25, 1909 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 Áltitude 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 Holcthurians, 167 Becquerel (Jean), Existence in the Magnetic Decomposition of the Absorption Bands of a Uniaxial Crystal of Dissymmetry of Positions, 150 Belar (Prof.), Large Disturbances of Seismographs by Distant 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 Telephone, the, 244 Bell (Prof. Louis), a New Form of Comparison Prism, 46 Benham (Charles E.), the Acarus Crossii, 127; the Benham Benham Top, the, F. Peake Sexton, 275; Charles E. Benham, 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 Bhattacharjee (Nibaran Chandra), Morphological and 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 Hermaphroditism in Crepidula fornicata, J. H. Orton, 58; a Parasite of the Schizopod Crustacean Gastrosaccus spinifer, G. Gilson, 44; Biologisches Praktikum für höhere Schulen, Dr. Bastian Schmid, 96; Biologische Experimente 'nebst einem Anhang mikroskopische Technik, Walther Schurig, 96; Association of Economic Biologists, 114; Relations of Certain Cestodes and Nematode Parasites 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 Enteropneusta, 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, 459; Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition in Southwest 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 Organisms 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 Tanganyika, 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 Herman 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, 60 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 Compounds on Methyl-2-pentanone-4, 29 Boelter (W. R.), Proposed "Arbour Day," 165 Bohlin (Dr. Karl), Parallax of the Double Star Σ 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 Coalfield, 446 Bolton (Scriven), Jupiter's South Tropical Dark Area, 487 Bonjean (Ed.), Formation of Oxygen Compounds of Nitrogen and their Metallic Combinations (Iron and Lead) in Production of Ozone for Sterilisation of Water, 60 Bonnet (Pierre), Oxidation of Aldehydes by Silver Oxide, 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 Borrelly-Daniel, Comet 1909a, 20; M. Chofardet, 46; 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," Prof. 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 Physiological Differences between Marsilea left on Dry Land and that Growing in Water, Nibaran Chandra Bhattacharjee, 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 Algae in the Black Sea, N. N. Woronichin, 44; Reproduction and Early Development of Laminaria digitata and Laminaria saccharina, G. H. Drew, 58; Linnean Society, 89; Wych Elm Seedlings, Rosamond F. Shove, 99; Origin of the White Florentine Iris, Drs. R. Pirotta and M. Puglisi, 108; Botanical Surveys, W. Munn Rankin, 127; Wissenschaftliche 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 Phanerogamic 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 District, 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; Ě. D. Merrill, 265; Revision of the American Group of Thibaudieæ, R. Hörold, 265; Constitution 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 Nature 25 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 Zierpflanzen, 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 Marseilles 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 Bowes (H. G.), Veterinary Inspection of Dairy Cattle, 141 Brauner (Dr. A.), Classification of Starlings, 246 Breton (Miss A.), Race Types in the Ancient Sculptures 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 Production 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; Sectional Programmes, 76; Inaugural Address by Prof. Sir J. J. Thomson, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., President 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 · Photographs 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. Goldstein, 470; Sir J. J. Thomson, 470; Prof. H. E. Armstrong, 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 Associated 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 Geodetic Survey and the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 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 Electric 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 Spectrum, Prof. Frank Allen, 473; Effects of Low Temperature 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. Harwood, 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., President 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 Bacteria 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; Influence 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 