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Index 



Stars : Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, IVIiss 

 Leavitt, 66 ; Observations and Light-curves of Several 

 Variable Stars, Dr. L. Terkdn, 66; Twelve Stars with 

 Variable Radial Velocities, Prof. Wright and Dr. Palmer, 

 89 ; a Remarkable Variable Star, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 

 110; Variable Stars in the Clusters .Messier 3 and 5, 

 Prof. Bailey, 183 ; Periods of the Variable Stars 

 S Sagittee and Y Ophiuchi, M. Luizet, 330 ; Catalogue 

 of New Double Stars, Prof. Hussev, qo"; Double Star 

 Observations, J. A. Miller and Prof. W. .A. Cogshall, 135 ; 

 a Lost Double Star, Prof. Doolittle, 567: Radial Veloci- 

 ties of Thirty-one Stars, Prof. Lord, 110; Magnitudes 

 of Nova Persei and Nova Geminorum, Prof. .\. .A. 

 Nijland, no; Stars with Spectra of the Orion Type, 

 Prof. Pickering, 135 ; a Probable Nova in Ophiuchus 

 Mr. Fleming, 15S; Miss Cannon, 158; Prof. Pickering, 

 158; Stars with Peculiar Spectra, .Mrs. Fleming, 1S3 ' 

 Prof. Pickering, 183 ; Recent Positions of Eros, Mr.' 

 -Vlanson, 207 ; Declinations of Certain North Polar Stars 

 Dr. .Auwers, 388; Harriet Bigelow, 38S ; Discovery of 

 a Nova, .Mrs. Fleming, 465 ; Prof. Pickering, 46:; ; Nova 

 Aquils No. 2, Prof. Ma.x Wolf, 494, 611; "Dr P 

 Guthmck, 494, 611; Prof. Hartwig, 518; Mrs. Fleming 

 i'^^Lj'™'- Pi'^'^ering, 640; Our Stellar Universe, a 

 Koad-book to the Stars, Thomas Edward Heath 53 1 • 

 Our Stellar Universe (Six Stereograms of Sun and Stars)' 

 Ihomas E. Heath, 531; Visibility of Faint Stars at the 

 Lowel Observatory, Mr. Lampland, 592; Mr. Lowell 

 592 ; the Orbit of f Tauri, Profs. Frost and Adams =02 ' 

 .'itar with a Large Proper Motion, Miss Leavitt 640 ' 



State and .Agriculture in Hungary, the. Dr. ' I«natius 

 Uaranyi, 291 ' ^ 



State, the Citizen and the, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 



State and Higher Education, the 38 



State, Science and the, R. B. Haldane, 184 



Statics: an Introduction to Elementary Statics (Treated 



Graphically) R Netlell, ,26; Origin of the Principles 



of Virtual Displacements, P. Duhem s76 

 Statistics : Decline of Birth-rate 422 

 Stead (J. E., F.R.S.). Overheated Steel S7S 



?r' '.^ T"'^"'''' Researches on the" Flow of Steam 



thiough Nozzles and Orifices, A. Rateau, loi • Deter- 



Thrnfr„ i ' ^r'^'t ""^f °f Superheated Steam by 

 Ihrottl.ng, &-C., A. H. Peake, 1,6; Efliciencv of the 

 ■Steani Jacket, Mr. Mellanby, 21,; V. Pendred 2.3 

 2,,-.S?^°"'T'3i Henry Davey, 2,3; Mark Robinson; 

 nV ' ?'''=^"\\"'-b'nes, with an Appendix on Gas Turbines 

 Ur. A. Stodola, 219; Bau der Dampfturbinen, Prof A 

 -Musil, 2,9; History of the Steam-engine, 42, 

 Bur';;! '^-^ ''■'• '''' •• Be^-hole •• ^Borer' of Teak in 



Steel Institute, Iron and ^^2 



Stefanini (A.), van 't Hoflf'-s" Hypothesis of Osmotic Pressure 

 ot .'lolutions. ^41 ^- uic 



Stefanowska (MMc. .AL), Growth in Weight of a Chicken, 



Stellar ; see Stars 



^'"'Se^'^-.S ^T'l Observations of the Total Solar 

 ixp?ditio^s'k3r"''''^^ •''^^""^ °^ ""^ '--^-^ Eclipse 



Stephens (Dr. J." \y W.), a Monograph of the Anopheles 

 Mosquitoes of India, S. P. James and Dr. W. G. L^ston! 



Sterilisa^kin^ of_ \yater in the Field, Prof. R. T. Hewlett. 



^<^Zl '"/V^-1' 'EJ^mentary Practical Mathematics, 39. 

