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Robinson (William), the Garden Beautiful : Home-woods 

 and Home Landscape, 217 



Rogers (A. W.), the Sutherland Volcanic Pipes and their 

 Relationship to other Vents in South Africa, 224 



Rohr (Moritz von), die binokularen Instrumente, Supp. to 

 March 5, iv 



Rolla (Luigi), Theory of the Mirage, 35(1 



Kolston {W. E.), the Moon in Modern Astronomy, Ph. 

 Fauth, 195 ; Astronomical Essays, Historical and 

 Descriptive, J. Elland Gore, 195 ; Evolution of Planets, 

 Edwin G. Camp, 195 ; Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattle- 

 ways, Dr. Arthur John Hubbard and George Hubbard, 

 245 ; Water Vapour in the Martian Atmosphere, 442 



Rome : What Rome was built with, a Description of the 

 Stones employed in Ancient Times for its Building and 

 Decoration, Mary Winearls Porter, 196 ; Malaria, a 

 Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome, 

 W. H. S. Jones, 457 ; the Forthcoming Mathematical 

 Congress at. Prof. G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 464; the Inter- 

 national Mathematical Congress at, Prof. G. H. Bryan, 

 F.R.S., 582 ; Papers of the British School at, 532 



Rbntgen-rav Work, Induction Coil for. Dr. J. Rosenthal, 

 65 



Rbntgen Rays, the Nature of. Dr. Charles G. Barkla, 319; 

 the Wave-length of, Prof. J. Stark, 320 



Rosa (E. B.), Maxwell's Bridge Method of determining 

 the Ratio of the Electromagnetic to the Electrostatic 

 Unit of Electricity, 136 



Rose (Dr. T. K.), Alloys of Gold and Tellurium, 406 



Rosenhain (W.), Recalescence Curves, 382 



Rosenthal (Dr. J.), Induction Coil for Rbntgen-ray Work, 

 65 



Rosenthal (Pierre), Prolonged Anaesthesia by Mixture of 

 Oxygen and Ethyl Chloride, 263 



Ross (A. D.), Sensitive State induced in Magnetic Materials' 

 by Thermal Treatment, 407 



Ross (Frank E.), Investigation of Inequalities in the 

 Motion of the Moon produced by the Action of the 

 Planets, 43 



Ross (Prof. Ronald), the Prevention of Malaria, 39 



Rosse (Lord), a Contribution to the History of Ironclads, 

 356 



Rotch (Prof. A. L.), Franklin's Description of the First 

 Balloon Ascents, 25b 



Rothesay Summers and Greenwich Winters, Alex. B. 

 MacDowall, 438 



Roux (Jules), Abnormal Mobility of the Ions of some Rare 

 Earths, 335 



Rowell (H. W.), Determinations of Small Quantities of 

 Bismuth, 263 



Roy (Fi^lix de), the Recent Maximum of Mira Cete, 544 



Royal .Agricultural Society, Report of, 134 



Royal Anthropological Institute, 94, 139, 143, 166, 359, 

 406, 454, 502, 551 



Royal .Astronomical Society, 94, 47S, 575 



Roval Dublia Society, 191, 239, 407, 4155 



Royal Institution, the Centenarv of Daw's Discovery of 

 the Metals of the Alkalis, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, C.B., 

 F.R.S., 305 ; Recent Advances in Radio-activity, Prof. E. 

 Rutherford, F.R.S., at, 422 ; Nerve as a Master of 

 Muscle, Prof. C. S. Sher'rington at, 569 ; Recent Earth- 

 quakes, Prof. J. Milne, F.R.S., at, 592 



Royal Irish Academy, 239 



Roval Meteorological Society, 187, 453, 478, 599 ; Rainfall 

 and Water-supply, Dr. H. R. Mill, 286 



Royal Microscopical Society, 46, 188, 311, 454, 551 



Royal Society, 22, 71, 141, 164, 187, 238, 262, 287, 310, 

 332. 358. 382, 430, 476, SOI, 549, 574, 623; Royal 

 Society Medal Awards for 1907, 38 ; Anniversary Meeting 

 of the Royal Society, 107 ; a Method of depositing Copper 

 upon Glass from Aqueous Solutions in a thin brilliantly 

 reflecting Film and thus producing a Copper Mirror, Dr. 

