Index 



Oort (Dr. E. D. van), New Cassowary from New Guinea, 



Oplics : New-ton's Rings in Polarised Light, P. V. Bevan, 

 f) ; an Optical Illusion, Dr. L. U. H. C. U'erndly, 31; 

 " Magic Mirror " Effects, Douglas Carnegie, 55 ; the 

 Permanency of some Photovisual Lenses, Dr. W. J. S. 

 Lockyer, 94 ; Correction of the Astigmatism of Doubly 

 Refracting Prisms, C. Tissot and Fdix Pellin, 95 ; 

 Reflection of Polarised Light, C. T. Whitmell, 103 ; zur 

 virgleichendon Physiologie des Gesichts-sinnes, Prof. E. 

 Raehlmann, 193 ; Phosphorescence at Low Temperatures, 

 Joseph de Kowalski, 215; the Production of Chlorophyll 

 in the Higher Plants at Different Luminous Intensities, 

 \V. Lubimenko, 21b; Influence of Temperature on the 

 Optical Properties of Dissolved Bodies, C. Ch^neveau, 216 ; 

 an E.\ceptional Case of Zeeman's Phenomenon, A. Dufour, 

 311; Specimens of Luminous Bacteria, J. E. Barnard, 

 311 ; Theory of the Mirage, Prof. Antonio Garbasso, 356; 

 Luigi RoUa, 356; Searchlights: their Theory, Construc- 

 tion, and Application, F. Ncrz, 460 ; Perception of Relief 

 and of Depth in the Simple Image of Ordinary Photo- 

 graphs, .\. Chauveau, 576 ; Apparatus for demonstrating 

 the .\ction of Light on Selenium, J. W. Giltay, 589; die 

 binokularen Instrumentc, Moritz von Rohr, Supp. to 

 March 5, iv 



Orage (A. K.), Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism, 173 



Orbit of 7 Virginis, the, Dr. Doberck, 446 ; Orbits of 

 Spectroscopic Binaries, Dr. Curtis. 138 



Organic Chemistry for .\dvanced Students, Prof. J. B. 

 Cohen, 363 



Orientation of the Avebury Circles, Rev. Ed. H. Goddard, 



Ornithology : Avifauna Italica, Enrico Hillycr Giglioli, 25 ; 

 Irish Nesting-colony of Red-necked Phalaropes, H. S. 

 Gladstone, 63 ; Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding 

 in Australia and Tasmania, \. J. North, 76; Wanton 

 Slaughter of Egrets, .\. H. Mattingley, St ; the Birds of 

 North and Middle .Vmerica. R. Ridgwav, 91 ; Bird-life 

 iif the Borders, on Moorland and Sea, with Faunal Notes 

 -xtending over Forty Years, .Abel Chapman, 122 ; the 

 Birds of Kent, William J. Davis, 122 ; Notes on the 

 Birds of Rutland, C. Reginald Haines, 122 ; Muscles of 

 the Head in Birds and Reptiles, Prof. H. F. Edgeworth, 

 155: Structure of the Roof of the Mouth in Birds and 

 Mammals, Dr. \V. Sippel, 155 ; Luminous Owl, Sir T. 

 Digby Pigott, 1:55 ; the Luminous Owl seen in Norfolk, 

 Sir T. Digby Pigott, 205 ; Luminous Barn-owls, Miss 

 L. L. Veley, 299 ; Luminous Owls, 375 ; Rale of Gi-o\vth 

 of Ostrich Feathers, Prof. Duerden, iSo ; the Carnivorous 

 Habits of the Kea, Prof. W. B. Benham, 205 ; G. R. 

 Marriner, 205 ; .Album de .Aves .Amazonicas, Dr. E. .A. 

 Iioeldi, 220; the Californian Condor, W. L. Finley. 255; 

 the " Waltzing Instinct " in Ostriches, Dr. J. E. 

 Duerden, 278; Home-life of some Marsh-birds, Emma 

 L. Turner and P. H. Bahr, 393 ; Growth and Develop- 

 ment of the Limbs of the Penguin, Dr. D. Waterston ani 

 A. C. Geddes, 407 ; the Inheritance of Colour in Domestic 

 Pigeons, wilh Special Reference to Reversion, R. Staples- 

 Browne, 430 ; the .Air-sacs of Pigeons, Bruno Miiller. 444 ; 

 the Geographical Variation in Birds, Effects of Climatic 

 Humidity, C. W. Beebe. j.u ; Bird-bones from Broch 

 of -Ayre, Orkney, N. F. Ticehurst, 467 ; " the Policemen 

 of the Air," H. W. Henshaw, 493; a British Willow- 

 titmouse. H. B. Booth, 493 : the Birds of Yorkshire, 

 T. H. Nelson, W. Eagle Clark, and F. Boyes, 511; 

 Notes on the Birds of Kent, R. J. Balston, Rev. C. W. 

 Shepherd, and E. Bartlett, 511 ; the Food of American 

 Birds, W. L. McAfee, 564 ; New Cassowary from New 

 Guinea, Dr. E. D. van Oort, 564 ; Spread of the Little 

 Owl in England, Messrs. Witherby and Ticehurst, 564 ; 

 the Seasonal Colour-change in Birds, C. W. Beebe, 564 ; 

 Birds of the Ravenglass GuUery, 1906, C. Oldham, 

 623 



Osborn (H. F.), Evolution of Mammalian Molar Teeth, 

 to and from the Triangular Type, 43:; 



Osgood (Dr. W. F.). a First Course in the Differential 

 and Integral Calculus, 577 



Osteology : Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India. Dr. 

