Nature, T 



December lo, 1903 J' 



Index 



XXXIX 



to the Nutrition of Farm Animals, Henry Prentiss 

 Armsby, 30 

 Chemical Technology, Vol. iv.. Electric Lighting, A. G. 



Cooke, and Photometry, W. J. Dibdin, 30 

 Die empiristische Geschichtsauffassung David Humes, mit 

 Beriicksichtigung moderner methodologischer und 

 erkenntnistheoretischer Probleme, Dr. Julius Goldstein, 31 

 Arithmetic, H. G. Willis, 31 



Maori Art, A. Hamilton, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 35 

 Th-^ Prevention of Disease, 40 

 Aratomie artistique des Animaux, Ed. Cuyer, 50 

 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to 

 the Middle of the Sixteenth Century a.d., with Sanskrit 



Texts, Variants, Translation, and Illustrations, Prafulla 

 Chandra Kay, 51 . 



The Soil : an Introduction to the Scientific Study of the 



Growth of Crops, A, D. Hall, 52 

 Electrical Problems 'or Engineering Students, W. L. Hooper 



and R. T. Wells, 52 

 Open-rair Studies in Bird Life ; Sketches of British Birds in 



their Haunts, C. Dixon, 52 

 The Bermuda Islands, A. E. Verrill, 53 

 La Pratique des Fermentations industrielles, E. Ozard, 53 

 The Tanganyika Problem : an Account of the Researches 



Undertaken Concerning the Existence of Marine Animals 



in Central Africa, J. E. S. Moore, 56 

 Mont Pel(5e and the Tragedy of Martinique, Angelo Heil- 



prin, Dr. John S. Flett, 73 

 Experiments on Animals, Stephen Paget, 74 

 Tests and Reagents, Chemical and Microscopical, known 



by their .Authors' Names, C. Simmonds, 75 

 Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 76 

 Hew to Attract the Birds, Neltje Blanch'an, 76 

 Telephone Lines, W. C. Owen, 76 

 The Globe Geography Readers, Intermediate, Our Island 



Home, Vincent T. Murch^, 76 

 On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea, His Roval Highness 



Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi'. 79 

 The Restoration of the Ancient Irrigation Works of the 



Tigris : or the Re-creation of Chaldea, and Egypt Fifty 



Years Hence, Sir William Willcocks, 81 

 Th^orie ^l^mentaire des Series, Maurice Godefroy, 97 

 Geist und Korper, Seele und Leib, Ludwig Busse', 98 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 98 

 The Chemical Changes and Products Resulting from 



Fermentations, R. H. Aders Plimmer, 99 

 Metallurgical Laboratory Notes, Henrv M. Howe, 100 

 Nature Studies in Australia, W. Gillies and R. Hall, 100 

 Considerazioni agrarie sul Piano di Capitanata, Dr. Nestore 



Petrilli, 100 

 The Stellar Heavens, Ellard Gore, loi 

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



Stebbing, 101 

 Analytical Chemistry, F. P. Treadwell, 101 

 London County Council, Shrinkage of the Thames and Lea, 



Maurice Fitzmaurice, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 104 

 The Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snake and .Antelope 



Fraternities, George A. Dorsey and H. R. Voth, in 

 A Treatise on Differential Equa'tions, Prof. A. R. Forsyth. 



F.R.S.. 121 

 Die Grosse des Eiweissmolekuls, Dr. F. N. Schulz, F. 



Escombe, 123 

 Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College of 



Physicians, Edinburgh, 123 

 An Elementary Treatise on the Mechanics of Machinery, 



with Special Reference to the Mechanics of the Steain 



Engine, Joseph N. Le Conte, 124 

 Elementary Chemistry, R. H. Bradbury, 125 

 Hampshire Days, W.H. Hudson, 125 

 Worterbuch der philosophischen GrundbegrifTe, Dr. Friedr. 



Kirchner, 125 

 Experiments on the Effect of Freezing and Other Low 



Temperatures upon the Variability of the Bacillus of 



Typhoid Fever, with Considerations Regarding Ice as a 



Vehicle of Infectious Disease, William T. Sedgwick and 



Charles Edward A. Winslow, Dr. .Allan Macfadyen, 127 

 Human Personality and its Survival of Bodijv Death 



Frederic W. H. Myers, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 145 

 A School Geometry, H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, 147 

 Experimental and Theoretical Course of Geometry, A. T. 



