Asteroidea, an Account of the Deep-sea, Collected by the R.I.M.S.S. Investigator, Prof. René Koehler, 67 Astronomy: Our Astronomical Column, 19, 46, 82, 110, 138, 170, 199, 229, 267, 298, 314, 355, 376, 404, 436, 465, 498, 528; the Transvaal Observatory, Johannesburg, 20; the Transvaal Observatory, 356; the Comets of 1907 and 1908, Prof. Kobold, 20; Astronomical Occur- rences in July, 19; in August, 138; in September, 298; in October, 404; Comet 1909a (Borrelly-Daniel), 20; the New Daniel Comet, M. Javelle, 29; Observations at the Observatory of Marseilles of the Comet 1909a (Borrelly), Henry Bourget, 29; Observations of the Comet 1909a (Borrelly-Daniel) made at the Observatory of Besançon, P. Chofardet, 29; Comet 1909a (Borrelly-Daniel), M. Chofardet, 46; Comet 1909a, 83; Ephemeris for, Dr. M. Ebell, 267; the Shape of the Planet Mercury, R. Jonck- heere, 20; Observations of Sun-spots, 1908, E. Guerrieri, 20; Radial Motion in Sun-spot Vapours, Mr. Evershed, 82; Changes of Form in Sun-spots, A. Amaftounsky, 110; a Large Group of Sun-spots, 138; Magnetic Fields of Sun-spots, Dr. Hale, 137; Water Vapour in Sun-spots, W. M. Mitchell, 229; a Large Group of Sun-spots, 356; Another Large Sun-spot, 405: Observations of Saturn and its Rings, M. Schaer, 20; Observations of Saturn's Rings, Prof. Barnard, 199; Observations of Saturn, Prof. Lowell, 405; Mr. Slipher, 405; Tables for the Reduc- tion of Standard Coordinates to Right Ascension and Declination, A. Hnatek, 20; Nature of the Hydrogen Flocculi on the Sun, Prof. G. E. Hale, 26; Origin of Certain Lines in the Spectrum of Orionis, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., F. E. Baxandall and C. P. Butler, 26; la Planète Mars et ses Conditions d'Habitabilité, Camille Flammarion, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 33; Observations of Mars, R. Jonckheere, 229, 376; M. Jarry-Desloges, 229, 355, 376, 436; M. Antoniadi, 355, 436; M. Quénisset, 355; Prof. Lowell, 405; J. H. Elgie, 405; the South Polar Spot on Mars, Dr. Lohse, 298; Changes on Mars, M. Jarry-Desloges, 314; R. Jonckheere, 465; M. Antoniadi, 465; the Approaching Opposition of Mars, William E. Rolston, 336; Presence of Free Oxygen in the Atmosphere of Mars, P. Lowell, 390; Water Vapour in the Martian Atmosphere, Prof. Campbell, 376; Mars, M. Jarry- Desloges, 498; M. Jonckheere, 498; MM. Quénisset and Antoniadi, 498; Observations on the Surface of the Planet Mars from June 4 to October, 1909, R. Jarry- Desloges, 510; Quantitative Measures of the Oxygen Bands in the Spectrum of Mars, Prof. Very, 529; der Bau des Weltalls, Prof. Dr. J. Scheiner, 36; die Planeten, Dr. Bruno Peter, 36; Possibility of an Extra- Neptunian Planet, 41; the Assumed Planet, O, beyond Neptune, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 268; a New Form of Comparison Prism, Prof. Louis Bell, 46; Halley's Comet, Dr. Holetschek, 46; L. Matkiewitsch, 46; Halley's Comet Rediscovered, Prof. Max Wolf, 355; Messrs. Cowell and Crommelin, 355; Halley's Comet, Prof. Burnham, 376; Prof. Millosevich, 528; Father Searle, 528; Prof. Newall, 529; Visibility of Halley's Comet, W. F. Denning, 395; Observations of Halley's Comet, 1909c, Prof. Wolf, 404; Elements and Ephemeris for Halley's Comet (1909c), 436; Ephemeris for Halley's Comet, 1909c, Mr. Crommelin, 465; the Polarisation of the Solar Corona, M. Salet, 46; the Solar Constant and the Apparent Temperature of the Sun, Dr. Féry, 47; Variations of Brightness of Encke's Comet and the Sun- spot Period, J. Bosler, 59; the Identity of Comets 1908a and 1908b (Encke), Dr. Ebell, 83: Death of Prof. Simon Newcomb, 78; Obituary Notice of, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 103; Binary Star Orbits, Father Stein, 83; R. H. Baker, 83; Micrometric Measures of Double Stars, Phillip Fox, 83: Double-star Measures, Prof. R. G. Aitken, 138; Parallax of the Double Star Σ 2398, Dr. Karl Bohlin, 356; Double-star Measures, Prof. Burnham, 376; Double-star Observa- tions, Prof. Doberck, 436; Stationary Meteor Radiants, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 110; Comparison of the Spectra of the Centre and Edge of the Sun's Disc, MM. Buisson and Fabry, 110; Mutual Occultation of Jupiter's Second and Fourth Satellites, M. Pidoux, 110; Observations of Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, Prof. Barnard, 138; Observations of Jupiter, Prof. Barnard, 170; Jupiter's South Tropical
