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Index 



r Supplement to Nature, 

 L December lo, 1896 



Price's (Mr. ) Microscopical Method of Comparing Screw Gauges, 



608 

 Prizes oflfered by the Societe d' Encouragement. 331 

 Proceedings of Toronto Engineering Society, 83 

 Professor, an American, Sir J- O. Eitch, 409 

 Professorial (Qualifications, 126 



Progress in Stereochemistry, Dr. .\rnold Eiloart, 321 

 Proximate Constituents of Coal, 5^5 . ^ . „. ,. „„ 

 Psychology : Mediitval Mental Epidemics, Boris Sidis, 569 

 Public Works Guide and Register, the United States, Capt. \\ . 



M. Black, 267 . „ ,. , T .■ 



Purdie (T. ), Ethereal Salts of Optically Active Malic and Lactic 



Acids 47 

 Purificat'ion of Sulphur, Prof. Richard Threlfall, 224 ; Dr. H. 



E. Armstrong, E.R.S., 225 

 Putman (E. W.), the Ancient City of Coupan, Honduras, 4i>0 

 Pyevtsoff (General), Barometrical Levellings, 299 

 Pyne(II. S.), Rontgen Photographs with Wimshurst Machine, 



62 



(Quarterly Toiunal of Microscopical Science, 142 

 riuartzite Lenticles, Mr. Greenly on the, 5S5 



Rabies : Pasteur Anti-Rabic Treatment in Russia, 106 



Radiants, Shooting Star, Dr. Doberck, 186 



Radiography, Practical, H. Snowden Ward, 245 ; see Rontgen 



Railway Rails, on the Cause of Failure of, Mr. Beaumont, 607 ; 

 Prof. Unwin, 60S : Mr. Johnson, 608 ; Dr. Anderson, 608; 

 Sir Douglas Fo.-c, 60S ; Prof. Hele-Shaw, 60S ; Mr. Spooner, 

 608 

 Railway Speed Trials in Germany, 204 

 Rain-Making, the Transvaal Volksraad on, 371 

 Rainbow (W. J. ), New Australian Araneidcv , 544 

 Rainbow, a Curious, C. O. Steevens, 271 . i„ c 



Rainfall, British, of 1895, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., and [H. b. 



Wallis, 390 , , T ■ o 



Rambaut (Prof. A. A.), Rotation Period of Jupiter, 280 

 Ramsay (Prof. Wm., E.R.S.), Inactivity of Argon and Heimm, 

 143 ; Homogeneity of Argon and Helium, 336.406; on the 

 very Remarkable and Abnormal Properties of Helium, 584 

 Ransome (Dr. Arthur, E.R.S.), the Treatment of Phthisis, 7 

 Raoult(E. M.),Cryoscopy of Precision, 568 , . , ^ w' „, 

 Raoult (J. M.), Vapour Pressures of Formic Acid Solutions, 



119 

 Raulin (Prof.), Death of, 105 

 Ravene (G.), Mass of the Asteroids, 206 

 Ray (Dr. P. C), MercurousNitrite, 83 

 Rayleigh (Lord, Sec.R.S.), the Electrical Resistance of Alloys, 



I i;4 ; the Reproduction of Diffraction Gratings, 332 

 Read, Campbell, and Co.'s Aerators, 37 ^ , ,. u 



Read (Carveth), the Principles of Sociology, Franklin Henry 



Giddings, 49 „ , . , -0 c 



Read (C H.) on a Proposed British Ethnological Bureau, 610 

 Reade (Mellard) on the Evidence of Land Oscillation near 

 Liverpool, 587 ^, , x> ! 



Rebeur-Paschwitz, Pendulum Observations at Charkow, Prof. 

 G. Lewitsky, 299 •,- i t-, \ t> 



Reclus' Proposed Gigantic Model of the Earth, Dr. A. K. 



Wallace, 42 re 



Reconnoitring Purposes, Captive Balloon for, 463 

 Red Sea Voyage, the Pola's, 485 „ , , i -r. 



Rede Lecture, the : the Rontgen Rays, Prof. J. J. Thomson, 



F.R.S., 302 r T o 11 = 



Redwood (B.), the Detection and Measurement of InHammable 



Gas and Vapour in Air, 620 

 Reed (C. T.), the Jacques Thermo-Electric Cell, 353 

 Refik Bey,the Bacillo-coccus of Anatolian Goat- Pneumonia. 



