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November 30, 1893

Nature

A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

November 30, 1893

November 30, 1893

Nature

A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

VOLUME XLVIII

MAY 1893 to OCTOBER 1893

"To the solid ground

Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye."-WORDSWORTH

London and New York

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED

LONDON AND BUNGAY

November 30, 1893

November 30, 1893

ABBADIE (M. AND MME. D'), Gift to Paris Academy of
Sciences by. 421

Abbe (Prof. Cleveland), Smithsonian Institution Documents,

6; Ice Columns in Gravelly Soil, 20; Charts of Storm

Frequency, 140

Abbott (Dr. E. A.), Antipodean Retrenchment, 249
Abbott (Geo.), Potstones found near Seaford, 315

Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), Prize offered for study of “Southerly
Burster" by, 77

Aberration, the Constant of, Prof. Chandler, 112
Aberration, a Determination of the Constant of, Prof. Geo.
C. Comstock, 460

Abney (Capt., F.R.S.), Failure of Photographic Law of Equal
Chemical Action, 285; Colours of Sky, Sun, Cloud, and
Candle Light, 333

Abraham (M.), a New Standard Condenser, 206

Academy, Belgian, Prize Subjects for 1894, 107

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

Acoustics: The Motion of Vibrating Strings, Messrs. Krigar

Menzel and Raps, 324; Sound Interference Illustrated, C. J.

Woodward, 159; Apparatus for Demonstrating Oscillation
of Air, Prof. V. Dvorak, 13

Acquired Characters, Non-Inheritance of, Dr. Alfred R.
Wallace, F. R.S., 267; Dr. C. Herbert Hurst, 368

Actinometer, the Electrochemical, M. Rigollot, 38

Adams (Prof. F. D.), the Norian Rock of Canada, 298

Adams (Prof. John Couch), Memorial to, 107

Adelaide, Meteorological Observations (1890) in, 132

Adler (Hanna), a Substitute for Ampère's Swimmer, 370

Adriatic, Earthquake on Shores of, 376

Acronautics: Thermometer Soundings in the High Atmo-

sphere, W. de Fonvielle, 160; New Flying Apparatus, Otto

Lilienthal, 571; Chicago Congress on Aerial Navigation,

596

Etiology and Life-History of some Vegetal Galls and their In-
habitants, on the, C. B. Rothera, 575

Africa: Death and Obituary Notices of W. Cotton Oswell,

62; the Arrow-Poison of East Equatorial Africa, Dr. T.

R. Fraser, F.R.S., and Dr. Joseph Tillie, 92; Oil Rivers

Protectorate renamed Niger Coast Protectorate, 112;

Adoption of Responsible Government by Natal, 112; Gun

and Camera in Southern Africa, H. Anderson Bryden, 125;

Capt. Stairs' Katanga Expedition, Dr. Moloney, 135; Report

of South African Museum, 207; South-West Africa, Count

Pfeil, 301; the Alleged Death of Emin Pasha, 356, 481;

Return of Rev. R. P. Ashe, 356; Geographical Society

established at Tunis, 356; Projected Railway in French

Congo, 380; Commencement of the Central African Tele-

graph Line, 380; Habits of South African Animals, Dr.

Alfred Wallace, F. R.S., 390; Dr. Gregory's Expedition to

Lake Baringo, 397; Return of Dr. J. W. Gregory, 618;

Return of Mr. Selous to Mashonaland, 426; Discovery of

Temple on the Limpopo, R. M. W. Swan, 426; Proposed

Exploration of Uganda by Mr. Scott Elliott, 444; Death of

Surgeon Major Parke, 481; Geology of Central East Africa,

Walcot Gibson, 533; Dr. Baumann's Exploration to North-

East of Lake Tanganyika, 548; Resurvey by Mr. Mohun

of Lake Leopold II., 601

Afterglows in Spain, Prof. Augusto Arcimis, 29

Agassiz (Louis), his Life and Work, Charles Frederick Holder,
Prof. T. G. Bonney, F. R.S., 52

