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[November 5, 1914 



A Mountain Rain-Forest : a Contribution to the 

 Physiological Plant Geography of Jamaica. Pp. no. 

 (Washington : Carnegie Institution.) 



Farm Accounts. By C. S. Orwin. Pp. 209. (Cam- 

 bridge University Press.) 3s. net. 



Panama : The Canal, the Country, and the People. 

 By A. Bullard (Albert Edwards). Revised edition. 

 Pp. xiv + 6oi. (London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) 

 8s. 6d. net. 



South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye. Third 

 Report on the Cost of Food in the Production of Milk, 

 in the Counties of Kent and Surrey. By C. H. 

 Garrard. Pp. 82. (Wve : South-Eastern Agricultural 

 College.) 



Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 

 Vol. xviii. Part i. (Cambridge University Press.) 



Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Im- 

 perial University, Sapporo, Japan. Vol. vi. Parts ii. 

 and iii. (Sapporo.) 



Bulletin of the Imperial Earthquake Investigation 

 Committee. Vol. vi., No. iii. Vol. vii.. No. i. Vol. 

 viii., No. I. (Tokyo.) 



Pumping by Compressed Air. By E. M. Ivens. 

 Pp. vi + 244. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; 

 London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd.) 12s. 6d. net. 



Foundations. By Prof. M. A. Howe. Pp. vii +110. 

 (New York : J. Wiley and Sons, Inc. ; London : Chap- 

 man and Hall, Ltd.) 55. 6d. net. 



Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. Mineral Resources of the United States. 

 Calendar Year 1913. 21 Publications. (Washington : 

 Government Printing Office.) 



Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. Water Supply Paper, 327, 345 E, 345 F. Bulle- 

 tin 548, 550, 574, 579, 581 B. (Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing Office.) 



Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. Professional Paper 83. The Middle Triassic 

 Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America. By 

 J. P. Smith. Pp. 254 + plates xcix. (Washington : 

 Government Printing Office.) 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. IxII. 

 No. 3. Hodgkins Fund : Report on European Aero- 

 nautical Laboratories. By Dr. A. F. Zahm. (Wash- 

 ington : Smithsonian Institution.) 



L^.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey : North American Fauna. No. 36. 

 (Washington : Government Printing Office.) 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 

 Vol. lili. Nos. 213, 214. (Philadelphia: Philosophical 

 Socletj'.) 



Leland Stanford Junior University Publications. 

 The Birds of the Latin Poets. By Prof. E. W. Mar- 

 tin. Pp. 260. Acceleration of Development in Fossil 

 Cephalopoda. By Prof. J. P. Smith. Pp. 30 + xv 

 plates. A Morphological Studv of Some Members of 

 the Genus Pallavlclnla. By Prof. D. H. Campbell 

 and F. Williams. Pp. 44. (California : Stanford 

 University.) 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



THURSDAY. November 5. 



Royal Society, at 4.30.— Acquired Radio-Activity : Sir William Crookes. 

 Luminous Vapours Distilled from the Arc, with Applications to the Study 

 of Spectrum Series and their Origin, II. : Hon. R. J. Strutt. — The Pro- 

 durtion of Neon and Helium by the Electrical Discharge : Prof. J. N. 

 Collie, H. S. Patterson, and I. Mas<!on. — The Flow of Viscous Fluids 

 through Smooth Circular Pipes : Prof. C. H. Lees. — Quantitative 

 Measurements of the Absorption of Light. I. : The Molecular Extinctions 



of the Saturated Aliphatic Ketones : F. O Rice The Ignition of Gases 



by Condenser Discharge Sparks: Prof. W. M. Thornton.— The Spark 

 Spectrum of Nickel under Moderate Pressures : E. G. Bilham. 



Child Study Society, at 7.^0.— Classification of the Deaf Child for Edu- 

 cational Purposes : P. M. Yearsley. 



MONDAY, November 9. 

 RoYAT Geographical Society, at 8.30.— The Geography of the War : 

 Hilaire Belloc. 



