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Modern Electric Practice, Maurice Solomon, 151

Radio-activity and Geology, Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., 152
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Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of Scotland, Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Laurence Pullar, 155

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Die Röntgenuntersuchung der Brustorgane und ihre Ergebnisse für Physiologie und Pathologie, Dr. Hans Arnsperger, 222

Exploration of the Air with Ballons-sondes at St. Louis and with Kites at Blue Hill, H. Helm Clayton and S. P. Fergusson, 223

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Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 230

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Wild Beasts of the World, Frank Finn, 332

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History of the Clay-working Industry in the United States,
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The Geology of South Africa, Dr. F. H. Hatch and Dr.
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Handbook for Field Geologists, Dr. C. W. Hayes, 455
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Die Chemische Entwicklungserregung des tierischen Eies,
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Sur la Compensation entre les Types des Saisons simultanés en différentes Régions de la Terre, H. Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, 467

The Making of Species, Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 481

Die geographische Verbreitung der Schmetterlinge, Dr.
Arnold Pagenstecher, 482

Fertilisers and Manures, A. D. Hall, F.R.S., 483
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Five-figure Logarithmic and other Tables, Frank Castle, 484

Taschenbuch für Mathematiker und Physiker, Felix Auerbach, 484

An Introduction to the Science of Radio-activity, C. W.
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British Mountain Climbs, George D. Abraham, 485
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Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere, Prof. E. Korschelt and Prof. K. Heider, 511

Report on the Mining and Metallurgical Industries of
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Ridley (H. N.), Classification of Scitamineæ as Represented in the Philippine Islands, 312

Ries (Dr. H.), History of the Clayworking Industry in the United States, 452

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245

Ringing of House-bells, Occasional Unexplained, Sir Oliver
Lodge, F.R.S., 98; Rev. C. L. Tweedale, 189; Dr. John
Aitken, F.R.S., 246

Ristenpart (F. W.), Search-ephemerides for Comet 1896
VII. (Perrine), 170; Re-discovery of Perrine's Comet,
229; Comet 1909b (Perrine's 1896 VII.), 267
Roads, Dustless, Tar Macadam, a Practical Treatise for
Engineers, Surveyors, and Others, T. Walker Smith, 92
Roberts (W. M.), a First Dynamics, 156

Robertson (Dr.), Tuberculosis, 142

Robinson (Dr. C. B.), Botany of the Philippine Islands, 265

Robinson (H. C.), Fauna of the Malay Peninsula, 495
Rock Paintings of the Lower Ebro, l'Abbé Breuil and Juan
Cabré, 522

Rocks and Rock Minerals, L. V. Pirsson, 242
Rodman (Dr. G. H.), Historical Collection of Sixty-three
Röntgen-Ray Tubes, 198

Rogers (Major Leonard), on the Poison of Venomous
Snakes and the Methods of Preventing Death from their
Bite, 186

Rolfe (R. A.), Polymorphism in the Flower in the Orchid Cycnoches, 226

Rolston (William E.), the Approaching Opposition of Mars, 336

Röntgen Rays in the Diagnosis of Disease, 220

Röntgenuntersuchung der Brustorgane_und ihre Ergebnisse für Physiologie und Pathologie, die, Dr. Hans Arnsperger,

222

Rosa (E. B.), New Method of Determining an Electrical
Resistance in Absolute Measure, 266

Roscoe (Rev. J.), Cult of the Python at Uganda, 18
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Rosenheim (Dr. Otto), Nomenclature of Lipoid Substances, 496

Rossi (R.), Effect of Pressure on the Band Spectra of the
Fluorides of the Metals of the Alkaline Earths, 27
Rotch (Prof. A. Lawrence), Observations and Investigations
made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory,
Massachusetts, U.S.A., under the Direction of, 223;
Highest Balloon Ascent in America, 473
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505

Roussy (A.), Life of Fungi in Fatty Media, 360
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Sands, Musical, in Chile, M. H. Gray, 126
Santos-Dumont's (M.) Aëroplane Flights, 352

Saturn: 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

Säugetiere Deutschlands, die, Dr. C. Hennings, 243
Saunders (Dr. C.), Experiments in Breeding Wheat, 536
Saunders (Dr. W.), Experimental Farm System in Canada,
535
Scaly-winged, the, a Book on Butterflies and Moths for
Beginners, R. B. Henderson, 304

