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Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Proposed Magnetic and Allied Observations during the Total Solar Eclipse on August 30, 342 Baxandall (F. E.), Dr. H. M. Reese's Observations of Enhanced" Lines in the Fe, Ti, and Ni Spectra, 134 Bayer (Dr. Fr.), Neue Fische und Reptilien aus der böhmischen Kreideformation, 454

Bayeux (Raoul), Estimation of the Red Corpuscles in
Human Blood made at the Summit of Mont Blanc, 288
Beadnell (Fleet-Surgeon), Dynamical and Hydrodynamical
Effects of the Modern Small-bore Bullet, 332
Beadnell (H. J. L.), the Relations of the Eocene and
Cretaceous Rocks in the Esna-Aswan Reach of the Nile
Valley, 263; the Topography and Geology of the Fayûm
Province of Egypt, 535

Beavan (A. H.), Animals I Have Known, 125

Becker (George F.), Experiments on Schistosity and Slaty Cleavage, 20

Becquerel (Henri), Properties of the a Rays of Radium, 528

Becquerel (Paul), Action of Liquid Air on the Life of the Seed, 216

Beddard (F. E., F.R.S.), Natural History in Zoological Gardens, being some Account of Vertebrated Animals, with Special Reference to those usually seen in the Zoological Society's Gardens in London and Similar Institutions, 13; the Rudimentary Hind Limbs of the Boine Snakes, 630

Bees: Queen-rearing in England and Notes on a Scentproducing Organ in the Abdomen of the Worker-bee, the Honey-bees of India and Enemies of the Bee in South Africa, F. W. L. Sladen, 126

Behaviour of Lower Organisms, Contributions to the Study of the, Prof. Herbert S. Jennings, 3

Behring (Prof. E. von), the Suppression of Tuberculosis, 122; Method of Treating Tuberculosis, 581 Beilby (G. T.), Action of Actinium or Emanium Emanation on a Sensitive Screen, 90; Opening Address in Section B at the Meeting of the British Association in South Africa, Gold and Science, 378; Experiments on the Influence of Phase Changes in the Tenacity of Ductile Metals at the Ordinary Temperature and at the Boiling Point of Liquid Air, 642

Beilby (H. W.), Experiments on the Influence of Phase Changes on the Tenacity of Ductile Metals at the Ordinary Temperature and at the Boiling Point of Liquid Air, 642

Belgium and Holland, Education in, F. H. Perry-Coste,

221

Bell (Alexander), Death of, 347

Bell (G. M.), a Note-book of Experimental Mathematics, 507

Bell (H. Hesketh), Cultivation of Oranges in Dominica, 328

Bellenoux (E. S.), Calcium Nitrate in Agriculture, 47 Belloc (G.), Osmosis through Tubes of Fused Quartz, 72 Belluci (Dr. Italo), Hydrated Platinum Oxide in Reality a Platinic Acid, 109; Metallic Stannates and Plumbates derived from Similar Acids, 109

Ben Nevis Observatory and the Argentine Republic, William S. Bruce, 485

Benedicks (Dr. C.), Troostite, 573

Bengal, Asiatic Society of, 24, 120, 300, 452

Benham (Prof. W. B.), Can Birds Smell? 64; the Pre-
servation of Native Plants and Animals, 534
Bennett (G. T.), the Spirit-level as a Seismoscope, 80; the
Hydrometer as a Seismometer, 198

Benoit (M.), Observations of Jupiter, 43
Bentley (Richard), an Omitted Safeguard, 269

Benzene, on the Absorption Spectrum of, in the Ultra-
violet Region, Dr. E. C. C. Baly and Prof. J. Norman
Collie, F.R.S., 239, 630; Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S.,
557
Beraneck (Dr.), Results obtained by Treatment in Tuber-
culosis, 583

Berberich (Prof.), the Variable Asteroid 1905 Q.Y., 518; Ephemeris of the Variable Asteroid (167) Urda, 542 Bergendahl (Lieut.), New Island Discovered, Terre de France, 461

Bergonié (J.), New Method of Protection against the Röntgen Rays, 168

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Berkeley (the Earl of), the Bubbling Vapour Pressures, 222

Method and

Berner Oberland, der Oeschinensee im, Max Groll, 197 Berry (Mrs. F. M. Dickinson), Physical Deterioration, 332 Berthelot (M.), New Researches on Chemical Combination, 47; Researches on the Permeability of Fused Glass Vessels to Gases at High Temperatures, 88 Bertrand (Gabriel), State of Matter in the Neighbourhood of the Critical Point, 360

Besançon (Dr.), Acid-fast Bacilli, 582

Bettoni (V.), Part Played by the Copper Salt in Deacon's Process of Preparing Chlorine from Hydrogen Chloride,

277

Betts (A. G.), the "Lead Voltameter," 42

Bevan (P. V.), Physical Properties of Sodium Vapour, 142
Bewegungslehre, die Grundlagen der, von einem moderner
Standpunkte aus, Dr. G. Jaumann, 51

Beyer (S. W.), Clays and Clay Industries of Iowa, 388
Bezold (Dr. W. von), Death of, 563

Bianco (Prof. O. Zanotti), Dante's " Quaestio de Aqua et
Terra" in Light of Modern Geodesy, 350; Helmert's
Formula for Gravity, 534

Bibliography of Halley, 567

Bichat (Prof.), Death of, 347

Bidet (Félix). Chemical Equilibrium of the System, Ammonia Gas, Isoamylamine Chlorhydrate, 336

