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Nature, '] 

 December lo, 1903 j 



Index 



xxxiu 



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. VV. H. Watkin- 

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

 Steam Turbines and their Application to the Propulsion 

 of Vessels, Hon. C. A. Parsons, 209 ; the Improvement of 

 Rivers : a Treatise on the Methods Employed for Im- 

 proving Streams for Open Navigation by Means of Locks 

 ^ind Dams, B. F. Thomas and D. A. Watt, 361 ; the 

 Steamship Route between the Bristol Channel and 

 Jamaica, 4S9 ; Report as to the Navigable Inland Water- 

 ways in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and 

 Austria-Hungary, Hugh O'Beirne and Mr. Robinson, 518; 

 I.avori marittimi ed Impianti portuali, Flavio Bastiani, 



Navy, Science and the, 169 



Needham (J. G.), Venation of the Wings of Dragon-flies, 67 



Negris (Ph.), on the Sea-level Since Historic and Prehis- 

 toric Times, 312 



Neptune, Diameter of, C. W. Wirtz, 580 



Neptune, the Satellite of. Prof. Perrine, 353 



Nernst (W.), Apparatus for Determining the Vapour Densi- 

 ties of COj, &c., 210 



Nernst (Prof.), the Micro-balance of, 422 ; Theory of Ozone 

 Formation, 587 ; Iridium Apparatus, 587 



Nernst Lamps, J. Stottner, 117 



Neuberg (Carl), Method of Resolving Racemic Aldehydes 

 and Ketones by Means of an Opticallv Active Hydrazine, 

 b8 



Neuronenlehre und ihre Anhanger, Die, Dr. Franz Nissl, 435 



Nevill (E.), Natal Government Observatory, 607 



Neville (Mr.), Standard Points on the Temperature Scale, 

 no 



New Gallery, Photography at the, 527 



New Me.xico, Experiments for Irrigation from Wells in, 405 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 72, 264, 384, 520, 640 



New South Wales Royal Society, 264, 360, 639 



New York Zoological Society, Seventh Annual Report of 

 the, 370 



New Zealand, Dust Storms in, P. Marshall, 223 



Nicholl (M. J.), Birds' Skins Collected by, on St. Paul and 

 Noronha Islands, off the Brazilian Coast, 15 



Nicholls (E. F.), Radiation Pressure and Cometary Theory, 

 4«)i ; Experiments for Determining the Pressure Due to 

 Radiation, 530 



Nicloux (Maurice), Intiavenous Injection of Glycerol, 263 



Nicolardot (Paul), Estimation of Vanadium in Alloys, 216 



Night People, Among the, Clara Dillingham Pierson, 36b 



Nijland (Prof. \. A.), Observations of the Minima of Mira, 

 354 



Njppolt (Dr.), Terrestrial Magnetic Variations, 588 



Nippur, Recent E.xcavations at, 177 



Nissl (Dr. Franz), Die Neuronenlehre und ihre Anhanger, 

 435 



Nitrogen and its Compounds, Dr. Leopold Spiegel, 266 



Nocard (Prof. Edmond), Death of, 327 



Nordenskjold (Baron E.), Local Adaptation to Abnormal 

 Conditions, the Fresh-water Limpet {Ancylus moricandi), 

 351 



Nordenskjold *s Expedition, the Relief of, 13, 394 



Ncrdmann (Charles), Period of the Sun-spots and the Mean 

 Annual Temperature Variations of the Earth, 47 ; Con- 

 nection between Sun-spots and Atmospheric Temperature, 

 162 ; Sun-spots and Terrestrial Temperature, 184 ; the 

 Diurnal Period of the Aurora Borealis, 191 



Normallv Unequal Growth as a Possible Cause of Death, 

 Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 497 



Norman (Canon A. M., F.R.S.), Copepoda Calanoida, 

 chiefly .Abyssal, from the Fasroe Charmel and other Parts 

 of the North .Atlantic, 119 



Nova Geninorum : Prof. E. C. Pickering, 16; Prof. Hale, 

 68 ; Prof. Frost, 68 ; Variability of. Prof. E. C. Pickering, 

 89; Obsoivations of Prof. Barnard, 207; Spectroscopic 

 Observations of, Prof. Perrine, 279 ; the Spectrum of Nova 

 Geminorum, Dr. H. D. Curtis, 425 



Nova, Reported Discovery of a, Prof. Wolf, 580; Prof. 

