INDEX TO VOLUME IV.* 



Cathode light and the nature of the 



Lenard rays, 475. 



rays, 71 ; Thomson, 391. See 



Eontgen rays. 

 Chemistry — 



Aluminum and beryllium, separa- 

 tion, Kavens, 111. 



Chlorine peroxide, explosion with 

 carbon monoxide. Dixon, 472. 



Combustion of organic substances 

 in the wet way, Phelps, 372. 



Cyanogen, spark spectrum, Hart- 

 ley, 388. 



Dalton's law for solutions, Wilder- 

 mann, 387. 



Double salts. Van't Hoff, 68. 



Electric discharge, synthetic action 

 of dark, Losanitsch and Jovi- 

 tschitsch, 66. 



Electrical oscillations, chemical 

 action, Hemptinne, 471. 



Electrolytic solution and deposition 

 of carbon, Coehn, 389. 



Electrosynthesis, Mixter, 51. 



Fluorine, liquefaction, Moissan and 

 Dewar, 318. 



Gaseous elements, specific heat of. 

 Berthelot. 65. 



Helium, action of silent electric 

 discharge on, Berthelot, 152. 



Inorganic compounds, structural 

 isomerism, Sabaneeff, 66. 



Nitrates into cyanides, conversion 

 of, Kerp, 390. 



Nitrogen, absorption by carbon com- 

 pounds, Berthelot, 473. 



Petroleum, normal and iso-pentane 

 from America, Young and 

 Thomas, 319. 



Potassium and sodium vapor, action 

 in coloring their haloid salts, 

 Giesel, 152. 



Properties of highly purified sub- 

 stances, Shenstone, 317. 



Qualitative Analysis, Manual, Fre- 

 senius and Wells, 474. 



Silicon, spectrum of, de Grant ont, 

 388. 



Calculus for Engineers, Perry, 398. Sodium thiosulphate, titration with 



Canada geol. survey, 78, 394. iodic acid, Walker, 235. 



Cape of Good Hope, geological com- i Supeisaturation and supercooling, 

 mission, 1896, 395. Ostwald, 151. 



* This Index contains Hie general heads, Botany, Chemistry (inch chem. physics), Geology, 

 Minerals, OBiTrARY, Kocks, and under each the titles of Articles referring thereto are men- 

 tioned. 



Academv of Sciences, meeting at Bos- 

 ton, 479. 



Action at a distance, Drude, 390. 



Adams, G. I. , extinct Felida?, 145. 



Alabama geol. survey, 393. 



Allen, E. T., native iron in coal meas- 

 ures of Missouri, 99. 



American Microscopical Society, tran- 

 sactions, 256. 



Association, American, meeting at 

 Detroit, 160, 250. 



British, meeting at Toronto, 324. 



Audition, limits of, Eayleigh, 69. 



B 



Baffinland, observations, Bell, 476. 

 Bancroft, W. D., The Phase Eule, 67. | 

 Barbour, on Daemonelix, 77. 

 Becker, G. F., fractional crystalliza- i 



tion of rocks, 257. 

 Bell. E., observations on Baffinland, 



476. 

 Birds of Colorado, Cooke, 326. 

 Botany — 



Cyperacea?. studies in, Holm, No. | 

 V, 13 ; No. VI, 298. 



Plants, catalogue of useful fiber, I 

 Dodge, 478. 



Flora of North America, Synopti- 

 cal, Vol. i, pt. I, 249 ; Britton and 

 Brown, 250. 



PhaBnogamia, new system of classi- ' 

 fication, van Tieghem, 79. 

 Branner, J. C, extension of the Ap- 

 palachians across Mississippi, etc., 



357. 

 Brazil. Bendego Meteorite, 159. 

 Britton, N. L., Flora of N. United 



States, 250. 

 Brown, A., Flora of N. United 



States, 250. 



