March 25, 1909J 



Index 



A. Campbell Swinton, 299 ; Electrical Resistance of 

 Alkali Metals, Gallium and Tellurium, A. Guntz and W. 

 Broniuwski, 300 ; Modifications of the Difference of 

 Contact Potential of Two Aqueous Solutions of Electro- 

 lytes under the Action of a Continuous Current, M. 

 Chanoz, 329; the E.M.F. of the Weston Cell, E. Cohen 

 and H. K. Kruyt, 377; Isenthal and Co.'s New List of 

 Rheostats, 377 ; Long-distance Telegraphy, 386 ; Applica- 

 tion of d'Arsonvalisation Localised, A. Moutier, 419 ; 

 Hypotensive Action of d'Arsonvalisation in Permanent 

 Hypertension, M. LetuUe and A. Moutier, 480; Discon- 

 tinuity of Potential at the Surface of Glowing Carbon, 

 J. A. Pollock, A. B. B. Ranclaud and E. P. Norman, 

 420 ; Electricity for Young People, Tudor Jenks, 424 ; 

 Research on the Silver Voltameter, Messrs. Jaeger and 

 von Steinwehr, 437 ; Existence of Freely Moving Electrons 

 between Molecules of Metal, Prof. P. Gruner, 43S ; Elec- 

 trification of Railways, 439 ; the Telegraphic Transmis- 

 sion of Writing, 441 ; the Charges on Ions, Prof. J. S. 

 Townsend, F.R.S., and Mr. Haselfoot, 442 ; Potential 

 Gradient in Glow Discharges from a Point to a Plane, 

 J. \V. Bispham, 447 ; Simple Formula for Effective Re- 

 sistance of Inner Conductor of a Concentric Main for 

 High-frequency Currents, Dr. A. Russell, 447 ; Use of 

 Potentiometer on Alternate Current Circuits, Dr. C. V. 

 Drysdale, 447 ; Duration of Hypotensive Effects from 

 High-frcquencv Currents, E. Doumer, 450 ; die Luftelek- 

 trizitit. Prof. Albert Gockel, Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 455; 

 Electrons and Atomic Weights, Alfred Sang, 459 ; Some 

 Electrochemical Centres, J. N. Pring, 463 ; the Strife of 

 Oscillating Sparks, Andr^ L^aut^, 479 ; Electricity Present 

 and Future, Lucien Poincar6, Maurice Solomon, 482 ; 

 Electricity of Rain and its Origin in Thunderstorms, Dr. 

 G. C. Simpson, 507 ; Tension of Metallic Films deposited 

 by Electrolysis, G. G. Stoney, 508 ; a String Electrometer, 

 T. H. Labv, 509 



Elgar (Dr. Francis, F.R.S.), Death of, 346 ; Obituary 

 Notice of, Sir W. H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S., 372 



EUes (Dr. Gertrude L.), the Conway Succession, 448 



Elliot (G. F. Scott), the Romance of Early British Life 

 fiom the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Danes, 131 



Ellis (Dr. Havelock), Evolution of the Feeling of Love of 

 Wild Nature, 466 



Elmhirst (Richard), the Keeping of Young Herring Alive in 

 Captivity, 38 



Embryology : Contributions to the Study of the Early De- 

 velopment and Imbedding of the Human Ovum, Dr. 

 T. H. Bryce, Dr. J. H. Teacher and J. M. M. Kerr, 3^ ; 

 Intra-uterine Development of the Hedghog, H. Jacob- 

 feuerborn, 77 



Employment, Education and, 491 



Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, by the Most Eminent 

 .Authorities, Dr. E. J. Russell, 421 



Engineering : Death and Obituary Notice of Dr. F. A. C. 

 Perrine, 16; Engineering in Relation to Transport, J. C. 

 Inglis, 16 ; Death of Prof. William Edward Ayrton, 

 F.R.S., 43 ; Obituary Notice of. Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 

 74 ; Laboratory and Factory Tests in Electrical Engineer- 

 ing, George F. Sever and Fitzhugh Townsend, Prof. 

 Gisbert Kapp, 64 ; Moving Loads on Railway Under- 

 bridges, including Diagrams of Bending Moments and 

 Shearing Forces, and Tables of Equivalent Uniform Live 

 Loads, H. Bamford, 128 ; Tunnel under the Thames at 

 Rotherhithe, E. H. Tabor, 196; a Manual of Practical 

 Physics for Students of Science and Engineering, E. S. 

 Ferry and .'\. T. Jones, 213; Vorlesungen iiber technische 

 Mechanik, Dr. August Foppl, 247 ; Cranes, their Con- 

 struction, Mechanical Equipment, and Working, Anton 

 Bottcher, 301 ; Locomotive Performance, William F. M. 