 F. D. Chattaway, F.R.S., at, 380; Prominence and 

 Coronal Structure, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 514; 

 Reports on Plague Investigations in India issued by the 

 Advisory Committee appointed by the Secretary of State 

 for India, the Royal Society, and the Lister Institute, 585 

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, 311, 335, 407, 431, 479, 551; 



Lord Kelvin and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 253' 

 Royal Society of Sciences, Gbttingen, 72, 312, 479 



Rubber : Rubber Cultivation in the British Empire, Herbert 



Wright, 99 ; Influence of F'ormal on Funtumia elaslica, 

 Dr. P. Schidrowitz and F. Kaye, 189 



Rudenberg (Dr.), Simple Method of generating an Alter- 

 nating Current of any Desired Frequency, 41 



Ruhmer (E.), Wireless Telephony in Theory and Practice, 

 Supp. to March 5, ix 



Russ (S.), Distribution in Electric Fields of the Active 

 Deposits of Radium, Thorium, and Actinium, 503 



Russell (E. S.), Correlation of Modifications of the Limpet- 

 shell with Environmental Conditions, 189 



Russell (J. W.), a .Sequel to Elementary Geometry, 315 



Russian .Scientific Publications, 498 



Rutherford (Prof. E., F.R.S.), Production and Origin of 

 Radium, 191 ; Recent Advances in Radio-activity, Lecture 

 at Royal Institution, 422 ; Method of counting the Num- 

 ber of o Particles from Radio-active Matter, 599 



Rutland, Notes on the Birds of, C. Reginald Haines, 122 



Ryan (H.), Derivatives of Xylose, 191 



Sabatier (Paul), Direct Hydrogenation of some Aromatic 

 Diones, if] ; Direct Hydrogenation of the Aromatic 

 Quinones, 455 



Sabine (Prof. W. C), Music and Melody, 378 



Sadler (C. A.), Classification of Secondary X-radiators, 343 



Saito (D.), the Refining of Copper, 206 



Saldature autogene dei Metalli, la Tecnologia delle, Prof. 

 S. Ragno, 508 



.Salisbury (Prof. R. D.), Physiography, Supp. to March 

 S, V 



Salmon (L. .S.), History of the Gooseberry Mildew Order 

 of July, 1907, 591 ; the " Black Scab " or " Warty 

 Disease " of Potatoes, 591 



Salmon, the Life of the, with Reference more especially 

 to the Fish in Scotland, W. L. Calderwood, 173 



Salway (A. H.), the Constituents of Essential Oil of 

 Nutmeg, 166 



Sanatofria for Consumption, Dr. R. Fielding-Ould, 546 



Sand, Musical, Cecil Carus-Wilson, 222, 271 ; Prof. J. H. 

 Poynting, F.R.S., 248; Sidney Skinner, 248 



.Sand, .Singing, from New England, S. Skinner, 188 



Sang (.Alfred), Old and New Methods of Galvanising, 179 



Sang's (Dr. Edward) Collection of M.S. Calculations in 

 Trigonometry and Astronomy, Dr. R. H. Traquair, 

 F.R.S., 13 



Sanger (C. R.), the Quantitative Determination of Arsenic 

 by the Gutzeit Method, 519 



Sanitation : the Pollution of Rivers, 36 ; Sanitation in 

 Daily Life, Ellen H. Richards, 268; Utilisation of Turf 

 for the Purification of Sewage, A. Muntz and E. Laine, 

 287 



Saturn's Rings, Prof. Campbell, iS ; Dr. Ristenpart, 67-, 

 Prof. Hartwig, 67; Prof. Lowell, 67, lib, 616; Paul 

 Guthnick, 67; Prof. B. Peter, 90; M. Schacr, 90; Dr. 

 Hassenstein, q9 ; Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, 234 ; Dr. Lau, 

 234; Prof. Barnard, 401; Mr. Lampland, 616; Saturn 

 apparently without Rings, M. Flammarion, 182 ; a New 

 Ring suspected, G. Fournier, 302 ; the Saturn Per- 

 turbations of V'arious Comets, Dr. Johannes Wendt, 568 



Saunders (Edward, F.R.S.), Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants, 

 and other Stinging Insects, 220 



.Savage Life, the Romance of, describing the Life of Primi- 

 tive Man, his Customs, Occupations, Language, Beliefs, 

 Arts, Crafts, Adventures, Games, Sports, &c., G. F. 

 Scott Elliot, 171 



Savariau (M.), Method of preparing the Cyclic Aldehydes, 



Scenery Preservation for the Year 1906-7, Report on. Prof. 

 Arthur Dendy, 297 



Schaeffer (G.), Influence of the Reaction of the Medium on 

 the Size of the Colloidal Granules, 119 



Schaer (M.), Saturn's Rings, 90 



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



Schafer (Prof. E. A., F.R.S.), on the Incidence of Day- 

 light as a Determining Factor in Bird-migration, 159 



Schaffer (Dr. Franz X.), das inneralpine Becken der 

 Umgebung von Wien, 172 



Schidrowitz (Dr. P.), Influence of Formal on Funtumia 

 elastica, i8q 



Schiller (Dr. V. C. .S.), Examination v. Research, 322 



Schips (Mr.), Endeavour to apply Recent Chemical Theories 



