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Index 
Nature, 
June 9, 1904 
Alpenflora, Geschichte und Herkunft der schweizerischen, 
M. C. Jerosch, 340 : 
Aluminium, Plating upon, C. F. Burgess and Carl Ham- 
buschen, 622 
Amar (M.), Réle of Calcium Oxalate in the Nutrition of 
Plants, 240 
Ambidexterity, Prof. I. D. A. Cockerell, 317 
Ameghino (F.), Los Diprotodontes del ordren des los 
Plagiaulacoideos y el Origen de los Roedores y de los 
Polymastodontes, 137 
America: Mineral Resources of the United States, 
American Railways, Edwin A. Pratt, 
States Geological Survey, 
Rock Deposits of the United States, G. H. Eldridge, 115 ; 
Ore Deposits of the United States, 115 ; the Carboniferous 
Ammonoids of America, James Perrin Smith, 115; the 
Mesabi Iron-bearing District of Minnesota, Charles K. 
Leith, 116; North American Geologic Formation Names, 
Mr. Weeks, 116; Indians of the South-west, George A. 
Dorsey, 197; Water Supply and Irrigation in the United 
States, 226; American Tropical Laboratory, N. L. Britton, 
247; Annual Meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, 402 ; Scientific Investigation and 
Progress, Prof. Ira Remsen at the, 306; the Relation of 
Mathematics to Engineering, Prof. C. A. Waldo at the, 
500; Geographic Influences in American History, Albert 
Perry Brigham, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 315; Biologia 
Centrali-Americana, or Contributions to the Knowledge 
of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America, 
338; Archeology, A. P. Maudsley, 338 
Amphoteric Electrolytes, Theory of, Prof. James Walker, 
F.R.S., at the Royal Society, 545 
Anesthesia, Chloroform, Dr. A. D. Waller, F.R.S., 572 
Anesthetics, Action of, on Plants, 440 
Anatomy: Cranial Casts, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, FAS. Nes qosi 
J. Symington, F.R.S., 8; Studies in Physiology, Anatomy 
and Hygiene, J. E. Peabody, 54; the ‘‘ Affenspalte ’’ in 
Human Brains, Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth, 104 
Ancel (P.), Action of the Interstitial Gland of the Testicle 
on the Economy, 287 
Anderson (H. K.), the Sensation of Light Produced by 
Radium Rays and its Relation to the Visual Purple, 94; 
25 
the United 
52 i 
Effects of Joining the Cervical Sympathetic Nerve with 
the Chorda Tympani, 406 
André (Eugéne), a Naturalist in the Guianas, 513 
Andrews (E. C.), Physical Geography of the Blue Moun- 
tains and the Sydney District, 168 
Angiosperms, Morphology of, J. 
Chamberlain, 361 
Animal Life, the Chemistry of Plant and, Prof. H. Snyder, 
533 
Animal Life, Destructive Action of Rain upon, W. Ruskin 
Butterfield, 296 
Animal Life, Plant Disease and its Relation to, 
Wright, 1 
Animals: the Natural History cf, J. R. A. Davis, mre 
Radium and, E. C. Willcock, 55; Winter Whitening of, 
Captain Barrett Hamilton at the Royal Irish Academy, 
116; Animals of no Importance, D. Dewar, 172; Animal 
Studies, a Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in 
High Schools and Colleges, David Starr Jordan, V. L. 
