Nature, 

 December lo, 1903. 



Index 



XIX 



Contact, Jean Perrin, 592 ; Electrolytic Refining of 

 Copper, F. J. Schwab and I. Baum, 630; the Standard- 

 isation of Electrical Pressures and Frequencies, 631 



i^llis (C. Sordes), the Elementary Chemistry of Photographic 

 Chemicals, 619 



leister (Mr.), Cause of the Electrical Conductivity of the 

 Air in the Neighbourhood of Phosphorus Undergoing 

 Slow Oxidation, 137 



I.mbryoiogy : Furchung und Keimblattbildung bei Tarsius 

 Spec trum, A. A. W. Hubrecht, 341 ; Lehrbuch der 

 vergieichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen 

 Thiere, Profs. E. Korschelt and K. Heider, 523 



Kncyclop;cdia Biblica, a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, 

 Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geo- 

 graphy, and Natural History of the Bible, Rev. T. K. 

 Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, 148 



ICncytiopjedia Britannica, the New, 98 



i;nprgy Emitted by Radio-active Bodies, Hon. R. J. 

 Strult, 6 



Ivnergv, the Glorification of. Prof. George M. Minchin, 

 F.R'.S.. 31 



i:ngineering : Engineering Education Abroad, 17; Electrical 

 Problems for Engineering Students, W. L. Hooper and 

 R. T. Wells, 52 ; Telephone Lines, W. C. Owen, 76 ; 

 London County Council, Shrinkage of the Thames and 

 Lea, Report by Maurice Fitzmaurice, 104 ; an E^lementary 

 Treatise on the Mechanics of Machinery, with Special 

 Reference to the Mechanics of the Steam Engine, Joseph 

 N. Le Conte, 124; some Unsolved Problems in Engineer- 

 ing, " James Forrest " Lecture at Institution of Civil 

 ivngineers, W. H. Maw, 163 ; Death of Prof. Luigi 

 Cremona, 180; Obituary Notice of, 393; the Engineering 

 Conference, 185 ; the Design of Permanent Way and 

 Locomotives for High Speeds, J. C. Inglis, i8b ; the 

 Speed of Overhead and other Cranes as a Factor in the 

 Economic Handling of Material in Working Crane Work, 

 Archd. P. Head, 186; Internal Combustion Engines for 

 Driving Dynamos, H. A. Humphrey, 186 ; the Com- 

 parative Merits of Drilling and Punching in Steel for 

 Shipbuilding, A. F. Yarrow, 187 ; Fast Coaling Ships for 

 our Navy, E. H. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, 208; Means for 

 Converting a Moderate Speed Steamer into One of Very 

 High Speed for Warlike Purposes, James Hamilton, 208 ; 

 on Cross Channel Steamers, Prof. J. H. Biles, 208; some 

 New Features of Superheaters, Prof. W. H. Watkinson, 

 209 ; A. F. Yarrow, 209 ; A. Morcom, 209 ; Modern Steam 

 Turbines and their Application to the Propulsion of 

 \essels, Hon. C. A. Parsons, 209 ; the Parsons Steam 

 Turbine, 331; the Power Transmission Installation from 

 St. Maurice to Lausanne, Dr. D. K. Morris, 278; La 

 Prospection des Mines et leur Mise en Valeur, Maurice 

 Lecomte-Denis, 267 ; Duty of Providing for the Medical 

 and Sanitary Requirements of the Men Collected for 

 Carrying out Engineering Works, Mr. Fitzmaurice, 309 ; 

 Lehrbuch der technischen Physik, Prof. Dr. Hans Lorenz, 

 364 ; Coal as Fuel at Barrow-in-Furness, W. F. Petti- 

 grew, 463 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Henry M. 

 Hrunel, 577; the Standardisation of Electrical Pressures 

 and Frequencies, 631 ; the Protection of Iron and other 

 Metal-work, William M. Hamlet, 639 ; Elastic Radial 

 Deformations in the Rims and Arms of Flywheels, 

 A. Boyd, 640 



ICngler (Carl), Auto-oxidation, 157 



Entomology : " Dentition " of Flies, W, H. Haris, 41 ; 

 Venation of the Wings of Dragon-flies, J. G. Needham, 

 67 ; Experiments in Hybridisation, L. Doncaster, 94 ; 

 Labial and Maxillary Palpi in Diptera, Mr. Wesch6, 91? ; 

 Departmental Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry, E. P. 

