Index 



from the Close of the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age, 



Riechstoffe, Die, Georg Cohn, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 597 

 Rigaut (M.), Use of Metallic Calcium in the Preparation ot 



Argon, 487 

 Righi (Prof. Augusto), Radio-activity of Common Metals, 330 

 Rilliet (Prof. Albert), Death of, 281 



Rio de Janeiro Observatory, 1904, " Annuario " of the, 256 

 Ripple .Mark, Origin and Growth of, Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, 



206 

 Rivers (Dr. W. H. R.), Investigations in Coimbatore Dis- 

 trict, 138 ; the Funeral Ceremonies of the Todas, 563 ; on 

 the Senses of the Todas, 587 

 Roaf (Herbert E.), Physical and Chemical Properties of .Solu- 

 tions of Chloroform in Water, &c. , 117 

 Roberts (Dr. Isaac, F.R.S.), Death of, 281 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 302 

 Roberts (Peter), Anthracite Coal Communities, 220 

 Robin (Lucien), a New Indicator and its Application to the 



Detection of Boric Acid, 24 

 Robinson (E. K.), in the King's County, 298 

 Robinson (F. E.), New School Arithmetic, 478 

 Robinson (H. H.), Tests for the Detection of Arsenic in 



Drugs, 487 

 Robinson (T. R.), the Practice of Soft Cheese-making, 137 

 Rock Pressure at Great Depths, Geoffrey Martin, 602 ; Hon. 



Charles A. Parsons, F.R.S., 602 

 Rocky Mountains, the Goodsell Observatory Expedition to 



the. Dr. H. C. Wilson and Prof. Payne, 560 

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



55° 



Rogers (Dr. L.), a Method of Preventing Death from Snake 

 Bite, 141 



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



Rosenhain (W.), the Plastic Yielding of Iron and Steel, 40 



Rosenthal (Dr. Joseph), Relative Advantages of Large and 

 Small Induction Coils for Producing X-rays, 512 



Ross (Prof. Ronald, F.R.S.), Mosquitoes and Malaria, 559 



Rotation of Mars, Position of the Axis of the, Mr. Lowell, 

 186 



Rotation Period of Mercury, the Markings and, 210 



Rotation of Saturn's Rings, W. F. Denning, 475 



Roth6 (E.), Properties Relating to the Polarisation of 

 Electrodes, 283 ; Colour Photographs obtained by the 

 Interference Method without the Mercury Mirror, 620 



Rothpletz (Prof.), on the Nature and Origin of Earth Move- 

 ments, 319 



Round the Coast, George F. Bosworth, 395 



Rowland's Wave-lengths, the Standardisation of. Prof. 

 Hartmann, 354 



Royal .\stronomical Society, 95, 238 



Royal College of Physicians, Lecture at, the Tissue-Lymph 

 Circulation, Dr. George Oliver, 88 



Royal College of Science, 1903, 252 



Royal Dublin Society, 119, 167, 263 ; the Structure of Water 

 Jets and the Effect of .Sound Thereon, Philip E. Belas, 232 



Royal Geographical Society's .Medal Awards, 59 



Royal Institution, Faraday Lecture before Chemical Society 

 at. Elements and Compounds, Prof. W. Ostwald, 15 ; 

 the Progress of Marine Biology. H.S.H. Albert I., Prince 

 of Monaco, i'53 ; Condensation Nuclei, C. T. R. Wilson, 

 F.R.^., 1141 



K(i\j1 Iri^Ii A( ademy, Dublin, 215 



K(.y:il M>i. nidlogical Society, 141, 191 



Roviil Microscopical Society, 47, iiS, 239 



Royal Naval Observatory, the German, Prof. Dr. C. 

 Stechert, 205 



Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the, 135 



Royal Photographic Society's Annual E.xhibition, the, 532 



Royal Society, 45, 93, 117, 141, 165, H)i, 213, 238, 260, 287, 

 359, 420, 547; Croonian Lecture at. the Chemical Regula- 

 tion of the Secretory Process, Dr. W. M. Bavliss, F.R..S., 

 and Prof. E. H. Starling, F.R.S., 65 ; the Royal Society 

 Conversazione, 68, 205 ; Bakerian Lecture, the Succession 

 of Changes in Radio-active Bodies, Prof. E. Rutherford, 

 F.R.S., i6i ; the Action of Radium Emanations, Sir 

 William Crookes. F.R.S., 209; General Circulation of the 

 .(Vtmosphere in Middle and Higher Latitudes, Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, F.R.S., 225 ; Distribution of Successes and of 

 Natural .Xbility among the Kinsfolk of Fellows of the 

 Roval Society, Dr. Francis Gallon, F.R.S., 354; the 



Action of Wood on a Photographic Plate in the Dark, Dr. 

