Index 



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Patcrni (Prof. E.), the Origin of Stereochemistry, 32S 



Pathology : Inflammation, an Introduction to the Study of 

 Pathology, Prof. J. George Adami, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 

 126; Tendencies in Pathology, Dr. Simon Flexner, 379 



Patrick (David), Gods and Godlings, 462 



Patroclus, Elements and Ephemeris for the Minor Planet, 

 V". Hcinrich, 67 



•Patterson (J. W.), Colour Photographs of Rock Sections, 



20b 



Pawlowsky (E.), Structure of the Epidermis and Epidermal 

 Glands of Poisonous Fishes, 613 



Peach (B. N.), the Geological Structure of the \orth-west 

 Highlands of Scotland, 272 



Pearl in " Window-pane Oyster," Ceylon, Dr. A. Willey, 

 326 



Pearl Fishing, Radiography in, John J. Solomon, 331 



Pearse (I.. E. B.), the .Assav of Telluride Ores, iqo 



Pearson (Prof. H. H. \\'.), the Botany of Walfish Bay, 40 



Pearson (Prof. Karl, F.R.S.), an Experimental Study of 

 Stresses in Masonry Dams, 209 ; the Stresses in Masonry 

 Dams, 2t)q, 366 ; f)rapers' Company Research Memoirs, 

 ii., a First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tubercu- 

 losis, 394: Mendcllan Characters among Shorthorns, 559 



Peat Utilisation, 114 



Peculiarities in the Structure of some Heavenly Bodies, 

 Prof. Suess, 490 



Pellat (H.), Cours d'Electricit^, 458 



P(;llin (F(51ix), Correction of the Astigmatism of Doubly 

 Refracting Prisms, 95 



Pelly (R. G.), New Isomeride of Vanillin in the Root of 

 Chlorocodon, 502 ; \'olatile Oils of the Leaves of Ocimum 

 viriJc, 502 



Pelvcosauria of North America, Revision of the, E. C. Case, 

 1S6 



Pendulations-theorie, die. Dr. Heinrich Simroth, 50S 



Penrose's Pictorial Annual, 1907-8, 2c)2 



Perkin (Dr. F. Molhvo), Reduction of Metallic Oxides with 

 Calcium Hydride and Calcium, 47 ; the Metric and British 

 Systems of Weights, Measures, and Coinage, 77 ; the 

 Discovery of the .Alkali Metals by Davy, 214; Action of 

 Metallic Calcium on .Mcohols, 239 



Perkin (W. H.), Synthesis of Brazilinic Acid, 1C6 ; Synthesis 

 of Anhydrpbrazilic .\cid, 431 



Perman (Prof. E. P.), Decomposition of Ozone by Heat, 



574 

 Perrier (G.1, Formation of Mixtures of Isomers of Constant 



Melting Point in the Friedel and Crafts Reaction, 576 

 Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Practical Mathematics, 6; the 



Speed of Racing Animals, 389 ; the L'se of Gyrostats, 



Discourse at Physical Society, 447 

 Peisei, Nova, 1901, Prof. Barnard, 182 

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



of, Prof. Hartmann, 377 

 Peispective Drawing, the Theory and Practice of, S. 



Polali; 411 

 Petavel (J. E.), Meteorological Observations at the British 



Kite Station, Session 1906-7, 188 

 Petch (T.), Stem Disease caused bv Massana- thcicola, 326 

 Peterson (O. A.), the Systematic Position of the Chalico- 



therioids, 399 

 Petrie (Dr. J. M.), Solandrine, New Midriatic Alkaloid, 192 

 Petrography : Death of Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., 443 ; 



Obituary Notice of, 4(1.^ ; National Antarctic Expedition, 



1901-4, Petrography, Dr. Prior, 561 

 Petronievics (B.), die tvpischen Geometrien and das Unend- 



liche, 28 ' 



Prirunkevttch (Dr. Alexander), the Sense of Sight in 



Spiders, 3^0 

 Pettigrew (Prof. J. B., F.R.S.), Death of, 324; Obituary 



Notice of, 34S 

 Pfeil'fer (Miss W. F.), Early Stages of Development of the 



Spor.ingin and' the Sporocarps of Azolla, 517 

 Pharmacy : Pharmakognostisches Praktikum, Dr. I.udwig 



Koch and Dr. Ernst Gilg, 508 

 Philip (Alex.), a Simplified Calendar, 470 

 Philip and Son (Messrs ), the " Day by Day " Tellurian, 157 

 Philinpine Woods, Commercial, F. W. Foxworthy, 399 

 Phillips (Charles E. S.), Coloration of Glass and' Quartz by 



Rndium, 53^ 

 Phillips (H. A.l, the Metallic Picrates, 383 

 Phillips (Rev. T. E. R.), Saturn's Rings, 234 



Philosophy : El(?ments de Philosophie biologique, F^lix le 

 Dantec, 51 ; the Case of Existence, Norman AUiston, 53; 

 Cambridge Philosophic.Ml Society, 167, 190, 434, 478, 503 ; 

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

 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 290 ; Beyond 

 Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, 

 Friedrich Nietzsche, 460 ; the Will to Doubt, an Essay in 

 Philosophy for the General Thinker, Alfred H. Llovd, 

 .5.-54 



Phcebe, Micrometer Observations of. Prof. Barnard, 421 



Phonetics : the Mechanism of Speech, Alexander Graham 

 Bell, Prof. John G. McKendrick, F.R.S., 483 



Photoelectric Property of Seleriium, the, Prof. George M. 

