Index 



Pony, the Celtic, Dr. Francis H. A. Marshall, 366 



Porpita in the Indian Seas, Nelson Annandale, 531 



Porter (T. C), Method of Mechanically Reinforcing Sounds, 



69 

 Posner (Iheodor), Synthetische Methoden der organischen 



Cheniie, 2- 

 Potable Spirits, Guide to the Analysis of, S. Archibald Vasey, 



269 

 Potatoes? Disease-proof, 606 

 Pottery : Crystalline Glazes in the Decoration of, William 



Burton, 107 ; Crystalline Glazes on Pottery, William 



Burton and Joseph Burton, 206 

 Power (F. B.), a Lsevorotatory Modification of Quercitol, 



47 ; Constituents of the Essential Oil of Californian Laurel, 



47 ; Constituents of Chaulmoogra Seeds, 166 ; Gynocardin, 



166 

 Power Production, Refuse Disposal and, W. Francis 



Goodrich, 25 

 Poynting (Prof. J. H., F.R.S.), Radiation in the Solar 



System, .Afternoon .Address at the Cambridge Meeting of 



the British Association, 512 

 Pozzi-Escot (Emm.), Symmetrical Cyclic Thio-ureas, 448 

 Practical Chemistry, P. A. E. Richards, 505 

 Praeger (R. Lloyd), the Antrim Raised Beach, 215 

 Precious Stones, a Popular .Account of their Characters, 



Occurrence, and Applications, with an Introduction to 



their Determination for Mineralogists, Lapidaries, 



Jewellers, &c., Prof. .Max Bauer, 26 

 Preller (Dr. C. S. Du Riche), Phenomena bearing upon the 



Age of the Lake of Geneva, 118 

 Prescott (Samuel Cate), Elements of Water Bacteriology, 221 

 Present Position of Geodesy, the, 104 

 Pressland (.A. J.), an Introduction to the Study of Geometry, 



'93 

 Priestlev (Dr. Joseph), Memoirs of, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, 



C.B.,F.R.S., 218 

 Primal Law, J. J. Atkinson, Ernest Crawley, 244 

 Primitive Conditions of the Solar Nebula, Francis E. Nipher, 



132 

 Primrose and Darwinism, the, E. A. Bunyard, 395 

 Principia, Steps towards a New, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 



Printing, Photo, Hector Maclean, 528 

 Printing Presses, Modern, Chas. T. Jacobi, 278 

 Prize Subjects of the Industrial Society of Mulhouse, 595 

 Prominence Variations, Solar Facula; and. Prof. Mascari, 39 

 Propagation de 1 'Electricity, Marcel Brillouin, 450 

 Protection, the Return to, William Smart, 290 

 Proteids, Chemistry of the, 623 



Psychology : Educational Psychology, Edward Thorndike, 

 Dr. Charles S. Myers, 98 ; Inheritance of Psychical and 

 Physical Characters in Man, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 

 137: Hans, the Thinking Horse, 510; Rev. Joseph 

 Meehan, 602 

 Public Schools, Science in the Common Examination for 



Entrance to, Oswald H. Latter, 223 

 Pumpelly (Prof. R.), Archseological Investigations in 



Russian Turkestan, 232 

 Purification of Sewage, the, S. Barwise, 552 

 Putting, the Art of, Walter J. Travis and Jack White, 603 



Quantitative Chemical .Analysis, a Text-book of, Frank 



Julian, 123 

 Ouiet Hours with Nature, Mrs. Brightwen, 29 



Rabot fCharles), Importance of Glacier-bursts in shaping 



the Topography of Glaciated Areas, 541 

 Racing World and its Inhabitants, the, 316 

 Radial \'eIocities : Variable Radial Velocity of 7) Piscium, 



Prof. H. C. Lord, no ; of the Pleiades, W. S. Adams, 230 ; 



Variable Radial Velocity of o .Andromedae and Four Other 



Stars, V. M. Slipher, 332 ; of the Orion Nebula, Messrs. 



Frost and Adams, 285 ; A'ariable Radial Velocity of 



5 Orionis, Prof. Hartmann, 390 

 Radiation, Diminution of the Intensity of the Solar^ Ladislas 



Gorczyiiski, 14 

 Radiation in the Solar System, Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 



at the Cambridge Meeting of the British Association, 512 

 Radiography : the Life-historv of Radium, W. C. D. 



Whetham, F.R.S., 5; Fredk. Soddy, 30; Prof. J. Joly, 



F.R.S., 30; Influence of Radium on the Electric Spark, 



Prof. A. Stefanni and Dr. L. Magri, 12 ; Behaviour of 

 Radium Bromide Heated to High Temperatures on 

 Platinum, Prof. J. Jolv, F.R.S., 31 : the Source of 

 Radium, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 80; Sir William Ramsay, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., 80; Relation between Uranium and 

 Radium in Some Minerals, Bertram B. Boltwood, 80 ; the 

 Occurrence of Radium with Uranium, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 

 222 ; Action of Radium Rays on the Halides of the Alkali 

 Metals and Analogous Effects Produced by Heat, W. 

