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of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand, Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., 234

Newall (H. F.), Polarisation Phenomena at Guelma in
the Eclipse 1905 August 30, 191

Newcomb (Prof.), the Zodiacal Light to the North of the
Sun, 161

Newkirk (Dr.), the Ring Nebula in Lyra, 448

Newsholme (Dr.), the Decline of Human Fertility, 230
Newton (Prof. Alfred), Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated
Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs formed by the
late John Wolley, 387

Newtonian Laws, Molecular Forces and, Alex. Clark, 51
Niagara, Canadian Electric Power Stations at, Orrin. E.
Dunlap, 161

Nicholson (William), Smoke Abatement: a Manual for the
Use of Manufacturers, Inspectors, Medical Officers of
Health, Engineers, and Others, 411

Nicol Prism, the Inventor of the, 340, 371; Prof. Silvanus
P. Thompson, F.R.S., 340

Nicolson (J. G.), Rare Plants found in Scotland, 323
Nile Quest, the, a Record of the Exploration of the Nile
and its Basin, Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.M.G., K.C.B.,

391

Nitrates, the Electric Production of, from the Atmosphere, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 355

Nitrogen, Utilisation of, in Air by Plants, Thos. Jamieson, 531, 607; A. D. H., 608

Nobel Prize Awards, 156

Noble (Sir Andrew, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S.), Researches on
Explosives, 116

Nolda (Dr. A.), Climate of St. Moritz, 350

Nomenclature, a Suggested Change in, Dr. Chas. W.
Andrews, 224

Nomenclature of Kinship; its Extension, Dr. Francis
Galton, F.R.S., 150

Nopcsa (Baron), Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Oxford
Clay, 15; Kerunia from the Egyptian Eocene, 15
Nordenskjöld (Baron Erland), Expedition to the Andes, 34
of
Ionisation
the Atmosphere
Nordmann (Charles),

during Total Solar Eclipse, 208
Norfolk, Eastern, Nature in, Arthur H. Patterson, 221
Nörlund (N. E.), the Orbit of Ursa Majoris, 255
Norman (F. J.), the Fighting Man of Japan, 271
North Pole, Catalogue of Stars within Two Degrees of
the, Dr. Caroline E. Furness, 375

Northern Trails; Some Studies of Animal Life in the
Far North, W. J. Long, 177

Nova Aquila, Nebulosity around, Prof. Frost, 279, 518;
Prof. E. C. Pickering, 279

Nova Aquila No. 2, Prof. Wolf, 87; J. A. Parkhurst, 136
Nova Geminorum, Observations of, Dr. K. Graff, 305
Nova Persei (No. 2), the Spectrum of, 18; Observations of,
Dr. K. Graff, 305

Nutrition, Physiological Economy in, 328
Nymphæa, a Monograph of the Genus, the Waterlilies,
Henry S. Conard, 379

Oates (E. W.), Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs
in British Museum (Natural History), 53
Objective-prism Determinations of Stellar Radial Veloci-
ties, Geo. C. Comstock, 592

Observatories: Report of the Yerkes Observatory, Prof.
Hale, 18; the Solar Observatory on Mount Wilson, Cali-
fornia, Contributions from the Solar Observatory of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Prof. G. E. Hale,
67; a Fire Near the Mount Wilson Observatory, 326;
Prof. Hale, 375: the Companion to the Observatory,
1906, 182; the United States Naval Observatory, Rear-
Admiral Chester, 375; Publications of the U.S. Naval
Observatory, American Observations of the Total Solar
Rear-Admiral Colby M.
1901,
Eclipses of 1900 and
Chester, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 486; Photographies
de la Granulation solaire faites à Poulkowa, Prof. A.
Hansky. W. E. Rolston, 401; Harvard College Observ-
atory, Prof. Pickering, 494; Mounting the 60-inch Re
flector at Harvard, 569; the Melbourne Observatory, 569
Oceanography of the Pacific, Dr. James M. Flint, 586
Oehmen (Mr.), an Instrument Devised by, for Surveying

Okada (T.), the Climate of the Bonin Islands, 86; Rainfall of China and Corea, 107

Oldham (R. D.), Constitution of the Interior of the Earth
as revealed by Earthquakes, 502; Earthquake Origins,
Major E. G. Harboe, 620

Oliver (Prof. F. W.), the Origin of Gymnosperms, 542
Oliver (T.), Relation between Normal "Take-up
Degree of Twist in Twisted Threads, 383
to
Attempt
Unsuccessful
Olszewski (Prof.),

