Index 



rcarson (Prof. H. H. \V.), the Morphology of Endosperm, 

 bb ; W'eUvitschia, 2bS 



Pearson (J.), L.M.B.C. Memoirs, XVI., Cancer, 214 



Pease (Colonel), " Fowl Cholera " due to a Spirochaete, 

 497 



Peddle (Prof. W .), the Elementary Dynamics of Solids and 

 Fluids, 486 



Peking- to Mandalay, From, a Journey from North China 

 to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan, 

 R. F. Johnston, 193 



Pendred (Vaughan), the Railway Locomotive, 305 



Penrose's Pictorial Annual, a Review of the Graphic Arts, 

 366 



People of the Polar North, the, Knud Rasmussen, 311 



Perfumes, the Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial, 

 Ernest J. Parry, 241 



Pernter (Dr. J. M.), Death of, 255 ; Obituary Notice of, 

 290 



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

 the Wave-length of the Red Cadmium Line, 195 



Perrine (Dr. F. A. C), Death and Obituary Notice of, 16 



Perrine (Prof.), Errors in Measures of Star Images and 

 Spectra, 320 



Pcrrot (F. Louis), Density of Methane and the Atomic 

 Weight of Carbon, 330 



Perry (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Prof. 

 William Edward Ayrton, F.R.S., 74; the Correlation of 

 the Teaching of Mathematics and Science, 143 ; Students' 

 Physical Laboratories, 159 ; the Correlation of Teaching, 

 310 



Peterssen (Mr.), Report on Plaice Fisheries, 172 



Petrie (Dr. ]. M.), the R6le of Nitrogen and its Com- 

 pounds in Plant-metabolism, 390 



Petrography : Deutsche Sudpolar Expedition, 1901-3, 

 Petrographische der Kerguelen-Gesteine, R. Reinisch, 

 Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., 460 



Pettersen (Mr.), Observations upon the Water-circulation 

 between the Ocean and the Baltic, 225 



Phanerogamen, Biologie unserer einheimischen, M. 

 Wagner, 158 



Pharmacy : the E.xtra Pharmacopoeia of Martindale and 

 Westcott,- Dr. W. Harrison Martindale and W. Wynn 

 Westcott, 187 



Philippe (L. H.), ;8-Gluco-heptite, 300 



Philippi (E.), Deutsche Sudpolar Expedition, 1901-3, Geo- 

 logic der Heard-Insel, 460; Deutsche Sudpolar Expedi- 

 tion, 1901-3, Geologische Beobachtung auf Kerguelen, 

 460 



Phillips (Charles E. S.), Lime Light, 38 



Philology : Death and Obituary Notice of Prof. Richard 

 Pischel, 291 ; the Slavonic Languages, F. P. Marchant, 

 407 



Philosophy: Thoughts on Natural Philosophy, with a New 

 Reading of Newton's First Law, A. Biddlecombe, 66; 

 the Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer, Dr. David 

 Duncan, 122 ; Geschichte der Philosophic, Karl Vorlander, 

 William Brown, 157; Grundlinien der Psychologie, Dr. 

 Stephan Witasek, William Brown, 157 ; die Entstehung 

 der wirtschaftlichen Arbeit, Dr. Ed. Hahn, William 

 Brown, 157 ; Memories of My Life, Dr. Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., 181 ; the Philo- 

 sophical Basis of Religion, Dr. J. Watson, 219: Welt- 

 Leben-Seele, ein System der Nattirphilosophie in 

 gemeinfasslicher Darstellung, Max Kassowitz, 307 ; 

 Meaning and Method of .Scientific Research, Dr. L. A. 

 Bauer at Philosophical Society of Washington, 473 



Phosphorescence on a Scottish Loch, Thos. Jamieson, 

 309 



Photoelectric Properties of Potassium-sodium Alloy, Dr. 

 Fleming, 146 



Photography : Electric Splashes on Photographic Plates, 

 A. W. Porter, 147 ; the British Journal Photographic 

 Almanac, 1909, iSS ; the .'American Annual of Photo- 

 graphy, igog, 18S ; Use of Coloured Screens and Ortho- 

 chromatic Plates for the Photographic Observation of 

 the Fixed Stars, Oisten Bergstrand, 299 ; .Animated 

 Photographs in Natural Colours, Albert Smith, 314; 

 Photographic .Apparatus for .Automatically Recording the 

 Readings of the Scale and Vernier of any Instrument, 

 Dr. J. R. Milne, 32Q ; the " Omnicolore " Plate, Messrs. 



Jougla, 409 ; Photography for Young People, Tudor 

 Jenlcs, 424; New Process of Contact Photography, E. E. 