Relation 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, 470; 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 Section, 290; the Bearing of Pre-Cambrian Geology on Uniformitarianism, Prof. A. P. Coleman, 446; the PreCambrian 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. Bolton, 446; the Glacial Lake Agassiz, Dr. Warren Upham, 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 Metavanu, 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., Organising 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. Jungersen, 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 Communications, 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. Hill-Tout, 477; the Blackfoot Medical Priesthood, Dr. John Maclean, 477; Present Native Population and Traces of Early Civilisation in the Province of New Brunswick, William McIntosh, 477; Copper Implements from a Site in Western Ontario, Prof. E. Guthrie Perry, 478; Race Types in the Ancient Sculptures and Paintings of Mexico and Central America, Miss A. Breton, 478; Arms and Accoutrements of the Ancient Warriors at Chichen Itza, Miss Breton, 478; Tribes Inhabiting the Koskokurm Valley, Dr. G. B. Gordon, 478; Recent Hittite Research, Dr. G. Hogarth, 478; Prehistoric Antiquities of Malta, Dr. Ashby and Mr. Peet, 478; Archæological and Ethnological Researches in Sardinia, Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, 478; Researches in Crete, C. H. Hawes, 478; Neolithic Sites in Thessaly, 478; Excavations at the Nubian Cemetery at Anibeh, Dr. Randall-MacIver, 478 Section I (Physiology)-Opening Address by Prof. E. H. Starling, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, the Physiological Basis of Success, 384; Report of the Committee on Anæsthetics, Dr. Waller, 507; Dr. N. H. Alcock, 507; Prof. A. R. Cushny, 507; Prof. W. T. Porter, 507; Use of Atropine in Conjunction with Anæsthetics, Dr. Webster, 507; Inorganic Composition of the Blood in Puerperal Eclampsia, Prof. A. B. Macallum, 507; Tracts in the Spinal Cord, Dr. Page May and Prof. Sutherland Simpson, 507; the Delimitation of the Motor Area in the Cerebral Cortex Demonstrated by the Method of Retrograde Chromatolysis, Dr. Page May, 508; the Pyramidal Tract in the Sheep and Guinea-Pig, Dr. Sutherland Simpson, 508; Study of the Thyroids and Parathyroids, Mrs. Thompson, 508; Effect of excluding the Blood Passing Through the Adrenals from the Circulation, Dr. Young, 508; Effect of Local Heat on Vegetable and Animal Tissues, Dr. Waller, 508; Difference in Composition of Different Proteins, Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong, 508 Section K (Botany)-Opening Address by Lieut.-Colonel David Prain, C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., President of the Section, 406; Organisation and Reconstruction of the Nuclei in the Root-tips of Podophyllum peltatum, Prof. J. B. Overton, 537; Nucleus of the Yeast Plant, Harold Wager and Miss A. Peniston, 537: Nuclear Phenomena of Ascomycetes in Relation to Heredity, Miss H. C. I. Fraser, 537: Production and Dispersion of Spores in the Hymenomycetes, Prof. A. H. R. Buller, ༢༢7: Number of Bacteria in the Air of Winnipeg, Prof. Buller and C. W. Lowe, 537; Prothallium and Embryo Sporophyte of Danæa, Prof. D. H. Campbell, 537: Ancestry of the Osmundaceæ, Prof. D. T. Gwynne Vaughan and Dr. Kidston, 537; Structure of a New Zygopteris, W. T. Gordon, 537; Fundamental Causes of Succession among Plant-associations, Prof. H. C. Cowles, 537; the Rocky Mountain Flora in Relation to Climate, Prof. F. Ramaley, 537; Observations and Experiments on the Ecology of Spiraea ulmaria, Prof. R. H. Yapp, 537; History of the Wheats, Dr. O. Stapf, 538; Delayed Germination of Seeds, Prof. Pammel, 538; the Industry of Rubber Cultivation, J. Parkin, 538; Chemistry of Chlorophyll, Prof. R. Willstätter, 538; Evolution of the Inflorescence, J. Parkin, 538; Life-history of Trichodiscus elegans, Miss E. J. Welsford, 538; Effects of Tropical Conditions on the Development of Certain English Enotheras, Dr. R. R. Gates, 538; Perception of Light in Plants, Harold Wager, 538 Sub-section of K (Agriculture)-Opening Address by Major P. G. Craigie, C.B., F.R.S., Chairman of the Sub-section, 411; Experimental Farm System in Canada, Dr. W. Saunders, 52. Possibility of extending the Food Production of Canada, Prof. Brigham, 535 Prof. Mavor, 535: Factors Determining the Yield of Wheat, A. D. Hall and E. J. Russell, 535: the Influence of Environment on the Composition of the Grain, F. T. Shutt, 535; Strength of Wheat, A. E. Humphries, 536; Dr. E. F. Armstrong, 536; Baking Qualities of Certain Flours, Prof. Harcourt, 536; Experiments