Nature 
December 14, “seuil Lndex ix 
Mr. G. J. Burch, Sir George Stokes, Principal Glazebrook, 
585 ; Preliminary Results of a Research on the Variation 
of the Specific Heat of Water with Temperature, Prof. 
Callendar, 585 ; on a Flaw in Nernst’s Theory of Electro- 
lytic Solution Pressure, Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt, 585 ; on the 
Stability of an Ether containing long, thin, empty Vortex 
Filaments, Prof. Fitzgerald, 585; on the Absence of 
Hydrogen and Helium from the Earth’s Atmosphere, Prof. 
Bryan, 585; the Thermo-Electric Properties of an Alloy 
containing Iron 68°8 per cent., Nickel 25°0, Manganese 570, 
and carbon 1°2, Prof. W. F-. Barrett, 586; Report of the 
Committee on the Heat of Combination of Metals in the 
Formation of Alloys, Prof. Vernon Harcourt’s Criticism, 
586 ; Preliminary Report of the Committee on Radiation 
from a Source of Light in a Magnetic Field, 586; on the 
Production in Rarefied Gases of Luminous Rings in Rota- 
tion about Lines of Magnetic Force, Mr. C. E. S. Phillips, 
586 ; Note on Deep Sea Waves, Mr. V. Cornish, 586; on 
the Existence of Masses smaller than the Atoms, Prof. 
J. J. Thomson, M. Broca, Prof. Riicker, 586 ; Sir Norman 
Lockyer, Prof. Oliver Lodge, 587; Preliminary Results of 
a Year’s Work with the Seismograph at Mauritius, Mr. 
T. F. Claxton, 587 ; on the Progress Achieved during the 
Past Year at Blue Hill, Massachusetts, in the Exploration 
of the Air with Kites, Mr. A. L. Rotch, 587 ; the Hydro- 
Aérograph, F. Napier Denison, 587; a Portable Gravity 
Balance, Profs. Threlfall and Pollock, 587 ; Discussion on 
Platinum Thermometry, Prof. Callendar, Dr. J. A. Harker, 
Dr. Chappuis, Mr. E. H. Griffiths, Prof. Carey Foster, 
Prof. Burstall, Principal Glazebrook, Dr. Chree, Prof. 
Threlfall, Mr. W. N. Shaw, 587; on the Spectral Sensi- 
tiveness of Mercury Vapour in an Atmosphere of Hydrogen, 
Dr. E. P. Lewis, 587 
Section B (Chemistry)—Opening Address by Dr. Horace T. 
Brown, F.R.S., President of the Section: Fixation of 
Carbon by Plants, 474; a Correction, 544; the Excretory 
Products of Plants, Prof. Hanriot, 608 ; Chemical Pro- 
cesses involved in the Saccharification of Starch by Malt- 
diastase, Dr. A. Fernbach, 608 ; on the Combined Action 
o Diastase and Yeast on Starch Granules, Dr. G. H. 
Morris, 608 ; the Action of Acids on Starch, Dr. G. H. 
Morris, 608; Symbiotic Fermentation, Prof. Marshall 
Ward, Sir Henry Roscoe, Prof. Armstrong, M. Van Laar, 
609; Industrial Symbiotic Fermentations, Dr. Calmette, 
609; Remarkable Result observed on the Exposure of 
Metallic Silver to Light, Colonel Waterhouse, 609 ; Pro- 
posal to Establish an International Committee on Atomic 
Weights, Prof. Tilden, 609; on Laws of Substitution, 
especially in Benzenoid Compounds, Prof. Armstrong, 609 ; 
Researches on Oxidation in Presence of Iron, Mr. Fenton, 
609 ; Experiments on the Action of Hydrogen Peroxide on 
Carbohydrates in presence of Iron Salts, Messrs. Morrell 
and Crofts, 609; on the Influence of Solvents on the 
Optical Activity of Organic Compounds, W. J. Pope, 609 ; 
on the Action of Caustic Soda on Benzaldehyde, Drs. C. A. 
Kohn and W. Trantom, 609: on the Chemical Effect on 
Agricultural Soils of the Salt-water Flood of November 29, 
1897, on the East Coast, Messrs. T. S. Dymond and F. 
Hughes, 609. 
Section C (Geology)—Opening Address by Sir Archibald 
Geikie, D.C.L., D.Sc., F.R.S., President of the Section, 
496 ; Coal Exploration in Kent, R. Etheridge, Prof. W. 
Boyd Dawkins, 610; Investigations among the Upper 
Carboniferous Rocks of North Staffordshire, Mr. W. 
Gibson, 610; on a Recent Boring through the Chalk and 
Gault near Dieppe, A. L. Jukes-Browne, 610; the Origin 
of Flint, Prof. W. J. Sollas, 610; on Extra-morainic 
Drainage in Yorkshire, Prof. P. F. Kendall, 610; Homo- 
taxy and Contemporaneity, Prof. Sollas, 610; on a 
Smoothed and Grooved Surface of Mount Sorrel Granite 
underlying Undisturbed Keuper Marl, Prof. W. W. Watts, 
610; Prof. A. Renard on the Origin of Chondritic 
Meteorites, 610; Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins on the Geology 
of the Channel Tunnel, 610; Mr. F. W. Harmer on a 
Proposed New Classification of the Pliocene Deposits of the 
East of England, 610; Mrs. M. M. (Ogilvie) Gordon on 
Sigmoidal Curves in the Earth’s Crust, 611. 
