Nature, 1 

 December lo, 1903J 



Index 



(A.), Elastic Radial Deformations in the Rims and 

 rms of Flywheels, 640 



[TS (Charles Vernon, F.R.S.), the American Tariff and 

 le St. Louis Exhibition, 320 ; Opening Address in Section 

 at the Southport Meeting of the British Association, 447 

 its' Schools, Botany in, H. J. Glover, 1^48 

 ibrook (Edward W., C.B., F.S.A., V.P.S.S.). Opening | 

 Address in Section F at the Southport Meeting of the 

 British Association, 534 | 



chin (M.), on Acetones Containing Acetylene Linkages, 

 a New. Synthesis of the Pyrazols, 120 

 Bradbury (R. H.), Elementary Chemistry, 125 

 Bransom (F. W.), Experiments with a Alixture of Radium 

 and Barium Chlorides in a Dry and in a Moist State, 302 

 Breeding, the Physiology of, Francis H. A. Marshall, 429 

 Brenans (P.), a New Diiodophenol, 48 

 Brenner (Leo), the Rotation of Saturn, 554 

 Hrereton (Cloudesley), Thirty Years of University Edu- 

 cation in France, 323 

 Brereton (C. A.), on the New King Edward VIL Bridge 



over the River Thames at Kew, 633 

 Bretzl (Dr. H.), Botanische F"orschungen des Alexander- 



zuges, 292 

 Hreuil (Abb6 H.), Drawings on the Walls of the Cave of 



.■Mtamira, 216 

 Brewster, Smith, and Co. (Messrs.), Improved Form of a 

 Double Surface Condenser, 606 ; New Bunsen Burner and 

 Midget Furnace, 606 

 British .Academy, The, 204 



British Association : Forthcoming Meeting at Southport, 

 224, 344, 368, 390; F. H. Cheetham, 224; Geology of 

 the Southport District, Harold Brodrick, 225 ; Botany 

 of the Southport District, Henrv Ball, 226 ; Zoology of 

 the Southport District, Isaac C. Thompson, 226 ; Archae- 

 ology of Southport District, 226 ; Sectional Arrangements, 

 368' 

 British Association : Meeting at Southport, 438, 467, 499 ; 

 Inaugural Address by Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., Correspondent de I'lnstitut de France, 

 President of the Section, 439 



Section A {Mathematics and Physics). — Opening Address 

 by Charles Vernon Boys, F.R.S., President of the Sec- 

 tion, 447; Physics at the British .Association, Dr. C. H. 

 Lees, 609 ; on the Introduction of Vectorial Methods 

 into Physics, Prof. Henrici, 609 ; Sir Oliver Lodge, 610; 

 Dr. Sumpner, 610 ; Prof. Larmor, 610; Prof. Boltzi- 

 mann, 610; on the Treatment of Irreversible Processes 

 in Thermodynamics, Mr. Swinburne, 610 ; Prof. Perry, 

 610; Prof. Larmor, 610; on the Nature of the Eman- 

 ations from Radio-active Substances, Prof. Rutherford, 

 610; Sir Oliver Lodge, 611 ; Another Theory as to the 

 Nature of the Processes Going on in Radio-active 

 Materials, Lord Kelvin, 611 ; Prof. Armstrong, 611 ; 

 Mr. Soddy, 611; Experiments on the Effects of Low 

 Temperature on the Properties and Spectrum of 

 Radium, Prof. Dewar and Sir W. Crookes, 611; Prof. 

 Schuster, 611 ; Prof. Larmor, 611 ; Mr. Whetham, 611 ; 

 Dr. Lowry, 611 

 Section A {Sub-section of Astronomy and Meteorology). — 

 Opening Address by W. N. Shaw, Sc.D., F.R.S., 

 Chairman of the Sub-section, " Methods of Meteor- 

 ological Investigation," 468 

 Section B {Chemistry). — Opening .Address bv Prof. W. N. 

 ■ Hartley, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., President of the 



Section, Absorption Spectra, 472 ; the Application of 

 Low Temperatures to the Study of Biological Problems, 

 Dr. Allan Macfadyen, 608 ; Apparatus for Determining 

 Latent Heats of Evaporation, Prof. J. Campbell Brown, 

 611 ; on Some Derivatives of Fluorene, Miss Ida Smed- 

 ley, 611; on the .Action of Diastase on the Starch 

 Granules of Raw and Malted Barley, A. R. Ling, 611 ; 

 on the Action of Malt Diastase on Potato Starch Paste, 

 A. R. Ling and B. F. Davis, 611 ; the Chemical and 

 Physical Characteristics of the So-called Mad-stone, 

 Dr". H. C. White, 611 ; on the Reduction of Nitrates 

 by Sewage, Prof. E. A. Letts. R. F. Blake and J. S. 

 Totton, 611 ; Method for the Separation of Cobalt from 

 Nickel and for the Volumetric Determination of Cobalt, 

 R. L. Taylor, 611 ; Description of the More Recent 

 Results Obtained from Investigations at Low Tempera- 



tures, Prof. J. Dewar, F.R.S., 611 ; on the Cause of the 

 Lustre Produced on Mercerising Cotton under Tension, 

 J. HiJbner and Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S., 611 ; on the 

 Theory of Dyeing, Prof. G. von Georgievics, 612 ; on 

 the Slow Combustion of Methane and Ethane, Dr. 

