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during 1904. 185; Variable Stars and Nebulous Areas in Scorpio, Miss H. S. Leavitt, 282; Relative Drift of the Hyades Stars, Dr. Downing, F.R.S., 185; Lightcurve of & Cephei, Dr. B. Meyermann, 234; Colours of Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, Dr. J. Möller, 256; New Method for Measuring Radial-velocity Spectrograms, Prof. J. Hartmann, 306; Triangulation of the Pleiades Stars, Dr. Elkin, 329; Temperature of certain Stars, W. E. Wilson, 334; Systematic Survey of Double Stars, Prof. R. G. Aitken, 354; Castor a Quadruple Star, Prof. Campbell, 375; Popular Star Maps, Comte de Miremont, 44: New Variable Stars in the Region about & Aquila, Prof. Wolf, 519; Radial Velocities of certain Stars, Prof. Campbell and Dr. H. D. Curtis, 519; Orbit of the Binary Star Ceti 82, Prof. Aitken, 519; Star Places in the Vulpecula Cluster, Dr. H. Meyer, 519; Right Ascensions of 2120 Southern Stars, Prof. W. Doberck, 545; Magnitude Equation in the Right Ascensions of the Eros Stars, Prof. R. H. Tucker, 618; Stars with Variable Radial Velocities, 569; Radial Velocities of "Standardvelocity Stars," Prof. Belopolsky, 618

State Aid for Higher Education, 487

State, Science and the, Sir William Abney, K.C.B., F.R.S., at the Society of Arts, 90

Statics Graphic, T. Alexander and A. W. Thompson, 507 Statics and Dynamics, Chemical, J. W. Mellor, Dr. H. M. Dawson, 532

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Statistics of Variation, 545
Statues at Thebes,
"Find of Royal, G. Legrain, 126
Stead J. E., F.R.S.), Practical Micrometallography, 455
Stetting (Rev. T. R. R.), Zoological Nomenclature, 478
t on the Occurrence of Widmannstätten's Figures in
Steel Castings, Prof. J. O. Arnold and A. Mc-
Wam, 32: Report of the Commission appointed by
Cford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada,

investigate the different Electrothermic Processes for the smelting of Iron Ores and the making of Steel in Europe, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 258 Veje (Robert), Medieval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus,

Spanowska (Mlle. W.), Law of Variation of Weight of
Penicillium glaucum as a Function of its Age, 120
Prof. Valdemar), Death of, 350

Venhausen (Jacob), a Research on Enhanced Lines," 400 Stephan (P.), die technische Mechanik, elementares Lehrtuch fur mittlere maschienentechnische Fachschulen und Hlfsbuch für studierende höherer technischer Lehranwalten, 148

Wereochemie, Materialien der, C. A. Bischoff, 386

Meram, the Human, Andrew Melville Patterson, Dr. A. Keith,145

Stevens (F. H.), a School Geometry, 75: Lessons in Experimental and Practical Geometry, 507

Swart (A. W.), Transmutation of Geometrical Isomerides, 4. Velocity of Oxime Formation in certain Ketones,

549

Wewart (Dr. R. Wallace), Higher Text-book of Magnetism and Electricity, 270

k-insect in Devonshire, Occurrence of a Tropical Form af Prof. Robert O. Cunningham, 55

(J. T.), the Marine Beds in the Coal-measures of Nth Staffordshire, 310

(H.), the Timbers of Commerce and their Identifial n. 247

Mwenge, Notes on, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., FR.S., 297, 345, 367, 391, 535

Mavhurst College Observatory, Father Sidgreaves, 592 Story (William Edward), a New General Theory of Errors,

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Structure of the Third Cyanogen Band, Franz Jungbluth,
234
Struthers (R. de J. F.), Photographic Radiation of some
Mercury Compounds, 455

Strutt (Hon. R. J.), the Becquerel Rays and the Properties of Radium, 172

Stumpf (Prof.), the Intelligent Horse "Clever Hans," 156 Styan (Kate E.), the Uses and Wonders of Plant-hairs, 486 Submarine Signalling by Sound, J. B. Millet, 595. Sudborough (J. J.), Esterification Constants of Substituted Acrylic Acids, 550; Simple Method for the Estimation of Acetyl Groups, 550

Sugar-planting Experiments in the Leeward Islands in 1903-4, Dr. F. Watts, 615

Sun: Structure of the Corona, Dr. Ch. Nordmann, 469;
Photography of the Corona without a Total Eclipse, A.
Hansky, 544

Sun's Rotation, the, Prof. N. C. Dunér, 401
Sun-spectra, Father Cortie, 158

Sun-spot Minimum, Date of the most Recent, E. Tringali, 133

Sun-spots, Nature of, Th. Moreux, 592

Super-cooled Rain Drops, Edward E. Robinson, 295; Cecil Carus-Wilson, 320

Superstitions about Animals, Frank Gibson, 510

Surgery: the Treatment of Cancer, Mayo Robson, 130; Method of Protecting the Hands of the Operator from X-Ray Burns, Prof. W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., 167; John Hunter and his Influence on Scientific Progress, Hunterian Oration at Royal College of Surgeons, John Tweedy, 403

