Nature, "I 

 June 8, 1905 J 



Index 



Demonstration of n-Rays by Photographic Methods, M. 

 Chanoz and M. Perrigot, 287 ; the Charge of the a Rays 

 from Polonium, Prof. Thomson, F.R.S., 166; Charge 

 Carried by the a Rays from Radium, Prof. E. Ruther- 

 ford, F.R.S., 413 ; Charge on the a Particles of Polonium 

 and Radium, Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 438; 

 Frederick Soddy, 438 : .Method of Protecting the Hands 

 of the Operator from X-Ray Burns, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 

 F.R.S., 167; Secondary Rontgen Radiation, Dr. Charles 

 G. Barkla, 440 ; Glandular Atrophic Action of the 

 X-Rays, Foveau de Courmelles, 456 ; Polarised Rontgen 

 Radiation, Dr. Charles G. Barkla, 477 ; Note on Radio- 

 activity, W. Ternent Cooke, 176; Radio-activity of 

 Natural Waters, Bertram B. Boltwood, 233 ; Plant Radio- 

 activity, Paul Becquerel, 263 ; the Construction of Simple 

 Electroscopes for Experiments on Radio-activity, Dr. 

 O. W. Richardson, 274 ; Photogenic Radio-active Proper- 

 ties of Calcined Coral placed in a Radiant Vacuum and 

 submitted to the Influence of the Kathode Rays, Gaston 

 S^guy, 287 ; .Action of very low Temperatures on the 

 Phosphorescence of Certain Sulphides, F. P. Le Roux, 

 287; a New Radio-active Product from Actinium, Dr. 

 T. Godlewski, 294; Fluorescence, C. Camichel, 311; 

 Secondary Radiation, Prof. J. A. McClelland, 31)0; Drift 

 Produced in Ions by Electromagnetic Disturbances, and 

 a , Theory of Radio-activity, George \V. Walker, 406 ; 

 Radio-active Muds from the Thermal Springs of Nauheim 

 and Baden, Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 448 ; Radio-active 

 Sediments of Thermal Springs, Prof. G. Vicentini and 

 Levi de Zara, 448 ; Radio-active Muds, Prof. G. Vicentini, 

 543 : Radio-active Water and Mud, H. S. .Allen, 543 ; 

 Secondary Radiation and .Atomic .Structui'e, Prof. J. A. 

 .McClelland, 503 ; Modern Theory of Physical Phenomena, 

 Radio-activity, Ions, Electrons, Augusto Righi, 558; New 

 Radio-active Element which Evolves Thorium Emana- 

 tion, Dr. O. Hahn, 574 



Radium : Presence of Radium throughout the Earth's 

 \'olume as Compensating for the Loss of Heat by Con- 

 duction, C. Liebenow, 113; the Heating Effect of the 

 y Rays from Radium, Prof. E. Rutherford, F.R.S., and 

 Prof. H. T. Barnes, ]=;i; the Becquerel Rays and the 

 Properties of Radium, "Hon. R. J. Strutt, Dr. O. W. 

 Richardson, 172 ; the Origin of Radium, Frederick Soddy, 

 294; W. C. D. Whetham, F.R.S., 319; a New Mineral 

 containing Radium, J. Danne, 335 ; Slow Transformation 

 Products of Radium, Prof. E. Rutherford, F.R.S., 341 ; 

 .Action of Radium on the Electric Spark, Dr. R. S. 

 Willows and J. Peck, 358; Plumbiferous Earths of Issy- 

 I'Eveque contain Radium, M. Danne, 373 ; Charge 

 Carried by the a Rays from Radium, Prof. E. Ruther- 

 ford, F.R.S., 413; Charge on the a Particles of Polonium 

 and Radium, Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 438; 

 Frederick Soddy, 438 ; the Infection of Laboratories by 

 Radium, A. S. Eve, 460; Radium Explained, Dr. W. 

 Hampson, 530 ; the Treatment of Cancer with Radium, 

 588 ; see also Radiography 



Rddl (Dr. Em.), Untersuchungen iiber den Phototropismus 

 der Tiere, 265 



Rain Drops, Super-cooled, Edward E. Robinson, 295 ; Cecil 

 Carus-Wilson, 320 



Rainbow, a Lunar, J. McCrae, 366 



Rainfall, on a Relation between .Autumnal, and the Yield 

 of Wheat of the Following Year, Dr. W. N. Shaw, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Society, 470 



Rambaut (Dr.), on a Very Sensitive Method of Determining 

 the Irregularities of a Pivot, 190 



Ramsay (Sir William, K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Nobel Prize for 

