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Index 



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



Solutions, Alexander Larmor, 497 

 Histoire du Ciel, Clemence Royer, 497 

 Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects, Prof. Osborne 



Reynolds, F.R.S., 549 

 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 IJibliographies, Leland 



O. Howard, 549 

 Nature Teaching, Francis Watts, 550 



Cassell's Eyes and No Eyes Series, Arabella B. Buckley, 550 

 Plane and Solid Geometry, Arthur Schultze and F. L. 



Sevenoak, Prof. George M. Minchin, F. R.S., 573 

 Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life, Stanley P. 



Rice, 574 

 Essai d'une Explication par les Causes actuelles de la Partie 



theorique de la Geologic, H. Hermite, 575 

 La Geologic, H. Guede, 575 

 Farm Poultry, G. C. Watson, 575 



The Collected Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams, 576 

 Experimental Engineering, Testing and Strength of Materials 



of Construction, W. C. Popplewell, 597 

 Der Hammer-Fennel'sche Tachymeter-Theodolit und die 



Tachymeterkippregel zurunmittelbaren Lattenablesungvon 



Horizontaldistanz und Hohenunterschied, Dr. E. Hammer, 



59S 

 Results of Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe 



Observatory, Oxford, in the eight years 1892-99, Arthur A. 



Rambaut, F.R.S., 599 

 The Telephone System of the British Post Office, T. E. 



Herbert, 599 

 Maps, their Uses and Construction, a Short Popular Treatise 



on the Advantages and Defects of Maps on Various Projec- 

 tions, followed by an Outline of the Principles involved in 



their Construction, G. James Morrison, 599 

 Smokeless Powder, Nitro-cellulose and Theory of the Cellulose 



Molecule, John B. Bernadou, 600 

 Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British 



Museum (Natural History), E. W. Oates, 600 

 Essays and Photographs, some Birds of the Canary Islands 



and South Africa, H. E. Harris, 603 

 Li(e by the Sea-shore : an Introduction to Natural History, 



Marion Newbigin, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 621 

 Recherches sur les instruments, les methodes et le dessin 



Topographiques, Colonel A. Laussedat, 622 

 Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Charles Smith and Sophie 



Bryant, 623 

 The Life History of British Serpents and their Local Distri- 

 bution in the British Isles, Gerald R. Leighton, 624 

 The Feeding of Animals, W. H. Jordan, 625 

 First Stage Building Construction, Brysson Cunningham, 625 

 Theorie Nouvelle de la Dispersion, G. Quesneville, 625 

 Status of the Mesozoic Floras of the United States, the 



Older Mesozoic, Lester F. Ward, W. M. Fontaine, A. 



Warner and F. H. Knowlton, 633 

 Ricerche Petrografiche e Geologiche suUa Valsesia, E. Artini 



and G. Melzi, 640 

 Dragons of the Air : An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles, 



H. G. Seeley, 645 

 Theoretical Mechanics : an Elementary Treatise, W. Woolsey 



Johnson, 646 

 The Earliest Inhabitants of Abydos : a Craniological Study, 



D. Randall-Maciver, 647 

 The New Basis of Geography : a Manual for the Preparation 



of the Teacher, Jacques W. Redway, 64S 

 Expertises et Arbitrages, F. Rigaud, 648 

 Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, Captain Deasy, 653 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), Papers on Mechanical and 



Physical Subjects, 549 

 Rheinberg (J.), Contrivance for viewing Diffraction Patterns 



of Diatoms through the Microscope, 60 

 Rhinoceros, the, Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 223 

 Rhodes (Herbert), Glycolytic Enzyme in Muscle, 19S 

 Rhodesia, N.E. , Fauna of, C. P. Chesnaye, 3S3 

 Ricco (Signor A.), Deformation of the Sun's Disc, 2S9 ; the 



International Survey of the Heavens, 582 

 Rice (Stanley P.), Occasional Essays on Native South Indian 



Life, 574 

 Richardson (O. W.), Attempt to Discover Radiation from 



Surface of Metals carrying Alternating Currents of High 

 b'requency, 95 



Richter (Dr. R. ), Berkeley's Drei Dialoge zwischen Hylas und 

 Philono'us, 4 



Rideal (Dr. S.), on Humus and the so-called Irreducible 

 Residue in Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, 6l2 ; on Sulphuric 

 Acid as a Typhoid Disinfectant, 612 



Ridewood (Dr. W. G.), the Hair of the Patagonian Ground- 

 Sloth, 190 



Ridley (Mr.), on a Specimen of Ophioglossunt simplex col- 

 lected by, in Sumatra, 617 



Rigaud (F. ), Expertises et Arbitrages, 648 



Ritchie (Foster), the Telautograph, 107 



Rivers of East Yorkshire, the Geological History of the, F. R. 

