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and less hairy flowers and inflorescence. (/) Chezrvostylés grandi- 
florus, Blume, found ‘*in moist forests between rocks on the 
coast of New Guinea,” is now recorded from similar situa- 
tions near Lismore, Richmond River, N.S.W. Its discovery 
adds a genus to the flora of Australia. (c) Grevzllea alpina, 
Lindl , hitherto only recorded from Victoria, has been found in 
the Albury district.—On a new fungus (Capnodium callitris) 
attacking the Murray pine; together with observations on a 
fungus found on Aypocherts radicata, L., by D. McAlpine.— 
On some Australian gudgeons (Z/eotridinw), by J. Douglas 
Ogilby.—Descriptions of some new Araneide of New South 
Wales. No. 7, by W. J. Rainbow.—Contributions to a know- 
ledge of the arachnidan fauna of Australia, No. 1, by W. J. 
Rainbow. This paper, the first of a new series, is descriptive 
of anew scorpion (Suthus favicrurts) from Como, obtained by 
Mr. J. D. Ogilby.—On Domatia in certain Australian and other 
plants, by Alex. G. Hamilton.—Description of a new species of 
Pupina from Queensland, by C. E. Beddome.— Revision of 
the genus Paropsts, Part 1., by Rev. T. Blackburn.—The 
Silurian trilobites of New South Wales, with references to 
those of other parts of Australia. Partiv. The Odontopleuride, 
by R. Etheridge, sea and John Mitchell. —Note on a Papuan 
throwing-stick, by J. Jennings. —On the so-called evidences of 
glaciation on the Mi. Kosciusko plateau, by Rev. J. Milne 
Curran. The author concluded that (1) there is no satisfactory 
evidence of glaciers in the present valleys. (2) There is abso- 
lutely no evidence of extensive glaciation on the Kosciusko 
plateau. (3) The ‘glacial epoch in Australia” in Post-Tertiary 
times as described by Dr. Lindenfeld, has no foundation in fact. 
DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 
THURSDAY, Janvary 7. 
at 3.—Visible and Invisible Light : 
Roya. INSTITUTION, Profs, we) be 
Thompson, F.R.S. 
FRIDAY, January 8. 
Roya. ASTRONOMICAL Society. at 8.—A Method of Clearing a Lunar 
Distance: F. C. Penrose.—Determination of the Diameter and Com- 
pression of the Planet Mars, from Observations with the Repsold Helio- 
meter of the Royal Observatory, Gottingen: W. Schur.—On the Com- 
parison of Reflector and Portrait Lens Photographs : Dr, Isaac Roberts. 
—Note on the Magnitude of Argis, 1896: R. T. A. Innes.—Orbit of 44 
Bodtis Ht I. 15 =Sh. 193 = % 1909: S. W. Burnham. 
San URDA Y, JANUARY 9 
"Rovat INSTITUTION, at 3.—Visible and Invisible Light: Prof. S. P. 
Thompson, F.R.S. 
SUNDAY, January to. 
Sunpay Lecture Society, at 4.—Attificial Light: Prof. Vivian B. 
Lewes. 
TUESDAY, JANvaRY 12. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, at 8.30. 
INSTITUTION OF CiIvIL ENGINEERS, at 8.—Superheated Steam Engine 
Trials : Prof. W. Ripper. 
‘'RoyvaL PuoroGrapuic Society, at 8.—Photography 
Rays, up to date : Dr. Hall-Edwards. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 
SocieETY OF Pusiic ANALysTs, at 5.—Annual Meeting.—Also, some 
Analyses of Water from an Oyster Fishery ; Note on Weighing out Fats; 
by the Réntgen 
Remarks on Formaldehyde: Chas. E. Cassal.—A Specific Gravity 
Pipette: W. F. Keating Stock.—A Modified Schmidt Process: R. W. 
W oosnam. 
THURSDAY, January 14. 
