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Index 



r Nature, 

 \_June 13, igoi 



Pozdneeff (A.). Mongolia and the Mongols ; Results of an Ex- 

 pedition to Mongolia in the Years 1892 and 1893, 608 



Pozzi-Escot (E.), Les Diastases et Leurs Applications, 607 ; 

 Detection of Alkaloids by Micro-Chemical Method, 628 



Pozzolana O. Rebuffat, 64 



Practical Coal Mining, George L. Kerr, 417 



Pre-Columbian Scandinavian Colony in Massachusetts, A. 

 Gerard Fowkes, 192 



Precision, Instruments of, at the Paris Exhibition, 61 ; E, T. 

 Warren, 107 ; H. Davidge, 107 ; Prof^C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 156 



Preservation of Photographic Records, the, Chapman Jones, 



373 

 Price (T. S.)> Velocity of Reaction between Ethyl Alcohol and 



Hydrochloric Acid, 75 

 Prichard (H.). Where Black Rules White ; A Journey Across 



and About Hayti, 512 

 Prisms, Cyanine, Prof. R. W. Wood, 433 

 Probability, Inverse or "a posteriori," Prof. J. Cook Wilson, 



154 

 Probability — James Bernoulli's Theorem, Prof. J. Cook Wilson, 



465 



Problems of Evolution, F. W. Headley, 341 



Process Photography, Penrose's Pictorial Annual, Vol. vi. The 

 Process Year-book for 1900, 178 



Progress of Science Teaching, 193 



Prong-buck, Secondary Sexual Characters and the Coloration of 

 the, R. I. Pocock, 157 



Protective Markings in Animals, Clarence Waterer, 441 



Protective Markings in Cats, Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 466 



Proteids, Recent Advances in the Chemistry of the. Dr. J. A. 

 Milroy, 224 



Pseudo-Science, Science and, 25 



Pyschology : Der Aufbau der Menschlichen Seele ;. Eine 

 Psychologische Skizze, Dr. H. Kroell, A. E. Taylor, 204 ; 

 Knowledge, Belief and Certitude, F. Storrs Turner, 273 ; the 

 Story of Thought and Feeling, F. Ryland, 325 ; the Origins 

 of Art, a Psychological and Sociological Inquiry, Yrjo Him, 

 Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, F.R.S., 389 ; Die Transzendentale 

 und die Psychologische Methode, Dr. Max F. Scheler, 438 ; 

 Fact and Fable in Psychology, Joseph Jastrow, 586 



Public Schools, Conference of Science Masters in, Wilfred Mark 

 Webb, 313 



Public Schools, Mathematics and Physics in, G. H. J. Hurst, 



370 

 Publication of Books without Dates, the, Prof. O. Henrici, 



F.R.S., 372 

 Pullar (Fred.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 423 

 Pumping Machinery, the Principles, Construction and Applica- 

 tion of, Henry Davey, 56 

 Pycraft (W. P.), on the Morphology and Phylogeny of the 

 Pal3eognath3e(Ratitse and Crypturi) and Neognath3e(Carinat3e), 



536 

 Pye (W. E.) and Co., a Student's Drum Recorder, 577 

 Pyrometry, the Melting-point of Gold, L. Holborn and A. Day, 



330 



Quagga, Extant Specimens of, G. Renshaw, 425 



Quarrying, Steinbruchindustrie und Steinbruchgeologie, Dr. O. 



Hermann, Prof. Grenville, A. J. Cole, 27 

 Quartics, Graphic Solutions of the Cubics and, T. Hayashi, 515 

 Quartz-Calcite Symmetrical Doublet, J. W. GiflFord, 127 

 Queen, the Death of the, 293 

 Quinton (R.), Osmotical Openness of Marine Invertebrata, 171 



Raciborski's Researches on Leptomin, Prof. S. H. Vines, 



F.R.S.,434 

 Radiation : on the Relations of Radiation to Temperature, Dr. 



J. Larmor, F.R.S., 216 

 Radio-active Lead, K. A. Hoffman and E. Strauss, 405 

 Radio-activity of Matter, the, Prof. Henri Becquerel, 396 

 Radiography : Energy of Riintgen and Becquerel Rays, Prof. 

 E. Rutherford and R. K. McClung, 50 ; the Kathode Stream 

 and X-light, W. Rollins, 169 ; Transformation by Matter of 

 Rontgen Rays, G. Sagnac, 329 ; Law of Transparency of 

 Matter for X-Rays, Louis Benoist, 411 ; how Air Subjected 

 to X-Rays loses its Discharging Property, Prof. E. Villari, 

 432 ; the Secondary Radio- Activity of Metals, Henri Bec- 

 querel, 435; Secondary Radio-Activity, H. Becquerel, 556 ; 



Induced Radio- Activity, P. Curie and A.f Debierne, 556 ; 



Specific Absorption of X-Rays by Metallic Salts, Alex. 



