Nature^ 



1903J 



Inaex 



the Mycenaean Discoveries in Crete, H. R. Hall, 57; 

 Roman Ships Submerged in the Lake of Nemi, 64; Le- 

 gendary Origin of the Name Pel£e, 64 ; Irish Gold Orna- 

 ments Acquired by the British Museum, R. Cochrane, 

 89 ; the Oldest Bronze-age Ceramic Type in Britain, the 

 Hon. John Abercromby, 118 ; Death of M. Alexandre Ber- 

 trand, 133 ; Materiali per Io Studio della " Eta della 

 Pietra " dai tempi preistorici all' epoca attuale, Enrico 

 Hillyer Giglioli, 145 ; Death and Obituary Notice ot Henry 

 Ntopes, 156 ; Carved and Perforated Antlers, Prof. T. 

 Rupert Jones, F.R.S., 174; the Seven Tablets of the 

 Creation, L. W. King, F.S.A., 204; Discovery of In- 

 scribed Wooden Tablets on the Niya River Site, Chinese 

 Turkestan, Dr. Stein, 231 ; the Coloured Drawings on 

 the Walls of the Cave of La Mouthe, Emil Riviere, 311 ; 

 a Colouring Matter from the Figures in the Cave of La 

 Mouthe, Henri Moissan, 311.; Annals of the Kings of 

 Assyria, E. A. Wallis Budge and L. W. King, F.S.A., 

 435 ; Aboriginal Remains in N.W. Florida, Clarence B. 

 Moore, 612 ; a History of Egypt from the End of the 

 Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII., B.C. 30, 

 E. A. Wallis Budge, Supp. November 6, 1902, iii 



Architecture, Natural Proportions in, Jay Hambidge at the 

 Hellenic Society, 68 



Archives of Phonographic Records, the, 301 



Arctica : the Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 1893-1896, 

 Scientific Results, Fridtjof Nansen, 97 ; Photographs of 

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

 the Ice in the Arctic Seas in 1902, 494; Likelihood of a 

 Great Ice Season, 521 ; Measurement of an Arc of Meridian 

 in Spitzbergen, Sir Martin Conway, 536; Four Years' 

 Arctic Exploration and Scientific Observation in the Fram, 

 Captain Sverdrup and P. Schei, 616 



Aristotelian Society, Proceedings of the, 315 



Arithmetic : Junior Arithmetic Examination Papers, W. S. 

 Beard, 79 ; the Modern Arithmetic, Archibald Murray, 

 147 ; How to Work Arithmetic, Leonard Norman, 558 



Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), the Conditions Determina- 

 tive of Chemical Change and of Electrical Conduction in 

 Gases and on the Phenomena of Luminosity, 82 ; Heuristic 

 Method of Teaching Chemistry, 23T : the Assumed Radio- 

 activity of Ordinary Materials, 414 



Arrhenius (Svante), Text-book of Electrochemistry, 437 



d'Arsonval (M.), a Simplified Form of Foucault's Pendulum, 

 114 



Arth (M.), Electrochemical Laboratories at Nancy, 182 



Artificial Mineral Waters, William Kirkby, 32 ; the Re- 

 viewer, 32 



Aso (K.), Action of Certain Poisonous Substances Supplied 

 as Food to Seedlings, 136 



Assaying : Aids to the Analysis and Assay of Ores. Metals, 

 Fuels, &c, J. J. Morgan, 201 



Assmann (Prof.), Observations of the Berlin Aeronautical 

 Observatory, 139 ; Registration Balloon of Caoutchouc, 



! 39 



Assuan, the Great Irrigation Dam at, 184 



Assyria, Annals of the Kings of, E. A. Wallis Budge and 

 L. W. King, F.S.A., 435 



Assyriology : the Seven Tablets of the Creation, L. W. 

 King, F.S.A., 204 



Asteroids, Missing, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 472 



Astronomy : Leonid Meteors, 1902, a Forecast, John R. 

