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Index 



[Nature, 

 December 13, 1900 



Rousdon Observatory, Devon, Sir C. E. Peek, no; Variable 

 Stars, T Cassiopeiae and R Cassiopeia, Sir C. E. Peek, 

 398 ; Meteorological Observations at, Sir C. E. Peek, 422 



Rowland (Sydney), Influence of Temperature of Liquid Hydro- 

 gen on Bacteria, 286 



Royal College of Surgeons, the Centenary of the, Victor Plarr, 

 294 



Royal Geographical Society, Medal Awards, 34 



Royal Society, 46, 93, 189, 211, 238, 286, 335, 358, 381, 615; 

 Royal Society Selected Candidates, 56 ; Conversazione, 67, 

 208 



Rubber-cultivation in Samoa, 136 



Rubber Forests in Peru, 578 



Ruhemann (S.)- Condensation of Ethyl Acetylenedicarboxylate 

 with Bases and j3-Ketonic Ester, 215 ; Condensation of 

 Phenols with Ethyl Phenylpropiolate, 215 



Riimbald's Moor (Near Bradford), on the Prehistoric Antiqui- 

 ties of, Butler Wood, 637 



Rung (William), what Pressure is Dangerous on Electric 

 Railways with Overhead Trolley Wires, 399 



Runge (C), the Spect;?ijm of Radium, 568 



Rural Wealth and Welfare, Geo. T. Fairchild, 245 



Russell (Alex.), Variation of Condenser and Choking Coil 

 Currenfs with Shape of Electromotive Wave, 375 



Russell (H. C), Ocean Current Papers, 108 



Rust of Wheat, Recent Investigations on, William G. Smith, 352 



Sabatier (Paul), Addition of Hydrogen to Acetylene in Pre- 

 sence of Copper, 168 ; Addition of Hydrogen to Acetylene 

 in Presence of Reduced Iron and Cobalt, 191 ; Addition of 

 Hydrogen to Acetylene and Ethylene in Presence of Finely- 

 divided Platinum, 264 ; Action of Reduced Nickel on Acety- 

 lene, 312 ; Action of Finely-divided Metals on Acetylene 

 and Ethylene, 336 ; Addition of Hydrogen to Ethylene in 

 Presence of Reduced Metals, 240 



Sack (J.), Monistische Gottes-und-Weltanschaung, 172 



Sacral Index, on the, Prof. J. D. Cunningham, 633 



St. Christopher, Climate of, W^ B. Alexander, 35 



Saint Lawrence Electrical Power Works, 135 



St. Louis Academy of Science, 192 



St. Martin (L. G. de). Haemoglobin not Estimable by Absorb- 

 ing Power of Blood, 520 



St. Paul's, the Lightning Conductors of, K. Hedges, 68 



St. Petersbourg, Bulletin de I'Academie de, 70, 211 



Salisbury (Prof. R. D.), the Geography of the Regions about 

 Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin, 172 



Salmon Fishery .for 1899, the Scotch, 303 



Sambon (Dr.), Mosquitoes and Malaria in the Campagna, 531 



Samoa, Rubber-cultivation in, 136 



Sampson (Miss), Unusual Modes of Development in Batrachia, 

 605 



San Francisco, Climate of, A. G. McAdie and G. H. Willson, 

 18 ' 



Sand-binding Plant of the Dunes on the Scotch Coast, near 

 Berwick, the. Prof. Bower, 611 



Sandwich Islands, on the Zoology of the, R. C. L. Perkins, 

 589 



Sanford (W. A.), Large Puflf Balls, 496 



Sap, Ascent of, Dr. Henry H. Dixon, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 

 572 



Sarawak, Decorative Arts of Sea Dayaks, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 

 F.R.S., 68 



Sarawak, on the Animal Cults of the Natives of, and their Bearing 

 on the Problems of Totemism,.Dr, C. Hose, W. McDougall, 

 634 ; Mr. Hartland, 635 



Sargant (Miss Ethel), on a Fourth Type of Transition of Stem 

 to Root-structure, 611 



Saturn : Occultation of Saturn, 137, 425 ; Notes on Saturn and 

 his Markings, W. F. Denning, 237 



Savants Modernes, Pages Choises des, A. Rebiere, 6 



Sayce (Rev. A. H.), Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and 

 Customs, 289 



Scale-insects on Fungi found in Ceylon, Growing on, J. Parkin, 

 613 



Schaer (Ed.), Christian Friedrich Schonbein, 1799- 1868, 97 



Schafer (Prof. E. A., F.R.S.), Lessons in Elementary Physio- 

 logy, Thomas H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S., 363 



Schiebler (Count Felice), Sette Anni di Caccia Grossa -e Note 

 di Viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa, 244 



Schloeswig (Th.), Solubility of Calcium Phosphate in Soil-water 

 in presence of Carbon Dioxide, 312 



Schmauss (A.), Anomalous Electro-magnetic Rotatory Disper- 

 sion, 335 



Schmeil (0.), Text-book of Zoology, Treated from a Biological 

 Standpoint, 386 



Schmidt (G. C.), Temperature Potential Gradient in Rarefied 

 Gases, 92 



Schoeler (Dr. H. v.), Probleme, Kritische Studien Uber den 

 Monismus, 435 



Schokalsky (J. de), Area of Basins of Russia in Asia, 408 



Schonbein (Christian Friedrich), 1799-1868, Georg W. A. 

