Nature, 

 December \o, i9o3_ 



Index 



xlvii 



Velocity of Venus, Rotational, V. M. Slipher, 631 

 Ventilation of Factories and Workshops, First Report of 



the Departmental Committee Appointed to Inquire into 



the, 34O 

 Venus, Rotational Velocity of, V. M. Slipher, 631 

 Vernon (Dr. H. M.), Ergebnisse der Physiologie, 3 

 Verrill (A. E.), the Bermuda Islands, 53 

 Vertebraia, the Germinal Layers of the, A. A. W. Hubrecht, 



341 

 Vienna Academy of Sciences, the, 407 

 Vienna, the Royal University Observatory, 580 

 Vigourcux (Em.), Silicon Amide and Imide, 240 

 Viguier (C), Action of Carbon Dio.\ide on the Eggs of 



Echinoderms, 240 

 \'ila (M.), on the Presence of Cadaverine in the Products 



of the Hydrolysis of Muscle, 120 

 ^ ''Hers (A.), Etherification of Sulphuric Acid, 192 



osity of Pitch-like Solids, Method of Determining the, 

 rof. F. T. Trouton and E. S. Andrews, 190 

 V -ion. Limits of Unaided, Heber D. Curtis, 256 

 \ i>ion. Phenomena of, C. Welborne Piper, 175; Edwin 



Edser, 177 

 \ isual Purple, J. von Kries, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 291 

 \iticulture : Annales de I'lnstitut Central Amp^lologique 



Royal Hongrois, Dr. Istvanffi, 317 

 Vivisection : Experiments on Animals, Stephen Paget, 74 ; 



Return of Experiments on Living Animals During 1902, 



i8i 

 \'ogel (Prof.), Newly Determined Stellar Radial Velocities, 



5'9 

 Voigt (Prof. Dr. W .), Ihermodynamik, 547 

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



548 



Volcanoes : Etude des Ph6nom^nes volcaniques, Tremble- 

 ments de Terre — Eruptions volcaniques — Le Cataclysme 

 de la Martinique, 1902, Frani^ois Miron, 6; Santa Maria 

 X'olcano in Guatemala in Active Eruption, 12 ; Colima 

 \'olcano in Active Eruption, 64 ; Eruption of Soufri^re 

 on April 22, 66 ; Analysis of Ash from Soufri^re, Prof, 

 d 'Albuquerque and Dr. Longfield Smith, 87 ; Soufri^re 

 Still in .Agitation, Dr. E. O. Hovey, 158 ; xMont Pel^e and 

 the Tragedy of Martinique, Angelo Heilprin, Dr. John 

 S. F"lett, 73; Activity of Mont Pel^e, 108; the Ascending 

 Obelisk of Mont Pel^e, Prof. Angelo Heilprin, 530 ; 

 Bishop 'a Circle and the Eruptions at Martinique, F. A. 

 Forel. 384, 396; the New Bishop's Ring, Dr. A. Lawrence 

 Rotch, 623 ; an Ancient Lava Plug like that of Mont 

 Pel^e, Sir Richard Strachey, F.R.S., 573 ; Eruption of 

 Mount Hekla, 108 ; Flow of Lava from Mount Vesuvius, 

 July 22, 302 ; Vesuvius in Eruption, 372, 394, 420, 603 ; 

 Eruption of the Waimangu Geyser, New Zealand, 420 ; 

 Subaqueous Volcanic Regions, Prof. Krebs, 588 



\'olta (Prof. Alessandro), an Unpublished Manuscript of 

 ^'olta, 552 



\oth (H. R.), the Mishongnovi Cefemonies of the Snake 

 and Antelope Fraternities, 11 1 



Vurpas (CI.), Essai sur la Psycho-physiologie des Monstres 

 Humains., ^70 



Wadsworth (Prof. F. L. O.), Effects of Absorption on the 



Resolving Power of Spectroscopes, 376 ; the Allegheny 



Observatory, 398 

 Wahl (.A.), Preparation of Alkyl Nitrates and Nitrites, 216; 



on the Iscnitrosomalonic Ethers and their Conversion into 



Mesoxalic Ethers, 312 

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

 Walker (Alfred O.), Peculiar Clouds, 416 

 Walker (George W.), Theory of Refraction in Gases, 167 ; 



