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u 'it iS, 1903 



Facula; and Prominences, Signor Mascari, 280 ; the Photo- 

 iiv of Miliar Regions, Egon von Oppolzer, 280; the 

 Science ol Astronomy, Prof. Asaph Hall at American 

 \ ociation for Advancement of Science, Washington 

 Meeting, 282; Report on the Total Solar Eclipse of 

 January, i.8q8, Kavaoji Dadabhai Naegamvala, 307; a 

 Bright" Meteor, C. J. Lacy, 307; February Meteors, Mr. 

 Denning, 447; a Remarkable Meteor, J. E. C. Liddle, 

 464, 487 ; the Lyrid Meteors, John R. Henry, 584 ; Prof. 

 A, S. Herschel, F.R.S., 584; the Planet Mars, E. Touchet, 

 307 ; Report of the Harvard College Observatory, 307 ; 

 Publications of West Hendon House Observatory, Sunder- 

 land, T. W." Backhouse, 343 ; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of lames Glaisher, F.R.S., 348 ; the Constant of Aberration 

 and the Solar Parallax, Dr. Chandler, 352 ; a New Form 

 of Spectroscope, Antonio Sauve, 352 ; Report of the United 

 States Naval Observatory, 353 ; Determinations of Stellar 

 Radial Velocities, M. Deslandres, 376 ; Proper Motion of 

 the Sun Compared with Stellar Velocities, Profs. Frost 

 and Adams, 400; Cooperative Determinations of Veloci- 

 ties in the Line of Sight, Mr. Newall, 568; the Relation 

 between Solar Prominences and Terrestrial Magnetism, 

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

 J. S. Lockyer, 377; Solar Prominences and Spot Circula- 

 tion, 1872-1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., and Dr. 

 William J. S. Lockyer, 569; Solar Eclipse of 1900 May 

 28, Spectroscopic Results, J. Evershed, 381 ; Photographs 

 of the North Polar Region, M. Flammarion, 400 ; a 

 Device for Obtaining Good Seeing, Prof. S. P. Langley, 

 400 ; Discovery of Ancient Astronomical Records, Prof. 

 Hilprecht, 400 ; Death of Prof. W. Harkness, 420 ; 

 Obituary Notice of, 442 ; New Star Catalogue, 425 ; 

 Parallax Determinations by Photography, C. E. 

 Stromeyer, 431 ; Man's Place in the Universe as In- 

 dicated' bv Astronomy, Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S., 447; 

 Proper Motion of Stars, Gavin J. Burns, 447 ; Solar 

 Phenomena and Meteorology, M. l'Abbe. Loisier, 447; a 

 Text-book of Field Astronomy for Engineers, G. C. Corn- 

 stock, 460 ; Death of Prof. C'. Dufour, 468 ; New Spectro- 

 scopic Binaries, Profs. Frost and Adams, 472 ; Missing 

 Asteroids, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 472 ; a Rich Nebulous 

 Region in the Constellation Lynx, Prof. Max Wolf, 472 ; 

 Wolf's Rich Nebulous Region in the Constellation Lynx, 

 Dr. Isaac Roberts, 568 ; Sphaera ; neue griechische Texte 

 und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Sternbilder, Franz 

 Boll, 4S1 ; Stellar Parallax, Dr. W. L. Elkin, 496; Mea- 

 sures of Saturn's Rings, Prof. F. E. Seagrave, 496; New 

 Catalogue of Double Stais, W. J. Hussey, 496; Magnetic 

 Observations During Eclipses, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 496 ; 

 Probable Presence in the Sun of the Newly-Discovered 

 Gases of the Earth's Atmosphere, Prof. Liveing, F.R.S., 

 502 ; Natural Law in Terrestrial Phenomena, Wm. Digby, 

 510; Bis an's Ende der Welt ! Prof. F. J. Studnicka, 5" ; 

 a New Star in Gemini, Prof. Hartmann, 522 ; Prof. 

 Hale, 522 ; Prof. H. H. Turner, 522 ; Mr. Newall, 522 ; 

 Nova Geminorum, Prof. Hartwig, Prof. Hartmann and 

 Dr. Ludendorff, 567 ; Prof. Millosevich, 593 ; Dr. 

 Halm, 593 ; Drs. Ristenpart ana Guthnick, 593 ; 

 Prof. Hartwig, 593 ; Nova Geminorum before its 

 Discovery, Prof. Pickering, 618; the New Star in 

 Gemini, F. A. Bellamy, 598; the Solar Constant, Prof. S. 

 P. Langley, 522 ; the Magnesium Spectrum Line at \ 4481, 

 Sir William and Lady Huggins, 522 ; Opposition of Mars, 

 W. F. Denning, 525 ; Grundzuge der astronomisch-geo- 

 graphischen Ortsbestimmung auf Forschungsreisen, Prof. 

