Supplement to es 
June 17, 1897 
Ih ndex 
XXXIll 
The Gases of the Atmosphere, William Ramsay, F.R.S.; 
435 
A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, W. H. Wheeler, 
436 
Bacteria of the Sputa and the Cryptogamic Flora of the 
Mouth, Filandro Vincentini, Dr. E. Klein, 437 
Neudrucke von Schriften und Karten iiber Meteorologie und 
Erdmagnetismus, 437 
Colliery Surveying, T. A. O’Donahue, 438 
The British Mercantile Marine, Edward Blackmore, 438 
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 438 
An Introduction to Structural Botany, D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 
457 
Physiologische Pflanzenanatomie, Dr. G. Haberlandt, 457 
Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand, Arthur E. 
Harper, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 458 
Lehrbuch der Erdkunde fiir Hohere Schulen, 
Ule, 459 
A Manual of Elementary Seamanship, D. Wilson-Barker, 
459 
Researches upon the Antiquity of Man in the Delaware 
Valley and the Eastern United States, Henry C. Mercer, 
Dr. Willi 
459 
The Universal Electrical Directory, 459 
Photography as a Hobby, Matthew Surface, 460 
First Records of British Flowering Plants, William A. Clarke, 
460 
On Human Nature, Arthur Schopenhauer, 460 
Tabellen fiir Gasanalysen, Gasvolumetrische Analysen Stick- 
stoffbestimmungen, Prof. Dr. G. Lunge, 460 
The Larve of the British Butterflies and Moths, William 
Buckler, 460 
Lehrbuch der Algebra, Heinrich Weber, 481 
The Sacred Tree, Mrs. J. H. Philpot, 483 
Relics of Primeval Life, Sir J. William Dawson, F.R.S., 
484 
The True Grasses, Eduard Hackel, 484 
The New Poultry Guide for British Farmers and Others, 
Kinard B. Baghot-De la Bere, 485 
A Dictionary of Birds, Alfred Newton, 505 
The Principles of Sociology, Herbert Spencer, 506 
Short Studies in Physical Science, Vaughan Cornish, 507 
New Thoughts on Current Subjects, Rev. J. A. Dewe, 507 
Vorlesungen iiber Bildung und Spaltung von Doppelsalzen, 
Prof. J. H. van ’t Hoff, 507 
Practical Electrical Measurements, Ellis H. Crapper, 507 
Notes of Lessons on Elementary Botany, W. Bland, 507 
Dr. Nansen, the Man and his Work, F. Dolman, 507 
Die Principien der Warmelehre, Historisch-Kritisch Ent- 
wickelt, Prof. E. Mach, 529 
The Cellin Development and Inheritance, Edmund B. Wilson, 
Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., 530 
An Intermediate Course of Practical Physics, A. Schuster, 
FURS), 531 
Bis an’s Ende der Welt ! Prof. F. J. S. Studniéka, 532 
First Stage Inorganic Chemistry, G. H. Bailey, 532 
Encyclopédie Scientifique des Aides-Memoire, 533 
The Dahlia, 533 
La Cause Premiére d’aprés les Données Experimentales, 
Emile Ferriére, 533 
British Butterflies, J. W. Tutt, 536 
Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America, North of 
Mexico, Alpheus S. Packard, 536 
Die Saturniiden (Nachtpfauenaugen), A. Radcliffe Grote, 536 
Submarine Cable Laying and Repairing, H. D. Wilkinson, 
Charles Bright, 553 
The Dawn of Modern Geography, C. R. Beazley, 555 
Giriers of North America, I. C. Russell, T. G. Bonney, 
55 
Hydraulic Machinery, R. G. Blaine, 556 
The Story of the Chemical Elements, M. M. Pattison Muir, 
557 
Physics, Dr. C. G. Knott, 557 
Le Déterminisme Biologique et la Personnalité Consciente, 
Felix Le Dantec, 557 
Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common 
Farm Pests during the Year 1896, with Methods of Pre- 
vention and Remedy, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 557 
Grasses of North America, W. J. Beal, 557 
The Culture of Vegetables for Prizes, Pleasure, and Profit, 
E. Kemp Toogood, 557 
The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, W. 
