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Occasional Discussions and Compilations of Meteor- 

 ological Data relating to India and the Neighbouring 



Countries, \'., a Discussion of the Anemographic 



Observations recorded at Allahabad from September, 1890, 



to August, 1904; \"I., a Discussion of the Anemographic 



Observations recorded at Lucknow from June, 1878, to 



October, 1892, Sir John Eliot, K.C.I.Ii., F.K.S., 353 

 Report of the Education Committee of the London County 



Council submitting the Report of the Medical Officer 



(Education) for the Year ended March 31, 1907, 355 

 Continuation Schools in England and Elsewhere, Prof. J. 



Wertheimer, 361 

 Island in \'ergangenhpit und Gegcnwart, Paul Hirrman, 



362 

 Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students, Prof. J. B. 



Cohen, 363 

 The Geology of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire 



Coalfield, C. Fo.\-Strangways, 364 

 Inorganic Chemistry, E. J. Lewis, 364 

 Altitude Tables, F. Ball, 365 

 I'roblems in Strength of Materials, Dr. William Kent 



Shephard, 365 

 Whittaker's Arithmetic of Electrical Engineering for Tech- 

 nical Students and Engineers, 365 

 .An Essay upon Disease : its Cause and Prevention, Dr. 



G. E. Richmond, 363 

 The Shaping of I^indsey by the Trent, F. M. Burton, 371 

 .\us Namaland und Kalahari, Prof. Leonhard .Schultze, Sir 



H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., 385 

 .Alcohol and the Human Body, .Sir N'ictor Horsley, F.R.S., 



and Dr. Mary D. Sturge, 386 

 Die Zustandsgleichung der Gase und Fliissigkeitcn und die 



Continuitiitstheorie, Prof. J. P. Ivuenen, 387 

 Forage Crops for Soiling. Silage, Hav and Pasture, Dr. 



Edward B. Voorhees, 3S8 

 •Astronomischer Jahresbericht. .A. Berberich, 389 

 Lehrbuch der theoretischcn Elektrochemie auf thermo- 



dynamischer Grundlage, J. J. van Laar, 389 

 Coal, James Tonge, 389 

 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 

 Drapers' Company Research Memoirs, ii., a First Study 



of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Prof. Karl 



Pearson, F.R.S., 394 

 Zur Geschichte der Astronomischcn Messwerkzeuge von 



Purbach bis Reichenbach 1450 bis 1830, Joh. A. Repsold, 



409 

 -An Introduction to Child-study, W. B. Drummond, 410 

 The Child's Mind : its Growth and Training, W. E. 



Urwick, 410 

 The Essentials of Cytology, Charles Edward Walker, 410 

 Immune Sera, Dr. C. F. Bolduan, 411 

 .A Guide to the Study of .Australian Butterflies, W. J. 



Rainbow, 411 

 The Theory and Practice of Peirspective Drawing, S. Polak, 



411 

 Strength of Materials, W. C. Poppkwell, 412 

 Researches on the Performance of the .Screw Propeller, 



Prof. W. F. Durand, 416 

 Memorandum on Medical Inspection of Children in Public 



Elementary Schools, 426 

 Memorandum by British Medical .Association on the Circular 



of the Board of Education, 426 

 Schedule of Medical Inspection, 42(1 

 -A Description of the First or Aswan Cataract of the Nile, 



Dr. John Ball, 433 

 Das Lachgas ; eine Chemisch-kultur-historische Studie, 



Prof. Ernst Cohen, 434 

 Evolution of Mammalian Molar Teeth, to and from the 



Triangular Type, H. F. Osborn, 435 

 Nature and Development of Plants, C. C. Curtis, 436 

 The Diseases of Animals, Nelson S. Mayo, 436 

 Traits de Chimie analytique qualitative, suivi de Tables 



syst(?matiques pour i'Analyse Min^rale, Louis Duparc 



and .Alfred Monnier, 437 

 .Actualit^s Scientifiques, Max de Nansouty, 4^7 

 California and the Californians : the Alps of King-Kern 



Divide, President D. S. Jordan, 437 



Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt, Prof. J. Garstang, H. K. 



