IV CONTEXTS. 



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Military service 237 



Eucke's Comet 238 



Oil from fruit stones 238 



Humns, humogen, and its accessory plant food substances : A. 



Stead, B.Sc, F.C.S 239 



Elementary Chemistry 250 



Native superstition in its relation to crime : Hon. Justice C. G. 



Jackson 251 



Bantu place names in Africa : Rev. \V. A. Xorton', B..\.. B.Litt. . . . 26<t 



South African Flora 278 



The Black Wattle Industry — Acacia molHssinia Willd., Acacin 



decurvens Willd., var. mollis Benth. • T. R. ST>t 279 



Manganese as a fertilizer 301 



Notes on the feeding habits of a ladybird larva: C. W. 11. Smit ... 302 



Tree-planting competitions in Natal : J. S. ITexkei 306 



J M. WOOD ?>^i 



The metric svstem of weights and measures, and the decimilizaiion 



of the coinage : R. T. A. Innes, F.R.A.S., F.R.S.F 314 



Use of meteorites bv primitive man 3T7 



The modification of South .African rainfall: J. M. Sim 318 



.\n irrigation settlement : Rev. B. P. J. M.\KrH.\xr). B. \. (Plates y(). 



and one text figure) 327 



Effects of lime on insoluble soil potash 334 



Potash from banana stalks 334 



Note on the occurrence of a pedal nose in the male of a trap-door 



spider (Stasiiiiopus) : J. Hewitt. B.A :^3r, 



Clouds on Mars ."54^ 



The entrenchment of industry : Plon. C. G. Smith 342 



Japan's potash output 35t 



South African Palaeontology 35T 



H. H. W. PEARSON Prof J. W. Bews. M.A.. DSc. (P/(?/r 7) . . 3S2 



Early Man 355 



Some notes on Rhodesian Native poisons: Rev. S. S. Dorx.vx, M..A.. 



F.G.S 356 



Variability of Uranus 361 



A red aurora 361 



Bird life in the Midlands of Natal : J. Kixr; 362 



Spectrum of the Solar Corona 365 



Our native birds; their value to man: V. W. FitzSi.moxp. F.Z.S.. 



F.R.M.S 366 



Game and game preservation in Zululand : F. V.vughan-Kirbv. 



F.Z.S. ... 375 



Physical conditions on Mars .- 396 



Phosphate scarcity 306 



Bantu methods of divination: a comparative study: Rev. N. Roberts 



(Plates 8-10 and two text fii:;ures) 397 



Some observations on the occurrence of Bulbils on the subterranean 



or aerial organs of plants : Prof. R. Marloth, M.A., Ph.D. 



(Plate 11) 4og 



A scholastic view of time: Rev. S. R. Welch, B.A.. D.D.. Ph.D. 413 



Glycerine from waste fat 419 



Simplified spelling: R. T. A. Txnes. F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S 420 



Grants for res'^arch 423 



Potash from felspar 423 



An account of the Natal fungi collected by J. Medley Wood : Miss 



A. M. BOTTOMI.EV, B.A }24 



Native education in the Transkei : Rev. ' T. R. L. Kixgon, M..\.. 



F.L.S : 447 



Thermal conductivity of Quartzitc : Prof. R. .X. Lehfuldt. B A., 



DSc 495 



The B<-it;kop skull 49^ 



