Nature^ ~] 

 December 8, igo4j 



Index 



Macalister (Prof. A.), Series of Amorite Crania from Excav- 

 ations at Gezer in Palestine, 563 



Macallum (Prof. A. B.), on the Distribution of Potassium 

 in .Animal and Vegetable Cells, 589 



Macan (H.), National and Local Provision for the Train- 

 ing of Teachers, 569 



.MoCleary (Dr.), the Infants' Milk Depot, its History and 

 Function, 425 



MacDougall (Dr. W.). Researches on the Development of 

 the Nerves in Lepidosiren, 5S8 



M'Intosh (D.), Liquefied Hydrides of Phosphorus, Sulphur, 

 and the Halogens as Conducting Solvents, 287 



McLachlan (Robert, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice 

 of, 106 



Maclean (Hector), Photo Printing, 528 



MacLellan (W.), the Use of Electricity on the North- 

 Eastern Railway and upon Tyneside, 585 



McLelland (Prof. J. A.), the Penetrating Radium Radiation, 

 iig 



McLennan (Prof. J. C), on the Radio-activity of Natural 

 Gas, 151; Radio-activity of Mineral Oils, 639 



McLeod (Prof. Herbert, F.R.S.), an Early Mercury Pump, 



Macnair (D. S.), Chemical Laboratories for Schools, 528 



McWeeney (Prof. E. J.), Carbon-monoxide Asphvxiation, 

 iiq 



McWilliam (A.), the Metallurgy of Steel, i 



MacWilliam (Prof. J. A.), on" Reflex and Direct Muscular 

 Response to Galvanic Currents in Fishes, 586 



-Madagascar Palm, Food Substance obtained from the Pith 

 of the, R. Gallerand, 48 



Maddrill (Mr.), New Elements and Ephemeris for Comet 

 1904 a, 256 



Madsen (Dr.), the Relation of Toxin and Antitoxin in the 

 Living Body, 334 



Magellanic Cloud, Variable Stars in the Large, 48S 



Magnetism : Effect of a Magnetic Field on the \'ibrations 

 of an Atom containing Six Corpuscles placed at the 

 Corners of a Regular Octahedron, Prof. Thomson, 142 ; 

 Magnetic Deflexion of the Negative Current from a Hot 

 Platinum Wire at Low Pressures, G. Owen, 142 ; Changes 

 of Thermoelectric Power produced by Magnetisation. 

 Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., :65 ; on the Location and 

 Examination of Magnetic Ore Deposits by Magnetometric 

 Measurements, Eugene Haanel, 174 : Magnetic Changes 

 of Length in .Annealed Rods of Cobalt and Nickel, 

 Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 191 ; New Magnetic Balance, 

 W. Hibbert, 206; Electric Effect of Rotating a Dielectric 

 in a Magnetic Field, Dr. Harold .\. Wilson, 213; Action 

 of a Magnetic Field upon the 11- and H,-Rays, Jean 

 Becquerel, 216 ; Magnetisation of Iron in Bulk, Dr. W. M. 

 Thornton, 239 ; Effect of Transverse Magnetisation on 

 the Resistance of Nickel Wire at High Temperatures, 

 Prof. C. G. Knott, 263 ; Production of Magnetisation at 

 Right Angles to a Magnetising Force, J. Russell, 448; 

 Theorie der Elektrizitat und des Magnetismus, Dr. I. 

 Classen, 452 ; Energy Dissipated in Iron by Hysteresis at 

 High Frequencies, Ch. Eug. Guye and A. Schidlof, 572 ; 

 Naming the Magnetic L'nits, Dr. Kennelly, 638 ; Terres- 

 trial Magnetism : Action of Terrestrial Magnetism upon a 

 Tube of Nickel Steel (Invar) Intended for Use as a 

 Geodesic Pendulum, G. Lippman, 47 ; Cosmic Theory of 

 the Diurnal and Long-period Changes of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism and their Possible Connection with Seismic 

 Phenomena. Dr. J. Halm, 143 ; a Probable Cause of the 

 Yearly Variation of Magnetic Storms and .Aurora;, Dr. 

