Nature, ~\ 

 Deitmper lo, 1903J 



Index 



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Town, 253 ; Antipodal Relations of the Eruptions and 

 Earthquakes since January, 1901, Prof. J, P. O'Reilly, 

 263 ; Earthquake at St. Vincent, 277 ; Earthquake Shocks 

 in Spain, 327 ; in Lisbon, 350, 488 ; Earthquake Shocks 

 at Malta, at Syracuse, at Naples, and at Canea, 3:;o ; 

 Seismological Congress in Strassburg, 371 ; Earthquake 

 at Mendoza, South America, 372 ; Sudden Change in the 

 Magnetic Declination at Rome, Attributed to the Effect 

 of Earthquakes in Spain, Father Francesco Eschinardi, 

 374; Earthquake Shock at Kimberley, J. R. Sutton, i^^\ 

 Earthquake Observatory in Strassburg, 416 ; Earthquake 

 in Bucharest, 488; at Santiago de Cuba, 516; at Blidah, 

 at Algiers, and in the Canaries, 1^29 

 ^oismometrv and G^ite, Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., ^5, 176; 

 Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 127 



-ligmann (C. G.), Reports of the Cambridge Anthro- 

 pological Expedition to Torres Straits, 409 

 ^enderens (J. B.), Catalytic Decomposition of Alcohols by 

 Finely Divided Metals,' &c., 23: Addition of Hydrogen to 

 Aldehydes and Ketones by Catalysis, 360 



Series, Theorie El^mentaire des, Maurice Godefroy, 97 



Serotherapy : the Death of Dr. Sachs from Plague, 134 ; 

 Pastilles of Anti-diphtheritic Serum for Local Treatment, 

 Dr. Louis Martin, 135 ; Use of Chloroform in the Pre- 

 paration of Vaccine, Alan B. Green, 141; Anti-Rabic 

 Inoculations at Pasteur Institute, Paris, during 1902, 

 206 ; New Serum Department of the Jenner Institute, 

 227 ; Action of Human Serum upon Trypanosomes of 

 Nagana, Caderas, and Surra, A. Laveran, 263 ; Action 

 of the Venoms of the Cobra and of Russell's Viper upon 

 the Red Blood Corpuscles, and upon the Blood Plasma, 

 Captain Lamb, 351 ; the Specificity of Anti-Venene for 

 Snake Poisons, Captain Lamb, 395 



Sewage, Bacterial Treatment of, by Different Methods, 

 Cecil Duncan, 278 



Sewage Disposal by Bacterial Treatment, Dangers of the 

 New Method for, 206 



Seward (A. C, F.R.S.), Opening .Address in Section K at 

 the Southport Meeting of the British Association, 556 ; 

 on the Fossil Floras of South Africa, 613 



Sexton (F. R.), Loss of Weight of Musk by Volatilisation, 



548 



Sharp (D., F.R.S.), Coleopterous Insect Embedded in the 

 Wall of the Human Intestine,' 239 



Sharpe (J. W.), Psychophysical Interaction, 77 



Shaw (Frederick G.), Comets and their Tails, and ■ -the 

 Gegenschein Light, 24^ 



Shaw (Dr. W. N., F.R.S.), the Thunderstorm of May 31, 

 247 ; Meteorological Aspects of the Storm of February 

 26-27, 261 ; Opening Address in Section A (sub-section of 

 Astronomy and Meteorology), at the Southport Meeting 

 of the British Association, 468 



Shedden (F.), Electrolytic Reduction of Pheno- and Naphtho- 

 Morpholones, 94 



Sheel (Karl), Determinations of the Coefficient of Thermal 

 Expansion of Fused Quartz, 422 



Shelford (R.), New Case of Protective Mimicry in a Cater- 

 pillar, 187 



Ship, a Treatise on the Electromagnetic Phenomena and 

 the Compass and its Deviations Aboard, Commander 

 T. A. Lvons, 524 



Shipbuilding, the Comparative Merits of Drilling and 

 Punching in Steel for, A. F. Yarrow, 187 



Ships Elementary Manual for the Deviations of the Com- 

 pass in Iron, E. W. Creak, C.B., F.R.S., 148, 199 



Shrubsole (O. -A.), the Probable Source of some of the 

 Pebbles of the Triassic Pebble-beds of South Devon and 

 of the Midland Counties, 23 



Silicon Lines, Wave-lengths of. Prof. Hartmann, 306 



Silk not Isotropic, F. Beaulard, 143 



Simmonds (C), Tests and Reagents, Chemical and Micro- 

 scopical, Known by their .Author's Names, 75 



Simpson (Prof.), Insect Vermin and Plague Bacilli, 603 



Sitter (Dr. W. de). Recently Determined Stellar Parallaxes, ' 



354 

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

 Slator (A.), Chemical Dynamics of the Reactions between^ 



Chlorine and Benzene under the Influence of Different' 



