Γ JUL 11 1898 June 16, 1898 INDEX BEGG (R.), Dielectric Constants at Low Temperatures, 70; Nature of Coloration of Salts by Kathode Rays, 92 Abercromby (Hon. Ralph), Obituary Notice of, R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 55 Aberration, Constant of, Prof. C. L. Doolittle, 472 Abnormal Colours of Flowers, Hector Colwell, 129 Absorption, Dew and, T. Wilson, 436 Accidents, Mine, in 1897, 277 Acetylene: L'Eclairage à l'Acétylène, G. Pellissier, 219; Aerial Navigation, Navigazione Aerea, Guglielmo N. Da Pra, 560 Aeronautics: Herr Andrée's Expedition, Jonas Stadling, 14; Africa Ten Years' Rainfall of Cape Colony, Dr. Buchan, 34; the Dry Crushing and Direct Cyaniding of Rand Ore, 135; Daily Range of Meteorological Elements at Cairo, Dr. J. Hann, 165; Death of Dr. Eugen Zintgraff, 228; Obituary Notice of, 254; Manners and Habits of Natives of East Africa Protectorate, Sir A. Hardinge, 372; Rinderpest and Serotherapy in South Africa, 398; the Rainfall of South Africa, 114; British Central Africa, Sir Harry H. Johnston, 174 Stridulation in some African Spiders, R. I. Pocock, 356; Giraffe from the Niger Territories, W. Hume McCorquodale, 389; the Navigability of the Niger, Lieut. de Chevigne, 442; Zoological Evidence of Connection of Lake Tanganyika with the Sea, J. E. S. Moore, 476; Iceland Spar from Kilwa Island, W. R. Dunstan, 491; Discovery of Tomb of Amenophis II., G. M. Loret, 566 Agamennone (Dr. G.), New Electric Seismoscope, 59 Dr. L. O. Howard, 85; Light and Beetroot Sugar Production, F. Strohmer, 159; Potato Disease, G. W. Bulman, 198; Oat, Wheat, and Rye Straw, M. Balland, 239; the Foundations of Scientific Agriculture, Samuel Cooke, 243; West Indian Resources, D. Morris, 464; Damage to Soil by Salt-water Flood, T. S. Dymond, 490; the Gipsy Moth in Massachusetts, L. O. Howard, 491; Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 558; the West Australian Settler's Guide and Farmer's Handbook, 560; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Aimé Girard, 587; Tobacco Soils of United States, M. Whitney, 615; Absorption of Organic Materials by Roots, Jules Laurent, 143; Agricultural Chemistry, R. H. Adie, 196; Influence of Bismuth Subnitrate on "Hardening" of Cider, MM. Leon Dufour and Daniel, 239; Agriculture in some of its Relations with Chemistry, F. H. Storer, 292; Oxidation of Ammonia Compound by Soil-Ferments, E. Demoussy, 310; Caron's New Bacteriological Grain Manure, "Alinit,” 418 America: American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting at Detroit, Experimental Morphology, Prof. G. F. Atkinson, 41; Geologists in Canada, 62; American Journal of Science, 70, 189, 333, 404, 500; Volcanoes of North America, Israel C. Russell, 73; Life Histories of American Insects, C. M. Weed, 99; Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 164, 308, 357, 476, 598; Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement, Prof. G. K. Gilbert, 211; the Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, D. G. Elliot, 219; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, North America, S. E. Dawson, vol. i., Canada and Newfoundland, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 223; American Journal of Mathematics, 261; American Society of Naturalists, Sixteenth Annual Meeting, 281; Crater Lake, Oregon, 375; Further Explorations in American Mounds, 400; Does a Phosphorescent South American Liana exist? Prof. Italo Giglioli, 412; the Lake Superior Iron Ore Region, Bennett H. Brough, 473; Twenty-first Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana, W. S. Blatchley, 484; Glaciation of North America, Dr. J. W. Spencer, 571; R. Chalmers, 571 ; J. B. Tyrrell, 572; Dr. G. W. Dawson, 572; Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, 572; Prof. A. P. leman, 572; B Bayley Willis, 573; Prof. H. L. Fairchild, 573; F. B. Amsterdam Royal Academy of Sciences, 95, 191, 263, 311, 455, Anatomy Death of Doctor Harrison Allen, 102; Death