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Botany (continued) : 



Mikrographie des Holzes der auf Java vorkommenden 

 Baumarten, Prof. J. W. Moll, H. H. Janssonius, 514; 

 Namaqualand, Vegetative " Islands " in Little, Prof. 

 H. H. W. Pearson, 256 ; New South Wales Plants, 

 J. H. Maiden, 527; New Zealand Plants and their 

 Story, Dr. L. Cockayne, 109 

 1'hysiulogical, <5rc. : Glucoside from Leaves and Trunk 

 of Pear-tree, Em. Bourquelot, 306 ; Vegetative Changes 

 and the Agencies inducing them, Prof. H. C. Cowles, 

 151 ; the Porometer, a New Apparatus for Estimating 

 Aperture of Stomata, Dr. F. Darwin, Miss D. F. M. 

 Pertz, 65, 391 ; Mode of Chromosome Reduction, R. R. 

 Gates, 391 ; Action of Cold, Chloroform, and Ether on 

 Eupatorium triplineive, Ed. Heckel, 34 ; the Characters 

 acquired by Plants Watered with Solutions of Common 

 Salt, P. Lesage, 135 ; Free Transpiration of Hemi- 

 parasites of the Tribe Rhinantheae, Dr. R. Seeger, 54 ; 

 Formation of Anthocyanin in Plants, .Miss Muriel 

 Wheldale, 191 ; Chemical Differentiation of Species, 

 Mi>;, .Muriel Wheldale, 255 



Bread, the Nutritive Value of : Report to the Local 

 Government Board, Dr. J. M. Hamill, 250 



Breath Figures, George Craig, 10 



Brewing, Collective Index of the Institute of, 562 



Bridge, Destruction of Bridlington, N.E. Railway, 528 



British Association Meeting at Portsmouth : 

 Provisional Programme of Sections, 84 

 President's Inaugural Address : Technical Education, 

 Ancient and Modern : Views regarding the Chemical 

 Elements : Sources of Energy available to replace 

 Coal, Prof. Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., 282 

 Section A, Mathematics and Physics — Opening Address : 

 the Characteristics of the Observational Sciences, Prof. 

 H. H. Turner, F.R.S., President of the Section, 289 

 Section B, Chemistry — Opening Address : Theories of 

 Solutions, Prof. J. Walker, F.R.S., President of the 

 Section, 296 

 Section C, Geology — Opening Address : Some Aspects of 

 Modern Petrology : Genetic Relations of Igneous 

 Rocks, Alfred Harker, F.R.S., President of the Sec- 

 tion, 319 

 Section D, Zoology — Opening Address : Magnalia 

 Naturae, or the Greater Problems of Biology, Prof. 

 D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., President of the Section, 



324 

 Section E, Geography — Opening Address : (1) The Posi- 

 tion of Geography with Respect to other Subjects ; 



(2) Geography and the Government Departments, 



Colonel C. F. Close, C.M.G., R.E., President of the 



Section, 329 

 Grants of Money appropriated for Scientific Purposes by 



the General Committee, 352 

 Section G, Engineering — Opening Address : Rolling of 



Ships at Sea as a Possible Cause of Disaster, Prof. 



J. H. Biles, President of the Section, 353 

 Section H, Anthropology — Opening Address: The Ethno 



logical Analysis of Culture, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 



F.R.S., President of the Section, 356 

 Section I, Physiology — Opening Address, Prof. J. S. 



Macdonald, President of the Section, 360 

 Section K, Botany — Opening Address : Fossil Plants, 



Prof. F. E. Weiss, President of the Section, 395 

 Subsection K, Agriculture — Opening Address : The 



Development Grant : Genetic Aspects of Agriculture, 



W. Bateson, F.R.S., Chairman of the Subsection, 401 

 Section L, Educational Science — Opening Address : An 



Educational Review, the Right Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, 



President of the Section, 428 

 Chemistry, 434 

 Geology, 437 

 Aeronautics, 439 

 Geography, 469 



Mechanical Science, Prof. E. G. Coker, 469 

 Anthropology, 471 

 Mathematics and Physics, 498 

 Physiology, 533 

 Agriculture, 534 



See also under headings of the respective Sciences 

 British Rivers, Dr. Strahan, iq 

 Buchan, the Book of : the Natural History of Buchan, 



Prehistoric Man in Aberdeenshire, and the History of 

 the North-east, by Twenty-nine Contributors, 513 



Burma : a Handbook of Practical Information, Sir J. 

 George Scott, K.C.I.E., 248 



Butterflies : Scents of Butterflies, Royal Institution Dis- 

 course, Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.R.S., 164; Butterflies and 

 Moths, British, W. F. Kirby (Treherne's Nature Series), 

 179 ; the Distastefulness of Amosia plexippus, R. I. 