Re^fl'e'cted Waves in the Explosion of Gases, Prof. H. B. Dixon, 



E. H. Strange, E. Graham, 583 , d , 



Reid (Clement), Eocene Deposits of Dorset, 70 ; on the Paleo- 

 lithic Deposits of Hoxne, 586 

 Reid (G. Archdall), Blood-Brotherhood, 77 

 Reinach (Salomon), Prehistoric European Sculpture, 4»2 

 Relative Lengths of Post-Glacial Time in the two Hemispheres, 



the, Dr. C. Davison, 137 

 Relief of the Earth's Crust, the. Prof. Wagner, Dr. Hugh 

 Robert Mill, 1 1 2 



Reliquary, Science in the, 237 



Remarkable Sounds, Kumagusu Minakata, 78 



Renault (B. ), Fossil Bacteria, 120 



Renton (James) Sun-Spots and Facula;, 317 



Report of Science and Art Department, 382 



Resal (H.), Traite de Mecanique Generale, 27 ; Death of, 446 



Resistance Box, Mr. E. H. Griffiths on a Special Form of, 36, 



165, 567 ; F. W. Burstall, 36 

 Responsibility in Science. Dr. C. Chree, 572 

 Retinal Images, the Positions of, Edward T. Dixon, 54 

 Retzius (Prof.), the Ankle-joint in Man and the Inheritance of 



Acquired Characters, 162 

 Reusch (Dr. Hans), Folk og Natur i Finmarken, 123 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf :— 



A Naturalist in Mid-Africa, G. F. E. Scott Elliot, 5 



Analytical Chemistry, N. Menschutkin, 6 



Grundriss der Krystallographie fur Studirende und zum 

 Selbstunterricht, Gottlob Linck, 7 



Cyanide Processes, E. B. Wilson, 7 ^ „ c. 



The Treatment of Phthisis, Dr. Arthur Ransome, F.R.S., 7 



A Text book of Applied Mechanics, Alexander Jamieson, 7 



The Aeronautical Annual, 1896, 25 



Zur Mechanik des Vogelfluges, Dr. Fr. Ahlborn, 25 



The Astronomy of Milton's "Paradise Lost, Thomas N. 

 Orchard, W. T. Lynn, 26 , . , 



Cholera in Indian Cantonments, E. H. Hankin, 26 



Chemical Experiments, General and Analytical, R. 1". 

 Williams, 27 



Traite de Mecanique Generale, H. Re.sal, 27 



Modern Stone-Cutting and Masonry, John S. Siebert and 

 F. C. Biggin, 27 



The Principles of Sociology, Franklin Henry Giddings, Car- 

 veth Read, 49 



Cocoa : All about it, Historicus, 50 



Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, Bertram Blount 

 and A. G. Bloxam, 51 



Elementary Practical Physics, William Watson, 51 



Elementary Practical Chemistry, G. S. Newth, 51 



A Text-book of the Science and Art of Bread-Making, \\ illiaiii 



\n\t°lasof the Fertilisation and Karyokinesis of the Ovum, 



E B Wilson, Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 73 

 Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum. Sumptibus 



beati Caroli Roberti Darwin ductu et Consilio Josephi D. 



Hooker confecit B. Daydon Jackson, Fasciculus I\ ., 74 

 Fear Angelo Mosso, Prof E. A. Schiifcr, F.R.S., 74 

 Die Physiologie des Geruchs, Dr. H. Zwaardemaker, 75 

 Computation Rules and Logarithms, Prof. Silas W. Holman, 



76 

 Remarkable Eclipses, W. T. Lynn, 76 

 The Old Light and the New, Wm. Ackroyd, 76 . . 

 Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and 



Magnetism, J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray 97 

 Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, founded 



on Toubert's Traite Elementaire d'Electricite, G. C. 



Foster, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 97 

 Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 98 

 First Annual General Report upon the Mineral Industry of 



the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the 



Year 1894, C. Le Neve Foster, F.R.S., 99 

 Leerboek der Organische Chemie, Dr. A. F. Hollemann, Dr. 



T. B. Cohen, 100 .,, , ^ ■ „ 



Physics for Students of Medicine, Alfred Daniel), 100 

 Physical Units, Magnus Maclean, lOi _ 



Elements of the Theory of Functions, Dr. H. Durege, loi 

 Charles Darwin and his Theory, M. A. Antonovich, lOl 

 Ueber Germinal-Selection ; eine Quelle bestimmt gerichteter 



Variationen, August Weismann, Dr. F. A. Dixey, 121 

 Riverside Letters, George D. Leslie, 122 ^ ™ . ,. 



Folk og Natur i Finmarken, Hans Reusch, James C. Christie, 



Wehere Ausflihrungen uber den Bau der Cyanophyceen und 

 Bacterien, Prof. O. Butschh, 124 , „ ^, . ,,, 



A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals A. H. Chester 124 



Principii della Teoria Matematica del Movimento del Corpi, 

 Gian Antonio Maggi, 124 , ^^ , ^ i „; 



The Number Concept : its Origin and Development, Levi 

 Leonard Conant, Prof. A. C. Haddon, 145 



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