the Broadening of Spectral Lines, 554 

 Walker (Dr. T. L.), Geology of Kalahandi State, 136 

 Wallach (Prof.), Optical Isomerism, 587 

 Waller (Dr.), the " Blaze " Currents in Animal and \'ege- 



table Tissues, 238 ; Two .Methods for the Quantitative 



Estimation of Chloroform Vapour in Air, 238 ; Effect of 



Light on Green Leaves, 238 

 Wallis (E. White), Congress of the Sanitary Institute, 309 

 Ward (H. .A.), the Bath Furnace Meteorite,' 46 

 Warman (John W.), the Hvdraulic Organ of the Ancients, 



1S4 



Warren (A. T.), Experimental and Theoretical Course of 



Geometry, 147 

 Washington, Forestry in the State of, Henry Gannett, 406 

 Wassers, Das Gesetz der Translation des, T. Christen, 246 

 Water : Radio-active Gas from Tap-water, Prof. Thomson, 

 F.R.S., at the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 90; the 

 Danger of Faulty Connections in Filters, 382 ; Sanitary 

 Examination of Water Supplies, Dr. Arthur R. Reynolds, 

 Prof. R. T; Hewlett, 420 

 \\'aterhouse (G. B.), Influence of Sulphur and Manganese 



on .Steel, 44 

 Waterworks, Tree Plantations on the Gathering Grounds 



of, 66 

 Watkinson (Prof. W. H.), Some New Features of Super- 

 heaters, 209 

 Watson (C. J.), Photograph of Oscillatory Electric Spark, 56 

 Watson (Dr.), Construction and Attachment of Galvano- 

 meter Mirrors, 72 

 Watson (W.), New Form of Museum Microscope, 142 

 Watt (D. A.), the Improvement of Rivers, a Treatise on 

 the Methods Employed for Improving Streams for Open 

 Navigation bv Means of Locks and Dams, 361 

 Watts (Prof. W. W., M.A., M.Sc), a Buried Triassic 

 Landscape, 332 ; Opening .Address in Section C at the 

 Southport Meeting of the British Association, 481 

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

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

 Webster (F. .M.), the " Diffusion " of Insects in North 



.America, 136 

 Webster (Ralph W.), a Laboratory Manual of Physiological 



Chemistry, 594 

 Wedekind (E.), Colloid Zirconium, 211 

 Wedekind (Dr.), Analogy between Asymmetric Carbon and 



Nitrogen in Regard to Optical Rotation, 630 

 Weed (Clarence Moores), a Laboratory Guide for B^inners 



in Zoology, 319 

 Weed (W. H.), Copper Deposits of New Jersey, 109 

 Weigelt (G.), the .Auto-purification of Waters, 210 

 Weights and Measures : Comit^ international des Poids et 



Mesures, 525 

 Weinberg (B.), New Value for the Solar Parallax, 42 

 Weinberg (R.), the Brain of Anchilophus desmaresti, 254 

 Weldon (Prof. W. F. R., F.R.S.), Mendel's Principles of 



Heredity in Mice, 34 

 Wells (R. C), Standard Points on the Temperature Scale, 



no 

 Wells (R. T.), Electrical Problems for Engineering Students, 



52 

 Wertheimer (Prof. J.), Higher Technical Education in 



Great Britain and Germany, Dr. F. Rose, 274 

 Wesch^ (Mr.), Labial and Maxillary Palpi in Diptera, 95 

 West (Prof. G. S.), Fresh-water Rhizopods, 95 ; Scottish 



F"resh-water Plankton, 262 

 West (W.), Scottish F'resh-water Plankton, 262 

 Westell (W. Perciyal), Country Rambles, a F"ield 



Naturalist's and Country Lover's Note Book for a Year, 



149 

 Weston Galvanic Cell, Behaviour of the, 66 

 Whetham (W. C. D.), a Treatise on the Theory of Solution, 



Including the Phenomena of Electrolysis, 197 ; the Theory 



of Electrolysis, 288 

 Whetham (Mr.), E.xperiments on the Effects of Low 



Temperature on the Properties and Spectrum of Radium, 



611 

 White (Dr. H. C), the Chemical and Physical Character- 

 istics of ^he So-called Mad-stone, 611 

 White (Sir William H., K.C.B., F.R.S.), Elected President 



of Institute of Civil Engineers, 12 

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



W. F. Denning, 247 

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

 Whiteaves (Dr. J. F.), Fossils from the Cretaceous Rocks 



of Vancouver, 490 

 Whitehouse (Commander, R.N.), Discoveries of Gold Along 



Lake Victoria, 136 

 Whittaker (E. T.), Some Present Aims and Prospects of 



Mathematical Research, Address at University College 



Mathematical Society, 259 

 Whittles (Mr.), Infection of the Mouth and Subcutaneous 



Tissues by a Parasitic Nematode Worm, 278 

 Wiglesvvorth (J.), St. Kilda and its Birds, 268 



