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Buchanan (J. Y., F.R.S.), Hydrographical Observations of the 
Princess Alice, 376. 
Buchenau (Dr. Fr.), Flora der ostfriesischen Inseln, 149 
Biichner (L.), Last Words on Materialism, 29 
Buckley (RK. B.), on Colonisation and Irrigation in Uganda and 
the British East African Protectorate, 643 
Building Stones in-Egypt, on the Disintegration of, A. Lucas, 
379 
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 118, 165, 382, 
455 
Bulley (Miss A. Amy), Psychology of Primitive Man, 664 
Bulman (G. W.), Retention of Leaves by Deciduous Trees, 56 
Bunting’s Nest, Cuckoo’s Egg thrown out of, 151 
Burma, Prehistoric Man in, R. C. J. Swinhoe, 541 
Burnside (Prof.), Groups in which every Two Conjugate Opera- 
tions are Permutable, 71 
Burrard (Major S. G.), the Attractions of the Himalaya Moun- 
tains upon the Plumb-Line, 80; on Difficulties which are 
caused in the Geodetic Survey of India by the Attraction of 
the Mass of the Himalayas and the Thibet Plateau and by 
the Existence of an Underground Chain of Excessive Den- 
sity which runs Across India, 640 
Burroughs and Wellcome’s Soloid Microscopic Stains, 87 
Burrows (Dr. H.), Pinene Nitrocyanide, 238 
Butler-Burke (Mr.), on the Phosphoresence Produced in 
Partially Exhausted Tubes by the Passage of an Alternating 
Current round Them, 618 
Butterflies: Butterflies of Chile, H. C. Elwes, 214; Variation 
of Common Copper Butterflies, 459, 555 
Butters (J. W.), Decimal Coinage and Approximations, 513 
Cables Sous-Marins, les, Alfred Gay, 148 
Cacao Culture, the Trinidad Experiments, 185 
Cadeac (M.), Production of Glycose by the Muscles, 216 
Calder (Captain), Eruption in St. Vincent, 373 
Caldwell (W.), Amount of Carbonic Anhydride Absorbed from 
Sea Water, 662 
‘Californian Climate, the, Note on a Statement in the Article on 
Francis Drake in the Dictionary of National Biography, 
256 
Callaway (Dr. 
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Cambier (R.), Traité de Bacteriologie pure et appliquée a la 
Médicine et a VHygiene, 316 
Cambridge Natural History, the, Mammalia, F. E. Beddard, 
Charles), the Plutonic Complex of Central 
373 
‘Cambridge Philosophical Society, 142, 166 
Cammon (P.), Refraction of Light from an Iron Mirror Magnet- 
ised Perpendicularly to the Plane of Incidence, 384 
Campanulate Foxgloves, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., 344 
Campbell (Prof.), the Spectrum of Nova Persei, 425 
Canada: Tides in the Bay of Fundy, W. Bell Dawson, 85; 
Geological Survey of Canada, Dr. Robert Bell, 86’, Universities 
in Relation to Research, Prof. James Loudon at Royal Society 
of Canada’s Meeting at Toronto, 358 ; Snow Waves and Snow 
Drifts, Dr. Vaughan Cornish, 453 
‘Canal Lift, Novel, Gordon C. Thomas, 350 
-Cancani (Dr. A.), Record of Italian Earthquakes, (1891-1900), 
66 ; Periodicity of the Great Earthquakes of the Marches and 
Romagna, 66; Improved Seismograph, 308 ; Distribution in 
Intensity of the After-Shocks of Three Hundred Italian Earth- 
quakes, 513 
Cannan (Edwin, M.A., LL.D), Opening Address in Section 
F at the Belfast Meeting of the British Association, 507 
Cantone, (Prof.), the Royal Prize of the Reale Accademia dei 
Lincei for Physics Awarded to, 377 
Cape Breton, New Marconi Signalling Station at, 485 
Cape of Good Hope Department of Agriculture Marine 
Investigation in South Africa, Observations on the Temperature 
and Salinity of the Sea around the Cape Peninsula, J. D. F. 
