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Index 



Nature, 

 .July 28, 1910 



Sharp (F. R.), Hydrodynamical Equations representing the I 

 General Circulation of the Atmosphere, 44 



Shaw (Knox), Comet 1910a and Halley's Comet, 169; 

 Observations of Halley's Comet, 409; the Transit and 

 Tail of Halley's Comet, 501 



Shaw (Dr. W. N., F.R.S.), the Free Atmosphere in the 

 Region of the British Isles, 220 



Shelheld Meeting of the British Association, 196, 401 



Shell-fish Industries, Prof. J. L. Kellogg, 362 



Shepherd (Col. C. E.), Ear-bones of Fishes, 76 



Sheridan (Harold), the Rabdba, 381 



Sherrington (Prof. C. S., F.R.S.), Koch's Discovery of the 

 Method of Plate-culture of Micro-organisms, 458 ; Re- 

 ceptors and Afferents of the Third, Fourth, and Sixth 

 Cranial Nerves, 512 



Shorter (Clement), Highways and Byways in Buckingham- 

 shire, 426 



Sidebottom (H.), Report on the Recent Foraminifera from 

 the Bay of Palermo, 448 



Siepmann (Otto), Education in England and Abroad, Paper 

 at North of England Education Conference, 234 



Sierra Leone as it was and as it is, its Progress, Peoples, 

 Native Customs, and Undeveloped Wealth, a Trans- 

 formed Colony, T. J. AUdridge, 523 



Silberzweig (C), Methyl Methoxybenzoylacetates, 89 



Simmonds (C), Substitutes for Rubber, 71 



Simon (G.), Presence of Virulent Germs in the Atmosphere 

 of Hospital Wards, 299 



Simpson (G. C), Earth-air Electric Currents, 147 



Simpson (J. J.), a Revision of the Juncellid Group of the 

 Gorgonellidae, 149 ; an Account of the Alcyonarians Col- 

 lected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 

 Investigator in the Indian Ocean, 483 



Sinclair (W. J.), Dermal Bones of Paramylodon from the 

 Asphaltum Deposits of Rancho la Brea, 505 



Singing of Birds, the Time of the, 486 



Skues (G. E. M.), Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and 

 Kindred Studies, 394 



Sky, the Brightness of the, Gavin Burns, 439 



Sky, Curiosities of the, Garrett P. Serviss, 33 



Sladen (F. W. L.), How to Keep Bees for Profit, Dr. D. E. 

 Lyon, 519 



Slater (Ida L.), Notes on Geology of the District around 

 Llansawel (Carmarthenshire), 269 



Sleeping Sickness : Bericht iiber die Tatigkeit der zur 

 erforschung der Schlafkrankheit im Jahre 1906—7, nach 

 Ostafrika entsandten Kommission, Dr. R. Koch, Prof. 

 Dr. M. Beck and Prof. Dr. F. Kleine, 279 ; Bibliography 

 of Trypanosomiasis, 279 ; Sleeping Sickness Bureau, 

 Bulletin No. 13, 279 ; Report on the Measures adopted 

 for the Suppression of Sleeping Sickness in Uganda, Sir 

 Hesketh Bell, G.C.M.G., 279 ; Crocodiles and Sleeping 

 Sickness, Prof. E. A. Minchin, 458 ; the Writer of the 

 Article, 459 



Slime Concentration, the Elements of, W. McDermott, 328 



Slipher (Dr. V. M.), the Spectra of the Major Planets, 

 232 ; Observations of Halley's Comet, 386 



Slocum (Dr.), the Sun-spots of September 25, 1909, 46; 

 Halley's Comet, 349 



Smalian (Prof. Dr. K.), Naturwissenschaftliches Unter- 

 richtswerk fiir hoherc Madchenschulen, 6 ; Leitfaden 

 der Pflanzenkunde fiir hohere Lehranstalten, 35 



Small (J. W.), Cocoa-nut Palm at Jaffna, Ceylon, with 

 Branches arising near the Base of the Plant, 408 



Smart (Dr.), Halley's Comet, 223 ; Observations of 

 Halley's Comet, 322 



Smith (Prof. Alex.), Method for Determining Boiling 

 Points under Constant Conditions, 479 



Smith (C. A. M.), Possibility of Non-axial Loading 

 Occurring in Test-pieces held in the Testing Machine on 

 Spherical Seats, 326 

 Smith (Fred.), the Nutritive Value of Black Bread, 460 

 Smith (Geofifrey), Studies in the Experimental Analysis of 



Sex, 105 

 Smith (Prof. G. Elliot), Evolution of the Practice of 

 Mummification in Egypt, 407 



Smith (Dr. G. F. H.), Phacolite from near Belfast, 1^13 ; 