of Dr. Hugh Calderwood, 253; Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 318; Anatomy of Macropus rufus, Prof. B. Windle and F. G. Parsons, 319; Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden Mikroskopischen Anatomie der Wirbelthiere, Dr. Med. Alb. Oppel, 581 n Aquile, Spectrum Researches of, Prof. A. Belopolsky, 353 Archæology: Archæological Studies among the Ancient Cities Anceaux (Émile), Planetary Relations, 352 Archibald (E. H.), Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions of Andeer (J. J.), Leucocyte-generating Apparatus in Peritoneum, Architecture: Modern Architecture, H. H. Statham, 602 191 Anderson (Dr.), New Variable Stars, 179 Andrée Expedition, the, Jonas Stadling, 14 Andrée and his Balloon, Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, Andrews (Gwendolen Foulke), the Living Substance as such, and as Organism, 362 Andrews (Thomas), Microscopic Observations on Fatigue- Animal Electricity, Lectures on Physiology, First Series, on, A, Animals, All About, for Old and Young, 172 Animals and Plants, Marine, the Preparation of, as Transparent Annuaire pour l'An 1898, publié par le Bureau des Longitudes, 427 Antarctic Research, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 413 Anticyclonic Systems, Major H. E. Rawson, 623 Antoniadi (M.), the Doubling of the Canals on Mars, 568 June 16, 1893 Applied Mechanics, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., Prof. J. A. Applied Mechanics, a Text-book on, Andrew Jamieson, 483 Arequipa Observatory, the, 249 Argon, the Spectra of, Dr. Rydberg, 157 Argyll (the Duke of, F.R.S.), Scientific Advantages of an Arii e Italici, Prof. G. Sergi, 268 Aristotle on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respira- Arithmetic Abridged Long Division, Rev. C. L. Dodgson, Armitage (Miss E.), Early Spring Flowers, 365 Armstrong (Lord, F.R.S.), Electric Movement on Air and Arnold-Bemrose (H. H.), Quartz-rock in Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire, 406 Arnott (R. F.), Gold in Silver, 205 Arons (L.), Temperature of Mercury Arc Lamp Electrodes, 238 Arrhenius's Views on Causes of Climate Variations Criticised, Artist's Pigment, Oat Smut as an, David Paterson, 364; Prof. Assyria: the Metals used by the Great Nations of Antiquity, Aston (E.), Influence of Temperature on Rotatory Power of Astronomy: the November Meteors (Leonids), 7, 61, 88; W. F. June 16, 1898 Sunspots, 284; the Director of the Lick Observatory, 16; Comet Perrine (October 16), 16, 88, 492; Herr J. Möller, 16, 61, 105; Dr. F. Ristenpart, 519; Prof. H. Kreutz, 568, 591, 617; Winnecke's Periodic Comet, 180, 284, 472; Prof. Perrine, 230; Winnecke's Comet a 1898, 325, 352; Theory of Periodic Comets, M. Callandreau, 303; the Comet of 1892 II, Dr. L. Steiner, 325; Velocity of Solar System, Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, 191; the Total Eclipse of the Sun (1898), 35, 105, 294, 325, 365; Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 342; Arrival of Eclipse Parties at Bombay, 230; the Total Solar Eclipse of 1900, 159; Eclipse Negatives, 419; the Binary 8 395=82 Ceti, Dr. T. J. J. See, 36; Telescopic Seeing, 36; Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen und ihre Literatur, Dr. E. A. Wülfing, 53; Spectrum Analysis of Meteorites, W. N. Hartley and Hugh Ramage, 546; Jupiter's Third and Fourth Satellites, Prof. Barnard, 61; the Present Appearance of Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 586; the Variable Star B Lyræ, Herr Pannekoek, 61; New Investigations of Lyræ, Prof. A. Belopolsky, 207; the Variable Star o Ceti (Mira), 105, 136; the Variability of Mira Ceti, David Flanery, 245; Variables S Cephei and T Ursa Majoris, C. E. Peek, 105; New Variable Stars, 179, 472; Dr. Anderson, 179; Variables in Star Clusters, 400; the Variables S. Cassiopeia and S. Ursa Majoris, Mr. Peek, 492; Two New Variable Stars of Short Period, Herren G. Müller and P. Kempf, 519; Variables and their