June 11, 1896 Nature A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE VOLUME LIII "To the solid ground London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: MACMILLAN AND CO. June 11, 1896 INDEX ABBADIE (Antoine d'), Mount Wosho, 249; Measurement of Abelsdorf (Dr.), the Visual Purple of Fishes, 503 Abney (Capt. W. de W., F.R.S.), Colour Vision being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution, 124 Abnormal Rainbows, C. E. Peek, 557 Abraham (H.), Compensation of Directing Forces, and Sensi- Acetylene, 349 Acetylene Lamp, Trouve's Calcium Carbide, 226 Ackroyd (W.), Permeability to Röntgen Rays, 479; Opacity of Acorns, the Disposal of, by Rooks, Clement Reid, 6 Actinic Rays, the New, A. W. Porter, 316; W. Saunders, 316; R. B. H., 316; Lord Blythswood, 340; A. A. C. Swinton, 340; Sydney D. Rowland, 340 Adams (H.), Practical Trigonometry, 101 Adams (Dr. Wellington), the Röntgen Rays, 421 Aerial or Subterranean Sounds, Curious, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 4; C. Davison, 4; Dr. W. T. Blanford, F. R.S., 30; Ernest Van den Broeck, 30; Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., 30 Aerolite, a Yorkshire, Harwood Brierley, 230 Aeronautics: Lieut. B. Baden Powell's Air-Car or Man-lifting Kite, 116; Summary of Results of Forty-seven German Balloon Ascents, Dr. Assmann, 136; Flight and Flying Machines, Dr. G. H. Bryan, F. R. S., 420; Geographical Use of Balloons, A. Berson, 446; Balloon Voyages from the Meteorological point of view, Prof. von Bezold, 503 ; Death of Eugene Fariot, 517 Ether, MacCullagh's Theory of the, Dr. J. Larmor, F.R.S., 5 Affiliated Scientific Societies, Meetings of, in America, 307 Africa: the New Rubber Industry in Lagos, 13; Current Expeditions, 62; Scientific Description of German Colonies, 89; Dr. A. D. Smith's Lake Rudolph Expedition, 107, 226; Miss Kingsley's West Coast Journey, 107; the Austrian Red Sea Expedition, Dr. J. Hann, 134; the Arrow poison of the Namaqualand Bushmen, 227; Mount Wosho, Antoine d'Abbadie, 249; Effect of African Grass-fires on Vegetation, Mr. Scott-Elliot, 444; Mr. J. E. S. Moore's Expedition to Lake Tanganyika, 470; New Wild Dog from Western Matabeleland, Dr. L. V. Lorenz, 492; Mr. Elliot's Somaliland Expedition, 542; the Paleolithic Stone Age in Somaliland, H. W. Seton Karr, 544; Meteorological Observations at Boroma (Zambesi), 573 Agamennone (Dr. G.), the Paramythea Earthquake of May 13-14, 1895, 205 Agassiz (Prof. A.), Underground Temperature at Great Age of the Wealden, the, Prof. O. C. Marsh, 436; A. C. Agriculture: New Ten-Cow Milking Machine, 35; the 1895 Diminution of British Wheat Area, 35; Possible Reclamation of Dordogne Heath-lands by Lime Phosphatic Manure, Raoul Bouilhac, 48; Influence of Weather on Sugar beet Growth, Dr. Kassner, 72; the Efficiency of Agricultural Apparatus, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 88; the Common Crow a Farmer's Friend, Prof. W. B. Barrow, E. A. Schwarz, Hart Merriam, 88; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. P. Kostycher, 160; Cattle poisoned by Indian Corn Stalks, 255; Circulation of Air in Soil, P. P. Dehérain and Demoussy, 311; Irrigation in America, W. E. Smythe, 428; Board Report on Swine Fever, 518; "Bogus Land" in Indiana, H. A. Huston, 545; Fallow Ground, P. P. Dehérain, 599 Ahlborn (Dr. F.), the Use and Meaning of Asymmetrical Types of Tail-fin in Fishes, 327 Aikman (C. M.), Milk, its Nature and Composition, 101 Air, Liquefaction of, and Research at Low Temperatures, Prof. J. Dewar, F.R.S., 329; the New Process for the Liquefaction of Air and other Gases, 515; the Part played by Carbonic Acid Gas in Air, Prof. Abbe, 373; the Distribution of Carbon Dioxide in, 374; the Temperature of Air, and the Problem of an Ice Age, Luigi de Marchi, 376 Alaska, Discovery by Prof. W. H. Dall of Frozen Mammoth Fat and Ice-bear in, 160; Botany of Yakutat Bay, F. V. Coville, 327 Albinos, the Deafness of Imperfect, Dr. Rawitz, 576 Albrech (Prof.), the Movements of the Terrestrial Pole during the Years 1890-95, 404 Alexander the Great, the Life and Exploits of, E. A. Wallis Budge, 483 Algebra, Elementary, J. W. Welsford and E. H. P. Mayo, 267 Algebra of Quantics, an Introduction to the, E. B. Elliott, F.R.S., 147 Algol Type, New Variable Star of the, 206 Algol Variable, Wells', 403 Allantoic Placenta, Marsupial with an, Prof. G. B. Howes, 270 Allen (A. H.), Improved Method of determining Urea by Hypobromite Process, 406 Allen (Grant), Moorland Idylls, 486 Allen (Dr. Harrison), the Use of the Cranio-facial Line, 502 Aluminium, the Manufacture of, by Electrolysis, 380 B |