Nature. ] 
June 9- 1904. 
Index 
XVil 
Harvie Brown, 318; W. Larden, 369; Prof. J. M. Pernter, 
369; R. T. Omond, 369 
Curves, Expansion, B. A. Behrend, 56; Prof. J. Perry, 
F.R.S., 56 
Cygni, Wolf’s Variable Star 59, 1903, Prof. Pickering, 16; 
Prof. Wirtz, 16 
Dale (H. H.), the ‘‘ Islets of Langerhans ”’ of the Pancreas, 
2 
Dall (W. H.), Geological Results of the Study of the Ter- 
tiary Fauna of Florida, 139 
Dallas (W. L.), the Variation of the Population of India 
Compared with the: Variation of Rainfall 1591-1901, 623 
Damping, a System of, MM. Favé and Carpentier, 623 
_Danne (J.), Disappearance of the Radio-activity Induced by 
Radium on Solid Bodies, 503; Law of Disappearance of 
the Activity Induced by Radium after Heating the Sub- 
stances Rendered Active, 528 
Danysz (J.), Action of Radium upon Different Tissues, 
240 
Darbishire (Dr. Otto v.), on the Vegetation of the Sand- 
hills, 18 
Darling (C. R.), Thin-Film Electrolysis and a Proposed 
Application to Printing, 551 
Darwin (Horace), an Electric Thermostat, 118 
Darwin, De Vi Physica et Imbecillitate Darwiniana dis- 
putavit, Franciscus Gulielmus Bain, 558 
Darwinism, Doubts about, 98 
Dassen (Prof. Claro Cornelio), Etude sur les Quantités 
mathématiques, Grandeurs dirigées, Quaternions, 604 
Dauphin (J.), Influence of Radium Rays on the Develop- 
ment and Growth of the Lower Fungi, 311 
Davey (Henry) the Newcomen Engine, Paper read at In- 
stitution of Mechanical Engineers, 67 
David (Pierre), on the Stability of the Direction of Mag- 
netisation in Some Volcanic Rocks, 263 
David (Prof. T. W. E., F.R.S.), the Aims and Ideals of 
Australasian Science, 449 
Davids (Prof. T. W. Rhys), Oriental Studies in England 
and Abroad, 423 
Davies (Lieut.-Colonel A. M.), Resistance to Heat of B. 
anthracis, 238 
Davis (B. F.), Action of Malt Diastase on Potato Starch 
Paste, 165 
Davis (J. R. A.), the Natural History of Animals, 11 
Davis (J. S.), Secondary Radiations of Radium, 489 
Davis (Walter G.), Climate of the Argentine Republic, 230 
Davis (Prof. W. M.), the Scope of Geography, 403 
Davison (Dr. Charles), the Derby Earthquakes of March 
24 and May 3, 1903, 478 
Dead Sea, the Cause of the Saltness of the, W. Ackroyd, 
395 
Dean (Dr. Bashford), the Hag-fishes of Japan, 588 
Debierne (M.), Experiments to Determine Rate of Decay 
of the Emanation from Actinium, 443 
Débourdeaux (Léon), Estimation of Nitrogen, 600 
Defacqz (M.), New Method of Preparing Anhydrous Crys- 
- tallised Fluorides, 239 
Degradation of Elements, S. H. Woodhouse, Sir 
William’ Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 512 
Déhourdeaux (Léon), the Titration of Manganese, 287 
Delage (Yves), the Non-Regeneration of Spheridia in the 
» Sea-Urchin, 47 
Delange (R.), Dichloromethylenedioxypropylbenzene, 408 
Demonology: the Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, 
R. C. Thompson, 26 
Demoussy (E.), Influence of the Carbonic Acid Emitted by 
the Soil on Vegetation, 359 
Dendy (Dr. A.), the ‘‘ Nature of Heredity,”’ 588 
Denning (W. F.) the November Leonids, 29; the Leonid 
Shower of 1903, 57, 446; Clouds on Mars, 160; the 
January Meteors, 203 ; Observations of Jupiter, 281, 476; 
Fireballs in January, 310; Observations of Mars during 
1903, 377; Rapid Changes in a Sun-spot, 568; Fireballs 
Visible in the Spring Months, 571 
Deposits, Abysmal, H. Robson, 297 
Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, 
F. V. Coville and D. T. MacDougal, Prof. Percy Groom, 
569 
Deslandres (H.), Observations of Solar Phenomena, 137; 
