Index 



tXaturg, 

 June 11, 1908 



Dunbar (Prof.), Stages in the Life-history of Green AIg», 



350 

 Duncan (J.), Steam and other Engines, 29 

 Duncan (Robert Kennedy), the Chemistry of Commerce, 49 

 Duncan (W. Stewart), the Evolution of Matter, Life, and 



Mind, 30 

 Dunstan (B.), the Stanhills Tinfields near Croydon, 257; 



the Great Fitzroy Copper and Gold Mine, Queensland, 



4C8 

 Duparc (Louis), Traits de Chemie analytiques qualitative, 



suivi de Tables syst^matiques pour I'Analvse min^rale, 



437 

 Durand (E.), Formation of Ozone by the Action of the 



Silent Discharge at Low Temperatures, 215 

 Durand (Prof. W. F.), Researches on the Performance of 



the Screw Propeller, 416 

 Durham (Edith), Montenegrin Manners and Customs, 454 

 Dutt (W. A.), Small Flint Implements from Bungay, 102 

 Dyeing in Germany and America, Sidney H. Higgins, 



Prof. Walter M. Gardner, 4 

 Dyeing, Experimental E.xamination of Gibbs's Theory of 



Surface Concentration regarded as the Basis of Absorp- 

 tion, and its Application to the Theory of, W. C. AL 



Lewis, 477 

 Dyers and Colourists, the Society of, 547 

 Dynamics of a Rigid Electron, Prof. A. W. Conway, 239 

 Dyson (Prof.), Systematic Motions of the Stars, 616 



Ear, on the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and 

 their Mechanical Transmission through the. Sir Thomas 

 Wrightson, Bart., 289 



Earth's Heat, Radium and the. Prof. Harold A. Wilson 

 F.R.S., 365; Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 365 



Earthquakes : Earthquake in Bokhara, 14 ; Earthquake in 

 Jamaica, 230; Jamaica Earthquake of Januarv 2, 1908, 

 Maxwell Hall, 542 ; the Californian Earthquake of 1906, 

 251 ; Earthquakes, an Introduction to Seismic Geology, 

 William Herbert Hobbs, 481 ; Earthquake in Mexico and 

 at St. Thomas, 516; Recent Earthquakes, Prof. J. Milne, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 592 



Ebell (Dr. M.), Comet Mellish (1907?), 18, 66; Encke's 

 Comet, S47 



Ebrill (G.), Derivatives of Xylose, igi 



Echelon Spectroscope, H. Stansfield, 198, 222 



Eclipses : the Total Solar Eclipse of January 3, 1008, Dr. 

 W. J. S. Lockyer, 104, 274; the Recent Total Solar 

 Eclipse, 544 ; Eclipse Observations, August, 1905, M. 

 Donitch, 281 ; Spanish Observation of the Total Solar 

 Eclipse of August, 1005, 446; Mutual Occultations and 

 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites, Mr. Whitmell, 567 



Edelmann (Dr. M., jun.), the Filament Electrometer, 401 



Edgar (Dr. E. C), the Atomic Weight of Chlorine, 350 



Edgeworth (Prof. H. F.), Muscles of the Head in' Birds 

 and Reptiles, 155 



Edinburgh Royal Society, 311, 335, 407, 431, 479, 551; 

 Lord Kelvin and the, 2.^-? 



Education : the New Municipal Technical Institute, 

 Belfast, 18 ; London Day Training College for Teachers, 

 iq ; the Increased Endowment of Universities, 152; 

 Education and Research in India, 202 ; the Practice of 

 Instruction, 243 ; Science at Recent Educational Con- 



. ferences, G. F. Daniell, 281 ; the Place of Nature-study 

 in the School Curriculum, Dr. Percy T. Nunn, 282 ; 

 Order in which Scientific Ideas should be Presented, 

 Prof. H. A. Micrs, F.R.S., 283; the Education of To- 

 morrow, John Stewart Remington, 292 ; Examination v. 

 Research, Dr. F. C. S. Schiller, 322 ; Death of W. A. 

 Shenstone, F.R.S., 324 ; Obituary Notice of. Prof. 

 William A. Tilden, F.R.S., 348; Mathematical Educa- 

 tion and Research, 331 ; Report of the Education Com- 

 mittee of the London County Council submitting the 

 Report of the Medical Officer (Education) for the" Year 

 ended March 31, 1907, Dr. James Kerr, 355; Continua- 

 tion Schools in England and Elsewhere, Prof. J. 

