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the Moon, Sir Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., 348; Observations of
the Recent Eclipse of the, M. Puiseux, 518
Moon and Barometer, the, Alex. B. MacDowall, 320
Moore (Prof. B.), Physical Chemistry of Anæsthesia, 499 ;
a Primer of Physiology, Prof. E. H. Starling, F.R.S.,
556; Elementary Practical Physiology, John Thornton,
556; Absence or Marked Diminution of Free Hydrochloric
Acid in the Gastric Contents in Malignant Disease of
Organs other than the Stomach, 596

Moorish Designs, Magic Origin of, Dr. Ed. Westermarck,
165

Moorland Districts, Plant-associations in, Francis J. Lewis,
257

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Morbology Lectures on the Diseases of Children, Dr.
Robert Hutchison, 28; Tumour in an Oyster, Harbert
Hamilton, 37; Trypanosomiasis in French West Africa,
A. Laveran, 47; Trypanosome Diseases, Prof. Robert
Koch, 112; Trypanosomiasis and the Tsetse-fly in
French Guinea, A. Laveran, 287; Comparative Effects
of the Trypanosomata of Gambia Fever and Sleeping
Sickness upon Rats, H. G. Plimmer, 379; on Surra and
the Differentiation of Trypanosomes, A. Laveran and
F. Mesnil, 551; Sleeping Sickness in the Congo, 60;
Sleeping Sickness in Congo Free State, Messrs. Dutton,
Todd, and Christy, 499; Relationship of Human Try-
panosomiasis to Congo Sleeping Sickness, Messrs. Dutton,
Todd, and Christy, 499; Identity of Various Trypano-
somes of Man, Dr. Thomas and Mr. Linton, 499; the
Congo Floor Maggot, Messrs. Dutton, Todd, and Christy,
499; the Parasites of Small-pox and Vaccinia, Dr. W. E.
de Korté, 112; the Cancer Problem in a Nutshell, Dr.
Robert Bell, 76; the Treatment of Cancer with Radium,
588; Absence or Marked Diminution of Free Hydrochloric
Acid in the Gastric Contents in Malignant Disease of
Organs other than the Stomach, Prof. Benjamin Moore,
Dr. W. Alexander, R. E. Kelly, and H. E. Roaf, 596;
Conclusions of the Committee on Dr. Doyen's Treatment
of Cancer, 208; Two Distinct Forms of Tubercle Bacilli,
Human and Bovine, 130; (1) Transmissibility of Tuber-
culosis of the Monkey to the Ox and Goat; (2) on the
Use of Tuberculin in the Detection of Tuberculosis, Prof.
A. E. Mettam, 503; Interim Report of British Association
Committee on Ankylostomiasis in Britain, 209; Destruc-
tion of Rats and Disinfection on Shipboard, with Special
Reference to Plague, Drs. Haldane and Wade, 209;
Bacteriological Diagnosis of Plague, Dr. Klein, 237;
Plague at Sydney in 1903, Dr. Ashburton Thompson,
542; Bacteria of Proteus vulgaris, Dr. Sidney Martin,
237; Bilharzia, Dr. Symmers, 307; Fevers in the Dinaj-
pur District, Dr. L. Rogers, 336; Vitality of the Typhoid
Bacillus in Shell-fish, Dr. Klein, F.R.S., 421; Epidemic
of Typhoid at Lincoln, 421; Mosquitoes and Malaria,
Major Ronald Ross, F.R.S., 590

Morel (M.), Carbimide of Natural Leucine, 431; Sub-
stituted Ureas from Natural Leucine, 551
Moreux (Th.), Nature of Sun-spots, 592
Morozewicz (Prof. J.), Beckelite, 305
Morphology: Morphologie und Biologie der Zelle, Dr.
Alexander Gurwitsch, 174; Morphologische Studien, als
Beitrag zur Methodologie zoologischer Probleme, Tad.
Garbowski, 265; Morphologie und Biologie der Algen,
Dr. Friedrich Oltmanns, George Murray, F.R.S., 362;
Morphology, Prof. A. Giard, 422; Ontogeny of the
Neuron in Vertebrates, Dr. John Cameron, 431;
Morphology and Anthropology, W. L. H. Duckworth,
433; Praktikum für morphologische und systematische
Botanik, Dr. Karl Schumann, 436; Morphological
Superiority of the Male Sex in Animals, Dr. T. H.
Montgomery, 542

Morrell (R. S.), Dynamic Isomerism of a- and B-Crotonic
Acids, 70; Action of Hydrogen Peroxide on Carbohydrates
in Presence of Ferrous Sulphate, 478; Compounds of
Guanidine with Sugars, 479

Morris (Sir Daniel), Cassava Poisoning, 305; Agriculture
in the West Indies, 350
Morris-Airey (H.), Determination of Wave-length in the
Extreme Ultra-violet Part of the Spectrum, 191
Morrow (J.), an Interference Apparatus for the Calibration
of Extensometers, 47; the Distribution of Velocity in a
Viscous Fluid over the Cross-section of a Pipe, and the
Action at the Critical Velocity, 621

Morton (Dr. Reginald), Light-energy, its Physics, Physio-
logical Action, and Therapeutics, Dr. Margaret A.
Cleaves, 269

Moschick (Herr), Encke's Comet (1904 b), 114
Mosquitoes destroyed by Fish, Kenrick Gibbons, 446
Mosquitoes and Malaria, Major Ronald Ross, F.R.S., 590
Moss Agates, Change in the Colour of, W. A. Whitton, 31;
C. Simmonds, 54; A. Hutchinson, 101

Moss (Richard J.), Helium in Pitchblende, 158
Mosso (Prof.), the Monte Rosa and Col d'Olen Inter-
national Laboratories, 443

