Nature, | 
Dee. 18, 1902 
Index 
xiii 
Symons’s Meteorological Magazine. Use of the Monthly Rainfall 
Tables, 114 
Syria and Palestine, Lewis Bales Paton, 517 
Syria, Remarkable Fossil Oysters from, Alfred Ely Day, 606 ; 
Bee Tit. 5.607 ; 
Taber (R. B.), the Leonid Shower, 662 
Tank for Testing Ship Models for Resistance, the Proposed | 
Experimental, 128 
Tankard (A. R.), Remarkable Sunsets at Madeira, 254 
Taquin (A.), a Theory of Volcanoes, 233 
Targioni-Tozzetti (Prof. Adolfo), Death of, 553 
Tatnall (R. R.), a Laboratory Manual of Physics, 4 
Taylor (Messrs. and Co.), Cooke Photographic Lenses, Method 
by which the Focal Length may be Reduced, 280 
Taylor (R. L.), the Reaction of Iodine with Mercuric Oxide in 
Presence of Water, 648 
Taylor (W.), the Science of the Workshop, 644 
Teacher’s Manual of Object Lessons in Geography, Vincent T. | 
| Thiele (J.), the Solenogastree, 612 
Murché, 270 
Teaching of Geometry, Report on the, 201 
Teaching of Zoology, an Attempt at Originality in the, Henry 
Sherring Pratt, 292 
Teall (J. J. H., F.R.S.), Volcanic Dust from the West Indies, | 
| Thomas (Rev. C.), the ‘* Rotaplane,”’ 422 
130 
Teall (Mr.), on the Prolongation of the Ilighland Border Rocks 
into County Tyrone, 619 ; Proof Sheet of the ‘* Drift”” Edition 
of the Geolagical Map of Ireland, 619 
Tebbuit’s (Mr.) Observatory at Windsor, N.S. W., 258 
Technical Education at Manchester, Mr. Balfour, 633 
Technology: Death of Dr. Henry Morton, 113; Death of 
* Frederick Augustus Abel, 483; Obituary Notice of, 492 
Telegraphy : New System of Octoplex Typographic Telegraphy, 
Prof. H. A. Rowland, 134; Les Cables Sous-Marins, Alfred 
Gay, 148; the Receiver in Wireless Telegraphy, Edouard 
Branley, 143; New Form of Magnetic Detector, Recent | 
Transatlantic Signalling, G. Marconi, 182; Marconi’s Results 
in Day and Night Wireless Telegraphy, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 
199; Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 222; Note on a Magnetic 
Detector of Electric Waves which can be Employed as a 
Receiver for Space Telegraphy, G. Marconi, 334; a Note on 
the Effect of Daylight upon the Propagation ot Electromag- 
netic Impulses over Long Distances, G. Marconi, 335 ; New 
Marconi Signalling Station at Cape Breton, 485: Prof. A. 
Righi on Mr. Marconi, 581; Marconi Experiments on the 
Carlo Aiberio, 610; Wireless Telegraphy over 1600 English | 
Miles by*Land, 277; Armstrong-Orling System of Wireless 
Telegraphy,,327 ; a Simple Telephonic Receive? for Wireless 
Telegraphy, Dr. L. Bleekrode, 343 ; Time Signals by Wire- 
less Telegraphy, John Munro, 416; the De Forest System of 
Wireless Telegraphy, 446 
Telephony : Experiments with Wireless, Mr. Stubblefield, 158 ; 
a Simple Telephonic Receiver for Wireless Telegraphy, 
Dr. L. Bleekrode, 343; on the Future of the Telephone in | 
the United Kingdom, J. E. Kingsbury, 644; Sir William | 
Preece. 644 
Tempel-Swilt, Ephemeris for the Search of 
F. Bossert, 557 
Tempel-Swift, the Periodical Comet of (1869-1880), 258 
Temperature: the Measurement of High Temperatures and 
Stefan’s Law, M. Feéry, 47; Coefficients of the Cubical 
Expansion of Ice, Hydrated Salts, Solid Carbonic Acid and 
Other Substances at Low Temperatures, Prof. James Dewar, 
F.R.S., at Royal Society, 88 ; Electrical Resistance of Iron 
at Very Low Temperatures, E. Philip Harrison, 343 ; on the 
Measurement of Temperatures, Morris W. Travers, George 
Senter and Adrien Jaquerod, 382; Briickner’s Cycle and the 
Variation of Temperature in Europe, Alex. B. MacDowall, 
77 ; Sea Temperature and Shore Climate, 116 ; Sea Temper- 
ature Variations on the British Coasts, 452; Temperatures of 
Kingston, Jamaica, Maxwell Hall, 159 , 
Termes Positifs, Lecons sur les Séries 4, Emile Borel, 5 
Terraciano (Dr. Nicola), Decorative Plants for Gardens, 36 
