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r Nature, 

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or Wax on Twigs and Leaves of Elaeodendron glaucum, 

 Dr. D. Hooper. 346 ; Man as an Instrument of Research, 

 G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., 407; the Tigers in the 

 Province of Ussuri, 407 ; Thoughtless Destruction of 

 Wild Flowers, Surgeon-Major Geo. Henderson, 428 ; 

 Protection of Wild Life throughout the United States, 

 436; International Congress for the Protection of Land- 

 scape, 345 ; Crossbills, 346 ; Alleged Occurrence of Live 

 Frogs and Toads in Blocks of Stone or Coal, 406 ; 

 Camera Adventures in the African Wilds, being an 

 Account of a Four Months' Expedition in British East 

 Africa, for the purpose of securing Photographs from 

 Life of the Game, A. Radclyffe Dugmore, Sir H. H. 

 Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 429; New South Wales 

 Linnean Society, 449 ; Attitudes Assumed by the Mallard 

 during the Period of Courtship, H. Wormald, 466 ; 

 Extraction of Several Colours from Purple Iris Flowers, 

 E. Heron-Allen, 466 ; Land-snails of the South-western 

 States, Messrs. Pilsbry and Ferris, 471 ; Mode of Pro- 

 gression of a Marine Bivalve of the Genus Modiolaria, 

 H. S. Cotton, 471 ; New Type of Barnacle {Stomatolepas 

 praegustator), Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, 471 ; Altruism in 

 Animal Life, J. H. Elgie, 489 ; Protection of Plumage 

 Birds, 0.06 ; Establishment of a Natural History Museum 

 in Birmingham, 496 ; Pwdre Ser, Prof. T. McKenny 

 Hughes, F.R.S., 492; Agnes Fry, 521; Rowland A. 

 Earp, 521; the Book of Nature-study, Prof. Grenville 

 A. J. Cole, 525 



Natural Science in Bengal, 173 



Natural Selection, the Egg-production of Selected Fowls, 

 Dr. Raymond Pearl and Dr. Frank M. Surface, 43 



Naturwissenschaftliches Unterrichtswerk fur hohere 

 Madchenschulen, Prof. Dr. K. Smalian, 6 



Naval Architecture: Institution of Naval Architects, no; 

 Experiments on Wake and Thrust Deduction, W. J. 

 Luke, no; Measurement of Shaft Horse-power by 

 Torsion-meters, Prof. B. Hopkinson, no; Brittleness of 

 Mild Steel due to Nitrogen, C. E. Stromeyer, no; 

 Application of the Marine Steam Turbine and Mechanical 

 Gearing to Merchant Ships, Hon. C. A. Parsons, ni ; 

 Launch of H.M.S. Colossus, 231 ; the Wave-making 

 Resistance of Ships, Dr. T. H. Havelock, 546 



Navigation : the Work of Lord Kelvin in Telegraphy and 

 Navigation, Prof. J. A. Ewing, C.B., F.R.S., at Institu- 

 tion of Electrical Engineers, 23 ; Time Signals by 

 Wireless Telegraphy, 378 



Nebulae, Observations of Southern, Mr. Innes, 349 



Nelson (E. M.), the Visibility of the Tertiaries of Coscino- 

 discus asteromphalus in a Balsam Mount, 179 ; Critical 

 Microscopy, 328 



Nelson (Edward M.), New " Record " in Connection with 

 the Possibilities of Microscopic Vision, 408 



Nelson (E. W.), Cultivation of Diatoms as Food to be 

 used in the Rearing of Various Types of Marine Larvae, 



257 



Nelson (N. C), Shell-mound at Ellis Landing, 465 



Neresheimer (E.), Copepoda, Ostracoda, Malacostraca, 

 421 



Nernst (Prof.), Specific Heat of Ice, Water, and Steam, 

 292 



Nero, Physical Science in the Time of, being a Transla- 

 tion of the " Qua3stiones Naturales " of Seneca, J. 