Bigelow (Harriet), Declinations of Certain North Polar Stars, 388

Bigelow (H. B.), Shoal-water Deposits of the Bermuda Banks, 40

Bigourdan (M.), French Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse, 518; Eclipse Results, 610

Bingham (Lieut.-Colonel C. T.), the Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 290

Biochemie der Pflanzen, Prof. Friedrich Czapek, F. Escombe, 169

Biology Contributions to the Study of the Behaviour of Lower Organisms, Prof. Herbert S. Jennings, 3; Biologia Centrali-Americana, Aves, Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., and Frederick Ducane Godman, F.R.S., 49; Species and Varieties, their Origin by Mutation, Hugo de Vries, 314; Experiments on the Correlation of Sex, C. Hurst, 332; Experimental Parthenogenesis in Asterias, Yves Delage, 119; Vorträge über Deszendenztheorie gehalten an der Universität zu Freiburg im Breisgau, Prof. August Weismann, 200; Development of the Ascus and on Spore Formation in the Ascomycetes, J. H. Faull, 327; Senility in Gastropods, B. Smith, 385: Rejuvenation, E. Schultz, 385; the Origin of Life, Mr. Burke, 492; Dr. Charlton Bastian, 492; Marine Biology, Influence of the Humboldt Current on the Marine Life West of Callao, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, 17; Hydrographical and Biological Investigations in Norwegian Fjords, O. Nordgaard, 45; the Protist Plankton and the Diatoms in Bottom Samples, E. Jørgensen, 45; Schizopoda Captured in the Bay of Biscay, E. W. L. Holt and W. M. Tattersall, 118; the Coral Siderastraea radians and its Post-larval Development, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 185; Medusa Found in the Firth of Clyde, E. T. Browne, 191; Free-swimming Crustacea Found in the Firth of Clyde, Dr. T. Scott, 191; les Sarcodinés des Grands Lacs, Eugène Penard, 218; les Concrétions Phosphatées de l'Agulhas Bank (Cave of Good Hope), Dr. Leon W. Collet, avec une Description de la Glauconie qu'elles renferment, Gabriel W. Lee, 286-7; Alcyonarians of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Prof. J. A. Thomson and James Ritchie, 287; Exploration of the Indian Ocean, A. Sedgwick, F.R.S., 341; Four New Barnacles from the Neighbourhood of Java, Dr. N. Annandale, 360; the Millport Marine Station, S. Pace, 456; Morphology of the Madreporaria, the Fossula of the Extinct Rugose Corals, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 515; the Percy Sladen Expedition in H.M.S. Sealark, the Chagos Archipelago, J. Stanley Gardiner,

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571 Birds Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the British Museum, 28; Biologia Centrali-Americana, Aves, Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., and Frederick Ducane Godman, F.R.S., 49: British Bird Life, W. Percival Westell, 196; Bird Life Glimpses, E. Selous, 367; Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Vogelwelt Islands, B. Hantzsch, 454; Protective

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Coloration of the Inside of the Mouth in Nestling Birds, W. Ruskin Butterfield, 534; Field Book of Wild Birds and their Music, F. Schuyler Mathews, 602; a Rare Game Bird, John S. Sawbridge, 605; Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S., 630

Birth-rate, Decline of, 422

Bissell (G. W.), Clays and Clay Industries of Iowa, 388 Bjerrum (Neils), Determination of Oxygen in Sea-water, 139

Blaise (E. E.), the Acid y-aldehydes, 264

Blanford (Dr. William Thomas, F.R.S.), Death and
Obituary Notice of, 202

Blondlot (Prof. R.), a Collection of Papers communicated
to the Academy of Sciences, with Additional Notes and
Instructions for the Construction of Phosphorescent
Screens, 195

Blyth (B. H.), Rainfall of the Drainage Area of the Talla
Reservoir, 143

Boine Snakes, the Rudimentary Hind Limbs of the, Frank
E. Beddard, F.R.S., 630
Bond (Charles),
mutism, 332

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Disease,

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Bond (C. J.), Ascending Currents in Mucous Canals and
Gland Ducts, 331

Bone (W. A.), Thermal Decomposition of Formaldehyde
and Acetaldehyde, 141

Bonney (Prof. T. G., F.R.S.), Chalk Masses in the Cliffs
near Cromer, 8; Microscopic Structure of Minerals Form-
ing Serpentine, 215

Bonola (Dr. Roberto), the Theorems of Padre Gerolamo
Saccheri on the Sum of the Angles of a Triangle, 387
Borrelly's Comet (1903 iv), the Motion of the Tail of,
Prof. Jaegermann, 135

