Index 



r Nature, 

 \_Deccmber S, 1904. 



Bigouid;in, 572 ; Discovery of a Nova or a New \'ariable, 

 Stanley Williams, 584 : ' the Orbit of Castor, Prof. 

 Doberck, 584 ; the Meeting of the Astronomischen 

 Gesellschaft, 1904, 584 ; Astronomischer Jahresbericht, 

 Walter F. Wislicenus, 600 ; a New Variable Star, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, 634; P. Gotz, 634; Comparison of the 

 Intensities of Photographic Stellar Images, 610; Observ- 

 ations in the Southern Hemisphere, Prof. W. H. Wright, 

 tiio; the Classification of Stars According to their Tem- 

 perature and Chemistry, Prof. A. Fowler, 611, 63s; 

 Photographic Determiration of Parallax, Frank Schles- 

 mger, 634; New System of Micrometers, G. Millochau, 

 I143 ; -st'i; ii.'so British Association 



Athens : Meteor Radiants Observed at. Prof. D. Eginitis, 

 30 ; the Annual of the British School at, H. R. Hall, 481 



Aikin (.A. J. R.), Genesis of the Gold-deposits of Barker- 

 ville, British Columbia, 94 



Atkinson (G. A. S.), the Decomposition of Ammonia bv 

 Heat, 238 



Atkinson (J. J. I, Primal Law, 244 



Atmosphere : Moisture in the Atmosphere of Mars, Arthur 

 J. Hawkes, 5:;; \"ariation of Atmospheric .Absorption, 

 Prof. S. P. Langley, For.M.R.S., 19S ; Would Life 

 be Possible if the Nitrogen of the Atmosphere were 

 Replaced by Hydrogen? Dr. Arturo Marcacci, 201; 

 General Circulation of the Atmosphere in Middle and 

 Higher Latitudes, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., at the 

 Royal Society, 225 ; Escape of Gases from the Earth's 

 Atmosphere, Dr. Johnstone Stoney, 286 : a Source of the 

 lonisation of the Atmosphere, J. R. Ashworth, 454 



Atome, Die Dissozijerurg und Umwandlung chemischer. 

 Dr. Johannes Stark, 4 



Atomic Structure in the Light of Secondary Spectra, P. G. 

 Nutting, 342 



Atwater (Prof. W. O.), the Nutrition of Man, 617 



Auden (H. M.), Parochial History, Church Stretton, 175 



.^uger (V.), Methylarsenic, 240; Action of Solutions 'of 

 Organomagnesium Compounds on the Halogen Deri- 

 vatives of Phosphorus, Arsenic, and Antimony, 644 



6 .Aurigfc, the Spectroscopic Binary, Prof. Vogel, ha 



.Austen (P. T.), Occurrence of Aluminium in Vegetable 

 Products, &-c., 505 



Australia, the Northern Tribes of Central, Baldwin Spencer, 

 F.R.S., and F. J. Gillen, Ernest Crawley, 34S 



Austria-Hungary, the Structure of, Prof. Grenville A. J. 

 Cole, 49 



Automobiles : Ankauf, Einrichlung und Pflege des Motor- 

 zweirades, Wolfgang \'ogel, 246 



Aveburv (Right Hon. Lord, F.R.S.I, Notes from a Diarv, 

 •Sir M. E. Grant Duff, 172; Free Trade, 290; Pre- 

 liminary Scheme for the Classification and Approximate 

 Chronology of the Periods of Minoan Culture in Crete 

 from the Close of the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, 

 564 ; on the Forms of Stems of Plants, 566 



Axis. Position of the, of the Rotation of Mars, Mr. Lowell, 

 i8(> 



.Ayrton (Mrs.), Origin and Growth of Ripple Mark, 206; 

 on the Origin of Sand Ripples, 585 



Ayrton (Prof. W. E., F.R.S.), Original Papers by the late 

 John Hopkinson, F.R.S., ifio 



Backstrom (Prof. H.), the Great Iron Ore Deposits of 

 Lappland, 51S 



Bacteriology : Bacterial Treatment of Sewage, Multiple 

 Surface Bacteria Beds, Mr. Dibden, 12 ; the Experimental 

 Bacterial Treatment of London Sewage (London County 

 Council), Prof. Frank Clowes and A. C. Houston, Prof. 

 K. T. Hewlett, 395 ; Bacteriological and Other -Aspects 

 of Miners' Phthisis. Dr. L. G. Irvine, 43 ; Bacteriology 

 and its Commercial .Aspects, W. H. Jollyman, 43 ; In- 

 duced Radio-activity of Bacteria, Dr. Alan B. Green, 69 ; 

 Action of Radium on .Micro-organisms, Dr. Alan B. 

