Index 



t Nature^ 

 Dectmber 8, 1904 



Mason (Otis Tuftunj, Aboriginal American Basl<etry, Re- 

 port 01 the Smithsonian Institution, 199 

 Mass and Shape of Jupiter, Bryan Coolison, 286 

 Matliematics : Grapliic Methods in an Educational Course 

 on Mechanics, R. M. Milne, 5 ; A. P. Trotter, 81, 125 ; 

 S. Irwin Crookes, Si ; W. Larden, 103 ; W. J. Dobbs, 

 103 ; Differentiating Machine by which the First Deriva- 

 tive of a given Curve could be traced Mechanically, Dr. 

 J. Erskine Murray, 22 ; Napier's Logarithms, 31 ; 

 Obituary Notice of Edmund Hess, 59 ; Death of Prof. 

 G. J. Allman, F.R.S., 59 ; Obituary Notice of, 83 ; Mathe- 

 matical Society, 71, iby ; Evaluation of Certain Definite 

 Integrals by Means of Gamma Functions and Generalisa- 

 tions of Legendre's Formula KE' — (K — E)K' = 37r, A. L. 

 Dixon, 71 ; Perpetuant Syzygies, A. Young and P. W. 

 Wood, 71 ; the Resolving Power of a Microscopical Ob- 

 jective, Julius Rheinberg, 85 ; Pyramidoids in Centre of 

 Homology, Prof. Luigi Berzolari, 130 ; Application of 

 Poisson's Formula to Discontinuous Disturbances, Lord 

 Rayleigh, 167; Wave Fronts as Characteristics of Partial 

 Differential Equations, T. H. Havelock, 167; Illustrations 

 of Perpetuants, J. H. Grace, 167; an Introduction to the 

 Study of Geometry, A. J. Pressland, 193 ; Elementary 

 Geometry, Cecil Hawkins, 193 ; Geometry for Technical 

 Students, E. H. Sprague, 193 ; Graphs and Imaginaries, 

 J. G. Hamilton and F. Kettle, 193 ; F'ive-figure Tables 

 of Mathematical Functions, John Borthwick Dale, 193 ; 

 Logarithms for Beginners, Charles N. Pickworth, 193 ; 

 Calculating Tables, Dr. H. Zimmermann, 193 ; Weak 

 Point in the Conventional Treatment of Tangents to 

 Circles and Curves, Prof. George A.. Gibson, 254; the 

 Fourth Dimension, C. Howard Hinton, 268; Applications 

 of the Kinetic Theory to Gases, Vapours, and Solutions, 

 W. P. Boynton, 295 ; the Theory of Determinants, R. F. 

 Scott, 315; Death of Dr. George Pirie, 414; Obituary 

 Notice of, 456; the Third International Congress of 

 Mathematicians, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 417; Prac- 

 tical Geometry for Beginners, V. Le Neve Foster and 

 F. W. Dobbs, 478 ; Elementary Algebra, W. M. Baker 

 and A. .\. Bourne, 478 ; a New Trigonometry for Schools, 

 W. G. Borchardt and the Rev. A. D. Perrott, 478 ; the 

 Elements of Plane Trigonometry, R. Lachlan and W. C. 

 Fletcher, 478; Preliminary Practical Mathematics, S. G. 

 Starling and F. C. Clarke, 478 ; Constructive Geometry, 

 John G. Kerr, 478 ; New School Arithmetic, Charles 

 Pendlebury, F. E. Robinson, 478 ; Mathematical and 

 Physical Papers, Sir G. G. Stokes, Prof. Horace Lamb, 

 F.R.S., 503; Qiuvres scientifiques de L. Lorenz, 528; 

 Death and Obituary Notice of Ronald William Henry 

 TurnbuU Hudson, 533 ; Death of Dr. H. Kortum, 630 



Matter, the Constitution of, C. Alfred Smith, 424 



Matter, Electricity and, Prof. J. J. Thomson, Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, F.R.S., 73 



Maudslay (.\Ifred P.), Some Measurements of the Great 

 Sivanip Cypress at Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico, 566 



Mawson (E. O.), Pioneer Irrigation for Farmers in the 

 Colonies, 340 



May (Thos.), Warrington's Roman Remains, 395 



May (Dr. W. Page), on the Motor Localisation in the 

 Lemur, 590 ; Results of Previous Workers on the Optic 

 Thalamus, 590 



Maycock (W. P.), Electric Lighting and Power Distribu- 

 tion, 33 



Maz^ (P.), .Assimilation of Sugars by the Higher Plants, 

 476 



Mechanics : Graphic Methods in an Educational Course on 

 Mechanics, R. M. Milne, 5 ; A. P. Trotter, 81, 125 ; 

 S. Irwin Crookes, St ; W. Larden, 103 ; W. J. Dobbs, 103 ; 

 New Apparatus for Measuring the Power of Motors. Ch. 

 Renard, 47; the Mechanics of the Atmosphere, Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw. F.R.S., 225; Suggested Means of Obviating Diffi- 

 culty in Atwood's Machine, 631 



Medicine : .Action of Chloroform on the Heart and. Arteries, 

 Prof. Schafer and Dr. Scharlieb, 23 ; Precis d'Electricit(5 

 Medicale, Technique EMectrophysiologie, Electrodiagnostic 

 Electrotherapie, Radiologie, Phototherapie, Prof. E. 

 Castex, 99 ; les Fronti^res de la Maladie, Maladies 

 latentes et Maladies attenu^es. Dr. J. Hf5ricourt, Prof. 

