Index 



Nature^ 

 June n, 1508 



Ways, J. G. Millais, 223 ; Plagues and Pleasures of Life 

 in Bengal, Lieut. -Colonel D. D. Cunningham, 223 ; 

 Report on Scenery Preservation for the Year 1906-7, 

 Prof. Arthur Dendy, 297 ; Death of iMorris K. Jesup, 298 ; 

 Obituary Notice of Edward Bartlett, 325 ; Whose Home 

 is in the Wilderness, some Studies of Wild Animal Life, 

 W. J. Long, 393 ; Final Natural History Essays, Graham 

 Renshaw, 393 ; Home-life of some Marsh-birds, Emma 

 L. Turner and P. H. Bahr, 393 ; the Raisonnement col- 

 Icctif of Bees, Gaston Bonnier, 399 ; Nature and Develop-' 

 ment of Plants, C. C. Curtis, 436 ; Mimicry among 

 South American Butterllies not connected with Birds, 

 F. T. Lewis, 467 ; a Possible Case of Mimicry in the 

 Common Sole, Dr. A. T. Masterman, 477 ; the Sea- 

 shore, shown to the Children, Janet Harvey Kelman, 

 Frank Balfour Browne, 533 ; the Dancing Mouse, a 

 Study in Animal Behaviour, Robert M. Yerkes, 533 ; 

 Animal Faculty of Orientation, Benjamin Kidd, 564 ; 

 the Greater Horseshoe Bat in Captivity, T. A. Coward, 

 599 ; Development of the Rodent Mammals, 613 ; Natural 

 History " Guide-books," the Elephant Group, Dr. C. W. 

 ."Andrews, 613 



Nature and Nurture of the Child, 410 



Nature's Hygi.ene and Sanitary Chemistry, C. T. Kingzett, 

 196 



Naval Architecture, a Contribution to the Study of Iron- 

 clads, Lord Rosse, 356 ; Researches on the Performance 

 of the Screw Propeller, Prof. W. F. Durand, 416; the 

 Substitution of Cement for Steel in the Armour of Battle- 

 ships, Lorenzo d'Adda, 543 ; Trial of H.M.S. Tartar, 614 



Navigation : Visibility of Night Signals at Sea, Andri 

 Broca and M. Polack, 95 ; Apparatus for extinguishing 

 the Rolling of Ships, Dr. Victor Cremieu, 114; the 

 Electric Propulsion of Ships, H. A. Mavor, 543 



Navigation of the Air, 562 



Nebula, Parallax of the Andromeda, Dr. Karl Bohlin, 446 



Nebulas and Nebulosities observed by Prof. Barnard, 497 



Nebulae, Surveys of, P. Gotz, 90 



Nelson (T. H.), the Birds of Y'orkshire, 511 



Neogenesis, Italian Birds and, 25 



Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattle-ways, Dr. Arthur John 

 Hubbard and George Hubbard, W. E. Rolston, 245 



Neolithic Implements, an Early Notice of. Prof. John L. 

 Myres, ^35 



Neptune, Occultation of, by the Moon, Dr. Downing, 42 



Neptune, the Appearance of, in Small Telescopes, Mr. 

 Holmes, 258; Mr. Maw, 25S 



Nernst (Dr. Walther), Experimental and Theoretical Appli- 

 cations of Thermodynamics to Chemistry, 52 



Nerve as a Master of Muscle, Prof. C. S. .Sherrington, 

 F.R.S., al Royal Institution, 569 



Nerz (F.), Searchlights, their Theory, Construction, and 

 Application, 460 



Nest Eggs of Platypus, Prof. Gregg Wilson, 149 



Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and 

 Tasmania, .'V. J. North, 76 



Neumann (B.), Trait4 complet dWnalyse chimique appliqu^e 

 aux Essais industriels, 531 



Neurology : the Nervous System of Vertebrates, Prof. J. B. 

 Johnston, Dr. W. Page May, 73 ; Nerve as a Master of 

 Muscle, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., at Royal 

 Institution, 569 



" New Jerusalem," a Lunar, Rev. G. B. Berry, 163 



New South Wales Linnean Society, 192, 264 



New South W'alcs Royal Society, 23, 263, 479 



New Zealand : Report on Scenery Preservation for the Year 

 1006-7, Prof. .Arthur Dendy, 297; Report on a Botanical 

 Survey of Kapiti Island, L. Cockayne, Prof. Arthur 

 Dendy, 297 



Newall (II. F.), Spectroscopic Observations of Cyanogen in 

 the Solar .\tmosphere and it) Interplanetary Space, 94 



Newcomb (Prof. S.), Investigation of Inequalities in the 

 Motion of the Moon produced by the .Action of the 

 Planets, 43 



Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, J. G. Millais, 223 



Newsholne (Dr. .Arthur), .Alcohol and the Human Body, 387 



Newstead (R.), the Habits, Life-history, and Breeding- 

 places of the House-fly, 13-; 