Warren, 147 



Elementary Geometry, Frank R. Barrell, 147 

 ' Solid Geometry, Dr. Franz Hocevar, 147 

 ! Elementary Manual for the Deviations of the Compass in 

 I Iron Ships, E. W. Creak, 148 

 Encyclopa.'dia Biblica, a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, 

 Political, and Religious History, the ArchjEology, Geo- 

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

 Chcyne and J. Sutherland Black, 148 

 Country Rambles : a Field Naturalist's and Country Lover's 



Note Book for a Year, W. Percival Westell, 149 

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



149 

 Education in accordance with Natural Law. Suggestions 

 for the Considerations of Parents, Teachers, and Social 

 Reformers, Charles B. Ingham, 150 

 The Geography of Disease, F"rank G. Clemow, 171 

 Vorlesungen iiber hydrodynamische Fernkrafte nach C. A. 

 Bjerknes' Theorie, V. Bjerknes, Prof. G. H. Brvan, 

 F.R.S., 172 

 1 he Farmer's Business Handbook, I. P. Roberts, 173 

 The Role of Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure in Plants, 



B. E. Livingston, 174 

 Mechanical Refrigeration, Hal Williams, 174 

 Die stammgeschichtliche Entstehung des Bienenstaates 

 sowie Beitrage zur Lebensweise der solitaren u. sozialen 

 Bienen (Hummeln, Meliponinen, &c.), 174 

 The Mind of Man, Gustav Spiller, 174 

 Heredity and Social Progress, Simon N. Patten, 175 

 The Educational Systems of Great Britain and Ireland, 



Graham Balfour, 175 

 Alpine Flora, D. J. Hoffman, 175 

 Arnold's Country-side Readers, 175 

 Arnold's Seaside Reader, 175 

 Hermann von Helmholtz, Leo Koenigsberger, Sir J. Burdon- 



Sanderson, Bart., F.R.S., and Harold Hilton, 193 

 Central Europe, Prof. Joseph Partsch, 196 

 A Treatise on the Theory of Solution, Including the Pheno- 

 mena of Electrolysis, \V. C. D. Whetham, 197 

 The Study of Mental Science, Prof. J. Brough, 197 

 Photography, 198 



Hand Camera Photography, Walter Kilbey, 198 

 Mise en Valeur des Gites Mineraux, F. Colomer, 198 

 Manual of Advanced Optics, C. Ribourg 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 

 Wissenschaften, Uber Entstehung und Konstruktion 

 Stereoskopischer Bilder, Wilhelm Manchot, Edwin Edser, 

 217 

 Infortuni sul lavoro, Mezzi Technici per Prevenirli, E. 



Magrini, G. H. Bailie, 219 

 Guide to Switzerland, 219 



The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 

 Hymenoptera, Vol. ii.. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps, Lieut. - 

 Colonel C.T. Bingham, 220 

 Dendrologische Winterstudien, Camilla Karl Schneider, 220 

 La Technica delle Correnti Alternate, G. Sartori, 221 

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



J. J. Kieffer, 221 

 Spirals in Nature and Art, Theodore Cook, 221 

 Lois g^n^rales de 1 'Action des Diastases, Victor Henri,- 221 

 Sylviculture, Albert Fron, 221 

 North Queensland Ethnography, Superstition, Magic, and 



Medicine, Walter E. Roth, 23:; 

 The Island of Formosa, James W. Davidson, 243 

 Pathologische Pflanzenanatomie, Dr. Ernst Kiister, 244 

 Comets and their Tails, and the Gegenschein Light, 



Frederick G. Shaw, 245 

 Physical Chemistry for Physicians and Biologists, Ernst 



Cohen, 245 

 Trapper "Jim," Edwyn Sandys, 245 

 Das Gesetz der Translation des Wassers, T. Christen, 246 

 Colloquies of Common People, James Anstie, 246 



