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Society and Academy Meetings (continued) : 

 Royal Society of Victoria, 33, 304, 539 

 Society of Model and Experimental Engineers, 458 

 Zoological Society, 98, 132, 199, 572 

 Sociology : Black and White in S.E. Africa, M. S. Evans, 



C.M.G., Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 408 

 Soil: Soil-fertility, Dr. R. Greig-Smith, 201, 437; the 

 Awakening of the Soil, A. Miintz and H. Gaudechon, 

 471 ; Soil Erosion, Mr. M'Gee, 491 ; the Story of the 

 Soil : from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, 

 C. G. Hopkins, E. J. Russell, 541 ; Action of Flowers of 

 Sulphur upon Vegetation, 573 



Solar Physics Observatory, the, 13, 43, 84, 151 



Sound, the Dynamical Theorv of. Prof. Horace Lamb, 

 F.R.S., Prof^ Bryan, F.R.S.', 579 



Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 17 



Species, Charles Darwin's Earliest Doubts concerning the 

 Immutability of. Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. , 8 



Spectra : Spectra produced in Gases and Vapours by 

 different Types of Electric Discharge, G. Millochau, 67, 

 595 ; Spectrum of Boron, Sir Wm. Crookes, 97 ; Spectrum 

 of Ruby, J. Moir, 166; Spectrum of Iron Flame and 

 those of Sun-spots and Lower-type Stars, Sir N. Lockyer, 

 K.C.B., 197; the Less Refrangible Spectrum of Cyanogen, 

 and its Occurrence in the Carbon Arc, A. Fowler and 

 H. Shaw, 198 



Spectroscopic Methods, Recent Progress in : Address, Dr. 

 A. A. Michelson, 362; " R.," 377 



Speeches of his Majesty the King, 209 



Spiders, Lyriform Organs and Tactile Hairs of, N. E. 

 M'Indoo, 89 ; British .Spiders in the Group Tmeticus, 

 Rev. J. E. Hall, 156 



Sponges, Fresh-water : Clare Island Survey, Miss J. 

 Stephens, 369 



Sport and Games, the Encyclopaedia of, 45 



Spotted Fever, Rocky Mountain, 562 



Stammering : the Real Cause and Permanent Cure of, 

 A. Appelt, Prof. J. G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 407 



Starfishes of the North Pacific, Prof. W. K. Fisher, 462 



Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Mrs. Fleming, 226 ; Evolu- 

 tion of Multiple Stars, Dr. See, 226 ; see also Astronomy 



Steel : the Present Position of Electric Steel-melting, Prof. 

 Andrew McWilliam : British Association Report, 62 ; the 

 Case-hardening of Steel, Prof. F. Giollitti, Dr. W. 

 Rosenhain, 122 ; the Basic Open-hearth Steel Process, 

 Carl Dichmann, Alleyne Reynolds, 309 



Stocks, Inheritance of Doubloness, &-c., in, Miss E. R. 

 Saunders, 457 



Suction-gas Plants, Bituminous, F. Fielden, 526 



Surveying : Roman Surveying, Prof. E. Hammer, Hofrath 

 A. Broch, it;8; Levelling of Precision in India, Col. S. G. 

 Burrard, R.E., F.R.S., 520 



Syphon, a Simple Automatic, J. C. Thomson, 550 



Tables, Fifty Useful Metric Equivalent, 107 



Tadpole of Frog, T. Plowman, 213 



Tapeworms, New Genus from the Bustard, F. E. Beddard, 

 199 



Technical Institute Problems : Address at Belfast, Prof. J. 

 Perry, F.R.S., 297; Technical Instruction in England, 

 Position of, G. F. Daniell, 319 



Teeth : Vcrgieichende Anatomic des menschlichen Gebisses 

 und der Zahne der Vertebraten, Dr. P. de Terra, 308 



Testing : a High-speed Fatigue Tester and the Endurance 

 of Metals under Alternating Stresses of High Frequency, 

 B. Hopkinson. 199; a Handbook of Testing: Materials, 

 Prof. C. A. M. Smith, 207 ; Tests of Nickel-steel Riveted 

 Joints, A. N. Talbot and H. F. Moore, 493 



Thames Valley, Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., 

 F.R.S., 278 



Therapeutics : Electric Colloidal Rhodium, A. Lancicn, 201 ; 

 Therapeutic Action of Mercury in Experimental Syphilis 

 of the Rabbit, L. Launoy and C. Levaditi, 403 



Ticks : Tick (Ixodoidoa) Generic Names to be included in 

 the " OfTicial List of Zoological Names," C. W. Stiles, 

 42 ; Ticks : a Monograph of the Ixodoidea, G. H. F. 