Motion of Clouds, the General, Prof. H. H. Hildebrands-
son, 329

Motion in a Compressible Fluid, Theory of Rapid, 196
Motor-cars, Oils for, C. Simmonds, 205
Motors, Electric, H. M. Hobart, 1

Mott (Dr. F. W.), Studies in National Eugenics, 402
Mottez (Lucien), la Matière, l'Ether et les Forces
physiques, 486

Mottier (David M.), Fecundation in Plants, 218
Moulton (J. Fletcher, F.R.S.), Trend of Invention in
Chemical Industry, 36

Mount Everest: the Story of a Long Controversy, Captain
H. Wood, R.E., Major S. G. Burrard, F.R.S., 42;
Douglas W. Freshfield, 82

Moureau (G.), a New Class of Ions, 143
Moureux (Th.), the Large Solar Spot of February, 1905,431
Muff (H. B.), the Pre-Glacial Raised Beach of the South
Coast of Ireland, 17

Muir (M. M. Pattison), the Elements of Chemistry, 582
Muir (Prof. Robert), Chemical Combination and Toxic
Action as Exemplified in Hæmolytic Sera, 238

Muller (P. Th.), Constitution of the Sodium Salts of certain
Methenic and Methinic Acids, 239

Mundy (A. T.), Craniology of Man and the Anthropoid
Apes, 125

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

Murray (D.), Museums, their History and their Use, with
a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United
Kingdom, 554
Murray (George, F.R.S.), Morphologie und Biologie der
Algen, Dr. Friedrich Oltmanns, 362; on a Method of
Using the Tow-net as an Opening and Closing Tow-net,
364; a New Rhabdosphere, 501

Murray (Sir John), Relation of Oceanography to other
Sciences, 381

Murray (J.), New Family and Twelve New Species of
Rotifera of the Order Bdelloida, 383; the Rhizopods and
Heliozoa of Loch Ness, 623

Murray (Dr. J. Erskine), a Simple Differentiating Machine,
38

Museum History, a Contribution to, 485

Museums, their History and their Use, with a Bibliography
and List of Museums in the United Kingdom, D.
Murray, 554

Museums' Journal, the, 57

Mutation, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 366
Muttrich (Dr. Anton), Death of, 278

Nagaoka (Prof. H.), Effect of Temperature on the Mag-
netisation of Steel, Nickel, and Cobalt, 448
Nance (J. T.), a Carbide of Magnesium, 599
Natal Observatory, Report of the, E. Nevill, 282
National Antarctic Expedition, Captain Scott, 41
National Efficiency in Japan, Education and, Dr. Henry
Dyer, 150

National Physical Laboratory, 495

National University Library, a, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,
366

Native Tribes of South-east Australia, the, A. W. Howitt,
A. Ernest Crawley, 225

Natural History: Notes of an East Coast Naturalist,
Arthur H. Patterson, 4; Nature Teaching, F. Watts and
W. G. Freeman, 5; Thinking Cats, Y. N., 9; R.
Langton Cole, 31; Reason in Dogs, Arthur J. Hawkes,
54; Intelligence in Animals, J. E. A. T., 102; Rev. Joseph
Meehan, 176; T. S. Patterson, 201; F. J. Allen, 222;
F. C. Constable, 102; the " Spout" of Whales, Dr. G. M.
Allen, 38; House, Garden, and Field, a Collection of

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Short Nature Studies, L. C. Miall, 52; the Glamour of
the Earth, George A. B. Dewar, 53; Linnean Society,
70, 239, 430, 550, 599; New South Wales Linnean
Society, 72, 192, 263; the Story without an End, Sarah
Austin, 76; the Ben Bulben District, 91; Curious Traits
displayed by Ants, Miss A. M. Fielde, 112; the Ad-
venture of Cock Robin and his Mate, R. Kearton, 152;
the Intelligent Horse "Clever Hans,' Prof. Stumpf,
156; the Nature-study" of Birds, J. M. Boraston, 179;
the Lubbock Formicarium, 181; Across the Great St.
Bernard, the Modes of Nature and the Manners of Men,
A. R. Sennett, 197; a Fauna of the North-west High-
lands and Skye, J. A. Harvie-Brown and H. A. Mac-
Pherson, 202; Wanderings in the Great Forests of
Borneo, Travels and Researches of a Naturalist in
Sarawak, O. Beccari, 203; Notes on the Natural History
of the Bell Rock, J. M. Campbell, 221; Second Report
on Economic Zoology, British Museum (Natural History),
Fred V. Theobold, 272: Stories from Natural History,
Richard Wagner, 317; Can Birds Smell? Dr. Alex. Hill,
318; on a Method of Using the Tow-net as an Opening
and Closing Tow-net, George Murray, F.R.S., 364; the
Natural History of Animals, the Animal Life of the
World in its Various Aspects and Relations, J. R. A.
Davis, 369; the Imperial Guide to India, including
Kashmir, Burma, and Ceylon, 387; Tenacity to Life of
a Grass-snake, E. V. Windsor, 390; the Country Day
by Day, E. K. Robinson, 418; a Naturalist's Journal,
E. K. Robinson, 418; the Glacial Fauna and Flora of the
Plateau of Baraque-Michel, Ardennes, L. Frederico, 468;
Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist, L. W.
Brownell, 483; the History of the Collections contained
in the Natural History Departments of the British
Museum, 485 Superstitions about Animals, Frank
Gibson, 510; Peeps into Nature's Ways, being Chapters
on Insect, Plant, and Minute Life, J. J. Ward, 512; the
Legendary Suicide of the Scorpion, Prof. Edward B.
Poulton, F.R.S., 534; the Mammals and Birds of Liberia,
Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 574; Richard
Jefferies, his Life and Ideals, H. S. Salt, 582
Naturbegriffe und Natururteile, Hans Driesch, 270
Naturdenkmäler und Vorschläge zur ihrer erhaltung, die
Gefährdung der, H. Conwentz, 73

