Nature, '| 

 June 13, i<>oiJ 



Index 



xxxm 



The Table of British Strata, Dr. H. Woodward and H. B. 

 Woodward, 560 



Differential and Integral Calculus for Beginners, Edwin 

 Edser, 560 



Engineering Chemistry, Thomas B. Stillman, 561 



Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Konyunjik Collec- 

 tion of the British Museum, C. Bezold, 562 



The Wildfowler in Scotland, J. G. Millais, 567 



A Self-verifying Chronological History of Ancient Egypt, a 

 Book of Startling Discoveries, Orlando P. Schmidt, 581 



Practical Electro-chemistry, G. Bertram Blount, Dr. F. 

 MoUwo Perkin, 582 



The Mammals of South Africa, W. L. Sclater, 583 



Einfiihrung in die Theorie der Curven in der Ebene und im 

 Raume, Dr. Georg Scheffers, 584 



Les Phenomenes Electriques et leurs Applications, II. Vivarez, 



585 

 The Agricultural Changes and Laying Down Land to Grass, 



R. H. Elliot, 58s 

 Friederich Wohler, Ein J jgendbildniss in Briefen an Hermann 



von Meyer, 586 

 Die Flora der Deutschen Schutz-gebiete in der Siidsee, Prof. 



Dr. Karl Schumann und Dr. Karl Lauterbach, 586 

 Fact and Fable in Psychology, Joseph Jastrow, 586 

 The Eyes of the Blind Vertebrates of North America, C. H. 



Eigenmann, 589 

 Forestry in British India, Berthold Ribbentrop, Sir Dietrich 



Brandis, F.R.S., 597 

 Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates, Profs. Kor- 



schelt and Heider.. 605 

 Elementary Studies in Chemistry, Joseph Torrey, Prof. A. 



Smithells, 606 

 The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, and a 



Garden Kalendar, Rev. Gilbert White, 606 

 The Romance of the Heavens, A. W. Bickerton, 607 

 Les Diastases et leurs Applications, E. Pozzi-Escot, 607 

 Mongolia and the Mongols : Results of an Expedition to 



Mongolia in the Years 1892 and 1893, A. Pozdneeff, 608 



Supplement. 

 National Life from the Standpoint of Science, Karl Pearson, 



F.R.S., Prof E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., and Prof. John 



Perry, F.R.S., iii. 

 William Cotton Oswell, Hunter and Explorer, W. E. Oswell, 



vi. 

 Carl Friedrich Gauss, Werke, viii. 

 China : Her History, Diplomacy and Commerce from the 



Earliest Times to the Present Day, E. H. Parker, ix. 

 Anthropologic als Wissenschaft und Lehrfach, Dr. Rudolf 



Martin, x. 



Reynaud (Georges), Specific Absorption of X-Rays by Metallic 



Salts, 43"; 

 Reynolds (Prof), Curious Sunset Phenomenon, 99 

 Reynolds (S. H.), Igneous Rocks of Tortworth Inlier, 627 

 Rhinoceroses, European, Phylogenyof, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 450 

 Rhys (John), Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx, 485 

 Ribbentrop (Berthold), Forestry in British India, 597 

 Ricco (A. ), Tromometric Records of Mount Etna and Catania 



Observatories, 425 

 Rich (E. M.), Solubility of Potters' Lead Fritts, 98 

 Richardson (Alex.), Geology of Lake Nyasa, 315 

 Richet (Charles), Toxicity of Injected Muscle Serum, 267 

 Richmond (Herbert), Curves without Double Points, 58 

 Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century, 



the, Ernst Haeckel, 320 

 Ridewood (Dr. W. G. ), " Bonnet " of Balaena australis, 433 

 Rinderpest in India, Serotherapy and, Mr. Lingard, 161 

 "Ripple" Method, Determination of Capillary Constants of 



Liquefied Gases by. Dr. Leo Grummer, 12 

 River, the Mississippi, J. A. Ockerson, W. H. Wheeler, 525 

 Riviere (Ch.), Refractive Index of Bromine, 24 

 Road-making and Maintenance, Thomas Aitken, 272 

 Roberts (.\lexander W. ), Catalogue of Southern Variable Stars, 



548 

 Robin (Albert), Respiratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis, 532 

 Rocks, a Text-book of Important Minerals and, with Tables 



for the Determination of Minerals, S. E. Tillman, 346 

 Roever (W. H.), Brilliant Points and Loci of Brilliant Points, 



220 



Rogers (A. W.), Glacial Characters of Prieska Conglomerate, 



12 

 Rogers (William Moyle), Handbook of British Rubi, 176 

 Rollins (W.), the Kathode Stream and X-Light, 169 

 Romance of the Earth, the, A. W. Bickerton, 298 

 Romance of the Heavens, the, A. W. Bickerton, 607 

 Rome, Recent Excavations in Forum, E. F. Morris, 578 

 Rontgen Rays : Energy of Rontgen 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 ; 



Specific Absorption by Metallic Salts of Rontgen Rays, Alex. 