 Nuttall, C. Warburton, \V. F. Cooper, and L. E. Robin- 

 son, 123 ; the Genus Rhipicophalus, C. Warburton, 604 



Tides : Analysis of Tidal Records for Brisbane for 1908, 



F. J. Selby, 198; Tidal Survey of Japan, Prof. Hirayama, 

 Sir G. H. Darwin, K.C.B., F.R.S., 315 



Timber, see Wood 



Toxic, see Poisons 



Trees, Damage by Woodpeckers to, W. L. McAtee, 426 



Trigonometry : a New Trigonometry for Schools and 

 Colleges, Rev. J. B. Lock and J. M. Child, 105; 

 Trigonometria Esf^rica, Prof. C. Wargny, 105 



Tropic Isle, My, E. J. Banfield, 283 



Trypanosomes : Action of Oxazine, &c., on Trypanosomes, 

 A. Laveran and D. Roudsky, 133 ; Trypanosoma 

 rhodesiense, A. Laveran and N. Larrier, 268, 403 ; 

 Antelope infected with Trypanosoma gambiense, Capt. 

 A. D. Eraser and 13r. H. L. Duke, 436, 470 



Tsetse-tlies (Genus Glossina), a Handbook of the, E. E. 

 Austen, 204 ; Breeding Haunts of Glossina morsitans, 

 R. W. Jack, 523 



Tuberculosis : the Notification of Tuberculosis, 115 ; Anti- 

 tuberculous Vaccination and Serotherapy, M. Rappin, 

 201 ; Secondary Infections in Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 

 Dr. Inman, 296 ; a New Distinctive Character of the 

 Human and Bovine Tubercle Bacillus, P. Chauss^, 437 ; 

 see also Consumption 



Uftra-violet Rays: Weather of 191 1 and the Sun's Ultra- 

 violet Radiation, 212 ; Action of Ultra-violet Rays on 

 Sodium Hyposulphite, L. Marmier, 403 ; Photolytic De- 

 composition of Smokeless Powder by the Ultra-violet 

 Rays, D. Berthelot and H. Gaudechon, 471 



Universities : University Education in England and W'ales, 

 28; Congress of Universities of the Empire (1912), 56; 

 Moral Influence of a University Pension Scheme, Dr. 

 H. S. Pritchett, 96 ; Value of " External " Degrees of the 

 University of London, Sir Wm. Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 445, others, 567 



Veterinary Science Degrees at Edinburgh University, 434 



Vine-growing in England, H. M. Tod, 173 



Vortex Rings in Liquids, Photographic Study, Prof. E. F. 

 Northrup, 463 



Vulcanology : the Taal Volcano, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., 

 12 ; the Nature of Volcanic Action, R. A. Daly, 79; Gas 

 Eruption off the Coast of Trinidad, R. Anderson, 563 



Water: Water Resources of the United States, 157; 

 Geology and Underground Waters of S. Minnesota, 

 Messrs. Hall, Meinger, and Fuller, 157 ; the Divining 

 Rod, Dr. L. Weber, 228 ; Sterilisation of Drinking 

 Water by Ozonised Oxygen and Chlorine Compounds in 

 the Nascent State, E. Rouquette, 573 



Water-beetles : Clare Island Survey, F. Balfour Browne, 369 



Water-main, a Submerged Flexible-joint, F. Reed, 470 



Water-power Works, Loch Leven, A. H, Roberts, 129; 

 F. B. Sonnenschein, 129 



Water-vapour, Condensation of, by Expansion in an Atmo- 

 sphere of Carbonic Acid, E. Besson, 573 



Weather, see Meteorology 



Wedges, Optical, Mr. Renwick, 387 



Whaling : What Shore-whaling is doing for Science, Roy 

 C. Andrews, 280 



White Plumage and Hair Coloration, 53 



Wind : die tiigliche Periode der Windrichtung und Wind- 

 starke nach den anemometrischen Aufzeichnungen auf 

 der Klippe Porer, E. Mazelle, E. Gold, 218; Diurnal 

 Variation of the Wind and the Atmospheric Pressure and 

 their Relation to the Variation of the Gradient, Dr. 

 J. P. van der Stok, E. Gold, 218 



Wine, Disease of Bitterness in, and Acrylic Fermentation of 

 Glycerol, E. Voisinet, 99 



Wireless Telegraphy : Wireless Longitude Determinations, 

 Paris-Bizerta. H. Renan, 269; M. Bourgeois, 471; Appli- 

 cation of Wireless Telegraphy to Measurement of 

 CoetTicients of Self-induction, G. Meslin, 539 



Wood : Experiments on the Stress when Timber is Frac- 

 tured, A. B. Fulton, 200 



Wood Pulp and its Uses, C. F. Cross and others, C. 

 Simmonds, 205 ; C. F. Cross, 493 



