Index 



' Naturt, 

 _ Jime 8, 1905 



Electrons, Augusto Righi, 558 ; Atmospheric Electricity 

 in High Latitudes, George C. Simpson, 573 ; Historical 

 Note on Dust, Electrification, and Heat, Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, F.R.S., 582 ; Unsolved Problems in Electrical En- 

 gineering, " James Forrest " Lecture at the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers, Colonel R. E. Cronipton, 505 : lonisa- 

 tion in Flames, Pierre Massoulier, 600 ; a Short Intro- 

 duction to the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation, J. C. 

 Gregory, 606 ; Electromagnetics in a Moving Dielectric, 

 Olivier ' Heaviside, F.R.S., 606 ; Tantalum, Dr. F. 

 MoUwo Pcrkin, 610 



Electrometallurgy : Calcium Metal, R. S. Hutton, 180 



Elements, Prof. Mendeli^eff on the Chemical, 65 



Elements of Chemistry, the, M. M. Pattison Muir, 582 



Elements and Ephemeris of Comet 1904 J, M. Ebell, 211 ; 

 M. Giacobini, 211 ; see also Astronomy 



Elements and Ephemeris for Comet 1905 a (Giacobini), 

 General Bassot, 617; Dr. Palisa, 618; see also Astronomy 



Eliot's (Sir J.) Address at Cambridge, J. R. Sutton, 6; 

 Sir John Eliot, F.R.S., 7 



Elkin (Dr.), Triangulation of the Pleiades Stars, 329; 

 Report of the Yale Observatory, 1900-4, 354 



Elliot (D. G.), the Land and Sea Mammals of Middle 

 America and the West Indies, 212 



Elliot (R. H.), the .\gricultural Changes required by these 

 Times and Laying Down Land to Grass, 604 



Elmore (Senor), Water-supply of the Rimac Valley, 236 



Elster (Mr.), the Human ISreath as a Source of the lonisa- 

 tion of the Atmosphere, 157: Radio-active Muds from the 

 Thermal .Springs of Nauheim and Baden, 448 



Ely (Prof. Achsah M.), Death of, 350 



Eriierson (Miss), Anatomy of Typhlonwlgc rathbuni, the 

 Blind Salamander, 515 



Emmons (S. F.), Economic Resources of the Northern 

 Black Hills, 450 ; Refractory Siliceous Ores of South 

 Dakota, 452 



Encke's Comet 1904 h, M. Kaminsky, i6 ; Prof. Max Wolf, 

 63, 89: Prof. Millosevich, 89, 114:' Prof. E. Hartwig, 89; 

 Herr Moschick, 114; M. Kaminsky, 114; Dr. Smart, 

 114; Herr van d Bilt, 185; Brightness of Encke's Comet, 

 J. Holetschek, 460 



Energy, Life and. Four Addresses, Walter Hfcbert, 271 



Energy, the Reception and Utilisation of, by a Green Leaf, 

 Bakerian Lecture at the Royal Societv, Dr. Horace T. 

 Brown, F.R.S., 522 



Engineering : Modern Electric Practice, i ; Electric Motors, 

 H. >L Hobart, i ; Notices sur I'Electricit^, A. Cornu, i ; 

 I'Ann^e Technique (1902-1903), A. Da Cunha, i ; Public 

 Works in India during the Last Fifty Years, Sir 

 Guilford L. Molesworth, 13 ; Patent Flexible Curves 

 and a Parabolic Curve, W. J. Brooks, 15 ; the 

 Definition of Entropy, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 

 31; 125; J. Swinburne, 125; Possibilities of Gas 

 Turbines from a Scientific .Standpoint, R. M. Neil- 

 son, 87 ; British Standard Specification and Sections 

 for Bull Headed Railway Rails, 88; Coast Erosion and 

 Protection, A. E. Carey, E. R. Matthews, at the In- 

 stitution of Civil Engineers, 92 ; Need of Testing 

 Materials to be Subjected to Rapidly Repeated or to 

 Alternating Loads otherw-ise than by Determining the 

 Tensile Strength and Elastic Limit, A. E. Seaton and 

 A. Jude, 184; Small Destructors for Institutional and 

 Trade Waste, W. Francis Goodrich, 246; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Beauchamp Tower, 253 ; Recent Visit 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers to the United States 

 and Canada, Sir William White, K.C.B., 254; Death of 

 Joseph Chaudron, 325 ; Death of William Sellers, 372 ; 

 Connection between Engineering and Science, C. O. 

 Burge, 384; Piercing of the Simplon Tunnel Completed, 

 420 ; Unsolved Problems in Electrical Engineering, 

 " James Forrest " Lecture at the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers. Colonel R. E. Crompton, 59, 



England : Remains of the Prehistoric .Age in, Bertram 

 C. A. Windle, F.R.S., 322; Social England', 3S5 ; an 

 Introductory History of England, C. R. L. Fletcher, 

 385 ; Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions, H. M. Chad- 

 wick, 385 



England and Wales, the Sea-fishing Industry of, F. G. 

