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Index 



xli 



Steam Engine and Gas and Oil Engines, the, Prof. John Perry, 

 F.R.S., 100; Steam Turbines, Motive Power, High Speed 

 Navigation, Hon. C. A. Parsons, F.R.S., 424 

 Steam, Superheated, Thermodynamic Properties of, J. H. 



Grindley, 432 

 Steam : L'Echappement dans les Machines a Vapeur, G. Le- 



loutre, 563 

 Stebbing (E. P.), Indian Forest Insect-pests, 38 

 Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R.), on the Living Subterranean Fauna of 



Great Britain and Ireland, 116 

 Steiger (G. ), Action of Ammonium Chloride on Analcite and 



Leucite, 432 

 Stejneger (Dr.), Typhlomolge, the American Gilled and Blind 



Salamander, 620 

 Stephens (T.), Uiabasic Intrusion in Tasmanian Permo-Carbon- 



iferous Rocks, 286 

 Stereochemistry : Stereochemistry and Physiology, Prof. Emil 

 Fischer, 140; Zur Stereochemie des fiinlwertigen Stickstoffes 

 mit besonderer Beriicksichtegung des asymmetrichen Stick- 

 stoffes in der aromatischen Reihe, Edgar Wedekind, 199 

 Steuart (D. S. S.), Mineral Wealth of Zoutpansbeig, 281 

 Stewart (A. M.), Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, 221 

 Stewart (Sir T. G.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 352 

 Stirling (Dr. E. C, F.R.S.), Memoirs of Royal Society of 



South Australia, 275 

 Stobbe (Dr. II.), Condensation Products of Benzaldehyde with 



Succinic Ether, 63 

 ^ ''Lr(F.), Notions de Mineralogie, 610 



Iv (Alfred), New Method of determining Aluminium, 336 ; 

 'lumetric Estimation of Boric Acid, 435 

 ijlockholm International Fisheries Conference on the Explor- 

 ation of the Sea, 34 ; E. J. Allen, 54, 227, 275 ; Prof. W. A. 

 Ilerdman, F.R.S., 78, 177; George Murray, F.R.S., 102 ; 

 i I. M. Kyle, 151 ; Prof. Otto Pettersson, 413 

 cs (Sir George), Bust of, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 102 

 cs (Sir G. G., Bart., F.R.S.), the Effects of Lightning upon 

 Electric Lamps, 343, 413, 539 

 Stone (G. H.), Glaciation of Central Idaho, 310 

 Stone Circles in Scotland, A. L. Lewis, 530 

 Stones, Floating, Dr. Erland Nordenskiold, 278; Cecil Carus- 

 Wilson, 318 ; R. C. T. Evans, 318 ; Prof. A. W. Brightmore, 

 346 

 Stoney (Dr. G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), Next Week's Leonid 

 Shower, 28 ; the Leonids, 81 ; Possible Cause of the Vari- 

 ability of Stars, 443 ; Escape of Gases from Planetary 

 Atmospheres, 515 

 Story of the Wanderings of Atoms, the, especially those of 



Carbon, M. M. Pattison-Muir, 126 

 Stratonofr(W.), Central Star of Ring Nebula in Lyra, 260 

 Strength of Materials, the. Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 197 

 meyer (C. E.), Origin of Granite, 358 

 lure of the Inner Corona, the. Prof. S. P. Langley, 

 I.M.R.S., 443 



I (Hon. R. j.), the Absorption of the Becquerel Rays by 

 lid and Gaseous Bodies, 539 



nts' Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English 

 nguage, James C. Fernald, 220 



tits' Flora of New Zealand, the, and the Outlying Islands, 

 inmas Kirk, W. Bolting Hemsley, F.R.S., 146 

 (jvant (E.), the Birds of Rhode Island, 323 

 iiarine Boat, the Holland, 135 



luirine Cables, the Action of Electric Tramways on Land 

 id of. Prof. Andrew Jamieson, 595 



rranean Inflow, a Canadian Lake of, Andrew T. 

 i Mummond, 128 

 ^lur/ Canal, on the Engineering Works of the, Sir Charles 



I lartley, 21 

 Suffolk (W. T.), Death of, 256 



Sugar : Researches in the Sugar Group, H. J. H. Fenton and 



II. Jackson, 215; Les Sucres et leurs principaux Derives, 



Prof. L. Macquenne, Prof. R. Meldola, F. R.S., 461 ; Sugar 



as a Heat Producer in Fasting Animals, Prof. U. Mosso, 476 



Suicide in Scotland, Sir John Sibbald, 531 



Suis (Dr.), Atlas de Photomicrographie des Plantes Medi- 



cinales, 539 

 Sulphate of Ammonia in Agriculture, the Utility of, James 



Muir, loi 

 Sulphur Atoms, Attempts to Resolve into Active Constituents 

 '"ompounds containing Assymmetric, S. Smiles, W. J. Pope 

 :ul S. J. Peachey, 373 



Sulphur, True Molecular Weight of Gaseous, O. Bleier and L. 