Hall, 439 

 Proceedings of the First International Conference on the 



Sleeping Sickness held .at London in June. 1907, 440 

 Practical Coal Mining, 457 

 Malaria, a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and 



Rome, W. H. S. Jones, 457 

 Cours d'Eleclricit^, 11. Pellat, 458 



Les D^couvertcs Modernes en Physique, O. Manville, 43S 

 The Oceanic Languages : their Grammatical Structure, 



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

 Searchlights : their Theory, Construction, and Application, 



F. Nerz, 460 

 Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the 



Future, Friedrich Nietzsche, 460 

 Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks, Dr. William 



Hittell Sherzer, Prof. T. G. Bonney, 463 

 Chemische und biologischc Untersuchungen von agvptischen 



.Mumicn-material, W. A. Schmidt, Prof. W. D. Halli- 

 burton, F.R.S., 465 

 Earthquakes : an Introduction to Seismic Geologv, William 



Herbert Hobbs, 481 

 Mikroskopisches und physiologisches Pniktilvum der 



Botanik fUr Lehrer, G. Miiller, 481 

 Handboek der botanische Micrographie, Dr. J. W. Moll. 



481 

 firundziige der Pflanzenkunde, Prof. K. Smalian. 4S1 

 .Anatomische Physiologic der Pflanzen und der Menschen, 



Prof. K. Smalian, 481 

 The New Matriculation Heat, 482 

 The New Matriculation Light, 4S2 

 The New Matriculation Sound, 4S2 

 -A First Year's Course in Geometry and Physics. Ernest 



A'oung, 4S2 

 -A Second Year's Course in . Practical Physics, James 



Sinclair, 482 

 .A Third Year's Course in Practical Physics, James Sinclair, 



482 

 The Mechanism of Speech, Alexander Graham Bell, Prof. 



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

 The Moths of the British Isles, Richard South, 483 

 Physiologie und Anatomic des Menschen, mit Ausblicken 



auf den Ganzen Kreis der Wirbeltiere, Dr. Felix Kienitz- 



Gerloff, 484 

 The Elements of Geography, J. H. N. Stephenson, 484 

 Lehrbuch der Chemie und Mineralogie fiir die vierte Klasse 



der Jxealschulen, Franz von Hemmelmayr and Dr. Karl 



Brunner, Heinrich Leitcnberger, 484 

 Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan, 



T. Wayland Vaughan, Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., 499 

 The Corpuscular Thcorv of Matter, Prof. J. J. Thomson, 



F.R.S., 505 

 -Atlas of the World's Commerce, 506 

 Symmetrical Masonry Arches, M. A. Howe. 507 

 Das Kausalitiitsprinzip der Biologic, Dr. Friedrich 



Strecker, 507 

 Pharmakognoslisches Praktikum, Dr. Ludwig Koch and 



Dr. Ernst Gilg, 508 

 Die Pendulations-theorie, Dr. Heinrich Simroth, 508 

 The Minimising of Maurice, being the Adventures of a 



very .Small Boy among very Small Things, Rev. S. N. 



Sedgwick, 50S 

 Les Progr^s de la Photographic astronomique, Prof. P. 



Stroobant, 508 

 I laterizi, G. Revere, 508 

 I^a Tecnologia dclle Saldature autogene dei Metalli, Prof. 



S. Ragno," 508 

 The Birds of Yorkshire, T. II. Nelson. W. Eagle Clarke, 



and F. Boves, 511 

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



Shepherd, and E. Bartlelt, 511 

 Experimcntal-Zoologie, Dr. Hans Przibram, 520 

 Geologische Prinzipienfragen, E. Reyer, Prof. Grenville 



A. J. Cole, 529 

 Hydraulics, F. C. Lea, 530 

 Traits Complet d 'Analyse Chimique appliqui^e aux Essais 



industriels, J. Post and B. Neumann, 531 

 Papers of the British School at Rome, 532 

 .Armature Construction, H. M. Hobart and A. G. Ellis, 



532 



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