Index 



t Nature, 



Notetnder-z^, igK 



Radium, Madame P. Curie and A. Debierne, 356 ; the 

 ;3-rays of Radium at its Minimum Activity, L^on 

 Koiowat, 356 ; an Attempt to Determine tlie Supposed 

 Cliange in Weight Accompanying tlie Radio-active Dis- 

 integration of Radium, Dr. Bertram D. Steele, 428; 

 Radium Standards and Nomenclature, Prof. E. Ruther- 

 ford, K.R.S., 430; Isolation of .Metallic Radium, Mme. 

 Curie, 478; X-ray Spectra, Prof. C. G. Barkla and J. 

 Nicol, 130 ; Rontgen-ray Diagnosis, Dr. H. Orton and 

 Dr. .A. C. Jordan, 153 ; Use of X-ray in tlie Diagnosis 

 of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Dr. C. L. Minor, 436 ; .Ab- 

 sorption and Adsorption with Reference to the Radio- 

 active Emanations, Dr. R. W. Boyle, 152 ; Radiology 

 and Medical Electricity, Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 153 ; 

 the Radio-balance, Prof. H. L. Callender, 195 ; the 

 Nomenclature of Radio-activity, Norman R. Campbell. 

 203 ; Properties of the o-particles Sent Out by Radio- 

 active Substances, Dr. H. Geiger, 213; Radio-active Pro- 

 jections, Louis Wertenstein, 261-2 ; Tables of Constants 

 of lonisation and of Radio-activity, Prof. T. H. Laby, 316 ; 

 •Arrangement for Registering Photographically the 

 Number of a-particles Emitted bj' a Radio-active Sub- 

 stance, \V. Duane, 316; Nature of the 7-rays, Prof. 

 Bragg, 478 ; Homogeneous Radiation, Prof. Barkla, 47S ; 

 Magnetic Deflection of ;8-rays, Dr. Hahn, 478 

 Radiology and Electricity, the International Congress of, 



478 

 Radium : the Ratio between Uranium and Radium in 

 Minerals, Alex. S. Russell, 238; Frederick Soddy, 

 F.R..S., 2q6 ; Radium Standards and Nomenclature, Prof. 

 E. Rutherford, F.R.S., 436; see also Radiography 

 Radl fDr. Em.), Geschichte der Biologischen Theorem, 

 263 



Raibaud (Jules), Instruments optiques d'Observation et de 

 Mesure, 68 



Rainfall, British, 1909, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 523 



Rainfall of Rhodesia and Australia, 187 



Ramsay (Sir William, K.C.B., F.R.S.), Density of the 

 Radium Emanation, 98; Development of the Leblanc 

 Process for the Manufacture of Soda, 213; Molecular 

 Weight of Radium Emanation, 517 



Ranc (Albert), Action of the Ultra-violet Rays upon Certain 

 Carbohydrates, 164 



Rangachari (K.), the Castes and Tribes of Southern India, 

 36.5 



Rankin (.Mr.), Binary .Systems of Alumina with Silica, 

 Lime, and Magnesia, 375 



Ransom (F.), Pharmaceutical Research, 156 



Ransome (F. L.), the Geology and Ore Deposits of Gold- 

 field, Nevada, 76; Ore Deposits of the Cceur d'.Al^nc 

 District, Idaho, 122 



Rassam (Hormuzd), Death of, 400 



Raw (Dr. Nathan), Analysis of 232 Fatal Cases of Tuber- 

 culosis, 508 



Rawso.i (C), a Manual of Dyeing, 295 



Ray (Prof. Praphulla Chandra), a History of Hindu 

 Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the 

 Sixteenth Century, a.d., with Sanskrit Texts, &c., 68 



Ray (S. H.), the Melanesians of British New Guinea, Dr. 

 C. G. Seligmann, 499 



Raybaud (P.), les Aeroplanes, considerations th^oriques, 

 229 



Rayleigh (Rt. Hon. Lord, CM., F.R.S.), on Colour Vision 

 at the Ends of the Spectrum, 204 



Raymond (Prof. Fulgence), Death of, 435 



Ready (Oliver G.), Life and Sport on the Norfolk Broads 

 in the Golden Days, 466 



Recklinghausen (Friedrich von). Death of, 339 



Recklinghausen (Max de). New Researches on the Sterilisa- 

 tion of Large Quantities of Water by the Ultra-violet 

 Ra.vs, 556 



Reed (F. R. Cowp'er), Devonian Faunas of the Northern 

 Shan States, 159 ; Cambrian Fossils from the Bhabeh 

 Rocks of .Spiti, 342 



Reed (J. Howard), Geography of British Cotton-growing, 

 552. 