Helium, 325

Oltramare (Prof. Gabriel), Death of, 613

and

Liquefy

Omond (R. T.), Interpretation of Meteorological Records,
512
Ophthalmology Physiologie de la Lecture et de l'Écriture,
Emile Javal, J. Herbert Parsons, 268
between Light and
Optics: Border occasionally seen
Dark Regions on Photographic Prints, Sir Oliver Lodge,
F.R.S., 5, 54; Dr. F. J. Allen, 29; R. Child Bayley, 29;
Light Emission by Plants, Prof. H. Molisch, 85; on
Constant-Deviation Prisms, T. H. Blakesley, 95; De-
termination of the Angle between the Optic Axes of a
Crystal in Parallel Polarised Light, Dr. J. W. Evans,
166; the Analytical Theory of Light, J. Walker, 241;
the Colour Sensitivity of the Peripheral Retina, John
Wallace Baird, 260; the Electromagnetic Theory of
Light, Dr. C. E. Curry, 316; Fresnel's Theory of
Double Refraction, James Walker, 319; the Inventor of
the Nicol Prism, 340, 371; Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson,
F.R.S., 340; the Practical Photographer, No. 27, Photo-
graphic Optics and Lenses, No. 28, the Optical Lantern
for Projection and Enlarging, 437; die optischen Instru-
mente, Dr. Moritz von Rohr, 461; Sommerfeld's Diffrac-
tion Problem and Reflection by a Parabolic Mirror, Prof.
H. Lamb, 479; Talbot's Lines, J. Walker,
Mechanism of the Positive Light, P. Villard,
a Source of Monochromatic
Cooper-Hewitt Lamp as
Light, Ch. Fabry and H. Buisson, 551; Improved
Apparatus for measuring Magnetic Rotations and obtain-
ing a Powerful Sodium Light, W. H. Perkin, sen., 623
Orbit of a Corona Borealis, the, Prof. Doberck, 39
Orbit of Ursa Majoris, the, N. E. Nörlund, 255
Orbital Elements of Two Meteors, Dr. P. Moschick, 161
Orbits, Double Star, Prof. Doberck, 305

502; 527;

Ore Analysis, Technical Methods of, A. H. Low, 532
Ore and Stone Mining, a Treatise on, Sir C. Le Neve
Foster, 220

Oregon, Preliminary Report on the Geology and Water
Resources of Central, I. C. Russell, 376

Organic Chemistry, Introduction to the Study of, John
Wade, 172

Organic Evolution, C. W. Saleeby, 99
Organisms, Ions and, 195

Organography of Plants, Dr. K. Goebel, 412

Orientation: the Great Gnomon of Florence Cathedral,
258

Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse, the, W.
Ridgeway, 126

Origin of Living Matter, the Nature and, Dr. H. Charlton
Bastian, F.R.S., 361

Origines de la Statique, les, P. Duhem, Supp. to November
30, ix

:

Orkney Islands, Bird-life at the South, Wm. Eagle Clarke,
570
Ornithology Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe,
Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, J. A.
Harvie-Brown, 50; Catalogue of the Collection of Birds'
Eggs in the British Museum (Natural History), E. W.
Oates and Captain S. G. Reid, 53; Wild Wings, Adven-
tures of a Camera-hunter among the Larger Wild Birds
of North America on Sea and Land, H. K. Job, 123:
the Exterminated Réunion Starling, G. Renshaw, 134;
Life-history of the Emperor Penguin, Edward A. Wilson
at Royal Institution, 211; Frigate-birds as Letter-carriers,
322 Habits of Diamond-tailed Geckos, 322; Death and
Obituary Notice of Sir Robert L. Patterson, 347: Ootheca
Wolleyana, an Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of
Birds' Eggs formed by the late John Wolley, Prof.
Alfred Newton, 387: Eggs of the Native Birds of Britain
and List of British Birds, Past and Present, W. J.
Gordon, 387; the Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, with
some Notes on Seals-and Digressions, Edmund Selous,

June 14, 1906,

O. V. Aplin, 414; Nature-tones and Undertones, J. Maclair Boraston, O. V. Aplin, 414; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Jean Louis Cabanis, 420; European and other Birds introduced into Victoria, 422; the Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Rev. J. E. Kelsall and Philip W. Munn, O. V. Aplin, 465; Death and Obituary Notice of Canon Tristram, F.R.S., 469; the Protection of Birds, 521; Bird-life at the South Orkney Islands, Wm. Eagle Clarke, 570

Osborn (Prof. H. F.), New Dinosaurs from the Laramie Cretaceous, 229; the Skeleton of Brontosaurus and Skull of Morosaurus, 282

Oscillation of Flame Cones, Harold E. Temple, 512; Prof. A. Smithells, F.R.S., 512; Prof. W. Galloway, 584 Osthoff (Prof.), the Forms of Cirrus-clouds, 209

Ossat (Prof. de Angelis d'), Corals of Capri and Triassic Shells of Giffoni, 327

Ouse, the Aeger in the Rivers Trent and, W. H. Wheeler, 29

Oustalet (Jean Frédéric Émile), Death and Obituary Notice of, 85

Outram (James), in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies, 362

Ouvrard (L.), Researches on the Halogen Compounds of the Borates of Barium and Strontium, 359 Oxford Geographies, the, A. J. Herbertson, 99

Pacific, the Oceanography of the, Dr. James M. Flint, 586 Padova (M.), Benzylidene Derivatives of Anthrone and Anthranol, 143

Paget (Stephen), the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, Centenary, 1805-1905, 388 Palæobotany: New Type of Stem from the Coal-measures, Dr. D. H. Scott, 503; Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History), being a Monograph of the Permo-Carboniferous Flora of India and the Southern Hemisphere, E. A. Newell Arber, A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 577

Palæoichthyology: Affinities to Lung-fishes of the Arthrodira, C. R. Eastman, 422