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Botany a Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus,
J. H. Maiden, 6; Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains,
N.S.W., J. H. Maiden and R. H. Cambage, 312; Botany
of the Balearic Islands, J. W. White, 17; Undergrowth in
Woods, P. Fliche, 23; Floral Diagram of the Cruciferæ,
M. Gerber, 23; Chlorophyll Assimilation in Young
Shoots of Plants, Applications to the Vine, Ed. Griffon,
23; a Gooseberry Mildew Introduced from the United
States into Ireland, E. S. Salmon, 40; New South Wales
Linnean Society, 47, 192, 312, 528, 552; Conditions of
Development of the Mycelium of Morchella, G. Fron,
47; Flower-gardens made by Ants in the Crowns of
Trees in Amazonia and Peru, E. Ule, 64; Regeneration
in Zamia, Dr. J. M. Coulter and M. A. Chrysler, 65;
Vegetationsbilder, 100; Linnean Society, 118, 166; an
Indian Garden, Mrs. Henry Cooper Eggar, Dr. Otto
Stapf, 125; Interesting Taxonomic Characters of the
Gymnospermous Genus Torreya, Dr. J. M. Coulter and
W. J. G. Land, 133; Effect of very Low Temperature
on Moist Seeds, John Adams, 143; Constituents of the
Seeds of Hydnocarpus Wightiana and of Hydnocarpus
anthelmintica, F. B. Power and M. Barrowcliff, 165;
Constituents of the Seeds of Gynocardia odorata, F. B.
Power and M. Barrowcliff, 165: Two Photographs of a
Palm, Corypha elata, J. F. Waby, 166; Seed-bearing
Habit in the Lyginodendreæ, E. A. N. Arber, 166;
Abortive Development of the Pollen in Cross-bred Sweet
Peas, R. P. Gregory, 166; Biochemie der Pflanzen, Prof.
Friedrich Czapek, F. Escombe, 169; Streifzüge an der
Riviera, Eduard Strasburger, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,
171; Handbuch der Heidekultur, Dr. P. Graebner, 173;
"Barszcz,
Bacteriological Study of
M. Panek, 182;
the Blackwood of Southern India, Two Species, T. E.
Bourdillon, 182; Possible Relationship between Bacteria
and the Gum of Hakea saligna, Dr. R. Greig Smith,
192; Origin of Natural Immunity towards the Putre-
factive Bacteria, Dr. R. Greig Smith, 192; Probable
Bacterial Origin of the Gum of Linseed Mucilage, Dr.
R. Greig Smith, 192; Amount of Variation obtained in
Cultivating a Five-rayed Form of Trifolium pratense,
Miss T. Tammes, 205; the Parasitic Nature of the
Sandal-tree, C. A. Barber, 205; Action of Liquid Air
on the Life of the Seed, Paul Becquerel, 216; Botany
of Cook's First Voyage, Illustrations of Australian
Plants, Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S., and Dr. D. Solander,
221; Calcium Oxalate in the Eucalyptus Barks, Henry
G. Smith, 240; Poisonous Plants of all Countries, A. B.
Smith, 243; Sugar-parasites, R. C. L. Perkins, 254:

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the Microsporangia of Lyginodendron, R. Kidston,
F.R.S., 262; Existence in the Black Elder of a Com-
pound furnishing Hydrocyanic Acid, M. Guignard, 263;
Hydrocyanic Glucoside in the Leaves of the Elder, Em.
Bourquelot and Em. Danjou, 264; Nature of the Hydro-
cyanic Glucoside of the Black Elder, L. Guignard and
J. Houdas, 336; the Botanical Congress at Vienna, Dr.
A. B. Rendle, 272; Death of Charles Moore, 275;
Brusca, a Disease of the Olive, Prof. Cuboni, 276;
Diseases of Citrous Plants and Fruits caused by the
Fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, P. H. Rolfs,
277; the Law of Biogenesis that "Ontogeny Repeats
Phylogeny, G. H. Shull, 278; Perception in Plants,
Prof. L. Kny, 278; Comparative Study of the Dominant
Phanerogamic and Higher Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic
Habit, George West, 286; Supply of Water to Leaves on
a Dead Branch, Prof. H. H. Dixon, 288; on the Develop-
ment of Green Plants in Light in the Complete Absence
of Carbon Dioxide and in an Artificial Soil Containing
Amides, Jules Lefevre, 312; the Native Flora of New
South Wales, R. H. Cambage, 312; Death of H. Lamb,
325; Death of Prof. L. Errera, 347; Obituary Notice of,
Prof. Jean Massart, 537; Experiments with Plants, Dr.
W. J. V. Osterhout, 364; Sterigmatocystis nigra and
Oxalic Acid, P. G. Charpentier, 392, 480; Pure Culture
of Green Plants in a Confined Atmosphere in Presence
of Organic Substances, M. Molliard, 424: How to Know
Wild Fruits, a Guide to Plants when not in Flower by
Means of Fruit and Leaf, Maude Gridley Peterson, 428;
Toxic Effect of Heat on Stems, Prof. H. H. Dixon, 435;
Cause of Accumulation of Starch in Bruised Apples,
G. Warcollier, 452; Trees, H. Marshall Ward, 482;
Hydrocyanic Acid obtained from Gooseberry Leaves, L.
Guignard, 504; Fungal Diseases on Cauliflowers, Dr.
H. von Schrenck and G. G. Hedgcock, 516; Influence
of the Eclipse of August 30 on Plants, Ed. Bureau, 528;
Death and Obituary Notice of H. T. Tisdall, 538; New
Gladiolus from Victoria Falls, 539; Vegetation of Open
Bay Islands, New Zealand, Dr. L. Cockayne, 540; Notes on
the Drawings for Sowerby's "English Botany," F. N. A.
Garry, 556; Thorns merely Xerophytic Structures, Dr.
L. Cockayne, 565; Prof. G. Haberlandt's Investigations
on the Sense-organs of Plants, G. C. Nuttall, 565;
Sensibility of the Chlorophyll Apparatus in Ombrophobe
and Ombrophile Plants, W. Lubimenko, 576; Cytology
of Apogamy and Apospory, Miss L. Digby, 623; Sam-
bunigrin, Em. Bourquelot and Em. Danjou, 624; the
Mechanics of the Ascent of Sap in Trees, Prof. J.
Larmor, Sec.R.S., at Royal Society, 644: Development
of Amylase during the Germination of Seeds, Jean
Effront, 648; Das Pflanzenreich, Supp. to October 19,
ix; see also British Association
Boudouard (O.), High Temperature Measurements, 293;
Influence of Water Vapour on the Reduction of Carbon
Dioxide by Carbon, 336

