Index 



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\_Deccml:er 8, i 



Diener (Dr. Carl), Ban und Bi!d Osterreichs, 49; Permian 

 Fossils of the Central Himalayas, 86 



Diffraction Process of Colour-photography, Recent Im- 

 provements in the, Prof. R. W. Wood, 614 



Dines (W. H.), New Self-recording Mercurial Barometer, 



254 

 Direction of the Sun's Proper Motion, Prof. Kobold, 459 

 Disaster to Submarine Ai, the, Prof. E. A. Schafer, 



F.R.S., 5 

 Disease : the Prevention of Disease, Prof. Clifford Allbutt, 



F.R.S., 60; Milk in Relation to Disease, Prof. R. T. 



Hewlett, 451 ; Recent Studies of Disease Organisms, 



519; Disease-proof Potatoes? 606 

 Disinfecting Stations, Prof. Henry R. Kenwood and P. J. 



Wilkinson, 259 

 Disselhorst (Prof. Rudolf), Lehrbuch der vergleichenden 



mikroscopischen Anatomie der Wirbeltiere, vol. iv., 574 

 Dissertations on Leading Philosophical Topics, Alexander 



Bain, 79 

 Dissoziierung und Umwandlung chemischer Atome, die, Dr. 



Johannes Stark, 4 

 Distant (W. L.), Rivers as Factors in the Distribution of 



Animals, 12 ; the Fauna of British India, including 



Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota, vol. ii., part ii., Hetero- 



ptera, 341, 396 

 Distribution of Successes and of Natural Ability among the 



Kinsfolk of Fellows of the Royal Society, Dr. Francis 



Galton, F.R.S., 354 

 Ditisheim (Paul), Determination of the Difference of Longi- 

 tude Chronometrically, 23 

 Dixon {k. L.), Evaluation of Certain Definite Integrals by 



Means of Gamma Functions, and Generalisations of 



Legendre's Formula KE' — (K — E)K' = jtt, 71 

 Dixon (Prof. H. B.), Specific Heat of Gases at High 



Temperatures, 5S5 

 Dixon (Prof. Henry H.), Use of Radium in Section Cutting, 



198 

 Dixon (Dr. W. E.), Results of Experiments upon the Action 



of Alcohol upon the Heart and Circulation, 587 

 Dobbie (J.), the Constitution of Hydrastinine, 239 

 Dobbin (Miss E. E.), Line of Sight Constants for Some 



Orion Type Stars, 332 

 Dobbs (F. W.), Practical Geometry for Beginners, 47S 

 Dobbs (W. J.), Graphic Methods in an Educational Course 



in Mechanics, 103 

 Doberck (Prof.), the Orbit of Castor, 584 

 Dock Engineering, a Treatise on the Principles and Practice 



of, Brysson Cunningham, 52 

 Dodos' iJones, Further Discovery of, Prof. Alfred Newton, 



F.R.S., 626 

 Dog, the Sporting, J. A. Graham, 149 

 Dogs, Instinct and Reason in, E. W. P., 577 

 Donau (J.), Very Sensitive Method of Testing for Minute 



Traces of Gold, 609 

 Doncaster (L.), Early Development of the Unfertilised Egg 



of the Sawfly Nematus ribesii, 71 

 Donisthorpe (H. St. J. K.), Catalogue of British Coleoptera, 



150 

 floppier, the Centenary of. Dr. Karl Haas, 308 

 Doran (Robert E.), Simple Method of Showing Vortex 



Motion, 158 

 Dorsey (Dr. G. A.), the Arapaho Sun Dance, the Ceremony 



of the Offerings' Lodge, 300 

 Doubt (T. E.), Effect of the Intensity on the Velocity of 



Light, 39 

 Dowsett (C. F.), Buy English Acres, 197 

 Doyen (Dr.), Alleged Micro-organism isolated and Curative 



Serum prepared by, 631 

 Drever (G.), Coloration produced by Radium on Crystals, 



596 

 Drugman (J.), Action of Ozone on Ethane, 141 

 Drumming of the Snipe, the, F. W. Headley, 103 

 Drummond (A. T.), Origin of Plants Common to Europe 



and America, 55 

 Dublin Royal Irish Academy, 215 

 Dublin Royal Society, 119, 167, 263 

 Dublin Royal Society, the Structure of Water Jets and 



the Effect of Sound Thereon, Philip E. Belas, 232 

 Dubois (N. A.), Method of Employing Allotropic Silver for 



Conducting Fibres for Electrometers, 558 



Duclaux (Prof. Emile), Death of, 11; Obituary Notice of. 

