Nature, i} 
June 9. 1904 
Index xli 
Reasons Against the Thecry of Evolution, Thomas Woods, 
221 
Reform, Spelling, T. B. S., 297; the Reviewer, 297 
Reformation of the Teaching of Geometry, the, Prof. G. M. 
Minchin, F.R.S., 97 
Rehn (J. A. G.), Central and South American Bats of the 
Genus Chilonycteris, 588 
Reichsanstalt, Wissenshaftliche Abhandlungen der Physik- 
alisch-Technischen, 228 
Reid (Clement, F.R.S.), and Eleanor M. Reid, a Paleolithic 
Floor at Prah Sands in Cornwall, 358, 495 
Reid (S. G.), Catalogue of the Collection of Birds’ Eggs 
in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 218 
Reina (Prof. V.), Astronomical Determination of Latitude 
and Azimuth, 497 
Religion: Buddhist India, Prof. Rhys-Davids, 121; 
Grundriss der Religionsphilosophie, D. Dr. A. Dorner, 
170; the Gods of the Egyptians, Studies in Egyptian 
Mythology, E. A. W. Budge, 1753 the Relation of 
Science and, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 443 
Remsen (Prof. Ira), Scientific Investigation and Progress, 
06 
eenacd (Charles), on the Possibility of Sustaining in the 
Air an Apparatus Employing a Helix, Using an 
Internal Combustion Motor, 119; Road Traction a Pro- 
pulsion Continue, 239 
Rengade (Etienne), Action of Carbon Dioxide upon the 
Metal Ammoniums, 479 
Research Grants of the Carnegie Institution, 235 
Resolving Power of a Microscope, Theories of the, 497 
Respiration in Frogs, M. D. Hill, 489; Dr. A. Keith, 511 
Respiration in Man, Relative Efficiency of Methods of 
Artificial, Prof. Schafer, 286 
REVIEWS AND Our BOOKSHELF. 
Plant Disease and its Relation to Animal (eifew ee . 
Wright, 1 
Mineral Resources of the United States, 2 
Handbook of Climatology, Dr. Julius Hann, Dr. W. N. 
Shaw, F.R.S., 3 
The Steam Turbine, Robert M. Neilson, 4 
Whittaker’s Electrical Engineer’s Pocket Book, 4 
Astronomischer Jahresbericht, Walter F. Wislicenus, 4 
Practical Management of Pure Yeast, Alfred Jorgensen, 4 
The Natural History of Animals, J. R. A. Davis, 11 
Imperial Institute : Technical Reports and Scientific Papers, 
C. Simmonds, 25 
The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, R. C. Thomp- 
son, 26 
A Treatise on the Line Complex, C. M. Jessop, 27 
Geological Rambles in East Yorkshire, Thomas Sheppard, 
2 
fe Produits coloniaux d’Origine Animale (Bibliotheque 
Coloniale), H. J. de Cordemoy, 28 
A Text-book of Botany, Dr. E. Strasburger, 
H. Schenck, and A. F. W. Schimper, 28 
Bacteria in Milk and its Products, Prof. H. W. Conn, Prof. 
R. T. Hewlett, 28 
Junior Algebra Examination Papers, S. W. Finn, 28 
Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 
and 1899, H. B. Guppy, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 31 
Recherches Contradictoires sur 1’Effet magnetique de la 
Convection électrique, Harold Pender et Victor Crémieu, 
Fritz Noll, 
2 
cerain Aboriginal Remains of the North-west Florida 
Coast, C. B. Moore, 45 
Die Vegetation der Erde, Dr. Oscar Drude, 49 
Light Waves and their Uses, A. A. Michelson, 50 
The Book of the Cat, Miss F. Simpson, 51 
American Railways, Edwin A Pratt, 52 
Why the Mind has a Body, C. A. Strong, 53 
The Position of the Old Red Sandstone in the 
Succession, A. G. M. Thomson, 53 ; 
Steel and Iron for Advanced Students, Arthur H. Hiorns, 54 
Agriculture for Beginners, C. W. Burkett, F. L. Stevens 
and D. H. Hill, 54 
The Praxis of Urinary Analysis, Dr. 
R. T. Hewlett, 54 
Studies in Physiology, 
body, 54 
Geological 
Lassar-Cohn, Prof. 