Boule (Marcellin), on the Origin of Eoliths, 438, 635;
Machine-made Eoliths, 538

Boulenger (G. A., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S.), Opening Address in
Section D at the Meeting of the British Association in
South Africa, the Distribution of African Fresh-water
Fishes, 413

Boulenger (Dr. G. S.), Hemichordata, Ascidians and
Amphioxus, Fishes, 103

Boulouch (R.), Sub-iodide of Phosphorus and its Part in
Allotropic Transformation of Phosphorus, 336
Boulud (M.), Distribution of Sugary Substances in Blood
between the Plasma and the Corpuscles, 311

Bourdillon (T. E.), the Blackwood of Southern India, Two
Species, 182

Bourget (M.), French Observations of the Total Solar
Eclipse, 18

Bourne (A. A.), a First Algebra, 393

Bourquelot (Em.), Hydrocyanic Glucoside in the Leaves of the Elder, 264; Sambunigrin, 624

Bouty (E.), Passage of Electricity through Gascous Layers
of Great Thickness, 360

Bouveault (M.), Action of Sodium on the Esters of the
Fatty Acids, 192

Boxall (George E.), the Evolution of the World and of
Man, 150

Boyce (Rubert, F.R.S.), Report on the Sanitation and

Anti-malarial Measures in Practice in Bathurst, Conakry, and Freetown, 67

Boyle Lecture at Oxford, the Cerebellum, its Relation to
Spatial Orientation and Locomotion, Sir Victor Horsley,
F.R.S., 389

Brace (Prof. DeWitt Bristol), Death of, 636
Bradley-Birt (F. B.), the Story of an Indian Upland, 105
Braithwaite (Dr. R.), the British Moss-flora, 425

Branner (Prof. John C.), the Omission of Titles of
Adaresses on Scientific Subjects, 534

Braune (Hjalmar), Influence of Nitrogen on Iron and Steel,

540

Brazza (M. de), Death and Obituary Notice of, 515

Breathing in Living Beings, Dr. William Stirling at Royal Institution of Great Britain, 355

Bremer (Dr. F.), Leitfaden der Physik für die oberen Klassen der Realanstalten, 170

Breton (M.), Transference of Infection in Ankylostomiasis through the Skin, 107

Bridge (Dr.), Hemichordata, Ascidians and Amphioxus, Fishes, 103

Brightness of Jupiter's Satellites, Prof. W. de Sitter, 207 British Archæology and Philistinism, Worthington G. Smith, 294

British Association: Meeting of the British Association in South Africa, 59; Arrangements for the Forthcoming Meeting of, 222; the South African Meeting of the British Association, 368, 403, 560, 583; Inaugural Address by Prof. G. H. Darwin, M.A., LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., President of the Association, part i., 368; part ii., 439; Diamonds, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., 593, the Distribution of Power, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 612

Section A (Mathematics and Physics)-Opening Address by Prof. A. R. Forsyth, Sc.D., LL.D., Math.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, 372: Mathematical and Physical Science at the British Association, Dr. C. H. Lees, 640; Ancient Japanese Mathematics, Prof. Harzer, 640; Instrument for Stereoscopic Surveying, H. G. Fourcade, 640; Teaching of Elementary Mechanics, Prof. Perry, 640; Kinetic and Statistical Equilibrium of Ether in Ponderable Matter at any Temperature, Lord Kelvin, 641; Geodetic Survey in South Africa, Sir David Gill, 641; Geodetic Survey of Spitsbergen, Dr. O. Backlund, 641; Star Streaming, Prof. Kapteyn, 641; Observations on the Light Fluctuations of Certain Southern Binary Stars, Dr. A. W. Roberts, 641

Section B (Chemistry)—Opening Address by G. T. Beilby, President of the Section, 378; Gold and Science, 379: Recent Developments in Agricultural Science, A. D. Hall, 642; Researches on the Assimilatory Processes of Plants, Dr. Horace T. Brown, 642; the Role of Enzymes in Plant Economy, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, 642; Researches on the Propagation of Explosions in Gases, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 642; the Atomic Weight of Chlorine, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 642; Experiments on the Influence of Phase Changes on the Tenacity of Ductile Metals at the Ordinary Temperature and at the Boiling Point of Liquid Air, G. T. and H. W. Beilby, 642; Determinations of the Viscosities of Liquid Mixtures at the Temperature of their Boiling Points, Dr. A. Midlay, 642; Remarkable Thermal Chalybeate Spring at Caledon, in Cape Colony, Prof. P. D. Hahn, 642; Chemical Survey of the Soils of Cape Colony, 642; the Character of Cape Wines, Dr. H. Tietz, 642; Investigation of the Part played by Oxygen in the Dissolution of Gold by Cranide Solutions, H. F. Julian, 642; Action of Thiocyanates on Gold, H. A. White, 643; the Law Governing the Solubility of Zinc Hydroxide in Alkalis, Dr. J. Moir, 643; Nitrogen in Pretoria Rainfall, H. Ingle, 643 Chemical Constituents of Transvaal Soils, H. Ingle, 643 Fuel Ashes as Manure in the Midland Districts of South Africa, E. H. Croghan, 643 Section C (Geology)-Opening Address by Prof. H. A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., President of the Section, 405 Section D (Zoology)-Opening Address by G.

A.