Agriculture: Agricultural Education, Durham College of
Science Scholarships, 36; Photographs Relating to Working

of Rothamsted Laboratory, 63; the Rothamsted Jubilee
Fund, 228; the Rothamsted Jubilee, 289, 296, 327; the

Quantities of Water contained in Arable Lands after a Pro-

longed Drought, MM. Demoussy and Dumont, 72; the

Principles of Agriculture, G. Fletcher, 73; Journal of Royal
Agricultural Society of England, 91; the Disadvantages of
Irrigation, W. Roe, 110; Hawks and Owls the Farmer's
Friends, Dr. A. K. Fisher, 133; Agriculture-Teaching in
Russian Schools, 156; the Future of British Agriculture, Prof.
Sheldon, 174; Relation of Number of Eyes on Potato Seed
Tuber to Crop obtained, J. C. Arthur, 353; Cattle-Poisoning
Species of Homeria (Cape Tulip) in Victoria, Dr. McAlpine,
378; Statistics for 1891-2 of Cattle Losses in Madras, 424 ;
Statue of Duhamel-Dumonceau, 596

Air Pump, a New Form of, Prof. J. J. Thompson, 529

Aitken (John), Breath Figures, 71

Alaska and the Adjacent Islands, Grasses of the Pacific Slope,
including, Dr. Geo. Vasey, 411

Alaska, the Alleged Undiscovered Island off North, 356

Algæ, some Protococcoidæ, Al. Artari, 92

Allaire (H.), Chloroborate of Iron, 119

Allen (E. J.), Nephridia of Decapod Crustacea, 115

Allen (J. Romilly), Origin and Development of Early Christian
Art, 558

Alpine Guide, an, 314

Alpine Lakes, Glacier Theory of, Graham Officer, 198; Dr.

Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., 198

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

529

Altehoefer (Herr), Bactericidal Action of Peroxide of Hydrogen

599

Altschul (Herr), Critical Constants of Fatty and Aromatic

Hydrocarbons, 2c6

Amagat (E. H.), Crystallisation of Water by Decompression

below Zero, 632

Amazon Basin Scientific Expedition, Projected, 601

Amber, Burmite, a New Variety of, Dr. Noetling, 13
Amber, the Indian Origin of Ancient, A. B. Meyer, 422

America: An American Text-Book of Physics, Geo. F. Barker,

Prof. Oliver Lodge, F. R. S., 1; Astronomy Popularised in

America, 15; American Meteorological Journal, 20, 140, 239,

583, 631; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 38;

American Journal of Science, 70, 187, 309, 431, 535, 631;

American Journal of Mathematics, 140, 606; University and

Educational Endowment in America, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer,

F.R.S., 248; North American Butterflies, Samuel Hubbard

Scudder, W. F. Kirby, 338; the Fungus Gardens of certain

South American Ants, John C. Willis, 392; the Geography

of South America, 425; American Cyclone of August 28 and

29, the, 444; American Association for the Advancement of

Science, Dr. William H. Hale, 460; Meeting at Madison,

Wisconsin, 460; Dr. Daniel G. Brinton on the Earliest

Men, 460; Section A (Astronomy and Mathematics), Prof.

Doolittle on Variations of Latitude, 451; Latitude Deter

mination at Bethlehem in 1892-3, 460; Prof. Geo. C. Com-

stock on a Determination of the Constant of Aberration,

460; Section B (Physics), Prof. Wm. A. Rogers on the Mor-

ley Interferential Comparator, 461; Profs. Macfarlane and

G. W. Pierce on the Electric Strength of Solid Liquid and

Gaseous Dielectrics, 461; Joseph O. Thompson on Fatigue

in the Elasticity of Stretching, 461; Section C (Chemistry),
Prof. Morley's Final Determination of the Atomic Weight of
Oxygen, 461; Section D (Mechanical Science and Engineer-
ing), Prof. J. J. Stevenson on the Use of the term Catskill,
462; Frank Leverett on Changes of Drainage in the Rock

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