102; the First Application to Surgery of Röntgen Rays,
General Maurice, 135; New X-Ray Machine, Prof. John
Trowbridge, 102; Apparatus for Precise Determination of
Position of Projectiles in Cranium, MM. Remy and Contre-
moulins, 120; Transformation by Metals of, G. Sagnac, 167,
301; Mechanism of Conductor-discharge by, G. Sagnac, 263;
Action on Vegetable Life of, Signor G. Tolomei, 323; Heat-
ing Effect of, E. Dorn, 401; Diffuse Reflection of, Prof. J. J.
Thompson, 407; Emission of Secondary Rays in Air under the
Influence of Röntgen Rays, G. Sagnac, 407; Röntgen Rays
hasten Germination, MM. Maldiney and Thouvenin, 408;
La Teoria dei Raggi Röntgen, Prof. Filippo Re, 483;
Skiagraphy after Injection of the Blood-vessels with Mer-
cury, Drs. H. J. Stiles and H. Rainy, 485; Photographs of
Metallic Alloys, C. T. Heycock and F. H. Nevill, 503;
Light Visible and Invisible, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson,
F.R.S., 506; Archives of the Röntgen Ray, Vol. ii. No. 2,
Radiography in Marine Zoology, Dr. R. Norris Wolfenden,
509; Transformation of Röntgen Rays by Matter, G.
Sagnac, 526; Visibility to Blind of, F. de Courmelles, 527;
Lupus vulgaris treated by Röntgen Rays, Dr. Schiff, 589;
Means of Augmenting Intensity and Rapidity of Action of
Röntgen Rays, F. Garrigou, 600; Röntgen Rays and Ordinary
Light, Lord Rayleigh, F.R. S., 607

Roozeboom (Prof. B.), Behaviour of Solutions of NH Cl+
FeCl3 on Crystallising out, 192

Roscoe (Sir H. E.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 457
Rose-coloured Rainbow, a, M. S. Zachary, 100
Rose-Innes (J.), the Isothermals of Ether, 70; Lord Kelvin's
Absolute Methods of Graduating Thermometers, 166
Ross (W. J. C.), Basalts of Bathurst, New South Wales, 288
Rotating Spirals, Optical Illusions produced by Observation of,
O. F. F. Grünbaum, 271

Rotch (A. Lawrence), the Exploration of the Air by means of
Kites, 53

Roth (Walter E.), Ethnological Studies among the North-west
Central Queensland Aborigines, 561

Roux (Dr. Wilhelm), Programm und Forschungs-methoden
der Entwicklungs-Mechanik der Organismen, leichtverständ
lich dargestellt, 531

Rowan (Mrs.), the Flower Hunter in Queensland and New
Zealand, 436

Rowland (H. A.), Electrical Measurements by Alternating
Currents, 189

Rowland's Tables, 326

Royal Astronomical Society: Address to the, Sir Robert Ball,
F.R.S., and Presentation of Gold Medal to W. F. Denning,
376

Royal Society, 116, 141, 165, 189, 215, 238, 261, 286, 333,
358, 381, 405, 428, 452, 500, 551, 599; Anniversary Meet-
ing of the, 106; Presidential Address, 106; Medal Awards,
109; Duke of Devonshire's Speech at the Anniversary
Dinner, 113; the Journals of Walter White, Assistant
Secretary of the Royal Society, 195

Rücker (Prof. A. W., F.R.S.), Recent Researches on Terres-
trial Magnetism, 160, 180

Ruhemann (S.), Formation of aa'-dihydroxypyridine, 526
Ruins, Prehistoric, of Honduras and Yucatan, Alfred P.
Maudslay, 568

Runge (Prof. C.), Researches on the Spectra of Oxygen,
Sulphur, and Selenium, 320

Rupp (Dr. H.), New Coherer for Wireless Telegraphy, 612
Russell (Hon. F. A. Rollo), Observations on Haze and
Transparency, 623

Russell (H. C., F.R.S.), Icebergs in Southern Ocean since
July 1895, 192; Icebergs in Southern Ocean, 543; the
Sources of Periodic Waves, 493

Russell (H. L.), Cheese-ripening, 373

Russell (Prof. Israel C.), Volcanoes of North America, 73
Russell (Dr. W. J., V.P.R.S.), the Bakerian Lecture, 607
Russian Geographical Society, Izvestia of, 189, 381, 396
Russian Institute of Experimental Medicine, Annual Meeting
of, 228

Russian Temperature Statistics, A. Varnek, 566

Rutherford (E.), Discharge by Ultra-Violet Light of Electricity,
503

Rütimeyer (L.), Gesammelte Kleine Schriften allgemeinen
Inhalts aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaft, nebst einer
autobiographischen Skizze, 411

Rydberg (Dr.), the Spectra of Argon, 157

Sabatier (Ad.), Oysters and Typhoid Fever, 72
Sagnac (G.), Transformation by Metals of X-Rays, 167, 301;
Mechanism of Conduction-Discharge by Röntgen Rays, 263;
Emission of Secondary Rays in Air under X-Rays, 407;
Transformation by Matter of X-Rays, 526

St. Louis Academy of Sciences, 216, 527
Saint-Martin (L. de), Production of Carbon Monoxide in Blood
after Inhalations of Chloroform, 407

St. Petersburg Academy of Science, Bulletin of, 308
St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, Bulletin of, 357
Saiyid Ahmad Khan (Sir), Death and Obituary Notice of, 545
Salmon in Fresh Water, Life-history of, Dr. Nöel Paton, 287
Salomons (Sir David, Bart.), a New Single Picture Pseudoscope,
317