Comparison Stars, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 519; Obituary Notice of Prof Ernst Schering, 85; Theory of the Motion of the Moon, Ernest W. Brown, 88; Corrected Position of the Moon, M. Lágrula, 159; Partial Eclipse of the Moon, 207; Current Astrono. mical Articles, 88; Systematic Observations of Occultations, Herr H. Batterman, 105; Occultation of Ceres, 400; Occultation of Antares, 442; Astronomical Constants at the Paris Conference, Dr. Fr. Porro, 127; Death of Prof. F. A. T. Winnecke, 133; Obituary Notice of, 155; the Companion of Sirius, Dr. See, 136; a Liberal Gift to Astronomy by Miss Alice Bache Gould, 137; Employment of Method of Least Squares to detect Systematic Errors, J. Mascart, 143; the Orientation of Greek Temples, F. C. Penrose, F.R.S., 151; Opposition of Two Minor Planets, 159; Minor Planets in 1897, 256; a New Form of Mirror for a Reflecting Telescope, 160; Memorials of William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, Edward S. Holden, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 171; New Double Stars, R. T. A. Innes, 179; Variations in the Spectrum of Nebula in Orion, 180; Nebulæ near Castor, Prof. Barnard, 326; Telescope for Nebulæ, J. Janssen, 359; New Photographs of Nebula, M. A. Rabourdin, 374; the Photography of Nebulæ, Prof. R. A. Gregory, 443; Large Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes, W. J. S. Lockyer, 200; Astronomical Occurrences in January 1898, 207; Astronomical Occurrences in February 1898, 303; Astronomical Occurrences in March 1898, 399; Astronomical Occurrences in April 1898, 519; Astronomical Occurrences in May 1898, 617; Nautical Almanac Corrigenda, 1898, 207; Nautical Almanac 1901, 442; Occultation of the Pleiades, 207; the Atmospheres of Planets, Dr. Johnston Stoney, 207; Planetary Relations, Emile Anceaux, 352; Atlas der Himmelskunde auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse der coelestischen Photographie, A. v Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, 220; Death of Arthur Kammerman, 228; Obituary Notice of, 256; Mont Blanc Observatory, M. J. Janssen, 230; Astronomical Annuals, 230; Annuaire pour l'An 1898, publié par le Bureau des Longitudes, 244; the Arequipa Observatory, 249; Companion to Vega, Prof. Barnard, 256; Harvard College Report, Prof. Pickering, 256; Appointment of Prof. G. M. Searle to the Vatican Observatory, 256; the Concise Knowledge of Astronomy, Agnes M. Clerke, A. Fowler, and J. Ellard Gore, 266; Death of Dr. Eduard Lindemann, 280; Obitury Notice of, 299; Death of Dr. Oscar Stumpe, 280; Obituary Notice of, 299; a New Spectroscopic Binary, 284; a Variable Bright Hydrogen Line, Miss A. J. Cannon, 284; Astronomical Constants, 284; Longitude of Madras, 284; Photographic Magnitudes, Prof. Pickering, 303; the Consti tution and Function of Gases, Severinus J. Corrigan, 316; Large and Small Proper Motions, Prof. Kapteyn, 325; Row. land's Tables, 326; Obituary Notice of Dr. Karl Necker, 326; U Pegasi and Short Period Variables, O. C. Wendell, 352; Variable Star, U Pegasi, 442; Astronomical Annual for 1898, 353; Spectrum Researches of n-Aquila, Prof. A. Belopolsky, 353; Carbon in the Chromosphere, Prof. Hale, 374; Parallax of Sirius, Dr. Gill, 374; a Probable New Star, Rev. T. E. Espin, 374; Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S.; and Presentation of Gold Medal to W. F. Denning, 376; the Observer's Atlas of the Heavens, William Peck, 388; Periodic Orbits, Prof. G. H. Darwin, 394; Another Lunar Hoax, 399; a Remarkable Object, Rev. T. E. Espin, 400; a Large Reflecting Telescope, Rev. John Peate, 400; Parallaxes of Stars, Dr. Gill, 400; Astronomical Photography, Dr. Isaac Roberts, 417; Cinematograph in Astronomy, M. Camille Flammarion, 419; a Probable New Star, 419; Electrolytic Reflectors, Sherard Cowper-Coles, 419; Constant of Aberration, Prof. C. L. Doolittle, 472; Astronomical Serials, 472; Magnitudes of 1081 Southern Stars, Stanley