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Oltmanns (Dr. Friedrich), Morphologic unci Biologie der 

 Algen, s6i 



Onnes (Prof. H. Kameriingli), E.xperiments Made on tlie 

 Co-efficient of E.xpansion at Low Temperatures of Jena 

 and ThCiringen Glass, 594 



Oologia universalis palaearctica, Georg Kause, 79 



Oom (Frederico), -M^thodes de Calcul graphique, 265 



Opal Sea, the, John C. Van Dyke, 269 



Ophthalmology : the Photography of the Fundus Ociili. Dr. 

 J. Herbert Parsons, 104 ; Death of Prof. Hermann Cohn, 

 S2I. 545 



Oppel (Dr. -Albert), Lehrbuch der vergleichenden mikro- 

 skopischen .\natomie der Wirbelliere. Part vi, ."Atniungs- 

 apparat, 145 



Opsonins and Tuberculosis, 248 



Optics : Some Simple Questions on the Images of Micro- 

 scopes and Telescopes, W. B. Croft, 71 ; Small Plates of 

 Quartz Glass Suitable for Optical Apparatus, Arthur L. 

 Day and E. S. Shepherd, 87; Interference Effects Pro- 

 duced by a Grating Limiting a Thin Plate, Georges 

 Meslin, 95 ; Magneto-optic Rotation, F. E. Hackett, 142 ; 

 Entoptic Vision, Haidinger's Brushes and Other En- 

 toptic Phenomena, Dr. W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., 142 ; 

 Magnetic Collimator which Transforms a Binocular into 

 an Instrument for Taking Bearings, A. Berget, 143 ; 

 Colour Phenomena in Photometry, J. S. Dow, 166; 

 Copper Mirrors obtained by the Deposition of Metallic 

 Copper upon Glass, Dr. F. D. Chattaway. 204 ; Studies 

 in Luminescence, Law of Decay of the Phosphorescence 

 of Sidot Blende, E. L. Nichols and Ernest Merritt, 

 209 ; New Forms of .\slrographic Object Glasses, Emil 

 Schaer, 231 ; Skiodroms and Isogyres, Dr. J. W. Evans, 

 239 ; Sensibility of the Retina for Luminous Radiations, 

 Milan Stefanik, 264 ; Optical .Arrangement Generalising 

 the Use of the Telescope of i metre diameter at the 

 Observatory of Meudon, G. Millochau, 287; Two Modi- 

 fications of the Quartz Wedge, Daniel James Mahoney, 

 317; the "Optical Disc," Prof. Hartl, 338; the Fluores- 

 cence of .Anthracene Vapour, T. S. Elston, 385 ; Photo- 

 electric Properties of .Anthracene, A. Pochettino, 618 ; a 

 Modified Form of Solar Eyepiece, Prof. Ceraski, 4:53 ; 

 the Polarimeter, Two Appliances, J. R. Milne, 483 ; 

 Physical Optics, R. W. Wood, 509 ; Optical Illusions on 

 Electric Fan, T. Terada. 540; Colour Illusions, B.J.P.R., 

 586; Optical Illusions, Douglas Carnegie, 610; the Con- 

 traction of the Colour Zones in Hysteria and in Neuras- 

 thenia, Dr. J. W. Baird, 574 ; Gesainmelte Abhand- 

 lungen, E. .Abbe, 582 : a New Hypothesis Connecting the 

 Fluorescence of Organic Substances with their Chemical 

 Constitution, Prof. Luigi Francesconi and G. Bargellini, 

 618 



Orbits : the Orbit of Castor, Dr. H. D. Curtis, 282 ; Die 

 Bahnbestimmung der Himmelskorper, Julius Bauschinger, 

 345 ; Die Gauss-Gibbssche Methode der Bahnbestimmung 

 eines Himmelskorpers aus drei Beobachtungen, Prof. 

 Johannes Frischauf, 345 



Origin of Life, the. Its" Physical Bases and Definition. 

 John Butler Burke, i 



Origin of the Term " Metabatic," Robert E. Baynes, 56 



Origin of the Zodiacal Light, the. Maxwell Hall, '453 



Origins. Australian, Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., 296 



Orion. New Variable Stars in, Prof. Max Wolff, 42 



Orlich (Dr. Ernst), Aufnahme und .Analyse von Wechsel- 

 stromkurven, 268 



Oimerod (Dr. Ernest), Studies on Enzvme .Action, Lipase, 

 627 



Ornithology : Races of Domestic Poultry, Edward Brown, 

 AA'. B. tegetmeier, 13 ; the Birds of Tunisia, J. I. S. 

 Whitaker, O. V. .Aplin, 51 ; Defects in Ostrich Feathers 

 in South .Africa, Prof. J. E. Duerden, 55 ; Specimen of 

 Ross's Polar Gull from Neighbourhood of' Sardinia, Prof. 

 Giacinto Martorelli, 64 ; the Birds of the Isle of Man, 

 P. G. Ralfe, 105; an Ibis " Rookery" in A"ictoria, 109; 

 Distribution of the Forms of Corvuscornix and C. 