 Dr. Paul Gussfeldt, Major C. F. Close, 532 ; the Twentieth 

 Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy, Thomas Heath, 

 534 : Variation of Solar Radiation Received on the Earth's 

 Surface, M. Henri Dufour, 545 ; Annals of the Royal Uni- 

 versity Observatory of Vienna, 541; ; International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature, 557 ; the Period and Light- 

 curve of 5 Cephei, Prof. A. A. Nijland, 568 ; Experiment to 

 Illustrate Precession and Nutation, Rev. H. V. Gill, 586; 

 Recently Discovered Terrestrial Gases in the Chromo- 

 sphere, Prof. S. A. Mitchell, 619 ; Catalogue of Measures 

 of New Double Stars, Prof. R. G. Aitken, 619 ; the Cam- 

 brian Natural Observer, 619 

 Astrophysics : a Sub-Tropical Solar Physics Observatory, 



Prof. S. P. Langley, 207 

 Atlantic Forecasts of the U.S. Weather Bureau, 36 

 Atlantis Problem, the, Dr. R. F. Scharff, 143, 446 



Atlantische Ozean, Supp. F'ebruary 5, 1903, vii 



Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean, a New, Supp. February 5, 

 1903, vii 



Atlas, the Twentieth Century, of Popular Astronomy, 

 Thomas Heath, 534 



Atoms, the Size of, H. V. Ridout, 45 



Aubel (Edmond van), Electrical Resistance of Lead Sulphide 

 at Very Low Temperatures, 47; on Hall's Phenomenon 

 and Thermoelectric Power, 72 ; Action of Radio-active 

 Bodies on the Electric Conductivity of Selenium, 599 



Auger (V.), K6kul£ Method of Production of True Thio- 

 acids, 455 ; Pyrophosphorous Acid, 552 



Aurora, Observations of the, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 67 



e Auriga?, the Spectrum of, Prof. H. C. Vogel, 233 



Australia : Report on the Rainfall of South Australia, 13 ; 

 the Rabbit Pest in Australia, its Cause and its Cure, W. 

 Rodier, 43 ; Recent Dust .Storms in, Will. A. Dixon, 203 ; 

 H. Stuart Dove, 203 ; Remarkable Meteorological Pheno- 

 mena in, H. J. Jensen, 344 



Austria, Recent Science in, 425 



Automatic Telephone Exchange, the, 40 



Automobiles : Les Moteurs a Explosion, G. Moreau, C. R. 

 D'Esterre. 145; Th^orie des Moteurs a Gas, G. Moreau, 

 C. R. D'Esterre, 145 ; Count Zeppelin's Automobile- 

 launch, 373; Electric Automobiles, H. F. Joel, 304: Das 

 Motor-Zweirad und seine Behandlung, Wolfgang Vogel, 

 3'6 



Babes (V.), the Genesis of Giant Cells, 359 



Babylonian and Assyrian Legends of the Creation, L. W. 

 King, F.S.A., 204 



Backhouse (T. W.), Volcanic Dust Phenomena, 174; Publi- 

 cations of West Hendon House Observatory, Sunderland, 



343 



Bacteriology : Ice-creams Bacteriologically Examined, 14 : 

 Bactericidal Effect of Human Blood in vitro, Messrs. 

 Wright and Windsor, 14 ; the Phosphorescence of Meat, 

 Prof. Molisch, 22 ; Bacteriological Technique and Special 

 Bacteriology, Thomas Bowhill, 149 ; Germs in Space, Sir 

 Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 103 ; Prof. Theo. D. A. Cockerell, 

 103 ; Lord Kelvin, 181 ; Death of Major Walter Reed, 

 155 ; Report of the Yellow Fever Expedition to Para of 

 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, H. E. Dur- 

 ham, 172 ; a Typhoid Antitoxin, M. Chantemesse, 27.1 ; 

 Oysters and Typhoid Fever, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 370 ; 

 Comparative Bactericidal Power of the Electric Arc be- 

 tween Poles of Ordinary Carbon or of Carbon containing 

 Iron, Alfred Chatin and S. Nicolau, 311; Natural and 

 Artificial Sewage Treatment, Jones and Roechling, 315 ; 

 Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, Prof. Frank Clowes, 

 F.R.S., 402 ; Peculiar Effects of Light, Micrococcus phos- 

 phorens. Dr. H. Molisch, 426 ; Value of Bacteriological 

 Tests in Judging Butter, David Houston, 431 ; the " Red 

 Plague," New Bacillus Discovered in Eels, Dr. F. 

 Inghilleri, 445 ; Lamp Lighted by Means of Bacteria, 

 Prof. Hanos Molisch, 468 ; Bacteria in Daily Life, Mrs. 

 Percy Frankland, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 583 ; Report upon 

 the Atmosphere of the Central London Railway, Dr. 

 Clowes and Dr. Andrews, 591 ; Microbes and Digestion 

 and Disease, Mdlle. P. V. Tsiklinsky, 617 



Bagwell-Purefoy (E.), Introduction of the Brimstone But- 

 terfly into Tipperarv, 158 



Bailey (C), the Oxlip', 566 



Baily (P. H.), Light-Therapeutics, 32 



Baird and Tatlock (Messrs.), Silica Vessels, 182 



Baker (Dr. H. F.), Integration of Linear Differential 

 Equations, iqo ; of Functions of Several Variables, 262 



Baker (Ira Osborn), a Treatise on Roads and Pavements. 



557 



Baker (R. 1.), a Research on the Eucalypts especially in 

 regard to their Essential Oils, 524 



Baker (W. M.), Elementary Geometry, 577 



Baldwin (James Mark), Development and Evolution, in- 

 cluding Psychophysical Evolution, Evolution by Ortho- 

 plasy, and the Theory of Genetic Modes, 202 



Balfour (Henry), the Musical Bow and the Goura, 37 



Balfour's (Mr.), Apologetics Critically Examined, 341 



Ball (Dr. John), the Semna Cataract of the Nile, a Studv 

 in River-erosion, 142 : Survey of Jebel Garra, 157 



Ball (Sir Robert, F.R.S.), the Reflection of Screws, 143 