Naturwissenschaft, Religion und, eine Antwort an Prof.
Ladenburg, Prof. Arthur Titius, 27

Naturwissenschaftlicher Grundlage, Philosophische Propä-
deutik auf, August Schulte-Tigges, 27

Naval Architecture: the Institution of Naval Architects,
594: Report of the Council, 594; Spread of the Steam
Turbine for Marine Propulsion, Lord Glasgow, 594:
Design of the Antarctic Exploration Vessel Discovery,
W. E. Smith, 594: Hollow versus Straight Lines, R. E.
Froude, 595; Special Brasses for Naval Construction, L.
Guillet, 616

Naval Engineering, Death and Obituary Notice of Beau-
champ Tower, 253

Naval Observatory, Report of the United States, Rear-
Admiral Chester, 211

Navigation: New Dover-Ostend Mail Boat a Turbine
Steamer, 111; Submarine Signalling by Sound, J. B.
Millet, 595

Navigation, Progress in Aërial, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S.,
453

Nebula, the Dumb-bell, Louis Rabourdin, 40

Nebula, Photography of Planetary, W. S. Franks, 618
Nebulous Areas in Scorpio, Variable Stars and, Miss H. S.
Leavitt, 282

Neilson (R. M.), Possibilities of Gas Turbines from a
Scientific Standpoint, 87

Neolithic Deposits in the North-east of Ireland, George
Coffey and R. Lloyd Praeger, 444

Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattle-ways, A. J. Hubbard and
G. Hubbard, 611

Nest of the Fighting Fish, the, E. H. Waite, 450

Neu (L.), a New Safety Arrangement for Electrical Mains
at High Tension, 47

Neurology: Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous
System, Sir William R. Gowers, F.R.S., 6; Arris and
Gale Lectures on the Neurology of Vision, J. Herbert
Parsons, 340

Nevill (E.). Report of the Natal Observatory, 282

New Britain, Zoological Results based on Material from,
Dr. Arthur Willey, 411

New Guinea, Zoological Results based on Material from,
Dr. Arthur Willey, 411

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

New South Wales, the Commercial Timbers of, J. H.
Maiden, 157

New South Wales Linnean Society, 72, 192, 263
New South Wales Royal Society, 72, 168, 335, 384
New Zealand, the Animals of, an Account of the Colony's
Air-breathing Vertebrates, F. W. Hutton and J. Drum-
mond, 199

Newcomb (Prof.), the Eclipse of Agathocles in the Year
-309, 311

Newman (Dr. George), Bacteriology and the Public Health,
388
Newton (E. T., F.R.S.), an Ossiferous Pleistocene Cavern
at Hoe Grange Quarry, 165; on an Ossiferous Cave of
Pleistocene Age at Hoe Grange Quarry, Longcliffe, near
Brassington (Derbyshire), 488

Nichols (E. L.), Absorptive Power of Fluorescent Sub-
stances during Active Fluorescence, 423
Nicholson (F.), the Mistaken Idea that Birds are Seed-
carriers, 167

Nicolardot (Paul), Ferric Ethylate, 551

Nicolucci (Prof. Giustiniano), Obituary Notice of, 39
Night, Fishing at, S. W., 201; F. G. Aflalo, 221
Nijland (Prof.), Observations of Comets 1904 d and 1904 e,

281

Nile, Bird Notes from the, Lady William Cecil, 150
Nippoldt (A.), Simultaneous Occurrence of Solar and Mag-
netic Disturbances, 16

Nolan (Thomas), the Telescope, 460
Nordenskjöld (Dr. N. Otto G.), Antarctica, or Two Years
amongst the Ice of the South Pole, 560
Nordmann (Charles), Measurements of the Conductivity
of Dielectrics by Means of Ionised Gases, 263; Automatic
Registration of Atmospheric Ionisation, 407; Structure
of the Corona, 469

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

North African Petroglyphs, E. F. Gautier, 570
North America, Glaciation in, Rollin D. Salisbury, 186
Northall-Laurie (D.), Action of Carbon Monoxide
Ammonia, 508

Notices sur l'Électricité, A. Cornu, 1

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Observations of Occultations by Planets, Dr. T. J. J. See,
185

Observatories: Harvard College Observatory, Plan for the
Endowment of Astronomical Research, Prof. E. C.
Pickering, 40; Annual Report of the Cape Observatory,
Sir David Gill, 63; the Companion to the Observatory,
186; Report of the United States Naval Observatory,
Rear-Admiral Chester, 211; Astronomical "Annuario
of the Turin Observatory, 256; Report of the Natal
Observatory, E. Nevill, 282; the Jesuit Observatory at
Belen, Havana, 282; Report of the Yale Observatory,
1900-4, Dr. Elkin, 354; the Pic du Midi Observatory,
M. L. Rudaux, 354; the Government Observatory at
Victoria, P. Baracchi, 449; Magnetic and Meteorological
Observatory, New Year Island, Captain H. L. Cros-
thwaite, 515; Observations at Hong Kong Observatory in
1903, 516; Stonyhurst College Observatory, Father Sid-
greaves, 592

Oceanic Carbon Dioxide, Atmospheric and, Dr. A. Harden,
283; Dr. A. Krogh, 283

Oceanography: Observations océanographiques et météor-
ologiques dans la Région du Courant de Guinée (1855-
1900), 293; Relation of Oceanography to other Sciences,
Sir John Murray, 381; zur Bildung der ozeanischen
Salzablagerung, J. H. van 't Hoff, 508

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Oceanu (P.), Physiological Effects of Ovariotomy in the
Goat, 312

Occultations by Planets, Observations of, Dr. T. J. J.
See, 185

Oil: l'Industrie oléicole (Fabrication de l'Huile d'Olive),
J. Dugast, 6

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

Oils for Motor-cars, C. Simmonds, 205

Okada (T.), the Duration of Rainfall, 305

Oldham (C.), the Dissemination of Seeds by Birds, 334
Olive, Fabrication de l'Huile d', l'Industrie oléicole, J.
Dugast, 6.

