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Index 



Schlich, K.C.I.E., l-'.R.S., 137; Protection of Timber 

 against White Ants, 342 ; Results of Trials in Inverness- 

 shire with Belgian System of Tree Planting on Turfs, 

 Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 372 ; Tree Plantations in 

 Inverncss-shire, VV. Dallimore, 470 ; New Type of Resin 

 Collector, J. S. Woolsey, jun., 402 ; State Nurseries and 

 Plantations in New Zealand, 505 ; Trees and Timber 

 540 ; Distinguishing Characters of the Trees in the 

 Cierman Cameroons, Dr. M. Biisgen, 546; Fissibility o' 

 some Indian Woods, R. S. Troup, 547 ; Prospects of thi 

 Match Industry in the Indian Empire, R. S. Troup, 547 

 New Trees and Shrubs, W, J. Bean, 547 



Korster (Prof.), Reforms of the Calendar, 36S 



Forsyth (W.), Arrangements of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 at East .AUoona, 155 



Fossil Plants, Some Recent Studies of, 473 



I'^ossil Plants : a Te.\t-book for Students of Botany and 

 Geology, Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 490 



Fossil Vertebrates in the .American Museum of Natural 

 History, 12 



Fossils : British Fossils, loi ; Leitfossilien, ein Hilfsbuch 

 zum Bestimmen von Versteinerungen bei geologischen 

 .\rbeiten in der Sammlung und im Felde, Prof. Georg 

 Zurich, 200 



Fournier (E. E.), Wonders of Physical Science, idS 



Fournier (G. and V.), Observations of Mercury, 213 



Fowler (Prof.), Hallcy's Comet, 52 



F'raas (Dr. E.), Skeletons of Plesiosaurians from the Upper 

 Lias of Holzmaden, 82 



Fractured and Separated Epiphyses, A. J. Walton, Frank 

 Romer, 361 



Frankland (W. B.), Theories of Parallelism, an Historical 

 Critique, 169 



Franklin (W. S.), Light and Sound, 103 



Eraser (Dr. F. W. D.), Death of, 468 



F'razer (Prof. J. G.), Totemisni and Exogamy, a Treatise 

 on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society, 31 



French (J. W.), Science in Modern Life, vol. vi.. Engineer- 

 ing. 395 



Freytags (Gustav), Kullur- und Geschichtspsycologie, Dr. 

 Georg Schridde, 294 



Friedal (G.), Lchmann's .Anisotropic Liquids, 228 



Friend (Rev. Hildcric), Ooze and Irrigation, 39, 70; the 

 Habits of Worms, 397 



Friend (H.), Wild Flowers and How to Identify Them, 460 



l-'riend (Dr. J. N.), Corrosion of Iron and Steel, 510 



Fritsche (Dr. H.), die Saecularen Aenderungen der 

 Erdmagnetischen Elemente, 373 



Frohawk (W.), Feeding Habits of the Razor-bill, 378 



Frost (Prof.), the Determination of Stellar Radial 

 Velocities, 86; Halley's Comet, 152; the Sun's Velocity 

 through Space, 272 



Fuchs (R. F.), Physiologische Studien im Hochgebirge : 

 Versuche iiber den repiratorischen Stoffwechsel im 

 Hochgebirge, 369 



I'uol and Refractory Materials, Prof. A. H. Sexton, Prof. 

 .A. McWilliam, 392 



Fugger (Prof. E.), Newly Discovered Ice-cave near 

 Obertraum, 469 



Fujii (Prof. K.), Studies on the Structure and Affinities of 

 Cretaceous Plants, 129 



F'ulgurites, Experimental Study of, Prof. R. W. Wood, 70 



Funeral Papyrus of loniya, the, Edouard Naville, 237 



Fungi : Edible and Poisonous Fungi, 361 ; Guide to Mr. 

 Worthington Smith's Drawings of Field and Cultivated 

 Mushrooms and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi often 

 Mistaken for Mushrooms, Exhibited in the Department 

 of Botany, British Museum (Natural History), 361 



Fungous Diseases of Plants, Prof. B. M. Duggar, Prof. 

 E. .S. .Salmon, 233 



Fur Trade, the. Prof. T. D. A, Cockerell, 42S 



Gadow (Dr. H.), Nature and Meaning of the Colours of 



Birds, 378 

 Gadow (Dr. H. F., F.R.S.), Coral Snakes and Peacocks, 



548. 