Dark Area, Scriven Bolton, 487; Zenographical Frag- ments, ii., the Motions and Changes of the Markings on Jupiter in 1888, A. Stanley Williams, 125; the Yerkes Observatory, Prof. E. B. Frost, III; Prominence Observations, Prof. Ricco, 111; Azimuth, G. L. Hosmer, 126; Sun and Star Observations at the Stone Circles of Keswick and Long Meg, Dr. John Morrow, 128; on the Cause of the Remarkable Circularity of the Orbits of the Planets and Satellites and on the Origin of the Planetary System, T. J. J. See, 132; Physical Interpreta- tion of Lunar Features, M. Puiseux, 138; Origin of the Contrasts of Colour in the Moon, P. Puiseux, 150; Why has the Moon no Atmosphere? Prof. Alexander Johnson, 486; Probable Influence of the Motion of the Moon on Atmospheric Radio-activity, some Meteor- ological Consequences, Paul Besson, 510; Artificial Imita- tion of Lunar Landscape, Paul Fuchs, 356; Motion of Neptune's Satellite, David Gibb, 149; Maximum of Mira in 1908, M. Luizet, 138; Naozo Ichinohe, 267; the Maximum of Mira in October, 1908, Dr. Nijland, 376; the Orbit of x Sagittarii, a Cepheid Variable, J. H. Moore, 170; the Leeds Astronomical Society, 170; the Solar Eclipse of June 17, 1909, Father Rigge, 171; Movements in the Sun's Upper Atmosphere, M. Deslandres, 170; Search-ephemerides for Comet 1896 VII. (Perrine), F. W. Ristenpart, 170; R. Castro and A. Repenning, 170; Re-discovery of Perrine's Comet, Herr Kopff, 229; Herr Ristenpart, 229; Comet 1909b (Perrine's 1896 VII.), Herr Ristenpart, 267; Prof. Kobold, 267; Comet 1909b (Perrine, 1896 VII.), 298; Observations of Perrine's Comet, 315; Dr. Max Wolf, 376; Dr. Ebell, 376; the Perseids of 1909, W. F. Denning, 189; the Recent Perseid Shower, J. H. Elgie, 267; J. C. Jefferson, 267; E. Hawks, 267; a Brilliant Meteor, M. Borrelly, 200; August Meteoric Shower, W. F. Denning, 224, 246; Meteor Observations, 315; Remarkable Meteors, 465; the Meteor in Sunshine, October 6, W. F. Denning, 487; September Meteors, Torvald Köhl, 498; the Relative Atmospheric Efficiency of Telescopes, R. T. A. Innes, 199; the Motion of the Pole, H. Kimura, 199; Reports of Observatories, Mr. Hough, 200; M. Baillaud, 200; Solar Research, A. A. Buss, 200; the Figure and Mass of the Planet Uranus deduced from the Motions of the Two Interior Satellites, Esten Bergstrand, 210; Annuaire astronomique de l'Observatoire royal de Belgique, 1909, 219; Death and Obituary Notice of William F. Stanley, 225; the Number of the Stars, Gavin Burns, 229; the Faint Companions of Procyon and Sirius, Prof. Barnard, 229; Prof. Lowell's New 40-inch Reflector, 229; the Palisa and Wolf Celestial Charts, Dr. Palisa, 230; the Spectroscopic Binary B Orionis, J. Plaskett, 267; the Planar Arrangement of the Planetary System, Dr. T. J. J. See, 275; the Orbits of Certain Spectroscopic Binaries, R. H. Baker, 298; F. C. Jordan, 298; New Spectroscopic Binaries, 315; the Bolide of April 20, as Observed in France, M. Quénisset, 298; les Observations méridiennes, Théorie et Pratique, F. Boquet, 301; the Absorption of Light in. Space, J. A. Parkhurst, 314; Planets and their Satel- lites, Prof. Lowell, 315; Temperature and Pressure Con- ditions in the Solar Atmosphere, Mr. Buss, 356: Mr.. Evershed, 356; Movements of the Upper Solar Atmo- sphere above and round the Faculæ, H. Deslandres, 390; the Nature of Solar Faculæ, M. Deslandres, 465: Entwickelung und Untergang des Kopernikanischen Weltsystems bei den Alten, O. T. Schulz, 365; Death and Obituary Notice of Bryan Cookson, 372; the Spectro- heliograph of the Catania Observatory, Prof. Riccò, 376; Ha Images on Spectroheliograms, M. Deslandres. 376: Mr. Buss, 376; the Future of Astronomy, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 405; Multiple Monochromatic Images of the Sun given by the Large Lines of the Spectrum, H. Deslandres and L. d'Azambuja, 420; the Recent Magnetic Storm and Aurora, Basil T. Rowswell, 436; the Aurora of September 25, Torvald Köhl, 498; a Newly Discovered Nebula Cluster in Cetus, Prof. Wolf, 436; Observations of Variable Stars, W. Münch, 436; Terres- trial Refraction in Egypt, Mr. Xydis, 436; Messrs. Craig and Keeling, 436; Magnetic Storms and Solar Eruptions, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 425. 456; Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 456; Death of J. A. Fraissinet, 432; Fireball in
Sunshine, W. F. Denning, 456; the Ursa-Major System of Stars, Ejnar Hertzsprung, 465; Search-ephemeris for Winnecke's Comet, C. Hillebrand, 465; Method Per- mitting the Measurement of the Effective Temperatures of the Stars, Charles Nordmann, 480; Publikationen des Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums zu Potsdam, Doppel- sterne, Prof. O. Lohse, 492; Solar Observations: a Novel Spectroscope, W. M. Mitchell, 498; Hydrogen Layers in the Solar Atmosphere, MM. Deslandres and d'Azambuja, 498; New Binary Progression of the Planetary Distances and on the Mutability of the Solar System, Dr. H. Wilde, 509; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, New Variable Stars, 529; the Natal Govern- ment Observatory, Mr. Nevill, 529; see also British Association
Astrophysics: the Tidal and other Problems, Profs. T. C. Chamberlin and F. R. Moulton, F. Stratton, 102; Death and Obituary Notice of Eugen von Gothard, Herr von Konkoly, 166
Athanasiu (J.), Suprarenal Capsules and their Exchanges between the Blood and Tissues, 239
Atlantic, North, First Magnetic Results obtained on the Carnegie in the, Dr. L. A. Bauer and W. J. Peters, 529 Atmosphere, Diurnal Variation of Temperature in the Free, E. Gold, 6
