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Index 



[Nature, 

 September iZ, 1911 



(Leptobrachium) feae, 134 ; Spermatophores in Earth- 

 worms of the Genus Pheretima, 134 ; Mammalian Tape- 

 worms from Animals which Died in the Zoological 

 Gardens, 235 



Beddoe (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Memories of Eighty Years, 551 



Bee-stings, Belladonna Plaster for, F. H. Perrycoste, 312 



Bellby (Dr. G. T., F.R.S.), the Hard and Soft States in 

 Metals, 501 



Bell (R. J. T.), Elementary Treatise on Coordinate 

 Geometry of Three Dimensions, 444 



Bemmelen (Prof. Jakob Maarten van), Obituary Notice of, 

 n6 



Bennett (G. T.), Kinematical and Geometrical Theory of a 

 Deformable Octahedron, 472 



Berget (A.), Exact Determination of Salinity of Sea-water 

 from Refractive Index, 235 



Bergh (Prof. R.), S. African Opisthobranchs, 158 



Bergson (Prof. Henri), Philosophy at the Bologna Con- 

 gress, 399 



Berry (Major), the Sierra Leone Cannibals, 270 



Berry (Prof. R. J.), Physical Anthropology of Australasian 

 Races, 433 



Berthelot (A.), Di-iodotyrosine and its Possible Use in 

 Therapeutics, 439 



Berthelot (D.), Nitrification by the Ultra-violet Rays 68 



Besley (F. W.), Plant Life of Maryland, 412 



Besson (A.), Chloro-bromides and -iodides of Silicon, loi 



Bevan (Prof. P. V.), the Absorption Spectra of Lithium and 

 Caesium, Dispersion in Vapours of the Alkali Metals, 100 



Bible, Facts and Fallacies regarding the, W. Woods 

 Smyth, 77 ; Natural History of the, 383 



Biden (C. L.), Funeral Ceremonies of the Hottentots, 236 



Bigelow (H. B.), Fishes and Medusa; of the Intermediate 

 Depths and Work of the Michael Sars, 483 



Biochemistry : Biochemisches Handlexicon, Prof. B. Moore, 

 .239 



Biology : Strongylocentrotus as a Rock-borer, J. Romanes, 

 33 ; Einfuhrung in die Biologic, Dr. W. Schoenichen^ 

 41 ; das biologische Schullaboratorium, Dr. W. 

 Schoenichen, 77; General and Medical Biology, Prof. J. 

 McFarland, 106 ; Philosophical Biology, Dr. J. Beard, 

 174 ; Microbiology in New South Wales, Report of the 

 Government Bureau, 193 ; Rotifera observed by the 

 Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, 1909, J. Murray, 

 200, 405, 504; General Meeting of the Association 

 of Economic Biologists, 258 ; Some Phenomena of 

 Regeneration in Sycon and Structure of its 

 Collar Cells, Production of Normal Individuals from 

 Isolated Cells, J. S. Huxley, 370; Th6orie Physico- 

 chimique de la Vie et G(5n6rations Spontan^es, Prof. 

 St^phane Leduc, 410 ; Organisation and Progress in 

 Economic Biology, 430 ; Economic Entomology and 

 Nomenclature, H. Maxwell Lefroy, 430 ; Chrysornonads 

 of the Grossteich in N. Bohemia, Dr. A. Pascher, 

 the Genus Ceratium, E. Jorgensen, Freshwater Plankton. 

 Dr. Wesenberg-Lund ; Lyncodaphnids and Chydorids of 

 Saxony, Dr. H. Weigold, Egg Formation and Genera- 

 tion Cycle of Daphnia Magna, U. von Scharfenberg, 

 Natural History of Larvae of Donacinse, Dr. A. G. 

 Boving, 432-3 ; Plant-animals, a Study in Symbiosis, 

 Prof. F. Keeble, 446; J. Vaughan Thompson and his 

 Polyzoa, and Vaunthompsonia, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 

 471 ; Polytrema and allied Genera, Prof. S. J. Hickson, 

 471 ; New British Rhizopods, J. M. Brown, 471 ; the 

 British Museum Collection of Blattidge in Amber, 471 ; 

 Clare Island Survey, Arctiscoida, 473 ; die Cnidosporidien 

 (Myxosporidien, Actinomyxidien, Microsporidien), Dr. M. 

 Auerbach, 482 ; Lectures on Biology, Dr. Curt Thesing, 

 W. R. Boelted, i;io; the Biological Statior-s of Europe, 

 Prof. C. A. Kofoid, U.S. Bureau of Education, 559 ; 

 Life-history of Croce fiUformis, Prof. Imms, 608 



Biology, Marine : the Carnegie Institution Report, 29 ; 

 Biology of the Eel-fishes, especially of the Conger (Cruise 

 of the Thor), Jobs. Schmidt, 6r ; Marine Biology at Port 

 Erin. Secretion of the Hypobranchial Gland in Purpura 

 lapillus, Dr. Roaf ; Spread of the Diatom Biddulphia 

 sinensis, Prof. Herdman, 94 ; Contribution k I'Etude 

 biologique et ^conomique de la Plie, G. Gilson, Dr. W. 

 Wallace, 316; Report on Fishery and Hydrographical 

 Investigations in the North Sea and Adjacent Waters, 

 Miss R. M. Lee, Dr. Wallace (Plaice), Mr. Todd, Mr. 