Oltmanns (Dr. Friedrich), Morphologie und Biologie der
Algen, 362

Ommanney (Admiral Sir Erasmus, K.C.B., F.R.S.), Death
and Obituary Notice of, 207

Omori (Prof.), Variations of Sea Level on the East Coast
of Japan, 20; Relation between the Variations in Lati-
tude at Tokio and the Occurrence of Earthquakes in
Japan, 309
Ophthalmology: Trachoma, Dr. J. Boldt, 198; Arris and
Gale Lectures on the Neurology of Vision, J. Herbert
Parsons, 340

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Opposition of Mars, Forthcoming, R. Buchanan, 494
Optics: Stereoscopy without a Stereoscope, J. Violle, 23;
on a Property of Lenses, Dr. G. E. Allan, 47; Appa-
ratus for Direct Determination of the Curvatures of
Small Lenses, Dr. C. V. Drysdale, 142; Crystals Show-
ing the Phenomenon of Luminous Rings, Prof. S. P.
Thompson, 142; Optically Active Nitrogen Compounds,
Miss M. B. Thomas and H. O. Jones, 166; Death of
Prof. Macé de Lépinay, 181; the Primary Formation of
Optically Active Substances in Nature, Dr. A. Byk, 210;
die Bilderzeugung in optischen Instrumenten,
Standpunkte der geometrischen Optik, Prof. G. H.
Bryan, F.R.S., 217; Grundzüge der Theorie der
optischen Instrumente nach Abbe, Dr. Siegfried Czapski,
Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 217; the Optical Dictionary,
248; Interference Fringes produced by a System of Two
Perpendicular Mirrors, G. Lippmann, 263; Death of
Prof. Ernst Abbe, 278; Obituary Notice of, 307; a
Method of Reading Large Surfaces of Mercury, A.
Berget, 287; "Verant" Lens for Stereoscopic Effect
with Monocular Vision, Walter Stahlberg, 305; Theory
of Symmetrical Optical Objectives, part, ii., S. D.
Chalmers, 380; Phosphorescence of Phosphorus, E. Jung-
fleisch, 407; Absorptive Power of Fluorescent Substances
during Active Fluorescence, E. L. Nichols and Ernest
Merritt, 423; Application of the Iris Diaphragm in
Astronomy, M. Salet, 455; an Introduction to the Theory
of Optics, Prof. A. Schuster, F.R.S., 457; the Telescope,
Thomas Nolan, 460; the Ashe-Finlayson Compara-
scope, D. Finlayson, 478; Photomicrography by Ultra-
violet Light, Dr. A. Kohler, 517; Two Cases of Tri-
chromic Vision, Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, 573; Fluor-
escence and Absorption, J. B. Burke, 597; Conflict
between the Primary and Accidental Images applied to
the Theory of Inevitable Variability of Retinal Im-
pressions, A. Chauveau, 599; Dichroism produced by
Radium in Colourless Quartz, and a Thermoelectric
Phenomenon in Striated Smoky Quartz, N. Egoroff,
600; Photograph of a Lightning Flash showing the Air
in Incandescence, Em. Touchet, 600; Ellipsoidal Lenses,
R. J. Sowter, 622

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Orbit of the Binary Star Ceti 82, Prof. Aitken, 519
Orbit of Sirius, the, Prof. Doberck, 133
Orbits of Minor Planets, Prof. J. Bauschinger, 469
Orchideen-arten, Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den
angrenzenden Gebieten Vorkommenden Grundformen der,
Dr. F. Kränzlin, 341

Organic Chemistry, Applications of some General
Reactions to Investigations in, Dr. Lassar-Cohn,

220

Organic Compounds, the Chemical Synthesis of Vital Pro-
ducts and the Inter-relation between, Prof. Raphael
Meldola, F.R.S., 170

Organic Evolution, an Outline of the Theory of, with a
Description of some of the Phenomena which it Explains,
Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, 509

Organisation, Imperial, Sir Frederick Pollock, 589

June 8, 1905

Origin of Life, the, George Hookham, 9, 101; Geologist,
31; Dr. F. J. Allen, 54

Origin of Lunar Formation, G. Romanes, 256; Dr.
Johnston-Lavis, 256; Dr. G. K. Gilbert, 256

Origin of Radium, the, W. C. D. Whetham, F.R.S., 319
Ornithology: Bird Notes from the Nile, Lady William
Cecil, 150; the Adventure of Cock Robin and his Mate,
R. Kearton, 152; a Flamingo City, Breeding-places of
the American Flamingo in the Bahamas, F. M. Chap-
man, 156; the Mistaken Idea that Birds are Seed-
carriers, F. Nicholson, 167; Birds by Land and Sea,
the Record of a Year's Work with Field Glass and
Camera, J. M. Boraston, 179; a New British Bird!
W. P. Pycraft, 201; Can Birds Smell? Dr. Alex. Hill,
318; 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; the
Birds of Calcutta, F. Finn, 438; Birds I have Known,
Arthur H. Beavan, 581; Weight of the Brain as a Func-
tion of the Body Weight in Birds, L. Lapicque and P.
Girard, 600

