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Supplement to Nature,
June 2, 1892

Nature

261

A WEEKLY

ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

VOLUME XLV

NOVEMBER 1891 to APRIL 1892

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June 2, 1892

Aborigines of the Dominion of Canada, Hon. E. Dewdney, 587
Abraham (R.), a Standard Condenser, 528

Accidents in Germany, Workmen Killed and Wounded in,
Vacher, 350

Acioque (A.), Les Champignons, 222

Acoustics: Refraction and Velocity of Sound in Porous Bodies,

156

Acquired Characters, Inheritance of, Alfred W. Bennett, 53
Acromegaly: the Skeleton of the Irish Giant Cornelius
Magrath, Dr. D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., 147
Across Thibet, Gabriel Bonvalot, 269

Adami (J. G.), Contributions to the Physiology and Pathology
of the Mammalian Heart, 451

Adams (Prof. John Couch): Obituary Notice of, 301; the

Cambridge Philosophical Society and, 322; Proposed

National Monument to, 401

Addenbrooke (G. L.), Aluminium and its Application to Photo-
graphy, 134

Adelsberg Cave, the, 207

Adhesion, the Limpet's Power of, Percy A. Aubin, 464

Holosoma, Formation of a Temporary Cyst in the Fresh-water
Annelid, Frank E. Beddard, 28

Aerial Locomotive Machines, Use of Chronophotography for
Study of, Marey, 71

Aerodynamics, Experiments in, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 108

Africa: Projected Expedition by Dr. Oscar Baumann in East,

65; Equatorial, My Personal Experiences in, as Medical

Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Thos. Heazle

Parke, 265; Travels in Africa during the years 1879-83,

Dr. Wilhelm Junker, 507; My Second Journey through

Equatorial Africa, Hermann von Wissmann, 507; Two

African Explorers, 376; Captain Dundas's Expedition in

East, Mount Kenia, Ernest Gedge, 566; African Diamond
Industry, the South, at the Chicago Exhibition, 567

Agassiz (Prof. Alex.), Dredging Operations in the Eastern

Pacific, 281

Agriculture: Results of Experiments in, at Rothamsted, on the
Question of the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Dr. J. H.
Gilbert, F.R.S.,_ 32; Agricultural Department, Victoria,
Results of the Travelling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39; the
Weather Bureau of the United States, 86; the Reclaiming
and Cultivation of Land in the Camargue, M. Chambrelent,
143; Principles of Agriculture, 173; the Value of Maize as
Food, 234; Elements of Agriculture, Dr. W. Fream,
388; the Average Yield of Wheat in Ohio, 420; Proposed
Establishment of an Agricultural College in British Guiana,
520; Agricultural Needs of India, 588; Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society, 568

Air Temperature, Sun-spots and, 271

Air and Water, Vivian B. Lewes, 531

Airy (Sir George Biddell), Obituary Notice of, 232

Aitken (John, F.R.S.), on the Number of Dust Particles in the

Atmosphere of Various Places in Great Britain and on the

Continent, with Remarks on the Relation between the

Amount of Dust and Meteorological Phenomena, 299

Alaska, the Boundaries of; the Geographical Position of

Mount St. Elias, I. C. Russell, 472

Alder (H. St. A.), Scientific Nomenclature, 104

Algol, Dr. S. C. Chandler, 446

Alkali-maker's Hand-book, by George Lunge, Ph.D., and F.

Hurter, Ph.D., Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R. S., 121

Allbutt (Dr. T. C., F.R.S.), Appointment of, to be Regius Pro-

fessor of Physic in room of late Sir Geo. Paget, 402

Allison (Mrs.), the Similkameen Indians of British Columbia,

164

Alloys, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R. S., Report to the
Alloys Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, 22

Aloi (Prof.), Influence of Electricity on Growth of Plants, 520

Alpine Rubi, T. D. A. Cockerell, 320

Alternate Currents of High Potential and Frequency, Lectures

on, Nikola Tesla, 345

Altitudes, Astronomical Possibilities at Considerable, Prof.
Pickering, 498

Alum Solution, T. C. Porter, 29

Aluminium and its Application to Photography, G. L. Adden-
brooke, 134; the Manufacture and Use of, from an Engi-
neering Point of View, A. E. Hunt, 568

Amazons, Obituary Notice of Henry Walter Bates, F.R. S., the

Naturalist of the, 398

America: American Journal of Mathematics, 45; Spanish
Arrangements for the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the
Discovery of America, 64, 567; American Meteorological
Journal, 70, 189, 357, 597; American Journal of Science,
118, 310, 445, 622; American Superiority in Mechanics,
Coleman Sellers, 157; the Utilization of the By-products of
the Coke Industry, Dr. B. Terne, 157; McKinley Tariff and
Scientific Instruments, 208; Fisheries of the Great American
Lakes, 259; Fishing through the Ice in the Great American

Lakes, 280; Remarkable Display of Aurora Borealis in, 378;

Kalm's Account of his Visit to England, on his way to, in

1748, 412; American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals, Report of, 496; Influenza in, Prof. Edward S.

Holden, 582; American Town Trees, J. Robinson, 603;

Forestry in, Prof. W. R. Fisher, 611; Ancient Civilization

of Central, Alfred P. Maudslay, 617

Amorphous Boron, the Properties of, A. E. Tutton, 522

Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 48, 72, 240, 408, 576,
600

Anatomy, Comparative: the Cranial Nerves of Man and Sela-

chians, Prof. Cossar Ewart, 527

Anatomy of the Dog, 16

Ancient Civilization of Central America, Alfred P. Maudslay,
617

Ancient Monuments, Orientation of, Rev. Fred. F. Grensted,
464

Ancient Tombs and Burial Mounds of Japan, Prof. Hitchcock,
381

Andalusite at Ariège, on the Relations existing between the Form
and Nature of the Beds of, M. A. Lacroix, 624
Andaman Islands, Disappearance of the Aborigines of the, 587
Anderson (Thos. D.), the New Star in Auriga, 365
Andes of the Equator, Travels among the Great, Edward

Whymper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 561

Andoyer (M.), Orthochromatic Plates for Astronomical Photo-

graphy, 280

André (M.), the Spontaneous Oxidation of Humic Acid and

Vegetable Soil, 288; the Manifestation of Negative Elec-

tricity during Fine Weather, 528

Anemometer Comparisons, W. H. Dines, 623

Anemometers, Two New Forms, in use at Kew Observatory,

587

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