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Index 



[Nature, 

 June 14, 1900 



Slime Moulds, the North American, Prof. T. H. MacBride, 



173 



Slocum (S. E.), the Chief Theorem of Lie's Theory of Con- 

 tinuous Groups, 572 



Smart (Prof. William), the Distribution of Income, Sir. R. 

 Giffen, F.R.S., 581 



Smell, New Theory of, MM. Vaschide and Van Melle, 240 



Smell Emitted by Quartz when Rubbed, the, E. L. Garbett, 

 491 



Smiles (S.), Action of Alkyl Iodide on Fatty Mercuric Iodide 

 Sulphides, 264 ; Attempts to Resolve into Active Constituents, 

 Compounds containing Asymmetric Sulphur Atoms, 373 



Smith (Alexander), Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry, 

 27 



Smith (Charles), Euclid, Books I.-IV., 102 



Smith (E. F.), the " Wilt" Disease of Cotton, &c., 186 



Smith (Fred), the Boyhood of a Naturalist, 246 



Smith (G. B.), School Gardens, 455 



Smith (G. II. F.), New Three-circle Goniometer, 113 



Smith (H. G.), Eudesmol, 47 ; the Essential Oil of Darwinia 

 fasicularis, 483 



Smith (N.), Combination of Sulphur Dioxide with Oxygen, 

 434 



Smith (W. Anderson), Temperate Chile, a Progressive Spain, 



Smits (Dr. A.), Decrease in Tension of Solution Vapours at o , 



72 

 Smyrna, Earthquake at, 302 

 Smyth (Sir Warington W,, F.R.S.), a Rudimentary Treatise on 



Coal and Coal Mining, 411 

 Snake-bite Cured by Calmette's Antivenene, Major S. J. Rennie, 



85 

 Snyder (Dr. V.), Cyclical Quartic Surfaces in Space of it 



Dimensions, 554 

 Snyder (W. If.), Physical Geography, 266 

 Soap Bubbles, O. Dorge, 432 



Sodeau (W. II.), the Decomposition of Lead Chlorate, 627 

 Soil, the Bacteriology of the, Thos. T. Watson, 515 

 Soil, Lectures on Some of the Physical Properties of, R. W. 



Warington, F.R.S., 561 

 Solar Activity, the Relation between the Periodic Changes of, 



and the Earth's Motion, Dr. J. Halm, 445 

 Solar Eclipses in the Twentieth Century, M. Camille Flam- 



marion, 548 

 Solar Eclipses, Photometric Observations of Mercury during. 



Dr. G. Miiller, 574 

 Solar Parallax, the, M. Bouquet de la Grye, 236 

 Solid and Gaseous Bodies, the Absorption of the Becquerel 



Rays by, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 539 

 Sollas (Prof. W. J., F.R.S.), New Crinoidea;, 382 ; Oldhamia, 



382 

 Solomon (M.), Damping of Galvanometer Needles, 481 

 Solomon Islands, Ethnography of, R. Parkinson, 546 

 Solution of the Quartic, Prof. G. B. Mathews, F.R.S.. 55 

 Somerville (Prof. W.), Eradication of Charlock by Spraying, 



619 

 Soper (George A.), the Capture of Butterflies by Birds, 491 

 Souef (D. le), the Newly-born Kangaroo, 423 

 Soulanges Canal, the, 40 

 South African Philosophical Society, 240, 436 

 South Tyrol and the Isle of Man, Similar Geological Structures 



in. Dr. Maria M. Gordon, 490 

 Southwell (T.), the Whale Fishery for 1899, 45^ 

 Spain : Natural Objects in Old Spanish Sculpture, Dr. E. S. 



Fatigati^ 15; Temperate Chile, a Progressive Spain, W. 



Anderson Smith, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 536 

 Specific Heat of Marble, Prof. B. O. Peirce and Robert W. 



Willson, 367 

 Spectrum Analysis : Some Remarks on Radiation Phenomena 



m a Magnetic Field, Prof. Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 11 ; 



Influence of Impurities on Gaseous Spectrum, P. Lewis, 93 ; 



Spectrophotometry of Electric Light, Fernand Gaud, 95 ; 



Spectroscopic Binaries, o Aurigce, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 



114; a Ursae Minoris, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 114; Prof. 



E. B. Frost, 114; Variations in the Spectrum of Orion 



Nebula, Prof. Scheiner, 114; the Methods of Inorganic 



Evolution, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 129, 296; 



Spectrum of P Cygni, Herr A. Belopolsky, 137 ; the Piscian 



Stars, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 213; Absorp- 

 tion Spectra of Solutions of Didymium and Erbium Salts, 



Prof. Liveing, 214 ; New Lines in Infra-red Spectrum 

 Argon, R. Nasini, F. Anderlini, and R. Salvador!, 235 ; Cnu 

 stitulion of Electric Spark, G. A. Ilemsalech and Prof. 

 Schuster, 258 ; Spectrum of Silicium, Sir Norman Lockvei. 

 K.C B. , F. R.S. , 262 ; Preliminary .Table of Wave-lengths 

 Enhanced Lines, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 2(1 

 Echelon Film Gratings, Charles P. Butler, 275 ; Polaris 

 Light in Magnetic Field, R. Dongier, 360; New Source ( ! 