 Galitzin Seismograph, the, 219 



Galle (Prof. J. G.)j Death and Obituary Notice of, 45 

 Gall^ (Dr. P. H.), Wind and Current Observations, 343 

 Gardening : the Educational Value of the School Garden, 



220 ; the Calendar of Garden Operations, 26b ; the 

 Carnation Year-book, 1910, 460; Gardening Difficulties 

 Solved, 460; Leitfaden fiir gartnerische Pflanzenzuchtung, 

 M. Lbbner, 460; Wild FTowers and How to Identify 

 Them, H. Friend, 460 



Gardner (Prof. Walter .M.), Tinctorial Chemistry, Ancient 

 and Modern, 5b 



Garland (C. M.), Measurements of the Heat Transmitted 

 through a Steel Tube of i-J-inch External Diameter, with 

 Walls g-inch thick, from Steam Outside to Water Inside 

 Running through the Tube, iS 



Garstang (Prof. Walter), the Colours of Insect Larv^, 549 



Gases, lonisation of, and Chemical Change, Dr. H. 

 Brereton Baker, F.R.S., at Royal Institution, 388 



Gases, the Pressure of Light on, Dr. Lebedew, 86 



Gatty (R. A.), Pit-dwellings in the District of Holderness, 

 16 



Gaubert (Paul), Soft Crjstals and the Measurement of iheir 

 Indices of Refraction, 356 



Gaudechon (Henry), Mechanism of Photochemical Reactions 

 and the Formation of Plant Principles, ig6 ; Photo- 

 chemical Decomposition of the Alcohols, Aldehydes, 

 -Acids, and Ketones, 262 



Gaupp (Prof.), Affinities of the Mammalia as Deduced by 

 the Study of the Skull, 319 



Gauss and Non-Euclidean Geometry, Prof. H. S. Carslaw, 

 362 



Gauthie (F.), Composition of Carnation with Flexible Stems 

 and Rigid Stems, 292 



Gautier (.Armand), Action of Iron and its Oxides, at a 

 Red Heat, on Carbonic Acid, 64; Action of Mixtures of 

 Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, or of Carbon Dioxide 

 and Hydrogen, upon the Oxides of Iron, 196 



Geary (H.), Bees for Profit and Pleasure, 464 



Geer (Prof, de), the Geochronology of the Last 12,000 

 Years, 440 



Geiger (Dr. H.), Properties of the a Particles Sent Out by 

 Radio-active Substances, 213 



r) Geminorum, the Recent Occultation of, by Venus, M.M. 

 Baldet, Qu^nisset, and .Antoniadi, 317 



Genth (Dr. Frederick A., jun.). Death of, 370 



Geodesy : Death of Prof. A. P. Sokolpff, 46 ; Probable 

 Exactness of Different Evaluations of the Altitude o£ 

 Lake Chad, C. H. Lalleniand, 64 



Geography: Rivers of Dacca District, F. D. Ascoli, 30; 

 the Economic Geography of Bolivia, Prof. Isiah Bowman, 

 118; Across A'unnan, Archibald Little, 177; Great Lu-Chu 

 Island, W. J. Clultcrbuck, 180 ; Trans-Himalaya, Dr. 

 Felix Oswald, 180 : .Manual of Physical Geography, Dr. 

 V. V. Emerson, 201 ; a Laboratory Manual of Physical 

 Geography, Prof. R. S. Tarr and O. D. von Engeln, 



201 ; Letters from High Latitudes, being some .Account 

 of a Voyage in 1856 in the Schooner-yacht Foam to 

 Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen, Lord Dufferin, 



202 ; Coast of Southern Peru and the Pampas West of 

 the Andes, V. F. Marsters, 217 ; the British Isles in 

 Pictures, H. Clive Barnard, 23S ; On and Off Duty in 

 Annam, Gabrielle M. Vassal, J. Thomson, 243 ; Docu- 

 ments scientifiques de la Missioji Tilho (1906-1)), Sir 

 H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 244: Lake Edward, 

 kuwenzori, and the Uganda-Congo Frontier, 267 ; Death 

 of Prof. Pedroso, 313; Library of Congress, a List of 

 (-ieographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, with 

 Bibliographical Notes, 325 ; Exploration of the Region 

 Westward from Davis Inlet to George River, Prof. 

 MacMillan, 340 ; Home-work Atlas of Maps in Black and 

 White, 395 ; Death of Prof. Theobald Fischer, 400 ; 

 Distant Lands, H. J. Mackinder, 426 ; a First Book of 

 Physical Geography, W. M. Carey, 426 ; a Physio- 

 graphical Introduction to Geography, Prof. A. J. Herbert- 

 son, 426; an Economic Atlas, J. G. Bartholomew, 426; 

 Devonshire, F. .A. Knight and Louie M. Dutton, 436; 

 Dorset, A. L. Salmon, 426; Derbyshire, H. H. Arnold- 

 Bemrose, 426 ; a Systematic Geography of Asia, G. W. 

 Webb, 426 ; Physical and Commercial Geography, Profs. 

 H. E. Gregory, A. G. Keller, and .A. L. Bishop, 4C0 • 

 Exploration in Western Labrador, Prof. Raymond 

 McFarland, 468 ; Land of the Incas, Sir Clements R. 

 Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., 470: Royal Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society's Medal Awards, 502 ; Recent Nor- 

 wegian Explorations in Spitzbergen, 503 ; Exploration in 



