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Index 



Nature, 

 June 18. 1903 



C. Raymond Beazley, 73, 464; Dr. Sven Hedin's Explor- 

 ations in Central Asia, Secular Movements in the Region 

 of Lop-Nor, 134; the Atlantis Problem, Dr. R. F. 

 Scharff, 143, 446; Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego, Sir 

 M. Conway, 175 ; Obituary Notice of Joseph Chavanne, 

 303 ; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, 

 G. G. Chisholm, 322; the Globe Geography Readers, 

 Vincent T. Murche, 367; Death of Ritter von Scherzer, 

 444 ; Annual Awards by Royal Geographical Society, 469 ; 

 through Persia and Baluchistan, A. H. Savage Landor, 

 4S11 ; the Discovery of Japan, Kumagusu Minakata, 610 ; 

 Four Years' Arctic Exploration and Scientific Observation 

 in the Fram, Captain Sverdrup and P. Schei, 616; 

 Physical Geography : Coral Reefs of Pemba Island and 

 British East Africa, C. Crossland, 119; an Introduction 

 to Physical Geography, Grove Karl Gilbert and Albert 

 Perry Brigham, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 147; Elementi 

 di Geografia Fisica, Fisica Terrestre e Meteorologia, ad 

 uso delle Scuolo Classiche, Techniche, Normali ed 

 Agrarie, Prof. Francesco Porro, 390 ; Grundziige der 

 Astronomisch-geographischen Ortsbestimmung auf Fors- 

 chungsreisen, Prof. Dr. Paul Guesfeldt, Major C. F. 

 Close, 532 

 Ceology : Death and Obituary Notice of William Gunn, 12 ; 

 the Elements of Agricultural Geology : a Scientific Aid to 

 Practical Farming, Primrose McConnell, 31; Observ- 

 ations G^ologiques sur Ies lies Volcaniques explorees par 

 1 'Expedition du Beagle, et Notes sur la Geologie de 

 l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Charles 

 Darwin, 31 ; British Association Geological Photographs, 

 32 ; Photographs of Carboniferous Limestone, by Prof. 

 S. H. Reynolds and Godfrey Bingley, John E. Marr, A. S. 

 Reid, 32 ; Obituary Notice of the Rev. Thomas Wiltshire, 

 35 ; Secular Bending of a Marble Slab under its own 

 W.ight, Dr. T. J. J. See, 56; Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 

 Si; W. Bowman, 420; Geology of Coal-field Country 

 around Cardiff, A. Strahan and T. C. Cantrill, 89 ; 

 Geological Society, 94, 142, 214, 262, 287, 383, 406, 478, 

 5 2 7. 575 : Geological Society's Prize Awards, 250 ; Fossil 

 Flora of the Cumberland Coal-field, E. A. Newell Arber, 

 94; Remarks on E. A. Newell Arber's Communication: 

 on the Clark Collection of Fossil Plants from New South 

 Wales, Dr. F. Kurtz, 94 ; the Eruption of the Soufriere 

 on September 3 and 4, H. Powell, 94 ; New Boring at 

 Caythorpe, Henry Preston, 95 ; Discovery of a New Form- 

 ation, the " Ibiquas Series," in Cape Colony, 113; Com- 

 posite Gneisses in Boylagh, Prof. G. A. J. Cole, 135 ; 

 the Beaumont Oil-field, R. T. Hill, 136; the Semna 

 Cataract of the Nile, a Study in River-erosion, Dr. John 

 Ball, 142 ; Geological Notes on the North-West Provinces 

 ■(Himalayan) of India, Francis J. Stephens, 142; Phono- 

 litic Rocks from St. Helena and Ascension, G. T. Prior, 

 142; La Geologie geneVale, Stanislas Meunier, 148; 

 Survey of Jebel Garra, Dr. John Ball, 157; Summary of 

 Progress of the Geological Survey of the United King- 

 dom and Museum of Practical Geology for 1901, 170 ; 

 Memoirs of the Geological Survey, United Kingdom : the 

 Geology of the Isle of Man, G. W. Lamplugh, 55s ; River 

 Terraces in New England, Prof. W. M. Davis, 182 ; 

 Geology of Lower Strathspev, L. W. Hinxman and J. S. 

 ('.rant Wilson, 182; Geologv of Eastern Fife, Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, F.R.S., 200; Well Sections in Suffolk, 

 William Whittaker, F.R.S., 214; Cellular Magnesian 

 Limestone of Durham, George Abbott, 214-15; Traces 

 of Past Glacial Action in the Orange River Colony, South 

 Africa, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, 223 ; Magnetite- 

 mines near Cogne, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 262 ; the 

 Tiree Marble, Ananda K. Coomaraswamv, 262 ; an 

 Ossiferous Cavern of Pliocene Age at Dove Holes 

 Buxton, Prof. W. Bovd Dawkins, F.R.S., 287; Mono- 

 graphs in New South Wales, T. S. Hall, 288 ; the Move- 

 ments of Glaciers, 282 ; Cretaceous Region of Abu Roash, 

 Hugh J. L. Beadnell, 306; Stanford's Compendium of 

 Geography and Travel, G. G. Chisholm, 322 ; Com- 

 pression of Interior of Earth Implies Evolution of Heat, 

 1. forge Romanes, 334; Edinburgh Geological Society, 

 358 ; Geological Survey of the Fassa District in South 

 Tyrol, Mrs. Dr. Ogilvie Gordon, 358; Das Sonnwendge- 

 birge im Unterinnthal, Ein Typus Alpinen Gebirgsbaues, 

 Dr. Franz Warmer, 364; the Figure of the Earth, Prof. 