Regnier (G.), Observations on Animal Calorimetry made 

 on Mt. Blanc, 456 



■Reid (G. Archdall), the Laws of Heredity, i 



Reid (Harry F.), the California Earthquake of April 18, 

 1906, Vol. ii., the Mechanics of the Earthquake, 165 



Ri^inders (E.), .Sap-raising Forces in Living Wood, 181 



Rciss (G. E.), Unemployed Laboratory Assistants, 462 



Reissner (Prof. H.), die Seitensteuer der Flugmaschinen, 229 



Remnants of the Past, 89 



Renshaw (Graham), Animal Romances, 100 



Renwick (F. F.), Measuring the True Opacity or Obstruc- 

 tive Power of Photographic Plates, 215 



Reptiles and .Amphibians of Cheshire, the, T. A. Coward 

 and C. Oldham, 175 



Respiration : Physiologische Studien im Hochgebirge : Ver- 

 suche iiber den respiratorischen StofTwechsel in Hoch- 

 gebirge, R. F. Fuchs and T. Deimler, Leonard Hill, 

 F.R.S., 369 



Reusch (Prof.), Glacial Erosion, 441, 442 



Revere (Guilo), le Prove del Material! da Construzione e le 

 Construzione in Cemento .Armato, 358 



Reviews and Our Bookshelf. 



The Laws of Heredilv, G. Archdall Reid, Sir W. T. 



Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., i 

 Die Ernahrung der Wassertiere und der StolThaushalt der 



Gewasser, Prof. August-Putter, 5 

 Smallpo.x and Vacciiation in British India, Major S. P. 



James, 5 

 The Foundations of Alternate Current Theory, Dr. C. V. 



Diysdale, Prof. Gisbert Kapp, 6 

 The New School of Japan, Founded for the Purpose of 

 Making the Use of the Newly Invented Letters, F. 

 Victor Dickins, 7 

 Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of 

 Geologv, British Museum (Natural History), Prof. J. W. 

 GregoVy, F.R.S., 8 

 Probl^mes et E.xercices de Math^matiques g^nirales, Prof. 



E. Fabry, 8 

 Fossil Vertebrates in the American Museum of Natural 



History, 12 

 Tolemism and Exogamy : a Treatise on Certain Early 

 Forms of Superstition and Society, Prof. J. G. Frazer, 

 A. E. Crawley, 31 

 Prehistoric Rhodesia, Richard N. Hall, 32 

 Beitrage zur Nafurgeschichte Ostasiens, Japanische 

 .Alcyonaceen, Prof. W. Kiikenthal, Die Familien der 

 Primnoiden, Muriceiden, und Acanthogorgiiden, Prof. 

 W. Kiikenthal, H. Gorzawsky ; Die I'^amilien der 

 Plexauriden Chrysogorgiiden und Melitodiden, Prof. 

 W. Kiikenthal; .Athecatn und Plumularidae, E. Stechow; 

 Japanische Antipatharien, E. Silberfetd ; Japanische 

 Medusen, O. Maas ; Japanische .Actinien, Dr. .A. Wassi- 

 lieff ; Japanische Ctenophoren, Dr. Fanny Moser ; Uber 

 japanische Seewalzen, E. Augustin, 34 

 Orationes et Epistolie Cantabrigienses, Dr. John Edwin 



Sandys, Dr. R. Y. Tyrrell, 35 

 Spirit and Matter before the Bar of Modern Science, Dr. 



Isaac W. Heysinger, 36 

 The Plant Cell, its Modifications and Vital Processes, 



H. A. Haig, 36 

 Science from an Easv Chair, Sir Ray Lankesler, K.C.B., 



F.R.S., 37 

 .Alpine Flowers and Gardens, Painted and Described, G. 



Flemwell, 37 

 Summer Flowers of the High Alps, Somerville Hast- 

 ings, 37 

 .A Manual of Practical Fanning, John McLennan, 38 

 Leitfaden der Mineralogie, Prof. Julius Ruska, 38 

 .A Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe, Dr. 



Malcolm Burr, 39 

 Prehistoric Man, Joseph McCabe, 39 

 Metallografia applicata ai Prodotti Siderurgici, L'mberto 



Sa\oia, 39 

 Lo Zinco, Prof. R. Musu-Boy, 39 



With a Prehistoric People, the Akikuyu of British East 

 .Africa, W. Scoresby Routledge and Katherine Routledge, 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 41 

 Die Tempcratur Verhaltnisse in der freien Almosphare 

 fEngebnisse der internationalen unbemannter Ballon- 

 aufstiege]. Dr. .Arthur W'agner, E. Gold, 42 

 On the Nature, Uses, and Manufacture of Ferro-silicon, 

 with Special Reference to possible danger arising from 

 its Transport and Storage, Dr. S. M. Copeman, F.R.S., 

 S. R. Bennett, Dr. H. Vvilson Hake, Prof. A. McWilliam, 

 53 