Falæolithics: the Stone Age of the Zambesi Valley, and its Relation in Time, Colonel H. W. Feilden, C.B., 77; Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 581 Palæontology: Extinct Animals, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 6; Carnivorous Dinosaur from the Oxford Clay, Baron Nopcsa, 15; Kerunia from the Egyptian Eocene, Baron Nopcsa, 15; South African Zoology and Palæontology, 56; Prothylacinus and the other Marsupial-like Carnivores of the Santa Cruz Beds are True Marsupials, W. J. Sinclair, 63; Certain Rodents from the Pleistocene of the Western Mediterranean Countries, Dr. Forsyth Major, 106; Large Cretaceous Turtle from Kansas, G. R. Wieland, 134; Myriacanthus paradoxus from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, Dr. A. S. Woodward, 141; New Horned Dinosaurs from Wyoming, J. B. Hatcher, 205; R. S. Lull, 205; the Former Occurrence of the African Wild Cat, Gmel., in Ireland, Dr. R. F. Scharff, 215; New Dinosaurs from the Laramie Cretaceous, Prof. H. F. Osborn, 229; the Skeleton of Brontosaurus and Skull of Morosaurus, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 282; a Large-headed Dinosaur, C. W. Gilmore, 228; Nebula to Man, Henry R. Knipe, 342; Fish Fauna of the Pleistocene Clays of Taranto, Prof. F. Bassani, 327; Corals of Capri and Triassic Shells of Giffoni, Prof. de Angelis d'Ossat, 327; Dr. Galdieri, 327; Liassic Dentaliidæ, L. Richardson, 526; the Osteology of the Diplodocus, Dr. W. J. Holland, 541; Comparison between the Carboniferous Faunas of Western America and those of other Areas, G. H. Girty, 547; Brachiopod Homoeomorphy, the Diphyoid Terebratulæ, S. S. Buckman, 575; the Silurian Fossils described as Arthrophycus and Dædalus, C. L. Sarle, 590; Annales de Paléontologie, publiées sous la Direction de Marcellin Boule, 621 Palawan, the Bataks of, Edward Y. Miller, Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 584

Palazzo (L.), Life of Pietro Tacchini, 425
Palisa (Dr.), Discovery of a New Comet, 326
Panama Canal, the, 198

Pangéométrie, ou Précis de Géométrie fondée sur

une

Théorie générale et rigoureuse des Parallèles, N. J. Lobatschewsky, 100

Paper-making, Chapters on, Clayton Beadle, 581 Paper-making, the Use of Wood Pulp for, M. C. Phillips, 397

Parallel Running of Alternate Current Generators, M. Boucherot, 545

513

Pardy (Alex.), Gas for Heating and Lighting Laboratories, Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 71, 95, 119, 143, 167, 191, 262, 287, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431, 455, 479, 503, 527, 551, 576, 599; Prizes Awarded and Proposed by the, 233

Parker (E. H.), Chinese Names of Colours, 297
Parker (J. Gordon), Leather for Libraries, 53
Parker (K. Langloh), the Euahlayi Tribe, a Study of
Aboriginal Life in Australia, 610

Parkhurst (J. A.), Nova Aquila No. 2, 136

Parkinson (F. B.), Irrigation Farming as carried on at the Orange River Farm at Baviaankrantz, 163

Parsons (Hon. Charles A., C.B., F.R.S.), the Evolution of the Steam-turbine, 157

Parsons (James), Mineralogy of Ceylon, 134

Parsons (J. Herbert), Physiologie de la Lecture et de 'Écriture, Émile Javal, 268

Parthenogenesis, Influence of some Factors on Experimental, Yves Delage, 262 Patents in Germany in 1905, 614

Pathology: Introduction à la Pathologie générale, M. Félix le Dantec, Prof. Wm. St. C. Symmers, 460; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Lionel Smith Beale, 540 Patterson (Arthur H.), Nature in Eastern Norfolk, 221 Patterson (Sir Robert L.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 347

Pavy (Dr., F.R.S.), on the View that the Comparatively Small Molecules into which the Food is Broken Down in the Intestine do not Exist in the Blood as such, 139 Peake (A. H.), Instrument for illustrating the Magnetic Properties of Iron, 455

Pearl (Dr. Raymond), Biometrical Study of Conjugation in Paramecium, 501

Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon, the, Sir Henry Blake, 491 Pearling Industry of North Australia, W. Saville-Kent,

492

Pearson (F. R.), Problems in Practical Physics, 28
Pearson (Prof. H. H. W.), Investigations into the Develop-
ment and Germination of the Spores of Welwitschia, 164;
Welwitschia mirabilis, 238

Pearson (R. S.), Method of Rearing Young Teak Plants, 397

Pécoul (A.), Estimation of Carbon Monoxide in Air by
Iodic Anhydride, 335

Peculiar Ice Formation, James Foulds, 464; Rev. A.
Irving, 485; W. Larden, 485; W. B. Wright, 534
Pellat (Henri), Action of a Magnetic Field on the Gold-
stein Rays (Canal-Strahlen), 192

Pelseneer (Paul), Lamellibranchs with Multiple Mouths, 528

Penck (Prof. A.), on Changes of Climate as shown by Variations of the Snow-line and Upper Tree-limit since Tertiary Times, 91