 William J. S. Lockyer, 249; Magnetic Disturbances and 

 Navigation, Dr. August Krogh, 480; Appeal for Co- 

 operation in Magnetic and Allied Observations during the 

 Total Solar Eclipse of August 29-30, 1905, Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer, 577 



Magnitude Observations of Nova Persei, Father Hagen, 



S.J., 39 



Magnus (Sir Philip), Advances made in the Teaching of 

 Experimental Science in the Secondary Schools of Ire- 

 land, 567 



Magri (Dr. L.), Influence of Radium on the Electric Spark, 

 12 ; Relation of the Index of Refraction of Air to the 

 Densitv, 129 



Maiden (J. H.), Some Natural Grafts between Indigenous 

 Trees, 288 



Maidstone Meeting of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies, 162 



Mailhe (Alph.), Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols, 143 ; Syn- 

 thesis of Cyclohexane Alcohols, 360 



Maladie, les Frontieres de la. Maladies, latentes et Maladies 

 attenuees. Dr. J. Hericourt, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, too 



Malaria, Mosquitoes and, the Operations at Mian-Mir, 230; 

 Mosquitoes and Malaria, Prof. Ronald Ross, P'.R.S., 

 559 



Maldive and Laccadive .Archipelagoes, the Fauna and 

 Geography of the, 337 



Mallet (Ed.;, Atomic Weights of Hydrogen and Oxygen, 23 



Mammal Portraits, Some Ancient, R. Lydekker, ' F.R.S., 

 207 



Mammalia, Catalogus Mammalium, tam viventium quam 

 fossilium, Ouinquennale Supplementum, E. L. Trouessart, 

 393 



Man, the Cultivation of, C. A. Witchell, 600 



Man, on the Inheritance of the Mental and Moral Char- 

 acters in, and its Comparison with the Inheritance of the 

 Physical Characters, Huxley Lecture, Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 F.R.S., 137 



Man, the Nature of, Studies in Optimistic Philosophy, E. 

 Metchnikoff, 394 



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



Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 620 



Manchu and Muscovite, B. L. Putnam Weale, 322 



Mangold (Dr.), Report of the Committee on the Influence of 

 Examinations, 568 ; National and Local Provision for 

 the Training of Teachers, 569 



Mann (Dr.), Researches on the Development of the Nerves 

 in Lepidosiren, 5S8 



Manual of Medicine, a, 316 



Marcacci (Dr. Arturo), Would Life be Possible if the Nitro- 

 gen of Atmosphere were Replaced by Hydrogen? 201 



Marconi Weather Telegrams, 396 



Marey (Prof. E. J.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 57 



Marie (C), Hypophosphorous Acid, 96; Boiling Points of 

 Mixtures of Volatile Liquids, 644 



Marine Biology : Periodic Growth of Scales as an Index of 

 Age in Cod, J..S. Thomson, 13; the Progress of Marine 

 Biologv, H.S.H. Albert I., Prince of Monaco, at Royal 

 Institution, 133: Chsetognatha Collected on H.M.S. 

 Research in the Bav of Biscay in 1900, Dr. G. H. Fowler, 

 166; Aged Specimens of Sea-Anemone (Sagartia trog- 

 lodytes). Dr. Ashworth and Nelson Annandale, 263 ; 

 Marine Biologv of Kola Station, 284 ; Lobster Hatching, 

 Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 296; the Formation of 

 Coral Reefs, Charles Hedlev, 319 ; Protective Resemblance, 

 Pycnogonid Arachnida, L. J. Cole, 389; Porpita in the 

 Indian Seas, Nelson Annandale, 531 



Markings on Jupiter, Recurrent, Mr. Denning, 610 



Markings and Rotation Period of Mercury, the, 210 



Marr (Dr.), the Geologv of Cambridgeshire, 517 



Marriage, Kinship and, in Early Arabia, _W. Robertson 

 Smith, Ernest Crawlev, supp. to May 5, xiii 



Mars : the Periodical Apparition of the Martian Canals, 

 Percival Lowell, 14 ; Visibility of the Martian Canals, 

 Mr Lowell 416; Explanation of the Martian and Lunar 

 Canals, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 536; Moisture in the 

 Atmosphere of, Arthur J. Hawkes, 55; Position of the 

 Axis of the Rotation of, Mr. Lowell, 186 

 Marshall (Francis H. A.), the Celtic Pony, 366; Lehrbuch 

 der vergleichenden mikroscopischen Anatomie der W ir- 

 beltiere, vol. iv.. Prof. Rudolf Disselhorst, 574 

 Martens (Prof. E. von). Death of, 557 



Martin (Dr. Charles J., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Emile 

 Duclaux, 34 ; Immune Sera, Hsemolysins, Cytotoxins, 

 and Precipitins, Prof. A. Wassermann, 245 ; Blood Im- 

 munity and Blood Relationship, a Demonstration of 

 Certain Blood-relationships amongst .Animals by Means 

 of the Precipitin Test for Blood, George H. F. Nuttall, 

 supp. to May 5, vi. r. -j 



Martin (E. S.), Further Observations of the Recent Perseid 



Shower, 536 . ^ 



Martin (Geoffrey), on van "t Hoff's Law^ of Osmotic Pres- 

 sure, 531 ; Rock Pressure at Great Depths, 602 

 Mascari (Prof.), Solar Prominences during 1903, 416 ; Solar 

 Faculse and Prominence Variations, 39 



; Mason (H.), a Text-book of Static Electricity, 122 