 Goss, 305 ; the Railway Locomotive, Vaughan Pendred, 

 305: Death of Prof. Thomas Gray, 315; Heat for 

 Engineers, Chas. R. Darling, Prof. C. A. Smith, 335 ; 

 Highway Engineering, Chas. E. Morrison, 336 ; a Text- 

 book on Roads and Pavements, F. P. Spalding, 336 ; 

 Cement Laboratory Manual, Prof. L. A. Waterbury, 330 : 

 the Theory and Practice of Bridge Construction in 

 Timber, Iron, and .Steel, Morgan W. Davies, 365 : Valve- 

 gears for Steam Engines, Prof. Cecil H. Peabody, 3q6 ; 

 the Ageing of Steel, C. E. Stromeyer, 405 ; Mechanical 

 Flight, Herbert Chatley at Society of Engineers, 413 ; 

 Efficiency of Marine Engines and Propellers, J. Hamilton 



Gibson, 437 ; Electrification of Railways, 439 ; the Filtra- 

 tion and I^urification of Water for Public Supply, John 

 Don at Institution of .Mechanical Engineers, 444; Heat- 

 flow and Temperature-distribution in the Gas Engine, 

 Prof. B. Hopkinson, 468; Elastic Breakdown of Materials 

 submitted to Compound Stresses, L. B. Turner, 498 ; the 

 Increased Expansion of Steam Attainable in Steam 

 Turbines, James Watt Lecture at Greenock, Hon. C. A. 

 Parsons, F.R.S., 502 

 England, the North of. Education Conference, 322 

 Englishwoman's Year-book and Directory, 1909, the, 220 

 Enteric Fever in India, Lieut.-Colonel Semple and Captain 



Grieg, 21 

 Entomology : the Lore of the Honey-bee, Tickner Edwardes, 

 F. W. "L. Sladen, 6; the House-fly, C. G. Hewitt, 18; 

 Death of Dr. James Fletcher, 43 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 76 ; Weitere Beitrage zum socialen Paratismus und der 

 Sklaverei bei den Ameisen, E. VVasmann, W. F. Kirby, 

 51 ; Construction of the Nests of Javanese Ant Poly- 

 rhachis hicolor, E. Jacobson, 257 ; a Gall-producing 

 Dragon-fly, W. F. Kirby, 68; Entomological Society, 117, 

 177, 388; Australian Libellulinae, R. J. Tillyard, 120; 

 Diptera Danica, William Lundbeck, 127; Distribution of 

 the Reindeer-gadfly, Dr. P. Speoiser, 141 ; Silk-producing 

 Insects of West Africa, Gerald C. Dudgeon, 160; Ticks, 

 2ig; the Claws of Insects, C. O. Waterhouse, 388; 

 British Oak Galls, E. T. Connold, 394 ; die Fauna 

 Siidwest-.Australiens, Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest- 

 australischen Forschungsreise, 1905, 396; the Moths of 

 the British Isles, Richard South, 427 ; Structure of Aphid 

 .AntennEB, G. Okajima, 442 ; Scolytid^ from Indian 

 Forests, E. P. Stebbing, 442 ; Angolese Tiger-beetles, F. 

 Creighton Wellman and W. Horn, 442 ; Mode in which 

 " Cuckoo-spit Insects " (Cercopida;) secrete Enveloping 

 Foam, B. H. Guilbeau, 442 ; Life-history of the Leaf- 

 insect Phylliuni criirijolium, H. S. Leigh, 478 

 Enzyme Action, the Nature of. Dr. W. M. Bayliss, F.R.S., 



275 

 Enzymes, Intracellular, Dr. H. M. Vernon, 275 

 Erde, Geschichte der, und des Lebens, J. Walther, 31 

 Eiuptive Prominences on the Solar Disc, the Distribution 



of, Philip Fox, 320 

 Esclangon (E.), Refraction due to Jupiter's Atmosphere, 



143 



Ethics : the Ethical .Aspects of Evolution regarded as the 

 Parallel Growth of Opposite Tendencies, W. Benett, 456 ; 

 the Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, E. 

 Westermarck, Prof. A. E. Taylor, 481 



Ethnography of Assam, the, 100 



Ethnology : Nubian Cemeteries, Anatomical Report by Drs. 

 Elliot Smith and F. Wood Jones, 132 ; the Childhood of 

 Man, a Popular .Account of the Lives, Customs, and 

 Thoughts of the Primitive Races, Dr. Lte Frobenius, 

 Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 162 ; Death and Obituary 

 Notice of Dr. Otis Tufts Tvlason, 197 ; Survivals of Pagan 

 Beliefs among the Indians of South California, Miss 

 C. B. DuBois, 295 : das Kesslerloch bei Thaingen, Dr. J. 

 Heierli, 342 ; the Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly 

 Maidens, a Tale of Black Children, Dudley Kidd, 396 



Euclid, the Contents of the Fifth and Sixth Books of, 

 M. J. M. Hill, 486 



Euclid Simplified in Accordance with the New University 

 Regulations, with Additional Propositions and Numerous 

 Examples, Saradaranjan Ray, 277 



Eugenics : Memories of my Life, Dr. Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 181 



Eumorfopoulos (N.), Boiling Point of Sulphur on the Con- 

 stant Pressure Air Thermometer, i;8 



European Population of the United States, the. Prof. Ripley 

 at Royal Anthropological Institute, 145 



European Sediments, the Oldest, J. J. Sederholm, 266 



Evans (G.), Varieties of Wheat grown in Central India, 

 141 ; Potato growing in Central India, 467 



Evans (Dr. J. W.), Cross-planes in Twin-crystals, 448 ; 

 Comparison of the Refractive Indices of Adjoining 

 Crystals in a Rock Slice which have their Directions of 

 Vibration Oblique to One Another, 448 



Evans (P.), a Brilliant Meteor, 351 



Evans (Pole), Fungi and Plant Diseases, 235 



Evershed (Mr.), the Wave-length of the H5 Line, 20 ; 

 Water-vapour Lines in the Sun-spot Spectrum, 439 



