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Index 



.Streeter (J. W.), the Fat of the Land, the Story of an 



American Farm, 4 

 Striped Hawk-moth, the, 305; 1-'. II. Perrycoste, 389, 506; 



Rose Haig Thomas, 455 

 Striped Hawk-moths in Sligo, Rev. Joseph Meehan, biS 

 Stromgren (Prof.), Comet 1904 a, S7, ibo 

 Structure of Metals, the, Rede Lecture before University 



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

 Strutt (Hon. R. J.), Spontaneous Electrification of Radium, 



205 ; the Occurrence of Radium with Uranium, 222 ; 



Formation of Polonium from Radium, 627 

 Strutt 's Radium Electroscope, Electric Wave Recorder for, 



F. Harrison Glew, 246 

 Submarine Ai, the Disaster to. Prof. E. A. Schiifer, 



F.R.S., s 

 Submergence of Land, Emergence and. Sir Archibald 



Geikie, Sec.R..S., at Geological Society, iii 

 Successes, Distribution of, and of Natural Ability among 



the Kinsfolk of Fellows of the Roval Societv, Dr. Francis 



Galton, F.R.S., 354 

 Succession of Changes in Radio-active Bodies, the. Prof. 



E. Rutherford at the Royal Society, 161 

 Sudborough (J. J.), Influence of Radium Radiations on 



Labile -Stereoisomerides, 239 

 Suess (E.), Bau und Bild Osterreichs, 49 

 Sugars, Chemistry of the, 196 

 Suida (Prof. W.), the Process of Dyeing with Basic Colours 



more Chemical than Physical, 536 

 Sumpner (Dr. W. E.), on the Hopkinson Test as Applied 



to Induction Motors, 586 

 Sun : Direction of the Sun's Proper Motion, Prof. Kobold, 



45<) : Observation of the Solar Surface, Januarv-March, 



M. Guillaume, 48S ; the Sun's Anti-apex, J. E. Gore, 48S 

 Sun-spot Minima and Maxima Intensities, Supposed Relation 



between, M. Angot, 459 

 Sun-spot Periodicitv and Terrestrial Phenomena, Prof. 



O'Reilly, 512 

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

 Sun-spots, Possible Relation between, and Volcanic and 



.Seismic Phenomena and Climate, H. I. Jensen, 288 

 Sun Dance, the Arapaho, the Ceremonv of the Offerings' 



Lodge, Dr. (1. A. Dorsey, Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 300 

 Surgery : Death and Obituarv Notice of Sir William Mitchell 



Banks, 350 ; Death of Dr.' Tillaux, 630 

 Survey of India, 1901-2, 332 

 Sutdiffe (W. H.), New .Species of Eoscorpiu> from the Upper 



Carboniferous Rocks of Lancashire, q4 

 Sutherland's (the Duchess of), School at Golspie, 571 

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

 Svedelius (Dr.), Life-history of Enaliis acoroides, 632 

 Sverdrup (Otto), New Land, Four Years in the .-\rctic 



Regions, 152 

 Swallow (Rev. R. D.), Report of the (."nmmittee on the 



Influence of Examinations, ^68 

 Swenson (B. \'.), Testing if Electromagnetic Machinery 



and Other Apparatus, 122 

 Swinburne (James), Entropy. ^4 

 Swinton (A. A. Campbell), Electricitv from Water Power, 



,S8,=i 

 Swithinbank (Harold). Bacteriology of Milk, 451 

 Sylviculture. Schlich's Manual of Forestry, Supp. to 



May 5, xiii 

 Synthesis of Radio-active Substance, Prof. ]. Jolv, F.R.S., 



Systematic Botany, 59S 



Tails (pf Borrellv's Comet (190',) and Light Pressure, the, 

 S. .\. Mitchell, 7,r^2 



Tansley (Prof. A. G.), on the Problems of Ecologv, 565 



Tarr (Prof. Ralph S.), New Physical Geography. "29 ; 

 Artesian Well Borings at Ithaca, New York, 3?";; Hang- 

 ing Valley in Finger Lake Region of Central New York, 

 33.S : Glaciation of Mount Ktaadn, Maine, ^94 



Tarugi (N.), Volumetric Method of Estimating Potassium, 

 131 



Tasmania, the First Record of Glacial .Action in. Prof. 