Hebert and Georges Reynaud, 435 ; Direct Production in Air 



of Rontgen Rays, A. Nodon, 556 

 Rose (Dr, T. K.), Progress in Metallography, 232 

 Rosell (C. R.), Heat of Solution of Resorcinol in Ethyl Alcohol, 



266 

 Rosenberger (Prof. Dr. Ferd), Die Modeme Entwicklung der 



elektrischen Principien, 393 

 Ross (Major R.), Malaria and Mosquitoes, 440 

 Rossard (F.), Variability of Eros, 426 



Rostafinski (Joseph), Mediteval Natural History in Poland, 615 

 Rotch (A. Lawrence), Sounding the Ocean of Air, 55 

 Roth (H. L.), Maori Tatu and Moko, 483 

 Rothamsted : Memoranda of the Origin, Plan and Results of the 



Experiments conducted at, 1900, 79 

 Rothpletz (A.), Das Geotektonische Problem der Glarner Alpen, 



294 ; Geologische Alpenforschungen, 294 

 Rotschy (M)., Three New Alkaloids from Tobacco, 575 

 Rousseaux (E. ), Agricultural Value of Land in Madagascar, 



459 

 Rowland's Experiments on Magnetic Effect of Electrical Con- 

 vection, V. Cremieu, 99 

 Rowland (Prof. H. A.), Death of, 616 

 Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Reports from the 



Laboratory of the, 418 

 Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, the, 256, 280, 



303. 378, 399. 568 ... 



Royal Observatory, Greenwich, its History and Work, the, 



E. W. Maunder, 271 

 Royal Society, 22, 50, I2i,' 146, 218, 242, 266, 363, 386, 410, 

 458, 481, 506, 554, 577 ; Medal Awards for 1900, 34, 135 ; 

 Anniversary Meeting of the. Address by Lord Lister, the 

 Malaria Parasite, 135 ; Address to the King, 421 

 Royer (Madame Clemence), la Constitution du Monde, Dyna- 



mique des Atomes, 533 

 Rubi, British, Handbook of, William Moyle Rogers, 176 

 Rucker (Prof. A. W. ), the Bradford Municipal Technical 

 College, 133 ; Magnetic Field Produced by Electric Tram- 

 ways, 194 

 Rudorf (G. ), Action of Heat on Ethyl-sulphuric Acid, 75 

 Russell (H. C, F.R.S.), Late Droughts and Recent Flood at 



Lake George, New South Wales, 148 ; Current Papers, 267 

 Russell (H. N.), Perturbations of Eros Produced by Mars, 141 

 Russell (Mr.), Thermal Deathpoint of Tubercle-Bacillus, 353 

 Russia, the Government and Agriculture, 64 

 Rutherford (Prof, E.), Energy of Rontgen Rays, 50 

 Rutherford Measures of Pleiades, Harold Jacoby, 548 

 Ryffel (J. H.), Isomeric Esters of Dioxymaleic Acid, 531 

 Ryland (F. ), the Story of Thought and Feeling, 325 



Sabatier (Paul), Reduced Nickel Active Catalytic Agent, 354 ; 



General Method for Synthesis of Naphthenes, 484 

 Sagnac (G. ), Transformation by Matter of Rontgen Rays, 329 

 St. Kilda and Shetland, the Field Mice and Wrens of, G. E. H. 



Barrett- Hamilton, 299 

 St. Louis Academy of Sciences, 387, 435, 580 

 Sakular-Verlegung der Magnetischen Axe der Erde, die, W. 



van Bemmelen, 324 

 Saline Solutions, the Absorption Spectra of, Prof, W, N, Hart- 

 ley, 313 

 Salmon (Ernest S.), a Monograph of the Erysiphaceas, 106 

 Salt, Common, Sensational Newspaper Reports as to Physio- 

 logical Action of, Prof. Jacques Loeb, 372 

 Salt Meat, the Red Colour of, Dr. Haldane, 332 

 Salt-mining, the Northwich Subsidences, T. Ward, 523 

 Sand, Wave Surfaces in, Vaughan Cornish, 623 