Schaer (M.), Observations of Saturn and its Rings, 20
Scharff (Dr. R. F.), a Speckled Otter from Lough Sheelin,
135; Evidence in Favour of an Early Tertiary Land-
connection between North and South America, 402
Scheiner (Prof. Dr. J.), der Bau des Weltalls, 36
Scheuer (Otto), Revision of the Density of Gaseous Hydro-
chloric Acid, the Atomic Weight of Chlorine, 510
Schimpf (Dr. H. W.), a Manual of Volumetric Analysis,
364

Schmetterlinge, die geographische Verbreitung der, Dr. Arnold Pagenstecher, 482

Schmid (Dr. Bastian), Biologisches Praktikum für höhere Schulen, 96

Schmidt (Johs.), on the Occurrence of Leptocephali (Larval Murænoids) in the Atlantic W. of Europe, 191; Remarks on the Metamorphosis and Distribution of the Eel (Anguilla vulgaris, Turt.), 191

Schnitzler (Joseph), Action of the Ultra-violet Rays upon the Acetic Fermentation of Wine, 210

Schokalsky (J. de), Central Asiatic Russia and the Level of the Lake Basins, 90

Schönland (Dr. S.), Some Points in the Morphology and
Biology of a New Species of Haworthia, 239; Absorption
of Water by the Aerial Organs of Some Succulents, 240
Schroeter (Dr. G.), V. v. Richter's Chemie der Kohlenstoff-
verbindungen oder organische Chemie, 215
Schubert (Dr. R.), Geologischer Führer durch Dalmatien,
365

Schulz (O. T.), Entwickelung und Untergang des Koperni-
kanischen Weltsystems bei den Alten, 365
Schulz (P. F. F.), Unsere Zierpflanzen, 451
Schurig (Walther), Biologische Experimente nebst einem
Anhang mikroskopische Technik, 96

Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), Molecular Scattering and
Atmospheric Absorption, 97

Schwitzer (T. E.), Works on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 448

Science the Research Defence Society, 22; Publications of the Research Defence Society, 187; the Science Collections at South Kensington, 84; Death of Henri de Parville, 105; Scientific Work in India, 111; the Position of Science Teaching in Public Schools, 192; Weltsprache und Wissenschaft, L. Couturat, O. Jespersen, R. Lorenz, W. Ostwald, L. Pfaundler, 218; Science in Modern Life, 274; de la Méthode dans les Sciences, Prof. H. Bouasse, 361; an Elementary Course in Practical Science, C. Foxcraft and T. Samuel, 363; Science Teaching in German Schools, 429; Forthcoming Books of Science, 438, 464 Scotland, Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-water Lochs of, Sir John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Laurence Pullar, 155

Scott (Andrew), Report for 1908 on the Lancashire Sea. fisheries Laboratory at the University of Liverpool and the Sea-fish Hatchery at Piel, 142

Scott (Dr. D. H., F.R.S.), Adaptation in Fossil Plants, Address at Linnean Society, 115; Natural Selection and Plant Evolution, 188

Scott (Prof. J.), Death of, 493

Scottish Expedition to Spitsbergen, Dr. William S. Bruce, 87

Screw Propeller, the, and other Competing Instruments for Marine Propulsion, A. E. Seaton, 213

Searle (Father), Halley's Comet, 528

Seaton (A. E.), the Screw Propeller, and other Competing Instruments for Marine Propulsion, 213

Sedgwick (Rev. S. N.), the Young People's Birds'-nest Chart, 100

See (Dr. T. J. J.), on the Cause of the Remarkable Circularity of the Orbits of the Planets and Satellites and on the Origin of the Planetary System, 132; the Planar Arrangement of the Planetary System, 275

