XXVIU 



Index 



[Nature, 

 Septemter 2Z, igii 



Shans at Home, Mrs. L. Milne, 314; Shan History and 



Literature, Rev. W. W. Cochrane, 314 

 Contribution a I'Etude biologique et ^conomique de la Plie, 



G. Giison, Dr. William Wallace, 316 

 Radium, its Physics and Therapeutics, Dr. D. Turner, 



Dr. A. C. Jordan, 339 

 An Introduction to Zoology, Prof. R. W. Hegner, 340 

 Incendies tn l'\)ret, A. Jacquot, C. E. C Fischer, 341 

 The Evolution and Function of Living Purposive Matter, 



N. C. Macnamara, 341 

 L'Evolution de la M^moire, Henri Pi^ron, Dr. W. Brown, 



342 

 Vorlesungen iiber Tierpsychologie, Prof. Karl C. Schneider, 



Dr. William Brown, 342 

 The Liverworts, British and Foreign, Right Hon. Sir 



Edward Fry, G.C.B., Agnes Fry, 343 

 Fabrication et Emploi des Mat^riaux et Produits r^frac- 

 taires utilises dans I'Industrie, Prof. A. Granger, William 

 Burton, 343 

 Agricultural Bacteriology, Theoretical and Practical, Prof. 



John Perclval, 344 

 A Text-book of General Bacteriology, Prof. W. J. Frost, 



Prof. E. F. McCampbell, 344 

 Die Eisenbakterien, Prof. Hans Molisch, 344 

 The Sources and Modes of Infection, Dr. C. V. Chapin, 



344 

 A Class-book of Chemistry, G. C. Donington, 345 

 Chemistry for Matriculation, Dr. G. H. Bailey, H. W. 



Bausor, 345 

 Trattato di Chimica Inorganica generale e applicata all' 



Industria, Prof. E. Molinari, 345 

 Dizionario di Merceologia e di Chimica applicata, Prof. V. 



Villavecchia, 346 

 Annual and Biennial Garden Plants, their Value and Uses, 

 with full Instructions for their Cultivation, A. E. Speer, 

 346 

 Paints for Steel Structures, Houston Lowe, 346 

 Chemistry of Food and Nutrition, Prof. H. C. Sherman, 



346 

 The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games, Crocodile Shoot- 

 ing — Hound Breeding, 351 

 Reports to the Local Government Board : (i) Bleaching of 

 Flour and Addition of so-called Improvers, Dr. J. M. 

 Hamill, (2) Chemical Changes produced in Flour by 

 Bleaching, Dr. G. W. Monier-Williams, (3) Presence of 

 Calcium Sulphate in Baking Powder and Self-raising 

 Flour, Dr. J. M. Hamill, 352 

 Oriental Silverwork, Malay and Chinese, H. Ling Roth, 



353 

 The North Pole, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, 



373 

 Vicious Circles in Disease, Dr. J. B. Hurry, Sir T. Clifford 



AUbutt, K.C.B., F.R.S., 374 

 Alchemy, Ancient and Modern, H. Stanley Redgrove, 



375 

 A History of the Theories of ^ther and Electricity from 

 the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury, Dr. E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S., 37s 

 Diseases of Economic Plants, Prof. ¥. L. Stevens, J. G. 



Hall, 376 

 Class Book of Trigonometry, Dr. C. Davison, 377 

 The Student's Arithmetic, W. M. Baker, A. A. Bourne, 



377 

 First-year Mathematics for Secondary Schools, Prof. G. W. 



Myers and others, 377 

 Second-year Mathematics for Secondary Schools, Prof. 



G. W. Myers and others, 377 

 Geometric Exercises for Algebraic Solution, Second-year 

 Mathematics for Secondary Schools, Prof. G. W. Myers 

 and others, 377 

 Ornitologia Argentina, Dr. R. Dabbene, 378 

 Die Samenpflanzen (Blutenpflanzen, Phanerogamen), Prof. 



K. Wilhelm, 378 

 The Past at Our Doors, or the Old in the New around Us, 



W. W. Skeat, 379 

 Serum and Vaccine Therapy, Bacterial Therapeutics and 

 Prophylaxis, Bacterial Diagnostic Agents, Prof. R. T. 

 Hewlett, 379 

 Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, 379 

 The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation, A. Mosso, M. C. 