Orthoptera, a Synonymic Catalogue of, W. F. Kirby, 459
Osborn (Prof. H. F.), Evolution of the Horse in America,
615;
61; Ichthyosaurs, 279; Sauropod Dinosaurs,
Armadillos from the Bridger Eocene, 615
Oscillation, Lissajous's Figures by Tank, T. Terada, 296
Osmond (F.), the Micrographical Study of the Meteorite
of the Diablo Canyon, 287

Ossiferous Cave of Pleistocene Age, on an, at Hoe Grange
Quarry, Longcliffe, near Brassington, Derbyshire, H. H.
Arnold Bemrose and E. T. Newton, F.R.S., 165, 488
Ostwald (Wilhelm), the Principles of Inorganic Chemistry,
388; die Schule der Chemie, 435

Other Side of the Lantern, the, Sir Frederick Treves,
Bart, 553

Otsuki (C.), Photographic Activity of Hydrogen Peroxide,
468

Oxford Discovery, a Great, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S.,

510

Oxygen Band Series, Deslandres's Formula for the Lines
in the, Prof. Deslandres, 63

Oyster, Larva and Spat of the Canadian, J. Stafford, 468

Pacific Ocean, a Contemplated Magnetic Survey of the
North, by the Carnegie Institution, Dr. L. A. Bauer,
389
Packard (Dr. A. S.), Death of, 420; Obituary Notice of,
466

Packard (Prof.), Origin of the Markings of Organisms,
542

Pages from a Country Diary, P. Somers, 175
Paint and Varnish, the Industrial and Artistic Technology
of, A. H. Sabin, C. Simmonds, 50
Palæobotany: on the Reconstruction of a Fossil Plant,
Lyginodendron Oldhamium, Dr. Dukinfield H. Scott,
F.R.S., 47; Comparative Age of Flora of Eastern North
America, Dr. J. W. Hashberger, 61; Palæozoic Seed
Plants, E. A. N. Arber, 68; Models of Palæozoic Seeds
and Cones, H. E. H. Smedley, 183; Fossil Plants from
the Paleozoic Rocks, v., New Sphenophyllaceous Cone
from the Lower Coal-measures, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S.,
164; Lepidocarpon and the Gymnosperms, Dr. D. H.
Scott, F.R.S., 201; Sporangium-like Organs of Glosso-
pteris Browniana, E. A. Newell Arber, 382; the Early
History of Seed-bearing Plants as Recorded in the
Carboniferous Flora, Wilde Lecture at Manchester
Literary and Philosophical Society, Dr. D. H. Scott,
F.R.S., 426; Plants from the Coal-measures Found in
the Borings at Eply, Lesménils, and Pont-à-Mousson,
R. Zeiler, 551; the Grains Found Attached to Pecto
pteris Pluckeneti, M. Grand'Eury, 575
Palæoichthyology: the Fishes of the Two Sides of the
Isthmus of Panama, Messrs. Gilbert and Starks, 590
Palæontology: Dimorphism of the English Species of
Nummulites, J. J. Lister, F.R.S., 71; Extinct Mammalia
in a Carboniferous Cavern near Doneraile, R. J. Ussher,
71; Eocene Whales, F. A. Lucas, 102; on the Occurrence
of Elephas meridionalis Dewlish, Dorset, Rev.
Osmond Fisher, 118; the Rhætic Bone-beds, W. H.
Wickes, 161; the Ammonite Fauna of the Spiti Shales,
Dr. Victor Uhlig, 161; the Paleozoic Palæechinoidea,

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Mary J. Klem, 162; an Ossiferous Pleistocene Cavern at
Hoe Grange Quarry, H. H. Arnold-Bemrose and E. T.
Newton, F.R.S., 165, 488; the Fossil Reptiles of South
Africa, Dr. R. Broom, 232; Ichthyosaurs, Prof. H. F.
Osborn, 279; Man and the Mammoth at the Quaternary
Period in the Soil of the Rue de Rennes, M. Capitan,
311, the Fossil Sirenians of the Mediterranean Formation
of Austria, Dr. O. Abel, 351; Skeleton of the Dinosaur
Brontosaurus from Bone Cabin Quarry, 372; Cranial
Osteology of the Fishes of the Families Osteoglossidæ,
Pantodontidae, and Phractolæmidæ, Dr. W. G. Ride-
wood, 381; an Opalised Plesiosaurian Reptile of the
Genus Cimoliosaurus from White Cliffs, New South
Wales, R. Etheridge, 399; Exploration of the Potter
Creek Cave in California, W. J. Sinclair, 472; the
Opisthocalian Dinosaurs, E. S. Riggs, 515; Annelid
Remains and Ammonites in the Salto del Fraile and
Morro Solar Districts, C. I. Lisson, 541; Gasteropoda
from the Silurian Rocks of Llangadock, Miss J. Donald,
549: the Dinosaur Diplodocus carnegii, Dr. W. J.
Holland, 565: Abnormal Remains of the Red Deer
(Cervus elaphus), M. A. C. Hinton, 575; Affinities of
Procolophon, Dr. R. Broom, 575; Sauropod Dinosaurs,
Prof. H. F. Osborn, 615: Armadillos from the Bridger
Eocene, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 615; Palæontology of the
Upper Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth Area, Dr.
R. H. Traquair, 623

