XXVIII 
Index 
Nature, 
June 13, 1907 
Mathematics: Solution of the Cubic Equation, Edouard 
Collignon, 15; First Steps in the Calculus, A. F. van der 
Heyden, 29; Mathematical Society, 71, 188, 286, 407, 
503, 599; Harmonic Expansions of Functions of Two 
Variables, Prof. A. C. Dixon, 71; Elementary Geometry 
based’ on Euclid’s 
Theoretical and Practical, 
Cracknell, 74; 
A. A. Bourne, 
and) Il.) We 
Answers, W. 
C. Pendlebury 
Elements, F. Purser, 74; Geometry, 
W. P. Workman and A. G. 
iktementary Geometry, W. M. Baker and 
74; a Shilling Arithmetic, S. L. Loney 
Grenville, 74; Junior Arithmetic 
G. Borchardt, 74; a Junior Arithmetic, 
and F. E. Robinson, 74; a Preliminary 
Course in Differential and Integral Calculus, A. H. 
Angus, 74; a College Algebra, Prof. H. B. Fine, 74; 
a New Trigonometry for Beginners, R. F. D’Arcy, 74; 
Elementary Descriptive Geometry, C. H. McLeod, 74; 
a Simplified Method of Transforming Readings of 
Fahrenheit Thermometer into Centigrade Values and 
vice versd, Dr. Hellmann, 85; Corr., 111; the Collected 
Mathematical Works of G. W. Hill, 123; Theoretische 
Grundlagen fiir eine Mechanik der lebender Korper, 
Otto Fischer, 146; Analogy between Gyroscopes and 
Cyclones, F. J. B. Cordeira, 158; the Form of the 
Surface of a Searchlight Reflector, C. S. Jackson, 188; 
the Diophantine Equation x" —Ny"=s, Major P. A. 
MacMahon, 188; the Theory of Sets of Points, W. H. 
Young and G. C. Young, 193; Funzioni poliedriche e 
modulari, G. Vivanti, 198 ; Hermann von Helmholtz, 
Leo Koenigsberger, 198; Death of Dr. A. W. Panton, 
205; les Nombres positifs, exposé des Ihéories modernes 
de 1’Arithmétique élementaire, M. Stuyvaert, 246; 
Prof. Ernesto 
Tripos at Cambridge, 
the Mathematical Tripos, 
Oba | Notice of Prof. Ernesto Cesaro, 
Pascal, 254; the Mathematical 
Prof. John Perry, FuR-S., 273; 
Dr. Edward J. Routh, F.R.S., 320; the Uniform Con- 
vergence of Fourier’s Series, De E. W. Hobson, 286; 
Hyper-even Numbers and Fermat’s Numbers, Lieut.- 
Colonel A. Cunningham, 286; Opere matematiche di 
Francesco Brioschi, 291; Arithmétique graphique, Intro- 
duction A 1l’Etude des Fonctions arithmétiques, G. 
Arnoux, 319; Homer Lane’s Problem of a Spherical 
Gaseous Nebula, Lord Kelvin, O.M., F.R.S., 368; Re- 
peated Integrals, Dr. E. W. Hobson, 407; Projective 
Geometry of a Binary Quartic Prof. 
E. B. Elliott, 407; Trigonometry for Beginners, J. W. 
Mercer, 409; Trigonometry for Beginners, Rev. J. B. 
Lock and J. M. Child, 409 ; Geometry, an Elementary 
Treatise on the Theory 
and its Hessian, 
Andrew, 409; Modern Commercial Arithmetic, G. H. 
Douglas, 409; a New Shilling Arithmetic, C. Pendle- 
bury and F. E. Robinson, 409; Junior Arithmetic Ex- 
amples, W. G. Borchardt, 409; Clive’s New Shilling 
Arithmetic, 409; Junior Practical Mathematics, W. J. 
Stainer, 409; a Rhythmic Approach to Mathematics, 
Edith L. Somervell, 409; the Technical College Set of 
Mathematical Instruments, 413; One Vote, One Value, 
Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 414; the Ballot-box, F. H. 
Perry-Coste, 509; Dr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., 509; 
Mean or Median, R. H. Hooker, 487; G. Udny Yule, 
534; Gambling and Mathematics, Hugh Richardson, 
415; G. H. B., 415; Introduction to the Theory 
of Fourier’s Series and Integrals and the Mathe- 
matical Theory of the Conduction of Heat, 
H. S. Carslaw, 459; Death and Obituary Notice 
of Prof. Y. Y. Tswetkoff, 465; Tableaux logarith- 
miques, A et B, Dr. A. Guillemin, 482; Clive’s 
Mathematical Tables, 482; Five-figure Mathematical 
Tables for School and Laboratory Purposes, Dr. A. Du 
Pré Denning, 482; the Myriometer, G. W. Evans-Cross, 
503; Invariants of the General Quadratic Form 
Modulo 2, Prof. L. E. Dickson, 503; Frequency-curves 
and Correlation, W. Palin Elderton, 507 ; German Science 
Reader, C. R. Dow, 509; Vorlesungen tuber teoretische 
Spektroskopie, Prof. A. Garbasso, 554; Elementare 
kosmische Betrachtungen tiber das Sonnensystem und 
Widerlegung der von Kant und Laplace aufgestellten 
Hypothesen iiber dessen Entwickelungsgeschichte, Prof. 
