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June 8, 1905.

Pendulum at Birmingham, Dr. Davison, 589; Earth-
quakes at Perth, Western Australia, W. E. Cooke, 613;
Earthquake in North England, 614

East, a Doctor's View of the, 553

East Coast Naturalist, Notes of an, Arthur H. Patterson, 4
Easter in 1905, the Date of, Dr. A. M. W. Downing,
F.R.5., 201

Ebell (M.), Comet 1904 d (Giacobini), 256; Elements and
Ephemeris of, 211; Observations of, 281; Ephemeris for,
333: Ephemeris for Comet 1904 €, 281, 329
Eclipses: Eclipse Observations, Prof. Kobold, 150; C. W.
Wirtz, 159; Eclipse Results and Problems, M. le Comte
de la Baume Pluvinel, 234; Solar Eclipse Problems, Prof.
Perrine, 329; the Mathematical Theory of Eclipses ac-
cording to Chauvenet's Transformation of Bessel's
Method, Roberdeau Buchanan, 244: the Approaching
Total Solar Eclipse of August 30, Dr. William J. S.
Lockyer, 393; Observations of the Recent Eclipse of the
Moon, M. Puiseux, 518; Photography of the Corona
without a Total Eclipse, A. Hansky, 544
Economic Resources of the North Black Hills, J. D. Irving
and S. F. Emmons, 450; T. A. Jaggar, jun., 450
Economic Zoology, Second Report on, British Museum
Natural History), Fred V. Theobald, 272
Edgar (E. C.), Direct Determination of the Atomic Weight
of Chlorine, 431

Edinburgh Edinburgh Royal Society, 142, 263, 382, 431,
623: Prize Awards of the, 285

Edridge-Green (Dr. F. W.), Two Cases of Trichromic
Vision, 573

Education: Annual Report of the Technical Education
Board of the London County Council, 1903-4, 34;
the Previous Examination at Cambridge, 55; Com-
pulsory Greek at Oxford and Cambridge, 128; Com-
pulsory Greek at Cambridge, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 318;
R. Vere Laurence, H. Rackham and A. C. Seward,
F.R.S., 390; W. Bateson, F.R.S., 390; Welsh Confer-
ence on the Training of Teachers, 66; Lord Kelvin and
Glasgow University, 104; the Question of Diet in
Physical Education, Prof. T. Clifford Allbutt, 111; Edu-
cation and National Efficiency in Japan, Dr. Henry Dyer,
150: Darwin and Greek, 231; Agricultural Education and
Research, Prof. T. E. Middleton, 236; the Proposed
National League for Physical Education and Improve-
ment, Sir Lauder Brunton, 252; Report of the Inter-
departmental Committee on Physical Degeneration, Sir
Lauder Brunton, 252; Importance of Including both
Latin and Science in a Scheme of General Education,
Douglas Berridge, 284; Use and Misuse of Terms in
Science Teaching, T. L. Humberstone, 284: the Pre-
paration of the Child for Science, M. E. Boole, 316;
Special Method in Elementary Science for the Common
School, Charles A. McMurry, 316; London Conference
on School Hygiene, Sir Arthur Rücker, 377; Death of
Prof. Ludwig von Tetmeyer, 420; State Aid for Higher
Education, 487; German Educational Exhibits at St.
Louis, 513

Efficiency in Japan, Education and National, Dr. Henry
Dier, 150

Egoroff (N.), Dichroism produced by Radium in Colour-
less Quartz, and a Thermoelectric Phenomenon in Striated
Smoky Quartz, 600

Egypt: "Find" of Royal Statues at Thebes, G. Legrain,
120: Medical Research in Egypt, 307; Bilharzia, Dr.
Symmers, 307; the Venom of Egyptian Scorpions, Dr.
Wilson, 307; Second Pyramid of Ghizeh Struck by
Lightning, 565

Eichhorn (Dr. Gustav), die Drahtlose Telegraphie, 220
Electricity: Wireless Telegraphy, C. H. Sewall, 1; Elec-
tricity in Agriculture and Horticulture, Prof. S. Lem-
ström, 1; Modern Electric Practice, 1; the Theory of the
Lead Accumulator, F. Dolezalek, 1; Electric Motors,
H. M. Hobart, 1; Notices sur l'Électricité, A. Cornu, 1;
l'Année Technique (1902-1903), A. Da Cunha, 1; the
International Electrical Congress at St. Louis, 41; a New
Safety Arrangement for Electrical Mains at High Ten-
sion, L. Neu, 47; Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und
Elektronik, 53: Electrolytic Preparation of Titanous Sul-
phate, W. H. Evans, 71; Map showing the Long Dis-
tance Power Transmission Lines in California, 88; Corr.,
113: Electrolysis of Acid Solutions of Aniline, L. Gil-
christ, 88; New Electrical Instruments, R. W. Paul, 95;

