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Index 



xlvii 



Routh (Dr. Edward John, F.R.S.), Death of, 157 ; Obituary 



Notice of, 200 

 Rowell (H. W.J, Apparatus for the Estimation of Carbonic 



Acid, 95 

 Roy (Paul), Action of Magnesium Amalgam on the 



Aldehydes, 120 

 Royal Anthropological Institute, 22, 263 

 Royal Astronomical Society, 215 



Royal Dublin Society, 71, 263, 312; the Irish Peat Indus- 

 tries, Dr. Hugh Ryan, 528 

 Royal Geographical Society, North Polar Problems, Dr. 



Fridtjof Nansen, G.C.V.O., at the, 18 

 Royal Horticultural Society's New Laboratory Buildings 



at Wisley, Surrey, 297 

 Royal Institution, Incandescent lUuminants, J. Swinburne, 

 F.R.S., at the, 92 ; Recent Contributions to Electric 

 Wave Telegraphy, Prof. J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., 259; 

 Scientific Work in the Sea-fisheries, Prof. W. C.' 

 Mcintosh, F.R.S., at the, 301 ; Synthetical Chemistry in 

 its Relation to Biology, Faraday Lecture at the Chemical 

 Society at, Prof. Emi! Fischer, 651 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 22, 142, 263 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 94, 166, 263 ; the Flowering 

 Plants of the Mesozoic Age in the Light of Recent Dis- 

 coveries, Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., at, 113 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 163 



Royal Society, 21, 46, 70, 93, 117, 141, 165, 190, 212, 

 236, 261, 310, 342, 406, 487, S". 583, 606, 631; Royai 

 Society Conversazione, 57, 210; the Gravitational 

 Stability of the Earth, A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., at, 223 ; 

 the Hard and Soft States in Ductile Metals G. T. 

 Beilby, F.R.S., 572 

 Royal Society of Canada, the, 281 

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, 238, 311, 407 

 Royal Society, New South Wales, 312, 512; Presidential 



Address at. Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, 312 ! 



Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, 28S 

 Royal Visit to the University College of North Wales, the 



Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 282 

 Rudge (W. A. Douglas), Action of Radium and other Salts 



on Gelatin Culture Medium, 1^9 

 Ruhemann (S.), Methyl Dicarboxyaconitate, 287 | 



Runge (Prof.), the Total Solar Eclipse of August 30, 1905, 



89 

 Rural Education, Reform in, 129 

 Rusett (E. W. De), Uses of High-tensile Steel, 209 

 Ruskin (John), Modern Painters, 267 ; the Stones of Venice, 

 267 ; Unto this Last, and Other Essays on Art and 

 Political Economy, 267 

 Russ (Sidney), Effect of High Temperatures on Radium, 

 21 ; on the Transmission of the Active Deposit from 

 Radium Emanations to the Anode, 459 ; Effect of High 

 Temperatures on the .'\ctivity of the Products of Radium, 

 461 

 Russell (Edward J.), Root Action and Bacteria, 173, 222 

 Russell (H. N.), Venus as a Luminous Ring, 389 

 Russian Geographical Works, 42 

 Russian Scientific Works, 509 

 Rusting of Iron, Experiments on the, George A. Watson, 



469 

 Ruszky (M.), the Ants of Russia, 509 



Rutherford (Prof. E., F.R.S.), the Origin of Radium, 126, 

 66i ; on the Constitution of the Atom, 457 ; the Produc- 

 tion and Origin of Radium, 460; Effect of High Tem- 

 peratures on the Activity of the Products of Radium, 

 460 

 Ryan (Dr. Hugh), the Irish Peat Industries, 528 



Sabatier (Paul), Direct Hydrogenation of the Isocyanic 

 Esters, 23 ; the Direct Hydrogenation of Ally! Compounds, 

 47 ; the Direct Hydrogenation of the Fatty Isocyanides, 

 72 ; Reduction of Diketones by Hydrogen in Presence of 

 Reduced Nickel, 119; Direct Hydrogenation of the An- 

 hvdrides of Formenic Acids, 264 



Sadler (Prof. M. E.), Medical Inspection of School Chil- 

 dren, 505 ; the Scholarship System, 505 



Sagcret (Jules), the Genesis of Mathematics, 135 



Sainsbury (Dr. Harrington), Principia Therapeutica, 4 



St. Alban, Festival of, Rev. C. S. Taylor, 348: Rev. John 



Gritlith, 348 J . ot . J 



St. John (Charles), the Wild Sports and Natural History 



of the Highlands, 585 

 St. Patrick, the Life of, and his Place in History, Prof. 