 J. W. Gregory, F.R.S.. 101 



Tata (J. N.). Death and Obituary Notice of, 84 



Tattersall (Mr.), on a New Species of Dolichoglossus, 540 



Tayler (J. Lionel), .Aspects of Social Evolution, 449 



Taylor (Rev. C. S.), Asser and the Solar Eclipse of 



October 29, 878, 6 

 Taylor (W.), Photographic Chemicals and How to Make 



Them, 3b5 

 Tavlor (Dr. \V. W.), Determinations of the Relative \'iscc 



ties of KCl, KBr, KI, HCl, and HBr, 23 ; the Unit of 



Relative Viscosity and on Negative Viscositv, 23 

 Teall (J. J. H.), on the Nature and Origin of Earth .Move- 

 ments, 519 

 Telegraphy : Wireless Telegraphy in Connection with the 



War, 157 ; Wireless Telegraphy at the Theatre of War 



in the Far East, 445 : News Daily on Board the Cunard 



Liner Campania, 158; Progress in Wireless Telegraphy, 



Maurice Solomon, iSo ; the Wireless Telegraphy Bill, 340 ; 



Marconi Weather Telegrams, 396; Wireless Telegraphy, 



Dr. Fleming, 639 ; Dr. De Forest, 639 ; Electrische Fern- 



photographie und .Aehnliches, Dr. Arthur Korn, 280 

 Telephone -Service, the, its Past, its Present, and its Future, 



H. L. Webb, 480 

 Telephonic Circuit Tests, High Frequency, Dr. Kennelly, 



640 

 Telephonic Communication by Increasing the .Self-induction 



of the Circuits, Improvement of. Dr. Hammond Hayes, 



640 

 Telephoto-work, G. H. Deller, 197 

 Telescopy : Astronomical Seeing, Dr. Halm, 262 ; a 



Cylindrical Telescope for the Rotation of Images, Dr. 



G. J. Burch, F.R.S., 69 

 Tempel's Second (1S73) Comet, the Return ol, 390; 



Ephemeris for, 4^0; J. Coniel, 634 

 Temperature and Chemistry, the Classification of Stars 



According to their. Prof. A. Fowler, 611, 635 

 Temple (Sir Richard, Bart.), Plan for a Uniform .Scientific 



Record of the Languages of Savages, 563 

 Terada (T.), Optical Illusion Observed w'hen Lycopodium 



Powder Strewn on Water is made to Gyrate by a Jet of 



Air, 107 

 Terrestrial Magnetism : Cosmic Theorv of the Diurn^d and 



Long-period Changes of Terrestrial Magnetism and their 



Possible Connection with Seismic Phenomena, Dr. J. 



Halm, J43 ; see Magnetism 

 Terrestrial Phenomena, Sun-spot Periodicitv and. Prof. 



O'Reilly, 512 

 Tertiarv Igneous Rocks of Skve, the, Alfred Harker, F.R.S., 



Prof.'Grenville A. J. Cole. 506 

 Testing of Electromagnetic Machinery and Other -Apparatus, 



B. V. Swenson and B. Frankenfield, 122 

 Testing of .Steels, the, 622 

 Thauzifes (Prof. .A.), Manner in which Carrier-pigeons Find 



their Way Home, 632 

 Therapeutics : a Method of Preventing Death from Snake 



Bite, Sir Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., Sir Joseph Fayrer, 



Bart., F.R.S., and Dr. L. Rogers, 141 ; Ten Cases of 



-Arterial Hypertension Treated by D'-Arsonvalisation, A. 



Moutier, 144; Chloroform Perfusion Experiments on the 



Isolated Mammalian Heart.. Prof. .Sherrington and Miss 



Sowton, 30b; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. N. R. 



Finsen, 532 ; Elements of General Radio-therapy for 



Practitioners, Dr. Leopold Freund, 624 

 Thermodynamics : Entropv, James Swinburne, ^4 ; Prof. 



John Perry, F.R.S., 55 

 Thermoelectric Power produced bv Magnetisation, Changes 



of, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., ib^ 

 Thomas (Oldfield, F.R.S.), the Forest-pig of Central Africa, 



Thomas (Rose Haig), the .Striped Hawk-moth. 455 

 Thomas (Mrs. Theodore), Our Mountain Garden, 268 

 Thomas (U.), Nitrate and Nitrite of Thallium, 240 

 Thompson (.A- Beeby). the Oil Fields of Russia and the 



Russian Petroleum Industry. 52^ 

 Thompson (Prof. W. H.), on' the Metabolism of .Arginine, 



Thomoson-A ates and Johnston Laboratories Report, the, 

 Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 197 



Thomson (Ella), Botany Rambles, 222, 528 



Thomson (Prof. J. J.), Electricitv and Matter, 73: Effect 

 of a Magnetic Field on the Vibrations of an .Atom Con- 

 taining .Six Corpuscles Placed at the Corners of a Regular 

 Octahedron, 142 ; Recent Work at the Cavendish Labor- 