Seelenleben der Tiere, das, Dr. P. Ohm, 394 Seismology: Possible Existence at Kimberley of Oscillations of Level having a Lunar Period, Dr. J. R. Sutton, 30; the Diurnal Variation of Level at Kimberley, J. R. Sutton, 527; a New Departure in Seismology, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 38; Records of Earthquakes obtained at Shide, Göttingen, Hamburg, and Laibach between January and April 30, 43; Seismic Radiations, Dr. C. G. Knott, 59; Seismograph in Simla, Prof. Omori, 169; the International Seismological Association, 370; Determination of the Azimuth of the Seat of an Earthquake by Combining the Indications of Two Seismographs, Prince Galitzin, 370; Large Disturbances of Seismographs by Distant Earthquake Shocks, Prof. Milne, 524; Prof. Belar, 524; Prof. Michie Smith, 524; List of the Strong Earthquakes Felt in the Philippine Islands during the Last Half-century, Rev. Miguel Saderro Masô, 527

Selborne, Gilbert White and, Henry C. Shelley, 334 Seligman (Dr. C. G.), the Bandar Cult among the Kandyan Sinhalese, 403

Sella (Alfonso), Introduzioni Teoriche ad Alcuni Esercizi Pratici di Fisica, 125

Semitic Magic, its Origins and Development, R. Campbell Thompson, 514

Semon (Prof. Richard), die mnemischen Empfindungen in
ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, 302
Senderens (J. B.), the Catalysis of the Fatty Acids, 150
September Meteors, Torvald Köhl, 498
Serotherapy: Discovery of a Curative Treatment for
Malignant Jaundice in the Dog and for Redwater in
Cattle, with a Demonstration of the Effects of Trypan-
blau upon the Parasites, Prof. George H. F. Nuttall,
F.R.S., and Dr. Seymour Hadwen, 21; Effect of the
Injection of the Intracellular Constituents of Bacteria
(Bacterial Endotoxins) on the Opsonising Action of the
Serum of Healthy Rabbits, Dr. R. Tanner Hewlett, 57;
Venoms, Venomous Animals, and Anti-venomous Serum-
therapeutics, Dr. A. Calmette, 154; on the Poison of
Venomous Snakes and the Methods of Preventing Death
from their Bite, Sir Joseph Fayrer, Sir Lauder Brun-
ton, and Major Leonard Rogers, 186; Studies on
Immunity, Prof. Robert Muir, Drs. Carl H. Browning,
Alexander R. Ferguson, and William B. M. Martin,
214; M. Osiris's Bequest to the Pasteur Institute, 264;
Studies on Immunisation and their Application to
Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacterial Infections, Sir
A. E. Wright, F.R.S., 362; Trypanolytic Power of the
Blood of some Cold-blooded Vertebrates with Respect to
Trypanosoma evansi, A. Laveran and A. Pettit, 390;
Pasteur Institute in Burma, 525

Sexton (F. Peake), the Benham Top, 275
Seymour (Henry J.), a Supposed New Mineral, 518
Shackleton (E. H.), the South Polar Expedition, 16
Shackleton's (Lieut.) Antarctic Expedition, 295

Sharp (Dr. David), Water-beetle, Laccobius scutellaris, at
Brockenhurst, 462

Shaw (A. N.), on Clark and Weston Standard Cells, 471 Shaw (Dr.), Temperature Distribution in the Free Atmosphere over the British Isles, 473

Sheldon (R. E.), Pair of Nerves in the Carp, 107; Sensitiveness of the General Body Surface of the Smooth Dogfish, 167

Shelley (Henry C.), Gilbert White and Selborne, 334
Shepherd (Dr.), Use of Heating Curves, 405

Sheppard (T.), Coast Changes in East Yorkshire, 403 Sherrington (Prof.), the Deep Afferents-their Distribution and Functions, 200

Shipbuilders, Conference of Engineers and, at Glasgow, 203

Shipbuilding New Rules Issued by Lloyd's Register, 45;
Special Steamer for Bananas, 109

Shipley (A. E., M.A. Cantab., Hon. D.Sc. Princeton,
F.R.S.), Relations of Certain Cestodes and Nematode
Parasites to Bacterial Diseases, 114; Opening Address
in Section D at the Meeting of the British Association
at Winnipeg, 315; Evidence in Support of View that the
Appendix Vermiformis is a Functional Organ, 495
Shove (Rosamund F.). Wych Elm Seedlings, 99
Shrubsall (Dr.), Problem of the White Immigrants, 477

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