INDEX 



Abbe Diffraction Theory of Microscope, Examination of the, 

 J. W. Gordon, 320 j 



Abell (R. D.), the Condensation of Ethylphenylketone with 1 

 Benzaldehyde, 175 



Aber Valley Colliery, Coal Dust Explosion at, ill 



Absinthe, Motor Car worked by, 213 



Abydos, the Earliest Inhabitants of, a Craniological Study, 

 D. Randall-Maciver, 647 



Aecidiiwi herheridis. Specimens of, J. Lewton Brain, 77 



Achard (M.), Influence of Feeding, "Work and Dust on Tuber- 

 culosis, 71 ; Influence of variations of Temperatures on Tuber- 

 culosis, 644 



-Ackroyd (W.j, Origin of Combined Chlorine in Moorland 

 Waters, 46 ; Computation of the Age of the Earth frorn the 

 Amount of Salt in the Sea, 566 ; on the Inverse Ratio of 

 Chlorine to Rainfall, 612 



Acoustics : the Song of Birds, Herri Coupin, 20, 62 ; the 

 Musical -\rc, W. Duddell, 58 ; the Subjective Lowering of 

 Pitch, E. Hurren Harding, 103, 181 ; Prof. F. J. Allen, 182, 

 301 ; G. W. Hemming, 182 ; E. C. Sherwood, 233 ; 

 Suggested Experiment, G. W. Hemming, 308 ; Nernst's 

 Phonograph, 164; Ruhmer's Phonograph, 164: Monaural 

 Localisation of Sound, Prof. J. R. AngellandDr. W. Fite, 263 ; 

 Behaviour of small closed Cylinders in Organ Pipes, B. Davis, 

 547 ; Interesting Phenomenon in connection with Theory of 

 Sound, Bergen Davis, 554 ; Death of R. Koenig, 579 ; 

 Obituary Notice of, 630 



Adams (E. P.), Electromagnetic Effects of moving Charged 

 Spheres, 415 



Adams (John Couch), the Collected Scientific Papers of, 576 



Adaptation among the Deer, an instance of, R. Lydekker, 

 F.R.S., 257 



Addresses of Authors of Scientific Papers, Prof. Sydney J. 

 Hickson, F.R.S., 601 



Adulteration, the New Milk-Standard, 432 ; the Work of the 

 Government Laboratory, Dr. T. E. Thorpe, 553 



Aeronautics, the International Balloon Ascent of April 19, 88 : 

 Hoffmann's Flying Machine, 112; the Balloon Ascents of 

 May 14, 189; the Kress Flying Machine, 190 ; the Santos 

 Dumont Airship, 2S6, 489; the Deutsch Prize won by M. Santos 

 Dumont, 635 ; High Balloon Ascent by Drs. Pierson and 

 Suering, 356; the William Beedle Airship, 489 : "How to 

 cross the Atlantic in a Balloon," Prof. S. A. King, 582 ; On 

 the Exploration of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere by 

 means of Kites, A. Lawrence Rotch, 590 ; Recent Inter- 

 national Balloon Ascents, 608 

 Africa : the Climate of Pemba, T. Burtt, 20 ; a Report 

 on German East Africa, A. C. Hollis, 67 ; Veterinary Work 

 in British East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, R. J. Stordy. 

 67 ; the difference between Memphis and Thebes Mum- 

 mies, Mr. Harting, 70; Scientific Work in Egypt, 318 ; the 

 Farafra Oasis, Egypt, H. J. L. Beadnell, 359 : the Dakhla 

 Oasis, Egypt, H. J. L. Beadnell, 581 ; Gold Mining in 

 Egypt, C. J. Alford, 636 ; the Natives of South Africa, 

 their Economic and Social Conditions, E. Sidney 

 Hartl.ind, 73 ; Prehistoric Implements in the Transvaal 

 and Orange River Colony, Stanley B. Hutt, 103 ; South 

 African Philosophical Society, 144 : Medical and Surgical Ex- 

 periences in the South African War, 346; New Mammals from 

 Uganda, Oldfield Thomas, 142 ; West African Studies, Mary 



H. Kingsley, 231 : Poison of Lotus Arabicus, W. R. Dunstan, 

 F.R. S., and T. .A. Henry, 367: Fauna of North-East Rho- 

 desia, C. P. Chesnaye, 383 ; Carboniferous Goniatites in 

 Sahara, ,M. Collot, 392 ; the Ami-Mosquito Campaign in 

 Sierra Leone, 489, 579; Major R. Ross, F.R.S., 489: 

