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Royal Anthropological Institute, Huxley Memorial Lecture 

 at, the Arrival of Man in Britain, Prof. \V. Boyd 

 Dawkins, F.R.S., 122 ; Certain Physical Characters of 

 the Negroes of the Congo Free State and Nigeria, Dr. 

 Arthur Keith, 221 



Royal Astronomical Society, 226 



Royal Colonial Institute : the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture in the West Indies, 418 



Royal Geographical Society : the Duke of the Abruzzi's 

 Expedition to the Karakoram Himalayas, Dr. F. De 

 Filippi at, 124; Cotton Growing within the British Empire, 

 J. H. Reed, 184; the Second French Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion, Dr. J. B. Charcot at, 257; the Michael Sars North 

 Atlantic Deep-sea Expedition, 1910, Dr. Johan Hjort at, 

 388 ; Explorations in New Guinea, Dr. H. A. Lorentz, 

 490 



Royal Institution : Matavanu : a New Volcano in Savaii 

 (German Samoa), Dr. Tempest Anderson, 92 ; the 

 Dynamics of a Golf Ball, Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 

 251 ; the Progressive Disclosure of the Entire Atmo- 

 sphere of the Sun, Dr. H. Deslandres, 422, 457 ; Radio- 

 activity as a Kinetic Theorv of a Fourth State of 

 Matter, Prof. William H. Bragg, F.R.S., 491 



Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 296 



Royal Meteoiolc^ical Society, 128, 295, 565 



Royal Microscopical Society, 95, 361, 463 



Royal Society, 64, 95, 126, 192, 259, 394, 427, 461, 495, 

 529, 564 ; Medal Awards, 46 ; .Anniversary Meeting of 

 the, 143 ; Medal Awards, 143 ; the Claims of Scientific 

 Research, Ix)rd Robson at, 183 ; on the Sensibility of 

 the Eye to Variations of Wave-lengths in the Yellow 

 Region of the Spectrum, Lord Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S., 

 421; the Density of Niton (Radium Emanation) and the 

 Disintegration Theory, R. Whytlaw Gray and Sir 

 William Ramsay, F.R.S., 524 



Royal Society of Arts, the Panama Canal in 19 10, Dr. 

 Vaughan Cornish at, 420 



Royal Society of .Arts, Journal of the, 455 



Royal Society, Dublin, 161, 327, 531 



Royal Society, Edinburgh, 193, 261, 497, 565 



Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, 464 



Royal Society, New South Wales, 129 



Royal Society of South .Africa, 162 ; .Aims of .Astronomy 

 of Precision, S. S. Hough, F.R.S., at, 323 



Royal Society of Victoria, 160, 262, 430 



Roze (M.). Death of, 414 



Rozet (CI.), Total Eclipse of the Moon of November 16, 

 1910, observed at .Aosta, Italy, 261 



Rudge (Prof. W. A. Douglas), Tribo Luminescence of 

 Cranium, 207 



Rudisiile (Dr. .A.), die Untersuchungs-Methoden des Eisens 

 und Stahls, 233 



Ruffer (Dr. M. Armand), an .Account of Pott's Disease 

 of the Spine in an Egyptian Mummy belonging to 

 the Time of the Twentv-first Dvnasty about 1000 B.C., 

 549 



Russ (Dr. S.), Note on Scattering during Radio-active 

 Recoil, 296 



Russell (Dr. .A.), the Electric Stress at which lonisation 

 begins in .Air, 225 



Russell (.Arthur), New Locality of Phenakite in Cornwall, 

 128 



Russell (B., F.R.S.), Philosophical Essavs, 331 



Russell (Dr. E. J.). Objects and Methods of .Agricultural 

 .Soil Surveys, 25 ; Partial Sterilisation of Soils, 25 : 

 Wheat-growing and its Present-day Problems, 57 ; -Agri- 

 culture in the Dry Regions of the British Empire, 11 1: 

 Transvaal .Agricultural Journal, iii ; .Agricultural 

 Journal of the Cape of Good Hope. 11 1 ; Water Require- 

 ments of Crops in India, J. W. Leather, iii; Kleines 

 Handworterbuch der .Agrikulturchemie, Dr. Max Passon, 

 164 



Russell (Dr. H. N.), Mass-ratios of the Components of 

 Krijger 60 and Castor. 418 



Russell (S. C). Variation of the Depth of Water in a 

 Well at Detling, near Maidstone, compared with the 

 Rainfall 1885-1909. 565 



Russian Magnetic Observations, Prof. Ernst Levst, Dr. 

 C. Chree. F.R.S., 388 



Ruston (Mr.), the Impurities of the Town Atmosphere and 

 their Effects on Vegetation, 24 



Rykachef (M.), Temperature of the Upper Air, 323 

 Ryves (P. .M.), Nova Lacertac, 523 



Sabatier (Paul), Direct Esterification by Catalysis, 565 

 Safety Lamps and the Detection of Fire-damp, 524 

 Sailing-flight of Birds, the. Canon R. .Abbay, 475 ; F. W. 