Kellogg, and Harold Heath, 220; Junior Country Reader, 
I., True Animal Stories, H. B. M. Buchanan and 
R. R. C. Gregory, 317; the Direction of Hair in Animals 
and Man, W. Kidd, 459; Some Indian Friends and 
Acquaintances : a Study of the Ways of Birds and other 
Animals Frequenting Indian Streets and Gardens, Lieut.- 
Colonel Cunningham, F.R.S., 433; Humanising the 
Animals, J. Burroughs, 495; the Care of, N. S. Mayo, 
605 
Annandale (Nelson), the Gordiidze in Folk Lore, 393; 
Fasciculi Malayenses, 530 
Annular Eclipse, the Computation of Elements for an, Herr 
Zwack, 568 
Antarctica: Return of the Nordenskjéld Antarctic Expedi- 
tion, 87, 255; Telegram from Scottish Antarctic Expedi- 
tion, W. S. Bruce, 182; the Antarctic Expeditions, 393 ; 
Return of the National Antarctic Expedition, 543; the 
German Antarctic Expedition, Dr. Erich von Drygalski 
at the Royal Geographical Society, 620 
Anthrax: Resistance to Heat of B. anthracis, A. Mallock, 
115; Asphalt and Bituminous | 
M. Coulter and C. J. | 
Bey 
F.R.S., and Lieut.-Colonel A. M. Davies, 238; New Dis- 
covery, J. A. Gilruth, 256 
Anthropology: Cranial Casts, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 7; 
Prof. J. Symington, F.R.S., 8; Skulls from Round 
Barrows in East Yorkshire, Dr. William Wright, 167; 
Anthropological Institute, 71, 167, 454; Death of Baron 
de Ujfalvy, 348 
Anti-Vivisectionists, Medical Science and the, S81 
Antiquities of the Bronze Age, a Guide to the, in the Depart- 
ment of British and Medieval Antiquities, British 
Museum, 605 
Antoniadi (E. M.), the ‘‘ Doubling ’’ of the Martian Canals, 
8 
Aplin (O. V.), Turner on Birds, a Short and Succinct 
History of the Principal Birds Noticed by Pliny and 
Aristotle, 73; Among the Waterfowl, Herbert K. Job, 
73; Nature Biographies, Clarence Moores Weed, 73; the 
Brook Book, Mary Rogers Miller, 73; the Waterfowl 
Family, L. C. Stanford, L. B. Bishop and T. S. Van 
Dyke, 73; Handbook of Nature Study, D. Lange, 73; 
Bird Life in Wild Wales, J. A. Walpole-Bond, 272 
Apple Trees, the Effects of Grass on, the Duke of Bedford 
and Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., 162 
Apples : Codling-moth and Damage Inflicted by its Cater- 
pillar, C. B. Simpson, 232 ; 
Apps (A.), the Charpentier-Gaiffe Platinum Interrupter, 518 
n Aquilz, New Elements for, M. Luizet, 113 
““Arabian Nights,’’ Birds of Paradise in the, Dr. A. R. 
Wallace, 617 
Arber (E. A. Newell), on Homceomorphy among Fossil 
Plants, 19 
Arcadian Calendar, the, E. D. Cumming and J. A. Shep- 
herd, 364 
Archeology: Death of J. A. Brown, 12; Hyksos-Hittites, 
29; Certain Aboriginal Remains of the North-West 
Florida Coast, Clarence B. Moore, 45; Bronze Relics 
Found in Lulworth Castle Estate, 182; Death of Dr. Felix 
Kanitz, 255; the First of Empires, W. St. Chad Boscawen, 
337: Archeology, A. P. Maudsley, 338; Death and 
Obituary Notice of Dr. A. S. Murray, 442; Vacation Days 
in Greece, Rufus B. Richardson, 483; a Probable Palzeo- 
lithic Floor at Prah Sands, Mr. and Mrs. Clement Reid, 
495; Prehistoric Pile-structures in Pits, L. M. Mann, 
541; a Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age in the 
Department of British and Medizeval Antiquities, British 
Museum, 605 
Archibald (Douglas), Variation of the Rainfall over the 
London Area from the Year 1813, 63; Variation of Rain- 
fall over London Area, 88 
| Architects, the Institution of Naval, 521 
Architecture: Notes on the Orientations and Certain 
Architectural Details of the Old Churches of Dalkey 
Town and Dalkey Island, Dublin, Prof. Jos. P. O'Reilly, 
140 
Arcimis (Prof. Augusto), Telegraphic Disturbances in 
on October 31, 1903, 29 
Arctic Fox (Canis lagopus), Note on the, W. F. Lanchester, 
Arctica: Four Years’ Arctic Exploration, 1898-1902, Com- 
mander Peary, 34; Return of Lieut. Kolchak’s Expedi- 
tion, 302; State of the Ice in the Arctic Seas during 
1903, 469 
Ardissone (Prof.), the Conjectured New Androsace in the 
Valle Anzasca, 422 
Argentine Republic, Climate of the, Walter G. Davis, 230 
Aristotelian Society, Proceedings of the, 482 
Arithmetic: Arithmetical Types and Examples, W. G. 
Borchardt, 54; Arithmetic, H. G. Willis, 54; the School 
Arithmetic: being a School Course Adapted from the 
Tutorial Arithmetic, W. P. Workman, 411; Arithmetical 
Examples, W. G. Borchardt, 436; Worked Problems in 
Higher Arithmetic, W. P. Workman and R. H. Chope, 
486 
Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), on the Teaching of 
Science in Elementary Schools, 21; on the Influence of 
Examinations on School Curricula and of Schools on 
University Requirements, 21; the Teaching of Scientific 
Method and other Papers on Education, 289 ; Chall-stuff 
Gas, 412 
Army, Science and the, 85 
Arnold Electropneumatic System of Traction, 565 
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