TUESDAY, Novk.mber 10. 



Zoological Society, at 5 30.— Exhibition of Photographs Illustrating the 

 Life-history of the Gannct : L. Ballour. — Lantern Exhibition showing the 

 Differences between the Pine and Beech Martens : R. I. Pocock. — Con- 

 'ributions to the ."Vnatomy and Sysitematic Arrangement of the Cestoidea. 

 XV. : A New Genus and Species of the Family Acoleidae : Dr. F. E. 

 Beddard. — Report on the Spiders Collected by the British Ornithologists' 

 Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea : 

 H. R. Hogg. 



MiNERALOGiCAL SOCIETY, at 5. 30. — Albite ; Its Crystal Elements, etc.: 

 Prof. W. J. Lewis.— The Determination of the Maximum Extinction, etc., 

 of Monoclinic Pyroxenes in Thin Sections: H. CoUingridge.— N< te on 

 Calcitefrom the Chalk at Corfe Castle, Dorset: Prof. H. L. Bowman.— 

 Harkevicite from Lugar, Ayrshire ; and Litharge from Persia : A. Scott. — 

 Meteoric Iron-i ot Uwet and Angela; the Identity of Angela with 

 La Primitiva : Dr. G. T. Prior. 



THURSDAY, November i2. 



Royal Society, at ^.-tp.— Probable Papers: Analyses, of .Agticultural 

 Yield. I. : Spacing Experiments with Egyptian Cotton : W. L. Balls 

 and F. S. Holton. — ihe Fixation of Arsenic by the Brain after Intravenous 

 Injections of Salvarsan : J. Mcintosh and P. Fildes.— The Production of 

 Anthocyanins and Anthocyanidins. II.:A. E. Everest.— Living Obser- 

 vations on ihe Life-Cycle of a New FlageUate-Helkesiviasiix Faecicola, 

 together with Remarks on the Question of Syngamy in the Trypano- 

 somes : H. M. Woodcock and G. Lapage.— The Antagonistic Action of 

 Carbon Dioxide and Adrenalin on the Heart : S. W. Patterson. 



Institution of Electrical Engineers, at 8. — Cables : C. J. Beaver. 



Mathematical Society, at 5.30.— Annual General Meeting. Presidential 

 Address : Mathematical Research ; Prof. Love. 



FRIDAY, November 13. 



Alchemical Society, at S.15. — The Movement of Alchemical Research in 

 France : Actual Traces of Transmutation : W. de Kerlor. 



Royal Astronomical Society, at 5. 



CONTENTS. p.AGE 



Dairy Chemistry and Dairy Control 249 



Geological Books from America. By C. G. C. . . 249 



Applied Electricity. By Prof. David Robertson . . 250 



Our Bookshelf 252 



Letters to the Editor: — 



Faraday's \'ie\vs on Catalysis. — Prof. W. M. 



Bayliss, F.R.S 253 



Tidal Friction and Ice Ages.— C. E. P. Brooks; 



Prof. A. E. H. Love, F.R.S 254 



The Age of a Herring. {With Diagi-avis.)—Dx. 



Johan Hjort; Einar Lea 255 



Scientific Work and the War.— F. A. B 256 



The Care of the Wounded. By Stephen Paget . . 257 



The Transit of Mercury on November 7, 1914 ... 257 



A Meteoritic Fall in Lancashire. By W. F. Denning 258 



Notes 259 



Our Astronomical Column :— 



A New Comet 262 



The Comet Recently Observed at the Cape 262 



A Little-Known Pioneer of Spectrum Analysis ... 263 



Displacement of Spectrum Lines at the Sun's Limb . 263 



Climatology 263 



Ornithological Notes. By R. L 264 



Engineering at the British Association 265 



Malaria and the Transmission of Diseases. By 



Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S 267 



University and Educational Intelligence 272 



Societies and Academies 273 



Books Received 273 



Diary of Societies 274 



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