Index 



[Nature, 

 December- lo, 1903 



mena of Luminosity and their Possible Correlation with 

 Radio-activity, Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., and 



. T. Martin Lowry, 430 ; Experiments for Determining the 

 Pressure Due to Radiation, E. F. Nichols and G. F. Hull, 

 530; Optical Theories of the Microscope, J. 'W. Gordon, 

 553 ; Optical Isomerism, Prof. Wallach, 587 



Oregon, Crater Lake in, Joseph Silas Diller and Horace 

 Bushnell Patton, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 574 



Oregon, the Forests of, Henry Gannett, 406 



O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), Antipodal Relations of the Eruptions 

 and Earthquakes since January, 1901, 263 



Organ, the Hydraulic, of the Ancients, John W. Warman, 

 184 



Organic Chemistry, Text-book of. Prof. A. F. Holleman, 

 149 



Organisms, F"ermentation, a Laboratory Handbook, Alb. 

 Klocker, 387 



Origin of Variation, the, Charles S. Myers, 224 



Ornithology : Complimentary Singing by Birds, J. R. Paul, 

 14 ; Sympathetic Song in Birds, Edgar R. Waite, 322 ; 

 Migration of Crow Family from East Coast, October, 

 1902, J. H. Gurney, 15 ; on the Position of the Legs of 

 Birds in Flight, Captain Barrett-Hamilton, 41 ; Open-air 

 Studies in Bird Life : Sketches of British Birds in their 

 Haunts, C. Dixon, 52 ; How to Attract the Birds, Neltje 

 Blanchan, 76; Robin's Nest in a Small Leather Hand- 

 bag, Miss E. M. Milner, 85 ; St. Kilda and its Birds, 

 J. Wiglesworth, 268; the Pertinacity and Strength of 

 Japanese Sparrows, Rev. G. W. Rawlings, 302 ; the Birds 

 Mentioned by Aristotle, T. E. Lones, 328 ; Can Carrier- 

 pigeons Cross the Atlantic? H. B. Guppy, 497; the Birds 

 of Lapland, W. Goebel, 553 



Orth (Prof.), the Non-transmissibility of Bovine Tuber- 

 culosis to Man, 303 



Oscillatory Electric Spark, Photograph of, C. J. Watson, 56 



Osier (Mr.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 13 



Osmotic Action of Certain Salts on Marine Algze, Prof. 

 Duggar, 15 



Osmotic Pressure in Plants, the Role of Diffusion and, B. E. 

 Livingstone, 174 



Ostwald (Wilhelm), Die Schule der Chemie. Erste Ein- 

 fuhrung in die Chemie fur ledermann, 521 



Owen (W. C), Telephone Lines, 76 



Oxford : Report of the Oxford University Observatory, Prof. 

 H. H. Turner, iii ; University Extension Meeting at, 

 the Relations between Scientific Research and Chemical 

 Industry, Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., 398 



Oyster-borne Illness following the Mayoral Banquets at 

 Wincheser, and at Southampton, Alleged, Dr. Timbrell 

 Bulstrode, 303 



Ozard (E.), La Pratique des Fermentations Industrielles, 53 



Paget (Stephen). Experiments on Animals, 74 



Palasobotany : Were the Fern-cycads Seed-Bearing Plants ? 

 Prof. F. V\'. Oliver and Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 113; 

 Fossil Algas in Ancient Strata, B. Renault, 144 ; 

 Lyginodendron and its Seed Lagenostoma, Dr. D. H. 

 Scott, F.R.S., and Prof. F. W. Oliver, 185; Fossil Plants 

 from the Ardwick Series, E. A. Neville Arber, 639 



Palaeolithics : Persistence of the Paljeolithic Age in South 

 Africa, Prof. S. Schonland, 165 



Palaeontology : the Fossil Man of Lansing, Kansas, Prof. 

 Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 7 ; Discovery of a Pigmv Elephant 

 in the Pleistocene of Cyprus, Dorothv M. A. 'Bate, 71; 

 Mammoth Discovered in lakousk, L. Elb6e, 109; theNew 

 Mammoth at St. Petersburg, 297 ; New Fossils found 

 by Captain Gaden in the Soudan, A. de Lapparent, \At ■ 

 Tremataspis, Prof. W. Patten, 182 ; Fossil Vertebrata 

 from the Fayfim. Egypt, 185 : Method for Investigation 

 of Fossils by Serial Sections, Prof. W. J. Sollas, F.R.S., 

 237 ; the Brain of Anchilophus desmaresti, R. Weinberg' 

 254 ; Giant Land Tortoise from the Eocene of the Fayurn 

 District, Dr. Andrews and Mr. Beadnell, 255 ; Skull of 

 Egyptian Eocene Mammal, Arsinotherium zi'tieli, in the 

 Natural History Museum, Dr. C. W. Andrews, 349 ; Zones 

 in the Chalk, Dr. A. W. Rowe, 428 ; Fossils from the 

 Cretaceous Rocks of Vancouver, Dr. J. F. Whiteaves. 