MATHEMATICAL Society, at 8.—Supplementary Note on Matrices: J. 
Brill. 
INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, at 8.—Inaugural Address of the 
President, Sir Henry Mance. 
SoutH Lonpon ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NaTurat History Sociery.— 
Some Marine Mimics: E. Step. 
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15. 
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL Society, at 8.—Age Incidence in Relation with Cycles 
of Disease Prevalence : Dr. Hamer. 
INSTITUTION OF CiviL ENGINEERS, at 8.—On “‘ Monier” 
Arches : Walter Beer. 
Girders and 
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, and SERIALS KECEIVED. 
Booxs,—Register of the Associates and Old Students of the Royal Col- 
lege of Chemtlstios &c.: T. G. Chambers (Hazell).—CSuvyres Sclentinge 
de L. Lorenz, Revues et Annotées par H Valentiner, Tome 1, Fasc. 
{Copenhague, Lehmann).—A Handbook to the Game Birds : W. R. Online: 
»Grant, Vol. 2 (Allen).—Microscopic Researches on the Formative Property 
‘of Glycogen : Dr. C. Creighton. Part 1. Physiological (Black).—Coloured 
Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, with De criptive Notices: H. See- 
bohm, edited by Dr. R. B. Sharpe (Sheffield, Pawson).—The Collected 
Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley, Vol. xi. (Cambridge University 
Press).—The Const!tution and Functions of Gases, &c. : $. J. Corrigan (St. 
Paul, Pioneer Press Company) —Untersuchungen iiber Bau. Kernteilung 
und ‘Bewegung der Diatomeen: R. Lauterburn (Leipzig, Engelmann).— 
Smithsonian Institution Report to July 1894 (Washington).—Notes of 
Lessons on Elementary Botany : W. Bland, 12th edition (Bemrose).—Out- 
lines of Psychology : W. Wundt, translated by C. H. Judd (Williams and 
Norgate).—A Dictionary of Birds: A Newton and others, Part 4 (Black).— 
Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F Welwitsch in 1853-61. 
Dicotyledons, Part 1: W. P. Hiern (London, British Museum, Natural 
History).—Inorganic Chemical Preparations: Dr. F. H. Thorp (Boston, 
Ginn).—Oceanic Ichthyology: Drs. G. B. Goode and T. H. Bean, Text 
NO. 1419, VOL. 55] 
and Plates (Washington).—Life Histories of North American Birds: 
Captain C. Bendire (Washington).—A Catalogue of 16,748 Southern Sters 
deduced by the U.S. Naval Observatory from the Zone Observations made 
at Santiago de Chile (Washington).—Sixteenth Annual Report of the U.S. 
Geological Survey, Part 1 (Washington).—Annals fof the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Calcutta, Vol. v. Part 2; Vol. vi. Part 1; and Vol. vii. (Calcutta, 
bengal Secretariat Press). 
PAMPHLETS —Annuaire Astronomique et Météorologique pour 1897: C. 
Flammarion (Paris, E. Flammarion).—An Account of the Crustacea of 
Norway, Vol. 2, Parts 1 and 2: G. O. Sars (Bergen).—Annuaire de 
L’Académie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique, 1897 (Bruxelles).—The 
Camera and the Pen: T. C. Hepworth (Lund).—Museums Association 
Report (Dulau).—Meteorological Observations and Results obtained at the 
U.S. Naval Observatory for the Year 1890 (Washington). 
Serias.—History of Mankind: F. Ratzel, translated, Part 15 (Mac- 
ruEDD —Lloyd’s Natural History. Game Birds, Part 3: W. R. Ogilvie- 
Grant (Lloyd).—Lloyd’s Natural History. British Birds, Part 7: R. B. 