 Wertheimer, 361 ; Technical Research and the College 

 System, W. P. Dreaper, 367 ; an Introduction to Child- 

 study, W. B. Drummond, 410; the Child's Mind, its 

 Growth and Training, W. E. Urwick, 410; Memorandum 

 on Medical Inspection of Children in Public Elementarv I 

 Schools, under Section 13 of the Education (.Adminislra 

 live Provisions) .\ct, 1907, 426 ; Memorandum bv Ih 



British Medical Association on the Circular of the Board 

 of Education, 426; Extensions at University College, 

 London, 525; Jubilee of the Calcutta University, 584; 

 Educational Leakage, V. \. Mundella, 617 ; der natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Unterricht auf praktisch-heuristischer 

 Grundlage, Dr. F. Dannemann, Supp. to March j, viii 



Egg of the Platypus, the, the Reviewer, 80 



Eggs, the Preservation of, Fr. Prall, 84, 137 



Egypt : Zoology of Egypt, the Fishes of the Nile, G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.R.S., 10; Hydrology in Egypt, Captain 

 H. G. Lyons, 21 ; a Description of the First or .Aswan 

 Cataract of the Nile, Dr. John Ball, 433 ; Distribution 

 of Standard Time in Egypt, Captain H. G. Lyons, 497 ; 

 Magnetic Observations in Egypt, 1895-1905, 565 



Egyptology : Ancient Egypt the Light of the VVorld, a 

 Work of Reclamation and Restitution, Gerald Massey, 

 291 ; Burial Customs of .Ancient Egypt, Prof. j. 

 Garstang, H. R. Hall, 439 ; Chemische und biologische 

 Untersuchungen von jigyptischen Mumien-material, nebst 

 Betrachtungen iiber das Einbalsamierungsverfahren der 

 alter Agypter, W. A. Schmidt, Prof. W. D. Halliburton, 

 F.R.S., 465 



Elasticity, a Point in the Mathematical Theory of, H. M. 

 Martin, 198; Prof. E. Brown, 221 



Elberts (Dr. J.), the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Benga- 

 wan River in Java, 299 



Elder (Harrv M.), Tabulated Values of certain Integrals, 

 486 



Electricity : Steady Deflection Method of Current Measure- 

 ment with an Electrometer, Prof. J. A. Pollock, 24; 

 Simple Method of Generating an .Alternating Current 

 of any Desired Frequency, Dr. Rudenberg, 41 ; Condi- 

 tions which Influence the Production of Rapid Electrical 

 Oscillations by Means of the .Arc, L. W. .Austin, 41 ; 

 Chemical Changes occurring when Air is Submitted to 

 the Influence of Electricity, E. Warburg and G. 

 Leithauser, 41 ; the Wehnelt Kathode in a High \'acuum, 

 Frederick Soddy, 53, 197 ; Prof. O. W. Richardson, 

 197 ; Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus on Board French 

 Warships, 62 ; New Transatlantic Wireless Station at 

 Knockroe, the Poulsen System of Wireless Telegraphy 

 by L'ndamped Waves, 88 ; Magnetic Oscillators as 

 Radiators in Wireless Telegraphy, Dr. J. .A. Fleming, 

 71 ; the LIse of Variable Mutual Inductances, .A. Camp- 

 bell, 71 ; Electric Power and Traction, F. H. Davies, 74; 

 .Arrangement for Measuring the Resistance of Electro- 

 lytes without the Use of Electrodes, Prof. W. S. Franklin 

 and L. .A. Freudenberger, 89 ; a Text-book of Electrical^ 

 Engineering, Dr. .Adolf Thomalen, 124 ; the Elements 

 of Electrical Engineering, Profs. W. S. Franklin and 

 Wm. Esty, 124; Maxwell's Bridge Method of deter- 

 mining the Ratio of the Electromagnetic to the Electro- 

 static Unit of Electricity, E. B. Rosa and N. E. Dorsey, 

 136; Sulphur as an Insulator, Rev. F. J. Jervis-Smith, 

 F.R.S., 149 ; the Normal Weston Cadmium Cell. F. E. 

 Smith, 165; the Silver Voltameter, F. E. Smith, 165; 

 Chemistry of the Silver Voltameter, F. E. Smith and 

 Dr. T. M. Lowry, 165 ; Action of ah Incandescent 

 Electric Conductor on the Gases which surround it, M. 

 Couriot and Jean Meunier, 167 ; Electric Traction, Prof. 

 Ernest Wilson and Francis Lydall, Gisbert Kapp, 169 ; 

 the Photoelectric Property of Selenium, Prof. George 

 M. Minchin, F.R.S., 173! 222; Richard J. Moss, 198; 

 Dr. Shelford Bidwell, "F.R.S., 198: Old and New 

 Methods of Galvanising, Alfred Sang, 179 ; the Elec- 

 trical Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions, .Arthur A. 

 Noves, 213; Conductivity and Viscosity in Mixed 

 Solvents, Harry C. Jones, '2 13; Conditions of Maximum 

 Yield for Telephonic Apparatus, Henri Abraham and 

 M. Devaux-Charbonnel, 215;; Formation of Ozone by the 

 Action of the Silent Discharge at Low Temperatures, 

 E. Briner and E. Durand, 215; Variation of the Elec- 

 trical Resistance of Pure Met.als down to Very Low 

 Temperatures, Prof. H. Kamerlingh Onnes afid J. Clay, 

 233 ; Dvnamics of a Rigid Electron, Prof. .A. W. Con- 

 way, 230"; the Electrolvtic Reduction of Indigo. Henri 

 Chaumiit, 230 ; Use of Flames as Valves for .Alternating 

 High-tension Currents, Andr^ Cathiard, 263 : Investiga- 

 tion on the Clark and Weston Standard Cells, F. A. 

 Wolff and C. E. Waters, ;28o ; Inductance in Parallel 

 Wires Dr. J. W. Nicholson, 295; Electrical Phpnomcn;i 



