CONTENTS 



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i. VERTEBRATE PAL/EONTOLOGY IN 1912; With Note 



on Giant Tortoises and their Distribution i 



R. Lydekker, F.R.S. 



2. TEMPERATURE AND THE PROPERTIES OF GASES . 26 



Francis Hyndman, B.Sc. 

 {Illustrated) 



3. LENARD'S RESEARCHES ON PHOSPHORESCENCE . 54 



E. N. Da C. Andrade, B.Sc, Ph.D. 

 {Illustrated) 



4. THE CORROSION OF IRON 72 



H. E. A. 



{Illustrated) 



5. RECENT WORK ON VOLCANOES 85 



Professor E. H. L. Schwarz, F.G.S. 



6. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIONOMICS OF ENGLISH 



OLIGOCH^TA. — Part I. British Earthworms . . 99 



The Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 



7. ENZYMES AS SYNTHETIC AGENTS.— Part I. In Carbo- 



hydrate Metabolism 113 



Professor J. H. Priestley, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



8. SCIENTIFIC NATIONAL DEFENCE I22 



Colonel Charles Ross, D.S.O. 



9. WOMAN'S PLACE IN NATURE 133 



I. M. S. Pembrey, M.A., M.D. 

 II. O. A. Craggs, D.Sc 



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