 Light for Spectrometry of Precision, Ch. Fabry and A. Petio, 

 407 ; Asymmetrical Change in Spectral Lines of Iron Radiatini; 

 in Magnetic Field, Dr. P. Zeeman, 408 ; Determination ot 

 Standard Lines in Spectrum, Maurice Hamy, 435 ; Constitu- 

 tion of Yellow Sodium Rays, Ch. Fabry and A. Perot, 4S3 ; 

 New Mode of Using Concave Diffraction Grating, Dr. G. 1!. 

 Rizzo, 501, 541 ; Determination of Standard Points in Spec- 

 trum, Maurice Hamy, 507 ; New System of Spectrum Phf)to- 

 metry, Prof. D. B. Brace, 521 ; Computation of Orbits of 

 Spectroscopic Doubles, Dr. K. Schwarzschild, 521 ; Rock- 

 salt as a Refraction Standard, Prof. S. P. Langley, 545 ; the 

 Wastefulness of Artificial Lights, C. G. Abbot, 546 ; Re- 

 flective Power of Metals, E. Ilagen and H. Rubens, 555 ; 

 Photographs of Aurora Spectrum, M. Paulsen, 621 

 Spencer (A. C), Devonian Strata in Colorado, 432 

 Spengel (Dr. J. W.), Ueber Einige Aberrationen von Papilio 



machaon, 316 

 Sperber (Dr. Joachim), Leitfaden fiir den Unterricht in dcr 



Anorganischen Chemie, 489 

 Spiers (F. S.), Contact Electricity, 70 

 Spinning Top, the. Lord Kelvin, 166 

 Spiral Nebulae, Predominance of. Prof. J. E. Keeler, 87 

 Sport, Fifteen Years', and Life in the Hunting Grounds of 

 Western America and British Columbia, W. A. Baillie-Groh- 

 man, 566 

 Sprankling (C. H. G.), Sym-dipropyl, Symdiisopropyl and aa- 



propylisopropyl-succinic Acid, 530 

 Spurr (J. E.), Geology of Aspen Mining District, Colorado, 601 

 Stallo(J. B.), Death of, 279 



Standen (R.), Mollusca of Kolgnev and Franz Josef Land, 143 

 Stanford (E. C. C), Death and Obituary Notice of, 184 

 Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel (New Issue) 

 in Europe (Vol. i.) and the Countries of the Mainland (ex- 

 cluding the North-west), Geo. G. Chisholm, 368 

 Stapleton (H. E.), Formation of Tetrazoline, 94 ; Heterocylic 



Compounds, 405 

 Star-fish, the Feather-stars of the Bahamas, Prof. Verrill, 16 

 Star-land, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 294 

 Stark (A. C), Death and Obituary Notice of, 155 

 Stark (A, C), the Fauna of South Africa— Birds, 516 

 Stark (J.), Electrostatic Effects in Connection with Vacuum Dis- 

 charges, 555 ; Influence of Heating on Passage of Electricity 

 through Rarefied Gases, 572 

 Starr (Prof. Frederick), Catalogue of a Collection of Objects 



Illustrating ttie Folk-lore of Mexico, 488 

 Stars : on the Distribution of the Various Chemical Groups of 

 Stars, ii., Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 8; New 

 Variable Star, 17 ; New Algol Variable in Cygnus, 17 ; Light 

 Curve of Ceraski's First Algol Variable, 355 ; Second New 

 Variable in Cygnus, Madame Ceraski, 355 ; Ceraski's Second 

 Algol Variable, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 454 ; New Variable in 

 Cygnus, 501 ; Elliptic Elements of the Variable 7 Cygni, 

 Prof. N. C. Duner, 574 ; Spectroscopic Binaries, a Aurigre, 

 Prof. W. W. Campbell, 114 ; a Ursos Minoris, Prof. W. W. 

 Campbell, 114; Prof. E. B, Frost, 114, Mercury and Jupiter 

 as Morning Stars, 137 ; Central Star of Ring Nebula in Lyra, 

 W. Stratonoff, 260; Reduction of Star Photographs, A. R. 

 Hinks, 355 ; New Variable Star in Draco, Dr. T. D. Ander- 

 son, 374 ; a Possible Cause of the Variability of Stars, Dr. G. 

 Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 443 ; Variable Stars of the Algol 

 Type, H. C. Wilson, 521 ; Photographs of Stars, Star Clus- 

 ters and Nebulae, together with Records ol Results obtained 

 in the Pursuit of Celestial Photography, Dr. Isaac Roberts, 

 F.R.S., Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 533; New Variable in 

 Andromeda, Dr. T. D. Anderson, 547 

 Stassano (Henri), Affinities of Vascular Endothelium, 24 

 Statics and Dynamics, a First Book in. Rev. J. R. Robinson, 365 

 Statistics : Statistical Methods, with Special Reference to 

 Biological Variation, C. B. Davenport, 149 ; Internal Migra- 

 tion in England and Wales, Prof. A. W. Flux, 383 

 Steam, Recent Experiences with, on Common Roads, Mr. 

 Thornycroft, 22 • 