Gustav Holzmiiller, 582; Space and Geometry, Dr. 
Ernst Mach, 603; Irrational Numbers and their Repre- 
sentation by Sequences and Series, Dr. Henry Parker 
Manning, 603; Auslese aus meiner Unterrichts- und 
with | 
and Practice of Euclid, S. O. | 
Vorlesungspraxis, Dr. Hermann Schubert, 603; Legons 
de Géométrie supérieure, M. E. Vissiot, 603; la 
Géométrie analytique générale, H. Laurent, 603; N. H. 
Abel, sa Vie et son Ciuvre, Charles Lucas de Peslotian, 
603; Theory of the Algebraic Functions of a Complex 
Variable, Dr. John Charles Fields, 603; Recherches sur 
rE lasticité, P. Duhem, 603; Instrument for describing 
Logarithmic Spirals, Mr. Pochin, 621; Logarithmic 
Lazy-tongs and Lattice-works, T. H. Blakesley, 622; 
Theory of Differential Equations, Dr. A. R. Forsyth, 
F.R.S., Supp. to March 14, x 
Maurain (Ch.), Magnetic Detectors and the Action of 
Electric Oscillations, 377 
Mawley (E.), British Phenological 
1906, 454 
Mawson (D.), the Minerals and Genesis of the Veins and 
‘Schlieren’? traversing the A&girine-syenite in the 
Bowral Quarries, 192 
Mawson (J.), Vertebrate Fossils of Cretaceous Formation 
of Bahia (Brazil), 334 
Maximum of Mira, the Recent, P. M. Ryves, 378 
Mayer (Alfred G.), Rhythmical Pulsation in 
medusz, 545 
Mean or Median, 
Observations during 
Scypho- 
R. H. Hooker, 487; G. Udney Yule, 
534 
Measurement, Standards and Exact, Dr. R. T. Glaze- 
brook at Institution of Electrical Engineers, 570 
Meaux Abbey, Essays upon the History of, and some 
Principles of Medizval Land Tenure, based upon a 
Consideration of the Latin Chronicles of Meaux, Rev. 
A. Earle, 170 ) 
Mechanical Drawing, Elements of, A. A. Titsworth, 
172 
Mechanics: the Teaching of Elementary Mechanics, Prof. 
Forsyth and C. E. Ashford, 317; Apparatus to deter- 
mine the Resultant of Two Motions at Right Angles 
to One Another, John C. Packard, 401; la Mécanique 
des Phénoménes fondée sur les Analogies, M. M. 
Petrovitch, 533; Mechanism of Power Transmission from 
Electric Motors, Wilfred L. Spence, 591 
Medizeval Land Tenure, Essays upon the History of Meaux 
Abbey and some Principles of, Rev. A. Earle, 170 
Medizeval Rhodesia, Dr. David Randall-Maclver, 369 
Medicine: Death of Dr. E. Symes-Thompson, 108; 
Anesthetic and Lethal Quantity of Chloroform in the 
Blood, Dr. George A. Buckmaster and J. A. Gardner, 
142; Measurement of the Radio-chromometric Degree by 
the Electrostatic Voltmeter in the Utilisation of the 
Rontgen Rays in Medicine, J. Bergonié, 287; the 
Thompson-Yates and Johnston Laboratories Report, 
Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 351; Rapport sur 1’Expédition au 
Congo, 1903-5, J. Everett Dutton and John L. Todd, 
Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 351; Second Report of the Well- 
come Research Laboratories at Gordon Memorial College, 
Khartoum, Andrew Balfour, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 351; 
Medical Inspection of School Children, 435; Aneurism 
of the Ophthalmic Artery Cured by Gelatin, MM. 
Lancereaux and Paulesco, 456 
Meehan (Rev. Joseph), the Rusting of Iron, 31 
Mees (C. E. K.), Photographic Processes, part iii., 
Latent Image and its Destruction, 310 
Meigen (W.), Edible Earth in New Guinea, 14 
Meissner (Otto), die Meteorologischen Elemente und ihre 
Beobachtung, mit Ausblicken auf Witterungskunde und 
Klimalehre, 366 
Meldola (R.), a New Trinitroacetaminophenol and its Use 
as a Synthetical Agent, 215 
Mellish (Mr.), a New Comet (19075), 593 
Mellish Comet 1907b, Messrs. Lamson and Frederick, 615 
Melvill (J. Cosmo), Mollusca Collected by Mr. S. A. Neave 
in South-east Rhodesia, 216 
Men of Science in America, Prof. McKeen Cattell, 259 
Mendeléeff (Prof. D. I.), Death of, 347; Obituary Notice 
of, (Dr. TE. Dherpe; BRS. , 377 
Mendeléeff’s Group of Chemical 
C. E. Stromeyer, 431 
Mendenhall (W. C.), Geology of the Central Copper River 
Region, Alaska, 184 
Menschutkin (Prof. N. A.), Obituary Notice of, 397 
Mercer (J. W.), Trigonometry for Beginners, 409 
Mercers’ Company Lectures on Recent Advances in the 
the 
Elements, Position of, 
