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Nature, 



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Index 



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Shipley (A. E.), a Pot of Basil, 205 



Ships, Steel, their Construction and Maintenance, a 



Manual for Shipbuilders, Ship Superintendents, Students, 



and Marine Engineers, Thomas Watson, 3S9 

 Siberian Decorative Art, East, Berthold Laufer, Prof. A. C. 



Haddon, F.R.S., 560 

 Sickle Leonid, a, G. McKenzie Knight, 204 

 Siddons (A. W.), on the Recommendations of the Mathe- 

 matical Association Committee, 17 

 Siedentopf (H.), the Visibility of Ultra-Microscopic Par- 

 ticles, 380 

 Siertsema's (Dr. L. H.), Measurements of the Magnetic 



Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation of Liquefied 



Chloride under Atmospheric Pressure, 423 

 Siglio's (Signor), Apparatus for Giving Warning of. the 



Approach of Submarine Craft, 421 

 Silica Glass, 403 

 Silica Vessels, Shenstone's, Manufactured by Messrs. Baird 



and Tatlock, 182 

 Simmonds (C), the Chemistry of Indiarubber, Carl Otto 



Weber, 313 ; the Testing of Chemical Reagents for Purity, 



Dr. C. Krauch, 430 

 Simon (M. L. J.), New Method for the Volumetric Esti- 

 mation of Hydroxylamine, 240 

 Sirodot (Prof.), Death of, 276, 324 

 Skinner (Mr.), Balance by which Moments of Inertia can 



be Determined Without the Use of Stop Watches, 333 

 Skinner (S.), Cavitation in Liquids, 119; the Slipperiness of 



Ice, 502 

 Sky, Earth and, J. H. Stickney, 6 

 Sleep, Production of, and of General Anaesthesia by Electric 



Currents, S. Leduc, 96 

 Slichter (Charles S.), Underground Waters, 547 

 Slipher (V. M.), Spectrographic Determination of the Ro- 

 tation Period of Jupiter, 280 

 Small-pox, the Inter-relationship of Variola and Vaccinia, 



S. Monckton Copeman, 189 

 Smith (Albert W.), Material of Machines, 222 

 Smith (Alexander), the Teaching of Chemistry and Physics 



in the Secondary School, 295 ; Amorphous Sulphur, 352 

 Smith (Arthur G.), a Katydid's Resourcefulness, 612 

 Smith (G. Rodwell), Enlargements, their Production and 



Finish, 510 

 Smith (H. G.), a Research on the Eucalypts, especially 



in regard to their Essential Oils, 524 

 Smith (H. W. Croome), the First Principles of Ratio and 



Proportion, and their Application to Geometry, 173 

 Smith (Norman) Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy, 389 

 Smith (R. Grieg), Bacterial Origin of the Gums of the 



Arabin Group, 47 ; Ulcer Disease of Rainbow Trout, 47 

 Smith (S. W. J.), Portable Capillary Electrometer, 190 

 Smith (Walter), Cost of Scientific Education in Germany 



and England, 127 

 Smith (Worthington G.), the Holy Shroud of Turin, 317 

 Smithells (Prof. A., F.R.S.), the Teaching of Chemistry 



and Physics in the Secondary School, Alexander Smith 



and Edwin H. Hall, 295 

 Snakes, a Rat-snake swallowed by a Cobra, 350 

 Snake Poison : Neutralising Power of Anti-venomous 



Serum towards Cobra Venom, Messrs. Lamb and Hanna, 



38; Calmette's Antivenin inactive against Venom of 



Australian Tiger Snake, Dr. Tidswell, m 

 Snow Storm, St. Elmo's Fire during, Charles Dibdin, 174 

 Society of Arts, Cantor Lecture at, the Future of Coal Gas, 



Prof. V. B. Lewes, 426 

 Soddy (F.), the Cause and Nature of Radio-activity, 66 ; 



Condensation Points of the Thorium and Radium 



Emanations, 117 

 Soils : Field Operations of the Division of Soils, 1900, 



Milton Whitney, Supp. November 6, 1902, vi 

 Sola (Jose 1 Comas), Observations of Jupiter's Markings, 447 

 Solar Constant, the, Prof. S. P. Langley, 522 

 Solar Eclipse of 1900, May 28, Spectroscopic Results, J. 



