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Index 



Electron, Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S., 429; Electrons and 

 Matter, Prof. C. H. Wind, 574; the Elastic Properties 

 of Steel at High Temperatures, Prof. B. Hopkinson and 

 F. Rogers, 480; Death and Obituary Notice of H. R. 

 Xoble, 491 ; an Electric Micrometer, Dr. P. E. Shaw at 

 Royal Society, 495 ; I'Evolution de la Mati^re, Dr. 

 Gustave Le Bon, 505 ; Physical Changes in Iron and 

 Steel, Dr. J. W. Mellor, A. McWilliam, 532 ; Helmert's 

 Formula for Gras-ity, Ottavio Zanotti Bianco, 534 ; Van 't 

 Hoff's Hypothesis of Osmotic Pressure of Solutions, 

 Prof. A. Battelli and .\. Stefanini, 541 ; Device for Illus- 

 trating the Superposition of Simple Harmonic Motions 

 of Different Periods, W. C. Baker, 541 ; Mathematical 

 and Physical Papers by the late Sir George Gabriel 

 Stokes, Bart., 555; Physical Chemistry, Prof. Walther 

 Nernst, 555 ; the Physics and Chemistry of Mining, 

 T. H. Byrom, 557; Messrs. Michelson and Morley's Ex- 

 periments on Ether, Prof. Fitzgerald and Prof. Lorentz, 

 566 ; E. W. Morley and D. C. Miller, 566 ; a Polarisa- 

 tion Pattern, T. Terada, 581 ; Physical Laboratories in 

 Germany, Prof. G. W. Kiichler's Report to Director- 

 General of Education in India, 605 ; International Con- 

 gress on Radiology and lonisation, 611; Handbuch der 

 .Spectroscopie, Prof. H. Kayser, 627 ; Death of Prof. 

 DeWitt Bristol Brace, 636 

 Physiology : Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic 

 Sluscles, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., 22, 189; a 

 Text-book of Physiological Chemistry, Charles E. Simon, 

 29 ; the Physiology of the Pancreas, H. G. Chapman, 47 ; 

 on the Spontaneous Action of Radio-active Bodies on 

 Gelatin Bodies, John Butler Burke, 78 ; Cellular Con- 

 stituents Peculiar to Cancerous and Reproductive 

 Tissues, Prof. J. B. Farmer, F.R.S., J. E. S. 

 Moore, and C. E. Walker, 92 ; Resemblances between 

 " Plimmer's Bodies " of Malignant Growths and Certain 

 Normal Constituents of Reproductive Cells of Animals, 

 Prof. J. Bretland Farmer, F.R.S., J. E. S. Moore, and 

 C. E. Walker, 164; the Simplest Kind of Protoplasm, 

 Dr. Charlton Bastian, F.R.S., 92 ; Researches on Animal 

 Lactase, Ch. Porcher, 119; Weather Influences, an 

 Empirical Study of the Mental and Physiological Effects 

 of Definite Meteorological Conditions, Dr. E. G. Dexter, 

 147: New Form of Bolometer for Physiological Investi- 

 gations, Dr. \\'. Colquhoun, 167 ; Protagon and the 

 Cerebrines, and the Cerebric Acid Preexisting in the 

 Nervous Tissue, N. A. Barbieri, 168; the Spinthariscope 

 and Retinal E.xcitability, Prof. Francis Gotch, F.R.S., 

 174; Researches on Ovulation, A. Sedgwick, F.R.S., 176; 

 Ovulation and Degeneration of Ova in the Rabbit, Walter 

 Heape, 188 ; Nature of the Silver Reaction in Animal and 

 \'egetable Tissues, Prof. A. B. Macallum, 188 ; Structure 

 and Function of Nerve Fibres, Prof. J. S. Macdonald, 189 ; 

 Distribution of the Nerve Cells in the Intermedio-lateral 

 'j'ract of the Dorso-lumbar Region of the Human Spinal 

 Cord, Dr. \. Bruce, 191 ; Action of Radium Bromide 

 on the Electromotive Phenomena of the Eyeball of the 

 Frog, Prof. McKendrick and Dr. W. Colquhoun, 287 ; 

 Estimation of the Red Corpuscles in Human Blood 

 made at the Summit of Mont Blanc, Raoul Bayeux, 

 288 ; Distribution of Sugary Substances in Blood between 

 the Plasma and the Corpuscles, R. Lupine and M. 

 Boulud, 311 ; .'\scending Currents in Mucous Canals and 

 Gland Ducts, C. J. Bond, 331 ; Growth in Weight of the 

 Chicken, Mile. M. Stefanowska, 336; Intra-organic 

 Combustions measured by the Respiratory Exchanges as 

 affected by Residence at an ."Mtitude of 4350 Metres, 

 G. Kuss, 336 ; Breathing in Living Beings, Dr. William 

 Stirling at Royal Institution of Great Britain, 333 ; 

 Contributions to the Physiology of Mammalian Repro- 

 duction, part i., the Oistrous Cycle in the Dog, part ii., 

 the Ovary as an Organ of Internal Secretion, F. H. .\. 

