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Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 261, 584; Prof. D'Arcy W. 

 Thompson, C.B., 513 ; Dark and Fair Children and 

 Susceptibility to Infection, Dr. D. Macdonald, 261 ; 

 Gibraltar Cave Explorations, Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth, 

 604 ; Neanderthal Man, Skeleton found at Quina (Char- 

 ente), H. Martin, 16; Perigraph, a New, J. Gray, 268; 

 Suffolk, Discovery of Flint Implements of Novel Type 

 below the Base of the Red Crag of, &c., Sir E. Ray 

 Lankester, 131 ; Undergraduates at Oxford, Cambridge, 

 and Aberdeen, Dr. Schuster, 261 ; see also Ancient 

 Hunters and. Man 

 Apples : Bitter Pit and the Sensitivity of Apples to Poison, 



A. J. Ewart, 539 

 Archaeology : 

 America : American Archaeological Problems : Presiden- 

 tial Address, A. P. Maudslay, 428 ; Smithsonian Inst. : 

 the Navaho National Monument, Arizona, J. W. 

 Fewkes, Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 527 

 Britain : Flints in Red Crag, J. Reid Moir, 17 ; Glaston- 

 bury, Lake Village near, B.A. Committee Report, A. 

 BuUeid and H. St. G. Gray, 126 ; " Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica " Articles, D. G. Hogarth, Prof. Sayce, 

 C. H. Read, Prof. Ridgeway, 342 

 France : S^viac near Montreal (Gers), Excavations at, M. 



Lannelongue, 268 

 Greece : the British School at Athens : Temple of Artemis 

 Orthia, R. M. Dawkins ; Some Dorian Descendants, 

 C. H. Hawes ; Inscriptions and Pottery in S.W. Asia 

 Minor, Messrs. Woodward and Ormerod ; Relics of 

 Latin Domination in the ^gean, Mr. Hasluck ; the 

 Medicinal Earth Terra sigillata, Mr. Hasluck ; Addi- 

 tion to the Senmut-Fresco at Egyptian Thebes, H. R. 

 Hall ; Modern Survivals of Dionysiac Festivals, Mr. 

 Wace ; the Argive Festival, Hybristika, W. R. HalH- 

 day ; Colour-Photograph of the Senmut Fresco, R. 

 Mond, 380-382 

 Stone Age, Chronology of the, 17 

 Arctic : in Northern Mists : Arctic Exploration in Early 



Times, Prof. F. Nansen, G.C.V.O., A. G. Chater, 350 

 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America : 



Ottawa Meeting, 260 

 Astronomical Society of Barcelona, 54 



Astronomical Society, new Spanish, and its Publications, 89 

 Astronomy : 



General: Almanacs for 1912, 358; " Annuaire " of 

 Bureau des Longitudes, 424 ; Cosmogony of Laplace, 

 C. Andr^, 33 ; the Formation of Suns, C. 

 Andr^, 67 ; Peeps at the Heavens, Rev. J. 

 Baikie, Miss C. Baikie, 277 ; a Primer of Astro- 

 nomy, Sir R. Ball, F.R.S., 174; Celestial Phenomena 

 and Experimental Analogies, Kr. Birkeland, 133 ; 

 Astronomy, A. R. Hinks, 139 ; Text-Book on Practical 

 Astronomy, Prof. G. L. Hosmer, 34:; ; Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society : General Index to the Monthly 

 Notices, vols. liii. to Ixx., 1892-1910, and to Illustra- 

 tions in the Memoirs and Monthly Notices, 1822-1910; 

 Appendix, List of Comets, 1892-1910, 208 

 Absorption of Light in Space, F. G. Brown, 402 

 Astrographic Catalogue: Perth (W. A.) Section, 121 

 Clocks : Synchronome Astronomical Regulator, F. Hope 

 Jones, 267 ; Description of a New Astronomical Clock, 

 R. Baillaud, 471 

 Comets : Drawings, M. Biesbroeck, 226 ; Observations, 

 Dr. Schiller, 561; ; Spectra : Conditions of Production 

 of the Swan Spectrum and Conclusions relative to 

 Comets, J. Meunier, 98 ; Comets' Spectra, Prof. Kon- 

 koly, 225, Comte Pluvinel, 526 ; Halley's Comet, Dis- 

 tribution of Brightness in Tail of, Drs. Schwarzschild 

 and Kron, 423 ; Comet 1852 IV. (Westphal), Search- 

 Ephemerides. Dr. A. Hnatek, 4W : Comet 1911a 

 (WolO, M. Kamensky, ^4, 327, Prof. Barnard. 225 ; 

 Comet iQiib (Kiess), Messrs. Innes and Wood, 20, 

 Dr. H. Naumann, 225. Brightness, M. Orlow, 380; 

 Comet loiic (Brooks), W. E. Rolston. 20, Dr. Lock- 

 ver. 81, Dr. Ristenpart, 202. Prof. Nijland. 358. D. 

 Eginitis, 402 ; Brightness, Dr. Lau, 202, Dr. Bem- 

 porad. 31^8, M. Orlow, 389; Ephemeris, Dr. Ebell, 54, 

 88; Spectrum, J. Bosler, 3-^, 54, Prof. Iniguez, '^4, 

 Prof. Belopolsky, 121. Sir Norman Lockyer. K.C.B.. 