Palæozoic Seed Plants, E. A. N. Arber, 68

Palazzo (Dr. L.), Scientific Experiments in Italy with Un-
manned Balloons, 113

Palisa (Dr.), Elements and Ephemeris for Comet 1905 a
(Giacobini), 617

Pannett (C. A.), Practical Exercises in Chemical Physi-
ology and Histology, 412

Pappadá (Nicola), Coagulation of Dilute Solutions of Silicic
Acid under the Influence of Various Substances, 616
Para Rubber, the Cultivation and Preparation of, W. H.
Johnson, 321, 352; C. Simmonds, 321

Paraiypye (R. P.), Dates of Publication of Scientific Books,
320; Henry Frowde, 365

farallax of a Low Meteor, P. Götz, 133
Paret (J. Parmly), Lawn Tennis, 436

Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 167,
191, 239, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431, 455,
479, 503, 527, 551. 575, 599, 623; Prize Awards of the,
214: Prizes Proposed by the Paris Academy of Sciences
for 1905, 234

Parsons (J. Herbert), Arris and Gale Lectures on the
Neurology of Vision, 340

Particles and Rigid Bodies, a Treatise on the Dynamics
of, E. T. Whittaker, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 601
Partitions, Quadratic, Lieut.-Colonel Allan Cunningham,

124

Passaic Floods of 1902 and 1903, the, 11

Passarge (Dr. Siegfried), die Kalahari, 481

Pasture, Making a, 604

Patagonia, Sir Thomas Holdich, K.C.M.G., 102

Path of a Bright Meteor, Real, H. Rosenberg, 569
Paton (Dr. Noel), Experiments on the Simultaneous Re-
moval of Spleen and Thymus, 263

Patterson (Andrew Melville), the Human Sternum, 145
Patterson (Arthur H.), Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, 4
Patterson (T. S.), Intelligence of Animals, 201; Studies in
Optical Superposition, 239

Patterson (W. H.), Electrically Heated Carbon Tube
Furnaces, 598

Paul (R. W.), New Electrical Instruments, 95

Payne (Prof.), Celestial Photography at High Altitudes, 114
Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, Report to
the Government of Ceylon on the, W. A. Herdman,
FR.S., 395

Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), a Great Oxford Discovery,
510; the Ancient Races of the Thebaid, 583
Pechule (Herr), Ephemeris for Comet 1904 d, 353.

Pe (J.), Action of Radium on the Electric Spark, 358
Paul (A.), Estimation of Carbon Monoxide in Confined
Atmospheres, 287

Pigrin (Jacques), Anatomy of Fishes of the Genus
Orestias, 48

Fenard (Dr. E.), les Heliozoaires d'Eau Douce, 289; the
Sarcodina of Loch Ness, 623

Penck (Dr. Albrecht), Climatic Features in the Land Sur-
face, 472

Pendlebury (Charles), New School Arithmetic, 75; New
School Examples in Arithmetic, 75

Pendulum, Method of illustrating the Laws of the Simple,
J. Schofield, 455

Penrose's Pictorial Annual, 1904-5, the Process Year-book,
364

People of the North-east of Scotland, 186 ̊

Pepys (Samuel) and the Royal Society, Sir Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 415

Percentage Tables for Elementary Analysis, Leo F. Gutt-
mann, 460

Perch, a Large Indian Sea, Major A. Alcock, F.R.S., 415
Periodical Comets due to Return in 1905, W. T. Lynn,
306

Perkin (Dr. F. Mollwo), Electrolytic Analysis of Cobalt
and Nickel, 239; International Atomic Weights, 461;
Tantalum, 610

Perkin (Dr. W. H.), Attempts to decide by Physical
Methods the Nature of Isodynamic Substances, 113.
Perkin (W. H., jun.), Reduction of Isophthalic Acid, 478
Perman (Dr. E. P.), Determination of Vapour-pressure by
Air-bubbling, 597; Direct Synthesis of Ammonia, 597
Perrier (A.), Function of Fatty Material in Fungi, 600
Perrier (G.), an Isomeride of Trichloroacetone, 311
Perrigot (M.), on M. Bordier's Supposed Demonstration of
n-Rays by Photographic Methods, 287

Perrine (Prof.), Discovery of a Sixth Satellite to Jupiter,
256, 282; Jupiter's Sixth Satellite, 329; Solar Eclipse
Problems, 329; Jupiter's Seventh Satellite, 449; Dis-
covery of Jupiter's Sixth Satellite, 494

Perrot (F. Louis), the Use of Helium as a Thermometric
Substance and its Diffusion through Silica, 95
Perrotin (M.), Observations of Perseids, 89
Perseid Shower, the, A. King, 40

Perseids, Observations of, M. Chrétien, 89; M. Perrotin,
89; G. A. Quignon, 89; Prof. S. Zammarchi, 133
Peru: Hæmatite Deposits of Peru, Señor Venturo, 236;
Nickeliferous Veins of La Mar, Eduardo de Habich,
236; Water-supply of the Rimac Valley, Señor Elmore,
236

Petals of Selenipedium, the Direction of the Spiral in the,
George Wherry, 31

Petit (Joseph), Influence of the Nature of the Anode on
the Electrolytic Oxidation of Potassium Ferrocyanide,
119; Electrolysis of Organic Acids by Means of the
Alternating Current, 407; Electrolytic Solution
Platinum in Sulphuric Acid, 479

of

Petroglyphs, North African, E. F. Gautier, 570
Petrography, the Twentieth Century Atlas of Microscopical,
341

Petrology: Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks,
H. S. Washington, 219

Pflanzen, die Sinnesorgane der, G. Haberlandt, 123

Pflanzen, die Transpiration der, Dr. Alfred Burgerstein, 51
Pflanzen, Unsere, F. Söhns, 510