Survey of India, Report of the, 22

Surveying: New Streets, Laying Out and Making Up, A. Taylor Allen, 437

Sutro (Emil), the Basic Law of Vocal Utterance, 317; Duality of Voice and Speech, 317; Duality of Thought and Language, 317

Sutton (J. R.), Sir J. Eliot's Address at Cambridge, 6 Sutton Town and Chase, Tales of, with other Tales and some Sketches, 53

Swinburne (J.), the Definition of Entropy, 125
Sykes (Mark L.), Protective Resemblance, 520

Sylvester (James Joseph), the Collected Mathematical
Papers of, 98

Symmers (Dr.), Bilharzia, 307

Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, a, W. F. Kirby, 459

Tacchini (Prof. Pietro), Death of, 540; Obituary Notice of, 564; the late Prof. Tacchini, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 583

Tales from Old Fiji, Lorimer Fison, 490

Tales of Sutton Town and Chase, with other Tales and some Sketches, 53

Tanakadate (A.), a Magnetic Survey of Japan reduced to
the Epoch 1895.0 and the Sea Level, 578
Tanganyika, Lake, Scientific Exploration of, 277
Tank Oscillation, Lissajous's Figures by, T. Terada, 296
Tannery (Paul), Death of, 130

Tansley (Prof. A. G.), Compulsory Greek at Cambridge,

414

Tantalum, Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin, 610

Tarugi (N.), the Power of Aluminium to Absorb the Vapour of Mercury, 352

Tattersall (G.), New Synthesis of Isocaprolactone, 119
Taylor (Edward H.), a Treatise on Applied Anatomy, 145
Taylor (F.), Studies in Optical Superposition, 239
Technical Education Board of the London County Council,
1903-1904, Annual Report of the, 34

Technical Mechanics, Prof. George M. Minchin, 148
Techno-chemical Analysis, Dr. G. Lunge, 458
Technological Chemistry: the Industrial and Artistic
Technology of Paint and Varnish, A. H. Sabin,
C. Simmonds, 50; Food Inspection and Analysis, Albert
E. Leach, C. Simmonds, 50

Technology of the Vegetable Fibres, the, Prof. Aldred F.
Barker, 579

Telegraphy: Wireless Telegraphy, C. H. Sewall, 1; Wireless Telegraphy from Poldhu, Cornwall, to Ancona, Italy, 111; die Drahtlose Telegraphie, Dr. Gustav Eichhorn.

220; Wireless Telegraphy in War, Captain James, 307; Wireless Telegraphy between Diamond Island and the Andamans, 445; Wireless Telegraphy with Circular Waves, Alessandro Artom, 517; Pollak-Virag High-speed Writing Telegraph, 156; Direct Telegraphic Communication established between Liverpool and Teheran, 181; Experiments to Show the Retardation of the Signalling Current of the Pacific Cable, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 190; Time Signals sent from Washington to Sydney, 303; Telegraphic Time Signals from the United States Naval Observatory, 613

Telescope, the, Thomas Nolan, 460

Telescope, the Bruce Photographic, Prof. Barnard, 424 Tempel's Second Comet, Re-discovery of, M. Gavelle, 133; J. Coniel, 133; Ephemeris for, J. Coniel, 282; Tempel's Comet (1904 c), M. St. Javelle, 185; M. Coniel, 185 Tempel's First Periodic Comet (1867 II.), Search-ephemeris for, A. Gautier, 545

Temperature on Ben Nevis, Inversions of, Andrew Watt, 583

Temperature Inversion, Remarkable, and the Recent High Barometer, W. H. Dines, 365

Temperature of Meteorites, the, H. E. Wimperis, 81 Temperatures of High Southern Latitudes, Mean, Prof. Julius Hann, 221

Temperatures and Humidity in Anticyclones, Inversions of, Dr. A. Lawrence Rotch, 510

Temple (Sir Richard), the Practical Value of Anthropology, 130

Tenacity to Life of a Grass-snake, E. V. Windsor, 390
Teneriffe, Attractions of, Hugh Richardson, 415
Tennis: Lawn Tennis, J. Parmly Paret, 436; Great Lawn
Tennis Players, George W. Beldam and P. A. Vaile, 436
Teodoresco (E. C.), Effect of Low Temperatures on the
Zoospores of the Algæ, 432

Terada (T.), Lissajous's Figures by Tank Oscillation, 296

Terrestrial Magnetism: a Contemplated Magnetic Survey of the North Pacific Ocean by the Carnegie Institution, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 389; Terrestrial Magnetism and its Causes, F. A. Black, 557

