Index 



\_December 8, 1904 



Hering', 269; New Slide Rule, Major F. J. Anderson, 307; 

 Modern Electric Practice, Maurice Solomon, 339 ; 

 Fischwege und Fischteiche, die Arbeiten des Ingenieurs 

 zuni nutzen der Fischerei, Paul Gerhardt, Frank Balfour 

 Browne. 364 ; a Manual of Forest Engineering for India, 

 C. G. Rogers, 550 ; Rock Pressure at Great Depths, 

 Geoffrey Martin, 602 ; Hon. Charles A. Parsons, F.R.S., 

 602 ; Relations between the Effects of Stresses Slowly 

 Applied and of Stresses Suddenly Applied in the Case of 

 Iron and Steel, Comparative Tests with Notched and 

 Plain Bars, Pierre Breuil, 622 ; the Simplon Tunnel, 

 Francis Fox, 628 ; the Engineer in South Africa, Stafford 

 Ransonie, Supp. to May 5, xiv ; see also British 

 Association 



(England : Buy English Acres, C. F. Dowsett, 197 ; the 

 Lipper Chalk of England and its Zones, 286 ; the Present 

 State of Agricultural Education in England, 297 ; Rare 

 Moths in England, F. H. Perrycoste, 506 ; English 

 Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times, Joseph Frank Payne, 

 508 



.Engler (Prof. A.), on the Plants of the Northern Temperate 

 Zone in their Transition to the High Mountains of 

 Tropical Africa, 565 



.'Enhanced Lines of Titanium, Iron, and Nickel, Herbert M. 

 Reese, 308 



sEntomology : le Monde des Fourmis,' Henri Coupin, 29 ; 

 the New Zealand Vegetable Caterpillar, W. F. Kirby, 

 44; Entomological Society, 46, 94, 214, 619; Early 

 Development of the Unfertilised Egg of the Sawfly 

 Nenialiis ribesii, L. Doncaster, 71 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., 106; Catalogue of 

 British Coleoptera, T. Hudson Beare and H. St. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe, 150 ; Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera 

 of South Africa, L. P($ringuey, 625 ; " Buffalo-gnats " on 

 Lower Mississippi, F. M. Webster, 159 ; Monograph of 

 CoccidfE of the British Isles, Robert Newstead, 194; the 

 Coccidae of Ceylon, E. Ernest Green, 194; New Australian 

 CoccidfE, E. Ernest Green, 476 ; New Zealand Neuro- 

 ptera, a Popular Introduction to the Life-histories and 

 Habits of May-flies, Dragon-flies, Caddis-flies, and 

 Allied Insects Inhabiting New Zealand, Including Notes 

 on their Relation to Angling, G. V. Hudson, 194 ; Eleanor 

 Ormerod, LL.D., Economic Entomologist, .\utobio- 

 graphy and Correspondence, 219; the Striped Hawk-moth, 

 J05; F. _H. Perrycoste, 3S9, 506; Rose Haig Thomas, 

 455 ; Striped Hawk-moths in Sligo, Rev. Joseph Meehan, 

 628; Harriman Alaska Expedition, vols. viii. and ix.. 

 Insects, 314; the Fauna of British India, Including 

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

 ptera, W. L. Distant, 341, 396; Palaeozoic Cockroaches, 

 P.. H. Sellards, 446 ; Ant Discovered which Preys on 

 Cotton Boll-Weevil, 511; a Teratological Specimen of 

 Arctia caja, Dr. T. A. Chapman, 619 



■Entropy, James Swinburne, 54; Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 



Eocene Whales, Prof. E. Fraas, 543 



Ephemeris for Comet 1904 a. New Elements and, Prof. 

 .A. O. Leuschner, Messrs. Aitken, Crawford, and 

 Maddrill, 256 



Ephemeris for Encke's Comet, MM. Kaminsky and Ocou- 

 litsch, 353, 459 



Ephemeris for Comet Tempel,, M.J. Coniel, 459, 634 



Eriksson (Prof.), Mycoplasm "Theory of Rust Fungi, 131; 

 the Vegetative Life of Some Uredineae, 567 



Eros Photographs, the Solar Parallax as Determined from 

 the, Mr. Hinks, 256 



Errera (Prof. L.), on the Localisation of Alkaloids in Plants 

 566 



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

 stone Stoney, 286 



Escombe (F.), Misuse of Words and Phrases, 603 



Essays and .Addresses, John Young, 4 



■Ether, the. Some Notes on its Place in Nature, John Rhind, 

 150 



■Ethnology : the Popularisation of Ethnological Museums, 

 Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 7; Ingenious Method of 

 Ethnological Investigation, E. Thurston, 138; Aboriginal 

 -American Basketry, Report of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Otis Tufton Mason, 199 