Newton's " Principia," an Annotated Copy of, Bruce Smith, 

 510; W. R. B. Prideaux, 534 



Newton's Rings in Polarised Light, P. V. Bevan, 9 

 Nicholls (George E.), Reissner's Fibre in the Frog, 344 

 Nichols (H. G.), Method of Settling Slimes as Applied to 



their Separation from Solution in Cyanide, 406 

 Nicholson (Dr. J. W.), Inductance in Parallel Wires, 295 

 Nicloux (Maurice), Ethyl Chloride in the Blood during 



Anaaathesia, 240 

 Nietzsche in Outline and .Aphorism, .A. R. Orage, 173 

 Nietzsche (Friedrich), Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a 



Philosophy of the Future, 4O0 

 Nile, the Fi'shes of the, G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., 10 

 Nile, a Description of the First or .Aswan Cataract of the. 



Dr. John Ball, 433 

 Nitre Beds, Modern, 513 



Nitrous Oxide, the " Histoire Intime " of, 434 

 Nobbs (Dr.), Work to be done at the Experiment Stations 



at Knysna and Robertson, Cape Colony, 64 

 Noble (Margaret E.), Cradle Tales of Hinduism, 605 

 Nordmann (Dr. C), the Dispersion of Light in Interstellar 



Space, 497; Variable Star Observations, 520 

 Norman (G. M.), Systematic Practical Organic Chemistry, 



74 

 North (A. J.), Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding 



in .Australia and Tasmania, 76 

 North Sea Fisheries Investigations, the, Frank Balfour 



Browne, 523 

 Nova Persei, 1901, Prof. Barnard, 182 

 Nova Persei, No. 2, the Recent Spectrum and .Magnitude 



of. Prof. Hartmann, 377 

 Nova Velorum, Red Stars near, Mrs. Fleming, 42 

 November Meteors, John R. Henry, 31 



Nowikoff (Dr. M.), the Dorsal Sense-organs of Chitons, 135 

 Noyes (.Arthur .A.), the Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous 



Solutions, 213 

 Noyes (W. A.), Re-determination of the Atomic Weight of 



Chlorine, 543 

 Nunn (Dr. Percy T.), the Place of Nature-study in the 



School Curriculum, 282 

 Nvassa, the Oligochaetoiis Fauna of Lake Birket et Ourun 



and Lake, Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 608 



O'P'arrell (H. H.), the Interpretation of Mendelian 



Phenomena, 271 

 O'Neill (J. J.), Inter-relation of the Theory and Practice 



of Shipbuilding, 327 

 Objective Prism in Solar Spectroscopy, the, E. .Schaer, 401 

 Observatories : the Hamburg Observatory, Prof. Schorr. 

 544 ; Observatory Map of the Moon, Mr. Porthouse, 544 ; 

 the Harvard College Observatory, Prof. Pickering, 567 : 

 Determination of the Errors of the Paris Observatorv 

 Rfiseaux, Jules Baillaud, 617 

 Occultations of Uranus in 1908, Dr. Downing, 353 

 Oceanic Languages, the, their Grammatical Structure, 



Vocabulary, and Origin. Dr. D. Macdonald, 460 

 Oddone (Dr. E.), Possibility of a Causal Connection 

 between the two Earthquakes on .August 16, 1906, in 

 the Northern Pacific and in Chile, 468 

 Ogilvy (J. W.), Microscopes of New Design made by 



Messrs. Leitz, 311 

 Oka (Dr. Asajiro), L. kawaii, new Chinese Fresh-water 



Medusa, 398 

 Oldham (C), Birds of the Ravenglass Gullcry. 1906, 623 

 Oldham (F. M.), the Complete School Chemistrv, 74 

 Oldham (R. D.), the Winding of Rivers in 'Plains, 55; 



Seismographs and Seismograms, 246 

 Olie (J.), the so-called Amorphous Antimony and Bismuth, 



352 

 Oligochaetous Fauna of Lake Birket el Qurun and Lake 



Nvassa, the, Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S., 60S 

 Olivier (C. P.), Measures of Double Stars, 2S1 

 Olmsted (Charles M.), Sun-spot Spectra, 421 

 Onnes (Prof. H. Kamerlingh), A^ariation of the Electrical 

 Resistance of Pure Metals Down to Very Low Tem- 

 peratures, 233 ; Helium Solidified, 442 ; .Absorption 

 Spectra of Crystals of the Rare Earths in a Magnetic 

 Field at the Temperatures of the Liquefaction and Solidi- 

 fication of Hydrogeh, 527; the Condensation of Helium, 

 559. 581 