 Chemistry Awarded to, 155 



Randall (H. McAllister), Accurate Measurement of Co- 

 efficients of Expansion, 469 



Rappoport (Dr. A. S.), a Primer of Philosophy, 27 



Rats, Destruction of, and Disinfection on Shipboard with 

 Special Reference to Plague, Drs. Haldane and Wade, 

 209 



Ray (P. C), Theory of the Production of Mercurous 

 Nitrite, iiq; Nitrites of the Alkali and Alkaline Earth 

 Metals and their Decomposition bv Heat, 165 ; the 

 Sulphate and the Phosphate of the Dimercurammonium 

 Series, 239 



Rayet (G.), Observations on the Borreilv Comet (December 

 2?, 1904I. 2'57 



Rayleigh (Lord, O.M., F.R.S.), the Nobel Prize for Physics 



.Awarded to, 155 ; Compressibility of Gases between One 



Atmosphere and Half an .Atmosphere of Pressure, 358 ; 



the Dynamical Theory of Gases, 559 

 Reade (T. Mellard), Study of Sands and Sediments, 161 

 Reason in Dogs, Arthur J. Hawkes, 54 

 Rebuffat (Prof. Orazio), Experiments with Radium Salts, 62 

 Red Spot on Jupiter, the Great, Mr. Denning and Rev. 



T. E. Phillips, 211; Stanley Williams, 211 

 Reflector at Harvard, a New 24-inch, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 



569 

 Refraction Constant, Value of the Astronomical, L. Cour- 



voisier, 592 

 Refraction Tables, New, Dr. L. de Ball, 234 

 Ragles Internationales de la Nomenclature zoologique, 534 

 Reichsanstait, die bisherige Tritigkeit der Phvsikalisch- 



technischen, 388 

 Reichsanstait, die Tatigkeit der Physikalisch-technischen, 



im Jahre 1903, 388 

 Rein (J. J.), Japan nach Reisen und Studien, 603 

 Reinach (Dr. Albert von), Death of, 325 

 Reinach (S.), Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Crete, 



Proposed Chronology of Cretan Civilisation, 69 

 Relative Drift of the Hyades Stars, Dr. Downing, F.R.S. 



Religion : Religion und Naturwissenschaft eine Antwort an 

 Professor Ladenburg, Prof. Arthur Titius, 27; Ideals of 

 Science and Faith, 52 ; die orientalische Christenhtit der 

 Mittelmeerlande, Dr. Karl Beth, 53 

 Renard (Colonel), Death of, 588 

 Rengade (E.), Ca;sium Methylamide, 335 

 Resemblance, Protective, Mark L. Sykes, 520 

 R<5sultats du Voyage du S.Y. Bclgica en 1897, 1898, iSoq, 

 sous le Commandemant de .A. de Gerlache de Gomerv, 337 

 Retouching, .Arthur Whiting, 100 

 Retouching, Practical, Drinkwater Butt, 317 

 Reversal of Charge from Electrical Induction Machines, 

 George W. Walker, 221; R. Langton Cole, 249; 

 V. Schaffers, 274 

 Reversal in Influence Machines, Charles E. Benham, 320 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



Wireless Telegraphy, C. H. Sewall, 1 



Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture, Prof. S. Lem- 

 strom, I 



Modern Electric Practice, i 



The Theory of the Lead Accumulator, F. Dolezaiek, i 



Electric Motors, H. M. Hobart, i 



Notices sur I'ilectricit^, A. Cornu, i 



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



Adolescence, its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, 

 Anthropologv, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, G. Stanley 

 Hall, 3 



Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, Arthur H. Patterson, 4 



Tables for Qualitative Chemical .Analysis, Prof. A. Liver- 

 sidge, F.R.S., 4 



Les Lois naturelles, F^lix Le Dantec, 5 



Nature Teaching, F. Watts and W. G. Freeman, 5 



Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, Sir 

 William R. Gowers, F.R.S. , 6 



Lectures Scientifiques, W. G. Hartog, 6 



LTndustrie ol^icole (Fabrication de I'Huile d'Olive), J. 

 Dugast, 6 



The Floods of the Spring of 1903 in the Mississippi Water- 

 shed, H. C. Frankenfeld, 10 



The Passaic Flood of 1902 and 1903, Water Supply and 

 Irrigation Paper, 11 



The Pre-Glacial Raised Beach of the South Coast of Ireland, 

 W. B. Wright and H. B. Muff, Prof. Grenville A. J. 

 Cole, 17 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. .Annual Report of Pro- 

 ceedings under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries 

 Acts, &c., for the Year 1903, Frank Balfour Browne, 18 



West Indian Madreporarian Polvps, J. E. Duerden, Prof. 

 Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., 18 



Monographieen aus der Geschichte der Chemie, Justus von 

 Liebig und Friedrich Mohr, 25 



Handbuch der Bliitenbiologie, Prof. Percy Groom, 26 



,A Primer of Philosophy, A. S. Rappoport, 27 



Religion und Naturwissenschaft, Eine .Antwort an Professor 

 Ladenburg, Arthur Titius, 27 