 Ackroyd, 95 ; Radium and all about it, S. Bottone, 99 ; 

 Source of Energy of the Heat Emitted by Radium not in 

 Itself, Lord Kelvin, 107 ; .Action of Radium on Micro- 

 organisms, Dr. Alan B. Green, 117; the Penetrating 

 Radium Radiator, Prof. J. A. McLelland, 119; Physio- 

 logical Action of the Emanation of Radium, Ch. 

 Bouchard, P. Curie, and V. Balthazard, 167; Radium 

 Emanation : its Properties and Changes, Sir W. Ramsay, 

 167; Use of Radium in Section Cutting, Prof. Henry H. 

 Di.xon, 198 ; Spontaneous Electrification of Radium, Hon. 

 R. J. Strutt, 20s ; the Action of Radium Emanations on 

 Diamond, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 

 209; Radium, L. A. Levy and H. G. Willis, Dr'. Harold A. 

 Wilson, 241 ; Influence of Radium Radiations on Labile 

 Stereoisomerides, J. J. Sudborough, 239 ; Electric Wave 

 Recorder for Strutt's Radium Electroscope, F. Harrison 

 Glew, 246; Origin of Radium, Prof. J. Jolv, F.R.S., 246; 

 a Volatile Product from Radium, Harriet Brooks, 270 ; 

 Electrolytic Properties of Radium Bromide, Herrn Kohl- 

 rausch and Henning, 285 ; Physiological and Pathological 

 Actions of the Radium Emanations derived from 10 Milli- 

 grams of Radium Bromide dissolved in lo Cubic Centi- 

 metres of Water, E. S. London, 331 ; Chemical Action 

 Produced by Radium, Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., and W. Ternent Cooke, 341 ; G. Pellini and M. 

 \'accari, 633 ; Results of the Application of Radium to 

 Patients suffering from Nervous Affections, MM. Ray- 

 mond and Zimmer, 389 ; on the Secondary Radiation due 

 to the 7 Rays of Radium, A. S. Eve, 454 ; Experimental 

 Investigation of the 7 Rays Emitted by Radium, Prof. 



F. Paschen, 535 ; Radio-active Emanation Evolved on 

 Heating Raw Petroleum due to Radium, Dr. E. F. 

 Burton, 485 ; Le Radium et la Radioactivity, Paul Besson, 

 527 ; Improved Means of Observing Scintillations Ex- 

 hibited by a Sensitive Screen under the Action of Alpha 

 Rays, F. H. Glew, 535 ; Coloration Produced by Radium 

 on Crystals, C. J. Salomonsen and G. Dreyer, 596 ; the 

 Formation of Polonium from Radium, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 

 627 ; Effects of Rontgen Rays on Lower Animal Life, Dr. 

 Kennon Dunham, 12 ; Arrangement Allowing Identical 

 Results to be obtained with X-ray Tubes on Different 

 Occasions, AL d'.Arsonval, 72 ; Relative Advantages of 

 Large and Small Induction Coils for Producing X-rays, 

 Dr. Josef Rosenthal, 512 ; Induced Radio-activity of Bac- 

 teria, Dr. Alan B. Green, 69 ; Radio-activity of Gases 

 from Thermal Springs, P. Curie and A. Laborde, 72 ; 

 Radio-activity of Russian Muds and Electrification of Air 

 by Metals, Prof. I. Borgmann, 80 ; Function of the n-Rays 

 in Causing Changes of Visibility in Feebly Illuminated 

 Surfaces, Jean Becquerel, 95 ; Study of the Spinal Cord by 

 Means of the n-Rays, Andr^ Broca and .A. Zimmern, 96 ; 

 Phenomenon Analogous to Phosphorescence Produced by 

 the H-Rays, E. Bichat, 143 ; Simultaneous Emission of the 

 n- and (ij-Rays, Jean Becquerel, 143 ; Action of Anaesthetics 

 on the Sources of the n.-Rays, Julien Meyer, 143 ; Action of 

 the n-Rays on Pure Water, Julian Meyer, 191 ; Sciatic 

 Nerve of the Frog not Excitable by ii-Rays, Paul L. 

 Mercanton and Casimir Radzikowski, 192 ; the Blondlot 

 n-Rays, John Butler Burke, 198; Action of a Magnetic 

 Field upon the ti- and i!,-Rays, Jean Becquerel, 216; the 

 )i-Rays, Prof. R. W. Wood, 530 ; Photometry of the n- 

 Rays,. F. E. Hackett, 583 ; the Nature of the o Rays 

 Emitted by Radio-active Substances, Dr. Harold A. 

 Wilson, loi ; a Suggested Explanation of Radio-activity, 

 J. H. Jeans, loi ; Comparative Effects of the 0-Rays and 

 the H-Rays, as well as of the a-Rays and the n.-Rays, on 

 a Phosphorescent Surface, Jean Becquerel, 263 : the Nature 

 of a Rays, Dr. H. A. Wilson, 44s ; Die Kathodenstrahlen, 



G. C. Schmidt, 124 ; Quasi Radio-activity Produced by the 

 Point Discharge, S. A. Edmonds, 142 ; on the Radio- 

 activity of Natural Gas, Prof. J. C. McLennan, 151 ; the 

 Kathode Rays, P. Villard, 167 ; Anaesthesia of Metals, 



