Index 



and the State, 271 ; the Present State of Agricultural 

 Education in England, 297; the Agricultural Education 

 Conference at Gloucester, 616; Science in the Common 

 Examination for Entrance to Public Schools, Oswald H. 

 i-atter, 223 ; Regulations for Secondary Schools, 344 ; 

 Regulations for the Training of Teachers and for the 

 Examination of Students in Training Colleges, 346 ; 

 Physical Deterioration, its Causes and the Cure, A. Watt 

 Smyth, Sir Hugh R. Beevor, Bart., 363 ; les Exercises 

 physiques et le D^veloppement intellectuel, Angelo Mosso, 

 Sir Hugh R. Beevor, Bart., 363 ; Death of Rev. Dr. H. P. 

 Gurney, 387; Education of a Chemist, Sir William Ram- 

 say, K.C.B., F.R.S., at Society of Chemical Industry, 

 New York, 570; the Duchess of Sutherland's School at 

 Golspie, 571 ; sec also British Association 



Eggar (Mr.), Apparatus for Verifying Newton's Second 

 Law, 515 



Eginitis (Prof. D.), Meteor Radiants Observed at Athens, 



39 



Egypt, Earliest Records of Medicine in .\ncient. Dr. 

 Richard Caton, 184 



Egyptology : an Important .Archaeological Discovery in 

 Egypt, Prof. Naville and H. R. Hall, 15; ; Some Ancient 

 Mammal Portraits, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 207; Exhibi- 

 tion of Ancient Egyptian Sculpture at the British Museum, 

 426 



Eiweisskdrper, Chemie der. Dr. Otto Cohnheim, 623 



Electricity : Influence of Radium on the Electric Spark, Prof. 

 \. Stefanini and Dr. L. Magri, 12 ; Electrolytic Proper- 

 ties of Radium Bromide, Herrn. Kohlrausch and Henning, 

 285 ; Spontaneous Electrification of Radium, Hon. R. J. 

 Strutt, 20:;; Electric Wave Recorder for Strutt's Radium 

 Electroscope, F. Harrison Glew, 246 ; Electromotive Force 

 between Two Phases of the Same Metal, (jeorge Beilby, 

 31 ; Thos. Andrews, F.R.S., 125; Electric Traction, J. H. 

 Rider, Maurice Solomon, 51 ; Electric Lighting and 

 Power Distribution, W. P. Maycock, 53 ; Apparatus for 

 Ihe .Metrical Study of Stationary Electric Waves on Spiral 

 Wires, Prof. J. .A. Fleming, F.R.S., 6q ; Instruments for 

 the Measurement of Large and .Small Alternating 

 Currents, W. Duddell, 71 ; Electricity and Matter, Prof. 

 J. J. Thomson, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., -jt, : Radio- 

 activity of Russian ^luds and Electrification of Air by 

 Metals, Prof. I. Borgmann, 80; Quasi Radio-activity pro- 

 duced by the Point Discharge, S. .A. Edmonds, 142 ; Con- 

 tinuous Registration of Gaseous lonisation and of Radio- 

 activity by Methods of Loss of Charge, Charles Nord- 

 mann, 216; Disintegration Theory of Radio-activity, Prof. 

 Rutherford, 630 ; Radio-activity of the Atmosphere and 

 the Earth, Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 630: Radio-activity 

 of Mineral Oils, Prof. McLennan, 639 ; Conductivity of 

 the Atinosphere due to a Radio-active Emanation from 

 the Earth's Crust, Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 458; Spark- 

 ing Distance between Electrically Charged Surfaces, Dr. 

 P. E. Shaw. 94; Precis d'felectricit^ M^dicale, Technique 

 Electrophysiologie, Iilectrodiagnostic Electroth^rapie, 

 Radiologic, Phototh^rapie, Prof. E. Castex, 99 ; a Text- 

 book of Static Electricity, H. Mason, 122 ; Dynamo, 

 Motor, and Switchboard Circuits, W. R. Bowker, 122 ; 

 Testing of Electromagnetic Machinery and Other 

 Apparatus, B. \'. Swenson and B. Frankenfield, 122 ; 

 the Alternating Current Transformer, F. G. Baum, 122 ; 

 the Induction Motor, H. B. de la Tour, 122 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Dr. Friedrich Siemens, 120 ; Use of 

 Lead Electrodes for the Estimation of Minute Quantities 

 of .Arsenic, H. J. S. Sand and J. E. Hackford, 141 ; Effect 

 of Screening on lonisation in Closed Vessels, A. Wood, 

 142 ; Magnetic Deflexion of the Negative Current from 

 a Hot Platinum Wire at Low Pressures, G. Owen, 142 ; 

 Rate of Convective Loss of Heat from a Surface Exposed 

 to a Current of Air, Prof. A. Crichton Mitchell, 143 ; 

 Wireless Telegraphy in Connection with the War, 157 ; 

 News Daily on Board the Cunard Liner Campania, 158 ; 

 Progress in Wireless Telegraphy, Maurice Solomon, 180; 

 the Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 349 ; Wireless Telegraphy, 

 Dr. Fleming, 639 : Dr. de Forest, 639 ; Demonstration of 

 Oscillating Electric Discharges, Prof. .A. Schuster, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. G. Hemsalech, 206; Electric Effect of 

 Rotating a Dielectric in Magnetic Field, Dr. Harold A. 