Salt-water Flood, Damage to Agricultural Soil by, T. S.
Dymond, 490

Sambon (Dr. L.), Sunstroke an Infectious Disease, 516
Sanderson (F. W.), Electricity and Magnetism for Beginners, 29
Sanford (Fernando), Change of Chemical Structure and Change
of Weight, 136

Sanitary Science, Geology and, W. Whitaker, F.R.S., 101,
319; H. B. Woodward, 319

Sanitation: the Purification of Sewage and Water, W. J.
Dibdin, 601

Saville-Kent (W.), Remarkable Termite Mounds of Australia,
81; Bipedal Lizards, 341

Scale, the San José, R. Newstead, 440

Scharff (Dr. R. F.), Remains of Irish Wild Horse, 228; the
Glacial Period and the Irish Fauna, 341

Schering (Prof. Ernst), Death of, 32, 85; Obituary Notice of,
W. H. and G. Chisholm Young, 416

Schiff (Dr.), Lupus vulgaris treated by Röntgen Rays, 589
Schlichter (Prof. C.), Stereoscopic Representation of Resultant
of Harmonic Motions of Different Periods, 323
Schloesing (Th., jun.), Determination of Density of Gases on
very Small Volumes, 310; Measurement of Density of Gas,
374
Schmidt (.G C.), Photo-Electric Properties of Fluorspar and
Selenium, 92; Absorption of Electric Oscillations of Lumin-
escent Gases, 92; Kathode Rays, 238

Schools, an Arithmetic for, S. L. Loney, 560
Schöpfungs-Geschichte, Natürliche, Ernst Haeckel, 291
Schorlemmer (C.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 457

Schott (Dr. G.), Currents of Great Banks of Newfoundland, 34
Schrauf (Dr. A.), Death of, 177; Obituary Notice of, 203
Schrenk (H. von), Injuries inflicted on Trees by St. Louis
Tornado, May 1896, 216

Schroeder (Dr. Woldemar von), Death of, 349; Obituary
Notice of, 395

220

:

Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), on the Constitution of the
Electric Spark, 17; Profs. C. Runge and F. Paschen's
Researches on the Spectra of Oxygen, Sulphur, and Selenium,
320; the Twenty-six-Day Period in Meteorology, 613
Schweiger Lerchenfeld (Av.), Atlas der Himmelskunde auf
Grundlage der Ergebnisse der Coelestischen Photographie,
Science Science in the Magazines, 14; Scientific Investigations
of the Local Government Board, 131; Brighton Municipal
School of Science and Technology, 285; Science in Fiction,
H. G. Wells, 339; Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Ex-
pedition, Dr. John Murray, F.R.S., 420; the Duke of Argyll,
F.R.S., 423; Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., 423; Dr. Nansen,
424; Prof. Dr. Neumayer, 424; Sir Clements Markham,
F.R.S., 424; Dr. Alexander Buchan, 425; Sir Archibald
Geikie, F.R.S., 426; Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 427; Prof.
D'Arcy W. Thompson, 427; Science Handbooks for Labora-
tory and Class-Room: Elementary Physics, John G. Kerr,
435; Handbooks of Practical Science: No I, Mensuration,
Hydrostatics, and Heat; No. 2, Chemical Experiments, G.
H. Wyatt, 435; South Kensington Science Buildings, 485,
539; Forthcoming Books of Science, 497; First Year of
Scientific Knowledge, Paul Bert, 510; Misleading Applica
tions of Familiar Scientific Terms, Lady Welby, 536; Scien-
tific Experts and Patent Cases, 562

Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), Scientific Advantages of an
Antarctic Expedition, 427

Scotland, Early Man in, Sir Wm. Turner, F. R.S., 234, 256
Scott (D. H., F.R.S.), Spencerites, 142

Scott (Ernest Kilburn), the Local Distribution of Electric Power
in Workshops, 197

Scourfield (D. J.), the Land Fauna of Spitsbergen, 60

Seal, Grey, on the Breeding Habits of the, J. E. Harting, 465
Searle (Prof. G. M.), Appointment of, to the Vatican
Observatory, 256

Season, the Colour of Flowers blooming out of, E. Hughes-
Gibb, 100

=

See (Dr. T. J. J.), the Binary B 395 82 Ceti, 36; the Com-
panion of Sirius, 136; Double and Multiple Southern Stars,
617

Seeds, Note on the Influence of very Low Temperatures on the
Germinative Power of, Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., 138, 150;
F. Escombe, 138

Séguy (Gaston), Method of Reducing Time of Exposure in
Radiography, 24

Seismology: the Indian Earthquake at Paris, M. Moureau, 12;
the Calcutta Earthquake of June 12, Prof. F. Omori, 59;
Bollettino della Società Italiana, 46, 116, 261; New Electric
Seismoscope, Dr. G. Agamennone, 59; the Hereford Earth-
quake of December, 1897, J. Lomas, 85; the Hereford
Earthquake in Hertfordshire, H. G. Fordham, 229; Recent
Seismology, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., 246, 272; the Geo-
dynamic Observatory of Catania, Prof. A. Ricco, 324; Earth-
quakes in North Britain, James M'Cubbin, 391; the Source
of Periodic Waves, H. C. Russell, F.R.S., 493; Seismology
in New Zealand, George Hogben, 494

Selection, Random, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., N. L. G.
Filon, 210