Sectzon D (Zoology)—Opening Address by Adam Sedgwick, 
M.A., F.R.S., President of the Section: Variation and 
Some Phenomena connected with Reproduction and Sex, 
502; J. J. Lister on Astrosclera willeyana, 631; Prof. 
Johnson-Symington on the Morphology of the Cartilages of 
the Monotreme Larynx, 631; N. Bishop Harman, the 
Palpebral and Oculo-motor Apparatus in Fishes, 631 ; W. 
Garstang, First Report on the Periodic Investigation of the 
Plankton and Physical Conditions of the English Channel 
during 1899, 631 ; Dr. J. F. Gemmill on Negative Evidence 
regarding the Influence of Nutrition in Determining Sex, 
631; Sir John Murray on Dr. Peterson’s Experiments in 
the Cattegat, with the Marking and Measuring of Plaice in 
order to determine Distribution and Growth, 631; W. 
Garstang on the Artificial Rearing of Young Sea-fish, 631 ; 
Prof. McIntosh on the Occurrence of the Grey Gurnard 
(Trigla gurnardus, L.) and its Spawning in Inshore and Off- 
shore Waters, 631 ; T. H. Taylor on the Embryolog of 
the Polyzoa, 631; Prof. MacBride on the Rearing of 
Larvee of Echinide, 631 
Section E (Geography)—Opening Address by Sir John 
Murray, K.C.B,, F.R.S., LL.D., President of the Section, 
521 
Section G (Mechanical Sctence)—Opening Address by Sir 
William White, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the 
Section, 527 
Section H (Anthropology)—Opening Address by C. H. Read, 
President of the Section, 554 
Section I (Phystology)—Opening Address by J. N. Langley, 
F.R.S,, President of the Section, 557; Evening Address 
by Prof. Charles Richet, ‘‘ La Vibration Nerveuse,” 625 
Section K (Botany)—Opening Address by Sir George King, 
K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Section: ‘* A 
Sketch of the History of Indian Botany, 581, 604 
British Birds, an Illustrated Manual of, Howard Saunders, 241 
British Medical Association, Meeting of the, at Portsmouth, Dr. 
F. W. Tunnicliffe, 341 
British Race, the Story of the, John Munro, 52 
Brizard (L.), Double Nitrite of Ruthenium and Potassium, 336 
Broca (M.), on the Existence of Masses Smaller than the 
Atoms, 586 
Brongniart (Dr. C.), Death of, 14 
Brooks (A. H.), Age of Franklin White Limestone of Sussex 
County, New Jersey, 182 
Brown (Ernest W.), Theory of the Motion of the Moon, 260 
Brown (Dr. Horace T., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section B 
of the British Association, ‘‘ Fixation of Carbon by Plants,” 
474; a Correction, 544 
Brown (R. junr.), Primitive Constellations, 31 
Browning (Robert), and Meteorology, 245 
Brouardel (Dr. P.), Progress during Past 100 Years, 510 
Bruce (William S.), on the Use of the Fahrenheit Scale for 
Observations on Sea Temperatures, 545 ~ 
Bruyn (Prof. L. de), Influence of Water in Rapidity of Ether- 
formation, 312 
Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), Harvesting Ants, 174; the Volta 
Centenary Exhibition at Como, 181; on the Absence of 
Hydrogen and Helium from the Earth’s Atmosphere, 585 
Bubble, Effect of Vibration on a Level, A. Mallock, 615 
Buchanan (J. Y., F.R.S.), Meteorology of Ben Nevis in Clear 
and Foggy Weather, 311 ; Thermometric Scales for Meteoro- 
logical Use, 364 
Biichner (Dr. Ludwig), Death of, 14 
Budge (E. A. Wallis), the Book of the Dead, 385 
Budgett (J. S.), Batrachians of Paraguayan Chaco, 513 
Buds and Stipules, on, Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., 
149 
Buguet (A.), Radio-graphic Bulb with Cold Antikathode, 636 
Bukowski (G.), Geology of Southern Dalmatia, 135 
Bulletin of American Mathematical Society, 46, 117, 263, 308 
Bulletin Astronomique, 402 
Bulletin de la Société Astr. de France, 513 
Bunsen (Prof.), Death of, 398; Obituary Notice of, Sir Henry 
E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 424 
Burbury (S. H., F.R.S.), Scoring at Rifle Matches, 412 
Burch (G. J.), on the Spectroscopic Examination of Contrast 
Phenomena, 585 
Burdon-Sanderson (Sir J., Bart., F.R.S.), the Relation of 
Motion in Animals and Plants to the Electrical Phenomena 
associated with it, 343 
Burgess (G. K.), Method for determining Newtonian Constant, 
432 
Burghard (F. F.), a Manual of Surgical Treatment, 291 
