Nature, 1 

 me 14, 1906 J 



Index 



xlv 



Science and Hypothesis, Prof. H. Poincare\ 313 ; Wissen- 

 schaft und Hypothese, Prof. H. Poincare, 313 ; (1) the 

 Periodogram and its Optical Applications, (2) the Period- 

 icity of Sun-spots, Papers at Royal Society, 378 ; a Plea 

 for Absolute Motion, 462 



Schwarz (Prof. E. H. L.), on Baviaan's Kloof, a Contri- 

 bution to the Study of Mountain Folds, 91 ; the Coast- 

 ledges in the South-west of the Cape Colony, 141 ; Cor- 

 relation of the Members of the Transvaal System, 547 



Schwendener (Prof.), the Statolith Theory of Geotropism, 



349 

 Science : the Treasury and Men of Science, 9 ; the British 

 Science Guild, 10; Bursaries at the Royal College of 

 Science, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 32 ; Conference of 

 Delegates of Local Scientific Societies, 39 ; Scientific 

 Research in the Philippine Islands, (1) Description of 

 New Buildings, Paul C. Freer, (2) a Catalogue of the 

 Library, Mary Polk, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 57; Actualites 

 Scientifiques, Max de Nansoutv, 76 ; Science and Art of 

 Cricket, G. W. Beldam and C. B. Fry, 82 ; Scientific 

 Exploration in Central Asia, Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher, 

 227; the Application of Scientific Methods to the Study 

 of History, Prof. F. J. C. Hearnshaw, 307; Public 

 Schools Science Masters' Conference, Wilfred Mark 

 Webb, 308; Science and Hypothesis, Prof. H. Poincare^, 

 Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 313 ; Wissenschaft und 

 Hypothese, Prof. H. Poincare\ Prof. Arthur Schuster, 

 F.R.S., 313; the Royal College of Science, 344, 442; 

 Science and Art of Carpentry, 363 ; Practical Science for 

 Schools, Presidential Address delivered before the 

 Physical Society by Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 402 ; the 

 Popular Conception of the Scientific Man, Prof. W. G. 

 Farlow, 403; Science in Archaeology, 411: Cooperation 

 between Scientific Libraries, Dr. Thomas Muir, 372 ; Dr. 

 F. A. Bather, 413 ; Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 

 438; Prof. Herbert McLeod, F.R.S., 438; Prof. Gren- 

 ville A. J. Cole, 464; Dr. Hugh Marshall, 513; Forth- 

 coming Books of Science, 476; Scientific Reports of the 

 Local Government Board, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 619 ; 

 Erkenntnis und Irrtum, Prof. Ernst Mach, Supp. to 

 November 30, vii 



Scintillations Produced by the Electronic "/3-Rays" 

 emitted by Radium, C. W. R, 341 



Sclater (\V. L.), on the Migration of Birds in the Southern 

 Hemisphere, 40 



Scorpio, a Large Photographic Nebula in, Prof. Barnard, 

 618 



Scotland : the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 42 ; 

 New Buildings of the Glasgow and West of Scotland 

 Technical College, 20S 



Scott (Capt. R. F.), the Vovage of the Discovery, 297 



Scott (Dr. D. H.), New Type of Stem from 'the Coal- 

 measures, 503 



Scott (Prof. W. B.), on Convergent Evolution as Illustrated 

 by the Litopterna, 40 



Scripture (Prof. E. W.), the Construction of a Vowel 

 Organ, 159 



Sea Coast Protection, 369 



Sea-Fishing, Practical, a Handbook for Sea Anglers, P. L. 

 Haslope, Frank Balfour Browne, 51 



Sea-sickness and Equilibration of the Eyes, Alfred Sang, 

 511; Dr. John Aitken, F.R.S., s6o ; Geoffrev Martin, 

 S»4 



Sealing in Newfoundland Waters, Last Season's, T. South- 

 well, 33 



Searle (G. F. C), Expansion of a Gas into a Vacuum and 

 the Determination of the Specific Heat at Constant 

 Pressure for Gases, 455 



Secondarv Schools and Endowments, 178 



Sedgwick (Adam, F.R.S.), a Student's Text-book of 

 Zoology, 73 



Seelye (Miss), Respiration of Salamanders, 348 



Seiches, Experimental Results in Connection with the 

 Hvdrodvnamical Theorv of, P. White and W. Watson, 

 .•583 



Seignobos (M.), Introduction aux Etudes Historique, 307 



Seilliere (Gaston), Diastatic Hydrolysis of Xylane, 102 



Seismology : the Doncaster Earthquake of April 23, iqo^. 

