

Index 



XXXV 



Refractor, the New Twin, at Potsdam, 479 

 Refuse-destruction and Steam -raising, C. N. Russell, 185 

 " 'i (Dr. L.), Symmetry and Asymmetry in Animals, 186 

 i (Clement), Geology of Country round Dorchester, 113 

 1 (Sir Wemyss), Alemoirs and Correspondence of Lyon 

 I'layfair, First Lord Playfair of St. Andrews, LL.D., F.R.S., 



121 



Reid (W. P.), Velvril, 59 



inders (Dr. W.), Mixture Crystals of Hgig with HgBrj, 

 1 



igion : Books on Egypt and Chaldea, Egyptian Ideas of the 

 Future Life ; Egyptian Magic, E. A. Wallis Budge, Frank 

 Rede Fowke, 437 ; Babylonian Religion and Mythology, 

 L. W. King, Frank Rede Fowke, 437 

 qiiary, the, and Illustrated Archnsologist, 6 

 ird (A. F.), Notions de Mineralogie, 610 

 uilt (B.), New Bacteria in Coal, 508 



lie (Major S. J.), Snake Bite Cured by Calmette's Anti- 

 nene, 85 



lesentation of the University of London, 275 

 iles : a Complete Mosasaur's Skeleton and a Skeleton of 

 ijilodocus, H. F. Osborn, 534 

 i\c:scarch, the Indian University of, 260 

 Resistance of the Air, the, 248 ; Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 



107, 248 

 Resonance, an Interesting Case of, Kenneth McMurtrie, 445 

 Respiration, Exercise and, Dr. A. Foxwell, 39 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf : 



The Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod : its 



History, Method, Utility and Practice, B. Tompkins, C.jV. 



Boys, F.R.S., I 

 Geschichte der Physikalischen Experimentierkunst, Dr. E. 



Gerland und Dr. F. Traumiiller, 4 

 The Diseases of Children, G. Elder and J. S. Fowler, 5 

 Analyses Electrolytiques, Ad. Minet, 5 

 Essais des Huiles Essentielles, Henri Labbe, 5 

 Chemistry for Organised Schools of Science, S. Parrish, 5 

 Natural and Artificial Methods of Ventilation, 6 

 Man, the Microcosm, Part I., the Nature of Man, Leonard 



Hall, 6 

 The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 6 

 The Silurian Rocks of Britain, B.- N. Peach, -F.R.S., and 



J. Home, 25 

 Essai Critique sur I'Hypothese des Atomes dans la Science 



Contemporaine, Arthur Hannequin, 26 

 1 , laments of Physics, Henry Crew, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 



F.R.S., 27 

 A Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry, Alexander 



Smith, 27 

 Leber den Habitus der Coniferen, Dr. A. H. Burt, 28 

 Beasts : Thumbnail Studies in Pets, Wardlaw Kennedy, 28 

 The Cambridge Natural History. Insects, Part ii., David 



Sharp, W. F. H. Blandford, 49 

 The International Geography, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 

 ^ 50 



fiihrung in die Chimie in leichtfasslicher Form, Prof. 

 T. Lassar-Cohn, 51 



ratory Manual, Experiments to Illustrate the Principles 

 f Chemistry, H. W. Hillyer, 52 

 L'Industrie des Mati^res Colorantes Azoiques, George F. 



Jaubert, 53 

 F.lementary Practical Mathematics, Frank Castle, 53 

 The New Education, Manual Training : Woodwork, Richard 



Wake, 53 

 The Naval Pioneers of Australia, Louis Becke and Walter 



JefTery, 53 

 Arithmetical Exercises in Chemistry, Leonard Dobbin, 53 

 Traite Elementaire de Mecanique Chimique, fondee sur la 



Thermodynamique, P. Duhem, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 



73 

 Seconda Spedizione Bottego. L'Omo. Viaggio d'Esplorazione 



neir Africa Orientaie, L. Vannutelli and C. Citerni, 75 

 Surgery: a Treatise for Students and Practitioners, Thomas 



Pickering Pick, 76 

 Moments of Precise Surveying and Geodesy, Mansfield 



Merriman, Sir C. W. Wilson, K.C.B., F.R.S., 77 

 i:xperiniental Science (Physiography, Section I), R, A. 



