Index 



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 Vd.:c. 12, ISO 



Preece's (Sir William) System of Etheric Signalling, 163; 



James Bowman Lindsay, 521 

 Preliistoric Astronomy : the French Stonehenge— an Account of 

 Principal Megalithic Remains in the Morbihan Archipelago, 

 T. Cato Worsfold, 465 ; a Sentimental and Practical Guide to 

 Amesbury and Stonehenge, Lady Antrobus, 465 

 Prehistoric Implements in the Transvaal and Orange River 



Colony, Stanley B. Hutt, 103 

 Prehistoric Survey of Southern India, A Plea fur a. Prof. Alfred 



C. Iladdon, F.R.S., 469 

 Pressure, Proposed New Unit of, the Megadyne per Square 



Centimetre, Dr. Guillaume, 586 

 Pressure Gauge, a New, Prof Morley, 586 

 Pressures, High, on a Recording Manometer for, J. E. Petaval, 



613 

 Prestwich (Grace, Lady). Essays, Descriptive and Biographical, 



with a Memoir of, by Louisa E. Milne, 349 

 Primary Cell, a Convenient, A. E. Munby, 30 

 Prior (G. T.), Isomorphic Relations between Sulphates and 



Orthophosphales, 247 

 Prize-subjects in Applied Science, 438 

 Prizes for Researches in Medical Science, 610 

 Problems of Geometry, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 400 

 Progress of Civil Engineering, Address at American Society of 



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

 Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century, Edward W. 



Byrn, 125 

 Properties of Steel Castings, the, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 316 

 Pseudoscopic Vision without a Pseudoscope, a New Optical 



Illusion, Prof R. W. Wood, 351 ; A. S. Davis, 376 

 Psychology : the Human Nature Club. E. L. Thorndike, 325 ; 

 P.sychology of Reasoning, AUred Binet, 325 ; Why do Men 

 Swear ? Prof G. T. W. Patrick, 334 ; the Evolution of Con- 

 sciousness, Leonard Hall, 467 ; Gustav Theodor Fechner, 

 W. Wundt, 526 

 Pterodactyles, Dragons of the Air : an Account of E.xtinct Fly- 

 ing Reptiles, H. G. Seeley, 645 

 Public Health in America, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 117 

 Public Water-supplies : Requirements, Resources, and the 

 Construction of Works, F. E. Turneaure and H. L. Russell, 

 179 

 At Puppis, Spectrum of, 89 

 RR Puppis and V Puppis, Orbits of Algol Variables, 384 



Qualitative Chemical Analysis.Organic and Inorganic, F. Molhvo 



Perkin, 397 

 (,)uaternions. Elements of, Sir W. Hamilton, 206 

 ()uarlz. Vitrified, 'Lecture at Royal Institution, W. A. Shenstone, 



F.R.S., 65, 126 ; Prof J- Joly, F.R.S., 102 

 Queensland, on the Conditions under which Artesian Water is 



obtained in. Dr. R. Logan Jack, 565 

 Quesneville (M. G.), Theorie Nouvelle de la Dispersion, 625 



Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford in the Eight Years 1892-99, 

 Results of the Meteorological Observations made at the, 

 Arthur A. Rambaut, F.R.S., 599 

 Radial Velocity of 1S30, Groombridge, 491 

 Radial Velocity of 5 Orionis, Variable, 49 1 

 Radial Velocity, Six Stars with Variable, 456 

 Radiation, the Mechanism of, J. H. Jeans, 199; Laws of 

 Radiation as Applied to Incandescent .Mantles, Dr. Guillaume, 

 309 ; Radiation ef Uranium Constant at Very Low Tempera- 

 tures, H. Becquerel, 344 ; Measurements of Solar Radiation, 

 Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory at the Smithsonian 

 Institution, S. P. Langley, 352 ; Solar Radiation, T. Y. 

 Buchanan F. R.S., 456 ; Radiation of Heat and Light from a 

 Heated Solid, Dr. J. T. Buttomley, 586 

 Radio-aclive Substances, Emanations from, Prof. E. Ruther- 

 ford, 157 

 Radio-activity of Radium Salts, P. Curie and A. Debierne, 



36S 

 Radiography : Magnetic Deflection of Kathode Rays, H. A. 

 Wilscui, 95 ; Attempt to Discover Radiation from Surface of 

 Metals carrying Alternating Currents of High Frequency, 

 O. W. Richardson, 95 ; I'Oplique des Rayons de Rcintgen et 

 des Rayons Secondaires qui en derivent, G. Sagnac, 101 ; 

 Physiological Action of Radium Rays, H. Becquerel arid P. 

 Curie, 175 ; Radiographs of MoUusk Shells, Dr. G. H. 