Penguin, Life-history of the Emperor, Edward A. Wilson at Royal Institution, 211

Penrose's Pictorial Annual, 269

Peptides and Proteids, Studies on the Synthesis of, Prof. Emil Fischer, 519

Percy Sladen Expedition in H.M.S. Sealark, the, J. Stanley Gardiner, 43, 184

Percy Sladen Expedition in H.M.S. Sealark to the Indian Ocean, the, the Seychelles Archipelago, J. Stanley Gardiner, 294

Periodicity of Sun-spots, the, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 378

Periodogram and its Optical Applications, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 378

Periods in Meteorology, Recent Studies of, 209

Peripheral Retina, the Colour Sensitivity of the, John Wallace Baird, 260

Périssé (M. Raymond), le Chauffage des Habitations par Calorifères, 100

Perkin (A. G.), Oxidation Products of the Hydroxybenzoic

Acids, 382; Reaction of Ellagic and Flavellagic Acids, 624

Perkin (Dr. W. H.), Memorial to, 419, 444

Perkin Jubilee and Chemical Industries, the, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 438

Perkin (W. H., jun.), Synthesis of Optically Active Modifications of A-p-Menthenol(8) and A3:(9)-p-Menthadiene,

479 Perkin (W. H., sen.), Improved Apparatus for measuring Magnetic Rotations and obtaining a Powerful Sodium Light, 623

Pernet (Dr. George), Dr. Finsen's Light-treatment of Disease, 323

Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Bursaries at the Royal College of Science, 32; Practical Science for Schools, Presidential Address delivered before the Physical Society by, 402

Persei, Nova, No. 2, the Spectrum of, 18; Observations of, Dr. K. Graff, 305

Perseus, Cluster of Nebulæ in, Dr. Max Wolf, 448 Petersen (Dr. C. G. J.), Development of Plaice in the Baltic Sea, 35

Pethybridge (Dr. G. H.), Causes of "Blowing" in Tins of Condensed Milk, 358

Pethyridge (G. H.), Survey of the Vegetation of the District South of Dublin, 303

Petrography and Geology of the Igneous Rocks of the Highwood Mountains, Montana, L. V. Pirsson, 376 Petrol Car, the, Motor-Car Mechanism and Management, W. Poynter Adams, 580

Petterson (Otto), Correlation of Hydrographic, Biological, and Meteorological Data, 210

Pflanzen, Biochemie der, Prof. Dr. Fr. Czapek, F. Escombe, 193; Corr., 341

Pharmacology: Death of Prof. W. Mayer, 346
Philippine Islands, Scientific Research in the, (1) Descrip-
tion of New Buildings, Paul C. Freer, (2), a Catalogue
of the Library, Mary Polk, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 57;
an Ethnological Survey of the, Dr. A. C. Haddon,
F.R.S., 584

Philips' Large Planisphere, H. Gewecke, 269
Philips' Model Atlas, 484

Phillips (Charles E. S.), Production of an Electrically Conductive Glass, 512

Phillips (M. C.), the Use of Wood Pulp for Paper-making, 397

Phillips (P.), Magnetic Susceptibility of Iron in Colloidal Solution, 455

Phillips (Prof. R. W.), on Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of Seaweeds, 162-3

Phillipson (Prof. Dr. A.), Geology of the West of Asia
Minor, 546

Philology a Grammar of the Kafir Language, J. McLaren,
Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.M.G., 481
Philosophy: Things and Sensations, Prof. Stout,

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Goethe's Philosophie aus seinen Werken, 98; Immanuel Kant, Physische Geographie, 98; Dialogue über natürliche Religion, über Selbstmord und Unsterblichkeit der Seele, David Hume, 98; Immanuel Kant's Kleinere Schriften zur Logik und Metaphysik, 98; G. W. F. Hegel, Encyclopädie der Philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse, 98; Cambridge Philosophical Society, 118, 191, 455, 527, 599; Philosophic Foundations of Science, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 313; Essays on Evolution and Design, Prof. John Young, 56; Erkenntnis und Irrtum, Prof. Ernst Mach, Supp. to November 30, vii Phoebe, the Ninth Satellite of Saturn, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 63

Phoebe, Observations of, during 1905. 474
Phosphorescence

of Pyro-Soda Developer, T. A.

Vaughton, 389 Phosphorescent Marine Animals, Prof. McIntosh, 349 Photography: Border occasionally seen between Light and Dark Regions on Photographic Prints, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., 5, 54; Dr. F. J. Allen, 29; R. Child Bayley, 29; Photographic Star Catalogue, 18; Halation, J. A. Cobb, 54: Nature through Microscope and Camera, Richard Kerr, 104; Wild Wings: Adventures of a Camera-Hunter among the Larger Wild Birds of North America on Sea and Land, H. K. Job, 123; Instruction in Photography, Sir W. de W. Abney, 124; Pictures

