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 June 14, 1900 . 



Index 



XI 



Broadbent (Dr.), the "Silver Thread" Phenomenon in Giggles- 

 wick Well, 70 



Broca (Andre), La Telegraphic sans Fils, 243 



Brochet (H. A.), Electrolysis of Potassium Chloride, 312, 508 



Brodie (F. J.), Wire Fences and Lightning, 258 



Brough (Bennett H.), a Rudimentary Treatise on Coal and Coal- 

 mining, Sir Warrington W. Smyth, F.R.S., 411 



Brown (Prof. S. J.), Determination of Axis and Compression of 

 Neptune, 621 



Browning (K. C), Reaction between Sulphuric Acid and 

 Pota-ssium Ferrocyanide, 190 



Browning (P. E.), Estimation of Thallium as Acid and Neutral 

 Sulphate, 432 



Bruce (Catherine Wolfe), Death of, 54 



Briinhes (B.), Measurement of Velocity of Rbntgen Rays, 311 ; 

 Duration of Emission of Rontgen Rays, 604 



BrujTi (Prof. L. de), rf-Sorbinose and /-Sorbinose, 216 



Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), Traite elementaire de Mecanique 

 Chimique fondee sur la Thermodynamique, Prof. P. Duhem, 

 73 ; the Resistance of the Air, 107, 248 ; the Kinetic Theory 

 of Gases, Dr. Oskar Emil Meyer, 289 ; a Treatise on the 

 Kinetic Theory of Gases, S. PL Burbury, 289 ; the Mathe- 

 matical Tripos, 346 ; Obituary Notice of Eugenio Beltrami, 

 568 ; Obituary Notice of Joseph Bertrand, 614 



Bryant (Sophie), Euclid, Books I. -IV., 102 



Buchanan (J. V., F.R.S.), Physical and Chemical Work 

 required for an Antarctic Expedition, 18 



Budge (E. A. Wallis), Books on Egypt and Chaldsea. 

 Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life ; Egyptian Magic, 437 



Budgett (J. S.), Polypterus and Protopterus, 166 



Buenos Aires, Anales del Museo Nacional de, 46, 372 



Bulgarian Lepidoptera, H. J. Elwes, 627 



Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 93, 213, 404, 554, 

 577. See Transactions.. 



Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 577 



Burbury (S. IL, F.R.S.), the Kinetic Theory of Gases, 289 ; 

 Billiards Mathematically Treated, G. W. Hemming, 410 



Burdon-Sanderson (Sir J., Bart.), the Relation between Science 

 and Medicine, 254 



Bureau (Ed.), Equisetum Jolyi, 384 



Burghard (F. F.), a Manual of Surgical Treatment, 176 



Burker (K.), Mixture of Three Powders for producing Electric 

 Dust-figures, 627 



Burkill (J. H.), Botany of Mt. Roraima, 555 



Burmese, On the Thirty-seven Nats (or Spirits) of the, Colonel 

 R. C. Temple, 44 



Burstall (Prof. F. W.), American Higher Technical Education, 

 299 



Burt (Dr. A. H.), U^ber den Habitus der Coniferen, 28 



Busquet (Paul), Les Etres Vivants, 608 



Butler (Charles P. ), Echelon Film Gratings, 275 



Butler (E. J.), On a Mixed Infection in Abittilon Roots, 66 



Butterflies, Birds capturing, F. Finn, 55 ; Oswald PL Latter, 

 56 ; Howard Fox, 152 ; George A. Soper, 491 



Butterfly Shadows, Commander D. Wilson-Barker, 128 



Cable, an Aluminium Electric, 399 



Cables, Submarine, the Action of Electric Tramways on Land 



End of. Prof. Andrew Jamieson, 595 

 Calculate, to, a Simple Table of Logarithms, Dr. Arthur Dufton, 



415 ; Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 415 

 Calculating Logarithms, Mechanical Method of, H. C. Pockling- 



ton, 469 

 Calendar, Difficulties of the, W. T. Lynn, 493 

 California, the Evidence as to Auriferous Gravel Man in, W. H. 



Holmes, 206 

 Callandreau (O.), Anomaly in Movement of Jupiter's Fifth 



Satellite, 287 

 Callendar (Prof. H. L., F.R.S.), a Text-book of Physics, W. 



Watson, 537, Heat for Advanced Students, Edwin Edser, 557, 



Text-book of Experimental Physics, Eugene Lommel, 557 

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



85 

 Cambridge : Linguistic Results of the Cambridge Expedition to 

 Torres Straits and New Guinea, Sidney H. Ray, 42 ; the 

 Cambridge Natural History, David Sharp, W. F. H. Bland- 

 ford, 49 ; Cambridge Philosophical Society, 95, 165, 214, 

 359> 458, 482, 507 ; the Proposed Changes in the Mathe- 

 matical Tripos, 106, Prof. G. H. Bryan, 346; Engineering at 

 Cambridge, 346 ; the Cambridge Crystallography, W. J. 



