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Index 



Richard Bagot, 224; J. Herbert AUchin, 271 ; Prof. Henry 



H. Giglioli, 340 

 Swastika, the, Thomas Wilson, 316 

 Sweden: the Iron Ore Deposits of Northern Sweden, 211 ; 



Mean Atmospheric Pressure in Sweden, Dr. H. C. Hamberg, 



470 

 Swensson (E. ), Lessons of Home Building Fire, 348 

 Swift's Comet, 1899 <?, 449, 473, 494, 566 

 Swift's Comet (1896, HI.), Orbit of. Prof. R. G. Aitken, 519 

 Swinburne (James), the Nernst Electric Lamp, 376 

 Swinton (A. A, C. ), the Wehnelt Current Interrupter for In- 

 duction Coils, 394, 477 ; the Reflection of Kathode Rays, 



405 

 Sydow (P.), Deutscher Botaniker-Kalender fiir 1899, 174 

 Syllabus of Lectures on the Vertebrata, Prof. E. D. Cope, 27 

 SymboUe Antillanx" ; seu Fundamenta Flora; Indite Occi- 



dentalis, Ignatius Urban. 294 

 Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), Negretti and Zambra's Self-recording 



Rain Gauge, 621 

 Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 46, 427, 524, 



621 

 Synopsis Characeai urn Eurofeariiiii, Dr. Walter Migula, H. 



and J. Groves, 74 

 Syrian Fishes with Abnormal Eyes, Saleem Makarius, 149 

 Siily (Coloman de), Torsional Variation of Electrical Resistance 



of Metals and their Alloys, 599 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), Queries on the Reduction of Andrews' 

 Measurements on Carbonic Acid, 318 



Tamniann (G.), Limits of the Solid State, 190 



Tanganyika, The Fi.shes of, and other (Jreat Lakes, 251 



Tarleton (Francis A.), an Introduction to the Mathematical 

 Theory of Attraction, 604 



Tasmanian Firesticks, H. Ling Roth, 606 



Taste and Chemical Composition, the Connection between, 

 Dr. Kahlenberg, 42 



Taylor (A. E.), the Unconscious Mind, A. T. Schofield, 75 



Taylor (S. N.), Tests on Cadmium Standard Cells, 278 



Teaching of Geometry, the, R. J. Dallas, 416 



Teachers' Manual of Object Lessons in Domestic Economy, 

 Vincent T. Murche, 28 



Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools, The, 87 



Teall (J. J. H., F. R.S.), the Natural History of Cordierite and 

 its Associates, 380 



Technical Education : Technical Institutions in England, 65 ; 

 Progressive Education, 235 ; Mr. Balfour and Prof. Jebb on 

 Technical and Secondary Education, 352 ; Chemiche Tech- 

 nologic an den Universitaten und Technischen Hochschulen 

 Deutschlands, Dr. Ferdinand Fischer, Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 361 ; the Northern Polytechnic, HoUoway, A. T. 

 Simmons, 449 ; the Progress of Technical Education, 573 ; 

 Technical Education in Germany, 619 



Telegraphy: Death of Latimer Clark, F.R.S., 14; Obituary 

 Notice of, 38 ; Telegraphy without Wires in Paris, Hertzian, E. 

 Ducretel, 71 ; Coast Telegraphs and Space-Telegraphy, Rollo 

 Appleyard, 248 ; Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy, 300, 

 606 ; the Progress of Wireless Telegraphy, 534 ; Wireless 

 Telegraphy between France and England, 514 ; Prof. Row- 

 land's " Multiplex" Printing System, 613 



Telephoto Lens in Astronomy, Use of, H. l\udolf Steinheil, 

 399 • 



Telescopes : Die Medial-Fernrohre, L. Schupmann, 532 



Temperance Question from a Biological Standpoint, the. Dr. 

 Archibald Reid, 41 



Temperatures : Sunspots and Air Temperature, 77 ; a Tem- 

 perature Tell-tale, Rollo Appleyard, 333 ; the Chemistry of 

 the Stars in Relation to Temperature, Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 K.C. B. , 463 ; Measuring extreme Temperatures, Prof. H. L. 

 Callendar, F. R.S., 494, 519; the Sun's Mean Temperature, 

 Prof. S. Newcomb, 595, Dr. A. S. Chessin, 596 



Temple of Mut in Asher, the, Margaret Benson, Janet Gourlay, 

 530 



Tempel's Comet (1873 II.)) 595, 6l6 



Teodoresco (E. C. ), Influence of Anaesthetics on Formation of 

 Chlorophyll, 133 



Terrestrial Magnetism, International Conference on, 18 



Tesla's New Method of Electric Power Transmission, 60 



Tetravalency of Oxygen, ihe. Rev. J. F. Heyes. 534 



Theatres, Electric Stage Appliances, 212 



Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, Notes on, f . II. van 't Hoff, 