Practical Determination of the Mean Spherical Candle-
Power of Incandescent and Arc Lamps, G. B. Dyke, 95 ;
the Bleaching of Flour by Electricity, M. Balland, 96;
Influence of the Nature of the Anode on the Electrolytic
Oxidation of Potassium Ferrocyanide, André Brochet and
Joseph Petit, 119; Electricity in the Service of Man.
R. M. Walmsley, 124; Obituary Notice of Prof. Karl
Selim Lemström, Prof. Arthur Rindell, 129; Measure-
ments by Photometric Methods of the Temperature of the
Electric Arc, C. W. Waidner and G. K. Burgess, 132;
Electrical Conductivity and other Properties of Sodium
Hydroxide in Aqueous Solution, W. R. Bousfield and
T. M. Lowry, 141; Pollak-Virag High-speed Writing
Telegraph, 156; the Charge of the a Rays from Polonium,
Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., 166; Researches on Dielectric
Solids, V. Crémieu and L. Malclès, 167; the Becquerel
Rays and the Properties of Radium, Hon. R. J. Strutt,
Dr. O. W. Richardson, 172; Calcium Metal, R. S.
Hutton, 180; Direct Communication Established between
Liverpool and Teheran, 181; a High Frequency Al-
ternator, W. Duddell, 190; Experiments to show the
Retardation of the Signalling Current of the Pacific
Cable, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 190; on a Rapid Method of
Approximate Harmonic Analysis, Prof. S. P. Thompson,
190; Reversal of Charge from Electrical Induction
Machines, George W. Walker, 221; R. Langton Cole,
249; Theory of Amphoteric Electrolytes, Prof. James
Walker, F.R.S., 238: Electrolytic Analysis of Cobalt
and Nickel, Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin and W. C. Prebble
239; Electrolysis of Tin, F. Gelstharp, 239; Electrical
Conductivity of Colloidal Solutions, G. Malfitano, 240;
Report of the Commission appointed by Clifford Sifton,
Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada, to Investigate
the Different Electrothermic Processes for the Smelting
of Iron Ores and the Making of Steel in Europe, Prof.
J. O. Arnold, 258; Effect of Temperature on the Thermal
Conductivities of some Electrical Insulators, Dr. Charles
H. Lees, 262; Measurement of the Conductivity of Di-
electrics by Means of Ionised Gases, Charles Nordmann,
263; Higher-Text-book of Magnetism and Electricity,
Dr. R. Wallace Stewart, 270; Reversal of Charge from
Electrical Induction Machines, V. Schaffers, 274; the
Construction of Simple Electroscopes for Experiments on
Radio-activity, Dr. O. W. Richardson, 274; Reversal in
Influence Machines, Charles E. Benham, 320; Death and
Obituary Notice of Victor Serrin, 325; Galvanic Cells
produced by the Action of Light, Dr. M. Wilderman,
333; Electrical Pendulum with Free Escapement, Ch.
Féry, 335; Action of Radium on the Electric Spark, Dr.
R. S. Willows and J. Peck, 358; Simplified Deduction
of the Field and the Forces of an Electron moving in
any given Way, Prof. Sommerfeld, 373: Mass Analysis
of Muntz's Metal by Electrolysis, and the Electric Pro-
perties of this Alloy, J. G. A. Rhodin, 381; a Syn-
chronising Electromagnetic Brake, Henri Abraham, 383;
Drift produced in Ions by Electromagnetic Disturbances,
and a Theory of Radio-activity, George W. Walker, 406;
Automatic Registration of Atmospheric Ionisation,
Charles Nordmann, 407; Electrolysis of Organic Acids
by Means of the Alternating Current, André Brochet and
Joseph Petit, 407; Elements of Electromagnetic Theory,
S. J. Barnett, G. F. C. Searle, 409; Non-electrification
of Rays, Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., 430; Electrical Effects
of Dryness of Atmosphere at Winnipeg, Prof. A. H. R.
Buller, 448; Surface Tension of a Dielectric in the
Electric Field, Ch. Fortin, 455; Influence of Strong
Electromagnetic Fields on the Spark Spectra of some
Metals, J. E. Purvis, 479; Electrolytic Solution of Plat-
inum in Sulphuric Acid, André Brochet and Joseph Petit,
479; Action of Radium Bromide on the Electrical Re-
sistance of Metals, Bronislas Sabat, 479; Study of Ion-
isation in Flames, Pierre Massoulier, 479; Recent De-
velopments in Electric Smelting in connection with Iron
and Steel, F. W. Harbord, 502; Wireless Telegraphy with
Circular Waves, Alessandro Artom, 517; Variation of the
Specific Inductive Power of Glass with the Frequency,
André Broca and M. Turchini, 527; Death and Obituary
Notice of Dr. L. Bleekrode, 540; Interrupters for In-
duction Coils, 546; Voltage Ratios of an Inverted Rotary
Converter, W. C. Clinton, 550; Electrometer with Sex-
tants and a Neutral Needle, M. Guinchant, 551; Modern
Theory of Physical Phenomena, Radio-activity, Ions,

Electrons, Augusto Righi, 558; Atmospheric Electricity
in High Latitudes, George. C. Simpson, 573; Historical
Note on Dust, Electrification, and Heat, Sir Oliver
Lodge, F.R.S., 582; Unsolved Problems in Electrical En-
gineering, "James Forrest " Lecture at the Institution of
Civil Engineers, Colonel R. E. Crompton, 595; Ionisa-
tion in Flames, Pierre Massoulier, 600; a Short Intro-
duction to the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation, J. C.
Gregory, 606; Electromagnetics in a Moving Dielectric,
Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S., 606;. Tantalum, Dr.
Mollwo Perkin, 610

F.