Atmosphere, Researches on the Action Centres of the, 467 Atmosphere, Temperature of the Upper, F. J. W. Whipple, 6 Atmospheric Absorption, Molecular Scattering and, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 97
Atmospheric Nitrogen, Processes for the Fixation of, 143 Attention, Prof. W. B. Pillsbury, 483
Auerbach (Felix), Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker, 484
August Meteoric Shower, W. F. Denning, 224, 246 Aurora Display on October 18, an, W. Harcourt-Bath, 487; Ernest J. Baty, 518; W. Austin Morley, 518 Aurora of September 25, the, Torvald Kohl, 498 Aurora, the Recent Magnetic Storm and, Basil T. Rows- well, 436
Australia: a Discussion of Australian Meteorology, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 40; Barisal Guns in Australia, Dr. J. Burton Cleland, 127; Beliefs and Customs of the Australian Aborigines, Prof. J. G. Frazer, 275
Avebury and Neighbourhood, a Guide to, R. H. Cox, 154 Aviation M. Latham's Attempt to Cross the Channel, 105; M. Blériot's Channel Flight, 134; Mr. Haldane on the Promise of Aviation, 177; Problems of Aviation, 204; Flying Animals and Flying Machines, A. Mallock, F.R.S., 247; Aviation Week at Rheims, 295; M. Santos- Dumont's Aëroplane Flights, 352; the Stability of Aëro- planes, Prof. Herbert Chatley, 366; Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 366; Record in Altitude Flight, M. Rougier, 371; Brescia Aviation Meeting Awards, 372; the Parseval Air- ship, 375; Aviation, Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 397; Death and Obituary Notice of Captain Ferber, 398; Aviation Prize, 401
Azambuja (L. d'), Multiple Monochromatic Images of the Sun given by the Large Lines of the Spectrum, 420; Hydrogen Layers in the Solar Atmosphere, 498 Azimuth, G. L. Hosmer, 126
Bacteriology Electrical Reactions of Certain Bacteria Applied to the Detection of Tubercle Bacilli in Urine by Means of an Electric Current, C. Russ, 57; Bacteria in Relation to Country Life, Dr. Jacob G. Lipmann, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 63; the Contamination of Milk, Dr. Orr, 74; the Fixation of Nitrogen by Soil Bacteria, A. D. Hall, F.R.S., 98; Relations of Certain Cestodes and Nematode Parasites to Bacterial Diseases, Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 114; Bacterial Flora of Hawaiian Sugars, L. Lewton-Brain and Noel Deerr, 226; Influence of the Reaction of the Medium on the Development and Proteolytic Activity of Davaine's Bacteridium, Eleonore Lazarus, 269; Influence of the Dilution of Serum upon the Phagocytic Index, Dr. R. Greig-Smith, 330; Report of the Director of the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory for 1908, 402
Badgley (Colonel W. F.), Heat and other Forces, 363
Bailey (Fredk. H.), a Course of Mathematics for Students of Engineering and Applied Science, 241
Bailey (Prof. L. H.), the State and the Farmer, 157; Be- ginner's Botany, 451
Baillaud (M.), Reports of Observatories, 200
Baker (R. H.), binary Star Orbits, 83; the Orbits of Certain Spectroscopic Binaries, 298
Balance of Nature, the, and Modern Conditions of Cultiva- tion, a Practical Manual of Animal Foes and Friends for the Country Gentleman, the Farmer, the Forester, the Gardener, and the Sportsman, George Abbey, 5 Balducci (Dr. E.), Forest-Hog from the Upper Congo, 166 Baldwin (Evelyn), Forthcoming Attempt to Reach the North Pole, 460
Balfour (Henry), a National Folk-Museum, 115; Need for a National Museum of British Ethnology, 265 Balfour (Robert), Refrigerating Installations on Ships, 198 Ball (Frederick), Altitude Tables, computed for Intervals of Four Minutes between the Parallels of Latitude 24° and 60°, and Parallels of Declination 24° and 60°, Designed for the Determination of the Position Lines at all Hour Angles without Logarithmic Computation, 4 Ball (Sir Robert, F.R.S.), Geometrie der Kräfte, H. E. Timerding, 34; Obituary Notice of Prof. Simon New- comb, 103
Ballistics Improvements in Production and Application of Guncotton and Nitroglycerine, Sir Frederick L. Nathan at Royal Institution, 144, 178
Balls (W. Lawrence), Diminished Yield of Cotton due to Insufficient Drainage, 80
Bamber (M. K.), Analyses of Young and Old Cacao Leaves,
Bannister (C. O.), Surface Appearance of Solders, 540 Bannister (Richard), Death and Obituary Notice of, 460 Barclay (J.), Southall's Organic Materia Medica, 184 Barisal Guns in Australia, Dr. J. Burton Cleland, 127 Barlow (Guy), Pressure of Radiation against the Source, 469 Barnard (Prof.), Observations of Jupiter's Fifth Satellite, 138; Observations of Jupiter, 170; Observations of Saturn's Rings, 199; the Faint Companions of Procyon and Sirius, 229; Motion of Some of the Small Stars in Messier 92 (Herculis), 469
Barnard (J. E.), the Microscope and its Practical Applica- tions, 232
Barnes (Prof. H. T.), the Absolute Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat in Terms of the International Elec- trical Units, 25; Variation of the Specific Heat of Mer- cury at High Temperatures, 472
Barnes (Prof. James), New Lines in the Calcium Spectrum, 527