Principal Characters of Band and Line Spectra, 191; 
512; 
General Law of Distribution of Rays in Band Spectra, 
383 ; the Distribution of Lines in Banded Spectra, 440 
Desmots (Henri), Production of Acetylmethylcarbinol by 
Bacteria of the Group Bacillus mesentericus, 455 
Destructive Action of Radium, Lord Blythswood, 317 
Destructive Action of Rain upon Animal Life, W. Ruskin 
Butterfield, 296 
Development, Experimental Studies in, Prof. Otto Maas, 
241 
Development of European Polity, the, Henry Sidgwick, Sir 
Frederick Pollock, Bart., 265 
Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, the, R. C. Thompson, 
20 
‘“ Dew-Bow,”’ the, Edward Hewitt, 57 
Dewar (D.), Animals of No Importance, 172 
Dewar (Prof. James, F.R.S.), Chemical Reactions of 
Nickel Carbonyl, 334; Gases Given Off or Occluded by 
Radium Bromide, 335, 399; Examination of a Sample of 
Gas Occluded in Radium Bromide, 444; Electric Resistance 
Thermometry at the Temperature of Boiling Hydrogen, 
573; Physical Constants at Low Temperatures, (1) the 
Densities of Solid Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, &c., 
598 
Dhingra (M. L.), Elementary Bacteriology, 102 
Dickins (F. Victor), New Lessons in Elementary Botany 
(Saishin Shokubutsugakk6 Kwasho), Ito Tokutard, 
Rigaku Hakushi, 389 
Diminishing Size of the New Bishop’s Ring around the 
Sun, Henry Helm Clayton, 270 
Dines (W. H.). Observations by Means of Kites, 453 
““ Diprotodont ’? Mammals, Patagonian, F. Ameghino, 137 
Direction of Hair in Animals and Man, the, W. Kidd, 459 
Disease, Protozoa and, Dr. Gary Calkins, 541 
Disease, the Use of Light and Other Radiations in the 
Treatment of, 535 
Diseases, Infection and Immunity with Special Reference 
to the Prevention of Infectious, George M. Sternberg, 
556 
Disinfectants, Standardisation of, 
Ainslie Walker, 63 
Distant (W. L.), the Fauna of British India, including 
Ceylon and Burma, Rhynchota, vol. ii, part 1. 
(Heteroptera), 390 
Distillation, Fractional, Prof. S. Young, F.R.S., 410 
Ditisheim (Paul), Relation between Pressure and the Rate 
of Chronometers, 48 
Divers (Dr. E.), Peroxylaminesulphonic Acids, 238 ; Consti- 
tution of Nitric Peroxide, 238 
Divers Men and Matters, Right Hon. Lord Avebury, 481 
Dixon (Prof. A. C.), on Many Valued Newtonian Potentials, 
Messrs. Rideal and 
165 
Dixon (A. E.), Certain Organic Phosphorus Compounds, 
453 
Dixon (Dr. Henry H.), Radium and Plants, 
Radium on Bacteria, 81 
Dixon (Dr.), a Transpiration Model Elucidating Mode of 
Ascent of Water in Tall Trees, 154 
Doak (Mr.), Stars and Sextants, 532 
Dobbie (Mr.), Relative Strengths of the Alkaline 
Hydroxides and of Ammonia as Measured by their Action 
on Cotarnine, 238 
Doberck (Prof.), Double Star Observations, 473 
Dodd (Bradford Torrey), the Certainty of a Future Life in 
Mars, 221 
Doelter (Prof. C.), Crystallisation Microscope Adapted to 
the Determination of the Melting Points of Silicates and 
Silicate Mixtures, 250 
Doggett (Walter G.), Death of, 302 
Donnan (F. G.), Chemical Dynamics of the Alkyl Todides 
478 
Dorn (Herr), Striking Observation on a Tube of Radium 
Bromide, 567 
Dorner (D. Dr. A.), Grundriss der Religionsphilosophie 
170 
Dorsey (George A.), Indians of the South-West, 197 
Double Star Observations, Prof. Doberck, 473 
Double Stars: Catalogue of New, Prof. R. G. Aitken, 425; 
Prof. Burnham’s Measures of, 496 
“ Doubling ’’ of the Martian Canals, the, E. M. Antoniadi, 
5; Action of 
85 
Douglas (Captain S. R.), the Fluids of the Blood in Con- 
nection with Phagocytosis, 111 
