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Nature, 
June 13, 1907 
Bilancioni (Dr. Guglielmo), Dizionario di Botanica Generali, 
28 
Binet (Alfred), les Révélations de 1’Ecriture d’Aprés un 
Contréle scientifique, 148 
Biology: Jan Ingen-Housz, Sein Leben und Sein Wirken 
als Naturforscher und Arzt, Prof. Julius Wiesner, 3; 
Statistical Study of Generic Characters of the Coccacez, 
C. E. A. Winslow and Anne F. Rogers, 39; Die Biologie 
des Balatonsees, Dr. Geza Entz, Dr. A. Weiss and 
Theodore Kormos, Dr. Josef Pantocsek, 79; Specific 
Adjuvants of Experimental Parthenogenesis, _ Yves 
Delage, 167; Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific 
between 1896 and 1899, H. B. Guppy, 217; the Asso- 
ciation of Economic Biologists, 284; the Immortality 
of the Protozoa, J. Shawcross, 320; Entomology, with 
Special Reference to its Biological and Economic 
Aspects, Dr. J. W. Folsom, 340; on the De-Novo 
Origin of Bacteria, Bacilli, Vibriones, Micrococci, 
Torule, and Moulds in certain Previously Superheated 
Saline Solutions contained within Hermetically-sealed 
Tubes, Dr. H. Charlton Bastian, F.R.S., at Royal 
Medical and Chirurgical Society, 425; the Origin of 
Flight, Dr. Baron F. Nopcsa, 478; Sex and Character, 
Otto Weininger, 481; Untersuchungen tiber Kiinstlichen 
Parthenogenese und das Wesen des _Befruchtungsvor- 
gangs, Prof. Jacques Loeb, 486; Die Chemische Energie 
der Lebenden Zellen, Prof. Oscar Loew, 508; the 
Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals, T. H. Mont- 
gomery, jun., 530; the Fluctuations of Sampling to be 
Expected in Counting with a Hamacytometer, 542; 
Biometrical Study of Conjugation in Paramecium, Ray- 
mond Pearl, 542; Influence of Parasites on their Hosts, 
Prof. H. B. Ward, 571; Biologische und Morphologische 
Untersuchungen iiber Wasser- und Sumpfgewachse, Prof. 
Hugo Gliick, 579; Marine Biology: the Marine Bio- 
logical Association and International Fishery Investiga- 
tions, 106; Scientific Fishery Investigations, 185; Value 
of the Osmotic Pressures in the Cells of certain Marine 
Alge, B. M. Duggar, 401; Rhythmical Pulsation in 
Scyphomeduse, Alfred G. Mayer, 545; Acanthephyra 
purpurea and A. debilis, S. W. Kemp, 550; the “‘ Sea- 
mignonette’’ (Primnoa reseda), Prof. J. A. Thomson, 566 
Biometrical Study of Conjugation in Paramecium, Ray- 
mond Pearl, 542 
Birds: Birds shown to the Children, M. K. C. Scott, 176; 
British Birds’ Nests, How, Where, and When to Find 
and Identify Them, R. Kearton, 562; the Habits of 
the Flightless Birds of New Zealand, R. Henry, 595; 
Glimpses of Australian Bird Life, R. Hall, 595 
Birdwood (Dr. H. M.), Death of, 421 
Birley (Caroline), Death and Obituary Notice of, 421 
Biske (Dr. Felix), Intensification of ‘‘ Contrast’? by 
Means of a Polariscope, 498 
Black Man’s Mind, at the Back of the, or Notes on the 
Kingly Office in West Africa, R. E. Dennett, 248 
Blackman (Dr. F. F., F.R.S.), Plant Response as a 
Means of Physiological Investigation, Prof. Jagadis 
Chunder Bose, 313 
Blagden (C. O.), Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, 415 
Blake (G. S.), Baddeleyite from Ceylon, 574 
Blakesley (Thomas H.), the Principles of Microscopy; a 
Handbook to the Microscope, Sir A. E. Wright, F.R.S., 
386; les Ultramicroscopes, A. Cotton and H. Mouton, 
505 
Blakesley (T. H.), Logarithmic Lazy-tongs and Lattice 
Works, 622 
Blane (A.), Action of a Magnetic Field on Ionised Air in 
Motion, 599 
Blanc (G.), Synthesis of 3:3-dimethyl- and 3:3: 6-tri- 
methyl-cyclohexanones, 335 
Bloxam (W. P.), Some Constituents of Natural Indigo, 406 
Blue Hill Observatory, the Twentieth Year at, 593 
Blum (G.), Model to Illustrate Effects of the Earth’s 
Rotation, 448 
Boas (Franz), Kwakiutl Texts, 68 
Bodily Movements, Mathematics of, 146 
Boeke (H. E.), the Dimorphism of Calcium and Barium 
Carbonates, 39 
Boggs (Dr. T. R.), Method for the Estimation of Proteids 
in Milk, 14 5 
Bohlin (Dr. Karl), the Second Globular Cluster in Hercules 
Messier, 616 
Bolk (Prof. Louis), Das Cerebellum der Saugetiere, Eine 
vergleichend anatomische Untersuchung, Supp. to March 
14, ix 
Bologna Observatory, Prof. Rajna, 41 
Boltwood (Bertram B.), the Production of Radium from 
Actinium, 54; Radium and its Disintegration Products, 
22 
Baiciovaant (Dr.), Influence of Radium on the Virus of 
Rabies, 15 
Bonney (Prof. T. G.), Southern Origin Attributed to the 
Northern Zone in the Savoy and Swiss Alps, 622 
Bonnier (Gaston), the Division of Labour amongst Bees, 
190 
Books of Science, Forthcoming, 473 
Borchardt (W. G.), Junior Arithmetic with Answers, 74; 
Junior Arithmetic Examples, 409 
Bordas (M.), Disillation and Desiccation in a Vacuum 
with the Aid of Low Temperatures, 23 
Bosanquet (Helen), the Family, 78 
Bose (Prof. Jagadis Chunder), Plant Response as a Means 
of Physiological Investigation, 313 
Botany: Jan Ingen-Housz, Sein Leben und Sein Wirken 
als Naturforscher und Arzt, Prof. Julius Wiesner, 3; 
the Evolution of the Colorado Spiderwort, Prof. 