Terrestrial Phenomena, Relations between Solar and, H. I.
Jensen, 158

Tetmeyer (Prof. Ludwig von), Death of, 420
Thallium Mineral, a New, G. T. Prior, 534

Thebaid, the Ancient Races of the, Prof. Arthur Thomson,
583; Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 583
Thebes," Find " of Royal Statues at, G. Legrain, 126
Theobald (Fred V.), Second Report on Economic Zoology,
British Museum (Natural History), 272
Theoretical Geometry for Beginners, C. H. Allcock, 75
Therapeutics on the Action Exerted upon the Staphylo-
coccus pyogenes by the Human Blood Fluids and on the
Elaboration of Protective Elements in the Human
Organism in Response to Inoculations of a Staphylo-
coccus Vaccine, Dr. A. E. Wright and Captain Stewart
R. Douglas, 67; on the Action Exerted upon the Tubercle
Bacillus by the Human Blood Fluids and on the Elabor-
ation of Protective Elements in the Human Organism in
Response to Inoculations of a Tubercle Vaccine, Dr.
A. E. Wright and Captain Stewart R. Douglas, 67;
Light Energy, its Physics, Physiological Action and
Therapeutics, Dr. Margaret A. Cleaves, Dr. Reginald
Morton, 269; the Mixed Treatment of Trypanosomiasis
by Arsenious Acid and Trypan-red, A. Laveran, 359
Thermodynamics: die Einheit der Naturkrafte in der
Thermodynamik, Richard Wegner, 29: la Statique
Chimique basée sur les deux Principes fondamentaux de
la Thermodynamique, E. Ariès, 247: die heterogenen
Gleichgewichte vom Standpunkte der Phasenlehre, H. W.
Bakhuis Roozeboom, 247

Thesmar (Mr.), the Nature of the Hydrosulphites, 374
Thimont (Prof. Joseph), Death of, 181

Thinking Cats, Y. N., 9; R. Langton Cole, 31
Thiselton-Dyer (W. T.), Index Kewensis Plantarum Phan-
erogamarum, 581

Thomas (Dr.), Identity of various Trypanosomes of Man,

499

Thomas (H. H.), Epidote from Inverness-shire, 381 Thomas (Miss M. B.), Optically Active Nitrogen Com

Thomas (Mr.), Methods of Dealing with Dust in the Air in a Cornish Mine, 209

Thomas (N. W.), Group Marriage with especial Reference to Australia, 478

Thomas (W.), Simple Method for the Estimation of Acetyl Groups, 550

Thompson (Dr. Ashburton), Plague at Sydney in 1903, 542 Thompson (A. W.), Graphic Statics, 507

Thompson (R. Campbell), the Devils and Evil Spirit of Babylonia, 249

Thompson (Prof. S. P.), on a Rapid Method of Approximate Harmonic Analysis, 190; Crystals showing the Phenomenon of Luminous Rings, 142

Thompson-Yates and Johnston Laboratories Report, the, 498

Thomson (Prof. Arthur), the Ancient Races of the Thebaid, 583

Thomson (James), the Circulation of the Atmosphere, 365 Thomson (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), the Charge of the a Rays from Polonium, 166; Charge on the a Particles of Polonium and Radium, 438; Non-electrification of Rays, 430; Are Metals made Radio-active by the Influence of Radium Radiation? 430

Thomson (W.), Arsenic Rapidly Eliminated from the System by Kidney Secretion, 88

Thorndike (Edward L.), an Introduction to the Theory of
Mental and Social Measurements, 99

Thornton (John), Elementary Practical Physiology, 556
Thornton (Dr. W. M.), a Sensitive Hygrometer, 47
Thorp (T.), New Direct-vision Spectroscope, 431
Thought, a History of European, in the Nineteenth
Century, John Theodore Merz, Prof. G. H. Bryan,
F.R.S., 241

Thoulet (M.), Study of the Sea Bottom of the North
Atlantic, 24

Thurston (E.), Difficulties of the Ethnographic Survey in the Mysore, 182

Tibet, Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of Central, Perceval Landon, 585

Tibet Mission, Geographical Results of the, Sir Frank Younghusband, 377

Tides of January 7, the Abnormal, 258

Tilden (W. A.), Pinene Isonitrosocyanide and its Derivatives, 550

Till the Sun Grows Cold, Maurice Grindon, 606
Timber, Process for Treating, with a Solution of Sugar,

Mr. Powell, 37

Timbers of Commerce and their Identification, the, H. Stone, 247

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

Tingle (A.), the Flowering of the Bamboo, 183
Tissot (J.), Relations between Arterial Pressure and the
Amounts of Chloroform Absorbed, 408; Conditions which
Determine the Penetration of Chloroform into Blood
during Anæsthesia, 480

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

Todd (Mr.), Sleeping Sickness in Congo Free State, 400: Relationship of Human Trypanosomiasis to Congo Sleeping Sickness, 499; the Congo Floor Maggot, 499 Toll's (Baron) Expedition, Fate of, 467 Tommasina (Th.), the Genesis of Temporary Radio-activity, 143

