Index 



[Nature, 

 December lo, 1903 



Johnson Symington, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., President 

 of the Section, the Relations between Brain and Skull 

 and the Problems which Result, 539 ; on the Skulls from 

 Round Barrows in East Yorkshire, Dr. \Vm. Wright, 

 635 ; on the Physical Anthropology of Crete and Greece, 

 W. L. H. Duckworth, 635 ; on the Pads and Papillary 

 Ridges on the Palrn of the Hand, Dr. E. J. Evatt, 635 ; 

 on Skulls from the Malay Peninsula, N. Annandale, 

 635 ; Report of the Committee Appointed to Organise 

 Anthropometric Research, 635 ; Researches on the 

 Psychology and Sociology of the Todas, Dr. W. H. R. 

 Rivers, 636 ; on the Ritual of the Toda Dairy, Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, 636; on the Rapid Evolution of the 

 Jamaica Black, Miss Pullen Burry, 636 ; on the Pro- 

 gress of Islam in India, W. Crooke, 636 ; on the 

 Ethnology of Early Italy and its Linguistic Relations 

 with that of Britain, Prof. R. S. Conway, 636 ; on the 

 Survival of Skin-covered Canoes in N.W. Europe, 

 D. MacRitchie, 636 ; Collection of Survivals of Primi- 

 tive Implements in the Faeroes and Iceland, Mr. 

 Annandale, 636 ; on the Megalithic Monument of Cold- 

 rum in Kent, G. Clinch, 636 ; Suggestive Theory of the 

 Origin of Jewellery, Prof. W. Ridgeway, 636 ; on the 

 Origin of the Brooch, E. Lovett, 637 ; Celtic Crosses, 

 Miss Bulley, 637 ; Egyptian Burial Customs, John 

 Garstang, 637 ; on the Antiquities of Kharga in the 

 Great Oasis, Dr. C. S. Myers, 637 ; the Beginning of 

 the Egyptian Kingdom and the Temple of Abydos, 

 Prof. Flinders Petrie, 637; on the Latest Discoveries in 

 the Palace of Knossos, Dr. Arthur Evans, 637 ; on the 

 Excavation of a pre-Mycenaen Town, Messrs. Bosanquet 

 and Myers, 637 ; Excavations at Caerwent in Mon- 

 mouthshire (1899-1903), T. Ashby, jun., 637; the 

 Roman Fortress Bremettenacum (Ribchester), John 

 Garstang, 638 

 Section K {Botany). — opening Address by A. C. Seward, 

 F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College, late 

 Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Lecturer on 

 Botany in the University, President of the Section, 

 Floras of the Past : their Composition and Distribution, 

 556 ; Botany of the Southport District, Henry Ball, 226 

 Section L (Educational Science). — Opening Address by 

 Sir William de W. Abney, K.C.B., D.C.L., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., President of the Section, 581 

 British Association, Papers and Procedure at the, Dr. Henry 



O. Forbes, 622 

 British Birds in their Haunts, Sketches of. Open-air Studies 



in Bird Life, C. Dixon, 52 

 British Medical Association, Swansea Meeting, 346 

 British Medical Journal : a Method of Applying the Rays 

 from Radium and Thorium to the Treatment of Con- 

 sumption, Frederick Soddy, 306 

 British Museum (Natural History), Catalogue of Books, 



Manuscripts, Maps, and Drawings in the, 596 

 British New Guinea, Ethnological Expedition to, 256 

 British Rainfall, 1902, 366 

 Britton (N. L.), American Botanic Laboratory in Jamaica, 



415 

 Brochet (Andr^), Electrolysis of Alkaline Sulphides, 95 ; 

 Electrolysis of the Sulphides of the Alkaline Earths, 96 ; 

 the Electrolysis of Barium Sulphide with a Diaphragm, 

 119 

 Brodrick (Harold), Geology of the Southport District, 225 ; 



Martin Mere, 612 

 Brooks's Comet, Return of, Prof. Aitken, 398 

 Brough (Prof. J.), the Study of Mental Science, 197 

 Brown (John Allen), Death of, 529 

 Brown (Prof. J. Campbell), Apparatus for Determining 



Latent Heats of Evaporation, 611 

 Bruce (Lieut. -Colonel, F.R.S.), Sleeping Sickness, 517 

 Bruckner's Cycle, our Rainfall in Relation to, Alex. B. 



MacDowall, 56 

 Bruckner's Cycle, our Winters in Relation to, .Mex. B. 



MacDowall, 600 

 Brunei (Henry M.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 577 

 Brunei (Leon), Action of Ammonia on the Compound of 



Oxide of Ethylene and /3-o-cvclohexanediol, 312 

 Briinnich (J. C), Hydrogen Cyanide in Fodder Plants, 117 

 Brussels and Tervueren Museums, the, .^7=; 

 Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.). Reform in School Geometry, 

 7; Obituary Notice of Prof. C. A. Bjerknes, 133; Vorle- 



sungen iiber hydrodynamische Fernkrafte nach C. A. 