Boulenger, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., President of the Section, the Distribution of African Fresh-water Fishes, 413

Section E (Geography)--Opening Address by RearAdmiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., President of the Section, 445

Section G (Engineering)—Opening Address by Colonel
Sir C. Scott Moncrieff, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., R.E.,
LL.D., President of the Section, Irrigation, 465
Section H (Anthropology)—Opening Address by A. C.
Haddon, Sc.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, 471
Section I (Physiology)-Opening Address by Colonel D.
Bruce, M.B., F.R.S., C.B., President of the Section,
the Advance in our Knowledge of the Causation and
Methods of Prevention of Stock Diseases in South
Africa during the Last Ten Years, 496
Section K (Botany)-Opening Address by Harold Wager,
F.R.S., H.M.I., President of the Section, on Some
Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology, 519
Section L (Educational Science) Opening Address by
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Litt.D., D.C.L., M.P., President
of the Section, University Education and National
Life, 545
British Association: Physical Deterioration, being the
Report of Papers and Discussions at the Cambridge
Meeting of the British Association, 1904, on the Alleged
Physical Deterioration of the People and the Utility of
an Anthropometric Survey, 152

British Bird Life, W. Percival Westell, 196
British Colonies, the Oxford Atlas of the, 293
British Fruit Growing, 297; Alfred O. Walker, 342;
Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 396

British Islands, a Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the, in the Museum of Practical Geology, F. W. Rudler, 76

British Islands, the Mythology of the, Charles Squire, 145
British Medical Association, the Meeting of the, 330, 354
British Moss-flora, the, Dr. R. Braithwaite, 425
British Museum, Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the, 28;
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British
Museum, Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 174
British Pharmaceutical Conference, Presidential Address at,
Standardisation in Pharmacy, W. A. H. Naylor, 334
British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, Forty
Years' Researches in, J. R. Mortimer, 398

British School at Athens, the Annual of the, H. R. Hall, 558

British Science Guild, the, 585

British Slugs, the, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 245
"Brooks 1889 and Lexell, the Alleged Identity of
Comets, Dr. Charles L. Poor, 19

Broom (Dr. R.), the Age and Affinities of Tritylodon, 285
Brown (George A.), Incandescence of Meteors, 604
Brown (Dr. Horace T.), Researches on the Assimilatory
Processes of Plants, 642

Brown (J. C.), Precise Method of Estimating the Organic
Nitrogen in Potable Waters, 239

Browne (E. T.), Medusæ found in the Firth of Clyde, 191 Browne (Frank Balfour), Reports on Sea Fisheries, 138 Browne (Sir James Crichton, F.R.S.), the Prevention of Senility, 306

Bruce Telescope Reference Photographs, the, Prof. Pickering, 89

Bruce (Dr. A.), Distribution of the Nerve Cells in the Intermedio-lateral Tract of the Dorso-lumbar Region of the Human Spinal Cord, 191

Bruce (Colonel D., M.B., F.R.S., C.B.), Opening Address in Section I at the Meeting of the British Association in South Africa, the Advance in our Knowledge of the Causation and Methods of Prevention of Stock Diseases in South Africa during the Last Ten Years, 496 Bruce (William S.), Ben Nevis Observatory and the Argentine Republic, 485

Brühl (Prof. J. W.), Desmotropic Form of Substances of the Ethyl Acetoacetate Type, 141; the Development of Spectrochemistry, Lecture at the Royal Institution, 158 Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), Fictitious Problems in Mathematics, 102, 175; Streifzüge an der Riviera, Eduard Strasburger, 171

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Bubbling "Method and Vapour Pressures, the, the Earl of Berkeley and E. G. J. Hartley, 222 Buchanan (J. Y., F.R.S.), Eclipse Predictions, 603 Bucherer (Dr. A. H.), Mathematische Einfuhrung in die Elektronentheorie, 170

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Buckton (George Bowdler, F.R.S.), Death of, 537;
Obituary Notice of, W. F. Kirby, 587
Building, Ferro-concrete, Ed. Noaillon, 213
Burch (Dr. George J., F.R.S.), Studien ueber Haut-
elektricität und Hautmagnetismus des Menschen, Dr.
Erik Harnack, 602

Burdon (E. R.), Beiträge zur physiologischen Anatomie
der Pilzgallen, Hermann Ritter von Guttenberg, 339
Bureau (Ed.), Influence of the Eclipse of August 30 on
Plants, 528

Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, Forty Years' Researches
in British and Saxon, J. R. Mortimer, 398

Burke (John Butler), on the Spontaneous Action of Radio-
active Bodies on Gelatin Media, 78; on the Spontaneous
Action of Radium on Gelatin Media, 294
Burke (Mr.), the Origin of Life, 492

Burnside (Prof. W.), Conditions of Reducibility of any
Group of Linear Substitutions, 190; Criteria for the
Finiteness of Order of a Group of Linear Substitutions,
190

Burton (Dr. C. V.), the Hydrometer as a Seismometer,
269; Artificial Diamonds, 397

Burton (W.), Connection between Scientific Training and
Industrial Development, 608

Busquet (Raymond), Précis d'Hydraulique-La Houille
Blanche, 427.