Toning Bromide Prints, R. E. Blake Smith, 438 Topography: the Pre-Glacial Raised Beach of the South Coast of Ireland, W. B. Wright and H. B. Muff, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 17; Topography of British India, Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich, C.B., 268; Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms, Alexander Knox,

271

Touchet (Em.), Photograph of a Lightning Flash showing the Air in Incandescence, 600

Tow-net, on a Method of Using the, as an Opening and Closing Tow-net, George Murray, F.R.S., 364

Tower (Beauchamp), Death and Obituary Notice of, 253 Townsend (Frederick), Flora of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, 245

Toxic Action as exemplified in Hæmolytic Sera, Chemical Combination and, Prof. Robert Muir and Carl H. Brown

June B. 1905]

Toxicology: the Venom of Egyptian Scorpions, Dr. Wilson, 307; Influence of the Radium Emanation on the Toxic Power of Snake Poison, C. Phisalix, 456; Sterility and Alopecy in Guinea-pigs previously submitted to the influence of Ovarian Extracts, Gustave Loisel, 504; the Antidote to Nicotine, C. Zalackas, 504; Influence of Cobravenom on the Proteid Metabolism, Dr. J. Scott, 621 Trachoma, Dr. J. Boldt, 198

Training of Teachers, Welsh Conference on the, 66
Trannoy (R.), Combinations of Samarium Chloride with
Ammonia, 311

Transition from Primary to Secondary Spectra, the, P. G.
Nutting, 63

Transpiration der Pflanzen, die, Dr. Alfred Burgerstein, 51 Transposition of Zoological Names, the, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 608

Transvaal, Geological Survey of the, Report for the Year 1903. H. Kynaston, E. T. Mellor, A. L. Hall, Dr. G. A. F. Molengraaff, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 55 Traquair (Dr. R. H.), Palæontology of the Upper Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth Area, 623

Travers Prof. Morris W., F.R.S.), on the State in which Helium Exists in Minerals, 248; Comparison of the Platinum Scale of Temperature with the Normal Scale,

429

Treacher (L.), Age and Relations of the Phosphatic Chalk of Taplow, 622

Trees, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 200

Treves (Sir Frederick, Bart.), the Other Side of the
Lantern, 553

Triangulation of the Pleiades Stars, Dr. Elkin, 329
Tribot (J.), a Colloidal Hydrate of Iron obtained by
Electrodialysis, 311

Trigonometry, the Elements of, S. L. Loney, 507
Trillat (A.), Formation of Formaldehyde during the Com-
bustion of Tobacco, 72; Antiseptic Properties of Smoke,
528; New Method of Testing for Ammonia, Application
to the Examination of Water for Sanitary Purposes, 383
Tringali (E.), Date of the most Recent Sun-spot Minimum,
133

Tropical Form of Stick-insect in Devonshire, Occurrence of a Prof. Robert O. Cunningham, 55

True Frederick W.), the Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, 84

Trypanosomiasis and Experimental Medicine, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 408

Tuberculosis: Two Distinct Forms of Tubercle Bacilli, Human and Bovine, 130

Tucker (Robert), Death of, 371; Obituary Notice of, 398
Tucker Prof. R. H.), Magnitude Equation in the Right
Ascensions of the Eros Stars, 618

Tukulti-Ninib I., King of Assyria, Records of the Reign
of, about B.C. 1275, L. W. King, F.S.A., 222
Turbine, Spread of the Steam, for Marine Propulsion,
Lord Glasgow, 594

Turchet (M.), New Method of Testing for Ammonia, Application to the Examination of Water for Sanitary Purposes, 383

Turchini (M.), Variation of the Specific Induction Power of
Glass with the Frequency, 527

Turin Observatory, Astronomical "Annuario" of the, 256
Turnbull (V. M.), Elementary Plane Geometry, 75
Turner (Prof. H. H., F.R.S.), the Eleventh Eros Circular,
154: Astronomical Discovery, 410

Turner (Sir William), Penalla, a Crustacean Parasitic on the Finner Whale, 431

Turner (W. E. S.). Influence of the Hydroxyl and Alkoxyl Groups on the Velocity of Saponification, 599

Tutcher (W. J.). Some New Species and other Chinese Plants, 381

Tutin (F.). Relation between Natural and Synthetical Glycerylphosphoric Acids, 478

Tweedy (John), John Hunter and his Influence on Scientific Progress, Hunterian Oration at Royal College of Surgeons, 403

Twentieth Century Atlas of Microscopical Petrography,

341

Twiss (D. F.), Grignard Reaction applied to the Esters of Hydroxy-acids, 166

Typhoid Bacillus in Shell-fish, Vitality of the, Dr. Klein,

Uhlig (Dr. Victor), the Ammonite Fauna of the Spiti Shales, 161

Ulpiani (C.), Intimate Connection between the Configuration of Chemical Substances and their Susceptibility to Fermentation, 352

