Nature, 1 



December lo, 1903 J 



Index 



xli 



Rpcherches sur les Instruments, les Methodes et le Dessin 



lopographiques, Colonel A. Laussedat, 545 

 An Introduction to Nature Study, E. Stenhouse, 546 

 Ergebnisse der Physiologie, 547 

 Thermodynamik, Prof. Dr. W. Voigt, 547 

 .Arithmetic for Schools and Colleges, John Alison and John 



B. Clark, 547 

 Les Materiaux artificiels, Marie-Auguste Morel, 547 

 The Structure of the Nucleus, Carl Barus, C. T. R. Wilson, 



F.R.S., 548 

 Topography and Geology of the Eastern Desert of Egypt 



(Central Portion), T. Barron and W. F. Hume, 569 

 l-ssai sur la Psycho-physiologie des Monstres Humains, 



N. Vaschide and CI. Vurpas, Dr. C. S. Myers, 570 

 Electrolytic Preparations, Dr. Karl Elbs, 571 

 .\ Concise Handbook of Garden Flowers, H. M. Batson, 



57' 

 Lavori marittimi ed Impianti portuali, Flavio Bastiani, 571 

 II Moto degli loni nelle Scariche elettriche, Augusto Righi, 



57 J 

 The Geology and Petrography of Crater Lake, National 



Park, Joseph Silas Diller and Horace Bushnell Patton, 



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

 Ancient Calendars and Constellations, Hon. Emmeline M. 



Plunket, 593 

 A Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry, Ralph 



W. Webster and W'aldemar Koch, Prof. W. D. Halli- 

 burton, F.R.S., 594 

 The Insect Folk, Margaret Warner Morley, 595 

 Ways of the Six-footed, Anna Botsford Comstock, 595 

 Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in 



the British Museum (Natural History), 596 

 .\ Class Book of Botany, G. P. Mudge and .\. J. Maslen, 596 

 Traite de Chimie physique, Les Principes, Jean Perrin, 597 

 rhe Arithrhetic of Elementary Physics and Chemistry, 



H. M. Timpany, 597 

 Gisements min6raux, Stratigraphie et Composition, 



Francois Miron, 597 

 The Sub-mechanics of the Universe, Osborne Reynolds, 



F.R.S., Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 600 

 Vectors and Rotors, with Applications, O. Henrici, F.R.S., 



and G. C. Turner, Prof. George M. Minchin, F.R.S., 617 

 A Treatise on Zoology, 618 



Carbon Photography made Easy, Thos. Illingworth, 619 

 Portraiture for Amateurs without a Studio, Rev. F. C. 



Lambart, 619 

 The Elementary Chemistry of Photographic Chemicals, 



C. Sordes Ellis, 619 

 Photography by Rule, J. Sterry, 619 

 L'Evolution compar^e des Sables, Jules Girard, 620 

 Radium and other Radio-active Substances, with a Con- 

 sideration of Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Substances. 



The Properties and Applications of Selenium and the 



Treatment of Disease by the Ultra-violet Light, W'iiliam 



J. Hammer, 621 

 The PLxperiment Station Record, 621 

 Jahrbuch der Chemie, 621 

 Flowering Plants : their Structure and Habitat, Charlotte 



L. Laurie, 621 



Reynolds (Dr. Arthur R.), Sanitary Examination of Water 



Supplies, 420 

 Reynolds (Principal J. H.), on the New Manchester Muni- 

 cipal Technical Institute, 634 

 Reynolds (Osborne, F.R.S.), the Sub-mechanics of the 



L'niverse, 600 

 Rhythms, Motor Visual and Applied, J. B. Miner, 423 

 Richards (.Arthur W.), the Restoration of Dangerously 



Crystalline Steel by Heat Treatment, 462 ; Sorbitic Steel 



Rails, 462 

 Richards (Dr. Joseph W.), Presidential Address at the 



.\merican Electrochemical Society, 299 

 Richards (T. W.), Standard Points on the Toniperatuie 



Scale, no 

 Richardson (Linsdall), the Rhjetic and Lower Lias at Sed- 



bury Cliff, 262 

 Richardson (O. W.), the Positive lonisation Produced by 



Hot Platinum in Air at Low Pressures, 190 

 Richmond (H. W.), .Xutomorphic Functions in Relation to 



the General Theory of .Algebraic Curves, 214 



Ricome (H.), on Roots Trained by Experiment to Grow 

 Lipwards, 312 



Ridgeway (Prof. W.), Suggestive Theory of the Origin of 

 Jewellery, 636 



Righi (Prof. A.), lonisation of Air by an Electrified Point, 

 109; 11 Moto degli loni nelle Scariche elettriche, 571 



Rigidity of Piers for Meridian Circles, the, Prof. G. W. 

