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NATURE. 



195 



Official Publications Received. 



Jamaica. Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for 

 ; • Year ended 31st December, 1930. Pp. 29. (Kingston, Jamaica • 

 1 partment of Agriculture.) 



Straits Settlements. Annual Keport on the Raffles Museum and 

 riirv for the Year 1920. By Major J. C. Moulton. Pp ii+21 

 Singapore.) 



Indian Science Congress. Handbook for the Use of Alembers 

 '.nding the Ninth Meeting to be held at Madras from the 30th 

 : January to the 4th of February, 1923. Pp. x4-165. (Madras- 

 ipt. t'livo Newcomb, Chemical E.vnminer.) 



( ity and County of Bristol : The Bristol Museum -and Art Gallery 

 ;. port of the Museum and Art Gallery Committee for the Year 

 ling 30th September, 1921. Pp. 20. (Bristol.) 

 Canada. Department of Mines: Geological Survey. Bulletin 

 ' S*' ^jfP'off'^'al Series, No. 40. Pp. ii+85+12 plates. Memoir 

 .. No. 10<. Geological Series: Sedimentation of the Fraser River 

 clta. By \V. A. Johnston. Pp. iv+46+map8. Geological Survey 

 imar^- Report. 1920, Part D. Pp. 87+maps. (Ottawa.) 

 wa Geological Survey. Vol. 27": Annual Report, 1916, with nocom- 

 nng Papers. Pp. viii+568+12 plates+maps. (Des Moines.) 

 ttuario Pubhoado polo Observatorio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 

 o Anno de 1922. Anno 38. Pp. .xiy + 443+plates. (Kio de 

 : J inisterio da Agricultura, Industria e Commercio,' 1921 ) 

 Geology of the Country Surrounding Johannesburg: An 

 ilanation of Sheet 52 (Johannesburg). By Dr. E. T Jlellor 

 \ (Pretoria : Geological Survey.) 5»., including map. 

 )rt on the Crocodile River Iron Deposits. By P. A. Wagner 

 »oir No 17.) Pp. 70+1 plate. Pretoria: Geological Survey) 

 Bsenms of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Report 

 ■ the Condition.? and Progress of the Museums for the Year 

 ^Jg December 31, 1920. By W. H. Fox. Pp 62. (Brooklyn, 



Smithsonian Institution: United States National Museum 

 Bu letin 11< : The Distribution of Bird Life in the Urubamba 

 Valley of Peru. .\ Report on the Birds Collected by the Yale 

 I niversity-Nationnl Geographic Society's Expeditions. By F M 



'jipman. Pp. 138+9 plates. (Washington: Government Printing 

 ice.) ° 



' '"^"if " ^y^'^^ifi*-^' = Agricultural Experiment Station. ]Memoir 

 .I-*: The Crane-Flies of New York. Part 2: Biology and Phylo- 

 d;,- •'' ^fP^- •V"^""'''-'"- . P^- *'''l-"33. Memoir 39 f The GeS 

 Relations of Plant Colours in Maue. By R. A. Emerson. Pp. 156 

 + 11 plates. (Ithaca. N.Y. : Cornell University.) 



Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and 

 Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. 9: A Mava Grammar; with 



Alfred 



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I apartment of the Interior: Bureau of Education. Bulletin 



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ip. .Z.i. (Washington: Government Printing Office) 20 cents 



Department of the Interior : United States Geological Survey. 

 p1! 1-S /iQ ' T I* ^"^ I]'"'' J^esources of Eurone. By Max Roesler. 

 rL 1^^+19 plates. Bulletin 714: Mineral Resources of Alaska. 

 Report of Prog-ress of Investigations in 1919. By A. H. Brooks 

 and others. Pp. 244+7 plates. Bulletin 725-A : Deposits of 

 California. Oregon, Wa.shington. and Montana. By 

 Pp. viii + 84+5 plates. Bulletin 



Bibliography and Appraisement of the ' Works "Noted. By 



Chromite 



J S. Diller and others, 



t T'V •"? '" Pennsylvania. Maryland, and North Carolina. By 

 -V-r r>n?,' -/"f ^r- ^- T^'-'^'s- Pp- iv+85-139+T)late 6. Bulletin 

 \V .l,ino^? ^ of Manganese Ore in Montana. Utah. Oregon, and 

 In -"?n • r?^.^\li Pardee Pp. yiii + 141.243+plates 7-10. Bul- 

 h Tin /i.-lj : Contact-Metamorphio Tungsten Deposits of the United 

 UU'R,ZJ\'r.-o^^^^^'''\ ^'- S- r>«rsen. Pp. yi+24.v309+p7.tes 

 rJ,nf nui .. '2«-B: Geology of the Cement Oil Field, Ccd^io 

 County. Oklahoma. By F. Reeves. Pp. iy+41-85 + plate8 6-12. 