 Henry, 8 ; Leonid and Bielid Meteor Showers of November, 

 1902, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 103 ; a Sickle Leonid, 

 G. McKenzie Knight, 204 ; the Leonids of 1902 and 

 Quadrantids of 1903, John R. Henry, 298 ; Our Astro- 

 nomical Column, 16, 39, 66, 90, 114, 137, 158, 183, 211, 233, 

 254, 280, 306, 329, 352, 376, 400, 424, 447, 472, 496, 522, 

 544, 567, 593, 618; the Nebula around Nova Persei, Prof. 

 C. D. Perrine, 16 ; Spectrum of the Nebulosity Surround- 

 ing, Prof. Perrine, 593 ; Change of Focus in the Light from 

 Nova Persei, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 66; Early Observations 

 of Nova Persei, Prof. Pickering, 90 ; Proper Motion and 

 Parallax of Nova Persei, Asten Bergstrand, 183 ; Observa- 

 tions of the Light of Nova Persei, 496 ; Pulkova Observa- 

 tions of Nova Persei, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 515 ; 

 Density and Change of Volume of Nova Persei, C. E. 

 Stromeyer, 612 ; Coronal Disturbance and Sun-Spots, Prof. 

 Perrine, 16 ; Variation in Magnitude of a Orionis, Dr. 

 E. Packer, 16 ; Variability of a Orionis, Herr J. Plassman, 

 137; the Variable Star 13, 1902, Lyrae, 16; the Algol 



Variable R.V. (13, 1902) Lyra;, Prof. Pickering, 183; 

 Variable or Temporary Star in Lyra, Herr Seeliger, 54^ ; 

 New Variable Star 15, 1902, Delphini, Dr. Anderson, 16; 

 New Variable Star 16, 1902, Delphini, Madame Ceraski, 

 114; New Variable Stars, 158; Observations of Long 

 Period Variable Stars, Father Esch, 254; Observations of 

 Variable Stars, M. Luizet, 233 ; A. Stanley Williams, 329 ; 

 New Variable Star 21, 1902, Sagittae, Madame Ceraski, 

 254; a Unique Variable Star, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 

 467 ; Comet 1902 b as Observed in Ceylon, H. O. Bar- 

 nard, 39 ; Near Approach of Comet 1902 b to Mercury, 

 Prof. Seagrave, 39 ; Transparency of Comet 1902 b, Prof. 

 O. C. Wendell, 447 ; Comet 1902 b, J. Guillaume and G. le 

 Cadet, 45s ; Spectrum of the Comet 1902 b, A. de la Baume- 

 Pluvinel, 472, 528 ; Comet 1902 b (Giacobini), C. F. 

 Pechule, 158 ; New Comet 1902 d (Giacobini), 137 ; G. 

 Bigourdan, 167; G. Fayet and P. Salst, 167; G. 

 Fayet, 307 ; Observations of the Giacobini Comet (1902 d) 

 made at the Observatory of Besancon, P. Chofardet, 192 ; 

 Comet 1902 d, M. Ebell, 183, 233; F. Ristenpart, 280; 

 Elements and Ephemeris of, G. Fayet, 159 ; Ephemeris 

 for Comet 1902 d, F. Ristenpart, 544 ; New Comet, 1903 a 

 (Giacobini), 280, 329; M. Ebell and Prof. H. Kreutz, 307; 

 Elements and Ephemeris of Comet 1903 a, G. Fayet, 352 ; 

 Observations of Comet 1903 a, P. Chofardet, 376 ; Comet 

 1903 a, Paul Briick, 424, 544; Comet 1902 c (Grigg), 91 ; 

 Elements and Search-Ephemeris for Comet 1896 V 

 (Giacobini), Herr M. Ebell, 447 ; Ephemeris for Comet- 

 Tempel 3 -Swift, J. Bossert, 40, 307 ; Return of Perrine 's 

 Comet 1896 vii., Herr Ristenpart, 329 ; Comet 1902 b 

 (Perrine), Herr Ebell, 424 ; New Minor Planets, Prof. Max 

 Wolf, 39, 67, 158 ; Three Stars with Large Proper Motions, 

 A. Verschaffel, 40; the Pyramid Spot on Jupiter, Leo 

 Brenner, 40 ; Jupiter and His Great Red Spot, W. F. 