 Dr. Charles J. Martin, F.R.S., 34 



Duddell (W.), Instruments for the Measurement of Large 

 and Small Alternating Currents, 71 



Dufet (H.), Measurements of the Rotatory Power of Biaxial 

 Crystals in the Direction of the Optic Axes, bog 



Duff (Sir M. E. Grant), Notes from a Diary, 172 



Dufour (A.), Formation of Hydrogen Silicide by Direct 

 Synthesis, 23; Reduction of Silica by Hydrogen, 48; 

 Apparent Volatilisation of Silicon in Hydrogen, 72 



Dugan (Mr.), Photographic Magnitudes and Places of 350 

 Pleiades Stars, 447 



Dunham (Dr. Kennon), Effects of Rontgen Rays on Lower 

 Animal Life, 12 



Dunstan (Prof. Wyndham R.), Tests for the Detection of 

 Arsenic in Drugs, 4S7 



Dupr^ (A.), Explosions produced by Ferrosilicon at Liver- 

 pool on January 12 and 21, 40 



Dutton (Dr.), Sleeping -Sickness is Trypanosomiasis, 609 



Dyke (T. S. Van), the Still-Hunter, 266 



Dynamics : a Dynamical System Illustrating the Spectrum 

 Lines, Prof. H. Nagaoka, 124; G. A. Schott, 176; Balti- 

 more 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, iii 



Dynamo, Motor and Switchboard Circuits, W. R. Bowker, 

 122 



Dynamos h Courant Continu, Trait^ El^mentaire des 

 Enroulements des, F. Loppe, 317 



Earth's Atmosphere, Escape of Gases from the, Dr. 

 Johnstone Stoney, 286 



Earthquakes : Earthquake in Caucasus, 60 ; at Malta, 84 ; 

 in England, 227; Caernarvon Earthquake of June 19. 

 1903, Dr. C. Davison, 262; in New Zealand, 350; in 

 Patmos, 388; at Suez, 38S ; in Argyllshire, 509; at 

 Ottawa, 509; throughout Scandinavia, 631 



Easterfield (T. H.), the Constitution of Abietic Acid, 95 



Eastman (Dr. C. R.), the Limb-like Appendages in 

 Osteostraci, 446 



Easton (Dr. C), Distribution of Nebuls in Relation to the 

 Galaxy, 536 



Eaton (G. F.), Ornithosaurian Pteranodon, 108 



Ebell (M.), Comet 1904 a, 14, 40 



Eclipses : Asser and the Solar Eclipse of October 29, 878 ; 

 Rev. C. S. Taylor, 6; Smithsonian Institution 1900 

 Eclipse Results, Prof. Langley, 205 ; the Total Solar 

 Eclipse of 1905, 160, 416; Prof. W. W. Campbell, 160; 

 Appeal for Cooperation in Magnetic and Allied Observ- 

 ations during the Total Solar Eclipse of August 29-30, 

 1905, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 577 ; the Lick Observatory Pro- 

 gramme for Next Year's Solar Eclipse, 584 



Economic Biologists, Association of, W'alter E. Collinge, 

 125 



Eder (Mr.), Invariability of Spark and Arc Wave-lengths, 

 132 



Edinburgh Royal Society, 22, 142, 262, 44S 



Edmonds (S. A.), Quasi Radio-activity produced by the 

 Point Discharge, 142 



Edridge-Green (Dr. F. W.), on the Necessity for a Lantern 

 Test as the Official Test for Colour Blindness, 589 



Edser (Edwin), Light and Water, a Study of Reflexion and 

 Colour in River, Lake and Sea, Sir Montagu Pollock, 

 Bart., 555 



Education : Reports of the Mosely Educational Commission 

 to the United .States of America, 10; Education in Japan. 

 37 ; Drawing for Young Children, E. B. Sargant, 44 ; 

 the Education of Examiners, E. B. Sargant at the South 

 African Association for Advancement of Science, 63 ; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of J. N. Tata, 84; Graphic 

 Methods in an Educational Course on Mechanics, R. M. 

 Milne, 5; A. P. Trotter, 81, 125; S. Irwin Crookes, 81 ; 

 Graphic Methods in an Educational Course in Mechanics, 

 W. Larden, 103 ; W. J. Dobbs, 103 ; Educational Psycho- 

 logy, Edward Thorndike, Dr. Charles S. Myers, 98 ; 

 Death of .Xniato Amati, 107; Higher Scientific Education 

 in France, Prof. Appell, 136 ; Educational Conference at 

 the Horticultural Exhibition, Wilfred Mark Webb, 163 ; 

 Education of the .\merican Engineer, 231 ; Universities 