 the West African Campaign against Malaria, Major Ronald 

 Ross, 636 ; Simultaneity of Mosquitoes and Malaria at Con- 

 stantine. A. Billet, 524 ; Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- 

 servations at Mauritus, 582 ; the Origin and Birthplace of the 

 Proboscidea, Dr. C. W. Andrews, 582 ; Essays and Photo- 

 graphs, Some Birds of the Canary Islands and South .\frica, 

 H. E. Harris, 603 ; Chemical Analysis of Mummified Fishes 

 of Ancient Egypt, MM. Lortet and Hugounenq, 668 

 After-images and Colour-Vision, Negative, Shelford Bidwell, 



F.R.S., 216 

 Agitation of the Sea, Unusual, Hon. Rollo Russell, 6 

 Agriculture : Agricultural Seeds, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 

 F.R.S , 30 ; Agriculture in New South Wales. 106 ; Report 

 of Royal Agricultural Society, 11 1 ; the Scientific Study of 

 Commercial Crop Cultivation, R. H. Wallace, 164 ; Cultura 

 del Frumento, 1899-igoo, Prof. Italo Giglioli, 229 ; Wheat- 

 growth favoured by Potassium' Salts, H. Coupin, 248 ; the 

 South-eastern Agricultural College at Wye, 283 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, 30S, 330; 

 Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 1900, Prof. R. Warington, F.R.S., 372: Agricultural 

 Experiments, 364 ; Agricultural Statistics of India, 407 ; 

 the Colorado Potato Beetle, W. F. Kirby, 450 ; Relations 

 between Climate and Crops, H. B. Wren, 493 ; Nature 

 Teaching, Francis Watts, 550 ; on the Application of Geology 

 to Agriculture by the Preparation of Soil Maps, J. R. Kilroe, 



565 

 .\ims of the National Physical Laboratory, the Discourse 



delivered at the Royal Institution by Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, 



F.R.S., 290 

 Alaska, the Cape Nome Gold Region, F. 



A. H. Brooks, 409 

 Alcock (Major), Instances of Commensalism, 

 Alford (C. T.), Gold Mining in Egypt, 636 

 Algebraic Potential Curves. Dr. E. Kasner, 221 

 Algol Variables : Orbits of RR Puppis and »V Puppis, 384 ; 



New Algol-Type Variable, 78 (1901) Cygni, 583; New 



Southern Algol Variable, 639 

 Allbutt (Prof. T. Clifford, F.R.S. ), Science and Media:val 



Thought, 76 

 Allen (Prof. F. J.), the Subjective Lowering of Pitch, 182, 301 

 Allen (H. S.), the Settlement of Solid Matter in Fresh and 



Salt Water, 279 

 Allen (Dr. J. A.), the Wood Bison of Great Slave Lake, 135 

 Alloys, Copper-tin, Results of Chilling, C. T. Heycock and 



F. H. Neville, 221 

 .\lmy(J. E.), Discharge Current from Surface of large Curva- 

 ture, 547 

 Aluminium, on the Commercial Importance of. Prof. E. Wilson, 



613 ; Aluminium and its Uses, 650 

 .\malitzky (Prof. W.), Gigantic Permian Anomodonts at 



Sokolki, Russia, 239 _ . ,• 



Amazon : Album de -\ves Amazonicas, Dr. Emilio .\. Goeldi, 



397 

 America : Von den Antillen zum Fernen Westen : Rfei^eskizzen 



C. Schrader and 



190 



