XXXVlll 



Index 



r Nature, 



\_December lo, 1903 



Effect of the Radium Emanation,, Prof. E. Rutherford, 

 F.R.S., 622 ; Prof. H. T. Barnes, 622 ; Radio-active Gas 

 in Mines, W. A. D. Rudge, 85 ; Radio-active Gas from 

 Tap-water, Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., at the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, 90 ; Existence of Radiations Capable 

 of Passing through Wood and certain Metals in the 

 Rays from an Incandescent Mantle, R. Blondlot, 95 ; 

 New Form of Stereoscope for X-Ray Work, T. Guilloz, 

 109 ; on New Sources of Radiations capable of traversing 

 Metals, Wood, and other Substances, and on the New 

 Actions produced by these Radiations, R. Blondlot, iiq; 

 Effect of Temperature on the lonisation of Gases acted on 

 by Rontgen Rays, R. K. McClung, 142 ; Radiations 

 Emitted by Radio-active Lead, MM. Korn and Strauss, 

 143 ; Radio-active Processes, Paper read at Physical 

 Society, Prof. V.. Rutherford, F.R.S., 163; the Nature 

 of Radio-active Bodies, Fillipo Re, 168 ; Action of the 

 Becquerel Rays on the Nervous System and on the Eye, 

 Dr. Eoudon, 180 ; Solar Radiations Capable of Travers- 

 ing Metals, Woods, &c., R. Blondlot, 191 ; Penetrative 

 Solar Radiations, R. Blondlot, 23^ ; Penetrativeness of 

 Sunlight through Flesh, Dr. J. W. Kime, 254; Radiation 

 of Helium and Mercury in a Magnetic Field, Prof. 

 Andrew Gray, F.R.S., .and Walter Stewart, Robert A. 

 Houston, and D. B. McQuistan, 212; Prof. J. J. 

 Thomson's View that the Energy of Becquerel Radiation 

 given out by Radio-active Substances is Produced by a 

 Change in the Configuration of the Atom, Dr. J. Stark, 

 230 ; New Light Obtained after Filtering the Rays from 

 a Focus Tube through Aluminium or Black Paper, R. 

 Blondlot, 232 ; the Light Treatment of Lupus, Prof. 

 Finsen, 254 ; Action of Tesla Coil on Radiometer, Prof. 

 P. L. Narasu, 295; the "Spinthariscope," Sir William 

 Crookes, 303 ; New Action Produced bv the Rays n, 

 R. Blondlot, 311; the n-Rays, M. Blondlot, 578; G. 

 Sagnac, 578 ; New Form of Radiation Found with 

 Rontgen Rays, M. Blondlot, 396 ; Radio-Active Gas from 

 Bath Mineral Waters, H. S. Allen, 343 ; the Phenomena 

 of Luminosity, and their Possible Correlation with Radio- 

 Activity, Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., and T. Martin 

 Lowry, 430 ; Radio-activity and the Age of the Sun, Prof. 

 G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 496; Radio-activity and the Con- 

 stitution of Matter and its bearing on Biological Pro- 

 cesses, Dr. W. H. Allchin, 603 ; on the Nature of the 

 Emanations from Radio-active Substances, Prof. Ruther- 

 ford, 610; Sir Oliver Lodge, 611; Another Theory as to 

 the Nature of the Processes going on in Radio-active 

 Materials, Lord Kelvin, 611; Prof. Armstrong, 611; Mr. 

 Soddy, 611 



Ragovsky (E.), External Thermal Conductivity of Silver 

 Wires Plunged in Water, 167 



Rails, Heat Treatment of Steel, High in Manganese, J. S. 

 Lloyd, 462 



Rails," Sorbitic Steel, J. E. Stead and Arthlir W^ 

 Richards, 462 



Railways : Proposed Service of Motor Carriages on Some 

 Sections of the Great Western Railway, 40 ; Bust of 

 George Stephenson at Rome, 64 ; Mono-rail High Speed 

 Electric Railway between Liverpool and Manchester, 158; 

 the Designs of Permanent Way and Locomotives for' High 

 Speeds, J. C. Inglis, 186; the Fire on the Paris Metro- 

 politan Railway, 373; Electric Railway at Zossen, 516; 

 Electric Railway Trials between Zossen and Marien'feld 

 529 ; Trials of the High Speed Electric Cars on the 

 Berlin-Zossen Military Line, 577 ; High-speed Trials of 

 Siemens Car at Berlin, 627 



" Rain, Red," and the Dust Storm of Februarv 22 Dr 

 T. E. Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S., 53, 222 



Rainfall, British, 1902, 366 



Rainfall in Relation to Bruckner's Cvcle, Our, Alex. B. 

