December S, 1904J 



Index 



Fearnsides (W. G.), Limestone with Upper Gault Fossils 

 at Barnwell, 166; the Geology of Cambridgeshire, 517 



Fedotieff (Dr. P. P.), the Ammonia-soda Process from the 

 Standpoint of the Phase Rule, 446 



Ferrosilicon, Explosions produced by, at Liverpool on 

 January 12 and 21, A. Dupr^ and Captain M. B. Lloyd, 40 



F^ry (Charles), Telescope Pyrometer for Measuring High 

 Temperatures, 583 



Finnemore (H.), the Influence of Moist Alcohol and Ethyl 

 Chloride on the Boiling Point of Chloroform, 239 



Finsen (Prof. N. R.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 532 



Fisher (Rev. Osmond), on the Nature and Origin of Earth 

 Movements, 518 



Fisheries : the Breeding of the Cod, T. W. Fulton, 159 ; 

 Fischwege und Fischteiche, die Arbeiten des Ingenieurs 

 zum nutzen der Fischerei, Paul Gerhardt, Frank Balfour 

 Browne, 364 



Fishing : Trout Fishing, W. Earl Hodgson, 3 ; Fishing 

 Holidays, Stephen Gwynn, 3 ; an Angler's Year, Charles 

 S. Patterson, 3 



Fitz-Patrick Lectures for 1903, the, Joseph Frank Payne, 

 508 



Five-figure Tables of Mathematical Functions, John Borth- 

 wick Dale, 193 



Flammarion (NL), Observations of Jupiter during 1903, 205 



Fleming (Prof.), Apparatus for Measuring the Lengths of 

 Hertzian Waves such as are used in Wireless Telegraphy, 

 516; Wireless Telegraphy, 639 



Fleming (Prof. J. A., F.R.S.), Apparatus for the Metrical 

 Study of Stationary Electric Waves on Spiral Wires, 69 ; 

 Large Bulb Incandescent Electric Lamps as Secondary 

 Standards of Light, 586 



Fletcher (George), Advances made in the Teaching of Ex- 

 perimental Science in the Secondary Schools of Ireland, 

 567 



Fletcher (W. C), the Elements of Plane Trigonometry, 478 



Fletcher (Dr. W. M.), the Relation of Oxidation to Func- 

 tional Activity, 592 



Flora of Alaska, the Fauna and, 314 



Flora der Nordwestdeutschen Tiefebene, Kritische Nach- 

 trage zur. Dr. F. Buchenau, 552 



Flora of the Parish of Halifax, the, W. B. Crump and C. 

 Crossland, 245 



Flower (Sir William, K.C.B.), a Personal Memoir, C. J. 

 Cornish, 97 



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

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



Flowering Plants, the Classification of, A. B. Rendle, 598 



Fluorescence, Studies on, E. L. Nichols and E. Merritt, 

 558 



Fliissige Kristalle : sowie Plastizitat von Kristallen im 

 Allgemeinen, Molekulare Umlagerungen und Aggre- 

 gatzustandanderungen. Dr. O. Lehmann, 622 



Fontana (A.), Electrolytic Oxidation of Anthracine, 118 



Food : Food Substance obtained from the Pith of the 

 Madagascar Palm, R. Gallerand, 48 ; Milk, its Produc- 

 tion and Uses, Edward F. Willoughby, Prof. R. T. 

 Hewlett, 52 ; Just-Hatmaker Process for Drying Milk, 

 283; Natural Causes of Variation in Milk, 310; Losses 

 Occurring during the Cooking of Meat, Prof. Grindley 

 and Mr. Mojonnier, 203 ; Production and Consumption of 

 Meat and Dairy Products, Mr. Rew, 215 ; Analyses of the 

 Flesh of Fowl, 310; Milk Investigation at Garforth, Dr. 

 C. Crowther, 446 



Ford (Miss Sibille O.), Anatomy of Psilotum triquetrum, 566 



Fordham (.'Mderman), Report of the Committee on the In- 

 fluence of Examinations, 568 



Forest (Dr. De), Wireless Telegraphy, 639 



Forest Engineering for India, a Manual of, C. G. Rogers, 



SSO 

 Forest-pig of Central Africa, the, Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 



577: Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., 601; Dr. P. L. 