 Corone, J. .A. Harvie-Brown, 175, the Reviewer, 175 ; 

 the Olfactory Sense in .Aptervx, Prof. W. B. Benham, 

 222 ; Death of Sir Walter Lawry Buller, K.C.M.G.. 

 F.R.S., 302 ; Obituary Notice of, 354 ; the Rose-breasted 

 rirosboak and the Potato-beetle, 304 ; the Early Develop- 

 ment of the .Appendicular Skeleton of the Ostrich, with 



Remarks on the Origin of Birds, Dr. R. Broom, 376 ; 

 the Wholesale Destruction for Purposes of Millinery of 

 Certain Species of Birds, 384 ; Report on the Immigra- 

 tions of Summer Residents in the Spring of 1903, 470 ; 

 White- and Brown-shelled Eggs, 489 ; a Handbook of 

 British Inland Birds, Anthony Collett, 511 ; a Pocket- 

 book of British Birds, E. F. M. Elms, 511; the Birds 

 of the British Islands, Charles Stonham, 607 



Osborn (Prof. H. F.), the Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaur 

 Tyrannosaurus, 416 



Osborne (Prof. W. A. and Ethel E.), German Grammar for 

 Science Students, 380 



Oscillation of Flame Cones, the. Prof. .Arthur .Smithells, 

 F.R.S., 80 



Osier (Dr. William), the Growth of Truth, Harveian 

 Oration at the Royal College of Physicians, 642 



Osmosis and Osmotic Pressure, Prof. Louis Kahlenberg, 

 19 



Osmotic Pressure, Earl of Berkeley, 7, 54, 245 ; W. C. D. 

 Whetham, F.R.S., 54, 102, 295 ; E. G. J. Hartley, 54, 

 245 ; Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 79 ; Norman 

 R. Campbell, 79 ; Prof, Louis Kahlenberg, 222 



Ostasienfahrt, Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen eines Natur- 

 forschers in China, Japan, and Ceylon, Dr. Franz 

 DoHein, 510 



Ostrich Feathers, Defects in, in South Africa, Prof. J. E, 

 Duerden, 55 



Ostwald (W.j, Conversations on Chemistry, 173 



Outlook to Nature, the, L. H. Bailey, 315 



Ouvrard (L.), the Borostannates of the Alkaline Earths, 

 the Reproduction of Nordenskioldine, 436 



Owen (Rev. E. C), on the Examination and Inspection 

 of Schools, 503 



Oxford and the Colswolds, Highways and Byways in, 

 Herbert A. Evans. 124 



Oxford University Observatory, the. Prof. Turner, 645 



Oxidation of Atmospheric Nitrogen in the Electric Arc, 

 the. Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin, 444 



Padoa (M.), the Blue Substance formed by the Action of 

 Iodine on Starch Paste, 473-4 



Palasobotany : Status of the Mesozoic Floras of the United 

 States, Lester F. Ward, William M. Fontaine, .Arthur 

 Bibbins, and G. R. Wieland, A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 81; 

 Structure of some Carboniferous Ferns, Dr. D. H. Scott, 

 F.R.S., 261 ; Plant Remains in the Scottish Peat Mosses, 

 Francis J. Lewis, 263 ; New Fern from the Coal- 

 Measures, M. C. Stopes, 386 



Palsoichthyology : a Carboniferous Fish-Fauna from the 

 Mansfield District, Victoria, Dr. .A, Smith Woodward, 

 336 ; Flying Fish in the Triassic, O, Abel. 530 ; the 

 Study of Fossil Fishes, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., 

 at Geologists' Association, 597 



Paleontology : Graptolites from Bolivia, Dr. Ethel M. R. 

 Wood, 71 ; First Recorded Occurrence of Blastoidea in 

 New South Wales, T. G. Taylor, 95 ; Phylogeny of Gas- 

 tropod of the Eocene Genus Volutilithes, Dr. R. Smith, 

 156; Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin of the United 

 States Museum, Fossil Invertebrates, Charles Schuchert, 

 W. H. Dall, T. W. Stanton, and R. S. Bassler, 163 ; a 

 Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the 

 Fayum, Egypt, based on the Collection of the Egyptian 

 Government in the Geological Museum, Cairo, and on 

 the Collection in the British Museum (Natural History) 

 London, Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S.. 175; Seal-Skull 

 from Miocene of the Oregon Coast, T. Condon, 208; 

 Man and the Glacial Period, Prof. SoUas, F.R.S., at 

 Royal Institution, 372 ; Some Recent Palaeontological 

 Papers, 530; a Cetacean Palaeophocarna andrussoviirom 

 the Middle Miocene of the Taman Peninsula, O. Abel, 

 .1^30 ; the Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaur Tyrannosaurus, 

 Prof. H. F. Osborn, 416 ; the Alleged Triassic Foramini- 

 fera of Chellaston, near Derbv, Prof. GrenviUe A. J. 

 Cole, 489 



Palmer (B. J.), Radium and Geologv, 585 



Pape (Dr. K."),' Death of, 108 



Papius (Karl Frhr. von). Das Radium und die radio- 

 activen, 125 



Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71,95, 119, 143. 167, 191, 