in Breeding Wheat, Dr. C. Saunders, 536; Forestry Problems, Prof. Somerville, 536; R. H. Campbell, 536; History of the Aberdeen-Angus Breed of Cattle, Prof. Wilson, 536; Soil Problems, F. T. Shutt, 536; Prof. Alway, 526; Soil Moisture, Prof. King, 536; Conservation of Soil Fertility, A. D. Hall and E. J. Russell, 536 Section L (Educational Science)-Opening Address by the Rev. H. B. Gray, D.D., Warden of Bradfield College, Berkshire, President of the Section, the Educational Factors of Imperialism, 442 British Birds in their Haunts, Rev. C. A. Johns, 100 British Explosives Industry, the Rise and Progress of the, 190 British Medical Association, Physiology at the, 200 British Rainfall, 1908, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 514 471 Bronze-age Interments in Switzerland, F. A. Forel, 371 Broom (Dr. R.), the Organ of Jacobson in Orycteropus, 28; Milk Dentition of the Aard-vark, 166 Browne (Miss E. N.), Production of New Hydranths by the Insertion of Small Grafts from another Individual of the same Species, 496 Browning (Dr. Carl H.), Studies on Immunity, 214 Brunton (Sir Lauder), on the Poison of Venomous Snakes and the Methods of Preventing Death from their Bite, 186 Bryan (Prof. G. H., F.R.S.), the Aeronautical Society, 6; the Stability of Aeroplanes, 366; Aviation, 397 Bryant (Father A. T.), Materia Medica among the Zulus, 298 Bücking (Dr. H.), the Antiquity of Man in South America, 534 Building Materials, Introduction to the Chemistry and Physics of, Alan E. Munby, 62 Buisson (M.), Comparison of the Spectra of the Centre and Edge of the Sun's Disc, 110 Buller (Prof. A. H. R.), Production and Dispersion of Spores in the Hymenomycetes, 537; Number of Bacteria in the Air of Winnipeg, 537 Bumstead (Prof.), Ascertained Properties of Light of very Burnham (Prof.), Double-star Measures, 376; Halley's Burns (Gavin), the Number of the Stars, 229 Burrard (Col. S. G., F.R.S.), a Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet, 424 Burton (E. F.). Influence of Electrolytes on Colloidal Ferric Oxide Solutions, 470 Buss (A. A.), Solar Research, 200; Temperature and Pressure Conditions in the Solar Atmosphere, 356; Ha Images on Spectroheliograms, 376 Butier (C. P.), Origin of Certain Lines in the Spectrum of Orionis, 26 Butler (Dr. E. J.), Fungal Disease, Coryneum mori, in Cabré (Juan), Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro, 522 Cadastral Survey of Egypt, 1892-1907, the, Capt. H. G. Lyons, 194 , 25 Cady (W. G.), Phenomena Exhibited by Electric Arcs between Metal Electrodes, 297 Caillou (Pousse), the Region Known as Changchenmo, 354 Cajori (Prof. F.), Invention of the Slide Rule, 470 Calendar, Styles of the, W. T. Lynn, 277 Callendar (Prof. H. L., F.R.S.), Osmotic Phenomena and their Modern Physical Interpretation, Discourse at Royal Institution, 235 Calmette (Dr. A.), Determination of the Bovine or Human Origin of Tuberculosis, 135; Venoms, Venomous Animals, and Anti-venomous Serum-therapeutics, 154 Cambage (R. H.), Native Flora of New South Wales, 240: New Species of Eucalyptus from the Monaro District, N.S.W., 240 Cambridge, the Darwin Celebrations at, 7 Cambridge, the Meeting of the International Geodetic Association in London and, 426 Cambridge County Geographies: Somerset, Francis A. Knight and Louie M. Dutton, 188 Campbell (A.). Measurement of Wave-length for Highfrequency Electrical Oscillations, 119 Campbell (Prof. D. H.), New Flora of Krakatau, 296; Prothallium and Embryo Sporophyte of Danæa, 537 Campbell (Prof.), Water Vapour in the Martian Atmo sphere, 376 Campbell (R. H.), Forestry Problems, 536 Canaan Stone, a, G. Harold Drew, 486 Canada, Report on the Mining and Metallurgical Industries of, 1907-8, 511 Cancer Research Fund, the Imperial, 86 Cape Town: Royal Society of South Africa, 30, 239, 270, 510 Carhart (Prof. H. S.), a Transition Point in Zinc Amalgam, 119 Carnegie, First Magnetic Results obtained on the, in the North Atlantic, Dr. L. A. Bauer and W. J. Peters, 529 Carnetz (V.), Sense of Direction of Man, 166 Carpenter (Prof. H. C. H.), Growth of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings, 437 Cartography: the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Atlas, 1 Carulla (F. J. R.), Process of Manufacturing Artificial Magnetic Oxide of Iron, 437 Carus-Wilson (Cecil), Musical Sands, 69, 159; Pitting of Flint Surfaces, 403 Cassell's " Nature Copies (Wild Flowers), 246 Castle (Frank), Five-figure Logarithmic and other Tables, 484 Castro (R.), Search-ephemerides for Comet 1896 VII. (Perrine), 170 Catania Observatory, the Spectroheliograph of the, Prof. Cavers (Dr. F.), Botany for Matriculation, 451 