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Mortality Laws and Statistics. B}- R. Henderson. 

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A Manual for Health Officers. By J. S. McNutt. 

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The Surrey Hills. By F. E. Green. Pp. x + 252. 

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 . New Zealand. Department of Mines. N.Z. Geo- 

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 on Type Material. By H. Suter. Part ii. Pp. 69. 

 (Wellington : J. Mackay.) 



New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. 

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Hill Birds of Scotland. By S. Gordon. Pp. xil + 

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Old London's Spas, Baths, and Wells. By Dr. S. 

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Smithsonian Institution. U.S. National Museum. 

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DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



THURSDAY, October ai. 



Institution op Mining and Metallurgv, at 8.15.— The Geology of the 

 Waihi Grand Junction Mine : Report upon Developments up to June 30, 

 1914 : A. Jarman. 



FRIDA y, October 22. 



Physical Societv, at 5.— The Radiation and Convection from a Heated 

 Wire in an Knclosure of Air : Dr. T. Barratt.— The Determinaton, by 

 the Method of Diffusive Convection, of the Coefficient of Diffusion of a 

 lialt Dissolved in Water : Dr. A. Griffiths.— The Magnitude of the 

 Thermal Resistance Introduced at the Slightly Conical Junction of Two- 

 Solids, and its Variation with the Nature of the Surfaces in Contact : Dr. 

 T. Barratt. 



MONDAY. October 25. 



Medical Society, at 8.30. — Discussion : Gunshot Wounds of the Peripheral 

 Nerves. The Medical Aspect : Dr. W. Harris ; the Surgical : W. Trotter. 



TUESDAY, October 26. 

 Zoological Society, at 5.30.— (i) The Distribution of Secondary Sexual 

 Characters amongst Birds, with Relation to their Liability to the Attack 

 of Enemies ; (2) Some Observations on Pattern-blending with Reference 

 to Obliterative Shading and Concealment of Outline : J. C. Mottram. — 

 Fauna of West Australia. III. A New Hcmcnca.n — Geoneinertes dendyi, 

 sp. n. — being the First Recorded Land Nemertean from Western Australia. 

 IV. PalcEinonetes australis, sp. n., being the first Record of the Genus 

 in Australia : Prof. W. J. Dakin. — A Collection of Mammals from the 

 Coast and Islands of S.E. Siam, with an Account of the Fruit-Bats by br. 

 Knud Andersen : C. Boden Kloss. — Studies on the Protozoan Parasites of 

 the Fishes of the Georgian Bay: Dr. J. W. Mayor.— (1) A List of the 

 Snakes of East Africa, North of the Zambesi and South of the Soudan 

 and Somaliland, and of Nyassaland ; (2) A List of the Snake| of North- 

 East Africa, from the Tropic to the Soudan and Somaliland, including 

 Socotra : Dr. G. A. Boulenger. — Some Notes upon the Anatomy o^ Ranct 

 tigrina: Dr. G. E. NichoUs. 



FRIDAY, October 29. 

 Institution ok Mechanical Engineehs, at 8. — Thomas Hawksley 

 Lecture :" The World's Sources of Fuel and Motive Power: Dr. Dugald 

 Clerk. 



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Science in National Affairs 



Analytical Control of Modern Dyes. By G. T. M. 



Rudimentary Science for Coal-Miners 



Mathematical School-Books. By D. B. M 



Our Bookshelf . 



Letters to the Editor:— 



Rule for Determining Direction of Precessional Move- 

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 F.R.S. . . . 



The Meaning of "Cliincough."—W. E. Hart , . . 

 Fellowships for Industrial Kesearch. By J. B. C. 

 Constructional Data of Small Telescope Objectives, 

 By T. Smith and R. W. Cheshire ....... 



Jean-Henri Fabre 



Notes 



Our Astronomical Column :— 



Selenium Cell Photometry of 8 Orionis 



The Plane of the Solar Motion ......... 



Displacement of Photographic Stellar Images .... 



The Solar Eclipse, August 21, 1914 



Upper Air Temperatures. By W. H. Dines, F.R.S. 

 A Manx Tribute to Edward Forbes 

 Education and Industry. (l^Vith Diagratn.) By Prin- 

 cipal J. C. Maxwell Garnett 



The British Association : — 



Section M. — Agriculture. — Opening Address by R. H. 

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