Electrometallurgy: Calcium Metal, R. S. Hutton, 180
Elements, Prof. Mendeléeff on the Chemical, 65
Elements of Chemistry, the, M. M. Pattison Muir, 582
Elements and Ephemeris of Comet 1904 d, M. Ebell, 211;
M. Giacobini, 211; see also Astronomy

Elements and Ephemeris for Comet 1905 a (Giacobini),
General Bassot, 617; Dr. Palisa, 618; see also Astronomy
Eliot's (Sir J.) Address at Cambridge, J. R. Sutton, 6;
Sir John Eliot, F.R.S., 7

Elkin (Dr.), Triangulation of the Pleiades Stars, 329;
Report of the Yale Observatory, 1900-4, 354
Elliot (D. G.), the Land and Sea Mammals of Middle
America and the West Indies, 212

Elliot (R. H.), the Agricultural Changes required by these
Times and Laying Down Land to Grass, 604
Elmore (Señor), Water-supply of the Rimac Valley, 236
Elster (Mr.), the Human Breath as a Source of the Ionisa-
tion of the Atmosphere, 157; Radio-active Muds from the
Thermal Springs of Nauheim and Baden, 448
Ely (Prof. Achsah M.), Death of, 350

Emerson (Miss), Anatomy of Typhlomolge rathbuni, the
Blind Salamander, 515

Emmons (S. F.), Economic Resources of the Northern
Black Hills, 450; Refractory Siliceous Ores of South
Dakota, 452

Encke's Comet 1904 b, M. Kaminsky, 16; Prof. Max Wolf,
63, 89; Prof. Millosevich, 89, 114; Prof. E. Hartwig, 89;
Herr Moschick, 114; M. Kaminsky, 114; Dr. Smart,
114; Herr van d Bilt, 185; Brightness of Encke's Comet,
J. Holetschek, 469

Energy, Life and, Four Addresses, Walter Hibbert, 271
Energy, the Reception and Utilisation of, by a Green Leaf,
Bakerian Lecture at the Royal Society, Dr. Horace T.
Brown, F.R.S., 522

Engineering: Modern Electric Practice, 1; Electric Motors,
H. M. Hobart, 1; Notices sur l'Electricité, A. Cornu, 1;
l'Année Technique (1902-1903), A. Da Cunha, 1; Public
Works in India during the Last Fifty Years, Sir
Guilford L. Molesworth, 13; Patent Flexible Curves
and a Parabolic Curve, W. J. Brooks, 15: the
Definition of Entropy, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,
31; 125; J. Swinburne, 125; Possibilities of Gas
Turbines from a Scientific Standpoint, R. M. Neil-
son, 87; British Standard Specification and Sections
for Bull Headed Railway Rails, 88; Coast Erosion and
Protection, A. E. Carey, E. R. Matthews, at the In-
stitution of Civil Engineers, 92; Need of Testing
Materials to be Subjected to Rapidly Repeated or to
Alternating Loads otherwise than by Determining the
Tensile Strength and Elastic Limit, A. E. Seaton and
A. Jude, 184; Small Destructors for Institutional and
Trade Waste, W. Francis Goodrich, 246; Death and
Obituary Notice of Beauchamp Tower, 253; Recent Visit
of the Institution of Civil Engineers to the United States
and Canada, Sir William White, K.C.B., 254; Death of
Joseph Chaudron, 325: Death of William Sellers, 372;
Connection between Engineering and Science, C. O.
Burge, 384; Piercing of the Simplon Tunnel Completed,
420; Unsolved Problems in Electrical Engineering,
James Forrest " Lecture at the Institution of Civil
Engineers, Colonel R. E. Crompton, 595
England: Remains of the Prehistoric Age in, Bertram
C. A. Windle, F.R.S., 322; Social England, 385; an
Introductory History of England, C. R. L. Fletcher,
385; Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions, H. M. Chad-
wick, 385

England and Wales, the Sea-fishing Industry of, F. G.
Aflalo, 153

English Estate Forestry, A. C. Forbes, 580
English Field-botany, 245

June 8, 1905

Entomology: Entomological Society, 23, 117, 142, 190,
334, 429, 501, 527, 621; Tyrosinase of the Fly, C.
Gessard, 24; Ants and some other Insects, an Inquiry
into the Psychic Powers of these Animals, Dr. August
Forel, Prof. William Morton Wheeler, 29; Occurrence
of a Tropical Form of Stick-insect in Devonshire, Prof.
Robert O. Cunningham, 55; the Pine-apple Gall of the
Spruce, E. R. Burdon, 71; the Australian Cicadidæ,
Dr. F. W. Goding and W. W. Froggatt, 72; Death of
C. G. Barrett, 181; Obituary Notice of, 208; Death
and Obituary Notice of F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 397 :
Function of the Antennæ in Insects, M. Yearsley, 430;
a Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, W. F. Kirby,
459; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. S. Packard,
466; the Congo Floor Maggot, Messrs. Dutton, Todd,
and Christy, 499; Protective Resemblance, Mark L.
Sykes, 520; Studies of Variation in Insects, Vernon L.
Kellogg and Ruby G. Bell, 545; Maturation of the Egg
and Early Development in Certain Sawflies, L. Don-
caster, 550; Fungus-gardens of South American
Ants, Prof. D. H. Forel, 567

Entropy, the Definition of, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,
31, 125; J. Swinburne, 125

Eocene Whales, F. A. Lucas, 102

Ephemeris for Brooks's Comet 1904 I., 374
Ephemeris of Comet 1904 d, M. Ebell, 211,

Giacobini, 211; Herr Pechüle, 353

353; M.

Ephemeris for Comet 1904 e, Dr. E. Strömgren, 353; see
also Astronomy

Eros Circular, the Eleventh, Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S.,
154

Eros Stars, Magnitude Equation in the Right Ascensions
of the, Prof. R. H. Tucker, 618

Erosion, Coast, and Protection, A. E. Carey, E. R.
Matthews, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 92
Etheridge (R.), an Opalised Plesiosaurian Reptile of the
Genus Cimoliosaurus from White Cliffs, New South
Wales, 399

Ethnography: Difficulties of the Ethnographic Survey in
the Mysore, E. Thurston, 182

Ethnology: Death of Prof. Max Berbels, 181; Archæo-
logical Researches in Costa Rica, C. V. Hartman,
Colonel George Earl Church, 461; Tales from Old Fiji,
Lorimer Fison, 490

