Nature, 



December lo, 1903 



INDEX 



)i's (J. E.), Conditions of Oxidation of Salicylic Alde- 

 tde by Organs and Extracts of Organs, 216 



ation of the Eye, Spherical, W. L., 8; Edwin Edser, 



W. Betz, 8 



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



|R.S.), the Advancement of Photography, Lecture at 



Royal Photographic Society, 89 ; Opening Address in 



:tion L at the Southport Meeting of the British 



sociation, 581 



izzi (H.R.H. Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the), on 

 ie Polar Star in the Arctic Sea, 79 

 idenxy, the British, 204 

 Accidents in Factories, Prevention of, E. Magrini, G. H. 



Baillie, 219 

 Ackroyd (William), Radium and its Position in Nature, 66 ; 

 a New Case of Phosphorescence Induced by Radiuiu 

 Bromide, 269 

 Acoustics : Experimental Phonetics, Prof. E. W. Scripture, 



397 

 Action of Live Things in Mechanics, Sir Oliver Lodge, 



F.R.S., 31 

 Adams (A.), a Mite whose Eggs Survive the Boiling Point, 



437 



Adie (R. H.), on Bismuth, 239 



Aeronautics : Notable Performance of Lebaudy's Balloon, 

 ('<5 : the Lebaudy Balloon, 253 ; International Scientific 

 Balloon Ascents on March 5, 85; on April 2, 109; on 

 May 7, 206 ; on June 4, 278 ; Spontaneous Combustion 

 I if Balloons, W. de Fonvielle, 95 ; Balloon belonging to 

 < ierman Aeronautical Society Crosses the Baltic, M. de 

 Fonvielle, 135 ; Scientific Kite Flying, W. H. Dines, 154 ; 

 the Kite Competition of the Aeronautical Society, 200 ; 

 Dr. Graham Bell's Tetrahedral Cell Kites, 347; Kite- 

 flying Competition at Alexandra Palace, 551 ; Santos- 

 Dumont's Experiments, 206; Prof. Langley's i2-foot 

 Aerodrome Tested, 421 ; Prof. Langley's Aerodrome, 577; 

 Balloon Ascent on September 26, M. de la Vaulx, 529 ; 

 Latest Experiments in Aerial Gliding, Wilbur Wright, 

 552 



^ther, a New Mechanical Theory of the, Osborne Reynolds, 

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



Africa : Death and Obituary Notice of Paul du Chaillu, 13 ; 

 Native Food Resources of German East Africa, 15 ; the 

 Tanganyika Problem, an Account of the Researches 

 L'ndertaken Concerning the Existence of Marine Animals 

 in Central Africa, J. E. S. Moore, 56; the South African 

 Association, 59, 165 ; Discoveries of Gold along Lake 

 \ictoria. Commander Whitehouse, R.N., 136; Entom- 

 ology at the Cape, Mr. Lounsbery, 140 ; Meteorological 

 Observations at the Abbassia Observatory during 1900, 

 181 ; Trypanosomatous Epidemic among Domesticated 

 Animals in Mauritius, D. Edington, 181 ; Trypanosoma 

 Disp.'ise in Upper Gambia, Drs. Dutton and Todd, 254 ; 

 Wet and Dry Season Forms of Rhodesian Butterflies, 

 tiuy A. K. Marshall, 185 ; Experiments upon the Rate of 

 Evaporation, J. R. Sutton, 232 ; les Richesses Min^rales 

 <|p I'Afrique, L. de Launay, 313; Irrigation in South 

 Africa, Sir Charles Metcalfe. 40-; ; Forestry of Africa, 

 I). E. Hutchins, 405; News of Major Powell-Cotton, 458; 

