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Index 



r Nature, 

 \.July 28, 1910 



Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian 



Ocean, Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, J. J. Simpson, and 



Dr. W. D. Henderson, 483 

 Aldred Lecture at Society of Arts, Halley and his Comet, 



Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S., 387 

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



337 

 Alexander (Lieut. Boyd), De-ci^^^h and Obituary Notice of, 



380 

 Alexandra (Queen), Union Jack presented to Captain Scott 



by, 530 

 Algebra: a New Algebra, S. Barnard and J. M. Child, 4; 



College -Algebra, Dr. S. C. Davisson, 4 

 Alldridge (T. J.), a Transformed Colony, Sierra Leone as 



it was and as it is, its Progress, Peoples, Native Customs, 



and Undeveloped Wealth, 523 

 Allen (Dr. E. J.), Cultivation of Diatoms as Food to be 



used in the Rearing of Various Types of Marine Larvae, 



257 



Allen (Prof. Frank), Colour-blindness, 69 



Allen (Dr. F. J.), the Comets (1910a and Halley's), 108 



Allen (Dr.), Maya Codices, 288 



Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis, 456 



Alliston (N.), in the Abstract, 246 



Alloys Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical 

 Engineers, Ninth Report to the, the Properties of some 

 Alloys of Copper, Aluminium, and Manganese, Dr. 

 Walter Rosenhain and F. C. A. H. Lantsberry, 140 



Alloys, Light, Dr. Walter Rosenhain, 461 



Alt (Dr. E.), Distribution of Thunderstorm Frequency in 

 Central and Northern Europe, 77 



Ameghino (Dr. Florentine), Young Tapir-skull from Tucu- 

 man, 198 ; Alleged Human Origin of the " Burnt 

 Earths " of Argentina, 257 



America : Proposed National Bureau of Seismology, 227 



American Association for Advancement of Science : a 

 Geologic Forecast of the Future Opportunities of Our 

 Race, Prof. T. C. Chamberlin, 50 ; Boston Meeting of 

 the, 113; the Teaching of Physics, Prof. K. E. Guthe, 

 113; the Study of Solutions, Prof. Louis Kahlenberg, 

 113; Engineering as a Profession, Prof. G. F. Swain, 

 114; the Principles of Palaeogeography, Prof. Bailey 

 Willis, 114; Evolution of Intelligence, Prof. C. Judson 

 Herrick, 114; Response to Chemical Stimulation, Prof. 

 H. M. Richards, 115; Racial Differences in Mental 

 Traits, Prof. R. S. Woodworth, 115; Chemical Regula- 

 tion of the Processes of the Body, Prof. W. H. Howell, 

 116; Method and Matter of Science, Prof. John Dewey, 

 116 



American Economic Entomology, 47 



American Invertebrates, Papers on, 234 



American Philosophical Society, the, 504 



Amos (Arthur), Methods of Picking, Drying, and Packing 

 Hops in Kent, 532 



Amperemeter, a New, 413 



Amundsen's (Captain) E^xpedition, 435 



Anaesthetics, the Administration of, 295 



Anatomv : Death of Prof. W. Krause, 15; History of the 

 Human Body, Prof.. H. H. Wilder, 214; Death of 

 Edouard van Beneden, 286, 329 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 344 ; Voordrachten over den Bouw van het centrale 

 Zenuwstelsel — een Voorbereiding tot de Kliniek der 

 Zenuwziekten, Door Prof. J. W. Langelaan, 308 ; the 

 Anatomy of the Common Squid, Loligo pealii, L. W. 

 Williams, 366 ; Death of Prof. Emil Zuckerkandl, 406 



Ancient Angling Authors, W. J. Turrell, 155 



Anderson (J. A.), Method of Testing Screws, 107 



Anderson (Knud), African Fruit-bats of the Epomophorus 

 Group, 17 



Anderson (Dr. Tempest), Volcano of Matavanu in Savaii, 

 269 



Andrade (E. N. da C), Viscous Flow in Metals, 237 



Andr6 (Ch.), Effects produced on Hail Storms by the Hail 

 Cannon, 290 



Andr^ (M.). Observations of Halley's Comet, 410 



Andrewes (Dr.), Bacteria of Sewer Air, 22 



Angling : Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred 

 Studies. G. E. M. Skues, 304 



Angot (Alfred), Observations of Halley's Comet, 410: Mag- 

 netic and Electric Variations on the Nights of May 18 

 and 19, 1910, 419 



Angstrom (Prof. K. J.), Death of, 74; Obituary Notice of, 

 Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 132 



Animal Life, Altruism in, J. H. Elgie, 489 



Antarctica : Scientific Work .'\ccomplished by Dr. Charcot's 

 Recent Antarctic Expedition, ib ; Forthcoming German 

 Antarctic E.xpedition, 41 ; Projected German Antarctic 

 Expedition, 318; Dr. Penck and. Antarctic Expeditions, 

 75 ; the Proposed Scottish National Antarctic E.xpedi- 

 tion of 1911, loi ; National Geographic Society's Gold 

 Medal presented to Sir Ernest Shackleton, 135 ; Scientific 

 Work of the British Antarctic 'Expedition of 1907-9, 

 J. Murray, 149; British Antarctic Expedition, Start of 

 the Terra Nova, 404 ; Union Jack presented to Captain 

 Scott by Queen .Alexandra, 530 ; Antarctic Geology, Prof. 