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from Nature, Richard and Cherry Kearton, 148; Action of Wood on a Photographic Plate, Dr. William J. Russell, F.R.S., 152; the Practical Photographer, 172; Photographs of Jupiter's Sixth and Seventh Satellites, 182; Photography for the Press, 196; the British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion for 1906, 221; Photographs of Solar Granulations, Prof. Hansky, 255; Deutscher Kamera Almanach, 1906, Fritz Loescher, 318; Photography in Natural Colours, 330; a New Method of Determining the Moon's Position Photographically, Mr. Wade, 352; Die Photographie im Hochgebirg, Emil Terschak, 388; Phosphorescence of Pyro-Soda Developer, T. A. Vaughton, 389; Photographies de la Granulation Solaire faites à Poulkowa, Prof. A. Hansky, W. E. Rolston, 401; Photographic Study of the Duration of Discharge in a Crookes Tube, André Broca and M. Turchini, 431; the Practical Photographer, No. 27, Photographic Optics and Lenses, No. 28, the Optical Lantern for Projection and Enlarging, 437; First Photographs of the Canals of Mars, Prof. Percival Lowell, 453; Request for Prints of Photographic Portraits, Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 534; Photography of the Solar Protuberances with Coloured Screens during the Eclipse of August 30, 1905, H. Deslandres and G. Blum, 576; Death and Obituary Notice of Hermann Schnaus, 589; Observations and Photographs of Black and Grey Soap Films, Herbert Stansfield, 597; a Large Photographic Nebula in Scorpio, Prof. Barnard, 618

Photomicrography with Ultra-Violet Light, Photographs of Diatoms taken by the Zeiss Apparatus, Designed by Dr. August Köhler, Mr. Rheinberg, 287

Phylogeny: Die Spaltöffnungsapparat im Lichte der Phylogenie, Ein Beitrag zur "phylogenetischen Pflanzenhistologie, "Dr. Otto Porsch, 436

Physical Condition of Children in Elementary Schools, Dr. Kerr, 548

Physics Replicas of Diffraction Gratings, R. J. Wallace, 21; Thomas Thorp, 79; the Writer of the Note, 79; Ergebnisse und Probleme der Elektronentheorie, Prof. H. A. Lorentz, Dr. H. A. Wilson, 27; Problems in Practical Physics, F. R. Pearson, 28; the Use of Gasoline in Chemical and Physical Laboratories, J. R. Foster, 29; Physical Society, 47, 95, 142, 357, 502, 526, 575; Practical Science for Schools, Presidential Address at Physical Society, Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 402; Molecular Forces and Newtonian Laws, Alex. Clark, 51: Explication méchanique de la Matière, de l'Électricité et du Magnetisme, M. Despaux, 51; Death of Dr. Johann Meidinger, 58; Influence of Phase Changes on Tenacity of Ductile Metals, G. T. Beilby and H. N. Beilby, 70; Impossibility of Negative Impulse Waves in Gases, Gyözö Zemplén, 71; Influence of the Earth's Rotation on Ocean Currents, W. Walfrid Ekman, 86; New Determination of the Mass of a Cubic Decimetre of Pure Water, H. Buisson, 86; Convection Effects in a Heated Liquid, C. H. Burgess, 143; the Movements of Diatoms caused by the Evolution of Gas, Daniel D. Jackson, 159; the Stability of Motion of Viscous Liquids, F. R. Sharpe, 159; the Accurate Measurement of Ionic Velocities, Dr. R. B. Denison and Dr. B. D. Steele, 166; Radio-activity of Ordinary Matter in Connection with the Earth's Internal Heat, Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 173; the Physical and Chemical Properties of Iron Carbonyl, Sir James Dewar and H. O. Jones, 188 an Acoustical Method for the Demonstration of the Magnetism of Liquids, T. Terada, 197; Dewar's Method of Producing High Vacua by Means of Charcoal, Lord Blythswood and H. S. Allen, 207; Physical and Chemica Properties of Solutions of Chloroform and other Anæs thetics, Prof. B. Moore and Dr. Herbert E. Roaf, 213 Physics of Ore Flotation, J. Swinburne and Dr. G Rudolf, 214: the Analytical Theory of Light, J. Walker 241; Kristallinische Flussigkeiten und flussige KristalleRudorf Schenck, 242; Heat a Mode of Motion, Charles E. Benham, 246; Fluorescence, G. Camichel, 277 Elongation of Wires by Flexion, MM. Bouasse anBerthier, 277; Higher Mathematics for Students O Chemistry and Physics, with Special Reference to Prac tical Work, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 290; Science and Hvoc thesis, Prof. H. Poincaré, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S.

