IV CONTENTS. 



Number 170. 



Page 

 Art. VIII. — Nitrogen Thermometer from Zinc to Palladium ; 

 by A. L. Day and R. B. Sosman ; with an Investigation 

 of the Metals, by E. T. Allen 93 



IX. — New Sclerometer ; by A L. Parsons 162 



X. — Dodecahedral Jointing due to Strain of Cooling ; by 



F. H. Lahee 169 



XL — Restoration of Paleolithic Man ; by R. S. Lull. (With 



Plate I) 171 



XII. — Bismite ; by W. T. Schaller and I s . L. Ransome__. 173 



XIII. — Contributions to the Mineralogy of Franklin Furnace, 



N. J.; by C. Palache 177 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Chemistry and Physics — Formation of Colloidal Solutions by the Action of 

 Ultra-violet light upon Metals, Svedberg, 187 : Potassium Percarbonate, 

 Eiesenfeld and Reinhold : Practical Application of Radium, Baxter 

 and Tilley, 188. — Volumetric Determination of Selenious Acid, L. 

 Marino : Contract for Radium : Absolute Measurement of High Pressure 

 with the Amagst Manometer, P. P. Koch and E. Wagner: Relation 

 between Absorption and Phosphorescence, M. L. Bruninghaus : Mass of 

 Moving Electrons, E. Hupka, 189.— Hertz's Photo-Electric Effect, M. 

 E. Bloch : Influence of Thunder on Size of Raindrops, V. J. Laine : 

 Conduction of Electricity through Gases and Radio-activity, R. K. 

 McClung, 190. — Die Strahlen der positiven Elektrizitat, E. Gehrcke, 

 191. 



Geology and Natural History — Thirtieth Annual Report United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, G. O. Smith, 191. — Fifth Biennial Report State Geolog- 

 ical Survey of North Dakota, A. G. Leonard, 192. — Figure of the Earth 

 and lsostacy from Measurements in the United States, J. F. Hayford, 

 193. — Geological Survey Cape of Good Hope, A. W. Rogers : Devonian 

 t fauna of the Ouray limestone, E. M. Kindle : Lower Paleozoic Hyolithidae 

 from Girvan, F. R. C. Reed : Die asiatischen Fusulineu : Die Fusulinen von 

 Darwas, G. Dyhrenfurth, 194. — Palaozoiche Seesterne Deutschlands ; I. 

 Die echten Asteriden der rheinischen Grauwacke, F. Schondore : La Vallee 

 de Binn (Valais) ; Etude geographique, geologique, mineralogique et pit- 

 toresque, L. Desbuissons : Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Depart- 

 ment of Geology, British Museum of Natural History, J. W. Gregory : 

 Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds, R. Bowdler Sharpe : 

 Physiologische Pflanzen-Anatomie, G. Haberlandt, 195. 



Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence — Report of the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, C. D. Walcott, 196. — Annual Report of the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 197. — National Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion, 1901-1904, Magnetic Observations, 198.— Evolution of Worlds, P. 

 Lowell : Hyperbolic Functions, G. F. Becker and C. E. Van Orstrand, 

 199. — Bobbins' Plane Trigonometry, E. R. Robbins : Experimental Dairy 

 Bacteriology, H. L. Russell and E. G. Hastings : Bref och Skirfvelser 

 af och till Carl von Linne\ Th. M. Fries, 200. 