 F.R.S., 1^37; Comet 191 id (Encke), Messrs. Innes and 

 Wood, 20; Orbit, Dr. Backlund, 221^; Comet lone 



(1905 II., Borrelly), Knox Shaw, 20, Dr. Meyermann, 

 54, M. Borrelly, 166, Anon., 189, Dr. Ristenpart, 

 259, MM. Rambaud and Villatte, 358 ; Ephemeris, 88, 

 M. Fayet, 526; Comet igiif. Prof. Nijland, 358; 

 Ephemeris, 88, 327; Comet igiig (Beljawsky), M. 

 Borrelly, 32, Prof. Nijland, 358; Ephemeris, 88, 327; 

 Comet igiih (Schaumasse), Dr. Abetti, 189, M. 

 Fayet, 225, MM. Schaumasse and Javelle, 268; Orbit, 

 MM. Fayet and Schaumasse, 292, 423 



Distortion of Celestial Objects at the Horizon, Mile. G. 

 Renaudot, 89 



Draysonia : an Attempt to Explain the System of the 

 Second Rotation of the Earth discovered by the late 

 Major-General A. W. Drayson, Admiral Sir A. F. R. de 

 Horsey, K.C.B., 71, 212, the Reviewer, 212 



Instruments : Improvements in Equatorial Telescope 

 Mountings, Sir Howard Grubb, 235 ; I'Astrolabe k 

 Prisme, Description et Usage, A. Claude and L, 

 Driencourt, 307 



Latitude Determination, Early Methods, C. Schoy, 226 



Meteors: Meteor Showers, J. R. Henry, 41, 175, 311, 

 349, 448, 587 ; Daylight Meteor in S. Africa, R. T. A. 

 Innes, Mr. Ingham, 54 ; Meteor Studies, Dr. C. P. 

 OHvier, 156 ; Height of Perseid Meteors, Dr. P. 

 Broch, 327 ; Brilliant Meteor observed at S. Kensing- 

 ton, W. Moss, 358 ; a Bright Fireball, J. C. C, 449 



Moon : Early Visibility of the New Moon, Whitmell, 

 89 ; Total Eclipse of November 16, 1910, Ch. Andr6, 

 538 ; Formation of Lunar Craters according to C. 

 Dauz^re's Experiments, H. B^nard, 539 ; Occultation 

 of Mars and the Question of a Lunar Atmosphere, 565 



Nebulae : Are the White Nebulae Galaxies ? Prof. F. W. 

 Very, 151; ; Spiral Structure in Nebulae and Planetary 

 Distribution, Wm. Sutherland, 259 



Observatories : Khartoum for an Observatory, Dr. G. W. 

 Grabham, 6 ; the Solar Physics Observatory, 13, 43, 

 84, 151; Popular Observatories (Munich), 156; Lille 

 Observatory, M. Jonckheere, 327 



Personality and Bisection Error of some Greenwich 

 Transit-Circle Observers, W. G. Thackeray, 402 



Photographic Plates, Errors of Measurements on. Miss 

 Winifred Gibson, 267 



Planet Jupiter, E. M. Antoniadi, 268 ; Prof. Nijland, 

 565 ; Galilean Satellites, R. T. A. Innes, 459 



Planet Mars : Aspect, Jarry Desloges, 20, 88, 155, 259, 

 327, 389, 423, 459; E. M. Antoniadi, 54, 292; M. F. 

 Qu6nisset, 259 ; Prof. Lowell, 327, 423 ; James H. 

 Worthington, 5_:^o ; Comas Sola, 155 ; Photography, 

 Prof. P. Lowell, 259 ; Photography with 40-inch Re- 

 fractor, Prof. Barnard, 327 



Planet Saturn : Colour Photography, G. A. Tikhoff and 

 A. Belopolsky, 20; Aspect, M. Jarry-Desloges, 423, 

 4^9 ; Possible Changes in Saturn's Rings, Prof. Todd, 

 388, ."^26; Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, 388 



Planet Venus, Photographs showing Spots, F. Qu^nisset, 

 269 



Planetary Atmospheres, Prof. Arrhenius, 292 



Planetary Observation, Utility, H. Deslandres, 268 



Planets, Minor: Planet 191 1 MT, Dr. Palisa, 20, Dr. 

 Crommelin, 88; Photometric Observations, Prof. E. C. 

 Pickering, 565 



Planets, Outer : Spectrum of the. Dr. Otto Bury, 190 



Spherical Harmonic Analysis, Example of Use of. Prof. 

 H. H. Turner. F.R.S., and F. G. Brown, 402 



Stars : Astrographic Catalogue, Comparison of Over- 

 lapping Section Oxford -Potsdam, G. D. C. Stokes, 

 367 ; Calendars, Charts, and Guides, 459 ; Charts, the 

 Palisa-Wolf Star-, 3.'^8 ; Luminosities and Radii of 

 Various Stars, J. B. Cannon, 259 ; Magnitudes of 

 Eightv-eight Stars in Coma Berenices, M. Beljawsky, 

 55 ; Magnitudes, Possible Cause of Influence on Esti- 

 rnations of, K. Popoff, 26() ; Photographic Methods, 

 Determination of Differential Star Places by. Prof. 

 H. H. Turner. F.R.S., 267; Star Streams, Produc- 

 tion of. Prof. B. Boss, 189 ; Twinkling of the Stars, 

 Photographic Registration and Reproduction of the, 

 G. A. Tikhoff, 1^72 



Stars, Double: Double-Star Measures. Prof. Burnham, 

 Herr J. VoC^te, 180 ; Evolution of Multiple Stars, Dr. 

 See, 226: Second Catalogue of Spectroscope Binaries, 

 Prof. Campbell, W. E. Rolston, 424 