Sharpe (Lloyd).—Longman’s Magazine, January (Longmans).—Century 
Magazine, January (Macmillan).—Notes from the Leyden Museum, 
Vol. xviii. Nos _2 and 3 (Leyden, Brill),—Economic Journal, December 
(Maemillan).—Bibliographia Physiologica, 1896 : Prof. Ch. Richet, Premier 
Fasc. (Paris, Alcan).— Zeitschrift fiir Physikalische Chemie, xxi. Band, 
3 Heft (Leipzig, Engelmann).—National Review, January (Arnold).—Con- 
temporary Review, January (Isbister).—Natural Science, January (Page). 
—Science Progress, January (Scientific Press).—Reliquary and Illustrated 
Archeologist, January (Bemrose).—Astrophysical Journal, December 
(Chicago).—Fortnightly Review, January (Chapman).—Humanitarian, 
January (Hutchinson).—Scribner’'s Magazine, January (Low).—Biblio- 
graphy of the more important Contributions to American Economic Ento- 
mology, Part 5 (Washington).—Journal of the Chemical Society, December 
(Gurney).—Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, December 
(Murvay).—Geographical Journal, January (Stanford).—American Journal 
of Psychology, Vol. viii. No. 2 (Worcester, Mass.).—Internationales Archiv. 
f r Ethnographie, Band ix. Heft 6(Leyden, Brill). 
CONTENTS. PAGE 
Physical Science a Hundred Years ago. By 
NO 7 aed Os > 0 REE OL 
Egyptian Made Easy . ; - Sens 
The History of Elementary Mathematics. By 
GBM... 6 VM cows 
mindy Medicine: (amram. : . . . ie 221 
Our Book Shelf:— 
Cooke and Sons: ‘*On the Adjustment and Tete 
of Telescopic Objectives."-—W.J.S.L. ... 221 
Sexton : ‘‘ Fuel and Refractory Materials”. . 2B 
Barrett: ‘‘ The Lepidoptera of the British Islands” , 222 
Henslow : ‘‘ How to Study Wild Flowers” .. . 222 
Letters to the Editor:— 
On a New Law Connecting the Periods of Molecular 
Vibrations.—Prof, Arthur Schuster, F.R.S.  _ 223 
The Pound as a Force.—Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 
TAR ke 6 223 
The Theory of Dissociation into Ions. — Spencer 
Pickering, F.R.S. .. 223 
Some Neural Descriptive Terms.—Prof, Burt G 
Wilder = eye. 2 224 
Measurement of Crabs. =H Thompson é pean Set 
Marriage of the Dead.—Kumagusu Minakata . . 224 
The Heating of Anodes in X-Ray Tubes.—A. A. C. 
Swinton . . ep Res 6 = e225) 
Sesamoid Bones. = ip Reid . 225 
Discharge of Electricity Phosphorus. = R. Ash- 
WOOL). en ae a 225 
Shooting Stars observed on January 2 Dr Bue! 
Sorby, F.R.S. . . Co 25 
The Geodetic Survey of South Africa. By Sir | 
C) W. Wilson, KR@iBe ers: . . 226 
In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the 
Coral Seas. (//lustrated.) By W. Saville-Kent 227 
The Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic of the Neo- 
lithic Troglodytes. (///ustrated.) By A.C. H.. . 229 
Emil du Bois-Reymond. By Prof. J. Burdon- 
Sanderson, FP RUSHamEEeEEe. |. . <2 Alte 
Wiotes! <p RIOR se th ch op 22 
Our Astronomical “Column:— 
The Total Solar Eclipse of August 9, 1896 wa ee ce eS 
The Melbourne Obsenvatoryey 7...) ea 
Mists on Mars . 235 
The Atmospheric ‘Absorption of Light. "By W.E. 
Plummer . . 235 
On certain Vestigial Characters in ‘Man. By 
Dr. Walter Kidd. 236 
Is Animal Life Possible jn the Absence of Bacteria? 238 
Societies and/Acadenitesey) ) 2 2 1...) . Sy nego 
Diary of Societies . . » Sere tO 
Books, Pamphlets, and Serials Received A. 240 