Umow (Prof. N.), an Ingenious Method of Constructing Magnetic Charts, 184

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

United States: Forestry in the United States, 32; Hydrology in the, 187; U.S. Department of Agriculture, General Index to Experiment Station Record, 188; Report of the United States Naval Observatory, Rear-Admiral Chester, 211; Destructive Floods in the, in 1903, E. C. Murphy, 308; Forestry in the, 427; the Magnetic Survey of the, 449; some Recent Work of the United States Geological Survey in the Western States, 450; the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 519 Universities: University and Educational Intelligence, 22, 46, 69, 94, 117, 139, 162, 188, 215, 238, 260, 285, 309, 331, 356, 379, 406, 428, 453, 475. 499, 526, 547, 572, 596; New Buildings of the University of Liverpool, the George Holt Physics Laboratory, New Medical Buildings of the University of Liverpool, 63; Lord Kelvin and Glasgow University, 104; a National University Library, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 366

Urbain (G.), Purification of Gadolina and on the Atomic Weight of Gadolinium, 455

Ussher (R. J.), Extinct Mammalia in a Carboniferous Cavern near Doneraile, 71

Vaile (P. A.), Great Lawn Tennis Players, 436
Valpy (Robert Harris), Death of, 253
Valuable Furs, the Supply of, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 115
Variability of a Minor Planet, Prof. Wendell, 569
Variable of the Algol Type, a Probable, J. E. Gore, 55
Variable Radial Velocity of Sirius, Prof. Campbell, 494
Variable Radial Velocities, Stars with, 569
Variable Stars: Harvard Observations of Variable Stars,
Prof. E. C. Pickering, 133; Designations of the Variable
Stars Discovered during 1904, 185; Variable Stars and
Nebulous Areas in Scorpio, Miss H. S. Leavitt, 282;
New Variable Stars in the Region about & Aquila, Prof.
Wolf, 519

Variation in Animals and Plants, H. M. Vernon, 243
Variation in Insects, Studies of, Vernon L. Kellogg and
Ruby G. Bell, 545

Variations on the Moon's Surface, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 114

Variot (G.), the Nutritive Value of Sterilised Cows' Milk, 167

Vasey (Dr. S. Arch.), What is Brandy? 53
Vegetable Fibres, Spinning and Twisting of Long (Flax,
Hemp, Jute, Tow, and Ramie), Herbert R. Carter, Prof.
Aldred F. Barker, 579

Veley (Mrs. L. J.), Pelomyxa palustris, 599
Veley (Dr. V. H., F.R.S.), What is Brandy? 53; Hydro-
lysis of Ammonium Salts, 239

Velocities of Certain Stars, Radial, Prof. Campbell and Dr. H. D. Curtis, 519

Velocities, Stars with Variable Radial, 569

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

Velocity of Sirius, Variable Radial, Prof. Campbell, 494 Venturo (Señor), Hæmatite Deposits of Peru, 236 Vererbungs-lehre, Ergebnisse und Probleme der Zeugungsund, Prof. Oscar Hertwig, 559

Verne (Jules), Death of, 514

Verneuil (A.), Memoire sur la Réproduction artificielle du Rubis par Fusion, 180

Vernon (H. M.), Variation in Animals and Plants, 243 Vertebrates, the Animals of New Zealand, an Account of the Colony's Air-breathing, F. W. Hutton and J. Drummond, 199

Vicentini (Prof. G.), Radio-active Sediments of Thermal Springs, 448; Radio-active Muds, 543

Vicentini (Prof.), Sound Waves of a Cannon have no Appreciable Effect on a Building, 621

Victoria, the Government Observatory at, P. Baracchi,

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

Vier- und fünfstellige Logarithmentafeln, 271
Vigier (Dr. P.), Hair Follicles of Negroes, 452

Vignon (Léo), Limit of the Reaction between Diazobenzene and Aniline, 287

Vila (A.), Spectroscopy of the Blood and of Oxyhæmoglobin, 600

Villari (Prof. Emilio), Obituary Notice of, Prof. A. Ròiti, 446

Vines (Prof. S. H., F.R.S.), Proteid Digestion in Animals and Plants, 189

Viola (Prof. C. M.), Grundzüge der Kristallographie, 340 Violle (J.), Stereoscopy without a Stereoscope, 23; the Action of Hail Cannons, 383

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

Vital Products, the Chemical Synthesis of, and the Interrelations between Organic Compounds, Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., 170

