Index 



Vjune 8, 



Prof. J. O. Arnold and A. McWilliam, 32 ; on the 

 Application of Dry Air Blast to the Manufacture of Iron, 

 James Gayley, 40; Removal of Moisture from the Air 

 Blown into Blast Furnace by Freezing, Economy of Fuel, 

 Alfred Picard and M. Heurteau, 119; Influence Exerted 

 by the Removal of the Moisture from the Air Supplied to 

 the Blast Furnace, A. Lodin, 143 ; on the Use of Dry Air 

 in Blast Furnaces, Henri Le Chatelier, 143 ; Method of 

 Drying the Air for the Blast, Mr. Gayley, 327 ; Iron 

 .Manufacture in Lagos, C. \. Bellamy, 40; Development 

 and Rise of High-speed Tool Steel, J. M. GledhiU, 40; 

 Acid Open-hearth Manipulation, A. McWilliam and 

 W. H. Hatfield, 40 ; Photographic Method of Recording 

 the Temperature of Pieces of Steel during Cooling, H. Le 

 Chatelier, 88 ; the Use of Helium as a Thermometric Sub- 

 stance and its Diffusion through Silica, Adrien Jaquerod 

 and F. Louis Perrot, 95 ; Invar and its .Applications, 

 Dr. Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 134; Corr., 158; Calcium Metal, 

 R. S. Hutton, 180; Death of Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., 

 F.R.S., i8i ; Obituary Notice of, 230; Need of Testing 

 Materials to be Subjected to Rapidly Repeated or to 

 Alternating Loads Otherwise than by determining the 

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

 Jude, 184 ; on the Possibility of Producing a Non-brittle 

 Steel Tempered Blue, Ch. Fremont, 19 1 ; Report of the 

 Commission appointed by Clifford Sifton, Minister of 

 the Interior, Ottawa, Canada, to investigate the Different 

 Electrothermic Processes for the smelting of Iron Ores 

 and the making of Steel in Europe, Prof. J. O. .Arnold, 

 258; Influence of Steam on the Reduction of the O.xides 

 of Iron by Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide, O. Boudouard, 

 263 ; Chrome-vanadium Steels, Captain Riall Sankey and 

 J. Kent Smith, 305 ; Increase of Volume of Molten Cast 

 Iron, Saturated with Carbon in the Electric Furnace, at 

 the Moment of Solidification, Henri Moissan, 335 ; 

 Laboratory Notes on Practical Metallurgy, Walter Mac- 

 farlane, 413 ; Death of Dr. Ernest F. Durre, 420; Recent 

 Developments in Electric Smelting in Connection with 

 Iron and Steel, F. W. Harbord, 502 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Prof. Bruno Kerl, 540; Electricallv Heated 

 Carbon Tube Furnaces, R. S. Hutton and W. H. Pat- 

 terson, 598 ; Special Brasses for Naval Construction, L. 

 Guillet, 616 



Metals : Arc Spectra of the Alkali Metals, F. A. Saunders, 

 133 ; Further Observations on Slip-Bands, Novel Method 

 of investigating the .Micro-structure of Metals, Walter 

 Rosenhain, 500 ; Effects of Momentary Stresses in 

 Metals, Prof. Bertram Hopkinson, 501 



Metaphysical Reality, Scientific Fact and, Robert Brandon 

 Arnold, 485 



Metcalfe (Dr. Maynard M.), an Outline of the Theorv of 

 Organic Evolution, with a Description of some of the 

 Phenomena which it Explains, 509 



Meteorology: Sir J. Eliot's Address at Cambridge, J. R. 

 Sutton, 6; Sir John Eliot, F.R.S., 7; the Floods of the 

 Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Watershed, H. C. 

 Frankenfeld, 10; the Passaic Flo6ds of 1902 and 1903, 11 ; 

 Rainfall for 1903 in Mauritius, 14 ; United States 

 Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes for the Winter 

 of 1903-4, 15 ; a Sensitive Hygrometer, Dr. W. M. Thorn- 

 ton. 47 ; Investigation of .Accuracy of .Self-registering 

 Thermometers, Mr. Claxton, 62 ; the Melting of Glaciers 

 in Winter, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 62 ; Kite Observations 

 on the Lake of Constance, Dr. H. Hergesell, 87; Scien- 

 tific Experiments in Italy with Unmanned Balloons, Dr. 

 L. Palazzo, 113; Royal Meteorological Society, 119, 216, 

 334. 430. 503. 622 ; Decrease of Fog in London, 119, 542 ; 

 T. J. Brodie, 119; London Fogs. 132; Report of the 

 Meteorological Council upon an Inquiry into the Occur- 

 rence and Distribution of Fogs in the London Area, 

 during the Winters of iqoi-2 and 1902-3, with Reference 

 to Forecasts of the Incidence and Duration of Fogs in 

 Special Localities, to which is Appended the Report by 

 R. G. K. Lempfert on the Observations of the Winter 

 1902-3. 259 ; Meteorological Results of the National 

 Antarctic Expedition, W. Krebs, 131 ; the Storm of 

 December 6, 157; Monthly Wind Cliarts for the South 

 .Atlantic Ocean, 157; the Cvclones of the Far East, Rev. 

 Jos^ Algu^, S.J., 198; the Climate of Shanghai, Rev. J. 

 de Moidrey, S.J., 209 ; Meteorology in Mysore for 1903, 

 210; Smoke Problem, F. J. Rowan, 210; the Study of 



the Minor Fluctuations of Atmospheric Pressure, Dr. 

