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December 13, igooj 



INDEX 



Abbe (Prof. C), the History of Modern Weather Prediction, 

 499 



Abbott (Dr. G.), on the Concretionary Structures of the Magne- 

 sian Limestone of Durham, 587 



Aberdeenshire, West, on the Physical Character of the Population 

 of, J. Gray, 635-6 



Abney (Sir William), Colour Photometry (iii), 273 



Abruzzi (Duke of), the Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska, i, 529 



Abt (A.), Thermoelectric Force of some Metallic Oxides and Sul- 

 phides, 335 



Academies, the International Association of, 249 



Acetylene: The Purification of Acetylene, no; a Handbook 

 for the Student and Manufacturer, Vivian B. Lewes, 522 



Achard (Ch.), Anti-coagulating Power of Serum in Pathological 

 State, 216 



Ackroyd (W.), on the Distribution of Chlorine in West York- 

 shire and on the Limiting Standard of Acidity for Moorland 

 Waters, 566 



Acland (Sir H. W. D., F.R.S.), Death of, 602 ; Obituary Notice 

 of, 627 



Acoustics : an Illustration of Doppler's Principle, Prof. R. 

 Richarz, 35 ; a New Instrument to Measure and Record 

 Sounds, Dr. Benjamin F. Sharpe, 80 ; the Photography of 

 Sound Waves, Prof. R. W. Wood, 342 ; the Distance to which 

 the Firing of Heavy Guns is Heard, Dr. Charles Davison, 377 ; 

 J. W. Mallet, 523 ; High Note Production by Galton's 

 Whistle, M. T. Edelmann, 381 ; Acoustical Triangulalion, 

 A. J. Mundy, 422 ; New Effect produced by Stationary Sound- 

 waves, R. Davis, 568 



Acquisition of Language, Homochronous Heredity and the. Prof. 

 R. Meldola, F.R.S., 572 



Acrospeira viirabilis, on the Life History of, R. H. Biffen, 613 



Action of Water upon Glass, the, Edmund F. Mondy, 246 



Adams (Prof. F. D.), the Flow of Marble, 335 



Aeronautics : the Mechanics of Flight, Lord Rajleigh, 108 ; 

 Count von Zeppelin's Navigable Balloon, 180, 231, 396; 

 Count Zeppelin's Air-ship, 626 



Aether and Matter, Joseph Larmor, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzcerald. 

 F.R.S., 265 1 



Aflalo (F. G.), a Walk through the Zoological Gardens, 466 



Africa : Preliminary Notes on the Results of the Mount Kenya 

 Expedition 1899, H. J. Mackinder, 12; Spider-silk manufac- 

 ture in Madagascar, M. Nogue, 17 ; Grandidier's Expedition 

 to Madagascar, 35 ; the Winds of Kimberley, J. R. Sutton, 

 35; a New Edible Tuber from the Soudan, Maxime Cornu, 

 72 ; a Possible Prevention of Horse-sickness, Dr. G. C. Purvis, 

 83 ; the Cape Colony Fruit-moth, Mr. Barrett, 119; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Miss M. H. Kingsley, 134 : Locust 

 Destruction, W. C. Robbins, 134 ; the Carboniferous Strata 

 of Nossi-Be, M. Villiaume, 168; Effect on Lower Nile of 

 "Sudd" Cutting on Upper Nile, 180; Paleolithic Man in 

 Africa, Sir John Evans, F.R.S., 190 ; South African Philoso- I 

 phical Society, 216, 264, 464 ; Sette Anni di Caccia Grossa e 

 Note di Viaggio in America, Asia, Africa, Europa, Count 

 Felice Scheibler, 244: Theriodont Reptile from Baviaans River, 

 Cape Colony, Prof H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 262; the Snake- 

 stone, E. U. L. Schwarz, 302 ; Bushman Drawings, E. H. L. 

 Schwarz, 336 ; Mud Island in Walfisch Bay, 336 ; Mr. 

 Cleverly, 464 ; Ghizeh Zoological Gardens, 374 ; Change of 

 Feeding Habits of Rhinoceros-birds in British East Africa, 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., Capt. Hinde, 366; the 

 White Rhinoceros on the Upper Nile, Oldfield Thomas, 599 ; 

 Neogenic Regions of Lower Egypt, C. Dej eret and R. 