Eugenics Studies in, Meeting at the Sociological Society,
401; Restrictions in Marriage, Francis Galton, 401;
Studies in National Eugenics, Francis Galton, 401; Dr.
Haddon, 402; Dr. F. W. Mott, 402; Ernest Crawley,
402; Dr. E. Westermarck, 402

Europe, the Racial Elements in the Present Population of,
Huxley Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. Deniker at Antropo-
logical Institute, 21

European Longitudes, Discussion of Central, Prof. Th.
Albrecht, 424

European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, a History
of, John Theodore Merz, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,

241

Evans (A. J.), the Tombs of Minoan Knossos, 303
Evans (W. H.), Electrolytic Preparation of Titanous
Sulphate, 71

Eve (A. S.), the Infection of Laboratories by Radium, 460
Evolution: the Origin of Life, George Hookham, 9;
Geologist, 31; Dai Nippon, the Britain of the East, a
Study in National Evolution, Henry Dyer, 97; the In-
heritance of Tortoiseshell and Related Colours in Cats,
L. Doncaster, 191; Mankind in the Making, H. G.
Wells; Anticipations, H. G. Wells; the Food of the
Gods, H. G. Wells, 193: Variation in Animals and
Plants, H. M. Vernon, 243; Trapezium of the Carpus
of the Horse, O. C. Bradley, 326; an Outline of the
Theory of Organic Evolution, with a Description of
some of the Phenomena which it Explains, Dr. Maynard
M. Metcalf, 509

Ewart (Dr. Alfred J.), the Ascent of Water in Trees, 261
Examination at Cambridge, the Previous, 55

Exotic Flowers, the Bionomics of, Prof. Percy Groom, 26
Exotic Flowers, the Pollination of, Ella M. Bryant, 249
Exploration of Lake Tanganyika, Scientific, 277
Exploration in the Mentone Caves, Recent, Prof. Marcellin
Boule, 276

Explosion Risks, Fire and, Dr. von Schwartz, 122

June 8, 1905.

Explosives: Gellignite, a Safety Explosive, 61; Calcium
Carbide as an Explosive in Mining Work, Marcel P. S.
Guédras, 240

Eynon (L.), Method for the Direct Production of Certain
Aminoazo-compounds, 239

Fabry (Ch.), New Arrangement for the Use of the Methods
of Interferential Spectroscopy, 551

Fact in Sociology, 366

Faraday Society, 239, 381, 502, 598

Farmer (R. C.), Affinity Constants of Aniline and its
Derivatives, 166

Farrington (Dr. O. C.), Geology of Durango (Mexico),
235

Fauna of the North-west Highlands and Skye, A. J. A.
Harvie-Brown and H. A. MacPherson, 202

Faure (Jacques), Voyage in a Balloon from London to
Paris, 372

Fayet (G.), Elliptical Character of the New Borrelly Comet
(1904 e), 335: Orbit of Comet 1904 e (Borrelly), 353;
Revised Elements for Borrelly's Comet (1904 e), 400
Fecundation in Plants, David M. Mottier, 218
Fenton (H. J. H., F.R.S.), Soluble Forms of Metallic
Dihydroxytartrates, 479

Ferguson (Margaret C.), Contributions to the Knowledge
of the Life-history of Pinus, with Special Reference to
Sporogenesis, the Development of the Gametophytes,
and Fertilisation, 218

Fernbach (A.), the Diastatic Coagulation of Starch, 240
Ferrar (H. T.), the Old Moraines of South Victoria Land,
550

Fertilisation of Jasminum nudiflorum, Prof. John G.
McKendrick, F.R.S., 319

Fery (Ch.), Isochronism of the Pendulum in the Astro-
nomical Clock, 288; Electrical Pendulum with Free
Escapement, 335

Fielde (Miss A. M.), Curious Traits Displayed by Ants,

112

Fiji, Tales from Old, Lorimer Fison, 490

Films, how to Photograph with Roll and Cut, John A.
Hodges, 460

Filon (Dr. L. N. G.), the Projection of Two Triangles on
to the same Triangle, 478

"Find of Royal Statues at Thebes, G. Legrain, 126
Findlay (A.), Influence of the Hydroxyl and Alkoxyl
Groups on the Velocity of Saponification, 599

Finlayson (D.), the Ashe-Finlayson "Comparascope," 478
Finn (F.), the Birds of Calcutta, 438

Fire and Explosion Risks, Dr. von Schwartz, 122
Fireballs, January, Mr. Denning, 469

Fireside Astronomy, D. W. Horner, 292

Fisher (Rev. Osmond), on the Occurrence of Elephas
meridionalis at Dewlish, Dorset, 118; Propagation of
Earthquake Waves, 583

Fisheries: Fish-passes and Fish-ponds, Howietoun Fishery
Co., 9; the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales,
Messrs: Archer and Fryer and Dr. Masterman, Frank
Balfour Browne, 18; the New Whale Fisheries, 84; the
Sea-fishing Industry of England and Wales, F. G.
Aflalo, 153; the Fisheries of Scotland, Frank Balfour
Browne, 213; Whaling for 1904, Mr. Southwell, 351;
Decrease in Flat Fish in Cambois Bay, Northumber-
land, 567: Report to the Government of Ceylon on the
Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, W. A.
Herdman, F.R.S., 395

Fishes: a Large Indian Sea-perch, Major A. Alcock,
F.R.S., 415: the Nest of the Fighting Fish, E. H.
Waite, 450

Fishing at Night, S. W., 201; F. G. Aflalo, 221
Fison (Lorimer), Tales from Old Fiji, 490
Flamand (G. B. M.), Existence of Schists with Grapto-
liths at Haci-el-Khenig, Central Sahara, 576
Flames, Study of Ionisation in, Pierre Massoulier, 479
Fleming (Mrs.), Stars having Peculiar Spectra, 306; Dis-
tribution of Stellar Spectra, 115