Phaistos and Hagia Triada, Crete, 465

Philippe (L.), Constitution of Ricinine, 119

Philippine Islands, Scientific Research in the, Prof. R. T.
Hewlett, 162

Phillips (Dr. O. P.), Central Nucleus in the Cells of the
Cyanophyceæ, 422

Phillips (P.), the Slow Stretch in Indiarubber, Glass, and
Metal Wires Subjected to a Constant Pull, 359
Phillips (Rev. T. E.), the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, 211
Philology Misuse of Words and Phrases, T. B. S., 9, 54;
A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 30

Philosophy: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society,
23, 71, 167, 191, 334, 383, 431, 575; a Primer of Philo-
sophy, A. S. Rappoport, 27; Religion und Naturwissen-
schaft, eine Antwort an Professor Ladenburg, Arthur
Titius, 27; Philosophische Propädeutik auf Naturwissen-
schaftlicher Grundlage, August Schulte-Tigges, 27; der
Skeptizismus in der Philosophie, Raoul Richter, 27;
Cambridge Philosophical Society, 71, 166, 191, 430, 479,
550; Death of Paul Tannery, 130; South African Philo-
sophical Society, 168; the Wonders of Life, a Popular
Study of Biological Philosophy, Ernst Haeckel, 313:
Prize Subjects of the Batavian Society of Experimental
Philosophy, 354; Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum, and

a History of Classifications of the Sciences, Robert
Flint, 505

Phisalix (C.), Influence of the Radium Emanation on the
Toxic Power of Snake Poison, 456

Phonetics Über das Studium der Sprach Kurven, E. W.
Scripture, Prof. John G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 250
Phosphorescence caused by the Beta and Gamma Rays of
Radium, G. T. Beilby, 476

Photograms of the Year 1904, 175

:

Photography the Science and Practice of, Chapman Jones,
C. E. Kenneth Mees, 29; a Problem Concerning Wood
and Lignified Cell-walls, Prof. Marshall Ward, F.R.S.,
71; Photography on Tour, 76; Dr. Koenig's Method of
Colour Photography, 83; Photographic Method of Re-
cording the Temperature of Pieces of Steel during Cool-
ing, H. Le Chatelier, 88; Dr. Schleussner's Dry Plates,
88; the Photographic Spectrum of Jupiter, G. Millochau,
89 Retouching, Arthur Whiting, 100; Practical Re-
touching, Drinkwater Butt, 317; Celestial Photography
at High Altitudes, Prof. Payne and Dr. H. C. Wilson,
114; Advanced Hand-Camera Work, Walter Kilbey, 124;
Photograms of the Year 1904, 175; the British Journal
Photographic Almanac, 1905, 221; Practical Professional
Photography, C. H. Hewitt, 248; on M. Bordier's Sup-
posed Demonstration of n-Rays by Photographic Methods,
M. Chanoz and M. Perrigot, 287; Intensification and
Reduction, Henry W. Bennett, 341; New Lambex System
of Daylight Loading and Film and Plate Changing,
Messrs. R. and J. Beck, 352; Photographic Spark
Spectra of Titanium and other Metals, Dr. Lohse, 373;
the Bruce Photographic Telescope, Prof. Barnard, 424;
Toning Bromide Plates, R. E. Blake Smith, 438; the
Theory of Photographic Processes, on the Chemical
Dynamics of Development, S. E. Sheppard and C. E. K.
Mees, 454; Intensity of Photographic Impressions pro-
duced by Feeble Illuminations, C. Gutton, 455; Photo-
graphic Radiation of some Mercury Compounds, R. de
J. F. Struthers and J. E. Marsh, 455; How to Photo-
graph with Roll and Cut Films, John A. Hodges, 460;
Photographic Activity of Hydrogen Peroxide, J. Precht
and C. Otsuki, 468; Photography for the Sportsman
Naturalist, L. W. Brownell, 483; Photography of the
Solar Corona at the Summit of Mont Blanc, A. Hansky,
527; Photography of the Corona without a Total Eclipse,
A. Hansky, 544; British Association Geological Photo-
graphs, 538; Photograph of a Lightning Flash showing
the Air in Incandescence, Em. Touchet, 600; Photo-
graphy of Planetary Nebulæ, W. S. Franks, 618
Photometry: zur Theorie der Extinktion des Lichtes in der
Erdatmosphäre, Dr. A. Bemporod, 402

Photomicrography by Ultra-violet Light, Dr. A. Kohler, 517
Phototropismus der Tiere, Untersuchungen über den, Dr.
Em. Rádl, 265

Physical Conditions of the Planets, Prof. T. J. J. See, 424
Physical Degeneration, Report of the Inter-departmental
Committee on, Sir Lauder Brunton, 252

Physical Education and Improvement, the Proposed National
League for, Sir Lauder Brunton, 252

Physical History of the Victoria Falls, the, A. J. C.
Molyneux, 619

at

:

Physics les Lois naturelles, Félix Le Dantec, 5; Physical
Society, 47, 95, 142, 190, 358, 455, 502, 550, 622;
Radiation Pressure, Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S.,
Physical Society, 376; Radiation Pressure, Prof.
J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 200: the Pressure of
Radiation, Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S., 439; an Inter-
ference Apparatus for the Calibration of Extenso-
meters, J. Morrow and E. L. Watkin, 47; New Build-
ings of the University of Liverpool, the George Holt
Physics Laboratory, 63: Deep-water Waves, Prof. Lamb,
70; on Deep Water Ship Waves, Lord Kelvin, 382; the
Conductivity of Gases from a Flame, Paul Langevin and
Eugène Bloch, 96; Attempts to Decide by Physical
Methods the Nature of Isodynamic Substances, M. Brühl,
113: Dr. W. H. Perkin, 113; F. Giolitti, 113; Presence
of Radium throughout the Earth's Volume as Com-
pensating for the Loss of Heat by Conduction, C.
Liebenow, 113: Tension of Carbonic Acid in the Sea, and
on the Reciprocal Influence of Carbonic Acid of the Sea
that of the Atmosphere, August Krogh,
and
Obituary Notice of Prof. Karl Selim Lemström, Prof.