Lewis, Prof. H. A. Miers, F.R.S., 485 ; Sir Michael Foster, 



K.C.B., M.P., and his Pupils, 497 

 Camerarius (R. J.), Das Geschlecht der Pflanzen, 293 

 Campbell (Prof. Douglas), on the Development of the Flowers 



and Embryos of various Species of Araceiie, 68 

 Campbell (J. R.), the Eradication by Spraying of Charlock and 



Runch, 186 

 Campbell (Prof. W. W.), Spectroscopic Binary Stars, aAurigae, 



a Ursae Minoris, 114 

 Canada : Ethnographic Survey of, 45 ; Alaska and the Klon- 

 dike : a Journey to the New Eldorado, with Hints to the 



Traveller and Observations on the Physical History and 



Geology of the Gold Regions, the Conditions of Working the 



Klondike Placers, and the Laws Governing and Regulating 



Mining in the North-west Territory of Canada, Angelo Heil- 



prin, 122; Canadian Lake of Subterranean Inflow, Andrew 



T. Drummond, 128 ; Mineral Production in 1899 of Canada^ 



E. D. Ingall, 545 

 Canal, the Chicago Drainage, 353 

 Canal, the Soulanges, 40 



Cancani (Dr. A.), the Latian Earthquake of July 19, 1899, 573 

 Cancer, Morphology of Carcinomatous Blastomycetes, K. W. 



Montsarrat, 285 

 Canton (M.), Absorption of Light in Electrically Glowing Gases, 



626 

 Cape of Good Plope Meteorological Report for 1898, 39 

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



of Carbon, M. M. Pattison Muir, 126 ; Determination of 



Radicles in, Dr. H. Meyer, 538 

 Carriers in the Kathode Rays, on the, W. B. Morton, 365 

 Carus- Wilson (Cecil), Floating Stones, 318 

 Carvallo (E.), Nature of White Light, 287 

 Case (Edward), on the Dymchurch Sea-wall and the Reclama- 

 tion of the Romney Marshes, 22 

 Cash (Joseph), Artificial Silk, 156 

 Castle (Frank), Elementary Practical Mathematics, 53 

 Caucasian Vine-disease, a, MM. Prillieux and Delacroix, 385 

 Causse (IL), Contaminated Lyons Well-waters, 459 ; Detectioi* 



of Cystine in Water, 531 

 Cave-Ice, the Origin and Occurrence of. Dr. Hans Lohmann, 



591 

 Cazeneuve (P.), Mode of Synthesis of Parabanic Acid, 120; 



Preparation of Carbazides, 239 

 Celebes, the Birds of, A. B. Meyer and L. W. Wiglesworth, 



605 

 Celestial Photography, Photographs of Stars, Star Clusters and 



Nebulfe, together with Records of Results obtained in the 



pursuit of, Dr. Isaac Roberts, F.R.S., Dr. William J. S. 



Lockyer, 533 

 Celestial Photometry, Prof. Dr. ^. Miiller, 509 

 Cell-theory, Inadequacy of, Les Etres Vivants, par Paul Busquet, 



609 

 Centenary of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, the, 469 

 Central Star of Ring Nebula in Lyra, W. Stratonoff", 260 

 Century of Science and other Essays, a, John Fiske, 390 

 Ceramique, la, Ancienne et Moderne, E. Guignat et E. Gamier, 



466 

 Ceraski's First Algol Variable, Light Curve of, 355 

 Ceraski's Second Algol Variable, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 454 

 Cerebrum in Recent as compared with Extinct Mammalia, 



Significance of Increased Size of. Prof. E. R. Lankester, 



F.R.S., 624 

 Ceylon, an English Station for Botanical Research in the Tropics, 



John C. Willis, 32 

 Chad wick (O. ), a Treatise on Surveying, 150 

 Chaldcea, Books on Egypt and, Egyptian Ideas of the Future 



Life, Egyptian Magic, E. A. Wallis Budge, Frank Rede 



Fowke, 437 

 Changes of Colour of Prawns, F. W. Keeble and F. W. Gamble, 



552 

 Channel, English, Water-temperature of Mouth of, Mr. Gar- 



stang, 450 

 Chapman (E. M.), Action of Fuming Nitric Acid on a-dibromo- 



camphor, 335 ; Acids obtained from a-dibromocamphor, 505 

 Chardonnet Process of Manufacturing Artificial Silk, the, Joseph 



Cash, 156 

 Chauveau (A. B.), the Diurnal Variations of Atmospheric 



Electricity, 136 

 Chavastilon (R. ), Separation of Rare Earths, 531 

 Chemistry : Essais des Huiles Essentielles, Henri Labbe, 5 ; 