Selenium, Profs. C. Runge and F. Paschen's Researches on the
Spectra of Oxygen, Sulphur, and, Prof. Arthur Schuster,
F.R.S., 320

Seler (Dr. E.), the Temple Pyramid of Tepotzlan, 551
Self-fertilisation in the Banana, Mechanism of, Gopal R. Tambe,
510

Semichon (L.), Use of Oxydase in Wine-Making, 360

Semmola (Prof. E.), no Relation between Activity of Vesuvius
and Moon's Phases, 613

Sennevoy (R. P. de), Hermetical Pourer, 310
Sergi (Prof. G.), Arii e Italici, 268

Serials, Astronomical, 472

Serotherapy: the Plague and, Dr. A. Lustig, [84; Pasteur
Institute Antirabic Work at Tiflis, 103; Vespida Venom
Vaccinatory against Viper Venom, C. Phisalix, 168; Bile
Salts Vaccine against Snake-Poison, 191; Year's Work of
Russian Institute of Experimental Medicine, 228; Serum
Treatment of Diphtheria in Russia, Dr. Rauchfuss, 351; on
the Use of Glycerinated Calf Lymph for Protective Vaccina-
tion against Small-pox, 391; Serotherapy and Rinderpest in
South Africa, 398; the Story of Gloucester, 221, 537, 606
Setchell (William A.), Laboratory Practice for Beginners in
Botany, 268

Sewage Purification, a New System of, Mr. Cameron, 14
Sewage and Water, the Purification of, W. J. Dibdin, 601
Sewer Gas, and its Influence on Health, H. A. Roechling, Mrs.
Percy Frankland, 387

Shadwell (Arthur), the Diffusion of Typhoid Fever, 254
Shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus in Varanger Fjord, 302
Shell-fish, on Augury from Combat of, Kumagusu Minakata,
342

Shenstone (W. A.), Influence of Silent Electrical Discharge on
Air, 430

Sherrington (Prof.), on the Physiology of Unstriped Muscular
Tissue, 17; on the Production of an Intense Colour of Sub-
jective Origin, 19

Shields (Dr. John), the Occlusion of Hydrogen and Oxygen by
Palladium, 262; Arbeiten des Physikalisch-chemischen In-
stituts der Universität Leipzig aus den Jahren 1887 bis 1896,
508

Shimek (B.), the Ferns of Nicaragua, 373

Ship Model Experiment Tank, 517

Siamese: the Kingdom of the Yellow Robe; being Sketches
of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the,
Ernest Young, 559

Sidersky (D.), Les Constantes Physico-chemiques, 197
Sieber (N.), the Rinderpest Germ, 13

Silkworm Gut, Manner of obtaining, 158

Silver, Gold in, R. F. Arnott, 205

Silver Iodide, a Cubic Modification of Native, L. J. Spencer,
574

Simon (Louis), a Colour Reaction of Aldehyde, 239; New
Colour Reaction of Phenylhydrazine, 384

Simpson (Sir James Young) and Chloroform, H. Laing Gordon,
361

Sinclair (W. F.), the Dugong, 198

Singer (Ignatius), some Unrecognised Laws of Nature, 121
Sirius, the Companion of, Dr. See, 136; Parallax of, Dr. Gill,
374

Skertchly (S. B. J.), the "Copper Plant," Polycarpæa spirostyles,
303

Skiagraphy after Injection of the Blood-vessels with Mercury,
Drs. H. J. Stiles and H. Rainy, 485

Skinner (Mr.), Chemical Effect of Impact of Kathode Rays,
119

Slaby (Dr.), Telegraphy by Circuit, 589

Sleep: its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene and Psychology,
Marie de Manacéine, 172

Small-pox, the Story of Gloucester, 221; Alex. Wheeler, 537,
606; on the Use of Glycerinated Calf Lymph for Protective
Vaccination against, 391

Smith (A. Geo.), the Aurora of March 15, 511

Smith (Charles), Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I. and
II., 433

Smith (H. G), Myrticolorin, 431

Smith (W. W.), Starlings and Honey, 544
Smithsonian Institution Report, S. P. Langley, 544

Smits (Dr. A.), Instrument for keeping Tension above Boiling
Liquid Constant, 263

Snake-poison: Vespida Venom Vaccinatory against Viper Venom,
C. Phisalix, 168; Bile Salts Vaccine against, C. Phisalix,
191; Tyrosin a Chemical Vaccine against Snake-poison, C.
Phisalix, 360

Snake Venom in its Prophylactic Relations with “Poison” of
the same and other sorts, Dr. Kanthack, 132

Snowstorm, Severe, in South-west England on February 21,
397

Snyder (Dr. V.), Geometry of Differential Expressions in Hexa-
spherical Coordinates, 357

Sohncke (Dr. L.), Death of, 85

Solar Constant, the, Dr. G. B. Rizzo, 205

Solar Eclipse, the Total, 1898, 35, 105, 294, 325, 365; Sir
Norman Lockyer, K. C. B., F.R.S., 342; Arrival of Eclipse
Parties at Bombay, 230

Solar Eclipse of 1900, Total, 159

Solar Faculæ, the Movement of, Dr. W. Stratonoff, 591
Solar Rotation: the Twenty-six- Day Period, Prof. A. Schuster,
613

Solpuga, the Nature and Habits of Pliny's, R. I. Pocock, 618
Solution of Quadratic Equations, the, E. Cuthbert Atkinson,
Prof. G. B. Mathews, F.R.S., 463

