 272

Day of the Week, a Simple Rule for finding the Corresponding,
to any given Day of the Month and Year, Dr. C. Braun, 222
Daylight Meteor, March 18, J. Edmund Clark, 54

Death, Proofs of, Dr. Edwin Haward, 156

Defforges (M.), Distribution of Gravitation on Surface of
Globe, 336; Distribution of Intensity of Gravity of Surface
of Globe, MM. Orgèau, Daubrée, Cornu, Bassot, and
Tisserand, 484

Deichmüller (Herr Fr.), New Variable Stars in Cygnus, 573
Delage (M.), the Cambrian of the Herault, 432

Delahaye (M.), M. Foubert's Map of Smokes of Paris, 78;
New Electric Fire-Alarm, 423

Delboeuf (J.), Megamicros, or Sensible Effects of Proportional
Reduction of Dimensions of Univer-e, 406

Delebecque (A.), Changes in Tête Rousse Glacier since St.
Gervais Catastrophe, 407

Delegates of Corresponding Societies, Conference of, 576
Demoussy (M.), the Quantities of Water contained in Arable
Lands after a Prolonged Drought, 72

Denning (W. F.), the April Meteors, 5; Meteor Observations,

135; the August Meteors (1893), 374

Denny (Prof.), on the Ovipositor of the Cockroach, 576
Denza (P. F.), Shooting Stars of August, 1893, 535

Crova (M.), Photographic Study of Sources of Light (Carcel Depolarisers, the Nature of, Prof. H. E. Armstrong, F. R. S.,
Lamp and Electric Arc), 206

Crump (W. B.), the Early Spring of 1893, 414

Crustacea, Decapod, Nephridia of, E. J. Allen, 115
Crystal, Illustrations of Molecular Tactics of, Lord Kelvin,
159

Crystals, Instruments for Study of, H. A. Miers, 63; Dielectric
Constants of Biaxial, Ch. Borel, 240; the Inner Structure
of Snow, G. Nordenskiöld, 592

Cumming (L.), Thunderbolt in Warwickshire, 342
Cunningham (Lieut. -Col. Allan), Soot-figures on Ceilings, 29;

Simplified Multiplication, 316

Cunningham (J. T.), the Coloration of the Skins of Fishes, 70
Curie (P.), Magnetic Properties of Bodies at Different Tem-
peratures, 38; a New Standard Condenser, 206

Curious Phenomenon, William Churchil', 616
Curtis (Prof. G. E.), Analysis of Causes of Rainfall, 631
Curtius (Prof.), Azoimide, 183

Curves by their Curvature, Drawing of, C. V. Boys, F. R. S.,
116; Asymmetrical Frequency, Prof. Karl Pearson, 615

Cyano-Nitride of Titanium, T. W. Hogg, 529

Cyclone of August 28 and 29, the American, 444

Cyclone in Gulf of Mexico, 569

Cyclone, Disastrous, at Savannah, 421; Cyclone on New York

Coast, 421

Cyclone at Williamstown, 205

Cyclones of November, 1891, the Three Indian, Mr. Eliot, 545
Cyclones and Anticyclones, Movements of Air in, 583
Cygni, the Variable Star Y, Prof. N. C. Dunér, 301
Cygnus, a New Variable, u, 183; New Variable Stars in, Herr
Fr. Deichmüller, 573

Dabchick in St. James's Park, Adventures of a, T. D. Pigott,

322

Dakotas, Certain Climatic Features of the Two, Lieut. J. P.
Finley, 599

Dallas (W. L.), Upper Air Currents over Arabian Sea, 239;

the General Motions of the Atmosphere, 341

Dallinger (Dr. W. H., F.R.S.), Modern Microscopy, M. J.
Cross, Martin J. Cole, 246

Dancing, Ethnographic Aspect of, Mrs. Lilly Grove, 557

Daniel (John), Polarisation, using a thin Metal Partition in a

Voltameter, 524

Daniell (Alfred), a Substitute for Ampère's Swimmer, 294
Danvers (Sir Juland), the Manufactures of India, 37

308

Deslandres (M.), the Total Solar Eclipse (April, 1893), 81
Desulphurisation of Iron, John Parry, 427

Determinants, a Short Course in the Theory of, L. G. Weld,
612

Determinations of Gravity, 158

Determination, New, of the Constant of Universal Attraction,
301, 355

Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung Exhibition at Muni ch, the
619

Deutsche Seewarte Report for 1892, 445

Dewar (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Magnetic Properties of Liquid
Oxygen, 89; Refractive Indices of Liquid Nitrogen and Air,