Evershed, 381 

 Solar Parallax, Re-determination of the Velocity of Light 



of the, M. Perrotin, 137 ; the Constant of Aberration and 



the, Dr. Chandler, 352 

 Solar Phenomena and Meteorology, M. L'Abbe Loisier, 447 

 Solar Prominences, the Relation between and Terrestrial 



Magnetism, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., and 



Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 377 



Solar Prominences and Spot Circulation, 1872-1901, Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., and Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 



Solar Radiation, \ ariation of, Received on the Earth's 



Surface, M. Henri Dufour, 545 

 Solenopsis, the Name, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 559 

 Solomon (Maurice), the Theory of the Gas Mantle, 82 ; the 

 Present State of Wireless Telegraphy, 131 ; Transatlantic 

 Wireless Telegraphy, 206 ; Mr. Marconi and the Post 

 Office, 370 ; the Velocity of Propagation of X-Rays, 185 ; 

 Royal Commission on London Locomotion, 346 ; 

 Secondary Batteries, their Theory, Construction, and 

 Use, E. J. Wade, 410 

 Sollas (Prof. W. J., F.R.S.), the Figure of the Earth, 383 

 Solly (R. H.), Minerals from the Lengenbach, Binnenthal, 

 142 ; Crystallography of a Mineral from the Lengenbach, 

 142 

 Sommerfeld (Prof. A.), Mathematical Investigation of the 



Theory of Railway Brakes, 277 

 Sommerville (D. M. Y.), the Conservation of Mass, 80 

 Sonnwendgebirge im Unterinnthal, Das. Ein Typus 



Alpinen Gebirgsbaues, Dr. Franz Warmer, 364 

 Soufriere, La, the Activity of, 12 ; March Dust from, Prof. 



T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 584. See also Volcanoes. 

 Sound Waves and Electromagnetics, the Pan-potential, 



Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S., 202 

 South (Richard), Catalogue of the Collection of Palasarctic 



Butterflies formed by the late John Henry Leech, 583 

 Southerden (F.), the Bearing of Recent Dscoveries on the 



Physics of Taste and Smell, 486 

 Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition, the, 539 

 Spectrum Analysis : Relationship between Spectra of some 

 Elements, and the Squares of their Atomic Weights, Dr. 

 W. M. Watts, 45 ; Absorption Spectra of Metallic 

 Nitrates, Prof. Hartley, 166; Abnormal Changes in the 

 Spectrum of Lithium, Hugh Ramage, 214; Spectrum of 

 e Auriga;, the, Prof. H. C. Vogel, 233 ; Spectra of 

 Flames, C. de Watteville, 239 ; Handbuch der Spectro- 

 scopic, H. Kayser, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 265; 

 Spectrographic Determination of the Rotation Period of 

 Jupiter, V. M. Slipher, 280 ; a New Form of Spectroscope, 

 Antonio Sauve, 352 ; Relation between Absorption Spectra 

 and Chemical Structure of certain Alkaloids, Drs. Dobbie 

 and Lauder, 358 ; Solar Eclipse of 1900, May 28 : Spectro- 

 scopic Results, J. Evershed, 381 ; Electric Discharge 

 through Hydrogen in Silica-glass Vacuum Tubes, Prof. 

 J. Trowbridge, 398 ; Ultra-violet Spark Spectrum of 

 Ruthenium, Dr. W. E. Adeney, 406 ; Colour Changes in 

 Solutions of Cobalt Chloride, Prof. W. N. Hartley, 

 F.R.S., 430; a Scale of Interference Colours, Camille 

 Craft, 469 ; New Spectroscopic Binaries, Profs. Frost and 

 Adams, 472 ; the Spectrum of Comet 1902 b, M. de la 

 Baume-Pluvinel, 472 ; Spectrum of the Comet 1902 b, 

 A. de la Baume-Pluvinel, 528 ; the Magnesium Spectrum 

 Line at X 4481, Sir William and Lady Huggins, 522 ; 

 Absorption Spectra of Nitric Acid in Various States of 

 Concentration, Prof. W. N. Hartley, 574 ; New Series of 

 Lines in the Spectrum of Magnesium, A. Fowler, 574 ; 

 Nova Geminorum, Dr. Halm, 593 ; Spectrum of the 

 Nebulosity Surrounding Nova Persei, Prof. Perrine, 593 

 Spencer (A. C), Geology of Rico Mountains in South West 



Colorado, 448 

 Spencer (J. F.), Action of Nitrogen Tetroxide on Pyridine, 



551 

 Spencer (L. J.), Crystalline Form of Carbides and Silicides 

 of Iron and Manganese, 142 ; the Western Australian 

 Tellurides, 565 

 Spherical Aberration of the Eye, Edwin Edser, 559 

 Spitta (Dr. Edmund J.), New Apparatus for Obtaining 

 Monochromatic Light with an Ordinary Mixed Jet, 191 

 Spitzbergen, Measurement of an Arc of Meridian in, Sir 



Martin Conway, 536 

 Spot Circulation, Solar Prominences and, 1S72-1901, Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Dr. William J. S. 

 Lockver, 569 

 Sprung' (Dr. A.), Photographs of Halos and Parhelia, 13 

 Standardisation, 587 

 Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, G .G. 



Chisholm, 322 

 Starkie (Dr. W. J. M.), on the Recent Reforms of Primary 

 and Secondary Education, 18 