Fletcher (C. R. L.), an Introductory History of England,
385

Fleurent (E.), the Rational Estimation of Gluten in
Wheaten Flour, 288

Flint (Robert), Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum, and a
History of Classifications of the Sciences, 505

:

Flints Blue-stained, Dr. F. J. Allen, 83; Thomas L. D.
Porter, 126; Blue Flints at Bournemouth, J. W. Sharpe,
176

Floating Ice, the Melting of, Heat, 366

Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed,
H. C. Frankenfeld, 10

Floods of 1902 and 1903, the Passaic, 11

Floods in the United States in 1903, Destructive, E. C.
Murphy, 308

Flora of the County Dublin, Nathaniel Colgan, 412

Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, Frederick
Townsend, 245

Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, the, T. Cooke, 124
Floral Morphology, 436

Flowers, Attractions Offered to Bees by, Miss J. Wery, 492
Flowers, Children's Wild, Mrs. J. M. Maxwell, 510
Flowers, the Pollination of Exotic, Ella M. Bryant, 249
Fluid, Theory of Rapid Motion in a Compressible, 196
Fog Inquiry, 1901-3, London, 259
Folie (F. J. P.), Death of, 371

Folklore the Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, R.
Campbell Thompson, 249; Folk-tales of Plains Indians,
Drs. G. A. Dorsey and A. L. Kroeber, 417; P. E.
Goddard, 418; Fijian Folk-tales, Lorimer Fison, 490
Food Food Inspection and Analysis, Albert E. Leach, C.
Simmonds, 50; the Nutritive Value of Sterilised Cows'
Milk, G. Variot, 167-

Food of the Gods, the, H. G. Wells, 193

Föppl (Prof. A.), Apparatus for Measuring the Velocity of
the Earth's Rotation, 39

Forbes (A. C.), English Estate Forestry, 580
Forbes (Prof. Geo., F.R.S.), Exterior Ballistics, 380
Forcrand (M. de), on the Possibility of Chemical Reactions,
143; on the Prediction of Chemical Reactions, 143;
Valency of the Atom of Hydrogen, 527

Forel (Dr. August), Ants and some other Insects, an
Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these Animals, 29
Forel (Prof. D. H.), Fungus-gardens " of South American
Ants, 567

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Forel (F. A.), Discovery at Boiron of a Tomb of the
Bronze Age, 493; Occurrence of Bishop's Ring, Mar-
tinique, 591

:

Forestry Forestry in the United States, 32; Death of
Forstmeister Schering, 36; the Spread of the Mesquite
Prosopis glandulosa, 61; "Bastard" Logwood, S. N. C.,
222; the Timbers of Commerce and their Identification,
H. Stone, 247; Trees, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 290; the
Strength of Structural Timber, Dr. W. K. Hatt, 399;
the Basket Willow, William F. Hubbard, 427; Forest
Planting in Western Kansas, Royal R. Kellogg, 427;
the Chestnut in Southern Maryland, Raphael Zon, 427;
Forestry in the United States, 427; English Estate
Forestry, A. C. Forbes, 580

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"Forrest (James) Lecture at the Institution of Civil
Engineers, Unsolved Problems in Electrical Engineering,
Colonel R. E. Crompton, 595

Forster (M. O.), Configuration of isonitrosocamphor, 382;
New Formation of Acetylcamphor, 598

Fortin (Ch.), Surface Tension of a Dielectric in the Electric
Field, 455

Fortuna, the Planet, W. T., 461, 511; W. E. P., 461;
Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 486

Foster. (Sir M., K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Monte Rosa and
Col d'Olen International Laboratories, Prof. Mosso, 443
Fournier (G.), the Perseids for 1904, 167
Fournier (V.), the Perseids for 1904, 167

Fourtau (R.), the Spring at Hammam Moussa, near Tor,
Sinai, 312

Fowle (F. E., jun.), Absorption by Water Vapour in the
Infra-red Solar Spectrum, 115

France, the Condition of Chemical Industries in, Jean
Jaubert, 369

Frank (Prof.), Production of Calcium Cyanamide and its
Employment as Fertiliser, 374

Frankenfeld (H. C.), Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the
Mississippi Watershed, 10

Frankland (P. F.), Grignard Reaction Applied to the Esters
of Hydroxy-acids, 166

Franks (W. S.), Dark Nebulosities, 190; Photography of
Planetary Nebulæ, 618

Frazier (Prof. Benjamin W.), Death of, 325

Frébaut (A.), Hydrogenation of Benzonitrile and Paratoluo-
nitrile, 600

Frederico (L.), the Glacial Fauna and Flora of the Plateau
of Baraque-Michel, Ardennes, 468
Freeman (W. G.), Nature Teaching, 5

Frémont (Ch.), on the Possibility of Producing a Non-
brittle Steel Tempered Blue, 191

Freshfield (Douglas W.), Mount Everest, the Story of a
Controversy, 82

Freshwater Algæ, a Treatise on the British, Prof. G. S.
West, 194

Freundler (P.), Monobromoacetal, 527

Friedel (Jean), Chlorophyll Assimilation in the Absence of
Oxygen, 312

Friend (J. A. N.), Influence of Potassium Persulphate on
the Estimation of Hydrogen Peroxide, 70
Friswell (R. J.), the Cost of Chemical Synthesis, 222
Froggatt (W. W.), the Australian Cicadidæ, 72
Frossard (Mr.), the Nature of the Hydrosulphites, 374
Froude (R. E.), Hollow versus Straight Lines, 595
Frowde (Henry), Dates of Publication of Scientific Books,
365