Cesaresco (Countess Evelyn Martinengo), the Place of Cetacea Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins (Order Cetacea) Exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S. W., 4 Cetus, a Newly Discovered Nebula Cluster in, Prof. Wolf, 436 Ceylon, Recent Publications on Agriculture from India and, 231 Chagas (Carlos), a New Human Trypanosome Parasite (T. cruzi), 46 Challenger Society, 119 Chalmers (S. D.), the Sine Condition in Relation to the Coma of Optical Systems, 119 Chamberlain (C. W.), the Relative Motion of the Earth and Æther and the FitzGerald-Lorentz Effect, 474 Chamberlin (Prof. T. C.), the Tidal and other Problems, 102 Chandler (Dr. S. C.), Earth Tides, 472 Chassy (A.), Conductivity of a Gas at Atmospheric Pressure Chatterjee (G. C.), Ova of a Distoma found in the Skeletal Muscles of Saccobranchus fossilis, 270 Chemistry: the Atomic Weight of Platinum, Prof. E. H. Archibald, 29; Use of Platinum Felt as a Filtering Medium, W. O. Snelling, 404; Dimethylcamphor and Dimethylcampholic Acid, A. Haller and Ed. Bauer, 29; Action of some Organo-magnesium Compounds on Methyl-2-pentanone-4, F. Bodroux and F. Taboury, 29; Pseudo-morphine, Gabriel Bertrand and V. I. Meyer, 29; Evolution in Applied Chemistry, Prof. Otto N. Witt at Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 51; Fermentation of Glucose, Mannose, and Fructose by Yeast-juice, A. Harden and W. J. Young, 57; Mutarotation of Glucose, Y. Osaka, 528; Pharmacological Action of Protocatechyltropeine, Prof. C. R. Marshall, 59; Gases of Volcanic Fumaroles, Armand Gautier, 59; Ordinary Carbon, H. Le Chatelier and M. Wologdine, 59; Action of Metallic Oxides on Methyl Alcohol, Paul Sabatier and A. Mailhe, 59; Hydrolysis of Salts in Amphoteric Electrolytes, Miss H. H. Beveridge, 59; Formation of Oxygen Compounds of Nitrogen and their Metallic Combinations (Iron and Lead) in the Production of Ozone for the Sterilisation of Water, Ed. Bonjean, 60; Processes for the Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 143; New Alkaloid Extracted from the Bark of Pseudocinchona Africana, Ernest Fourneau, 60; Formation of Lactones from Acid Alcohols, E. E. Blaise and A. Koehler, 60; Introduction to the Chemistry and Physics of Building Materials, Alan E. Munby, 62; Modern Organic Chemistry, Dr. C. A. Keane, 64; Practical Organic Chemistry, Dr. J. J. Sudborough and T. C. James, 64; the Elements of Organic Chemistry, E. J. Lewis, 64: Abhandlung über die Glycole oder Zwei atomige Alkohole, Adolf Wurtz, 64; Practical Physiological Chemistry, Prof. Philip B. Hawk, 67; Value of Benzidine for the Detection of Minute Traces of Blood, Prof. E. J. McWeeney, 89: Trialkylacetophenones and the Trialkylacetic Acids derived from Them, A. Haller and Edouard Bauer, 90; Tautomeric Changes Elucidated by Means of the Magnetic Rotatory Power, P. Th. Muller and M. Thouvenot, 90; Evolution of Hydrogen from Silicochloroform under Silent Discharge, A. Besson and L. Fournier, 90; Oxidation of Aldehydes of Silver, Marcel Delépine and Pierre Bonnet, 90; Hydrolysis of Proteid Materials by Means of Hydrofluoric Acid, L. Hugounenq and A. Morel, 90; Naturgeschichte einer Kerze von Michael Faraday, 95: Junior Chemistry, R. H. Adie, 95: Chemistry, Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 95 Histoire du Développement de la Chimie depuis Lavoisier jusqu'a nos Jours, Prof. A. Ladenburg, 96; Nature of the Change undergone by Crystals of Heptahydrated Sodium Sulphate in Contact with Crystals of the Decahydrate, D. Gernez, 120; New Method of Separating Uranium X, B. Szilard, 120; Rate of Helium Production from the Complete Series of Uranium Products, Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 158; Chemical Action of the Penetrating Rays of Radium on Water, Miroslaw Kernbaum, 120; Hydrolytic Decomposition of Bismuth Bromide, René Dubrisay, 120; the Hydrolytic Dissociation of Bismuth Iodide, René Dubrisay, 330; Extraction of Lutecium from the Gadolinite Earths, G. Urbain, MM. Bourion and Maillard, 120; Rapid Method for Testing Plants for Hydrocyanic Acid, Marcel Mirande, 120; Essays, Biographical and Chemical, Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., C. Simmonds, 122; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. G. Arth, 134; Synthesis of Papaverine, Amé Pictet and A. Gams, 150; the Catalysis of the Fatty Acids, J. B. Senderens, 150; New Base extracted from Rye containing Ergot, Ergothioneine, C. Tanret, 150; Grundriss der allgemeinen Chemie, Wilhelm Ostwald, 183; Grundriss der Pharmakochemie, Dr. O. A. Oesterle, Prof. Henry G. Greenish, 184; Southall's Organic Materia Medica, J. Barclay, Prof. Henry G. |