Nature, "| 

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Index 



xxxix 



Properties of Uranium, T. Godlewski, 160; Ex- 

 periments on Canal-strahlen, Prof. Thomson, 191 ; 

 Action of a Magnetic Field on the Goldstein Rays 

 (Canal-strahlen), Henri Pellat, 192 ; Energy of Secondary 

 Radiation, Prof. J. A. McClelland, 215; Kathodic Pul- 

 verisations, Ch. Maurain, 263 ; the Present Position of 

 Radio-activity, Frederick Soddy at Rontgen Society, 285 ; 

 Radio-activity, Prof. E. Rutherford, F.R.S., Hon. R. J. 

 Strutt, F.R.S., 289; La Theorie moderne des Phtmomenes 

 physiques, Radio-activity, Ions, Electrons, Prof. Augusto 

 Righi, 340 ; Diminution of the Radio-activity of Polonium 

 with Time, Mme. Curie, 359 ; Secondary Rontgen Rays 

 and Atomic Weight, Dr. Charles G. Barkla, 365 ; 

 Polarisation in Secondary Rontgen Radiation, Dr. 

 C. G. Barkla, 501; Secondary Rontgen Radiation, Dr. 

 C. G. Barkla, 502 ; Secondary Radiation from Com- 

 pounds, Prof. J. A. McClelland and F. E. Hackett, 383 ; 

 " Radiobes," J. Butler Burke, 399; the Blondlot ti-Rays, 

 A. A. Campbell Swinton, 413 ; Polonium and Radio-Tel- 

 lurium, 549 ; a New Product of Actinium, Dr. O. Hahn, 

 559 ; Transmission and Reflection of the Radiation from 

 Radio-active Substances, Prof. J. J.Thomson, 599 ; Death 

 and Obituary Notice of Prof. Pierre Curie, 612 



Radium : Radium and other Radio-active Substances : their 

 Application especially to Medicine, Dr. Charles Basker- 

 ville, 2 ; Action of Radium on Gelatin Media, John Buticr 

 Burke, 5; Scintillations Produced by the Electronic "|3- 

 Rays " emitted by Radium, C. W. R., 341; see Radio- 

 graphy 



Radl (Dr. Em.), Geschichte der biologischen Theorie, seit 

 dem Ende des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts, 435 



Railways, Electric, Theoretically and Practically Treated, 

 S. W. Ashe and J. D. Keiley, Maurice Solomon, 169 



Rainbow, a Horizontal, W. R. M. Church, 608 



Ramann (E.), Bodenkunde, 266 



Rambaud (M.), Observation of the Brooks Comet (1906a), 



Rnmsbottom (J. E.), Action of Ultra-Violet Light on Moist 

 and Dried Mixtures of Carbon Monoxide and Oxygen, 190 



Rankin (Margaret Cuthbert), the Art and Practice of 

 Laundry Work for Students and Teachers, 172 



Ransome'(F. L.), Report of Progress in the Geological Re- 

 Survey of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, 376 



Ransome (Mr.), the Nature of Carnotite, 547 



Rastall (R. H.), Buttermere and Ennerdale Granophyre, 381 



Rat Destruction and Disinfection on Shipboard, Methods of, 

 Drs. Haldane and Wade, 619 



Rathgen (Friedrich), the Preservation of Antiquities, a 

 Handbook for Curators, 412 



Rational Education, another Plea for, Prof. T. Clifford 

 Allbutt, F.R.S., 530 



Ray (P. O), Constitution of Silver Nitrites, 189 



Raynor (Rev. G. H.), Breeding Experiments with Lepidop- 

 tera, 454 



Read (A. A.), Methods for Determination of Manganese 

 in Iron and Steel, 36 



Read (Carveth), the Metaphysics of Nature, 290 



Recherches priihistoriques, Manuel de, 411 



Reclamation Service, the United States, 591 



Redikorzin (W.), the Visual Organs of the Ascidians of 

 the Salpa Group, 134 



Reduction Tables for Equatorial Observations, C. W. 

 Frederick, 18 



Reed (William Allan), Negritos of Zamabales, 5S4 



Refraction Constant, an Untried Method of Determining the, 

 Geo. A. Hill, no 



Refraction, Fresnel's Theory of Double, James Walker, 319 



Refrigeration : Modern Refrigerating Machinery, its Con- 

 struction, Methods of Working, and Industrial Applica- 

 tions, Prof. H. Lorenz, 122 ; American Practice in Re- 

 frigeration, II. M. Haven and F. W. Dean, 122 



Regeneration, Studien iiber die, Prof. B. Nemec, 17" 



Rehn (Prof.), Stick Insect, O. viridipes, 397 



Reichel (Principal H. R.), Some Characteristics of American 

 Universities, Address at University of Wales, Aberyst- 

 wyth, 44 



Reid (Captain S. G.), Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' 

 Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), 53 



Reid (Dr. G. Archdall), Biological Foundations of Sociology, 

 04 ; the Principles of Heredity, with Some Applications, 

 121 ; the Princioles of Heredity, 223 



Reid (H. F.), les Variations periodiques des Glaciers, 320 

 Reinholt (O. H.), Coal-Mining in the Philippines, 324 

 Renard (Colonel Charles), Obituary Notice of, Ch. Ed. 