 W. A. Bone, 612 ; Preliminary Note on Some Electric 

 Furnace Reactions under High Gaseous Pressures, 

 J. E. Petavel and R. S. Hutton, 612 ; on the Atomic 

 Latent Heats of Fusion of the Metals Considered from 

 the Kinetic Standpoint, H. Crompton, 612 ; the Methyl- 

 ation of Cane-sugar and Maltose, Prof. Purdie, P.R.S., 

 and Dr. J. C. Irvine, 612 

 Section C {Geology).— Opening Address by Prof. W. W. 

 Watts, M.A., M.Sc, President of the Section, 481 ; 

 Geology of the Southport District, Harold Brodrick, 

 225; Geology of the Country Around Southport, J. 

 Lomas, 612 ;' Martin Mere, Harold Brodrick, 612 ; on 

 the Land Gaining on the Sea at Southport, J. Lomas, 

 612 ; on a Raised Beach in County Cork, Messrs. Muff 

 and Wright, 612 ; on a Raised Beach at Sewerby, Mr. 

 Lamplugh, 612 ; Raised Beaches, Clement Reid, 612 ; 

 the Relations of an Estuarine Deposit at Kirmington 

 in Lincolnshire to the Glacial Drift, 612 ; Report of 

 the Committee on Irish Caves, 613 ; Implements Mainly 

 Palaeolithic from the District Between Reading and 

 Maidenhead, Llewellyn Treacher, 613 ; on the Lakes of 

 the Upper Engadine, Andr^ Delebecque, 613 ; Origin 

 of Rock Basins, .Andri^ Delebecque, 613 ; Mr. Marr, 613 ; 

 Mr. Lamplugh, 613; Clement Reid, 613; on Dedolo- 

 mitisation, Mr. Teall, 613 ; on the Disturbances of 

 Junction Beds from Differential Shrinkage and Similar 

 Local Causes, G. W. Lamplugh, 613 ; on the Dis- 

 tinction between Intrusive and Contemporaneous 

 Igneous Rocks, W. S. Boulton, 613; T. H. Cope, 613; 

 J. Lomas, 613 ; on the Origin of Eruptive Rocks, J. G. 

 Goodchild, 613 ; on the Fossil Floras of South Africa, 

 A. C. Seward, 613 ; on Some Fragments of Bone from 

 Brazil, Dr. Smith Woodward, 613 ; on the Discovery of 

 Fossils Round the South-west and North-west Flanks 

 of Snowdon, W. G. Fearnsides, 613 



Section D {Zoology).— Opening Address by Prof. Sydney J. 

 Hickson, M. A., D.Sc, F.R.S. , President of the Section, 

 452 ; Zoology of the Southport District, Isaac C. 

 Thompson, 226 ; West Indian Corals, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 

 614 ; Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean, Prof. Herdman, 

 614 ; on the .Assimilation and Distribution of Nutriment 

 in .Alcyonium digitatum, Miss Pratt, 614 ; Eggs of the 

 Shannv, Dr. Rennie, 614: Dredging Expedition, 614 



Section E {Geographv).—Opening Address by Captain 

 Ettrick W. Creak, C.B., R.N., F.R.S., President of the 

 Section, Terrestrial Magnetism in its Relation to 

 Geography, 500 ; on the Effect of Ice Melting on Oceanic 

 Circulation, Prof. Pettersson, 632 ; a Problem in Applied 

 Geography, E. D. Morel, 633 ; on the History of Geo- 

 graphy, E. Heawood, 633 ; Geographical Education, 

 H. J.'Mackinder, 633 



Section F {Economic Science and Stattsttcs).— Opening 

 Address bv Edward W. Brabrook, C.B., F.S.A., 

 V.P.S.S., President of the Section, 534 



Section G {En siineering). —Opening Address by Charles 

 Hawksley, Past President Inst.C.E., President of the 

 Section, 504; on the New King Edward VIL Bridge 

 over the River Thames at Kew, C. A. Brereton, 633 ; 

 Illustrations of Graphical Analysis, J. Harrison, 633; 

 on the New Manchester Municipal Technical Institute, 

 Principal J. H. Reynolds, 634; on Improvements m 

 Locomobile Design, t. Clarkson, 634 ; on the Problem of 

 Modern Street Traffic, Lieut. -Colonel Crompton, 634 : 

 on Protective Devices for High Tension Electrical 

 Systems, W. B. Woodhouse, 634 : on .Aluminium as an 

 Electrical Conductor, J. B. C. Kershaw, 634: Prof. 

 Wilson, 634 ; on Twenty-five Years' Progress m Fmal 

 and Sanitarv Refuse Disposal, W. F. Goodrich, 634; 

 Liquid Fuel', A. M. Bell, 63:; : on the Rate of Fall of 

 Rain at Seathwaite. Dr. H. R. Mill. 635 ; on Natural 

 Gas in Sussex, R. Pearson, 63.S ; on Some Experiments 

 to Determine the Power Wasted by the Windage of Fly- 

 wheel and Dynamo Armatures, W. Odell, 635 ; on 

 Single Phase Repulsion Motors. W. Cramp, 635 



Section H {Anthropologv).— Opening .Address by Prof. 