Bjerknes' Theorie, V. Bjerknes, 172 ; Photographs of the 



Paths of Aerial Gliders, 184 ; Uniformity in Science 



Literature, 598 ; the Sub-Mechanics of the Universe, 



Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 600 

 Brzeziiiski (J.), Canker-areas on Trees Due to Bacteria, 518 

 Buchanan (H. B. M.), a Country Reader, 246; Lessons on 



Country Life, 496 

 Buchanan (J. Y., F.R.S.), Effect Produced by the Momentary 



Relief of Great Pressure, 184, 334 

 Buchner (Eduard and Hans), Die Zymasegarung Unter- 



suchungen iiber den Inhalt der Hefezellen und die bio- 



logische Seite des Garungsproblems, 385 1 



Budgett (J. S.), the Development of Polypterus, 516 

 Building Superintendence, T. M. Clark, 414 

 Buisine (A.), Application of the Reaction to the Estimation 



of Glycerol, 48 ; Estimation of Glycerol, 96 

 Bull (Mr.), Experiments in Testing Milk, 358 

 Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 94 

 Bulley (Miss), Celtic Crosses, 637 



Bulstrode (Dr. Timbrell), Alleged Oysterborne Illness fol- 

 lowing the Mayoral Banquets at Winchester and at 



Southampton, 303 

 Buluwayo, the New Observatory for, 305 

 Bunte (H.), the Luminous Metals, 210 

 Burdon-Sanderson (Sir J., Bart., F.R.S.), Hermann von 



Helmholtz, Leo Koenigsberger, 193 

 Burns (O.), Colloids of Paper, &'c., 211 

 Burry (Miss Pullen), on the Rapid Evolution of the Jamaica 



Black, 636 

 Busse (Ludwig), Geist und Korper, Seele und Leib, 98 

 Bussy (M. de). Death of, 12 

 Butschli (O.), Untersuchungen uber Amylose und Amylose- 



a/tige Korper, 495 ^ „ c- 



Butterflies : Mimicry between, Roland Triman, F.R.S., 



615 ; Homoeochromatism in European Butterflies, Dr. 



T. A. Chapman, 615 



Cables, Submarine, Gutta-percha, Suitable for Cable Pur- 

 poses in New Guinea, Herr Schlechter, 516 



Cagni (Captain Umberto), Magnetic Observations in the 

 Bav of Teplitz, 397 



Cain' (J. C), on Dianisidine and 3 : 3'-Dichlorobenzidine, 



94 



Caldecott (W. A.), the Cyanide Process, 165 



Calendars and Constellations, Ancient, Hon. Emmeline M. 

 Plunket, 593 



Calostoma, Distribution of, Kumagusu Minakata, 296, 

 George Massee, 296 



Cambridge : Cambridge Philosophical Society, 90, 142, 239 ; 

 Lecture at the. Radio-active Gas from Tap-water, Prof. 

 Thomson, F.R.S., 90; Mathematical Reform at Cam- 

 bridge, 178; Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological 

 Expedition to Torres Straits, W. H. P. Rivers, C. G. 

 Seligmann, C. S. Mvers and W. McDougall, 409 : Dr. 

 A. C. Haddon, 409 ; the Psychological Society at Cam- 

 bridge, the Teaching of Psvchology in the Universities 

 of the United States, Dr. C. S. Myers. 425 ; the New Cam- 

 bridge Curriculum in Economics, Alfred Marshall, 524 ; 

 Cambridge in the Old World and in the New, Dr. C. S. 

 Myers, 572 



Camera for Naturalists, a, 140 



Camera, Photomicrography with a Brownie, W^ Moss, 234 



Cameron (Dr. John), the Origin of the Pineal Body Deduced 

 from the Studv of its Development in Amphibia, 383 



Cameron (W. E'.), Kangaroo Hills Mineral Field, 182 ; the 

 Ravenswood Gold Field, Queensland, 579 



Campagne (Em.), the Estimation of Vanadium in Metal- 

 lurgical Products, 616 



Campbell (Prof. E. D.), Experiments on the Diffusion of 

 Sulphides throueh Steel, 462 



Campbell (Dr. William), Heat Treatment of Steel, 463 



Canals on Mars, the, E. M. .\ntoniadi, 461 



Cancer : Occurrence of, in Various Countries, 86 : Radium 

 Rays in the Treatment of, Prof. Gussenbauer. 254 : 

 Radium and Cancer, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, 320 ; 

 Dr. Z. T. Sowers, 320 



Cannon (Miss A. J.), 'a Provisional Catalogue of Variable 

 Stars, 401 



Cantone (Prof. M.), Elastic Constants of a Substance not 

 Affected by Surrounding Medium, 552 



