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on-l yiie, 262 ; Focus-tube as Electric Valve, Prof. O. 

 Murani, 263 ; Action of Currents of High Frequency on 

 Urinary Secretion, MM. Denoyes, Maitre and Bouviere, 272 ; 

 Electrodynamics, Modern, H. Poincare, 273 ; Electricite et 

 Optique, La Lumiere et ses Theories Electrodynamiques, 

 H. Poincare, 273 ; the Illuminations at the Buffalo Exhibition, 

 287 ; Electrical Dispersion in Closed Air-spaces, J. Elster and 

 H. Geitel, 308 ; Oscillographs, Andre Blondel, 30S, 40S ; 

 Electrolytical Method of Removing Superfluous Hair, Dr. 

 A. Whitfield, 311; Position and Prospects of Electro- 

 chemical Industries, J. \V. Swan, F.R.S., 329 ; the Di- 

 electric Cohesion of Gases, E. Bouty, 344 ; Electrolytic 

 Preparation of Pure Oxide of Cerium, Jean Stebba, 344 ; 

 New Solution for Copper Voltameter, W. K. Shepard, 365 ; 

 Mechanism of Electric Arc, Bertha Ayrton, 365 ; Phenomena 

 of Atmospheric Electricity, Prof. H. Ebert, 3S2 ; Arrhenius' 

 Electrolylic Dissociation Theory, Prof. Kahlenberg, 383 ; 

 Electric Capacity of Human Body, G. de Metz, 392 ; Trans- 

 mission of Hertzian Waves through Conducting Liquids, 

 Charles Nordmann, 392 ; Electrolysis of Hsemoglobin Com- 

 pounds, Dr. Arthur Gamgee, F.R.S., 415 ; Colour of Ions, 

 G. Vaillant, 415 ; Experiments on High Ixesistances, O. N. 

 Rood, 415 ; Electromagnetic Effects of Moving Charged 

 Spheres, E. P. Adams, 415 ; on the Supersession of the 

 Steam by the Electric Locomotive, W. Langdon, 437 ; Electric 

 Traction, Major P. Cardew, 437 ; Resistances and Electro- 

 motive Forces of Electric Arc, W. Duddell, 496 ; Resistance 

 of an Electrolyte, W. Duddell, 496 ; James Bowman Lindsay, 

 Sir William Preece, 521 ; Proposed Utilisation of Tramway 

 Trolley Wires for Fire-extinction, 521 ; Discharge Current from 

 Surface of Large Curvature, J. E. Almy, 547 ; Maxwell's 

 Theory and Kerr's Phenomenon, Luigi Giaganino, 554 : Mr. 

 Cheesewright's Projected London and Brighton Railway, 580; 

 the Cooper-Hewitt Mercury Vapour Lamp, 581 ; Experi- 

 ments on the Passage of Electricity through Mercury Vapour, 

 Prof. Schuster, 587 ; the Latest Form of Prof. Minchin's 

 Photo-electric Cell, 587 ; the Telephone System of the 

 British Post Office, T. E. Herbert, 599; Excitability of 

 Spinal Marrow, A. N. Vitznou, 620 ; Nernst Lamp in 

 America, paper read at American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers by A. G. Wurts, 632 ; Variation with Temper- 

 ature of Thermoelectromotive Force and Electric Resistance 

 of Nickel, Iron and Copper, E. P. Harrison, 667 



Elgin and Nairn, on the Trias of. Dr. \V. Mackie, 565 



Elliott (Prof. G. F. Scott), on the Effects of Vegetation 

 in the Valley and Plain of the Clyde, 589 ; on the Strength 

 and Resistance to Pressure of Certain Seeds and Fruits, 

 619 



Ellis (Dr. William, F.R.S.), Magnetic Observations during 

 Total Solar Eclipse, 15 



Elster (J.), Electrical Dispersion in Closed Air-spaces, 308 



Emanations from Radio-active Substances, Prof. E. Rutherford, 

 157 



Embryology : Lecithoblast und Angioblast der Wirbelthiere, 

 Wilhelm His, 75 



Encke's Comet, 359, 384, 583 



Encyclopaedia Biblica : Critical Dictionary of the Literary, 

 Political, and Religious History, the Archeology, Geography 

 and Natural History of the Bible, Prof. T. K. CheyneandDr. 

 J. Sutherland Black, 3 



Engineering : Recent Developments in Electric Signalling, 6 ; 

 Chemistry in its Relations to Engineering, Prof. Frank Clowes, 

 22 ; II calcolo Grafico Applicato alia Misura delle Volte, Prof. 

 Ernesto Breglia, 27 ; the Steam-engine Indicator, Cecil H. 

 Peabody, 125 ; New Turbine-driven Vessel, 133 ; the Turbine- 

 propelled Vessel King Edward, 334 ; Public Water-supplies : 

 Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works, 

 F. E. Turneaure and H, L. Russell, 179 ; Proceedings of 

 the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Engineering Education held in New York City, July 2-3, 

 1900, Prof. F. W. Burstall, 204; Education of Engineers, 

 462 ; Gas Lighting, Charles Hunt, 205 ; Motor Car worked 

 by Absinthe, 213 ; the Simplon Tunnel, 235 ; the Settlement 

 of Solid Matter in Fresh and Salt Water, W. H. Wheeler, 

 181 ; H. S. Allen, 279; the Properties of Steel Cas'.ings, 

 Prof, J. O. Arnold, 316; International Engineering Congress, 

 431 ; Progress of Civil Engineering, Address at American 

 Society of Civil Engineers, J. J. R. Croes, 438 : Mode of 

 Action of Brakes of Automobiles, A. Petol, 464 ; Opening 

 Address in Section G at the (^ilasgow Meeting of the British 



Association, Colonel R. E. Crompton, 517 ; Papers on Me- 

 chanical and Physical Subjects, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 



F. R.S., 549; Experimental Engineering, Testing and 

 Strength of Materials of Construction, VV. C. Popplewell, 

 597 ; Nernst Lamp in America, Paper Read at American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers by A. T- Wurts, 632; Recent 

 Progress in Waterways and Maritime Works, Papers Read at 

 International Engineering Congress at Glasgow, 639 ; see also 

 Section G, British Association. 



