Index 



\_March 25, 1909 



Evolution : Some Scientific Centres, XIV,, the Hortus 

 Botanicus at Amsterdam, Prof, de Vries, loi ; the Darwin 

 Commemoration at Cambridge (June 22-24, 1909), Prof. 

 ■A. C. Seward, F.K.S., 221; Essays on Evolution, 1.S89- 

 1907, Prof. E. 13. Poulton, F.R.S., 302 ; the World of 

 Life, as \'isualiscd and Interpreted by Darwinism, Dr. 

 Alfred Ku!,sel Wallace, O.M., E.R.S., at Royal Insti- 

 tution, 384 ; Methods and Causes of Evolution, O. F. 

 Cook, 435 ; Dr. h. G. Bell, 435 ; the Ethical Aspects of 

 Evolution, regarded as the Parallel Growth of Opposite 

 Tendencies, W. Benett, 456 ; Mutation et Traumatismes, 

 L. Blaringhem, 483 

 Ewart (Dr. A. J.), the Longevity of Seeds, 45 

 F.wing (J. .'\.), the .Mechanical Production of Cold, 484 

 Ex-meridian, Altitude, Azimuth, and Star-finding Tables, 

 Lieut. -Commander Armistead Rust, Captain H. C. 

 Lockyer, 365 

 Exercising in Bed, Sanford Bennett, 339 

 Exhibition of F'ishes in Museums, the, Dr. F. A. Lucas, 160 

 Exploration : a Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador, 



Mrs. L. Hubbard, J. G. Millais, 401 

 Eye, the Pathology of the, J. Herbert Parsons, 125 



Fabry (Mr.), Study of the Relation between the Metre and 



the Wave-length of the Red Cadmium Line, 195 

 Fads and Feeding, Dr. C. Stanford Read, 24S 

 Farran (G. B.), British Oithona:, 478 



Fasting, \'itality, and Nutrition, Hereward Carrington, 66 

 Fath (E. \.), Observations of the Zodiacal Light, 143 

 F'aucon (A.), the Freezing of Mixtures of Water and Soluble 



Fatty Acids, 330 

 Fauna of the Magellan Region, the, Joseph A. Clubb, 130 

 F'ebruary Meteoric Shower, a, W. F. Denning, 399 

 Feeding, Fads and. Dr. C. Stanford Read, 24S 

 Ferguson (H. G.), Geology of Batanes Islands, 471 

 Ferro-silicon, Carriage and Storage of. Dr. Dodd, Dr. 



Harris, and Prof. W. R. Smith, 436 

 F'erry (E. S.), a Manual of Practical Physics for Students 



of Science and Engineering, 213 

 F^ry (C), Melting Point of Platinum, 509 

 Field (Dr. George W.), Use of Apparatus in Hatching and 



Rearing Lobsters, no 

 Field (Dr. Irving .■\.), Utilisation of Sea-mussels and Dog- 

 fish as Food, III 

 Field Natural History, J. C. Adam, 296; R. Service, 296 

 Fields (Prof. J. C), New Proof of the Complementary 



Theorem, 22 

 Figure of the Sun, the, Prof. Charles Lane Poor, 260 

 Filon (Dr. L. N. G.), .'\rithm^tique graphique, Gabriel 



.'\rnoux, 34 

 Financial Status of the Professor in America and in Ger- 

 many, 249 

 Finger Prints : Identification of the Imprint of a Blood- 

 stained Hand on a Sheet, V. Balthazard, 179 

 Fireballs, Recent Brilliant, W. F. Denning, 378 ; H. 



Chapman, 378 

 Fisheries : the International Fishery Congress at Washing- 

 ton, 109 ; .Apparatus for Hatching, Rearing, and Trans- 

 porting Fishes, Prof A. D. Mead, no; Use of Apparatus 

 in Hatching and Rearing Lobsters, Prof. K. D. Mead, 

 no; Dr. George W. Field, no; Utilisation of Sea- 

 mussels and Dogfish as Food, Dr. Irving A. Field, in ; 

 Effects of Gun-fire on Schools of Fishes, Dr. Sumner, 

 ni ; Dr. Parker, ni ; Food and Movements of Mackerel. 

 141 ; Annual Report of the Board of .'\griculture and 

 Fisheries under the .Acts relating to Sea-fisheries for the 

 Year 1006 (1908), 144 ; Report of Research Work of the 

 Same Board on the Plaice Fisheries of the North Sea, 

 1905-6 (iqoS), 144; Report of the Committoo .Appointed 

 by Treasury-minute to Inquire into the Scientific and 

 Statistical Investigations now being carried on in Rela- 

 tion to the Fishing Industry of the United Kingdom, 

 144; Report on Plaice, Captain W. Masterman, 145; 

 Report for 1907 on the Lancashire Sea-fisheries Labora- 

 tory at the University of Liverpool and the Sea-fish 

 Ha'tchery at Piel, Prof.W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., Andrew 

 Scott and James Johnstone, 151 ; Australian Cormorants 

 and Local Fisheries, 167; Rapports et ProcJ>s verbaux 

 des R(''unions, Conseil permanent international pour 

 I'ExpIoration de la Mer, 172 ; Bulletins trimestriel di's 



RC-sultats acquis pendant les Croisi^res p^riodiques, 

 1906-7, 172 ; Report on Plaice Fisheries, Messrs. Petersen, 

 Garstang, and Kyle, 172 ; Influence of Seals on Fisheries, 

 Dr. Wollebaek, 173 ; Distribution of Pelagic Eggs and 

 Larv32 of the Food-fishes, Dr. Schneider, 225 ; Experi- 

 ments with Marked Flat-fish and Lobsters, Mr. Trybom, 

 225 ; Piscine Enemies of Salmon and Trout Ova, Mr. 