Buss (A.), Visibility of D, as a Dark Line in the Solar
Spectrum, 184

Butler (A. L.), Antelopes, Heughlin's
"Giant Eland," 133
Butler (W.), the Swingcam Camera Stand, 89
Butterfield (W. Ruskin), Protective Coloration of the Inside
of the Mouth in Nestling Birds, 534
Butterflies the Fauna of British India, including Ceylon
and Burma, Lieut.-Colonel C. T. Bingham, 290
Butterflies, Moths and, Mary C. Dickerson, 76
Byrom (T. H.), the Physics and Chemistry of Mining, 557

Cacao, Manurial Experiments with, in Dominica, West
Indies, 639

Cain (J. C.), Action of Water on Diazo-salts, 239; the
Synthetic Dyestuffs and the Intermediate Products from
which they are Derived, Supp. to October 19, vii
Calculus, Elements of the Differential and Integral,
William Anthony Granville, Prof. George M. Minchin,
F.R.S., 26; D. F. Campbell, 126

Calcutta Asiatic Society of Bengal, 24, 120, 360, 452
Callendar (Prof. H. L.), a Bolometer for the Absolute
Measurement of Radiation, 118

Calmette (M.), Transference of Infection in Ankylo-
stomiasis through the Skin, 107

Calmette (Dr.), Specimens from Goats and Kids, 582
Calorimetry, Gas, 186

Cambage (R. H.), Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains,
N.S.W., 312; the Native Flora of New South Wales,
312

Cambridge Natural History, the, 103

Cambridge Philosophical Society, 142, 166
Camera in the Fields, the, F. C. Snell, 153

Cameroons, on a New Species of Guenon from the, Dr.
Henry O. Forbes, 630

Camichel (C.), Fluorescence, 336

Campbell (D. F.), the Elements of the Differential and
Integral Calculus, 126

Campbell (Prof. E. D.), Copper, Cobalt, and Nickel in
American Pig-irons, 573

Campbell (M. R.), the Coal and Lignites of the United
States, Preliminary Report, 493-4

Campbell (N. R.), a Null Method of Measuring Small
Ionisation, 142

Canada, Glacial Studies in, Dr. William H. Sherzer, Prof.
Grenville A. J. Cole, 310

"Canals on Mars in 1903, Double, Mr. Lowell, 89; see
Astronomy

Cancer: the so-called "Cancer Bodies (Ruffer's Bodies)
of Malignant Tumours, C. Walker, 86; the Immunisa-
tion of Mice against Cancer, Dr. Clowes, 86; Re-
semblances between "Plimmer's Bodies" of Malignant
Growths and Certain Normal Constituents of Repro-
ductive Cells of Animals, Prof. J. Bretland Farmer,
F.R.S., J. E. S. Moore and C. E. Walker, 164; the

Nature

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Hewlett, 295; X-Rays, their Employment in Cancer and
other Diseases, Richard J. Cowen, 395

Cannon (Miss), a Probable Nova in Ophiuchus, 158
Cape Colony, an Introduction to the Geology of, A. W.
Rogers, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 35
Cape Observatory, the, 437

Carbutt (Sir Edward H.), Death and Obituary Notice of,
588

Carmichael (N. R.), Physical Experiments, 126

Carpenter (Dr. H. C. H.), High-speed Tool Steels under
Varying Thermal Treatment, 69

Carson (C.), Interaction of Hydrogen Sulphide and Sulphur
Dioxide, 71

Cash (Dr. J. Theodore, F.R.S.), Pharmacology of Inda-
conitine and Bikhaconitine, 551

Castle (Frank), Machine Construction and Drawing, 533
Caunt (G. W.), Geometrical Conics, 393

Cause and Prevention of Dust from Automobiles, W. R.
Cooper, 485, 507; J. Vincent Elsden, 507
Celestial Phenomena, Ancient Drawings of, Dr. W.
Lehmann, 19

Cell Structure and Physiology, on some Problems of, Open-
ing Address in Section K at the Meeting of the British
Association in South Africa, Harold Wager, F.R.S.,
H.M.I., 519

Celtic Pony, the, Dr. Francis H. A. Marshall. 558
Celts, the Literature of the, its History and Romance,
Magnus Maclean, 145

Ceraski (Prof.), a Proposed New Method for Determining
the Solar Radiation, 437

Cerebellum, the, its Relation to Spatial Orientation and
Locomotion, Boyle Lecture at Oxford, Sir Victor
Horsley, F.R.S., 389

Metal

Chablay (E.), Action of Metal Ammoniums on the Halogen
Derivatives of Methane, 72; Action of the
Ammoniums on Alcohols, 96; Action of the Metal
Ammoniums on the Polyatomic Alcohols, 119
Chagos Archipelago, the, the Percy Sladen Expedition in
H.M.S. Sealark, J. Stanley Gardiner, 571

Chalk Masses in the Cliffs near Cromer, Prof. T. G.
Bonney, F.R.S., 8

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152

Charcot (Dr. J.), Antarctic Expedition, 203

Charpentier (P. G.), Sterigmatocystis nigra and Oxalic
Acid, 392, 480

Cheese, Ripening is due to Moulds and Bacteria in
Camembert Type of Soft, 229

Chelifers and House-flies, Prof. Sydney J. Hickson,
F.R.S., 629

Chemistry Practical Methods of Electrochemistry, F.
Mollwo Perkin, 5; the Critical Temperature and Pressure
of Living Substances, Dr. F. J. Allen, 7; Determination
of Neon and Helium in Atmospheric Air, Sir William
Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 21; Chemical Society, 23, 71,
141, 165, 238; Preparation of Terpenes and Related Sub-
stances, W. H. Perkin, jun., and S. S. Pickles and K.
Matsubara 23; Estimation of Potassium Permanganate
in Presence of Potassium Persulphate, J. A. N. Friend,
23; a Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry for
Beginners, Dr. A. F. Holleman, 28; a Text-book of
Physiological Chemistry, Charles E. Simon, 29; New
Researches on Chemical Combination, M. Berthelot, 47;
Preparation of Anhydrous Chlorides of the Metals of the
Rare Earths, Camille Matignon, 47; Casium Amide, E.
Rengade, 47; New Reagent for Potassium, Eugenio
Pinerua Alvarez, 47; Calcium Nitrate in Agriculture,
E. S. Bellenoux, 47; a Combination of Methæmoglobin
containing Fluorine, H. Ville and E. Derrien, 47:
Camphoryl-pseudo-semicarbazide, M. O. Forster and

