, 1901 I 



Index 



Glacier-dammed Lakes in ihe, Prof. P. F. Kendall, II. B. 



Cheyne ^P^rof. T. K.), Encyclopedia Biblica : Critical Dic- 

 tion.iry of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the 

 Archr«ology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible, 3 



Child • his Nature and Nurture, the, W. B. Drummond, 53 



China : Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. E. Bretschneider, 

 Sv ; on an Expedition in Western China, Dr. R. Logan Jack, 

 cqi • on the Crux of the Upper Vang-tse, Archibald Little, 

 CQI • Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, Captain Deasy, 653 



Chisholm (G. C), on Geographical Conditions afifecting British 

 Trade, 589 , ,. , , c. » 



Chlorophyll: Assimiliation Chlorophylienne et la btructure 

 des Plantes, Dr. Ed. Griffon, 28 ; Chlorophyll Assimilation, 

 Jean Friedel, SS , t^i ■ c i-j > 



Chree (Dr C, F.R.S.), Applications of Elastic Solids to 

 Jletrology, 93; the Norwegian Norlh Polar Expedition, 

 1S93-96, 151 : Report on Observations in Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism and Atmospheric Electriciiy made at the Central 

 Meteorological Observatory of Japan for the Year 1S97, 151 



Chronographic Measurements, a New Method of using Tuning- 

 forks in. Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 232 



Chronometers, Use of Nickel-Steel Alloy for Compensation 

 Balance, C. E. Guillaume, 88 , • ,, 



Chrystal {Prof. G.), Solution of Cubic and Biquadratic Equa- 

 tions, 5 ; Obituary Notice of Prof. Tait, 305 



Church (Colonel George Earl), Central and South America, 



Ciamician (HerrK Chemical Effects of Light on Plant Life, 658 

 Ciel, Histoire du, Clemence Royer, 497 



Cirrulaiion of the Atmosphere, the, Memoires originaux sur la 



Circulation generale de l'.\tmosphere. Marcel Brillouin, 396 



Circulation of the Surface Waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, 



H. N. Dickson, 665 ' c- ■ , 



Civil Engineering, Progress of. Address at American Society of 



Civil Engineers. J. J. R. Croes, 438 

 Civil Engineers, Institute of. Chemistry and its Relations to 



Engineering, Prof. Frank Clowes, 22 

 Civilian War Hospital, a, 346 ,, „ tt ,, 



Civilisation of Greece, the Older, 11 ; the Oldest, H. R. Hall, 



280 ... 



Clarke (Miss A. M.), on Abnormal Secondary Thickening m 



Kcndrickia Walkeri, 618 

 Claude (H.), Lecithin in Tuberculosis, 572 

 Claypole (Dr. E. W.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 528 

 Clayton (H. H.), the Eclipse Cyclone, 271 

 Climate and Crops, Relations between, H. B. Wren, 493 

 Close (Rev. M. H.), Hipparchus and the Precession of the 



Equinoxes, 71 ; Phototherapy, 301 

 Cloud Observations in India, E. H. Hill, 262 

 Clowes (Prof. Frank), Chemistry in its Relations to Engineer- 

 ing, 22 J Til r 

 Clyde, on the Effects of Vegetation in the \ alley and Plain ot 



the, Prof. G. F. Scott Elliott, 5S9 

 Coal Dust Explosion at .Aber Valley Colliery, in 

 Coal Exports of Great Britain, the, E. G. Wethered, 19 

 Coal-Field, the Dover, 581 

 Coal Hoist, New Hydraulic, 407 



Coal-Mining, a Text-Book of, Herbert W. Hughes, 324 

 Cockerell (Prof. T. D. A.), Variation in a Bee, 158 

 Coffee Culture, Shade in, O. F. Cook, 264 

 Coffey (Mr.), on Naturally Chipped Flints from the Larne 



Gravels and North Irish Beaches, 615 

 Cohen (R. W.), on the Effects of Sea Temperature and Wmd 

 Direction on the Seasonal Variation of Air Temperature in 

 these Islands, 587 

 Coker (Dr. E. G.), Apparatus for Strain-measurement, 199 

 Coleridge (Hon. Stephen), the National Anti-Vivisection Society 



and Lord Lister, loi 

 Coles (John), Hints to Travellers, 100 

 Collie (J. N.), Diiodococaine Hydriodide, 47 

 Collinge (W. E. ), Anatomy of Slugs from North-West Borneo, 



199 

 CoUot (M.), Carboniferous Goniatites in Sahara, 392 

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

 Coloration of Marine Animals, Prof. W. C. Mclnlosh, 62 

 Colour and Polarisation of Blue Sky Light, the. Dr. N. E. 

 Dorsey, 138; Negative After-images and Colour-Vision, 

 Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 216 ; Colour-Standards, Prof. S. P. 