120;

Arthur Rindell, 129; Physical Properties of a Series of
Alloys of Iron, W. F. Barrett, W. Brown, and R. A.
Hadfield, 132; Electrical Conductivity and other Pro-
perties of Sodium Hydroxide in Aqueous Solution, W. R.
Bousfield and T. M. Lowry, 141; the Colloidal State of
Matter, G. E. Malfitano, 143; the Nobel Prize for Physics
awarded to Lord Rayleigh, 155; the Human Breath as a
Source of the Ionisation of the Atmosphere, Messrs.
Elster and Geitel, 157; the Charge of the a Rays from
Polonium, Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., 166; Some Scientific
Centres, vi., the Physical Laboratory at the Museum
d'Histoire naturelle, Prof. Henri Becquerel, John Butler
Burke, 177; Death of M. Jeunet, 181; Physical Char-
acters of the Sodium Borates, with a New Method for
the Determination of Melting Points, C. H. Burgess and
A. Holt, jun., 189; Leçons sur la Propagation des Ondes
et les Équations de l'Hydrodynamique, Jacques Hada-
mard, 196; het Natuurkundig Laboratorium der Ryks-
Universiteit te Leiden in de Jaren 1882-1904, 218; Im-
provements in Mercury Air-pumps of Sprengel Type,
Josef Rosenthal, 233; the Warming of Different Layers
of Liquid by the Sun's Rays, Dr. von Kalecsinszky, 255;
a Fundamental Formula in the Kinetic Theory of Gases,
P. Langevin, 263; Light Energy, its Physics, Physio-
logical Action and Therapeutics, Dr. Margaret A. Cleaves,
Dr. Reginald Morton, 269; Naturbegriffe und Naturur-
teile, Hans Driesch, 270; Death of Dr. Anton Müttrich,
278; Experiment for Showing the Pressure due to Sound
Waves, Prof. R. W. Wood, 280; Attraction between
Liquid Drops suspended in a Liquid of the same Density,
V. Crémieu, 287; the Recent Development of Physical
Science, W. C. D. Whetham, F.R.S., 291; a Simple
Model for illustrating Wave-motion, K. Honda, 295;
Lissajous's Figures by Tank Oscillation, T. Terada, 296;
Law of the Permanent Level, Dr. C. M. van Deventer, 303;
the Melting of Floating Ice, 366; Superfusion Phenomena,
Drs. Tullio Gnesotto and Gino Zanetti, 305; Kinematics
and Dynamics of a Granular Medium in Normal Piling,
J. H. Jeans, 310; the Anomalous Dispersion of Sodium
Vapour, Prof. R. W. Wood, 327; the Dual Force of the
Dividing Cell, part i., the Achromatic Spindle-figure,
Elucidated by Magnetic Chains of Force, Prof. Marcus
Hartog, 333; the Rôle of Diffusion during Catalysis by
Colloidal Metals, Dr. Henry J. S. Sand, 333; Rôle of
Diffusion in the Catalysis of Hydrogen Peroxide by Col-
loidal Platinum, Dr. George Senter, 574; Unrecognised
Factors in the Transmission of Gases through Water,
Dr. W. E. Adeney, 334; the Flow of Water through
Pipes, Experiments on Stream-line Motion and the
Measurement of Critical Velocity, Dr. H. T. Barnes and
Dr. E. G. Coker, 357; the Distribution of Velocity in a
Viscous Fluid over the Cross-section of a Pipe, and the
Action at the Critical Velocity, J. Morrow, 621; Com-
pressibility of Gases between One Atmosphere and Half
an Atmosphere of Pressure, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 358;
Determination of Young's Modulus (Adiabatic) for Glass,
C. A. Bell, Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 359; Simplified De-
duction of the Field and the Forces of an Electron
moving in any given way, Prof. Sommerfeld, 373; Modu-
lus of Torsional Rigidity of Quartz Fibres and its Tem-
perature Coefficient, Dr. Frank Horton, 380; Apparatus
for determining the Density of Small Grains, K. A. K.
Hallowes, 382; die bisherige Tätigkeit der Physikalisch-
technischen Reichsanstalt, 388; die Tätigkeit der Physik-
alisch-technischen Reichsanstalt im Jahre
1903. 388;
Melting Point of Dissociating Substances, and the Degree
of Dissociation during Melting, R. Kremann, 400; zur
Theorie der Extinktion des Lichtes in der Erdatmo-
sphäre, Dr. A. Bemporod, 402; Thickness of Transparent
Sheets of Iron, L. Houllevigue, 407; Death of Father
Timoteo Bertelli, 420; Absorptive Power of Fluorescent
Substances during Active Fluorescence, E. L. Nichols and
Ernest Merritt, 423: Obituary Notice of Prof. Emilio
Villari, Prof. A. Roiti, 446; Method of Illustrating the
Laws of the Simple Pendulum, J. Schofield, 455; Pre-
cautions Necessary in Execution of Researches Requiring
High Precision, M. Loewy, 455; Accurate Measurement
of Coefficients of Expansion, H. McAllister Randall,
469; Study of Ionisation in Flames, Pierre Massoulier,
479; la Matière, l'Ether, et les Forces physiques, Lucien
Mottez, 486; National Physical Laboratory, 495; Use of

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