Crook, 577 , 
Recherches sur les Origines de ?Egypte, J. de Morgan, 578 
Magnetic Fields of Force, Prof. H. Ebert, 579 
A Study of the Sky, Herbert A. Howe, 580 
The Clue to the Ages, E. Judson Page, 580 
Who’s Who, 1897, 580 
Charles Pritchard, F.R.S., late Savilian Professor of Astro- 
nomy in the University of Oxford, Memoirs of his Life, 
Ada Pritchard, 601 
Water and its Purification, Samuel Rideal, Joseph Lunt, 602 
Mongolia and the Mongols, A. Pozdnéeff, 603 
Rough Notes and Memoranda relating to the Natural History 
of the Bermudas, J. L. Hurdis, 604 
Das Wesen der Electricitat und des Magnetismus auf grund 
eines einheitlichen Substanzbegriffes, J. G. Vogt, 604 
Farm and Garden Insects, Prof. Wm. Somerville, 605 
Geology of North-east Durham, D. Woolacott, 605 
Revis (C.), Derivatives of a-hydrindone, 165 
Reynolds (Ernest S.), Hygiene for Beginners, 196 
Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), Method of determining 
Dryness of Saturated Steam and Condition of Steam Gas, 71 
Rhabdospheres, Coccospheres and, George Murray and V. H. 
Blackman, 510 
Richard (Jules), Apparatus for ascertaining Independency of 
Pressure of Amount of Gases Dissolved in Sea-water at 
Great Depths, 444 
Richards (Admiral Sir G. H.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 57 
Richards (J. W.), the Spectra of Argon, 308 
Richards (Prof. T. W.), Redetermination of Atomic Weight of 
Magnesium, 41 ; Revised Atomic Weight of Zinc, 110; the 
Multiple Spectra of Gases, 406 
Richardson (Sir Benjamin Ward, F.R.S.), Death and Obituary 
Notice of, 80 
Richarz (F.), Influence of Réntgen Rays on Steam Jet, 92 
Richarz (Dr. Franz), the Gravitation Constant and the Mean 
Density of the Earth, 296 
Richmond (Rev. Wilfred), Experience : a Chapter of Prolego- 
mena, 4 
Rideal (Samuel), Water and its Purification, 602 
Rinderpest, African, Sir John Kirk, K.C.B., F.R.S., 53 
Rinderpest, Dr. Koch’s Report on, 450 
Ripples, Photography of, J. H. Vincent, 430 
Rivals (P.), Separation of Chlorine and Bromine, 624 
Rivers, Fascine Training and Protection Works, 156 
Riviere (E.), La Mouthe Cave, 55; Drawings on Rocks of, 575 
Roberts (Isaac), on Long-exposure Photographs, 544 
Roberts-Austen (Prof.), Fourth Report to Alloys Research 
Committee, 377 
Robertson (Dr. David), Death and Obituary Notice of, 81 
Roborovsky’s Tibet Expedition, P. K. Kozloff, 541 
Roder (K.), the Polar Limit of True Forest Lands, 349, 
Rodway (James), the Story of Forest and Stream, 246 
Rogenhofer (Herr Alois), Death of, 370 
Rogers (E. F.), Revised Atomic Weight of Zinc, 110 
Rogers (Thos.), a Case of Abnormal Magnetic Attraction, 127 
Rohlfsen (Nordahl), the Early Life of Nansen, 201 
Roiti (Prof. A.), the Apparent Deflection of Réntgen Rays 
behind Opaque Obstacles, 326 
Roller Boat, the ‘‘ Bazin,” 109, 379 
Romanes (G. J.), Poems of, 124; Essays of, 340 
Rontgen Rays: Experiments with Rontgen Rays, Dr. John 
Macintyre, 64; Prof. Threlfall and Mr. Pollock, 70; Radio- 
graphs with Wimshurst Machine, W. G. Watson, 12; the 
X-Rays produced by a Wimshurst Machine, T. C. Porter, 30 ; 
a Correction, 79; some Properties of Réntgen Rays, A. 
Winkelmann and R. Straubel, 47; Wave-length of, L. 
Fomm, 47; Use in Anatomical Researches of, Ch. Remy and 
G. Contremoulins, 48; Results of Application of X-Rays 
to Stomach, M. Sorel, 600; Applied to Pulmonary 
Tuberculosis, C. UH. Bouchard, 191; Application to 
Paleontology of, M. Lemoine, 81; Influence on Steam 
Jet of, F. Richarz, 92; Production of X-Rays, Dr. Oliver 
J. Lodge, F.R.S., 100; Influence of Temperature and 
Pressure on Discharges by Rontgen Rays, Jean Perrin, 119 ; 
Application of Illusions accompanying Formation of Penumbra 
to Réntgen Rays, G. Sagnac, 119 ; Property of Réntgen Rays 
of inducing in Gases Power to discharge Electrified Bodies, 
Prof. E. Villari, 135; Electrostatic Dispersion of Rontgen 
Rays, Prof. Uno Panichi, 135; Radiography, Dr. G. M. 
Lowe, 154; W. I. Chadwick, 195; Nature of the Rontgen 