Crystalline Form of Nitrogen Sulphide, 513 ; New 



Arsenate and Phosphate of Lime and Strontia from the 



Indian Manganese Deposits, 513 



Smith (H. M.), Results accomplished by the Fisheries 



Commission in Re-stocking the Depleted Waters of th 

 United States with Food-hshes, Lobsters, Oysters, 532 



Smith (Prof. Michie), Comet 1910a, 108 ; Observation! 

 of Halley's Comet, 384 



Smith (Prof. Robert H.), Steam Tables, 339 



Smith CS. W. J.), Limitations of the Weston Cell as < 

 Standard of Electromotive Force, 478 



Smithsonian Institution, Scientific Work of ' the, Dr 

 Charles D. Walcott, 176 



Smithsonian Mathematical Tables, Hyperbolic Functions 

 G. F. Becker and C. E. Van Orstrand, 21b 



Snake Venoms, Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 213 



Snodgrass (J. M.), Fuel Tests with House-heating Boilers 

 18 ; Tests on a Water-tube Boiler having two Types o 

 Tile-roof Furnaces, 45 



Soci^t6 d'Encouragement pour I'lndustrie Nationale 

 Award of Prizes and Medals, 136 



Society of Chemical Industry, Chemistry and Pharmaca 

 Therapeutics, Dr. C. A. Keane at, 508 



Soil Management, the Principles of. Profs. T. Lyttletoi 

 Lyon and E. O. Fippin, 272 



Soil Sterilisation, Fertilising Effect of. Dr. Bernard Dyei 

 96 



Sola (J. Comas), Comet 1910a, 19; the Flattening of Ic 

 first satellite of Jupiter, 389 ; Further Observations 

 Halley's Comet, 470; Halley's Comet, 479, 534 



Solar Activity, 383 



Solar Activity and Terrestrial Magnetic Disturbances, Dr 

 L. A. Bauer, 505 



Solar Constant, the. Dr. Gorczynski, 409 



Solar Eclipses : Solar Eclipse of 1912, April 17, M. D 

 Savitch, 108; the Total Solar Eclipse of May 8, 191c 

 Frank McClean, 259 ; the Total Solar Eclipse, May 9 

 1910, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 314; Frank K. McClean 

 Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 340; Mr. Driffield, 383; Dr 

 William J. S. Lockyer, 494 



Solar System, the Velocity of the, in Space, Prof. Stroc 

 bant, 291 



Sollas (Igerna B. J.), Certain Reactions of Albino Haii 

 96 



Sollas (Prof. W. J.), Evolution of Man in the Light c 

 Recent Investigations, 88 



Soma-und Geschlechts-Differenzierung, Experimentel) 

 Studien zur. Prof. Johannes Meisenheimer, 335 



Somaliland, the Mammals of, R. E. Drake-Brockmar 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 391 



Sosman (Mr.), Redetermination of the Melting Points c 

 the Metals from Zinc to Palladium, 45 



Soured Milk, its Nature, Preparation, and Uses, Pro 

 R. T. Hewlett, 159 



South (F. W.), Notes on the Anatomy of Dioonedule Lind 

 S2 



Spalding (V. M.), Distribution and Movements of D' 

 Plants, 250 



Spectroscopy : Death and Obituary Notice of Sir Willia' 

 Huggins, K.C.B., O.M., F.R.S., 342 



Spectrum Analj'sis : the Spectrum of Bacterial Luminosit 

 Dr. R. W. Forsyth, 7 ; the Sterilisation of Liquids 1 

 Radiations of very short Wave-length, M. Bill 

 Daguerre, 30 ; Displacement of Lines at the S. 

 Limb, W. S. Adams, 46 ; Measurements of the Absoi. 

 Indices of Refraction in Stained Glass, L. N. G. Fil< 

 58 ; Phosphorescence of Uranyl Salts at very low T^ 

 peratures, Henri and Jean Becquerel and H. Kai; 

 lingh Onnes, 119; Spectrum of the Comet 1910a, 

 Deslandres and P. Idrac, 119; the Spectrum of Co 

 1910a, MM. Deslandres and Idrac, 140 ; the Spectr 

 the Major Planets, Dr. V. M. Slipher, 232 ; Zeei 

 Effect of the Yellow Mercury Line A. 5770, Prof. 

 Nagaoka, 276; the Spectra of Comets, Prof. Fow 

 349 ; the Calcium Bands at \ 6382 and \ 6389, " 

 Barnes, 383 ; Certain Conditions of Appearance ofj 

 Band Spectrum, attributed to Cyanogen, A. de Grat 

 and M. Drecq, 389 ; the Spectroscopic Binary ;8 Aur 

 R. H. Baker, 439 ; Absorption Spectra of Solut' 

 Prof. H. C. Jones, 505 ; Absorption Spectra of Su^ 

 Vapour at Different Temperatures and Pressures, 

 their Relation to the Molecular Complexity of this 

 ment, J. Ivon Graham, 546 ; Prolongation of the 

 Spectra of Carbon Gases in the Extreme Red and In:j 

 Red, F. Croze, 548 