 MacDowall, 56 



Rainfall and River Flow in the Thames Basin Dr. Hutrh 

 Robert Mill, 104 > fe 



Rainfall for the Week ending June 20, 180 ; see also 

 Meteorology 



Raisin (Dr. Catherine A.), the Formation of Chert, 352 



Rambaut (Prof. A. A.), Parallax of the Binary System S 

 Equulei, 69 



Ramsay (Sir William, K.C.B., F.R.S.), Hofmann Gold 

 Medal Awarded to, 64 ; Gases Occluded by Radium Bro- 

 mide, 246; Experiments in Radio-activitv and the Pro- 



duction of Helium from Radium, at the Royal Society, 



354 ; Technical Education and Industry, 576 ; Periodic 



System of the Elements, 587 

 Ramsden (W.), Separation of Solids in the Surface-layers 



of Solutions and " Suspensions," 359 

 Rand Miners, Ill-health of the, 527 

 Ransom (Dr. F.), Researches on Tetanus, 287 

 Ranson (Georges), Electrolysis of Alkaline Sulphides, 95 ; 



Electrolysis of the Sulphides of the Alkaline Earths, 96 ; 



the ^Electrolysis of Barium Sulphide, with a Diaphragm, 



119 

 Ravenshear (A. F.), Dimensional Analysis of Physical 



Quantities and Correlation of Units, 22 

 Raw (Dr. Nathan), the Prevention of Consumption in Large 



Cities, 285 

 Rawlings (Rev. G. W.), the Pertinacity and Strength of 



Japanese Sparrows, 302 . 

 Ray (Prafulla Chandra), a History of Hindu Chemistry 



from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth 



Century, A.D., with Sanskrit Texts, Variants, Trans- 

 lation and Illustrations, 51 

 Rayet (G.), Eclipse of the Moon on April 11 at Bordeaux, 23 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Scientific Papers of, 289 

 Re (Fillipo), the Nature of Radio-active Bodies, 168 

 Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Prizes for 1903, 488 

 Reason? Can Dogs, Dr. Alex. Hill, 7 

 Recoura (A.), a Combination of Ferric Sulphate with 



Sulphuric Acid, 288; on Ferrisulphuric Acid and Ethyl 



Ferrisulphate, 312 

 " Red Rain " and the Dust Storm of February 22, Dr. 



T. E. Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S., 53, 222 

 Red Spot on Jupiter, the, Stanley J. Williams, 208 

 Red Spot on Jupiter, Retarded Motion of the Great, W. F. 



Denning, 390 

 Reed (Prof. W. M.), a Provisional Catalogue of Variable 



Stars, 491 

 Reese (H. M.), Four Stars with Variable Radial Velocities, 



Reflector of the Lick Observatory, the Crossley, 162 

 Reflector, the Mirror of the Crossley, Dr. G. Johnstone 



Stoney, 183 

 Reflector, Photographic Efficiency of a Short Focus, Prof. 



Schaeberle, 330 

 Reform in School Geometry, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 7; 



Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 7 ; R. W. H. T. Hudson, 177; 



Prof. Frank R. Barrell, 296 

 Refrigeration, Mechanical, Hal Williams, 174 

 Regulating or Recording Thermometer, a, H. S. Allen, 69 

 Reid (Clement), Raised Beaches, 612 ; Origin of Rock 



Basins, 613 

 Reinach (Salomon), Drawings on the Walls of the Cave 



of Altamira, 216 

 Renard (Ch.), the Purification of Hydrogen on the In- 

 dustrial Scale by Cold, 143 

 Renault (B.), Fossil Algae in Ancient Strata, 144 

 Rennia (Dr.), Eggs of the Shanny, 614 

 Resin-tapping, 499 



Respiratory Hygrometer, Pierre Lesage, 48 

 Resuscitation of the Apparently Drowned, the, 326 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 

 Le Froment et sa Mouture, Prof. Girard and M. Lindet, 



William Jago, i 

 Ergebnisse der Physiologie, Dr. H. M. Vernon, 3 

 Physikalische Chemie der Zelle und der Gewebe, Dr. Rudolf 



Hober, Dr. Benjamin Moore, 4 

 Contribution h. I'Etude du Mode de Production de 1 'Electricity 



dans les Etres vivants. Dr. Louis Querton, 5 

 Statics by Algebraic and Graphic Methods, Lewis J. John- 

 son, 5 

 De I'Exp^rience en Gtemetrie, C. de Freycinet, 5 

 Etude des Ph6nomfenes volcaniques : Tremblements de 



Terre — Eruptions Volcaniques — Le Cataclysme de la 



Martinique, 1902, Francois Miron, 6 

 Experiments with Vacuum Tubes, Sir D. L. Salomons, 6 

 The Influence of Light and Darkness upon Growth and 



Development, D. T. MacDougal, 10 

 Agricultural Geology, J. E. Marr, 29 

 Elementary Applied Mechanics, Profs. T. Alexander and 



A. W. Thomson, 29 

 The Principles of Animal Nutrition, with Special Reference 



