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INDEX. 
ABEL (SIR FREDERICK), Death of, 483; Obituary Notice of, 
49 
Abel (Henrik Niels), the Abel Festival in Christiania, 552 
Abercromby ‘Hon. John), on the Oldest Bronze Age Earthenware 
Vessel, 663 
Ackroyd (W.), on the Telluric Distribution of the Elements in 
Relation to Their Atomic Weights, 662 
Acoustics: Interference of Sound, the Right Hon. 
Rayleigh, F.R.S., at the Royal Institution, 42 ; Studies in 
Auditory and Visual Space Perception, Arthur Henry 
Pierce, Prof. Alex. Crum Brown, F.R.S., 733; Resultant 
Tones and Harmonic Series, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 
F.R.S., 6; Margaret Dickins, 78; Coast Fog Signals,’ 
E. Price Edwards, 115; the Vibration of the Violin, W. B. 
Coventry, 150; the Transmission of Sound Through Solid 
Walls, F. L. Tufts, 212 ; Earthquake-like Vibrations Caused 
by the Firing of Heavy Guns at the Mouth of the Medway, | 
230; Wellenlehre und Schall, W. C. L. van Schaik, 268 ; the 
Study of Resonance by Means of Oscillographs, M. Armagnat, 
307 ; Observations on the Smallest Perceptible Musical Tone- 
difference as Examined in the People of Scotland and of the 
Torres Straits, Dr. C. S. Myers, 666 
Actinometer, a New Registering, G. de Fontenoy, 401 
Adams (the late Prof. J. Couch), the Discovery of Neptune by, 
$4 
Adams (W. S.), the Spectroscopic Binary 8 Cephei, 352 
Adeney (Dr. W. E.), Chemistry of Respiration in Bacteria, 167 
Aéronautics: Death of M. Severo and His Assistant, 65 ; 
Meteorological Results of the Balloon Ascents of February 6, 
Dr. Hergesell, 66; Results of International Balloon Ascents 
of March 6, 329; French Naval Balloon Accident, Lieut. 
Baudic Drowned, 183; Dr. Miethe and Lieut. Hildebrandt’s 
Uncomfortable Balloon Voyage, 254; Aéronautical Congress 
Resolution Negativing Unprotected Ascent Above 7 or 
8 Kilometres, 279; the Use of Oxygen Inhalers in Con- 
nection with High Balloon Ascents, Dr. Siiring, 306; Project 
for a Navigable Balloon with an Interior Keel, M. Torres, 
422; Comte de la Vaulx and M. Heureux, 447; Stanley 
Spencer’s Airship, 539; M. de Bradsky and M. Morin killed, 
610; the Position and Promise of Aérial Navigation, Dr. 
S. P. Langley, 635 ; Captain Ferber’s Experiments in Aérial 
Gliding, 635 
Africa: Coral Reefs of Zanzibar, C. Crossland, 166 ; Further 
Discoveries in the Great Ruins at Zimbabye, 397 ; Animistic 
Beliefs Among the Yaos of British Central Africa, Rev. A. 
Hetherwick, 514; the ‘‘ Sleeping Sickness” of Uganda, 
484; Trypanosoma Thetlert, New Parasite in the Blood of 
Cattle in South Africa, 15; Lieut.-Colonel Bruce, F.R.S., 
84; Cold Weather in South Africa, J. R. Sutton, 247; Cape | 
of Good Hope Department of Agriculture Marine Investiga- 
tion in South Africa, Observations on the Temperature and 
Salinity of the Sea around the Cape Peninsula, J. D. F. 
Gilchrist, 260 ; Gold Seeking in South Africa, a Handbook 
of Hints for Intending Explorers, Prospectors and Settlers, 
Theo Kassner, 440; the Great Granite Mass of the Matopos, 
Frederick P. Mennell, 449 ; Geodetic Survey of South Africa, 
vol. ii., Report on a Rediscussion of Bailey's and Fourcade’s 
Surveys and their Reduction to the System of the Geodetic Sur- 
vey, Sir David Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., Major C. F. Close, 457 ; 
Gold Production and Life of the Main Reef Series, 
Witwatersrand, T. H. Leggett and F. H. Hatch, 659 
Agamennone (Dr. G.), a New Form of Seismograph, 260 
Agricultural Hall, the Tramways Exhibition at the, 272 
Agriculture: Ammonia, Nitrates and Chlorine in Rothamsted 
Rain Water, Dr. Miller, 22; Nitrates and Chlorine in the 
Drainage through Uncropped and Unmanured Land, Dr. 