 Hough, 532 



Ritchey (Mr.), Methods of Developing Photographs of 

 Nebulae, 4b 



Rivers (Dr. W. H. R.), Abhandlungen zur Physiologie der 

 Gesichtsempfindungen, J. von Kries, 291 ; Reports of 

 the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres 

 Straits, 409 ; Researches on the Psychology and Sociology 

 of the Todas, 636 ; on the Ritual of the Toda Dairy, 636 



Rivers, the Improvement of, a Treatise on the .Methods 

 Employed for Improving Streams for Open Navigation 

 and for Navigation by Means of Locks and Dams, B. F. 

 Thomas and D. h. Watt, 361 



Roberts (Dr. F. T.), Infective and Infectious Diseases, 346; 

 Alcohol as a Therapeutic .Agent, 346 ; 



Roberts (J. P.), the Farmer's Business Handbook, 173 



Robinson (Mr.), Report as to the Navigable Inland Water- 

 ways in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and 

 .Austria-Hungary, 518 



Robson (Prof. Mayo), Evolution of Abdominal Surgery, 346 



Rocket Lightning, 599, 627; Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.'S.', 

 599; W. H. Everett, 599 



Rollet (Prof." Alexander), Death of, 603 



Rome, Freedom of the City of. Conferred on Mr. Marconi, 



39 

 Romilly (F^lix Worms de). Death of, 38, 84 

 Rontgen Rays, New Form of Radiation Found with, M. 



Blondlot, 396 ; sec Radiography 

 Rose (Dr. F.), Higher Technical Education in Great 



Britain and Germany, 274 

 Ross (P.), Resistance Change .Accompanying Transverse 



Magnetisation in Nickel Wire, 408 

 Ross (Major Ronald, F'.R.S.), the Extirpation of Culex at 



Ismailia, 246 

 Rossler (F-). Synthetic Cyanide FVocesses, 210 

 Rotation Period of Saturn, the, W. F. Denning, 519 

 Rotation of Saturn, the, Leo Brenner, 554 

 Rotational Velocity of Venus, V. M. Slipher, 631 

 Rotch (Dr. A. Lawrence), the New Bishop's Ring, 623 

 Roth (Walter E.), Superstition, Magic, and Medicine, 



Ethnographical Studies in North Queensland, 235 

 Roux (E.), New Bases Derived from the Pentoses, 48 

 Rowe (Dr. A. W.), Zones in the Chalk, 428 

 Rowland (Henry Augustus), the Physical Papers of, 316 

 Royal .Astronomical Society, 46, 190 ; on a Probable Re- 

 lationship between the Solar Prominences and Corona, 

 Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 257 

 Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Reports from the 



Laboratory of the, 123 

 Royal Dublin .Society, 215, 262 



Royal Geographical Society's Medal Awards, 65 ; Address 

 at, Geographical Research, Sir Clements Markham, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., 91 ; Report on the Geological Observa- 

 tion made during the Recent Polar P'xpedition of the 

 Frani, 105 

 Royal Institute of Public Health, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 285 

 Roval Institution : Recent Advances in Stereochemistrv, 

 Prof. William J. Pope, F.R.S., 280; the Origin of Seed- 

 bearing Plants, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 377 

 Royal Irish Academy, 23, 119, 215, 262 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 261 

 Royal Microscopical .Society, 142, 239 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the, 138 

 Royal Photographic Society, Lecture at the, the Advance- 

 ment of Photography, Sir William Abnev, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., 89 

 Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Gold Medal pre- 

 sented to Captain Sverdrup, 13 

 Royal Society Candidates, 12 ; Royal Society Conversazione, 

 59, 184; Royal Society, 71, 94, 116, 141, 167, 189, 212, 

 237, 261, 287, 311, 334, 350, 430; Were the Fern-cvcads 

 Seed-bearing Plants? Prof. F. W. Oliver and Dr. D. H. 

 Scott. F.R.S., 113: Experiments in Radio-activity and 

 the Production of Helium from Radium, Sir VVilliam 

 Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Frederick Soddy, 354; on 