 Marshall and W. \. Jolly, 358 ; the Cerebellum, its 

 Relation to Spatial Orientation and Locomotion, Boyle 

 Lecture at Oxford, Sir \'ictor Horsley, F.R.S., 380; 

 Toxic Extract from the Cerebral Substance, \. Marie, 

 424 ; Physiological Effects of Rarefaction on the Respira- 

 tion of the Orang-utan, Prof. Angelo Mosso, 436 ; Physio- 

 logical Activity of Substances Indirectly Related to 

 Adrenalin, H. D. Dakin, 531 ; Synthesis of a Substance 

 .Mlied to .Adrenalin, H. D. Dakin, 575 ; Inquiry into the 

 Nature of the Substance in Serum which Influences 



Phagocytosis, Dr. George Dean, 551 ; the Phagocytosis 

 of Red' Blood-cells, Dr. J. O. Wakelin Barratt, 600; 

 Study of the Blood in the Case of a " Bleeder," P. Emile 

 Weil, 624; Guide to Finger-print Identification, Henry 

 Faulds, Supp. to October 19, iv ; MiScanisme et Education 

 des Mouvements, Prof. Georges Demeny, Supp. to 

 October 19, v ; Physiologie des Menschen, Dr. Luigi 

 Luciani, Dr. J. A. Milroy, Supp. to October 19, x; 

 Plant Physiology : Investigations on Intumescences, with 

 Observations on Nuclear Division in Pathological 

 Tissues, Elizabeth Dale, 22 ; die Lichtsinnesorgane der 

 Laubblatter, Dr. G. Haberlandt, 323 ; Beitrage zur 

 physiologischen Anatomie der Pilzgallen, Hermann Ritter 

 von Guttenberg, E. R. Burdon, 339 



Physique, Education and, Prof. Georges Demeny, Supp. to 

 October 19, v 



Phytochemicus, Index, Drs. J. C. Ritsema and J. Sack, 

 603 



Picard (Emile), sur le D^veloppement de I'Analyse et ses 

 Rapports avec diverses Sciences, 313 



Pickering (Prof. E. C), the Bruce Telescope Reference 

 Photographs, 89; a Remarkable Variable Star, no; 

 Stars with Spectra of the Orion Type, 135 ; a Probable 

 Nova in Ophiuchus, 158 ; Stars with Peculiar Spectra, 

 183 ; Harvard College Observatory Annual Report, 256 ; 

 Discovery of a Nova, 465 ; Nova AquiliE No. 2, 640 



Pickering (Spencer, F.R.S.), British Fruit Growing, 396 



Pickering (Prof. W. H.), Discovery of a Tenth Satellite 

 to Saturn, 19 ; the Formation of the Martian Snow-caps, 



25s 



Pickles (S. S.), Preparation of Terpenes and Related Sub- 

 stances, 23 



Pictet (.Arnold), Influence de I'Alimentation et de I'Humidit^ 

 sur la A'ariation des Papillons, 632 



Pictorial Composition, 54 



Picture, Number of Strokes of the Brush in a, 198 



Piette (Ed.), the Evolution of Engraving in the Stone Age, 

 81 



Pike (Colonel N.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 38 



Pilzgallen, Beitrage zur physiologischen Anatomie der, 

 Hermann Ritter von Guttenberg, E. R. Burdon, 339 



" Pinatype," the Three-colour Process, 537 



Pintza (Alexandre), Densities of Carbonic Anhydride, 

 Ammonia, and Nitrous Oxide, 264 



Pizzetti (Paolo), Trattato di Geodesia Teoretica, 242 



Plague, a Treatise on. Dr. W. J. Simpson, Dr. E. Klein, 

 F.R.S. , 529 



Planets : Discovery of a Tenth Satellite to Saturn, Prof. 

 W. H. Pickering, 19; Discovery of Saturn's Tenth 

 Satellite, 135 ; Observations of the Satellites of Saturn 

 and Uranus, Messrs. Frederick and Hammond, 230 ; the 

 Rings of Saturn, MM. Amann and Rozet, 388 ; Light- 

 Variation of Saturn's Satellites, Dr. P. Guthnick, 611 ; 

 Variability of Minor Planet (15) Eunomia, Prof. 

 Wendell, 43 ; Observations of Jupiter, MM. Flammarion 

 and Benoit, 43 ; a Suspected Sudden Change on Jupiter, 

 Major Molesworth, 207* Observations of Jupiter's Great 

 Red Spot, Stanley Williams, 330 ; Eye-estimates of the 

 Transits of Jupiter's Spots, Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, 51S; 

 Brightness of Jupiter's Satellites, Prof. Wendell, 66; 

 Provisional Elements for Jupiter's Sixth Satellite, Mr. 

 Crommelin, 66; Jupiter's Sixth and Seventh Satellites, 

 Prof. Perrine, 133 ; Dr. Albrecht, 352 ; Dr. Frank E. 

 Ross, 352 ; Observations of Jupiter's Seventh Satellite, 

 Prof. -Albrecht, 424 ; Observations of Jupiter's Satellites, 

 Profs. A. A. Nijland and J. van d. Bil«, 567; a Projec- 

 tion on Mars, Mr. Lowell, 279; Double "Canals" on 

 Mars in 1903, Mr. Lowell, 89 ; Photographic Reality of 

 the Martian Canals, Mr. Lowell, 135 ; Photographs of 

 the Martian Canals, Mr. Lampland, 302 ; Mr. Lowell, 

 302 ; the Formation of the Martian Snow-caps, Prof. 

 W. H. Pickering, 255 ; the North Polar Snow-cap on 

 Mars, 1904-3, Messrs. Lowell and Lampland, 303 ; the 

 Formation of the New North Polar Cap on Mars, Mr. 

 Lowell, 352; the Planet Mars, Mr. Wesley, 388; Mr. 

 Denning, 38S ; Major Molesworth, 388 ; Water Vapour 

 in Ihe Martian .Atmosphere, Mr. Lowell, 465; Mr. 

 Sliplicr, 4(15 : Faintness of Planetary Nebulae, J. E. Gore, 

 43 ; Telescopic Work for Observers of Planets, W. F. 

 Denning, 208 ; Proposed Observation of Mercurv during 

 the Solar Eclipse, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 244; 