Somerville (William), Bau und Leben unserer Waldbäume,
Dr. M. Büsgen, 126

Sonstadt (E.), Production of Platinum Monochloride, 383
Sorby (Dr. H. C., F.R.S.), the Preparation of Marine Animals
and Plants as Transparent Lantern-slides, 520
South Africa, the Rainfall of, 114

South Kensington Science Buildings, 485, 539
Southern Ocean, Icebergs in, since July 1895, H. C. Russell,
F.R.S., 192, 543

Southern Stars, the Magnitudes of 1081, Stanley Williams,
491

Spanton (J. Humphrey), Complete Perspective Course, 602
Sparrows and Crocuses, 543

Spectrum Analysis: Observation of Zeeman's Phenomenon,
W. König, 70; Prof. T. W. Engelmann's Tables, 85; Spec-
trum of a Meteor, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 101; the Spectra
of Argon, Dr. Rydberg, 157; Variations in the Spectrum of
Nebula in Orion, 180; a New Method of Interferential
Spectroscopy, A. Perot and Ch. Fabry, 263; a Variable
Bright Hydrogen Line, Miss A. J. Cannon, 284; a New
Spectroscopic Binary, 284; Profs. C. Runge and F. Paschen's
Researches on the Spectra of Oxygen, Sulphur, and Selenium,
Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 320; Rowland's Tables, 326;
Spectrum Researches of n Aquila, Prof. A. Belopolsky, 353
Study of Radiations by Interferential Spectroscopy, A. Perot
and Ch. Fabry, 359; Carbon in the Chromosphere, Dr.
Hale, 374; Comparison of Oxygen with Extra Lines in
Spectra of Helium Stars, and Summary of Spectra of
Southern Stars, F. McClean, F. R.S., 405; a Spectroscope

without Prisms or Gratings, A. A. Michelson, 500; Optical
Constants of Sodium, P. Drude, 500; Light, Visible and In-
visible, Prof. Silvanus P. Thomson, F.R.S., 506; Spectrum
Analysis of Meteorites, W. N. Hartley and Hugh Ramage,
546; Gallium Lines in Solar Spectrum, Prof W. N. Hartley,
F.R.S., and Hugh Ramage, 575; Spectrum Analysis, John
Landauer, 581; the Aurora Spectrum, Prof. E. C. Pickering,
591; the Bolometer, Prof. S. P. Langley, 620; Spectrum
Analysis of Non-Conductors by Fused Salts, A. D. Gramont,
624

Spencer (Dr. J. W.), Continental Elevation of Glacial Epoch,
571

Spencer (L. J.), Miersite, a Cubic Modification of Native Silver
Iodide, 574

Spencer (Prof. W. B.), Glacial Boulders at Yellow Cliff, Cen-
tral Australia, 495; Native Life in Central Australia, 496
Spiders. Stridulation in some African, R. I. Pocock, 356
Spiral Growths in Nature, George Wherry, 302
Spirogyra, the Nucleolus of, Mr. van Wisselingh, 263
Spitsbergen: the Land Fauna of, D. J. Scourfield, 60; David
Bryce, 60; Glacial Geology of Spitsbergen, E. J. Garwood
and Dr. J. W. Gregory, 405; the Spitsbergen Glaciers, 472
Spivey (W. T. N.), Cannabinol, 525

Sponges Origin and Growth of Tri- and Quadri-radiate
Spicules in Clathrinida, E. A. Minchin, 475
Spring Flowers, Early, Miss E. Armitage, 365
Stadling (Jonas), Herr Andrée's Expedition, 14

Stamp Battery Slimes from Gold Ores, the Treatment of, W.
A. Caldecott, 129

Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel in North
America, S. E. Dawson. Vol. i., Canada and Newfoundland,
Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 223

Stansfield (A.), Thermo-Electric Pyrometers, 525
Stark (J.), Lampblack, 70

Starlings and Honey, W. W. Smith, 544

Stars: the Variable Star 8 Lyræ, Herr Pannekoek, 61; New
Investigations of 8 Lyre, Prof. A. Belopolsky, 207; the
Variable Star o Ceti (Mira), 105; the Variability of Mira
Ceti, David Flanery, 245; the Variables S Cephei and T
Ursa Majoris, C. E. Peck, 105; New Variable Stars, 179,
472; Dr. Anderson, 179; Two New Variable Stars of Short
Period, Herren G. Müller and P. Kempf, 519; Variables in
Star Clusters, 400; Variable Star U Pegasi, 442; the
Variables S Cassiopeia and S Ursa Majoris, Mr. Peek,
492; Variables and their Comparison Stars, Prof. E. C.
Pickering, 519; New Double Stars, R. T. A. Innes, 179;
Double and Multiple Southern Stars, Dr. T. J. J. See, 617;
Occultation of the Pleiades, 207; Companion to Vega, Prof.
Barnard, 256; a Probable New Star, 419; Rev. T. E. Espin,
374; Parallax of Sirius, Dr. Gill, 374; Parallaxes of Stars,
Dr. Gill, 400; Stellar Parallaxes, Dr. Bruno Peter, 546;
Occultation of Antares, 442; Magnitudes of 1081 Southern
Stars, Stanley Williams, 491: Occultations Photographically
observed, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 492; a Catalogue of 636
Stars, Herr W. Luther, 520

Statham (H. H.), Modern Architecture, 602

Steam, the Law of Condensation of, Prof. Hugh L. Callendar,
F.R.S., and John T. Nicolson, 139

