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Index 



[Supplevtent to Nature, 

 June II, i8q6 



Hand directly visible by, Prof. Salvioni, 399 ; Electric 

 Properties of, R. Swyngedauw, A. Righi, J. J. Borgman 

 and A. L. Gerchun, M. de Heen, 399 ; Negative of Frog 

 taken by the. Profs. E. Waymouth Reid and J. P. Kuenen, 

 419 ; Effect on Eyes of, T. A. Edison, 421 ; Dr. W. J. 

 Morton, 421 ; Investigations on Rontgen Rays, Prof. E. 

 Salvioni, 424 ; Action on Diamond and Jet of, A. Buguet 

 and A. Gascard, 431 ; Cause of Invisibility of, MM. Dariex 

 and de Rochas, 431 ; Reduction of Length of Exposure, M. 

 Piltchikof, 431 ; Diffusion of Rontgen Rays, A. Imbert and 

 H. B. Sans, 455 ; Passage through Liquids of, MM. Bleunard 

 and Labesse, 455 ; Use of Calcium Tungstate renders 

 Photographs unnecessary, T. A. Edison, 470 ; Photography 

 of Arteries in Hand, Dr. U. Dutto, 472 ; Photograph taken 

 with Special Form of Crookes' Tube, Herr Puluj, 479 ; Per- 

 meability to, Messrs. Ackroyd and Knowles, 479 ; Photo- 

 graphs taken with Jackson Tube, Mr. Edser, 479 ; New 

 Properties of Invisible Radiations of Phosphorescent Bodies, 

 Henri Becquerel, 480 ; Use of Artificial Hexagonal Blende 

 in place of Crookes' Tube, M. Troost, 480 : Electric Effects 

 of, A. Righi, 480 ; Kathode Rays or X-Rays, James H. 

 Gardner, 486 ; the Rontgen Rays and Optically Active Sub- 

 stances, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 556; Radio- 

 graphs by Fluorescent Screens, Dr. L. Bleekrode, 557 ; J. 

 William Gifford, 557 ; Recent Work with Rontgen Rays, 

 581,613; Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 581 ; Les Rayons 

 X et la Photographie a travers les Corps opaques, Dr. C. E. 

 Guillaume, 604 



Rood (Prof. O. N.), Reflection of X-Rays from Platinum, 562 ; 

 Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 614 



Rooks, the Dispersal of Acorns by, Clement Reid, 6 



Rooks and Walnuts, George Henslow, 32 



Rope Driving, John F. Flather, 219 



Rope (J. T.), Effect of Thunder on Pheasants, 421 



Resales (Henry), Report on the Loss of Gold in the Reduction 

 of Auriferous Veinstone in Victoria, Dr. T. K. Rose, 16 ; 

 Classifying Crushed Ore by Trommels, 487 



Roscoe (H. E.), a New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic 

 Theory, 555 



Rose (Dr. T. K.), Concentration of Gold Ores, Henry Rosales, 

 16 ; Classifying Crushed Ore by Trommels, 488 



Rosenberg (Dr.), Presumed Regeneration of extirpated Bile- 

 duct, 336 



Rosenberg (F.), First Stage Mechanics, 244 



Rossel (A.), Direct Combination of Nitrogen with Metals, 192 ; 

 the Direct Absorption of Nitrogen by Calcium, 204 



Rotation of Elastic Spheroid, L. S. Hough, 310 



Rotation of Jupiter, Stanley Williams, 206 



Rotation, Jupiter and his Period of, 558 



Rotation, the Sun's, W. Stratonoff, 566 



Rotation Period of Venus, the. Prof. Tacchini, 306 ; Maxwell 

 Hall, 535 



Rotch (A. L.), Monte Cimone Observatory, 94 



Rowing applied to Biology, Dr. F. Ahlborn, 327 



Rowland (H. A.), Observations on Rontgen Rays, 573 



Rowland (Sydney D.), the New Actinic Rays, 340 



Rowland (Sydney), Surgical Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 

 524 



Royal Commission on Secondary Education, the, Dr. H. E. 

