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Index 



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 L March 23, i^ii 



Rabot (Charles), Volcano in a Branch of Wood Bay, 49 



Radial-velocity Determination, the Probable Errors of, Mr. 

 Plaskett, 180 



Radial-velocity Determinations, Preliminary Results 

 Derived from. Prof. Campbell, 348 



Radiation from Heated Gases, Report of British Associa- 

 tion Committee, 186 



Radiochemistry, A. T. Cameron, Dr. B. B. Boltwood, 165 



Radiography : New Method of Investigating the Positive 

 Ravs, Sir J. J. Thomson, 128; lonisation of Heavy 

 Gases by X-Rays, R. T. Beatty, 128; Action of X-Rays 

 on the Developing Chick, J. F. Gaskell, 428 ; Energy 

 and Distribution of Scattered Rontgen Radiation, J. A. 

 Crowther, 462 ; Production and Properties of Soft 

 Rontgen Radiation, R. Whiddington, 564 ; Gift of 

 Radium to Radium Institute by Sir E. Cassell, 176 ; 

 Radium Content of Salts of Potassium, J. Satterly, 261 ; 

 Probable Chemical Properties of Radium and its Com- 

 binations, M. de Forcrand, 395 ; das Radium und die 

 Farben, Prof. Dr. C. Doelter, 470 ; Royal Society of 

 Arts' Albert Medal presented to Madame Curie, 176; 

 the Tribo Luminescence of Uranium, H. A. Kent, 244 ; 

 the Distribution of Secondary Rontgen Radiation round 

 a Radiator, J. A. Crowther, 261 ; Note on Scattering 

 during Radio-active Recoil, Dr. W. Makower and Dr. 

 S. Russ, 296 ; Charges on Ions in Gases and some 

 Effects that Influence the Motion of Negative Ions, Prof. 

 J. S. Townsend, 394 ; Radio-activity as a Kinetic Theory 

 of a Fourth State of Matter, Prof. William H. Bragg, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 491 ; the Density of Niton 

 (Radium Emanation) and the Disintegration Theory, 

 R. Whytlaw Gray and Sir William Ramsay, F.R.S., at 

 Royal Society, 524 



Radiotherapy : Diseases of the Skin, including Radio- 

 therapy and Radiumtherapy, Prof. E. Gaucher, Dr. 

 A. C. Jordan, 363 



Radium, das, und die Farben, Prof. Dr. C. D. Doelter, 

 470 ; see Radiography 



Raff (Janet W.), Protozoa Parasitic in the Large Intestine 

 of Australian Frogs, 430 



Railway, the Transandine, Dr. John W. Evans, 219 



Rakshit (Jitendra Nath), Methylamine Nitrite, 396 



Ramsay (Sir William, F.R.S.), the Density of Niton 

 (Radium Emanation) and the Disintegration Theory, 

 Paper at Royal Society, 524 ; a Perpetual Calendar, 540 



Ranken (H. S.), Further Results of Experimental Treat- 

 ment of Trypanosomiasis, 64 



Ransome (F. L.), Notes on some Mining Districts in 

 Humboldt County, Nevada, 420 



Rathbun (Miss), Stalk-eyed Crustaceans from the Coast of 

 Peru, 84 



Rats and Plague, G. F. Petrie, 15 



Ravenhill (.'Mice), Household Foes, 5 



Rav (P. C), Methvlamine Nitrite, 396 



Rayleigh (Lord, O'.M., F.R.S.), on the Sensibility of the 

 Eye to Variations of Wave-lengths in the Yellow Region 

 of the Spectrum, Lecture at Royal Society, 421 



Reality, the Presentation of. Dr. Helen Wodehouse, 269 



Reason and Belief, Sir Oliver Lodge, 201 



Recknagel (Mr.), some Mineral Deposits in the Rooiberg 

 District, 5154 



Reed (F. R. Cowp>er), Distribution of Life in Pre- 

 Carboniferous Life-provinces, 553 



Reed (J. H.), Cotton Growing within the British Empire, 

 -Address at Royal Geographical Society, 184 



Rees (Bertha), Structure of the Seed Coats of Hard Seeds 

 and their Longevity, 430 



Regan (Tate), Evolution of the Flat-fishes, 6,1:; 



Reichert (Prof. E. T.), the Differentiation and Specificity of 

 Corresponding Proteins and other Vital Substances in 

 Relation to Biological Classification and Organic Evolu- 

 tion and the Crystallography of Haemoglobins. c;7 



Reid (Clement"), Correlation of the Bovey Beds with the 

 Lignites of the Rhine, 387 



Reis (Otto M.), Fucoids, 284 



Reitz (Prof. H. L.), College Algebrn. 3*^8 



Remsen (Prof. Ira), a College Text-book of Chemistry. 70 



Renard (Captain Paul), Methods of Finding the Height of 



an .Mrship, 21 

 Rennie (Dr. John), the Aims and Methods of Nature-study, 

 369 



Reptiles of the World, Tortoises and Turtles, Crocodiles, 

 Lizards, and Snakes of the Eastern and Western Hemi- 

 spheres, R. L. Ditmars, 196 



Research : Research Defence Society, 6, 449 ; Stephen 

 Paget, 6 ; a Suggested Research Fund for Tropical 

 Diseases, 28 ; Modern .Scientific Research, Sir William A. 