Steel (Thomas), Red Rain Dust, 494

Steel, Tempered, Magnetic Properties of, Sklodowska Curie,
301

Steiner (Dr. L.), the Comet of 1892 II., 325
Stellar Parallaxes, Dr. Bruno Peter, 546
Stellar Photography, Concave Gratings for, 520

Stereoscopic Projection of Lantern Slides, Prof. G. H. Bryan,
F.R.S., 511

Stereoscopy, a New Single Picture Pseudoscope, Sir David
Salomons, Bart., 317

Stevens (J. S.), New Form of Physical Pendulum, 333
Stewart (Prof. G. N.), on an Electrical Method of Determining
Speed of Blood Flow, 18

Stiles (Dr. H. J.), Skiagraphy after Injection of the Blood
Vessels with Mercury, 485

Stockwell (B. M.), Formation of Oxytriazoles from Semi-
carbazides, 526

Stohmann (Dr. F.), Death of, 85

Stok's (Dr. Van der) New Meteorological Atlas of East Indian
Archipelago, 134

Stone Implements, the Ancient Weapons and Ornaments of
Great Britain, Sir John Evans, K. C. B., 290

to

Stoney (Dr. Johnston), the Atmosphere of Planets, 207
Storer (Prof. F. H.), Chemical Substances in Tree-Trunks, 15;
Agriculture in some of its Relations in Chemistry, 292
Storm, a Magnetic, Dr. Charles Chree, F.R S., 492
Storm and Sunshine in the Dales, P. H. Lockwood, 463
Storm-Signals used by Various Nations, 59
Straneo (Paolo), Thermal Conductivity of Ice, 157
Stratonoff (Dr. W.), the Movement of Solar Faculæ, 591
Stratton (Prof. G. M.), Experiment in Inverted Vision, 372
Straw, Oat, Wheat, and Rye, M. Balland, 239

Stricker (Prof. Salomon), Death of, 565
Stridulation in some African Spiders, R. I. Pocock, 356
Strohmer (F.), Light and Beetroot Sugar Production, 159
Stromboli, the Volcanic Condition of, E. O. Hovey, 100
Stroud and Barr "Range-Finder," the, 23

Stroud (Prof.), a Folometer and Spherometer, 23
Stroud (S. W.), a New Harmonic Analyser, 333

Stumpe (Dr. Oscar), Death of, 280; Obituary Notice of, 299
Styffe (Prof.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 371
Sub-Oceanic Terraces and River Valleys of the Bay of Biscay,
Prof. Edward Hull, F. R.S., 582

Submarine Cable-Testing, Student's Guide to, H. K. C. Fisher
and J. C. H. Darby, 459

Submerged River Valleys and Escarpments off the British
Coast, Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., 484

Substance, the Living, as such and as Organism, Gwendolen
Foulke Andrews, 362

Subterranean Fauna, A. Viré, 301

Sudborough (J. J.), a Proposed Memorial to Prof. Victor
Meyer, 80; Formation and Hydrolysis of Esters, 239

Sugar Superior to Fat as Food, A. Chauveau, 503

Sulphur and Selenium, Profs. C. Runge and F. Paschen's
Researches on the Spectra of Oxygen, Prof. Arthur Schuster,
F.R.S., 320

Sumatra, the Triangulation of, Mr. Muller, 527

Sun, the Total Eclipse of the, 1898, 35, 105, 294, 325, 365;
Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 342; Arrival of
Eclipse Parties at Bombay, 230

Sunshine, Comparison of Campbell-Stokes and Jordan Re-
corders, R. H. Curtis, 118

Sunshine Recorders Compared, R. H. Curtis, 518
Sunshine Holyday, on a, 268

Sunspots and the Weather, A. Macdowall, 16
Sunspots, Theory of, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 239
Sunspots, Level of, 284

Sunstroke an Infectious Disease, Dr. L. Sambon, 516
Suprarenal Capsules, Further Observations upon the Compara-
tive Physiology of the, B. Moore, 238; Dr. Swale Vincent,
238, 304

Suprarenal Capsules, Effects of Extirpation of, in Eel, no
Existence of Suprarenal Medulla in Teleostean Fishes, Dr.
Swale Vincent, 429

Surgery: the Röntgen Rays and Gun-shot Wounds, 102;
X-Ray Apparatus for Precise Determination of Position of
Projectiles in Cranium, MM. Remy and Contremoulins, 120;
the First Application of X-Rays to Surgery, General Maurice,
135; Lupus vulgaris treated by Röntgen Rays, 589; Masters
of Medicine, John Hunter, Stephen Paget, 194; a System
of Medicine, 241; Death and Obituary Notice of Ernest Hart,
251

Suringar (Prof.), the Melocacti, 95

Survey of India, the; Report for 1896, 302
Surveying Babylonian Land Surveying, Prof. Hamma, 281;
the Triangulation of Sumatra, Mr. Muller, 527; Photographic
Surveying, Prof. E. J. Mills, 563

Sutherland (A.), the Temperatures of Reptiles, Monotremes,
and Marsupials, 67

Swan (J. W., F.R.S.), the Electro-Chemical Industries, 284
Swedish Expedition to the Arctic Regions, a Proposed, Dr.
A. G. Nathorst, 163

Sweet (G.), Evidence of Glacial Action in Bacchus Marsh Dis-
trict, Australia, 495

Swinton (A. A. C.), Circulation of Gaseous Matter in Crookes'
Tube, 525

Sydney, Report of Australian Museum, 15

Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 92, 237, 405, 524
System of Medicine, a, 241

