Native, 



June I 3, 1903J 



Index 



VII 



Ballistics: the New 16-inch Gun at Sandy Hook, 276; 

 Armour-piercing Projectiles, David Carnegie, 374 



Ballooning : Aerial Navigation : a Practical Handbook on 

 the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aerostats, Aero- 

 planes, and Aeromotors, Frederick Walker, 218; the 

 Lebaudy Dirigible Balloon, 350; Conditions of Safety of 

 Navigable BaTloons, Commandant P. Renard, 592 



Balthazard (M.), the Heart of Tuberculous Subjects, 359 ; 

 the Heart in a Pathological State, 503 



Baluchistan, through Persia and, A. H. Savage Landor, 489 



Bamberger (Mr.), Tertiary Nitroso-paraffins, 521 



Barbadoes, Fall of Volcanic Ash on the Island of, on 

 October 15-16, 36 



Barbera (M.), L'Etere e la Materia ponderabile, 413 



Barbet (M.), Experiments by M. Canovetti on the Resist- 

 ance of the Air to Moving Bodies, 592 



Barillet (C. L.), Bipolar Electrodes with a Soluble Anode, 

 168 



Barker (Mr.), on the Fungus of Samsu, 20 



Barker (T. V.), Quartz Crystals of Peculiar Habit from 

 South Africa, 382 



Barlow (William H., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice 

 of, 64 



Barnard (Prof. E. E.), Change of Focus in the Light from 

 Nova Persei, 66; Observations of the Aurora, 67; Colour 

 of the Eclipsed Moon, 376; Herschel's Nebulous Regions 

 of the Heavens, 424 



Barnard (H. O.), Comet 1902 b as Observed in Ceylon, 39 



Barnard (Mr.), Luminous Bacteria, 19 



Barnes (C. L.), Experiments Depending on Hawksbee's 

 Law of Fluids, 166 



Barnett (Mrs. F. H.), Our Dog's Birthday Book, 24(1 



Barrett (Charles G.), the Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 

 438 



Barrett (Prof.), the Properties of the Alloys of Iron, 14 



Barrett-Hamilton (G. E. H.), Traces of Past Glacial Action 

 in the Orange River Colony, Sonth Africa, 223 



Barrier Reefs, on the Formation of, and of the Different 

 Types of Atolls, Alexander Agassiz, For. Mem. R.S., at 

 the Royal Society, 547 



Barton (Dr. E. H.), a Simple Sensitive Flame, 345 



Basil, a Pot of, A. E. Shipley, 205 ; Prof. Percy Groom, 271 



Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), Classification of Quartic Curves, 

 80; the Principle of Least Action, 343 ; Lagrange's Equa- 

 tions, 464 



Bateson (W., F.R.S.), the Resolution of Compound Charac- 

 ters by Cross-breeding, 215; Mendel's Principles of 

 Heredity in Mice, 462, 585 



Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Lakes, Sir John 

 Murray and Laurence Pullar, 167 



Batteries, Secondary, their Theory, Construction, and Use, 

 E. J. Wade, Maurice Solomon, 410 



Baubigny (H.), Separation of the Alkalis from Peroxide of 

 Manganese, 192 



Bauer (Dr. L. A.), United States Magnetic Declination 

 Tables and Isogonic Charts for 1902, 294; Magnetic 

 Observations during Eclipses, 496 



Baume-Pluvinel (A. de la), Spectrum of Comet 1902 b, 472, 



Baxendell (J.), the Duration of Rainfall, 598 



Bayard (F. Campbell), English Climatology, 1SS1-1900, 119 



Beadnell (Hugh J. L.), Cretaceous Region of Abu Roash, 



306 

 Beard (Dr. J.), Embryology of Tumours, 599 

 Beard (W. S.), Junior Arithmetic Examination Papers, 79 

 Beazley (C. Raymond), the Dawn of Modern Geography, 



73 ; Dawn of Modern Geography, 464 

 Becquerel (Henri), Magnetic Deviability and the Nature of 

 Certain Rays Emitted by Radium and Polonium,_ 335 ; 

 Emanations from Radio-active Bodies, 400 ; Radiation of 

 Polonium and Radium, 407 

 Becquerel Rays and Radio-activity, Lord Kelvin, 



G.C.V.O., F.R.S., 103 

 Beddard (A. P.), Practical Physiology, 388 

 Beddard (F. E., F.R.S.), Surface Anatomy of the Cerebral 

 Convolutions in Nasaiis, Colobus, and Cynopithecus, 334 

 Bedford College for Women. Lecture at, Electricity and 



Matter, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 450 

 Bedson (P. P.), the Gases Enclosed in Coal, 376 

 Belcher (J. Hope), Practical Electricity, 149 



Belief, Foundations of, Mr. Balfour's Apologetics Critically 



Examined, 341 

 Bell (Prof. Charles J.), Death of, 276 

 Bell (Dr. Louis), the Art of Illumination, 483 

 Bellamy (C. V.), Rainfall of Dominica, 119; Climate of 



Cyprus, 191 

 Bellamy (F. A.), the New Star in Gemini, 598 

 Belloc (G.), Spontaneous Reduction of the Amount of 



Carbon in Steel, 431 

 Beltrami (Eugenio), Opere Matematiche di, 79 

 Bempton Cliffs, the Birds of, E. W. Wade, 472 

 Ben Nevis Observatories, the Meteorology of the, Dr. W. N. 