Sclater, F.R.S., 626 

 Forestry, .Srhlich's Manual of. Sylviculture, Supp. to 



May 5, xiii 

 Forestry in the United Kingdom, Prof. W. Schlirh, F.R.S., 



269 

 Formation of Coral Reefs, the, Charles Hedley, 319 

 Fosse (R.), an Organic Persulphate, 644 

 Fossils : the P'ossil Foot-prints of the Jura-Trias of North 



America, Dr. R. S. Lull, 37 ; Fossil Vertebrates in the 



American Museum of Natural History, Department oP 

 Vertebrate Paljeontology, 320 



Foster (V. Le Neve), Practical Geometry for Beginners, 47S- 



Fourmis, le Monde des, Henri Coupin, 29 



Fourth Dimension, the, C. Howard Hinton, 26S 



Fowler (Prof. A.), the Classification of Stars According to 

 their Temperature and Chemistry, 611, 635 



Fowler (Dr. G. H.), Chaetognatha collected on H.M.S. 

 Research in the Bay of Biscay in 1900, 166 



Fowler (W. Warde), an Oxford Correspondence of 1903, 145. 



Fox (Francis), the Simplon Tunnel, 628 



Fraas (Prof. E.), Eocene Whales, 543 



France, Higher Scientific Education in, Prof. Appell, 136 



Francesconi (L.), Method of preparing Mixed .\nhydrides- 

 of Nitrous Acid and -Acetic, Propionic, and Benzoic Acids, 

 306 ; at the Temperature of Liquid Air Nitric Oxide cannot 

 be made to Combine with a Larger Proportion of O.xygen 

 than that Corresponding with the Production of Nitrous- 

 Anhydride, 307; Method for the Preparation of Nitrosyl 

 Chloride, 446 



Frankenfield (B.), Testing of Electromagnetic Machinery 

 and Other Apparatus, 122 



Frankland (Prof. Percy F., F.R.S.), Residual Affinity, 222- 



Fraser (Sir Thomas R., F.R.S.), Action of Sea-snake Venom, 



2t)0 



Frassetto (Dr. F.), Craniology of Anthropoid Apes, 139 



Free Trade, Right Hon. Lord .\vebury, 290 



Free Trade, Two Methods of Defending, 290 



French Treatise on Chemistry, a New, 50 



Freshfield (Douglas W.), Round Kanchenjunga, a Narrative 

 of Mountain Travel and Exploration, 8 ; Opening .Address- 

 in Section E at the Cambridge Meeting of the British' 

 Association, 427 ; Mountains and Mankind, Corr., 455 



Freund (L.), Osteology of the Flippers of the Dugong, 582 



Freund (Dr. Leopold), Elements of General Radiotherapy 

 for Practitioners, 624 



Freundler (P.), Reduction Products of o-Nitrobenzyl Alcohol, 

 167 ■ 



Fries (Mr.), the Available Energy of Timothy Hay, 132 



Frischauf (Prof. Johannes), Grundriss der theoretischen> 

 Astronomic und der Geschichte der Planetentheorie, 267 



Fritsch (Dr. Karl), die Keimpflanzen des Gesneriaceen, 455. 



Frost (Mr.), Radial Velocity of the Orion Nebula, 285 



Fulton (F. W.), the Breeding of the Cod, 159 



Fulton (Dr. R.), Polyandry among Birds, 305 



Fundamental Stars. Observations of, 48S 



Fundamentals of Child .Study, Edwin A. Kirkpatrick, 175 



Gages (L.), Essais des Metaux, Theorie et Pratique, 175 



Galaxy, Distribution of Nebulae in Relation to the, Dr. C. 

 Easton, 536 



Galeotfi (G.), Alcohol Fails to produce Usual Effects at 

 High Altitudes, 330 



Gallerand (R.), Food Substance from the Pith of the Mada- 

 gascar Palm, 48 



Gallo (G.), Electrolytic Estimation of Tellurium, 330 



Galloway (VV.), Traction of Carriages, 396 



Galton (Dr. Francis, F.R.S.), Eugenics, its Definition, 

 Scope and Aims, 82 ; Distribution of Successes and of 

 Natural Ability among the Kinsfolk of Fellows of the 

 Royal Society, 354 ; Average Number of Kinsfolk in Each' 

 Degree, 529, 626 



Gamble (F. W.), Preparations and Diagrams of the 

 Chromatophores of the Higher Crustacea, 6g ; on the 

 Coloration of Marine Crustacea, 538 



Gamble (J. S., F.R.S.), the Flowering of the Bamboo, 423 



Garden, our Mountain, Mrs. Theodore Thomas, 268 



Garden People, among the, Clara D. Pierson, 29 



Garelli (H.), Study of the Isomorphism of Organic Sub- 

 stances by the Cryoscopic Method, 535 



Garnett (J. C. Maxwell), Colours in Metal Glasses and in 

 Metallic Films, 213 



Garrett (A. E.), Chemical Dissociation and Electrical Con- 

 ductivity, 239 



Garrett (C. A. B.), Coherence and Re-coherence, 142 



Garstang (J.), Preliminary 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 



Gas : on the Radio-activitv of Natural Gas, Prof. J. C. 