Tailless Batrachians of Europe, the, G. A. Boulenger, F. R.S.,
577

June 16, 1898

Tambe (Gopal R.), Mechanism of Self-fertilisation in the
Banana, 510

Tanganyika, Lake, Zoological Evidence of Connection with Sea
of, J. E. S. Moore, 476

Tappeiner (D. II.), Introduction to Chemical Methods of
Clinical Diagnosis, 436

Tarr (Ralph S.), First Book of Physical Geography, 268
Taschenberg (Dr. E. L.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 300
Tayler (F. B.). Relation of Champlain Submergence to Great
Lakes and Niagara, 573

Tea Planting and Manufacture, a Text-Book of, David Crole,

97

Teall (J. J. H., F. R. S.), Phosphatised Trachyte from Clipperton
Atoll, 502

Teall (Mr.), the Lava Sheets of Franz Josef Land, 324
Technical Education: International Congress on Technical
Education, 9; Progress of Technical Education, 259;
Analytic Geometry for Technical Schools and Colleges, P. A.
Lambert, 292; the Duke of Devonshire on Technical
Education, 330

Technological Examinations, Report on, 40

Technology, Brighton Municipal School of Science and, 285
Telegraphy by Circuit, Dr. Slaby, 589

Telegraphy, New Coherer for Wireless, Dr. H. Rupp, 612
Telescopes: New Form of Mirror for a Reflecting Telescope,
160; Large Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes, W. J. S.
Lockyer, 200; a Large Reflecting Telescope, Rev. John
Peate, 400

Telescopic Seeing, 36

Temperature, Effect of, on Hibernation of Injurious Insects,
Dr. L. O. Howard, 85

Temperature, Note on the Influence of very Low, on the
Germinative Power of Seeds, Horace T. Brown, F.R.S.,
138, 150; F. Escombe, 138

Temperature, Mr. Merrifield's Experiments on the Relation of,
to Variation, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 184

Temperature, Thermometrical Determinations of, Likely Sources
of Error in, Dr. Hergesell, 469, 470

Temperature of Water, the Critical, H. M. Martin, 80; S.
Geoghegan, 101

Temperatures of Reptiles, Monotremes, and Marsupials, A.
Sutherland, 67

Temples, Greek, the Orientation of, F. C. Penrose, F. R.S.,
151

Tenerife, Observations on the Peak of, Prof. T. C. Porter, 454
Tepotzlan, the Temple Pyramid of, Dr. E. Seler, 551
Termite Mounds of Australia, Remarkable, W. Saville-Kent,
81

Terre (M.), Tuberculosis and Pseudo-Tuberculosis, 407
Terrestrial Magnetism, Recent Researches on, Prof. A. W.
Rücker, F. R.S., 160, 180

Terrestrial Physics in Australsaia, P. Baracchi, 493
Tesla Oscillator, a, 335

Test for Divisibility, a, Henry T. Burgess, 8, 30, 55; Dr. C.
Börgen, 54; a Correction, 136

Thaxter (Roland), Contributions towards a Monograph of the
Laboulbeniacea, 620

Theory of Electricity and Magnetism; being Lectures on
Mathematical Physics, the, A. G. Webster, 49

Therapeutics; Lectures on the Action of Medicine, Dr. Lauder
Brunton, F. R.S., 26; the Grape Cure, 58; Therapeutic Action
of Spermine, Alex. Pohl, 168-

Thermodynamics deduced from Motivity, Lord Kelvin, 575
Thermometers, Lord Kelvin's Absolute Method of Graduating,
J. Rose-Innes, 166

Thermometrical Determinations of Temperature, Likely Sources
of Error in, Dr. Hergesell, 469, 470

Thiébaut (M.), the Frequency of Extra Large Tides at March
Equinox, 613

Thompson (Prof. D'Arcy W.), Scientific Advantages of an
Antarctic Expedition, 427

Thompson (Prof. J. J.), Diffuse Reflection of Röntgen Rays,

407

Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P., F. R.S.), the Progress of Radio-
graphy, 32; Light Visible and Invisible, 506; Helios Com-
pany Model Illustrating Three-Phase Method of Transmitting
Power, 623

Thompson (William), Chambers's Algebra for Schools, 388
Thompson (Prof. W. H.), on the Effects of Peptone when
introduced into the Circulation, 18

Thomson (John), Through China with a Camera, 539
Thomson (Prof. J. J.), Chemical Effect of Impact of Kathode
Rays, 119; Effect of Zinc on Photographic Plate, 119
Thorndike (E. L.), Experiments in Comparative Psychology,
372

Thornley (Rev. Alfred), Insects and Colour, 30

Thornton (John), Elementary Practical Physiography, 244
Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), the Watt Memorial Lecture,
546

Thouvenin (M.), Röntgen Rays hasten Germination, 408
Ticket-issue Controller, Automatic, 59

Tickle (T.), Production of Nitro- and Amido-Oxyluditines, 478
Tides, a Suggested Improvement of the Current Theories of
the, J. H. S. Moxly, 461

Tides at March Equinox, the Frequency of Extra Large, M.
Thiébaut, 613

Tietkins (W. H.), the Exploration of Central Australia, 496
Tiflis, Pasteur Institute Antirabic Work at, 103
Tobacco Soils of United States, M. Whitney, 615
Toepler (A.), Electroscopic Detection of Electric Waves, 401
Toepler (Max), Stratified Discharge in Open Air, 401
Tollenaar (Dr.), Deflection and Reflection with two Kathodes,
96