Lord | 
Miller, 22; Culture o. the Forage Beet at Grignon, 
P. Dehérain and C. Dupont, 47; Colorado Potato Beetle at 
Tilbury, 134; Manufacture of Oil Cakes from the Seeds of 
the Sunflower, 232; Manual of Agricultural Chemistry, 
Herbert Ingle, 245; Cape of Good Hope Department o: 
Agriculture Marine Investigation in South Africa, Observa- 
tions on the Temperature and Salinity of the Sea around the 
Cape Peninsula, J. D. F. Gilchrist, 260; the Failure of Pea 
Crops, 280; Agricultural Use of Volcanic Dust, 306; the 
Use of Hail Rockets, E. Vidal, 312; Experiments with Tobacco 
and Potatoes at St. Kitts-Nevis, 448 ; on the Soils of Dorset, 
D. A. Gilchrist, C. M. Luxmoore, 486 ; Agricultural Teaching 
in West Indian Islands, 539; Indigo Cultivation in British 
India, 636 
Aiming Guns under Cover, an Instrument for, 493 
Alaska, a Holiday Cruise to, 176 
Alcohol: 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 the Lower Alcohols with Water, Dr. 
Young, F.R.S., and Miss E. C. Fortey, 70 ; Properties of Mix- 
tures of the Lower Alcohols with Benzene and with Benzene 
and Water, Dr. Young and Miss E. C. Fortey, 70; Alcohol 
as a Motive Power for Automobiles, 307 ; the Nutritive Value 
of Alcohol, Messrs. Atwater and Benedict, 450; Alcohol as 
an Illuminant, L. Denayrouze, 486 
Alectorolophus, Monographie der Gattung, Dr. Jakob von 
Sterneck, 4 
| Alexander, (Prof. Thos.), Thin Floating Cylinders, 6 ; a Cubic 
and Submerged Cubes, 127 
Algebra, H. G. Willis, 149 ; College Algebra, L. E. Dickson, 4 
Algol Variable, New, 115; Mrs. Fleming, 331; A. Stanley 
Williams, 515, 635 
Allbutt (Prof. I. Clifford, F.R.S.), the Rise of the Experi- 
mental Sciences at Oxford, Boyle Lecture at Oxford, 90 
Alliot (Henri), New Proof of the Cellular Resistance of the 
Saccharomyces and on a New Application of this Property to 
Indusiry and the Distillery, 288 
Altitudes at Sea, Method of Observing, during Night-Time, 
Prof. Joly, 186 
Aluminium and its Alloys, Prof. E. Wilson, 655; W. Murray 
Morrison, 655 
America : British vevsws American Locomotives, 42 ; Pisciculture 
in the United States, Earl Grey, 65; the Birds of North and 
Middle America, the Fringillidz, R. Ridgway, 75 ; American 
Journal of Science, 93, 212, 310, 408, 571 ; American Journal 
of Mathematics, 93, 455; Bulletin of the American Mathe- 
matical Society, 118, 165, 382, 455; Transactions of the 
American Mathematical Society, 165 ; Cyclopedia of Ameri- 
can Horticulture, L. H. Bailey, 147; a New High-speed 
Record on the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, 184; the 
Smithsonian Institution, its Documentary History, 226; the 
Pittsburg Meeting of the American Association, 299, Address 
by Prof. C. S. Minot, 300; the Eocene Primates and 
Rodents of North America, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 379 ; What 
the United States of America is doing for Anthropology, 
Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 430; Education in the United 
States of America, 453 
Anvesthesia by Electric Currents, Stephane Leduc, 336 
Anatomy : Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. Henri Filhol, 133 ; 
an Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of 
Animals, G. C. Bourne, 314; Death and Obituary Notice of 
Alexander Kowalevsky, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 
394 
| Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia, the, R. N. Hall and W. G. Neal, 
Prof. A. H. Keane, 34 