Anatomy and Hygiene, J. E. Pea- 
Arithmetic, Part ii., H. G. Willis, 54 
Arithmetical Types and Examples, W. G. Borchardt, 54 
The Chemistry of the Soil as Related to Crop Production, 
M. Whitney and F. K. Cameron, 58 
Turner on Birds, a Short and Succinct History 
Principal Birds Noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, 
Aplin, 73 
Among the Waterfowl, Herbert eee Obs HOt Ve 
of the 
OlaVe 
Aplin, 
73 
Nature Biographies, Clarence Moores Weed, O. V. Aplin, 
73 
The Brook Book, Mary Rogers Miller, O. V. Aplin, 73 
The Waterfowl Family, L. C. Stanford, L. B. Bishop, and 
T. S. Van Dyke, O. V. Aplin, 73 
Handbook of Nature Study, D. Lange, O. V. Aplin, 73 
Conduction of Electricity through Gases, J. J. Thomson, 
F.RS:; 74: 
Astronomy for Everybody, a Popular Exposition of the 
_ Wonders of the Heavens, Prof. Simon Newcomb, 75 
Geschichte der Elementar-mathematik in systematischer 
Darstellung, Dr. Johannes Tropfke, 76 ; 
La Lutte pour 1’Existence et 1’Evolution des Sociétés, J. L. 
de Lanessan, 77 
Ore Deposits, a Discussion, 78 
Storage Battery Engineering, Lamar Lyndon, 78 
Cassell’s Popular Science, 78 . 
Nyasaland under the Foreign Office, H. L. Duff, 82 
Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies, Hugh 
E. M. Stutfield and J. Norman Collie, F.R.S., 84 
Elementary Geometry, Practical and Theoretical, C. God- 
frey and A. W. Siddons, Prof. G. M. Minchin, F.R.S., 97 
A New Geometry for Schools, S. Barnard and J. M. Child, 
Prof. G. M. Minchin, F.R.S., 97 
Doubts About Darwinism, 98 
Water Supply, a Student’s Handbook on the Conditions 
Governing the Selection of Sources and the Distribution 
of Water, Reginald E. Middleton, 99 
Mathematical Crystallography and the Theory of Groups 
of Movements, Harold Hilton, 100 
Das Haar, die Haarkrankheiten, ihre Behandlung und die 
Haarpflege, Dr. J. Pohl; 100 
Radiant Energy, a Working Power in the Mechanism of 
the Universe, R. W. O. Kestel, 101 
Physikalisch-chemische Theorien, A. Reychler, 101 
Electrical Engineering Measuring Instruments, 
Aspinall Parr, 101 
Life in Mind and Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human 
Nature, Henry Maudsley, 102 
Elementary Bacteriology, M. L. Dhingra, 
Hewlett, 102 
Minute Marvels of Nature, John J. Ward, 106 
Buddhist India, Prof. Rhys-Davids, 121 
Acetylene: its Generation and Use, 
W. J. A. Butterfield, 122 
A Monograph of the Tsetse Flies (Genus Glossina, West- 
wood), Based on the Collection in the British Museum, 
E. E. Austen, with a Chapter on Mouth-parts by H. J. 
Hansen, 123 
Hardening, Tempering, Annealing and Forging of Steel, 
Joseph V. Woodworth, Prof. J. O. Arnold, 124 
Macedonian Folklore, G. F. Abbott, 125 
Practical Physics for Schools, C. J. L. Wagstaff and Gace 
Bloomer, 125 
Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain and of Adjacent Siwalik 
and Subhimalayan Tracts, J. F. Duthie, 125 
A Laboratory Guide to Qualitative Analysis with the Blow- 
pipe, F. W. Martin, 126 
Elementary Experimental Science, Physics, W. T. Clough, 
Chemistry, A. E. Dunstan, 126 
Notes from a Lincolnshire Garden, 126 
Great Benin, its Customs, Art and Horrors, H. Ling Roth, 
Gab: 
Erof-peken De 
F. H. Leeds and 
132 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, 
the Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, Vol. ii., the Lower and 
Middle Chalk of England, A. J. Jukes-Browne, 133 
F. Ameghino, Los Diprotodontes del ordren des los 
Plagiaulacoideos y el Origen de los Roedores y de los 
Polymastodontes, 137 
Text-book of Geology, 
Practical Plane and Solid Geometry, I. H. 
J. Husband, 146 
Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 145 
Morris and 