Viticulture: Destruction of Phylloxera by Lysol, G. Cantin, 240

Vivisection: Experiments on the Simultaneous Removal of
Spleen and Thymus, Drs. Noel Paton and Goodall, 263
Voice: the Basic Law of Vocal Utterance, Emil Sutro,
317; Duality of Voice and Speech, Emil Sutro, 317;
Duality of Thought and Language, Emil Sutro, 317
Voit (F. W.), Geology of German South-West Africa, 236
Volcanoes: the Present Condition of Kilauea, Dr. Otto
Kuntze, 20; Renewed Activity of Kilauea, C. H. Hamil-
ton, 589; Activity of Mont Pelée, 588; Occurrence of
Bishop's Ring, Martinique, F. A. Forel, 591; Recent
Changes in the Crater of Stromboli, Dr. Tempest Ander-
son, 593; Vesuvius again in Full Eruption, 614
Volkov (Th.), Comparative Study of the Skeletal Variations
of the Foot in Primates and in Man, 453
Vuillemin (Paul), Hyphoids and Bacteroids, 263
Vulpecula Cluster, Star Places in the, Dr. H. Meyer, 519

Wade (Dr.), Destruction of Rats and Disinfection on Ship-
board with Special Reference to Plague, 209
Wagner (Richard), Stories from Natural History, 317
Waidner (C. W.), Measurements by Photometric Methods of
the Temperature of the Electric Arc, 132
Waite (E. H.), the Nest of the Fighting Fish, 450
Waldstein (Dr. Charles), Herculaneum and the Proposed
International Excavation, 182

Walker (Prof. James, F.R.S.), Theory of Amphoteric
Electrolytes, 238

Walker (George W.), Reversal of Charge from Electrical Induction Machines, 221; Drift produced in Ions by Electromagnetic Disturbances and a Theory of Radioactivity, 406

Waller (Alice M.), "Blaze-currents" of the Gall Bladder of the Frog, 429

Waller (Dr. Augustus D., F.R.S.), some Scientific Centres, the Physiological Research Laboratory of the University of London, 441

Walmsley (R. M.), Electricity in the Service of Man, 124 Walsh (E. H. C.), Stone Implements in Darjeeling District, 453

War, Wireless Telegraphy in, Captain James, 307
Ward (J. J.), Peeps into Nature's Ways, being Chapters on
Insect, Plant, and Minute Life, 512

Ward (Prof. Marshall, F.R.S.), a Problem Concerning
Wood and Lignified Cell-walls, 71; Trees, 290; Fungi,
Discourse at the Royal Institution, 496

Warth (F. J.), Affinity Constants of Aniline and its Derivatives, 166

Warth (W. F.), Polyhedral Soap-films, 273

Washington (H. S.), Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks, 219

Watkin (E. L.), an Interference Apparatus for the Calibration of Extensometers, 47

Watson (Dr. W.), Determination of the Moment of Inertia of the Magnets used in the Measurement of the Horizontal Component of the Earth's Field, 622

Watt (Andrew), Inversions of Temperature on Ben Nevis, 583

Watts (F.), Nature Teaching, 5

Watts (Dr. F.), Sugar-planting Experiments in the Leeward
Islands in 1903-4, 615

Watts (W. Marshall), Index of Spectra, 486
Wave-group, Growth of a, when the Group-velocity is
Negative, Dr. H. C. Pocklington, 607

Wave-motion, a Simple Model for Illustrating, K. Honda.

295

Waves, Experiment on Pressure due to, Sidney Skinner, 609

Waves, on Deep Water Ship, Lord Kelvin, 382

Webb (Wilfred Mark), Conference of Public School Science Masters, 284

Weber (Dr. Carl Otto), Death of, 303

Weed (W. H.), Copper in the United States, 162
Wegner (Richard), die Einheit der Naturkrafte in der
Thermodynamik, 29

Weidman (Dr. Samuel), Geology of Baraboo Iron-bearing
District of Wisconsin, 235

Weiss (O.), on the Registration of the n-Rays, 191
Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial
College, Khartoum, First Report of the, Dr. Andrew
Balfour, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 605

Wells (H. G.), Mankind in the Making, Anticipations, the
Food of the Gods, 193; Fact in Sociology, 319
Welsh Conference on the Training of Teachers, 66
Wendell (Prof.), Variability of a Minor Planet, 569
Wertheimer (Prof. J.), Compulsory Greek at Cambridge,
344

Wery (Miss J.), Attractions offered to Bees by Flowers, 492 Wesenberg-Lund (Dr.), Comparison of the Lakes of Denmark and Scotland, 383

West (Prof. G. S.), a Treatise on the British Fresh-water Algæ, 194; a Monograph of the British Desmidiaceæ, 194; the Fresh-water Plankton of the Scottish Lochs, 623

West (W.), a Monograph of the British Desmidiaceæ, 194; the Fresh-water Plankton of the Scottish Lochs, 623 West Indian Madreporarian Polyps, J. E. Duerden, Prof. Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., 18

Westermarck (Dr. Ed.), Magic Origin of Moorish Designs, 165; Studies in National Eugenics, 402

