Nature, 

 March 23, 1911 



Index 



Accidents of an Antiquary's Life, D. G. Hogarth, 238 ; 

 Excavations on the Island of Pseira, Crete, Richard B. 

 Seager, H. R. Hail, 272 ; the Archaeological Survey of 

 Nubia, Report on the Human Remains, Drs. G. Elliot 

 Smith, F.R.S., and F. Wood-Jones, 310; the German 

 Excavations at Babylon, H. R. Hall, 312; an Arabic 

 Pompeii in the Neighbourhood of Cordova, 314; the 

 Incense-altar of Aphrodite at Paphos, Dr. Max Ohno 

 falsch-Richter. 323 ; the Annual of the British School at 

 Athens, H. R. Hall, 339 ; an Institute of Human Palaeont- 

 ology, 412; Papers of the British School at Rome, 445; 

 Megalithic Monuments and Prehistoric Culture in the 

 Western Mediterranean, Dr. Mackenzie, .445 ; Mr. Peet, 

 445 ; Distribution of Early Civilisation in Northern 

 Greece in relation to its Geographical Features, .A. J. B. 

 Wace and M. S. Thompson, 450; Death of P. D. Scott- 

 Moncrieff, 548 ; the Maya Hieroglyphs, W. E. Gates, 549 

 .\rchbutt (S. L.), Constitution of the Alloys of Aluminium 



and Zinc, 564 

 .Architecture : Measurements of Spiral Stairway of the 

 Leaning Tower of Pisa, Wm. H. Goodyear, 347 ; the 

 Settlement in Strassburg Cathedral, M. Knauth, 384 

 Arctic Plants from the Valley Gravels of the River Lea, 



S. Hazzledine Warren, 206 

 Ardern (E.), Oxidation of Phenol by Certain Bacteria in 



Pure Culture, 127 

 Argentina, Anales de la Oficina Meteorologica, 250 

 -Argentine Republic — Agricultural and Pastoral Census of 

 the Nation : Stock-breeding and Agriculture in 1908, 455 

 Argentine Republic, Climate of the, W. G. Davis, 250 

 Argentine Republic, Live Stock and Agricultural Census of 



the, 455 

 Aristotelian Society, Proceedings of the, 370 

 Arithmetic : Public School Arithmetic, \\'. M. Baker 

 and A. A. Bourne, 167; Key to Hall and Stevens's School 

 Arithmetic, L. W. Grenville. ^05 

 .Armfieid (Constance S.), the Ffower Book, 507 

 Armstrong (Dr. E. F.), Oxidases differ from other kinds 



of Enzymes, 26 

 .Armstrong (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Leathes' Work on the 

 .Splitting of Fats at Intermediate Points in the Carbon 

 Chain, and the Formation of Peroxides by Manganese 

 and Iron with Hydroxy-acids, 26 ; Relations of Science 

 with Commercial Life, 90 

 .Arnold (Prof. J. O.), a Fourth Recalescence in Steel, 157 

 -Arrow (G. J.), the Fauna of British India, including 

 Ceylon and Burma : Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae 

 and Dynastinae), 467 

 Ashby (Dr. Henry), Notes on Physiology, 304 

 Ashby (Dr. T.), Excavations at Caerwent, the Site of 

 Venta Silurum, 22 ; Excavations at Hagear Kim and 

 Mnaidra, Malta, 23 

 Ashley (G. H.), the Value of Coal Land, 420 

 Ashworth (Dr.), Partial Sterilisation of Soils, 25 

 Asia, the Recent Earthquakes in, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 



335; Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 335 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 130, 396 

 -Asphalt Paving or Lining and Vegetation, 318 

 -Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, the, 55 

 Aston (F. W.), Distribution of Electric Force in the 



Crookes Dark Space, 394 

 Astronomy: Our .Astronomical Column, 21, 51, 87, 118, 

 150, 180, 218, 248, 282, 319, 348, 384, 417, 453, 486, 

 ,S23, 552 ; Fireball of October 23, W. F. Denning, 21 ; 

 the Motion of Molecules in the Tail of Halley's Comet, 

 Prof. Lowell, 21 ; Ephemeris for Halley's Comet, Dr. 

 Ebell, 51 ; Selenium Photometer Measures of the Bright- 

 ness of Halley's Comet, Joel Stebbin, 51 ; Halley's Comet, 

 M. Bassot, 97 ; H. E. Wood, 349 ; Messrs. Innes and 

 Worssell, 350 ; Father Goetz, 350 ; Profs. Nijland and 

 Van der Bilt, 350; F. Sy, 351; Dr. J. Mascart. 351: 

 M. Jamain, 351 ; Recent Helwan Photographs of Halley's 

 Comet, Prof. Barnard, 180; Observations of Halley's 

 Comet made at the Nice Observatory with the Gautier 

 Equatorial of 76 cm. -Aperture, M. Javelle, 129; Condition 

 of the .Atmosphere during the Recent Proximity of 

 Hallev's Comet, H. G. A. Hardinge, 130; the Spectrum 

 of Halley's Comet, C. P. Butler, 193 ; the Dark Band 

 Surrounding the Polar Caps of Mars, Prof. Lowell, 22 ; 

 Markings of Mars, James H. Worthington, 40 ; Prof. 

 A. M. Worthington, C.B., F.R.S., 372 ; "Observations of 



Mars, E. M. Antoniadi. 305 ; Mars and its Atmosphere, 

 -Mr. Innes and Mrs. H. fe. Wood, 486; Prof. Campbell 

 and Dr. Albrecht, 486 ; the Satellites cf Mars, Prof. 