14, 1906

313: Wissenschaft und Hypothese, Prof. H. Poincaré, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 313; Fresnel's Theory of Double Refraction, James Walker, 319; the Thermal Dilatation of Compressed Hydrogen, Prof. A. W. Witkowski, 325; Atti della Reale Accademia della Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli, 327; Density of Ice, A. Leduc, 335; La Théorie moderne des Phénomènes physiques, Radio-activité, Ions, Electrons, Prof. Augusto Righi, 340; Isothermal Distillation of Nitrogen and Oxygen, and of Argon and Oxygen, I. K. Inglis, 357; Propagation of Longitudinal Waves of Magnetic Flux along Iron Wires and Rods, Prof. Lyle and Mr. Baldwin, 358; Form of Initiational Disturbance more Convenient than that of §§ 3-31 of Previous Papers on Waves, Lord Kelvin, 358; Illustrations of the Indefinite Extension and Multiplication of a Group of Two-Dimensional Deep-Sea Waves, Initially Finite, Lord Kelvin, 359; Initiation and Continued Growth of a Train of TwoDimensional Waves due to the Sudden Commencement of a Stationary Periodically Varying Forcive, Lord Kelvin, 359; Lehrbuch der Physik, O. D. Chwolson, 362; Traité de Physique, O. D. Chwolson, 362; Lehrbuch der technischen Physik, Prof. Hans Lorenz, 364; Secondary Röntgen Rays and Atomic Weight, Dr. Charles G. Barkla, 365; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. A. S. Popow, 371; Determination of the Osmotic Pressures of Solutions by the Measurement of their Vapour Pressures, Earl of Berkeley and E. G. J. Hartley, 380; Relation between Normal "Take-up" and Degree of Twist in Twisted Threads, T. Oliver, 383; Experimental Results in Connection with Hydrodynamical Theory of Seiches, P. White and W. Watson, 383; Atomic Disintegration, Prof. W. Meigen, 389; Emission of Light by Kanal-strahlen Normal to their Direction, Dr. J. Stark, 389; Inversion Point of the JouleKelvin Effect, Prof. Alfred W. Porter, 390; the Relation of Mechanics to Physics, Prof. Alexander Ziwet, 403 the Partition of Energy, Prof. W. F. Magie, 404; Apparatus for Separation of Oxygen and Nitrogen by Liquefaction of Air, Georges Claude, 423; Ionisation in Gases from Coloured Flames, Percival Lewis, 424; Contributions from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard University, 427; Method of Producing Waves of Frequency Intermediate between Heat Waves and Hertzian Waves, Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden, 428; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley, 443; Expansion of a Gas into a Vacuum and the Determination of the Specific Heat at Constant Pressure for Gases, G. F. C. Searle, 455; Behaviour of Liquid Films Formed from a Solution of Saponin in Water, H. Stansfield, 455: a Plea for Absolute Motion, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 462; Norman R. Campbell, 484; F. J. W. Whipple, 535; the Existence of Absolute Motion, Daniel Comstock, 582; the Diffusion of Solids, John H. Howell, 464; Some Applications of the Theory of Electric Discharge through Gases to Spectroscopy, Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 105; Production of an Electrically Conductive Glass, Charles E. S. Phillips, 512; the National Physical Laboratory, 514; Les Quantités élementaire d'Electricité : Ions, Electrons, Corpuscles, Dr. O. W. Richardson, 529; Spectral Series in Relation to Ions, Dr. J. Stark, 533; Gaseous Osmosis through a Colloidal Membrane, Jules Amar, 551: the Dynamics of Particles and of Rigid, Elastic, and Fluid Bodies, Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster, 555; Physical and Chemical Characters of Huff, 572: Elevation of the Boiling Point of Aqueous Solutions of Electrolytes, Rev. S. M. Johnston, 575; the Organised Science Series: (1) First Stage Physiography, 578; Science Handbooks for Laboratory and Class Room: Elementary Physics, John N. Brown, 578; Examples in Physics, C. E. Jackson, 578: Advanced Examples in Physics, A. O. Allen, 578; Physics, Charles R. Mann and George R. Twiss, 578; Diurnal Periodicity of Ionisation of Gases, Alex. Wood, 583; Oscillation of Flame Cones, Harold E. Temple, 512; Prof. A. Smithells. F.R.S., 512; Prof. W. Galloway, 584; Observations and Photographs of Black and Grey Soap Films, Herbert Stansfield, 597; Vapour Pressure of a Pure Liquid at Constant Temperature, Prof. Sydney Young, 599; Zwölf Vorlesungen über die Natur des Lichtes, Dr. J.

Classen, 606; Diurnal Variation of Ionisation in Closed Vessels, Dr. O. W. Richardson, 607; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Pierre Curie, 612; Landolt-BörnsteinPhysikalisch-chemische Tabellen, Drs. Börnstein and Meyerhoffer, Dr. J. A. Harker, Supp, to November 30, vi Physiography: the Organised Science Series, (1) First Stage Physiography, 578