 W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., and W. H. Dines, 210; .Mean 

 Temperatures of High Southern Latitudes, Prof. Julius 

 Hann, 221 ; the " Piesmic " Barometer, .A. S. Davis, 232 ; 

 Observations at Odessa for 1901-3, 255 ; the Abnormal 

 Tides of January 7, 258; a Method of Reading Large 

 .Surfaces of Mercury, A. Berget, 287 ; Observations 

 oceanographiques et m^teorologiques dans la Region du 

 Courant de Guin^e (1855-1900), 293; Super-cooled Rain: 

 Drops, Edward E. Robinson, 295 ; Cecil Carus-Wilson, , 

 320 ; Method of Studying Raindrops, W. A. Bentley, 399 ; j 

 Climatological Records of the British Empire for 1903, . 

 305 ; the Duration of Rainfall, T. Okada, 305 ; the Moon | 

 and Barometer, .Alex. B. MacDowall, 320; Rainfall of' 

 the British Isles for 1904, Dr. H. R. Mill, 326; the 

 General Motion of Clouds, Prof. H. H. Hildebrandsson, ', 

 329 ; Connection of Meteorology with Other Sciences, 

 Captain D. Wilson-Barker, 334 ; R&ultats du Voyage du 

 S.Y. Belgica en 1897, 1898, 1899, sous le Commandemant 

 de A. de Gerlache de Gomery, 337; Indian and South 

 .African Rainfalls 1892-1902, D. E. Hutchins, 342 ; High 

 Barometric Readings over the British Isles during the 

 Latter Part of January last, 351 ; Remarkable Tempera- 

 ture Inversion and the Recent High Barometer, W. H. 

 Dines, 365 ; the Circulation of the -Atmosphere, James 

 Thomson, 365 ; Influence of the Time Factor on the Cor- 

 relation between the Barometric Heights at Stations more 

 than louo Miles .Apart, F. E. Cave-Browne-Cave, 379 ; 

 the .Action of Hail Cannons, J. VioUe, 383 ; .Automatic 

 Registration of .Atmospheric lonisation, Charles Nord- 

 mann, 407 ; Fall of Dust at Santa Cruz (Canaries) on 

 January 29 and 30, 422 ; Present Problems of Meteor- 

 ology, A. L. Rotch, 423 ; Phenological Observations for 

 the Year 1904, E. Mawley, 430 ; Denkmaler mittelalter- 

 licher Meteorologie, 438; -Aeronautical Monthly Ascents 

 of 1904, Prof. H. Hergesell, 447 ; Electrical Effects of 

 Dryness of Atmosphere at Winnipeg, Prof. A. H. R. 

 BuUer, 448 ; Rainfall from the Beginning of the Year, 

 467 ; on a Relation between -Autumnal Rainfall and the 

 Yield of Wheat of the Following A'ear, Dr. W. N. Shaw, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Society, 470; Preliminary Results of the 

 Kite -Ascents made on the A'acht of the Prince of Monaco 

 in the Summer of 1904, Prof. H. Hergesell, 467; Cli- 

 matic Features in the Land Surface, Dr. .Albrecht Penck, 

 472 ; Climatology of the Past Year, J. Lolsel, 493 ; the 

 Growth of Instrumental Meteorology, Richard Bentley, 

 503 ; Inversions of Temperatures and Humidity in Anti- 

 cyclones, Dr. -A. Lawrence Rotch, 510; Magnetic and 

 Meteorological Observatory, New Year Island, Captain 

 H. L. Crosthwaite, 515; Observations at Hong Kong 

 Observatory in 1903, 516; Rainfall of Six Months .Sep- 

 tember, 1904, to February, 1905, 516; Highest Maximum 

 Temperatures Recorded in the British Empire, W. E. 

 Cooke, 542 ; State of the Ice in the Arctic .Seas during 

 1904, 567 ; Meteorological Conditions of the Antarctic, 

 Discovery Expedition, C. W. R. Royds, 568; Atmospheric 

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

 Extraordinary Halo Observed at Paris on March 2(). 

 Louis Besson, 576 ; Inversions of Temperature on Ben 

 Nevis, -Andrew Watt, 5S3 ; the Nile Flood in Relation to 

 the Variations of -Atmospheric Pressure in North-east 

 Africa, Captain H. G. Lyons, 616 ; Observations at 

 Crinan in 1904, W. H. Dines, 622 ; Rate of Fall of Rain 

 at Seathwaite, Dr. H. R. Mill, 622 

 Meteors : the Perseid Shower, .A. King, 40 ; Observations 

 of Perseids, M. Chriitien, 89 ; M.. Perrotin, 89 ; G. -A. 

 Quignon, 89 ; Observations of Perseids, 1904, Prof. S. 

 Zammarchi, 133 ; the Perseids for 1904, V. Fournier, -A. 

 Chaudot, and G. Fournier, 167; Observations of the 

 Leonid Meteors, 1904, W. H. Milligan, 83 ; the Leonids, 

 1904, .Alphonso King, 102; John R. Henry, 126; Ob- 

 servations of Leonids at Harvard, 1904, 233 ; Real Paths. 

 Heights, and Velocities of Leonids, Mr. Denning, 306: 

 Heights of Meteors, Mr. Denning, 89 ; the November 

 Meteors of 1904, W. F. Denning, 93 ; Observations of 

 Bright Meteors, Dr. J. Miiller, 211; Parallax of a Low 

 Meteor, P. Gbtz, 133; a Bright Meteor, J. Ryan, 329; 

 Bright Meteors, R. L. Jones, 449 ; the Lyrid Meteors, 

 John R. Henry, 560; Real Path of a Bright Meteor, 

 H. Rosenberg, 569 ; Radiant Point of the Bielid Meteors, 

 K. Bohlin, 469 