166; Gases Liberated on Pulverising Monazite, R. J.
Moss, 167; Expansion and Density of some Gases at
High Temperatures, the Application to the Determination
of their Molecular Weights, Adrien Jacquerod and F.
Louis Perrot, 168; Protagon and the Cerebrines and the
Cerebric Acid Preexisting in the Nervous Tissue, N. A.
Barbieri, 168; Constituents of Manchester Soot, Prof.
E. Knecht, 167; Chloride and Bromide of Thorium,
H. Moissan and M. Martinsen, 167; Biochemie der
Pflanzen, Prof. Friedrich Czapek, F. Escombe, 169:
Chitin in the Carapace of Pterygotus osiliensis, Dr. Otto
Rosenheim, 189; New Method of Preparing Esters, Dr.
W. W. Taylor, 191; Mode of Formation of Acetol by
the Direct Oxidation of Acetone, M. Pastureau, 192;
Action of Sodium on the Esters of the Fatty Acids, M.
Bouveault and R. Locquin, 192; Aromatic Substitution
Derivatives of Ethylene Oxide, MM. Fourneau and
Tiffeneau, 192; Sparteine and its Reaction with Methyl
Iodide, Charles Moureu and Amand Valeur, 192; Spar-
teine the Stereoisomerism of the Two Iodomethylates,
Charles Moureu and Amand Valeur, 216; Action of
Ethyl Iodide on Sparteine, Charles Moureu and Amand
Valeur, 264; Determination of Sulphuric Acid in Soils,
J. Howard Graham, 205; an Intensely Radio-active Sub-
stance, Actinium X, T. Godlewski, 206; Isomorphous
Mixtures of the Tartrates of Thallium and Potassium,
Jean Herbette, 216; Alkyl Thujones and the Combin-
ations of Thujone with Aromatic Aldehydes, A. Haller,
216; Influence of Concentration on the Magnetic Proper-
ties of Solutions of Cobalt, P. Vaillant, 216; Chemical
Properties of the Anhydrous Chloride of Neodymium,
Camille Matignon, 216; Death of Prof. P. T. Cleve, 226;
Synthesis by Means of the Silent Electric Discharge,
J. N. Collie, 238; Combinations of Aluminium Chloride
with Carbonyl Chloride, E. Baud, 239; Condensation of
Chloral with Aromatic Hydrocarbons under the Influence
of Aluminium Chloride, Adolphe Dinesmann, 312;
Different States of Oxidation of Aluminium Powder, M.
Kohn-Abrest, 360; the Aluminium Steels, Léon Guillet,
204 Steels containing Tin, Titanium, and Cobalt, Léon
Guillet, 239; Reduction of Aldoximes, A. Mailhe, 239;
Bromination of Paraldehyde, P. Freundler, 239; a Bi-
valent Phytosterine Alcohol, T. Klobb, 239; Combustion
of Sulphur in the Calorimetric Bomb, H. Giran, 239;
Hydrolysis of very Concentrated Solutions of Ferric
Sulphate, A. Recoura, 239; Synthesis of Substances Allied
to Epinephrine, G. Barger and H. A. D. Jowett, 239;
Action of Water on Diazo-salts, J. C. Cain and G. M.
Norman, 239; Precise Method of Estimating the Organic
Nitrogen in Potable Waters, J. C. Brown, 239; Bromine
in Solutions of Potassium Bromide, F. P. Worley, 230;
Tetramethylammonium Hydroxide, J. Walker and J.
Johnston, 239; Ultra-violet Absorption Spectra, Benzene,
Dr. E. C. C. Baly and Prof. J. Norman Collie, F.R.S.,
239 Ultra-violet Absorption Spectra, the Phenols, Dr.
E. C. C. Baly and E. K. Ewbank, 239; Absorption Spec-
trum of Benzene in the Ultra-violet Region, Prof. W. N.
Hartley, F.R.S., 557; Dr. E. C. C. Baly and Prof. J.
Norman Collie, F.R.S., 630; Calcium Oxalate in the
Eucalyptus Barks, Henry G. Smith, 240; Camphoacetic
and B-Camphopropionic Acids, A. Haller, 263; Existence
in the Black Elder of a Compound Furnishing Hydro-
cyanic Acid, M. Guignard, 263; Hydrocyanic Glucoside
in the Leaves of the Elder, Em. Bourquelot and Em.
Danjou, 264: Nature of the Hydrocyanic Glucoside of
the Black Elder, L. Guignard and J. Houdas, 336;
Hydrocyanic Acid obtained from Gooseberry Leaves, L.
Guignard, 504; Synthesis of the Three Tertiary Dimethyl-
cyclohexanols and of the Hydrocarbons Connected with
them, Paul Sabatier and A. Mailhe, 263; New Method
of Synthesis of the Monoatomic and Polyatomic Alcohols,
V. Grignard, 264; Combinations of Ferrocyanides and
Sulphuric Acid, Paul Chrétien, 264; the Acid y-Alde-
hydes, E. E. Blaise and A. Courtot, 264; Densities of
Carbonic Anhydride, Ammonia and Nitrous Oxide,
Philippe A. Guye and Alexandre Pintza, 264; Part
Played by the Copper Salt in Deacon's Process of Pre-
paring Chlorine from Hydrogen Chloride, M. G. Levi
and V. Bettoni, 277; Auto-catalytic Decomposition of
Silver Oxide under the Influence of Heat, Gilbert N.
Lewis, 277; the Society of Chemical Industry, 279;

