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Index 



XXXI 



362 ; Teachers' Notes on Nature-study : Plants and 

 Anima'.s, 235 ; Stray Leaves on Travel, Sport, Animals, 

 and Kindred Subjects, J. C. Walter, 270; Protection 

 from "White Ants" and Other Pests, Will A. Dixon, 

 270 : Fur-seals of the Pribilows, Dr. F. A. Lucas, 278 ; 

 Animals in Glen Garry Forest, Symington Grieve, 279 ; 

 List of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of Ireland, 

 A. W- Stelfox and Robert Welch, 296 ; a Synopsis of the 

 False Scorpions of Britain and Ireland, H. Wallis Kew, 

 296 ; Woodcraft for Scouts and Others, O. Jones and 

 M. Woodward, 303; Philips' Nature Calendar, 1911, 304; 

 the Conduct and Song of Birds, F. C. Constable, 308 ; 

 Expedition to the Southern District of the Bahr-el-Ghazel 

 for the Purpose of Securing the Head and Skin of 

 Eland, F. C. Selous, 314; the Birds of Our Colonies 

 and their Protection, James Buckland at the Royal 

 Colonial Institute, 315 ; Aigrettes and Bird Skins, Hamel 

 Smith, 316; Fragments of the Egg of an Ostrich 

 obtained in a Nalla on the Kain River, E. Bidwell, 316; 

 Scottish Natural History, T. A. Har\-ie Brown, 336 ; 

 Camacinia othello, R. J. Tillyard, 362 ; Der Naturfreund 

 am Strande der Adria und des Mittelmeergebietes, Prof. 

 Carl I. Cori, 369 ; the Aims and Methods of Nature- 

 study, Dr. John Rennie, 369 ; Life-work of the late 

 Samuel Alexander Stewart, 415 ; Battersea Park as a 

 Centre for Nature Study, W. Johnson, 435 ; How to Know 

 the Trees, H. Irving, 435 ; Rosenkrankheiten und Rosen- 

 feinde, Dr. K. Laubert and Dr. M. Schwartz, 435 ; 

 Organic Response, Dr. D. T. Macdougal, 450 ; a Book 

 of Nimble Beasts, D. English, 47S ; Reported Discovery 

 in the Congo of a New Mammal, Dr. E. Trouessart, 481 ; 

 Living Okapies, Sir Harry Johnston, 4S3 ; in Forbidden 

 Seas, H. J. Snow. 408; Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 510; 

 Prof. D'.Arcy W. Thompson, 510; Habits of the Common 

 American Mole, F. E. Wood and J. .A. West, 520 ; 

 Practicability and Possibilities of Breeding Deer and Other 

 Big Game in Confinement in the United States, D. E. 

 Lantz, 549 



Natural Resources, Conservation of, in the United States, 

 Charles R. Van Hise, 545 



Natural Selection, an Apparently hitherto Unnoticed Anti- 

 cipation of the Theory of, H. M. Vickers, 510 



Nature, the Protection of, .\. E. Crawley, 110 



Naval Architecture : the John Fritz Medal awarded to Sir 

 William H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S., 548 



Navigation : Marine Microthermograms and Influence of 

 Icebergs on the Temperature of the Sea, Prof. H. T. 

 Barnes, 137 ; Altitude Tables, Computed for Intervals of 

 Four Minutes between the Parallels of Latitude 0° and 

 30° and Parallels of Declination 0° and 24°, designed for 

 the Determination of the Position-line at all Hour .Angles 

 without Logarithmic Computation, F. Ball, 201 ; Re- 

 searches on the Influence of Velocity on the Compass, 

 Gaston Gaillard, 531 



Nebula, the Spectrum of the .American, Dr. Max Wolf, 

 282 



Nebula;, Lines in the Spectra of, Dr. W. H. Wright, 454 



Nebulae, the Photography of. Dr. William J. .S. Lockyer, 

 140 



Nebul.-c, Southern, Mr. Innes, 552 ; Mr. Woods, 552 ; Mr. 

 Mitchell, 552 



Negro in the New World, the. Sir Harrv H. Johnston, 

 G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Pro;. G. Elliot Smith.' F.R.S., 172 



Negroes of the Congo Free State and Nigeria, Certain 

 Physical Characters of the, Dr. Arthur Keith at Royal 

 -Anthropological Institute, 221 



Neilson (Robert M.), .Aeroplane Patents, 270 



Nelson (E. M.), a Micrometric Difficulty, 95 ; Resolution of 

 New Detail in a Coscinodiscus asteroinphalus, 96 



Neogi (Panchanan), Reactions in Presence of Nickel, 130 



Neptune, the Discovery of, 87 



Neptune, the Discovery of, Leverrier's Letter to Galle, 184 



Neugebauer (Prof.), Elements and Numbers of Recently 

 Discovered Minor Planets, 119 



Neumann (Prof. B.), Traits complet d 'analyse Chimique, 

 appliquee aux essais industriels, 433 



New Guinea, Explorations in. Dr. H. .A. Lorentz at Royal 

 Geographical Society, 490 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 22S, 362 