Hebert and Georges Reynaud, 435 ; Direct Production of 



X-Rays in Air, A. Nodon, 556 ; Action of Radium Radiation 



on Selenium, Eugene Bloch, 628 

 Raggylug, the Cottontail Rabbit, and other Animal Stories, 



Ernest Seton-Thompson, 5 

 Railways : a Suspended Railway, 71 ; Light Railways at Home 



and Abroad, W. H. Cole, 81 ; the Nilgiri Railway, W- J. 



Weightman, 402 

 Rain, Artificial, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 167 ; C.H. B. Woodd, 



232 ; M. T. Tatham, 232 

 Rain, Red, 471 

 Rains, the Recent Blood, Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S.., 514; 



Composition of Palermo Blood Rain, S. Meunier, 604 

 Raisin (Dr. C. A.), Certain Altered Rocks from near Bastagne, 



98 

 Ramage (Hugh), Spectra of Flames in Open-hearth and Basic 



Bessemer Processes, 481 ; the Mineral Constituents of Dust 



and Soot from various Sources, 552 

 Rambaud (M.), Observations at Algiers of Comet 1900 C 



(Giacobini), 291 ; Observations of Nova Persei, 628 

 Ramsay (Prof. William, F.R.S. ), Argon and its Companions, 



164 

 Ramsay (W.), Action of Heat on Ethyl Sulphuric Acid, 75 

 Ransome (Dr. A., F.R.S.), Influence of Ozone on Bacteria, 458 

 Raoult (Prof. F. M.), Death of, 593 

 Ravaz (L.), "G^livure" due to Lightning, 556 

 Ravenshear (A. F. ), the Use of the Method of Least Squares in 



Physics, 489 

 Read (C. H. ), the Progress of Anthropology, 410 

 Read (Surgeon Walter) and Others, Mosquitoes and Yellow 



Fever, 63 

 Reade (T. M.), the Cause of Slaty Cleavage, 259 

 Reader (G. F.), Death of, 571 

 Rebuffat (O. ), Pozzolana, 64 

 Recognition Marks : the Markings of Antilocapra, Prof. 



T. D. A. Cockerel!, 58 

 Recorder, a Student's Drum, W. E. Pye and Co., 577 

 Records, Monuments and Coins, the Ethnology of Ancient 



History deduced from. Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, F.R.S., 309 

 Records, Photographic, the Preservation of. Chapman Jones, 373 

 Red Rain, 471 ; the Recent Blood Rains, Prof. J. W. Judd, 



C.B., F.R.S., 514; Composition of Palermo Blood Rain, 



S. Meunier, 604 

 Redikorzew (W.), Structure of Ocelli of Insects, 259 

 Reduction of Observations of Eros, Prof. G. C. Comstock, 405 

 Reduction of Occultations, L. Cruls, 212 

 Reed (Clement), Dew Ponds, 20 



Refraction within Telescope Tube, James Renton, 334 

 Reichsanstalt, the Work of the, 614 



Reid (L. W. ), Table of Class Numbers for Cubic Fields, 432 

 Reinach (Salomon), the Primitive Idea of Tabu, 141 

 Relative Motion of the Earth and the Ether, William Suther- 

 land, 205 Ji 

 Remarkable Earthquake Effects, some, 87 fl 

 Renard (A. F. ), Notions de Mineralogie, 273 

 Rendle (Dr. A. B.), Grasswrack from Kwen Lun Mountains, 



219 

 Rengade (E. ), Place of Indium in Classification of Elements, 



267 ; Indium, 460 

 Renshaw (G.), Extant Specimens of Quagga, 425 

 Renton (James), Refraction within Telescope Tube, 334 

 Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians, 



Edinburgh, 418 

 Reptiles, Beitrag zur Systematik und Genealogie der Reptilien, 



Prof. Max Furbringer, 462 

 Reusch (Dr.), Changes of Level in Iceland in Recent Geological 



Times, 160 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



Les Forets, L. Boppe, Prof, W. R. Fisher, i 

 Topographic Surveying, Herbert M. Wilson, 2 

 Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. ii. 

 Anthropology : the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; iv. 

 the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, James Teit, 

 Prof. Alfred C. Haddon, F.R.S., 3 

 Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 4 

 Darwin and Darwinism, Pure and Mixed, Dr. P. Y. Alex- 

 ander, 5 



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