nitrile, F. R. Japp and J. Knox, 71; Atomic Weight of
Nitrogen, R. W. Gray, 71; Philippe A. Guye, 119; the
Romance of the Nitrogen Atom, Rev. A. Irving, 151;
Dr. E. P. Perman, 176; Action of Fluorine on some
Compounds of Nitrogen, MM. Moissan and Lebeau, 206;
Reactions between Fluorine and the Compounds of
Nitrogen and Oxygen, MM. Moissan and Lebeau, 183;
Methylation of Gallotannic Acid, O. Rosenheim, 71;
Interaction of Hydrogen Sulphide and Sulphur Dioxide,
W. R. Lang and C. Carson, 71; Formula of Cyano-
maclurin, A. G. Perkin, 71; Increase of the Rotatory
Power of Fatty Molecules in Passing to the State of
Cyclic Compounds, A. Haller and M. Desfontaines, 71;
New Synthesis of Oxalic Acid, H. Moissan, 71; Action
of Potassammonium upon Barium Bromide, A. Joannis,
71: Electrolytic Reduction of the Nitrocinnamic Acids,
C. Marie, 71; Action of Carbon Monoxide upon Silver
Oxide, Henri Dejust, 71; Decomposition of Silver Oxide
at High Temperatures, G. N. Lewis, 350; Strontium
Ammonium, M. Ræderer, 71-2; a New Osmium Com-
pound, Piñerûa Alvarez, 72; Acetol a Pseudo-acid, André
Kling, 72; Action of Metal Ammoniums on the Halogen
Derivatives of Methane, E. Chablay, 72; Action of the
Metal Ammoniums on Alcohols, E. Chablay, 96; Action
of the Metal Ammoniums on the Polyatomic Alcohols,
E Chablay, 119; Relation of Ammonium to the Alkali
Metals, A. E. H. Tutton, 165-6; on the Menthones and
Menthols obtained by the Reduction of Pulegone by the
Catalytic Action of Reduced Nickel, A. Haller and C.
Martine, 95: Potato Starch, L. Maquenne and Eug.
Roux, 95; Basic Magnesium Carbonates from the San-
torin Eruption of 1866, A. Lacroix, 95: a Reaction of
Rhodium, Piñerùa Alvarez, 96; Hydrated Platinum
Oxide in Reality a Platinic Acid, Dr. Italo Bellucci, 109;
Metallic Stannates and Plumbates derived from Similar
Acids, Dr. Italo Bellucci and N. Parravano, 109;
Efficiency of Method of Synthesising Nitric Acid from the
Gases of the Atmosphere Increased by Working with Air
under a very Great Pressure, E. Rossi, 109; New Method
of Preparing Mesoxalic Esters, Ch. Schmitt, 119:
Researches on Animal Lactase, Ch. Porcher, 119; Basicity
of Pyranic Oxygen, R. Fosse and L. Lesage, 119;
Determination of Oxygen in Sea-water, Neils Bjerrum,
139; Action of Oxygen upon Casium-ammonium, E.
Rengade, 168: Desmotropic Form of Substances of the
Ethyl Acetoacetate Type, J. W. Brühl and H. Schröder,
141; Chlorination of 2-Methylpyridine, W. J. Sell, 141;
Chemical Structure and Physical Properties Associated
with the Theory of Colour, W. N. Hartley, 141; Thermal
Decomposition of Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde, W. A.
Bone and H. L. Smith, 141: Synthesis of Formaldehyde,
D. L. Chapman and A. Holt, jun., 141; Constitution of
Nitric Acid and its Hydrates, W. Noel Hartley, 142;
Physical Properties of Sodium Vapour, P. V. Bevan,
142 Application to Electrolytes of the Hydrate Theory
of Solutions, Dr. T. Martin Lowry, 142; Cyanocampho-
acetic, Cyanocampho-a-propionic, Cyanocampho-a-butyric
Acids and their Derivatives, A. Haller and A. Couré-
ménos, 143; Methylnatalemodine and Natalemodine, E.
Léger, 143; Acidity of some Ethyl Alcohols of Commerce,
René Duchemin and Jacques Dourlen, 143: Examination
of Phosphorus Sulphide for the Presence of Free White
Phosphorus, Léo Vignon, 143: Physical Properties of
Propane, Paul Lebeau, 143: Methyl-acetyl-carbinol,
André Kling, 143; the Development of Spectrochemistry,
Prof. J. W. Brühl at the Royal Institution, 158; Atomic
Weight of Chlorine, Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., and
E. C. Edgar, 165; Action of Chlorine on Boiling Toluene,
J. B. Cohen, H. M. Dawson, and P. F. Crosland, 239:
Constituents of the Seeds of Hydnocartus Wightiana and
of Hydnocarpus anthelmintica, F. B. Power and M.
Barrowcliff, 165; Constituents of the Seeds of Gynocardia
odorata, F. B. Power and M. Barrowcliff, 165; New
Diamines, G. T. Morgan and W. O. Wootton, 166;
Action of Magnesium Methyl Iodide on Pinenenitroso-
chloride, W. A. Tilden and J. A. Stokes, 166; Estimation
of Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Potassium Per-
sulphate, J. A. N. Friend, 166; Replacement of Hydroxyl
by Bromine, W. H. Perkin, jun., and J. L. Simonsen,
166; Influence of Phosphates on the Fermentation of
Glucose by Yeast Juice, A. Harden and W. J. Young,

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