Physiology: Terminology in Electro-physiology, Dr. David Fraser Harris, 5; Prof. J. S. MacDonald, 28; Dr. A. D. Waller, F.R.S., 78; Dr. George J. Burch, F.R.S., 78; Influence of High Altitudes on the General Nutrition, H. Guillemard and R. Moog, 120; Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Iwan Michaelowitsch Ssetschenoff, 133; Text-book of Hygiene based on Physiology for the Use of School Teachers, A. Watt Smyth, 170; Crystallised Hæmatin, MM. Piettre and Vila, 192; Studies in General Physiology, Jacques Loeb, 195; the Biometrics of BrainWeights, 200; the Temperature of the Monkey, Drs. Sutherland Simpson and J. J. Galbraith, 216; Effects of Varying Diets upon Growth and Nutrition, Dr. Chalmers Watson, 239; Physiologie de la Lecture et de l'Ecriture, Emile Javal, J. Herbert Parsons, 268; Handbook of Physiology for Students and Practitioners of Medicine, Dr. Austin Flint, Prof. J. S. Macdonald, 269; a Respiration Calorimeter with Appliances for the Direct Determination of Oxygen, Profs. W. O. Atwater and F. G. Benedict, 276; Chlorides in Nerve Cells and Fibres, Prof. A. B. Macallum and Miss M. L. Menten, 311; Physiological Economy in Nutrition, 328; Action of Sulphate of Hordenine on the Circulation, L. Camus, 336; Respiration of Salamanders, Miss Seelye, 348; Influence of Thymus Feeding on Allantoin Excretion, Dr. J. Maclachlan, 358; Physiological Conditions of Oral Teaching, Pierre Bonnier, 359; Anti-Coagulating Power of the Blood Serum of the Lower Animals, J. Sellier, 408; Histology and Physiology of the Placenta in the Ungulata, Dr. J. W. Jenkinson, 430; Articulation of the Vertebrate Jaw, H. G. F. Spurrell, 430; Chemical Constitution of Protoplasm as Shown by the Rate of Tissue Disintegration, Dr. H. M. Vernon, 454; Recuperative Effects of Raw Meat after Fasting, Charles Richet, 456; Protective Mechanism against Excess of Alkali, Drs. Edie and Whitley, 474; Physiological Properties of West Indian Boxwood, Harvey Gibson, 474; Outlines of Physiological Chemistry, Dr. S. P. Beebe and Prof. B. H. Buxton, Prof. Benjamin Moore, 483; Sound and Rhythm, W. Edmunds, Prof. John G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 483; Effects of the Absorption of Tuberculin by the Digestive Tube, A. Calmette and M. Breton, 503; the Reaction of the Blood a Function of Nutrition, Jean Gautrelet, 504; Höhenklima und Bergwanderungen in ihrerwirkung auf den Menschen, N. Zuntz, A. Loewy, F. Müller, and W. Caspari, 553; Influence of Increased Barometric Pressure on Man, Leonard Hill, F.R.S., and M. Greenwood, 598; Physiologie des Menschen, Dr. L. Luciani, Dr. J. A. Milroy, 606; the Intestinal Tract of Mammals, Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, 618; Specificity and Action in vitro of Gastrotoxin, Dr. Charles Bolton, 622; Plant Physiology: Studien über die Regeneration, Prof. B. Němec, 170; Present-Day Problems of Plant Physiology, Prof. B. M. Duggar, 253; British Flowering Plants, the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, 604; see also British Association

Pickard (R. H.), Resolution of a-Phenyl-a' -4-hydroxyphenylethane by l-menthylcarbimide, 479

Pickering (Prof. E. C.), Nebulosity around Nova Aquila, 279; Measurements of Linné during the Total Eclipse of the Moon, 569

Pickering (Prof. W. H.), Martian Meteorology, 38; Phoebe, the Ninth Satellite of Saturn, 63; the Tenth Satellite of Saturn, 87

Pickering (Prof.), Harvard College Observatory, 494; the Observation of Long-Period Variables, 592; a Systematic Study of Faint Stars, 545; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, 545

Pickering in Yorkshire, the Evolution of an English Town, being the Story of the Ancient Town of, Gordon Home, 538

Picton (N.), Influence of Substituents in the Trinitrobenzene Molecule on the Formation of Additive Compounds with Arylamines, 551

Pictorial Annual, Penrose's, 269

Pictures from Nature, Richard and Cherry Kearton, 148 Piéron (H.), the Seat of the Recognition-Sense among Ants, 134

Pierpont (J.), Lectures on the Theory of Functions of Real Variables, 483

Piettre (M.), Crystallised Hæmatin, 192

Pirsson (L. V.), Petrography and Geology of the Igneous Rocks of the Highwood Mountains, Montana, 376 Plague Epidemic, the Immunity of Europeans, 422 Plague in India, the Serum Therapy of, W. M. Haffkine, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 368

Planets: Observations of Jupiter's Sixth Satellite, 18; Photographs of Jupiter's Sixth and Seventh Satellites, 182; Systematic Error in Transit Observations of Jovian Spots, Stanley Williams, 38; Observations of Jupiter, Major Molesworth, 401; New Spot on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 584, 607; Variability of the Asteroid (444) Gyptis, Dr. W. Valentiner, 39; Phoebe, the Ninth Satellite of Saturn, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 63; Observations of Phoebe during 1905, 474; the Tenth Satellite of Saturn, Prof. W. H. Pickering, 87; Suggested Name for Neptune's Satellite, M. Fouche, 182; Variability of Iris, Dr. H. Clemens, 279

Planisphere, Philips's Large, H. Gewecke, 269

Plant Physiology: Studien über die Regeneration, Prof. B. Němec, 170; Present-Day Problems of Plant Physiology, Prof. B. M. Duggar, 253; British Flowering Plants, the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, 604

Plants the Origin of Variations in Animals and Plants,
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 197; New Creations in Plant
Life:
: an Authoritative Account of the Life and Work of
Luther Burbank, W. S. Harwood, 242; the Uses of
British Plants, Rev. Prof. G. Henslow, 270; Minnesota
Plant Disease, Dr. E. M. Freeman, 291; Organography
of Plants, Dr. K. Goebel, 412; the Utilisation of Nitrogen
in Air by Plants, T. Jamieson, 531, 607; A. D. H., 608;
Microscopic Aquatic Plants of our Waters, Dr. F. E.
Fritsch, at London Institution, 499

Platania (Prof.), Currents in the Straits of Messina, 621
Pleiades Stars, Catalogue of, Dr. R. S. Dugan, 617
Pocklington (Dr. H. C.), Cheirality of Form of Crystals of
Epsom Salt, 270
Pocock (R. I.), on
Cameroons, 297