 Ix)well, 552 ; the Spectrum of Nova Sagittarii No. 2, 

 I^eon Campbell, 22 ; Prof. Millosevich, 22 ; Magnitude of 

 Nova Sagittarii No. 2, Dr. Ristenpart, 151 ; Discovery of 

 -Another Nova, Sagittarii No. 3, Miss Cannon, 248; Nova 

 -Sagittarii No. 3, H.V. 3306, Miss Cannon, 552 ; a New 

 Variable Star or a Nova 97, 1910, Cygni, Mr. Hinks, 22 ; 

 New Variable Stars in Harvard Map, No. 52, Miss 

 Cannon, 22 ; November Meteors, John R. Henry, 40 ; 

 Fireball on November 2, 51 ; Rotation of the Moon, 51 ; 

 the Secular Acceleration of the Moon's Mean Motion, 

 Dr. Robert Bryant, 119; the Total Eclipse of the Moon, 

 November 16, E, .A. .Martin, 118; Madame de Robeck, 

 118; M-M. Luizet, Guillaume, and Merlin, 180; M. Mon- 

 tangerand, 180; M. Lebeuf, 180; M. Jonckheere, 180; 

 Dr. Max Wolf, 319; Father Fenyi, 319; the Total Eclipse 

 of the Moon of November 16, 1910, observed at Aosta, 

 Italy, M. -Amann and CI. Rozet, 261 ; a New Map of 

 the Moon, Mr. Goodacre, 319; the Apparent Diameter 

 of Jupiter, Father Chevalier, 51 ; Equatorial Current of 

 Jupiter in 1880, A. Stanley Williams, 226 ; Analytical 

 Theory and Tables of Motion of Jupiter by Le Verrier, 

 -A. Gaillot, 327 ; Observations ot Jupiter's Galilean Satel- 

 lites, Mr. Innes, 524 ; Curved Photographic Plates, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, 51 ; Observations of the New Cerulli 

 Planet (K U), 1910, M. Coggia, 65 ; the Romance ol 

 Modern Astronomy, describing in Simple but Exaci 

 Language the Wonders of the Heavens, Hector Mac- 

 pherson, jun., 71 ; Death of Dr. F. Valle, 83 ; Discover> 

 of a Comet, Dr. Cerulli, 87 ; Cerulli's Comet, 19106, Prof. 

 Hartwig, 119; Dr. Ebell, 119; Observations of, made at the 

 Obser\-atory of Besanijon with the Bent Equatorial, P. 

 Chofardet, 129; Cerulli's Comet (i9io€). Identified with 

 Faye's Short-period Comet, Prof. Pickering, 150; Dr. 

 Ebell, 150; Dr. Schiller, 151; Dr. Ristenpart, 151; Dr. 

 Cerulli, 151 ; Observations of Cerulli's Come! 

 made at the Observatory of Lyons, J. Guillaume, 161 ; 

 Ephemeris for Faye's Comet, 1910^, Dr. Ebell, 180; 

 Identity of the Cerulli Comet with the Faye Comet, G. 

 Fayet, 193; Faye's Comet, G. Fayet, 248; Observation of 

 the Faye-Cerul'i Comet made at the Observatory of Mar- 

 seilles with the Comet Finder, M. Borrelly, 261 ; Elements 

 for Faye's Comet, 1910^, Prof. Ristenpart and Dr. 

 Prager, 319; Mr. Mejer and Miss Levy, 319; Ephemeris 

 for Faye's Comet, Dr. Ebell, 523 ; Metcalf's Comet 

 igiofe). Dr. Ebell, 87, 319; Recent Fireballs, 87; Mr. and 

 ^frs. Wilson, 150 ; C. B. Pennington, 150 ; J. Hicks, 

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

 218; Solar -Activity and Terrestrial Temperatures, W. J. 

 Humphreys, 87 ; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, and New 

 A'ariable Stars, 87 ; the Discovery of Neptune, 87 ; the 

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

 Variable Stars in the Orion Nebula, 87 ; Means of 

 Determining by Colour Photometry the Parallaxes of a 

 certain Class of Stars, Charles Nordmann, 97 ; der 

 Sternenhimmel, Prof. J. D. Messerschmitt, 102 ; Selenium 

 Photometry of Stars, Dr. Joel Stebbins, 119; Photo- 

 graphic Magnitudes of Seventy-one Pleiades Stars, .Adolf 

 Hnatek, 119; Elements and Numbers of Recently Dis- 

 covered Minor Planets. Prof. Neugebauer, 1 19 ; Spectro- 

 scopic Measurement of the Rotation of Stars possessing 

 an -Atmosphere, with Special Reference to the Sun, -A. 

 Perot, 129 ; a Popular Guide to the Heavens. Sir 

 Robert S. Ball, 136 ; the Photography of Nebulje. 

 Dr. William J. S. Lockyer. 140 : Observations of 

 Magnetic Declination and Dissipation of Electric 

 Charge which they made at Padua on May 14-21, Drs. 

 R. .Alpago and G. Silva, 150 ; a Projection on 

 Saturn's Outer Ring, M. Jonckheere, 248: a System of 

 Standard Wave-lengths, Prof. Kayser, 151 ; the Radial 

 Velocity of Sirius, W. Miinch, 151 ; -Annuaire du Bureau 

 des Longitudes, 191 1, 151 ; Comets and Electrons. Prof. 

 -Augusto Righi, 180 ; the Probable Errors of Radial- 

 velocity Determination, Mr. Plaskett, 180: the Photo- 

 graphic Magnitudes of Stars. Prof. E. C. Pickering, i8i : 

 E. Hertzsprung, 181 ; Proper Motion of the Star 

 B.D.-l-33°q9, Dr. .Abetti, 181; Several Entirely Unknown 

 -Autographs of Nicolaus Copernicus, Dr. L. Birkenmajer, 

 217; the Orbit of the Perseids, Henri Dierckx, 218; De- 