Kohn, 373 ^ 



Sun : the Wind during Eclipses of the Sun, John W. Evans, 



200 ; A. L. Rotch, 589 ; the Approaching Total Eclipse of 



the Sun, 201 

 Sunset Colours, Cause of Recent, Horace Darwin, 128 

 Sunshine, a Brilliant Meteor in, 306 

 Surgery : a Treatise for Students and Practitioners, Thomas 



Pickering Pick, 76 ; a Manual of Surgical Treatment, Prof. 



W. Watson Cheyne and F. F. Burghard, 176 ; Death of Sir 



James Paget, F.R.S., 234; Obituary Notice of, Dr. F. W. 



Tunniclifle, 256 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Sir A. D. 



Maclagan, 571 

 Surveying and Geodesy, Elements of Precise, Prof. Mansfield 



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

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



150 

 Sussex, South-west, Geography of, Dr. H. R. Mill, 353 

 Suter (William Norwood), Handboook of Optics for Students 



of Ophthalmology, 149 

 Swift, Comet, Refraction Effect of (1889, I.), Prof. C. D. 



Perrine, 87 

 Swinton (A. A. C), Electric Light Wires and Dust, 612 

 Switzerland and North Italy, the Teaching of Geography in, 



Joan Berenice Reynolds, 126 

 Swyngedauw (R.), Experimental Study of Hertz Exciter, 507 

 Sylvia in Flowerland, Linda Gardiner, 102 

 Symmetry and Asymmetry in Animals, Dr. L. Reh, 186 

 Symons (G. J.), Meteorological Extremes. II. Temperature, 22 

 Symons (Geo. James, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 



475 

 Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 22, 238, 310, 



457. 627 

 Syntony, P. E. Shaw, 529 

 System of Medicine by many Writers, edited by Prof. T. C. 



AUbutt, F.R.S., Dr. F. W. Tunnicliffe, 584 

 Szawasy (E.), Electrolytic Preparation of Induline Dyes, 94; 



Electrolysis of Nitrogen Hydrides and Hydroxylamine 



Amine, 335 

 Szczepanik's Photographic Process of Preparing Textile Designs, 



Prof. R. Beaumont, 14 



Tacchini (Prof.), the Roman Earthquake of July 19, 1899, 422 

 Tadpoles' Tails, Experiments on Growth of, R. G. Harrison, 



206 

 Tafel (J.), the Course of Electrolytic Reduction, 63 

 Tait (Prof. P. G.), Newton's Laws of Motion, 265 

 Tallberg (Dr. Tycho), Ueber das System der Nagethiera, 588 

 Tammann (G.), Relation between Electric Conductivity and 



Pressure, 262 

 Tammes (Miss Tine), Pomum in Porno, 408 

 Tanret (C. and G.), Rhamninose, 71 

 Tarry (Harold), 01)servations of the Leonids, 143 

 Taste, Measurement of, Ed. Toulouse and N. Vaschide, 532 

 Tatton (R. A.), the Purification of Trade Waste, 281 

 Taylor (R. L.), Action of Iodine on Alkalis, 530 

 Technical Education : Rural Education, John C. Medd, 55 ; 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 55 ; C. H. Bothamley, 55 ; Ameri- 

 can Higher Technical Education, Prof. F. W. Burstall, 299 

 Technical Instruction in Relation to Industrial Progress, Prof. 



W. Ripper, 356 

 Teeth, Supernumerary, W. L. H. Duckworth and D. H. 



Eraser, 482 

 Telegraphy : Recent Developments of Wireless, 78 ; Marconi 

 Wireless Telegraphy in U.S.A., 185 ; a History of Wireless 

 Telegraphy, J. J. Fahie, 243 ; La Telegraphic Sans Fils, 

 Andre Broca, 243 ; Wireless Telegraphy between Chamounix 

 and Mont Blanc, Leon and Louis Lecarme, 280 ; Wireless 

 Telegraphy in the War, 350 ; Wireless Telegraphy, G. Mar- 

 coni, 377 ; Use of New Radio-conductors for, C. Tissot, 

 579 ; Syntony, P. E. Shaw, 529 

 Telephones and Lightning Discharges, A. R. Hunt, 368 

 Telephotography, Thomas R. Dallmeyer, 315 

 Telescopes : Long Focus Photographic Telescope, 4I ; the 

 Great Paris Telescope, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 178; Sextant-telescopes, W. E. Plummer, 54 

 Temperate Chile : a Progressive Spain, W, Anderson Smith, 



Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 536 

 Temperature, Underground, J. L. C. Rae, E. F. Pittman, 

 and Prof. T. W. E. David, 484 