 .A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, CLE., 533 ; Mus^e osttelogique ; 

 Etude' de la Fauna quaternaire, Ost^ometrie des 

 Mammifires, E. Hue. 604 



Ostrich Feathers, Rate of Growth of, Prof. Duerden, 180 

 Ottley (Sir John W., K.C.I.E.), Stresses in Masonry Dams, 

 at Institution of Civil Engineers, 303 



Pace (Miss L.), Fertilisation in the. Genus Cypripedium, 300 



Pacific Ocean, the Bed of the Western, 21 



Palteobotany : the Cretaceous Flora of Southern New York 

 and New England, Arthur Hollick, 121 ; (i) the Cone of 

 Bothrodciidron mu)idiim (Will.), (2) on the Ulodendroid 

 Scar, D. M. S. Watson, 191 ; Fossil Osmundacese, D. T. 

 Gwynne-\ aughan and R. KidSton, F.R.S., 311; 

 Lcpidophloios Scotti, W. T. Gordon, 431; the Structure 

 of Sigillaria scutellata, E. A. Newell Arber and Hugh H. 

 Thomas, 549 



Palajolithics : Small Flint Implements from Bungay, W. A. 

 Dutt, 102 ; Recent Discoveries of PalEeolithic Implements, 

 Sir John Evans, 214; Eolith Stone Implements, 

 Worthington Smith, 615 



Palaeontology : les Formations s^dimenlaires du Cr^tac^ 

 Sup^rieur et du Tertiaire de Patagonie, avec un Parallfele 

 entre leur Faunes mammalogiques et celles de I'ancien 

 Continent, Florentino Ameghino, 68 ; a Miocene Wasp, 

 Prof. T. D. -A. Cockerell, 80; Tetraprothomo argcntinus 

 from the later Tertiary Deposits of Monte Hermosa, Dr. 

 F. Ameghino, 113; Lower Palteozoic Fossils of the 

 Northern Shan States, Burma, F. R. Cowper Reed, 116; 

 Fauna of the Tropites Limestone of Byans, South-west 

 Himalayas, Dr. Carl Diener, 116; the Primary 

 Hexameral Character of Rugose Corals, Strcptelasma 

 rectum, T. C. Brown, 117; Genera of Crinoidca flexiiilia, 

 Frank Springer, 117; Examples found in the Neocomian, 

 Dr. A. Till, 184 ; Revision of the Pelycosauria of North 

 .America, E. C. Case, 1S6 ; the Systematic Position of the 

 Chalicotherioids, O. A. Peterson, 399; Metriorhynchus 

 brachyrhynchus, Deslong., from the Oxford Clay near 

 Peterborough, E. T. Leeds, 502 ; Lamellibranch Fauna 

 in the Millstone Grit of Scotland and the Silurian Rocks 

 of Girvan, Dr. Wheelton Hind, 551 ; Einfiihrung in die 

 Palaontologie, Gustav Steinmann, 558 ; Mus^e ost^olo- 

 gique ; Etude de la Faune quaternaire, Ost^ometrie des 

 Mammif6res, E. Hue, 604 



Palazzo (Prof. L.), I brontidi del Bacino Bolsenese, Barisal 

 Guns, 256 



Palmer (Frederic, jun.), lonisation of .Air by Ultra-violet 

 Light, 582 



Palmer (G. W.), Arithmetic, chiefly Examples, 27 



Paper-making, Chapters on, Clayton Beadle, 121 



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



Parallax Observations, Dr. Karl Bohlin, 567 



Parasitology : das Schmarotzertum im Tierreich und seine 

 Bedeutung fiir die Artbildung, Prof. Ludwig von Graff, 

 5.S6 



Paris Academy of Sciences, 23, 47, 95, 119, 167, 215, 

 239, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407. 431. 455. 479. .S03. 

 527, 551. .^7S> 600, 623; Prizes awarded by the, 138; 

 Prizes proposed by the, for 1909, 183 



Paris Observatory R^seaux, Determination of the Errors 

 of the, Jules Baillaud, 617 



Park (Mungo), the Vaal River Diamond Diggings, 287 



Parker, (Mr.), Potomac River Basin, 68 



Parkhurst (J. A.), Absolute Scale of Photographic Magni- 

 tudes, 208 



Parkinson (J.), Petrology and Physiography of Western 

 Liberia, 527 



Parr (Prof. S. W.), the Weathering of Coal, 468 



Parsons (Mr.), Discoverv of Thorianite in Ceylon, 185 



Parsons (Hon. C. A., C.B., F.R.S.), the Conversion of 



■ Diamond into Coke in High Vacuum by Kathode Rays, 



549 

 Partridge (William), the Bacteriological Examination of 



Disinfectants, 246 

 Pascal (P.), Complex Salts of Iron in which the Iron is 



masked, 359 ; Reducing Power of Ferropyrophosphates, 



623 

 Pascoe (E. H.), Glaciers in Lahaul, 201 

 Patagonie, les Formations s^dimentaires du Cr^tacfi 



Sup^rieur et du Tertiaire de, avec un ParallMe entre leur 



Faunes mammalogiques et celles de I'ancien Continent, 



Florentino .Ameghino, 68 