 Tilden, F.R.S., at Vescy Club, 29; Instruction in 

 Methods of Research, W. P. Dreaper, 73 ; the Claims of 

 Scientific Research, Lord Robson at Royal Society, 183 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



Cours de Mecanique Rationelle et Expcrimcntale, Sp^ciale- 

 ment 6crit pour les physiciens et les ing^nieurs, conforme 

 au programme du certificat de mecanique rationelle. Prof. 

 H. Bouasse, 1 



Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy, Stanislao 

 Cannizzaro, 2 



Fruit Tree Pruning, George Quinn, 2 



Unconscious Memory, Samuel Butler, 3 



Faune des Mammif^res d'Europe, Prof. E.-L. Troues- 

 sart, 3 



The Principles of Pathologv, Prof. J. G. Adami, F.R.S., 

 Prof. A. G. NichoUs, F.R.S., 4 



Household Foes, Alice Ravenhill, 5 



Historv of Chemistry, Sir Pldward Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S., ^ 



A Course of Elementary Science, Practical and Descrip- 

 tive, John Thornton, s, 



The Brooks Patent T-square Lock, :; 



Changes in Bodilv Form of Descendants of Immigrants, 

 Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 11 



Biological Physics, Physic, and Metaphysic, Thomas Logan, 



35 

 The Teaching Botanist, Prof. W. F. Ganong, 36 

 Die Klimatischen Verhaltnisse der geologischen Vorzeit 



vom Praecambrium au bis zur Tetztzeit und ihr Einfluss 



auf die Entwickelung der Haupttypen des Tier- und 



Pflanzenreiches, Dr. Emil Carthaus, Ivor Thomas, 36 

 Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis, 37 

 Das Svstem der Biologic in Forschung und Lehre, Dr. Phil. 



S. Tschulok, 37 

 A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares), F. Du 



Cane Godman, F.R.S., 38 

 Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better 



Breeding, C. B. Davenport, 30 

 The Book of the Dry Fly, G. A. B. Dewar, -jq 

 Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Geistes, Max Verworn, 



3Q 

 The British Empire in Pictures, H. Clive Barnard, 39 

 The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand, Reports on the 



Geo-phvsics, Geologv, Zoology, and Botany of the Islands 



Lviner to the South of Zealand, Prof. Arthur Dendv, 



F.R.S., Ai, 

 Ornithological Notes' from a South London Suburb, 1874- 



iqoo, a Summary of Thirty-five Years' Observations, 



with some Facts and Fancies concerning Migration, 



F. D. Power. Sir T. Digbv Pigott, C.B., 44 

 Annales de I'Observatolre National d'Athfenes, public par 



Dem6trius Eginitis, 56 

 The Differentiation and Specificity of Corresponding 



Proteins and other Vital Substances in Relation to 



Biological Classification and Organic Evolution and the 



Crystallographv of Hjemoglobins, Prof. E. T. Reichert 



and Prof. A. P. Brown, 1^7 

 Die Chemie der Cellulose unter b^sonderer Beriicksichtigung 



der Textil- und Zellstoffindustrien, Prof. Carl G. 



Schwalbe, 67 

 Descriptive Meteorology. Prof. Willis L. Moore, 68 

 Les TWories Modernes du Soleil, J. Bosler, 68 

 Vorlesungen iiber die Physik der Sonne, Prof. E. Pring- 



sheim, 68 

 The Elements. Speculations f s to their Nature and Origin, 



Sir William A. Tilden, F.R.S., Dr. Arthur Harden, 



F.R.S., 6q 

 The Relations between Chemical Constitution and some 



Phvsical Properties. Prof. Samuel Smiles, Dr. Arthur 



Harden. F.R.S.. 60 

 Phvsical Chemistrv. its Bearing on BiolofTy and Medicine, 



Prof. James C. Philio. Dr. Arthur Harden, F.R.S., 69 

 \ College Text-book of Chemistry, Prof. Ira Remsen, 70 

 Outlines of Chemistrv. Prof. Louis Kahlenberg, 70 