Tolomei (Signor G.), Action of Röntgen Rays on Vegetable
Life, 323

Tomes (C. S.), Dental Enamel of Elasmobranch Fishes, 405
Tonkin to India, from, by the Sources of the Irawadi, Prince
Henri d'Orléans, 557

Torquay, a Memoir of William Pengelly, F.R.S., of, with a
Selection from his Correspondence, 4

Torres Straits and Borneo, the Cambridge Expedition to, Prof.
Alfred C. Haddon, 276

Tortoiseshell Butterfly, the Small, in December, W. F. Kirby,
173

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1898, the, 35, 105, 294, 325, 365; Sir
Norman Lockyer, K. C. B., F.R.S., 342; Arrival of Eclipse
Parties at Bombay, 230

Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, 159

Townsend (C. F.), Chemistry for Photographers, 126
Toxicology: Vespida Venom Vaccinatory against Viper Venom,
C. Phisalix, 168; Bile-Salts Vaccine against Snake Poison,
C. Phisalix, 191; Practical Toxicology for Physicians and
Students, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kobert, 535

Tozer (H. F.), a History of Ancient Geography, 482
Transactions of the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society,
Vol. v., 197

Transparent Lantern Slides, the Preparation of Marine Animals
and Plants as, Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 520

Transpiration into a Space Saturated with Water, Dr. Henry
H. Dixon, 173

Transvaal, Southern, a Geological Map of the, F. H. Hatch,
77

Traquair (Dr. R. H., F.R.S.), Fossil Fishes of Arcadian Series
of Old Red Sandstone, 309

Travels in Indo-China, Prince Henri d'Orléans, 557
Travers (M. W.), the Refractivities of Various Gases, 189; the
Homogeneity of Helium, 358; Fergusonite, 381

Trees, Injuries inflicted on, by St. Louis Tornado, May 1896,
216

Trelease (Prof. W.), Remarkable Instance of " Phytobezoar,"
283

Trimen (Roland, F. R.S.), Mimicry in Insects, 304
Trip to Canada, a, 344

Trollhättan Waterfalls, Projected Electrical Exploitation of, 135
Trout and Ferret, J. Robson, 300

Trouvé (G.), New Apparatus for Raising of Liquids, 600
Trowbridge (Prof. John), New X-Ray Machine, 102; Phos-
phorescence produced by Electrification, 333; Novelty in
Vacuum Tubes, 371

Tubercle Bacillus, Cultivation-Media of, Dr. A. Ransome,
F.R.S., 165

Tubercle Bacillus at a Low Temperature, Growth of the, F. J.
Reid, 221

Tuberculose, la, et son Traitement Hygiénique, Prosper
Merklen, 535

Tuberculosis, Researches on, Arthur Ransome, F.R.S., 435
Tunnels, Mushroom-growing in, 254

Turner (A.), Die Kraft und Materie im Raume, 388; Das
Problem der Krystallisation, 428

Turner (Sir W., F.R S.), Early Man in Scotland, 234, 256

Ule (Dr. Willi), Lehrbuch der Erdkunde für Höhere Schulen, 7
Underwood (Mr.), Bacteriology of Canned Foods, 103
Undulant Fever, Mediterranean, Malta, or, Louis Hughes, 581
Undulations in Lakes and Inland Seas due to Wind and
Atmospheric Pressure, W. H. Wheeler, 321

United States: Weather Clocks in New York, 59; United
States National Academy of Science, Autumn Meeting, 102;
Report of Massachusetts Health Board, 135; Rainfall of the
United States, 348; Zoological Preserves in United States,
588; Tobacco Soils of, M Whitney, 615

University Intelligence, 22, 46, 69, 91, 115, 140, 164, 188, 214,
237, 260, 286, 307, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 454, 475, 499,
524, 574, 598, 622

Universities: the Proposed Midland University, 277; Reorgan
isation of the University of London, 297; the London
University Bill, 587

Unseen Moving Celestial Bodies, Photography of, Prof. Bar-
nard, 230

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Cyanophyceen und Bakterien,
A. Fischer, 29

Uranium Salts, Action of Radiation from, in Cloud-formation,
C. T. R. Wilson, 47

Urbain (G.), New Method of Fractionating Yttrium Earths,
504

S Ursa Majoris, the Variables S Cassiopeia and, Mr. Peek,

492

T Ursa Majoris, the Variable, C. E. Peek, 105

Use of Compressed Coal Gas, the, C. E. Ashford, 485

:

Vaccination on the use of Glycerinated Calf Lymph for Pro-
tective Vaccination against Small pox, 391

Vaccination: the Story of the Small-pox Epidemic at Gloucester,
221; Alex. Wheeler, 537, 606

Vacuum Tubes, Novelty in, Prof. Trowbridge and Mr. Bur-
bank, 371

Vallot (M. and Mme.), Influence of Height and Heat on Decom-
position of Oxalic Acid by Sunlight, 143

Van 't Hoff's Osmotic Theorem, Lord Rayleigh's Proof of, F.
G. Donnan, 53

Variable Stars: the Variable Star 8 Lyra, IIerr Pannekoek,
61; the Variable Star o Ceti (Mira), 105; the Variability of
Mina Ceti, David Flanery, 245; the Variables S Cephei and
T Ursa Majoris, C. E. Peek, 105; New Variable Stars, 179,
472; Dr. Anderson, 179; Two New Variable Stars of Short
Period, Herren G. Müller and P. Kempf, 519; a Variable
Bright Hydrogen Line, Miss A. J. Cannon, 284; U Pegasi
and Short-Period Variables, O. C. Wendall, 352; Variable
Star U Pegasi, 442; Variables in Star Clusters, 400; the
Variables S Cassiopeia and S Ursa Majoris, Mr. Peek, 492;
Variables and their Comparison Stars, Prof. E. C. Pickering,
519

