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graphy of Orissa in the sixteenth century. The i 

 author attempts to discuss in this paper all. the geo- i 

 graphical information available about Orissa in the I 

 sixteenth century. His main authorities are the I 

 Mddald Pdnji, or the Chronicles of . Jagannatha { 

 Temple in Puri (Orissa), and the Aine-i-Akbari of' 

 Abul Fazal. This information is checked and supple- 

 mented by information available at the time of the ' 

 early British occupation, and obtained by personal | 

 inquiries, made during, his service in Orissa for thir- i 

 teen years. ' i 



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Memoirs on Typical British Marine 



L.M.B.C. Memoirs on 

 Plants and Animals. XXIII. Tubifex. By G. C. I 

 Dixon. Pp. viii+ 100 + vii plates. (London : Williams \ 

 and Norgate.) 35. 6d. 



Practical Organic and Bio-Chemistry. By R. H. A. 

 Plimmer. Pp. xii + 635. (London: Longmans and ^ 

 Co.) I2S. 6d. net. 



' On the Relation of Imports to Exports. By J. T. 

 Peddie. Pp. v + 88. (London : Longmans and Co.) 

 2s. 6d. net. 



The Birth-Time of the World, and other Scientific 1 

 Essays. By Prof. J. Joly. Pp. xv + 307. (London: 

 T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.) los. 6d. net. 



Elementary Photo-Micrography. By .W. Bagshaw. 

 Third edition. Pp. 143. (London : Iliffe and Sons, 

 Ltd.) 2^. 6d. net. 



Lord Kitchener and his Work in Palestine. By 

 Dr. S. Daiches. Pp. 88. (London : Luzac and Co.) 

 2S. 6d. net. 



Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain and of the ; 

 Adjacent Slwalik and Sub-Himalayan Tracts. By i 

 J. Duthie. Vol. Hi., part i. Pp.' 168. (Calcutta i , 

 Superintendent Government Printing, India.) is. lod. 



Germany's Violations of the Laws of War, 1914-15. 

 Compiled under the auspices of the French Ministry 

 of Foreign Affairs. Translated by J. O. P. Bland. 

 Pp. xxxvIii + 343. (London: W. Heinemann.) 55. I 

 net. 



A Manual of Mechanics and Heat. By Prof. R. A. 

 Gregory and H. E. Hadley. Pp. viii + 309. (Lon- 

 don: MacmlUan and Co., Ltd.) 35. 



The Essentials of Illustration, Bv T. G. Hill. 

 Pp. xii + 95. (London: W. Wesley and Son.) loi-. 

 net. 



Qualitative and Volumetric Analysis. By W. M. 

 Hooton, Pp. 86. (London : E. Arnold.) 35. net. 



Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. Bulletin 46 : A Dictionary of the Choctaw 

 Language. By C. Bylngton. Edited by Dr. T- R- 

 Swanton and H. S. Halbert. Pp. xl + 6ii. (Wash- 

 ington : Government Printing Office.) 



The New Psychiatry. By Dr. W. H. B. Stoddart. 

 Pp. iy + 67. (London: Bailliere & Co.) 35. 6d. net. 



Papers from the Geological Department, Glasgow 

 University. Vol. i., 1914. (Glasgow: J. MacLehose 

 and Sons.) 



Birds and Man. By W. H. Hudson. New edition. 

 Pp. 306. (London : Duckworth and Co.) 6s. net. 



The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psycho- 

 logy. By Dr. B. SIdis. Pp. 416. (London : Duck- 

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Child Training. By V. M. Hillyer. Pp. xxxixf 

 299. (London : Duckworth and Co.) 5s. net. 



Birkbeck College Calendar, 1915-16. Pp. 134. 

 (London.) 3d. 



Manuals of Chemical Technology. III. Indus- 

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 G. Martin and W. Barbour. Pp. yiii+r25. (Lon- 

 don : Crosby Lockwood and Son.) 75. 6d. net. 



The Solar EcKpse of August 21, 1914. By C. 

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 NO. 2396, VOL. 96] 



A Manual of the Chikaranga Language, with 

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 and Vocabulary. By C. S. Louw. Pp. x + 397. 

 (Bulawayo : Philpott and Collins.) 12s. 6d. net. 



Wales : Her Origins, Struggles, and Later History. 

 Institutions, and Manners. By G. Stone. Pp. xxxvi 

 + 455. (London : G. G. Harrap and Co.) ys. 6d. net. 



Documents Scientifiques de la Mission Tilho (1906- 

 1909). Tome Trolsi^me. Pp. vii 4- 484 + plates. 

 (Paris : E. Larose.) 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



MONDAY, October 4. 

 Society of Engineers, at 7.30. 



WEDNESDA V. October 6. 



Entomological Society, at 8.— Contributions to the Life-histories of 



Latiorina pyrenaica, Agriades esckeri, and Scoliiantides arion : Dr. 



T. A. Chapman.— The Life-history of Lycaena arion: F. W. Frohawk 



and Dr. '1'. A. Chapman. 



THURSDAY, October 7. 

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CONTENTS. 



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Engineering Materials ....... 



Plants of Formosa and the Riviera 



Two Handbooks of Exploration 



Our Bookshelf .........'.. 



Letters to the Editor:— 



Mathematical Printing.— Sir Joseph Larmor, M.P., 



F.R.S 



Palseolithic Man in South Africa.— Dr. L. Peringuey 



The Aurora Australis of June 17, 1915.- Rev. A. L. 



Cortie, S.J. ........ 



Distances at which Sjounds of Heavy Gun-firing are 

 Heard.— Dr. Henry de Varigny . . . . . . 



Nodules on the Intermediate Bladderwort. — Elconora 

 Armitage ... . . ...... 



"Theory and Practice of Flying. {Illustrated.) .. 

 The Visibility of Distant Objects in Warfare. By 

 J. S. D. 



Prof. W. H. H. Hudson 



Notes - . 



Our Astronomical Column :— 



A New Comet ... •' • 



The Variation of Latitude 



Stellar Proper Motions determined Stereoscopically . 

 Rotation Period of Neptune . . .... 



The Internal Constitution oi the Earth . . . . . . 



Photometric Observations of 5 Cephei ..... 



The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the 



Earth 



The Etnean Earthquakes of May, 1914. {With Dia- 

 gram.) By Dr. C. Daviscn 



Meteorology Without Instruments 



The British Association : — 



Section G. — Engineering. — Opening Address by H. 8. 

 Hele-Shaw, D.bc, LL.D., F.R.S., President 



of the Section 



Section H.— Anthropology.— Opening Address by 

 Prof. Charles G. Sejigman, M.D., President 



of the Section ... 



University and Educational Intelligence ..... 



Societies and Academies 



Books Received 



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