Supplement to Nature,~\ 

 December q, 1897 J 



hidex 



XXXlll 



La Cure d' Altitude, Dr. Paul Regnard, 490 



Electric Smelting and Refining, Dr. W. Borchers, 492 



The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, H. C. Hovey, R. Ells- 

 worth Call, 493 



The Survival of the Unlike, L. IL Bailey, 493 



The Eye as an Aid in General Diagnosis, E. H. Linnell, 493 



The Chlorination Process, E. B. Wilson, 494 



Histoire de la Philosophic Atomistique, Leopold Mabilleau, 

 P. J. Ilarlog, 513 



Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Charles Emerson 

 Curry, 514 



Reform of Chemical and Physical Calculations, C. T. T. 

 Hanssen, 515 



Citizen Bird, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliot Coues, W. Warde 

 Fowler, 516 



Practical Electricity, W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 

 F.R.S., 537 



Formation de la Nation Pran9aise, Gabriel de Mortillet, 538 



The University Geological Survey of Kansas, E. Haworth, 



539 

 Set of Twelve Diagrams illustrating the Principles of Mining, 



539 

 In Northern Spain, Hans Gadow, F.R.S., 540 

 Hindu Castes and Sects, Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Dr. 



M. Winternitz, 561 

 Experimental Morphology, Charles Benedict Davenport, 



563 



The Story of Germ Life-Bacteria, H. W. Conn, Mrs. Percy 

 Frankland, 565 



Natural Elementary Geography, Jacques W. Redway, 565 



Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1896, 565 



Wild Neighbours, Ernest IngersoU, 565 



An Introduction to Geology, William B. Scott, 585 



Topographische-Anatomie des Pferdes, Dr. W. Ellenberger, 

 Dr. H. Baum, 586 



First Stage Physiography, A. M. Davies, 586 



La Plaque Photographique, R. Colson, 586 



Luce e Raggi Rontgen, Oreste Murani, 587 



15 Lezioni Sperimentali su la Luce, A. Garbasso, 587 



Waste and Repair in Modern Life, Robson Roose, 587 



.Missouri Botanical Garden, 587 



Year- Book of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 for 1896, 587 



The Method of Darwin, Frank Cramer, 609 



Theory of Physics, Joseph S. Ames, 611 



A Detailed Course of Qualitative Chemical Analysis of In- 

 organic Substances, with Explanatory Notes, Arthur A. 

 Noyes, 612 



I'hysikalische Chemie fiir Anfanger, Dr. C. M. van Deventer, 



6f2 



Bromide Enlargements, and how to make them, J. Pike, 

 612 



The Machinery of the Universe, Prof. A. E. Dolbears, 612 

 Reynolds (Prof Osborne, F.R.S.), the Bakerian Letture on the 



Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, 102 

 Reynolds (Sidney H.), the Vertebrate Skeleton, 245 

 Ricco (Prof. H.), the Level of Sunspots, 573 

 Richards (Prof.), on the Atomic Weights of Nickel and Cobalt, 



462 

 Richards (T. W.), Temperature and Ohmic Resistance of Gases 



during Oscillatory Electric Discharge, 22 

 Richet (Dr.), Steam Aerodomes, 230 

 Richet (Prof. Charles), the Work of Pasteur and the Modern 



Conception of Medicine, 508 

 Ricketts (P. de P.), Notes on Assaying, 124 

 Ride through Western Asia, a, Clive Bigham, 222 

 Ridgway (Robert), Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 590 

 Ridsdale (E. L. J.), Notes on Madagascar Insects, 566 

 Righi (Prof. A ), L'Ottica delle Oscillazioni Elettriche, 125 

 Rijckevorsel (Dr. van), on Daily Temperature Curves in 



Europe, 462 

 Rinderpest Investigations, Prof. Koch, 108 ; Nature of 



Rinderpest Contagion, Alexander Edington, 165 

 Ringelmann (Max), Researches upon Alcohol Motors, 632 

 Rings of Saturn, New Divisions in the. Prof. J. M. Schaeberle, 

 •552 

 Rivals (Paul), Method of Separation of Bromine from Mixture 



of Alkaline Bromide and Chloride, 608 ; on the Electric Con- 

 ductivity of Trichloracetic Acid, 632 

 River Basins, South American, Areas of. Dr. Alois Bludau, 36 



Rivers between Montreal and Lake Erie, on the Canalisation of 

 the, T. Munro, 507 



Rivington (Walter), Death of, 60 



Rizzo (Dr. G. B.), Sunspots and the Mean Yearly Temperature 

 at Turin, 350 ; a New Determination of the Solar Constant, 

 504 



Roberts (Dr. Isaac, F.R.S.), Nebuloe unrecorded in Catalogues, 

 134 ; a New Nebula Photograph, 454 



Roberts (Sir William, F.R.S.), Science, Ancient and Modern, 

 594 ; Science and Modern Civilisation, 621 



Roberts-Austen (Prof), on the Metals of Canada, 463 



Robertson (Dr. C. A. L.), Death of, 87 



Robinson (L. S. ), Mechanical Propulsion on Canals, 18 



Robinson (Phil), in Garden, Orchard, and Spinney, 222 



Rocks in Eastern Canada, on the pre-Glacial Decay of, R. 