 Rodman, 189; Nature of X-Rays, J. Semenov, 344; the 

 Theory of Diffraction of Rontgen Rays, Prof. Sommerfeld, 



357 ; the Rontgen Rays in Military Surgery, J. Hall- 

 Edwards, 454 ; Effect on Eye of Rontgen &c. Rays, Herren 

 Himstedt and Nagel, 529 

 Radium, on the Properties of. Prof. Willy Marckwald, 612 

 Raid on Wild Flowers, a. Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 126 ; Prof 

 R. Meldola, F.R.S., 126 ; David Houston, 156 



Railways : Mr. Cheesewright's Projected London and Brighton 

 Electric Railway, 5S0 ; on Railway Rolling Stock, Present 

 and Future, N. D. Macdonald, 613 



Rain, Blood, F. H. Perry-Coste, 55 ; the Dust of. Prof. Arthur 



W. Rticker, F.R.S., 30 

 Kain-drops, Curious, 280 



Rainfall, the Distribution of, over the Land, Dr. Andrew J. 

 Herbertson, 423 



Rainfall Measurement, the D.:veIopment of. Dr. II. R. Mill, 

 455 



Rainfall, on the Inverse Ratios of Chlorine to, W. Ackroyd, 612 



Ramage (Hugh), Banded Flame-spectra of Metals, 271 ; Flame- 

 spectrum Phenomena of Basic Bessemer Blow, 492 



Ramhaud (M.), Observaiions of Comet a (1901) ai Algiers, I43 



Rambaut (Arthur .A., F.R.S. ), Results of the Meteorological 

 Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in 

 the Eight Years 1892 99, 599 



Ramsay (Prof. W. , F.R.S ), Modern Chemistry, 349 ; Function 

 of a University, Oration at University College, 388 



Randall-Maciver (D.), Libyan Notes, 123; the Eailiest Inhabi- 

 tants of Abydos, a Craniological Study, 647 



Range-finder, New, Prof. G. Forbes, F.R.S., 309 



Range-finder, on a Folding, for Infantry, Prof George Forbes, 

 613; Prof. Barr, 613; Prof Stroud, 613 



Raoult (Prof. Franjois Marie), Obituary Notice of, 17 



Rats and the Plague, iS 



Ravenstein (E. G ), on Martin Behaim and the History of 

 Geography, 589 : Final Report of the Committee on the 

 Climate of Tropical Africa, 589 



Ray (R. C), New Series of Di-mercuri-ammonium Salts, I., 47 



Rayleigh (Right lion. Lord, F.R.S.), Does Chemical Trans- 

 formation Influence Weight? iSi ; Polish, Lecture at Royal 

 Institution, 385 ; on Magnetic Rotation of Light and the 

 Second Law of Thermodynamics, 577 



Rea (Mr.), Archaeological Exploration of the Tinnevelly 

 (Madras) District, 4S9 



Reaction Time in different Races, L. Lapicque, 224 



Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Prize Awards, 381 



Reasoning, Pyschology of, Alfred Binet, 325 



Reasoning, the Use of Words in, Alfred Sidgwick, 231 



Recent Total Solar Eclipse, the, 79 



Red Rain, Analysis of Tunis, E. Bertainchand, 72 ; Analysis 

 of Red Rain, M. Barac, 489 



Redway (Jacques W. ), the New Basis of Geography, a Manual 

 for the Preparation of the Teacher, 648 



Redwood (Boverton), Handbook on Petroleum, 441 



Reed (F. R. Cowper), the Geological History of the Rivers of 

 East Yorkshire, 277 



Reflex Action and Instinct, Paper read at Derby Medical 

 Society, Dr. W. Benthall, 459 



Regeneration and Liability to Injury in Animals, Prof H. T. 

 Morgan, 455 



Reighard (Jacob), the Anatomy of the Cat, 155 



Religion, the Golden Bough ; a Study in Magic and, J. G. 

 Frazer, 20t ; Dr. Frazer's Views of the Relations between 

 Magic, Religion and Science, J. S. Stuarl-Glennie, 615 



Renard (A. F. 1, the Bclgica Soundings, 23S 



Rengel (Dr. C. ), the Life-history of Hydrophiltis piceus, 20 



Reptilia : Amphibia and Reptiles, the Cambridge Natural 

 History, vol. viii., Hans Gadow, G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., 

 401 ; Dragons of the Air, an Account of Extinct Flying 

 Reptiles, H. G. Seeley, 645 



Research, Scientific, Mr. Balfour on, 109 ; Scientific Research 

 as a Basis of Medical Process, Dr. G. B. Ferguson, 330 



Researches in Medical Science, Prizes for, 610 

 Rculeaux (F.), the Mechanical Forces of Nature and their 

 Exploitation, 137 



RiiviKws AND Our Bookshelf. 



A Contribution to the Study of the Blood and Blood-pres- 

 sure, George Oliver, I 



Von den Anlillen zum Fernen Westen ; Rei.seskizzen eines 

 Nalurforschers, F. Doflein, 2 



Encyclopaedia Biblica, Critical Dictionary of the Literary, 