 W. M. Davis, 505 



-Anthropology : Notes on High Albania, Miss M. E. 

 Durham, 29 ; Royal Anthropological Institute, 29, 88, 

 298, 547 ; Egyptian Antiquities and Customs, A. M. 

 Blackman, 42; Modes of establishing Fictitious Kinship 

 now Current in the Panjab, H. A. Rose, 76; the Evolu- 

 tion of Man in the Light of Recent Investigations, Prof. 

 W. J. Sollas, 88; the Gibraltar Skull, Dr. A. Keith, 88; 

 Racial Differences in Mental Traits, Prof. R. S. Wood- 

 worth, 115; Infantilism and Idiocy, and Gigantism and 

 Idiocy, Dr. A. Marie, 137 ; the Andaman Islands, A. R. 

 Brown, 147 ; Skulls from a Primitive Cemetery, Prince 

 Georges Cantacuzene, 197 ; Skulls discovered by M. 

 Mansuy in the Cave at Pho-Binh-Gia, Dr. R. Verneau, 

 197 ; Origin and Distribution of the Cross-bow in India, 

 O. Forrest, 228 ; Mr. Thurston, 228 ; les Groups de 

 Civilisation en Scandinavie a I'Epoque des Sepultures k 

 Galerie, Dr. Knut Stjerna, 228 ; Alleged Human Origin 

 of the " Burnt Earths " of Argentina, Dr. Florentino 

 Ameghino, 257 ; Native African Art, 286 ; Certain Sacred 

 Stones used in Burial and other Rites by the Aborigines 

 of Australia, R. H. Mathews, 287 ; Maya Codices, Drs. 

 Tozzer and Allen, 288 ; les Sofs chez les -Abadliites, Dr. 

 J. Huguet, 345 ; New Guinea Pygmies, Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, F.R.S., 433; Dr. A. B. Meyer, 498; Native 

 Decorative Art in Nigeria, N. W. Thomas, 436 ; the 

 Term Rom or Romani applied to the Gypsy Race, Leo 

 Winer, 436; " The Fight for the Cows " in the Rigveda, 

 A. C. Sen, 450 ; (i) Craniological Observations on the 

 Lengths, Breadths, and Heights of 100 Australian 

 Aboriginal Crania ; (2) Biometrical Study of the Relative 

 Degree of Purity of Race of the Tasmanian, Australian, 

 and Papuan ; (3) the Place in Nature of the Tasmanian 

 -Aboriginal as deduced from a Study of his Cranium, 

 Prof. R. J. A. Berry, Dr. A. W. D. Robertson, and 

 K. S. Cross, 479 ; Curious Wooden Engraved Blocks used 

 by the Bushongo of the Belgian Congo, T. M. Joyce, 531 ; 

 Rain-making Chiefs, W. E. Cole, 531 ; the Ekoi of 

 Southern Nigeria, P. A. Talbot, 547 



Antlitz der Erde, das, Prof. E. Suess, Prof. J. W. Gregory, 

 F.R.S., 451 



Ants, their Structure, Development, and Behaviour, Prof. 

 W. M. Wheeler, Right Hon. Lord Avebury, F.R.S., 515 



Antwerp, the Astronomical Society of, 409 



Apiculture : How to Keep Bees for Profit, Dr. D. E. Lyon, 

 F. W. L. Sladen, 519 



-April Meteor Showers, John R. Henry, 189 



April Shooting Stars, Mr. Denning, 201 



-Arber (E. A. Newell), Fossil Plants from Newfoundland, 59 



Archaeology : Vestigia di una Citta Ellenica arcaica in 

 Creta, Dr. Luigi Pernier, 105 ; the Stone and Bronze 

 Ages in Italy and Sicily, T. Eric Peet, 122 ; the " Rein- 

 deer " from the Lorthet Grotto, Dr. Henry O. Forbes, 

 125 ; Mr. Myring's Recent Discoveries of Prehistoric 

 Pottery in Peru, Sir W. H. Bailey, 148 ; Explorations in 

 Turkestan, Expedition of 1904, Prehistoric Civilisations 

 of -Anau, L. W. King, 157 ; the Tomb of Queen Tiyi, 

 227 ; the Roman Fort at Manchester, 225 ; Excavations 

 at Toothill and Melandra, 225 ; Areika, R. Randall 

 Maciver and C. Leonard Woolley, H. R. Hall, 251 ; the 

 British Camp at Wallington, N. F. Robarts and H. C. 

 CoUyer, 298 ; Proposed Excavation of Verulam, 345 ; 

 Paintings and Engravings found in the Caves of the 

 Pyrenees, I'Abb^ H. Breuil, 346 ; Excavation of the Lake 

 Village at Meare, 379; Catalogue of Bronzes, &c., in 

 Field Museum of Natural History, Reproduced from 

 Originals in the National Museum of Naples. Prof. F. B. 