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Pohl (R.), Light Emitted by Radium Bromide due to the Impact of the Becquerel Rays on the Particles of Nitrogen, 325

Poincaré (Prof. H.), Science and Hypothesis, 313; Wissenschaft und Hypothese, 313

Polar Exploration, 356

Polk (Mary), Scientific Research in the Philippine Islands,

a Catalogue of the Library, 57

Polonium and Radio-Tellurium, 549

Polytechnics, the Place of, in Education, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., at Borough Polytechnic Institute, 521

Poor (Dr. C. L.), the Figure of the Sun, 279
Popow (Prof. A. S.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 371
Porlier (A.), Composition of a Cast-Iron Cannon Ball
found under Old Moat of the Bastille, 181

Porsch (Dr. Otto), Die Spaltöffnungsapparat im Lichte der Phylogenie, Ein Beitrag zur phylogenetischen Pflanzenhistologie, 436

Portraits, Request for Prints of Photographic, Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 534

Porter (J. T.), Selective Reflections, by Various Crystals, in the Infra-Red Spectrum, 182

Porter (Prof. Alfred W.), Inversion Point of the JouleKelvin Effect, 390

Positive Rays, the Spectrum of the (Canal-strahlen), Dr. J. Stark, 79

Potter (Prof.), Topography of the Thorax and Abdomen,

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Praeger (R. L.), Survey of the Vegetation of the District South of Dublin, 303

Precious Stones considered in their Scientific and Artistic Relations, Prof. A. H. Church, F.R.S., Supp. to November 30, X

Preservation of Antiquities, the, a Handbook for Curators, Dr. Friedrich Rathgen, 412

Press, Photography for the, 196

Price (T. S.), Caro's Permonosulphuric Acid, 190 Prideaux (E. B. R.), the Fluorides of Selenium and Tellurium, 71; Bromine Fluoride, 71; New Compounds of Fluorine, 357

Priestley (J. H.), Mechanism of Carbon Assimilation in Green Plants, 525

"Prima Philosophia," an Essay towards the, Carveth Read,

290

Pritzel (E.), Fragmenta Phytographia Australia occidentalis, 149

Prize Subjects of the Industrial Society of Mulhouse, 164
Prizes Awarded and Proposed by the Paris Academy of
Sciences, 233

Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 52
Protection of Birds, the, 521

Proteids, Studies on the Synthesis of Peptides and, Prof.
Emil Fischer, 519

Psychology: Esquisse d'une Théorie biologique du Sommeil, Dr. Ed. Claparede, 293; Comparative Studies in the Psychology of Ants and of Higher Animals, E. Wassmann, Lord Avebury, F.R.S., 315; an Analysis of Human Motive, F. Carrel, 318; Die Mneme als erhaltendes im Wechsel des organischen Geschens, Richard Semon, 338; the Senses of the Todas, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 517; Influence of Bias and of Personal Equation in Statistics of Ill-defined Qualities, G. Udny Yule, 551 Public Schools Science, Masters' Conference, Wilfred Mark Webb, 308

Pulse of the Atmospheric Circulation, the, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 175

Pumps and Pumping Engines, British Progress in, P. R. Björling, 217

Purcell (Dr. W. F.), on Some Early Stages in the Development of Peripatus, 40

Purvis (J. E.), Influence of Very Strong Electromagnetic Fields on the Spark Spectra of Ruthenium, Rhodium, and Palladium, 71; Influence of Very Strong Electromagnetic Fields on the Spark Spectra of (a) Vanadium, (b) Platinum and Iridium, 527

Pyro-Soda Developer, Phosphorescence of, T. A. Vaughton, 389

Quaintance (A. L.), the Cotton Bollworm, 257

Quantitative Analysis, Elements of, Dr. G. H. Bailey, 244 Quantitative Analysis, First Steps in, J. C. Gregory, 293 Quantitative Chemistry, Exercises in, Harmon Northrop Morse, 268

Quénisset (M.), the Lunar Eclipse of February 8, 545 Questions for Archæologists, Some, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 280

Quiet Hours with Nature, Mrs. Brightwen, 4

Rabes (Dr. O.), Stylophthalmus paradoxus, 470
Radial Velocities of Certain Variable Stars, Prof. Frost, 39
Radio-activity of Ordinary Matter in Connection with the
Earth's Internal Heat, Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 173
Radiography: Radium and other Radio-active Substances,
their Application especially to Medicine, Dr. Charles
Baskerville, 2; Action of Radium on Gelatin Media, John
Butler Burke, 5; Action of Radium Salts on Gelatin,
W. A. Douglas Rudge, 78; Light Emitted by Radium
Bromide due to the Impact of the Becquerel Rays on the
Particles of Nitrogen, D. Himstedt and G. Meyer, 325;
Prof. B. Walter and R. Pohl, 325; Scintillations Pro-
duced by the Electronic "B-Rays" emitted by Radium,
C. W. R., 341; Influence of the Rays of Radium on the
Resistance of Certain Solid and Liquid Dielectrics, Prof.
A. Righi, 375; Properties of the a Rays emitted by
Radium, Henri Becquerel, 407; Effect of High Tempera-
tures on Radium Emanation, W. Makower, 407; Action
of Radium Emanation on Chromogenic Bacteria, Ch.
Bouchard and M. Balthazard, 576; Certain Radio-active

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