 Stevens (Catharine O.), the Problem of "Shadow-bands," 



^li'uM, 'S', ^- ''■'^■^^■'' "'^^'°'">^ °f ^' ^\'hif<^ Rhinoceros 



^'Sricif;,- .7- '''""^^'^)' S^-"'' Stage Magnetism and 



sEiH;'i?'m°'''";??.?,°"'^^"'^'= d'Hermite et de, 313 



. R^-^^l'ln t" T^' ^JT'^'-i in Livink Beings, Lecture 

 Cf L A '"stitution of Great Britain -T^s 



Str'^tia;':,:'^'"" "^ ^''^^'' ^'""--"^ '" Coal-measure 

 ^'t^-&r£\ft^ ^"^'^"'-' "'"^ - Appendix on 



Stokes (the late Sir George^, Scientific Correspondence of. 

 Prof. J. Larmor, F.R.S., 29 



Stokes (the late Sir George Gabriel, Bart.), Mathematical 

 and Physical Papers by, 555 



Stokes (J. A.), .Action of Magnesium Methyl Iodide on 

 Pinenenitrosochloride, 166 



Stone -Age, the Evolution of Engraving In the, Ed. Piette, 

 Si 



Stone Gardens, Rose Haig Thomas, 629 



Stonehenge, Notes on, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., 32, 246, 270 



Stoney (Dr. G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), Proposed Observation 

 of Mercury during the Solar Eclipse, 244 ; a Remark- 

 able .Meteor, 279 



Strachan (R.), Measurement of Evaporation, 141 



Strasburger (Eduard), Streifziige an der Riviera, 171 



Strelfziige an der Riviera, Eduard Strasburger, Prof. 

 G. H. Bryan, F.R.S. , 171 



Strength of Threads, the Effect of Radium on the, Hilda 

 P. Martin and Prof. W. B. Morton, 365 



Strokes of the Brush In a Picture, Number of, 19S 



Stromeyer (C. E.), Geodetic Measurements from Solar 

 Eclipses, 230 



Strbmgren (Dr.), Comet 1905 II (19046), 43 



Strong (Dr.), Virulence of Micro-organisms and their 

 Immunising Powers, 108 



Structural and Field Geologv, Dr. Jas. Geikie, 223 



Strutt (Hon. R. J., F.R.S'.), the Radio-active Minerals, 

 190; the Rate of Formation of Radium, 365 



Struve (Prof. Otto von). Death of, 38 ; Obituary Notice of 

 61 



Submarine Boats, Causes of .Accidents to, Captain R. H. 

 Bacon, 306 



Submarine Navigation, Sir William H. White, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 209 



Suess (Eduard), Scientific Worthies, Sir .Arch. Geikie 

 F.R.S., I 



Suess (Prof. Eduard), the Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz 

 der Erde), 193 



Sun : the Electrical Charge of the Sun, Prof. Svante 

 .Arrhenius, 43 ; Memoria sobre el Eclipse Total de Sol 

 del dia 30 de .Agosto de 1905, D. Antonio Tarazona, 

 77; Observations of Prominences on the Sun's Limb, 

 Prof. Mascari, 158; the Figure of the Sun, C. Lane 

 Poor, 567 ; Vegetation and the Sun-spot Period, Camille 

 Flammarion, 303 ; Sun-spot Spectra, W. M. Mitchell, 

 330 ; Another Large Sun-spot, 610 ; the Recent Large 

 Sun-spot, 639 ; sec also Astronomy 



Surgery : the Surgery of the Diseases of the Appendix 

 Vermiformis and their Complications, W. H. Battle and 

 E. M. Corner, 122 ; the Treatment of Bone Fractures by 

 Movement, J. Lucas-Championni^re, 288 ; Ascending 

 Currents in Mucous Canals and Gland Ducts, C. J. 

 Bond, 331; Death of Christopher Heath, 347; Methods 

 of the Japanese Naval Medical Service, Surgeon-General 

 Suzuki, 3S9 



Survey of India, the, 120 



Surveying : Tangent-micrometer for Theodolites, Endless- 

 tangent Screw for Sextants, E. .A. Reeves, 91 



Suzuki (Surgeon-General), Methods of the Japanese Naval 

 Medical Service, 589 



Switch-gear Systems of Electric Transmission, Electricity 

 Control, a Treatise on, Leonard Andrews, Maurice 

 Solomon, 99 



Synthetic Dyestuffs and the Intermediate Products from 

 which they are derived, the, J. C. Cain and J. F. 

 Thorpe, Walter M. Gardner, Supp. to October 19, vli 



Tait (W'. A.), Rainfall of the Drainage Area of the Talla 



Reservoir, 143 

 Talbot (B.), Segregation in Steel Ingots, 573 

 Tammes (Miss T.), Amount of Variation Obtained In 



Cultivating a Five-rayed Form of TrifoUiim pratciise, 



205 

 Tanakadate (Prof. A.), a Magnetic Survey of Japan 



580 

 Tannery (Jules), Introduction a la Thtorle des Fonctions 



d'une Variable, 313 

 Tanret (George). Gentline, 336 



