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Index 



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Dreyer (Dr. J. L. E.), History of the Planetary System 

 from Thales to Kepler, 49 ; the Date of Easter, 199 



Druie (G. Claridge), Suspended Germination of Seeds, 586 



Drude (Prof.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 277 



Drugman (J.), O.xidation of Hydrocarbons by Ozone at 

 Low Temperatures, 190 



du Jassoneix (Binet), .Magnetic Properties of the Com- 

 pounds of Boron and Manganese, 216; the Reduction of 

 Molybdenum Dioxide by Boron and the Combination of 

 Boron with Molybdenum, 344 



Dublin, Royal Irish .Academy, 166, 374 



Dublin Royal .Society, 142, '166; 311 



Duboin (.A.), Ilii' lodomercurates of Sodium .uid Harium. 



Duckworlh (Dr. W. L. H.), on a Rare .Anomaly in Human 

 Crania from Kwaiawata Island, 458 



Duddell (W.), Mechanical and Electrical Phenomena occur- 

 ring in the Telephonic Transmission of Speech, tio 



Duerdcn (J. E.), Defects in Ostrich Feathers in South 

 .Africa, 55 



Duffield (W. G.), on Photograph.s of the .Arc Spectrum of 

 Iron under High Pressures, 4^1; 



Dunell (G. R.), Speed and StabiHtv in Railway Travelling, 

 636 



Dunn (.S. T.), .Alien Flora of Britain, 170 



Dunstan (Prof. Wyndham, F.R.S.), Cyanogenetic Plants, 

 61 ; a Variety of Thorianite from Galle, Ceylon, igo ; 

 Opening Address in Section B at the Meeting of the 

 British .Association at A'ork, some Imperial .Aspects of 

 .\pplied Chemistry, 3bi ; on the Production of Hydrogen 

 Cyanide in Plants, 325 



Durham Diplera, a Preliminary List of, with .Analytical 

 Tables, Rev. W. J. W'ingate, 512 



Dussaud (M.), Amplification of Sounds, 580 



Dutton (Major C. E.), Possible Relationship between 

 A'olcanic Action and Radio-activity, 1S4 



Dwight (Prof. \V. B.), Death of, 470 



Dyke (John C. A'ani, the Opal Sea, 269 



Dynamics : the Mixed Transformation of Lagrange's 

 Equations, Prof. T. Levi-Civita, 488: A. B. Basset, 

 F.R.S., 489, 540; Dr. E. J. Roulh, F.R.S., 516; the 

 Dynamics of Living Matter, Prof. Jacques Loeb, 631 



Dynamite Explosions at Vinterarken, near .Stockholm, 62 



Dyson (F. W., F.R.S.), New Reduction of Groombridge's 

 Circumpolar Catalogue for the Epoch 1810-0, 90 



Erde), Prof. 



D. 



; the 

 .See, 

 Re- 



Earp (Rowland .A.), Solar and Lunar Halos, 



Earth, the Face of the, (Das .Antlitz dei 

 Eduard Suess, 629 



Earth History, Geology, Thomas C. Chamberlin and Rollin 

 D. Salisbury, 557 



Earth-eating and the Earth-eating Habit in India. 

 Hooper and II. H. Mann, 543 



Earth's Interior, the. Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 412 



Earthquakes : Earthquake Shocks in California, 14 ; 

 San Francisco Earthquake of .April 18, Dr. T. J. J. 

 30; the Californian Earthquake of .April 18, 178 

 port upon, 285 : Possible Connection between the Recent 

 Disturbances at Vesuvius and San Francisco, Rev. H. V. 

 Gill, 166; Earthquakes in Chile, 37, 522; in Calabria, 

 ii^5; the Earthquake in South Wales, 206: Dr. Charles 

 Davison, 225: Earthquake in Perthshire, 2^1; in 

 Semirechensk, Central .Asia, 382 ; in India. 382 ; the 

 Earthquake in South .America, 412, 471 ; Earthquakes 

 at Valparaiso and Santiago. 449 ; in New South Wales. 

 449 ; at Matlock, 449 : in Norway, 471 ; Earthquakes at 

 Sicily, 522, 544: at Transcaucasia, 522; in Peru, 544; 

 Earthquakes at Puertorico, 1^71 ; at St. Thomas. 571 ; 

 Horizontal Pendulums and Earthauake Echres, Dr. C. 

 Coleridge Farr, 515; Prof. John Milne. F.R.S., ^\^ 



East, the Vanishing, .Archibald R. Colquhoun, Supp. to 

 May 3, vii 



Easter, the Date of, Alexander D. Ross, 175; ; Chas. Leigh, 

 17s : Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer, 199 ; Rev. C. S. Taylor, 200 



Ebell (M.), Comet 19061-, 64 ; Comet 1906ft, 64, 

 Comet 1906? (Kopff), 474, 409, 575 



Ebert (H.), Magnetische Kraftfelder, 5S3 



Ebert (W.), Study of an .Apparatus designed by M. 

 niann for the Photographic Measurement of 

 .Ascensions, 343-4 



158; 



Lipp- 

 Right 



Ebrill (E.), .Action of Emulsine on 3-Glycosides, 374 



Eccles (Dr. \V. H.), Effect of Oscillations on Iron In a 

 Magnetic Field, 262 



Eclipses: Ancient Eclipses, P. H. Cowell, 11; the Total 

 Solar Eclipse of January, 1908, Dr. Downing, j8 ; the 

 Total Solar Eclipse of January, 1907, W. T. Lynn, 548 ; 

 Italian Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse, 1905,. 