 Langley, 269 



Colours of Guillemots' Eggs, the. Captain G. E. H. Barrett- 

 Hamilton, 600 

 Colson (Albert), Inversion-points of Solutions, 644 

 Comets: Comet a (1901), 21, 42, 63, 114, 191 ! Elements of 

 Comet 1901 (I), 436. 557 ; Ob.servation of Cometa(l90l), J. 

 Cresswell, 410; Observations of Comet a (1901) at Algiers, 

 MM. Rambaud and Sy, 143; the New Comet, E. C. Willis, 

 = 5 • Definitive Orbit of Comet 1894 II (Gale), 89 ; Encke s 

 Comet, 359, 3S4, 583 ; Elliptic Elements of Comet 1900 f, 

 M. Perrotin, 644 

 Commensalism, Instances of, Major Alcock, 190 

 Commercial Education at Home and Abroad, Frederick Hooper 



and James Graham, 442 

 Compa'ss and its Deviations aboard Ship, a Treatise on Electro- 

 magnetic Phenomena and on the. Mathematical, Theoretical 

 and Practical, Commander T. A. Lyons, 125 

 Comptometer, the, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 265 

 Comstock (Prof. Geo. C), a Text-book of Astronomy, 424 

 Conchology : Radiographs of MoUusk Shells, Dr. G. H. Rod- 

 man, 189 r- L i^ 



Conference, the International Seismological, at Strassburg, Dr. 



F. Omori, 340 ■ , c- 1. 



Congressei : the Congress on Tuberculosis, 301, 327 ; the Sixth 



Annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 



Societies, 192 ; the International Zoological Congress, 405 ; 



Recent Progress in Waterways and Maritime Works, Papers 



read at International Engineering Congress at Glasgow, 639 

 Consciousness, the Evolution of, Leonard Hall, 467 

 Construction, Building, First Stage, Brysson Cunningham, 625 

 Consular Reports, Notes from Recent, 67 

 Conway (Sir Martin), the Rise and Fall of Smeerenburg, 



Spitsbergen, 40 . 



Conwentz (Prol.), on the Past History of the \ew in Great 



Britain and Ireland, 617 ^ , , 



Cook (Captain), Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cooks 



Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour'm 1768-1771, 



Right. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, W. 



Boning Hemsley, F.R.S., 374 

 Cook (O. F.), Shade in Coffee Culture, 264 

 Cooper (Dr. R. T.), Suggested Afforestation of Ireland, 264 

 Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, Lane Lectures at, 



History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and 



Eighteenth Centuries, Sir M. Foster, K.C.B., Sec. R.S., 417 

 Cooper-Hewitt Mercury Vapour Lamp, the, 581 

 Copeland (Prof.), Nova Persei, 119 

 Copper, on the Scottish Ores of, J. G. Goodchild, 565 

 Copper Oxide, Decomposition of. Philip Harrison, 233 

 Coppet (L. C. de), Molecular Depression of Temperature of 



Maximum Density of Water caused by Dissolution of Salts, 



Coral Island, on the Land Crustaceans of a, L. A. Borradaile, 



Coral Islands of the Maldives, J. Stanley Gardiner on the, 587 

 Corals, Rate of Growth of, J. S. Gardiner, 143 

 Corbino (O. M.), Constitution of White Light, 464 

 Cornu (\.), Determination of Three Principal Optical Para- 

 meters of a Crystal by Refractometer, 320 

 Cornu (Maxime), Death and Obituary Notice of, Sir W. T. 



Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 211 

 Cornish (Dr. Vaughan), Sand Waves in Tidal Currents, 412 ; 

 Report of the Committee on Terrestrial Surface Waves, 590 

 Corona, Photography of, 167 , „ ^ 



Coronas (Rev. J.), the Luzon Cyclone of Septembers, 1900,61 

 Correlation in the Growth of Roots and Shoots, on, Prof. Ivny, 



Corstorphine (Mr.), on the Condensation of Benzil with Dibenz- 



ylketone, 612 

 Cortie (Father), on the Faculce on the Sun's Surface, 587 

 Cosmogony and Evolution : Entstehen und Vergehen der Welt 



als Kosmischer Kreizprozess, J. G. Vogt, 277 

 Cosmography, on the Representation of the Heavens in the 



Teaching of, M. Galeron, 591 

 Coton, Le, Prof. H. Lecomte, Prof. Roberts Beaumont, 124 

 Coulter, (John M.), Plant Studies, an Elementary Botany, 300 

 Coupin (Henri), the Song of Birds, 20, 62 ; Wheat Growth 



Favoured by Potassium Salts, 248 

 Craig (E. H. Cunningham), on the Mode of Occurrence of 



Cairngorms, 566 ^ , . , j <■ c-, n 



Craniology : New Method of Obtaining Cubic Iridex of Skull, 



M. Pelletier, 490 ; Opening Address in Section H at the 