J. B. Bury, Rev. John Griffith, 295 

 Salet (P.), Absence of Polarisation of the Prominences, 143 ; 



Non-Polarisation of the Light of Prominences, 185 

 Salmon (E. S.), American Gooseberry Mildew, 278 

 Salmon (Paul), Sodium Anilarsenite (Ato.xyl) in Syphilis, 



680 

 Sampson ( John ). Gypsy Language and Origin, 386 

 Sanborn (Frank B.), Mechanics' Problems for Engineer- 

 ing, SO 

 Sandberg (Dr. C), Geological Structure of South Africa, 

 187 ; the Folded Structure Underlying the Karroo Form- 

 ation, 423 

 Sandberg (C. P.), Chemical Composition of Steel Rails, 



20S 

 Sanderson (E.), Heroes of Pioneering, 635 

 Sanitation, Outlines of Practical, Dr. H. B. Bashore, 125 

 Sano (Shizuwo), Theory of Thermoelectricity, 257 

 Sarasin (Drs. F. and P.), the Discovery of Stone Imple- 

 ments of Palaeolithic Type in Veddah Caves, 82 

 Sargent (R. H.), Research in China, Descriptive Topo- 

 graphy and Geology, 345 

 Satellite, the White Spot on Jupiter's Third, Prof. Barnard, 



65 ; see Astronomy 

 Satterly (J.), Practical Physics, 50 

 Saturn, the Planet, W. F. Denning, 1S7 

 Saturn, the Spectrum of, V. M. Slipher, 162 

 Saturn's Satellite Titan and Shadow, Transits of, Her- 

 mann Struve, 258 

 Saunders (Howard), Death and Obituary Notice of, 642 

 Sauton (M.), the Bitterness of Milk, 48 

 Sauvage (E.), New Characteristic Constants of Oils, 312 

 Savage South Seas, the, Norman H. Hardy and E. AVay 



Elkington, 541 

 Savage (Dr. William G.), the Bacteriological Examination 



of Water Supplies, 245 

 Savile (W. H. B.), the Swing Bridge over the River 



Avon at Bristol, 16 

 Schafer (Prof., F.R.S.), the Value of Perfusions, 534 

 Scharbe (Herr), Search-ephemeris for Comet 1900 III. 



(Giacobini), 136, 422 

 Scharff (R. F.), European Animals, their Geological His- 

 tory and Geographical Distribution, 441 

 Schiller (Dr. F. C. S.), Studies in Humanism, 220 

 Schlesinger (Mr.), Anomalous Refraction, 301 

 Schlich (Prof. W., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice 



of Sir Dietrich Brandis, K.C.I. E., F.R.S., 131 

 Schmidt (Prof. E. C), Effect of Scale on the Transmission 



of Heat through Locomotive Boiler Tubes, 335 

 Schmidt (Dr. K. E. F.), the " Barretter," 579 

 Schotield (Dr. A. T.), the Measurement of Nerve Force, 



279 

 School Course of Mathematics, a, David Mair, 147 

 School Hygiene, the International Congress on, 349, 382 

 Schott (G. A.), on the Constitution of the Atom, 458 

 Schoute (Prof.), on Models of Three-dimensional Sections 



of Regular Hyper-solids in Four Dimensions, 461 



Schrader (Fr.), Altitude of the Summit of Aconcagua, 376 



Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), Effect of Pressure on the 



Radiation from Radium, 269 ; .Some Scientific Centres, 



XL, the Physical Laboratories of Manchester University, 



640 



Schuster (Edgar), the Inheritance of Ability, 183 ; the 



Promise of Youth and the Performance of Manhood, 525 



Schwab (Prof. Fr.), Comet 1907^ (Daniel), 280; Elements 



of Comet 1907^, 648 

 Schwartz (Prof. A.), the Flexible Cord used in Electric 



Light Fittings, 300 

 Schwarz (E. H. L.), Solifluction, 96 

 Schwarz (Prof. Ernest H. L.), the Double Drift Theory 



of Star Motions, 588 

 Schwarzschild (Prof.), the Total Solar Eclipse of .'\ugust 30, 



1905, 89 

 Schweizer (Victor), the Distillation of Resins, 193 

 Science : Dedication of the Carnegie Institute, 12 ; Elemen- 

 tary Science for Pupil Teachers, Physics Section, W. T. 