 Clarke, 305 



Neumann (Prof. B.), Traits complet d 'Analyse chimique 

 appliqu^e aux Essais industriels, 393 



Neurology: Why Worry? Dr. G. L. Walton, 92; Self- 

 help for Nervous Women, Dr. J. K. Mitchell, 92 ; a 

 Text-book of Nervous Diseases, Dr. W. Aldren-Turner 

 and T. Grainger Stewart, 337 



Neutral Doublets at Atmospheric Pressure, A. E. Garrett 

 and J. J. Lonsdale, 218 



New Guinea Pygmies, Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 433 ; 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer, 498 



New South Wales, Chest Development in Boys in, 295 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 449 



New South Wales, the Royal Society of. Prof. A. Liver- 

 sidge, F.R.S., 502 



New Zealand, Murihiku, a History of the South Island of, 

 and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 

 1642 to 1835, Robert McNab, 3 



New Zealand, Scientific Activity in, 22 



Newbery (E. A.), the Scolytid Beetle Hypothenemus 

 eruditus, 257 



Newson (Prof. H. B.), Death of, 40 



Newstead (R.), New Species of Coccidae from the Congo, 

 414 



Newton (John), Well-preserved Upper Jaw of the Small 

 Mammal Triconodon from the Lower Purbeck Beds, 379 



Niagara Falls, an Account of a Visit to the Power Plant 

 of the Ontario Power Co. at, C. W. Jordan at the 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 173 



Nicholls (G. E.), Occurrence of a " Mesoccelic Recess " 

 in the Human Brain and its Relation to the Sub-com- 

 missural Organ of Lower Vertebrates, with Special 

 Reference to the Distribution of Reissner's Fibre in the 

 Vertebrate Series and its Possible Function, 447 



Nicloux (Maurice), Decomposition of Chloroform in the 

 Organism, 389 



Nicolardot (Capt.), Rare Earths and Incandescent Light- 

 ing, 438 



Nipher (Prof. F. E.), the One-fluid Theory of Electricity, 



504 

 Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria and Non-leguminous Plants, Prof. 



W. B. Bottomley, 96 

 Nogier (Th.), Does Water Sterilised by the Ultra-violet 



Rays contain Hydrogen Peroxide? 449 

 Noguchi (Dr. Hideyo), Snake Venoms, 213 

 Nordmann (Dr. Charles), the Intrinsic Brightness of the 



Sun, 29 ; the Intrinsic Brilliancy of the Sun, 232 

 North of England Education Conference, Education in 



England and Abroad, Otto Siepmann at, 234 

 North London Natural History Society, the, Louis B. 



Prout, 144 M 



North Pole, Commander Peary's Expedition to the, 283 ■ 

 North Pole, the Siege and Conquest of the, George Bryce,™ 



366 

 Northumberland Education Committee, Guide to Experi- 

 ments for 1909, 313 

 Nubian Archaeology, H. R. Hall, 251 

 Numeralised Profiles for Classification and Recognition, 



Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S., 127 

 Nunn (Dr. T. Percy), Are Secondary Qualities Independent 



of Perception, 538 

 Nutritive Value of Black Bread, the, 282 ; Frank H. Perry- 



Coste, 398 ; the Writer of the Article, 398, 460 ; Fred 



Smith, 460 



Objective-prism Determinations of Radial Velocities, Prof. 

 Pickering, 231 ; Prof. R. W. Wood, 231 



Observatories : the " Anuario " of the Madrid Observa- 

 tory, 46; Some Scientific Centres, XV., the Mount 

 Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, Prof. G. E. Hale, Prof. H. H. Turner, 

 F.R.S., 97; the Cape Observatory, Mr. Hough, 501; 

 the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 506 ; Kew and Esk- 

 dale Muir Observatories and the Meteorological Office, 



509 



Occhialini (A.), la Radioattiviti, 32 



Oceanography : Croisi^re Oceanographique accomplie a 

 bord de la Belgica dans la Mer du Gronland, 1905, Due 

 d 'Orleans, Dr. William S. Bruce, 8; Death of Prof. 

 Alexander Agassiz, For.Mem.R.S., 135 ; Obituary Notice 

 of. Prof. John W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S., 163 ; the Oceano- 

 graphical Museum at Monaco, 164, 191 ; Oceanographical 

 Investigations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 412 



Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.), Notes on the Birds of Hainan, 147 



Oil, Linseed, and other Seed Oils, Prof. W. D. Ennis, 

 482 



Olbers (Wilhelm), sein Leben und seine Werke, Brief- 

 wechsel zwischen Olbers und Gauss, 211 



Oliver (Mr.), Comet 1910a, 79 



Olivier (Mr.), Halley's Comet, 79; Measures of Double 

 Stars, 320 



Omori (Prof.), Oscillations observed in the Japanese Islands 

 of O-Shima and Hachijo, 199 



Onnes (H. Kamerlingh), Magnetic Properties of Man- 

 ganese, Vanadium, and Chromium, 119; the Phosphor- 

 escence of Uranyl Salts at very Low Temperatures, n9 ; 

 Saturation Intensity of Magnetisation at very Low 

 Temperatures, 119 



Ooze and Irrigation, Rev. Hilderic Friend, 427, 489 



