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NATURE 



[November 14. i*)iX 



Kilian : The composition 1 > f the Miocene congli mei ites 

 of the French sub-alpine chains. L. Jonane : I In 

 elasticity of pure cement. Measurements were made 



of the flexion oi small tesl pieces ol ml when 



submitted to small forces, no permanenl deformatioo 

 resulting. Tin- strains were proved to be proportional 

 in the stresses applied, and the modulus calculated 

 from various test pieces was constant within 1 per 

 cent. II. (iiiilleminot, H. Cheron, and K. Blquord : An 

 X-fluorometer with radio-luminescent standard. I'. 

 Georgevitcb ; Stud] of the sexual generation of a 

 brown alga. II. Agulhon and l\. Legroux : Contribu- 

 tion to ilir study of the vitamines utilisable in 1 h<- 

 culture of micro-orga-nisms. Application to the in- 

 fluenza bacillus (/■'. pfeiffer). Sir Almroth 1'".. Wright : 

 The production of non-specific bactericidal substances 

 l>\ means of anti-staphylococcic and anti-streptococcic 

 vaccines in vivo and in vitro. — R. D. de la Riviere | 

 Is the poison of influcn/.i capable of passing through 

 a filter? Blood from influenza patients was uY- 

 fibrinated and filtered through a Chamberland filter 

 (L a ). A portion of the filtrate injected under the skin 

 produced influenza symptoms in the author, which are 

 described in detail. \ second injection ten days after 

 the first gave rise to no morbid symptom. — C. Nicolle 

 and C. I.ebaillv : Some experimental ideas on the vims 

 of influenza. The bronchial expectoration in cases of 

 influenza collected during the acute period is virulent. 

 The ape is sensible to the infection.*— J. Nageotte and 

 I.. Sencert ; The utilisation of dead grafts for the stir- 

 gical repair of tissues of a conjunctive nature-. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Illinois and Michigan ("anal : A Studv in 

 Economic History. By Prof. J. YV. Putnam. 

 Pp. xiii + 213. (Chicago: University of Chicago 

 Press.) 2 dollars. 



The Student's Handbook to the University and 

 Colleges of Cambridge. Seventeenth edition, revised 

 to June 30, [918. Pp. vi+717. (Cambridge: At the 

 University Press.) 6.s\ net. 



The Iron and Steel Institute. Carnegie Scholarship 

 Memoirs. Vol. ix. Pp. iv+169. (London: E. and 

 F. N. Spon, Ltd.) 



State of Connecticut. Public Document No. 24: — 

 Forty-first Annual Report of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. Pp. xvi+510. (New 

 Haven, Conn.) 



Universitv of London. University College. Abridged 

 Calendar. Session iqiS 10. Pp. exxx + 25 1. (London: 

 Taylor and Francis.) 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



THURSDAY, November 14. 



Royal SociBTV, at 4.30.— A. Matlock: Sounds produced by Props 



felling on Water.— G. H. Hardy and S. Ramanujnn : The Coefficients 



in lite Expansions of certain Modular Functions. — Hon. R. I. strutt : 

 The Light Scattered by Gases; Its Polarisation and Intensity.— 

 Dr. F. Horton and Ann C. Davies.— An Investigation of the Ionising 

 Power of the Positive Ions from a glowine Tantalum Filament in Helium. 



Opticai. Society, at 8.— T. Smith : Some'Generalised Forms of an Optical 

 Equation -H. S. Rvland : The Manufacture of Binoculars. 



Mathematical Society at 5.— Annual General Meeting.— Prof. H. M. 

 Macdonald (Retiring President): Presidential Address.— Prof. M. |. M. 

 Hill : The Use of a Properly of lacobians to Determine the Character of 

 any Solution of an Ordinary Differential Equation of the First Order, 01 

 ofal.in..., .Hal Equation of the First Order. — Prof. H.J. 



Priestley : The Pools of a Certain Equation in Spherical Harmonics — 

 r. Hndgkinson : A Detail in Conforma] Representation.—'!'. A. Broderick : 

 The Product of Semi convergent Series.— Dr. W. P. Milne : A Simple 

 Condition for Co-apolar I 1 



FRIDAY, November 15. 



Institution of Mechanical Engineers, at 6.— Adjourned Discussion: 

 Prof. C. A. Edwards and F. W. Willis : A ] the Resistance 



to Penetration of Metals which are Capable of Plastic Deformation, and 

 a New Hardness Scale in Fundamental Units. — R. G. C. Batson : The 

 Value of the Indentation Method in the D< 

 Dr. \v c Unwin: The Ludwik Hardness 

 Welding. 