 Headiey, 511; A. Mallock, F.R.S., 511; Edward I). 

 Hearn, 511 

 Sala (Dr. Guido), the Cells of the Ciliary Ganglion, 279 

 -Salisbury (Prof. R. D.), Elementary Physiography, 50^1 

 Salles (Edouard), Diffusion of Gaseous Ions, 33 

 Salmon (E. S.), Epidemic Outbreak of Eutypella prunastri. 

 184; Life-history of the .Apple " Scab " Fungus (Venturia 

 inaequalis), 184 ; a Species of Leptothyrium, 184 

 Salmon (W. H.), Geometry of the Triangle, 50 

 Sand (Dr. H. J. S.), Apparatus for the Rapid Electro- 

 analytical Determination of Metals, 360 

 Sanitation : Lessons on Elementary Hygiene and Sanita- 

 tion, with Special Reference to the Tropics, W. T. 

 Prout, 270 ; Death of Dr. William Williams, 548 

 Sarawak, Occurrence of Matonia sarmentosa in, Cecil J. 



Brooks, 541 

 Sasaki (Prof. C), Silkworm Problems, 151 

 Satterlv (J.), Radium Content of .Salts of Potassium, 261 

 Saturn's Outer Ring, a Projection on, M. Jonckheere, 248 

 Saturn's Rings, M. Jonckheere, 150; K. Schiller, 218 

 Saunders (S. .A.), Determination of Selenographic Positions 



and the Measurement of Lunar Photf^raphs, 226-7 

 -Savaii, Matavanu, a New A'olcano in, (German Samoa). 



Dr. Tempest .Anderson at Royal Institution, 92 

 -Savoia (Humbert), Metallography Applied to Siderugic 



Products, 202 

 Savoia (U.), la M^tallographie appliqu^ aux produits 



Siderurgiques, 405 

 -Sawyer (Mr.), Sugar Beet Grown for Export in Norfolk. 



317 

 Seal (CI.), Sterilisation of Water on the Large Scale by 



LUtra-violet Light, 6^ ; .Arc Lamp having a Mercury 



Kathode and giving White Light, 407 

 Scale (.A.), Pearl and Pearl-shell Fishery, 177 

 Scarlett (R. H.), a School Course of Heat, 303 

 Schaefer-Cassel (Prof. Dr. B.), Uber Zeil u' Methode der 



Naturdenkmalpflege, 1 10 

 Schafer (Prof. E. A.. F.R.S.), the Essentials of Histology, 



'37 



Schaller (W. T.), the Mercury Minerals from Terlingua, 

 Texas, 420 



Scharff (Dr. R. P.), Evidences of a Former Land-bridge 

 between Northern Europe and North America. 387 



Scharff (Dr.), Whale-fishery at Inishkea and Ely Point, 116 



Schiller (Dr.). CeruUi's Comet (i9ioe). Identified with 

 Fave's Short-period Comet, i:;i 



Schilier (K.). Saturn's Rings. 2^18 



-Schlesinger (Prof.). Publications of the .Allegheny Observa- 

 tory, 218; Photographic Determinations of Stellar 

 Parallax, 4:^4 



Schlomann (.Alfred), the Deinhardt-Schlomann Series of 



• Technical Dictionaries, 99 



Schmidt (Dr. .A.). .Anthracosiidae of the Upper Carboni- 

 ferous Beds of Mahrisch-Ostrau, 284 



Schmidt (Pr^f. E. C), Experiments on Freight-train Resist- 

 ance and its Relation to Average Car Weight. 5^I 



Schoen (M.), Influence Exerted by the Reaction upon 

 Certain Properties of Malt Extracts. 129 



School Garden and Nature Note-book, the " Code," 234 



Schopenhauer-Darwin : Pessimismus oder Optimismus. 

 Gustav Weng. 403 



Schrader (F. C). Mineral Deposits of the Cerbat Range. 

 Black Mountains, and Grand Wash Cliffs, Mohave 

 County, .Arizona. 420 



Schrvver (S. B.). Investigations on the State of .Aggregation 

 of Matter, 127 



Schultze (.A.). Elements of .Algebra, 167 



Schulz (Paul F. F.). Hiiusliche Blumenpflege, 370 



Schuster (.Arthur), Orogin of Magnetic Storms. 461 



Schuster (Julius). Geological .Age of the Pithecanthropus of 

 the Pluvial Period in Java, 65 



Schuvten (Prof.), Report of the Section L Research Com- 

 mittee on Mental and Physical Factors Involved in 

 Education, 89 



Schwalbe (Prof. Carl G.), die Chemie der Cellulose unter 



