KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Mercury, Spectroscopic Observations of ... 205 



Mercury Vapour, Absorption by Aluminium ... 77 



,, ,, Prevention of Poisoning by 158 



Meteorite, of Willamette ... ... .. 19S 



Meteors, November ... ... ... . 27^ 



Meteorological Notes ... ... ... .. 38 



,, Instruments, Exhibition of ... 47 



Meteorology, Practical, Rainfall ... ... 221 



Micro-Photographs ... ... ... ... 20, 280 



Microscope, Watson's Bactil ... ... ... 281 



Miers, Prof. H. A. 167 



Migration of Flat Fish ... ... ... ... 151 



Mimicry Among In.sects ... ... ... ... 239 



Mineral, A New, Thorianite ... ... ... 228 



Mines, Royal School of ... ... ... .. 23(1 



Mite, the Black Currant Gall 234 



Mitchell, C. A., on Action of W'ood on Photo- 

 graphic Plates ... ... ... ... 119 



Modern Cosmogonies, Miss A. Clerke ... 24, 9:; 



Monoclea Forstori ... ... ... ... 78 



Moon, Comparison of Features with Earth .. 13 



,, Review of Mr. Pickering's Book on the 18 



,, Eclipses of ... ... ... ... 44 



,, Secular and Seasonal Changes on the ... 8:; 



Mount Wilson Solar Ol3,ser\atory ... ... 131 



Museum, the South African ... ... ... 183 



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Nation '.s Latest .Acquisition, The ... ... 128 



Natural Gas in America ... ... ... ... 73 



,, ,, The Utilization of 



Natural History of South Africa 

 Nature of Life, The, by G. Martin 

 Niagara's Horse-Power ... 

 N-ray Experiments 



,, ' of Blondlot 



302 



176 



125, 146, T94 



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39 



...218, 242 



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Observation of the Total Eclipse . ... 233 



Observatory, The New Solar, on Mount Wilson 131 



,, The Royal, at the Cape ... .. 182 



Optical Convention ... ... ... ... 102 



Orion Nebula, Monochromatic Photographs of 227 



Ornithological Congress ... ... .. 5, 201 



,, Notes ... ... ... each month 



Our Sun and Weather ... ... ... C:i, .33 



Ozone, Formation of by Ultra-\iolet Light ... 275 



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Paper, Fibrous Constituents of ... 42, 68, 



"Patent," The Word ... ... ... ...150, 



Pendulum Accelerometer ... ... r.. 



Penguin, The Emperor ... 



Perkin, Dr. F. Molhvo, on Elsctrotvping ... 9, 



,, ,, ,, on Sugar 



Photograph of Electric Spark ... 



,, Monochromatic, of Orion NebuLi 



Photography, Abroad 



Photography, Pure and .\pplied, by Mr. Chap- 

 man Jones ' ... each mc 



Photographic Films, Stripping of 



,, Action of Hydrogen Peroxide ... 



,, Plates, Action of Wood upon 



119, 14S, 

 Photo-Micrography ... ... ... ...280 



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226 

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 65 

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i«5 

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308 



Physics, The Methods of 



Pickering, W. H., Book on the Moon 



Piesmic Barometer 



Pig, A Giant 



Pinatype Photographs 



Pinnacle, A Sliding 



Polarisation Ob.servations during Eclip.sc 



" Potcntia " Organization 



Protoplasm, The Simplest Kind of, by Dr. 



Bastian 

 Poisoning by Mercury \'apour, Pre\cntion of 

 Porter, Alfred W., on the Conservation of Mass 

 Pressure, Radiation 

 Preser\ative for Animal Products 

 Pycraft, W. P., Ornithological Notes on each 

 ,, ,, The Nation's Latest Acquisi- 



tion 



230 

 18 



256 

 279 

 290 



199 



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164 



inonlh 

 128 



Oueensland Fire Sticks 



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Races of South iMrica 



Raccoon Dog 



Radiation from Hydrogen Peroxide 



Radiation Pressure 



Radium, Apparition 



,, The Cause of the Earth's Heat 



,. Formation of, from L'ranium 



,, Particles Emitted by ... 



Radio-active Substances in Natural Waters 



Radio-activity, Some New Discoveries in 

 ,, and Cultivation of Plants 



Radiograph, by Thorianite 



Rain Drops, Solidified ... 



Rainfall 



Raised Beach in Anglesey 



Rare Living Animals in Londt)n 



Reptile Fauna, Extinct ... 

 ,, Mysterious 



Royal Observatory at the Cape 



Royal Society, Medals Awarded by . . . 



Rubber Rings, Antimony in 



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15- 

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bi 

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86 

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Salamanders, The Origin of 

 Satellites of Jupiter 37, 63, 85, 157 



,, ,, Saturn 



.Saturn, Tenth Satellite of 

 Scent, of Sitting Birds ... 



,, What is it? 



.Sclater, Dr. P. L. , on the Glossy Ibis 

 ,, ,, ,, on Scoresby's Gull 



.Scoresby's Gull 



Scott-Moncrieff, Sir C. ... 



Seasons, Forecasting 



.Seaweeds ... 



.Sedimentary Formations, Thickness 



Earth's 

 Seeing Beneath the W'aves 

 Seismoscope.s 

 Shackleton, W., on Total Eclipse 



,, ,, on Aurora of Nov. 15 



„ ,, on the Face of the Sky 



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 266 



48 

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 130 

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80 

 248 



276 



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