Fourtau, 408; the Ndonda District, H. A. Byatt, 422; 

 Palaeolithic Implements from Stellenbosch, L. Peringuey and 

 G. S. Corstophine, 464 ; Egyptian Gold, Daniel Berthelot, 

 464 ; the Fauna of South Africa, Mammals, W. L Sclater, 

 521 ; the Preservation of Big Game in Africa, E. N. Buxton, 

 550 ; Report of the British Associatidn Committee on the 

 Climate of Tropical Africa, 590 ; Proof of old Semitic In- 

 fluence in South Africa, K. Meinhof, 606 



Agamennone (Dr. G.), the Action of Horizontal and Vertical 

 Pendulums in Seismography, 62 



Age of the Earth, the. Prof. Eugene Dubois, 498 ; the Geological 

 Age of the Earth, J. Joly, F.R.S., 235 



Agnosticism, Naturalism and, James Ward, 25 



Agriculture : Irrigation and Drainage, F. H. King, 5 ; the 

 Farmstead, Prof. J. P. Roberts, 53 ; Strontium and Barium 

 unfit to replace Calcium in Phanerogams, Dr. U. Suzuki, 

 136 ; the Destruction of the " Moth-borer " Caterpillar, 182 ; 

 Rural Wealth and Welfare, Geo. T. Fairchild, 245 ; " Frost 

 Fighting," A. G. McAdie, 274 ; Solubility of Calcium Phos- 

 phate in Soil Water in Presence of Carbon Dioxide, Th. 

 Schloesing, 312 ; Recent Investigations on Rust of Wheat, 

 William G. Smith, 352 ; Michigan Board of Agriculture, 

 Annual Report, 1898-99,365. Agricultural Chemistry : Death 

 of Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., F.R.S.,456; Obituary 

 Notice of. Prof. R. Warington, F.R.S., 467 ; Agricultural 

 Botany, John Percival, 570 ; Year-book of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Prof. R. Warington, F.R.S., 

 597 ; Further Investigations of Xenia in Maize, Herbert J. 

 Webber, 601 ; the Bobolink as a Rice Pest, F. E. L. Beal, 

 605 V ' 



Ainu inao, on the Japanese Gohei and the, W. G. Aston, 



635 

 Air : the Carbonic Anhydride of the Atmosphere, Prof. E. A. 

 Letts, R. F. Blake, 387 ; the Air of Rooms, Francis Jones, 



Air, Water and Food, Ellen H. Richards, Alpheus G. Woodman, 

 620 



Ailken (John, F.R.S.), Dynamics of Cyclones and Anticyclones, 

 ii., 95 ; Atmospheric Electricity, 366 



Aitken (R. G.), New Planetary Nebula, 606 ; New Double Stars, 

 630 



Alaska, the Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Duke of Abruzzi, i, 529 



Albatross in the Pacific, Explorations of the, 307 



Albatross, Tenacity of Life of the, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S. , 

 621 ; Captain Wm. J. Reed, 621 



Albinism and Natural Selection, Walter Garstang, 620 



Alexander (W. B.), the Climate of St. Christopher, 35 



Algx", Codium, 63 



Algebra, Machine for Solving Algebraic Equations, Georges 

 Meslin, 253 



Algeria : Vinification dans les Pays Chauds — Algcrie et Tunisie, 

 J. Dugast, 74 



Allbutt (Prof T. C, F.R.S. ), Historical Aspects of the Discovery 

 of the Circulation of the Blood, 630 



Allchin (J. H.), a Swallow-cuni-Sparrow Nest, 532 



Allen (J.' A.), the Wood Bison, 35 



Allingham (William), A Manual of Marine Meteorology, 268 



Alloys : Heat of Formation, J. B. Tayler, 70 ; Want of Uni- 

 formity of Action of Copper-zinc Alloys on Nitric Acid, Dr. 

 J. H. Gladstone, 70 ; I'roperties of Gold and Copper Alloys, 

 Prof. Sir W. C. Roberts-Austen, F.R.S., and T. K. Rose, 

 93 ; the Solidification of Alloys, Fred. T. Trouton, F.R.S., 

 523 



