Index 



Jean Becquerel, 167; the Succession of Changes in Radio- 

 active Bodies, Prof. E. Rutherford at the Royal Society, 

 161 ; the Source of Radio-active Energy, Dr. C. V. Burton, 

 151; a Correction, Dr. C. V. Burton, 176; Influence of 

 the Colour of Luminous Sources on their Sensibility to 

 the n-Rays, C. Gutton, 216; Continuous Registration of 

 Gaseous lonisation and of Radio-activity by Methods of 

 Loss of Charge, Charles Nordmann, 216; the Exradio 

 Spectrum, Sir William Ramsav, K.C.B., F.R.S., 222 ; 

 Radio-activity, Prof. E. Rutherford, F.R.S., Dr. Harold A. 

 Wilson, 241 ; Radio-activity, F. Soddy, Dr. Harold A. 

 Wilson, 241 ; Method of Measuring the Intensity of the 

 0-Rays given off by Radio-active Bodies, W. Seitz, 307 ; 

 Radio-activity of Common Metals, Prof, Augusto Righi, 

 330 ; Atmospheric Radio-activity, H. A. Bumstead, 353 ; 

 Synthesis of Radio-active Substance, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 

 395 ; New Apparatus for Measuring the Radio-activity of 

 Soils, Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 458 ; Conductivity of the 

 Atmosphere due to a Radio-active Emanation from the 

 Earth's Crust, Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 458; Secondary 

 Radiation, F. Paschen, 485 ; Radio-activity induced in a 

 Negatively Charged Wire by E.xposure to the Atmosphere, 

 H. A. Bumstead, 485; Is Selenium Radio-active? W. A. 

 Davis, 506 ; Radio-activity and London Clay, S. Skinner, 

 553 ; Elements of General Radio-Therapy for Practitioners, 

 Dr. Leopold Freund, 624 ; Disintegration Theory of Radio- 

 activity, Prof. Rutherford, 639 ; Radio-activity of the 

 Atmosphere and the Earth, .Messrs. Elster and Geitel, 639 ; 

 Radio-activity of .Mineral Oils, Prof. McLennan, 639 



Radium : the Life-history of Radium, W. C. D. Whetham, 

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

 Behaviour of Radium Bromide Heated to High Tempera- 

 tures on Platinum, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 31; Radium 

 and Milk, William Ackroyd, 5s ; Relation between 

 L'ranium and Radium in Some Minerals, Bertram B. 

 Boltwood, 80; the Occurrence of Radium with Uranium, 

 Hon. R. J. Strutt, 222 ; Radium and all about it, S. 

 Bottone, 99 ; Use of Radium in Section Cutting, Prof. 

 Henrv H. Dixon, 198; the Source of Radium, Prof. J. 

 JoIy,'F.R.S., 80; Sir William Ramsay, K.C.M., F.R.S., 

 80; 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 ; 

 Origin of Radium, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 246; a Volatile 

 Product from Radium, Harriet Brooks, 270 ; Chemical 

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

 F.R.S., and W. Ternent Cooke, 341 ; on the Secondary 

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

 le Radium et la Radioactivity, Paul Besson, 527 ; Form- 

 ation of Polonium from Radium, Hon. R. J. Strutt, 627; 

 Water-droppers and Radium Collectors, Dr. C. Chree, 

 630 ; see also Radiography 



Radzikowski (Casimir), Sciatic Nerve of the Frog not Ex- 

 citable by )!-Rays, 192 



Rain Gauge, New Pattern, Messrs. Lander and Smith, 254 



Rain, Sooty, Prof. J. B. Cohen, 424 



Rainfall, Relation of, to Run off, 299 



Rainfall, South African, J. R. Sutton, 202 



Ramsay (Sir William, K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Source of 

 Radium, 80; Radium Emanation: its Properties and 

 Changes, 167 ; the Exradio Spectrum, 222 ; Chemical Action 

 Produced by Radium, 341 ; the Education of a Chemist, 

 .\ddress at Society of Chemical Industry, 570 



Ranken (Clerk), Determinations of the Relative Viscosities of 

 KCl, KBr, KI, HCl, and HBr, 23 



Ransome (Stafford), the Engineer in South Africa, Supp. to 

 May 5, xiv 



Rare Moths in England, F. H. Perrycoste, 506 



Rastall (.Mr.), the Geology of Cambridgeshire, 517 



Ratzel (Prof. F.), Death of, 414 : Obituary Notice of, 581 



Ravaz (L.), the Browning of the Vine, 24 



Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Application of Poisson's Formula 

 to Discontinuous Disturbances, 167 ; Scientific Worthies, 

 361; Preparation of the Plates of the Spectroscope, 516; 