Guillaume, 423 

 Renshaw (Graham), More Natural History Essays, 343 ; the 



Exterminated Reunion Starling, 134 

 Replicas of Diffraction Gratings, R. J. Wallace, 21 ; 



Thomas Thorp, 79 ; the Writer of the Notice, 79 

 Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, 219 

 Result of War affected by Soldier's Stature, John H. Twigg, 



340, 441 ; Major-General W. E. Warrand, 414 

 Retina, the Colour Sensitivity of the Peripheral, John 



Wallace Baird. 260 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



An Introduction to the Design of Beams, Girders, and 

 Columns in Machines and Structures, with Examples in 

 Graphic Statics, W. H. Atherton, 1 

 Mechanics for Engineers, a Text-book of Intermediate 



Standard, Arthur Morley, 1 

 Radium and other Radio-active Substances ; their Applica- 

 tion especially to Medicine, Dr. Charles Baskerville, 2 

 Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, A. R. Sennett, 2 

 Elementary Experimental Chemistry, A. E. Dunstan, 3 

 Wayside and Woodland Blossoms, Edward Step, 3 

 Quiet Hours with Nature, Mrs. Brightwen, 4 

 Sammlung Schubert XLIL, Theorie der Electrizitat und 



des Magnetismus, Prof. Dr. J. Classen, 4 

 Vegetationsbilder, Drs. G. Karsten and H. Schenck, 4 

 Extinct Animals, E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 6 

 Report of Inter-State Astronomical and Meteorological Con- 

 ference, Adelaide, May, 1905, 8 

 Mechanics of Materials, Mansfield Merriman, 25 

 Handbuch der Blutenbiologie, Ernest Loew, 26 

 Chasse, Elevage et Piegeage, A. de Lesse, 26 

 Ergebnisse und Probleme der Elektronentheorie, Prof. H. A. 



Lorentz, Dr. H. A. Wilson, 27 

 Die elektrischen Bogenlampen, deren Prinzip, Konstruk- 



tion und Anwendung, J. Zeidler, 11. Bohle, 2- 

 Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 

 Catalogue of Printed Books, Papers, and Maps Relating 

 to the Geology and Mineralogy of South Africa to Decem- 

 ber 31, 1904, Miss M. Wilman, 28 

 Problems in Practical Physics, F. R. Pearson, 28 

 Die Vermessungs- und Absteckungs-Arbeiten fur den 



Simplon Tunnel, Prof. C. Koppe, 30 

 Researches on the Affinity of the Elements, and on the 

 Causes of Chemical Similarity or Dissimiliarity of Ele- 

 ments and Compounds, Geoffrev Martin, 49 

 Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe: Norway, 1S71, 

 Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, J. A. Harvie-Brown, so 

 Practical Sea-Fishing, a Handbook for Sea Anglers, P. L. 



Haslope, Frank Balfour Browne, 51 

 Molecular Forces and Newtonian Laws, Alex. Clark, 51 

 Explication me^chanique de la Matiere, de l'Electricite' et 



du Magn^tisme, M. Despaux, 51 

 A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture, Martin A Buck- 

 master, 52 

 Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 52 

 Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Fggs in the British 

 Museum (Natural Historv), E. W. Oates and Captain 

 S. G. Reid, 53 

 Leather for Libraries, E. Wyndham Hulme, J. Gordon 

 Parker, A. Seymour-Jones, Cyril Davenport, and F. J. 

 Williamson, 53 

 Bureau of Government Laboratories, (1) Description of New 

 Buildings, Paul C. Freer, (2) a Catalogue of the Librarv, 

 Mary Polk, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 57 

 Contributions from the Solar Observatory of the Carnegie 



Institution of Washington, Prof. G. E. Hale, 67 

 A Student's Text-book of Zoology, Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., 



73 

 The Study of Chemical Composition : an Account of its 



Method and Historical Development, Ida Freund, 74 

 Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum, W. T. 



This-lton-Dyer, 75 

 Sugar and the Sugar Cane, Noel Deerr, 75 

 My Strange Pets, and Other Memories of Country Life, 



R. Bell/76 