 W. J. Sollas, F.R.S., 383; the Sedimentary Deposits of 



Southern Rhodesia, A. J. C. Molyneux, 383; the Granite 

 and Greisen of Cligga Head, J. B. Scrivenor, 406; 

 Geology of Patagonia, J. B. Scrivenor, 406; an 

 Important Geological Fault at Kurrajong Heights, Blue 

 Mountains, New South Wales, Prof. T. W. Edgeworth 

 David, F.R.S., 407; the Older Rocks of Charnwood 

 Forest, Prof. W. W. Watts, 423 ; Eruptions of the 

 Secondary Period in Crete, L. Cayeux, 432 ; the Atlantis 

 Problem, Dr. R. F. Scharff, 143, 446 ; the Geological 

 Survey of the United States, 44S ; Geology of Rico Moun- 

 tains in South-west Colorado, Whitman Cross and A. C. 

 Spencer, 44S ; Glacial Cirques, F. E. Matthes, 44* ; 

 Esmeralda Formation in Western Nevada, H. W. Turner, 

 448 • Origin of Mineral Veins at Boulder Hot Springs in 

 Nevada, W. H. Weed, 448 ; Eastern Choctaw Coal-field, 

 J. A. Taff and G. I. Adams, 448; Newark (Triassic) 

 System of the Pomperaug Valley, Connecticut, W. H. 

 Hobbs, 448 ; Laccoliths of the Black Hills in South 

 Dakota and Wyoming, T. A. Jagger, jun., 448; Iron- 

 ore Deposits of the Lake Superior Region, C. R. Van 

 Hise, 448; Arkansas Bauxite Deposits, C. W. Hayes, 

 J48; Geology of the Black and Grand Praries, Texas, 

 R. T. Hill, 449; Corundum, J. H. Pratt, 449; Economic 

 Geology of the Silverton Quadrangle, Colorado, F. L. 

 Ransome, 449 ; the Oil and Gas Fields of the Western 

 Interior, and Northern Texas Coal-measures, and of the 

 Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary of the Western Gulf 

 Coast, G. I. Adams, 449 ; Geological Relations and Dis- 

 tribution of Platinum, J. F. Kemp, 4jq ; El Paso Tin 

 Deposits in Texas, 449 ; Pyrite and Marcasite, H. N. 

 Stokes, 449 ; Mineral Resources of the United State? for 

 the Year 1900, David T. Day, 449; " Exotic Blocks " of 

 Malla Johar, Dr. A. von Krafft, 470 ; the Grand Banks 

 of Newfoundland, Products of Ice-erosion, W. H. Prest, 

 471 ; the Mica Deposits of India, T. H. Holland, 471 ; 

 Nitrogen and Carbon in Clays and Marls, Dr. N. H. J. 

 Miller, 478; Geological Explorations in Central Borneo 

 (1893-94), Dr. G. A. F. Molengraaff, Prof. Grenville, 

 A. J. Cole, 506; Petrological Notes on Rocks from 

 Southern Abyssinia, Dr. Catherine A. Raisin, 527 ; the 

 Overthrust Torridonian Rocks of the Isle of Rum and 

 the Associated Gneisses, Alfred Harker, F.R.S., 527 ; 

 Grundrisz der Mineralogie und Geologie zum Gebrauch 

 beim Unterricht an hbheren Lehranstalten sowie zum 

 Selbstunterricht, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwalbe, Prof. 

 Grenville A. J. Cole, 530 ; Underground Waters, Charles 

 S. Slichter, 547 ; Geology of the Tintagel and Davidstow 

 District, John Parkinson, 575 ; the Cause of the Glacial 

 Period, H. L. True, Supp. February 5, viii 



Geometry Prior to 1850, Dr. Loria, 37 ; the Multi-linear 

 Quaternion Function in Relation to Projective Geometry. 

 Prof. C. J. Joly, 143 ; the First Principles of Ratio and 

 Proportion, and their Application to Geometry, H. W. 

 Croome Smith, 173 ; the Teaching of Geometry, W. D. 

 Eggar, 260 ; a Point in a Recent Paper by Prof. D. 

 Hilbert, E. T. Dixon, 382 ; the Differential Invariants 

 of a Surface and their Geometric Significance, Prof. 

 Forsyth, F.R.S., 500; the Psychology and Natural De- 

 velopment of Geometry, Dr. E. Mack, 524 ; Practical 

 Exercises in Geometry, W. D. Eggar, J. Harrison, r-- : 

 an Elementary Treatise on the Theory and Practice of 

 Euclid, S. O. Andrew, J. Harrison, 577; Theoretical 

 Geometry for Beginners, C. H. Allcock, J. Harrison, ;;; ; 

 Elementary Geometry, W. M. Baker and A. A. Bourne, 

 J. Harrison, 577 ; the Elements of Geometry, R. Lachlan 

 and W. C. Fletcher, J. Harrison, 577: Plane Geometrv, 

 Adapted to Heuristic Methods of Teaching, T. Petch, 

 J. Harrison, 577: Euclid: Books v., vi., xi., Rupert 

 Deakin, J. Harrison, 577; a Short Introduction to 

 Graphical Algebra, H. S. Hall, J. Harrison, 577 

 I Geotropism, the Statolith Theorv of, Francis Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 57. 



Germany : Meeting of the German Association of Naturalists 

 and Physicians, Carlsbad, Dr. F. Schuman-Leclercq, 20; 

 Cost of Scientific Education in Germany and England, 

 Walter Smith, 127; Education in Germany and England, 

 Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin, 226; University Education in the 

 United Kingdom and Germany, Prof. J. Wertheimer, 

 463 ; Verhandlungen der deutschen zoologischen Gesell- 

 schaft, xii., Versammlung, Giessen, 1902. Prof. J. 

 Arthur Thomson, 507 