Gilchrist, 260 
Cape Observatory, Report of the, for 1901, Sir David Gill, 331 
Capitan (M.), Reproduction des figures paléolithiques peintes sur 
les parois de la grotte de Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne, 452 
Carbon, Chemical and Physical Properties of, in the Hearth of 
the Blast Furnace, W. J. Foster, 63 
Carbon, Fusion of, Dr. A. Ludwig, 206 
Carbon Dioxides, Solid Carbon Dioxide obtained from Sparklets, 
Prof. R. W. Wood, 15 ; Experimental Demonstration of the 
Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide by Leaves Exposed to 
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Light, P. P. Dehérain and E. Demoussy, 383; Can Carbon 
Dioxide be ‘‘ Vitalised”? Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 492; 
the Influence of Varying Amounts of, in the Air on the 
Photosynthetic Process of Leaves and on the Mode of 
Growth of Plants, Dr. Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F, 
Escombe at the Royal Society, 620 
Carmody, (Prof. P.), Elementary Chemical Analysis, 575 
Carnac and its Environs, the Farmers’ Years, ii., Sir Norman 
Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 104 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., the, Dr. Daniel 
C. Gilman, 548 
Carpenter (G. H.), on the Insect Fauna of some Irish Caves, 
641 
Carruthers (J. B.), Fungal Diseases of the Tea Plant, 136 
Carslaw (Dr. H. S.), Application of Contour Integration to the 
Solution of General Problems in the Conduction of Heat, 71 ; 
on the Use of Fourier’s Series in the Problem of the Transverse 
Vibrations of Stretched Strings, 485 
Carvallo (M. E.), L’Electricité (déduite de l’Expérience et 
ramenée au Principe des Travaux virtuels), 575 
Cassini Division, Saturn Visible through the, C. T. Whitmell, 
87, 296 
Cattle-Disease: Screw Worm in Cattle at St. Lucia, Mr. 
Maxwell-Lefroy, 400 
Caucasian Snow, A. Brun, 16 
Caucasus, Glacier Disaster in the, J. F. Baddeley, 328 
Cave-Brown-Cave (Miss F. E.), on the Correlation between the 
Barometric Height at Stations on the Eastern Side of the 
Atlantic, 311 
Celebes, the Geography and Geology of, Dr. Paul Sarasin and Dr. 
Fritz Sarasin, 3 
Celtic Mythology, Lady Gregory, 489 
Centrosome, the Morphological Value of the, Dr. Th. Boveri, 74 ; 
U Cephei, Delay of the Minimum of, 234 
B Cephei, the Spectroscopic Binary, Prof. Frost and W. S. 
Adams, 352 
Cerebral Commissures in certain Marsupialia, a Peculiarity of the, 
Prof. G. Elliot Smith, 165 
Cerebral Cortex, Human, on some New Features in the Intimate 
Structure of the, Dr. John Turner, 665 ; Prof. Schafer, 665 
Cesaro (E.), Limitations of Constants in the Analytical Theory 
of Heat, 159 
Ceylonese Lizard, Bipedal Locomotion of a, E. Ernest Green, 
492; Rose Haig Thomas, 551; N. Annandale, 577; W. Saville 
Kent, 630 
Chalon-sur-Sadne, Cyclone at, 305 
Chandler (Dr. J. C.), Motion of the Pole, 309 
Chantemesse (A.), Pathologie Générale et Expérimentale, Les 
Processus généraux, 363 
Chapman (Frederick), the Foraminifera, an Introduction to the 
Study of the Protozoa, 196 
Chapman (Dr. H. C.), the Flying-lemur, 351 
Chapman (Mr.), Decomposition of Water Vapour by the 
Electric Spark, 637 
Charabot (E.), Mechanism of the Chemical Variations in the 
Plant under the Influence of Sodium Nitrate, 144 ; Study of 
the Simultaneous Distillation of two Non-miscible Substances, 
336; the Methyl Ester of Methylanthranilic Acid in the 
Vegetable Organism, 648 
Chart of the Metric System, Prof. C. Bopp, 630 
Chassy (A.), the Influence of the Voltage in the Formation of 
Ozone, 168 : 
Chaumet (M.), Action of Light on Precious Stones, 119 
Chavanne (G. W.), Pyromucic and Isopyromucic Acids, 216 
Cheadle, Slight Earthquake at, 254 
Chelsea Physic Garden, the, 321 
Chemistry: Manual of Alcoholic Fermentation and the Allied 
Industries, Charles G. Matthews, 1: Preparation of Absolute 
Alcohol from Strong Spirit, Dr. Young, F.R.S., 70; Pro- 
perties of Mixtures of Lower Alcohols with Water, Dr. 
Young, F.R.S., and Miss E. C. Fortey, 70; Properties of 
Mixtures of the Lower Alcohols with Benzene, and with 
Benzene and Water, Dr. Young, F, R.S,, and Miss E. C. Fortey, 
70; the Nutritive Value of Alcohol, Messrs. Atwater and 
Benedict, 450; Action of Alcohols upon the Sodium Deriva- 
tives of other Alcohols, Marcel Guerbet, 336; Solid Carbon 
Dioxide obtained from Sparklets, Prof. R. W. Wood, 15; 
Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids by the Action of Carbon 
Dioxide upon Magnesium Alkyl Halogen Compounds, Messrs. 
Houben and Kesselkaul, 308: Experimental Demonstration 
