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INDEX to VOL. V. 



ABBOTT (G.) ; on the cellular mag- 

 nesian limestone of Durham, 387. 



Absorption, on the effect of, on the 

 resolving-power of prism trains, 

 355. 



Air, on the ratio of the specific heats 

 for, 226 ; on radioactivity excited 

 in, at the foot of waterfalls, 419 ; 

 on the charge on the ions pro- 

 duced in, by Rontgen rays, 429 ; 

 on the proportion of argon in the 

 vapour rising from liquid, 677 ; 

 on the electrical conductivity of 

 atmospheric, 699. 



Aluminium anode, theory of the, 

 301. 



Ami (Dr. H. M.) on the Saint- 

 Lawrence - Champlain - Appala- 

 chian fault, 174. 



Animal thermostat, 198. 



Anode, theorv of the aluminium, 

 301. 



Argon, on the proportion of, in the 

 vapour rising from liquid air, 

 677 ; 



Atomic weights, on the relationship 

 between the spectra of elements 

 and the squares of their, 203. 



Attenuation of electric waves, on 

 the, along wires, 643. 



Ball (Dr. J.) on the Semna cataract, 

 384. 



Barkla (C. G.) on secondary radiation 

 from gases subject to X-ra}^s, 685. 



Battelli (Prof. A.) on oscillatory dis- 

 charges, 1, 620. 



Bismuth, on the thermomagnetic 

 properties of crystalline, 141. 



Blyth (V. J.) on the influence of 

 magnetic field on thermal con- 

 ductivity, 529. 



" Boiling," on, 674. 



Boiling-points, freezing-points, and 

 solubilities, on the connexion 

 between, 405. 



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Boltzmanns theorem, on, 134, 597; 



Bonney (Prof. T. G.) on.. AJ^fne 

 valleys in relation to glaciers, 172; 

 on the magnetite mines near Cogne, 

 387. 



Books, new : — Lanner's Naturlehre, 

 170; Annuaire du Bureau des 

 Longitudes, 290; Compte Rendu 

 du deuxieme Congres International 

 des Mathematiciens, 290; Boltz- 

 mann's Lecons sur la Theorie des 

 Gaz, 291 ; Drude's Theory of 

 Optics, 292 ; The Meteorology of 

 the Ben Nevis Observatories, 379 ; 

 de Lepinay's Franges d'lnter- 

 f erence etleurs Applications Metro- 

 logiques, 382 ; Carvallo's L'Elec- 

 tricite D6duite de l'Experience et 

 Ramenee au Principe des Travaux 

 Virtuels, 382 ; Bauer's United 

 States Magnetic Declination Tables 

 and Isogonic Charts for 1902, 382; 

 Naegamvalla's Report on the 

 Total Solar Eclipse of Jan. 1898, 

 490 ; von Waltenhofen's Die 

 Internationalen Absoluten Masze, 

 491 ; Raoult's Cryoscopie, 492 ; 

 Bericht fiber die Internationale 

 Experten-Conferenz t'iir Wetter- 

 schiessen in Graz, 492 ; Hooper 

 and Wells's Electrical Problems 

 for Engineering Students, 595 ; 

 Arrhenius's Text-Book of Electro- 

 chemistry, 708 ; Pernter's Meteoro- 

 logische Optik, 709; Castell- 

 Evans's Physico-Chemical Tables. 

 710. 



Brace (Prof. D. B.) on a sensitive- 

 strip spectropolariscope, 161 . 



Brown (J.) on removal of the voltaic 

 potential-difference by heating in 

 oil, 591. 



Burbury (S. II.) on the conditions 

 necessary for equipnrtition oi' 

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