620

November 30, 1893

Cyclides corresponding to Ivory's Theorem for Conics and Conicoids, 95

Dixon (Edward T.), the Fundamental Axioms of Dynamics, 101, 149; Dr. Lodge's Foundation of Dynamics, 166 Dixon (Prof. H. B.), Explosions in Mines, with special reference to the Dust Theory, 530

Doberck (Dr. W.), Typhoons of China Sea, 376

Documents, Smithsonian Institution, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 6 Dodgson (Charles L.), Pillow Problems, 564

Dohrn (Prof. Anton), Publications of the Zoological Station at Naples, 440

Donald (C. M.), Antarctic Exploration Cruise of the Dundee Whalers, 555

Donnan (F. G.), Organisation of Scientific Literature, 436 Doolittle (Prof. C. L.), Variations of Latitude, 451; Latitude Determination at Bethlehem, 1892-3, 460

Drainage in the Rock River Basin in Illinois, on Changes of, Frank Leverett, 462

Drawing, Compulsory Laws of Error in, Arthur L. Haddon, 402, 416

Dredging Expeditions in the Irish Sea, 575

Dreyer (Dr. Julius) Die Gastropoder. vou Häring bei Kirchbichl in Tirol, 567

Drought, the Great, of 1893, 295

Drought and Heat at Shirenewton Hall in 1893, E. J. Lowe, F R. S., 436

Drought Cycles, M. C. Maze, 482

Drude (P.), Relation of Dielectric Constants to Indices of
Refraction, 312

Drummond (A. T.), Lake Memphramagog, 12; Colours of
Canadian Flowers, with Relation to Time of Flowering, 37
Duars, Bengal, Experiences in the, E. Heawood, 555
Dublin Royal Society, 47, 143, 287

Dublin, Rain making Experiments at, 522

Dubois (Eng.) Die Klimate der Geologischen Vergangenheit und ihre Beziehung zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Sonne, 266

Dacretet (C.), Method for making High Resistances without
Self-induction, 353

Dufour (M.), the Scintillation of Stars, 600
Duhamel Dumonceau, Statue of, 596

Dulcin, a New Saccharin Substance, Prof. Kossel, 47

Dumont (M.), the Quantities of Water contained in Arable Land after a Prolonged Drought, 72

Dundee Whalers, Cruise of the, to the Antarctic Regions, W. S. Bruce and C. M. Donald, 555

Dunér (Prof. N. C.), the Variable Star y Cygni, 301

Dunlop (Dr. Andrew), Raised Beaches and Rolled Stones at High level in Jersey, 191

Dunn (E. J.), the Bendigo Gold Fields, 207; Palæozoic Glaciation in the Southern Hemisphere, 458

Dunstan (W. R.), Isomerism of Paraffinic Aldoximes, 22; the Aconite Alkaloids, vi. Conversion of Aconitine into Isaconitine, 535; vii. Modifications of Aconitine Aurichloride, 535

Duparc (L.), Changes in Tête Rousse Glacier since St. Gervais
Catastrophe, 407

Durham College of Science, Agricultural Scholarships, 36
Dust Theory, Explosions in Mines with special reference to
the, Prof. H. B. Dixon, Mr. Hall, Mr. Galloway, Prof.
Thorpe, Mr. Stokes, 530

Dust Whirl or (?) Tornado, a, J. Lovel, 77

Dvorak (Prof. V.), Apparatus for Demonstrating Oscillation of Air, 13; Improved Apparatus for Exhibiting Phenomcna of Gaseous Diffusion, 79

Dwarfs, Racial, in the Pyrenees, J. S. Stuart-Glennie, 294
Dyed Colours, Report of the Committee for investigating the
Action of Light upon, 529

Dyeing, a Manual of, Edmund Knecht, Christopher Rawson,
and Richard Loewenthal, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 170
Dyer (Dr. Henry), Science Teaching in Schools, 148
Dymond (T. S.), Isomerism of Paraffinic Aldoximes, 22
Dynamics: the Fundamental Axioms of Dynamics, Prof. Oliver
Lodge, F. R.S., 62, 101, 126, 174; Edward T. Dixon, 101,
149: Prof. A. W. Rücker, F. R. S., 126; Prof. J. G. Mac-
Gregor, 126 223; the Foundation of Dynamics, Prof. O. J.
Lodge, F. R.S., 117, 167; Prof. Minchin, Prof. O. Henrici,
Dr. C. V. Burton, Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Blakesley, Prof. S.
P. Thompson, Mr. Dixon, 166; Dynamo Electric Machinery,
Silvanus P. Thompson, 193; the Dynamo, C. C. Hawkins
and F. Wallis, Prof. A. Gray, 244; Original Papers on