 Aflalo, 153 



English Estate Forestry, A. C. Forbes, 580 



English Field-botany, 245 



Entomology: Entomological Society, 23, 117, 142, 190, 

 334, 429, 501, 527, 621 ; Tyrosinase of the Fly, C. 

 Gessard, 24; Ants and some other Insects, an Inquiry j 

 into the Psychic Powers of these Animals, Dr. Augus 

 Forel. Prof. William Morton Wheeler, 29 ; Occurrence ! 

 of a Tropical Form of Stick-insect in Devonshire, Prof. 

 Robert O. Cunningham, 55 : the Pine-apple Gall of the 

 Spruce, E. R. Burdon, 71 ; the Australian Cicadida;, 

 Dr. F. W. Coding and W. W. Froggatt, 72 ; Death of 

 C. G. Barrett, 181; Obituary Notice of, 208; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 397 ; 

 Function of the Antennae in Insects, M. Yearsley, 430; 

 a Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, W. F. Kirby, 

 459 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. S. Packard, 

 406; the Congo Floor Maggot, Messrs. Dutton, Todd, 

 and Christy, 499 ; Protective Resemblance, Mark L. 

 Svkes, 520 ; Studies of \^ariation in Insects, Vernon L. 

 Kellogg and Ruby G. Bell, 545 ; Maturation of the Egg 

 and Early Development in Certain Sawflies, L. Don- 

 caster, 550; " Fungus-gardens" of South American 

 Ants, Prof. D. H. Forel, 567 



Entropy, the Definition of. Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 

 31, 125; J. Swinburne, 125 



Eocene Whales, F. \. Lucas, 102 



Ephemeris for Brooks's Comet 1904 L, 374 



Ephemeris of Comet 1904 d, M. Ebell, 211, 353; M. 

 Giacobini, 211 : Herr Pechiile, 353 



Ephemeris for Comet 1904 e. Dr. E. Striimgren, 353 ; sec 

 also Astronomy 



Eros Circular, the Eleventh, Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S., 



'54 



Eros Stars, Magnitude Equation in the Right Ascensions 

 of the, Prof. R. H. Tucker, 618 



Erosion, Coast, and Protection, A. E. Carey, E. R. 

 Matthews, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 92 



Etheridge (R.), an Opalised Plesiosaurian Reptile of the 

 Genus Cimoliosaurus from White ClifTs, New South 

 \\'ales, 399 



Ethnography : Difficulties of the Ethnographic Survey in 

 the Mysore, E. Thurston, 182 



Ethnology : Death of Prof. Max Berbels, 181 ; Archaeo- 

 logical Researches in Costa Rica, C. V. Hartman, 

 Colonel George Earl Church, 461 ; Tales from Old Fiji, 

 Lorimer Fison, 490 



Eugenics : Studies in. Meeting at the Sociological Society, 



401 ; Restrictions in Marriage, Francis Galton, 401 ; 

 Studies in National Eugenics, Francis Galton, 401 ; Dr. 

 Haddon, 402 : Dr. F. "iV. Mott, 402 ; Ernest Crawley, 



402 ; Dr. E. Westermarck, 402 



Europe, the Racial Elements in the Present Population of, 

 Huxley Memorial Lecture, Dr. J. Deniker at Antropo- 

 logical Institute, 21 

 European Longitudes, Discussion of Central, Prof. Th. 



Albrecht, 424 

 European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, a History 

 of, John Theodore Merz, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 

 241 

 Evans (A. J.), the Tombs of Minoan Knossos, 303 

 Evans (W. H.), Electrolytic Preparation of Titanous 



Sulphate, 71 

 Eve (.A.. S.), the Infection of Laboratories by Radium, 460 

 Evolution : the Origin of Life, George Hookham, 9 ; 

 Geologist, 31 ; Dai Nippon, the Britain of the East, a 

 Study in National Evolution, Henry Dyer, 97 ; the In- 

 heritance of Tortoiseshell and Related Colours in Cats, 

 L. Doncaster, 191 ; Mankind in the Making, H. G. 

 Wells ; Anticipations, H. G. Wells ; the Food of the 

 Gods, H. G. Wells, 193 : Variation in Animals and 

 Plants, H. M. Vernon, 243 : Trapezium of the Carpus 

 of the Horse, O. C. Bradley, 326; an Outline of the 

 Theory of Organic Evolution, with a Description of 

 some of the Phenomena which it Explains, Dr. Mavnard 

 M. Metcalf, 509 

 Ewart (Dr. .Alfred J.), the Ascent of Water in Trees, 261 

 Examination at Cambridge, the Previous, 55 

 Exotic Flowers, the Bionomics of. Prof. Percv Groom, 26 

 Exotic Flowers, the Pollination of, Ella M. Bryant, 249 

 Exploration of Lake Tanganyika, Scientific, 277 

 Exploration in the Mentone Caves, Recent, Prof. Marcellin 



Boule, 276 

 Explosion Risks, Fire and. Dr. von Schwartz, 122 