■Eton Nature-studv and Observational Lessons M. D. Hill 

 and W. M. Webb, 576 



Eugenics, its Definition, Scope and Aims, Sir Francis 

 Galton, F.R.S., at the Sociological Society, 82 



Europe : Origin of Plants Common to Europe and America, 

 A. T. Drummond, 55 



Evans (Dr. Arthur, F.R.S.), Preliminary Scheme for the 

 Classification and Approximate Chronology of the Periods 

 of Minoan Culture in Crete from the Close of the Neo- 

 lithic to the Early Iron Age, 563 



Evans (Henry), Death and Obituary Notice of, 327 



Evans (Sir John), on the Nature and Origin of Earth Move- 

 ments, 519 



Eve (A. S.), on the Secondary Radiation due to the 7 Rays 

 of Radium, 454 



Everett (Prof. J. D., F.R.S.), Normal Piling as Connected 

 with Osborne Reynolds's Theory of the Universe, 22 ; 

 Direct Proof of Abbe's Theorems on the Microscopic 

 Resolution of Gratings, 239 ; Normal Piling, 557 



Everett (Dr. J. D., F.R.S.), Death of, 387; Obituary Notice 



of. 397 

 Evolution : Controverses Transformistes, Alfred Giard, 123 ; 

 la Concurrence sociale et les Devoirs sociaux, J. L. de 

 Lanessan, 195 ; Evolution and Adaptation, Thomas Hunt 

 Morgan, 313; the Old Riddle and the Newest Answer, 

 John Gerard, 504; Aspects of Social Evolution, J. Lionel 

 Tayler, 449; Evolution of the Horse, 520; Mendel's Law, 

 a Crucial Experiment, R. H. Lock, 601 ; Mendel's Law, 

 Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 626; die Theorie der 

 Direkten Anpassung und ihre Bedeutung fur das 

 .Anpassungs- und Deszendensproblem, Dr. Carl Detto, 



(525 



Ewart (Prof.), the Evolution of the Horse, 521 



Ewing (J. A., F.R.S.), the Structure of Metals, Rede Lec- 

 ture before University of Cambridge, 187 



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

 African Association for Advancement of Science, 63 



Excavator's Vade Mecum, the, 31 



Exner (F. F.), Atomic Weight of Tungsten, 535 



Exner (Dr. F. M.), Relation between the Distribution of 

 Air Pressure and Amount of Cloud, 485 



Exogamy, Totemism and, Ernest Crawley, 244 



Exploration : Round Kanchenjunga, a Narrative of Moun- 

 tain Travel and Exploration, Douglas W. Freshfield, 8; 

 Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan, Personal Narrative of a 

 Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration 

 in Chinese Turkestan, M. Aurel Stein, H. R. Hall, 275 



Explosives ; Explosions produced by Ferrosllicon at Liver- 

 pool on January 12 and 21, A. Dupr6 and Captain M. B. 

 Lloyd, 40 



Eyes, Adaptive Colours of, A. \'incent Napier, 424 



Fabry (Ch.), Spectrum of Calcium Fluoride in the Electric 



Arc, 216 

 Falkland Islands and their Fauna, the, Rupert Vallentin, 



637 

 Famines, Indian Irrigation and its Relation to, 358 

 Faraday Lecture before Chemical Society at Royal Institu- 

 tion, Elements and Compounds, Prof. W. Ostwald, 15 

 Faraday Society, 118, 191 

 Farm, the Story of an American, the Fat of the Land, 



J. W. Streeter, 4 

 Farman (Maurice), the Leonids in 1903, 23 

 Farmer (George), the Problem of Gob-fires, 510 

 Farmer (Prof. J. B., F.R.S.), the Flowering of the Bamboo, 



342 

 Farrington (Dr. Oliver Cummings), Gems and Gem 



Minerals, 26 

 Fassig (O. L.), Experiments with Kites at Nassau, 



Bahamas, 22S 

 Fats and Waxes, Chemical Technology and Analysis of 



Oils, Dr. J. Lewkowitsch, C. Simmonds. 502 

 Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, the, 



Rhynchota, vol. ii., part ii., Heteroptera, W. L. Distant. 



341'. 396 

 Fauna, the Falklands and their, Rupert Vallentin, 637 

 Fauna and Flora of Alaska, the, 314 



Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archi- 

 pelagoes, the, 337 

 Fauna;, Index Novje Zealandise, 78 

 Fawsitt (C. E.), Decomposition of the .\lkylureas, 141 

 Fayrer (Sir Joseph, Bart., F.R.S.), a Method of Preventing 



Death from Snake Bite, 141 