 Minchin, F.R.S., 17^, 222; Richard J. Moss, 198; Dr. 

 Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 198 



Photograms of the Year 1907, 293 



Photography : the Improvement of Celestial Photographic 

 Images, Prof. Lowell, 42 ; Photographs of Jupiter, M. 

 Quenisset, 90 ; Photographs of Jupiter's Satellites V'l. and 

 VTI., 137; the British Journal Photographic Almanac and 

 Photographer's Daily Companion for 1908, 172 ; Photo- 

 graphs of Mars, Prof. Lowell, 182 ; Photographic Plates 

 prepared by the Lumi^re Starch-grain Process for Colour 

 Photography, Conrad Beck, 188 ; Colour Photographs of 

 Rock Sections, J. W. Patterson, 206; .Absolute .Scale of 

 Photographic Magnitudes, J. A. Parkhurst and F. C. 

 Jordan, 208; Photographic Observations of Encke's 

 Comet (19080), Prof. Wolf, 302 ; the Distortion of Photo- 

 graphic Films in Stellar Work, Dr. Frank Schlesinger, 

 328 ; Planetary Photography, Prof. Percival Lowell, 402 ; 

 a New Method of .Stereoscopic Photography, Prof. G. 

 Lippmann, 432 ; les Progris de la Photographic 

 astronomique. Prof. P. Stroobant, 508 ; Photography of 

 the Vibrations of the \'oice, M. Marage, 527; Method of 

 Photographing the Vibrations of a Thin India-rubber 

 Membrane acted on by the Human N'oice, Dr. M. 

 Marage, 5S9 ; Astronomical Photography with Portrait 

 Lenses, Prof. Barnard, 567 



Photometer, Determination of the Moon's Light with a 

 Selenium, J. Stebbij.s and K. C. Brown, 258, 302 



Photosphere, a Detailed Study of the, Mr. Chevalier, 378 



Physical Geography : Land Erosion by Storm Water in 

 Cape Colony, 351 ; Physiographical Experiments on the 

 Aggrading and Defijrading Stream, 3,1 



Physics : Scientific Worthies, Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., 

 Prof. P. Zeeman, i ; la Th^orie de la Physique chez les 

 Physiciens contemporains, Abel Rey, 6 ; Technische 

 ■Anwendungen der physikalischen Chemie, Dr. Kurt 

 Arndt, 5;' ; the Wehnelt Kathode in a High Vacuum, 

 Frederick Soddy, 53, 107; Prof. O. W. Richardson, 197; 

 Physical Society, 71, iiS, 188, 382, 433, 477, 503, 575; 

 Freehand Graphic Way of determining Stream Surfaces 

 and Equipotentials, L. F. Richardson, iiS ; Lateral 

 Vibration of Bars supported at Two Points with One 

 End Overhanging-, Dr. J. Morrow, 119; Death and 

 Obituary Notice of Prof. Alfonso Sella, 133 ; Exhibition of 

 Physical .Apparatus, 130 ; Condensation of Water Vapour 

 in the Presence of Radium Emanation, Mme. Curie, 167; 

 Obituary Notice of Lord Kelvin, Prof. Silvanus P. 

 Thompson, F.R.S., 173 ; Lord Kelvin's Funeral in West- 

 minster -Abbey, 177; Lord Kelvin, an .Appreciation, 199; 

 Lord Kelvin anti the University of Glasgow, 200; a 

 Micromanometer. L. Bairstow, 188 ; Singing Sand from 

 New England, S. Skinner, 18S; Musical S.-.nds, Cecil 

 Carus-Wilson, 222, 271 ; Prof. J. H. Poynting, F.R.S., 

 248 ; Sidney Skinner, 248 ; Manganese Chloride as Fixed 

 Poirft in Thermometry, T. W. Richards and P'ranz VVrede, 

 207 ; the Cryoscopic Behaviour of Sulphuric .Acid, A. 

 Hantsch, 207; the .Audifl'ren Refrigerator, MM. .Audiffren 

 and Singrun, 213 ; the Polarity of Matter, .Alex. Clark, 

 2U); das Problem der Schwingungserzeugung, Dr. H. 

 Barkhausen, 220 ; Recent Determinations of the Volume 

 of the Kilogram of Water, Ren^ Benoit, 230 ; an Early 

 .Acoustical .Analogue of Michelson's Echelon Grating, 

 Prof. P. Zeeman, 247; Van Nostrand's Chemical .Annual, 

 1907, 267 : die Physik Roger Bacos, Sebastian Vogl, 

 268 ; the Dimensions of Space, 280 ; Electrical Phenomena 

 of the .Atmosphere and their Relations with Solar -Activity, 

 Prof. Schuster, 301 ; Lecons sur la Viscosity des Liquides 

 et des Gaz, Marcel Brillouin, 341 ; Poseidonius on the 

 Originator of the Theory of .Atoms, Dr. T. J. J. See, 



