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Index 



Dorsey (Dr. N. E.), the Colour and Polarisation of Blue Sky 

 Light, 138 



Douse (T. le M.), Origin of Name " Surrey," 490 



Dover Coal-field, the, 581 



Dragons of the Air, an Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles, 

 H. G. Seeley, 645 



DrinUwater (H.), First Aid to the Injured, 5 



Drummond ^\V. B.), the Child : his Nature and Nurture, 53 



Duane (W.), the Velocity of Chemical Reactions, 92 



Dublin Royal Irish Academy, 71, 223 



Dublin Royal Society, 95, 271 



Ducks, How to Know the Indian, F. Finn, 278 



Duddell (W.), the Musical Arc, 58; Resistance and Electro- 

 motive Force of Electric Arc, 496 ; Resistance of an Electro- 

 lyte, 496 



Duerden (Dr. J. E.), the Marine Resources of British West 

 Indies, 31 



Duff (Sir MountstuartE. Grant), Notes from a Diary 1S89-1891, 

 228 



Dumont (M. Santos), Air Ship, 286, 489 ; the Deutsch Prize 

 won by, 635 



Duncan (Dr.), on E.\cavations on Neolithic Sites in the Isle of 

 Arran, 615 



Dunstan (W. R., F.R.S.), Poison of Lotus arabicus, 367 



Dust of " Blood-rain," the, Prof. Arthur W. Riicker, 

 F.R.S., 30 



Duthiers (Baron H. de L.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 308 



Duty-free Alcohol for Chemical Laboratories, on. Dr. T. E. 

 Thorpe, 611 ; Dr. VV. J. Lawrence, 61 1 ; Prof. A. Michael, 611 



Dyeing : Woad as a Blue Dye, Dr. C. B. Plowright, 413 ; the 

 Progress of Artificial Indigo, 433 



Dynamics : Stress— its Definition, R. F. Muirhead, 207 ; Re- 

 viewer, 207 ; Boomerangs, Gilbert T. Walker, 338 ; Ottavio 

 Zanotti Bianco, 400 ; Theoretical Mechanics ; an Elementary 

 Treatise, W. Woolsey Johnson, 646 



Earth : Earth Current Measurements, Dr. B. Weinstein, 230 ; 

 the Twelve Movements of the Earth, M. Flaramarion, 312 ; 

 Outlines of Physiography, an Introduction to the Study of 

 the Earth, A. J. Herbertson, 325 ; Computation of the Age 

 of the Earth from the amount of Salt in the Sea, Prof. Joly, 

 566 ; Mr. Ackroyd, 566 ; the Experimental Demonstration of 

 the Curvature of the Earth's Surface, H. Vule Oldham, 591 

 Earthquakes : the Reported Earthquakes in the Channel Islands 

 and South Devon on April 24, Dr. Charles Davison, 126; 

 the Inverness Earthquake of September iS, 521 ; Dr. 

 Davison, 527 ; Rev. Dr. Andrew Henderson, 601 

 Earthworks, Yorkshire, Mrs. E. S. Armitage, 531 

 Earthshine, Causes of the Variability of, 456 

 Eastern Counties, Holidays in, Percy Lindley, 232 

 Ebert(Prof. H.), Phenomena of Atmospheric Electricity, 3S2 

 Eclipses : the Smithsonian Solar Eclipse Expedition, Prof. 

 S. P. Langley, 53 ; the Recent Total Eclipse of the Sun, 79, 

 114, 136; the Total Eclipse of May 18, 1901, 289, 311 ; 

 Magnetic Observations during Total Solar Eclipse, Dr. 

 William Ellis, F.R.S., 15 

 Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 224 

 Edinburgh Royal Society, 119, 143, 199, 271, 343 

 " Edison " Storage Cell, the, 241 



Education : the Army Education Committee, 55 ; the Extension 

 of Knowledge, Dr. D. J. Hill, 117 ; Proceedings of the Eighth 

 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of En- 

 gineering Education held in New York City, July 2-3, 1900, 

 Prof. F. W. Burstall, 204 ; Education of Engineers, 462 ; 

 Government Aid in United States to Higher Education, 

 Dr. C. D. Walcott, 261 ; Philip's Educational Terrestrial 

 Globe, 375 ; Function of a University, Oration at University 

 College, Prof W. Ramsay, F.R.S., 388 ; Rural Readers, Book 

 I., Vincent T. Murche, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 394; the 

 Teacher's Manual of Object Lessons for Rural Schools, 

 Vincent T. Murche, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 394; Com- 

 mercial Education at Home and Abroad, Frederick Hooper 

 and James Graham, 442 ; the Self-Educator in Chemistry, 

 James Knight, 467 ; Nature Teaching, Francis Watts, 550 ; 

 the Carnegie Technical School at Pittsburg, 570 ; Royal 

 College of Science and the University of London, Prof. W. A. 

 Tilden, F.R.S., 583 ; on some Points in Chemical Education, 

 Prof. Joji Sakurai, 612 ; the New Basis of Geography, a 

 Manual for the Preparation of the Teacher, Jacques W. 

