KNOWLEDGE 



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INDEX 



Academy, The Royal, Exhibition 



Acids in Soil- 

 Letter on ; by W. A. Smith ., 



Alps, The Buried — 



By Grenville A. J. Cole 



VIH 



IG 



11 



Anderson, Wm. — 



Letters on Is the Stellar Universe Finite? H, 36 



Antoniadi, Eugene, F.R.A.S.— 



The Photography of Clouds 79,107 



The Great Telescope of Paris, 1900 '240 



Astbury, T. H — 



Letter on A Cloud of Dried Beech Leaves ... 100 



Astrology- 

 Letters on ; by B. CnATLEY ... ... 205,227 



Letters on ; by Alan Leo ... ... 228,255 



Astrology or Astronomy, Ancient Hindu, and 

 the Nine Planets — 



Letter on ; by C. G. Stuart-Menteath .. 255 



Astronomy and Astrology : A Question of 

 Primogeniture — 



By E. W.ALTER Maunder 35 



Astronomy without a Telescope — 

 By E. Walter Maunder — 



L Introductory ... ... ... ... 9 



II. The Zodiacal Light 61 



III. The Northern Stars 81 



IV. A Total Solar Eclipse 104 



V. Observations of the Sun 132 



VI. The Milky Way 158 



VII. Meteors— The Perseids 174 



Vin. Four Variable Stars 199 



IX. Aurorfc 223 



X. The Meteors of November 251 



Australia, The Natives of, and their Origin — 



By Pi. Lydekkep. ... .. ... ... (j 



Bacon, Rev. John M., F.R.A.S.— 



Mid-air Observations ... ... 1 



l'.tGK 



Bastides, The Land of the— 



By Grenvili.e A. J. Cole ... ... 187 



Bavaria, Contrasts in — 



By Grenville A. .1. Cole ... ... ... 121 



Bayley, R. Child— 



Lotter on Wireless-Telegraph Keeeiver ... 195 



Birds, The Mud-nest Building, of Australia— 



By D. Le Souef ... 92 



Black Rain, The, of August 6th, 1899 — 



By Major L. A. Eddie ... ... ... 10 



Books, Reviews of — 



Africa, .S])ort in Kast Central. By F. Vaugliari 



K'irby ... ... ... ... ... ]^j 



America, Impressions of. B.y T. C. Porter ... .10 



Animal Biology. By C. Lloyd Morgan ... ... 5,s 



Animals, Kxperiments on. By Stephen Paget ... 59 



Animals in .Motion. By Eauwcavd Muy bridge ... Ill 



Arnold, Dr., Life and Correspondence of. By Dean 



Stanley ... ... ... ... ... 210 



Art-Enamelling upon Jletals, On the Theory and 



Practice of . By Henry Cunynghame ... " ... (io 

 Astronomical and Pliysical Researches made at Mr. 



Wilson's Observatory, Daramona, Wcstmeatli ... 278 



Astronomische Instrumentenkuudo, Handbiicli der. 



By Dr. L. Ambronn... ... ... ... 17 



Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs of. 



By Rev. A. H. Sayce ... ... ... fiO 



Bacteria. By George Newman... ... ... 17 



Berzelius and Schonbein, The Letters of. Edited 



by George W. A. Kahlbaum ... 257 



Bird-land with Field-glass and Camera, In. By 



Oliver G. Pike ... ... ... ... 258 



Bird-Life, The Story of. My W. P. Pycraft ... 258 



Birds of Ireland, The. By Richard J. Ussher and 



Robert Warren ... ... ... ... 277 



Botan.y, Object Lessons in. By E. Snelgrove ... 21u 



Brain, The Structure of tlie. By Albert Wilson ... 157 



British People, The Origin and Cliaracter of. By 



Nottidge C. Mucnamara ... ... .'.. 258 



Chemistry, The Scientific Foundations of Analytical. 

 ByW. Ostwald ... ... ... ... 278 



Colour : A Uautibook on the Theory of Colour. By 



George H. 11 urst ... ... ... ... 18 



Constellations, An Easy Guide to the, witli a Star 



Atlas. By Rev. James Gall ... ... ... 58 



Constellations of the Greeks, Phienicians, and 

 Babylonians, Reaearches into tlic Origin of the 

 Primitive. By Robert Brown, Junior ... ... i':{l 



Crystallography, A Treatise on. By W. J. Lewis 1 57 



Darwinism and Lamarckism. By P. W. Hutton ... lU 



Dictionary of the English Language, The Standard 



Intermediate School... ... ... ... 13(i 