Shaw, F.R.S., 61 

 Benedikt (Prof. Moriz), Das biomechanische (neo-vitahs- 



tische), Denken in der Medizin und in der Biologie, 342 

 Bengal, Risley's Tribes of, S. M. Jacob, 223 

 Benischke (Dr. Gustav), Der Parallelbetrieb von "ft echsel- 

 strommaschinen, icn ; Die Grundgesetze der Wechsel- 

 stromtechnik, 580 

 Benson (Miss Margaret), on the Seed-like Fructification of 



Miadesmia membranacea, Bertrand, 19 

 Bergstrand (Asten), Proper Motion and Parallax of Nova 



Persei, 183 

 Berlin Tuberculosis Congress, the, 10 



Bernacchi (M.), the Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition, 539 

 Berthelot (M.), the Impurities in Compressed Oxygen, 95 ; 



the Chinchona Alkaloids, 311, 335 

 Bertrand (Gabriel), Arsenic in the Animal Kingdom, 72 

 Bertrand (M.), Death of, 133 



Berzelius (J.), Briefwechsel zwischen, und F. \\ ohler, 49 

 Bevier (Louis), on the Vowel I (as in Pique), 251 

 Bezold (Dr. von), Importance of Aeronautics for Meteor- 

 ological Researches, 138 

 Bielid Meteor-showers, the Leonid and, of November, 1902, 



Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 103 

 Bierry (H.), on Nephrotoxins, 576 

 Bigelow (Prof. Frank H.), a Contribution to Cosmical 



Meteorology, 225 

 Bigourdan (G.), New Comet Giacobini (<i 1902), 167 

 Billitzer (Dr.), Action of Acetylene as Kathodic Depolarising 

 Agent in the Electrolysis of Acid and Alkaline Solutions, 

 425 ; Acid Character of Acetylene, 425 ; Formation of 

 Carbon Ions in Aqueous Solution, 425 

 Billy (M.), Kekule Method of Production of True Thio- 



acids, 455 

 Binaries, New Spectroscopic, Profs. Frost and Adams, 472 

 Bingley (Godfrey), Photograph of Carboniferous Limestone 



by, 3 2 

 Binocular, a New, 473 



Biogen-hypothese, Die, Prof. Max Verworn, 385 

 Biology : Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta— Lepidop- 

 tera— Rhopalocera, Frederick Ducane Godman, F.R.S., 

 and the late Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., 25; Interpretation 

 Dinamica de la Division Cellular, A. Gallardo, Prof. 

 Marcus Hartog, 42 ; Die organischen Regulationen. 

 Vorbereitungen zu einer Theorie des Lebens, Hans 

 Driesch, Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, 50; Death of Albert 

 Henocque, 250; Tachygenesis and University Studies, 

 Prof. Leopoldo Maggi, 252 ; Biology in Universities, Sir 

 Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 270; Prof. W. A. Herdman, 

 F R.S. 270; Das biomechanische (neo-vitahstische) 

 Denken in der Medizin und in der Biologie, Prof. Moriz 

 Benedikt, 342 ; Le Leman, Monographie limnologique, 

 Prof. F. A. Forel, 411 ; Pelagic Life in the Lochs, James 

 Murray, 455 ; the New Biological Station at Port Erin, 

 474 ; Phyllobiologie, nebst Ubersicht der biologischen 

 fi'latt-typen von eiri und sechzig Siphonogamenfamilien, 

 Prof. Dr. A. Hansgirg, 438; Problems in Biological 

 Energetics, M. A. Chauveau, 551-2; Marine Biology, a 

 Rare Squid from the Sagami Sea, Messrs. Ijima and 

 Ikeda 38 ; Importance of Boring Algas in the Disinte- 

 gration of Corals, Dr. J. E. Duerden, 88; the Minnesota 

 Seaside Station, 152 ; Notes on Rearing the Later Stages 

 of Echinoid Larva;, L. Doncaster, 215; Amphipoda of the 

 Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition, A. O. Walker, 23S ; 

 Morphology and Growth of the Gastropod, Prof. A. W. 

 Grabau 278; the Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon, Discourse 

 at the ' Royal Institution by Prof. W. A. Herdman, 

 F.R.S., 620 

 Biometrika, 550 