Catalytic Agents and of Light, 94; Behaviour of Chlorine; 



towards Benzene, under Catalytic Agents, 25s 

 Slipher (V. M.), Projection on Mars, 353 ; the Spectro- 



scopic Binary j8 Scorpii, 376; Rotational Velocity of 



Venus, 631 



Small-pox, the 1901-2 Epidemic of, and the Protective 



Power of Infant Vaccination, .Mrs. Garrett .Anderson, 529 



Smedley (.Miss Ida), on Some Derivatives of Fluorene, 6ii 



Smith (A. Cameron), .Apparatus for Determining Latent 



Heats of Evaporation in Electrical Units, 383 

 Smith (Dr. E. F.), Bacterial Diseases Attacking Japanese 



Plum Trees and Sweet Corn, 15 

 Smith (Harlan I.), the Shell-heaps of the Lower Eraser 



River, British Columbia, 232 



Smith (Dr. Longfield), Analysis of .Ash from Soufri^re, 87 



Smith (Dr. R. Greig), a Slime Bacterium from the Peach, 



.Almond, and Cedar, 264 ; Bacterial Origin of the Gums of 



the Arabin Group, 520 



Smithsonian .Astrophysical Observatory, Work at the. Dr. 



S. P. Langley, 22 

 Smithsonian Report on Scientific Work, Dr. S. P. Langley 

 20 ' 



Snake Poison : Action of the Venoms of the Cobra and of 

 Russell's Viper upon the Red-blood Corpuscles and upon 

 the Blood Plasma, Captain Lamb, 351 ; the Specificity of 

 Anti-Venene for. Captain Lamb, 395 

 Snakes: Venom of Russell's Viper (Daboia Russellii), 

 Captam Lamb and .Mr. Hanna, 87; a Little-known 

 Peculiarity of the Hamadryad Snake, Frank E. Beddard, 

 F.R.S., 623 

 Snow (Prof.), Proposed Reconstruction of the Ccelostat 

 Reflecting Telescope of the A^erkes Observatory, as a 

 Memorial to, 13 

 Snow (C. H.), the Principal Species of Wood, 268 

 Snow Crystals, Photographs of, W. .A. Bentlev, 129 

 Social Progress, Heredity and, Simon N. Patten 174 

 Soddy (Frederick), Canadian View of Radio-activitv, 66; 

 Condensation of the Radio-active Emanations of Radium 

 and Thorium by Liquid Air, 184; Gases Occluded by 

 Radium Bromide, 246 ; a Method of Applying the Rays 

 from Radium and Thorium to the Treatment of Consump- 

 tion, 306 ; Experiments in Radio-activity and the Produc- 

 tion of Helium from Radium, at the Royal Society 3^4- 

 Another Theory as to the Nature of the Processes going 

 on in Radio-active Materials, 611 

 Soil, the, an Introduction to the Scientific Study of the 



Growth of Crops, A. D. Hall, 52 

 Sold (J. Comas), the White Spots on Saturn, 425 

 Sold (Rev. Marcial), Violent Earthquake which' Originated 



near Manila, 235 

 Solar Energy, Radium and. Dr. W. E. Wilson, F.R.S. 222 

 Solar and Meteorological Cycle of Thirty-five A'ears ' the 

 Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 8 " ' ' 



-Solar Parallax, New Value for the, B. Weinberg, 42 

 Solar Prominences and Corona, on a Probable Relationship 

 between the. Dr. William J. S. Lockyer at Roval Astro^ 

 nomical .Society, 257 

 Solar Radiations', Penetrative, R. Blondlot, 233 

 Solar Spectrum, Origin of th*e H and K Lines of the Prof 



J. Trowbridge, 89 

 Sollas (Prof. W. J., F.R.S. ), Method for the Rapid Deter- 

 mination of the Specific Gravity of Blood, 1S4 ; Method 

 for Investigation of Fossils bv Serial Sections, 2^7 

 Solomon (Maurice), the Lodge-Muirhead System of Wire- 

 less Teleqrraphy, 247 ; the Berlin Conference on Wireless 

 Telegraphy, 437 

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

 South .African Association, the, 59 

 South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 211 

 South Polar Cap of Mars, the. Prof. Barnard, 138 

 Southport .Meeting of the British Association, 344, 368 390 

 Southport, Forthcoming Meeting of the British .Association 



at, F. A. Cheetham, 224; see British Association 

 .Sowers (Dr. Z. T.), Radium and Cancer. 320 

 Sowter (R. J.), Dimensions of Physical Quantities 2^ 

 Spark, Photograph of Oscillatory Electric, C. J.'vVatson 



o ^^ 



Spectrum Analysis : the Occurrence of Spark Lines in Arc 

 Spectra, J. Hartmann and G. Eberhard. 17; Gaseous 

 Composition of the H and K Lines of the Spectrum. John 

 Trowbridge, 46; Spectrum of Pilocarpine Nitrate, W. N. 

 Hartley, 46 ; Direct Vision Spectroscope, T. H. Blakesley 

 71 : Origin of the H and K Lines of the Solar Spectrum.' 

 Prof. J. Trowbridge, 89; the Relationships between Arc 