(Gregory and A. T. Simmons, 77 

 Tito Nenci. I. Bachi da Seta, 77 



Types of British Animals, F. G. Aflalo, .77 



Marriages of the Deaf in America, Edward Allen Fay, Dr. 



Macleod Yearsley, 97 ^ 

 The Rise and Development of the Liquefaction of Gases, 



Willet L. Hardin, 98 

 La Liquefaction des Gaz et ses Applications, Prof. Julien 



Lefevre, 98 

 Studien zur Geographic, Dr. W. Kobelt, 99 

 The Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines, John Perry, 



F.R.S., 100 

 Practical Plane and Solid Geometry for Advanced Students, 



including Graphic Statics, J. Harrison and G. A. 



Baxandall, loi 

 Grundlinien der maritimen Meteorologie, W. Koppen, loi 

 Inorganic Chemical Preparations, Felix Lengfeld, loi 

 The Utility of Sulphate of Ammonia in Agriculture, James 



Muir, loi 

 Euclid, Books I.-IV., Charles Smith and Sophie Bryant, 102 

 Sylvia in Flowerland, Linda Gardiner, 102 

 Magnetism and Electricity, J. Paley Yorke, 102 

 Field and Folklore, Harry Lowerison, 102 

 Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyon Playfair, First Lord 



Playfair of St. Andrew's, P.C, G.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., 



Wemyss Reid, 121 

 Alaska and the Klondike, Angelo Heilprin, 122 

 Inorganic Chemistry for Advanced Students, Sir Henry E. 



Roscoe, F. R.S., and Arthur Harden, 125 

 Elements of Natural Philosophy, Alfred Earl, 125 

 Elementary Practical Chemistry, A. J. Cooper, 126 

 The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and North Italy, 



Joan Berenice Reynolds, 126 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee's Memoirs, Ascidia, 



Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 126 

 The Story of the Wanderings of Atoms, especially those of 



Carbon, M. M. Pattison Muir, 126 

 General Index, by Robert Newstead, F.E.S., Curator of the 



Grosvenor Museum, Chester, to Annual Reports of 



Observations of Injurious Insects, 1877-1898, Eleanor A. 



Omerod, 126 

 A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds, R. 



Bowdler Sharpe, 126 

 Human Nature : its Principles and the Principles of Physiog- 

 nomy, 127 

 Geschichte der Geologic und Palaontology bis Ende des 19 



Jahrhunderts, Karl Alfred v. Zittel, 145 

 The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying 



Islands, Thomas Kirk, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 146 

 List of the Genera and Species of New Zealand Plants, A. 



Hamilton, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 146 

 Encyclopaedia Biblica, Rev. T. K. Cheyne and J. S. Black, 



148 

 Statistical Methods, with Special Reference to Biological 



Variation, C. B. Davenport, 149 

 Evolution of General Ideas, Prof. Th. Ribot, 149 

 Handbook of Optics for Students of Ophthalmology, Prof. 



William Norwood Suter, 149 

 Optics : a Manual for Students, A. S. Percival, 149 

 A Practical Introduction to the Study of Botany : Flowering 



Plants, Prof. J. Bretland Farmer, 150 

 Primeval Scenes : being some Comic Aspects of Life in Pre- 

 historic Times, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 150 

 A Treatise on Surveying, R. E. Middleton and O. Chadwick, 



150 

 The X-Ray Case Book for Noting Apparatus, Methods and 



Results, David Walsh, 150 

 The Wheat Problem, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., Sir R. 



Giffen, K.C.B., F.R.S., 169 

 Atlas of Meteorology, J. G. Bartholomew and A. J. 



Herbertson, 171 

 The North American Slime Moulds, Prof. T. H. McBride, 173 

 An Introduction to the Study of Materia Medica, Henry G. 



Greenish, 174 

 Descriptive General Chemistry, S. E. Tilman, 175 

 Zoologia, Prof Achille Griffini, 175 

 The British Journal Photographic Almanac for 1900, 175 

 The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis, Frederick Hutton 



Getman, 176 

 The Elements of Euclid, R. Lachlan, 176 

 Essai du Commerce et de I'lndustrie, L. Cuniasse and R. 



Zwilling, 176 