 William J. Russell, 521 ; the Density of Nitrous Oxide, 

 Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., 523 



Royal Society, Edinburgh, 22, 142, 262, 448 



Royal Society, New South Wales, 288, 548 



Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, 168, 476, 548 



Royal Statistical Society, 215 



Rubens (Prof.), Optical Properties of Metals for Long 

 Waves obtained by his Method of " Reststrahlen," 516 



Riicker (Sir Arthur), Report of the Committee on the In- 

 fluence of Examinations, 568 



Rudaux (Lucien), Comet 1904 a, 87 ; Observations of the 

 Satellites of Saturn, 205 



Rule, New Slide, Major F. J. Anderson, 307 



Russell (Hon. F. A. Rollo), Chief Causes of Rain, 141 



Russell (Dr. H. N.), on the Masses of Stars, 537 



Russell (Israel C), Geology of South-western Idaho and 

 South-eastern Oregon, 257 ; " North America " (the 

 Regions of the World Series), 289 



Russell (J.), Production of Magnetisation at Right Angles 

 to a Magnetising Force, 44S 



Russell (Dr. William J., F.R.S.), the Action of Wood on a 

 Photographic Plate in the Dark, Lecture at Royal Society, 

 521 



Russia, the Oil Fields of, and the Russian Petroleum In- 

 dustry, A. Beeby Thompson, 525 



Russian Lapland, Three Summers among the Birds of, 

 H. J. Pearson, 250 



Russian Muds, Radio-activity of, and Electrification of Air 

 by Metals, Prof. I. Borgmann, 80 



Russian Rule, Manchuria under, 322 



Russian Turkestan, Archaeological Investigations in. Prof. 

 R. Pumpelly, 232 



Rustless Coatings, Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and 

 Steel, M. P. Wood, 24(1 



Rutherford (Prof. E., F.R.S.), the Succession of Changes 

 in Radio-active Bodies, 161 ; Radio-activity, 241 ; Disin- 

 tegration Theory of Radio-activity, 639 



Rutley (Frank), Death and Obituary Notice of, 84 



Sabatier (Paul), Direct Hydrogenation of the Homologues 

 of Aniline, 119; Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols, 143; 

 Synthesis of Cyclohexane Alcohols, 360 



St. Louis Exhibition, British Chemical E.\hibit at, 455 



St. Louis International Electrical Congress, W. Duddell, 638 



Saito (K.), Number of F'ungus Spores Present in the Air, 38 



Salensky (Prof.), the Mammoth, 473 



Salmon (E. S.), Cultural Experiments with Biologic Forms 

 of the Erysiphacece, 567 



Salomonseii (C. J.), Coloration Produced by Radium on 

 Crystals, 596 



Sand (H. J. S.), Use of Lead Electrodes for the Estimation 

 of Minute Quantities of Arsenic, 141 



Sanger-Shepherd (E.), Application of Natural Colour Photo- 

 graphy to the Pi'oduction of Lantern Slides of Spectra, 68 



Sanitary Engineering, Refuse Disposal and Power Produc- 

 tion, W. Francis Goodrich, 25 



Sanitary Science, Death and Obituary Notice of Sir John 

 Simon, K.C.B., F.R.S., Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 326 



Sanitation, Disinfecting Stations, Prof. Henry R. Kenwood 

 and P. J. Wilkinson, 259 



Sargant (E. B.), Drawing for Young Children, 44 ; the 

 Education of Examiners, Address at the South African 

 .Association for Advancement of Science, 63 



Sarrau (limile). Obituary Notice of, 106 



Saturn : Observations of the Satellites of, Lucien Rudaux, 

 205; Saturn's Ninth Satellite (Phoebe), Prof. E. C. 

 Pickering, 308, 354; Position of. Prof. Barnard, 536 ; Prof. 

 W. H. Pickering, 634; Rotation of Saturn's Rings, W. F. 

 Denning, 475 



Saunders (Cecil G.), the Traction of Carriages, 319 



Saunders (E. R.), Heredity in Stocks, 538 



Schaer (M. E.), a Modified Form of the Newtonian Re- 

 flector, 309 



Schafer (Prof. E. .'V., F.R.S.), the Disaster to Submarine Ai, 

 5 ; Action of Chloroform on the Heart and Arteries, 23 ; 

 Method of Artificial Respiration in Cases of Drowning, 

 329 ; Results of Experiments upon the Action of Alcohol 

 upon the Heart and Circulation, 587 ; Method of Artificial 

 Respiration, 588 