Weston (Frank E.), a Scheme for the Detection of the more Common Classes of Carbon Compounds, 75 Whales the Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, Frederick W. True, 84; Eocene Whales, F. A. Lucas, 102; Measurements of Whales at Balena, Newfoundland, F. A. Lucas, 326

Wheat, on a Relation between Autumnal Rainfall and the
Yield of, of the Following Year, Dr. W. N. Shaw,
F.R.S., at Royal Society, 470

Wheeler (R. V.), the Combustion of Ethylene, 70
Wheeler (Prof. William Morton), Ants and some other
Insects, an Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these
Animals, Dr. August Forel, 29

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

Whetham (W. C. D., F.R.S.), the Recent Development of
Physical Science, 291; the Origin of Radium, 319
White (H. J. O.), Age and Relations of the Phosphatic
Chalk of Taplow, 622

White (Prof. Philip J.), the late Mr. Assheton Smith, 125 White (Sir William, K.C.B.), Recent Visit of the Institution of Civil Engineers to the United States and Canada, 254

Whiting (Arthur), Retouching, 100

Whittaker (E. T.), a Treatise on the Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, 601

Whitton (W. A.), Change in the Colour of Moss Agate, 31 Wickes (W. H.), the Rhætic Bone-beds, 161

Widmannstätten's Figures in Steel Castings, on the Occurrence of, Prof. J. Ŏ. Arnold and A. McWilliam, 32 Wilde Lecture at Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, the Early History of Seed-bearing Plants as Recorded in the Carboniferous Flora, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 426

Wilderman (Dr. M.), Galvanic Cells produced by the Action of Light, 333

Willey (Dr. Arthur), Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and Elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1897, 411

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Williams (Stanley), the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, 211 Williamson (Dr.), Life-histories of the Edible Crab and other Decapod Crustacea, 214

Willis (John C.), Compulsory Greek at Cambridge, 273
Willows (Dr. R. S.), Action of Radium on the Electric
Spark, 358; Action of a Magnetic Field on the Discharge
through a Gas. 358

Wilson (Dr.), the Venom of Egyptian Scorpions, 307
Wilson (Dr. H. C.), Celestial Photography at High Alti-

tudes, 114

Wilson (W. E.), Temperature of Certain Stars, 334
Wilson-Barker (Captain D.), Connection of Meteorology
with other Sciences, 334

Wimperis (H. E.), the Temperature of Meteorites, 81
Winckler (Prof. Clemens A.), Death of, 181

Wind Charts for the South Atlantic Ocean, Monthly, 157
Windle (Bertram C. A., F.R.S.), Remains of the Prehistoric
Age in England, 322

Windsor (E. V.), Tenacity to Life of a Grass-snake, 390
Winkler (Clemens Alexander), Death of, 36
Window (Mr.), Bacteria in Sewage, 325

Wireless Telegraphy: C. H. Sewall, 1; Wireless Telegraphy from Poldhu, Cornwall, to Ancona, Italy, 111; die Drahtlose Telegraphie, Dr. Gustav Eichhorn, 220; Wireless Telegraphy in War, Captain James, 307; Wireless Telegraphy between Diamond Island and the Andamans, 445; Wireless Telegraphy with Circular Waves, Alessandro Artom, 517

Wertz (C. W.), Eclipse Observations, 159
Winsor (M.), the Trioxide of Nitrogen, 281

Welt (Prof. Max), Encke's Comet (1904 b), 63, 89; the
Reported Sixth Satellite of Jupiter, 306; New Variable
Stars in the Region about & Aquilæ, 519

Wolf (J.), the Diastatic Coagulation of Starch, 240 Wonders of Life, the, a Popular Study of Biological Philosophy, Ernst Haeckel, 313

Wood (Captain H., R.E.), Report on the Identification and Nomenclature of Himalayan Peaks, 42

Wood (P. W.), Reducibility of Covariants of Binary Quantics of Infinite Order, 70

Wood (Prof. R. W.), Experiment for Showing the Pressure due to Sound Waves, 280; the Anomalous Dispersion of Sodium Vapour, 327

Weed (Prof.), Distribution of Light (Monochromatic) in
the Different Orders of a Typical Grating, 543
Woods (Mr.), Food of the Maine Lumbermen, 254
Woods (Dr. Thomas), Death and Obituary Notice of, 278
Woodward (Horace B.), Stanford's Geological Atlas of
Great Britain (Based on Reynolds's Geological Atlas),

315

Woolacott (Dr. D.), the Pre-Glacial Valleys of Northumberland and Durham, 616

Wooldridge (Prof. G. H.), Temperature of Healthy Dairy Cattle and of Tuberculous Cattle, 623

Words and Phrases, Misuse of, T. B. S., 9, 54; A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 30