 R. T. Hewlett, 100 ; Earliest Records of Medicine in 

 Ancient Egypt, Dr. Richard Caton, 1S4 ; the Thompson- 

 Yates and Johnston Laboratories Report, Prof. R. T. 



Hewlett, 197; "Silajit," an Ancient Eastern Medicine, 

 David Hooper, 255 ; Death of Prof. Trasbot, 303 ; a 

 Manual of Medicine, 316; the British Medical Association 

 in Oxford, 332 ; the Relation of Toxin and Antitoxin in 

 the Living Body, Dr. Madsen, 334 ; Results of the Appli- 

 cation of Radium to Patients Suffering from Nervous 

 Affections, M.M. Raymond and Zimmer, 389 ; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Sir John Simon, K.C.B., F.R.S., Prof. 

 R. T. Hewlett, 326 ; English Medicine in the Anglo- 

 Saxon Times, Joseph Frank Payne, 508; the Opening of 

 the Medical Session, 570 

 Meehan (Rev. Joseph), Celtic Place-names, 454; the Berlin 

 Thinking Horse, 602 ; Striped Hawk-moths in Sligo, 628 

 Meeting-place of East and West, the, H. R. Hall, 275 

 Meldola (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Die Riechstoffe, Georg Cohn, 



597 

 .Melos, E.\cavations at Phylakopi in, H. R. Hall, 4S1 

 Mendel's Experiments, Prof. Weldon, 539; Mr. Bateson, 



539 ; Prof. Karl Pearson, 539 

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

 Mendel's Law, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 62t) 

 Mendelian Quarter, the, Prof. Karl Pearson, 529 

 Menschen, Physiologie des. Dr. Luigi Luciani, 552 

 Menschen, Die Vorgeschichte des, G. Schwalbe, 479 

 Mercanton (Paul L.), Sciatic ^'erve of the Frog not Excit- 

 able by n-rays, 192 

 Mercury, the Markings and Rotation Period of, 210 

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



Merlin (A. A. C. Eliot), on Nelson's New Formula Ampli- 

 fier, 118 



Merrill (George P.), the Non-metallic Minerals, their Occur- 

 rence and Uses, 174 



Merritt (Ernest), Lommel's Contradiction of Stokes's Law 

 of Fluorescence, 353 ; .Studies on Fluorescence, 55S 



Merz (C. H.), the Lse of Electricity on the North-Eastern 

 Railway and upon Tyneside, 585 



Merz (Prof. V.), Death of, 281 



Mesozoic Plants, Catalogue of the, in the Department of 

 Geology, British Museum (Natural History), the Jurassic 

 Flora II. Liassic and Oolitic Floras of England (exclud- 

 ing the Inferior Oolite Plants of the Yorkshire Coast), 

 A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 124 



Metal Working, an Introduction to, C. J. Pearson, 124 



Metallurgy : the Metallurgy of Steel, F. W. Harbord and 

 J. W. Hall, A. McWilliam, i ; Manufacture of Pig-iron 

 from Briquettes at Herrang, Prof. H. Lewis, 40; the 

 Plastic Yielding of Iron and Steel, W. Rosenhain, 40 ; 

 Influence of Varying Casting Temperature on the Proper- 

 ties of Steel and Iron Castings, P. Longmuir, 41 ; Con- 

 stitution of Carbon-iron Alloys, H. Le Chatelier, 186 ; 

 New Researches on Vanadium Steels, Leon Guillet, 392 ; 

 Metallurgia dell' Oro, Emilio Cortese, 480; Metalli 

 Preziosi, A. Zinone, 480 ; les -Applications des Aciers au 

 Nickel, avec un Appendice sur la Thterie des Aciers au 

 Nickel, Ch. Ed. Guillaume, 526; the Tungsten Steels, 

 L^on Guillet, 572 ; the Molybdenum Steels, L^on Guillet, 

 5<)6 ; Temperatures of Transformation of Steels, Georges 

 Charpy and Louis Grenel, 620 ; Relations between the 

 Effects of Stresses Slowly Applied and of Stresses Sud- 

 denly Applied in the Case of Iron and Steel, Comparative 

 Tests with Notched and Plain Bars, Pierre Breuil. 622 



Metals : Radio-activity of Russian Muds and Electrification 

 of -Air by Metals, Prof. I. Borgmann, 80; Electromotive 

 Force between Two Phases of the Same Metal, Thos. 

 .Andrews, F.R.S., 125; Essais des Metaux, Theorie et 

 Pratique, L. Gages, 175 ; the Structure of Metals, Rede 

 Lecture before Liniversitv of Cambridge, J. A. Ewing, 

 F.R.S., 187; .Action of Metals on Photographic Plates, 

 Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 395 



Metchnikoff (E.), the Nature of Man, Studies in Optimistic 

 Philosophy, 394 



Meteorology ; International .Aeronautical Balloon and Kite 

 .Ascents during January to March, 37; Experiments with 

 Kites at Nassau, Bahamas. O. L. Fassig, 228 ; Scientific 

 Balloon Ascents, 443 ; Rainfall in the United Kingdom 

 in the Seventeen Weeks ended April 30, 37 ; Rates of 

 Rainfalls in the Transvaal and at Bloemfontein, D. C. 

 Leitch, 42; South .African Rainfall, J. R. Sutton, 202; 

 the Blizzard of June 9-12, iqo2, in South Africa, 

 C. M. Stewart, 43 ; Patent Dial Barograph, 



