Mil 



Index 



r Nature, 



[.December lo, 1903 



the Intensely Penetrating Rays of Radium, Hon. R. J. 

 Strutt, 355 ; the Sub-mechanics of the Universe, Osborne 

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

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, 143, 214, 383, 408; the Wild 

 Horse {Eqttus przewalskii, Poliakoff), Prof. J. C. Ewart, 

 F.R.S., 271 

 Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, 168, 464, 520 

 Royal Society, New South Wales, 264, 360, 639 

 Royal University Observatory, Vienna, the, 580 

 Royal Visit to Glasgow, the, 63 



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

 Potential Difference between the Terminals of a Vacuum 

 Tube, 142 

 Russell (Bertrand), the Principles of Mathematics, 410 

 Russell (Claude), Journey through Eastern Mongolia, 516 

 Russell (H. C), Wet Season in England Seldom Followed 



by Wet Season in Australia, 517; Current Papers, 529 

 Russell (James), Molecular Conditions of Demagnetised 



Iron, 408 

 Rutherford (Prof. E., F.R.S.), Radio-active Processes, 

 Paper read at the Physical Society, 163 ; Condensation of 

 the radio-active Emanations of Radium and Thorium by 

 Liquid Air, 184 ; the Amount of Emanation and Helium 

 from Radium, 366 ; on the Nature of the Emanations 

 from radio-active Substances, 610; Heating Effect of the 

 Radium Emanation, 622 

 Ryan (Prof. Hugh), Derivatives of Arabinose, 262 



Saake (W.), Atmospheric Electricity at High Altitudes, 578 

 Sabatier (Paul), Catalytic Decomposition of Alcohols by 

 Finely Divided Metals, &c., 23; Cyclohexane, 336; 

 Addition of Hydrogen to Aldehydes and Ketones by 

 Catalysis, 360 

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

 Sachs (Dr.), the Death of, from Plague, 134 

 Sagnac (G.), the Wave-length of the N-Rays Determined 



by Diffraction, 191 ; the «-Rays, 578 

 Sahlin (Axel), New Blast Furnace Top, 44 

 St. Kilda and its Birds, J. Wiglesworth, 268 

 St. Louis Exhibition, the American Tariff and the, Prof. 



C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 320 

 Saint Petersburg, the New Mammoth at, 297 

 Salisbury (the Marquis of). Death and Obituary Notice of, 



392 

 Salmon (E. S.), Infection-powers of Ascospores, 66 ; In- 

 fection-power of Ascospores in the Erysipheae, 182 

 Salmon, Effect of Temperature on the Taking of, by Rod 

 and Fly, on the River Spey at Gordon Castle, George 

 Muirhead, 214 

 Salomons (Sir D. L., Bart.), Experiments with Vacuum 



Tubes, 6 

 Sandes (Dr. F. P.), the Corpus Luteum of Dasyurus 



viverrimts, 384 

 Sandmever (Dr. T.), a New Synthesis of Indigo, 93 

 Sands, Musical, Cecil Carus-Wilson, 152 

 Sandys (Edwin), Trapper "Jim," 245 

 Sanger (Ernst), Kant's Lebre vom Glauben, 365 

 Sanitarv Examination of Water Supplies, Dr. Arthur R. 



Reynolds, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 420 

 Sanitation : Congress of the Sanitary Institute, E. White 

 Wallis, 309 ; Duty of Providing for the Medical and 

 Sanitary Requirem'ents of the Men collected for carrying 

 out Engineering Works, Mr. Fitzmaurice, 309; the 

 Spread of and Immunity from Asiatic Cholera, Prof. 