Williams, 491; Occultations Photographically observed, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 492; Astronomy in Australasia, P. Baracchi, 493; Concave Gratings for Stellar Photography, 520; a Catalogue of 636 Stars, Herr W. Luther, 520; Annals of the Cape Observatory, 513; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. W. A. Rogers, 516; Favourable Apparition of Mercury, 519; Mr. Wood's Method of Illustrating Planetary Orbits, Prof. Louis W. Austin, 536; Stellar Parallaxes, Dr. Bruno Peter, 546; the Doubling of the Canals on Mars, M. Antoniadi, 568; the Aurora Spectrum, Prof. E. C Pickering, 591; the Movement of Solar Faculæ, Dr. W. Stratonoff, 591; Das Weltgebäude. -Eine Gemeinverstandliche Himmels-kunde, Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer, 604; Double and Multiple Southern Stars, Dr. T. J. J. See, 617; the Manora Observatory, Herr Leo Brenner, 617; Harvard College Observatory, Prof. Pickering, 617 Astruc (A.), Neutralisation of Glycerophosphoric Acid, 191 Atkinson (Prof. G. F.), Experimental Morphology, 41 220 Atlas of the Heavens, the Observer's, William Peck, 388 Atmospheres of Planets, the, Dr. Johnston Stoney, 207 Atmospheric Pressure, Undulations in Lakes and Inland Seas due to Wind and, W. H. Wheeler, 321 Atomic Weight of the Metals Contained, the Connection between the Characters of Isomorphous Salts and the, A. E.. Tutton, 36 Atomic Weights of Nickel and Cobalt, the, 374 Aurora of March 15, the, A. Geo. Smith, 511 Australasian Association, the, 493; Presidential Address, Prof. A. Liversidge, F.R.S., 493; Astronomy and Terrestrial Physics, P. Baracchi, 493; Measurements of Cloud Heights and Velocity, P. Baracchi, 493; the Sources of Periodic Waves, H. C. Russell, F. R.S., 493; Seismological Work in New Zealand, George Hogben, 494; Molecular Mechanism of Electrolyte, W. M. Hamlet, 494; Red Rain Dust, Thomas Steel, 494; Early Life on Earth, Prof. F. W. Hutton, F. R. S., 494; the Funafuti Coral-boring Expedition, Prof. David, 494; Glacial Traces in Inman Valley, South Australia, Prof. T. W. E. David and Walter Howchin, 495; Glacial Boulders. at Yellow Cliff, Central Australia, Prof. W. B. Spencer and P. M. Byrne, 495; Evidence of Glacial Action in Bacchus Marsh District, C. C. Brittlebank, G. Sweet and Prof. David, 495; Geology of West Australia, 495; E. L. Pittman, 495; Artesian Water in New South Wales, Rev. J. M. Curran, 495; Glaciation in Australia, Rev. J. M. Curran, 495; Sub. marine Geography, Sir James Hector, F.R.S., 495; Antarctica, Sir James Hector, F.R.S., 496; the Exploration of Central Australia, W. H. Tietkins, 496; Origin of Australasian Aborigines, A. W. Howitt, 496; Native Life in Central Australia, Prof. W. B. Spencer, 496. Australia: Report of Australian Museum, Sydney, 15; Remarkable Termite Mounds of Australia, W. Saville-Kent, 81; Geology of Western Australia, Dr. O. Holst, 86; My Fourth Tour in Western Australia, Albert F. Calvert, 126; the West Australian Settler's Guide and Farmer's Hand-book, 560 Babcock (S. M.), Cheese-ripening, 373 Babylonian Land Surveying, Prof. Hammer, 281 Bach (A.), Correlation between Reduction of Carbonic Acid by Nascent Hydrogen, Electrolysis, and Photolysis, 384 Bacteriology: the Yellow Fever Bacillus, Dr. D. Freire, 24; Untersuchungen über den Bau der Cyanophyceen und Bakterien, A. Fischer, 29; Oysters and Typhoid Fever, 72; Notes on Micro-organisms Pathogenic to Man, SurgeonCaptain B. H. S. Leumann, 52; Report of German Commission on Plague at Bombay, 86; Bacteriology of Canned Foods, Messrs. Prescott and Underwood, 103; Scientific Investigations of the Local Government Board, 131; Cultivation-media of Tubercle Bacillus, Dr. A. Ransome, F. R.S., 165; Growth of the Tubercle Bacillus at a Low Temperature, F. J. Reid, 221; Tuberculosis and Pseudo-Tuberculosis, MM. Bataillon and Terre, 407; Artificial Communication of Typhoid by Alimentary Tract, Dr. P. Remlinger, 179; Hiss's Method of