T. D. A. Cockerell, 7; Indian Wheat Rusts, E. {te 
Butler and J. M. Hayman, 14; Analyses of Bamboo, 
of the Bark of Picrasma Javanica and of Latices from 
a Ficus, D. Hooper, 14; Illustriertes Handworterbuch 
der Botanik, Dr. O. Porsch and C. K. Schneider, 28; 
Dizionario di Botanica Generali, Dr. Guglielmo Bilan- 
cioni, 28; Guide to the Principal Families of Flower- 
ing Plants, J. Adams, 29; Linnean Society, 71, 166, 
215, 333, 430, 526, 550, 621; the Structure of Bamboo 
Leaves, Sir Dietrich Brandis, 71; the Systematic 
Position of Hectorella caespitosa, Hook, f., Prof. A. ile 
Ewart, 71; the Seeds and Flowers of Callipteris, M. 
Grand’Eury, 71; Linnean Society, New South Wales, 
72, 191, 311; the Stinging Property of the Giant Nettle- 
tree, Dr. J. M. Petrie, 72; the Relation of Desert 
Plants to Soil Moisture and to Evaporation, Dr. B. E. 
Livingston, 84; Influence of Spectral Colours on the 
Sporulation of Various Species of Saccharomyces, J. E. 
Purvis and G. R. Warwick, 95; the Rusts of Australia, 
their Structure, Nature, and Classification, D. McAlpine, 
1o1; Variations in the Leaves of Ferns Grown in the 
Sun or in Shade, Miss J. H. M’Ilroy, 109; the Fungus 
of Lolium temulentum, E. M. Freeman, 109; Hydro- 
cyanic Acid in Plants, P. Fitschy, 136-7; the American 
Gooseberry-mildew, 160, 613 ; E. S. Salmon, 247 ; American 
Gooseberry-mildew in Ireland, Dr. G. H. Pethybridge, 
567; Catalogue of the Plants of Kumaon and of the Adja- 
tent Portions of Garhwal and Tibet, Lieut-General Sir 
Richard Strachey, 171; the Distribution of Vicianine 
and of its Diastase in the Seeds of Leguminose, Gabriel 
Bertrand and Mlle. L. Rivkind, 191; the Respiration 
of Seeds in the State of Latent Life, Paul Becquerel, 
191; Jugendform und Bliitenreife im Pflanzenreich, 
Dr. L. Diels, 194; Old-fashioned Flowers and other 
Open-air Essays, Maurice Maeterlinck, 199; Rubber Cul- 
tivation in the East, and the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition, 
Dr. J. C. Willis, 209 ; the Preparation of Rubber, Dr. J. C. 
Willis, 377; Kelway Bamber, 377; Rubber in the East, 
437; the Museum Beetle, Anthrenus museorum, Prof. 
A. J. Ewart, 215; Observations of a Naturalist in the 
Pacific between 1896 and 1899, H. B. Guppy, 217; 
British Flowering Plants, W. F. Kirby, 222; Diseases 
of Palms, E. J. Butler, 229; Chromogenic Fungi on 
Wood, G. G. Hedgecock, 280; Hydnora africana, Dr. 
Marloth, 287; Manual of the New Zealand Flora, T. F. 
Cheeseman, 293; How Ferns Grow, M. Slosson, 208; 
the Study of Plant Life for Young People, M. iG 
Stopes, 298; Plant Life-studies in Garden and School, 
H. F. Jones, 298; the Romance of Plant Life, G. Fr. 
Scott-Elliot, 298; the Green Gateway: a Peep into the 
Plant World, F. G. Heath, 298; Familiar Trees, Prof. 
G. S. Boulger, 319; Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects, 
E. W. Swanton, 320; Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S., 
320; New Species of Cacti, Dr. J. N. Rose, 349; Water 
Hyacinth a Nuisance in New South Wales, 350; Pre- 