Fruit Trees in Pots, the Culture of, Josh Brace, 314
Fryer (Mr.), the Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales, 18
Fuel Economy, Smoke Prevention and, Wm. H. Booth and
John B. C. Kershaw, 74

Fuel, Oil, its Supply, Composition, and Application, S. H.
North, 531

Fungi: Sexual Reproduction of the Mucorineæ, A. F.
Blakeslee, 61; on the Origin of Flagellate Monads and
of Fungus-germs from Minute Masses of Zoogloa, Dr.
H. Charlton Bastian, F.R.S., 77; Heterogenetic Origin of
Fungus-germs, Dr. H. Charlton Bastian, 272; Hetero-
genetic Fungus-germs, George Massee, 175; Fungi, Prof.
H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S., at the Royal Institution, 496
Furs, the Supply of Valuable, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 115
Fusion, Memoire sur la Reproduction Artificielle du Rubis
par, A. Verneuil, 180

Gallenkamp (A., and Co.), New Spectrum Tubes, 448
Galloway (R. L.), Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal
Trade, 361

Galton (Dr. Francis, F.R.S.), Average Number of Kinsfolk
in Each Degree, 30, 248; Restrictions in Marriage, 401;
Studies in National Eugenics, 401

Gamble (Dr. F. W.), Colour-physiology of the Higher
Crustacea, 621

Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India, with Additional
References to their Allied Species in other parts of the
World, Colonel A. Le Messurier, 363

Gang des Menschen, der, Otto Fischer, Dr. A. Keith, 145
Garbasso (Prof.), New Theory to Account for the Dupli-
cation of Lines in the Spectra of Variable Stars, 516
Garbowski (Tad.), Morphologische Studien, als Beitrag zur
Methodologie zoologischer Probleme, 265

Garcia (Don Manuel), Centenary of, 491

:

Gas, Production of Natural, in the United States in 1903, 491
Gases the Dynamical Theory of, Lord Rayleigh, O.M.,
F.R.S., 559; J. H. Jeans, 601, 607; Prof. G. H. Bryan,
F.R.S., 601

Gatecliff (J.), Basic Properties of Oxygen, 70

Gatin-Gruzewska (Madame Z.), the Resistance to Desicca-
tion of some Fungi, 191

Gaudechon (M.), Thermochemical Researches on Brucene
and Strychnine, 527

Gautier (A.), Search-ephemeris for Tempel's First Periodic
Comet (1867 II.), 545

Gautier (E. F.), North African Petroglyphs, 570

Gavelle (M.), Re-discovery of Tempel's Second Comet, 133
Gayley (James), on the Application of Dry Air Blast to the
Manufacture of Iron, 40; Method of Drying the Air for
the Blast, 327

Geddes (P.), City Development, a Study of Parks,
Gardens, and Culture Institutes, 511

Gefährdung der Naturdenkmäler und Vorschläge zu ihrer
Erhaltung, die, H. Conwentz, 73

'Geikie (Sir Arch., F.R.S.), Geology of the Moon, 348;
Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society, 415; Landscape
in History and other Essays, 577

Geitel (Mr.), the Human Breath as a Source of the
Ionisation of the Atmosphere, 157; Radio-active Muds

from the Thermal Springs of Nauheim and Baden,
448

Gelstharp (F.), Electrolysis of Tin, 239

:

Gemmellaro (Gaetano Giorgio), Obituary Notice of, 39
Geodesy Determination of the Difference in Longitude
between Greenwich and Paris made in 1902, M. Lawy,
191; the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 519
Geography: the National Antarctic Expedition, Captain
Scott, 41; Report on the Identification and Nomen-
clature of Himalayan Peaks, Captain H. Wood, R.E.,
Major S. G. Burrard, F.R.S., 42; Mount Everest, the
Story of a Controversy, Douglas W. Freshfield, 82; the
Countries of the King's Award, Sir Thomas Holdich,
K.C.M.G., 102; Death and Obituary Notice of Admiral
Sir Erasmus Ommanney, K.C.B., F.R.S., 207; Russian
Geographical Society Medal Awards, 231; India, Sir
Thomas Holdich, C.B., 268; Glossary of Geographical
and Topographical Terms, Alexander Knox, 271; Geo-
graphical Society, Geographical Results of the Tibet
Mission, Sir Frank Younghusband, 377; Geographical
Society's Medal Awards, 541; Geographical Results of
the National Antarctic Expedition, Captain R. F. Scott,
421; the Second Antarctic Voyage of the Scotia, J. H.
Harvey Pirie and R. N. Rudmose Brown, 425; die
Kalahari, Dr. Siegfried Passarge, 481; Tierra del
Fuego, Captain H. L. Crosthwaite, 515; Antarctica, or
Two Years amongst the Ice of the South Pole, Dr. N.
Otto G. Nordenskjöld and Dr. Joh. Gunnar Andersson,
560; Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of
Central Tibet, Perceval Landon, 585; Japan nach Reisen
und Studien, J. J. Rein, Dr. Henry Dyer, 603; Physical
Geography: Variations of Level of Lake Victoria
Nyanza, Captain H. G. Lyons, 15; Study of the
Sea Bottom of the North Atlantic, M. Thoulet, 24; the
Rocks of Tristan d'Acunha, E. H. L. Schwarz, 168;
Water-supply of the Rimac Valley, Señor Elmore, 236;
the Physical History of the Victoria Falls, A. J. C.
Molyneux, 619

:

Geology the pre-Glacial Raised Beach of the South Coast
of Ireland, W. B. Wright and H. B. Muff, Prof. Gren-
ville A. J. Cole, 17; Neolithic Deposits in the North-
east of Ireland, George Coffey and R. Lloyd Praeger,
444; the Homotaxial Equivalents of the Beds which
Immediately Succeed the Carboniferous Limestone in
the West of Ireland, Dr. Wheelton Hind, 503; Appli-
cation of Earthquake Observations to the Investigation
of the Constitution of the Interior of the Earth, Prof.
Láska, 19; Gravitational Anomalies Detected under
Mount Etna, Prof. Ricco, 20; the Origin of Life,
Geologist, 31; Obituary Notice of Gaetano Giorgio
Gemmellaro, 39; Geological Survey of the Transvaal,
Report for the Year 1903, H. Kynaston, E. T. Mellor,
A. L. Hall, Dr. G. A. F. Molengraaff, Prof. Grenville
A. J. Cole, 55; Petrography of the Witwatersrand Con-
glomerates, with Special Reference to the Origin of
Gold, Dr. F. H. Hatch and Dr. G. S. Corstorphine,
471; Intrusive Granites in the Transvaal, the Orange
River Colony, and in Swaziland, E. Jorissen, 471;
Naples Volcanic Formations, Dr. de Lorenzo, 62; Geo-
logical Society, 118, 165, 190, 262, 310, 358, 382, 477.
549, 575, 622; Geological Society's Awards, 253; Geo-
logical Notes, 161, 235, 471; Study of Sands and Sedi-
ments, T. Mellard Reade and Philip Holland, 161:
Geology of Spiti, H. H. Havden, 161; the Geology of
Spiti, with Parts of Bashahr and Rupshu, H. H.
Hayden, 251; on an Ossiferous Cave of Pleistocene Age
at Hoe Grange Quarry, Longcliffe, near Brassington
(Derbyshire), H. H. Arnold Bemrose and E. T. Newton,
F.R.S., 165, 488; the Nepheline Rocks of Tahiti, M.
Lacroix, 167; the Glacial Conglomerate in the Table
Mountain Series near Clanwilliam, A. W. Rogers, 168;
the Rocks of Tristan d'Acunha, E. H. L. Schwarz, 168;
the Glacial Geology of New Jersey, Rollin D. Salisbury,
186; Origin of the Dolomites of Southern Tyrol, Prof.
E. W. Skeats, 190; the Coal-measures in French Lor-
raine, Francis Laur, 192; Geology of Durango (Mexico),
Dr. O. C. Farrington, 235: Geology of Baraboo Iron-
bearing District of Wisconsin, Dr. Samuel Weidman,
235: Geology of German South-West Africa, F. W.
Voit, 236: Examination of the Terraces along the Valley
of Inn, Dr. Ampferer, 236; Death of Robert Harris

June 8, 1905

the

Valpy, 253: Geology, Thomas C. Chamberlin and
Rollin D. Salisbury, 267; Recent Exploration in the
Mentone Caves, Prof. Marcellin Boule, 276; Geological
Survey of Canada, 276; Death of T. W. Shore, 278;
the Marine Beds in the Coal-measures of North Stafford-
shire, J. T. Stobbs, 310; Geology of Cyprus, C. V.
Bellamy and A. J. Jukes-Browne, 310; Geological Map
of Cyprus, C. V. Bellamy, 471; Stanford's Geological
Atlas of Great Britain (Based on Reynold's Geological
Atlas), Horace B. Woodward, F.R.S., 315; Death of
Dr. Albert von Reinach, 325; Geology of the Moon,
Sir Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 348; Classification of Igneous
Rocks, H. Stanley Jevons, 335; Eruptive Basic Rocks
of French Guinea, A. Lacroix, 407; the Hauraki Gold-
fields of New Zealand, W. Lindgren, 421; Zinc and Lead
Deposits of Northern Arkansas, G. I. Adams, 450; the
Copper Deposits of the Encampment District, Wyoming,
A. C. Spencer, 450; Economic Resources of
Northern Black Hills, J. D. Irving and S. F. Emmons,
450; T. A. Jaggar, jun., 450; a Geological Recon-
naissance Across the Bitterroot Range and Clearwater
Mountains in Montana and Idaho, W. Lindgren, 450;
Refractory Siliceous Ores of South Dakota, J. D. Irving
and S. F. Emmon, 452; the Jammu Coal-fields, India,
R. R. Simpson, 471; the Submarine Great Canyon of
the Hudson River, Dr. J. W. Spencer, 472; Climatic
Features in the Land Surface, Dr. Albrecht Penck, 472;
the Joess of Natchez and of the Lower Mississippi
Valley, Prof. B. Shimek, 472; the Kansas Oil-fields,
W. H. Heydrick, 472; Exploration of the Potter Creek
Cave in California, W. J. Sinclair, 472; Classification
of the Sedimentary Rocks, Dr. J. E. Marr, 477; die
Kalahari, Dr. Siegfried Passarge, 481; Death of
Jeremiah Slade, 491; British Association Geological
Photographs, 538; the Old Moraines of South Victoria
Land, H. T. Ferrar, 550; Death of H. B. Medlicott,
F.R.S., 565: Obituary Notice of, 612; Experiment in
Mountain Building, Lord Avebury, P.C., F.R.S., 575;
Existence of Schists with Graptoliths at Haci-El-
Khenig, Central Sahara, G. B. M. Flamand, 576; Land-
scape in History and Other Essays, Sir Archibald Geikie,
F.R.S., 577; the Fishes of the Two Sides of the Isthmus
of Panama, Messrs. Gilbert and Starks, 590; Death of
Prof. A. A. Wright, 614; the pre-Glacial Valleys of
Northumberland and Durham, Dr. D. Woolacott, 616;
the Physical History of the Victoria Falls, A. J. C.
Molyneux, 619; Proposed Classification of the Coal-
measures, R. Kidston, 622; Age and Relations of the
Phosphatic Chalk of Taplow, H. J. O. White and L.
Treacher, 622; Graptolite-bearing Rocks of the South
Orkney Islands, Dr. J. Harvey Pirie, 623
Geometry: Death of Dr. Francesco Chizzoni, 36, 350; a
School Geometry, H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, 75;
Theoretical Geometry for Beginners, C. H. Allcock, 75:
Elementary Plane Geometry, V. M. Turnbull, 75; a
New Geometry for Senior Forms, S. Barnard and J. M.
Child, 174: Solutions of the Exercises in Godfrey and
Siddons's Elementary Geometry, E. A. Price, 248;
Elementary Pure Geometry, with Mensuration, E.
Buddon, 507; Lessons in Experimental and Practical
Geometry, H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, 507; the
Elements of Geometry, Theoretical and Practical, B.
Arnett, 507