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Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey. 



V t'Z i'^I ^•■'''" *'I= S'Tface Water Supply of the United 



P lfi:iJ'?lu.^"'Vi ^"""^^ ■^^*''^"*'° S''"'« TJrainage Basins. 



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n?„f„= w'?**o'- ^^l^^P'"-* fi: Missouri River Basin. Pp.' 266 



plates Water-supply Pajier 490-B : Routes to Desert AVaterin" 



•es in the Mohave Desert Region. California. By D. G Thomp- 



- n. Pp. v,„+269+13 plates. (Washington: Government IVnt- 



111' Ottice.) 



Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey 

 Mineral Resources of the United States in 1920. (Preliminary 

 iimary.) Introduction by G. F. Loughlin. Pp. 123. (Washing- 

 Government Printing Office.) «»"i.ig 



-ords of the Ind 

 iinrbidae in the Indian 



Louis Germain. Part 

 ley.) 2 rupees. 



Museum. Vol. 21 : Catalogue of the 

 Museum (Natural History), Calcutta. 

 1. Pp. ii+80. (Calcutta : Zoological 



Diary of Societies. 



THURSDAY, Febuvaht 9. 

 M, iN-sTiTrTioN OF GnK.w Britai.v, at 3.— Sir Napier Shaw: 

 noughts and Floods (2). ' 



fnnf "^ ^i^Qn'^r.,? ^ ^*"V'r'''' - ^"^ ^^^ ^^^""^'^ Hospital, Paddiug- 

 ton), at 4.30.— Clinical Meeting 

 RoTAi. SociEiT, at 4.30,-Sir J. A. Ewing : The Atomic 

 Process in Ferromagnetic Induction.— Prof. J. W. Nicholson - 

 Iroblems relating to a Thin Plate Annulus— Prof. T. H 

 Havelock : The Rflfect of Shallow Water on Wave Resistance.- 

 «. H. Fowler and S, N. H. Lock : The Aerodynamics of a Spin- 



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ning Shell. Part II.— P. P. Pidduok : The Kinetic Theory of a 

 Special Type of Rigid Molecule.— J. E. Jones : The Velocity Dis- 

 tribution Function and the Stresses in a Non-uniform Rarefied 

 Monatomio Gas.— H. Bateman : The Numerical Solution of Linear 

 Integral Equations. 

 LoNDOK Mathematicai, Societt (at Royal Astronomical Society), 

 at 5.— H. Hilton : Conies on the Pseiido-sphere.— W. F. D. Mac- 

 Mahon : The Design of Repeating Patterns in Euclidean Space 

 I of 3 Dimensions.— G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood : Dirichlet's 

 I Series with a Barrier of Singularities. 



I Institution or Civil Engineers (Students' Meeting), at 6.— E. J. 

 Kingston-McCloughry : The Design of IModern Water-turbines. 

 Optical Societi (at Imperial College of Science and Technology), 

 at 7.30.— .\nnual General Meeting.— F. W. Preston : The Structure 

 of Abraded Glass Surfaces.— A. J. Dalladay and F. Twvman : 

 The Stress Conditions Surrounding a Diamond Cut in Glass.— 

 Lt.-Col. J. W. Gilford : A Supplementary Note on Arhromatio 

 One-Radius Doublet Eyepieces.— F. Twyma'n and A. J. Dalladay : 

 Change in Refractive Index at the Surfaces of Glass Melts. 

 Chemical Societi (at Institution of Mechanical Engineers), at 8.— 



Sir Ernest Rutherford : Artificial Disintegration of Elements. 

 Institute of Metals (London Section) (at Sir John Cass Technical 



Institute, Jewry Street, E.C.3), at 8.— R. T. Rolfe : Gun-metal. 

 SociETr OF Antiquaries, at 8.30. 



Royal Societt of Medicine (Neurology Section), at 8.30.— Dr. F. 

 Buzzard : Some Varieties of Traumatic and Toxic uinar 

 Neuritis. 



FRIDAY, Febrlart 10. 

 Physical Society of London (at Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology), at 5.— Annual General fleeting.- Dr. E. A. Owen 

 and Bertha Naylor : The Measurement of the Radium Content 

 of Sealed Metal Tubes.— Sir William Brage- : The Crystal 

 Structure of Ice— Dr. K. Grant : A :Method of Exciting Vibra- 

 tions in Plates, Membranes, etc., Based on Bernoulli's Principle. 