557 

 Thermal Conductivities of Poor Conductors, Prof. D. O. Peirce 



and R. W. Wilson, 15 

 Thermal Deformation of Crystallised Normal Sulphates of 



Potassium, Rubidium and Cjesium, A. E. Tutton, 453 

 Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics of Gas- Liquefaction by 

 Expansion, A. Witkowski, 133 ; Concerning the Thermo- 

 dynamic Correction for an Air Thermometer, W. McF. Orr, 

 126; Thermodynamics of Equilibrium, Dr. G. Bruni, 155; 

 the Phenomena of Skating .and Prof. J. Thomson's Thermo- 

 dynamic Relation, Prof. J. Joly, K. R. S., 485 

 Thermometers, Constancy of Melting Point of Crystallised 

 Salts sufficient for Standardising, T. W. Richards and J. D. 

 Churchill, 565 

 Thompson (Captain Anthony S.), Periodic Tides, 125 

 Thomson (Prof. Arthur), Morphology of Liver of Higher 



Primates, 423 

 Thompson (C. H.), Ruins of Xkichmook, Yucatan, 106 

 Thomson (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), the Discharge of Electricity 

 through Gases, 241 ; Motion of Charged Ion in Magnetic 

 Field, 407 ; lonisation of Gas by Entladungsstrahlen, 479 ; 

 the Phenomena of Skating and Prof. J. J. Thomson's Thermo- 

 dynamic Relation, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 485 

 Thomson (Joseph), Geology of Southern Morocco, 334 

 Thomson (Dr. St. Clair), Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in Human 



Subject, 454 

 Thorpe (J. G. ), Synthesis of oi8/3-Trimethylglutaric Acid, 262 

 Threlfair(Prof. Richard), on the Colour of Sea Water, 461 

 Thurston (Prof. R. H.), Engineering Work of United States 



Navy in War with Spain, 184 

 Tibet: In the Forbidden Land, A. Henry Savage-Landor, 9; 

 Connection between Manasarowar and Rakas-tal in Tibet, 

 Lieut. -General Sir Richard Strachey, F. R. S., 76 

 Tide-gauges, the Minute Undulations recorded on Self-register- 

 ing, F. N. Denison, 593 

 Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System, the, Prof. 



G. H. Darwin, 219 

 Tides, Periodic : Captain Anthony S. Thompson, 125 ; W. H. 

 Wheeler, 150; Prof. A. Wilmer Duff, 247, 585; W. Bell 

 Dawson, 5S4 

 Time, Chinese and Persian, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S , 349 

 Time Signals, Correction of Errors in Distribution of, Sir H. 



Grubb, F.R.S., 143 

 Tirah, the Campaign in the. Colonel H. D. Hutchinson, 315 

 Tobacco Spot Disease, the Contagion of, Prof. Beyerinck, 216 

 Todd (Sir Charles), Weather of South Australia, 1898, 448 

 Toepler (M. ), Properties of Stratified Bomb-Discharge in Open 

 Air, 214 ; Gliding Discharge along Pure Gkss Surfaces, 357 

 Tommasina (Thomas), a Very Sensitive Carbon Coherer, 503 

 Topography : Recherches sur les Instruments, les Methodes et 



le dessin Topographiques, Colonel A. Laussedat, 4S1 

 Torres Straits, the Anthropological Expedition to. Prof. A. C. 



Haddon, 174 

 Tortoiseshall, tlie Trade in, 425 

 Total Eclipse of the Moon, a, 185 

 Total Solar Eclipse of January 22, 1898, the, 157 

 Townsend (Eric T.), Death of, 562 

 Townsend (J. S.), Cloud F'ormation with Ozone, 407 

 Toxin and Antitoxin of Snake Venom, the Relation of the. Dr. 



Martin, 186 

 Trade in Tortoiseshell, the, 425 

 Trail, Slug following a closed, Vincent Daniel, 177 

 Traite elementaire de Meteorologie, Alfred Angot, 505 

 Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 482 

 Travers (M. W. ), Origin of Gases evolved by Heated Minerals, 



140 ; Preparation and Properties of Argon, 308 

 Travers (W. T. L. ), Reptiles of New Zealand, 16 

 Treasurership of the Royal Society, the, 38 

 Trees, the Fumigation of, 177 

 Triboluminescence, William Jackson Pope, 61S 

 Trigonometry, Spherical, W. W. Lane, 268 

 Trillat (A.), Detection of Gelatine in Gums, 71 

 Trimen (Roland, F.R.S.), Seasonal Dimorphism in Lepidoptera, 



568 

 Tripler (C. E.), Experiments with Liquid Air, 543 

 Tropical Diseases, the Study of, 323 

 Trotter (A. P.), Galvanometers and Magnetic Dip, 102; Minor 



Variations of Clark Cell, 525 

 Trowbridge (Prof. John), High Electromotive Force, 343 