Georgiadès (N.), the Spring at Hammam Moussa, near
Tor, Sinai, 312

German Educational Exhibits at St. Louis, 513

German-English Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine
and the Allied Sciences, a, Hugo Lang and B. Abra-
hams, 533

Gessard (C.), Tyrosinase of the Fly, 24

Giacobini (M.), Discovery of a New Comet (1904 d), 185;
Elements and Ephemeris of Comet 1904 d, 211; Dis-
covery of a New Comet, 1905 a, 518

Giacobini, Comet 1904 d, 233; M. Ebell, 256; Giacobini
Comet 1905 a, Prof. Aitken, 544; Dr. Strömgren, 569;
Prof. Hartwig, 569: G. Bigourdan, 575
Gibbons (Kenrick), Mosquitoes Destroyed by Fish, 446
Gibson (Frank), Superstitions about Animals, 510
Gibson (George A.), an Elementary Treatise on Graphs, 211
Gibson (Prof. R. J. Harvey), Axillary Scales of Aquatic
Monocotyledans, 599

Gilbert (Dr. G. K.), Origin of Lunar Formation, 256
Gilbert (Mr.), the Fishes of the Two Sides of the Isthmus
of Panama, 590

Gilchrist (L.), Electrolysis of Acid Solutions of Aniline, 88
Gill (Sir David), Annual Report of the Cape Observatory,
63

Giolitti (F.), Attempts to Decide by Physical Methods the
Nature of Isodynamic Substances, 113

Giran (H.), Combustion of Sulphur in the Calorimetric
Bomb, 240

Girard (P.), Weight of the Brain as a Function of the
Body Weight in Birds, 600

Glacial Geology of New Jersey, the, Rollin D. Salisbury,
186

Glaciers, the Melting of, in Winter, Dr. R. von Len-
denfeld, 62

Glamour of the Earth, the, George A. B. Dewar, 53
Glasgow (Lord), Spread of the Steam Turbine for Marine-
Propulsion, 594

Glasgow University, Lord Kelvin and, 104

Gledhill (J. M.), Development and Rise of High-speed Tool
Steel, 40

Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms,
Alexander Knox, 271

Glow-worm in India, an Aquatic, N. Annandale, 288
Gnesotto (Dr. Tullio), Superfusion Phenomena, 305
Godchot (M.), on Dextrorotatory Lactic Acid, 503
Goddard (P. E.), Folk-tales of Plains Indians, 418
Godfrey and Siddons's Elementary Geometry, Solutions of
the Exercises in, E. A. Price, 248

Goding (Dr. F.), the Australian Cicadidæ, 72
Godlewski (Dr. T.), a New Radio-active Product from
Actinium, 294

Gods, the Food of the, H. G. Wells, 193
Gold Mining in France, 445

Gold and Silver Ores, Cyaniding, H. Forbes Julian and
Edgar Smart, 292

Goldschmidt (Dr. R.), Distinct Second Family Type of
Lancelets (Cephalochordata), 590

Gomery (A. de Gerlache de), Résultats du Voyage du
S.Y. Belgica en 1897, 1898, 1899, sous le Commandemant
de, 337

Goodall (Dr.), Experiments on the Simultaneous Removal
of Spleen and Thymus, 263

Goodrich (W. Francis), Small Destructors for Institutional
and Trade Waste, 246

Gordon (Dr. Mervyn), Bacterial Test for Estimation of
Air-pollution, 237

Gore (J. E.), a Probable Variable of the Algol Type, 55;
Studies in Astronomy, 199

Göttingen Royal Society of Sciences, 192, 600
Götz (P.), Parallax of a Low Meteor, 133

Government Observatory at Victoria, the, P. Baracchi, 449
Gowers (Sir William R., F.R.S.), Clinical Lectures on
Diseases of the Nervous System, 6

Graber's Leitfaden der Zoologie für höhere Lehranstalten,
265

Grablovitz (Prof.), Nature of Wave Motion in Third Phase
of Record of Distant Earthquake, 20

Grace (J. H.), the Algebra of Invariants, 601
Grand'Eury (M.), the Grains Found attached to Pec-
topteris Pluckeneti, 575

Granger (Albert), the Properties of Tungstic Anhydride as a
Colouring Material for Porcelain, 575

Grant (Prebendary), Exploration at the Ancient British
Lake Village at Glastonbury, 422

Graphic Statics, T. Alexander and A. W. Thompson, 507
Graphs, an Elementary Treatise on, George A. Gibson,
Prof. George M. Minchin, F.R.S., 211

Grass-snake, Tenacity to Life of a, E. V. Windsor, 390
Gray (Dr. A. A.), the Membranous Labyrinth of the In-
ternal Ear of Man and the Seal, 615

Great Britain and Ireland, the Mammals of, J. G. Millais,

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