 Trybom. 225 ; Arctic Whale Fishery for Past Season, 

 T. Southwell, 473 



Fishes : an Alga growing on I-'ish, Kumagusu Minakata, 

 99 ; Geo. Massee, 99 ; the Exhibition of Fishes in 

 Museums, Dr. F". A. Lucas, 160 



P'ishing : Trout Waters, Management and Angling, Wilson 

 H. Armistead, 5 



Fitting (Dr. H.), Effect of Pollination on Orchid Flowers, 

 435 



I-lammarion (M.), Morehouse's Comet, 231 



Flashes from the Orient, or a Thousand and One Mornings 

 with Poesy, John Hazelhurst, 249 



Fleming (Dr.), Photo-electric Properties of Potassium- 

 sodium .Alloy, 146 



Fletcher (Dr. James), Death of, 43; Obituary Notice of, 76 



Flcuher (J. J.), Polycotyledony in Persoonia, 390 



Fliehe (P.), Fossil Alga from the Sineniurian, 419 



Flight, Mechanical, Herbert Chatley at Society of Engineers, 

 •t'3 



Floor Malting, Practical, Hugh Lancaster, 128 



F'lora, the Origin of a Land, Prof. F. O. Bower, F.R.S., i 



Floral Mechanism, Types of, Dr. A. H. Church, 62 



Flowers, Beautiful, and How to Grow Them, 218 



Flying Machines and their Stability, A. .\Iallock, F.R.S., 

 220 



Fog and Rime on January 27—28, L. C. W. Bonacina, 399 



Folk Memory, or the Continuity of British Archaeology, 

 Walter Johnson, 423 



Folklore : the Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens, 

 a Tale of Black Children, Dudley Kidd, 396 



Food of some British Birds, the, Robert Newstead, 254 



Foppl (Dr. August), Vorlesungen iiber technische Mechanik, 

 247 



Forbes (Prof. George), the Comet of 1556, 239 



Forestry : Reasons in Favour of Mi.xed Plantations, P. 

 Lushington, 18 ; the Oidium of the Oak, Paul Flariot, 

 59 ; the Forest Region of Mount Kenia, loS ; Experiments 

 upon Forcing the Resting Shoots of Woody Plants, Dr. 

 H. Molisch, 199 ; Insect Pests in Indian Forests, E. P 

 Stebbing, 292 ; the Ocala and Dakota National Forests, 

 347 ; the Florida Forest, 347 ; Report on .Afforestation in 

 the United Kingdom, 351 ; a National Scheme of 

 Afforestation, 370 ; Need for Scientific Management and 

 Extension of the Forests of the United Kingdom, Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell, 376; the Ziirich W'oods, F. Story, 376; 

 Scolytidce from Indian F'orests, E. P. Stebbing, 442 



Fossil Turtles of North .America, the, O. Perry Hay, 91 



Fossils, Methods of preparing, Dr. F. .A. Bather, 44 



Fournier (M.), Underground Waters, 233 



Fowler (Prof. A.), the Spectrum of Scandium and its 

 Relation to Solar Spectra, 58 ; Method whereby from any 

 Prismatic Spectrum a Rectified Copy may be Obtained, 

 377 



Fowler (Dr. G. H.), Ostracoda of the Bay of Biscay 

 captured during the 1900 Cruise of H.M.S. Research, 

 116; Biscayan Plankton, Ostracoda captured during the 

 1900 Cruise of H.M.S. Research, 209 



Fowls, Hyperdactylism in Houdan Domesticated, Marie 

 Kaufmann-Wolff, 257 



Fox (Philip), the Distribution of Eruptive Prominences on 

 the Solar Disc, 320; Interaction of Sun-spots, 469 



Fox-Strangways (C), Origin of the Harrogate Springs, 

 470 



Fraas (Prof. Eberhard), the Dinosaurian Bones in the Upper 

 Cretaceous Formation of Tendaguru, German Ea.st Africa, 

 166 



Francois (Maurice), Theory of the Preparation of Methyl- 

 amine by Solutions of .Acetamide and Bromine, 149 ; the 

 Bromacetamide of Hofmann, 389 



Frank (Prof. .A.), Chemical Industry in Relation to .Agri- 

 culture, 89 



Franks (Mr.), Colours of Stars in Galactic and Non-Galactic 

 Regions, 410 



Freeh (Prof. Fritz), Tectonics of the .Alps, 470 