 Kahlbaum, Ed. Schaer, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 97 



School Journey, the, a Means of Teaching Geography, Physio- 

 graphy, and Elementary Science, Joseph H. Cowham, 619 



Schools, Collateral Heredity Measurements in. Prof. Karl 

 Pearson, F.R.S., 173, 599 



Schools, Percussion Caps for Shooting in, Sir Lauder Brunton, 

 F.R.S., 54 



Shoute {Prof. P. H.), Locus of Centre of Hyperspherical Curva- 

 ture for Normal Curve of n Dimensional Space, 232 



Schryver (S. B.), Morphine (i), 260 



Schultze (Dr. J.), Psychologie der Naturvolker, 220 



Schwartz (E. H. L. ), the Snake-stone, 302; Bushman Draw- 

 ings, 336 



Science : Science in Relation to Art and Industry, 32 ; the 

 Grammar of Science, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 49; 

 Scientific Papers, Peter Guthrie Tait, Sec. .R.S., Prof. 

 Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 99 ; Some Scientific Aspects of Trade, 

 117 ; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 

 197, 206; England's Neglect of Science, Prof. John Perry, 

 F.R.S., 221 ; Medicine as a Science, and Medicine as an 

 Art, Dr. P. H. Pye-Smith, F.R.S., 356; Mr. Balfour on 

 Scientific Progress, 358 ; Forthcoming Books of Science, 558 



Sclater (W. L.), the Fauna of South Africa ; Mammals, 521 



Scotland : a Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of 

 Scotland, Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Fred P. 

 Pullar, 65, 263 ; the Salmon Fishery for 1899, 303 



Scott (Dr. D. H., F.R.S.), on the Presence of Seed-like Organs 

 in certain Palaeozoic Lycopods, 611 ; on the Primary Struc- 

 ture of certain Palaeozoic Stems referred to Araucarioxylon, 

 612 



Scott (Prof. W. B.), on Recent Explorations in Patagonia, 587 ; 

 on the Miocene Fauna of Patagonia, 589 



Scripts, on the New, discovered by Arthur J. Evans in Crete, 

 526, 634 



Scudder (Samuel Hubbard), Brief Guide to the Commoner 

 Butterflies of the Northern United States and Canada, 411 



Sea, the Total Eclipse Observed at. Colonel E. E. Markwick, 



183 



Sea Coast Destruction and Littoral Drift, W. H. Wheeler, 400 



Sea-dredging, Building-land made by, 158 



Sea-Dayaks, on the Textile Patterns of the. Dr. A. C. Haddon, 

 634 



Seals of Kerguelen Island, the Elephant, R. Hall, 628 



Sedgwick ( Lieut. -Colonel W.), Railways and Moving Platforms, 

 436 



See (T. J. J.), Colour Screens for Refracting Telescopes, 37 



Seed-like Organs in certain Palaeozoic Lycopods, on the Pre- 

 sence of, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 611 



Seeley (Prof. H. G., F.R.S.), an Anomodont Reptile from 

 Bunter Sandstone of Reichen, 94 ; Theriodont Reptile from 

 Baviaans River, Cape Colony, 262 



Seismology : Elastic Constants of Rocks and Velocity of 

 Seismic Waves, Dr. H. Nagaoka, 36 ; Action of Horizontal 

 and Vertical Pendulums, Dr. G. Agamennone, 62 ; Greek 

 Earthquakes, 1893-8, M. Eginitis, 85 ; Bolletino della 

 Societa Italiana Sismologica, 93, 286 ; the Colaba (Bombay) 

 Observatory, 181 ; the Great Earthquake of June 12, 1897, 

 R. D. Oldham, 305 ; Earthquakes of 1897 in Philippines, 

 P. J. Coronas, 555 ; Report of the Seismological Committee 

 of the British Association, 562 ; Prof. J. Milne's Report of 

 the Seismological Committee of the British Association, 587 



Self-instruction in the Practice and Theory of Navigation, the 

 Earl of Dunraven, 337 



Sell (W. J.), Aminochloropyridines, 143 



Sella (A. ), Evaporation not Productive of Loss of Electricity, 

 458 



Sellon (R. P.), Standardisation of Electrical Engineermg 

 Plant, 135 