 Denning, 159 ; Spectrograph^ Determination of the Rota- 

 tion Period of Jupiter, V. M. Slipher, 280 ; Physical 

 Constitution of Jupiter, Prof. G. W. Hough, 329 ; 

 Definition of Jupiter's Markings, Acceleration in 

 the Motion of the Great Red Spot, W. F. Denning, 329 ; 

 Observations of Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, Prof. R. 

 G. Aitken, 496 ; Observations of Jupier's Markings, Sefior 

 Jose Comas Sola, 447 ; Observations of the Aurora, Prof. 

 E. E. Barnard, 67 ; Cooperation in Observing Stellar 

 Radial Velocities, Prof. E. B. Frost, 67 ; the Mark- 

 ings on Venus, Prof. Percival Lowell, 67 ; Die Mechanik 

 des Himmels, Carl Ludwig Charlier, 77; Suggestion 

 made by Sir D. Gill that the Brighter Stars are Rotating 

 with Respect to the Fainter Stars, Prof. H. H. Turner, 

 94; Herschel's Nebulous Regions of the Heavens, Dr. 

 Isaac Roberts, 94, 158; Dr. Isaac Roberts and Herschel's 

 Nebulous Regions of the Heavens, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 

 424 ; Astronomical Occurrences in December, 90 ; in 

 January, 211 ; in February, 306; in March, 424; in April, 

 496; in May, 618; Apparent Deviations from Newton's 

 Law of Gravitation, Peter Lebedew, 91 ; Total Light of 

 all the Stars, Gavin J. Burns, 91 ; Royal Astronomical 

 Society, 94, 190, 286, 501, 598; Observations of the 

 Perseid Shower, Herr Koss, 114; Observations of the Per- 

 seids, August 10 and 11, 1902, Charles P. Olivier, 211; 

 Evolution of Aerography, Percival Lowell, 114; a Simpli- 

 fied Form of Foucault's Pendulum, M. D'Arsonval, 114; 

 Activity of the Lunar Crater Linne, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 

 137 ; Redeterminations of the Velocity of Light and the 

 Solar Parallax, M. Perrotin, 137 ; the Annuaire Astrono- 

 mique, 137; Companion to The Observatory, 1903, 159; 

 Star with Probable Large Proper Motion, J. Pidoux, 184; 

 Report of the Government Astronomer for Natal, 1901, 

 184; Total Eclipse of the Moon, April 22, 1902, Dr. W. 

 van der Gracht, 184; the Colour of the Eclipsed Moon, 

 Prof. E. E. Barnard, 376 ; Vibrations and Stability of a 

 Gravitating Planet, J. H. Jeans, 189; Astronomy without 

 a Telescope, E. Walter Maunder, 201 ; Magnetic Storms 

 and Sun-spots, Father Cortie, 211 ; the Moscow Observa- 

 tory, 211 ; the Spectrum of e Aurigas, Prof. H. C. Vogel, 

 233 ; Observations with a Binocular Telescope. D. W. 

 Edgecomb, 233 ; the Quadrantids of 1903, G. McKenzie 

 Knight, 247; the Quadrantids, 1903 — a Coincidence, W. 

 H. Milligan, 535 ; Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 535; 

 Sun-spots and Summer Heat, Alex. B. MacDowall, 247: 

 the Heavens at a Glance, 1903, 254 ; Observations of 

 Occultations, G. W. Hough, 254 ; the Relation between 