 Wilson, 213; Chemical Dissociation and Electrical Con- 



ductivity, A. E. Garrett and Dr. R. S. Willows, 239 ; 

 Electrische Fernphotographie und Aehnliches, Dr. Arthur 

 Korn, 280 ; Properties Relating to the Polarisation of 

 Electrodes, E. Roth4, 283; Variation of the Index of 

 Refraction of an Electrolyte under the Action of the 

 Current, H. Bordier, 312 ; Influence of the Density of the 

 Current in Electrolysis with Alternating Current, Andr^ 

 Brochet and Joseph Petit, 312 ; Etude sur les Ri5sonances, 

 G. Chevrier, 317; Traite El^mentaire des Enroulements 

 des Dynamos a Courant Continu, F. Lopp^, 317; Electro- 

 lytic Estimation of Tellurium, G. Gallo, 330 ; Modern 

 Electric Practice, Maurice Solomon, 339 ; Advancing 

 Front of the Train of Waves Emitted by a Theoretical 

 Hertzian Oscillator, A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., 359: Mercury 

 Thermal Ammeter, C. Camichel, 360 ; Propagation de 

 I'l^lectricite, Marcel Brillouin, 450; Theorie der Elek- 

 trizitat und des Magnetismus, Dr. I. Classen, 452 ; Di- 

 electric Cohesion of Argon, M. Booty, 4^7: Herstellung 

 doppelt brechender Korper aas isotropen Bestandteilen, 

 Dr. F. Braun, 457 ; the Telephone Service, its Past, its 

 Present, and its" Future, 480; a Gaseous Interrupter, 

 K. R. Johnson, 500; the Unit of Electromotive Force, 

 ^535 ; Potassium Cyanide Converted by Electrolysis into 

 Cyanate, E. Pater'ni and E. Pannain, 511; Electrolytic 

 Oxidation, Herbert A. Kittle, 553 ; Method of Employing 

 AUotropic Silver for Conducting Fibres for Electrometers, 

 N. A. Dubois, 558 ; Text-books of Physical Chemistry, 

 Electrochemistry, R. A. Lehfeldt, 57.^ ; Comparative Study 

 of the Various Types of Silver Voltameters, K. E. Guthe, 

 583 ; Loss of Electricity in Air in the Neighbourhood of 

 Thermal Springs, A. B. Chauveau, 596; Death of Dr. 

 Selim Lemstrom, 607; the St. Louis International 

 Electrical Congress, W. Duddell, 638 ; True Value of the 

 Volt and Ampere, Profs. Carhart and Patterson, 638 ; Mr. 

 Trotter, 638 ; Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Measured 

 by Electrical Means, Mr. Barnes, 638 ; Standards to Re- 

 present the Fundamental Electrical Units, Prof. Carhart 

 and Dr. Wolff, 638 ; Dr. Glazebrook, 638 ; Materials 

 Used in Standard Cells, Prof. Carhart and Mr. Hulett, 

 638 ; Naming the Magnetic Units, Dr. Kennelly, 638 ; 

 Attempt to Explain the Phenomena of the Arc on a 

 Purely Ionic Basis, Prof. Child, 639 ; Equation for the 

 Relation between the Arc-length, P.D., and Current. 

 Prof. Steinmetz, 639 ; High Frequency Telephonic 

 Circuit Tests, Dr. Kennelly, 040 ; Improvement of Tele- 

 phonic Communication by Increasing the Self-induction 

 of the Circuits, Dr. Hainmond Hayes, 640; Coherer 

 Action, Dr. Guthe, 639 

 Element? is Radium an. Dr. Harold A. Wilson, 241 

 Elements and Compounds, Faraday Lecture before Chemical 



Society at Royal Institution, Prof. \\. Ostwald, 15 

 Eliot (Sir John, K.C.I.E., M.A., F.R.S.), Opening Address 

 in Section A (Subsection of Cosmical Physics) at the 

 Cambridge Meeting of the British Association, 399 

 Elliot (Major R. H.), Action of the Venom of Bnngunis 



coeruleus, 260 ; Action of Sea-snake Venoms, 260 

 Elsden (J. V.), Age of the Llyn-Padarn Dykes, 166 

 Elster (Mr.), Conductivity of the Atmosphere due to a 

 Radio-active Emanation from the Earth's Crust, 45S ; 

 New Apparatus for Measuring the Radio-activity of Soils, 

 458; Radio-activity of the Atmosphere and the Earth, 



Emergence and Submergence of Land, Sir Archibald Geikie. 



Sec.R.S., at Geological Society, m 

 Emerson (B. K.), Alaska, Geology and Paleontology, 217 

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

 Encke's Comet, Forthcoming Return of, Mr. Denning, 

 286; Prof. Seagrave, 286; Ephemeris for, MM. Kaminsky 

 and Ocoulitsch, 353, 459 ; Re-discovery of, 4S7 ; Return 

 of, 512 ; Herr Kopff, 610; P. Gotz, 610 

 Engine, Cecil's Gas, Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 553 

 Engineering: Institution of Civil Engineers' Awards, 11; 

 Sanitary Engineering, Refuse Disposal and Power Produc- 

 tion, W. Francis Goodrich, 25 ; a Treatise on the Principles 

 and Practice of Dock Engineering, Brysson Cunningham, 

 52 ; Entropy, James Swinburne, 54 ; Prof. John Perry, 

 F.R.S. 55 ; Original Papers bv the late John Hopkin- 

 son, F.R.S., Prof. W. E. Avrton, F.R.S. , 169; French 

 Society of Civil Engineers' Prizes, 200; Education of the 

 American Engineer, 231; Ready Reference Table, Carl 