 Ill-health of the Rand Miners, 527; the Okapi, Herr 

 Hesse, 605 



Agamennone (Dr. G.), Earthquake on June 29, 1896, in 

 Cyprus, 235 

 riculture: Le Froment et sa Mouture, Prof. Girard and 



M. Lindet, William Jago, i ; Agricultural Geology, J. E. 

 Marr, 29 ; the Principles of Animal Nutrition with Special 

 Reference to the Nutrition of Farm Animals, Henry 

 Prentiss Armsby, 30 ; Methods of Reclaiming Alkali 

 Lands, 41 ; the Soil : an Introduction to the Scientific 

 Study of the Growth of Crops, A. D. Hall, 52 ; Yield ot 

 Corn in the West Indies, 87 ; Agriculture in the West 

 Indies, Ground Nuts, W. G. Freeman, 490; Con- 

 siderazioni Agrarie sul Piano di Capitanata, Dr. Nestore 

 Petrilli, 100; a National Diploma in Agriculture, 155; 

 the Potato in Germany, 304 ; Agricultural Notes, 357, 

 427 ; some Injurious Flea-beetles, Mr. Theobald, 357 ; 

 Manurial Experiments on the Hop, Principal Hall, 357 ; 

 Manures in Use in Egypt, E. P. Foaden, 358 ; E.xperi- 

 ments in Testing Milk, Messrs. Dymond and Bull, 358 ; 

 Scientific Poultry Raising in Ohio, 358 ; Mechanical 

 Analysis of Soils, Th. Schloesing, sen., 384 ; ficonomie 

 rurale, E. Jouzier, 388 ; Mongooses in Barbados, 423; 

 the Dalmeny Experiment Station, 427 ; the Composition 

 of the Swedish Turnip, S. H. Collins, 427; the Mango in 

 Porto Rico, 428; Report on Field Experiments in Vic- 

 toria, 1887-1900, A. N. Pearson, 467 ; Surface Geology of 

 Cheshire in its Relation to Agriculture, William Edwards, 

 579 ; the Experiment Station Record, 621 ; the Fixation of 

 Atmospheric Nitrogen, Dr. Frank, 630 

 Aitken (Prof.), the System of e Hydrae, 305 ; Borrelly's 



Comet (1903 c), 353 ; Return of Brooks's Comet, 398 

 Albarran (J.), Comparative Phvsiologv of the Two Kidnevs, 



96 

 Albinism, Heredity of, Messrs. Castle and Allen, 136 

 Albumins, the Chemistry of the. Dr. Arthur Harden, 307 

 Albuquerque (Prof, d'). Analysis of Ash from Soufri^re, 87 

 Alcock (Dr. N. H.), Method of Determining the Tem- 

 perature-limits of Nerve Activity in Warm-blooded and 

 Cold-blooded Animals, 238 

 Alcoholic Fermentation : Die Zymasegarung Untersuch- 

 ungen iiber den Inhalt der Hefezellen und die biologische 

 Seite des Garungsproblems, Eduard Buchner, Hans 

 Buchner, and Martin Hahn, Dr. Arthur. Croft Hill, 385 

 Alexander (Prof. T.), Elementary Applied Mechanics, 29 

 Alexanderzuges, Botanische Forschungen des. Dr. H. Bretzl, 



292 

 Algeria : Monographie des Cvnipides d 'Europe et d'.\lg6rie, 



rAbb6 J. J. Kieffer, 221 

 Algol Variable, a Remarkable, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 42 

 Alison (John). Arithmetic for Schools and Colleges, 547 

 Allchin (Dr. W. H.), Radio-activity and the Constitution of 



Matter and its Bearing on Biological Processes, 603 

 Allegheny Observatory, the, Prof. F. L. O. Wadsworth, 398 

 .\llen (H. S.), a Regulating or Recording Thermometer, 



69 ; Radio-active Gas from Bath Mineral Waters, 343 

 Allen (.Mr.), Heredity of Albinism, 136 

 Allied Colonial Universities Conference, the, 250 

 Aloy (J.), Conditions of Oxidation of Salicylic Aldehyde by 

 Organs and Extracts of Organs, 216; Thiosulphuric Acid, 

 263 

 Alpine Flora, D. J. Hoffman, 175 

 Alps, Tectonics of the Eastern, Dr. Maria Ogilvie-Gordon, 



413 

 Alternate, la Tecnica delle Correnti, G. Sartori, 221 

 Aluminium-Industrie, die, Dr. F. Wintelen, 293 

 .Amann (M.). Visibility of the Eclipsed Lunar Disc during 



the Second Half of the Eclipse of April 11-12, 96 

 Ambron (Prof.), Comet 1903 c, 255 