Variability, Relation between Individual and Racial, Edwin
Tenney Brewster, 16

Variation, Mr. Merrifield's Experiments on the Relation of Tem-
perature to, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 184

Variation of Water-Level under Wind Pressure, A. R. Hunt,
365

Variations in the Spectrum of Nebula in Orion, 180
Varnek (A.), Russian Temperature Statistics, 566
Vatican Observatory, Appointment of Prof. G. M. Searle to the,
256

Vega, Companion to, Prof. Barnard, 256
Vegetable Physiology. See Botany

Veley (V. H., F.R.S.), Electric Conductivity of Nitric Acid,
190

Vender (Dr. V.), La Fabbricazione dell' Acido Solforico, dell'
Acido Nitrico, del Solfato Sodico dell' Acido Muriatico, 7
Verbrennungswärme ublich sind, Beschreibung der Haupt-

methoden welche bei der Bestimmung der, W. Longuinine,
364

Verneuil (A.), Separation of Thorium and Cerite Earths, 335
Vesuvius in Eruption, 32

Vesuvius, no Relation between Moon's Phases and Activity of,
M. Thiébaut, 613

Vie, la, Mode de Mouvement. Essai d'une Théorie Physique
des Phénomènes Vitaux, E. Préaubert, 605

Vieille (P.), Velocity of Movement propagation in Medium at
Rest, 263

Villard (M.), Composition of Kathode Rays, 545

Vincent (Camille), Biological Preparation of Levulose from
Mannite, 72

Vincent (G.), Electric Conductivity of Thin Silver Plates,
503

Vincent (J. H.), Use of Logarithmic Coordinates in Physics,
407

Vincent (Dr. Swale), Comparative Chemistry of Suprarenal
Capsules, 238; Further Observations upon the Comparative
Physiology of the Suprarenal Capsules, 304; Effects of Ex-
tirpation of Suprarenal Bodies of Eel; Non-Existence of
Suprarenal Medulla in Teleostean Fishes, 429

Vines (S. II.), the Physiology of Pitcher Plants, 367
Violle (J.), Actinometry in Balloons, 47
Virchow's (Prof.) Jubilee, 66

Viré (A.), Subterranean Fauna, 301

Visible and Invisible Light, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F. R.Ş.,
506

Vision through Opaque Objects, the Alleged, 324
Vision, Inverted, Experiment in, Prof. G. M. Stratton, 372
Vita Medica; Chapters of Medical Life and Work, Sir Benjamin
Ward Richardson, F. R.S., 265

Vitality of Refrigerated Seeds, the, 138, 150
Viticulture: the Treatment of Black Rot, A. Prunet, 143;
Use of Oxydase in Wine-making, A Bouffard and L. Sem-
ichon, 360; Bitterness in Wines, MM. Bordas, Joulin, and
Rackowski, 431; Bacillus of Turned Wines, MM. Bordas,
Joulin, and de Raczkowski, 576; White Wine-making from
Red Grapes, V. Martinand, 455

Vogel (Prof. H. W.), Die Photographische Praxis, 462
Voigt (W.), Determination of Relative Thermal Conductivities
by the Isothermal Method, 500

Volcanoes on the Summit of Mauna Loa. Dr. II. B. Guppy,
20; Vesuvius in Eruption, 32; no Relation between Activity
of Vesuvius and Moon's Phases, M. Thiébaut, 613; Volcanoes
of North America; a Reading Lesson for Students of Geo-
graphy and Geology, Israel C. Russell, 73; the Volcanic
Condition of Stromboli, E. O. Hovey, 100; Notes on some
Volcanic Phenomena in Armenia, T. McKenny Hughes, 392;
the Phlegræan Fields, R. T. Günther, 583

Volger (Dr. G. H. O.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 12
Vortex Motion, III., W. M. Hicks, F. R.S., 428
Vosmaer (Dr. G. C. J.), Retrograde Development of Vascular
Tissues in Omentum of Rabbit, 192

Vostesensky (A. V.), Precipitation in Caucasia, 205

Waals (Prof. van der), Graphic Representation of Equilibriums
by Means of Function, 95; Approximate Rule for Course
of Plait-point-Curve of Mixture, 263

Wachstum des Menschen, Das, Dr. F. Daffnfr, 363
Wade (J.), Preparation of Anhydrous Hydrogen Cyanide and
Carbon Monoxide, 478

Wadsworth (Prof. M. E.), a Mechanical Theory of the Divining
Rod, 221

Waldbäume, Bau und Leben Unserer, Dr. M. Büsgen, William
Somerville, 126

Walden (P.), Effect of Addition of Uranyl Salt to Optically-
active Solution, 207

Waldron, Sussex, Discovery of a Large Supply of "Natural
Gas" at, Charles Dawson, 150

Walker (James), Relative Retardation between Components of
Light-Stream produced by Passage of Light Stream through
Crystalline Plate, 551

Walker (J. W.), the Reduction of Bromic Acid and Law of Mass
Action, 525

Walker (T. L.), Examination of Triclinic Minerals with Etching
Figures, 500

Waller (A. D., F.R.S.), Lectures on Physiology: First Series,
on Animal Electricity, 50