 Fournier d'Albe, 479 



Phylogeny : Unsere' Ahrenreihe (Progonotaxis Hominis) — 

 kritische Studien iiber phyletische Anthropologic (Fest- 

 schrift zur 350-jahrigen Jubelfeier der Thiiringer Uni- 

 versitat Jena und der damit -verbundenen Ubergabe des 

 phyletischen Museums am 30 Juli, 1908), Ernst Haeckel, 

 Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., 392 



Phj'sical Geography : Evidence of Recent Submergence of 

 Coast at Narrabeen, N.S. Wales, Prof. T. W. E. David 

 and G. H. Halligan, 119 



Physics : Anomalous Dispersion of Luminous Hydrogen, 

 Rudolf Ladenburg and Stanislaw Loria, 7 ; Mercury 

 Bubbles, J. G. Ernest Wright, 8; Sir William Crookes, 

 F.R.S., 37; A. T. Hare, 99; Prof. Henry H. Di.xon, 99; 

 Philip Blackman, i6o ; C. E. Stromeyer, 160 ; Mercury 

 Bubbles and Formation of Oxide Films by Water con- 

 taining Oxygen in Solution, G. T. Beilby, F.R.S., 190; 

 Boiling Point of Sulphur on the Constant Pressure Air 

 Thermometer, N. Eumorfopoulos, 58 ; the Boiling Point 

 of Sulphur, Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., 58 ; Influence 

 of Pressure on the lonisation produced in Gases by the 

 X-rays, the Saturation Current, E. Roth^, 59 ; New 

 Determination of the Equivalent of Heat, V. Cr^mieu 

 and L. Rispail, 59 ; Thoughts on Natural Philosophy, 

 with a New Reading of Newton's First Law, A. Biddle- 

 combe, 65; an Electromagnetic Problem, D. F. Corn- 

 stock, 67, 310; Prof. Arthur W. Conway, 160; A. Core, 

 310; Norman R. Campbell, 341; Transparent Silver and 

 other Metallic Films, Prof. Thomas Turner, 88 ; Forma- 

 tion of Centres of Gyration behind an Obstacle in Motion, 

 Henri Benard, 89; 'Physical Society, 89, 146, 208, 447, 

 508 ; the New Physics and its Evolution, Lucien 

 Poincare, 121; the EvQlution of Forces, Dr. Gustave 

 Le Bon, 121; Students' Physical Laboratories, Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, F.R.S., 128; Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 159 ; an 

 Annotated Copy of Newton's " Principia," Bruce Smith, 

 130; Nobel Prize Awards, 13S ; Corr., 164; Weight of a 

 Corpuscle on the Electrical Theory of Gravitation, Sir 

 J. J. Thomson, 148; Laws of Mobility and Diffusion of 

 the Ions formed in Gaseous Media, E. M. Wellisch,^ 148 ; 

 Draught-inducing Properties of the Poker, A. H. Gibson, 

 149 ; a Model Atom, Harry Bateman, 159 ; Breaking 

 Stresses of Tubes and Filaments, Prof. Kamerlingh 

 Onnes and Dr. Braak, 168; the Physics of Earthquake 

 Phenomena, Dr. C. G. Knott, 184 ; M(;thodes de Calori- 

 m^trie usit^es au Laboratoire thermique de I'Universit^ 

 de Moscou, Profs. W. Longuinine and A. Schukarew, 

 Dr. J. A. Harker, 185 ; Migration Constants of Dilute 

 Solutions of Hydrochloric Acid, C. Chittock, 178 ; Effect 

 of Pressure on the lonisation produced by Rontgen Rays 

 in Different Gases and Vapours, J. .A. Crowther, 178 ; 

 Variation of the Relative lonisation produced by Rontgen 

 Ravs in different Gases with the Hardness of the Rays, 

 J. A. Crowther, 178 ; Gravitation Stress of .-Ether, Prof. 

 F. Purser, 179 ; ^ther and Matter, Prof. H. A. Bum- 

 stead, 260 ; the .-Ether of Space, Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 322 ; Procfes-verbaux des 

 Stances du Comite international des Folds et M^sures, 

 194 ; Travaux et Memoires du Bureau international des 

 Poids et M^sures, 194 ; Study of the Relation between 

 the Metre and the Wave-length of the Red Cadmium 

 Line, Messrs. Benoit, Perot, and Fabry, 195 ; Behaviour 

 of Nickel Steel Standards of Length, 19S ; an Accurate 

 Method of measuring Moments of Inertia, Prof. W. 

 Cassie, 208-9 ; a Manual of Practical Physics for Students 

 of Science and Engineering. E. S. Ferrv and -A. T. Jones, 

 213; Experimental Elasticity, G. F. C. Searle, F.R.S., 

 Dr. C. Chree, F.R.S., 21S; Death and Obituary Notice 

 of Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, 227 ; Fluorescence and Phosphor- 

 escence, Prof, de Kowalski, 230; First Year Physics, 

 Charles E. Jackson, 246; Einfuhrung in die Elektro- 

 chemie, Prof. W. Bermbach, 246 : Magnetism and 

 Electricity and the Principles of Electrical Measurement, 

 S. S. Richardson. 246 ; the Objective Demonstration of 

 the Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation of Light by 

 Optically Active Liquids, T. S. Patterson, 249 ; Occlusion 

 of Residual Gas and the Fluorescence of the Glass Walls 

 of Crookes Tubes, Alan A. Campbell Swinton, 299 ; 