 Prof. Ricco, 418; Photographing the Corona without "a 

 Total Eclipse, MIVI. Millochau and Stefanik, 112, 158 



Economic Zoology, Fred. \'. Theobald, 293 



Economics, Agricultural, an Introduction to the Study of,. 

 Henry C. Taylor, 193 



Edinburgh : Edinburgh Royal Society, 94, 191, 215, 263,. 

 37S, 483 ; the Tarpan and its Relationship with Wild 

 and Domestic Horses, Prof. J. C. Ewart, F.R.S., at, 113 ; 

 the Meteorology of the Free .Atmosphere, L. Tcisserenc 

 de Bort at, 255 ; the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the 

 National Galleries of Scotland Bill, 137 ; the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh and the Government, 150; Modern 

 Needs in L'niversities, Dr. Andrew Carnegie at the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, 648 



Edington (Dr. Alex.), Recent Epidemic of Trypanosomiasis, 

 in .Mauritius, 375 



Edmunds (Arthur), Regeneration of Nerves, 579 



Education • the Education and Training of the Engineer, 

 33 ; Visit of Representatives of University Education in, 

 France, 83, 159 ; the Launching of a University, and' 

 other Papers, Dr. J. D. C. Gilman, 123; the New Build- 

 ings of .Armstrong College, Nevvcastle-on-Tyne, 232 ; 

 School Gardening for Little Children, Lucy R. Latter, 

 411; Death and Obituary Notice of Monsignor Molloy, 

 371 ; the Place of the Modern L'niversity in the State, 

 589 ; Proposed Changes In the Mathematical Tripos at 

 Cambridge, 641 ; Modern Needs in Universities, Dr. 

 Andrew Carnegie at the University of Edinburgh, 648; 

 sec also British Association 



Edwards (C. L.), Phases of the Gastrulalion of the Horned 

 Toad, 592 



Edwards (Major W. E.), on Modern .Armour and its 

 Attack, 500 



Eggar (W. D.), a Manual of Geometry, 124 



Eggs, White- and Brown-shelled, 489 



Egypt : 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; 

 the Source of the Blue Nile, a Record of a Journey 

 through the Sudan to Tsana in Western .Abyssinia, and 

 of the Return to Egypt by the Valley of the .Atbara, 

 with a Note on the Religion, Customs, S:c., of .Abyssinia, 

 .Arthur J. Haves, Entomological .Appendix bv Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R'.S., Sir H. H. Johnston. K.C.M.G.. 247; 

 the Physiography of the River Nile and Its Basin, 

 Captain H. G. Lvons, 461 ; Agriculture in Egypt, 

 649 



Egyptology : the Egyptian Heaven and Hell, E. .A. Wallis 

 Budge, 10 



Ehlers (Herrn Geheimen Regierungsrat Prof. Ernst), Fest- 

 schrift zur Feier seines siebzigsten Geburtstages am 

 ir Nov. 1903, Dr. F. W. Gamble, 50 



Eichorn (Dr. Gustav), Wireless Telegraphy, 200 



Eigenmann (Prof. Carl), Zoological Distribution of Fresh- 

 water Fishes of South and Central America, 183 



Eknian (V. Walfrid), the Norwegian North Polar Expedi- 

 tion, 1893-6, vol. v., on Dead-water, 485 



Elasticity, a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of, 

 A. E. H. Love, 74 



Electricity : Osmotic Pressure. Earl of Berkeley, 7. ^4, 

 245; E: J. Hartley, 54. 245; W. C. D. Whethani. F.R.S., 

 !;4, 102, 295 ; Prof. Henry E. .Armstrong, F.R.S.. 79 ; 

 Norman B. Campbell, 79 : Prof. L. Kahlenberg. 222 ; 

 Electrical Measuring Machine, Dr. P. E. Shaw, 22 : 

 Cleaning of Work by Means of the Electric Current, 

 H. S. Coleman, 2-; : Method of Exploding Mines by 

 Means of Acoustic Waves, 40 ; Standard Test for Trans- 

 formers and Transformer Iron. Dr. D. K. Morris and 

 G. A. Lister, 64 ; a Galvanoriieter with a Movable Needle 

 for .Alternating Currents, Henri .Abraham, 72 : Dead 

 Points of a Galvanometer Needle for Transient Currents, 

 .A. Russell. 01 ; Measurement of the Earth .\ir Current 