Barr (Peter), Death of, 372; Obituary Notice of, 400 Barr (P. H.), Black-headed Gull, 352
Barrington (Amy), a First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of the Relative Influence of Heredity and Environment on Sight, 49
Barton (Dr. B. S.), Observations on the Creek and Chero- kee Indians, 268
Baskets used in Repelling Demons, Dr. N. Annandale, 38 Basset (A. B., F.R.S.), Bessel's Functions, 68 Bastian (E. S.), the Peat Deposits of Maine, 490 Bate (Dorothea), Discovery of "Rodent-Goat" in a Cave in Majorca, 310
Bates (F. W.), Effect of Light on Sulphur Insulation, 472 Bathy-orographical Map of Africa, 187 Bathy-orographical Map of Asia, 187
Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of Scot- land, Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Laurence Pullar, 155
Baty (Ernest J.), the Auroral Display of October 18, 518 Bauer (Ed.), Dimethylcamphor and Dimethylcampholic Acid, 29; Trialkylacetophenones and the Trialkylacetic Acids derived from them, 90
Bauer (Edmond), Temperature of the Oxyhydrogen Flame, 60
Bauer (Dr. L. A.), Earth Tides, 473; Magnetic Work of the Past Ten Years of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 471; the Carnegie, Magnetic Survey Vessel, 494; Progress of the General Magnetic Survey of the Earth in Recent Years,
507; First Magnetic Results obtained on the Carnegie in the North Atlantic, 529
Baxandall (F. E.), Origin of Certain Lines in the Spectrum of e Orionis, 26
Bayeux (Raoul), Influence of Prolonged Stay at Very High Altitude on the Animal Temperature and the Viscosity of the Blood, 29
Beadnell (H. J. Llewellyn), an Egyptian Oasis: an Account of the Oasis of Kharga in the Libyan Desert, with Special Reference to its History, Physical Geography, and Water Supply, 70
Bean (R. B.), Different Types of Human Ears, 227; Filipino Ears, a Classification of Ear Types, 435
Bean (W. J.), Effect of the Past Winter on Trees and Shrubs in Kew Gardens, 197
Beasts, Wild, of the World, Frank Finn, 332
Beattie (Prof. J. M.), a Text-book of General Pathology for the Use of Students and Practitioners, 36 Beccari (Odoardo), Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Asiatic Palms, Lepidocaryeæ, 181 Becker (Dr. Siegfried), Anatomical Structure of the Holc- thurians, 167
Becquerel (Jean), Existence in the Magnetic Decomposition of the Absorption Bands of a Uniaxial Crystal of Dissym- metry of Positions, 150
Belar (Prof.), Large Disturbances of Seismographs by Dis- tant Earthquake Shocks, 524
Belgique, Annuaire astronomique de l'Observatoire royal de, 1909, 219
Beliefs and Customs of the Australian Aborigines, 'rof. J. G. Frazer, 275
Bell (Prof. Louis), a New Form of Comparison Prism, 46 Bell (Dr. Robert), the Hudson Bay Route, 506 Bemmelen (Dr. W. van), Magnetic Storms, 516
Benham (Charles E.), the Acarus Crossii, 127; the Benham Top, 335
Benham Top, the, F. Peake Sexton, 275; Charles E. Ben- ham, 335
Benoit (J. René), la Mesure rapide des Bases géodésiques, 515
Bergstrand (Esten), the Figure and Mass of the Planet Uranus deduced from the Motions of the Two Interior Satellites, 210
Bermann (Max), Sparks as Indicators of Different Kinds of Steel, 436
Bernan (K.), Naturwissenschaftliches Unterrichtswerk für höhere Mädchenschulen, 273
Bernier's (Captain) Arrival at Point Amour, Labrador, 432 Bertrand (Gabriel), Pseudomorphine, 29
Bessel Functions, Tables of, Prof. M. J. M. Hill, F.R.S., 38
Bessel's Functions, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 68
Besson (A.), Evolution of Hydrogen from Silicochloroform under Silent Discharge, 90
Besson (Paul), Probable Influence of the Motion of the Moon on Atmospheric Radio-activity, Some Meteorological Consequences, 510
Beveridge (Miss H. H.), Hydrolysis of Salts in Amphoteric Electrolytes, 59
Bhattacharjee (Nibaran Chandra), Morphological and Physiological Differences between Marsilea left on Dry Land and that growing in Water, 30 Bibliotheca Geographica, 515
Binaries, the Orbits of Certain Spectroscopic, R. H. Baker, 298; F. C. Jordan, 298
Binaries, New Spectroscopic, 315
Binary Star Orbits, Father Stein, 83; R. H. Baker, 83 Bingham (Dr. Hiram), the Journal of an Expedition across Venezuela and Colombia, 1906-7, 453
Biochemistry: Nomenclature of Lipoid Substances, Dr. Otto Rosenheim, 496
Biography Grosse Männer, Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald, 121 Biology: I Ruwenzori, parte scientifica, resultati delle Osservazioni e studi computi sul materiale raccolto dalla spedizione di S.A.R. il Principe Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duca degli Abruzzi, Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 31; Occurrence of Protandric Herma- phroditism in Crepidula fornicata, J. H. Orton, 58; a Parasite of the Schizopod Crustacean Gastrosaccus spini- fer, G. Gilson, 44; Biologisches Praktikum für höhere