 Cowper Reed, 277 



Riviere (Emile), Pateolithic Drawings on Walls of Cave of La 

 Mouthe. 596 



Roberts (Dr. Alex. W. ), Density and Figure of Close Binary 

 Stars, 468 



Roberts-Austen (SirW., K.C.B., F.R.S.), Alloys for Bronze 

 Medals, 309 ; Metals as Fuel, Lecture at Royal Institution, 360 



Robertson (W.), 2 : 6-dibromo-4-nitrosophenol, 94 



Robinson (H.), Natural History Notes, 331 



Robinson (Mr. ), on the half-Siamese half-Malay Community of 

 Sai-Kau, 614 



Rocks, Chemistry of the Cygnian Stars and Basic, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C B., F.R.S., Prof. Edw. Suess, 629 



Rodman (Dr. G. H.), Rfintgen Radiographs of Mollusk Shells, 

 189 



Rolling Angle of a Ship found by Photography, Rev. F. J. 

 Jervis-Sm'ith, F.R.S., 576 



Rolston (W. E.), the August Meteors of 1901, 411 



Rcintgen Rays : L'Optique des Rayons de Rontgen et des 

 Rayons secondaires que en derivent, G. Sagnac, loi ; Nature 

 of Rontgen Rays, J. Semenov, 344 ; the Theory of Diffrac- 

 tion of Rontgen Rays, Prof. Sonimerfeld, 357 ; the Rontgen-. 

 Rays in Military Surgery, J. Hall-Edwards, 454 ; Effect on 

 Eye of the Rontgen Rays, Herren Himstedt and Nagel, 529 ; 

 Radiographs of Mollusk Shells, Dr. G. H. Rodman, 189 



Rood (d. N.), Experiments on High Electrical Resistances, 415, 



Roscoe (Sir Henry), on the Organisation of Technical and 

 Secondary Education, 593 



Rose-Innes (f.), Thermal Properties of Isopentane and Normal 

 Pentane, 93 



Rosin-cored Solder, 60 



Ross (Major Ronald, F. R.S.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 453; 

 the Anti-mosquito Campaign in Sierra Leone, 489 ; on the 

 Story of Malaria, 588 ; Mosquitoes and Sounds, 607 ; the 

 West African Campaign against Malaria, 636 



Rotch (A. Lawrence), Meteorological Kite, Investigation at 

 .Smithsonian Institute, 269 ; Meteorological Kite-raising by 

 Tug-motion, 453 ; on the Exploration of the Upper Strata of 

 the Atmosphere by means of Kites, 590 



Rothschild's Novitates Zoologies, a Journal of Zoology in con- 

 nection with the Tring Museum, 249 



Rouviere (M. ), Action of Currents of High Frequency on. 

 Urinary Secretion, 272 



Roux (E.), Glucamine, 24 



Rowe (Dr. A. W.), Zones in Chalk, 355 



Rowland (Prof. H. A.), Obituary Notice of, 16 



Royal College of Science and the University of London, Prof. 



W. A. Tiiden, F.R.S., 583 

 Royal Geographical Society : Sand Waves in Tidal Currents, 



Dr. Vaughan Cornish, 412 ; see also Geography 

 Royal Horticultural Society's Lily Conference, the, Wilfred 



Mark Webb, 316 

 Royal Institution : Vitrified Quartz, W. A. Shenstone, F.R.S., 

 65, 126 ; Prof. J. Joly, F. R.S., 102 ; Some Recent Work on 

 Diffusion, Dr. Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., 171, 193; the 

 Aims of the National Physical Laboratory, Dr. R. T. Glaze- 

 brook, F. R.S., 290 ; Metals as Fuel, Sir W. Roberts-Austen, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., 360; Polish, Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, 

 F.R.S., 3S5 



Royal Society : Scope of the Royal Society, Sir W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, F.R.S. ,29; Royal Society Selected Candidates, 36; 

 Royal Society, 45, 57,69, 93, 141, 198, 221, 246, 341, 365, 

 415,496; Royal Society Conversazione, 57; the Antarctic 

 Expedition, 131; Resignation of Dr. J.W.Gregory, 132; 

 the Solar Activity 1833-1900, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 

 196 ; Bakerian Lecture at the Royal Society : the Nadir of 