 W'ollaston, Mr. Bygrave, Mr. Matthews, J. Johnstone, 



417 ; Fishes and Medusa; of the Intermediate Depths and 

 Work of the Michael Sars, H. B. Bigelow, 483 ; 

 Osteocella sepientrionalis. Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., 

 505; Rotatoria bdelloida, J. Murray, 506; the "Vernal 

 Phytoplankton Maximum," Prof. W. A. Her3man, 

 F.R.S., 517; Dinoflagellates and Diatoms on the Beach, 

 Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., 554 



Biometrical Researches on a Graft Hybrid between the 

 Pear and Quince Trees, L. Daniel, 406 



Birds : the Sailing-flight of Birds, Major B. Baden-Powell, 

 9; Plumage Bill, 19, 45, 81, 518; Birds' Migration 

 Report, 47 ; British Birds in their Haunts, Rev. C. A. 

 Johns, 176 ; the Flight of Birds, Giovanni A. Borelli, 

 211; a List of British Birds, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 271; 

 Bird Notes, 325 ; the Extinction of the Egret, W. M. 

 Webb, 518; Britain's Birds and their Nests, A. Lands- 

 borough Thomson, G. Rankin, 552 



Birkeland (Dr.), Zodiacal Light Expedition to Khartoum, 



79 



Bjerknes (Prof. V.), Dynamic Meteorology and Hydro- 

 graphy, 577 



Blackie (A.), the Behaviour of Silica at High Temperatures, 



504 

 Blair (R.), Technical Training and the Optical Industry, 



Report, 299 

 Blaise (E. E.), Formation of Ethyl Chloroethoxyacetate, 235 

 Chauss^ (P.), Experimental Tuberculosis in the Dog, 235 

 Bleek (Miss D. F.), Language of Bushman Tribes Illus- 

 trated by Gramophone Records, 576 

 Blind Mountain Beetles, 142 



Blind, Sense of Direction in the, M. Truschel, 304 

 Blodgett (F. H.), Plant Life of Maryland, 412 

 Blyth, Edward, and the Theory of Natural Selection, E. A. 



Martin, 45 

 Bodenstein (Prof. Max), Methods of Maintaining Constant 



High Temperatures, 504 

 Bodroux (F.), Bromination of some Hydroaromatic Com- 

 pounds, 439 

 Boving (Dr. A. G.), Natural History of Larvae of 



Donacinae, 433 

 Bohle (Prof. H.), a Treatise on the Theory, Construction, 



and Design of Transformers, 442 

 Bois-Reymond (Paul du), Infinitar-Calcul, 307 

 Bollemont (E. G. de), Transport of Metallic Particles under 



Action of Heat, 167 

 Bologna, International Philosophical Congress at, 399 

 Bolton (H."). Faunal Horizons in the Bristol Coalfield, 234 

 Boltwood (Dr. B. B.), Separation of Ionium and Actinium 

 from certain Residues, and the Production of Helium by 

 Ionium, 31 

 Bolus (Dr. Harry), Obituary Notice, 490 

 Bonhote (J. L.). Inheritance of Colour in Pigeons, 200 

 Bonnier (G.),^ Researches on the Determination of Micro- 

 scopic Germs in the Atmosphere, 131; 

 Bordas (M.), Phosphorus in the Ash of Milk, 202 ; Original 



Acidity of Milk, 439 

 Borelli (Giovanni A.), the Flight of Birds, 211 

 Borneo, Seventeen Years among the Sea Dyaks of, E. H. 



Gomes, Rev. J. Perham, 558 

 Bosscha (Prof. Johannes), Obituary, Prof. H. Kamerlingh 



Onnes, 419 

 Botanv : the Stinging Tree of Formosa, Dr. Tokutaro Ito, 

 8; "Death of Col. H. R. Beddome, 18; Report of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 28 ; Anatomy of the 

 British Carices, F. C. Crawford, Rev. E. F. Linton, 38; 

 Flowers of the Field, the late Rev. C. A. Johns, G. S. 

 Boulger, 42 ; Familiar Wild Flowers, F. Edward Hulme, 

 42 ; Clare Island Survey, R. LI. Praeger, 66, 575 ; Land- 

 marks in Botanical History, E. L. Greene, 73 ; Use of 

 Potash Solutions for Recognition of the Germinative 

 Faculty of Seeds, P. Lesage, 102 ; Mosses and Liverworts, 

 T. H. Russell, 142 ; Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Pfianzen- 

 geographie, nach Entwickelungsgeschichtlichen und 

 physiologisch-okologischen Gesichtspunkten, Prof. P. 

 Graebner, Prof. P. Ascherson, 176 ; eine botanische 

 Tropenreise, Indo-Malayische Reiseskizzen, Prof. G. 

 Haberlandt, 176 ; Interrelations of Genetic Factors, W. 

 Bateson, R. C. Punnett, 199 ; Case of Gametic Coupling 

 in Pisuin, P. de Vilmorin, W. Bateson, 199 ; Gametic 

 Coupling and Repulsion in Primula sinensis, 199 ; Sup- 

 posed Utilisation of Nitrogen from the Air by Special 

 Organs of Plants, F. Kovessi, 202 ; British Ferns and 