 Pickering. 580; Prof. Hale, 580; Prof. Barnard, 580: 

 J)r. P.irkhurst, :;8o 



Novae, Recent Spectrographic Observations of, Prof. Perrine 



631 

 Nuclei, Condensation, Carl Barus, C. 1 . R. Wilson, F.R.S., 



548 

 Nubl (Fr.), a New Circumzenithal Apparatus, 376 



O'Beirne (Hugh), Report as to the Navigable Inland Water- 

 ways -n Fran.:e, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and 

 Austria-Hungary, 518 



Observatories : Stonyhurst College Observatory Report for 

 1903. 43 ; Keport of the Oxford University Observatory, 

 Prof. H. H. Turner, in; the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, 138 ; the Crossley Reflector of the Lick Observ- 

 atoiy, 162 ; the Mirror of the Crossley Reflector, Dr. G. 

 Johnstone Stoney 183 ; the German Royal Naval Observ- 

 atory, 280 ; Observations at Batavia Observatory during 

 1901, 303 ; the New Observatory for Buluwayo, 305 ; the 

 Godlee Observatory, 330 ; the Alleghany Observatory, 

 Prof. F. L. O. Wadsworth, 398 ; Fiarthquake Observatory 

 in Strassburg, 416 ; United States Naval Observatory, 425 ; 

 Report of the Cape Observatory, Sir David Gill, 519 ; 

 Report of the Paris Observatory for 1902, M. LcEwy, 532 ; 

 the Royal University Observatory, Vienna, 580 ; Natal 

 Government Observatory, E. Nevill, 607 



Occultation of a Star by Jupiter, T. Banachiewicz, 631 ; 

 Herr Kostinsky, 631 ; Mr. Denning, 631 



Odell (W.), on some Experiments to Determine the Power 

 Wasted by the Windage of Flywheel and Dynamic 

 Armatures, 635 



Ogilvie-Gordon (Dr. Maria), the Geological Structure of 

 Monzoni and Fassa, 413 



Oldham (R. D.), Periodicities of the Tidal Forces and 

 Earthquakes, in 



Oliver (Prof. F. W.), Were the Fern-Cycads Seed-bearing 

 Plants? 113; Lyginodendron and its Seed Lagenostoma, 



185 



Oliver (Dr. George), the Measurement of Tissue Fluid in 

 Man, 189 



Omori (Dr. F.), Velocity with which Earthquake Waves 

 are Propagated, 235 



Ophthalmic Optics, Elementary, Freeland Fergus, Edwin 

 Edser, 217 



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



Optics: Spherical Aberration of the Eye, W. L., 8; Edwin 

 Edser, 8 ; W. Betz, 8 ; Diagram for Single-piece Lenses, 

 T. H. Blakesley, 117; Influence Exerted on the Rotary 

 Power of Cyclic Molecules by the Introduction of Double 

 Linkages into the Nuclei Containing the Asymmetric 

 Carbon Atom, A. Haller, 119; Theory of Refraction in 

 Gases, George W. Walker, 167 ; Phenomena of Vision, 

 C. Welborne Piper, 177, Edwin Edser, 177; Action of the 

 Becquerel Rays on the Nervous System and on the Eye, 

 Dr. Loudon, i8o ; Theories of Colour Vision, C. A. Chant, 

 181; the Theory of Colour Vision, Dr. W. Peddie, 2I4; 

 Experiments on Shadows in an Astigmatic Beam of Light, 

 Prof. S. P. Thompson, 190 ; Wave-length of the n Rays 

 Determined by Diffraction, G. Sagnac, 191 ; Manual of 

 Advanced Optics, C. Riborg Mann, Edwin Edser, 217; 

 Practical Exercises in Light : being a Laboratory Course 

 for Schools of Science and Colleges, R. S. Clay, Edwin 

 Edser, 217; Elementary Ophthalmic Optics, Freeland 

 Fergus, Edwin Edser, 217; Geometrical Optics: an 

 Elementary Treatise upon the Theory, and its Practical 

 Application to the more Exact Measurements of Optical 

 Properties, Thomas H. Blakesley, Edwin Edser, 217; Das 

 Stereoskop, Seine Anwendung in den technischen Wissen- 

 schaften, Uber Entstehung und Konstruktion Stereo- 

 skopischer Bilder, Wilhelm Manchot, Edwin Edser, 217; 

 New Light Obtained after Filtering the Rays from a 

 Focus Tube through Aluminium or Black Paper, R. Blond- 

 lot, 232 ; Efi^ect of Light on Green Leaves, Dr. Waller, 

 238; Generalisation of Lord Kelvin's Statement of the 

 Formula for Direct Refraction, R. F. Muirhead, 253 ; 

 Abhandlungen zur Physiologie der Gesichtsempfindungen. 

 J. von Kries, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 291 ; Penetrativeness 

 of Sunlight through Flesh, Dr. J. W. Kime, 254 ; Theory 

 of Symmetrical Optical Objectives, S. D. Chalmers, 311 ; 

 the Electrical Dichroism of Liquids Containing Crystal- 

 line Particles in Suspension, J. Chaudier, 336; the Pheno- 



