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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
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. 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
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 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

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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,

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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

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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

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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,

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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
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 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 Birds and their Eggs, with a New Method of
Identification, J. Maclair Boraston, 99

British Explosives Industry, the Rise and Progress of the,

190

British Medical Association, Physiology at the, 200
British Mountain Climbs, George D. Abraham, 485
British Museum: 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; British Museum Report, 78;
Catalogue of the Fresh-water Fishes of Africa in the
British Museum (Natural History), G. A. Boulenger,
216; Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the
British Museum, Vol. viii., Catalogue of the Noctuidæ,
Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., 455

British Rainfall, 1908, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 514
Britton (Prof. N. L.), the Genus Cereus, 462
Bronson (Dr. H. L.), on Clark and Weston Standard Cells,

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
Bruce (Eric Stuart), the Aeronautical Society, 6
Bruce (Dr. William S.), Scottish Expedition to Spits-
bergen, 87

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
Short Wave-lengths ("Schumann Rays "), 469
Burkill (I. H.), Coptis, 30; Cymbopogon Martini, Stapf,
30

Burnham (Prof.), Double-star Measures, 376; Halley's
Comet, 376

Burns (Gavin), the Number of the Stars, 229
Burpee (Lawrence J.), the Water Route from Lake
Superior to the Westward, 506

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
the Mulberry Nurseries near Srinagar, 226
Büty (M. de), Application of the Magnetic Properties of
Metals to Automatic Coin Machines, 150

Cabré (Juan), Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro, 522 Cadastral Survey of Egypt, 1892-1907, the, Capt. H. G. Lyons, 194

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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
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 30, 150, 270
Caldecott (W. A.), Development of Heavy Gravitation
Stamps, 539

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.
Ricco, 376

Cavers (Dr. F.), Botany for Matriculation, 451
Cecropia peltata und ihr Verhältnis zu Azteca Alfari, zu
Alta sexdens und anderen Insekten, Karl Fiebrig, 23
Celestial Charts, the Palisa and Wolf, Dr. Palisa, 230
Ceramics: Liquefaction of Clay by Alkalis and Use of
Fluid Clay Casting in the Ceramic Industry, Dr. E.
Weber, 375

Cesaresco (Countess Evelyn Martinengo), the Place of
Animals in Human Thought, 276

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
Chapman (Dr. H. G.), Hexone Bases of Egg-white, 240
Charpy (Georges), Separation of Graphite in White Cast
Iron Heated under Pressure, 60

Chassy (A.), Conductivity of a Gas at Atmospheric Pressure
under the Influence of a High Alternating Voltage, 90
Chatley (Prof. Herbert), the Force of the Wind, 366; the
Stability of Aëroplanes, 366

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.

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