 Hunter Stewart, 309 ; the High Prevailing Rate of In- 

 fantile Mortality in Populous Centres, Prof. Glaister, 459 

 Sartori (G.), La Tecnica delle Correnti Alternate, 221 

 Saturn, the Satellites of, W. J. Hussey, 184; White Spot 

 on .Saturn, W. F. Denning, 229 ; Another White Spot on, 

 W. F. Denning, 247 ; the White Spots on, J. Comas 

 SolA, 425 ; Bright Spots on, W. F. Denning, 279 ; the 

 Spots on, W. F. Denning, 390 ; Reported Change on 

 Saturn, Prof. Barnard, 207 ; the Rotation Period of, 

 W. F. Denning,- 519 ; the Rotation of, Leo Brenner, 554 

 Sazerac (R.), an Oxidising Bacterium, 264 

 Scariche elettrich^ II Moto degli loni nelle, Augusto Righi, 



571 

 Schaeberle (Prof.), Photographic Efficiency of a Short Focus 



Reflector. 330 

 Schei ;D: . P.); Arctic Geology, 418 



Schenck's (Dr.), Red-phosphorus, Dr. Marquart, 588 



Schlechter (Herr), Gutta-percha Suitable for Cable Purposes 

 in New Guinea, 516 



Schloesing (Th., sen.). Mechanical Analysis of Soils, 384 



Schnabel (11.), Distinction in the Development of the 

 Radula between Cephalopods and Gastropods, 461 



Schneider (Camilla Karl), Dendrologische Winterstudien, 

 220 



Schonland (Prof. S.), Persistence of the Palaeolithic Age in 

 .South Africa, 165 



Schoo (Dr.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 421 



School Geometry Reform, 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 



School Geometry, a, H. S. Hall and F". H. Stevens, 147, 414 



School Subject, Nature Study as a, E. Stenhouse, 546 



Schrenck (Prof, von), Californian Red Wood, Sequoia sem- 

 pervireus, no 



Schuberg (Prof. A.), on the Nature of Intercellular Tissue, 

 J82 



Schulten (A. de). Method of Crystallising Slightly Soluble 

 Bodies, 192 



Schulz (Dr. F. N.), Die Grosse des Eiweissmolekuls, 123 



.Schuster (Prof.), Experiments on the Effects of Low Tem- 

 perature on the Properties and Spectrum of Radium, 611 



Schwab (F. J.), Electrolytic Refining of Copper, 630 



Schwarzscheld (Dr), Astronomical Mechanics, 586 



Science : Smithsonian Report on Scientific Work, Dr. S. P. 

 Langley, 20 



Science : Memorial to Sir George Stokes, 64 ; a New Index 

 of Applied Science, 114; Science and the Navy, 169; 

 .Science and Naval Promotion, 223 ; Scientific Papers of 

 Lord Rayleigh, 289 ; the Relations between Scientific 

 Research and Chemical Industry, Prof. Raphael Meldola, 

 F.R.S., at the University Extension Meeting at Oxford, 

 3'98 ; Forthcoming' Books of Science, 588 ; Human Science 

 and Education, Prof. P. Gardner, 507 ; the Vienna 

 Academy of Sciences, 407 ; Uniformity in Scientific Litera- 

 ture, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 598 



Scientific Investigation and Experimental Philosophy, 

 Sidney Lee, 552 



;3 Scorpii, the Spectroscopic Binary, V. M. Slipher, 376 



Scotland, a Technical School for the Highlands of, 497 



Scott (Dr. D. H., F.R.S.), Were the Fern-cycads Seed- 

 bearing Plants, 113; Lyginodendron and its Seed 

 Lagenostoma, 185 ; the Origin of Seed-bearing Plants, 

 Discourse at Royal Institution, 377 



Scott (Captain), the Antarctic Expeditions, 307 



Scripture (Prof. E. W.), Experimental Phonetics, 397 



Sea, International Study of the, 417 



Search-Ephemeris for Faye's Comet, E. Stromgren, 207, 

 461 



Search-Ephemeris for Comet 1896 V. (Giacobini), M. Ebell, 

 256, 491, 606 



Secchi Commemoration, the, 376 



Sedgwick (Prof. William T.), Experiments on the Effect 

 of Freezing and other Low Temperatures upon the 

 Viability of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, with Con- 

 siderations Regarding Ice as a Vehicle of Infectious 

 Disease, 127 



See (Dr. T. J. J.), Mass of Mercurv, ^qi : Height of the 

 Atmosphere Determined from the Time of Disappearance 

 of Blue Colour of the Sky after Sunset, 526 



Seed-bearing Plants? Were the Fern-cvcads, Prof. F. W. 

 Oliver and Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 113 



Seed-bearing Plants, the Origin of, Dr. D. H. Scott, 

 F.R.S., at the Royal Institution, 377 



Seismology : I^tude des Ph^nomfenes volcaniques, Tremble- 

 ments de Terre — Eruptions volcanioues — Le Cataclysme 

 de la Martinique, 1902, Francjois Miron, 6; Earthquake 

 in Derbyshire, 12 ; in Turkish Armenia, 81; ; Earthquake 

 Shock in Italy, 85, 327; at Van, 108; at Constantinople, 

 108: Periodicity of the Tidal Forces and Earthquakes, 

 R. D. Oldham, in; Earthquake Shocks in North Wales 

 and Anglesey, 180 ; Earthquake at Erlau, 20< ; Seismo- 

 logical Notes, 23<; ; Velocity with which Earthquake 

 Waves are Propagated, Dr. F. Omori, 21'^ ; Violent 

 Earthquake which Originated near Manila, Rev. Marcial 

 SolA, 21K : a Modified Form of his Vasca Sismica, Dr. 

 Giulio Grablovitz, 23c- Earthquake on June 29, 1896, in 

 Cyprus, Dr. G. Agamennone, 235 ; Earthquake at Cape 