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MONDAY. November 18. 

 Royal Geographical Societv, at 5.— Exhibition of Captured War Maps. 



Tuesday, November 19. 

 >N Geophysicai < (Royal Astronomical 



Society), at 5. -R. D. Oldham : The Constitution of the Eanh's Interior. 

 1 1 1 1 koi.i cm Technologi 1 . -W. R. Ormandy : 



lotor Fuel Problem. 

 Institi riON "i Civil Engineers, at 5.30.— R. B. Joyner: The Tata 



Hydro-electric Power-supply Works, Bombay. 



1 SOCIETY, at 5.30. —The Secretary : Report on the Additions to 

 the Society's Menagerie in the Month of October, 1918.- Mis-. K. Lander : 

 Exhibition of Skeletons, prepared by the "Trypsin ' Mclhod.— E. 

 Hatschek : Notes on Investigations into the Forms of I imps and Vortices 

 of Gelatin in Various Coagulants. — Dr. D. M. S. Wats, .11 : Seymouria, 

 primitive known Reptile. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 

 < 1 Society, at 5.30.— R. Hansford Worth : The Geology of the 



Meldon Valleys, near Okehampton, on the Northern Verge ol I 

 Royal Society of Arts, at 4.30.— A. A. Campbell Swinton : Science and 

 the Future. 



01 ogical Society, at 8. 

 Royal Meteorological Societv, at 5.— R. DeC. Ward : The Larger 

 Relations of Climate and Crops in the United States.— Capt. C. J. P. 

 Cave and J. S. Dines : Soundings with Pilot Balloons in the Isles of 

 Scilly, November and December, 1911. 



THURSDAY, November 21. 



Rovai. SOCIETY, at x.so.—FrobalU Tapers: W. Stiles and Dr. I'. Kidd : 

 0) The Influence of External Concentration ..11 the Position of the Equi- 

 librium attained in the Intake of Salts by I'lai.t Cells ; (•) I he Coinpa 

 Rate of Absorption of various Salts by Plant Ti-sne.-G "' 

 Recherches Anatomo-Cliniques sur les Nevromes <l' Amputations 

 douloureux : Nouvelles Contributions a I'Etude de la Regeneration nerveuse 

 et du Neurotropisme. 



I.innfan Society, at 5. — E. S. Goodrich: A Fatherless Frog, with 

 1 Artificial Parthenogenesis. — Miss Muriel Bristol: A Review 

 of the Genus Chlorochytnum, Conn.— A. S. Kennard and B. B. Wood- 

 ward : 1 he I.innean Species of Non-marine Mollusca that are represented 

 in the British Fauna, wilh Notes on the Specimens of these and other 

 British Forms in the Linnean Collection. 



Royal Society of Arts, at 4.30.-S11- Everard im Thurn : The Present 

 State of the Pacific Islands. 



Mining and Metallurgy, at 5.30. — R. R. Kahan : Re- 

 fining Gold Bullion with Chlorine Gas and Air.— A. Yales: Effect of 

 Heating nid Heating and IJuenching Cornish Tin Ores before Crushing. 

 — R. J. Harvey: The Development of Galena Flotation at the Central 

 Mine, Broken Hill. 



Institution of Electrical Engineers, at 6— J. H. Shaw : The Use of 

 High Pressure and High Temperature Steam in Large Power 



Institution of Mining ano Metallurgy, at 5.30. 



CONTENTS. page 



War and Peace 201 



Scientific Utilisation of Coal. By H. L 202 



Catalogue of Scientific Papers 203 



Our Bookshelf 204 



Letters to the Editor: — 



The Colours of the Stria; in Mica.— C. V. Raman, 

 P. N. Ghosh; Rt. Hon. Lord Rayleigh, 



O.M., F.R.S 205 



Self-contained Mine Rescue Apparatus. (Illus- 

 trated.) By J. I. G 205 



Interchange of University Students 209 



Lt.-Col. E. F. Harrison, R.E., C.M.G. By A. S. . 210 



Notes .... 211 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



Borrelly's Comet 215 



Orbits of Two Spectroscopic Binaries 215 



A Remarkable Helium Star 216 



The Orbit of Sirius 216 



Production in the Sea. By J. J. 216 



Military Explosives of To-day. By J. Young. . . 216 



University and Educational intelligence 218 



Societies and Academies 219 



Books Received 220 



Diary of Societies 220 



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