 Stebbing, loi ; Entomological .Society, 118, 213, 615; 

 Nest Cells of Osmia xanthromelana from Conway, North 

 Wales, Willoughby Gardner, 118; Neophaedimus mela- 

 h'uctis, Fairm., a Goliath Beetle from Upper Tonkin, 

 O. E. Janson, 118; on Polygonia C-alhtim in the Attitude 

 of Prolongetl Repose, Prof. Poulton, 118; the Destruction 

 of Termites, A. Loir, 120; the "Diffusion" of Insects 

 in North America, F. M. Webster, 136 ; Entomology at 

 the Cape, Mr. Ix)unsbery, 140 ; New Case of Protective 

 Mimicry in a Caterpillar, R. Shelford, 187; Dry Form 

 of Precis actio Bred by Guy A. K. Marshall from an Egg 

 Laid by a Female of the Wet Form, 213; the Fauna of 

 British India, including Burma and Ceylon. Hymeno- 



ptera. Vol. ii. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps, Lieut. -Colonel 

 Bingham, 220 ; Monographie des Cynipides d'Europe et 

 d'Algdrie, I'Abb^ J. J. Kieffer, 221 ; Coleopterous Insect 

 Embedded in the Wall of the Human Intestine, D. Sharp, 

 F.R.S., 239; some Injurious F"lea-beetles, Mr. Theobald, 

 357 ; a Mite whose Eggs Survive the Boiling Point, 

 J. Adams, 437; Relations Existing between Vcspa 

 austriaca and V. rufa, Messrs. Carpenter and Beresford, 

 460 ; the Insect Folk, Margaret Warner Morley, 595 ; Ways 

 of the Six-footed, Anna Botsford Comstock, 595 ; Mimicry 

 between Butterflies, Roland Trimen, F.R.S., 615 ; 

 HomoDOchromatism in European Butterflies, Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, 615 

 Entwicklungsgeschichte, Lehrbuch der vergleichenden, der 

 wirbellosen Thiere, Profs. E. Korschelt and K. Heider, 



Enzenberger (Josef), Death of, 38 



Ephemeris for Faye's Comet, Search, Prof. E. Stromgren, 

 207 



Ephemeris for Winnecke's Periodical Comet, 1903-4, 

 C. Hillebrand, 580 



5 Equulei, Parallax of the Binary System, W. J. Hussey, 

 69 ; Prof. A. A. Rambaut, 69 



Erlwein (G.), Synthetic Cyanide Processes, 210 



" Eros " Circular, the Tenth, Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S., 

 276 



Eros, the Opposition of, in 1905, Prof. Pickering, 580 



Errata in Various Star Catalogues, G. Boccardi, 555 



Errera (Prof.), Not Possible for Organisms to Exist Appreci- 

 ably Smaller than those which can be Observed with 

 Microscope, 136 



Eruptions : Santa Maria Volcano in Guatemala in Active 

 Eruption, 12; Eruption of Soufri^re on April 22, 66; 

 Mont Pel^e and the Tragedy of Martinique, Angelo Heil- 

 prin, Dr. John S. Flett, 73 ; see also Volcanoes 



Eschinardi (Father Francesco), Sudden Change in the Mag- 

 netic Declination at Rome Attributed to the Effect of 

 Earthquakes in Spain, 374 



Esclangon (M.), Twilights Observed at Bordeaux During 

 the Winter of 1902-1903, 47 



Escombe (F.), Die Grosse des Eiweissmolekiils, Dr. F. N. 

 Schulz, 123 



Etard (A.), on the Presence of Cadaverine in the Products 

 of the Hydrolysis of Muscle, 120 



Ethnography: Maori Art, A. Hamilton, Prof. A. C. 

 Haddon, F.R.S., 35; Ethnographical Studies in North 

 Queensland, Superstition, Magic, and Medicine, Walter 

 E. Roth, 235 ; Ethnographical Expedition to British New 

 Guinea, 256 



Ethnology : American Symbolism, Dr. Alfred L. Kroeber, 

 20; the Ethnology of the Malay Peninsula, 298; Chota 

 Nagpore : a Little Known Province of the Empire, F. B. 

 Bradley Birt, J. F. Hewitt, 369; American Ethnol(^y, 

 427 



Etiolation, D. T. Macdougal, 10 



Eucalypts, the, D. E. Hutchins and E. Hutchins, 320 



Eulenberg (Dr. F.), Ages of German University Professors 

 in 1901, 231 



Europe: Central Europe, Prof. Joseph Partsch, 196 ; Mono- 

 graphic des Cynipides d'Europe et d'Alg^rie, I'Abb^ J. J. 

 Kieffer, 221 



Eustace (Dr. G. W.), Rudimentary Horns in Horses, 262 



Evans (Dr. A. J.), Investigation of Palace of Knossos in 

 Crete, 229; on the Latest Discoveries in the Palace of 

 Knossos, 637 



Evans (J. E.), the " Canals " on Mars. 190 . 



Evatt (Dr. E. J.), on the Pads and Papillary Ridges on the 

 Palm of the Hand, 635 



Everett (Prof. J, D., F.R.S.), on a Map that will Solve 

 Problems in the Use of the Globes, 294; Rocket Light- 

 ning, 599 



Everett (W. H.), Rocket Lightning, i^qg 



Ewart (Prof. J. C, F.R.S.), the Wild Horse {Equus prze. 

 walskii, Poliakoff), 271 



Ex-Meridian Observations of Altitude, New Table for, 

 H. B. Goodwin, 397 



Excavations at Nippur, Recent, 177 



Expansion Curves, Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S.,. «;48 ; Prof. Alfred 

 Lodge, 599 



Experiments on Animals, Stephen Paget,, 74 



Experiment Station Record, the, 621 