 Chalmers, 485 



Rocks, Experiments on the Flow of. Dr. F. D. Adams and 

 J. T. Nicholson, 484 



Rocks, on the Frictional Crystallisation of, G. F. Becker, 631 



Rocks, a Treatise on. Rock-weathering and Soils, George P. 

 Merrill, 97 



Rod, the Divining, Prof. W, F. Barrett, 568 



Rodger (James Wyllie), Obituary Notice of, 129 



Rogers (William Barton), Life and Letters of, 124 



Roiti (Prof. A.), Experiments as to whether X-Rays exist in the 

 Kathodic Pencil which produces them, 618 



Rolling Ball, Planetary Orbits illustrated by a, George Romanes, 

 174 



Romanes (Geo.), Planetary Orbits illustrated by a Rolling Ball, 

 174 



Roncagli (Signor G.), the Tides of the Straits of Magellan, 550 



Rontgen Rays : Experiments on the Rontgen Rays, Prof. A. 

 W. Wright, 19 ; Dr. Garbasso, 37 ; Dr. Q. Majorana, 37 ; 

 L. Benoist, 37 ; Jean Perrin, 37 ; Desire Korda, 37 ; Dr. 

 Dawson Turner, 54 ; Henry Becquerel, 71 ; A. Voller and B. 

 Walter, 311 ; T. C. Porter, 316; Adjustable X-Ray Tubes, 

 A. A. C. Swinton, 79 ; Influence of Rontgen Rays upon 

 Electrical Conductivity, Prof. Villari, 91 ; X-Ray Photo- 

 graphs of Solid Alloys, C. T. Heycock and F. H. Neville, 

 94 ; Physiological Disturbances due to Rontgen Rays, M._ 

 Destot, 95 ; Demonstration of Osseous Regeneration in .Man 

 by Rontgen Rays, M. Oilier, 95 ; Method of Determining 

 Wave-length of Rontgen Rays, Prof. Haga, 95 ; Diffraction 

 of Rontgen Rays, Dr. C. H. Wind, 96 ; Action on Retina of 

 Rontgen Rays, G. Bardet, 192 ; Sensitiveness of the Retina 

 to X-Rays, Guy Oliver Harrison, 248; Ernest Braun, 271 j 

 Woody Tissue only of Living Plants penetrable by Rontgen 

 Rays, Dr. J. Istvanffy, 205 ; the Induction Coil in Practical 

 Work, including Rontgen Rays, Lewis Wright, 246 ; Magnetic 

 Deviation of Rontgen Rays, G. de Metz, 263 ; Explanatioa 

 of Experimental Result attributed by M. G. de Metz to 

 Magnetic Deviation, Sir G. G. Stokes, 336 ; Actini- 

 Electric Effects of, S. Puggenheimer, 263 ; Complexity of 

 Bundle of X-Rays, A. Imbert and H. Bertin-Sans, 287 ; 

 Rontgen Ray Theory, A. Vosmaer, F. L. Ortt, 316 ; Kathode 

 and Rontgen Rays, J. Precht, 335 : Pro^^. S. P. Thompson on, 

 Varieties of Kathode Rays, 461 ; Experiments as to whether 

 X-Rays exist in the Kathodic Pencil which produces them. 

 Prof. A. Roiti, 618 ; Measurements of Interference of Direct 

 Rontgen Rays, J. Precht, 335 ; Transformation by Metals of 

 Rontgen Rays, G. Sagnac, 336 ; Veiled Appearance of Photo- 

 graphs taken with Rontgen Rays, P. Villard, 336 ; Action on 

 Animal Temperature of Rontgen Rays, L. Lecercle, 336 ; 

 X-Ray Tubes, James Wimshurst, 364 ; the A B C of the X- 

 Rays, William H. Meadowcroft, 444; Rontgen Rays and 

 Lithium Salts, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Mr. W. Hibbert, 463 ; 

 Influence on Luminosity of Gases of Rontgen Rays, A. de 

 Hemptinne, 488 ; Luce e Raggi Rontgen, Oreste Murani 587 ; 

 some Preliminary Experiments with Rontgen Rays on Plants,, 

 Prof. G. F. Atkinson, 600 ; the Behaviour of Argon in X- 

 Ray Tubes, Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., Mr. N. N. Evans, 

 624 ; Action of the X-Rays on the Heat radiated by the Skin,. 

 M. L. Lecercle, 632 



Roose (Robson), Waste and Repair in Modern Life, 587 



Rosa ( Prof. ), on an Apparatus for Mapping the Form of an 

 Alternate Current Wave, 462 



Rose tDr. T K.), the Klondike Placers, 615 



Rose-Innes(J.), Isothermal of Isopentane, 1 18 



Rosenberg (F.), First-Stage Mechanics of Fluids, 196 



Ross and Co.'s (Messrs.) Photoscope, 231 



