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Index 



[SiiJ>ph>nent to Nature, 

 June i6, 1898 



102 ; the First Application to Surgery of Rontgen 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 ; DiflFuse Reflection of. Prof. J. J. 

 Thompson, 407 ; Emission of Secondary Rays in Air under the 

 Influence of Rontgen Rays, G. Sagnac, 407 ; Rontgen Rays 

 hasten Germination, MM. Maldiney and Thouvenin, 408 ; 

 La Teoria dei Raggi Rontgen, 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 Vieible and Invisible, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 F.R.S., 506; Archives of the Rontgen Ray, Vol. ii. No. 2, 

 Radiography in Marine Zoology, Dr. R. Norris Wolfenden, 

 509 ; Transformation of Rontgen Rays by Matter, G. 

 Sagnac, 526 ; Visibility to Blind of, F. de Courmelles, 527 ; 

 Lupus vulgaris treated by Rontgen Rays, Dr. Schiff, 589 ; 

 Means of Augmenting Intensity and Rapidity of Action of 

 Rontgen Rays, F. Garrigou, 600 ; Rontgen Rays and Ordinary 

 Light, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 607 



Roozeboom (Prof. B.), Behaviour of Solutions of NH4Cl-f 

 FeCla 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. Griinbaum, 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, leichtverstand- 

 lich dargestellt, 531 



Rowan (Mrs.), the Flower Hunter in Qaeensland 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 

 Rucker (Prof. A. W., F.R.S.), Recent Researches on Terres- 

 trial Magnetism, 160, 180 

 Ruhemann (S.), Formation of oo'^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 

 Riitimeyer (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 Rontgen 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. Noel 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., loi, 



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 Jose, 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 Rontgen Rays, 589 

 Schlichter (Prof. C), Stereoscopic Representation of Resultant 



of Harmonic Motions of Different Periods, 323 

 Schloesing (Th., jun.), Determination of Density of Gases 00 



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 

 Schopfungs-Geschichte, Naturliche, 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 

 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, 

 220 

 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. 5feumayer, 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.), Spenceriies, 142 



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

 in Workshops, 197 