 Redway, 648 ; see also Section L, British Association 



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

 Hamilton, 600 



Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), Catalogue of the 

 Collection of Birds', E. W. Oates, 600 



Egypt: Scientific Work in, 317; Lake Victoria Nyanza Rain 

 Gauges, Sir William Garstin, 317; the Sudd in the Bahr-el- 

 Gebel, 318; Meteorological Department, 318; the Preserva- 

 tion of Game, 318; the Farafra Oasis, H. J. L. Beadnell, 

 359 ; Gold-Mining in Egypt, C. J. Alford, 636 



Egyptology : Libyan Notes, D. Randall-Maciver and A. Wilkin, 

 123; Egyptology, 319; on the Bones of Hen Nekht, an 

 Egyptian King of the Third Dynasty, C. S. Myers, 615 ; the 

 Earliest Inhabitants of Abydos : a Craniological Study, D. 

 Randall-Maciver, 647 



Eisenhart(Dr.), Surfaces whose First and Second Fundamental 

 Forms are Second and First of Another, 341 



Electricity : Electro-Chemistry, John Hill Twigg, 5 ; Dr. F. 

 Mollwo Perkin, 5 ; Recent Developments in Electric Signal- 

 ling, 6 ; Sir William Preece's Systein of Etheric Signalling, 

 163 ; New System of Ammeters and Voltmeters, Pierre 

 Weiss, 23 ; a Convenient Primary Cell, A. E. Munby, 30 ; 

 Electric Vacuum-Tube Lamps, P. C. Hewitt, 39 : Deschanel's 

 Natural Philosophy, J. D. Everett, 50 ; the Musical Arc, 

 W. Duddell, 58 ; the Various Determinations of the E.M.F. 

 of the Clark Cell, Prof. Carhart, 60; Measurement of Sensi- 

 tiveness of Coherers for Wireless Telegraphy, Carl Kinsley, 

 60 ; Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy on the Lake Champlain 

 Atlantic Liner, ill; Wireless Telegraphy on Ocean Liners, 

 188; Wireless Telegraphy on the Liicania, 381, 406, 

 553 ; Syntonic Wireless Telegraphy, Mr. Marconi, 130 ; 

 Wireless Telegraphy for War Purposes. 383 ; Draht- 

 lose Telegraphic durch Wasser und Luft, Prof. Dr. 

 Ferdinand Braun, 497 ; a New Principle in Wireless Tele- 

 graphy discovered, A. Orling and T. Armstrong, 636; Wire- 

 less Telegraphic Communication with Zugspitze Observatory, 

 Bavaria, 637 ; Electrical Conductivity of Air and Salt 

 Vapours, H. A. Wilson, 70 ; the Existence of Open Cur- 

 rents, V. Cremieu, 71 : on the Magnetic Eflects of Electrical 

 Convection, Dr. Cremieu, Dr. H. A. Wilson, Lord Kelvin, 

 5S6 ; Law of Electrical Stimulation of Nerves, Georges Weiss, 

 72 ; Electro-chemistry, Bertram Blount, 77 ; Dr. F. Mollwo 

 Perkin, 77 ; on a Form of Artificial Submarine Cable, 

 Prof. A. Trowbridge, 77 : Attempt to discover Radia- 

 tion from Surface oi Metals carrying Alternating Cur- 

 rents of High F"requency, O. W. Richardson, 95 ; 

 New Form of Electric Furnace, Prof. J, Joly, F.R.S., 95 ; a 

 Perfectly Astatic Galvanometer, M. Lippmann, 96 ; Simple 

 Astatic Galvanometer, G. Lippmann, 554 ; Central Electrical 

 Stations, their Design, Organisation and Management, C. H. 

 Wordingham, 100 ; the Telautograph, Foster Ritchie, 107 ; 

 Relations between Conductivity and Chemical Character of 

 Solutions, Prof. J. Gibson, 119; Electrolysis of Animal 

 Tissues, MM. Bordier and Gilet, 120; Electrification of 

 Dielectrics by Mechanical Means, A. W. Ashton, 141 ; Model 

 Imitating Behaviour of Dielectrics, Prof. Fleming and A. W. 

 Ashton, 141 ; a very Sensitive Balance, V. Cremieu, 143 ; 

 Report on Observations in Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmo- 

 spheric Electricity made at the Central Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory of Japan for the Year 1897, Dr. C. Chree, 

 F.R.S., 151 ; Death and Obituary Notice of Viriamu Jones, 

 Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 161 ; Nernst's Phonograph, 

 164; Ruhmer's Phonograph, 164; Electro-magnets, T. L. 

 James, 168; Influence of Temperature on Electromotive 

 Force of Magnetisation, Rene Paillot, 175; the Tele- 

 graphone, Herr Poulsen, 183 : Vibrations produced in a wire 

 with an Influence Machine, D. Negreano, 200 ; an Electrical 

 Grisoumeter, G. Leon, 200 ; Measurements of Ionic Veloci- 

 ties in Aqueous Solutions, B. D. Steele, 222 ; Electromotive 

 Forces of Contact and the Ionic Theory, E. Rothe, 224 ; 

 Electrolytic Separation of Nickel and Cobalt, D. Bala- 

 chowski, 224; the Berlin Company's Naples Installation for 

 Transm.ission of Energy, 237 ; the " Edison " Storage Cell, 

 241 : Electrolytic Conductivity of Salt Solutions in Liquid 

 Sulphur Dioxide, A. Hagenbach, 246 : Electrolytic Con- 

 ductivity of Halogen Salt Solutions, on the. Dr. J. Gibson, 

 612 ; Effect of High Frequency Oscillatory Field on Electrical 

 Resistance, S. A. F. White, 246 : the Induction Motor, 

 B. A. Behrend, 252 ; the Treatment of Disease by Light, 

 259 ; Electro-chemical Laboratory at Owens College, Man- 

 chester, 262 ; Electricity Supply " in Bulk " at Newcastle- 