England's Neglect of Science, Prof. Perry, F. R.S. ; Prof. 



George M. Minchin, F.R.S., 226 

 Enoch (Mr.), the Metamorphoses of .-Eschna cyatim, 47 

 Entomology : the Stridulating Organs of Hydrophilus piceus, 



G. W. Kirkaldy, 20 ; the Life-history of Hydrophiltis piceiis. 

 Dr. C. Rengel, 20 ; Mimicry in Spiders, Dr. W. A. Wagner, 

 41 ; the Metamorphoses of .^schna cyatiea, Mr. Enock, 47 ; 

 Mosquitoes and Malaria, G. Noe, 88 ; Major Ronald Ross, 

 F.R.S., 453 ; the Question of Priority, 287 ; the Anti- 

 Mosquito Campaign in Sierra Leone, 579 ; Major R. Ross, 

 4S9 ; the West .\frican Campaign, Major Ronald Ross, 636 ; 

 Simultaneity of Mosquitoes and Malaria at Constantine, A. 

 Billet, 524 ; the Malaria-Free District of Massarosa, Dr. 

 Grassi, 581 ; Mosquitoes and Filaria, F. L. Bancroft, 416 ; 

 Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever, 453 ; H. de Gouvea, 655 ; 

 Mosquitoes and Sounds, Major Ronald Ross, 607 ; the 

 Common Grey Mosquito, Calcutta, Miss N. Evans, 638 ; 

 Attraction of Sounds tor Mosquitoes, Sir H. S. Maxim, 655 ; 

 Entomological Society, 95, 223 ; Discharges of Formic Acid 

 in Ant-nests, Prof. Poulton, 223 ; Social Symbiosis among 

 American .Ants, W. H. Wheeler, 409 ; Ant Gardens in 

 Amazon Region, E. Ule, 553 ; the Life of the Bee, Maurice 

 Maeterlinck, 231 ; Sources of Insect Attraction in Flowers, 

 Prof. F. Plateau, 264 ; Death of Miss Eleanor h. Ormerod, 

 308 ; Obituary Notice of, 330 ; Familiar Butterflies and 

 Moths, W. Y. Kirby, 375 ; the Intermediary Host of Filaria 

 imiiiilis, T. L. Bancroft, 416 ; Horn-feeding Larvse, Captain 

 W. J. Hume McCorquodale, 446 ; the Colorado Potato 

 Beetle, W. F. Kirby, 450 ; .Sex-determination in Lepi- 

 doptera, A. Giard, 464 ; the Insect Book : a Popular Account 

 of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers, Flies, and other 

 North American Insects, exclusive of the Butterflies, Moths 

 and Beetles, with Full Life-histories, Tables and Biblio- 

 graphies, Leland O. Howard, 549 ; Luminous Traps for 

 Pyralis in Beaujolais, G. Gastine and V. Vermorel, 572 



Epidemiological Society, Address at. Diagnosis of Plague, Dr. 



E. Klein, F.R.S., 91 

 Equations, Solution of Cubic and Biquadratic, Prof. G. 



Chryslal, 5 

 Equisetiim, Remarks on the Nature of the Stele of, J. T. 



Gwynne-Vaughan, 617 

 Eros, Variation of, 63, 359, 384 ; Opposition of Eros in 1903, 491 

 Eskimos, the, E. W. Nelson, 426 

 Essays, Descriptive and Biographical, Grace, Lady Prestwich, 



with a Memoir by Louisa E. Milne, 349 

 Essays on the Theory of Numbers, Richard Dedekind, 374 

 Essays and Photographs, some Birds of the Canary Islands and 



South Africa, H. E. Ilarris, 603 

 Etard (A.), Decomposition of Albuminoids into Protoplas- 



mides, 96 

 Ether, a New Argument for the Existence of an, B. Hopkinson, 



586 

 Etheric Signalling, Sir William Preece's System of, 163 

 Ethnography : the Indian Survey, 214 ; Messrs. Annandale and 



Robinson on the Half-Siamese Half-Malay Community of 



Sai-Kau, 615 

 Ethnology : the Older Civilisation of Greece, 1 1 ; the Oldest 



Civilisation of Greece: Studies of the Mycenrean Age, H. R. 



Hall, 280 ; the Language and Origin of the Basques, 90 ; 



the late Dr. Arthur Hazclius, 163; the P'ire-Walk Ceremony 



in Tahiti, Prof. S. P. Langley, 397 ; the Annual Report of 



the Bure.au of American Ethnology, 425 ; Occasional Essays 



on Native South Indian Life, S anley P. Rice, 574 ; "Fish- 

 arrows " from Demerara, W. E. Hcyle, 644 

 Etymology : Origin of Name " Surrey," T. le M. Douse, 490 

 " Euclid Revised," Nixon's, Geometrical Exercises from, with 



Solutions, Alexander Larmor, 497 

 Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Charles Smith and Sophie 



Bryant, 623 

 Euphorbia abdclkiiri. on the Cuticular Structure of, Prof. 



Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., 618 