 Armstrong, F.R.S., 79 



Royal Institution : Colour Vision, being the Tyndall Lectures 

 delivered in 1894 at the, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 

 124 



Royal Meteorological Society, 119, 215, 287, 454, 501, 599 



Royal Microscopical Society, 287, 311 



Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, the, 605 



Royal Society, 167, 190, 213, 239, 262, 310, 334, 382, 406, 430, 

 453. 478, 498, 526, 550, 574, 598; Medal Awards for 1895, 

 34; the Anniversary Meeting of the, no; Anniversary 

 Address of Lord Kelvin, no; Paris Academy of Sciences 

 and the Royal Society, 175 ; Royal Society Catalogue of 

 Scientific Papers (1874- 1883), 385 



Rubber-yielding Tree, New African, 13 



Rubens (Prof.), Experiments with Hertzian Vibrations, 504 



Riicker (Prof.), the Existence of Vertical Earth-Air Currents in 

 United Kingdom, 167 



Runge (Prof. C.) on Crookes' Spectrum of Helium, 245 



Running and Walking en flexion, MM. Comte and Regnault, 

 407 



Russell (Mr.), Extreme Heat in Australia, 526 



Russell (H. C, F. R.S.), the Cause of Increase in Icebergs, 



304 

 Russell (I. C,), Mt. St. Elias and the Malaspina Glacier, 440 

 Russia : Report on Pasteur Anti-Rabic Inoculations for 1894 in 



St. Petersburg and Odessa, 135 

 Russia, Meteorology in, 610 



Russian Tibet Expedition, Return of Captain Roborovsky's, 160 

 Rutimeyer (Dr. Ludwig), Death of, 133 ; Obituary Notice of, 



158 

 Rutley (Frank), the Alteration of certain Basic Eruptive Rocks 



from Brent Tor, Devon, 168 

 Rydberg (J. R.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 528 

 Ryder (C), Meteorological Observations in Isle of Denmark, 



Scoresby Sound, 545 

 Ryland (Theodore), the Cause of an Ice Age, 389 



Sacred Tree at Kum-Bum, the, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 



412, 556 ; A. Grigoriev, 534 

 Sadones (J.), Studies in Insect Morphology, 500 

 S. Eustachius, Tavistock, Large Human Femora in the Church 



of, Worthington G. Smith, 152 

 Saint-Hilaire (Barthelemy), Death of, 87 

 Sc. John (C. E.), Emissivity of Glowing Bodies and Auer 



Burner, 166 

 St. Louis (Jersey), Meteorological Observatory, 471 

 St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, Memoirs of, 573 

 Saise (Mr.), the Formation of the Giridih (Bengal) Coalfield 



Rock Structure, 401 

 Salomons (Sir D.), Experiments with Incandescent Lamps, 430 

 Salvioni (Prof.), Bones of Hand directly visible by Rontgen 



Rays, 399 ; Investigations on Rontgen Rays, 424 ; Experi- 

 ments with Rontgen Rays, 449 

 Sans (H. B.), Diffusion of Rontgen Rays, 455 

 Sapper (Dr. C), the Kekchi Indians of Guatemala, 446 

 Sappey (Prof. ), Death of, 492 



Sararanga Flowers and P'ruit, Structure of. Dr. O. Stapf, 551 

 Satellites, Uranus and its, Prof. Barnard, 587 

 Saturated Vapour, tl;e Pressure of a, as an Explicit Function of 



the Temperature, Dr. G. Bakker, 79 

 Saturn, the Dimensions of, Prof. Barnard, 424 

 Saturn, the Spots on, Stanley Williams, 474 

 Saturn's Rings, A. Mascari, 109 



Saturnia pyri. Tenacity of Life in, J. C. Warburg, 421 

 Saunders (Edward), the Hyvienoptera Aculeata of the British 



Islands, 532 

 Saunders (W.), the New Actinic Rays, 316 

 Saville-Kent (W. ), the Frilled Lizard, Chlatnydosaurus kingi, 



395 

 Scale, a Fog, Alfred O. Walker, 249 

 Scars, Prints of. Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 295 

 Schaeberle (Prof.), Cassegrain and Gregorian Reflectors, 403 

 Schafer (Prof. E. A., F.R.S.), the Life and Letters of George 

 John Romanes, 481 ; Rhythmic Contractility of Spleen, 453 ; 

 Spinal Root and Ganglion-Cell Connections of Spleenrcon- 

 tracting Nerve-Fibres, 550 

 Schaw (Major-General H. S.), Pendulum Observations in the 



Northern and Southern Hemispheres, 222 

 Scherren (Henry), an Early Reference to Hydractinia ? 32 ; 



Linotmtia maritivia (Leach), 152 

 Schiaparelli (M.), Spot on Venus and her Rotation-Period, 70 

 Schtzogenes parasiticus no Organism, Dr. G. W. Miiller, 134 

 Schloesing (Th.), Nitric Acid in Seine Water, 527 

 Schloesing (Th., jun.), the Estimation of Argon, 24 ; Composi- 

 tion of Fire-damp, 407 

 Schmidt (Dr. G. C. ), Luminescence of Solids and Solid Solu- 

 tions, 94 ; Fluorescence of Sodium and Potassium Vapours, 

 and the importance of these facts in Astrophysics, 250 ; 

 Fluorescence of Sodium and Potassium Vapour, 526 

 Scholarship Schemes of Technical Education Committees, 332 

 Schorr (Dr. R.), Comet Swift, 1896, 612 

 Schultz (Dr.), Influence of Temperature on Working Power of 



Unstriated Muscles, 503 

 Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), Atmospheric Electricity, 207 : 

 on Rontgen Rays, 268 ; Magnetic Influence of the Planets, 

 318 

 Schwarz (E. A.), the Common Crow a Farmer's Friend, 88 

 Schwarz (Ernest H. L.), Colours of Mother-o'-Pearl, 174 

 Schwarzschild (Karl), the Measurement of Double Stars by 

 Interference, 496 