 Green, 117; Duration of Life of Pathogenic Bacteria in 

 Water, M. Konr.idi, 203 ; Elements of Water Bac- 

 teriology, Sam.uel Cate Prescott and Charles-Edward 

 Amory Winslow, 221 : Bacterial Origin of the Gums of 

 the Arabia Group, Dr. R. Greig Smith, 264; the Loss 

 of Colour in Red Wines, Dr. R. Greig Smith, 264; the 

 Diphtheria Bacillus, Dr. R. H. Crowley, 357 ; Dr. Louis 

 Cubbett. 3S7 ; a A'ariable Galactan Bacterium, Dr. R. 

 Greig Smith, 392 ; the Red String of the Sugar-cane, 



Dr. R. (ireig Smith, 392 ; Bacteriology of Milk, Harold 



Swithinbank and George Newman, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 



451 

 Bagley (G.), the Constitution of Abietic Acid, 95 

 Bailey (Charles), Sisymbrium stfictissimiim established at 



Heaton Mersey, tao 

 Bain (Alexander), Dissertations on Leading Philosophical 



Topics, 79 

 Balance, New Magnetic, W. Hibbert, 206 

 Baldwin (W.), New Species of Eoscorpius from the Upper 



Carboniferous Rocks of Lancashire, 94 

 Balfour (Rt. Hon. A. J., D.C.L., LL.D., M.P., F.R.S.), 



Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, Inaugural 



Address at the Cambridge Meeting of the British As- 

 sociation, Reflections Suggested by the New Theory of 



Matter, 368 ; What is the Precise Nature and Effect of 



the Set of Circumstances which we Describe as " Town 



Life "? 561 

 Balfour (Henry, M.A.), Opening Address in Section H at 



the Cambridge Meeting of the British Association, 43S 

 Ballistics : Obituary Notice of Emile Sarrau, 106 

 Balthazard (V.), Physiological Action of the Emanation of 



Radium, 167 

 Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave 



Theory of Light, Lord Kelvin, O.'M., G.C.V.O., F.R.S., 



Supp. to May 5, lii 

 Baly (E. C. C.), the Ultra-violet Absorption Spectra of 



Certain £uo/-fcc;o-tautomerides, 239 

 Bamboo, the Flowering of the, A. Tingle, 342 ; Prof. J. B. 



Farmer, F.R.S., 342 ; J. S. Gamble, F.R.S., 423 

 Band Spectrum of Nitrogen, a New, Percival Lewis, 416 

 Banker Naturalist, a. Death and Obituary Notice of Henry 



Evans, 327 

 Banks (Sir William Mitchell), Death and Obituary Notice 



of, 350 

 Bantu Races of South Africa, the. Sir H. H. Johnston, 



G.C.M.G., 55 

 Barber (Rev. W. T. A.). National and Local Provision for 



the Training of Teachers, 560 

 Barcroft (J.), the Relation of Oxidation to Functional 



Activity, 592 

 Barker (Captain D. Wilson), the Past and Present Con- 

 dition of Ocean Meteorology, 130 

 Barnard (Prof.), Position of Saturn's Ninth Satellite, 536; 



\"isual Observations of Phoebe, 584 

 Barnes (Mr.), Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Measured by 



Electrical Means, 63S 

 Barograph, Patent " Dial," Messrs. Pastorellt and Rapkin, 



62 

 Barometric See-saw, a World-wide, Dr. William J. S. 



Lockyer, 177 

 Barratt (J. O. Wakelin), Lethal Concentration of Acids 



and Bases in respect of Parainocciuin aurelia, 420 

 Barrett (Chas. E.), the Lepidoptera of the British Islands, 



a Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and 



Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their 



Preparatory States, Habits, and Localities, 423 

 Barwise (S.), the Purification of Sewage, 552 

 Basketry, Aboriginal American, Report of the Smithsonian 



Institution, Otis Tufton Mason, 199 

 Basketry of the Tlinget, G. T. Emmons, 138 

 Basset (.A. S.), Misuse of Words and Phrases, 627 

 Bateson (Mr.), Mendel's Experiment, 539 

 Bateson (William, M..A., F.R.S.), Opening Address in 



Section D at the Cambridge Meeting of the British 



Association, 406 

 Bau und Bild Osterreichs, Carl Deiner, Rudolf Hoernes, 



Franz E. Suess, and \ictor I'hiig. Prof. Grenville A. J. 



Cole, 49 

 Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Appeal for Cooperation in Magnetic and 



Allied Observations during the Total Solar Eclipse of 



August 29-30, 1905, 577 

 Bauer (Prof. Max), Precious Stones, a Popular Account of 



their Characters, Occurrence, and .Applications, with an 



Introduction to their Determination, for Mineralogists, 



Lapidaries, Jewellers, &c., 26 

 Baum (F. G.), the .Alternating Current Transformer, 122 

 Bavlev (R. C), Photography in Colours, 553, 57S 

 Ba'vlev (W. S.). the Menominee Iron-bearing District of 



filichigan, 25S 

 Bayliss (Dr. W. M.. F.R.S.), the Chemical Regulation of 