Wright (Dr. A. A.), Death of, 614

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Wright (Prof. A. E.), System of Anti-typhoid Inoculation in the Army, 14; on the Action Exerted upon the Stabkylococcus pyogenes by the Human Blood Fluids, and on the Elaboration of Protective Elements in the Human Organism in Response to Inoculations of Staphylococcus Vaccine, 67; on the Action Exerted upon the Tubercle Bacillus by the Human Blood Fluids, and on the Elaboration of Protective Elements in the Human Organism in Response to Inoculations of a Tubercle Vaccine, 67

Wright (W. B.), the Pre-Glacial Raised Beach of the South Coast of Ireland, 17

Bundt (Wilhelm), Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychoogie, 529; Principles of Physiological Psychology, 529 Wynne (W. P.), Linin, 478

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Yale Observatory, Report of the, 1900-4, Dr. Elkin, 354 Yarsley (M.), Function of the Antennæ in Insects, 430

Young (A.), the Algebra of Invariants, 601
Young (Prof. C. A.), the Sixth Satellite of Jupiter, 364
Younghusband (Sir Frank), Geographical Results of the
Tibet Mission, 377

Yung (Emil), Cause of the Variations in the Length of the Intestine in the Larvæ of Rana esculenta, 551

Zalackas (C.), the Antidote to Nicotine, 504
Zammarchi (Prof. S.), Observations of Perseids, 1904, 133
Zanetti (Gino), Superfusion Phenomena, 305

Zara (Levi de), Radio-active Sediments of Thermal Springs, 448

Zeiler (R.), Plants from the Coal-measures Found in the Borings at Eply, Lesménils, and Pont-à-Mousson, 551 Zelle, Morphologie und Biologie der, Dr. Alexander Gurwitsch, 174

Zellenmechanik und Zellenleben, Prof. Dr. Rhumbler, 199 Zeugungs- und Vererbungs-lehre, Ergebnisse und Probleme der, Prof. Oscar Hertwig, 559

Zinc and Lead Deposits of Northern Arkansas, G. I.
Adams, 450

Zodiacal Light, Observations of the, A. Hansky, 401
Zon (Raphael), the Chestnut in Southern Maryland, 427
Zooglea, on the Origin of Flagellate Monads and of
Fungus-germs from Minute Masses of, Dr. H. Charlton
Bastian, F.R.S., 77; the Heterogenetic Origin of Fungus
Germs, Dr. H. Charlton Bastian, 272

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Zoology: West Indian Madreporarian Polyps, J. E. Duerden, Prof. Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., 18; Evolution of the Horse in America, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 61; a White Raccoon-dog from Japan, Nyctereutes albus, 61; the Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic, Frederick W. True, 84; Measurements of Whales at Balena, Newfoundland, F. A. Lucas, 326; the Supply of Valuable Furs, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 115; Zoological Society, 118, 165, 190, 333, 429, 477, 502, 574; the Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, J. G. Millais, 121; Death of the Old Indian Rhinoceros “ Jim,' 156; Mark Anniversary Volume, 169; Pinnipedia a Suborder of Cetacea! 125; the late Mr. Assheton Smith, Prof. Philip J. White, 125; the Chartley Herd of White Cattle, 129; the Animals of New Zealand, an Account of the Colony's Air-breathing Vertebrates, F. W. Hutton and J. Drummond, 199; the Land and Sea Mammals of Middle America and the West Indies, D. G. Elliot, 212; Verhandlung der deutschen zoologischen Gesellschaft for 1904, 247: Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, Ernst Haeckel, 265; Morphologische Studien, als Beitrag zur Methodologie zoologischer Probleme, Tad. Garbowski, 265; Untersuchungen über den Phototropismus der Tiere, Dr. Em. Rádl, 265; Graber's Leitfaden der Zoologie für höhere Lehranstalten, 265; Second Report on Economic Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), Fred V. Theobald, 272; the Lizards of the Andamans, N. Annandale, 288; an Aquatic Glow-worm in India, 288; American Hydroids, part ii., Sertularida, C. C. Nutting, 331; Résultats du Voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897, 1898, 1899, sous le Commandemant de A. de Gerlache de Gomery, 337; Arboreal Ancestry of Mammals, W. D. Matthew, 351; Death of Prof. H. Landois, 371; New Family and Twelve New Species of Rotifera of the Order Bdelloida, J. Murray, 383; the Affinity of the Endothiodont Reptiles, Dr. R. Broom, 399; Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and Elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1897, Dr. Arthur Willey, 411; Obituary Notice of Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., 419; Death of Dr. A. S. Packard, 420; Natterer's Bat, T. A. Coward, 446; the Zoological Record, Volume the Fortieth, Relating Chiefly to the Year 1903, 459: Zoological Nomenclature, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 478; Greater Kudu of Somaliland, R. I. Pocock, 478; Anatomy of Typhlomolge rathbuni, the Blind Salamander, Miss Emerson, 515; Règles internationales de la Nomenclature zoologique, 534; the Transposition of Zoological Names, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 608; the Wild Horses of Sable Island, A. P. Silver, 615

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