 Dr. Charles Davison. 141 : Determination of the Dis- 

 tance of the Epicentre of an Earthquake from the 

 Duration of the Preliminary Tremors, Pre. Raffaelo 



Stiatteri, 206 ; Antarctic Earthquakes, Observations made 

 with Horizontal Pendulum in the Antarctic Regions, 

 Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., at Royal Society, 210; the Colom- 

 bian Earthquake, 395 ; the Kangra Earthquake of April 

 4, 1905, 418 ; Earth Tremors in India, Prof. W. Gal- 

 loway, 464 ; Experiments on Earth-currents at Kew Ob- 

 servatory, Dr. J. A. Harker, 526; the San Francisco 

 Earthquake of April 18, Dr. C. Davison, 608 ; Earth- 

 quake Origins, Major E. G. Harboe, R. D. Oldham, 

 620 

 Selborne, the Natural History of, Rev. Gilbert White, 581 

 Selenium Cells, Employment of, during Total Solar 



Eclipse, 617 

 Seligmann (Dr. C. G.), Physical Anthropology and Eth- 

 nology of British New Guinea, 371 

 Sellier (J.), Anti-coagulating Power of the Blood Serum of 



the Lower Animals, 408 

 Selous (Edmund), the Romance of Insect Life, 172 ; the 

 Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, with Some Notes on 

 Seals, with Digressions, 414 

 Semon (Richard), Die Mneme als erhaltendes im Wechsel 



des organischen Geschehens, 338 

 Semple (W.), Old Customs and Festivals, 582 

 Sennett (A. R.), Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, 2 

 Serotherapy : Serotherapy in Cases of Bleeding, Emile 

 Weil, 24; the Inoculation of Cancer, M. Mayet, 263; 

 the Serum Therapy of Plague in India, W. M. Haffkine, 

 Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 36S ; Toxin and Antitoxin of 

 Cholera, MM. Brau and Denier, 528 

 Seward (A. O, F.R.S.), on Educational Methods in the 

 Teaching of Botany, 163 ; the Araucarieae, 238 ; the 

 Origin of Gymnosperms, 542 ; Catalogue of the Fossil 

 Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of 

 Geology, British Museum (Natural History), being a 

 Monograph of the Permo-Carboniferous Flora of India 

 and the Southern Hemisphere, E. A. Newell Arber, 577 

 Seychelles Archipelago, the, the Percy Sladen Expedition 

 in H.M.S. Sealark to the Indian Ocean, J. Stanley 

 Gardiner, 294 

 Sevmour-Iones (A.), Leather for Libraries, 53 

 Shaler (Dr. N. S.), Death of, 613 



Shantung, Sounding Stones at Ch'ufu, Alfred Tingle, 222 

 Sharpe (F. R.), the Stability of Motion of Viscous Liquids, 



159 



Shaw (Dr. W. N., F.R.S.), the Pulse of the Atmospheric 



Circulation, 175 ; Seasons in the British Isles from 1S7S, 



210; Is London Fog Inevitable? 493 



Shelford (R.), Tatu in Borneo, 503; "Flying" Snakes, 523 



Shepherd (E. S.), Tensile Strength of Copper-Tin Alloys, 



62 

 Sheppard (T.), the Making of East Yorkshire, a Chapter 



in Local Geography, 364 

 Shetlands, the Bird Watcher in the, with some Notes on 

 Seals, with Digressions, Edmund Selous, O. V. Aplin, 

 414 

 Shipley (A. E., F.R.S.), Insects as Carriers of Disease, 

 Address at the Meeting of the British Association at 

 Pretoria, 235 

 Ships and Shipping, Commander R. Dowling, Commander 



H. C. Lockyer, "R.N., 150 

 Siemens (Carl Heinrich von), Death of, 540 

 Silberrad (O.), Removal of Nitrous Acid from Concen- 

 trated Nitric and Sulphuric Acid, 430 

 Silicium Lines, Wave-lengths of, Prof. Frost and J. A. 



Brown, 17 

 Silk, Seta Artificiale, G. B. Baccioni, 606 

 Simmonds (C), the Adulteration of Butter, 466, 535 

 Simplon Tunnel, Die Vermessungs- und Absteckungs- 

 Arbeiten fur den, Prof. C. Koppe, 30 ; Surveying Work of 

 the, Francis Fox, 84 

 Simpson (C. B.), on Locust Destruction in the Transvaal 



during the Season 1904-3, 40 

 Simpson (Dr. Sutherland), the Temperature of the 



Monkey, 216 

 Sinclair (W. J.), Prothylacinus and the Other Marsupial- 

 like Carnivores of the Santa Cruz Beds are True Mar- 

 supials, 63 

 Sladen, the Percy, Expedition in H.M.S. Sealark, J. 



Stanley Gardiner, 43, 1S4, 294 

 Slater (Miss I. L.), the Highest Silurian Rocks of the 

 Ludlow District, 312 