Dynamo Machinery and Allied Subjects, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 244

Dyson (F. W.), the Potential of an Anchor Ring, 45

Ear, the Morphology of the Vertebrate, Howard Ayers, 184 Early Asterisms, the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 438, 518 Early Spring of 1893, the, W. B. Crump, 414

Early Temple and Pyramid Builders, on the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 55

Earth, New Determination of Mass and Density of, Alphonse Berget, 251

Earth, the Mean Density of the, Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 370

Earth, Magnetism of, in neighbourhood of Magnetic Rocks,
Messrs. Oddone and Franchi, 274

Earth Lore, Fragments of, James Geikie, F. R.S., 385
Earth Movements, Herr E. von Rebeur Paschwitz, 326
Earth, the Period of Vibration of Disturbances of Electrification
of the, Prof. G F. Fitzgerald, 526

Earthquakes: Earthquake in Baluchistán, 348; at Colwyn
Bay, 179; at Leicester, 351; at Mur Valley, 351; on Shores
of Adriatic, 376; Erdbebenkunde. Die Erscheinungen und
Ursachen der Erdbeben, die Methoden ihrer Beobachtungen,
Dr. Rudolf Hoernes, 363; Etude sur les Tremblements de
Terre, Léon Vinot, 363; Surface Changes accompanying
Japanese Earthquake of 1891, Prof. Koto, 574

Ebert (Prof. H), the Production of Electric Oscillations and their Relations to Discharge Tubes, 91; Electrical Discharges, 140; Luminous Phenomena in Vessels filled with Rarefied Gas under Influence of Rapidly Alternating Electric Fluids, 607; Method of Estimating the Radiating Power of an Atom, 527

Ebermayer (E.), Climatic Effects of Forests upon Neighbourhood, 284

Ebonite for Heat-waves, Diathermanous Power of, Riccardo Arno, 299

Echinocyamus pusillus, Prof. Hjalmar Théel, 330; E. W.
Macbride, 369

Echinoderms, Nutrition of, Marcelin Chapeaux, 583
Echols (Prof.), Wronski's Expansion, 187

Eckhardt (Dr.), Instrument for Trisecting Angles, 353
Eclipse, Total Solar (April, 1893), 40; Prof. T. E. Thorpe,
F.R.S., 53; M. Deslandres, 81; M. Bigourdan, III; M.
N. Coculesco, 135; Observations made during the, 326
Eclipses, Total Solar, 355

Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the, 340
Edinburgh in Prehistoric Times, the Site of, H. M. Cadell, 136
Edinburgh Royal Society, 71, 287

Edser (Edwin), Apparatus illustrating Prof. Michelson's Method
of Producing Interference Bands, 159, 372
Education the Decreased Grant to the University of Mel-
bourne, 228; Educational Status of Tasmania, 232; Uni-
versity and Educational Endowment in America, W. T.
Thiselton-Dyer, F. R.S., 248; Science Classes in Connection
with the London County Council, 383; Death and Obituary
Notice of Prof. M'F. A. Newell, 421; Geology in
Secondary Education, 533; Technical Education, Agriculture-
teaching in Russian Schools, 156; the New Technical
Educator, 388

Edwards (Joseph), Differential Calculus for Beginners, 539
Eel, Process of Secretion in Skin of Common, Prof. E. W.
Reid, 260

Eels, Electric, in Caraccas, Capture by means of Wild Horses,
Humboldt's Story controverted, 324

Egg, Crocodile's, with Solid Shell, J. Battersby, 248

Egg, Fowl's, Mechanical Genesis of Form of, Dr. J. A. Ryder 597

Egypt, the Eastern Desert of, E. A. Floyer, 40
Egypt, the Desert Sands of Lower, A. Andouard, 336
Egypt, the Influence of, upon Temple Orientation in Greece,
J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S., 417

Einthoven (Prof.), Perspective and Colour, 186

Elasticity, Mr. Love's Treatise on, A. B. Basset, F. R. S., 415, 543

Elasticity of Stretching, on Fatigue in the, Joseph O. Thompsen, 461

Elberfeld Farbenfabriken, Research Laboratories attached to, 29 Elbe at Magdeburg, Chemical and Bacterial Condition of, Herr Ohlmüller, 399

Elbs (Dr.), Improved Method of Preparing Ammonium Salt of Persulphuric Acid, 400

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