Differentiating Typhoid Bacillus from B. coli communis, Dr. A. Ravold, 527; Cheese-ripening, H. L. Russell and L. M. Babcock, 373; Bacilli of Beri-beri, G. Nepveu, 310; Parasites of Cancer and Sarcoma, F. J. Bosc, 407; Caron's New Grain Manure, "Alinit," 418; Mucinoid Substance produced by Bacteria, A. Charrin and A. Desgrez, 431; Production of Oxidation of Glycerine by Sorbose Bacterium, Gabriel Bertrand, 504; Sterilisation of Liquids by Filtration, J. Hausser, 504; Bacillus of "Turned" Wines, MM. Bordas, Joulin, and de Raczkowski, 576; Mediterranean, Malta, or Undulant Fever, Louis Hughes, 581; Micro-organisms in Presence of Compressed Gas, G. Malfitano, 614; the Purification of Sewage and Water, W. J. Dibdin, 601 Bailey (G. H.), the Tutorial Chemistry, part ii., Metals, 559 Baker (R. T.), a Camphor-yielding Cinnamon, 311 Balland (M.), Oat, Wheat, and Rye Straw, 239 Balloon, Andrée and his, Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron, Dr. H. Robert Mill, 609 Balmer (W. T.), Remarkable Lunar Corona, 253 Balnibarbian Glumtrap Rhyme, Prof. G. M. Minchin, F.R.S., 564 Banana, Mechanism of Self-fertilisation in the, Gopal R. Tambe, 510 Baracchi (P.): Measurement of Cloud Heights and Velocity, 493; Astronomy and Terrestrial Physics, 493 Barlow (W.), a Mechanical Cause of Homogeneity of Structure and Symmetry geometrically investigated, with special Application to Crystals and to Chemical Combination, 428 Barnard (Prof.): Photography of Faint Moving Celestial Objects, 16; Jupiter's Third and Fourth Satellites, 61; Photography of Unseen Moving Celestial Bodies, 230; Companion to Vega, 256; Nebulæ near Castor, 326 Barnard Edwin), Photo-Micrography with High Powers, 448 Barnes (C. L.), Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics, vol. lii., part 1, Practical Acoustics, 218 Barometer, Theory of Daily Oscillations of, Dr. J. Hann, 350 Barometrical Determination of Heights, the, F. J. B. Cordeiro, 605 Barr and Stroud "Range-finder," the, 23 Barraclough (S. H.), Effect of Temperature on Tensile and Compressive Properties of Copper, 288 Barral (E.), Chlorine Derivatives of Phenyl Carbonate, 527 Barrett (Charles G.), the Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 460 Barrett (Prof. W. F.), the Supposed Dowsing Faculty, 79 Barrow (George), Chloritoid in Kincardineshire, 359 293 Beri-beri, Bacilli of, G. Nepveu, 310 Berkshire, the Flora of, Geo. Claridge Druce, 579 Bernstein (J.), Mutual Influence of Kathode Rays, 92 Bert (Paul), First Year of Scientific Knowledge, 510 Berthelot (M.), Influence of Hydroscopic Substances on Combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen, 71; Reaction of Hydrogen on Sulphuric Acid, 94: Direct Action of Sulphuric Acid on Mercury, 94; Influence of Oxygen on Decomposition of Hydracids by Mercury, 94; Chemical Actions of the Silent Discharge, 431, 455, 479, 503; Chemical Action of the Silent Discharge: Oxides of Carbon and Nitrogen, 455; Chemical Action of the Silent Discharge: Alcohols and Etherial Derivatives in presence of Nitrogen, 455, 479 Berthelot (Daniel), High Temperature Measurement by Interference Method, 359; Melting-points of Gold and Silver, 383; Chemical Influence of Light on Carbon Disulphide, 599; Absorption of Oxygen by Pyrogallate of Potassium, 599 Bertrand (Gabriel), Oxidation of Sorbite to Sorbose, 455; Action of Sorbose Bacterium on Polyhydric Alcohols, 480; Production of Oxidation of Glycerine by Sorbose Bacterium, 504; Bio-Chemical Preparation of Crystallised Dioxyacetone, 552 Berzolari (Luigi), Extension to Space of n Dimensions of Euler's and Meunier's Theorems on Surface Curvatures, 157 Bessemer (Sir Henry, F. R.S.), Death of, 468; Obituary Notice of, 487 Besson (A.), Action of Water on Phosphorus Trichloride, 94; Phosphorus Oxide, 191 Bibliography of X-Ray Literature and Research, 53 Bidwell (Shelford, F. R.S.), Presidential Address to the Physical Biology: Death of Prof. T. J. Parker, F.R.S., 177; Obituary |