New^ South Wales Royal Society, 129 



New Zealand, the Maoris of, James Cowan, 109 



New Zealand, the Subantarctic Islands of, Prof. Arthur 



Dendy, F.R.S., 43 

 New Zealand Survey, the, 185 

 Newall (Prof. H. F., F.R.S.j, the Spectroscope and its 



Work, 300 

 Newsholme (Dr. .Arthur), the Prevention of Plague, 81 ; 



Infant and Child Mortality, 556 ; Supplement to the 



Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Local Government 



Board, 556 

 Newstead (R.), Morphological Characters of the Genus 



Glossina, 279 

 Nicholas (.Askin), Curious Explanation of Glacial Periods- 



of Geology, 417 

 Nicholle (E. T.), Exploration of a Palseolithic Cave-dwelling, 



known as La Cotte, at St. Brelade, Jersev, 344 

 Nicholls (Prof. A. G., F.R.S.), the Principles of Path- 

 ology, 4 

 Nicolai (Prof. Georg), Das Elektrokardigramm des gesun- 



den und kranken Menschen, 265 

 Nicolardot (Paul), the Nitrous Esters of Cellulose, 34 

 Nierenstein (M.), Transformation of Proteids into Fats, 427 

 Nijland (Prof.), Halley's Comet, 350; Nova Lacertae, 523 

 Nimble Beasts, a Book of, D. English, 478 

 Nitrogen, the Afterglow of Electric Discharge in, Hon. 



R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., 439 

 Nobel Prizes awarded to Paul Heyer, Profs. Van der 



Waals, Wallack and Kossel, 213 

 Nordmann (Charles), Means of Determining by Colour 



Photometry the Parallaxes of a Certain Class of Stars, 



97 ; Effective Diameters of the Stars, 395 

 Norris (F. Edward), the Turkestan Earthquake of January 



.3-4. 372 



Norwich and the Broads, W. Jerrold, 202 



Nova .Arae 98, 1910, Dr. Ristenpart, 218 



Nova Lacertae, Mr. Hinks, 348 ; Mr. Espin, 348, 384 ; Prof. 

 .Max Wolf, 384, 453, 523, 552 ; Prof. Pickering, 384, 523 ; 

 Mr. Bellamy, 384 ; Dr. Graff, 417 ; Prof. Barnard, 453 ; 

 Prof. Millosevich, 453 ; Dr. Munch, 453 ; Prof. Hertz- 

 sprung, 453 ; Felix de Roy, 453 ; Herr Mewes, 453 ; P. 

 Idrac, 486, 523 ; Prof. Nijland, 523 ; Dr. Kuhl, 523 ^ 

 P. M. Ryves, 523 



Nova .Sagittarii No 2, the Spectrum of, Leon Campbell, 

 22 ; Prof. Millose.-ich, 22 ; Magnitude of. Dr. Ristenpart, 



Nova Sagittarii No. 3, H. V. 3306, Miss Cannon, 248, 552 



November Meteors, John R. Henry, 40 



Nubia, the .Archaeological Survey of. Report on the Human 

 Remains, Drs. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., and F. Wood- 

 Jones, 310 



Nudibranchiate Mollusca, a Monograph of the British, with- 

 Figures of the Species, Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G., 133 



Nunn (Dr. T. P.), Methods of Algebra Teaching, 89 



O'Brien (James), Orchids, 470 



O'Donahue (T. .A.), Field and Colliery Sur\'eying, 405 



O'Meara (Major), Sub-marine Cables for Long-distance 

 Telephone Circuits, 3S3 



Obser\atories : Observatory on Mount Vesuvius, 50 ; .Annales 

 de 1 'Observatoire National d'.Athene, Demetrius Eginitis^ 

 56 ; Publications of the .Allegheny Observatory, Prof. 

 Schlesinger, 218; Dr. ^chlesinger and D. .Alter, 218; 

 Dr. R. H. Baker, 218; the Italian Observatories. 282; 

 the New Hamburg Observatory, 309 ; Scientific Memoirs 

 of the Korean Meteorological Obser\atory, 341 ; the Solar 

 Physics Observatory, 373 ; the United States Naval Ob- 

 servatory, 418 ; the Obser\atory at Messina, Prof. J. 

 Milne, F.R.S., 515 ; Reports of Meteorological Obser\-a- 

 tories, 325 ; Madrid Observatory, 1902-5, 525 ; Royaf 

 Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory, Batavia, 

 1907, 525 ; Odessa Observatory, 1908, Prof. B. V. Stanke- 

 vitsch, 525 ; Mysore, Rainfall Registration (1909). 525 



Oceanography : the Oceanographical Museum at Monaco, 

 J. Y. Buchanan, F.R.S., 7 ; Inauguration of the Oceano- 

 graphical Institute in Paris, 379. 413 ; the Oceano- 

 graphical Institute at Paris, Dr. William S. Bruce, 513 



Ogilivie-Gordon (Mrs.), Triassic Masses above the Grbden- 

 tal, 280 



Ogilvie-Grant (AV. R.), Irish Coalrit, 557 



Ohnefalsch-Richter (Dr. Max), the Incense-.AItar of Aphro- 

 dite at Paphos, 323 



Okada (T.), the Rainy Season in Japan, 247 