 Harrison, Rev. John Griffith, 385 



Across the Roof of the World, a Record of Sport and 



Travel, Lieut. P. T. Etherton, 388 

 The National Physical Laboratory, Collected Researches, 



400 

 Mendel's Principles of Heredity, W. Bateson, F.R.S., 407 

 Ray Society, a Monograph of the British Annelids, Prof. 



W. C. Mcintosh, F.R.S., Polychaeta, Syllidae to 



Ariciidae, 408 

 Elementary Chemistry for Coal-mining Students, Prof. 



L. T. O'Shea, 408 

 Phases of Evolution and Heredity, Dr. David Berry Hart, 



409 

 Ih^orie Physico-chimique de la Vie et Generations 



Spontan^es, Prof. St^phane Leduc, 410 

 Notes on Irrigation Works, N. F. Mackenzie, 410 

 Die Kristallinen Schiefer, eine Darstellung der Erschein- 



ungen der Gestein.smetamorphose und ihrer Produkte, 



Prof. U. Grubenmann, 411 

 Maryland Weather Service, Plant Life, F. Shreve, M. A. 



Chrysler, F. H. Blodgett, F. W. Besley, 412 

 Salvarsan or 606 (Dioxy-diamino-arsenobenzol), its Chem- 

 istry, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics, Dr. W. H. Martin- 

 dale, W. W. Westcott, 412 

 Outlines of Zoology, Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, 413 

 Etude sur I'Assurance compl^mentaire de I'Assurance sur 



la Vie, avec de nombreux d^veloppements sur les 



Assurances contre la Maladie et I'lnvalidite, P. J. 



Richard, 413 

 Recueil d'CEuvres de L^o Errera, Physiologic g^n^rale. 



Philosophic, 413 j 



Wild Flowers as They Grow, Photographed in Colour ' 



Direct from Nature, H. Essenhigh Corke, G. C. Nuttall, 



413 



Third Report (Southern Area) on Fishery and Hydro- 

 graphical Investigations in the North Sea and Adjacent 

 Waters, 1906-8, Miss R. M. Lee ; Plaice, Dr. Wallace ; 

 Covered Nets, Mr. Todd ; Fish-eggs, Mr. Wollaston ; 

 Plankton and Hydrography, Mr. Bygrave ; Hydrography 

 of English Channel, Mr. Matthews ; J. Johnstone, 418 



New Illustrated Natural History of the World, E. 

 Protheroe, 418 



Flora of the Meping River in Siam, Dr. C. C. Hosseus, . 



431 

 Ecological Study of Vegetation of Inland Sand Deposits of 



lUinois, Dr. H. A. Gleason, 431 

 Phyto-geographical Sketch of the Andes in S.E. Bolivia, 



K. Fiebrig, 431 

 Der Grossteich bei Hirschberg in Nord-Bohmen, Dr. A. 



Pascher, 432 

 Die Ceratien, E. Jorgensen, 432 

 Grundziige der Biologic und Geographic des Susswasser- 



planktons. Dr. Wesenberg-Lund, 432 

 Biologische Studien an Lyncodaphniden und Chydoriden, 



H. Weigold, 432 

 Die Eibildung und der Generationzyklus von Daphnia 



magna, U. v. Scharfenberg, 432 

 Natural History of the Larvae of Donacinae, Dr. A. G. 



Boving, 432 

 Die Vegetation der Erde : Sammlung pflanzengeo- 



graphischer Monographien : die Pflanzenwelt Afrikas, .A. 



Engler, 441 

 Transformers : a Treatise on the Theory, Construction, 



Design, and Uses of Transformers, Auto-transformers, 



and Choking Coils, Prof. H. Bohle, Prof. D. Robert- 

 son, 442 

 The Feeding of Crops and Stock : an Introduction to the 



Science of Nutrition of Plants and Animals, A. D. Hall, 



F.R.S., 443 

 Insects and Disease : a Popular Account of the Way in 



which Insects may Spread or Cause some of Our 



Common Diseases, Prof. R. W. Doane, 443 

 Die taxonomischen Grenzen der Art und ihrer Unterabteil- 



ungen, A. Semenov-Tian-Shansky, 444 

 Elementary Treatise on Coordinate Geometry of Three 



Dimensions, R. J. T. Bell, 444 

 Traite de Chimie g^n^rale, Prof. W. Nernst, Prof. A. 



Corvisy, 445 

 Elements of Analytical Geometry, Prof. G. A. Gibson, 



Dr. P. Pinkerton, 445 

 Rathv-Orographical Map of the W'orld on Gall's Projection, 



446 