 Royal Astro.nomic.al Society, at 5— Anniversary Jfeeting. 

 Royal College of Surgeons of England, at 5.— Prof. A. C. Pan- 



nett : Hydronephrosis (Hunterian Lecture). 

 Kino's College ENorNEEBiNO Society (Anniversary Meeting) (at 

 Institution of Civil Engineers), at 5.30.— F. W. Macaulay : Water 

 Engineering. 

 Royal Society of Medicine (Clinical Section), at 5.30. 

 JlALACOLOGic.u, SOCIETY (at Liuncan So..;iety), .t S. 

 Junior Institution of Engineers, at 8.— Questions and General 



Discussion. 

 Royal Society of JIedicine (Ophthalmology Section), at 8.30 — 

 Miss I. C. Mann : The Mornholoev of Certain Developmental 

 Structures associated with the Ufiper End of the Choroidal 

 Fissure.— Dr. H. J. M:iy and F. A. AVilliamson-Noble : Three 

 Cases of Choroidal Sarcoma, with Notes on the Microscopic 

 Appearances. 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain, at 9— Prof. W. D. Halli- 

 burton : The Teeth of the Nation. 



MONDAY. February 13. 

 Royal Geographical Society (at Lowther Lodge. Kensington Gore), 

 at 5— Lt.-Col. M. N. MacLeod and A. R. Hinks : Stereographio 

 Survey. 

 Royal College of Surgeons of England, at 5.— Prof. V. Z. Cope : 

 The Nerve-supply of the Parietal Peritoneum and the Subperi- 

 toneal Tissues, with Remarks on its Clinical Significance (Arris 

 and Gale Lecture). 

 Royal Society of Medicine (War Section), at 5.30 — Lieut.-Colonel 

 C. R. Svlvester-Bradley : Stature in relation to Physical Fitness. 

 Medical Society of London (at 11 Chandos Street, W.l). at S 30 — 

 Prof. H. Hartmann : Inflammatory Strictures of the Rectum. 

 TUESDAY. February 14. 

 Royal Institt:tion of Great Britain, at 3.— Prof. H. H. Turner : 



Variable Stars (31 ; Our Sun. 

 Royal Society of Medicine (Therapeutics and Pharmacology Sec- 

 tion), at 4.30— Dr. H. H. Dale .ind Ma.ior C. E. White: An 

 Experimental Method of Determining the Therapeutic Efficiency 

 of "914" Preparations.— Dr. R. L. :Macken7.ie Wallis : Tests for 

 Hepatic Insufficiency after Arseno-benzol Treatment. 

 Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, at 7.— Prof. The 

 Svedberg : (1) The Relation between Sensitiveness and Size of 

 Grain in Photographic Emulsions (Part 2) ; (2) The Reducibility 

 of the Individual Halide Grains in a Photoeraphic Emulsion.— 

 Dr. S. R. Sheppard and A. P. H. Trivelli : Note on Prof. 

 Svedberg's Method of Grain Anal.vsis of Photographic Emulsions 

 —K. C. D. Hickman : An Optical Method of Testing AVashing 

 Devices. 

 QuEKETT Microscopical Cli b. at 7 30 (Annual General Meeting).— 



Dr. A. B. Rendle : Presidential Address. 

 Royal Anthropological Institute, at 8.15— Prof. G. Elliot Smith : 



The Brain of Rhodesian Man. 

 Royal Society of Medicine (Psvchiatrv Section), at 8.30.— Dr. 

 Helen Boyle : The Ideal Clinic for the Treatment of Nervous and 

 Borderland Cases. 



WEDNESDAY. February 15. 

 Royal Society of Medicine' (History of Medicine Section), at 5.— 

 Dr. C. Singer: Recently Discovered Inscriptions recording Ancient 

 Cures.— Dr. F. G. Crookshank : The " Trousse-galland."— Dr. 

 H. D. Davis: A Very Early Illustration of a Skin Disease. 

 Royal College of Surgeons of England, at 5.— Dr. F. W. Edridge- 

 Greeri : New Researches in Colour-vision (Arris and Gale Lec- 

 ture). 

 Royal Society of Arts, at 8.— Cloudeslev Brereton : The Necessity 

 of Speech Training, and the Need of a National Conservatoire. 

 Royal Microscopical Society, at 8 —Prof. B. L. Bhatia : Fresh- 

 water Ciliate Protozoa of India— .^. L. Booth: The Micro- 

 structure of Coal from an Industrial Standpoint.— Capt. F. 

 Oppenheimer : \ Portable Microscope 