Schulen, Dr. Bastian Schmid, 96; Biologische Experi- mente 'nebst einem Anhang mikroskopische Technik, Walther Schurig, 96; Association of Economic Biologists, 114; Relations of Certain Cestodes and Nematode Para- sites to Bacterial Disease, Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 114; Biology, Prof. R. J. Harvey Gibson, 243; Metamorphoses of the Midges and Gnats of the Family Chironomidæ, Dr. A. Thienemann, 312; Regeneration in the Entero- pneusta, C. Dawydoff, 462; Death of Anton Dohrn, 400; Obituary Notice of, Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., 429; Die biologischen Schülerübungen, Erich Leick, 429; die chemische Entwicklungserregung des tierischen Eies (Künstliche Parthenogenese), Jacques Loeb, 450; Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition in South- west Africa, 1908-9, Prof. H. H. W. Pearson, 466, 499; the Making of Species, Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 481; an Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals, Prof. Gilbert C. Bourne, 513; Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbellosen Thiere, Prof. E. Korschelt and Prof. K. Heider, 511; Marine Biology, Arenaceous Foraminifera, E. Heron Allen and A. Earland, 79; Results obtained by Tow-netting with Modern Nets in the Irish Sea, Prof. Herdman, 142; Globular Organ- isms in the Tide-wash on the Orissa Coast of India, Dr. N. Annandale, 296; New Type of Gephyrean Worm, Captain F. H. Stewart, 296; the Life-history of Diphlebia lestoides, Selys, R. J. Tillyard, 330; Our Food from the Waters, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 356; Exploration of the Fauna and Flora of the Waters of Lake Tangan- yika, 461; Inspection of Pearl-banks between Dutch Bay Point and Negombo, T. Southwell and J. C. Kerkham, 461
Birds Behind the Veil in Bird-land, Oliver G. Pike, 67; Bird Notes, 87; the Romance of Bird Life, John Lea, on British Birds and their Eggs, with a New Method of Identification, J. Maclair Boraston, 99; the Young People's Bird's-nest Chart, Rev. S. N. Sedgwick, 100; Birds and their Nests and Eggs, found in and near Great Towns, George H. Vos, 100; British Birds in their Haunts, Rev. C. A. Johns, 100; How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds, Martin Hiesemann, 100; Birds of the World, Dr. Frank H. Knowlton and Frederic A. Lucas, 421; Birds Useful and Birds Harmful, Otto Her- man and J. A. Owen, 421 Bishop's Stortford, the Prehistoric Horse" of, Prof. J. C. Ewart, F.R.S., 223
Blackburn (Dr. Hugh), Death of, 460; Obituary Notice of, 522
Blaise (E. E.), Formation of Lactones from Acid Alcohols,
Blake (G. S.), Carnotite and an Associated Mineral-complex from South Australia, 28
Blériot's (M.) Channel Flight, 134
Bliss (Prof. G. A.), New Proof of a Theorem of Weierstrass, the Factorisation of Power Series, 470
Boas (Dr. Franz), Ethnographic Survey of Canada, 477 Bôcher (M.), an Introduction to the Study of Integral Equations, 304
Bodroux (F.), Action of Some Organo-magnesium Com- pounds on Methyl-2-pentanone-4, 29
Boelter (W. R.), Proposed "Arbour Day," 165
Bohlin (Dr. Karl), Parallax of the Double Star 2398, 356 Bohn (Dr. Georges), la Naissance de l'Intelligence, 4 Bolide of April 20 as Observed in France, the, M. Quénisset, 298
Bollinger (Dr. Otto von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 263
Bolton (H.), New Faunal Horizons in the British Coal- field, 446
Bolton (Scriven), Jupiter's South Tropical Dark Area, 487 Bonjean (Ed.), Formation of Oxygen Compounds of Nitro- gen and their Metallic Combinations (Iron and Lead) in Production of Ozone for Sterilisation of Water, 60 Bonnet (Pierre), Oxidation of Aldehydes by Silver Oxide,
Books of Science, Forthcoming, 438, 464
Boquet (F.), les Observations méridennes, Théorie et Pratique, 301
Boraston (J. Maclair), British Birds and their Eggs, with a New Method of Identification, 99
Boresch (K.), Lumps of Gum exuded by the Bromeliad, Guzmannia zahnii, and other Plants of the Same Family, 296
Borley (J. O.), Probability of Survival of Trawl-caught Fish returned to the Sea, 491
Borrelly (M.), a Brilliant Meteor, 200
Borrelly-Daniel, Comet 1909a, 20; M. Chofardet, 46; Ephemeris for, Dr. M. Ebell, 267
Bosler (J.), Variations of Brightness of Encke's Comet and the Sun-spot Period, 59
Botany Hevea brasiliensis, or Para Rubber, its Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Diseases, Herbert Wright, 3; Agave, Mexican Species Yielding Zapupe, W. Trelease, 18; Investigation of the Medullary Rays in the Beech, the Oak, and Aristolochia sipho, Dr. K. Zijlstra, 18; Specimens to Illustrate the Wood Lignum nephriticum, and the Fluorescence of its Infusion, the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew, 21; Identification and Properties of Lignum nephriticum, Dr. O. Stapf, 373-4; Coptis, I. H. Burkill, 30; Morphological and Physio- logical Differences between Marsilea left on Dry Land and that Growing in Water, Nibaran Chandra Bhat- tacharjee, 30; Cympopogon Martini, Stapf, I. H. Burkill, 30; New South Wales Linnean Society, 30, 60, 240, 330, 480; Analyses of Young and Old Cacao Leaves, M. K. Bamber, 44; Distribution of the Algæ in the Black Sea, N. N. Woronichin, 44; Reproduction and Early Develop- ment of