 490 ; the Brussels and Tervueren Museums, 571; ; Palaon- 

 tological Observations in Alaska, Albert Gaudry, 616 



Palmer (Harold K.), the Study of Very Faint Spectra 208 



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



69 ; Prof. A. A. Rambaut, 69 

 Parallaxes, Recently Determined Stellar, Prof. A. Donner, 



354; Prof. J. C. Kapteyn and Dr. W. de Sitter, 354 

 Paris: Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 95, 119, 143, 



167, 189, 191, 215, 239, 263, 288, 311, 336, 3bo, 384, 408, 



432, 464, 492, 520, 544, 568, 592, 616, 639; the Fire on 



the Paris Metropolitan Railway, 373 ; Report of the Paris 



Observatory for 1902, M. Loewy, 532 

 Parkhurst (Dr.), Reported Discovery of a Nova, 5S0 

 Parkinson (John), on Primary and Secondary Devitrification 



in Glassy Igneous Rocks 239, 

 Parks (Dr. G. J.), Experiments on the Thickness of the 



Liquid Film Formed by Condensation on the Surface of 



the Solid, 552 

 Parsons (Hon. C. A.), Modern Steam TurWnes and their 



Application to the Propulsion of Vessels, 209 

 Parsons Steam Turbine, the, 331 

 Parsons (Louis A.), the Spectrum of Hydrogen, 554 

 Partsch (Prof. Joseph), Central Europe, 196 

 Passtoukhof (M.), Cure for Mountain Sickness, 396 

 Pathology : Pathology of Beri-beri, Dr. Hamilton Wright, 



41 ; Pathologische Pflanzenanatomie, Dr. Ernst Kiister, 

 •244 ; Death of Prof. Edmond Nocard, 327 ; Vegetable 



Pathology, Annales de I'lnstitut Central Amp^lologique 



Roval Hongrois, Dr. IstvAnffi, 317 

 Patoii (Dr. Noel), October Salmon in the Sea, 408 

 Patten (H. E.), Experiments on the Interaction of Metals 



and Hydrochloric Acid in Various Perfectly Anhydrous 



Solvents, 16 

 Patten (Simon N.), Heredity and Social Progress, 174 

 Patten (Prof. W.), Tremataspis, 182 

 Patterson (Hume), Bacillus of Salmon Disease, 86 

 Patton (Horace Bushnell), the Geology and Petrography of 



Crater Lake, National Park, 574 

 Paul (J. R.), Complimentary Singing by Birds, 14 

 Paving Sets, the Petrological Examination of. Prof. Joly, 



422 

 Peach (Dr.), Geology of the Canonbie Coalfield, 214 

 Pearson (A. N.), Report on Field Experiments in Victoria, 



1887-1900, 467 

 Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), the Fossil Man of Lansing, 



Kansas, 7 ; Inheritance of Psychical and Physical Char- 

 acters in Man, 607 

 Pearson (R.), On Natural Gas in Sussex, 635 

 Peculiar Clouds, Alfred O. Walker, 416 

 Peddie (Dr. W.), Psychophysical Interaction, 78 ; the Theory 



of Colour Vision, 214 

 Peirce (George James), a Text-book of Plant Physiology, 403 

 Pelabon (H.), Fusibilities of Mixtures of Sulphide of Anti- 



monv and Sulphide of Silver, 192 

 Pel^e, ' Mont, and the Tragedy of Martinique, Angelo 



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

 Pellat (M.), Determination of the Electrochemical Equiva- 

 lent of Silver, 240 

 Pender (M.), Magnetic Action of Convection Currents, 87 

 Penetrative Solar Radiations, R. Blondlot, 233 

 Peribeni (Dr.), Italian Excavations at Palace of i^gia 



Triada, near DibAki, 229 

 Perkin (A. G.), Butein, 94 

 Perkin (Dr. F. Molhvo), Quantitative Chemical Analysis by 



Electrolysis, Prof. Classen, 412 ; the Effect of Education 



and Legislation on Trade, 602 

 Pernet (George), Our Present Knowledge of Leprosy, 41 

 Pernier (Dr.), Italian Excavations at Palace of Agia Triada, 



near DibAki, 229 

 Perr^dfes (Mr.), a Leguminous Lliane, Derris uliginosa, 15 

 Perrin (Jean), Electrical Osmosis, 167 ; Conditions which 



Determine the Sense and Magnitude of Electrification by 



Contact, 191 ; Traits de Chimie Physique, Les Principes, 



507 ; Conditions which Determine the Sign and the 



Magnitude of Electrification by Contact, 592 ; Contact 



Electrification and the Theory of Colloid Solutions, 616 

 Perrine (Prof.), Spectroscopic Observations of Nova 



Geminorum, '279 ; the Satellite of Neptune, 353; the 



Spectrum of Comet 1903c, 376 ; Recent Spectrograph ic 



Observations of Novae, 631 

 Perrot (F. Lewis), the Thermal Conductivity of Crystallised 



Bismuth, 119 

 Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Reform in School Geometry, 7 ; 



Tables of Four-figure Logarithms, 199, 270 ; Expansion 