 the Density of Nitrous Oxide, Lecture at Royal Societv, 

 523 



Raymond (M.), Results of the Application of Radium to 

 Patients Suffering from Nervous Affections, 389 



Ready Reference Tables, Carl Hering, 26q 



.Reason in Dogs, Instinct and, E. W. P., 577 



Red Spot on Jupiter, the, 332 



Red Spot on Jupiter, the Great, W. F. Denning, 4S0 



Rede Lecture before University of Cambridge, the Structure 



of Metals, J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 187 

 Reese (Herbert M.), Enhanced Lines of Titanium, Iron, and 



Nickel, 308 

 Referees, British Association and, William Ackrovd, 627 

 Reflexion and Colour in River, Lake, and Sea, Light and 



Water: a Study of. Sir Montagu Pollock, Bart., Edwim 



Edser, 555 

 Refuse Disposal (and Power Production, \\'. Francis 



Goodrich, 25 

 Regan (C. T.), Scheme for a Simple Classification in 



Ichthyology, 109 

 Regulations of the Board of Education, New, 344 

 Reid (Clement), Report on the Fossiliferous Drift Deposits 



at Kirmington, 517 

 Reid (Mrs.), British pre-Glacial, inter-Glacial, and Roman 



Plants, 2nd series, Calycifloras, 22 

 Reis (Dr. Otto), Lithiotis, 593 



Rekstad (Mr.), the Succession on " Hardangervidda," 211 

 Relation of Human to Bovine Tuberculosis, the, 126 

 Relation of Rainfall to Run Off, 299 

 Relation between Sun-spot Minima and Maxima Intensities, 



Supposed, M. Angot, 459 

 Religion and Science, some Suggestions for the Study of 



the Relations between them, P. N. Waggett, 197 

 Renard (Ch.), New Apparatus for Measuring the Power of 



Motors, 47 

 Rendle (O. B.), the Classification of Flowering Plants, 598 

 Renshaw (G.), Natural History Essays, 577 

 R4pin (Ch.), .Mechanical Cleansing of the Blood. 312 

 Repsold Registering .Micrometer, the. Prof. K. Oertel, 62 

 Residual .Affinity, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 176, 319; Prof. 



Percy F. Frankland, 222 ; Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 270 

 Resonances, Etude sur les, G. Chevrier, 317 

 Respiration, Cause of Difficulties Attending, at Great Alti- 

 tudes, A. Mosso, 330 

 Respiration in Cases of Drowning, Method of Artificial, 



Prof. Schjifer, F.R.S., 329 

 Return of Encke's Comet (1904 6), 286, 512; Forthcoming 



Return of Encke's Comet, Mr. Denning, 286; Prof. 



Seagrave, 286 ; Ephemeris for the, MM. Kaminsky and 



Ocoulitsch, 459 

 " Reversals " in Sun-spot Spectra, W. M. Mitchell, 286 



Reviews akd Our Bookshelf. 

 The Metallurgy of Steel, F. W. Harbord and J. W. Halt, 



A. McWilliam, i 

 Trout Fishing, W. Earl Hodgson, 3 

 Fishing Holidays, Stephen Gwynn, 3 

 .'An Angler's Year, Charles S. Patterson, 3 

 Betrachtungen iiber das Wesen der Lebenserscheinungen 



Fin Beitrag zum Begriff des Protoplasma, Prof. R. 



Neumeister, 3 

 The Fat of the Land, the Story of an .American Farm. J. W. 



Streeter, 4 

 Die Dissoziierung und Umwandlung chemischer .Atome, 



Dr. Johannes Stark, 4 

 Nature's Story of the Year, Charles .A. AVitchell, 4 

 Essays and .Addresses, John Young, 4 

 The Globe Geography Readers, Senior, Our World-wide 



Empire, Vincent T. Murch^, 4 

 Round Kanchenjunga, a Narrative of Mountain Travel and 



Exploration, Douglas W. Freshfield, 8 

 Reports of the Mosely Educational Commission to the 



United States of America, October-December, 1903, 10 

 Refuse Disposal and Power Production, W. Francis Good- 

 rich, 25 

 Precious Stones, a Popular Account of their Characters, 



Occurrence and .Applications, with an Introduction to 



their Determination for Mineralogists, Lapidaries, 



Jewellers, ii:c., with an .Appendix on Pearls and Coral, 



Prof. Max Bauer, 26 

 Gems and Gem Minerals, Dr. Oliver Cummings Farring- 



ton, 26 

 Synthetische Methoden der organischen Chemie, Theodor 



Posner, 27 

 British Tyroglyphidae, .Albert D. Michael, 28 

 Zoology, Descriptive and Practical, Prof. Buel P. Colton, 28 

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

 New Physical Geography, Ralph S. Tarr, 29 