Laminaria digitata and Laminaria saccharina, G. H. Drew, 58; Linnean Society, 89; Wych Elm Seed- lings, Rosamond F. Shove, 99; Origin of the White Florentine Iris, Drs. R. Pirotta and M. Puglisi, 108; Botanical Surveys, W. Munn Rankin, 127; Wissen- schaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 1898-1899, Das Kapland, insonderheit das Reich der Kapflora, das Waldgebiet und die Karroo, pflanzengeographisch dargestelt, Rudolf Marloth, 129; American Mistletoe, Phoradendron flavescens, H. H. York, 136; New Plants in the State of Bahia, E. Ule, 136; Flora of the Islands of Margarita and Coche, J. R. Johnston, 136; Dominant Phanero- gamic and Higher Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic Habit in Scottish Lakes, George West, 149; Certain Fungi Collected in Java, Prof. F. von Höhnel, 168; Parasitic and Epiphytic Fungi in Java, Dr. M. Raciborski, 265; Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Asiatic Palms-Lepidocaryeæ, Odoardo Beccari, 181; Ferns of the Malay Archipelago, Dr. E. B. Copeland, 197; Effect of the Past Winter on Trees and Shrubs in Kew Gardens, W. J. Bean, 197; Fungal Disease, Coryneum mori, in the Mulberry Nurseries near Srinagar, Dr. E. J. Butler, 226; Polymorphism in the Flower in the Orchid Cycnoches, R. A. Rolfe, 226; Nature of the Tendrils in the Cucurbitaceæ, Miss M. Doubek, 226; Arrangement of the Botanical Garden of the Johns Hopkins University, 226; Bacterial Flora of Hawaiian Sugars, L. Lewton-Brain and Noël Deerr, 226; Studies on Tunicata, H. L. Kesteven, 240; the Native Flora of New South Wales, R. H. Cambage, 240; New Species of Eucalyptus from the Monaro Dis- trict, N.S.W., R. H. Cambage, 240; Some Points in the Morphology and Biology of a New Species of Haworthia, Dr. S. Schönland, 239; Absorption of Water by the Aërial Organs of some Succulents, Dr. S. Schönland, 240; New South African Succulents, Dr. R. Marloth, 240; Mikrographie des Holzes der auf Java vorkommenden Baumarten, Dr. J. W. Moll and H. H. Janssonius, 241; Mitosis in Higher Plants, Dr. H. A. Haig, 265; Botany of the Philippine Islands, Dr. C. B. Robinson, 265; E. D. Merrill, 265; Revision of the American Group of Thibaudieæ, R. Hörold, 265; Con- stitution of the Roots of Arisarma concinnum, B. B. Dutta, 270; Absorption of Water by Aërial Organs of Plants, Dr. Marloth, 270; New Flora of Krakatau, Prof. D. H. Campbell, 296; Lumps of Gum Exuded by the Bromeliad, Guzmannia zahnii, and other Plants of the same Family, K. Boresch, 296; Study of Various Morphological Features in the Umbelliferæ, Dr. K. Domin, 297; Vegetation in Sardinia, Dr. Th. Herzog, 312; Classification of Scitamineæ as Represented in the Philippine Islands, H. N. Ridley, 312; Notice sur Léo Errera, L. Fredericq and J. Massart, 333; Recueil
d'Euvres de Léo Errera, 333; New Species of Impatiens, Sir J. D. Hooker, 353; the Shepherd's Purse, G. H. Shull, 354; German Botanical Congress, 378; Potato Disease Leaf-roll," 378; Tuber-bearing Species of Solanum, Herr Wittmack, 379; Deterioration that Follows upon Self-fertilisation or Inbreeding of the Maize Plant, Dr. G. H. Shull, 402; a Tourist's Flora of the West of Ireland, R. L. Praeger, 422; Illustrated Guide to the Trees and Flowers of England and Wales, H. G. Jameson, 422; Flora Koreana, T. Makai, 422; the Botany of Worcestershire, J. Amphlett and Carleton Rea, 422; Classification of African Species of the Poly. morphic Genus Senecio, Dr. R. Muschler, 434; Studies of Tropical American Ferns, W. R. Maxon, 434; die Pflanzenwelt Deutschlands, Dr. P. Graebner, 451; Pflanzenbiologie, Dr. W. Migula, 451; Unsere Zier- pflanzen, P. F. F. Schulz, 451; Phanerogamen, Prof. E. Gilg and Dr. R. Muschler, 451; Kryptogamen, Dr. M. Möbius, 451; Zimmer- und Balkonpflanzen, P. Dannenberg, 451; Clay's Successful Gardening, 451; Botany for Matriculation, Dr. F. Cavers, 451, Beginner's Botany, Prof. L. H. Bailey, 451; Elementary Practical Botany, W. E. Clarke, 451; the Genus Cereus, Prof. N. L. Britton and Dr. J. N. Rose, 462; Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition in South-west Africa, 1908-9, Prof. H. H. W. Pearson, 466, 499; Fungus Maladies of the Sugar-cane, Dr. N. A. Cobb, 496; Vegetation Conditions in the Central Vosges Mountains, Dr. E. Issler, 496; Tamarisk Manna, D. Hooper, 526; Nomenclature in Connection with Plant Formations, Dr. R. Gradmann, 526; see also British Association Bouasse (Prof. H.), Cours de Physique, Électroptique, 185; Méthode dans les Sciences, 361
Boudroux (F.), Synthesis of Unsaturated Fatty Ketones, 269
Boulenger (C. L.), Subcutaneous Fat-bodies in Bufo, 504 Boulenger (G. A.), Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History), 216 Boulud (M.), Total Sugar of the Plasma and Globules of the Blood, 510
Bourget (Henry), Observations at the Observatory of Mar- seilles of the Comet 1909a (Borrelly), 29
Bourion (M.), Extraction of Lutecium from the Gadolinite Earths, 120
Bourne (Prof. Gilbert C.), an Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals, 513 Bouveault (L.), Death of, 311