 Pocock, F.R.S., 485 ; Larvae of the Cabbage White 

 Butterfly, E. W. Read, 78 ; Butterflies and How to 

 Identify them, Rev. S. N. Sedgwick, 43 



Calcutta Museum, 302 



Calendar : Proposed Reform, 557 



Cambridge and Ely, Highways and Byways in, Rev. E. 

 Conybeare, 72 



Canals, Leeds-Goole, 372 



Cancer : Induced Cell-reproduction and Cancer : the Isola- 

 tion of the Chemical Causes of Normal and of Augmented 

 Asymmetrical Human Cell-division, H. C. Ross, J. W. 

 Cropper, 1 ; Cancer Research, Progress, 129 



Capillaries, Date of Discovery, Prof. F. J. Cole, R. Cad- 

 waladr Roberts, 46 



Cellulose : zur Kenntniss der Cellulosearten, Dr. W. Schulz, 

 108 ; Literatur der Zellstoff- und Papier-Chemie und der 

 Papier Technik im Jahre 1909, Prof. C. G. Schwalbe, 

 A. Lutz, 108 



Cement, the Chemistry of Testing of, Dr. C. H. Desch, 38 



Cheeses of Touareg, G. de Gironcourt, 135 



Chemistry : 



General : A Course in Qualitative Chemical Analysis, 

 Prof. C. Baskerville, Dr. L. J. Curtman, 177; the 

 Number of Possible Elements and Mendeleeff's 

 "Cubic" Periodic System, A. van den Broek, 78; 

 Inorganic Chemistry for Schools, W. M. Hootton, 143 ; 

 Inorganic Chemistry, Prof. F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., 

 Prof. W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 177 ; die Beziehungen 

 zwischen Farbe und ^Constitution bei organischen 

 Verbindungen, Prof. H. Ley, 106 ; Outlines of Experi- 

 mental Chemistry, Dr. E. B. Ludlam, H. Preston, 

 177 ; Triumphs and Wonders of Modern Chemistry : a 

 Popular Treatise in Non-technical Language, Dr. G. 

 Martin, 42 ; Introduction to Chemistry, W. Ostwald, 

 W. T. Hall, R. S. Williams, 170; Liebig and his 

 Influence on the Progress of Modern Chemistry : 

 Oxford Lecture, Sir Wm. A. Tilden, F.R.S., 263 ; 

 Elementary Chemical Theory, J. M. Wadmore, 177 

 Special : Three Interesting Equilibria, R. Abe, Y. Osaka, 

 S. Horiba, 459 ; Resolution of Tellurium : Flint's 

 Anomalous Results, Profs. Baker and Vernon, 459 ; 

 the Transformation of some Substituted Paraconic 

 Acids into the Isomeric Cyclopropanedicarboxylic Acids, 

 Ph. Barbier, R. Locquin, 135 ; a New Derivative of 

 Urea, Monochlorurea, A. Behal, A. Detceuf, 576 ; the 

 Hypobromous Amides, E. Boismenu, 576 ; Lactarinic 

 Acid, a Ketostearic Acid extracted from some Fungi of 

 the Genus Lactarius, J. Bougault, C. Charaux, 442 ; 

 Modification of the Friedel and Crafts Reaction yield- 

 ing Naphthalenic Ketones Exclusively, E. Caille, 272 ; 

 the Carbonates of Thorium. Ed. Chauvenet, 68; Iso- 

 pyromucic Acid, G. Chavanne. 135 ; the Dihydrate of 

 Uranium Trioxide, CEschner de Coninck, M. Raynaud, 

 68 ; Cryoscopic Study of some Mineral Acids and some 

 Phenols, E. Cornec, 238 ; Some Supposed Chlorides 

 of Iridium : Condensed Chlorides, Marcel Del^pine, 

 68 ; Action of Thionyl Chloride upon Metallic Oxides, 

 G. Darzens, F. Bourion, 169; Preparation of some 

 Unsymmetrical Benzyl-dialkylacetic Acids. Ph. Dumes- 

 nil, 102 ; Catalytic Preparation of some Substituted 

 Ketohydrofurfuranes, G. Dupont, 169 ; Action of 

 Carbon Dioxide on Litmus, M. M 'Galium Fairgrieve, 

 215 ; Compound of Mannitol with Boric Acid, J. J. 

 Fox, A. J. H. Guage, 153 ; the Lactonisation of Esters 

 of a-Ketomonoacids and a-Ketodiacids under the 

 Influence of Condensing Agents, H. Gault. 102 ; 

 Ketones of the Type of Benzvl-dimethvl-acetophenone. 

 A. Haller, Ed. Bauer, 68 ; Syntheses of Substituted 

 5-Diketones, of Ketonic Ether Salts, and of Enolic 

 Ethers by Means of Sodium Derivatives of Ketones, 

 A. Haller and Ed. Bauer, 135 ; Production of Carbon 