* Terrestrial Magnetism: Erdmagnetische Untersuchungung im 
Kaiserstuhl, G. Meyer, 324; the Relation Between the Solar 
Protuberances and Terrestrial Magnetism, Sir Norman 
Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 456 
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Comet, | 
Tessari (Prof. D.), la Costruzione degli Ingranaggi, 218 
Texas, the Coal, Lignite and Asphalt Rocks of, W. B. Phillips, 
379 
Textile Fibres of Commerce, the, William S. Hannan, 338 
Thames, the Naturalist on the, C. J. Cornish, 632 
Theobald (F. W.), a Monograph of the Culicidze of the World, 
123 
Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews, Archibald Duff, 517 
Therapeutics: Treatment of Malarial Fevers by Latent Arsenic, 
Armand Gautier, 47; Therapeutic Value of Arsenic, Dr 
Ralph Stockman, 353; Local Treatment of Kheumatism, 
Ch. Bouchard, 288 ; Therapeutic Value of Alkaline Waters 
of the Vichy Type, Prof. Liebreich, 353; the Rontgen Rays 
in Medicine and Surgery as an Aid in Diagnosis and as a 
Therapeutic Agent, Francis H. Williams, 438 
Thermal Expansions at Low Temperatures, Prof. James Dewar, 
F.R.S., at Royal Society, 88 
Thermodynamics, the Conservation of Weight and the Laws of, 
102 
Thermometers, Temperature Indicator for Use with Platinum, 
R. S. Whipple, 22 
Thin Floating Cylinders, Prof. Thos. Alexander, 6 
Thiselton-Dyer (Sir W. T., K.C.M.G., F.R.S.), the Sweet 
Briar as a Goat Exterminator, 31 ; the Life of Thomas Henry 
Huxley, Edward Clodd, 121 
Thomas (Gordon C.), Novel Canal Lift, 350 
Thomas (H. H.), Mineralogical Constitution of the Finer 
Material of the Bunter Pebble-bed in the West of England, 
95 
Thomas (Rose Haig), Spiderland, 270; Bipedal Locomotion of 
Lizards, 551 
Thomas (V.), Volumetric Estimation of Iodides in the Presence 
of Chlorides and Bromides, 120; Utilisation of Mineral 
Substances by Grafted Plants, 624 
Thompson (Prof. D’Arcy W.), the Hydrography of Faeroe- 
Shetland Channel, 654 
Thompson (Prof. J. Arthur), the Seasonal Study of Natural 
History, 326 
Thompson (J. Stuart), Scales of Fishes as an Index of Age, 
4 
Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P., F.R.S.), Resultant Tones and 
the Harmonic Series, 6; Obituary Notice of Prof. Alfred 
Cornu, 12; the First Magnetician, 249, 272 
Thompson Yates Laboratories Report, the, 390 
Thomson (Basil), Savage Island, an Account of a Sojourn in 
Niué and Tonga, 347 F 
Thomson (J. J.), Increase in the Electrical Conduotivity of Air 
Produced by its Passage Through Water, 143 
Thorne (Dr.), Purification of Hydrochloric Acid from Arsenic, 
IG 
Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Chemical Instruction and 
Chemical Industries in Germany, 32; Essays in Historical 
Chemistry, 365 ; Dangerous Trades, the Historical, Social and 
Legal Aspects of Industrial Occupations as Affecting Health, 
433 dehy. 
Thovert (J.), a Consequence of the Kinetic Theory of Diffusion, 
648 
Throw-testing Machine for Reversals of Mean Stress, Osborne 
Reynolds, F.R.S., and J. H. Smith, 45 ay 
Thunderstorms, Apparatus for Registering, Father J. Fényi and 
Father Johann Schreiber, 65 
| Thunderstorms and the Lunar Phases, Connection Between, 
V. Ventosa, 85 
Tides in the Bay of Fundy, W. Bell Dawson, 85 ‘ 
Tides of Terrestrial Oceans, a New Theory of the, Rollin Harris, 
Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 444 ; 
Tigers, How the Sabre-toothed, Killed their Prey, 357 
Tilden (Prof.), Pinene Nitrosocyanide, 238 
Time Signals by Wireless Telegraphy, John Munro, 416 
Toads: Poison of the Toad, C. Phisalix and Gabriel Bertrand, 
288; Bufonine, Gabriel Bertrand, 288 
Tocher (J. F.), on the Pigmentation Survey of Scottish School 
Children, 663 
Tommasina (Th.), the Mode of Formation of Kathode and 
Roéntgen Kays, 408 ; ‘ : 
Tonge (James, jun.), Shaw Prize for Industrial Hygiene: 
Awarded by the Society of Arts to, 377 