Bowes (H. G.), Veterinary Inspection of Dairy Cattle, 141 Boys (Prof. C. V., F.R.S.), a New Analytical Engine designed by Percy E. Ludgate, 14; Position Finding with- out an Horizon, 111; an Elementary Treatment of the Theory of Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic motion, Harold Crabtree, 182; Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 512 Brassolidæ (Dr. H. Stichel), 245
Brauner (Dr. A.), Classification of Starlings, 246 Breeding Horses for Use, or Equine Eugenics, Francis Ram, 525
Breton (Miss A.), Race Types in the Ancient Sculptures and Paintings of Mexico and Central America, 478; Arms and Accoutrements of the Ancient Warriors at Chichen Itza, 478
Breuil (l'Abbé), Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro, 522 Bridge (Prof. T. W., F.R.S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 42
Bridges, the Design of Highway, and the Calculation of Stresses in Bridge Trusses, Prof. M. S. Ketchum, 393 Brigham (Prof.), Possibility of Extending the Food Produc- tion of Canada, 535
Brill (Dr. Alfred), Position Finding without an Horizon, 231 Brislee (Dr. E. J.), Technical Assay of Zinc, 540 British Association Meeting at Winnipeg, 75, 278; Sec- tional Programmes, 76; Inaugural Address by Prof. Sir J. J. Thomson, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Presi- dent of the Association, 248; the Seven Styles of Crystal Architecture, Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, F.R.S., 299; Our Food from the Waters, Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 356 Section A (Mathematics and Physics)-Opening Address by Prof. E. Rutherford, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Presi-
dent of the Section, 257; Pressure of Radiation against the Source, Prof. J. H. Poynting and Guy Barlow, 469; Prof. Hull, 469; Ascertained Properties of Light of Very Short Wave-Lengths (Schumann Rays"), Prof. T. Lyman, 469; Prof. Bumstead, 460 Photo- graphs of Jupiter, Prof. Percival Lowell, 469; Early Drawings of Jupiter by Sir W. Huggins, Prof. Larmor, 469; Motion of Some of the Small Stars in Messier 92 (Herculis), Prof. E. E. Barnard, 469; Present State of the Theory of Aggregates, Prof. E. H. Hobson, 470; Generalisations of the Icosahedral Group, Prof. G. A. Miller, 470; New Proof of a Theorem of Weierstrass, the Factorisation of Power Series, Prof. G. A. Bliss, 470; Invention of the Slide Rule, Prof. F. Cajori, 470; Report of the Committee on Further Tabulation of Bessel Functions, 470; on the Three-fold Emission Spectra of Solid Organic Compounds, Prof. E. Gold- stein, 470; Sir J. J. Thomson, 470; Prof. H. E. Arm- strong, 470; Influence of Electrolytes on Colloidal Ferric Oxide Solutions, E. F. Burton, 470; Methods of Separation of Radio-active Products, Dr. Otto Hahn, 470; Prof. Rutherford, 470; Sir J. Larmor, 470; the Secondary Rays Excited in Different Metals by a Rays, Prof. J. C. McLennan, 470-1; Some Phenomena Asso- ciated with the Radiations from Polonium, V. E. Pound, 471; on Anode Rays and their Spectra, Dr. O. Reichenheim, 471; on Clark and Weston Standard Cells, Dr. H. L. Bronson and A. N. Shaw, 471; Action of a Rays upon Glass, Prof. Rutherford, 471; Magnetic Work of the Past Ten Years of U.S. Coast and Geo- detic Survey and the Carnegie Institute of Washing- ton, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 471; Prof. G. E. Hale, 471; Distribution of Pressure over Canada, R. F. Stupart, 471; Positive Electricity, Sir J. J. Thomson, 471; Law of Distribution of Stellar Motions, A. S. Eddington, 471; Variation of the Specific Heat of Mercury at High Temperatures, Prof. H. T. Barnes, 472; Prof. Perry, 472; Active Deposits from Actinium in Uniform Elec- tric Fields, W. T. Kennedy, 472; Effect of Light on Sulphur Insulation, F. W. Bates, 472; Charge upon Gaseous Ions, Dr. T. Franck and Dr. W. Westphal, 472; on the Re-combination of Ions in Air at Different Temperatures, Dr. P. Phillips, 472; Terminal Velocity of Fall of Small Spheres in Air, Prof. John Zeleny and L. A. McKeehan, 472; Sir Joseph Larmor, 472; Earth Tides, Prof. A. E. H. Love, 472; Sir G. Darwin, 472; Dr. O. Hecker, 472; Dr. S. C. Chandler, 472; Sir J. Larmor, 472; Dr. L. A. Bauer, 473; Effect on the Persistence of Vision of Fatiguing the Eye with Red, Orange, and Yellow, Prof. Frank Allen, 473; New Method of Measuring the Luminosity of the Spec- trum, Prof. Frank Allen, 473; Effects of Low Tem- perature on Fluorescence Spectra, Profs. E. L. Nichols and E. Merritt, 473; Absorption and Fluorescence of Canary Glass at Low Temperatures, R. C. Gibbs, 473: European Ballons-sondes Observations, Prof. J. W. Humphreys, 473; Report on the Present State of Our Knowledge of the Upper Air, E. Gold and Mr. Har- wood, 473; Highest Balloon Ascent in America, Prof. A. L. Rotch, 473; Temperature Distribution in the Free Atmosphere over the British Isles, Dr. Shaw, 473; Results of Hourly Observations with Registering Balloons, June 2-3, 1909, A. Harwood, 473: Effect of Temperature Variations on the Luminous Discharge in Gases for Low Pressures, R. F. Earhart, 473: Prof. Rutherford, 473; Sir J. Larmor, 473; Prof. MacDonald, 474; the Relative Motion of the Earth and Æther and the FitzGerald-Lorentz Effect, C. W. Chamberlain, 474: New Cemented Triple for Spectroscopic Use, Lieut.- Colonel J. W. Gifford, 474: Magnetostriction, Dr. H. G. Dorsey, 474
Section B (Chemistry)-Opening Address (Abridged) by Prof. H. E. Armstrong, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Presi- dent of the Section, 279; New Determination of the Atomic Weight of Iridium, Prof. E. H. Archibald, 474: Electrical Conductivity of Solutions of Iodine and Platinum Tetraiodide in Ethyl Alcohol, Prof. E. H. Archibald and W. A. Patrick, 474: Anti-putrescent Effects of Copper Salts, in Particular towards the Bac- teria of Milk, Dr. Alfred Springer, 474; Dynamic
Isomerism, Dr. T. M. Lowry, 475; Sir J. Larmor, 475; Useful Improvements in the Technique of Optical Investigations, Dr. Lowry, 475; History of the Wheats, Dr. Stapf, 475; Factors Determining the Yield of Wheat, Dr. E. J. Russell and A. D. Hall, 475; In- fluence of Environment on the Composition of wheat, F. T. Shutt, 475; Quality in Wheaten Flour, A. E. Humphries, 475; Chemical Properties of Flour, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, 476; Influence of the Minerals of Flour on its Quality, W. B. Hardy, 476; Comparative Milling and Baking Qualities of a Number of Canadian Wheats, Prof. R. Harcourt, 476; Proteins: the Rela- tion between Composition and Food Value, Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong, 476; Prof. Starling, F.R.S., 476; Problems of the Stock Feeder, Dr. E. J. Russell, 476, Pig Feeding, F. T. Shutt, 476; Changes in the Habits of the Women of the Upper Middle Classes dur- ing the Last Fifty Years, Dr. F. N. Alcock, 476; Feeding of Stock, Prof. J. Wilson, 476 Section C (Geology)-Opening Address by Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., V.P.Z.S., Sec. G.S., Keeper of Geology in the British Museum, President of the Sec- tion, 290; the Bearing of Pre-Cambrian Geology on Uniformitarianism, Prof. A. P. Coleman, 446; the Pre- Cambrian Rocks of Canada, Prof. W. G. Millar, 446; the Faunal Succession of the Lower Carboniferous (Avonian) of the British Isles, Dr. A. Vaughan, 445; New Faunal Horizons in the British Coalfield, H. Bol ton, 446; the Glacial Lake Agassiz, Dr. Warren Up- ham, 446; Extent of the Ice Sheets in the Great Plains, Prof. A. P. Coleman, 446; Mining in Canada, Prof. Miller, 447; Metal Mining in Canada, Prof. Coleman, 447; Placer Mining, J. B. Tyrrell, 447; Rare Metals of Canada, Prof. T. L. Waller, 447; the Volcano Meta- vanu, Dr. Tempest Anderson, 447
Section D (Zoology)-Opening Address by A. E. Shipley, M.A.Cantab., Hon. D.Sc., Princeton, F.R.S., President of the Section; I., Charles Darwin, 315; II., Organis- ing Zoology, 317; III., International Ocean Research, 321; Origin of the Vertebrates, Dr. E. Goodrich, 504; Subcutaneous Fat-bodies in Bufo, C. L. Boulenger, 504; Osteology of the Lophobranchii, Prof. H. Junger- sen, 504; on the Germinal Disc in Naturally Incubated Eggs of Passer domesticus, Prof. C. J. Patten, 505; the British Pleistocene Canidæ, Prof. S. H. Reynolds, 505; Geographical Distribution of Rotifera, C. F. Rousselet, 505
Section E (Geography) Opening Address by Colonel Sir Duncan Johnston, K.C.M.G., C.B., R.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., President of the Section, 323; Floods in the Great Interior Valley of North America, Luella A. Owen, 506; the Hudson Bay Route, Dr. Robert Bell, 506; Agricultural Development of Canada, 1904-9; Prof. Mavor, 506; Major Craigie, 506; Formation of Arroyos in Adobe-filled Valleys in the South-western United States, Prof. Dodge, 506; the Water Route from Lake Superior to the Westward, Lawrence J. Burpee, 506; Physical History of Nantasket Beach, Prof. Douglas W. Johnson, 506; the Geographer David Thompson, J. B. Tyrrell, 507; Progress of the General Magnetic Survey of the Earth in Recent Years, Dr. L. A. Bauer, 507
Section G (Engineering)-Opening Address by Sir W. H. White, K.C.B., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, 342; Peculiar Geographical Position of Winnipeg, 447; the Grain Industry, John Miller, 447: George Harcourt, 447: Deep Water and Railway Com- munications, Colonel Anderson, 448; Mr. St. Laurent, 448; Major George Stephens, 448; Works on the Canadian Pacific Railway, T. E. Schwitzer, 448; Organisation for the Collection and Transport of Grain in the Wheat Area, H. W. Lanigan, 448; the Panama Canal, Colonel Goethals, 448
Section H (Anthropology)—Opening Address (Abridged) by Prof. John L. Myres, M.A., F.R.S., President of the Section, the Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science, 379; Ethnographic Survey of Canada, Sidney Hartland, 477; Dr. Franz Boas, 477; Problem of the White Immigrants, Dr. Shrubsall, 477; Ethnology of the Okanagan of British Columbia, Mr.
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